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Oikos
To Seek and Save
Our neighborhood and how our neighbors love our kids
Oikos
God has planted us in where work, live, and play so our conversations and interactions and our relationships are not by chance
God uses our relationships as a conduit to bring Jesus Christ into other peoples lives.
Jericho was a great place to be a tax collector
Jericho being the place to be a tax collector
Zacchaeus was a very rich man.
He was the chief tax collector.
He had many men who would work under him collecting the taxes.
They would collect from the people, usually collecting more than Rome required, and bring it to Zacchaeus who would then pay Rome after he skimmed what he wanted off the top.
Tax collecting was not exactly a profession that made you popular, but it was lucrative.
What we know about Zacchaeus
· Isolated, different social class
· Has wealth, but not satisfied
· Not very popular
· Lonely, no real relationships
What Zacchaeus knew about Jesus
· Could heal blind
· Heal the sick
· Raise the dead
Zacchaeus wants someone to validate his life.
Isn’t that what we do today?
There is a huge crowd wanting to see Jesus, but Zacchaeus has a problem.
He is vertically challenged.
So he gets desperate to see Jesus.
To just catch a glimpse of this prophet, this man who can change his life, give him some purpose.
So He sees a Sycamore tree.
Now I don’t know when the last time you climbed a tree, but that is not normally what grown adults do right.
Can you imagine all of us men 40 and older out in front of the church trying to climb a tree?
People would think we were insane.
But this is how desperate Zacchaeus was.
So he climbs up in the tree.
Now the opinion that people had of Zacchaeus was not that great already, and now they can see him climbing up a tree.
This will not exactly improve his social standing.
But he doesn’t care.
He must see Jesus.
He was so desperate and isolated and lonely that he didn’t care.
He didn’t care about his pride, or what other people would think of him.
So he scurries of the tree like a little child into the tree.
This brings to mind the previous chapter
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Luke 18:
Explain the verse
Jesus is always looking for people with a child like faith.
People who don’t care what other people think, and are willing to be humble and just want to see Jesus.
Not that we are to act childish in our faith.
The most spiritually mature person can have the faith of a child.
Luke tells us that Jesus looks up and sees Zacchaeus and says to him
Could you imagine the surprise on Zacchaeus’ face.
He never even thought that Jesus would notice him, let alone talk to him and want to spend the day with him.
So Zacchaeus quickly came down and joyfully went home to his house with Jesus.
Now of course all of those who did not like the little man were indignant.
They already have a low opinion of Zacchaeus and now Jesus is at his house.
And they wonder if Jesus realizes who He is spending time with.
Could you imagine the surprise on Zacchaeus’ face.
He never even thought that Jesus would notice him, let alone talk to him and want to spend the day with him.
Could you imagine Zacchaeus say, “Me?
You want to eat with me?”It is a wonder he didn’t fall out of the tree.
Jesus bypassed all the “religious” people to get to a little man who everyone obviously knew was a sinner.
Now of course all of those who did not like the little man were indignant.
They already have a low opinion of Zacchaeus and now Jesus is at his house.
And they wonder if Jesus realizes who He is spending time with.
Now of course all of those who did not like the little man were indignant.
They already have a low opinion of Zacchaeus and now Jesus is at his house.
And they wonder if Jesus realizes who He is spending time with.
Zacchaeus is a sinner.
In the Bible a sinner is someone who missed the mark.
A sinner missed the mark of God’s glory.
He is God we are not.
And sin is anything, any action, behavior, attitude that separates us from God.
Now today if at the end of the service today I came up and said, “Hey, I am coming to your house today for lunch.”
You would probably be whoa, didn’t see that one coming.
Not sure that would be such a good idea.
Could you imagine Zacchaeus say, “Me?
You want to eat with me?”It is a wonder he didn’t fall out of the tree.
Jesus bypassed all the “religious” people to get to a little man who everyone obviously knew was a sinner.
Jesus isn’t asking, He is telling, but in that day it was not unusual for this to happen.
And this wasn’t just a quick one hour meal.
This would have been a long 3-4 hour process and you would invite all of your friends to come and eat and fellowship with your honored guest.
But Zacchaeus does not have any friends, so probably these people who were in the crowd as Jesus entered Jericho just followed along to Zacchaeus’ house.
Probably thinking that Jesus was going to realize who he was eating with and put Zacchaeus in his place.
Right?
Don’t we always like to see people get what they deserve?
Now Zacchaeus was probably thinking, “You guys don’t like me.
You judge me, You treat me badly and talk behind my back, and now you want to come and each my hors d’orves and watch Jesus and me eat, and you don’t even care about me.
But Jesus comes to his house.
Jesus once said, “birds have nest, and foxes have holes, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
Jesus did not have a house, or a headquarters that he did his ministry out of.
He was always on the move to where ever God led Him.
He is on His way to Jerusalem to die, to be crucified for the sins of Zacchaeus, for the people of Israel, for everyone who has lived, and for us today.
So we use this word Oikos, to describe the people who are in your sphere of influence.
For some it is walking out to the end of your driveway and looking around at who is around you.
It may be the people in your office.
You are always in an Oikos where ever God has planted you.
Jesus knew that where ever God led Him, while He was there, that was His Oikos.
Jesus’ Oikos changed every time He entered a new town or village.
There was a reason God wanted Him there.
God wanted Jesus to build a relationship with the people in His Oikos.
And there is a reason God has planted you on your street, or in your office, or in your family.
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