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Speaker 3: And now here's your message. We're in the last installment
Speaker 3: of our series called Grace Changes Everything, and I want
Speaker 3: to welcome you to our eleven AM service. My name
Speaker 3: is Bojo Manufashion, one of the pastors here in Green Hills,
Speaker 3: and again we're in the last installment of Grace Changes Everything.
Speaker 3: How many guys have been blessed by this series Grace
Speaker 3: Changes Everything? Yeah, okay, good? You know, nine am okay,
Speaker 3: so at least eleven name not in but uh, you know,
Speaker 3: it's a privilege to be able to share the Word
Speaker 3: of God with you this morning. And you know, I
Speaker 3: want to get right into the Word of God, if
Speaker 3: that's okay with you. So if you have your Bibles
Speaker 3: with you, kindly open up to Luke after nineteen verses
Speaker 3: one to ten, and I want to invite you to
Speaker 3: stand up as we give reverence to the Word of God.
Speaker 2: And if you don't have a Bible, it's okay. We
Speaker 2: have it here on the keynote, so.
Speaker 3: Allow me to read it. It says here Luke nineteen
Speaker 3: verse one. Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A
Speaker 3: man was there by the name of Zakias. He was
Speaker 3: a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to
Speaker 3: see who Jesus was, but being a short man, he could.
Speaker 2: Not because of the crowd.
Speaker 3: So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree
Speaker 3: to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. And
Speaker 3: when Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said
Speaker 3: to him, Zachias, come down immediately. I must stay at
Speaker 3: your house today. So he came down at once. So
Speaker 3: he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. And
Speaker 3: all the people saw this and began to mutter, he
Speaker 3: has gone to be the guest of a sinner.
Speaker 2: First say it. But Zakiah stood up and said to.
Speaker 3: The look Lord here and now I give half of
Speaker 3: my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated
Speaker 3: anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times
Speaker 3: the amount Jesus said to him. Today, salvation has come
Speaker 3: to this house because this man, too is a son
Speaker 3: of Abraham. For the son of man came to seek
Speaker 3: and say what was lost?
Speaker 2: Let us pray.
Speaker 3: Lord, we thank you, Father God for this morning that
Speaker 3: we can come into your presence and hear from your word.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 3: I pray that you would open up our hearts and
Speaker 3: mind today to receive from you. Lord. We thank you,
Speaker 3: Father God, for you sent your son Jesus here onto
Speaker 3: this earth to seek and to say the loss of
Speaker 3: which we are. We are part of the loss. Yet
Speaker 3: you have found us, Lord, got it and invited us
Speaker 3: into your kingdom and into your family. Lord, we thank
Speaker 3: you this morning. We thank you for your word in
Speaker 3: Jesus name. Amen, you may go ahead and take your seats.
Speaker 3: For the last couple of months, you know, my wife
Speaker 3: and I've been enrolling our kids in a sort of
Speaker 3: football camp.
Speaker 2: Okay indye push a soccer football. Oh.
Speaker 3: And these are our two kids, our six year old
Speaker 3: four year old, and they are part of this age
Speaker 3: group now.
Speaker 2: Three to three to six years old.
Speaker 3: So Mary and Silla mangas skills that they practiced with
Speaker 3: their coaches, kicking the ball and all these things.
Speaker 2: And the last fifteen minutes of.
Speaker 3: Their workshop, sorry, last fifteen twenty minutes. Yes, Marin Pasilang scrimmage.
Speaker 3: Ok where young group no Noila. They'll be divided into
Speaker 3: two teams and they would play against each other, trying
Speaker 3: to score a goal against each other. Now, one of
Speaker 3: the recent training Snila. After their scrimmage, I noticed that
Speaker 3: our daughter, our six year old daughter, me banang her,
Speaker 3: she wasn't happy.
Speaker 2: And I asked her what was wrong?
Speaker 3: And she said that the other boys and the other
Speaker 3: team were saying that, oh they're oh, these are just
Speaker 3: a bunch of babies. Okay, so affected shah And so
Speaker 3: I said, okay, so, how did that make you feel?
Speaker 2: Sad?
Speaker 3: And she was teary eyed. She has tried to hold
Speaker 3: back her tears. It was only when her mom asked
Speaker 3: her again she started crying.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: And and I asked and another son pang dead Malansha.
Speaker 3: So I asked him, what did you hear the other kids?
Speaker 3: They were saying that, oh babies, yes, okay, how did that.
Speaker 2: Make you feel? Nice? Leyoa? Okay?
Speaker 3: They both heard the same thing. It all sensitives. Oh
Speaker 3: she was sad. Shee theo was dead malan nice though,
Speaker 3: so I was. Me and my wife were wandering nice
Speaker 3: oh kay so and and my my son is probably
Speaker 3: the shortest of their young team, and they were like
Speaker 3: shorter than the other five year old sex year old
Speaker 3: kids are probably twice as well as them.
Speaker 2: No, but my.
Speaker 3: Wife and I were wondering a baja citeo kapak baby cute.
