JESUS PRIORITIZED THE GOSPEL

Mark 2:13 Jesus went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.

Mark 1:38 And he said to them, “Let’s go on to the neighboring villages so that I may preach there too. This is why I have come.”

Mark 2:10 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he told the paralytic— 11 “I tell you: get up, take your mat, and go home.”

Colossians 1:19–20 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile everything to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross., If Jesus came to make peace, that first means there was hostility. A divide between myself, you, and God Almighty.

Romans 5:10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

Mark 2:14 Then, passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me,” and he got up and followed him.

JESUS PICKED AN OUTSIDER

Here is a change in the method of Jesus displaying his power. To the paralytic he said, “Get up, take your mat, and go home.” But to the man engaged in a calling that degraded him, Jesus said, “Follow me,” and “he got up and followed him.” -Charles Spurgeon

1 Corinthians 12:18 But as it is, God has arranged each one of the parts in the body just as he wanted.

JESUS PLEASED GOD

Mark 2:15–16 While he was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him. 16 When the scribes who were Pharisees, saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

“Sinners” in v. 15 refers to Jews who did not keep the Law but lived like Gentiles. To the religious Jews, they were outcasts. -Warren Wiersbe

Leviticus 10:8–10 The Lord spoke to Aaron: 9 “You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations. 10 You must distinguish between the holy and the common, and the clean and the unclean,

Matthew 23:37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard this, he told them, “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are sick. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

JESUS PERFECTLY HEALS

Hebrews 7:25

John 15:11

Colossians 2:2

1 Thessalonians 3:10

2 Corinthians 7:1

1 Thessalonians 5:23

2 Timothy 3:17

James 1:4

1 John 2:5

1 John 4:12

Galatians 5:22–23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things.