In preparation for this Sunday service, consider the words in Luke 5:12-39:
Luke 5:12-39 NIV
Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy 12 While Jesus was
in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with
leprosy.[a] When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the
ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make
me clean.” 13 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the
man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the
leprosy left him. 14 Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell
anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the
sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a
testimony to them.” 15 Yet the news about him spread all the
more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be
healed of their sicknesses. 16 But Jesus often withdrew to
lonely places and
prayed. Jesus
Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man 17 One day Jesus
was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were
sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and
from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with
Jesus to heal the sick. 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed
man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him
before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this
because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him
on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in
front of Jesus. 20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend,
your sins are forgiven.” 21 The Pharisees and the teachers of
the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who
speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are
you thinking these things in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to
say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24 But
I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to
forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get
up, take your mat and go home.” 25 Immediately he stood up in
front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home
praising God. 26 Everyone was amazed and gave praise to
God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen
remarkable things today.”
Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners 27 After this,
Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi
sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, 28 and
Levi got up, left everything and followed him. 29 Then Levi held
a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax
collectors and others were eating with them. 30 But the
Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their
sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with
tax collectors and sinners?” 31 Jesus answered them, “It is not
the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come
to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Jesus Questioned About Fasting 33 They said to him,
“John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of
the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.” 34 Jesus
answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast
while he is with them? 35 But the time will come when the
bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will
fast.” 36 He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of
a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have
torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not
match the old. 37 And no one pours new wine into old
wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the
wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 No, new
wine must be poured into new wineskins. 39 And no one after
drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is
better.’” THE WORD OF GOD, FOR THE
PEOPLE OF GOD. THANKS BE TO GOD.
You are invited to service this Sunday and every Sunday. Pastor Dave will present a sermon - Partying with Jesus. Coffee Hour is at 10:30 am and Sunday Service begins at 11:00 am. All are welcome.
