People Jesus met' Matthew

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People Jesus met. Matthew

• Matthew 9 9-13

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People Jesus met. Matthew

• Matthew the man
• Also named Levi famous for his jeans
• Son of Alpheaus, possibly half brother of James

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People Jesus met. Matthew

• Matthew the tax collector
• Occupation collecting taxes for Rome.
• A Jewish man, contracted by the Romans to collect
  taxes from fellow Jews
• Highly despised equated with sinners.

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People Jesus met. Matthew

• Matthew the Called disciple
• Told by Jesus to Follow me!
• Jesus saw potential in Matthew
• Matthew demonstrates that Jesus was right in his
  estimation of him...

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People Jesus met. Matthew

• He accepts the call
• He becomes one of the twelve

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People Jesus met. Matthew

• The Pharisees. - separated ones
• Strict observers of tradition
• They question why Jesus eats with tax collectors
• Afraid to approach Jesus directly!

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People Jesus met. Matthew

• Jesus respondsIt is the sick, not those who
  are well, who need a doctor!
• Sacrifice without mercy means nothing
• It is possible to be so active in the service of
  Christ as to forget to love him

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People Jesus met. Matthew

• Dont pre-judge yourself or others!
• Jesus loves people as they are and sees in them
  what they can become
• No Christian is perfect only forgiven
• A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying

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People Jesus met. Matthew

• To be the salt of the earth we must mingle with
  the meat!
• Somewhere across the centuries the church
  changed the gospel. It was the down and out who
  flocked to Jesus when he was on earth. Now the
  church has become such a bastion of
  respectability that the very ones he came to seek
  and to save no longer feel comfortable here.