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Luke, The Orderly Account of Truth - Do I Love the Lost - Luke 19:1-10

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  1. All right, well, happy Easter. This is like the celebration

  2. for the biggest celebration for all of Christians. Why he

  3. has risen, right, Jesus has risen. That's the greatest news ever.

  4. Jesus showed that he has the power over sin and death,

  5. that that the grave can't hold him. Amen. He rose

  6. from the grave and he's resurrecked now. And what does

  7. that mean? That proves that every single thing that he

  8. said was true, Every single thing that he said is true.

  9. And he said, I'll prove it to you all raised

  10. from the dead. And we know about it because we've

  11. been talking through Jesus predicting or foretelling his death and

  12. they're like, I don't know what he's talking about. It

  13. doesn't make any sense. But he now he did it.

  14. Everything that he said was going to happen. That's what

  15. we're celebrating on Sunday, on Easter Sunday. Amen, it's amazing

  16. that we can put faith and trust in everything he

  17. said is true because he proved it by raising from

  18. the dead. And those who put faith in Jesus or

  19. who believe in him, not only do we have hope

  20. for today, which is a very comforting and encouraging thought.

  21. We have hope for today, but eat much more importantly,

  22. we have hope for forever. Right, we have hope for forever,

  23. that we will be raised with him and death and

  24. live forever in perfection with him. But if Jesus never

  25. raised from the dead, then we have zero hope. If

  26. he didn't raise from the dead, we don't actually have

  27. any hope. And Paul says in one Corinthians fifteen, if

  28. Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and

  29. you are still in your sins. So praise God that

  30. Jesus resurrected. Right, Praise God that he resurrected. Praise God

  31. that our faith is not futile. It's not worthless. Our

  32. faith does mean something. Praise God that all our sins, past,

  33. present and future were forgiven when we put faith in Jesus,

  34. when we believe in his death, his burial, and his resurrection. Amen.

  35. That has nothing to do with today's text, just Easter Sunday,

  36. So I just want to make sure we got to

  37. talk about it. We're actually going to be in Luke

  38. chapter nineteen. We're starting chapter nineteen today, so make sure

  39. you grab your bible start turning there. If you don't

  40. have a Bible. We have a bunch of them at

  41. the resource desk in the lobby. We'd love for you

  42. to take that and keep it because we want you

  43. to have the Bible. It's very important to us. So

  44. we're going to be reading through verses one through ten today.

  45. We'll read our text and we'll pray, and then we'll

  46. start getting into it. Luke, Chapter nineteen, Verses one through ten.

  47. He entered Jericho and was passing through, and behold there

  48. was a man named Zacchius. He was a chief tax

  49. collector and was rich. And when he was and he

  50. was seeking to see who Jesus was, But on account

  51. of the crowd, it could not because he was small

  52. in stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up

  53. into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was

  54. about to pass that way. And when Jesus came to

  55. the place, he looked up and said to him, Zacchius,

  56. hurry and come down, for I must stay at your

  57. house today. So he hurried and came down and received

  58. him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all grumbled.

  59. He has gone in to be the guest of a

  60. man who is a sinner. And Zachias stood and said

  61. to the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods

  62. I give to the poor. And if I've defrauded anyone

  63. of anything, I restore it fourfold. And Jesus said to him,

  64. today salvation has come to this house, since he also

  65. is a son of Abraham, for the son of Man

  66. came to seek and to save the lost. Let's pray, God,

  67. we thank you for your word. We take a moment

  68. to remove all distractions from our mind and focus on

  69. the word that you would have for us today. God,

  70. give us ears to hear it like you did with

  71. the disciples, open up our minds to understand your scriptures.

  72. Let us know what you want to say and what

  73. you want us to do with that today. And so God,

  74. I just thank you for this moment and pray that

  75. it brings you glory as we go through your word

  76. and is edifying for us as a body of believers.

  77. As for this in Jesus name, Amen. We've been in

  78. a series called Luke The Orderly Account of Truth. And

  79. Luke investigated all about what Jesus did and taught throughout

  80. his ministry, and that was a lot of stuff. And

  81. because of this investigated, investigated account. We can actually have

  82. certainty about who Jesus is, and that's a very comforting thing,

  83. especially as we're talking about resurrection Sunday. We can know

  84. the truth about who Jesus is. And Luke spent all

  85. this time investigating it. And last week Pastor Duncan preached

  86. about God's plan. That was the name of the message.

