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Feasting and fasting

Feasting and fasting. Luke’s gospel (Chapter 5 verses 27-39). Feasting and fasting Luke 5:27-39. Matthew called A party Complaint: “They’re too happy” Three mini parables. Feasting and fasting Luke 5:27-39. Matthew’s call

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Feasting and fasting

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  1. Feasting and fasting Luke’s gospel (Chapter 5 verses 27-39)

  2. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 • Matthew called • A party • Complaint: “They’re too happy” • Three mini parables

  3. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 • Matthew’s call After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him,  and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

  4. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 • Matthew’s call …“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?” Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.  I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

  5. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 • Matthew’s call 1. They worked for the Romans so they were traitors 2. They charged extortionate rates so were robbers. 3. They worked with gentiles so were unclean.

  6. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 • A party Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.

  7. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 • A party “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”.

  8. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 • Complaint: “They’re too happy” They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.” Jesus answered, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”

  9. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 • Three mini parables 1. “No-one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

  10. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 • Three mini parables 2. And no-one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.

  11. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 • Three mini parables 3. And no-one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”

  12. Feasting and fastingLuke 5:27-39 People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. (13:29)

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