What If Your Past Is Too Far Gone to Fix? Hearing God’s Voice in Luke 5:27-39
What If Your Past Is Too Far Gone to Fix? Hearing God’s Voice in Luke 5:27-39 By the rules of his own religion, Levi's sin was unforgivable. Repentance required restitution, and he could never find the people he had overcharged. Today in our daily Bible study we finish Luke 5 at a dinner party. Jesus calls a tax collector, and the first thing Levi does is throw a banquet and fill the room with the only people who would still eat with him. We'll look at why that meal was scandalous, what the Pharisees were really grumbling about, and why Jesus reversed the order everyone assumed: seated first, changed second. Join me on an immersive Bible Study Experience. Learn more at BibleStudyLive.org Have a question about the series or a prayer request? Leave me a voicemail: SpeakPipe Ad-free episodes and the full library of past series: Patreon Questions we answer today How did the Roman tax system work, and why were collectors hated? Why was repentance considered impossible for a man like Levi? What did Levi give up that the fishermen didn't? What did sharing a meal actually mean in that culture? What word does Luke use for grumbling, and where else does it show up? Timestamps 00:00 Finishing Luke 5 01:24 Reading Luke 5:27-39 03:04 Prayer 04:02 The man who had been taxing Peter's catch 04:58 How the tax system actually worked 07:20 Traitor, thief, and ritually unclean 08:17 A story from New York City 09:14 Why repentance required restitution 09:43 Mathematically unforgivable 10:37 Why Levi burned the bridge behind him 13:12 The banquet, and who was on the guest list 14:34 The only people who would still eat with him 15:22 He brought Jesus into the room he already had 16:39 What a shared meal meant in that culture 18:32 Why that table failed every purity test 19:28 Honor, shame, and who you ate with 20:29 The same people who were amazed yesterday 20:58 Gongyzo, and the sound of grumbling 21:27 The same word Israel used in the wilderness 22:37 They grumbled at the disciples, not Jesus 23:11 The order they expected, and the order Jesus used 24:37 Catch them before you clean them 26:07 The table thread running through Luke 28:21 You have a seat 28:54 And so does the person you're excluding 29:54 Prayer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices