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
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: February 1st, 2018 02:56
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8787 metre.
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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
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.
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.
Thanks Fred.
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