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0:00Luke chapter 19 [music] verse 1.
0:03He, Jesus, entered Jericho
0:06and was passing through.
0:10And there was [music] a man
0:12called by the name of Zacchaeus,
0:16who was a chief
0:18tax collector,
0:19and he was rich.
0:22So, here we have again,
0:24Jesus is moving [music] through a
0:27region. He's doesn't have an intention
0:29to stop.
0:31And here again, we have someone who is a
0:34notorious sinner,
0:37someone who is
0:39equated with the Romans,
0:41with cheating, and with incredible
0:44[music] wealth.
0:45Remember with the rich young ruler,
0:47Jesus says, "It's easier for a camel to
0:50pass through the eye of a needle than
0:51[music] for a rich man to enter the
0:52kingdom of God." And they said, "Who can
0:55be saved?"
0:56So, everything now is telling us who can
0:58be saved, those who become like little
1:00children.
1:02He entered Jericho and was passing
1:04through, and there was a man called by
1:06the name of Zacchaeus. [music]
1:08He was a chief tax collector, and he was
1:11rich.
1:13Zacchaeus
1:15was trying to see who Jesus was.
1:21And he was unable
1:23because of the crowd,
1:25for he was small
1:26in stature.
1:29It does not say that he was trying to
1:30see Jesus. [music]
1:32It says he was trying to see who Jesus
1:36was.
1:37He wasn't trying to catch a glimpse of a
1:39man. He was trying to understand who the
1:41man really was.
1:44So, he ran ahead
1:46and climbed up into a sycamore tree in
1:50order to see him, for he was about to
1:53pass that [music] way.
1:55So, we have this man who is a chief tax
1:58collector. He's a man in power. He's
2:01very rich.
2:04And he wants to know who Jesus is.
2:07But, what does he behave like? Who
2:10climbs trees?
2:12Children.
2:14Who allows their excitement and their
2:16determination to figure something out?
2:19Who allows that to make them transcend
2:22themselves?
2:24And scramble up into a
2:26sycamore tree
2:28or a mulberry tree is one translation of
2:31it in order to
2:33see for themself
2:35who Jesus is. This is what it looks like
2:38to be a child.
2:40He ran ahead. He didn't saunter
2:43casually.
2:44He ran ahead and climbed up into a
2:48sycamore tree in order to see him, for
2:51he was about to pass through that way.
2:54When Jesus came to the place
2:57he looked up.
3:00God looks up to humility.
3:03God looks up to childlike faith.
3:07When Jesus came to the place, he looked
3:09up and said to him,
3:11"Zacchaeus, hurry
3:14and come down.
3:16For today
3:17I must stay at your house."
3:20Now, this is an example
3:22of Jesus completely changing his plans.
3:26Of faith intercepting
3:29the walk of God.
3:31He's walking through Jericho. He's
3:34passing by until he encounters someone
3:38with childlike faith.
3:41And he, Zacchaeus, hurried and came down
3:46and received him gladly.
3:50Now, that word gladly it means that he
3:53received him rejoicing.
3:57He is thrilled
3:59that he has not only seen him,
4:02he has seen who he is.
4:05He is someone who honors childlike
4:08faith, and he is thrilled that he's
4:10coming to his house.
4:12Receiving him
4:14rejoicing. What does that make you think
4:16of?
4:17A child.
4:19You're coming out of church and
4:22Mommy says, "Do you know who's coming
4:23over to dinner?"
4:26And it's someone that the kid is happy
4:28to see,
4:29they're going to be jumping up and down
4:31happy. Everyone else is like, "Oh,
4:33that's great."
4:35Zacchaeus
4:37is not poised.
4:40He's happy.
4:43When
4:44they saw it,
4:47who is they?
4:49In this story, we don't have a they.
4:51There's no they here.
4:53It's just that crowd of people who
4:55aren't childlike.
4:58It's just that mob of outsiders
5:00watching.
