The Treasonous Tax Man

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The Treasonous Tax Man

• Matthew 99-13

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Who Accepts The Gospel?

• A Good Moral Person?
• A Religious Person?
• A Respectable Person?
• OR
• A Socially Unacceptable Person?
• An Ungodly Person?

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Matthews Call At Work

• The Person Matthew.
• Writer of the Gospel Matthew.
• Name Also Levi.
• Son Of Alphaeus.

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Matthews Call At Work

• Matthew The Publican, Tax Collector
• Collected Taxes for Rome.
• Publican a Jew that Collected Taxes.

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Matthew The Disciple

• Disciples Must Have Been Shocked!
• Matthew Must Have Been Stunned!
• Jesus Could See The Potential.
• Matthew Accepts.
• Despised by His Jewish Brethren
• Becomes instrumental in saving them.

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Matthews Feast
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Matthews Feast

• It Was To Honor his New Master.
• Consider Matthews Guest.
• Many tax collectors and sinners
• Who sat down with Him and His disciples.

What Was Matthew Thinking?
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Conflict With The Pharisees

• Pharisees Are Shocked.
• How Could A Prophet of God Socialize with Such
  Sinners?
• Jesus Responses.
• When Jesus heard that, He said to them, "Those
  who are well have no need of a physician, but
  those who are sick. Matthew 912

Who Needs The Physician?
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Mercy over Sacrifice?
Matthew 913
"But go and learn what this means 'I
desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not
come to call the righteous, but sinners, to
repentance."
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Mercy over Sacrifice?

• Hosea 66
  For I desire mercy and not
  sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than
  burnt offerings.

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Lessons To Learn
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Dont Prejudge Yourself Others

• No One Is Too Wicked For Jesus.
• Jesus See Possibilities We Cant.

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Dont Prejudge Yourself Others

• Never Forget
• Jesus Died to Save Sinners.
• No Christian is Perfect, Only Forgiven.
• Saint a sinner who keeps on trying!
• Churches Grow Out of Weakness.

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Dont Confuse Separation With Isolation

• We Must Be Apart From Sin.
• Cannot Indorse Sin Through Friendship.
• 2 Corinthians 614-17
• Not of The World, But Sent Into It.
• John 1715-18

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Never Forget Mercy

• Forgiveness Comes Through Mercy.
• Will Be Judged According To The Mercy We Have
  Given.
• James 212-13

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Never Forget Mercy

• James 212-13
• So speak and so act as those who are to be
  judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will
  be without mercy to anyone who has shown no
  mercy mercy triumphs over judgment.

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Never Forget Mercy

• Forgiveness Comes Through Mercy.
• Will Be Judged According To The Mercy We Have
  Given.
• James 212-13
• Religion Without Mercy Is Not Pleasing to God.
• Hosea 66

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Jesus Says Come

• Allow The Possibilities Jesus Sees In You Happen.
• Enjoy The Transforming Power Of The Gospel.
• Acts 238
  Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let
  every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
  Christ for the remission of sins and you shall
  receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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Jesus Says Come

• Allow The Possibilities Jesus Sees In You Happen.
• Enjoy The Transforming Power Of The Gospel.
• Acts 238
  Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let
  every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
  Christ for the remission of sins and you shall
  receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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Jesus Says Come

• Allow The Possibilities Jesus Sees In You Happen.
• Enjoy The Transforming Power Of The Gospel.
• Mark 1616 "He who believes
  and is baptized will be saved but he who does
  not believe will be condemned.

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Jesus Simply said to him, "Follow Me." So he
arose and followed Him.
Will You Arise And Come?
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