One Person, both a Pharisee and a Tax collector: Examples of Paul and Wesley.
It may be hard to conceive that we ourselves might be Pharisees. There are ‘essence of Pharisaism alive today, even active within creeds that embrace the divinity of Jesus, the doctrines of grace, and Trinitarian orthodoxy.’ The parable of two men exposes our own inner Pharisee in need of a Tax collector’s humility and repentance. Our inner Pharisee include our failure to practice what we preach, such that our hearers had better follow what we say or sing but not what we do(Matt 23:3). Our inner Pharisee’s preaching is more concerned with preserving human tradition than proclaiming God’s Holy Word thereby approve unrighteous means for...
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