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Would every sinner in your town feel comfortable reclining at a meal with the Jesus you preach?Would you or the crowd you've been training grumble if He received them and made them feel comfortable?Now

Just for clarification - where did it say the sinners were comfortable?They came for differing reasons - does it say they came to feel comfortable

Would they be called to repentance?And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous

You don't have to repent...You just have to have faith. :

You bet they would! What was the change in thinking He was calling them to?The law told sinners and tax collectors (and the sick as well) they were outsiders, cursed and rejected by God. Jesus very presence eating and drinking with sinners offended the pharisees because they wanted the sinners and tax collectors to feel rejected, not loved, welcomed and accepted. Jesus reclining at dinner with them changed the way they thought (repentance) about God (that He was against them), and called them to faith in God I'm not saved because I'm good. I'm saved because He's good!My website: www.bradfreeman.comMy blog: bradcfreeman.tumblr.com/

Just for clarification - where did it say the sinners were comfortable?They came for differing reasons - does it say they came to feel comfortable? The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a

You don't have to repent...You just have to have faith. SkinnyB, repentance is translated from the Greek

Hoo, boy. That is something else. God reclined with them. God ate and drank with them. God befriended them.He is amazing. The religious of His day grumbled about it too! He freely offered the guilty no condemnation.He freely forgave sins (every time) without any apology, repentance, confession or promise to do better.He freely healed those the Law would say were sick because of sin.He freely fed those the Law would say were poor because of sin.Jesus modeled this:Rom 2:4Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that

I've been working on memorizing Romans with one of my pastors. We are almost to chapter 11. Could you share Romans 2:5

Memorizing scripture is good. The Spirit helps us understand it.Romans 2is nearing the end of Paul bringing