The Fun Loving Physician
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· 14 viewsJesus is the physician that heals sinners, the bridegroom that loves joy, and the new.
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Jesus, a friend of sinners
Jesus, a friend of sinners
Now it happened, as He was dining in Levi’s house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many, and they followed Him.
Jesus did not care about His reputation being tied to rejected sinners. He loved them!
Jesus deliberately associates with outcasts of Jewish society.
"Matthew...enthusiastically invited some of his “sinner” friends to meet the Lord Jesus. These were Jewish people like himself who did not follow the Law or appear to have much interest in things religious. It was exactly the kind of people Jesus wanted to reach."
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 116). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
Critics
Critics
And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”
Jesus' critics help Him explain His mission more clear and define who he really is.
1. A physician
1. A physician
When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace.
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace.
Jesus was a physician that came to heal the sick. Those rejected by the religious leaders were not "rejects" in God's eyes.
We are all sick. Will you realize the severity of your condition and come to the healer? He is not ashamed of you but will you be ashamed of Him?
Do you see the intrinsic worth in every human you meet? We are all eternal beings made in the image of God. All of us! Pray that you develop the heart that Jesus has for every human soul. Challenge your prejudice. Love and pray for those that you have little compassion for.
"Now we see that our Saviour may be compared to a physician: He comes to us in our need; He makes a perfect diagnosis; He provides a final and complete cure; and He pays the bill! What a physician!"
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 116). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
"But there are three kinds of “patients” whom Jesus cannot heal of their sin sickness: (1) those who do not know about Him; (2) those who know about Him but refuse to trust Him; and (3) those who will not admit that they need Him. The scribes and Pharisees were in that third category, as are all self-righteous sinners today"
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 116). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
We must admit that we are sinners in need of a Savior because the wrath of God is coming upon us.
Jesus is the true physician that goes deeper that surface level to get to the real problem so that there is real healing. Not like the religious leaders. ,
It's a heart sickness!
2. The Bridegroom
2. The Bridegroom
And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.
For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.
On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding.
And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”
Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”
Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece.
Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.
And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it.
When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom.
And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”
This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
Why is is Jesus having such a good time with these sinners?
Jesus came to bring joy, not sadness into the world.
Is this a lesson for you today? Do you need more of the joy of the Lord so people look on and marvel?
Religion had become legalistic and burdensome because of tradition and the influence of the religious leaders.
“Life is not supposed to be a funeral!” Jesus told them. “God wants life to be a wedding feast! I am the Bridegroom and these people are My wedding guests. Are not wedding guests supposed to have a good time?”
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 117). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
John the Baptist had already announced that Jesus was the Bridegroom (), and our Lord had performed His first miracle at a joyous marriage feast ().
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 117). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
Salvation from sin involves much more than a person knowing about Christ, or even having “good feelings” toward Christ. Salvation comes when the sinner commits himself or herself to Jesus Christ and says, “I do!” Then the believer immediately enters into the joys of this spiritual marriage relationship: bearing His name; sharing His wealth and power; enjoying His love and protection; and one day living in His glorious home in heaven. When you are “married to Christ,” life becomes a wedding feast, in spite of trials and difficulties.
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 117). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
We enter a covenant relationship with Christ.
Foreshadowing death/resurrection
Foreshadowing death/resurrection
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.
Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.
He was only pointing out that occasional fasting would be proper at a future time, but that joyful celebration should be the normal experience of believers.
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 117). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
3. New, not improved (New Wineskin)
3. New, not improved (New Wineskin)
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse.
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”
In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you?
You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”
then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.
Jesus came to establish a NEW covenant, not to "patch up" the old religious traditions.
They were hoping for some kind of compromise that would retain the best of pharisaic Judaism and the best of what Christ had to offer. But Jesus exposed the folly of that approach. It would be like tearing patches from a new unshrunk garment and sewing them on an old garment. You would ruin the new garment; and when the old garment was washed, the patches would shrink, rip away, and ruin that garment too.
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 117). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
New Covenant.
Specifically, a new covenant in His blood.
The Law written on hearts, not stone. ,
The Holy Spirit in us enables us to fulfill the Law.
No compromise. No mixing with our own version of what or who we believe God to be. Jesus will be who He is and we either accept it and everything that comes with it, or reject Him entirely.
"No other name..."
When you trust Jesus Christ, you become part of a new creation (), and there are always new experiences of grace and glory. How tragic when people hold on to dead religious tradition when they could lay hold of living spiritual truth. Why cherish the shadows when the reality has come? () In Jesus Christ we have the fulfillment of all that God promised ().
Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 118). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
Don't cling to the shadow or the traditions.
