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TITLE: Eating with sinners
TEXT: Mark 2:13-17
PROPOSITION: As we try to reach the lost we face some real challenges.
QUESTION: What?
KEY WORD: Attitudes
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
- We face a real challenge.
- We must eat with sinners - friends, associate, encourage, minister
- 19:10 - Seek and save the lost
- We must NOT condone sin, support error, fellowship darkness
- Ephesians 5:11- Have no fellowship with works of darkness
- John 1:10-11 - Do not bid him Godspeed
- Corinthians 6:17-18 - Come out, be separate, touch not unclean thing
- How can we fellowship with sinners and not fellowship their error?
- How can we associate with them and not condone their life?
Matthew - tax collector - Meet my friends
Jesus called him - 14
Had a dinner with all his tax collector friends - 15
Cornelius - call friends and kinsmen - Acts 10
Modern term = Web evangelism
Scribes and Pharisees - critical, drunk, glutton, low life
Eating with sinners - low life
Luke 7:34 - Wine bibber and glutton
Jesus Response
Text - Who needs a doctor, sick or well?
See Luke 14:12-15 - Invite the poor, lame, blind
Luke 19:9-10 - Zaccheus - Salvation has come to this house
Parable (Luke 14:16-24) Excuses - go to handicapped, then hedges
Matthew 21:31-32 - Harlots enter ahead of you
John 8:11 - woman taken in adultery - Go and sin no more
Missed opportunities
Right after conversion - they know more non-Christians
Longer in the church - fewer non-Christians we know
Our challenge
Not to associate with each other - only - Matthew 5:47
To fish for men - Go where the fish are
Call sinners to repentance
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