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CORE: Come As You Are
Senior Pastor Jeff Maness
September 15, 2024
Come As You Are - God wants every person to come as they are to Him and His Church, where they can find forgiveness, eternal life, and life to the full through Jesus.
Big Idea: If I believe in the right things but respond the wrong way, then what I believe won’t matter.
Big Question: How should I respond to all people?
Main Scripture: Luke 19:1-10
Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. —Luke 19:1
There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become very rich. 3 He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way. —Luke 19:2-4
When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. “Zacchaeus!” he said. “Quick, come down! I must be a guest in your home today.” 6 Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy. 7 But the people were displeased. “He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner,” they grumbled. 8 Meanwhile, Zacchaeus stood before the Lord and said, “I will give half my wealth to the poor, Lord, and if I have cheated people on their taxes, I will give them back four times as much!” 9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.” —Luke 19:5-9
How should I respond to all people?
1. I need to change what I see.
This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” — and I am the worst of them all. —1 Timothy 1:15
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. —Romans 5:8
How should I respond to all people?
1. I need to change what I see.
2. I need to challenge what I show.
Perhaps it was the first time since he had been a child at his mother’s knee that he had heard his name pronounced in tones of kindness. —MacLaren Commentary
There was not a ragged beggar in Jericho who would not have thought himself degraded by putting his foot across the threshold that Jesus now says He will cross. His example is to be our pattern. A Christian church which does not imitate Jesus in its continual willingness to associate itself with the degraded and the outcast has no business to live; and Christian people who are too proud of their righteousness to go amongst the unclean and the degraded are a great deal more of Pharisees than Christians. Self-righteousness gathers up its skirts in holy horror; perfect righteousness goes cheerily and without fear amongst the outcasts, for where should the physician go but to the sick, and where should Christ be found but in the house of the tax collector? —MacLaren Commentary
How should I respond to all people?
1. I need to change what I see.
2. I need to challenge what I show.
3. I need to choose what to stand on.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. —Luke 19:10
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