Speaker 2: Cute.
Speaker 3: So when they say called him baby, he was quod.
Speaker 3: That's why it was nice, right, So why am I
Speaker 3: sharing that story?
Speaker 2: Well? You share?
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, like our story that we're about to
Speaker 3: dive into. Zachias Zakias and the people that he lived
Speaker 3: with in Jericho. They were saying so many different things
Speaker 3: about him and it greatly affected him, much like my daughter.
Speaker 2: Okay, And sometimes how.
Speaker 3: We how we respond to what people say about us
Speaker 3: can really affect us.
Speaker 2: It can it can hamper our faith.
Speaker 3: It can you know, get us stuck where we are,
Speaker 3: or you know, it can push us to do something more.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it depends, right, And even though a
Speaker 3: Kios was in the wrong because of what everyone was saying,
Speaker 3: he lost all semblance of dignity and respect. And we're
Speaker 3: gonna find out more about what happened in verse one.
Speaker 3: Start from verse one, it says Jesus entered Jericho and
Speaker 3: was passing through okay Jiu was only passing through to Jericho.
Speaker 3: He had no agenda there, He had no itinerary there.
Speaker 3: The previous chapter, which was our preaching last week, Jesus
Speaker 3: heal the blind man, Bartimeus, who was just on the
Speaker 3: outskirts of Jericho, Paputan Jericho see Jesus and Yumaga blind
Speaker 3: and a lame and all these people they were kicked
Speaker 3: out of the city. They were living just beyond the
Speaker 3: city borders because they were outcasts. And so Jesus was
Speaker 3: passing this way on his way to Jerusalem. So he
Speaker 3: had no plans he was with you know, he was
Speaker 3: just going passing through. And it says you're in verse two.
Speaker 3: They were here in the city of Jericho. There was
Speaker 3: a man by the name of Zachios who was chief
Speaker 3: tax collector and was wealthy. Now he wasn't just any
Speaker 3: tax collector.
Speaker 2: He was the boss. He was the one. He was
Speaker 2: the boss that all the other tax collectors reported too.
Speaker 3: Now here's the thing about tax collectors during the time
Speaker 3: of Jesus, uh they were under the Roman Empire, Roman rule,
Speaker 3: and the taxes they were collecting was for the Roman Empire,
Speaker 3: a foreign ruler.
Speaker 2: And so you can just imagine the.
Speaker 3: Jews, who have already been oppressed by the Roman Empire
Speaker 3: now have to deal with their fellow men, tax collectors
Speaker 3: among a, tax collectors, fellow Jews in Sile. Yet they
Speaker 3: are on the other side, Kumba, they're working for the enemy.
Speaker 3: So you can just imagine that these Jews hated these men,
Speaker 3: these tax collectors, because not only were they collecting for
Speaker 3: the people who were oppressing them, but they were adding
Speaker 3: to it, kumbaga, they were getting a little bit for themselves.
Speaker 3: Can again wealthy see Zakios not I mean, he wasn't
Speaker 3: just a regular he was the boss. He was a
Speaker 3: chief tax collector. So you can just imagine how many,
Speaker 3: how much, how much riches he has Because Jericho wasn't
Speaker 3: just ordinary city. Jericho was a passageway towards Jordan, towards Jerusalem,
Speaker 3: so there were businesses there, people who would probably stop by,
Speaker 3: you know, before going onto their final destination.
Speaker 2: So there was business was good.
Speaker 3: So as the businesses flourished, the wealth of Zakios prospered
Speaker 3: as well. Because of his corruption yay. Now again Zakios,
Speaker 3: because of his dealings with the people and his job,
Speaker 3: he was naturally hated by the Jews, by the Israelites
Speaker 3: ya Verse three to four. It says here that he
Speaker 3: wanted to see jess was Jesus was passing through.
Speaker 2: He wanted to who Jus.
Speaker 3: Was, but because he was short, he could not see
Speaker 3: over the crowd.
Speaker 2: Now it says he wanted to see who Jesus was.
Speaker 2: How does Zakias know who Jesus?
Speaker 3: What compelled him to want to know or to see
Speaker 3: who this guy was? Now, the Bible doesn't say, It
Speaker 3: does not tell us exactly what happened. Maybe because he
Speaker 3: heard knows that chapter eighteen that Jesus he'll this blind
Speaker 3: man words spread out Zachio's Jesus.
Speaker 2: He does this, he does all of that.
Speaker 3: Another another thought or way of how Jesus heard about
Speaker 3: sorry Zaki has heard about Jesus was probably through a
Speaker 3: fellow tax collector by the name of Matthew. If you remember,
Speaker 3: Matthew is a disciple, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. Again,
Speaker 3: this is not in the Bible. This is just me
Speaker 3: as a kid's pastor painting you a picture. Okay, So Matthew,
Speaker 3: a tax collector, gives up his career to follow Jesus.
