Mark 2: 13-17 Any One Need a Doctor?
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Any One Need a Doctor? Scripture: Mark 2:13-17 Lesson Focus: Jesus saw an individual for whom they could become through Him. Memory Verse: “I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Mark 2:17b Activities and Crafts: Coloring Picture, Jesus’ Disciples Work Page, 1st & 2nd Grade Color Wheel story of Levi. Introduction: Bible Story Charades: Tell the kids that we are going to play the game of charades. They are going to act out a situation or a person and the kids have to guess what they are acting out. The child that guesses what they are acting out will come up and act out the next words.
After you have played the game tell the kids that all of these people and situations will be in our lesson today. We will see what God thinks of “sick people.” Bible Lesson: Mark 2:13: Jesus had just healed a man that was paralyzed. His four friends had lowered him from the roof to the feet of Jesus. After this Jesus went by the sea and the multitude came to see Jesus. Jesus taught them. Mark 2:14: “The Meeting!” Jesus meets Levi. √ Where did Jesus see Levi? √ What is another name for Levi? (Matthew) Levi and Matthew is the same person. (Matthew 9:9 and Mark 3:18.) Matthew will be one of the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ. He will later write the book of Matthew. We do not know at what time Levi’s name changed to Matthew, but we do know that they are the same person. Matthew’s name means (gift of God.) √ What did Jesus say to Levi? √ What did Levi do for a living? Tax collectors were hated by the Jewish people. They were seen as traitors that collected taxes for the Roman government that controlled them at that time. Many tax collectors would cheat the people and make them pay more money than the Roman government wanted so that they could take some of the money for themselves. To be honest no one has ever liked to pay taxes. Even today people get upset and revolt about taxes. But it is the way of every government to fund itself.
√ How did Levi respond? Luke tells us in his parallel passage that “Levi got up, left everything and followed him.” Luke 5:28 This was a firm decision on Levi’s part. He gave up his business and everything to follow Jesus. Mark 2:15: “The Dinner Party!” √ Where did they end up? √ Do you think that it was an accident that they ended up at Levi’s house for dinner? √ Who was at that dinner party?
The Bible makes a point to let us know that there were “many” sinners and tax collectors. √ Do you think that it is important that there were “many?” √ What does the Bible say that the sinners and tax collectors did? (they followed Jesus)
√ Who got upset at what was happening at Levi’s house? √ Why were they upset?
Jesus responds with a telling them that those that are well do not need a physician. That means if you are not sick you are not going to go to the doctor. But people that are sick will go to the doctor to get some help for what is ailing them. Jesus came to help those people who knew that they needed a Savior. Jesus came to save sinners. Those that think that they do not need a Savior will never believe in Jesus. Jesus is talking to the Scribes and Pharisees who think that they are “righteous” and that they do not need any thing else to save them. Jesus speaks as the physician what has come to help the sick. What do we learn from this passage? 1. What it means to “follow” Jesus? To follow Jesus means to give up everything. To care about what Jesus cares about and not what is important to us. It does not mean that we have to sell everything that we own (unless God tells us to.) But it does mean that we grow in our knowledge of Jesus (by reading the Bible and prayer and worship.) And as we grow we will do the things that Jesus wants us to do. Are you following Jesus? 2, Jesus knows what people can be become! Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them.” Jesus did not care that Levi was hated by everyone else. Jesus probably knew that Levi had cheated people and had done bad things in his past. But Jesus also knew that Levi was a sinner and that Levi knew it. Levi knew that He needed a Savior. He responded to Jesus instantly and decisively. He did not waver, he gave up everything. Jesus had a job for Levi to do, and knew what he was created for. Levi became Matthew and wrote the first Gospel (Matthew). Levi became one of the twelve disciples that followed Jesus and was taught by Jesus. Do you know what Jesus has for you to do? 3. Jesus went to the people that needed Him. Jesus ate with sinners and tax collectors. He went to their house. He did not care what the “religious rulers” thought of Him. You have to understand that these “sinners” were probably some bad people. We need to care and love those around us that are the “bad” and “unlovely”. We need to have Jesus’ love for all people. Jesus came to save the “sick.” We have to be careful that we don’t separate ourselves from a needy world. We don’t want to become like the world, but we do need to love the people in the world. We need to love Jesus enough, to tell others about Jesus, no matter who they are or what they have done. a. We need to work hard at not looking down on people who are different or mean or just don’t believe in God. b. We need to realize that our sin is the disease that we all have inside of us. That disease (sin) separates us from a holy God. Jesus paid the price for our sin…He is our Great Physician. He healed us on the inside! He came to save sinners. But you have to realize that you need a Savior. Just like our memory verse tells us, we need to repent, to turn away from our sin. |