THE SERMON - The Gospel & Evangelism ｜ Matthew 9_9-13
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No one chooses to be an apostle the way that Matthew does. He does not seek to be a disciple of Jesus, but rather, he is busy doing the work of evangelism. Matthew is not looking for Christ, but instead, he seeks to do the work that Christ is calling him to.
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amen please join me in standing for the reading of god's word we are continuing once more
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through our sermon series on the gospel according to matthew our text for today
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is matthew chapter 9 verses 9 through 13 matthew chapter 9 verses 9 through 13 i'll read our text
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in its entirety when i finish reading the text i'm going to say this is the word of the lord
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at which point i would appreciate very much if you would respond by saying thanks be to god
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One final time, our text for this morning is the gospel according to Matthew, chapter 9, verses 9 through 13.
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And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples,
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Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?
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Those who are well have no need of a physician,
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but those who are sick go and learn what this means.
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for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
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all right please be seated we'll go ahead and dive right in there's three main points that i hope by
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the grace of god to convey this morning the first is in regards to the gospel and doing the work of
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an evangelist which is the first work that we see matthew seeking to accomplish after being called
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by jesus as a disciple he immediately begins the work of an evangelist so the gospel and evangelism
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That's the first point that arrives from the text.
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The second is a note about the Pharisees and the nature of quarrelsomeness.
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The Pharisees were quarrelsome, but there are many, I think, in our day, even within the church,
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that when they think of what it is to be quarrelsome,
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if they were consistent in the way that they apply quarrelsomeness today,
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They would have to say that the apostle Paul, for instance, or Christ himself, that these were those who were actually responsible for being quarrelsome and that the Pharisees were just great guys.
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So we want to look at who the Pharisees really were and what it really means to be quarrelsome.
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And then lastly, Christ came for the sick, not the healthy.
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There is no sign that Matthew was searching for Jesus
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pursuing him. For instance, like Zacchaeus climbing up into a tree and calling out to him and wanting
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to follow him and hoping to be noticed by him, hoping to be called by him. There's no indication
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of that in the text. No sign that Matthew was searching for Christ or intending to be his
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disciple therefore jesus called matthew first only then did matthew choose to follow christ
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notice the order the sequence it is not that matthew is following jesus and then jesus takes
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notice of him and says you know what you can be one of my top guys but instead matthew is busy
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at his vocation. A vocation, for that matter, that was notoriously known for being immoral.
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And not only immoral, right? Matthew's an IRS agent. Not only is it immoral, but in the case
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of Matthew, who was an Israelite, he's actually a traitor and betraying his own people. He's sold
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out and working for Rome and extorting and exploiting his own people financially.
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So Matthew is not hunting down Christ, hoping to be his disciple.
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Instead, he's busy at his work, a particular vocation that was immoral at best and traitorous
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And yet in this place, it's in this context that Christ finds him.
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Matthew doesn't find Jesus, but Jesus finds Matthew.
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And it's upon Jesus calling Matthew to be his disciple
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that something is supernaturally awakened in Matthew
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that changes him from a traitorous tax collector
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to all of a sudden becoming someone who's going to be an apostle of Christ.
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when Jesus said follow me his words carried the same divine power that healed the paralyzed man
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which we've seen earlier in the gospel according to Matthew when Jesus said to that individual
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get up and walk Christ is the author of our salvation according to scripture elsewhere
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it testifies that he's not only the author but also the finisher of our salvation and what that
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means is that there is no salvation outside of Christ. He's the one who begets it. He's the
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founder and the author. He's the one who begins salvation. The one who initially works grace in
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our hearts. But he's also the one who finishes our salvation. Meaning that the same grace that
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saves us is the same grace that ultimately keeps us. Christ is the one who calls us to salvation
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and he's the only one who can keep us in salvation.
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Apart from Christ, no one will ever be converted.
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And apart from Christ, even those who have been converted,
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And this is what we see in the case of Matthew.
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And he does this through his divine and effectual call.
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that Jesus, as a man, the God-man, albeit, but still a man,
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he simply goes up to someone who's working in his vocation and says,
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hey, I have an alternative job offer, and I think it's compelling,
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and you should physically come and follow me and be my apprentice for a while.
