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Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of The Way UK Podcast.

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I am your host Zoe, and I'm joined by my most delightful and lovely and wonderful co-hosts.

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Solomon.

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And Michelle, hey guys, there it is.

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Hey guys, welcome back.

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And today we're diving into our four-part series where we're looking at the people that

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Jesus encountered.

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Yep.

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This is episode two today, and we're going to be looking at the story of Zakiya, someone

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now, the tax collector, which is in...

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Luke 19.

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Versus.

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Out of ten.

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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So, if you've got your Bibles, flip them open to that.

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That's right, what did you say?

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No, good.

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Okay, continue.

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And let's get into the Bible study, rather credits.

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Okay, Solomon.

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Yes.

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What translation are you reading?

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I'm reading the NIV.

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Beautiful.

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Would you like to read the verses out for us?

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I would love to read my NIV translation.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through.

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A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus.

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He was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.

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He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short, he could not see over the crowd.

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So, he ran ahead and climbed a sick or more fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming

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that way.

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When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him,

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Zacchaeus, come down immediately.

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I must stay at your house today.

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So, he came down and once at once and welcomed him gladly.

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All the people saw this and began to mutter.

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He's gone to be a guest of a sinner.

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But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord,

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Lord, look, here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor.

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And if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.

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Jesus said to him, today salvation has come to this house because this man,

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too, is a son of Abraham.

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For the son of man came to seek and save the lost.

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Wow.

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There it is.

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Wow.

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Beautiful.

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Beautifully read.

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Thank you guys.

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That is awesome.

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The structure of this pod today, guys, is we're going to basically go through like two

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verses at a time so we can really dive in and, yeah, explore what there is to be found

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in the text.

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So we'll start with verses one to two, which Michelle, would you like to read them out

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again?

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And then we can get into what it's trying about.

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Jesus entered Jericho.

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I was passing through.

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And man was there by the name of Zacchaeus.

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He was a chief tax collector.

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I was wealthy.

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What's happening here?

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What do we learn?

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He's a tax collector and he's wealthy.

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There you go.

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I do think there's something to be said about Jericho itself.

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Jericho at this time was a prosperous city to say the least.

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I remember there's a, there's a theologian early, early doors theologian from the early

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centuries calls it a, a, a divine region.

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It's a place that was famous for, you know, a trade, it was a trade city.

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People would, people would know it by name, people would be coming through quite a lot.

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And with that in mind, then it's, it's a prosperous place, a lot of prosperous people.

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And it mentions Zacchaeus was himself prosperous.

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I think that means that, oh, wealthy, which I think that means that not only was this guy

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wealthy, he was very wealthy.

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To be well, Jericho wealthy is wealthy, you know, so I think that's something to note.

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There's a fat cat.

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You know?

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He's a fat cat.

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He's a fat cat.

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He's a fat cat.

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He got in mind.

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It's good.

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And tax collectors at the time were not like to people because they were basically extorting

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and defrauding their fellow Jews out of money so that they could make financial profit for

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themselves.

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So people didn't like them.

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And then they would pay that to the Roman authorities who were oppressing the Jewish

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people at the time.

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So basically, people just thought of tax collectors as like oppressors, people that were betraying,

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They're people.

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So, and this guy was a chief one.

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Top dog.

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Top dog.

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The best of both worlds.

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What a nightmare.

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What a nightmare.

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Do you do that?

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Let's move on to three versus three and four, which I will read.

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Go for it.

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Take us there.

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I've got the ESV.

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So it's slightly different, but it says, and he, being sick, he was seeking to see who

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Jesus was, but on account of the crowd, he could not because he was small in stature.

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So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sick mortuary to see him for he was about to

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pass that way.

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Jesus was about to pass that way.

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Shocking.

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Shocking.

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We actually looked out because we Michelle were curious about the average height of men

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at the time in first, like in the first century, and apparently it was like five foot one

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to five foot five.

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So we see because he's short and because of the crowd, he can't see Jesus, but as he

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is wants to see Jesus.

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So this like assumes, I don't know, the subtext is that the key is knows who Jesus is,

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that there's this guy who is a great teacher, and he wants to see him pass by.

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But what I think is interesting is that he runs ahead and climbs up into a tree.

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Both of those things for a wealthy top dog fat cat, man, sorry, that's crazy, he's

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okay.

