Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
October 28, 2023: SOAP #5077: Job 19; Mark 1-2

SCRIPTURE:  Mark (NIV) 2:16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the “sinners” and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?” 17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

OBSERVATION:  To the religious leaders, they were only “sinners and tax collectors.”  But to Jesus, they were so much more.  They were potential believers.  They were potential testimonies.  They were worthy of His time.  They were the reason He was on earth.  Of course, He would go to their homes. 

APPLICATION:  I must be careful not to think of people as useless or outside the circle of God’s grace.  Everyone within my circle of influence, everyone who can see me, everyone who can hear me are potential followers of Jesus. 

The reason some people are not following Jesus may not be because they have refused Him; it may be that no one has shared the good news with them!  May there be no one in my circle of influence of whom that is true!  

PRAYER:  Holy Spirit, the Word (Acts 1:8) promises that when I am full of you, I will be a witness.  May I be so full of you that it will be impossible for everyone not to see Jesus living in me.  Amen 

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