Participants: Mark Duarte
Series Code: FC
Program Code: FC000279
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00:30 Hello and welcome again to Faith Chapel.
00:33 My name is Pastor Mark Duarte and our message today 00:37 is entitled "Little Big Man," nothing to do with the film. 00:41 Before we begin would you join me for a word of prayer? 00:45 Heavenly Father, we thank You so much 00:48 for the freedom that we have to study Your word, 00:52 to own a copy of Your word, to pray and to seek You 00:57 without surrounding persecutions for the most part. 01:00 We thank You God that You send Your Holy Spirit 01:03 to help us to understand the things in Your word. 01:06 And as we study it today 01:08 we pray that we may not only understand 01:10 but that it may become and living an active part 01:13 of each of our lives. 01:14 For we ask it in Jesus name, amen. 01:19 Don't you think it's hard to like "mean people." 01:23 Yeah, dishonest people at best make you uncomfortable. 01:29 People who're in the habit of using foul language 01:32 they are very unpleasant to be around. 01:36 Selfish people, they tend to drain ones energy. 01:41 And people who abuse or control 01:45 or manipulate others often have very few friends 01:48 unless their friends are just like them. 01:50 Well, you know, there was a man in the Bible 01:53 whose name was Zacchaeus, 01:54 who was probably a little of all the above. 01:58 You'd to be that type of person 02:01 really to be a tax collector in that day. 02:05 Really you had to sell out if you were a Jew 02:07 and a tax collector. 02:09 You had to sell out in your culture 02:10 and to much extent your faith in God 02:14 as a practicing Jew and a practitioner of Judaism, 02:18 to join the forces of the occupying Roman Empire 02:22 and be a collector of taxes for them. 02:26 Now, there may be someone who's watching 02:28 who works in a tax office or does something like that 02:31 but even you know, 02:32 people are not really excited about taxes, 02:35 paying them or having to pay or to do or so forth. 02:38 Well, it wasn't any different in those days, 02:40 perhaps, even worse 02:41 because Roman armies could come through 02:43 and in whole district to collect taxes fore seizure 02:46 and you had to give, you had to pay or else-- 02:50 And the "or else" had lot more to do 02:52 then a court case and making extension 02:54 as we sometimes do with our income taxes 02:57 it had to do with-- 02:59 and the story we want to look at today is 03:01 found in the Gospel of Luke Chapter 19. 03:05 And there through-- 03:07 all the way through the tenth verse is that 03:09 but we want to begin by reading the 1st verse 03:11 of Luke Chapter 19 and it says, 03:15 "Then Jesus entered and passed through Jericho." 03:22 "Jericho" does that sound familiar to you? 03:27 Seems to me there was a town way back 03:29 and there is a song 03:30 "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho." 03:32 Yeah, he did fight it. 03:33 And that's the same name and really Joshua is too 03:38 because you see Joshua was the Old Testament 03:40 or Hebrew version of the name Jesus 03:44 which comes through the Greek. 03:46 But first Joshua fought a battle 03:48 and walls came tumbling down. 03:51 He had walls to deal with. 03:53 The second Joshua, the second Jesus if you will, 03:56 also had a battle of walls to fight. 04:00 There were walls that had to be brought down in His day. 04:03 Both of them had a connection with the Jericho, 04:05 town by the same name. 04:07 Both Jesus and Joshua and you know, 04:10 Christians today have to do-- 04:12 have to deal with some of those same walls. 04:14 We're not talking about stone or brick walls, 04:17 we're talking about walls that have to do that are being built 04:21 and that are set up in human hearts. 04:23 Walls of things like prejudice, walls of racism, 04:28 fear, hatred, anxiety, walls of spiritual darkness. 04:34 But when the love of God surrounds people, 04:38 when Jesus entered 04:40 just as Joshua and the children of Israel 04:42 went round and round 04:43 until the walls came tumbling down. 04:45 When Jesus entered the town as Jesus in this story 04:48 pass through Jericho walls come down. 04:52 What kind of walls are you talking about? 04:54 Well, some of the ones I just mentioned 04:55 as we'll see as the story proceeds. 04:57 Jesus will bring down personal walls of sin 05:02 that stand between us, 05:04 between Him, between our friends, 05:07 our family members, our loved ones, our children, 05:09 our parents back and forth, walls, 05:11 you see that's the devils strategy. 