Dinner with Levi
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Why Study the Meals?
Why Study the Meals?
Meals play an essential role in human relationships, in church fellowship, and in Jesus’ ministry.
Dinner with Levi
Dinner with Levi
Jesus wanted to be close to sinners.
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, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Jesus' goal was to bring them to repentance.
Jesus didn’t offer them a diagnosis or a prescription—he offered himself.
They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”
Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”
Jesus ate with sinners because eating with him was the cure.
I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
Jesus warned them that eating with him would change everything.
He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’ ”
Eating with Jesus Today
Eating with Jesus Today
The antidote to sin is not doctrine or penance—it’s eating with Jesus.
If you truly spend time with Jesus, you can never be the same again.
Eating with Jesus should give us a heart to share Jesus.
The only way to share Jesus with sinners is to eat with them ourselves.