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Abstract of the Sermon “Deliver Us from Evil” “He ate with sinners” By: Rev. Karla Wubbenhorst, October 2, 2005 – World Communion Sunday Mark 1: 40-2: 17 40 A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, ‘If you choose, you can make me clean.’ 41Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ 42Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. 43After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, 44saying to him, ‘See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’ 45But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter. 2.1When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2So many gathered around that there was no longer room for them, not even in front of the door; and he was speaking the word to them. 3Then some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and after having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic lay. 5When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven.’ 6Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, 7‘Why does this fellow speak in this way? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?’ 8At once Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were discussing these questions among themselves; and he said to them, ‘Why do you raise such questions in your hearts? 9Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, “Your sins are forgiven,” or to say, “Stand up and take your mat and walk”? 10But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins’ —he said to the paralytic— 11‘I say to you, stand up, take your mat and go to your home.’ 12And he stood up, and immediately took the mat and went out before all of them; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, ‘We have never seen anything like this!’ 13 Jesus went out again beside the sea; the whole crowd gathered around him, and he taught them. 14As he was walking along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him. 15And as he sat at dinner in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples—for there were many who followed him. 16When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?’ 17When Jesus heard this, he said to them, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.’ Page 1 of 6 “He ate with sinners” By: Rev. Karla Wubbenhorst, October 2, 2005 – World Communion Sunday Back in your elementary school days, were there certain kids or certain families that your parents definitely didn’t want you to associate with? I know there were in mine. Later in life when we get established in a certain neighbourhood or a certain career, a kind of self-selection happens, so that folk who move in the same circles as us are in many ways like us, but elementary schools, at least the state-run kind, are great clearing houses of all sorts and conditions of people. When I was growing up it was very clear that the Chisholms* were poor and liable to steal, the McCullochs* were dirty and used an outside toilet, and it was only a matter of time until the Gordon* kids would be serving time in jail. I don’t know what has become of the Chisholms, the McCullochs or the Gordons, but already at 8 years of age, their lives didn’t look promising. Already at 8 years of age they were outcasts. It seems quite primitive now when I think of it, but at our elementary school we had something called “the poor table.” At lunch hour all 500 kids or so would pack into the cafeteria and sit at long tables according to grade. Most of us had lunch boxes, with sandwiches lovingly packed by our mothers, a piece of fruit – because nutrition was important – and 15 cents to buy a carton of cold milk. Sometimes, being kids and being quite fussy about our food, we would find some unapproved of element that Mum had just tried to slip in there – a shriveled fig or an ugly dill pickle wrapped in saran. Such rejects were placed on the poor table – and then furtively picked up off the poor table by the likes of the Chisholms, the McCullochs, or the Gordons – kids for whom there was no lovingly wrapped sandwich made by Mum. The poor table made scavengers of these kids and like scavengers in the animal kingdom, we considered them a very low form of life. Outcasts for sure. Page 2 of 6 “He ate with sinners” By: Rev. Karla Wubbenhorst, October 2, 2005 – World Communion Sunday Up until now in our reading of Mark’s gospel we have seen Jesus working the synagogue circuit, and despite all his instructions to “tell no one” there is a gathering buzz about his ministry. He is sought out by all the sick and demon-possessed people in the vicinity. When Mark writes about Jesus getting up in the early morning to go away by himself to pray, or getting into a boat and rowing to the opposite side of the lake to flee the crowds, we definitely get the sense that Jesus’ celebrity is a burden to him. So imagine Jesus as a popular evangelist, a celebrity harassed by his adoring public, and then come again to today’s stories – stories which show Jesus seeking out the company of lepers and sinners and tax collectors. It is rather surprising isn’t it? I mean we can imagine some famous film actor like Johnny Depp coming to Toronto for the film festival and going around in dark sunglasses and a ball cap to avoid public attention, but can we see him lining up with the homeless people for a bowl of soup at the Scott Mission? Can we imagine him, or even some famous circuit preacher, some religious celebrity, coming to Toronto and instead of preaching at the scheduled breakfast for the city’s Christian businessmen, sold out at $100 a plate, going down to the corner of Jarvis and King to spend some time and share a $1.00 slice of pizza with the heroin addicts? The fact is that Jesus has a low taste in people. Why even I, who have nothing particular by way of fortune or family to commend me, knew enough at the age of eight, not to risk my reputation by consorting with the likes of the Chisholms, the McCullochs or the Gordons! But perversely enough, Jesus seek out just such as these as his company, and eats from the poor table with them. Today’s reading from Mark is made up of three separate stories. The first one is about Jesus cleansing a leper. The second is about Jesus declaring a paralysed man’s sins to be forgiven and then healing him from his paralysis. The third is about Jesus sharing a meal at the house of Levi, a tax collector, and calling this Levi, the man we know as Matthew, to be his disciple. What the three stories all have in common is the unclean or unsavory Page 3 of 6 “He ate with sinners” By: Rev. Karla Wubbenhorst, October 2, 2005 – World Communion Sunday character of the person who receives Christ’s attention – his pity, his healing, his forgiveness, his call. Leprosy of course was a dreaded disease in the ancient world. I saw a leper once. A woman who was browsing in a bookshop in Aberdeen. She had no nose. Just a hole where the nose used to be. It was a shocking and unsettling sight. In Jewish communities there was a special fear of leprosy because there was a taboo around corruption and death. What leprosy was seen to be, was a part of the body becoming dead flesh while the person remained alive. If a leper, for example, were to come into contact with a priest on his way to offer sacrifices in the temple, the priest would be considered unclean and unfit to offer sacrifice. For this reason lepers could take no part in the religious rituals of Judaism. And because they took no part in the religious rituals of Judaism they were considered sinners – spiritually unclean as well as physically unclean. The only social group they could belong to was a colony of other lepers. The rest of society was so strict about this rule of segregation, that a leper would have to go about with his face covered and calling out a warning as he approached: “unclean, unclean.” This is the sort of man who musters the courage to come to Jesus and say to him on bended knee: “if you choose, you can make me clean.” And as Mark says, (verse 41) “Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him “I do choose, be made clean.” Next we have the story of Jesus and the paralysed man.
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