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Luke 5:31-32
31Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
31Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
It’s not so much that everyone else, the Pharisees in particular, aren’t spiritually sick, but that they don’t recognize their sickness. They are seen, by both society and by themselves, as "spiritually together." The Pharisees seemed to presuppose that any good teacher would eat and socialize with “non-sinners” and those who were socially acceptable (versus tax collectors, who were probably Jewish, but working for the Roman government). I suppose this kind of self-righteousness is just as rampant today in the established Christian community as it was then for the Pharisees and committed followers of Judaism. After all, it is a tendency of human nature to find significance and fulfillment in condescension and self-aggrandizement. And yet, available to every Christ-follower is the power to embrace humility - to die to themselves, abandon their comfort zones, step out of their Christian subculture, and genuinely befriend those around them who are not socially acceptable or "religious." All the while remembering their own "sickness" without Jesus.
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