Speaker 3: So I don't know how close Sakios was. I mean,
Speaker 3: he was a chief collector, but how he was acquainted
Speaker 3: with him. I don't know if they work together, but
Speaker 3: I'm sure he probably knew, or maybe somebody reported boss
Speaker 3: see Matthew and the Quitney, And so.
Speaker 2: He's probably curious.
Speaker 3: Now, what would cause this man, this young man who
Speaker 3: was at the you know, the peak of his career,
Speaker 3: who had so much wealth, so much riches ahead of him,
Speaker 3: to give it all up for this person named Jesus
Speaker 3: because something compelled za Chios. He wanted to see who
Speaker 3: Jesus was. Okay, but here's the problem. He was worth
Speaker 3: how many of you can relate. I don't raise your hand,
Speaker 3: it's okay.
Speaker 2: Oh, growing up I was like that in school.
Speaker 3: La, I'm always the first in nine.
Speaker 2: The shortest, the tallest. I love short people.
Speaker 3: I married one. Oh my wife petite and gorgeous.
Speaker 2: Yes plus points. Okay, he was short.
Speaker 3: So we had a problem going trying to see Jeus
Speaker 3: through all the people.
Speaker 2: The crowd. There was a crowd again. Okay, there was
Speaker 2: a crowd there.
Speaker 3: And Zakios knew these people hated him, right, he knew
Speaker 3: that they were talking behind his back. They knew that
Speaker 3: they looked down on him, not just literally but figuratively.
Speaker 3: They knew how much that even if he tried to say,
Speaker 3: excuse me, excuse people.
Speaker 2: In the crowd, nobody would let him. True.
Speaker 3: So you can just imagine the people, the crowds who
Speaker 3: are also there to see Jesus. You can just imagine
Speaker 3: the animosity the hatred of these people towards this man.
Speaker 2: And Sachias knew that.
Speaker 3: But he was determined to see Jesus. He wasn't accepted,
Speaker 3: he was ostracized with society. It was difficult for him
Speaker 3: in the crowd. Maybe some of us we find ourselves
Speaker 3: in similar situations where we're being labeled and dismissed by society,
Speaker 3: whether out of our own doing or not. Where people
Speaker 3: begin to look at us and say that this person
Speaker 3: is beyond hell, beyond hope, this person is worthless, this
Speaker 3: person is too broken, he's not worthy, she's not worthy.
Speaker 3: And we hear these things, whether directly or indirectly, about us,
Speaker 3: and it affects us and how we relate to society,
Speaker 3: how we rate the community, how we relate to people
Speaker 3: around us. But here's one thing that we can see
Speaker 3: in the life.
Speaker 2: Of a chaos.
Speaker 3: He knew all of these things and what people thought
Speaker 3: about him, but that did not stop.
Speaker 2: Him from wanting to see Jesus.
Speaker 3: He was determined to see Jesus with his own two eyes.
Speaker 2: He didn't care what people thought.
Speaker 3: He already lost dignity and respect amongst his peers, his people, but.
Speaker 2: He wanted to see Jesus.
Speaker 3: Desperate times call for desperate measures, which is why he
Speaker 3: climbed up a sycamore tree. Evidence of his determination, evidence
Speaker 3: of his willingness to do whatever it takes, and he
Speaker 3: would stop at nothing just to be able to see
Speaker 3: who this Jesus was. Luke paints this picture of shame
Speaker 3: and embarrassment and be undignified of this boss, chief tax collector,
Speaker 3: wealthy man climbing up a sick of more tree.
Speaker 2: How desperate are we to see Jesus?
Speaker 3: How desperate are we to see Jesus? Are we willing
Speaker 3: to wake up earlier than usual? Just so that we
Speaker 3: can open up the word of God and find out?
Speaker 2: Lord? Who are you speak to me? Or? Lord? But good? Now?
Speaker 3: What are we willing to do in order to see Jesus?
Speaker 3: Are we willing to take time and disciple our kids
Speaker 3: and to share to them who Jesus there are. That's
Speaker 3: a kid stretch to Mansilla. What are we willing to
Speaker 3: do in order to see who Jesus is? Verse five.
Speaker 3: When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and him
Speaker 3: and said to him, Zakias, come down.
Speaker 2: Immediately, Jesus looked at Zakias again.
Speaker 3: Jesus had no agenda in Jericho.
Speaker 2: I'm planning.
Speaker 3: He was just passing through. Yet he sees this man
Speaker 3: climbing up, this little man climbing up the tree, and
Speaker 3: it drew Jesus' attention.
Speaker 2: Now again, there is a crowd. There is a crowd of.
Speaker 3: People in Jesus' way, to his right, to his left,
Speaker 3: behind him, in front of him. They all wanted to
Speaker 3: see Jesus, just like Zachius. But what made Zakias different.
Speaker 3: Why up of all the people in the crowd, Jesus
Speaker 3: went and approached the spot of the tree which Zakias
Speaker 3: had climbed.
Speaker 2: I believe it's because.
Speaker 3: Jesus knew and he felt that Zakias needed more than
Speaker 3: a glimpse of who Jesus was. I just needed to
Speaker 3: see who this man that everyone's talking about. But Jesus
Speaker 3: knews otherwise, No, this person needs something more than that.