  87. It was great that God, in his sovereignty, he chooses

  88. to conceal certain things, but then he also chooses to

  89. reveal certain things, and he does all this according to

  90. his own will, according to how he sees fit. That's

  91. how God reveals or conceals things. We saw that the

  92. disciples eyes and ears were wide open when Jesus was

  93. foretelling his death for the third time. By the way

  94. that their eyes and ears were open, they could hear

  95. him just fine, but they couldn't understand what he was saying.

  96. Why because it was hidden from them. That's what we're

  97. told that he spoke very specifically to them, but the

  98. truth or the understanding of it was hidden or concealed

  99. from them. But in contrast, you see this blind beggar

  100. whose eyes were not open, right, his physical eyes were

  101. not open. He couldn't see anything, yet he could see

  102. exactly who Jesus was. Plain his day, he knew who

  103. Jesus was. But it was because God chose to reveal

  104. to him who Jesus was. That's why the blind man,

  105. in contrast to the disciples whose eyes wereked just fine,

  106. they couldn't see, but this blind man could see because

  107. God chose reveal that. So God chooses when he wants

  108. to conceal certain things, and he chooses when he wants

  109. to reveal them. And so this week our text, what

  110. we just read through, we're seeing that Jesus is continuing

  111. his journey to Jerusalem, and he's come to the city

  112. of Jericho. And if you read your Old Testament, this

  113. is the same city of Jericho that Joshua marched around

  114. to make the walls come down, if you guys remember

  115. that story, right, And that's in Joshua chapter six, if

  116. you want to read that. But as Jesus passes through

  117. the city, he has an interaction with a man, and

  118. this interaction helps him remind the people of the whole

  119. reason that Jesus is on his mission, helps gives him

  120. an object lesson or a moment to stop and teach

  121. what he's doing to remind the people of his actual mission.

  122. For the son of Man came to seek and to

  123. save the lost. For the son of Man came to

  124. seek and to save the lost. That's why Jesus came

  125. to Earth, to seek and to save the lost. That's

  126. why he came. And when Jesus is in the middle

  127. of doing his mission with this man, how did the

  128. crowd respond. Jesus is literally doing what he came for.

