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Genesis 12; Genesis 13; Genesis 14; Luke 5
“Why
Do You Eat
And Drink With Such Scum?”
Scripture
Luke 5
30 …“Why do you eat and drink with such scum?”29 Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi’s fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them.
30 But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with such scum?”
31 Jesus answered them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. 32 I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.”
Observation
Scum … Just take time to follow Jesus as He walked from
town to town and you will find that He always had time for the down and out,
those that were looked down on by others, the scum of the earth.
In this case
it was tax collectors who happened to be despised. They were hated by just
about everybody. His disciple Matthew was one of them. He was a tax collector!
He took extra time to spend with the crippled, with the
diseased, with the demon possessed, and even a woman caught in the very act of
adultery. He traveled through Samaria to save the Samaritan woman who had been
married to five husbands but the man she was then living with was not her
husband.
We, on the other hand, will spend most of our time if we
are not careful with only healthy people that are pretty much exactly like us.
You and I have to be intentional if we are going to be
like Jesus!
Application
I will look for people to help that others tend to
forget. How about you?
Prayer
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