Topic: CALLED OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT
Text:Luke 5:27-39
5:27 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.”
5:28 So he left all, rose up, and followed Him.
5:29Then 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.
5:30 And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, “Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
5:31 Jesus answered and said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
5:32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
5:33 Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”
5:34 And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
5:35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”
5:36 Then He spoke a parable to them: “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.
5:37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.
5:38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, ]and both are preserved.
5:39 And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is [g]better.’ ”
STUDY:
In our reading today, Jesus called a socially unacceptable person, Levi the publican, into His fellowship of followers/servants. When the righteous questioned the merit of Jesus identifying with such a doer of evil, the Lord answered that He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance (v.32). Beloved, it is not God’s intention that any should perish but that the sinner should come to Him in repentance. (Heb. 1:13). We are called from sin to the life of righteousness (1 Pet.2:9).
Do you in any way, believe that you are most unworthy to be called by the Lord Jesus? Be assured that He loves you and desires to have you in the company of His beloved children. Like Levi, rise up and follow Him. He will purify and justify you. When you answer and follow, He will make you a personality of delight and envy to others. Jesus will take away your old garments and clothe you with a new dress, and you will become a new vessel for the new wine.
Prayer:
Wash me completely from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin, O LORD. Amen.
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