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But this guy who has a lot of status, I guess, in Jericho, even though he's hated amongst

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the crowd is running, which is a thing that people would like bring, I guess, dishonor

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to you if you ran as a wealthy grown man, and also climbing up a tree, grown men don't

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do that in these times.

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So both of these things that Zikki is doing would have looked very foolish to the crowds

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around him and would have been very humiliating, but also it's a very natural response of Zikki's

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to want to see Jesus because I'm sure like it would have, like Jesus would have been known

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around, and like he must have caught wind of like, oh, wait, this is great profit.

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I mean, people were like calling him all sorts of different things like a profit or a blasphemer,

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but also some might have even said that he's a messiah.

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So he must have caught his attention, like, oh, ready to see who the sky is, so he's

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a messiah.

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Which other than I think begs the question, are we, I mean, because we can get a plight

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even this to our own lives, are we afraid to look silly in front of others in our pursuit

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of Jesus?

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I think that's a thought to give, I'm not saying that you're going to have to, you know,

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it's not like, you're going to have to look weird, you don't have to look weird, but I mean,

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certainly it's probably going to be a moment or two way, you might feel uncomfortable and

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be asked to do something, maybe it's out of your comfort zone.

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And also within that, for the key is that there was clearly an obstacle of seeing Jesus

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who was the crowd, and that also begs the question of what obstacles are in our way, in, like

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in seeing Jesus, so that could be sin, be pride, other things, it's a question to ask

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self.

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So good.

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Just before we move on, I just wanted to also know on the running ahead, it reminded me

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of in Luke 15, the parable of the prodigal son, and how the father runs to meet his son,

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who's come back, and how he was also, although obviously that father was representing God

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in that, in that story, but he was risking shame and dishonor from his fellow people

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by running to meet his son, but his case is risking shame and dishonor to see Jesus,

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which I thought was cool.

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I think there's a constant theme throughout the gospels of people willing to do stuff

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like that, because I mean, if you've been to any church service ever, and they talk

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about, pretty like, you know, talk about the parable of the prodigal son, you talk about

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the woman, who the woman with the issue of blood, everyone seeks Jesus and then push

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like their curiosity, I suppose it would be curiosity, or maybe grace has met them before

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the story begins when we meet them, but they always do something out of the ordinary

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to go find Jesus.

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And it comes back to the question I asked prior to this, what are we willing to go out

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of our comfort zone in our seeking of Jesus?

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And that, that's me is a question that I would like to ask myself over and over again,

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and I'll encourage you guys.

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And everyone watching home to ask themselves the same question is, what is my faith asking

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of me and am I willing to potentially, not definitely, but potentially look a fool

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for that?

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I think it's in a, it's an important thought for reflection.

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I agree.

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It's so easy to get comfortable.

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It's comfortable or just to go through the flow of things, you know, yeah, just sometimes

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you go, look, I think it's really cool that we can stop and reflect and that our faith

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asks us to reflect.

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Yeah, totally.

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Even, even no way here does it say, like, like, what is Jesus asking of you, but throughout

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throughout the scripture, we're seeing people acting away that suggests that that's something

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we should do.

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And I guess like within this, like, asking God, like, what are you, like, what do you want

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from me in this?

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It's good for sure.

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I love that.

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Five to six.

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My time to shine.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, Zacchaeus, come down immediately

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and we'll stare at your house today.

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So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.

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Oh.

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Michelle.

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Oh, I just love how Jesus called Zacchaeus by name.

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We see this throughout the Bible where God calls people by name and I just find it, like,

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so powerful because it just shows intimacy and relationship and how, like, God knows

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us.

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You know?

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And like in John 10, three, Jesus, as a shepherd, calls his own sheep by name and leads

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them out.

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He calls his by name.

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I just find it so cool.

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Like in Psalm 139, it says, like, you know, my coming, am I going?

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Like God knows us so intimately and so personally.

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And in this, like, even Jesus just saying Zacchaeus, I bet he was shot like dang, this guy knows

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my name.

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How does he know my name?

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It makes me wonder.

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His reaction that he's welcome gladly makes me wonder when was the last time someone

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was kind?

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Right.

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Right.

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And then the sad of his own mother call him his own name in a kind manner and a proud

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and a proud manner for him to come down gladly.

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And was last time Zacchaeus was honored for more than politics or money as a person as

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an individual.

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It wasn't like not to spoil anything guys, but later on the crowd are going to want me

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to read the first.

