Matthew Missioner - Twelve Disciples Series - 3

orchidee



Tune: Galilee

('Jesus calls us o'er the tumult')

Matthew 9 v.9-13

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Levi = Jewish name for Matthew

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Matthew, tax-collector, despised

Jesus one day him espied

Gave call simple, "Come, follow me"

Be all God wants you to be

 

So he left his occupation

Though an ill-favoured station

Was it, though his fellows joined for

Sinners celebration sure

 

There indignant Pharisees they

Asked His disciples, did say

"Why your Master eat with such ones

Who are sinners, as lost sons?"

 

But Jesus to them did reply

They that be whole, by and by

Need not a physician, for they

Are self-righteous, whole, they say

 

'Tis the sick who do realise

Need of Christ, faith does arise

Spiritual healing they need

Physician's orders they heed

 

Pharisees were to go and learn

God will have mercy, discern

They need to see, not sacrifice

Outward show will not suffice

 

But 'tis mercy needed, and so

Relationship they will know

From their inward hearts, in Christ grow

And His nature they shall show

  • Author: orchidee (Online Online)
  • Published: February 1st, 2018 02:56
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8787 metre.
  • Category: Spiritual
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  • BRIAN & ANGELA

    Thanks STEVE for a very elegant tune to introduce BR OTHER MATTHEW the intellectual DISCIPLE ! His elegant Gospel opens the New Testament introduces JESUS as the MESSIAH ~ written for the JEWS to build a BRIDGE between the OLD and the NEW ! Mark ~ Jesus the Servant ~ written for the Romans ~ Luke ~ Jesus the Son of Man ~ written for the Greeks and John ~ Jesus the Son of GOD ~ written for the CHRISTIANS ! They give us a unique SYNOPTIC ACCOUNT of the DIVINE Birth ~ Life & Death of JESUS Second Person of the Trinity and the only WAY of SALVATION ~ AMEN ~ BRIAN

    • orchidee

      Thanks Brian. I can see how Matthew was intellectual. The study I'm doing says that Bartholomoew (=Nathanael?) was intellectual. His poem is to follow in this series!
      Aww, why they not like publicans? Well, that was the name for tax-collectors of those days. Erm, today publicans as bar-tenders don't collect taxes as such. Is the tax included in the beer prices - and in the price of my sherries?! I'm a tee-total sherry-drinker (??). lol.

    • FredPeyer

      I guess not much has changed as far as tax collectors are concerned. We still don't like them.....unless they do as Matthew did. Well written, Orchi.

      • orchidee

        Thanks Fred.



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