1. Even if you are “more right” than most?
1.1. Do you like Mr goody two shoes
1.2. Eat high protein
1.2.1. Low carb diet
1.2.2. Workout 5 days a week.
1.2.3. Wife dates
1.2.4. Pay off CC
1.2.5. No debt
1.2.6. Nice car
1.3. Like me?
1.3.1. Are you impressed by my Hollieness?
1.3.2. Or do you want to slap me.
2. People aren’t drawn to Christ by our moral superiority! Just because you may be right—Doesn’t mean making Your making a difference.
2.1. Jesus was the Goodie-est of Two-shoes
2.1.1. Drew sinful people to himself
2.1.1.1. Jesus went parties where sinners flocked to him
2.1.1.2. Prostitute poured perfume on feet.
2.1.1.3. When in Jericho—Spent a day w/ Zacchaeus
2.1.1.4. Spent time with a woman at well—Bed to bed
2.2. Why did sinful people want to be around Jesus?
2.2.1. Jesus did not make them feel wrong. He made them feel loved
2.2.1.1. John 13:33 (NLT) 33 Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can’t come where I am going.
2.2.1.2. John 13:34 (NLT) 34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.
2.2.1.3. John 13:35 (NLT) 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
2.2.1.4. Joh 13:33-35
2.2.1.4.1. Teknia
2.2.1.4.2. How will they know we love Jesus?
2.2.1.4.3. Won’t know disciples
2.2.1.4.4. Know we belong to Jesus—Love!
2.2.1.5. John 13:1 (NLT) Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.
3. I’m Right
3.1. We’ll rarely help someone by judging their sins. Might help by loving them and pointing One forgives sins
3.1.1. 1 Corinthians 13:1 (NLT) If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
3.1.2. 1 Corinthians 13:2 (NLT) 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.
3.2. Feel Morally Superior
3.3. Become Judgmental
3.4. Easily Angered and Offended
3.5. Exactly the opposite of how Jesus was!
3.6. Jesus was the most right and least judgmental person who ever lived.
4. RAISE YOUR HAND...
4.1. Smarter than the avg person?
4.2. Most of you
4.2.1. Better Driver
4.2.2. Less Sinful
4.2.3. More Right!
4.3. Can’t speak for you
4.3.1. I KNOW I’m WAY above avg!
4.4. Not bragging
4.4.1. Not easy
4.4.2. Hard be right all the time
4.5. So many important issues
4.5.1. Dumb people!
4.6. Believe?
4.6.1. End times
4.6.2. Spiritual gifts
4.6.3. Women ministry
4.6.3.1. Right approach Vaccine
4.6.3.1.1. Capitalism
4.6.3.1.2. Bearing arm
4.6.3.2. Sexual & Gender issues
4.6.3.3. Capital punishment.
4.6.3.4. Abortion
4.7. Jesus was surrounded by some people
4.7.1. Always Right
4.7.2. Thought
4.7.2.1. Smarter
4.7.2.2. Better
4.7.2.3. Luke 18:9-14
4.7.2.3.1. Luke 18:9 (NLT) 9 Then Jesus told this story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else:
4.7.2.3.2. Luke 18:10 (NLT) 10 “Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a despised tax collector.
4.7.2.3.3. Luke 18:11 (NLT) 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people—cheaters, sinners, adulterers. I’m certainly not like that tax collector!
4.7.2.3.4. Luke 18:12 (NLT) 12 I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my income.’
4.7.2.3.5. Luke 18:13 (NLT) 13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.’
4.7.2.3.6. Luke 18:14 (NLT) 14 I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
4.7.2.4. Pharisee saw himself as RIGHT
4.7.2.4.1. Tax collector
4.7.2.4.2. WRONG
4.7.2.5. To Jesus it was not about right and wrong but pride and humility
4.7.2.5.1. Proud people don’t love well!
5. I Always think I am right. If I thought I was wrong I would Change my mind and then I would be right.
5.1. Unfortunately, Christians can slip into spiritual pride
5.1.1. Pharisee.
5.1.2. Part of our job as a Christian is to be right.
5.2. Tend to think
5.2.1. Be RIGHT!
5.3. Because we know we are so right, we are offended by those who are wrong.
5.4. Offend
5.4.1. What post
5.4.2. How vote
5.4.3. What believe
5.4.4. How behave
5.5. Since right
5.5.1. Guardians truth
5.5.2. Part of our job assess people.
5.5.2.1. He’s an okay guy
5.5.2.1.1. Way too into himself.
5.5.2.2. She’s great what she does
5.5.2.2.1. Lets kids run wild
5.6. Church Experts
5.6.1. That church too shallow!
5.6.2. Too boring
5.7. My church doesn’t preach feel good
5.7.1. Unadulterated word God
5.8. Pharisee’s RIGHT
5.8.1. Knows it
5.8.2. Tells everyone how right he is!
5.8.3. Do same things
5.8.3.1. Right approach Covid! Right political view!
5.8.4. Spend money
5.8.4.1. What to wear
5.8.4.2. Spray tan
5.8.5. We think we’re the smartest
5.8.5.1. Best judges
5.8.5.2. Most right!
5.8.6. We’re sinful
5.8.6.1. Heart easily deceived
5.8.6.2. Often very wrong