“Results of Repentance”

“Results of Repentance”

Text: Luke 19: 8

Scripture Reading:   Luke 19: 1-10

Introduction:   Repentance is a radical change of attitude about God and toward God that results in a radical change in our way of life as it is related to God, to self, to others, and to things.

I.      Zacchaeus was a man in need of repentance.  

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     E. Zacchaeus was a publican, a tax collector for the Roman government

          1. Zacchaeus had discounted his own country.

          2. Zacchaeus had defrauded his community.

          3. Zacchaeus had disregarded his conscience.

     F. In his quest for happiness Zacchaeus had chosen a way of self-destruction. 

II. Zacchaeus experienced repentance.

     A. The seeking Savior is a factor in Zacchaeus’s repentance

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     B. Zacchaeus was a seeking sinner.

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     C. Zacchaeus let Jesus into his life.

III. Zacchaeus demonstrates the inward change of repentance.

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 Zacchaeus came to understand who Jesus really was and so do we!