05:14 Build walls between people, 05:16 break and cut and harm those relationships 05:18 and especially build walls between people and God. 05:23 Verse 2 of Luke Chapter 19. 05:27 We read these words Luke 19:2, "Now behold, 05:31 there was a man named Zacchaeus 05:34 who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich." 05:41 Zacchaeus was not only a tax collector, 05:44 he was chief tax collector. 05:47 Now, none of us lived back in that time 05:49 and the best we can do is 05:51 whatever is recorded in history or in biblical commentators 05:54 and so forth we kind of put together the picture 05:56 but being a tax collector if that wasn't bad enough 05:59 for being the chief tax collector 06:01 he wasn't even able to make an excise to his fellow Jews, 06:04 "well, do you see they make me do it." 06:05 You are the chief, how can they make you do that? 06:07 And not only wasn't the chief he was a rich 06:10 as a result of being a chief tax collector. 06:15 Where did all that money come from? 06:17 From cheating. 06:19 Remember earlier we talked about the uncomfortableness 06:22 we have around dishonest people. 06:24 I mean would you lend your car and give the keys to someone 06:27 that you know is a dishonest person 06:30 and that you know has a history of car theft. 06:33 Well, you'd have to have some pretty 06:35 interesting circumstances to do that. 06:37 But then normally we wouldn't. Would we? 06:40 Chief tax collector, 06:41 he had the authority of Rome and the power of Rome, 06:45 the Roman Empire which rule that part of the world 06:48 at that time in history. 06:49 People knew who Zacchaeus was. 06:52 He had the things 06:54 really that so many people are spending the time 06:56 and their effort even going through 06:59 years of difficult studying college 07:01 to get a name and a degree 07:02 so that they can have a position 07:04 which enables them to financially have those things 07:09 which Zacchaeus had all of them. 07:12 The money, the power, the influence, the prestige-- 07:16 yeah, there's a lot of people didn't like him. 07:17 But "hey, who cares about them 07:18 I'm in Flynn with the good group." 07:21 Is that the purpose that some have in life? 07:23 Well, if it is then you probably just like Zacchaeus. 07:27 All of the outside stuff was there 07:29 but the heart was empty. 07:32 The heart was empty and cold. 07:35 Some persons may feel that they're too intelligent 07:38 or I'm satisfied, no thank you 07:41 I don't need God or may be you may feel that 07:44 you're a kind of chief sinner in your own way-- 07:49 a chief sinner. 07:50 We may feel that we are too bad to save, 07:54 how is it possible? 07:55 But even Paul was saved 07:59 and even he considering rightly in his own way 08:02 had something interesting to say 08:04 which we find in the letter of Timothy. 08:07 First Timothy and in 1 Timothy letter 1:15, 08:12 Paul says this, 08:14 "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, 08:18 that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, 08:21 of whom I am chief." 08:27 "Chief of sinners though I be, Jesus shed His blood for me," 08:33 one hymn says. 08:35 Well, Zacchaeus, he may have known he was a sinner 08:38 but there was some stifled conviction there, 08:40 some conscience in the background 08:42 on a back shelves. 08:43 He became rich at the expense of others 08:45 and continued to do so. 08:47 You see, riches are not a bad thing. 08:50 It is God the Bible says who gives power to get wealth. 08:54 And but He gives power to get wealth 08:56 rightly not at the expense of others. 08:59 So there's nothing evil about being rich, 09:01 the Bible says that it is the love of money 09:04 that becomes a problem. 09:05 And that's in the same book that we just read from 09:08 over there in 1 Timothy. 09:10 Only now, we want to look at chapter 6:10 of chapter 6, 09:15 we find these words, 09:16 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, 09:22 for which some have strayed from the faith 09:24 in their greediness, 09:26 and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 09:31 You see, riches those of us 09:33 who don't have it may look appealing 09:36 and if I could only be like that, 09:38 if I could only have what they have then I would be happy. 09:41 And of course, I'd give a lot to the church too. 09:43 Would you? I've often has to be-- 09:46 Just the other day one of my own son said, 09:48 "What would you do if you won the state lottery?" 09:50 I said, well, first of all I wouldn't 09:52 play the state lottery. 