  129. How did the crowd respond? They grumbled, didn't they? They

  130. grumbled at Jesus doing his mission. They were mad that

  131. Jesus was hanging out with a sinner, a lost person.

  132. They were mad at him for doing the very thing

  133. that he came to do. And I I was thinking, like, well,

  134. what is that like? What is that like? And I

  135. think that's like standing in front of a burning building

  136. and then getting mad at the firefighters when they come

  137. to show to put the fire out. It's absurd. That

  138. makes zero sense. Or whoever has worked on a team

  139. with some like doing something maybe a work project or

  140. a school project, maybor back in the day you've put

  141. on it. You usually didn't get to choose your team, right,

  142. You're just put in a group. Well, it's like the

  143. whole group is working towards the same goal. We're all

  144. trying to accomplish the same mission. Right, everybody except for

  145. that one guy, you know what I'm talking about, or

  146. maybe those couple people. Right, they just complain about everything

  147. the whole time. You come up with an idea or

  148. someone brings up an idea and they're like that'll never work,

  149. blah blah blah. They're just like complaining, they're pushing back

  150. on everything, or they're just contributing nothing whatsoever. Right, you

  151. have those people in your group. Doesn't seem like they're

  152. after the same goal or same mission as the whole

  153. rest of the group, does it? No, I think that's

  154. what this crowd is like. This crowd is like that

  155. person in your work group for school. It's clear that

  156. the people who were following Jesus because everywhere Jesus went,

  157. crowds followed him because he did amazing, miraculous things. Right,

  158. people followed him, but they weren't followers of Jesus. Does

  159. that make sense? They want to see something because Jesus

  160. is doing these cool, amazing things, but it's clear that

  161. they weren't really following Jesus. They weren't on the same

  162. mission he was on. They were doing the same things

  163. he was doing. They weren't going to the cities with

  164. the same intention that he was. No, they had a

  165. different mission in mind. Jesus came to seek and to

  166. save the lost, That's what he's doing. His love for

  167. the lost would drive him to seek after them, and

  168. the crowds would stand there and grumble. So I called

  169. today's message. Do I love the lost? Do I love

  170. the loss? Do I want people to get saved? Or

  171. am I like the crowd grumbling when Jesus goes to

  172. seek certain people, to seek and to save them. Am

  173. I on the same mission Jesus is on? Or am

  174. I on some other mission? And to understand this, we

  175. need to figure out who this Zachieus guy is. So

  176. let's look at verse number one. He that's Jesus entered

  177. Jericho and was passing through and behold, there was a

  178. man named Zachias. He was a chief tax collector and

  179. he was rich. So we know two things about this guy, right,

  180. The Bible just told us there's two things. He's a

  181. chief tax collector and he was rich. This guy was

  182. loaded chief tax collectors generally were. But you got to

  183. remember that tax collectors were hated by the Jews. Specifically,

  184. they were hated because they were fellow Jews who worked

  185. for the Roman government to collect taxes on their behalf.

  186. But the deal is the Roman government said, you can

  187. collective taxes however you want, I don't care, and as

  188. much as you want, and anything over they owed the

  189. Roman government you can keep. So oftentimes these tax collectors

  190. were very, very wealthy people because they extorted or just

  191. outright stole money from their fellow Jews. So it kind

  192. of makes sense why they were hated, right. They were

  193. greedy and despicable. And this guy was a chief Zacchius

  194. was the chief of the tax collector. So I call

  195. him the top dog tax collector, Like he's making lots

  196. of money as a chief tax collector. But this particular

  197. chief collector had something or someone that he desperately wanted

  198. to see, and he was willing to do weird stuff

  199. to accomplish that. He had someone that he desperately wanted

  200. to see. Look at verse three, and he was seeking

  201. to see who Jesus was, But on account of the crowd,

  202. he could not because he was small in stature, so

  203. he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore

  204. tree to him for he's about to pass that way.

  205. He wanted to see who Jesus was. That's who we

  206. wanted to see. He wanted to see who Jesus. Word

  207. was traveling super fast about Jesus. He would think about it.

  208. He'd go into a city and he'll literally everybody there,

  209. every single sickness gone from a city. So words traveling

  210. really really fast about this this guy, Jesus and Zacchius

  211. really wanted to see it. I mean, if you imagine,

  212. just for a second, if there was a if you

  213. heard of some guy who was in town and all

  214. of a sudden, all the blind people could see, or

  215. the people who have been in wheelchairs for their entire life,

  216. all of a sudden standing up and walking as if

  217. they've been walking their whole life, or skin diseases and

  218. rashes and leprosy just vanishes and disappears. And then you

  219. hear that dude's going to be at the rack leader

  220. who's gone. You guys going to leave me there like

  221. we're going to see that. That's incredible, right, So it

  222. makes sense why Zacheus is like, I gotta see this

  223. Jesus guy. This is the kind stories that are passing around,

  224. not just stories, these actual true events that are happening

  225. that people are telling others about word of mouth. There

  226. wasn't the Internet back then. They couldn't just tweet it out.

  227. Look at this crazy thing that happened. It was all

  228. word of mouth and word was still getting around. And Zachieus,

  229. that's what's going through his head. He's like, Jesus is

  230. in town and I got to see this guy. But

  231. there was one teeny tiny little problem. Well he was

  232. the teeny tiny problem because he's shortened stature. Homeboy was

  233. vertically challenged. As I say, listen, I get it. I'm five'.

  234. SIX i can't see over. Anybody we go to concerts

  235. And i'm standing behind people like this was the cool

  236. back of the head. Show, TODAY i can't see. ANYTHING

  237. i get. It BUT i also don't have to duck

  238. to get under. Anything, ever so hashtag favorite ain't, fair,

  239. Right come, on being, short it's not all. Terrible the

  240. crowd is in the. Way zachieus is a wee little,

  241. man so he has to get creative if he wants

  242. to See. Gezus so he runs ahead of the crowd

  243. and climbs up a sycamore tree right For jesus passes.

  244. By look at verse. Five and When jesus came to the,

  245. place it's where he's at in the. Tree he looked

  246. up and said, Him, zacchius hurry and come, down FOR

  247. i must stay at your house. TODAY i must stay

  248. at your house. Today jesus walks by and looks up

  249. in the tree and Sees zacchius there and addresses. Him

  250. jesus the one That zacchius is desperately trying to see

  251. that he ran and climbed up a tree just to

  252. make sure he could see over the crowds to see.

