October 25, 2026

From West Asheville Baptist Church · 37:50

Show by Rev. Josh Harvey

What if everything we assumed about who is right with God turned out to be completely wrong? In Luke 18, Jesus tells a parable that would have stopped his original audience cold. Two men walk into the temple to pray -- a Pharisee, the picture of religious devotion and moral discipline, and a tax collector, the ultimate social and spiritual outcast. Every listener that day would have predicted the same outcome: the Pharisee walks away justified, the tax collector walks away empty. But Jesus flips the script entirely. The man who came with nothing but his sin and a desperate cry for mercy is the one who goes home justified. The man who came with a resume full of religious achievement leaves with nothing. This parable cuts right to the heart of a question we all need to sit with: are we trusting in our own spiritual track record, or are we depending entirely on the mercy of God? The greatest help we will ever receive is not something we can earn or manufacture. It is mercy we could never deserve and righteousness we could never produce on our own.

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