An Area Tax Collector Became Jesus' Bridge To Many Tax Collectors, Are You A Bridge? - July 05, 2022

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Word 1
JESUS, THE MESSIAH & ETERNAL KING Mathew 9:8-13
• Matt 9:8 Every time Jesus did a miracle, people who saw it glorified the Father. Jesus was able to move in such a way that when people saw His miracles, they praised God. Jesus said in Matt. 5:16 "Let your light so shine before men that when they see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Every good work is God work, point it all out to the glory of God. If you're used by the Lord, people will either have a tendency to exalt you unrealistically, or to rail on you radically. Our goal should be to do what Jesus did—turn all the attention, all the glory back to the Father.

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JESUS, THE MESSIAH & ETERNAL KING Mathew 9:8-13
• Matt. 9:9 Matthew was a Jew who was appointed by the Romans to be the area's tax collector. He collected taxes from the citizens as well as from merchants passing through town. Tax collectors were expected to take a commission on the taxes they collected, but most of them overcharged and kept the profits. Thus, tax collectors were hated by the Jews because of their reputation for cheating and because of their support of Rome. When Jesus called Matthew to be one of his disciples, Matthew got up and followed, leaving a lucrative career. When God calls you to follow or obey him, do you do it with as much abandon as Matthew? Sometimes the decision to follow Christ requires difficult or painful choices. Like Matthew, we must decide to leave behind those things that would keep us from following Christ.

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JESUS, THE MESSIAH & ETERNAL KING Mathew 9:8-13
• Matt. 9:10-13 When he visited Matthew, Jesus hurt his own reputation among the religious elites in order to reach out to those who were lost. Matthew's reputation hadn't yet caught up with his new life as a disciple, but he became a bridge for Jesus' message to Matthew's past associates. We should not be afraid to reach out to people who are living in sin. God's message changes people—and their friends, too!

Personal Supplication
Father in the name of Jesus, just like you used Matthew as a bridge to reach out to many tax collectors and sinners, use me Lord to reach out to the lost today and forever. Matt 4:19
19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Daily Protection Covenant Declaration
Because I dwell in the secret place of the most High, I shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Surely he shall deliver me from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
He shall cover me with his feathers, and under his wings shall I trust: his truth shall be my shield and buckler.
I shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.
A thousand shall fall at my side, and ten thousand at my right hand; but it shall not come nigh me.
Only with my eyes shall I behold and see the wicked rewarded.

Because I have made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, my habitation;
There shall no evil befall me neither shall any plague come nigh my dwelling.
For God shall give his angels charge over me, to keep me in all my ways.
They shall bear me up in their hands, lest I dash my foot against a stone.
I shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt I trample under feet.
Because I have set my love upon God, therefore will He deliver me: He will set me on high, because I have known His name.
I shall call upon Him, and He will answer me: He will be with me in trouble; He will deliver me, and honour me.

JESUS IS LORD!