  253. Him that's who looks up at him and invites himself

  254. overs to his. House he, Says i'm got to come

  255. to your. House hurry, up get out of that, tree,

  256. Bro i'm coming. Over And jesus puts some urgency behind.

  257. This this isn't just, like, HEY i think it'd be

  258. cool IF i came to your house. Today, no he's

  259. like telling him what he's going to do and put

  260. some urgency behind. It and after telling him, this we

  261. see two very different. Responses don't we look at verse

  262. five or the end of verse. Five zachius hurried and came,

  263. down FOR i must stay at your house, today, Right

  264. so that's What jesus says to. Him so verse, six

  265. so he hurried and came down and received him. Joyfully

  266. and when they saw, it they all. Grumbled he has

  267. gone in to be the guest of a man who

  268. is a. Sinner so we See zachius listen to What jesus.

  269. Said jesus told him to do, something and he just did.

  270. It but it's not that he just did, it says

  271. he Received jesus, joyfully that he joyfully Received, jesus and

  272. that's exactly how all of us should Receive jesus is.

  273. Joyfully he's our savior, king and we know the depth of.

  274. That THERE'S i, mean there's people who See jesus and

  275. completely reject, him and there's people who see him and

  276. love him and accept. Him, right there's a big divide between.

  277. That but the, obvious clear answer is, like we should

  278. do What zachius did and Receive jesus with. Joy so

  279. that's the first response we. See but what's the second

  280. response we? See it's very. Different what did the crowd.

  281. Do they. Grumbled the crowd grumbled Because jesus was gonna

  282. go stay with a dirty, sinner those, dirty rotten, sinners

  283. those tax. Collectors they're grumbling At jesus for going To zachius's.

  284. House by the, way this is the same crowd that

  285. we just saw rebuke the blind man who's crying out

  286. To jesus as he was entering this same very. City

  287. that's the same exact. Crowd in, fact it's this is

  288. the same kind of response That jesus got when he

  289. Called levi the tax collector also known As matthew The,

  290. disciple when he called him to follow. Him it's this

  291. they were all. Grumbling. Then it is The pharisees and

  292. the scribes they grumbled back then In luke chapter. Five

  293. listen to this. Crowd this is very regular response That

  294. jesus gets from the. Crowd they don't like it When

  295. jesus helps the, needy the, broken the, helpless the, outcasts

  296. and they really don't like it when he hangs out with,

  297. sinners even though that's exactly what they are To they

  298. can't see. It it's like having your eyes wide open

  299. but you're fully. Blind this is these this crowd so

  300. we see this joy From. Zacchius we also see this

  301. grumbling attitude from the. Crowd but what happens next in

  302. the story shows us that something drastic has changed inside

  303. greedy Little. Zacchius something drastic has. Changed he doesn't care

  304. what the crowd is. Saying he doesn't care how much they're. Grumbling,

  305. no what does he? Do verse eight And zakias stood

  306. and said to the, Lord, Behold, lord the half of

  307. my GOODS i give to the. Poor and IF i

  308. defrauded anyone of, anything anyone of, ANYTHING i restore it.

  309. Fourfold this is not something a greedy person, does unless

  310. unless some miracle has happened inside their heart to change.

  311. Them this is not what Zach us would say in

  312. his chief tax collector greedy. Personhood, no some miracle. Happened

  313. and the reason we know that something had to change

  314. in them is because just a couple weeks ago we

  315. read about the rich young ruler Right Pastor duncan preached

  316. to That he Asked, jesus what MUST i do to

  317. inherit eternal? Life and the last Thing jesus told him

  318. to do is sell, everything give it all to the,

  319. poor and come follow. Him but the man went away

  320. sad because he was. Rich he didn't want to do.

  321. It his heart hadn't. Changed he was, rich and that's

  322. the kind of response you would expect to get from

  323. little Rich. Zechias but he did the. Opposite he is

  324. giving away half of everything he has to the poor fifty.

  325. Percent that's a. Lot half of Everything i'm giving to the.

  326. Poor and then he takes it a step further and,

  327. Says i'm paying back everyone he's cheated out of money,

  328. fourfold four. Times IF i cheated him out of a

  329. one hundred, Bucks i'm giving him four hundred bucks up.

  330. Fast for someone who is a chief tax, collector someone

  331. whose job and how they make all their money is

  332. by cheating it out of, people extracting more taxes than

  333. are necessary and keeping it so every single person has

  334. ever done that. Too he's, Like i'm going to pay

  335. them back. Fourfold that is some drastic. Change something has

  336. changed In. Zachieus jesus didn't even ask him to do.

