being like Jesus

Matthew 5

27 Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector's booth. 

"Follow me and be my disciple,"Jesus said to him.

28 So Levi got up, 

left everything, 

and followed him.



  29 Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. 

Many of Levi's fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them.

30 But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus' disciples, 

"Why do you eat and drink with such scum?"


  31 Jesus answered them, 

"Healthy people don't need a doctor—sick people do.

32 I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, 

but those who know they are sinners and need to repent."



If we claim to be followers of Jesus, 

& are trying to be more like Him, 

then we should want to hang out with who the self righteous people today think of as "scum", 

as well as be the kind of person "scum" would want to hang out with?