{"id":1219,"date":"2024-07-09T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovesingapore.org.sg\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2024-07-11T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T02:16:06","slug":"2024-day-9-reach-out-to-the-last-least-and-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovesingapore.org.sg\/fd\/2024-day-9-reach-out-to-the-last-least-and-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Devotion Day 9: Be last to be first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Read<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption><cite>Matthew 9:9-13<\/cite> As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector\u2019s booth. \u201cFollow me,\u201d he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew\u2019s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, \u201cWhy does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d On hearing this, Jesus said, \u201cIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: \u2018I desire mercy, not sacrifice.\u2019 For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Learn<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember the \u201ccannot make it\u201d people from yesterday? Matthew was one of them. He was a tax collector. Tax collectors in Bible times were hated by everyone because they got rich by collecting taxes, or money, from them. They were considered thieves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when Jesus called Matthew, he left his riches to become a follower of Christ. He became a new creation and wrote the first book in the New Testament of the Bible! Matthew, the last of the last, became an important disciple of Jesus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do not look down on those who seem to be unimportant or even bad. Jesus came not to judge but to save the sick, the poor, and those who are unpopular.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People whom we think are impossible to save can be saved and become useful people after knowing Jesus.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Matthew 9:9-13 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector\u2019s booth. \u201cFollow me,\u201d he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew\u2019s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 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