{"id":1238,"date":"2011-12-15T22:51:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T04:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:45","slug":"zacchaeus-make-haste-and-come-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Zacchaeus, Make haste and come down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luke 19:1-10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Zacchaeus, the Tax Collector:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He was a man of Business.<br \/>\n2. He was accustomed to wealth and pleasure.<br \/>\n3. He sought to see Jesus.<br \/>\n4. He didn&#8217;t let others stand in his way.<br \/>\n5. He found a way to overcome obstacles in his way.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Zaccheaus meets Jesus:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. He gladly gave up his old life.<br \/>\n2. He received Jesus with joy.<br \/>\n3. His heart was moved to meet the needs of needy people.<br \/>\n4. He was ready to do more than required to right the wrongs he had done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: The 1st thing Jesus asked him to do was to come down from the tree.<\/strong><br \/>\n1.\u00a0Namath\u00a0would have remained a Leper had he refused to bathe in Jordan.<br \/>\n2. Matthew would have remained a tax collector had he refused to leave the job of collecting taxes.<br \/>\n3. Peter would have remained an obscure Fisherman had he refused to follow.<br \/>\n4. The good Samaritan would never have been heard of had he chosen to remain on his beast.<br \/>\n5. Zacchaeus would have continued a sinful rich man had he refused to come down from the tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 19:1-10 I: Zacchaeus, the Tax Collector: 1. He was a man of Business. 2. He was accustomed to wealth and pleasure. 3. He sought to see Jesus. 4. He didn&#8217;t let others stand in his way. 5. He found a way to overcome obstacles in his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}