5:02When they saw it, they all began to
5:06grumble
5:08saying,
5:09"He has gone to be the guest of a man
5:12who is a sinner."
5:16Zacchaeus stopped.
5:20He doesn't get offended.
5:23He doesn't become a grumbler himself.
5:26He doesn't say, "How unfair. I just
5:29responded to God in faith, and people
5:32are doubting me."
5:34He stops.
5:37That means he was walking. He stops, and
5:40he says to the Lord,
5:42he does not say anything to the
5:44grumblers. He does not say anything to
5:46the doubters.
5:48But he knows that what they're saying is
5:50true.
5:52And he lets even their doubt convict
5:55him.
5:56So he stops, and he says to the Lord,
5:59"Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I
6:03will give to the poor.
6:05And if I have defrauded anyone of
6:08anything, I will give back four times as
6:11much."
6:14He has an audience with the Messiah.
6:19And so he's ready to sell half of his
6:22possessions, and he's well ready to
6:24right his wrongs with a four-times
6:27payback.
6:29But he is not ready to lose
6:32his connection with Jesus.
6:36He stopped,
6:37and he talked to the Lord, not the
6:39grumblers.
6:40And he promised to immediately
6:44act on the reform that God was bringing
6:46in his life. [clears throat]
6:49And Jesus said to him,
6:52"What has Zacchaeus said to the
6:53grumblers?
6:55Nothing.
6:56What has Jesus said to the grumblers?
6:58Nothing.
7:00Jesus says to him,
7:03'Today
7:05salvation has come to this house.' They
7:09must have been right outside the door.
7:11'Today salvation has come to this
7:14house.'
7:15And then he says to them,
7:17'Because he too
7:20is a son of Abraham.'
7:24Abraham is a man of faith.
7:27Abraham was a man who got up on a roof
7:30and listened until he heard the voice of
7:32God.
7:33Abraham was a man who got up and walked
7:36out of his country, his people, and his
7:38father's house.
7:40Abraham was a man who acted now,
7:44immediately in response to the voice of
7:46God. And Zacchaeus, with all of his
7:49past, and all of his failures, and all
7:52of his hang-ups, and all of his
7:54reputation, has just proven that he,
7:56too, is a son of Abraham.
7:58Because he acts with childlike faith.
8:04He, too, is a son of Abraham, for the
8:06Son of Man
8:08has come to seek and save that which was
8:12lost.
8:17While they were listening to these
8:20things
8:22about Zacchaeus,
8:25Jesus went on to tell a parable
8:28because he was near Jerusalem,
8:30and they supposed that the kingdom of
8:32God
8:33was going to appear
8:35immediately.
8:38So, here we have it.
8:41Everybody is interested in Jesus because
8:44they believe he's the Messiah.
8:46But all the gospels are telling us that
8:48the crowd following him imagines
8:52that his Messianic work
8:54will equal freeing them from the
8:57oppression of Rome.
8:59And so, they think that the kingdom is
9:02about to appear. Why? Because he's about
9:05to show up in Jerusalem.
9:07And they know that when the Messiah
9:09comes, he's going to take his throne in
9:12Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the capital of
9:14Israel.
9:15And so, they're thinking, "Okay, guys,
9:18this is about to happen.
9:20Jesus is about to come into Jerusalem.
9:23He's probably going to be riding a white
9:25horse.
9:26It's going to be pretty glorious.
9:28And we're going to see what we've been
9:30waiting for
9:32for
9:33four centuries."
9:37Because he was Jerusalem, and they
9:39supposed [clears throat] the kingdom of
9:40God was going to appear immediately, he
9:42told them this parable.
9:45He said, "A nobleman
9:48went to a distant country
9:50to receive a kingdom for himself
9:53and then return.
9:56And he called 10 of his slaves
10:00and gave them 10 minas and said to them,
10:04'Do business with this
10:07until I come back.'
10:12But his citizens hated him
10:15and sent a delegation after him saying,
10:18'We do not want this man to reign over
10:20us.'
