Jesus Changes Zacchaeus' Heart and Still Transforms Lives Today

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And now here's your message. We're in the last installment

of our series called Grace Changes Everything, and I want

to welcome you to our eleven AM service. My name

is Bojo Manufashion, one of the pastors here in Green Hills,

and again we're in the last installment of Grace Changes Everything.

How many guys have been blessed by this series Grace

Changes Everything? Yeah, okay, good? You know, nine am okay,

so at least eleven name not in but uh, you know,

it's a privilege to be able to share the Word

of God with you this morning. And you know, I

want to get right into the Word of God, if

that's okay with you. So if you have your Bibles

with you, kindly open up to Luke after nineteen verses

one to ten, and I want to invite you to

stand up as we give reverence to the Word of God.

And if you don't have a Bible, it's okay. We

have it here on the keynote, so.

Allow me to read it. It says here Luke nineteen

verse one. Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A

man was there by the name of Zakias. He was

a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to

see who Jesus was, but being a short man, he could.

Not because of the crowd.

So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree

to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. And

when Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said

to him, Zachias, come down immediately. I must stay at

your house today. So he came down at once. So

he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. And

all the people saw this and began to mutter, he

has gone to be the guest of a sinner.

First say it. But Zakiah stood up and said to.

The look Lord here and now I give half of

my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated

anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times

the amount Jesus said to him. Today, salvation has come

to this house because this man, too is a son

of Abraham. For the son of man came to seek

and say what was lost?

Let us pray.

Lord, we thank you, Father God for this morning that

we can come into your presence and hear from your word.

Lord.

I pray that you would open up our hearts and

mind today to receive from you. Lord. We thank you,

Father God, for you sent your son Jesus here onto

this earth to seek and to say the loss of

which we are. We are part of the loss. Yet

you have found us, Lord, got it and invited us

into your kingdom and into your family. Lord, we thank

you this morning. We thank you for your word in

Jesus name. Amen, you may go ahead and take your seats.

For the last couple of months, you know, my wife

and I've been enrolling our kids in a sort of

football camp.

Okay indye push a soccer football. Oh.

And these are our two kids, our six year old

four year old, and they are part of this age

group now.

Three to three to six years old.

So Mary and Silla mangas skills that they practiced with

their coaches, kicking the ball and all these things.

And the last fifteen minutes of.

Their workshop, sorry, last fifteen twenty minutes. Yes, Marin Pasilang scrimmage.

Ok where young group no Noila. They'll be divided into

two teams and they would play against each other, trying

to score a goal against each other. Now, one of

the recent training Snila. After their scrimmage, I noticed that

our daughter, our six year old daughter, me banang her,

she wasn't happy.

And I asked her what was wrong?

And she said that the other boys and the other

team were saying that, oh they're oh, these are just

a bunch of babies. Okay, so affected shah And so

I said, okay, so, how did that make you feel?

Sad?

And she was teary eyed. She has tried to hold

back her tears. It was only when her mom asked

her again she started crying.

Okay.

And and I asked and another son pang dead Malansha.

So I asked him, what did you hear the other kids?

They were saying that, oh babies, yes, okay, how did that.

Make you feel? Nice? Leyoa? Okay?

They both heard the same thing. It all sensitives. Oh

she was sad. Shee theo was dead malan nice though,

so I was. Me and my wife were wandering nice

oh kay so and and my my son is probably

the shortest of their young team, and they were like

shorter than the other five year old sex year old

kids are probably twice as well as them.

No, but my.

Wife and I were wondering a baja citeo kapak baby cute.

Cute.

So when they say called him baby, he was quod.

That's why it was nice, right, So why am I

sharing that story?

Well? You share?

Uh, you know, like our story that we're about to

dive into. Zachias Zakias and the people that he lived

with in Jericho. They were saying so many different things

about him and it greatly affected him, much like my daughter.

Okay, And sometimes how.

We how we respond to what people say about us

can really affect us.

It can it can hamper our faith.

It can you know, get us stuck where we are,

or you know, it can push us to do something more.