Speaker 3: This man on the tree needs more than to see
Speaker 3: who I am. He needs to know who I am.
Speaker 3: He calls out to Zakia, Aki has come down. Immediately.
Speaker 3: Imagine this again. Jesus had no idea. I had had
Speaker 3: never met Zechias before. Zachius had never met Jesus before.
Speaker 3: Yet Jesus calls him by name. What does that tell us?
Speaker 3: He knew Zacchius by name. He knew what he was
Speaker 3: going through. He knew what were the issues, deep deep
Speaker 3: down in his heart.
Speaker 2: He knew that he was living in us. He knew
Speaker 2: that the people hated him.
Speaker 3: He knew that these people were ostracizing him from everyone else.
Speaker 3: He knew the pain that he was going through. He
Speaker 3: knew the shame and the dignity he had lost. Jesus
Speaker 3: knew all of that.
Speaker 2: When he called him by name.
Speaker 3: And maybe for some of us here today, Jesus even
Speaker 3: calling us by name one by one.
Speaker 2: I know you. I know what you're going through. You
Speaker 2: haven't told anyone about it, but I know. I know
Speaker 2: your pain.
Speaker 3: I know the shame, I know the suffering that you're
Speaker 3: going through. Yes, you put on that brave face of
Speaker 3: your but I know it's okay.
Speaker 2: Because I know you by name. You are mine, You
Speaker 2: are my son, you are my daughter.
Speaker 3: When Jesus comes as the keys and says I must
Speaker 3: stay at your house today, had no agenda, no, had
Speaker 3: no plan yet cancels all of that, postpones to stripped
Speaker 3: to Jerusalem the case, I must stay at your home today.
Speaker 3: I must be with you. I must honor you as
Speaker 3: you receive me with your hospitality. I'm going to associate
Speaker 3: with you. I'm going to be in close company with you.
Speaker 3: And you don't have to do anything or to prove
Speaker 3: to anyone as to why I want to be with you.
Speaker 3: You don't have to do anything. I'm here.
Speaker 2: I want to be with you.
Speaker 3: You are worth being with no matter who you are
Speaker 3: or what you've done. That's what Jesus is saying here.
Speaker 2: You are worth being with, whether you changed.
Speaker 3: Or not, even if you're still the same person that
Speaker 3: you were ten years ago.
Speaker 2: I still want to be with you.
Speaker 3: You are worth my time, no matter what these people think,
Speaker 3: no matter what these religious leaders say, you are worth
Speaker 3: my time because you are as precious as anyone. And
Speaker 3: maybe some of you needed to hear that today. Jesus
Speaker 3: is saying to you, my son and my daughter, I
Speaker 3: must be with you today. I must come into your
Speaker 3: house today. I must come into your life today. I
Speaker 3: must come into your heart this moment because I want
Speaker 3: to be with you.
Speaker 2: And there's no it doesn't matter what people may say
Speaker 2: or think about it, because I want to be with you.
Speaker 3: You don't have to prove anything to me, because I
Speaker 3: just want to be with you. Za Chaos, who was lost,
Speaker 3: who was broken, who was in pain, who was living
Speaker 3: in isolation and under a hatred from his fellow man,
Speaker 3: Jesus said, I want to be with you. The fact
Speaker 3: that Jesus ate with and spent time with someone who
Speaker 3: is considered a set out, a traitor, a deceiver without morals.
Speaker 2: Was an act of grace that the Phariuses in the
Speaker 2: crowd could not comprehend what just happened. I thenk Yerry, you.
Speaker 3: See Jesus, healer, teacher, prophet.
Speaker 2: Why is he?
Speaker 3: Why why is he having fellowship? Does he want to
Speaker 3: go into this sinner's house?
Speaker 2: Why? They were shocked? They were what's going on here?
Speaker 3: The Pharisees, the religious leaders, the Israelites. Here's what they thought.
Speaker 3: They thought Jesus must feel the same way about zaki As,
Speaker 3: the same way we feel about zaki Yas.
Speaker 2: That's why they were shocked.
Speaker 3: Dip was it Jesus hen union collapen diib I love
Speaker 3: me Jesus.
Speaker 2: He is a sinner.
Speaker 3: If you look at scriptures, tax collectors are associated in
Speaker 3: the same category as adulters.
Speaker 2: Unjust extortionists. Ain't same in the eyes of the Jews.
Speaker 2: That's why they were sinners. That's why they were hated.
Speaker 2: And so the Jews are like, I love me Jesus,
Speaker 2: chief tax collector.
Speaker 3: He stole from us. He has been oppressing us for
Speaker 3: the longest time already. Why yeah, wait, where does Jesus.
Speaker 2: Want to be with him?
Speaker 3: Why he came down at once and welcomed him gladly,
Speaker 3: And all the people saw this and began to mutter.
Speaker 2: I don't mean mutter buck, but Jesus.