09:53 "Well, what if you did? 09:54 What if somebody gave you, you find a ticket 09:55 and you won, what would you do with the money?" 09:58 And I said, "well, you know, 09:59 I don't know have to think about that." 10:01 That is money that in some respects as ill-gotten gained, 10:05 is it really mine? 10:07 How would I use it, how would you use it? 10:08 But that's beside the point. 10:10 This man knew what he did with his own money 10:13 and he became rich on that and really the plight, 10:17 the problem of the so called advanced modern society toady 10:22 the society that you and I were part of 10:24 is we think we are rich and increased with goods 10:27 as it says in Revelation 3:17. 10:32 And let's read that together. Revelation 3:17. 10:36 "Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, 10:40 and have need of nothing' 10:42 and do not know that you are wretched, 10:44 miserable, poor, blind, and naked." 10:50 Wow. What a commentary? 10:52 Think about that, 10:53 you think you are rich and have need of nothing, 10:55 no thank you I'm satisfied, 10:57 I don't get-- need to check that right 10:58 you one out one spiritually in the same way. 11:01 Spiritually the same it says, 11:03 you've become wealthy and have need of nothing. 11:06 How many of us only need drive a few miles 11:09 to find a bookstore with Christian literature, 11:12 Christian museum or if it's too far away you can go online 11:15 and just search up one of the websites 11:18 that sells all kinds of interesting thing. 11:20 Right at the fingertips free, 11:22 I myself I own several version of Bible maybe too many. 11:26 We have all of this wealth 11:27 and we have sermons and we have broadcasts like this, 11:30 we have radio, we have television 11:32 so many other things. 11:33 A wealth of spiritual things 11:35 and yet had they made a difference? 11:39 Had they made a difference? 11:40 It's not just the physical in which 11:43 this society considers itself to be rich 11:47 but often times even in the spiritual 11:50 and thinking that riches are found 11:52 in the form of these very strange 11:54 and exotic type religions and philosophies 11:56 but it says without really knowing that you are wretched, 12:00 pitiful, miserable, blind and naked all of these 12:04 and then he counsels them to buy the gold, 12:06 tried in the fire, all those good things 12:08 which will change the situation for that person. 12:11 But we need to go back to Luke now 12:12 and look at verse 3 of chapter 19, verse 3, 12:18 "And he sought to see who Jesus was, 12:20 but could not because of the crowd, 12:24 for he was of short stature." 12:28 Zacchaeus became famous in the history of the Bible 12:32 and Christianity for being the short guy. 12:35 He was a big shot in his work and in the eyes of his cohorts 12:40 but really spiritually he was a midget 12:43 and thus the title "Little Big Man." 12:49 There are many big people who are spiritual midgets, 12:54 their growth has been stunted so they can't see Christ 12:58 but whoever wants to see Christ can't see Him. 13:02 It's often the case as we read in this scripture 13:04 that those who want to see Christ 13:06 and have the desire to see Him 13:08 and to understand are prevented 13:10 from seeing Him because of the crowd. 13:13 The crowd, what's the crowd? It's a group of people. 13:15 People, sometimes even those closest to us 13:19 get in the way unknowingly sometimes 13:22 and block our sight and block our experience 13:27 and if that is your experience take courage, friend. 13:30 Look at the experience of Zacchaeus and don't give up. 13:35 Don't give up, lets go on 13:36 and read verse 4 of the same chapter Luke 19:4, 13:41 "So he ran ahead and climbed 13:43 into a sycamore tree to see Him, 13:46 for He was going to pass the way." 13:49 Zacchaeus, you see, ran ahead of the crowd. 13:52 He didn't run with the crowd, 13:54 in fact, crowd wasn't running 13:55 they were walking taking their sweet time 13:57 it was difficult to Jesus to, 13:59 for Jesus to pass through some of the villages 14:01 because so many people would come to hear him. 14:03 Sometimes the Bible says, 14:05 He couldn't even enter the village. 14:06 They came outside because the crowds were so large. 14:08 So as they're gradually 14:10 and slowly making their way along Zacchaeus says, 14:13 "I want to see Him and I see the crowd 14:15 where people standing there and looking." 14:16 And he comes up, "excuse me" 14:17 and they're looking see who it is 14:18 and moved shoulder to shoulder and he comes on the other side 14:20 and he tried to look through the legs 14:22 and they close those up. 14:25 No where they're gonna let him see, 14:26 "this tax collector, this chief tax collector." 