I don't know, it depends, right, And even though a

Kios was in the wrong because of what everyone was saying,

he lost all semblance of dignity and respect. And we're

gonna find out more about what happened in verse one.

Start from verse one, it says Jesus entered Jericho and

was passing through okay Jiu was only passing through to Jericho.

He had no agenda there, He had no itinerary there.

The previous chapter, which was our preaching last week, Jesus

heal the blind man, Bartimeus, who was just on the

outskirts of Jericho, Paputan Jericho see Jesus and Yumaga blind

and a lame and all these people they were kicked

out of the city. They were living just beyond the

city borders because they were outcasts. And so Jesus was

passing this way on his way to Jerusalem. So he

had no plans he was with you know, he was

just going passing through. And it says you're in verse two.

They were here in the city of Jericho. There was

a man by the name of Zachios who was chief

tax collector and was wealthy. Now he wasn't just any

tax collector.

He was the boss. He was the one. He was

the boss that all the other tax collectors reported too.

Now here's the thing about tax collectors during the time

of Jesus, uh they were under the Roman Empire, Roman rule,

and the taxes they were collecting was for the Roman Empire,

a foreign ruler.

And so you can just imagine the.

Jews, who have already been oppressed by the Roman Empire

now have to deal with their fellow men, tax collectors

among a, tax collectors, fellow Jews in Sile. Yet they

are on the other side, Kumba, they're working for the enemy.

So you can just imagine that these Jews hated these men,

these tax collectors, because not only were they collecting for

the people who were oppressing them, but they were adding

to it, kumbaga, they were getting a little bit for themselves.

Can again wealthy see Zakios not I mean, he wasn't

just a regular he was the boss. He was a

chief tax collector. So you can just imagine how many,

how much, how much riches he has Because Jericho wasn't

just ordinary city. Jericho was a passageway towards Jordan, towards Jerusalem,

so there were businesses there, people who would probably stop by,

you know, before going onto their final destination.

So there was business was good.

So as the businesses flourished, the wealth of Zakios prospered

as well. Because of his corruption yay. Now again Zakios,

because of his dealings with the people and his job,

he was naturally hated by the Jews, by the Israelites

ya Verse three to four. It says here that he

wanted to see jess was Jesus was passing through.

He wanted to who Jus.

Was, but because he was short, he could not see

over the crowd.

Now it says he wanted to see who Jesus was.

How does Zakias know who Jesus?

What compelled him to want to know or to see

who this guy was? Now, the Bible doesn't say, It

does not tell us exactly what happened. Maybe because he

heard knows that chapter eighteen that Jesus he'll this blind

man words spread out Zachio's Jesus.

He does this, he does all of that.

Another another thought or way of how Jesus heard about

sorry Zaki has heard about Jesus was probably through a

fellow tax collector by the name of Matthew. If you remember,

Matthew is a disciple, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. Again,

this is not in the Bible. This is just me

as a kid's pastor painting you a picture. Okay, So Matthew,

a tax collector, gives up his career to follow Jesus.

So I don't know how close Sakios was. I mean,

he was a chief collector, but how he was acquainted

with him. I don't know if they work together, but

I'm sure he probably knew, or maybe somebody reported boss

see Matthew and the Quitney, And so.

He's probably curious.

Now, what would cause this man, this young man who

was at the you know, the peak of his career,

who had so much wealth, so much riches ahead of him,

to give it all up for this person named Jesus

because something compelled za Chios. He wanted to see who

Jesus was. Okay, but here's the problem. He was worth

how many of you can relate. I don't raise your hand,

it's okay.

Oh, growing up I was like that in school.

La, I'm always the first in nine.

The shortest, the tallest. I love short people.

I married one. Oh my wife petite and gorgeous.

Yes plus points. Okay, he was short.

So we had a problem going trying to see Jeus

through all the people.

The crowd. There was a crowd again. Okay, there was

a crowd there.

And Zakios knew these people hated him, right, he knew

that they were talking behind his back. They knew that

they looked down on him, not just literally but figuratively.

