1. The Two Men in My Life
Luke 18:9-14

2. Who is this parable directed to?

3. •Expertise
• Experience
WHAT MAKES US SELF-CONFIDENT?
Leads to TRUST in one’s own ability

4. A hidden arrogance that I am doing
better than most others.
What makes us self-conceited?
Leads to think of oneself as being TOPNOTCH

5. “Not just that I am right (conceit), but
that the other person is wrong
(contempt)”.
What makes us self-righteous?
Leads to wrong TREATMENT of others

6. The Two Men in My Life
• Pharisee
• Publican

7. Significance
and
Acceptance
is
Eph 1:6
found only in
JESUS CHRIST

8. I find then a law, that, when I
would do good, evil is present with
me. For I delight in the law of God
after the inward man: But I see
another law in my members,
warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into
captivity to the law of sin which is
in my members. O wretched man
that I am! who shall deliver me
from the body of this death?
Intention vs. Implementation
Romans 7:21 - 24

9. Out of the night that covers me,
INVICTUS Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
William Ernest Henley for my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
my head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years finds
and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, how
charged with punishments the scroll.
Inspiring but a I am the master of my fate: I am the
captain of my soul.
terrible lie

10. Stop the deception
1. GET HONEST
I will begin with ME

11. Be a disciple
2. Get help
I will go the throne of GRACE daily

12. Be disciplined
3. Get a habit
I will pursue HOLINESS

13. According as his divine power hath
given unto us all things that [pertain]
unto , through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to
Whereby are given
unto us exceeding
that by these ye might be
having
escaped the corruption that is in the
world through lust. ,
giving all diligence
virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to
knowledge temperance; and to
temperance patience; and to patience
godliness; And to godliness brotherly
kindness; and to brotherly kindness
charity. For if these things be in you, and
abound, they make [you that ye shall]
neither [be]
of our Lord Jesus Christ. But
these things is blind, and
cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten
that he was purged from his old sins.
2 Peter 1:3-9

14. Our Take Away