Luke 3:12-13, Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Collect no more than you are authorized to do.”
Note that John didn’t tell the tax collectors to give up their jobs as employees of the Romans. While most of the Jews thought of such employment as traitorous, John didn’t imply that the work itself was sinful as most Jews thought who saw it as siding with the enemy. Rather he condemned the true sin–abuse of power and using others for one’s own gain. We need to make sure our definitions of sin match up with God’s rather than labeling as sin anything that we personally don’t like (a very human tendency).
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