Most people, even if they barely believe in God, feel they would pass any test for acceptance by Him. Here Christ, in a parable, shows what Heaven’s  terms really are, how we should see ourselves, and God’s readiness to forgive those who own their unworthiness.

And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. (Luke 18:9-10) The deeper things of life are so easily crowded out today. Here at the Metropolitan Tabernacle we … Continued