God's desire is to save many and He wants to use us to bring them the good news to the lost. The problem is not that God doesn't want to save people who are far from Him... the problem is that we don't want to go and tell them of the good news of Jesus. We have been sent... the question is will we go.
Other Messages From This Series
It’s been said that last words are lasting words. Here in Luke 24, after Jesus has been resurrected from the dead, he gives his disciples a parting word. And it’s this parting word, empowered by the Holy Spirit, that will ignite the greatest movement the world has ever seen.
Jesus became sin so that we could be forgiven of our sin. The prophet Isaiah spoke of Jesus’ horrific death hundreds of years before Christ’s crucifixion. In Isaiah 53:5, “But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.”
The gospel changes us and maybe nowhere is that more evident in the life of a follower of Jesus than in his/her wallet. Gospel generosity is produced when we understand Jesus’ lavish generosity towards us. This week we see the story of Zaccheaus and how his encounter with Jesus radically changed his life… and in particular his spending habits.