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We read it already.

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The crowd notes to his name.

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This guy sucks.

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I think it also is a picture of salvation and redemption, the grace, the divine grace

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comes to us before redemption and calls us out by name and that God makes that first

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of God and humanity throughout the Bible, right, John 316, God sent his only son, it's

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the same thing in a smaller manner that Jesus calls out to humanity before humanity makes

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He climbed a tree, you know, which made me curious, Grace, you know, we don't always

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go on with the kiss before this.

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comes to the tree, looks up, I wonder how's the kids felt in that moment?

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hurry and to come down.

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receive, like now, it's not like, oh, later, when I don't know, it basically reminded

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me of like, have you ever spoken to people and who maybe aren't Christians yet?

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I'll do it when I'm like in my middle age, like when I'm middle age, when I'm going

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to have kids, but it's like, no, actually, the invitation is to respond now.

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Jesus, because actually life with Jesus is so much better than life without, it's a

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capital L when you do it, Jesus.

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Live love.

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the tree, like a physical invitation to join with Jesus, but also Zacchaeus is having

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to lower himself.

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I was going to say this.

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He's cool to lower himself, both physically, but in his heart as well, like to come under

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to submit yourself to Jesus, you have to humble yourself to him.

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Jesus himself is the humble servant king.

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If anybody in the world did not have to be humble, it is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

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It is this guy, but he in himself is the lowly servant king, the son of suffering, who

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we see, like, called that in other verses in the Bible, but yeah, but I think it's

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really interesting how Jesus invites him to hum, like basically, I mean, I'm reading

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this as humble yourself before me, like, remove yourself from your, your high status,

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help, which we saw in the last episode when Jesus calls Peter at the shore.

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He is like, Peter, please, like, I need a practical need, it's like a practical need

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that Jesus needs to be met as he needs somewhere to stay overnight before he moves on

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into Jerusalem.

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where he is about to have the last week of his life, and he's about to be crucified.

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who, like, people didn't like, but for us today, I was just thinking, I wonder if in,

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I don't know why Jesus does this, like, asks for these guys as help, but I wonder if

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it's something to do with us being invited to be a part of God's kingdom, and us being

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invited to join in building that kingdom together with God, and how we all have a part to

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play in bringing the kingdom of God to our local areas, to our school, to our workplaces.

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Yeah, like Psalm 127 where it says, if the co-laborers labor without God, then they labor

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and fail or something like that, don't create me exactly.

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alongside him. And even Zacchaeus, this guy that nobody liked, and would have looked

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like a really greedy, I don't know, greedy, I learnt a new word the other day, greedy

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avaricious man, which basically means to desire wealth like, like, loads avaricious.

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This is a gold star. Wow, I think it's a good one.

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I'm just kidding.

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I mean, again, that's not true.

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who was not doing morally good things by literally defrauding his fellow people, then

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he can also call us who are also, I get, well, we're not tax collectors, but we're all

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sinners for all of a sudden in full shock, the glory of God.

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And I just love that. Yeah, it's so, it's so good, because like, Jesus could have easily

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been addicted to him being like, guys, you need to have this huge, I don't know, following

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because of, I don't know, the way that he would rule the world.

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They were expecting this guy who would be this militant leader, but then Jesus came.

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He's leading it in, in a servant-like way.

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in this place, where, in this way, he's saying, no, I actually need your help, but can

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I stay over at yours?

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What leader would do that? Yeah, humble, gentle, and lowly.

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That's Jesus. Yeah. Wow. Love him. Okay. Shall we, shall we read this?

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This is six. Oh, wait, sorry. Not six, seven, but seven. Amen. Okay, yeah, Michelle,

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take us there. All the people saw this and began to mutter. He's gone to be the guest

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of a sinner, but the care stood up and said to the Lord, look, Lord, here and now I give

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half of my possessions to the poor. And if I've cheated anybody out of anything, I'll

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pay back four times the amount. Wow. Wow. That was a big response. That is an immediate

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and very big response. Well, large response, large response, but I have something to say,

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say it about this verse, say it now. Once again, I think it's a picture of salvation,

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the salvation manifests itself outwardly into action. One cannot help changing the way

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they live after meeting with Jesus, truly. And Zacchaeus is a perfect example of that,

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of how Jesus, how even just a small interact with Jesus changes a person. And I would like

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to think that, yeah, inward flows outward like that. You meet with Jesus and it moves

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out into your world around you. So my question will be to the listeners, all viewers and

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my dear friends here on either side of me, how might we show the love of Jesus and show

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that we met Jesus to those around us? What does that look like? What does that look

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like to look like Jesus? I don't know. I don't know. I'm giving away all of your money.

