"But Sinners"

June 7, 2017

“But Sinners”

Blessings folk!

Jesus ate and drank with sinners and tax collectors.

Most Believers do not do so today.

Why were sinners and tax collectors drawn to Jesus?

Why are they not drawn to Him today?

Read…

Mar 2:15-17

And it happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples;
for there were many of them, and they were following Him.

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?”

And hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician,
but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Jesus made it clear.
He came to call the sinners to righteousness.
He did not come to call the righteous…who are already righteous.

The religious rulers questioned His eating and drinking with sinners.
Notice how they asked Jesus’ disciples and not Jesus Himself.
They hoped to plant seeds of doubt and dissension.

The same happens today.

People today are not drawn to Jesus because they do not see Him.

They see people insisting on inviting to a “service”, a “gathering”, to “our church”, etc.

Rare is the person that lives as Jesus before the world and speaks/teaches the Kingdom.
Rare is the person that invites folk to Jesus…rather than to “our church”.
Rare is the person that manifest the Presence of the Lord…His glory, love, grace, mercy, etc… to the world.
Rare is the person that is in the life of sinner…we prefer to get the sinner on “our turf…in our safe place.”

The tax collectors and sinners experienced the power and presence of the Lord.
They knew that He “was real”.
The tax collectors and sinners had rejected the religious.
They knew they were frauds.

The religious rulers rejected the Lord.
They knew what He said was truth.
Yet, they could not set themselves aside to receive.

Things never change.

Be the Presence of the Lord in an ever darkening world.
Then, the world will be drawn to Him.
Not to us.
Not to our activities…though they may be good.
Drawn to the Lord.

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