The Jesus Stuff: The Table - Jon Tyson

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued our Fall sermon series, The Jesus Stuff, by digging into the most controversial aspect of Jesus's ministry: who He ate with. Jesus created space for people to encounter the Father's scandalous grace.

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0:00.0	I have the honor of reading our teaching text this evening.
0:20.7	It comes from Matthew 9, 1st 9 through 13. I have the honor of reading our teaching text this evening.
0:21.4	It comes from Matthew 9, verse 9 through 13.
0:26.7	As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's
0:32.9	booth.
0:34.3	Follow me, he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
0:39.9	While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and sinners came and
0:46.3	ate with him and his disciples.
0:49.1	When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples,
0:53.8	why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?
0:58.3	On hearing this, Jesus said, it is not the wealthy, it's not the healthy who need a doctor,
1:05.8	but the sick. But go and learn what this means. I desire mercy, not sacrifice, for I have not come to call
1:14.9	the righteous, but sinners. This is the word of the Lord. Do you know what the most controversial
1:21.6	part of Jesus' ministry was? Was it casting out demons?
1:29.2	That was controversial.
1:37.3	Was it the truths in his sermons where Jesus would say, you have heard it said, but I say to you?
1:38.6	Well, that got people talking.
1:41.4	What about the people he chose to be his disciples?
1:47.0	He had some sketchy disciples. That's not it, no.
1:49.0	His interpretation of Scripture.
1:51.0	No, the most controversial thing, the thing most criticized in the ministry of Jesus is who he ate with.
2:00.0	How Jesus used the table got more criticism than any other practice
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