The Calling of Matthew
Sermon Series: The Chosen
November 28, 2021
Pastor Phil Chorlian
“But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.’” – Isaiah 43:1
I. Jesus saw Matthew and
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. —Luke 5:27
II. Matthew accepts the call
… 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. —Luke 5:28-29
For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. —Mark 8:35
In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples. —Luke 14:33
III. You can’t have resurrection life without a
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. —John 10:10
Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” —Luke 9:23
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. —Galatians 2:20
“The principle runs through all of life from top to bottom. Give up yourself and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes, every day, and death of your whole body in the send, submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look to yourself and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find him, and with him everything else thrown in.” – C.S. Lewis