SERIES: Matthew: The Kingdom of Heaven
SERMON: "Jesus Came to Call and Forgive Sinners" from Matthew 9:9–17.
In this text, Jesus calls Matthew, a tax collector, to follow Him...and the Pharisees weren't exactly happy about it. This leads Jesus to teach about the nature of His ministry.
In this sermon, Todd Wheeler reminds us that Jesus came for the sick, not the self-righteous, and that Jesus' ministry is incompatible with and cannot be contained by the religious traditions of the Pharisees.