They knew how much that even if he tried to say,

excuse me, excuse people.

In the crowd, nobody would let him. True.

So you can just imagine the people, the crowds who

are also there to see Jesus. You can just imagine

the animosity the hatred of these people towards this man.

And Sachias knew that.

But he was determined to see Jesus. He wasn't accepted,

he was ostracized with society. It was difficult for him

in the crowd. Maybe some of us we find ourselves

in similar situations where we're being labeled and dismissed by society,

whether out of our own doing or not. Where people

begin to look at us and say that this person

is beyond hell, beyond hope, this person is worthless, this

person is too broken, he's not worthy, she's not worthy.

And we hear these things, whether directly or indirectly, about us,

and it affects us and how we relate to society,

how we rate the community, how we relate to people

around us. But here's one thing that we can see

in the life.

Of a chaos.

He knew all of these things and what people thought

about him, but that did not stop.

Him from wanting to see Jesus.

He was determined to see Jesus with his own two eyes.

He didn't care what people thought.

He already lost dignity and respect amongst his peers, his people, but.

He wanted to see Jesus.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, which is why he

climbed up a sycamore tree. Evidence of his determination, evidence

of his willingness to do whatever it takes, and he

would stop at nothing just to be able to see

who this Jesus was. Luke paints this picture of shame

and embarrassment and be undignified of this boss, chief tax collector,

wealthy man climbing up a sick of more tree.

How desperate are we to see Jesus?

How desperate are we to see Jesus? Are we willing

to wake up earlier than usual? Just so that we

can open up the word of God and find out?

Lord? Who are you speak to me? Or? Lord? But good? Now?

What are we willing to do in order to see Jesus?

Are we willing to take time and disciple our kids

and to share to them who Jesus there are. That's

a kid stretch to Mansilla. What are we willing to

do in order to see who Jesus is? Verse five.

When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and him

and said to him, Zakias, come down.

Immediately, Jesus looked at Zakias again.

Jesus had no agenda in Jericho.

I'm planning.

He was just passing through. Yet he sees this man

climbing up, this little man climbing up the tree, and

it drew Jesus' attention.

Now again, there is a crowd. There is a crowd of.

People in Jesus' way, to his right, to his left,

behind him, in front of him. They all wanted to

see Jesus, just like Zachius. But what made Zakias different.

Why up of all the people in the crowd, Jesus

went and approached the spot of the tree which Zakias

had climbed.

I believe it's because.

Jesus knew and he felt that Zakias needed more than

a glimpse of who Jesus was. I just needed to

see who this man that everyone's talking about. But Jesus

knews otherwise, No, this person needs something more than that.

This man on the tree needs more than to see

who I am. He needs to know who I am.

He calls out to Zakia, Aki has come down. Immediately.

Imagine this again. Jesus had no idea. I had had

never met Zechias before. Zachius had never met Jesus before.

Yet Jesus calls him by name. What does that tell us?

He knew Zacchius by name. He knew what he was

going through. He knew what were the issues, deep deep

down in his heart.

He knew that he was living in us. He knew

that the people hated him.

He knew that these people were ostracizing him from everyone else.

He knew the pain that he was going through. He

knew the shame and the dignity he had lost. Jesus

knew all of that.

When he called him by name.

And maybe for some of us here today, Jesus even

calling us by name one by one.

I know you. I know what you're going through. You

haven't told anyone about it, but I know. I know

your pain.

I know the shame, I know the suffering that you're

going through. Yes, you put on that brave face of

your but I know it's okay.

Because I know you by name. You are mine, You

are my son, you are my daughter.

When Jesus comes as the keys and says I must

stay at your house today, had no agenda, no, had

no plan yet cancels all of that, postpones to stripped

to Jerusalem the case, I must stay at your home today.

I must be with you. I must honor you as

you receive me with your hospitality. I'm going to associate

with you. I'm going to be in close company with you.

And you don't have to do anything or to prove

to anyone as to why I want to be with you.

You don't have to do anything. I'm here.

