Pastor Gregg teaches from Matthew 9 about being a Differencemaker. Jesus made a difference with a diverse group of people. We become Differencemakers when we go deep in prayer, dine in diversity, and speak with clarity about Jesus.
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Gregg Matte is the senior pastor of Houston’s First Baptist Church. Under his leadership, this historic church founded in 1841 has moved... read more
Pastor Gregg references the Periodic Table of The Bible and the related insert included in that Sunday's Weekly Guide. You can find the original version created by Mark Barry on his website.
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Matthew 9:9–15
9As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man called Matthew, sitting in the tax collector’s booth; and He *said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.
10Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples.11When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, “Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners?”12But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.13“But go and learn what this means: ‘I DESIRECOMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
The Question about Fasting
14Then the disciples of John *came to Him, asking, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”15And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