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And somehow Matthew found this to be a compelling, persuasive offer,
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and so he left his trade and followed Jesus. Well, that's true as far as it goes, but there's a deeper
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truth at work. When Jesus says, follow me, this is the voice of God, and it is the effectual call
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of God. When Jesus says, follow me, something in the soul of Matthew supernaturally transforms
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in that moment. He goes from spiritual death to spiritual life. All of a sudden, a man who was
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dead in his sins, all of a sudden, a new creature springs forth. This is Matthew's conversion.
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Matthew comes to spiritual life. And you have to notice, I find this humorous, but it's also
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awe-inspiring. But all throughout the gospel narratives, when Jesus is giving divine supernatural
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commands like this, he always has to be very specific. Have you noticed that? Like Lazarus,
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come forth. And he has to specify, right? Because if not, every dead person buried on the planet
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would all of a sudden spring to life and obey the voice of God. This is God in the flesh.
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This is no one less than Christ Jesus, the second member of the eternal trinity. This is God. And
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when he speaks, winds and waves submit to his voice. He's God. When he calls Matthew to follow
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him? Conversion. Spiritually. When he tells a paralytic
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to stand and walk? Conversion. Physically.
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This is no one less than the Son of God. The very
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salvation continues to work even for you and I.
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No, you and I will not meet Jesus in this temporal life
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But Jesus, who now sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,
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And He is still saving dead, lifeless creatures,
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by his divine word that brings the dead to life
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For the gospel is the power of God for salvation.
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So whether it's Jesus in the flesh 2,000 years ago
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through his words, which is the means of salvation,
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In the same way, in that sense, 2,000 years has changed nothing.
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The Word of God is still the means of salvation.
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And when the Holy Spirit works sovereignly, is pleased,
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and chooses to work in conjunction with the Word of God, which He inspired,
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when that happens, dead people, just like Matthew, come to spiritual life
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He saved that way under the ministry of the apostles,
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God sends His Word, and the Word of God never returns void.
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And for those who die in unbelief and do perish in eternity
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Even in their case, the Word of God never returns void.
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The Word of God accomplishes precisely that which it was sent out to do.
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And in your case, it was sent forth in order to convert the soul,
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to magnify the glory of God by demonstrating His eternal grace.
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In both cases, we can say, let God be true, though every man a liar, but the word of God
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never returns void. So Jesus saved Matthew. Matthew Henry, different Matthew, he puts it
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like this. When Matthew invited Christ, so this is after Christ first in the spiritual and the
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truest and ultimate sense invited him. So Christ first spiritually invites him, come and follow me.
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But immediately afterwards, what we're meant to assume implicitly in the text is that once Matthew begins to follow Jesus, one of the first things that takes place is Matthew says, I'd like to throw a party.
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I'm honored that you've called me to be one of your disciples.
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And before we begin the journey, I don't know what you have in mind, Jesus, but if it's not too much trouble, I'd love to have you in my home for a feast.
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and not only you and the disciples at that point
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to join us. When Matthew invited Christ, he invited many publicans, that is, tax collectors
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and sinners, to meet with him. This was the chief thing that Matthew aimed at in his treat,
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that he might have an opportunity of bringing his old associates to be acquainted with Christ.
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He knew by experience what the grace of Christ could do and would not despair concerning them.
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Note, they who are affectionately brought to Christ themselves cannot but be desirous
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that others also might be brought to him as well,
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and ambitious of contributing something toward that end.
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True grace will not be content to eat its morsels alone, but will always invite others.
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Those who have truly been saved by the grace of God,
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those who are truly, objectively, objects of God's mercy and salvation
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on the morsels of the grace of God and the goodness of salvation alone.
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But rather they will be ambitious and desirous to share salvation with others.
