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Jesus wants sinners to come to Him!. Matthew 9:9-13. Jesus wants sinners to come to Him!. We need to be intentional in our evangelism. Friends are wonderful, and they make our lives more full. “A friend loves at all times” ( Prov 17:17).
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We need to be intentional in our evangelism. • Friends are wonderful, and they make our lives more full. • “A friend loves at all times” (Prov 17:17). • “There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” (Prov 18:24). • We must seek to bring those friends to Jesus.
We need to recognize sin. • Jesus says that He came to call sinners to repentance. • Jesus never turned a blind eye to sin. • Jesus to a sinful woman: “Your sins are forgiven” (Lk 7:48). • Jesus to the woman caught in adultery: “Go and sin no more” (Jn 8:11). • People are full of sin. • “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). • If people have no sin, why bother reaching out to them?
We need to love those in sin. • Jesus loves those at Matthew’s table. • “A friend loves at all times” (Prov 17:17). • “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (Jn 15:13). • How do we show love? • We serve others. • We teach the truth in love. • We are to speak “the truth in love” (Eph4:15).
We need to see what people can become. • Jesus has a long history of changing lives. • The gospel has great power to change. • Onesimus was “once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me” (Philem 11). • Paul himself is an example of the power of the gospel: 1 Tim 1:12-16. • Look at your life.
