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	GOD CANNOT PLEASE SINNERS by Charles G. Finney
		Sinners do not like the mercy of God, in view of the conditions upon which it is to be exercised, nor would they like him if he were unmerciful.
		Sinners do not like the manner of ministers preaching as it is, nor would they be satisfied if their manner was different.
		Sinners ought not to desire that means should be used to please their hearts, while they are in their sins.
	www.charlesgfinney.com /1836SOIS/07sois_god_cant_plz_sinnrs.htm (5762 words)

	Publicans and sinners < Exhortations < Andrew McFarland
		And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
		Not surprisingly, the publicans in first century Palestine were not regarded favourably by the population.
		In any case, we are to treat the unrepentant sinner as a heathen and a publican: detestable people, people of no account, people who are so low that they do not deserve respect or honourable treatment.
	www.mcfarland.co.uk /andrew/exhortations/2004-02-08 (2824 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Publican
		Gospels, is derived from the publicanus of the Vulgate, and signifies a member or employee of the Roman financial companies who farmed the taxes.
		On account of these, and more, perhaps, because of the natural though impotent Jewish hatred of the Roman supremacy, those of the Jews who found it profitable thus to serve the foreign rulers were objects of execration to their countrymen.
		sinners; and consistently with this conduct it pleased Him to choose as one of the twelve
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12553d.htm (272 words)

	TG Sinner
		Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more.
		The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.
		And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
	scriptures.lds.org /tgs/sinner?sr=1 (809 words)

	Woman Taken In Adultery
		The publicans and harlots knew they were sinners, but the Pharisees didn't.
		She was a sinner, guilty of adultery, and worthy of death by stoning according to the law.
		This woman had a precious soul, and though a sinner, was a prospect for conversion.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /davidriggs01/woman-ad.htm (824 words)

	The Study of the Gospel of Mark - Part 12
		In the same sentence you will find “publicans and sinners” and “heathen man and publicans” and “the publicans and the harlots.” As you can see the publican was not held in high esteem and position.
		We read of a parable of Jesus concerning the publican in Luke 18:9-14 “And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
		And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
	www.lightuntomypath.us /MarkPt12.htm (1824 words)

	Daily Devotions from Depth Daily Devotional Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		MK 2:15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
		MK 2:16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
		I am glad that He was and is a friend of sinners, for He is your friend and mine.
	www.randallhouse.com /devotions/dev18.htm (323 words)

	The Sinner's Friend
		That sinner's heart was like a piece of iron: Christ's heart was like a loadstone; and wherever there was a sinner the loadstone began to feel it, and soon the sinner began to feel the loadstone too.
		Not on the neck of sinners; it is not their neck which is broken by its cruel edge; it is not their heart which bleeds beneath its awful force.
		O sinner, if thou trustest him, he will be such a friend to thee; and if thou hast now a broken heart and a contrite spirit, these are his work; and it is a proof of his great love to thee if he has made thee to hunger and thirst after him.
	www.spurgeon.org /sermons/0556.htm (4353 words)

	The Messianic Meal - Christianity Revealed - AskWhy! Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		As Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
		The sinners were ordinary Jews, the men of the land, who were not fastidiously observant of the law of Moses, and perhaps also those who were influenced by Greek culture and fashions.
		Jesus's reply fully and concisely expresses the Nazarene attitude to the sinners of the children of Israel and it is expressed in a way which perfectly explains the healing miracles as metaphors for those who have repented of their sins.
	essenes.net /m94.htm (8178 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		To recruit a public sinner, a tax collector for the hated Romans squeezing the life out of his own countrymen, and even while the man was at his post in the customs fulfilling his sinful occupation, was a scandal to the people, to say the least.
		Also a revelation was the subsequent action of Jesus as he and his disciples sat at table with many publicans and sinners in the house of Matthew.
		And sinners are to be excluded from the eternal feast, otherwise the righteous ones would have nothing to show for their efforts and observances.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=6912 (1299 words)

	Bible Study - Publicans
		During Bible History, publicans were "freelance" tax collectors who operated in their own towns and districts, among their own people, for the occupying Roman government (see Ancient Empires - Rome).
		There were two classes of publicans, the "chief of the publicans" such as Zacchaeus (Luke 19:2), and the subordinate publicans who worked for them (Luke 5:27, 15:1, 18:10).
		And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2001/20011215.htm (589 words)