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And so instinctively, the first thing that Matthew thinks to do,
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having now been called to be a disciple of Jesus
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Ultimately, Christ will make the sovereign decision
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come to Christ in salvation, is that you are earnest and ambitious about seeing others come
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to Christ in salvation. And if you're not, it does not mean objectively that you're unregenerate,
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but it is cause for evaluation and a cause for godly concern. Notice nobody had to teach Matthew
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this, right? There are many things that we have to be taught. We need to be discipled. We need to
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learn. We need to grow and be sanctified. But this is Matthew five minutes into conversion.
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Matthew doesn't have to be taught. And it's not, as far as we can tell, it's not Jesus's idea.
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Although this is something that Jesus likes to do because it was his idea in the case of
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Zacchaeus. Remember Zacchaeus? He just wants to be near Christ. And then Christ says, Zacchaeus,
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dinner's on you we're going to your house you're preparing a feast i'm going to be there bring
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your friends we're doing some evangelism i said we're doing evangelism today that's how you know
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jesus responds in the case of zacchaeus but as far as we can tell from the text of scripture
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in the case of matthew matthew has the idea but there's no signs of jesus objecting it's matthew's
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idea, but this is precisely what Jesus loves to do. Jesus loves to dine with sinners. He does.
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And traitors. Now, let's temper that principle, which is a good, perfectly biblical, true principle.
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But let's temper it with what's also biblical and what's just a little bit of common sense.
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Some modern evangelicals will take a text like ours today and say, Jesus loves being a friend
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of sinners. He was called a friend of sinners. And all of that is true. But first, let's recognize
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that this label, friend of sinners, is not a title that Jesus bestows upon himself.
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This is a title that's crafted and levied by his detractors. This is the opposition that comes up
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with this label. It is the Pharisees and those Jewish religious leaders who hated Christ and
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who ultimately produced the crucifixion of Christ.
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It's their idea to call him a friend of sinners.
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It's meant to smear him and to sully his public reputation.
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Some labels you can't work with, but some you can.
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But Christ, in a sense, receives the label friend of sinners,
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but he operates as a friend of sinners on his own very specific terms.
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But he meets with sinners to call them to repentance.
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And all those sinners are given an offer to come.
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But Jesus will not stay with them if they refuse.
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And any sinner who chooses to accompany Him is invited along the way.
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But Jesus will not compromise obedience to His Father
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in order to stay back in a perpetual, indefinite state of compromise
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In other words, to state it plainly, Jesus is the friend of sinners.
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But he is the friend of those who quickly become repentant sinners.
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Jesus doesn't have a three-year-long regular friendship,
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who is unrepentant and has no desire to follow him,
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right so if you feel like hey well i understand this isn't the principle but there are some
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exceptions in this case we have a judas and i think that i'm the son of man and i'm ultimately
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going to be betrayed and i'm you know ultimately the son of god i'm i'm jesus christ reincarnated
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i'd come back a second well then okay that that would be an exception but also you're a heretic
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and we should probably burn you at the stake right so in other words it's a funny way of saying there
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are no exceptions. You're not Jesus. Jesus did this with Judas, and even in the case of Jesus,
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he did it with one guy, so the scriptures might be fulfilled. The son of perdition.
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In every other case, Jesus has friends. The other 11 disciples, and even beyond that, he has friends.
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He's friends with Mary, and Martha, and Lazarus. These are friends, but Mary, Martha, and Lazarus
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And then Jesus says, okay, I guess I'll take it.
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is compromise because this is what should happen. You don't have to leave them. I'm not telling you
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go and reject all of your non-Christian friends. What I'm saying is look like Jesus. That's it.
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Do you know what happens when you look like Jesus consistently and unapologetically without
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cowardice over a long period of time with unregenerate friendships? Do you know what
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happens? They leave you. You don't have to leave them. They'll leave you. Or they'll convert to
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Christ. They'll either reject you because they reject Christ and you actually look like him.
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Or they'll accept Christ and now your friendship is far more deep and profound and genuine than
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it ever was before. The only bad option, this third way option, there's your sign. It's not a
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great option. The third way option is that you actually compromise fidelity and obedience to
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Christ. And they actually hate the Jesus of the Bible, but somehow love you. Why? Because you look
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nothing like the Jesus of the Bible. But again, this is a common practice, especially for Protestants.
