Title: Jesus with sinners / Matthew 9:9-13
words to enter
When a paralytic and immobile man was brought to Jesus on a bed, Jesus was little boy./ Be at peace, your sins are forgiven. He told him to get up, take your bed and go home. Immediately the paralytic got up and went away. Jesus said, whatever situation we are in, have hope because Almighty God is with us. He tells you to have faith and not be afraid. Many people were afraid and glorified God, but Jesus left the place. I went through customs.
What was customs doing at the time?
He was responsible for collecting the taxes set in Rome and collecting customs duties by inspecting the goods of those traveling while guarding the road. Moreover, because he worked for the Romans, whom the Jews hated, he became the object of hatred. After paying the required tax, there were many people who received excessive tax because they could have it, so the Jews at that time treated tax collectors as sinners, and especially the Pharisees were despised. However, there is a man named Matthew who works at this customs office. As a crowd of people passed by, Jesus was looking through the luggage of the passers-by. He saw Matthew the tax collector and said, "Follow me."
What is in Jesus' words to follow me? It means to let go of what you have been doing. It means to let go of what you have been holding on to. It means to throw it away now. It means to leave now. Up until now, I have lived for money and hated by my fellow countrymen, but now, follow me, follow me, and become my disciple. It's about changing your life goals.
He immediately got up and followed.
There are many reasons we cannot follow the Lord. Regrets about material things, let me say goodbye to my parents, first allow me to pay for my father's future
If you follow Jesus, because of your husband~, because of your wife~, because of your children~, because of temptations, and because of your job, you cannot obey the Lord's word if there are many excuses and reasons. When the Lord tells me to come, let's go, I can't go with you. At that time, the true disciples who followed Jesus followed the Lord's call for no reason. Peter, Andrew, James, John …
When Jesus calls us, he knows everything and calls us. Therefore, there is no need to say why or why. I have committed this sin. It shouldn't be like this.
If Matthew the tax collector had sat there saying, “This is good,” instead of following the Lord’s command to follow me, he would not have received God’s grace. There would be no forgiveness of sins. He would not have been a disciple of Jesus. What kind of grace did Matthew, who was marginalized and forsaken, received by obeying the Lord's word?
1. I have received the grace of being with the Lord.
At that time, there were many people around Jesus. Some were sick, and some were priests, scribes, and Pharisees. However, there were not many people with whom the Lord was with them. These were the people who had been around and left. They were healed, and they ate their fill of fish and bread, but they passed by.
If Matthew had not obeyed the Lord's command to follow me, he would not have received God's grace and would have passed away as one of the many people.
Even today, there are many people who eat full and gain health because of Jesus. Get the problem resolved. However, if you do not obey the command to follow me, you will end up being a passerby. You cannot receive the grace of being with the Lord. We cannot help but go too far with God's true grace.
Many people come to Jesus, but do not obey the Lord's command to follow me, so they do not reach the place of grace, but rather enter into temptation and leave.
Matthew 9:10
“While Jesus was sitting at Matthew’s house to eat, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.”
At that time, Jews did not enter the house of a publican, nor did they eat together. If you see a tax collector on the road, you will avoid it and pass by. It's not about avoiding tax evasion, it's about abandoning the nation's descendants and treating them like dogs living in Rome to avoid being defiled. I didn't avoid it because I was afraid, but because I was dirty. But Jesus entered Matthew's house. The marvelous Messiah who heals paralytics, heals the demon-possessed, and forgives sins entered the tax collector's house.
The Lord was with you.
By obeying the Lord's command to follow me, the wall of sin was already broken down, and the Lord entered his house, and salvation came to that house. How much God's grace came to the house. When Jesus was eating, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down to eat with Jesus and his disciples. This mealtime was the time for the work of salvation to take place and the time for the fullness of God's grace to come.
Where there is God's grace, there will always be obstacles. There were critics. They were Pharisees. It was a crowd pretending to be righteous. It was a crowd pretending to be innocent. But in reality, they were people without love. Slanderers are double sinners. If I can't do that, I shouldn't slander those who do it, saying they're good or bad.
Matthew 9:11
“When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
The disciples did not know how to respond to these Pharisees' words. Then Jesus tells us that he is the doctor who heals the sickness of the soul.
Matthew 9:12
“When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.”
Jesus was the object of God's mercy to the sick, the poor, the marginalized, those who longed for God's grace, and everyone who loved God and came humbly.
Jesus went wherever sinners were, wherever He needed Him. For a sinful and unfortunate woman who had changed her husband five times, he went into Samaria, where the Jews did not pass, and was waiting for her at the well, and then he saved her.
Matthew 20:28
“For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”
Luke 5:32 “I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
What does the Lord say in verse 13? What does God want and what does not want?
Matthew 9:13
“Go ye and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
This verse is a quotation from the book of Hosea.
Hosea 6:6 “I desire mercy, not sacrifice, rather than burnt offerings, but the knowledge of God.”
What is love? The act of a believer to love his neighbor out of the heart of loving God is called charity. The Lord referred to this as mercy.
What does mercy mean?
Compassion ( ) - Compassion is a kindness or good will to save the lowly or the suffering. He is saying that calling sinners to repentance is God's mercy and love. God wants sacrifices and worship. What kind of sacrifice and worship do you want? He wants worship with mercy and sacrifices with compassion.
It is to be pleased with the worship offered by those who show mercy and the worship of the saints who show mercy.
Dear saints whom God loves, what do you have? Do you have mercy and compassion? Do you have envy, hatred, and jealousy? Are you selfish?
What does God want from us who have poured out the Spirit of Jesus on us? You want kindness. You want mercy.
Where there is mercy, there is God's love, and where there is mercy, there is forgiveness. He wants to be with the outcast, the marginalized, and sinners with kindness and compassion.
He wants to be with them in their hatred, and by God's love to call them to repentance. For this, the Lord paid the price with his blood and established the church.