Speaker 3: They were complaining, They were grumbling with one another. They
Speaker 3: were talking behind the back of Jesus, behind the back
Speaker 3: of the chios.
Speaker 2: What's happening, what's going on? He's going to that guy's house.
Speaker 3: Doesn't he know that that house was bought with our money?
Speaker 2: Money he stole from us.
Speaker 3: Jesus, doesn't he know that this man is hated, that
Speaker 3: religious leaders are angry at him but afraid of him.
Speaker 2: They just couldn't imagine it. You see, for the people of.
Speaker 3: Jericho, the only way, the only way that they would
Speaker 3: now accept za Chios was as Exacchius, was to conform
Speaker 3: to their standards. Keelan mcwanu one Ezachios, keelan.
Speaker 2: Mcvictory, group mac victory.
Speaker 3: We can la happen now before we can accept him
Speaker 3: back into our society. The people of Jericho felt that
Speaker 3: Jesus thought the same way.
Speaker 2: That thea Chios. For in order for.
Speaker 3: Anyone to accept him ki lanen, to go through all
Speaker 3: of these religious loops, to conform to a standard, To
Speaker 3: do this in order to be accepted, To do this, this, this,
Speaker 3: in order to be loved, To do this, this and that,
Speaker 3: to be part of this family, to be part of
Speaker 3: this community. But this vast difference between the people in
Speaker 3: Jericho and Jesus, The contrast between the grumbling, complaining of
Speaker 3: the crowd and the acceptance and grace of Christ in
Speaker 3: reaching out to a sinner by name, a stark difference,
Speaker 3: a vast difference.
Speaker 2: Are we part of this camp here?
Speaker 3: But shouldn't you share no gospein people are not Victory
Speaker 3: Week in Guinde, but invites a church. These standards that
Speaker 3: keep people at bay? Or are we part of this
Speaker 3: camp where Jesus? All that Jesus did was come to
Speaker 3: the tree Zacchios that a kindles fortile, whatever, if we
Speaker 3: wanted to have fellowship with this man, are we? Are
Speaker 3: we here and saying you saying hey, kind iw it's okay,
Speaker 3: let's go to church. You even read your Bible, It's
Speaker 3: it's all right. Are we extended the same grace and
Speaker 3: acceptance that Christ did when he came through that tree.
Speaker 2: Where Zacchios was at.
Speaker 3: You know, there are people, whether in church or outside
Speaker 3: of church, who have been marginalized, who have been outcast,
Speaker 3: who have been labeled hopeless and beyond redemption, who just want.
Speaker 2: To see Jesus, just like Zachias.
Speaker 3: Yet sometimes it's us, the church who would keep them
Speaker 3: at bay. You haven't done this, you haven't conformed to
Speaker 3: what I think you should be doing, when all they want.
Speaker 2: To do is pro Jesus. It maguant mcgripmuna.
Speaker 3: This was the very first days of grace and acceptance
Speaker 3: that Zakias ever felt in years.
Speaker 2: In years see.
Speaker 3: Hated by people who used to be he used to
Speaker 3: be friends with. Now they burn those bridges because of
Speaker 3: what he has done.
Speaker 2: People he used to hang out with after work. Lana,
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: He was all alone in isolation, living under hatred, being
Speaker 3: despised by his own people for the longest time, until
Speaker 3: Jesus comes to him and extends grace and acceptance.
Speaker 2: Sacchius, I want to be with you. I want to
Speaker 2: go to your house.
Speaker 3: Accepting someone like Zacchias for the church today is somehow
Speaker 3: a compromise of our values when it should be the
Speaker 3: exercise of those same values. This imprisoned ex mayor who
Speaker 3: is circulating the recent news. What if he was to
Speaker 3: walk in through these doors right now, what would be
Speaker 3: running in our minds? Alan Church?
Speaker 2: Though he's not allowed here, he doesn't deserve to be here.
Speaker 3: He will burn, God will strike him down.
Speaker 2: Ny Man.
Speaker 3: Jesus came up to him. I know you, I'm calling
Speaker 3: you by name.
Speaker 2: I know what you've done.
Speaker 3: I'm not ignoring your sin, but I know. Yet at
Speaker 3: the same time, I know your pain, and I'm accepting you.
Speaker 3: I'm extending grace to you. And here's what happened. A
Speaker 3: fellowship Jesus hangs out with him. Ziki has stood up
Speaker 3: and said to the Lord Lord. Look, Lord here and
Speaker 3: now I give half of my possessions to the poor.
Speaker 3: And if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I
Speaker 3: will not. I'll pay back four times the amount. Half
Speaker 3: of what he has as his wealth. He's giving now
Speaker 3: to the poor. The other half, Sin Lord, the people
Speaker 3: I stole from, I'll give four times now according to
Speaker 3: law standard in paying back what you stole. This twice,
Speaker 3: he's giving four times the amount. Now did Jesus request
Speaker 3: any of this? Before I go into your home? You
Speaker 3: need to give back the money demon, see.
Speaker 2: Jesus the lord.
