2020-06-21 — Jesus Befriending Sinners
3rd Sunday after Pentecost: Date: June 21, 2020
– THE SERMON: Matthew 9:9-13
Theme: Jesus Befriending Sinners
I. Calling Sinners to Repentance
II. Accepting Sinners as His Associates
SERMON TEXT: Matthew 9:9-13
As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.
10 Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” (NKJV)
PRAYER; THE LORD’S PRAYER
Hymn 310: 1-3, 6 Thy Table I Approach
1. Thy Table I approach, Dear Savior, hear my prayer;
Oh, let no unrepented sin Prove hurtful to me there!
2. Lo, I confess my sins And mourn their wretched bands;
A contrite heart is sure to find Forgiveness at Thy hands.
3. Thy body and Thy blood, Once slain and shed for me,
Are taken here with mouth and soul, In blest reality.
6. Oh, may I never fail To thank Thee day and night
For Thy true body and true blood, O God, my Peace and Light!
THE WORDS of INSTITUTION
( Pastor Theodore Barthels )
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