ZACCHAEUS

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO COME FACE TO FACE WITH JESUS AND WALK AWAY UNCHANGED

1.  Most hated person in town.

Luke 19:1-2 ... He entered Jericho and was passing through. And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief ta collector and was rich.

Matthew 5:3 ... Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

• RECOGNIZE how spiritually bankrupt we are without God.

2.  Seeking to see Jesus.

Luke 19:3 ... And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature.

Matthew 7:7 ... Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

• KEEP on asking; keep on seeking; keep on knocking.

3.  Willing to be undignified.

Luke 19:4 ... So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was about to pass that way.

2nd Samuel 6:22 (NIV) ... I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes.

• WORRY about what God thinks, not what people think.

OUR PURSUIT OF JESUS IS ALWAYS MET BY HIS PURSUIT OF US

Luke 19:10 ... For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.