I want to be with you.

You are worth being with no matter who you are

or what you've done. That's what Jesus is saying here.

You are worth being with, whether you changed.

Or not, even if you're still the same person that

you were ten years ago.

I still want to be with you.

You are worth my time, no matter what these people think,

no matter what these religious leaders say, you are worth

my time because you are as precious as anyone. And

maybe some of you needed to hear that today. Jesus

is saying to you, my son and my daughter, I

must be with you today. I must come into your

house today. I must come into your life today. I

must come into your heart this moment because I want

to be with you.

And there's no it doesn't matter what people may say

or think about it, because I want to be with you.

You don't have to prove anything to me, because I

just want to be with you. Za Chaos, who was lost,

who was broken, who was in pain, who was living

in isolation and under a hatred from his fellow man,

Jesus said, I want to be with you. The fact

that Jesus ate with and spent time with someone who

is considered a set out, a traitor, a deceiver without morals.

Was an act of grace that the Phariuses in the

crowd could not comprehend what just happened. I thenk Yerry, you.

See Jesus, healer, teacher, prophet.

Why is he?

Why why is he having fellowship? Does he want to

go into this sinner's house?

Why? They were shocked? They were what's going on here?

The Pharisees, the religious leaders, the Israelites. Here's what they thought.

They thought Jesus must feel the same way about zaki As,

the same way we feel about zaki Yas.

That's why they were shocked.

Dip was it Jesus hen union collapen diib I love

me Jesus.

He is a sinner.

If you look at scriptures, tax collectors are associated in

the same category as adulters.

Unjust extortionists. Ain't same in the eyes of the Jews.

That's why they were sinners. That's why they were hated.

And so the Jews are like, I love me Jesus,

chief tax collector.

He stole from us. He has been oppressing us for

the longest time already. Why yeah, wait, where does Jesus.

Want to be with him?

Why he came down at once and welcomed him gladly,

And all the people saw this and began to mutter.

I don't mean mutter buck, but Jesus.

They were complaining, They were grumbling with one another. They

were talking behind the back of Jesus, behind the back

of the chios.

What's happening, what's going on? He's going to that guy's house.

Doesn't he know that that house was bought with our money?

Money he stole from us.

Jesus, doesn't he know that this man is hated, that

religious leaders are angry at him but afraid of him.

They just couldn't imagine it. You see, for the people of.

Jericho, the only way, the only way that they would

now accept za Chios was as Exacchius, was to conform

to their standards. Keelan mcwanu one Ezachios, keelan.

Mcvictory, group mac victory.

We can la happen now before we can accept him

back into our society. The people of Jericho felt that

Jesus thought the same way.

That thea Chios. For in order for.

Anyone to accept him ki lanen, to go through all

of these religious loops, to conform to a standard, To

do this in order to be accepted, To do this, this, this,

in order to be loved, To do this, this and that,

to be part of this family, to be part of

this community. But this vast difference between the people in

Jericho and Jesus, The contrast between the grumbling, complaining of

the crowd and the acceptance and grace of Christ in

reaching out to a sinner by name, a stark difference,

a vast difference.

Are we part of this camp here?

But shouldn't you share no gospein people are not Victory

Week in Guinde, but invites a church. These standards that

keep people at bay? Or are we part of this

camp where Jesus? All that Jesus did was come to

the tree Zacchios that a kindles fortile, whatever, if we

wanted to have fellowship with this man, are we? Are

we here and saying you saying hey, kind iw it's okay,

let's go to church. You even read your Bible, It's

it's all right. Are we extended the same grace and

acceptance that Christ did when he came through that tree.

Where Zacchios was at.

You know, there are people, whether in church or outside

of church, who have been marginalized, who have been outcast,

who have been labeled hopeless and beyond redemption, who just want.

To see Jesus, just like Zachias.

Yet sometimes it's us, the church who would keep them

at bay. You haven't done this, you haven't conformed to

what I think you should be doing, when all they want.

To do is pro Jesus. It maguant mcgripmuna.

