What happens when we answer the call? The 2nd Year What happens when we answer the call?

Luke 5:27-28 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.  

Jesus calls a man named Levi He was a tax collector

Luke 5:29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. 

Luke 5:30-32 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” 

It’s not the healthy that need a doctor, but the sick I have come to call sinners to repentance

Luke 5:33 One day some people said to Jesus, “John the Baptist’s disciples fast and pray regularly, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees. Why are your disciples always eating and drinking?” 

Luke 5:34-35 Jesus responded, “Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. 35 But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.” 

Some concepts are introduced The wedding analogy

Some concepts are introduced Describing himself as the groom

Some concepts are introduced That He will be taken away from them

Luke 5:36-38 Then Jesus gave them this illustration: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch an old garment. For then the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn’t even match the old garment. 37 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. 38 New wine must be stored in new wineskins. 

Tearing a new garment to patch an old one… Something new is to be worn, it’s not to fix something old.

Not putting new wine in old wine skins… The yeast in the old skins could turn the new wine and cause the skins to burst

The new wine was Christ’s message The old wine was the traditions of the Pharisees and Sadducees

Who we’ve been doesn’t matter to Jesus What can we learn? Who we’ve been doesn’t matter to Jesus

Our repentance is what matters most to Him What can we learn? Our repentance is what matters most to Him

What can we learn? Jesus will make us new!

Luke 6:12-16 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. 13When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: 14 Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, 15 Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. 

He wants to do the same for you!