14:29 And they're in the crowd Jesus is walking in the middle 14:32 and over the heads of the others 14:33 you see Zacchaeus perhaps, 14:34 jumping up and down trying to see, 14:36 it didn't work because of the crowd. 14:39 So it says he went ahead of the crowd, smart move. 14:45 "And he climbed a sycamore tree." 14:48 Now, if you ever climbed a tree 14:50 you know there are certain things that you have to do 14:52 and there are certain things that you never do. 14:54 What you have to do is drop what you are holding. 14:57 You need both hands to climb a tree. 14:59 So, he had to have his free 15:01 in order to climb to get a higher more, 15:04 a loftier view to see Jesus. 15:06 There is meaning there. 15:08 And some of things that you never do in climbing a tree, 15:11 ladies will know about that, 15:13 you don't climb a tree wearing a skirt. 15:16 Well, in these days there were robes, did he care? 15:20 Obviously not. 15:21 He was not self conscious he only had one focus, 15:24 one desire, one thing that was totally consuming him, 15:28 "I've got to see who this Jesus is." 15:31 Because he realized the emptiness in his heart 15:34 nothing else had satisfied him, "could it be the rumors 15:37 that I've heard about this man, could it be?" 15:39 You know I believe Jesus went through 15:41 Jericho that day specifically and just for Zacchaeus. 15:47 You read the story, 15:48 after that happened next place just for Zacchaeus 15:52 that's how important you and I are. 15:54 I mean when we look at ourselves 15:56 if you looked at your finger prints 15:57 recently put something black 16:00 and your read and put it on the paper 16:02 and look at that and realize 16:04 there's nobody else in the world 16:05 who has that finger print. 16:07 Just as unique or even more unique than a snowflake. 16:12 We are unique and we are special to God whoever we are. 16:17 And so Zacchaeus climbs this tree 16:18 goes out on a limb so to speak, he had to have a higher view. 16:23 He left the low lands of earth to beaten track 16:25 where everybody else was 16:26 and he had to climb in order to see 16:29 and we, you and I, we need higher goals, 16:32 a higher standard, higher expectations 16:35 if we would have a clearer view of Jesus. 16:37 Does the Bible say that? 16:39 Well, lets look and see in Colossians 3, 16:43 Paul's letter to the Colossians in chapter 3 of that book 16:47 and we want to read verses 1, 2 of Colossians 3 16:51 and I'm turning there in my Bible Colossians 3:1, 2. 16:57 "If then you were raised with Christ, 17:00 seek those things which are above, 17:02 where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 17:05 Set your mind on things above, not on things on earth. 17:09 For you died and your life is hidden with God in Christ, 17:13 with Christ in God." 17:15 Set your mind on things above, 17:18 things above and that's what Zacchaeus said he got up 17:21 and so here he is in this tree 17:22 and I see the crowd coming towards Him. 17:24 There slowly painstakingly making way 17:27 and He is looking and He says, 17:28 "okay, oh, there that looks like 17:29 the center of the group there 17:31 and that must be Jesus, that's got to be Him. 17:34 Yeah, I'm sure that's Him." 17:36 And then scattered through out there 17:38 kind of in the inner circle are the disciples of the Christ 17:41 and the group continues to move forward 17:43 and continues to move forward and he realizes, 17:46 "wow, do I have a front row seat, nobody even knows 17:49 I'm up here all the others-- hey, I'm pretty smart, ain't I? 17:53 Up here in this tree." 17:54 And the crowd continues to move and move 17:56 and all of a sudden they stop right under the tree. 18:00 And then He thinks, "wow, may be He's gonna preach now. 18:04 Not only do I have an excellent view 18:06 I can hear perfectly up here." 18:08 And the crowd stops and the people are wondering 18:10 what's going on perhaps, 18:11 they're even wondering is Jesus going to preach now. 18:14 And suddenly something almost horrifying happens 18:18 the Lord turns His gaze upwards into the tree. 18:22 Now, have you ever done that little thing in public 18:24 where you know on a crowded street you stand there 18:26 and you look up and just wondering 18:28 how many other people are gonna pass by 18:29 and look at you and look up 18:31 and see what you're looking at up there. 