Following Jesus is like joining a celebration you never thought you’d be invited to and being given the privilege of inviting others to join in the celebration with you. The message was given on June 9, 2013 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info, go to www.NewCityChurch.ca.

1. Luke 5:27-39
Page 861 in our guest Bibles.
Today’s Scripture:

2. “What about
others who are
HONEST,
SINCERE, &
GOOD
people?”
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3. Learn to
LOVE YOURSELF
Just WORK HARDER at
being a good person
1
2
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM:

4. Luke 5:27-39
“You’re Invited
to the
Celebration!”
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5. After this, he went out and saw a
LUKE 5:27
tax collector named Levi, sitting at
the tax booth. And he said to him,
“Follow me....”

6. After this, he went out and saw a
LUKE 5:27-28
tax collector named Levi, sitting at
the tax booth. And he said to him,
thing, he rose, and followed him....
“Follow me.” And leaving every-

7. And Levi made him a great feast in
LUKE 5:29
his house, and there was a large
company of tax collectors and
others reclining at table with them....

8. And the Pharisees and their scribes
LUKE 5:30
grumbled at his disciples, saying,
“Why do you eat and drink with tax
collectors and sinners...?”

9. And Jesus answered them, “Those
LUKE 5:31-32
who are well have no need of a
physician, but those who are sick.
but sinners to repentance....”
I have not come to call the righteous

10. “This is the
CLIMATIC MOMENT
to which the whole story
has been building.
Here Jesus makes
one of his great
MISSION STATEMENTS.

11. “He did NOT come to
spend time with people
who had it all together.
Rather, he came to save
people who really needed
him: MESSED-UP,
BROKEN-DOWN,
LAW-BREAKING
sinners.”

12. And they said to him, “The disciples
LUKE 5:33
of John fast often and offer prayers,
and so do the disciples of the
Pharisees, but yours eat and drink...”

13. And Jesus said to them, “Can you
LUKE 5:34-35
make wedding guests fast while the
bridegroom is with them? The days
taken away from them, then they
will come when the bridegroom is
will fast in those days....”

14. He also told them a parable: “No one
LUKE 5:36
tears a piece from a new garment
and puts it on a old garment. If he
piece from the new will not match
does, he will tear the new, and the
the old....”

15. An no one puts new wine into old
LUKE 5:37-38
wineskins. If he does, the new wine
will burst the skins and it will be
ed. But new wine must be put into
spilled, and the skins will be destroy-
fresh wineskins....”

16. And no one after drinking old wine
LUKE 5:39
desires new, for he says, “The old
is good....”

17. Why does Luke include this story
in his historical biography
of Jesus?
Important Question

18. Following Jesus is like
JOINING A CELEBRATION
you never thought you’d be invited to

19. Following Jesus is like
JOINING A CELEBRATION
you never thought you’d be invited to
&

20. &
Following Jesus is like
JOINING A CELEBRATION
you never thought you’d be invited to
being given the privilege of
INVITING OTHERS
to join the celebration with you.

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22. R.S.V.P1
image: Ben Cumming

23. When Jesus eats with
Levi, the message is
clear: Jesus has come
for LOSERS, people
on the MARGINS,
people who have
made a MESS of their
lives, people who are
ORDINARY.

24. Jesus has come for
you. The ONLY
people left out are
those who think they
don’t need God: the
SELF-RIGHTEOUS
and the
SELF-IMPORTANT.”

25. 2 INVITE
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26. “Heaven goes
by FAVOR.
If it went by merit,
YOU would
STAY OUT
and YOUR DOG
would GO IN.”
~ Mark Twain
image: Eve Dia

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