Sermon - Trinity XI 2022 - Luke 18:9-14
The Pharisee and the Publican, James Tissot, dated between 1886-1894 Christ died for sinners and the humble sinners are justified. Pride flows from faith in self. Christian humility flows from faith in Christ. What kind of people will be saved? This is a fairly important question, since we would all like to be saved. Some say that “good” or “nice” people will be saved. Some say that so long as you claim to be a Christian and pray sometimes you’ll be saved. Or it’s becoming pretty common to believe that everyone, or almost everyone, will be saved regardless of anything else, afterall many say we’re all going to the same place anyways. But how does God’s Word answer this question? St. Paul wrote quite plainly: “ Christ died for our sins. ” In other words, Jesus died for sinners, and therefore the kind of people who are saved are sinners. But this is kind of tricky: since all people are sinners, does that mean that all sinners will be saved? Not at all! Only those sinners who have fa...