10:23When he returned after receiving the
10:25kingdom, he ordered that these slaves to
10:28whom he had given the money be called to
10:30him so that he might know what business
10:33they had done.
10:36The first appeared saying, 'Master, your
10:38mina has made 10 minas more.'
10:42And he said to him, 'Well done, good
10:43slave, because you have been faithful in
10:46a very little thing, you are to be in
10:48authority over 10 cities.'
10:51The second came saying, 'Your mina,
10:54master, has made five minas.' And he
10:56said to him also,
10:59'You are to be over five cities.'
11:02And another came saying, 'Master, here
11:04is your mina,
11:06which I kept put away in a handkerchief.
11:12For I was afraid of you,
11:16because you are an exacting man.
11:19You take up what you did not lay down,
11:22and you reap what you did not sow.'
11:26He said to him, 'By your own words I
11:29will judge you, you worthless slave.
11:33Did you know that I am an exacting man
11:35taking up what I did not lay down and
11:37reaping what I did not sow?
11:40Then, why did you not put my money in
11:43the bank?
11:44And having come, I would have collected
11:47it with interest.
11:49Then he said to the bystanders, "Take
11:51the mina away from him,
11:53and give it to the one who has 10
11:56minas."
11:59And they, the bystanders, said to him,
12:01"Master,
12:02he has 10 minas already."
12:07I tell you that to everyone who has,
12:10more shall be given.
12:12But from the one who does not have, even
12:15what he does have shall be taken away.
12:18But these enemies of mine, who did not
12:20want me to reign over them, bring them
12:23here and slay them in my presence."
12:27So, this is a parable, and Jesus tells
12:30different versions of this same parable
12:32in the gospels.
12:34But it's a parable
12:36by which he's trying to tell them the
12:38kingdom of God is not what you're
12:40expecting.
12:42He's told them in the previous chapter,
12:44"The kingdom is of God is within you."
12:47Remember?
12:49So, now he's showing them, "I'm not
12:51going to march into Jerusalem
12:53and set up a worldly political system
12:56in one afternoon.
12:58Instead,
13:00I'm going to go on a long journey. I'm
13:02going to go back to heaven.
13:04But I am going to give you gifts,
13:07gifts of the Spirit poured out at
13:09Pentecost. And I'm going to deposit
13:11these in the church. I'm going to put
13:12these in every single life.
13:16And those gifts of my spirit, of my
13:18grace,
13:19those are going to represent
13:22a talent.
13:24We call gifts a a gifts or a talent. We
13:27use them interchangeably, but in Jesus'
13:29day talent meant a weight of money.
13:32Okay?
13:33But he's saying the currency, the power
13:36to grow the kingdom is not coins. It's
13:40not gold or silver.
13:43It's the grace.
13:44It's the gifts of the spirit that God
13:48has placed in each person.
13:51And he says that he's going to go on a
13:52long journey, but before he does he's
13:54going to invest it.
13:56And if we can be faithful in multiplying
14:00what he gave us,
14:02then we're going to be ready
14:04individually and as a people, we're
14:07going to be ready
14:09to help guide the kingdom when it
14:11reaches the scale that we are hoping
14:14for. Even though even then it will be
14:17not a political kingdom, but a spiritual
14:19kingdom.
14:20Do you understand?
14:22So,
14:23Judas had a mina.
14:26He had a gift. He was called to be an
14:27apostle.
14:29Was he investing that mina? Was he
14:31growing that mina? Was he using his
14:35faith and thereby increasing it like
14:37Jesus speaks of two chapters earlier?
14:40No.
14:41He had it buried.
14:43He was acting in fear. He was acting in
14:45unbelief.
14:47Now,
14:48why did the man
14:50who buried his talent, why did he bury
14:52it? Because he says, "I was afraid of
14:55you."
14:57And why was he afraid?
14:59He said, "God asks something of me that
15:02he hasn't given me the grace to do."