  337. That he volunteered. That he's. Different he's come in contact

  338. with the Living God Jesus, christ and it has changed

  339. who he. Is when you truly Meet jesus and it's

  340. revealed to you who he actually. Is you are never

  341. the same. Again you will never be the same. Again

  342. when you See jesus for who he truly, is you

  343. start to hate the sin in your, life the same

  344. sin you loved and held on to so dear for

  345. so many. Years you hate it your desire to please

  346. you desire to Please, god and you like actually want

  347. to live the way he tells you to. Live that's,

  348. rare because that's oftentimes in start contrast to what your

  349. your flesh or your natural self actually. Wants, now we

  350. will still, struggle but we're gonna. REPENT i, say just

  351. like you follow, re scrape your, knee slap a band ad,

  352. on get up and keep. Moving we repent and show

  353. fruit or bear fruit with keeping with. Repentance, Right So

  354. jesus sought Out, Zacchius, zacchius this lost, sinner and he saved.

  355. Him and then he says something so beautiful in these

  356. last two. Verses look at verses nine and, ten And

  357. jesus said to, him, today salvation has come to this,

  358. house since he also is a son Of. Abraham for

  359. the son Of man came to seek and to save the.

  360. Loss jesus just saying out loud exactly what he's. Doing

  361. he Tells zacchius's salvation has come to his house since

  362. he's also a son Of, abraham and the reason he

  363. has come is because that's what he came to. Do it's,

  364. like the REASON i came here is BECAUSE i came

  365. to seek and save the. Lost he's, like not keeping

  366. any secrets, Here. ZACCHIUS i, mean in a way you

  367. can see if he's, Like, ah you're a lost, Person

  368. i'm gonna go to your. House that's kind of what he's.

  369. Saying Right and now whether they caught on to that or,

  370. NOT i don't, know But jesus is, explaining this is

  371. What i'm. Doing the Reason i've come is because that's

  372. the Reason i'm coming to your house is because that's

  373. What i've come to, do is to seek and save the.

  374. Lost jesus is. Salvation jesus is where we find our.

  375. Salvation it's found nowhere else but In. Him. Nowhere no

  376. matter what the world will tell you or any other

  377. religion might tell, you there is only one way to

  378. be made right With. God and in the coexist world

  379. we live. In that's very offensive to, say but it's,

  380. true and we must speak the. Truth there is only

  381. one way to be made right With. God there's only

  382. one way to be forgiven of all of our. Sins

  383. who did we sin Against? God so he's the one

  384. we need to be made right. With Anytime i'm unloving

  385. to my, wife DID i sin against? Her? Yeah but whose?

  386. Law DID i? Break god's? Law so NOW i have

  387. a problem with? Him or, really he's got a problem with, me,

  388. Right that's why the only way to find salvation is

  389. by the Means he has. Selected it's Because i've sinned against.

  390. Him there's only one way to be forgiven of all

  391. of our. Sins there's only one way to inherit eternal,

  392. life and it's through faith In. Jesus it's by the

  393. grace Of god. Alone it's through faith, alone it's In christ.

  394. Alone and every single person on this earth falls short

  395. Of god's perfect, standard every single, person all my old church.

  396. Heads you're, like, oh this is the beginning of The roman. Road,

  397. yes that's what we're talking. About every single one of

  398. us has fallen short Of god's perfect. Standard we've all.

  399. Sinned and if you're, like oh wait a min, NO

  400. i haven't have you ever told a? Lie how many

  401. lives have you? TOLD i can't count the amount of

  402. Lies i've. Told so what would you call someone who

  403. has told an uncountable amount of? Lies what would you call?

  404. Them you're a, LIAR i got. It So i'm a.

  405. Liar have you ever taken anything that belong to? You got?

  406. It so you're a liar and you're a. Thief. Right

  407. so we're all, sinners down to the smallest little. Thing

  408. we all are in need of. Saving none of us

  409. escape that. Reality all of us have sin tendencies in

  410. us and sin actions that have come. Out we've all fallen.

  411. Short we have all, sinned and because of our, sin

  412. what we deserve is the wrath Of god for all.