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Protestants, somewhere along the way, especially here in America, through the Seeker Sensitive
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Movement, the Church Growth Movement, and all these different avenues, decided over the last
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few decades, it's been a while now, that somehow we're better than Jesus. And it does need to be
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said that way. Why do you say things the way that you do? Because it's offensive? No, because it's
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clear. That's what it really comes down to. I want to cut through all the distractions and all the
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fluff. Let's get down to what's true, what's real. If you think that you can be evangelistic and lead
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people to Christ, but somehow do it in a way that you're not rejected by people, then what you're
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essentially saying is, I see what Jesus did, and I think I can do better. So the only proper word
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for that is arrogance. You're prideful. Jesus literally said, if they hate me, they'll hate you.
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The student is not above the teacher. The slave is not above the master. If the world hated me,
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they'll hate you. The only way that you can be an evangelist, but not experience any measure of
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opposition, is ultimately to be so delusional and arrogant that you think you're going to be
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able to accomplish something that Jesus himself could not do. To put it plainly, you literally
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think you're better than Jesus. And so in love, I'd like to tell you, you're not. Right? I mean,
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that's a pretty basic, you would expect a Christian pastor, like today, what we learned
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You are not going to find a way to be just as potent in your evangelism,
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but somehow more likable and not experience any opposition.
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You may be just coming to terms with it right now as I'm preaching,
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That's ultimately what you've deceived yourself into thinking is actually possible.
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That I can be just as effective and just as faithful to the truth
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without any ounce of compromise in terms of my strategies and attempts of evangelism,
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yet somehow mitigate all the opposition and the controversy.
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In other words, I can achieve something that Christ himself could not achieve.
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and the answer is let me save you the heartache let me save you some time you can't you won't
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now what you can do is you actually can experience a lot less opposition than jesus
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but you need to be honest with yourself and realize that the reason you're not experiencing
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the opposition that jesus did is because over here you're actually not as faithful to the truth
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as jesus was it's like well i'm actually telling people about jesus and i'm not experiencing a
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bunch of people that hate me uh-huh which Jesus are you telling them about which one
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because I can tell you right now it's not the biblical Jesus
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it's not the Jesus who actually exists because that Jesus offends people
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by God's grace many will come to saving to saving faith in him but there will also be many others
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This is the nature of being a disciple of Christ.
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instinctively we desire that others might follow him as well.
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But what we do as evangelists is we're bringing people to Jesus.
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Notice what Matthew does is he immediately takes opportunity
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well, that doesn't sound really particularly insightful.
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He doesn't invite everybody to come meet with him
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as he then tells them about who he thinks Jesus is.
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No, he actually brings people to be in close quarters and experience the real Jesus.
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So when Matthew does this, Matthew's probably heard the rumors by this point.
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Matthew is probably aware of what people say about this guy, Jesus.
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Matthew knows that he's going to be having all of his friends, all the well-to-do elites in society.
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and he's going to put them in close quarters with Jesus.
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with all these people and Jesus begins to speak.
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begins to teach, begins to interact with these. I don't think that Matthew's sitting there
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apologizing for Jesus. Oh, Jesus, don't say that at dinner. Right? It's like the little meme where
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it's like, hey, babe, we're going to my parents' house for dinner. Could you please not talk about
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politics? And then, you know, you see below, it's like five seconds in, you know, and I could feel
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the demons rising, you know. It's like, oh my goodness. My husband, he just can't keep it
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together like but that's that's what it's like when you invite jesus to dinner he's not a jerk
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but he's also not fake jesus offends people's sensibilities jesus talks about things that are
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true jesus has a way of very quickly getting to the heart of a matter right the rich young ruler
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comes up to Jesus. This is not a three-hour conversation. What must I do to inherit eternal
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life? Be perfectly righteous, attaining a position of sinless perfection, obeying all the law of God.
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I've done that. You're a liar. No, you haven't. Here's just one thing to do. You can't do it.