15:06Does God ever ask something of you that
15:08he hasn't given you the grace to do?
15:12When God asks the at the pool to
15:14stand up,
15:16does the have the strength by
15:18himself to stand up?
15:21Has God asked him to do the impossible?
15:23Yes.
15:24But with God all things are possible. He
15:27didn't ask him to do it by himself. He
15:29asked him to do it with the prevenient
15:31grace of the word spoken. And with that
15:34energizing word, if he had faith, he had
15:37the grace to do it.
15:39But if he had unbelief, did he have the
15:41grace to do it? No.
15:43So then he says, "Take away the talent
15:46from the one who
15:48has nothing."
15:50Now, which of the three had nothing?
15:55None of them had nothing.
15:58All of them were given something.
16:00But he says, "Take it away from the one
16:02who has nothing and give it to the one
16:04who has the most."
16:07You say, "Well, that doesn't seem fair."
16:09That's what the They responded, "Lord,
16:11he already has five."
16:13Why would you Why would you give it? Now
16:15he's turned it into 10. Why would you
16:17give him that?
16:18And Jesus says,
16:20"To him who has, more will be given.
16:24But to him who does not have, even what
16:26he does have will be taken away."
16:28You're like, "Does not have? Does have?"
16:32Well, in God's eyes, nobody has nothing.
16:37In God's eyes, everybody has been given
16:40enough.
16:41To each one has been given a measure of
16:44faith. The Apostle Paul says, "Everybody
16:48has enough to act, to grow,
16:51to exercise their faith and and honor
16:54God."
16:55But those who don't have, that just
16:57describes the perspective they have of
17:00themself.
17:02Those who say, "God's going to demand
17:04something of me that I don't have the
17:05power to give." That's a perspective of
17:07don't have.
17:10And he says, "Even what he does have is
17:13going to be taken from him."
17:14So the mindset that says, "I can do
17:17God's will."
17:18That's going to grow the kingdom. The
17:20mindset that acknowledges,
17:22"I have been given a measure of faith."
17:24That's going to grow the kingdom. The
17:26mindset that says, "I don't have what it
17:28takes to obey God." That's going to miss
17:30out on the kingdom.
17:32And what you have is going to be given
17:34to someone
17:35who acknowledges and celebrates and acts
17:38on what they've been given.
17:41After
17:42he had said these things, he was going
17:45on ahead.
17:46So, there's a crowd moving down the road
17:49and Jesus is out in front.
17:52He's going on ahead, going up to
17:53Jerusalem.
17:56When he approached Bethphage and Bethany
17:59near the mount that is called Olivet,
18:02he sent two of his disciples saying, "Go
18:05into the village ahead of you.
18:07There, as you enter, you will find a
18:09colt tied on which no one has ever sat.
18:13Untie it and bring it here.
18:16If anyone asks you, "Why are you untying
18:19it?" you shall say, "The Lord has need
18:22of it."
18:24So, those who were sent went away and
18:27found it just as he told them.
18:30As they were untying the colt, its owner
18:32said to him, "Why are you untying the
18:34colt?"
18:36They said, "The Lord has need of it."
18:40They brought it to Jesus and they threw
18:42their coats on the colt and put Jesus on
18:45it.
18:46As he was going, they were spreading
18:49their coats on the road.
18:51As soon as he was approaching near the
18:53descent of the Mount of Olives, the
18:54whole crowd and the disciples began to
18:56praise God joyfully
18:59with a loud voice for all the miracles
19:01which they had seen
19:03shouting, "Blessed is the king who comes
19:07in the name of the Lord.
19:10Peace in heaven and glory in the
19:13highest.
19:14Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said
19:17to him, "Teacher, rebuke your
19:20disciples."
19:22And Jesus answered, "I tell you, if they
19:25become silent,
19:27the stones will cry out."
19:31So, in this
19:34we see Jesus fulfilling the prophecy
19:38from Zechariah.
