Luke Series Chapter 18 (EP72)

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What is the focus of Luke Chapter 18?

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we are on Luke chapter 18 of the 24-day Luke series. We're getting close to the end. We're going to power through it. Keep going. We've got a lot of good stuff in chapter 18. Before we get into it, guys, go to jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets right now. Sprint there right now and get your tickets to our first ever live podcast show here in Los Angeles, California. Look, if this one goes well, we might do them across the country, but we might not. So I want you guys to be a part of the first one. So come out to Los Angeles, January 19th, 6 p.m. It's going to be awesome. For some reason, the website says 21 and up, but all ages are welcome.

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I even had a lady message me the other day. She's bringing her baby. All ages are welcome. This lady's bringing her baby. All ages are welcome. Come on, JesusHistory.org slash tickets. But let's get into Luke chapter 18 and see what Jesus is talking about. And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Why is persistence important in prayer?

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So Jesus has given us a parable here so that we don't lose heart in prayer. He says in a certain city, there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. So he sets a scene. There's an ungodly judge, someone that doesn't care for God's law or anything. And then there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, give me justice against my adversary. For a while he refused, but afterwards he said to himself, though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice. so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming. And the Lord said, hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?

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I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? Don't lose heart in prayer. Persistently pursue Christ in prayer. He says, look, I will serve justice. through your faithful prayers. Whether it be in this lifetime or when Christ returns on Judgment Day, He will serve justice in your faithful prayers. Powerful. Now the Pharisee and the tax collector. Now we're going to look at humility here. We're learning about prayer and humility now. Now humility. He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and treated others with contempt. Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector, a.k.a.

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one who claimed to be holy with their lips but their heart was far from God and the other one that society wrote off as a sinner and someone that they didn't want to associate with, a tax collector. The Pharisee, who was relying on their own power here, standing by himself prayed thus, God, I thank you that I'm not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. Point at the guy with him. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get. But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven. Couldn't even look up to God. but beat his chest, saying, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. The tax collector was justified.

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For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exhausted. That term, when the tax collector beat his breast, it's there saying that the tax collector was so aware of his heart condition that he beat his heart to punish himself, to punish his heart of his heart condition. Yeah, it's such a humbling thing. Like, To think that man, like the low blow that the Pharisee goes, yeah, I'm glad I'm not like this guy. But the tax collector goes, I'm not even worthy of you. I know you still love me. Verse 15. Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. So this shows that kids love Jesus, that Jesus wasn't a sour, scary man. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked him.