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All of it. For Zacchaeus, yeah. Yeah. Real. Well, maybe even like stepping down from

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his tax collector role, who knows? Maybe. Well, we don't know. But I love that. And I

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think as well. He's not just a cat. He's not just a stalky cat. He's not a stalky

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cat. I'm just imagining he's not a near the top dog. Is he? I'm actually imagining like

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a fat ginger cat, little Tubby cat. Oh, sorry, Tubby cat. That's just. Tell me Tubby

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cat. We start also hating on days and love lasagna. You're thinking a gaffy. That's

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gaffy. I don't know if Zacchaeus was sassy like that. Maybe he was. I don't know. Oh, sorry.

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that is like the inward working of salvation. Oh, sorry. The outward working of the

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in which salvation happens within like, okay, Galatians 5. Love joy, peace, patience,

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kindness, goodness, goodness, gentleness and self-control. Ah, you don't need to be

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for like, we kid. We kid. Wow, women of God. Wow. But I think that's one of the,

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one of the ways that we can see like how are we treating others around us. Are we

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treatment with all of the things he just listed? And because this is the fruits of the Holy

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Spirit. Yeah. You'll know them by their fruit. Yeah. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. I think as well,

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like this is the first, this is Zacchaeus's first verbal response to Jesus. Like he's already

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done his physical coming down from the tree and receiving Jesus joyfully, welcoming him,

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gladly. But the father even says, look, Lord, he recognizes Jesus is Lord. Yes. Yes. That's

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cool. That is cool. And I think as well, it's like not only has he already actioned out the

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submitting to Jesus' like commandment come down, hurry and come down, which he does. But

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now he, he states the outward working of the inward cooling, which is I'm going to give away

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half of all my goods. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything,

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burn those he has. It feels like a whole crowd, a minute, a minute, Jesus even mentioned

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a whole crowd of living. Yeah. They were like, oh, that guy's got you custom that guy.

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And if I defrauded anyone, okay, it feels like there's this undoing of Zacchaeus.

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Do you know what you mean? Because I think like you said, when you have a real encounter or

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you meet Jesus, your life has bound to change. You're bound to like turn away from what you used to

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do. You recognize your sinful nature and you say, I need a perfect God. And in this, he's like,

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his immediate response. I'm sure just the presence of Jesus and his loving eyes looking up at him

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and seeing Zacchaeus and calling him down, he must have felt that love. Not, you know, it's his

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kindness that leads us to repentance. It's not like Jesus doesn't guilt trip us into repenting.

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He is his kindness that draws us to want to say, God, I've done these bad things. I want to turn

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away from them. And Zacchaeus felt that. I'm sure where he was like, I am a sinful man. And I

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have clearly done so many people wrong. I want to turn away from it, Jesus. Thank you. That

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you extended this grace. Like you said, he must have something must have been happening inside

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Zacchaeus before. Yeah. And it's just beautiful. He's clearly undone in the presence of Jesus,

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but he's just like, God, I'm here. Like yeah. Yeah. I love that. And I think as well, not only is he

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like changing from his ways, but he's literally doing a complete 180. Yeah. And I think it's so

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interesting how Jesus can change the stubborn greedy, avaricious, if you will.

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Heart. Into one of like complete generosity. Yeah. And like, like, what is that verse?

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It's like, God loves a joyful, cheerful giver. And it's like, this is literally what has happened

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to Zacchaeus in this really like quick encounter or meeting. And you know, like you mentioned earlier,

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everyone was kind of mad. They called his name. It's a long list of people that he's wrong,

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right? Which means that and Jesus is on his way out. He's got other things to do. Yeah.

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You know, so I like to think Zacchaeus not only had this breakthrough moment with Jesus, but then

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walked through it like longevity. There's longevity there. And I think that is a true,

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a true picture of salvation that it is not just a moment, a worship set. It's not a moment,

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a big church day out, but it's a moment that is walked through every day. You can have that big

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moment. Yeah. All to you. It's great. God calls you by name. Then there's that walk through.

