Levi, also known as Matthew, was a tax collector.

Tax collectors were… Thought as traitors Often Extortionists Considered sinners like the Harlots

What would your town look like if it were completely controlled by the Devil?

From this passage we see the one thing that most thoroughly blinds us of our true spiritual condition is our own good order and morality of our lives.Self-Righteousness

From the passage we see this it is the very feeling of despair from sin and knowing you are lost that brings on to find the way to God’s forgiveness.

This story is about… Levi and sinners like him who are in desperate need of salvation

This story is about… the Pharisees and other like them that are confident in themselves and not in the Savior.

This story is about… Jesus and the warning He gives to the Pharisees and the encouragement He gives to sinners.

The Warning from Jesus “I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

As long as the Pharisees thought they were righteous they would never want nor need Jesus.

The Pharisees had a false view of themselves and a false view of sin.

The Encouragement from Jesus I am a Savior to sinners and a Physician to the sick.

“The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness, but my badness; not my merit, but my misery; not my standing, but my falling; not my riches, but my need.” –Kent Hughes

repentance “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinner, to repentance.”