Jesus Calls Matthew‬ the Tax Collector: Gospel of Matthew 9:9-13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬.

I sliced these two scenes together from the Chosen season 1, episode 7, ‘Invitations’ and episode 8, ‘I Am He’.

I love the scene when Gaius (Kirk B. R. Woller) tries to stop Matthew (Paras Patel) from joining Jesus (Jonathan Roumie), Gaius reminds Matthew of all his worldly treasures, “You have money, Quintus protects you (power), no Jew lives as good as you… you’re gonna throw it all away?” Which Matthew simply replies, “Yes!” We can all learn so much from Matthew, there is nothing wrong with living comfortably, God Blesses us with with many Spiritual Blessings and Grace, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,” (Eph. 1:3 ESV).

Though we must be willing to to give up our worldly treasures and comforts for the sake of the Gospel, and to follow Jesus, “with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30 ESV). As Jesus said, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matt. 6:19-21 ESV).

“Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.”
- Proverbs 16:20 ESV

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Matthew the Tax Collector.

Matthew‬ ‭9:9-13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
9. As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.
10. Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples.
11. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12. When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
13. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

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