Speaker 1
0:01 Welcome to the Daily Blade. 0:03 The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. 0:11 Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. 0:17 Let's sharpen up.
Speaker 2
0:20 Hey, let's talk about grace. 0:23 Check this out. 0:23 Grace kills injustice and greed. 0:25 Grace kills injustice and greed. 0:26 Grace kills injustice and greed. 0:29 How do we know? 0:30 Because Jesus tells this incredible story about this incredible, rich tax collector named Zacchaeus In Luke 19, 1 through 10,. 0:39 Zacchaeus was an incredibly wealthy tax collector. 0:44 Why is that important to know? 0:46 In the Jewish world, when a tax collector, a Jewish man, took taxes from the Jewish people and gave to the Gentile, pagan, roman oppressors? 0:54 He was a sellout. 0:56 He couldn't even go to the synagogue to worship. 0:59 He couldn't go to the temple to worship. 1:01 He was a social outcast. 1:04 But look what grace does. 1:06 Number one grace sees the overlooked. 1:09 Grace sees the overlooked. 1:11 Zacchaeus was trying to see who Jesus was as Jesus was coming to town. 1:15 So, running ahead, he climbed up a sycamore tree. 1:21 Check this out. 1:21 Grace climbs past the crowd to call your name. 1:30 Zacchaeus was wealthy but empty, powerful but disguised. 1:31 The crowd saw a crook, 1:35 a sellout, a partner with the oppressor. 1:39 Jesus saw a man worth redeeming. 1:42 Grace finds you even when you're hiding in the trees of shame, guilt and greed. 1:58 Number two grace dines with the disqualified. 1:59 Grace dines with the disqualified. 1:59 Verse five says this Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, because it's necessary for me to stay at your house. 2:03 So Jesus, god incarnate, the King of Kings, the Messiah, sees a tax collector, a sinner, a deplorable, a despised, and he says yo, man, I want to eat at your house. 2:15 In the ancient world, to eat at someone's house meant acceptance. 2:19 So watch this. 2:20 Grace doesn't cancel, it consumes. 2:24 Jesus didn't lecture Zacchaeus, he loved him. 2:27 Over dinner. 2:29 The religious people grumbled, but grace always sits at the table with the broken. 2:35 Never forget that. 2:35 The religious grumbled, but grace always sits at the table with the broken. 2:39 How can broken people ever get healed if we don't come to the table and break bread with them? 2:46 True justice always starts with a relationship, not rejection. 2:52 Number three grace turns oppressors into restorers. 2:57 After this incredible meal, after this incredible moment of grace, verse 8 says this Zacchaeus says look, I'll give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have exhorted anything, I'll pay back four times as much. 3:15 You see, grace turns greedy hearts 3:19 into generous people. 3:23 Grace restores what you've taken. 3:27 Zacchaeus didn't just say sorry, he made it right. 3:30 Grace doesn't just excuse sin, it empowers repentance. 3:36 When grace changes your heart, justice flows from your hands. 3:42 When grace transforms your soul, generosity flows through your body. 3:50 You see, jesus didn't come to destroy Zacchaeus. 3:54 He came to resurrect him. 3:56 And that's what grace does. 3:58 It doesn't ignore injustice, it kills it with love, with mercy and with transformation, fills it with love, with mercy and with transformation Luke 19.10,. 4:05 For the Son of man came to seek and save the lost. 4:08 This is Pastor Derwin Gray Marinate on that.