Overcoming Self-Righteousness Luke 11:24-28 1/8/22
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Open sin kills its thousands of souls.
Self-righteousness kills its tens of thousands.
J. C. Ryle
29 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.)
-seven demons - complete evil
2 and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
1. Stop Pursuing the Appearance of Righteousness
1. Stop Pursuing the Appearance of Righteousness
15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
2. Realize that Only Christ can bring Fulfillment
2. Realize that Only Christ can bring Fulfillment
20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
3. Follow Jesus
3. Follow Jesus
rather - yes, but greater is
The correct perspective is to see following Christ not only as the necessity it is, but as the fulfillment of the highest human possibilities and as life on the highest plane.
Dallas Willard
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Hearing the Word of God, is believing in the gospel, the good news of salvation, that Christ died for sinners and rose again
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,
2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,