This was the very first days of grace and acceptance

that Zakias ever felt in years.

In years see.

Hated by people who used to be he used to

be friends with. Now they burn those bridges because of

what he has done.

People he used to hang out with after work. Lana,

I am.

He was all alone in isolation, living under hatred, being

despised by his own people for the longest time, until

Jesus comes to him and extends grace and acceptance.

Sacchius, I want to be with you. I want to

go to your house.

Accepting someone like Zacchias for the church today is somehow

a compromise of our values when it should be the

exercise of those same values. This imprisoned ex mayor who

is circulating the recent news. What if he was to

walk in through these doors right now, what would be

running in our minds? Alan Church?

Though he's not allowed here, he doesn't deserve to be here.

He will burn, God will strike him down.

Ny Man.

Jesus came up to him. I know you, I'm calling

you by name.

I know what you've done.

I'm not ignoring your sin, but I know. Yet at

the same time, I know your pain, and I'm accepting you.

I'm extending grace to you. And here's what happened. A

fellowship Jesus hangs out with him. Ziki has stood up

and said to the Lord Lord. Look, Lord here and

now I give half of my possessions to the poor.

And if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I

will not. I'll pay back four times the amount. Half

of what he has as his wealth. He's giving now

to the poor. The other half, Sin Lord, the people

I stole from, I'll give four times now according to

law standard in paying back what you stole. This twice,

he's giving four times the amount. Now did Jesus request

any of this? Before I go into your home? You

need to give back the money demon, see.

Jesus the lord.

Lord, Lord Lord, I will give back my money.

All that Bertie Mayeus. I'll give to Bertie.

Mayos, the people I stole, Lord, I will pay, if

not just two times, I will pay four times as much.

He was making.

Restitution because of the grace that Jesus extended to this

broken man. His heart that had been hardened became wrong.

Now it became open just because one man accepted him,

one man extended grace towards and one man loved him

when nobody else would. And so his heart now was speaking.

Lord I really don't know, but this is what I

can do. I will make it right with the people

I have wronged. I will make it right to those

who have offended. I will do my part in being

reconciled to my fellow man, to my people. It wasn't

her request when Jesus extended his grace. There was no pretense,

no obligation, there was no condition. It was just given,

and it led to the chayos being generous and proceeding

to make right what was wrong. What sort of restitutions

do we need to make in order to be reconciled

with others? Maybe for some of us here religious that

we've had, we grew up with them. They were at

our wedding. Now we don't even see them in there.

We don't want to talk to them anymore. Maybe God

is calling you today, Hey, I know it's hard, but

I want you to make it right with this person.

They may have been the one who wronged you, but

I want you to make it right. When my wife

and I get into an argument after discussing heatedly upon a.

Corner, go shining malay.

Did shah until the Holy Spirit says, oh hey, sorry, Lord,

and to make it right, I have to buy her lipstick.

Plus date, plus flowers. I don know, but we.

Need to make it right with the people who may

have wronged us or we have wronged just like Zachiah's

here and Jesus says to him in verse nine and ten,

today salvation has come to this house because this man,

too is a son of Abraham. For the son of

Man came to seek and to save the loss. Jesus

concludes his encounter with Zachius reminding everyone.

That the grace of God.

Is available to those who are lost, those who are broken,

those who are seemingly beyond hope. His journey with Zacchius

is a message to the people of Jericho as well.

No one is beyond hope when Christ and his grace

comes into play. This is a picture of a sycamore tree,

not the one that Zacchius climb, but in Jewish culture,

a sycamore in their language, represents restoration.

Imagine that.

Zechius climbed up a tree of restoration. Jesus came to

him to provide that restoration.

Wow.

Jesus knew that Zacchius needed more than just a glimpse

of who he was.

He knew that.

Zakius needed restoration. What kind of restoration Jesus restored the

identity of Zychius. He restored our identity, Zakias. The name

is a Kias if you look it up, means pure,

means innocent, means righteous, a far cry.

From who he is in this passage.

