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“go and learn” [Matthew 9:13(NIV)]
February 6
“go and learn”. Some things cannot be appreciated all at once – the truth of them has to sink in or be wrought out in everyday life. Christian faith is an experience not a theorem. Its truth must be taught as a precept but one that needs to be put into practice.
Jesus could raise the paralytic from his bed and this bore testimony to the fact that He could forgive his sin also.
Those who criticised Jesus’ ministry to tax-collectors and sinners wanted religious form without any resultant experience.
That is why He told them to go and learn that practical mercy and not sacrifice is what is required in Christian living.
Go and learn that God can meet the needs of sinful man today – this is the very heart of the Gospel.