Our Need for Jesus

Max Lucado Daily Devotional

Max Lucado

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Matthew was a public tax collector. As crooked as a corkscrew. Everyone kept his distance from Matthew. Everyone, that is,...

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0:00.0	This is Max Lakato.
0:02.6	Matthew was a public tax collector, as crooked as a corkscrew.
0:07.5	Everyone kept his distance from Matthew.
0:10.4	Everyone, that is, except Jesus.
0:13.7	Jesus said to him, follow me and be my disciples.
0:16.8	So Matthew got up and followed him.
0:18.8	Matthew 9.
0:20.0	Then Luke 5 in verse 29.
0:22.1	Levi gave a big dinner for Jesus at his house, and many tax collectors and other people were eating there too.
0:28.8	An hour or so into the evening, the door opens.
0:31.7	An icy breeze blows in, enter the Pharisees, the religious police, and their thin-lipped piety, but Jesus intervenes
0:39.4	saying healthy people don't need a doctor. Sick people do. The Pharisees were unhealthy
0:45.1	and self-righteous, but since they did not think they were sick, they saw no need for Jesus.
0:50.6	Matthew and the gang, on the other hand, made room for Jesus.
0:55.0	As a result, Jesus made room for them.
0:58.0	This is Max Lakato.

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