Learn to Throw A Party for Jesus

April 21, 2013
Kevin Thiessen

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The story of Levi, whose other name was Matthew, was about a man who was contracted with the Roman government to collect taxes from fellow Jews, pocketed the gain for himself, and was excluded from any form of community life. He was restricted to social life with peers within his profession, and often shunned and hated by countrymen, neighbors, and even relatives. Levi’s transformation occurred when he met Jesus Christ one day. He later became an apostle and wrote the first book of the New Testament. When Levi excitedly gathered his colleagues for a feast with Jesus, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were offended and scandalized by Jesus’ association with Levi and others like him and posed this question to the disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

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