WHEN JESUS CALLS YOU
(King Jesus: The Gospel of Matthew- Part 12)
May 10, 2020
Matthew 9:9-13
MATTHEW: a Hebrew tax collector who worked for the Romans
“How did Jesus, the only perfect person in history, manage to attract the notoriously imperfect?” – Philip Yancey
How Jesus attracted those who were rejected by the religious establishment*:
- Jesus took the initiative
- Jesus was willing to interact on Matthew’s turf
- Jesus wasn’t repulsed by sin or sinners
- Jesus genuinely liked those that religious people loathed
- Jesus was always completely himself
THE PHARISEES: “separated ones”
WHO JESUS CALLS TO FOLLOW HIM: The spiritually sick, blind & lost
Matthew: sick and knows it.
Pharisees: sick but don’t think they are .
* Extreme Righteousness by Tom Hovestol