	Jesus owned a house? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		(Mark 2:15 KJV) And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
		Jesus not only owned a house but was bold enough to say in Mat 8:20, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head" (RSV).
		{15} And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
	www.apocalipsis.org /difficulties/jesushouse.htm (429 words)

	"Thus Saith the Lord..." Ministries - August 29, 2001 Radio Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Mark 2:16 “And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?”
		Now if the sinner is unrepentant, then in the end the sword will be used in a different manner.
		And even in the context, the Physician’s purpose was declared to call sinners to repentance.
	www.tstl.net /radio/2001-08-29.asp (2033 words)

	TG Publican
		and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
		The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
		And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
	scriptures.lds.org /tgp/publican?sr=1 (269 words)

	B. W. Johnson's The People's New Testament [Luke, Chapter XV].
		All the publicans and sinners were drawing near.
		In this parable the father is the Heavenly Father; the elder son, the self-righteous, in this case the Pharisees and scribes; the younger son, the sinful, in this case the publicans and sinners.
		So, too, the eminently respectable self-righteous in the church often are still when the publicans and sinners, the despised and outcast, are converted.
	www.mun.ca /rels/restmov/texts/bjohnson/hg1/PNT03-15.HTM (950 words)

	Sermon No. 10
		The reason why these perverse children could not be persuaded to comply with the wishes of their companion, was, that they were out of humor, or for some other reason, felt indisposed to gratify them.
		Similar is the reason, why sinners will not be persuaded to embrace the Gospel, by all the means which God employs for this purpose.
		It is also necessary for God’s glory, that the cause should evidently appear to be the obstinacy of sinners, and not any deficiency in the means employed by him for their conversion.
	www.pbministries.org /articles/payson/the_works_vol_2/sermon_10.htm (3584 words)

	Christ's Object Lessons - "This Man Receiveth Sinners"
		If He were a true prophet, they said, He would harmonise with them, and would treat the publicans and sinners with the indifference they deserved.
		Let the repenting sinner contemplate the rejoicing in heaven over the return of the one that was lost.
		And when one is brought back to God, all heaven is made glad; seraphs and cherubs touch their golden harps, and sing praises to God and the Lamb for their mercy and loving-kindness to the children of men.
	www.nisbett.com /reference/col/col15.htm (3772 words)

	lazarus
		Evidently, we may conclude from their reaction that the Pharisees considered the publicans and sinners to be unworthy of hearing the truth.
		That is to say, the contrast is made between the one lost sheep, who represented the publicans and sinners and those who were not lost, but were indeed "just and had no need of repentance".
		The younger son represents the publicans and sinners who repent and return to plead their Father's forgiveness.
	www.rightwordtruth.com /lazarus.htm (3563 words)

	St Matthew - Chapel Homily
		Now the publicans come together as to one of the same trade; for he, exulting in the entrance of Christ, had called them all together.
		And yet surely what was then set before them came of injustice and covetousness; but Christ refused not to partake of it, because the ensuing gain was to be great: yea rather He becomes partaker of the same roof and table with them that have committed such offenses.
		But how is it, one may say, that Paul commands, "If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous, with such an one no, not to eat?" In the first place, it is not as yet manifest, whether to teachers also he gives this charge, and not rather to brethren only.
	orderofcenturions.org /documents/matthew.html (3458 words)

	DELIVERANCE IS ONLY FOR THE DISSATISFIED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		When this great crowd of publicans and sinners filled the house at the feast, the Pharisees came grumbling and murmuring.
		"A woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears" (Luke 7:37-38).
		I think this was a human factor behind the publicans and sinners coming so readily to Jesus - while the scribes and Pharisees stayed aloof from Him.
	www.rlhymersjr.com /Online_Sermons/062903PM_Deliverance.html (2665 words)

	The Twelve Disciples
		Mat 9:10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
		This diner indicates that Matthew was a man of substantial means and gave up all to follow Jesus and there were many publicans and sinners there at his house along with Jesus and his disciples.
		The publicans were tax collectors like Matthew and the sinners were those Jews who had broken the moral and ceremonials laws.
	home.fuse.net /pabowers/Jan2.html (2263 words)

