Title: Meals with a Mission (3)
Series: Meals with Jesus
Author: Josh Malone
Text: Matthew 9:9-17
- Jesus ate with sinners. - You've heard that said. You've heard Jesus called "the friend to sinners." - He was accused of befriending sinners, of eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners.
- In Jesus day a meal was SIGNIFICANT. It meant something. - So people looked at who Jesus chose to spend time with ... and they judged him for it. Many of the religious leaders didn't like it one bit.
- Jesus ate with people they wouldn't eat with. He welcomed people they would just assume condemn. - But Jesus came to SAVE. He came to REDEEM. He didn't come to put sinners on the outside, but to save sinner and bring them to His table.
- People QUESTIONED Jesus about WHO He ate with and WHY He ate when He ate. - They scrutinized His meals ... because meals mattered. - Meals were about relationships to them. To many of the religious ... meals were about rituals ... and holiness ... and they not only watched who they didn't eat with ... but also ... when they didn't eat.
- Jesus meals remind us ... Jesus is the Messiah. He's the Savior ... and when He came to this world ... He came to SAVE SINNERS and He Came to bring JOY and NEWNESS.
- He wants to do the same for us. He wants to SAVE US ... and He brings joy into our lives. He makes us new. - In fact ... we aren't to FIT Jesus into our old lives ... He makes our lives brand new.
- We can see this in Matthew 9. Here we see Jesus GO TO A PARTY ... and then we see Him get questioned for why He's going to parties instead of FASTING. - From these two scenes ... we can see ... Jesus came so we can have a RELATIONSHIP w/ God. Jesus is about SAVING SINNERS and making things NEW.
Matt. 9:9-13 - 9 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.
10 And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold ...
Series: Meals with Jesus
Author: Josh Malone
Text: Matthew 9:9-17
- Jesus ate with sinners. - You've heard that said. You've heard Jesus called "the friend to sinners." - He was accused of befriending sinners, of eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners.
- In Jesus day a meal was SIGNIFICANT. It meant something. - So people looked at who Jesus chose to spend time with ... and they judged him for it. Many of the religious leaders didn't like it one bit.
- Jesus ate with people they wouldn't eat with. He welcomed people they would just assume condemn. - But Jesus came to SAVE. He came to REDEEM. He didn't come to put sinners on the outside, but to save sinner and bring them to His table.
- People QUESTIONED Jesus about WHO He ate with and WHY He ate when He ate. - They scrutinized His meals ... because meals mattered. - Meals were about relationships to them. To many of the religious ... meals were about rituals ... and holiness ... and they not only watched who they didn't eat with ... but also ... when they didn't eat.
- Jesus meals remind us ... Jesus is the Messiah. He's the Savior ... and when He came to this world ... He came to SAVE SINNERS and He Came to bring JOY and NEWNESS.
- He wants to do the same for us. He wants to SAVE US ... and He brings joy into our lives. He makes us new. - In fact ... we aren't to FIT Jesus into our old lives ... He makes our lives brand new.
- We can see this in Matthew 9. Here we see Jesus GO TO A PARTY ... and then we see Him get questioned for why He's going to parties instead of FASTING. - From these two scenes ... we can see ... Jesus came so we can have a RELATIONSHIP w/ God. Jesus is about SAVING SINNERS and making things NEW.
Matt. 9:9-13 - 9 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.
10 And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold ...
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