Meditation
FOLLOW ME
Text: Luke 5
26 January 2025
A GRACIOUS INVITATION
Levi (more popularly known as Matthew) was a tax collector. He had a job that was despised by many. Yet the Lord Jesus graciously extended an invitation to become a disciple and to follow Him.
27 After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.”
28 So he left all, rose up, and followed Him.
29 Then Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them.
30 And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Luke 5:27-32
- People who were considered unworthy of salvation
a) Sinners
b) Tax collectors
i) They were despised
ii) They were rejected by the Pharisees
- Grace and Power
a) The Lord Jesus had already exhibited tremendous power
i) To heal the sick
ii) To cast out demons
b) He has unlimited power
i) To heal spiritually
ii) To convert and change the worst of sinners
iii) He can transform a life dramatically
THE RESPONSE REQUIRED
- To follow the Lord Jesus
- It begins with Faith in the Lord Jesus
- The transformation will begin to take place as we follow the Lord Jesus
a) Cleansing will take place
b) Change may be slow, but it would be certain
c) Matthew was a reject of society, but he became an outstanding apostle who gave us the Gospel of Matthew