Now, you know, he's supposed to be pure as his namesake,

but he was living in sin and conducting all of

these immoral things. Yet because of his encounter with Jesus,

he changes ways and went above and beyond to make

things right, to live, to overcome his past, or to

live up to his name. Of course they don't have overnight,

but he is living towards that. He's walking towards that,

and that was because of his encounter with Jesus.

His encounter with Jesus restored him back to who he is. Hey,

you're a man who is pure.

You have been named innocent, and I am restoring that

in your life. And when he says that you are

a son of Abraham, imagine he is a Jew. Yet

it's as if the people, his fellow Jews, kicked him

out of the family. The Israelies for the people of God.

They were kicking him out of this people of God.

You do not deserve to be part of this because

of what you have done. You have broken the laws

of Moses and Jesus saying. When Jesus said and confirmed

you are, he is, he is too, a son of Abraham.

Jesus saying you are part of this family.

He is bringing back his identity as being part of

the lineage of Abraham, as part of the people of Abraham,

as part of the promise that God made with Abraham back.

In Genesis twelve.

Jesus restored him back to who he is, to his history,

to the promises that God has for him. Restored him

back to his identity as a recipient of the covenant

promise that God made with Abraham. Wow. Jesus restored him

his identity, restored who he was. Jesus restores our relationship

with God as well. When Jesus saw Zachias again Zacchios

climbing up this tree, all he wanted to do, and

he was fine with it, was to see Jesus, not

only to find out that Jesus was looking for him. Yes,

Jesus had no agenda in coming to Jericho, but the

moment he saw Zachias up in that tree.

I must go there.

Because Jesus came to seek and save the loss, to

seek and save the broken, to bring about restoration.

And the lives of people like Zachias.

And when he said I must stay in your house today,

he was bringing him into a relationship with him. He

was almost Jesus wants to restore that relationship he has

with us. Jesus claims a relationship with Zacchis when he

calls him by name, Zachius, I know you. I want

to be with you. I want to enter into your home.

I want to enter into your life. Jesus restores our

relationship with God, and finally, Jesus restores our relationship with

the community.

Again.

It does not say hear what happened if Zacchius made

good on his promise to the Lord.

But I would like to think that he did. And

it probably looked like something like this.

Zacchius would go up to a neighbor of his, somebody

that he extorted from, Knock on the door. The one

opening the door is the son of the owner.

Of the house. Seen new Posilla, Ah.

Something that I am going along, calls his dad te

see Tito's Indian titum Zaki us Anya huh Miner on

the last week walks up to the door as a

ball bat, hands in a bag with money and it's dad,

the owner of the house.

A goodbye, what's this one? What?

And he grabs the bag and a maroon what's the

catch if open the bags at the same time, And

he goes on to explain what happened, is encounter with

Jesus and how he wants to make it right with

the people.

He is wrong and he's a little skeptic. This order

of the house counts it how much he has given out.

Zachi was run again.

You can just imagine one by one, Zachi is going

from house to house, not just paying them back in full,

but paying that four times the amound that he stole,

and at the same time sharing his testimony of how

he encountered Jesus. And so you can just imagine that

mindsets of who he was, hatred and all of these

thoughts of who he was are now slowly breaking all

because of his encounter with Jesus. Because grace changes everything.

Imagine this encounter with Jesus began to slowly change.

The community, making things right with his fellow men, here's

a thing.

Did Zachias deserve any of this, any of the hatred

and animosity that people had towards him? Yes, he did

deserve it because he wasn't the wrong. But that's the

beauty of the grace of God, the grace of God

that was freely given to all.

How beautiful, how.

Amazing is this grace of God that Zachias himself was

able to recognize.

I have been accepted by Christ.

Jesus extended that same acceptance, that same grace to him,

and Zechius recognize that.

As I end.

You see, even in our times of desperation and brokenness,

God's grace is available to provide the restoration we need.

Don't think that you are beyond hope, don't think you're

beyond help. Don't think you're beyond God's grace, because you're not.

God's grace is available to each and every one of us,

and whatever kind of restoration that we need today, his

grace is more than sufficient.

