The issues that said are a book of the month for April is a collection of more than 600 hand-drawn Christian symbols by artist and author Edward Riohas.

It's titled A Complete Guide to Christian Symbols.

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Now pay close attention little children it's somebody you ought to know it's all about a man

that walked on earth nearly 2,000 years ago well he healed the sick perhaps the most remarkable thing about Jesus calling the tax collector Matthew to be one of his disciples

is not that he called a tax collector because Jesus called sinners across the board.

Although tax collectors were of course considered greater sinners than others,

maybe the most remarkable thing is that when he said follow me Matthew did. Welcome back to issues etc I'm Todd Wilkin joining us to teach a

Sunday school lesson on Jesus calling Matthew in Matthew chapter 9

Pastor Tom Baker a host of a radio show called Law and Gospel.

For almost 30 years he met monthly with his Sunday school teachers to prepare them for the

classroom.

Tom, welcome back.

Thank you. What was a tax collector in the New Testament? In the New Testament

the Romans had a very interesting procedure. They would conquer a nation, and then they would attempt to use the

leaders or people in that

people, they would pay them, they would help them out, this kind of thing,

and one of the areas in which the Romans used Jews was to collect taxes.

Now, this really made the people of Israel angry. It was shocking behavior to have tax collectors eating with you because when you ate with someone you

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