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Is that I mean, for Zacchaeus, it's a long list of people that he has to talk to that Jesus

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won't see physically. Yeah. But I think that's something we can learn there as well. Yeah. Is that

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salvation is a is a long work. It's a daily task to pick up your cross. It's not just once every

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three months. It's good to worship gathering. Yeah. Yeah. That's really good. I just thought

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this was you talking like in Zacchaeus doing that and making men's with people. He's restoring

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relationships. And I was just thinking that Jesus has that effect on our lives that he

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turns bad things for good. And he does that in Zacchaeus' life, I'm sure. Like you said,

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this longevity is going to be he's going to be walking this out as he apologizes and speaks to

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people and turns away from his sinful ways and restores. I don't know. I just think that's

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really cool. Like Jesus does that in our lives where he restores and he heals and he brings

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wholeness and he makes us yeah, makes us more like him like yeah. So cool. Yeah. It's amazing.

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That's beautiful. And also like the first response we see, oh sorry, in verse seven is the

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response of the crowd who obviously say Jesus has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.

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But I think it's interesting how then in verse eight, Zacchaeus kind of pays no mind to the judgment,

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to the grumbling, to the gossiping, to the murmuring of the crowds. And actually he stays focused

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on Jesus and Zacchaeus stood. Yeah. Wait, does your version say Zacchaeus stood? Yes.

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But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, Luke, Lord. Interesting. I wonder if he was he

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sitting before or kneeling? I don't know. In the tree. In the tree. Sorry, that's really interesting.

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Yes, really. But anyways, and then he responds to God. And that just made me think in verse seven,

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we see the crowd, basically a muttering and grumbling, how Zacchaeus just gives his attention to

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Jesus and responds to God. And that kind of reminded me in our own lives or like where people might

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be saying things that are discouraging to you about your faith or might be saying things behind

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your back about your faith, like just focus on God and focus on Jesus. And that doesn't have to

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actually discourage you or distract you from your walk with God. And I feel like I know that's

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easier said than done. But I don't know. I just wanted to see that. It's an encouragement to like

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keep doing the good, keep walking, keep walking and it reminds me of a scripture where it says

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until letters fix. So letters run this race marked out for us fixing our eyes and Jesus, the

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behind him, perfect of our faith. He proves that is literally like the center of our faith.

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Like that's what I meant to do is fixing our eyes and Jesus and as we do that, all of the

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those around us will be hopefully like impacted by that, hopefully positively. Yeah, definitely.

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But I also do think there is a, and please, bring it, bring it. I think there is also a danger

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to find ourselves in our walk with God to be a man, a tree that needs to come down. And what I mean

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by that is that we can sometimes feel like we're taking the moral high ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Of course, we have this method. These guys don't know. No, rather be like Jesus on the cross,

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you're figuring out if they don't know what they're doing when he's being marked. So I think if someone,

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if someone is, is like you say, criticising your faith, you, that's just an invitation to love

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them all. That doesn't mean, and that doesn't mean, you know, kind of to like, for one of a better term,

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shoving the Bible down to someone's throat, it means showing God, showing Christ through the way

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you are with them. Yeah. Yeah. It looks like walking in humility alongside them, rather than in front

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of them like this. Yeah. It's this, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, like this. Yeah, that's so

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useful. Right. And I think that's really important is that so often we can find ourselves in a position

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of pride where we feel a bit of, and man, what a dangerous place to be. Yeah. I mean, I've just

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true moments like that where I've like looked down on somebody acting a certain way and being like,

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you don't know what you're doing. And then like being really like prideful about that. But then the

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most impactful ways of like people encountering Jesus through us is literally just relationship. And

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like it's like the outward working of the inward world is like that transforming power that Jesus

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had in us. And in our lives of that, the fruit of the spirit, love to a peace patient Chinese

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good for us gentle and self control. People look like feeling that from you when they when they

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interact with you. Yeah. Not so much of like, did you know the Bible said? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,

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I mean, I mean, maybe maybe this is a weight off some people's shoulders, but God does not need you

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to protect him. Yeah. I'm good. Speak on that. God really doesn't need you to protect you.

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Is that what is that what we do? Is that what we do? We just think about you. So I got

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this. It's a great point. Oh, great. That's fun. We're saying make no. Well, yeah, no God doesn't

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need your protection. And there's an amazing theologian. His name is Stanley Howres. I don't know

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how you say his last name, amazing theologian who says that. He says, if you feel the need to defend

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God, you're worshiping an idol. I don't know if I got that far. He's very far of him to say,

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but I don't think that needs to be really what we think about. But God doesn't need your protection.

