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This week our study challenges us to consider not only what we might need to leave behind in order to follow Jesus, but also the grace of God to every person no matter how proficient or profane a sinner we might be. It also indicates that each individual also brings a certain value to God's eternal purpose - for Matthew was most likely more wealthy and educated than the other 11 apostles. To those discipling others the power of Jesus' words to the pharisees at the close of our story should cause us reason to pause, examine our own lives in humility given the purity of God's righteousness.