Speaker 3: Lord, Lord Lord, I will give back my money.
Speaker 2: All that Bertie Mayeus. I'll give to Bertie.
Speaker 3: Mayos, the people I stole, Lord, I will pay, if
Speaker 3: not just two times, I will pay four times as much.
Speaker 2: He was making.
Speaker 3: Restitution because of the grace that Jesus extended to this
Speaker 3: broken man. His heart that had been hardened became wrong.
Speaker 3: Now it became open just because one man accepted him,
Speaker 3: one man extended grace towards and one man loved him
Speaker 3: when nobody else would. And so his heart now was speaking.
Speaker 3: Lord I really don't know, but this is what I
Speaker 3: can do. I will make it right with the people
Speaker 3: I have wronged. I will make it right to those
Speaker 3: who have offended. I will do my part in being
Speaker 3: reconciled to my fellow man, to my people. It wasn't
Speaker 3: her request when Jesus extended his grace. There was no pretense,
Speaker 3: no obligation, there was no condition. It was just given,
Speaker 3: and it led to the chayos being generous and proceeding
Speaker 3: to make right what was wrong. What sort of restitutions
Speaker 3: do we need to make in order to be reconciled
Speaker 3: with others? Maybe for some of us here religious that
Speaker 3: we've had, we grew up with them. They were at
Speaker 3: our wedding. Now we don't even see them in there.
Speaker 3: We don't want to talk to them anymore. Maybe God
Speaker 3: is calling you today, Hey, I know it's hard, but
Speaker 3: I want you to make it right with this person.
Speaker 3: They may have been the one who wronged you, but
Speaker 3: I want you to make it right. When my wife
Speaker 3: and I get into an argument after discussing heatedly upon a.
Speaker 2: Corner, go shining malay.
Speaker 3: Did shah until the Holy Spirit says, oh hey, sorry, Lord,
Speaker 3: and to make it right, I have to buy her lipstick.
Speaker 2: Plus date, plus flowers. I don know, but we.
Speaker 3: Need to make it right with the people who may
Speaker 3: have wronged us or we have wronged just like Zachiah's
Speaker 3: here and Jesus says to him in verse nine and ten,
Speaker 3: today salvation has come to this house because this man,
Speaker 3: too is a son of Abraham. For the son of
Speaker 3: Man came to seek and to save the loss. Jesus
Speaker 3: concludes his encounter with Zachius reminding everyone.
Speaker 2: That the grace of God.
Speaker 3: Is available to those who are lost, those who are broken,
Speaker 3: those who are seemingly beyond hope. His journey with Zacchius
Speaker 3: is a message to the people of Jericho as well.
Speaker 3: No one is beyond hope when Christ and his grace
Speaker 3: comes into play. This is a picture of a sycamore tree,
Speaker 3: not the one that Zacchius climb, but in Jewish culture,
Speaker 3: a sycamore in their language, represents restoration.
Speaker 2: Imagine that.
Speaker 3: Zechius climbed up a tree of restoration. Jesus came to
Speaker 3: him to provide that restoration.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Jesus knew that Zacchius needed more than just a glimpse
Speaker 3: of who he was.
Speaker 2: He knew that.
Speaker 3: Zakius needed restoration. What kind of restoration Jesus restored the
Speaker 3: identity of Zychius. He restored our identity, Zakias. The name
Speaker 3: is a Kias if you look it up, means pure,
Speaker 3: means innocent, means righteous, a far cry.
Speaker 2: From who he is in this passage.
Speaker 3: Now, you know, he's supposed to be pure as his namesake,
Speaker 3: but he was living in sin and conducting all of
Speaker 3: these immoral things. Yet because of his encounter with Jesus,
Speaker 3: he changes ways and went above and beyond to make
Speaker 3: things right, to live, to overcome his past, or to
Speaker 3: live up to his name. Of course they don't have overnight,
Speaker 3: but he is living towards that. He's walking towards that,
Speaker 3: and that was because of his encounter with Jesus.
Speaker 2: His encounter with Jesus restored him back to who he is. Hey,
Speaker 2: you're a man who is pure.
Speaker 3: You have been named innocent, and I am restoring that
Speaker 3: in your life. And when he says that you are
Speaker 3: a son of Abraham, imagine he is a Jew. Yet
Speaker 3: it's as if the people, his fellow Jews, kicked him
Speaker 3: out of the family. The Israelies for the people of God.
Speaker 3: They were kicking him out of this people of God.
Speaker 3: You do not deserve to be part of this because
Speaker 3: of what you have done. You have broken the laws
Speaker 3: of Moses and Jesus saying. When Jesus said and confirmed
Speaker 3: you are, he is, he is too, a son of Abraham.
Speaker 2: Jesus saying you are part of this family.
Speaker 3: He is bringing back his identity as being part of
Speaker 3: the lineage of Abraham, as part of the people of Abraham,
Speaker 3: as part of the promise that God made with Abraham back.
Speaker 2: In Genesis twelve.