	- LEVI'S FEAST - JAIRUS' DAUGHTER RAISED -
		And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
		And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others who sat down with them.
		And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said to his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with publicans and sinners?
	members.aol.com /muqaddas/parallel/4gspls40.htm (2947 words)

	Woman and the Lost Coin (Parable) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The publicans, or tax collectors of public funds, are Jews of little influence who answer to an administrator responsible for collecting taxes.
		Publicans and sinners are people who lived with the stigma of inferiority.
		He compared the woman's joy-- and the joy of the shepherd who found his lost sheep-- to the joy God shares with all the angels when one of the "lost," called a sinner (people like the publicans and the marginalized) responds to the life-changing message of good news of Jesus and his movement.
	gbgm-umc.org /UMW/jesusandwomen/lostcoin.stm (1862 words)

	Friend Of Sinners
		The Pharisees treated the publicans as though they were Gentiles--refused their company and would not even eat with them.
		The sinner who recognizes this is more pleasing to God and nearer to forgiveness than the more moral person who fails to see his blemishes.
		On the contrary, the majority of Jesus' followers was made up of publicans and sinners --people who had not been living proper lives, but who were earnest, who acknowledged their faults, turned [R5464 : page 156] from them and accepted the forgiveness and healing of the Good Physician.
	www.agsconsulting.com /htdbv5/r5464.htm (1788 words)

	Jesus, A Friend Of Sinners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The Bible says while He was there a woman, "which was a sinner," came to the house and brought an alabaster box of ointment.
		I want there always to be at least one church in the Chicago area where people are friends to sinners, to the down and out, the high, the low, the rich, the poor.
		He was a friend of sinners and He was numbered with the transgressors, but now He is back in Heaven again.
	www.geocities.com /markharshman@sbcglobal.net/f_sinner.htm (3279 words)

	THE SERMONS OF ST. ANTONY -- THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		He does this ‘in the time of snow’, when the cold of malice and wickedness freezes the minds of sinners, those who in today’s Gospel are spoken of as drawing near to Jesus.
		The publicans and sinners drew near unto Jesus to hear him.
		David is Christ, to whom sinners must draw near when they are in distress from the devil’s temptation or from carnal desire; or when they are oppressed by the debt of mortal sin they owe to the devil.
	www.franciscan-archive.org /antonius/opera/ant-hd20.html (7475 words)

	More Good Foundation Blog » Eating with publicans and sinners…
		Jesus was not afraid of mixing with sinners and publicans to do His work on the earth.
		First of all, we are all, at least in part, sinners and publicans, but where are those who are lost in the world and don’t really know where to go or what to do to improve their lives?
		I believe that in order to do missionary work we need to lose some concern with ourselves and we need to be willing to be seen “eating with publicans and sinners” sometimes, because we want to help them find the truth.
	blog.moregoodfoundation.org /2007/06/eating-with-publicans-and-sinners (902 words)

	Wine in the Bible (No. 188)
		To suggest that Christ drank grape juice while the publicans and sinners drank wine in the normal sense, yet was condemned for drinking with them, is ludicrous.
		The same self-righteousness that permeates these ascetics today is the reason the publicans and harlots inherited the Kingdom of God before the self-righteous could at the time of Christ.
		These people were not sinners because they drank, but rather from their other weaknesses.
	www.ccg.org /english/s/p188.html (10273 words)

	IIIM Magazine Online, Volume 5, Number 22, June 14-21, 2003
		In The Coming of the Kingdom, Herman Ridderbos reflects on three other categories of people (the “lost” and “publicans and sinners”) who Jesus sought out and who were affiliated with the poor by the fact that they all existed on the edge of society.
		Generally this category of ‘publicans and sinners’ also comprised those who did not submit to the special Pharisaical institutions…They are the people who have been left to themselves, the sheep that have no shepherd who were no longer looked upon as belonging to the true people of God.
		It is the lost sheep of the house of Israel that he seeks, and he seeks and saved the despised and lost publican ‘as he, too, is a son of Abraham’ (Luke 19:9).
	www.thirdmill.org /files/english/practical_theology/68370~6_12_2003_2-31-50_PM~PT.Aalbers.Justice.mercy.2.htm (5758 words)

	Matthew
		Matthew 10:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James [the son] of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
		Luke 18:13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
		Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified [rather] than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
	www.lightuntomypath.us /matthew.htm (1458 words)

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