Jesus invited Matthew (a tax collector) someone who was considered the lowest of the low, to follow Him and Matthew accepted. Next thing you know, Matthew has invited a bunch of his tax collector friends to meet Christ.
How many of you will bring your friends to meet Christ on Sunday night?
Ronnie
God’s Text Message for this Sunday Night: March 7th, 2010
Matthew 9: 9-13
9As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with him and his disciples. 11When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?”
12On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”