Mark 2:13-17

1. Mark 2:13-17 Church Bibles Pg 1048

3. ...a friend of ... sinners!’ Matthew 11:19

4. ...a friend of ...a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ sinners!’ Matthew 11:19

6. The Sick The Well The...

7. The Sick - sinners - Meet Levi (Matthew) ↳Probably of the tribe of Levi (priests) ↳Probably a religious family ↳Probably had religious background

8. The Sick - sinners - Meet Levi (Matthew) ↳Probably had religious background ↳Somewhere, he rebelled - a Tax Collector - Roman tax collectors - unscrupulous - considered traitors, lowest of the low - barred from Synagogue, community, family - Probably dealt with Peter, John, etc

9. The Sick - sinners - Meet Levi (Matthew) ↳Probably had religious background ↳Somewhere, he rebelled - a Tax Collector ↳Knew of, heard, been listening to Jesus ↳Jesus calls him to Himself (salvation) ↳Levi leaves everything behind to follow Jesus

10. After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he left all, rose up, and followed Him. Luke 5:27–28

11. After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he left all, rose up, and followed Him. Luke 5:27–28

12. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

13. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. Jim Elliot Missionary (1927 –1956)

14. The Sick - sinners - Meet Levi (Matthew) ↳Probably had religious background ↳Somewhere, he rebelled - a Tax Collector ↳Knew of, heard, been listening to Jesus ↳Jesus calls him to Himself (salvation) ↳Levi leaves everything behind to follow Jesus

15. The Sick - sinners - Meet Levi (Matthew) -Social rejects, “bad” - Meet Levi’s friends ↳Levi wants his friends to meet Jesus ↳Jesus is not participating in their sin ↳Jesus is not endorsing their sin

16. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace. Jeremiah 8:11

17. Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. Jeremiah 23:14

18. They continually say to those who despise Me, ‘The Lord has said, “You shall have peace” ’; And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ” Jeremiah 23:17

19. The Sick - sinners - Meet Levi (Matthew) -Social rejects, “bad” - Meet Levi’s friends ↳Levi wants his friends to meet Jesus ↳Jesus is not participating in their sin ↳Jesus is not endorsing their sin ↳Jesus is relating to them to heal their sin

20. The Sick - sinners - Meet Levi (Matthew) - Meet Levi’s friends

21. The Sick - sinners The Well - righteous The...

22. As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one Romans 3:10

23. The Sick - sinners (know they are) The Well - righteous (think they are) The...

24. The Well - righteous (think they are) - They are sick, but think they are well - They self righteous isolationists

25. I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 1 Corinthians 5:9

26. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 1 Corinthians 5:10

27. The Well - righteous (think they are) - They are sick, but think they are well - They self righteous isolationists The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints

28. The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising. Keith Green Musician, Evangelist (1953-1982)

29. The Well - righteous (think they are) - They are sick, but think they are well - They self righteous isolationists The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints - They have a problem with Jesus being a friend of sinners

30. The Sick - sinners (know they are) The Well - righteous (think they are) The...

31. The Sick - sinners (know they are) The Well - righteous (think they are) The Followers

32. The Followers - Sick, made well - Follow Jesus to the Sick - Followers with the Sick - Questioned by “the Well” ↳Pressed to avoid the Sick

33. The Sick - sinners (know they are) The Well - righteous (think they are) The Followers

34. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

35. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 1 John 1:8

36. The Sick - sinners (know they are) The Well - righteous (think they are) The Followers

37. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners... 1 Timothy 1:15

38. ...on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18

39. The Sick - sinners (know they are) The Well - righteous (think they are) The Followers