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Main Point
Just like Christ, seek those others are avoiding.
Seek those others are avoiding.
Introduction connection to the series
I love this.
One of the dangers of being in higher Christian education is that you can forget your first love and the mission of the church: to make disciples.
We can get caught up with all the books we haven’t read and debates we’re ignorant of that we can find ourselves after many years and realize that we haven’t made any disciples!
That must not be the case for us at Bethlehem.
So I’m so glad to play a little part in this.
Let’s pray
Seeking to see who Jesus was
Luke provides a beautiful literary contrast between this event and the blind man’s healing.
In 18:35–43 a blind man cries for help to see, while here a short man must work his way up the tree to see Jesus (Fitzmyer 1985: 1222).
Jesus meets the needs of both, although in each case people try to stop them or complain about Jesus’ attention to them.
Zacchaeus is an example of someone longing to see Jesus, just as the blind man did, but there is a difference in their stories: where the blind man had to cry out to get Jesus’ attention, here Jesus takes the initiative.
Zacchaeus gets more than he bargained for in trying to see Jesus.
The story of the blind man pictured faith, while the Zacchaeus story pictures Jesus’ initiative to save the lost (19:10).
Jericho was where an unlikely prostitute found redemption.
Jerico
Zaccheus was a chief tax collector
Luke provides a beautiful literary contrast between this event and the blind man’s healing.
In 18:35–43 a blind man cries for help to see, while here a short man must work his way up the tree to see Jesus
Zaccheus was a chief tax collector
What were tax collectors like?
Lk 19:11
It would be as if, under an extraordinary turn of events, North Korea took over our country and needed local tax collectors to be able to support their regime.
And let’s just say that one dear teacher of ours volunteered to work for them.
And he didn’t just take what was “owed” to the regime, he required extra to line his own pockets.
And he would use his position of power to threaten and abuse us to get his way.
He became so good at this that he was elevated as a chief tax collector.”
You don’t need to read a historical background book to know this.
Start off with who Zaccheus was by going to the end
To be able to give half his goods to the poor and to restore fourfold to anyone he defrauded indicates he had immense wealth and he was really really good at his job.
Seeking to see who Jesus was
So Zaccheus is a cheat and a thief.
Not like Robinhood, but the opposite.
The people hate him and despise him.
He wasn’t good he was just interested
And he probably knows this and so he doubles-down into his treachery.
If he’s going to be bad, he’s going to be the worse.
When I first learned about Zaccheus, it was in the beginner’s Bible.
And so he was this chubby man with a smile and a money bag.
I wish there was someone who could be my Lord...
I grew up in a Korean church so I didn’t learn all the children’s Bible songs.
But recently I learned a song about Zaccheus.
The song misses it.
Lk 19:3
Seeking to see who Jesus was
Instead of Zaccheus was a wee little man.
It should say, Zaccheus was a terrible man.
A terrible man was he.”
Lk
Salvation has come to the
No, he was a man that recked homes.
He was a ruthless detestable traitor
Seeking to see who Jesus was
He wasn’t good he was just interested
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I wish there was someone who could be my Lord...
There was probably an audible gasp and ever person’s jaw dropped to the ground.
You better believe the entire crowd’s jaw jo
No introduction.
No conversation.
He knew His name!
Jesus knew his heart.
Knew Zaccheus better than anyone else, even Zaccheus.
His house!
Wow!?
We know this is a big deal because two verse down.
Wow, who is like our Savior!?
‘He has gone in to spend time with a sinner’ will soon change to ‘He has gone out to die with the brigands’; and the same reason will underlie both.
The son of man has come to seek and save the lost.
Lk 19:
For the first time in a long time, someone receives Zaccheus.
We need to be careful not to judge these people.
Zaccheus was no harmless person that they are biased towards without warranted.
They’re not just stereotyping him.
THey’ve been hurt by him, deeply wronged by their own kin.
So there are multiple layers of offense that is understandable.
Zaccheus is demonstrating
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Contrasted with the rich ruler,
LK 18:
Money measures your treasure.
And Zaccheus is showing that his new treasure is Jesus.
Note, Jesus doesn’t ask all of him like he did of the rich young ruler.
He doesn’t have to.
HIs point is to get to the heart.
And without addressing money, Zaccheus volunteers his money.
Jesus is fulfilling,
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Jesus responds with this,
Also a son of Abraham could be restoring his lineage since he forsook it.
But Jesus is teaching that its not based off of blood or past conduct, but by faith.
Jesus came for people like this.
On the other hand, it may mean that “a Jew, even though he has become one of the ‘lost sheep of the house of Israel,’ is still a part of Israel; the good Shepherd must seek for such” (Marshall, 698).
Why son of man here?
Throughout the gospels, Jesus is repeatedly showing that those who are most unlikely to have faith have it.
And those who should have it, don’t.
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