LUKE 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, “God, I thank you that I am not like other men—extorters, unjust, and adulterers, or even as this tax collector.” One of the terrible possibilities suggested by the Pharisee’s attitude in prayer is this: A person can be religious and not be right. This man’s religion became the cause of his ruin. He did everything right from a religious perspective—in fact, more than right! His problem was that he had totally
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