19:40Where the Lord says,
19:42"Behold your king,
19:45meek and lowly, and riding on the foal
19:49of a donkey."
19:51Jesus,
19:52if he had been a conquering hero like
19:55they expected, would he would have
19:57ridden in on a royal steed.
20:00But he rides meek and lowly
20:04on the foal of a donkey.
20:07And it says specifically that this
20:09animal had never been sat upon.
20:13And this is kind of a metaphor
20:16of what is happening.
20:18There are two things that are very
20:19significant that I see here.
20:23One,
20:25the donkey
20:27is symbolic
20:30of the young, immature,
20:34barely discipled
20:37apostles and disciples who are going to
20:42carry his message into the world.
20:46His kingship, his dominion, is going to
20:49ride
20:51on young, immature, brand new people
20:55who've never done it before.
20:58And then the second thing,
21:00I find it interesting that
21:03they put their coats, their cloaks
21:06on the donkey and on the road.
21:12In ancient times, your cloak
21:16was as much your identity as your name.
21:20>> [clears throat]
21:21>> It didn't say what specific name you
21:25bore or whose specific house
21:28you were from,
21:29but it said exactly
21:32what strata of society you were from.
21:36So, the beggars could not beg unless
21:39they got permission from the authorities
21:42to wear a beggar's cloak,
21:45which was their identity.
21:49The prophets wore a specific cloak,
21:52mantle, that marked them as prophets.
21:56Elijah wore it, one of camel's hair.
21:58John the Baptist wore the same one, and
22:01that cloak is what was put over Elisha.
22:04The merchants wore very specific clothes
22:07that said they were merchants.
22:10The scholars and the Pharisees wore very
22:12specific clothes that said that they
22:15were scholars
22:17and teachers of the law. Jesus wore a
22:20very specific cloak. That's why they
22:22divided lots and they divided his
22:24clothes, but they didn't They didn't
22:26They wanted to buy his seamless garment.
22:29Do you understand?
22:30So, when somebody takes off their cloak,
22:36they're still dressed,
22:38but they all look the same.
22:40And they've laid their identity
22:43down
22:44for the Lord to walk on.
22:47And they've laid it down for the king to
22:49sit upon, and they're saying,
22:52"I'm not a merchant, and I'm not a
22:54fisherman,
22:56and I'm not a scholar.
22:58I'm just a child rejoicing that the king
23:02can have his place where once my
23:05prestige and identity
23:07stood.
23:09So, I find that very interesting.
23:11And then
23:12we see that they are saying they're
23:15shouting they're they're praising God
23:18joyfully
23:20with loud voices for all the miracles
23:24which they had seen.
23:25This is not
23:27a dignified church service.
23:30We got people waving palm branches. We
23:32got people ripping off their suit coats
23:36and laying them down in front of a
23:37donkey. We got people praising God
23:41joyfully.
23:43And they're saying, "Blessed is the king
23:46who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace
23:50in heaven and glory in the highest."
23:53But some of the Pharisees in the crowd
23:55said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your
23:57disciples.
23:59Would you please shut this down?
24:01This is distasteful. This is getting out
24:04of hand."
24:07And Jesus answered,
24:09"I tell you,
24:10if these become quiet,
24:14the stones
24:15will cry out."
24:19There is such a demand
24:23that the children and the creation
24:26of God celebrate
24:29the return of his reign
24:32that if we don't celebrate it, if we
24:34don't love it,
24:36then creation, which is groaning under
24:38our sin, will itself begin to scream the
24:41praises
24:43that the children of God have suppressed
24:45in their pride.
24:48When he approached Jerusalem, he saw the
24:50city
24:51and [snorts] he wept over it,
24:54saying,
24:56"If you had known
24:58in this day
25:00even you
25:01the things which make for your peace
25:04but now
25:06they have been hidden from your eyes.
25:10Now, the word Jerusalem in Hebrew
25:14Yerushalayim
25:16it means
25:17city of peace.
