“He is a lawbreaker at large, an enemy of the human race.” (New York Times editorial, July 9, 1894)

“The working class have never yet had a voice in declaring war. If war is right, let it be declared by the people – you, who have your lives to lose.” (Eugene Debs, as quoted in Erick Trickey’s article “When America’s Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War I” on smithsonian.com, June 15, 2018)

“It is extremely dangerous to exercise the constitutional right of free speech in a country fighting to make democracy safe in the world.” (Eugene Debs, as quoted in Erick Trickey’s article “When America’s Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War I” on smithsonian.com, June 15, 2018)

“I have been accused of having obstructed the war. I admit it. I abhor war. I would oppose the war if I stood alone. I believe in free speech, in war as well as in peace. If the Espionage Law stands, then the Constitution of the United States is dead.” (Eugene Debs, as quoted in Erick Trickey’s article “When America’s Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War I” on smithsonian.com, June 15, 2018)

“His activities in opposition to the war preparation were dangerous….His conviction…serves notice to all that disloyalty and sedition, even though masquerading under the guise of free speech, will not be tolerated.” (As reported by Erick Trickey in his article “When America’s Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War I” on smithsonian.com, June 15, 2018)

“While the flower of American youth was pouring out its blood to vindicate the cause of civilization, this man, Debs, stood behind the lines sniping, attacking, and denouncing them....This man was a traitor to his country and he will never be pardoned during my administration.” (Woodrow Wilson, as quoted in Burl Noggle’s book The United States from Armistice to Normalcy, page 113)

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Luke 5:27-32 (ESV): “After this [Jesus] went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. 30 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’ 31 And Jesus answered them, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.’”

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Luke 19:8 (ESV): “And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, ‘Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”

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Luke 3:12-13 (ESV): “Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to [John], ‘Teacher, what shall we do?’ 13 And he said to them, ‘Collect no more than you are authorized to do.’”

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Luke 16:3 (ESV): “And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.”

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Matthew 21:31-32 (ESV): “Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John [the Baptist] came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him.’”

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Luke 5:21 (ESV): “And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, ‘Who is this who speaks blasphemies?’”

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Main Point

JESUS WON’T BELONG TO ANY ONE PARTY, BUT JESUS WILL PARTY WITH ANY ONE.

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Luke 7:33-35 (ESV): “For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ 34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’”

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John 1:11-12 (ESV): “He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 but to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.”

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Application

DON’T THINK LIKE AN INSIDER, THINK LIKE A SIDE-ENDER.

Colossians 3:11-12 (ESV): ‘Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.”

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John 1:4-5 (ESV): “In [Jesus] was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

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John 15:19 (ESV): “If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

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Joshua 5:13-14 (ESV): “Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, ‘Are you for us or for our enemies?’ 14 ‘Neither,’ he replied, ‘but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come.’”

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