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See you later. Conversation over. And the guy walks away sad. He doesn't walk away saying,
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you know that Jesus? I met him today. Really great guy. No, he's walking away, and Jesus just wrecked
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his world. He just took his entire worldview, his entire, you know, self-perception, and crushed it
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in about a 15-second conversation. That's how Jesus talks to people. That's what it's like to
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have dinner with Jesus. And Matthew is able to take all of his associates and say, I want you to have
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dinner with jesus matthew think about that for ourselves think about that for many of us we would
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be tempted to say well pastor you know my parents are going to be in town this weekend
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and and i don't want them to have dinner with jesus they think they're christians they think
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they like jesus but they don't really could you actually could you actually tone it down a little
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bit this week? Could you just be a little more subtle? Like I know winsomeness is maybe not the
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most biblical, you know, approach, but hey, maybe a little winsomeness wouldn't hurt.
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And you know what? I think part of this, it's not like, well, Matthew was truly converted and you
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guys aren't. That's not my point. What I am saying is there's something about returning to your
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first love. It's not that he's truly converted. It's that he's newly converted. It rhymes and
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therefore it's true, right? I think that's how it works with preaching. That one just came to me.
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But it's not that he's truly converted. He is. But I don't mean that, you know, to imply that
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you're not. But it's he's newly converted. And there's something about coming to Christ for the
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first time, and your entire life being transformed and being overwhelmed by the riches and the mercy
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and the grace of God, to where all of a sudden, when you're thinking about the collateral damage,
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you just don't really care. Like, I'll take Jesus. I'll lose my friends. I'll lose my job. I'll like,
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I'll take Jesus. I love Jesus. He just saved me. He just saved me. I was a wretch. I was a traitor,
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betraying my own people and selling them out. I was extorting. I was exploiting. And he called
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me. He chose me. He picked me. So I don't care what people think. I don't care what friends I
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lose. I'm going to bring them to Jesus. Not my own fake version of Jesus that's palatable,
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that's tolerable. No, Jesus, the real Jesus. I'm inviting my friends. I'm inviting the in-laws
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and the outlaws, they're all coming to my home to sit with Jesus. And I know he's going to say
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some hardcore things. I've heard the rumors. I know they're true, but it doesn't matter.
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He has the words of life. And if my family and if my friends reject him and by virtue of rejecting
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him reject me, so be it. But he's the guy who just called me and chose me and saved me.
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the power of God for salvation first saved you?
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you guys know i like politics i like applying all of christ all life i like the culture war
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i want to win i think we do win but remember your first love do you remember the gospel
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do you remember your savior hanging on a tree do you remember who you were
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you know what sometimes you just you make a point and it's not about me but the spirit of god just
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by his mercy and sovereignty you make a point and we have more time but sometimes you just
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it's good to just have a one-point sermon and let that just sit so we're just going to let that sit
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and uh we'll have to pick this up uh another sunday believe it or not because the other
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points are good and there's more to the text. But I want us just to remember this. Christ saved us
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and if we're truly saved, then we're not content to feast on the morsels of his grace alone. But
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instead, we want to feast with others, inviting others to meet with Jesus. Pretty simple, pretty
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basic but uh but good connor now you're scheduled to preach next sunday right so i'm not gonna it
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wouldn't be fair to him to say like your text has changed overnight because connor connor is
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bivocational and has a day job so i say we just we move on to the next text you preach what you're
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prepared to preach next lord's day and then we'll just we'll come back if you're allowed to do that
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it turns out uh with with expository preaching if you know this but uh there's a lot of there's a
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lot of a lot of license there right you can do it puritans sometimes they would preach like
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like two words they'd be like a sower went out to sow 14 part sermon series it's not even a whole
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verse you know and and if i do that today you know people are like look he's eisegeting and he's just
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coming up with it's like charles spurgeon the guy you claim to like that's literally how he preached
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all the time Spurgeon would be like two words and here is a five-part sermon series on those
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two words you know like where's that in the text and if Spurgeon was honest you know he'd be like
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I made it up but all the reformers love Spurgeon so right so it's like he's Isagene nope I'm just
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a true Puritan thank you very much all right let's pray father thank you for your word bless
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it to your people and most importantly bring yourself great glory we pray this in Jesus name