To provide that restoration that we need. Lord, Thank you Lord.

We did not earn it, we don't deserve it. Your head,

you poured out.

Your grace, your love upon each and every one of us.

It wasn't anything that we did. Yet you came and

you gave yourself up so that we can be accepted,

We can know who you are, we can be overwhelmed

by your grace and your love and your mercy, and

your goodness and your kindness and so or even right now, Father,

I prayed. I just sensed that there are even lies

that have been spewed at you. Just we were singing

that on, singing that song.

Li.

The Lord is tearing down those lies right now, those lies.

Of the enemy about who you are. Jesus is tearing

those lies down. That is not who you are, because

you are mine.

You are my son, you are my daughter, and those

lies do not define who you are. So, Lord, I

pray that you would restore your people back to who

you have called them to be, men and women of purpose,

men and women of your grace, men and women of

your love, men and women who would walk in Christ's likeness.

Another group of people who want to pray for whatever.

Head bout and eyes closed. Believe some of you here

today believe God wants to restore you back to Him. Yes,

you may have been following you for the longest time.

You were Christian since birth. You grew up in Sunday

School and all that. Yet somehow you find yourself off wayward.

You find yourself in darkness, you find yourself in the wilderness.

And the Lord is saying, I want.

To restore you back into a relationship with me, into

a flourishing intimate.

Relationship with me.

And I want to know who I'm talking, who I'm

praying for, And if that's you, kind of lift up

your hands. You can put it down right away. Thank you,

Thank you for the hand. Thank you, Thank you for

the hand.

Thank you. Lord. You see these hands.

You know these men and women, Lord God, and Lord,

I pray for that you would draw them once again

to you.

Lord. I pray that you would recognize.

Their faith and their desperation and their need for you.

And I pray, Lord God, that.

You would come and come to that spot just as

that you did.

When's the case you came to that spot.

I pray that you would come to where they are

right now and call them by name and say to them, Lord,

you are mine, you are minded. There is nothing the

enemy can do, there is nothing that anyone can do

take that away from you.

I love my grace because you, my son, my daughter.

You are chosen, You are holy, you are righteous, you

are forgiven. So Lord, I pray that you would bring

about restoration, just as Christ was centered to be reconciled,

were reconciling men and women to you, Lord, I pray

that you would remind your people once again, well the

group of people want to pray for, maybe there's some

of you here today. You need to be restored to

this person in your life, a relationship that was broken,

a relationship that you just said I don't want anything

to do with this person, and God to say no,

I'm calling you.

To be reconciled with that person once again.

And whatever restitution that you need to make, you need

to come before God and say, Lord, what can I do?

What should I do?

And just allow us spare to God to speak to you,

to direct your steps and lead you into reconciliation. Because

when Christ came here on earth, he did not just

come to reconcile us us to God, but to came

to reconcile us.

With one another.

And I want to know who I'm praying for you

if that's you, and you know in your heart that

you need to be reconciled with this person, with a brother,

with his sister, with her father, with a friend.

Just kind of lift up your hands and you can

put it down right away. Thank you, Thank you for

the hand, thank you, thank you for the hand. Lord.

I thank you for these people. Lord.

You have called us to live in community, to live

in relationship with one another, to love our neighbor as

you have loved as you have loved us. And so Lord,

I pray that you would bring about restoration. Right now, Lord,

I pray whatever they need to do in order to

be reconciled with these people in their lives. Lord, I

pray that you would give them just the compassion, the

love overwhelmed them.

With your love.

Father, thank so that they can move in righteousness, they

can move according to your word.

Lord.

Even right now, I pray for each and every person

in this place, Father, pray that your grace will overwhelm us,

not just to bring about change in our own lives,

but to bring about change in our homes and our campuses,

and our offices and our families. Lord, we thank you

for your grace, the changes everything, for the grace of

the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and

the fellow sho the Holy.

Spirit be with you all. May God bless you all

in Jesus name. Amen, Amen, Thank you for listening. We

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