Would every sinner in your town feel comfortable reclining at a meal with the Jesus you preach?Would you or the crowd you’ve been training grumble if He received them and made them feel comfortable?Now
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Would every sinner in your town feel comfortable reclining at a meal with the Jesus you preach?Would you or the crowd you’ve been training grumble if He received them and made them feel comfortable?Now
Just for clarification – where did it say the sinners were comfortable?They came for differing reasons – does it say they came to feel comfortable________________
Would they be called to repentance?And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?†And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous
You don’t have to repent…You just have to have faith. :________________
You bet they would! What was the change in thinking He was calling them to?The law told sinners and tax collectors (and the sick as well) they were outsiders, cursed and rejected by God. Jesus very presence eating and drinking with sinners offended the pharisees because they wanted the sinners and tax collectors to feel rejected, not loved, welcomed and accepted. Jesus reclining at dinner with them changed the way they thought (repentance) about God (that He was against them), and called them to faith in God________________I’m not saved because I’m good. I’m saved because He’s good!My website: http://www.bradfreeman.comMy blog: bradcfreeman.tumblr.com/
Just for clarification – where did it say the sinners were comfortable?They came for differing reasons – does it say they came to feel comfortable? The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a
You don’t have to repent…You just have to have faith. SkinnyB, repentance is translated from the Greek
Hoo, boy. That is something else. God reclined with them. God ate and drank with them. God befriended them.He is amazing. The religious of His day grumbled about it too! He freely offered the guilty no condemnation.He freely forgave sins (every time) without any apology, repentance, confession or promise to do better.He freely healed those the Law would say were sick because of sin.He freely fed those the Law would say were poor because of sin.Jesus modeled this:Rom 2:4Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that
I’ve been working on memorizing Romans with one of my pastors. We are almost to chapter 11. Could you share Romans 2:5
Memorizing scripture is good. The Spirit helps us understand it.Romans 2is nearing the end of Paul bringing
You’re the one that said they were comfortable…not me. I don’t think the scripture says either way.I don’t make it a habit to add to the scriptures________________
It inoculates you against teaching that takes a verse from here and a verse from there to say something the Bible doesn’t say, that’s for sure.
It inoculates you against teaching that takes a verse from here and a verse from there to say something the Bible doesn’t say, that’s for sure.
I wish that were true. It’s the Spirit that leads you into truth________________I’m not saved because I’m good. I’m saved because He’s good!My website: http://www.bradfreeman.comMy blog: bradcfreeman.tumblr.com/
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Rom 2:1Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2 And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. 3 But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who will render to each person according to his deeds: 7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; 8 but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God.12 For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; 13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, 15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, 16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.17 But if you bear the name “Jew†and rely upon the Law and boast in God, 18 and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth, 21 you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal? 22 You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God? 24 For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,†just as it is written.I addressed verse 8 in my last post…but I’ll give you a bit more.You asked about 9, 12 and 13. My response is the same. Paul is concluding all under sin Jew (those with the Law) and Gentile (those without the Law). You can’t properly understand this passage in a vacuum. It has to be read in the larger context of the book of Romans and the NT. Verse 8, for example, says you either obey the truth or obey unrighteousness. Those who obey unrighteousness experience wrath and indignation. The clear implication is that those who obey the truth won’t experience wrath or indignation. Romans 5tells us how we avoid His wrath and His anger…so Romans 5tells us (as does Gal 5:7) what it means to obey the truth (as does Rom 6:16-18and Rom 10:5-17). Rom 5:1says our faith has brought us into peace with God…He’s not indignant.Rom 5:7says His blood has saved us from wrath.Rom 5:10says its His life that saves us from these things.Rom 2:12,13 simply conclude all under sin (as does Rom 3:10and 3:23) and as Paul says in Galatians 3:10,11
They’d probably feel weird reclining on an elbow to eat.I did that to eat some young goat, bread, rice, and dips a couple of weeks ago. It was really good________________
Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worth of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it. – Matthew 10:34-39.Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? – Matthew 16:24-26.So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions. – Luke 14:33…In the wold you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world. – John 16:33Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. – Philippians 2:5-8Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. – 2 Corinthians 4:16-18________________God-HonoringChrist-CenteredBible-BasedSpirit-Led
How could the drunkards, whores and tax collectors hear these passages and still want to eat and drink with Jesus?