25:19So, Jesus stands and looks at this great
25:22big city
25:24and he says
25:26oh city of peace and he weeps if you had
25:29known
25:31what made for your peace.
25:34But, they don't know. He says, but it's
25:36hidden from your eyes. Remember, he's
25:38prayed and said, I thank you Father,
25:41Lord of heaven and earth that you have
25:43hidden these things from the wise and
25:45the learned, the educated and you have
25:48revealed them to babes.
25:50So, Jerusalem's wisdom has hidden God's
25:53wisdom from their eyes.
25:55Jerusalem's education and knowledge and
25:58power has hidden God's grace from their
26:01eyes.
26:02But, now they have been hidden from
26:05their eyes. What What would make for
26:06their peace?
26:08What what what was it that was hidden?
26:11For the days will come upon you when
26:13your enemies will throw up a barricade
26:16against you and surround you and hem you
26:19in on every side.
26:22You're going to be cornered. You're
26:23going to be trapped.
26:25You're going to be destroyed by your
26:27enemies.
26:28And they will level you to the ground
26:30and your children with you and they will
26:33not leave in you one stone upon another
26:36because you did not recognize the time
26:40of your visitation.
26:42Literally, the hour, the moment, the
26:44kairos of your visitation.
26:47That moment of opportunity. So, that's
26:51what makes for their peace.
26:56Recognizing the visitation of God.
27:01In Matthew's version and in Mark's,
27:04we're told that he says,
27:06"Your house is going to be left to you
27:09desolate until you say, 'Blessed is he
27:14who comes in the name of the Lord.'"
27:18And that was to say, "Blessed is he who
27:20comes in the authority of the Lord." So
27:23there are two things that would have
27:24made for Jerusalem's peace. Recognizing
27:28when God is visiting, recognizing the
27:31presence of God, his visitation,
27:34and [music] blessing and welcoming the
27:37authority of God.
27:39Those are the two things that Jerusalem
27:41did not recognize. They recognized their
27:44own strength, [music] they recognized
27:46their own learning, they recognized the
27:48temple they'd built, they recognized all
27:50their plans, [music]
27:51but they did not recognize the presence
27:53of God, and they did not bless his
27:56authority.
27:58And so
27:59they're going to be leveled to the
28:00ground.
28:02Jesus entered the temple and began to
28:04drive out those who were selling.
28:07Now what is he doing? He is exercising
28:09an authority they [music] do not
28:10recognize.
28:12Had they said, "Blessed is he who comes
28:15in the name of the Lord,
28:17our church, our family, [music]
28:19our place needs to be cleansed. So
28:22blessed is he who comes in the name of
28:24the Lord. God is [music] getting out of
28:26our lives what is going to invite
28:28judgment. Blessed is he who comes in the
28:31>> [music]
28:31>> Then they would have found peace."
28:34But they think
28:36that their rebellion is going to protect
28:38them, and it's going to protect them
28:40from the grace of God, but it's not
28:42going to protect them from the judgment
28:44that is coming.
28:47Jesus entered the temple and began to
28:49drive out those who were selling, saying
28:51[music] to them, "It is written,
28:53and my house shall be a house of prayer,
28:57but you have made it a robbers' den."
29:00And he was teaching daily in the temple,
29:03but the chief priests and the scribes
29:04and the leading men among the people
29:07were trying to destroy him.
29:11You're either going to destroy [music]
29:13your pride
29:15and let the authority of God ransack
29:17your rebellion,
29:19or you're going to destroy
29:21>> [music]
29:21>> the messenger who comes in the name of
29:23the Lord, and in the end, you're going
29:25to be destroyed. Your house is going to
29:27be left to you desolate.
29:29And they could not find anything that
29:31they might do, for all the people were
29:33hanging on every word he said.
29:37The people were still believing
29:39that this was the moment. This was the
29:41kingdom moment.
29:43And they're wanting to destroy him.
29:47>> [music]

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