Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of Abraham.Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.And Jesus said unto him, To-day is salvation come to this house, forasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
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Luke is trying to show us off the heels of the rich young ruler in Luke chapter 18. He's going to show you and I the impossible made possible in the very next chapter. Luke chapter 19 verses 1 through 10 says this. Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and he was wealthy. So let's take note. He was wealthy and corrupt. And remember last week, it's impossible for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Verse number three, he wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short, he could not see over the crowd. I found out my research this week that in the Middle East, the average height of a male was 5'5". So he was probably under five feet tall. And I just can't help but think, man, I was born at the wrong time. I would have been a giant back then. That would have been great. …
My name is Luke and I get to be the youth pastor at Life.Church Northwest Oklahoma City. And I just have one question for you as we get started. What would change about your life if you truly believed that you didn't have to do it alone? What would change? For some of you, your head immediately jumps to the day that you walk down the aisle ready to kiss singleness goodbye. And others of you, maybe you're starting a new season of life and you crave this sense of belonging. Some of you, if you're being honest with yourself, you know that when things get difficult, you tend to isolate. you tend to withdraw maybe even from the people that care about you the most maybe others of you you're here today and you're trying to heal from a wound that feels impossible to heal from and i'm here to tell you that in god honoring community no one stands alone it was in 2020 that my wife and i we moved away from home about a couple hours away from home in In fact, here is a picture of our family. …
… poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much. And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. That last verse is a definitive declaration of the purpose for the incarnation. nation. Jesus came into the world to seek and to save lost sinners. This is the divine enterprise in God's redemptive plan. From the fall of man, God has always sought out sinners. All the way back in the book of Genesis, after Adam and Eve had sinned, God comes into the garden and says, where are you? Where are you? And ever since then, God has been seeking sinners, seeking the lost. In one of the most beautiful Old Testament texts, Ezekiel quotes God saying this, I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken, and strengthen the sick. …
… I will give back four times as much. And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house because he too is the son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. Now here is a simple incident in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ on his way through Jericho to Jerusalem and within just about a week or so he's going to the cross. But he takes the time to recognize and to serve someone else. I want you to jot down five words. The first word in the requirements for servanthood, if I'm going to learn to be a servant, the word number one, awareness. Awareness is the key word. Now listen to what happened here. The Bible says that Jesus was passing along through Jericho and there were crowds all alongside the street they'd heard he was coming. The streets are lined up and there's a fellow there by the name of Zacchaeus who is a tax collector. Now, a man who was a tax collector in those days among the people of Israel was considered a traitor to the cause of his own people. So here he is, the chief tax collector. He's the administrator. He has other people working under him. And besides that, he's known as a thief. People don't like him. They've rejected him. He doesn't have any friends. When the street. He felt all kinds of rejection. Why do you think he had to climb a tree to see Jesus? …