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*/Ordinary People Doing God’s Work/*
Matt.
9:9-13; 35-10: 1
*/The Calling of Matthew /*
/9 //As Jesus went on from there, /
/he saw a man named Matthew/
/sitting at the tax collector’s booth.
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/“Follow me,”// he told him, /
/and Matthew got up and followed him.
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/10 //While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house,/
/ many tax collectors and “sinners” came /
/and ate with him and his disciples.
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/ 11 //When the Pharisees saw this, /
/they asked his disciples, /
/“Why does your teacher eat /
/with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?”
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/12 //On hearing this, Jesus said, /
/“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, /
/but the sick.
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/13 //But go and learn what this means: /
/‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’
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/For I have not come to call the righteous,/
/but sinners.”//
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*/The Workers Are Few /*
/35 //Jesus went through all the towns and villages,/
/teaching in their synagogues, /
/preaching the good news of the kingdom /
/and healing every disease and sickness./
/ 36 //When he saw the crowds,/
/he had compassion on them, /
/because they were harassed and helpless,/
/ like sheep without a shepherd./
/37 //Then he said to his disciples, /
/“The harvest is plentiful /
/but the workers are few.
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/38 //Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, /
/to send out workers into his harvest field.”//
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*/Jesus Sends Out the Twelve /*
/10:1 He called his twelve disciples to him /
/and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits/
/and to heal every disease and sickness./
I’m reminded of a story that I read.
A man was getting frustrated
when he was trying to fix his riding lawnmower,
because he didn’t have the right tools.
A neighbor who was watching him,
came over with a well-stocked toolbox
and offered his help to fix the mower.
After a short while the lawnmower
was working better than before.
In amazement the man said to his neighbor:
“You have some impressive tools in your box!
What do you make with all those tools?”
And the neighbor replied with a smile:
“Mostly friends!”
Indeed!
It’s amazing what a good set of tools can do
in the hands of one who knows how to use them.
Now, before you jump to conclusions,
I’m not suggesting that we
at the Springfield Heights Mennonite Church
have all the sharpest tools in the box
to fix the worlds problems.
However, as followers of Jesus Christ
we as a church are part of the our Master’s tool box
to bring hope and healing into a broken world.
When we are moved by compassion
for the needs of those around us
God promises to do great things
in the lives of people.
In our Scripture text we read
that Jesus was moved by compassion for the crowd
and he called twelve persons
to be his disciples.
Now, our reference check on these twelve men
reveals that these fellows were nothing to look at.
And these are exactly the people that Jesus called
to follow him and to do great things for God.
When Jesus picked his twelve disciples
and sent them out to preach
the Good News of God’s favor,
to cast out demons
and to heal the sick,
he did not loose any sleep over their qualifications.
One might think that the Gospel writer, Matthew,
would have mentioned that Jesus chose these men
because of their prior experience,
or because of their great potential
or their unusual spiritual insight.
But we are told none of that.
We are simply told the names of the twelve
that were called to follow him.
It seems to me that this story says more
about the nature of Jesus
than it says about the qualifications
of his followers.
It is just the way Jesus does these things.
Jesus calls fishers (4:18-22)…
He calls tax collectors (9:9)…
He calls subsistance-farmers…
He calls cabinet makers…
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