Zach Dubord shared a sermon that aligned with some of the major issues and concerns of our time.

Here’s the start of the sermon, and you can listen to the full sermon just below, or download the full sermon (PDF) to read.

“Our Gospel today comes from Luke 19:1-10 which is on page 63 of your pew Bible. It is yet another story involving Jesus and a tax man.

He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.”

So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. All who saw it began to grumble and said, “He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.”

Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.” Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.”

The Word of the Lord.

Let me tell you a true story. There was an influential man who rose to power during a time of great political division. He was the second of twelve children and grew up in a two-bedroom house with one bathroom He began working in the family business at 8 years old, and was the first person in his family to go to college.”

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Featured image credit: Zacchaeus by Niels Larsen Stevns. Jesus calls Zacchaeus down from his height in the tree. {{PD-US}} Wikimedia.