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Luke chapter 7 verses 34 and 35.

The son of man has come eating and drinking and you say, look at him, a glutton and a drunkard,

a friend of tax collectors and sinners yet wisdom is justified by all her children.

One a picture in Luke 7 as Jesus is canceled by the religious culture around him.

He's accused by religious leaders, religious people of his love for sinners, for tax collectors.

Yet the beauty in verse 35 he was wise and his wisdom was justified by the people who would follow him,

who would experience life in him, including the quote-unquote sinful woman in the next story.

Isn't this what we all love about Jesus?

Sinners were drawn to him and his love for them, even when that angered the religious culture

around him. And don't we want that in our lives, our families, our churches to attract sinful

people? Whatever that means. Obviously here in Luke chapter 7 the picture was outcasts.

Those who were not accepted by other religious people found in Jesus a friend to them.

Oh, may our lives look like Jesus' life in this way.

May we be found as friends to sinners, to outcasts, to people who would normally expect to be

rejected by religious people. May they be welcomed at our tables loved, cared for in our lives.

Oh, I just, I want to encourage you to think about what this looks like in your life,

to be hospitable toward, to take initiative in reaching out to people who are normally

rejected by religious people. What does that look like in your life and your family,

your everyday schedule? And what does that look like in your church? Is your church a welcome

place for people who normally feel rejected by religious people? God, we pray this would be

so in our lives. We pray this would be so in our families and our churches. We would reflect

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