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February 1, 2021
The Ripple Effect // Part 5
Invitation To An Encounter - What Are We Being Invited To?
(Luke 19:1-10) He entered Jericho and was passing through. There was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was not able because of the crowd, since he was a short man. So running ahead, he climbed up a sycamore tree to see Jesus, since he was about to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today it is necessary for me to stay at your house.” So he quickly came down and welcomed him joyfully. All who saw it began to complain, “He’s gone to stay with a sinful man.” But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord. And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much.” “Today salvation has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”
1. The one who you see as a misfit
is the same one who Christ sees fit.
2. Position and posture
toward the invitation is crucial.
3. Your worth
is never found in people.
Changed
lives, change
lives.
Why are we inviting?
(Luke 18:26-27) Those who heard this asked, “Then who can be saved?” He replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
Who are we inviting?
(Luke 19:10) For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”
THE LOST!!
So who is it that we have in our lives who we see as unfit, unworthy, unfit to be loved by God not to invite them to come to the table?
Notice where the invitation occurs…
