Wheat Ridge Evangelical Lutheran Church

Worship Note for the Week
Jesus calls Matthew to be His disciple. He should have known better because Matthew was a tax collector and therefore a sinner. And the whole world knows that you don’t associate with sinners and you certainly don’t make one of them your disciple. But Jesus is a little bit different than the average guy and that is why He walks right up to Matthew while he is sitting in his tax booth (no confusing his profession, here) and tells him to follow Him. Jesus then proceeds to lead him to a house where a whole bunch of other sinners were at, or maybe Matthew led Jesus there, it doesn’t much matter. What matters is that Jesus is reclining at table with sinners, associating with them, making Himself one with them. And no, Jesus wasn’t participating in their sin, although that is what the Pharisees thought, but instead He was hanging out with the riffraff of society because Jesus only eats with sinners because sinners are the only ones who need Him. Jesus then says something about only the sick needing physicians, which is really just a way of saying, “Everybody needs Me, because everyone is sick and sinful, especially those who don’t think they are.”

Rivers of Living Water - John 7:37-39

The Ascension - Luke 24:44-53