Book of Luke - Ch. 19, Vs. 1-10 (06/06/2004)

Luke 19 and verse 1 and Jesus entered and passed through Jericho and behold there was a man named

Zacchaeus which was the chief among the publicans and he was rich and he sought to see

Jesus who he was and could not for the press because he was little of stature and had a high voice and he ran before and climbed into a sycamore tree to see him for he was to pass that way and when

Jesus came to the place he looked up and saw him and said unto him Zacchaeus make haste to come down for today

I must abide at thy house and we stopped there and we look at this word must it's an interesting word it means it is necessary it comes from the

Greek word dia which means binding and necessary which comes from a root word deo which means to bind which makes it clear that Jesus was bound to go to this man's house in other words it was foreordained predetermined and it was flat gonna happen he says

I must abide at thy house and so then verse 6 says and he made haste and came down and received him joyfully

I did a little word study on this word received and there are several

Greek words for this the one that's in John 1 verse 12 where it says as many as received him to them gave you power to become the sons of God is a different Greek word so we have two words for received this where it said that Zacchaeus came down and received him joyfully is who bowed a come a he that's not like about four

Greek words put together doesn't it and it is but it means to admit under one's roof so see it's about four words put into one to admit under one's roof and entertain hospitably and that word pictures fellowship in the

Greek language it pictures fellowship because they they translate it to receive someone but in their language they're thinking to bring them into your home and for a meal together and so that is a beautiful word for what it means to receive

Jesus is to receive him for fellowship for a relationship and it's so different than the modern gospel is taught in our churches nowadays where it just means we'll just believe he exists come down the aisle just believe on Jesus and you'll be saved and they think it means just to believe he's there but that's not what this man did he received

Jesus which with joy which means he brought him into his home is that a beautiful picture of what it is to receive

Jesus bring him into the home and entertain entertain him and be hospitable so the word in John 1 12 where it says as many years received him is

Lambano which means to get hold of so it's that that word is kind of interesting because there's a third

Greek word that is translated into receive and it means to have something offered to you and then you receive it but that's not the word that's used for salvation because if it were if it were the word used then you would have this modern picture of God holding it out like this and offering it but you have to come take it and that's not the word that's used in the

Greek it's a word that has more to do with receiving in the sense of understanding with the mind and being in agreement with and then fellow desiring fellowship with so that's enough about that let's go on to verse 7 and when they saw it they all murmured saying that he was gone to be a guest with a man that was a sinner isn't that interesting the way the world is why would someone who's trying to save sinners ever want to go eat with sinners isn't that amazing that they think that way

Zacchaeus stood and said unto the Lord behold Lord the half of my goods

I give to the poor and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation

I restore him fourfold now this is this has taken place after he has received the

Lord so it's picturing what happens after salvation what happens after salvation well repentance and it happens in an instance of time where it to us it seemed like part of the same event but there's no way there can be repentance without the salvation occurring first and we see what happens after this man is saved is his heart changes and he wants to make it right with everybody that he's ever wrong

Ephesians 2 10 talks about that and says that we are ordained that we would walk in good works after we're saved

Matthew 3 7 talks about it it says bring forth therefore fruits fit for repentance what's interesting about it if you're in Matthew 3 7 through 9 there where it talks about fruit meat for repentance it says and think not to say within yourselves we have

Abraham as our father Jesus was talking to him and he was saying you're all claiming to have

Abraham as your father but your life does not show that you are that he said you should have a life that has seen repentance that is that is worthy of the salvation you claim you have but he said you don't have that so he says you should be bringing forth fruits that show that you've repented in your lives don't just say that your children of Abraham what's interesting about that is this passage that we're in the very next verse look at verse 9 it says in Jesus said to him this day is salvation come to his house for so much as he also is a son of Abraham now why why would

Jesus as a man we know as as the Savior he can know your heart but as a man as he watches this man why would he say now we know this man is a true son of Abraham why does he say that because of the repentance he sees he sees him say well

I'm going to take back and restore everything I've stolen from these people and I'm going to make it right and so the true according to Jesus Christ the true sign of being a son of Abraham is that you have fruits fitting of repentance in the life and this man certainly had that so this day is salvation come to this house this word salvation

I love this word because I know in the Old Testament it means this but even in the

Greek New Testament this particular word for salvation where Jesus says this day salvation has come to this man's house it comes from a word whose root word is so so which means to deliver to deliver so to be saved is to be delivered it's not just to avoid hell it's to be delivered in this life as well to have deliverance from all the old sin habits and all the old things we used to be under lordship to were delivered from all that and the very word salvation found there in verse 9 comes from the

Greek word so so which means to deliver now this day is salvation come to this house for as much as he also is a son of Abraham verse 10 says for the

Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which is lost this word seek it means literally to seek but it is sometimes translated in other parts of the

Bible if it's used in a negative sense it can mean to plot like to plot against somebody but the reason

I think that's an interesting that it carries that little color of meat meaning is because with the

Lord Jesus as he seeks there has been a plot to seek in other words he is fulfilling a plot if you want to put it that way even though I know that for us it has a negative connotation to me it speaks of the great counsel that the father and the son had and where they plotted whom would be saved you want to put it that way and so he is seeking he came to seek in other words there is a plot or a plan about exactly whom he is seeking and he came to save that which is lost and the word save once again is this word so so which means to deliver so the

Son of Man has come and there's a plan by which he came and he came to seek and to deliver that which was lost and we would be amiss if we stopped before we looked at this word lost because this word lost is apolumai which means literally to destroy fully it had it comes from several

Greek words you put together but it starts this little word apo that it starts with is a word that adds significance to the word that's going to follow and it adds this word fully or the idea of fully so if you have if you have the word olefros which means to ruin or to destroy and you put the little word apo in front of it means to ruin and destroy fully and completely it makes it an extremely strong word so he came to seek and to save that which was fully and completely going to be destroyed so it's fascinating thing to think about that even though we were ordained to eternal life on the human side had

Jesus Christ not saved us and delivered us we would have been fully destroyed because we had sinned we were born into a line of human beings a race that had fallen and sinned against a holy