Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our our one time vicar and now visiting preacher Rev Cathy Pullinger. Recorded on the 2/11/25 at the baptism of Florence Whitehead
Luke 19 v 1-10
1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through.
2 A man was there by the
name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.
3 He
wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see
over the crowd.
4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him,
since Jesus was coming that way.
5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus,
come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.”
6 So he came down
at once and welcomed him gladly.
7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of
a sinner.”
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I
give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of
anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this
man, too, is a son of Abraham.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to
save the lost.”