How Jesus Changes People | Luke: Season 2, Part 4
February 12, 2023 / Crosstown Alliance ChurchLuke Season 2, pt 4 – “How Jesus Changes People”
What does it mean for someone to be lost?
These are people who search for in STUFF, only to be left feeling because they are looking in the .
Luke 19:1-10
He entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature. 4 So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully. 7 And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” 8 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.” 9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Zacchaeus…
a guy everyone loved to hate
Zacchaeus was a wee little man
And a wee little man was he
He climbed up in a sycamore tree
For the Lord he wanted to see
And when the Savior passed that way
He looked up in the tree
And said, ‘Zacchaeus, you come down!
For I’m going to your house today!
For I’m going to your house today!’
How does Jesus relate and change lost people?
1. Jesus the lost
Luke 19:5a
And when Jesus came to the place, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
“, hurry and come down….”
Jesus not only knows us by name but calls us by name.
2. Jesus with the lost
Luke 19:5b
“Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I at your house today.”
If you want to get to know someone, .
If you really want to get to know someone, !
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it, , “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a .”
Luke 19:6b
So he hurried and came down and .
3. Jesus the lost.
Luke 19:7-8
And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” 8 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the . And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, .”
When you spend time with Jesus, .
John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that , for apart from me you can do nothing.
Jesus the lost.
Jesus with the lost.
Jesus the lost.
This is My Story…
Who you were before Jesus
How you met Jesus
How He has given your life purpose and meaning