18:32 You ever done that? 18:33 Or have you seen someone else looking up 18:35 and you look up to see what they're looking at? 18:38 Normally all the gaze turns up 18:40 and there is Zacchaeus in the tree. 18:43 This chief tax collector, 18:45 this rich man with the authority 18:47 of Rome sitting up in the tree 18:49 and if I were him I would have immediately checked my robe 18:52 be sure the thing is closed and the Lord looks up at him 18:56 and they make eye contact, 18:59 "He's looking at me. He's looking at me." 19:02 Well, lets go on and read verse 5 of Luke Chapter 19. 19:07 "And when Jesus came to the place, 19:09 He looked up and saw him and said to him, 19:12 'Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, 19:16 for today I must stay at your house.'" 19:20 I almost hear Jesus looking at this curious short man 19:25 sitting up in the tree and He Says, 19:27 "Zacchaeus" how do you his name? Interesting. 19:32 That's why I believe He came there 19:34 especially for "Zacchaeus, make haste, hurry up 19:38 and come down because today 19:40 I just have to stay at your house." 19:42 I mean, "hey, you are a character 19:44 but you are really a character. 19:46 Come down and I must stay at your house. 19:48 In the midst of all of those people." 19:50 Jesus knows Zacchaeus was on that tree. 19:53 And He longed for a better life and for peace of mind 19:57 Jesus knew what was in his heart. 19:59 And when Jesus stopped in that spot it was no accident 20:03 I don't believe in accidents, in fate and blind chants. 20:07 The Lord is guiding in the affairs of this world 20:11 and what may seem like chance to us like, 20:13 "whoa, how could God would have known about that? 20:15 What about this?" Things that He allows, definitely. 20:18 Things that He works most definitely. 20:21 All things work together for the good to them that love Him 20:24 and who're called accordingly His purpose 20:26 the scriptures tell us. 20:27 So, Jesus stopping under that tree was not an accident 20:31 it was for the saving of Zacchaeus 20:33 and for his house and Jesus said 20:35 "I must stay at your house today, 20:38 not tomorrow, not next week but today." 20:41 And you know, from that moment on 20:43 Jesus had a place in Zacchaeus's heart 20:47 and in Zacchaeus's home forever more. 20:51 He began on that day a new walk becoming a new man 20:56 and He wants to come into all of our homes 20:59 and in all of our hearts too. 21:02 Just think for a moment whatever problems 21:05 you may be having in your life 21:07 or in your home whatever challenges, 21:08 a spouse, a child or someone else, 21:11 have you asked the Lord to take that problem? 21:13 Have you asked for His guidance? 21:15 And if you have asked Him to show, 21:16 what percent of the problem is being caused by yourself 21:20 and how you can make a difference? 21:23 I remember vaguely a story of a wife 21:26 who was in tears talking to a minister about her husband 21:29 who was a big problem and abuser in the home 21:32 and wishing that she had a new husband. 21:35 And the preacher saying something to the fact, 21:37 well, the best way to have a new husband 21:38 is to give him a new wife. 21:41 Makes a lot of sense or vice versa 21:43 the best way to have a new wife is to give her a new husband. 21:48 Revelation 3:20, we read these 21:51 very, very important words in Revelation 3:20. 21:57 Words of Jesus and He says, 22:01 "Behold or look I stand at the door and knock. 22:05 If any one hears My voice and opens the door, 22:09 I will come in to him, and dine with him, 22:13 and he with Me." 22:17 Have you heard the voice? The knock at the door. 22:20 Have you opened the door? 22:21 "I must stay at your house today" Jesus said. 22:24 And going on in Luke 19:6. 22:27 "So he" that is Zacchaeus, 22:28 "he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully." 22:33 You see, it's important to do what the Lord says 22:36 when He says to do it, "make haste and come down." 22:38 "Well, not with all these people watching here." 22:40 "Hurry up and come down there." 22:42 He made haste and came down and received Him joyfully. 22:45 There is a difference happening being born in his life. 22:49 Being in the tree and then being called down was certainly 22:51 some what of a humbling experience for Zacchaeus 22:54 but he received Jesus gladly and with joy, 22:57 the joy that is only born 22:59 from knowing personally who Jesus is. 23:03 And from walking from and knowing 23:04 what He does in each of our lives. 23:07 A few minutes earlier 23:08 he had been the most miserable man in town-- 23:12 where Jesus is, there is joy. 23:15 And so I ask you sincerely have you received Jesus? 