  413. Eternity that's What god, says the wages of sin or.

  414. Death so we deserve the wrath Of god for all.

  415. Eternity But god made a way for us to be.

  416. Forgiven thank. You he made a way for us to

  417. be forgiven of all of our, sins to be made

  418. right With. Him and is through What jesus. Did it's

  419. not through anything that we. Did it's only through What jesus.

  420. Did he lived a perfect sinless, life and he took

  421. the punishment for sin on, himself and he did this

  422. by dying on the. Cross but here's the. Thing he

  423. didn't stay, dead and that's a good. Thing that is

  424. what we're celebrating On Easter. Sunday he didn't stay. Dead

  425. he showed that he has power over sin and death

  426. by resurrecting from the. Dead and he is now, alive

  427. sitting on his throne at the right hand Of, god

  428. The father in. Heaven it's. Amazing and anyone who confesses

  429. That jesus Is lord and believes That god rais him

  430. from the dead will be. Saved that's the. Truth the

  431. way to not receive the wrath Of god on my

  432. sin for all. Eternity the way to receive eternal life

  433. and perfection face to face In jesus for the rest of,

  434. eternity is by putting faith In Jesus, christ confessing That

  435. jesus is Your, lord and believing That god raised him

  436. from the. Dead because It's god The father's. Will AND

  437. i love this verse that all who look to The,

  438. son And jesus is The, son The son Of. God

  439. all who look to The son and believe will have

  440. eternal life and be raised up in the last. Day

  441. that's fantastic. News jesus is our. Salvation and in our

  442. text this, day salvation has come to your, House, Zacchius

  443. today salvation has come to this house since he also

  444. is a son Of, abraham for the son Of man

  445. came to seek and save the. Loss but what Does

  446. jesus mean by he also is a son Of. Abraham

  447. it's kind of a weird. Thing SO i feel like

  448. we should talk about. It and it makes me think

  449. of the fact That jesus said that he was sent

  450. to who the lost sheep Of. Israel that's In matthew,

  451. fifteen he was sent to the lost sheep Of. Israel

  452. that jesus first mission was to The, jews which is

  453. also echoed In romans one, sixteen, right first of the

  454. jew then to The. Gentiles so he came to seek

  455. and save the. Loss but the first group of lost

  456. people that he's seeking, after or who the lost sheep Of,

  457. israel it's The. Jews that's who he was sent to.

  458. First now we know it didn't stop, there which is

  459. a really good. Thing he was first of The, jews

  460. but then it went to The, gentiles, Right and it

  461. makes me think of that story says there are other

  462. sheep who are not of this fold THAT i need

  463. to go. Get So jesus is talking about. That it's

  464. not just for The, jews it's also for The. Gentiles

  465. CAN i get an amen for anyone who's not an Ethic? Jew?

  466. Amen thank You jesus for. That Thank, god he has

  467. called us gentiles out of darkness and into his glorious light.

  468. Too through What jesus has, done we two are called

  469. sons and daughters Of. Abraham AND i love How paul

  470. explains it In galatians chapter. THREE i THINK i put

  471. these ones on. There, Sweet, okay they're gonna be on the,

  472. screen so you don't need to turn there in Your.

  473. Bible But galatians chapter, three verses seven through, nine know

  474. then that it is those of faith who are the

  475. sons Of. Abraham and the, scripture foreseeing That god would

  476. justify the gentiles by, faith preach the gospel beforehand To, abraham,

  477. saying in you shall all the nations be. Blessed so

  478. then those who are of faith are blessed along With,

  479. abraham the man of. Faith and if you skip forward

  480. just a few more verses in that same, chapter verse twenty,

  481. six for In Christ. Jesus you are all sons Of

  482. god through. Faith so as many of you as were

  483. baptized Into christ have put On. Christ there is Neither

  484. jew Nor, greek Or jew nor. Gentile there is neither

  485. slave nor. Free there is no male and, female for

  486. you are all one In Christ. Jesus and if you Are,

  487. christ's then you Are abraham's offspring heirs according to. Promise

  488. that's pretty. Clear if you've put faith In, jesus then

  489. you are Considered abraham's, offspring And abraham's offspring are heirs

  490. according to. Promise, Amen CAN i have the band come? Up?

  491. Please so this is all true what we've been talking,

  492. About that salvation is for people from every, tribe, nation and,

  493. tongue that's not just for Ethnic, Jews and That jesus

  494. came to seek and save the. Loss and how can

  495. the crowd get mad At jesus for hanging out with?

