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From the Sermon Archive

Hubris and Humility
(Eleventh Sunday after Trinity, 2010)
The Rev. Stephen E. Stults

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Excerpt:

We do not receive justification in God’s eyes without God. Human efforts cannot but fail and in fact lead to more sin, as in the case of the Pharisee. His attempts to embrace and become perfected by an exterior code only lead to an over-weanng sense of pride, as seen by himself. In this light, the word “self-righteous” makes more and more sense. To sum it up, attempts to change the outward acts or behaviors without affecting a change in the heart are futile and ultimately negative. . .

In this case, the publican gets it exactly right. “God be merciful to a sinner,” he prays. God knows the failings of our heart, will, and mind. If anyone knows our foibles and our sins, it is He that made all things. Once we recognize that all our vaunted righteousness is merely “filthy rags” in His sight and that without Him, we are nothing, we are on the right track to justification.

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