Levi, also known as Matthew, was a tax

collector.

Tax collectors were…

•Thought as traitors

•Often Extortionists

•Considered sinners like the Harlots

What would your town look like if it were

completely controlled by the Devil?

From this passage we see the one thing that most

thoroughly blinds us of our true spiritual condition is our own good order and

morality of our lives.

Self-Righteousness Self-Righteousness

From the passage we see this it is the very feeling of

despair from sin and knowing you are lost that

brings on to find the way to God’s forgiveness.

This story is about…Levi and sinners like him

who are in desperate need of salvation

This story is about…the Pharisees and other

like them that are confident in themselves

and not in the Savior.

This story is about…Jesus and the warning

He gives to the Pharisees and the encouragement

He gives to sinners.

The Warning from Jesus

“I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to

repentance.”

As long as the Pharisees thought they

were righteous they would never want nor

need Jesus.

The Pharisees had a false view of

themselves and a false view of sin.

The Encouragement from Jesus

I am a Savior to sinners and a

Physician to the sick.

“The first link between my soul and Christ is not my

goodness, but my badness; not my merit, but my misery;

not my standing, but my falling; not my riches, but my need.” –Kent Hughes

“Those who are well have no need of a

physician, but those who are sick. I did not

come to call the righteous, but sinner,

to repentancerepentance.”