{"id":12464,"date":"2022-08-07T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=12464"},"modified":"2022-08-09T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T14:10:19","slug":"who-are-you-eating-with","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/sermons\/who-are-you-eating-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are You Eating With?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-gdm-google-drive-embedder-viewer\"><iframe width='100%' height='100' frameborder='0' scrolling='yes' src='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1BHEkwmtotKWrzV1cc1jaCCzWsp7trXzR\/preview?usp=drivesdk' allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n<h4><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Read<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Luke 5:27-32<\/p>\n<h4><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Consider<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In August, we are starting a new 5-week series called \u201cOpen Table\u201d to explore the meal scenes in the gospel of Luke.\u00a0 We will focus on who Jesus ate with and how He interacted with people he was dining with.\u00a0 Eating is an essential daily activity for human being to gain nutrition and stay alive.\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes, we eat alone as it is a necessity, other times, we eat as a social activity that implicitly demonstrate the relationship among the people around the dining table.\u00a0 Jesus strategically ate with different kinds of people and some of those were not acceptable by the social and religious norms at that time.\u00a0 Luke 7:34 says \u201cThe Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, \u2018Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.\u2019\u201d.\u00a0 I encourage you to read slowly from the beginning of the gospel of Luke.\u00a0 In chapters 1 and 2, Luke describes the narrative of birth of Jesus and his growing up.\u00a0 In Chapters 3 and 4, Luke wants the readers to know Jesus is the Messiah, anointed one by telling John the Baptist prepared the way for Him, the genealogy of Jesus, how Jesus was tested before the public ministry and what he did were prophesized in the Old Testament.\u00a0 As Jesus continued to teach, to cast our evil spirits and to heal, he became popular.\u00a0 In chapter 5:27-32, Jesus did a controversial thing.\u00a0 He went to a house of a tax collector, Levi, and to eat with him and his guests.\u00a0 At the end of the narrative, someone complained \u201cWhy do you we eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d\u00a0 Tax collector was a person who was designated by the Romans government to collect tax from the Jews.\u00a0 The Jews viewed them greedy and wanted to keep a distance from them. This occupation was extremely unpopular, and no one wanted to be friend with them.\u00a0 Also, Jews did not eat with sinners at all as they wanted to be clean before God and wanted no part with the sinners.\u00a0 But Jesus ate with them, broke the cultural, religious, and social barriers.\u00a0 I am sure those tax collectors and \u201csinners\u201d must feel the warmth from the wildly popular Jesus.\u00a0 Eating with someone indeed breaks barriers.\u00a0 Who are you eating with most of the time?<\/p>\n<h4>Pray<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for showing us how to live a life worthy of calling. \u00a0\u00a0May the Spirit show us how to use our time and particular our meals to connect and to build relationship with people who need to experience the love of God. I thank God for your love and reaching out to me when I still sinned against you. \u00a0Thank you for your grace and love, In Jesus\u2019 gracious name, I pray.<\/p>\n<h4><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Diving<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Deeper<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Schedule your summertime in the next 4 weeks to eat with people you would like to engage and demonstrate the love of God.\u00a0 (If COVID situation permitted)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When you are eating with family, how would you use this time to intentionally build relationship with one another in Christ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How can we live closer <strong>WITH GOD<\/strong> in our lives?<br \/>How are we being <strong>TRANSFORMED<\/strong> to be more like Christ?<br \/>How is the Holy Spirit empowering us to imitate Christ in what we <strong>DO<\/strong> this week?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 5:27-32<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":12465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[150],"ctc_sermon_series":[530],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[520],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/12464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/12464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12475,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/12464\/revisions\/12475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=12464"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=12464"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=12464"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=12464"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=12464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}