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He doesn't need you to fight on his behalf. He is perfectly capable of

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doing that himself. And he's there to be by your side rather than be behind you. He's not

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countering behind you. Yeah. So I mean, that's good. He's mighty God. He's so capable. Yeah.

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He is mighty God. He is counsellor.

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Right. This is a way to worship time guys. I'm just kidding. Right. Final two verses.

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And then I guess we'll wrap things up. I'd love for you to read it Michelle. Okay.

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verses 9 and 10. Jesus said to him, today's salvation has come to this house because this man

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too is a son of Abram. For the son of man came to seek and to save the lost. Oh man.

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Oh man. Oh man. That's amazing. That shows the redemptive character of Christ.

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Yes. I mean, it's also sweet. The case is vindicated.

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It's a bit avenged. Avenged. I mean, I suppose he's just restored publicly to these people

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that have hated him for so long. And to be honest, that's a challenge to the people around him as

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well, who also have justifiable reasons not to like this man. Yeah. It's a challenge to everybody.

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And that is everybody everybody's having a tough time there. Yeah. They have to learn to forgive

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and you know, while he's been restored, he now has to work out in that restoration.

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I just think like the intentionality of Jesus within that is just profound. Like he did not

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need to restore Zacchaeus back into the community, but he did. And it reminds me of the woman

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with the issue of blood. Like she was restored publicly as well, because she was an outcast

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because of her issue of blood. But then Jesus literally said like, was her daughter? Yeah.

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Yeah. And and brought her back into the community. Like if unless she wouldn't have been able

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to do that herself, because she was a woman. And she like, how can you prove that you're healed?

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If you can't say anything to anyone in the community. Yeah. Like the intentionality of Jesus

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doing that for Zacchaeus is just really profound and he's so intentional. And he's in the detail.

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I just find that really cool. Yeah. It's awesome. And I think as well, like that's why he says

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today's salvation has come to this house since he also is a son of Abraham. Like that's what the

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son of Abraham means is because all of the Jewish people that Israelites were descended from

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Abraham. Yeah. So he's being Jesus is being like, guys, he is a part of your family. I know he's

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betrayed you, but he's changed now. And I love the last verse for the son of man came to seek

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and to save the lost. I just, I mean, that is actually Jesus like proclaiming his mission,

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which he's literally about to fulfill in its entirety by going to the cross and then dying and

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then resurrecting three days later. Like he's literally giving his mission statement. Yeah.

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Before he's going up to give his life for us to go and be the atoning sacrifice, which basically

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means that he pays the price of sin, which is death for us so that we don't have to pay that and

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that we can have eternal life with him and have relationship with God. And then in return was

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they have the Holy Spirit coming dwell within us. I think it's awesome. I think it's beautiful.

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And it's so beautiful because I think this must have been so offensive to the Pharisees who are

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in within that crowd. I'm sure they must have been like, who is this guy who's saying all this

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stuff? And like obviously the way that the Pharisees used to behave would be like they were

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very judgmental of people if they were like in their sin. And I just think that like Jesus is like

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so the opposite of the way that they behave. Like reminds me of Mark 2 where it says it is not the

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healthy you need a doctor, but the sick. I've not come to call the righteous, but sinners. He like

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Jesus seeks out people that are like social outcasts and sinners us. That's us. And he seeks us out.

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He wants us like I think that's just I don't know it just makes me so

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it makes me fall in love with Jesus even more. Like the fact that he

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like he could have easily judged us and pushed us to the side like you guys are so unholy you guys

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like this on to me you've hurt me. But the fact that he actually pulls us in even more because of

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that he says no you need me and I want to meet here. Like he seeks us down he pursues us to love

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us to save us to bring us freedom. Thank you Jesus. Amen. Amen. Cool. You covered it.

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You covered it. I'm with that. And I think on that note we'll wrap up the this episode right

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there. So guys thank you so much for tuning in. Thanks for tracking with us as he went through

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the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus. And make sure you stay tuned for the next one. Comment down below

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which story you think we're going to do next. We hope that you have a one for rest of your day.

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Yes, evening, night whenever you're watching this. God bless you. We love you very much.

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Go in peace to love and serve the Lord in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

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