Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we're in

Matthew chapter 9 verses 14 through something else 17 and this is the part where

Jesus is in Capurnium. He's probably still at or just coming off.

A party is maybe winding down. They got thrown for him by this repugnant cultural other tax collector named Matthew or Levi depending on which

book of the Bible you're in, both of those were probably his name, and this repugnant cultural

other tax collector invites a bunch of other people who aren't very well

liked from society and also the most conservative religious leader scholar

types also show up at the party so this is going to get weird and it does get weird.

And the Pharisees, the religious leader types, and I'm like, I don't know why you're

eating with these repugnant cultural others and Jesus is like, hey, it's not

the healthy you need a doctor, it's's the sick go and learn what this means I

desire mercy not sacrifice for having come to call the righteous but sinners so Jesus

clarifies his priorities both in action by hanging out with people that other people don't like very much and with

words going right to hosa a verse that everybody in the audience would have been very familiar

with to say mercy not sacrifice I mean that all along you guys who were looking at the Bible

you should have been able to see it coming that God's redemptive plan was going to be for the people

who actually needed redeeming not for the people who thought they had everything together

and nothing that needed to be redeemed.

So that party's going on, there's still the social awkwardness lingering in the air, it's like,

oh, that got weird for a minute, but let's try and ramp this thing back up, get some music going,

and try to make it more comfortable for everybody and then

want to John the Baptist disciples show up or maybe some of John the Baptist disciples

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