Friday
PRaP 09-03-2010
250 Events In The Life Of Christ/ A Harmony Of The Gospels Part 40
Section 2: Message And Ministry Of Jesus
“Jesus Eats With Sinners At Matthew’s House”
9As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew (aka Levi) got up and followed him.
10While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with him and his disciples. 11When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?”
12On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Who is healthy among you? I thought I was. Found out that I got some stuff going on in my spirit that has been there for a long, long time. No man can fix these issues, no medicine can be prescribed for this illness. Problem is that this illness has an affect on everyone around me including my children. I am losing out on many blessings because of this deep rooted spiritual illness that is in me. I can only go one place for this to be resolved and that is Jesus Christ alone. He is the only Doctor I can go to for this kind of illness. Kind of scary too, nothing like going to the Doctor and humbling yourself before Him and telling Him what’s ailing you. I find it amazing that the timing of this part of the PRaP is on this subject. This is confirmation for me to understand that I have to do what I have to do to get this problem solved so that I can move forward in His work and I can’t until take that first step and I did that yesterday afternoon and will begin dealing with it over this long holiday weekend. Please pray for me to be able to go into His office and totally humble myself before Him to get my illness healed.
Peace and Agape Love
Pastor Steve