Saturday, June 14, 2025

scum

Luke 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.”

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Other accounts of this banquet describe the guests as "notorious sinners."

I have always found it interesting that notorious sinners WANTED to be around Jesus.

It's also interesting that Jesus obviously WANTED to be around notorious sinners.

So... as followers of Jesus, we face 2 questions here...

Do the notorious sinners of our day & time WANT to be around us?

And as importantly, or maybe more importantly, do each of us WANT to hang with notorious sinners?

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