  496. Sinners how can the crowd get mad at? Them i'm

  497. mad at him because the truth is is they. Shouldn't

  498. they shouldn't get mad at. Him he's doing his. Job

  499. he's doing the mission that he came to. Do they

  500. didn't think That zacchius deserved to Have jesus be with.

  501. Him they thought he was undeserving or less. Than and

  502. you know, What they're. Right he didn't deserve, it but

  503. neither did. They none of us deserve. It that's why

  504. it's called grace undeserved. Favor that is what grace. Is

  505. grace is receiving something THAT i don't deserve nor i'd worked.

  506. For so my question for us today is, this who

  507. DO i view like the crowd Viewed. Zacchius who DO

  508. i view like the crowd viewed As? Zakius who DO

  509. i think is unworthy of hearing The? Gospel what spaces

  510. WOULD i grumble IF i found out That jesus was going?

  511. There what spaces DO i grumble with the thought of

  512. being sent? To or what people DO i grumble at

  513. the thought of sharing The gospel with a long time?

  514. Ago you guys Know penn And teller So penjulette one

  515. of the magicians. There he said something super. Profound he

  516. is an. Atheist by the, way this is one of

  517. the biggest like slap in the faces For. Christians if

  518. you watch his whole like, interview some are nodding your,

  519. head sounds like you've seen it. BEFORE i heard, It

  520. but he asked a very profound. Question he, said how

  521. much do you have to hate someone to believe that

  522. everlasting life is possible and not tell? Them that's like

  523. a dagger to the heart kind of question for a

  524. believer who truly believes. This how much do you have

  525. to hate someone to believe that everlasting life is possible

  526. and not tell. Them we may never say that we

  527. don't care or that we hate someone out of our own.

  528. Mouth we may never say that someone is undeserving of

  529. hearing the? Gospel but what are we communicating when we

  530. walk by hundreds of people every week and never tell

  531. them About? Jesus what are we? Communicating, LIKE i don't

  532. walk by one hundred people every, week pick a. Number one's.

  533. Enough what AM i communicating WHEN i don't want to

  534. tell them that there is a bad consequence of living

  535. a life and remaining in your sin and they're actually

  536. being a remedy for that and just not telling? Them

  537. what AM i? Communicating DO i love the? Lost DO

  538. i love the? Lost are there PEOPLE i grumble at

  539. the thought Of jesus seeking? Them you mean? Them? Jesus

  540. are you sure we needed repent of that arrogance or

  541. arrogance might not be a word that. Connects i'm not

  542. trying to sit here and call you, Arrogant but sometimes

  543. things we don't make a priority end up in the

  544. back of our, head and they very quickly leave our cares.

  545. Altogether do we even? Care have we even prioritized a

  546. life that is rubbing shoulders with unbelievers so that we

  547. can share the gospel with? Them we need to remember

  548. the grace Of god that's upon, us the grace That

  549. he showed. Us we did not deserve, it and he

  550. still sought us out. Anyway he sought us out, Anyway

  551. come now. Found it's my favorite. Hymn whow's the lingo

  552. Though jesus sought me when a stranger wandering from the

  553. fold Of. God that's the one like we're all prone

  554. to wander, now and he still brings us. Back he

  555. sought us when we didn't deserve, it while we were still.

  556. Sinners christ died for. Us that's what we're told in.

  557. Scripture while we were still. Sinners christ died for, us

  558. and we should let that drive us to push The

  559. gospel into every single space that we're. In DO i

  560. love the? Lost DO i love them? Enough to do

  561. What jesus, did to seek them, out to tell them

  562. the good news of what he. Done also that The

  563. lord would save. Them so let's be Like zaccheus and

  564. receive The lord with. Joy, right that's the first. Thing

  565. let's be Like zacchius and receive The lord with. Joy,

  566. two don't be like the crowd and grumble when salvation

  567. reaches out to. Sinners don't think that anybody's off. Limits

  568. don't think that anybody's not, deserving because guess, what we're

  569. all not, deserving And jesus does it. Anyway there's no

  570. one off. Limits every, tribe, nation and, tongue every class doesn't,

  571. matter every single person everywhere we should be taking the gospel.

  572. Too and, third let's be Like jesus and actually do.

  573. It let's bring The gospel to everyone. Everywhere. Amen if

  574. you guys stand on your, feet, please