Speaker 3: Jesus restored him back to who he is, to his history,
Speaker 3: to the promises that God has for him. Restored him
Speaker 3: back to his identity as a recipient of the covenant
Speaker 3: promise that God made with Abraham. Wow. Jesus restored him
Speaker 3: his identity, restored who he was. Jesus restores our relationship
Speaker 3: with God as well. When Jesus saw Zachias again Zacchios
Speaker 3: climbing up this tree, all he wanted to do, and
Speaker 3: he was fine with it, was to see Jesus, not
Speaker 3: only to find out that Jesus was looking for him. Yes,
Speaker 3: Jesus had no agenda in coming to Jericho, but the
Speaker 3: moment he saw Zachias up in that tree.
Speaker 2: I must go there.
Speaker 3: Because Jesus came to seek and save the loss, to
Speaker 3: seek and save the broken, to bring about restoration.
Speaker 2: And the lives of people like Zachias.
Speaker 3: And when he said I must stay in your house today,
Speaker 3: he was bringing him into a relationship with him. He
Speaker 3: was almost Jesus wants to restore that relationship he has
Speaker 3: with us. Jesus claims a relationship with Zacchis when he
Speaker 3: calls him by name, Zachius, I know you. I want
Speaker 3: to be with you. I want to enter into your home.
Speaker 3: I want to enter into your life. Jesus restores our
Speaker 3: relationship with God, and finally, Jesus restores our relationship with
Speaker 3: the community.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: It does not say hear what happened if Zacchius made
Speaker 3: good on his promise to the Lord.
Speaker 2: But I would like to think that he did. And
Speaker 2: it probably looked like something like this.
Speaker 3: Zacchius would go up to a neighbor of his, somebody
Speaker 3: that he extorted from, Knock on the door. The one
Speaker 3: opening the door is the son of the owner.
Speaker 2: Of the house. Seen new Posilla, Ah.
Speaker 3: Something that I am going along, calls his dad te
Speaker 3: see Tito's Indian titum Zaki us Anya huh Miner on
Speaker 3: the last week walks up to the door as a
Speaker 3: ball bat, hands in a bag with money and it's dad,
Speaker 3: the owner of the house.
Speaker 2: A goodbye, what's this one? What?
Speaker 3: And he grabs the bag and a maroon what's the
Speaker 3: catch if open the bags at the same time, And
Speaker 3: he goes on to explain what happened, is encounter with
Speaker 3: Jesus and how he wants to make it right with
Speaker 3: the people.
Speaker 2: He is wrong and he's a little skeptic. This order
Speaker 2: of the house counts it how much he has given out.
Speaker 2: Zachi was run again.
Speaker 3: You can just imagine one by one, Zachi is going
Speaker 3: from house to house, not just paying them back in full,
Speaker 3: but paying that four times the amound that he stole,
Speaker 3: and at the same time sharing his testimony of how
Speaker 3: he encountered Jesus. And so you can just imagine that
Speaker 3: mindsets of who he was, hatred and all of these
Speaker 3: thoughts of who he was are now slowly breaking all
Speaker 3: because of his encounter with Jesus. Because grace changes everything.
Speaker 3: Imagine this encounter with Jesus began to slowly change.
Speaker 2: The community, making things right with his fellow men, here's
Speaker 2: a thing.
Speaker 3: Did Zachias deserve any of this, any of the hatred
Speaker 3: and animosity that people had towards him? Yes, he did
Speaker 3: deserve it because he wasn't the wrong. But that's the
Speaker 3: beauty of the grace of God, the grace of God
Speaker 3: that was freely given to all.
Speaker 2: How beautiful, how.
Speaker 3: Amazing is this grace of God that Zachias himself was
Speaker 3: able to recognize.
Speaker 2: I have been accepted by Christ.
Speaker 3: Jesus extended that same acceptance, that same grace to him,
Speaker 3: and Zechius recognize that.
Speaker 2: As I end.
Speaker 3: You see, even in our times of desperation and brokenness,
Speaker 3: God's grace is available to provide the restoration we need.
Speaker 3: Don't think that you are beyond hope, don't think you're
Speaker 3: beyond help. Don't think you're beyond God's grace, because you're not.
Speaker 3: God's grace is available to each and every one of us,
Speaker 3: and whatever kind of restoration that we need today, his
Speaker 3: grace is more than sufficient.
Speaker 2: To provide that restoration that we need. Lord, Thank you Lord.
Speaker 2: We did not earn it, we don't deserve it. Your head,
Speaker 2: you poured out.
Speaker 3: Your grace, your love upon each and every one of us.
Speaker 3: It wasn't anything that we did. Yet you came and
Speaker 3: you gave yourself up so that we can be accepted,
Speaker 3: We can know who you are, we can be overwhelmed
Speaker 3: by your grace and your love and your mercy, and
Speaker 3: your goodness and your kindness and so or even right now, Father,
Speaker 3: I prayed. I just sensed that there are even lies
Speaker 3: that have been spewed at you. Just we were singing
Speaker 3: that on, singing that song.