23:20 Have you taken His invitation knocking at the door 23:24 and have you opened the door, 23:25 one artist drew-- painted a picture of Christ 23:29 standing at the door and knocking 23:31 you may remember you may have seen it. 23:33 And there is a doorknob only on the inside of the door, 23:36 no doorknob on the outside. 23:37 He doesn't come in, 23:38 have an interesting thing in the culture of Japan 23:41 which is perfectly normal. 23:43 If you leave your door unlocked 23:45 because in the old days most doors 23:46 there were sliding doors took a little getting used to it 23:50 in my time of living there in Japan 23:52 I used to warn the voluntary missionaries 23:54 who came in, be sure you lock your door. Why? 23:57 Japan is not a dangerous country, is it? 24:00 And I say, well, it's not what I'm talking about 24:03 because the custom is to open the door step in 24:06 and then announce that you are there saying, 24:07 excuse me please in Japanese. 24:09 Knocking, no knocking just walking in and 'gomen kudasai' 24:13 they say in Japanese very polite. 24:15 But if you happen to be in a straight line of sight there 24:18 and partial undress you got an interesting situation. 24:24 So you keep the door locked 24:26 but you have to open the door here in America, 24:29 don't we when someone knocks 24:30 and let them in or keep it chained for somebody 24:33 they don't but don't chain the door, 24:35 don't chain the door when Christ is knocking 24:37 open it and let Him in. 24:39 And verse 7 goes on to say Luke 19:7, 24:43 "But when they," that is the crowd the people, 24:45 "when they saw it, they all complained, saying, 24:48 'He has gone to be a guest of a man who is a sinner.'" 24:52 You know, that one verse right there is a gospel in miniature. 24:56 He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner? 25:00 That's good news, thank God 25:02 that He goes to be the guest of people men and women 25:05 who are sinners if not what hope would we have. 25:08 What hope would we have? 25:10 And then verse 8, 25:12 "Then Zacchaeus stood and said to Him, 25:14 'Lord, look, I give half of my goods to the poor 25:16 and if I have taken anything from anyone 25:18 by false accusation, I restore fourfold.'" 25:23 And we should go on to read also in verses 9 and 10 25:27 "And Jesus said to him, 25:28 'Today salvation has come to this house, 25:32 because he also is a son of Abraham 25:34 for the Son of Man has come to seek 25:36 and save that which was lost.'" 25:41 True repentance and true conversation 25:46 happened in Zacchaeus's life. 25:48 What's the evidence of that? 25:49 What he said, if I have defrauded anyone 25:52 I restore to Him 25:53 and not just once but several times over 25:55 and if I have taken anything by that you know-- 25:57 he made the wrongs right showing that he had repented. 26:02 Of course, the people no doubt 26:04 were very, very happy about that. 26:05 And I can see the Lord standing 26:07 with a very pleasant smile on His face 26:09 seeing once again the grace of God at work 26:12 in this man's life. 26:14 And then finally what He said there, 26:16 the people were still-- 26:17 he's going to be guest of a man who say, 26:18 He said "salvation has come to this house 26:21 for he too is a Son of Abraham." 26:24 And what we read in verse 10 earlier, 26:26 the Son of Man has come to seek 26:30 and to save that which was lost. 26:35 Interesting words that Jesus did not say 26:38 He came to save that which is lost but that which was. 26:43 In the case of Zacchaeus before Christ entered the town 26:47 he was a lost man without a hope in this life 26:50 or without a hope for the next 26:52 but when Jesus did pass, 26:54 when Jesus did come and call him down from the tree by name 26:59 and say I must go to your house. 27:01 Didn't He even preach just I must to go to your-- 27:03 I mean you're not embarrassed to spend time with me? 27:06 No. You love me that much? Yes. 27:09 You care about me that much? Hmm. 27:12 I'm a new man and he was a new man 27:15 and no longer was he lost 27:17 but he was saved that which was lost. 27:21 Zacchaeus experience has been the experience of people 27:24 throughout history for thousands of years 27:27 and it can be your experience and my experience. 27:31 Wherever we are at this moment doesn't have to remain the same 27:34 if we're separated from God. 27:37 We don't have to climb trees to do it. 27:39 All we need to do is to say, 27:40 "Lord, here I am would You come into my heart, into my house?" 27:46 And you know, He will. 27:48 And He will stay with you both now and for eternity. 27:52 Praise the Lord. And may God bless you. |
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