This coming Lord’s Day we will be privileged to have Matthew Elliott in our pulpit. Matthew will be preaching from Luke 18:9-14, the account of our Lord’s parable of the Pharisee and the tax-collector. As you may remember, this beloved parable was told by Jesus not only to instruct His disciples concerning prayer, but also to teach them how sinners are able to stand before the Lord, despite their sins. In fact, Jesus will speak here of being “justified” before God (v. 14), and this forms the heart of the Gospel message which is developed later by Paul, most prominently in Romans.