Speaker 2: Li.
Speaker 3: The Lord is tearing down those lies right now, those lies.
Speaker 2: Of the enemy about who you are. Jesus is tearing
Speaker 2: those lies down. That is not who you are, because
Speaker 2: you are mine.
Speaker 1: You are my son, you are my daughter, and those
Speaker 1: lies do not define who you are. So, Lord, I
Speaker 1: pray that you would restore your people back to who
Speaker 1: you have called them to be, men and women of purpose,
Speaker 1: men and women of your grace, men and women of
Speaker 1: your love, men and women who would walk in Christ's likeness.
Speaker 3: Another group of people who want to pray for whatever.
Speaker 3: Head bout and eyes closed. Believe some of you here
Speaker 3: today believe God wants to restore you back to Him. Yes,
Speaker 3: you may have been following you for the longest time.
Speaker 3: You were Christian since birth. You grew up in Sunday
Speaker 3: School and all that. Yet somehow you find yourself off wayward.
Speaker 3: You find yourself in darkness, you find yourself in the wilderness.
Speaker 2: And the Lord is saying, I want.
Speaker 3: To restore you back into a relationship with me, into
Speaker 3: a flourishing intimate.
Speaker 2: Relationship with me.
Speaker 3: And I want to know who I'm talking, who I'm
Speaker 3: praying for, And if that's you, kind of lift up
Speaker 3: your hands. You can put it down right away. Thank you,
Speaker 3: Thank you for the hand. Thank you, Thank you for
Speaker 3: the hand.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Lord. You see these hands.
Speaker 3: You know these men and women, Lord God, and Lord,
Speaker 3: I pray for that you would draw them once again
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 2: Lord. I pray that you would recognize.
Speaker 3: Their faith and their desperation and their need for you.
Speaker 2: And I pray, Lord God, that.
Speaker 1: You would come and come to that spot just as
Speaker 1: that you did.
Speaker 2: When's the case you came to that spot.
Speaker 3: I pray that you would come to where they are
Speaker 3: right now and call them by name and say to them, Lord,
Speaker 3: you are mine, you are minded. There is nothing the
Speaker 3: enemy can do, there is nothing that anyone can do
Speaker 3: take that away from you.
Speaker 2: I love my grace because you, my son, my daughter.
Speaker 3: You are chosen, You are holy, you are righteous, you
Speaker 3: are forgiven. So Lord, I pray that you would bring
Speaker 3: about restoration, just as Christ was centered to be reconciled,
Speaker 3: were reconciling men and women to you, Lord, I pray
Speaker 3: that you would remind your people once again, well the
Speaker 3: group of people want to pray for, maybe there's some
Speaker 3: of you here today. You need to be restored to
Speaker 3: this person in your life, a relationship that was broken,
Speaker 3: a relationship that you just said I don't want anything
Speaker 3: to do with this person, and God to say no,
Speaker 3: I'm calling you.
Speaker 2: To be reconciled with that person once again.
Speaker 3: And whatever restitution that you need to make, you need
Speaker 3: to come before God and say, Lord, what can I do?
Speaker 2: What should I do?
Speaker 3: And just allow us spare to God to speak to you,
Speaker 3: to direct your steps and lead you into reconciliation. Because
Speaker 3: when Christ came here on earth, he did not just
Speaker 3: come to reconcile us us to God, but to came
Speaker 3: to reconcile us.
Speaker 2: With one another.
Speaker 3: And I want to know who I'm praying for you
Speaker 3: if that's you, and you know in your heart that
Speaker 3: you need to be reconciled with this person, with a brother,
Speaker 3: with his sister, with her father, with a friend.
Speaker 2: Just kind of lift up your hands and you can
Speaker 2: put it down right away. Thank you, Thank you for
Speaker 2: the hand, thank you, thank you for the hand. Lord.
Speaker 2: I thank you for these people. Lord.
Speaker 3: You have called us to live in community, to live
Speaker 3: in relationship with one another, to love our neighbor as
Speaker 3: you have loved as you have loved us. And so Lord,
Speaker 3: I pray that you would bring about restoration. Right now, Lord,
Speaker 3: I pray whatever they need to do in order to
Speaker 3: be reconciled with these people in their lives. Lord, I
Speaker 3: pray that you would give them just the compassion, the
Speaker 3: love overwhelmed them.
Speaker 2: With your love.
Speaker 3: Father, thank so that they can move in righteousness, they
Speaker 3: can move according to your word.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 3: Even right now, I pray for each and every person
Speaker 3: in this place, Father, pray that your grace will overwhelm us,
Speaker 3: not just to bring about change in our own lives,
Speaker 3: but to bring about change in our homes and our campuses,
Speaker 3: and our offices and our families. Lord, we thank you
Speaker 3: for your grace, the changes everything, for the grace of
Speaker 3: the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and
Speaker 3: the fellow sho the Holy.
Speaker 2: Spirit be with you all. May God bless you all
Speaker 2: in Jesus name. Amen, Amen, Thank you for listening. We
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