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Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

What Keeps People From Following Jesus | Learning to Follow Jesus | Luke 5.27-32

Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Ten Minute Bible Talks

Mental Health, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

"And so Jesus has come for all people, to call all people to repent and to believe in him, but only some people hear that as good news because only some people know that they are broken, that they are sinners. Some people are offended by Jesus." Have you ever tried to help someone who doesn't think they need help? They get mad at you! Instead of thanking you for the assistance, they get upset with you for "interfering." The Gospel is supposed the be the https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-the-gospel-preached-treason-learning-to-follow-jesus-luke-4-43/ (Good News of Jesus Christ), but it can also seem deeply offensive. Telling someone they're sinful and need a savior can come across as pretty judgmental and presumptuous. Learn how Jesus calls his followers from https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/keith-simon/ (Keith) as he reads through https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+5%3A27-32&version=ESV (Luke 5.27-32) to continue our series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/how-to-follow-jesus/ (Learning to Follow Jesus). Interested in more content like this? Check out our Resources and Related episodes at the bottom. To learn how to share your faith at work, read https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/stories/how-to-talk-about-your-faith-at-work-an-interview-with-patrick-cox-of-veterans-united/?hsCtaTracking=97e0a638-7cce-4d24-821e-f9167b3d9805%7Cb7bd52dd-d007-49c1-a8a6-2fb7646aca31 (this interview) with Patrick Cox, an executive at Veterans United. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Facebook), https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/thecrossingcomo (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO.  Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

0:10.0

I'm Keith Simon.

0:11.0

And I'm Patrick Miller.

0:13.0

Right now we're learning how to follow Jesus by working our way through the Gospel of Luke.

0:18.0

What keeps people from following Jesus?

0:22.0

There might be a few ways you answer that question.

0:25.4

You might say that for some people it's intellectual objections that keep them

0:29.6

from being a Christian. For other people it might be that they're just kind of

0:34.1

ignorant meaning that they haven't ever really been exposed to Christianity. For

0:39.6

others it might be a bad experience with a family member or a church that makes them

0:44.6

resistant. Some people you might say have some sin that they don't want to give up

0:50.6

and that keeps them from following Jesus. I want to add something to that

0:55.0

list of possible answers to that question, one that might surprise you. We'll get

1:01.4

back to that in just a few minutes. Let's start though in

1:05.0

Luke chapter 5 verse 27. We're going to read about how Jesus calls a tax

1:12.4

collector to be one of his disciples.

1:15.0

Now I don't want you to get confused.

1:18.0

In this story, the tax collector's name is Levi.

1:21.0

We know from other texts in the Gospels that this Levi is the same person that is named

1:27.8

Matthew the tax collector. So just like Simon Peter has two names, so it seems that Levi Matthew has two names.

1:37.3

So Luke Chapter 5, verse 27, after this Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth.

1:47.0

Now you've probably heard in the past that tax collectors were hated people.

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