Sermon
Jesus, Friend of Sinners
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Brad Barrett, with Matt Heerema
September 9, 2024 · 36 min
Summary
Jesus welcomes tax collectors and sinners as a compassionate physician of the soul, not to affirm their sin but to heal and transform them. The passage contrasts Jesus's inclusive friendship with the Pharisees' external religiosity, calling believers to know him as he truly is rather than through human rules or self-righteous performance.
Highlights
Jesus invites them to come as they are in their brokenness but not to stay as they are.
Jesus the friend of sinners is your only hope and he is better than anything you can ever imagine or anything you can conjure up.
We must let jesus be who he is, walk with him, follow him, dine with him in the manner that he calls us to, not in our self-righteous rules.