The Significant of Change

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Independent Baptist Churches in the Philippines

Purok- Sili Gredu, Panabo City

Text; Luke 19V8 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.”V9 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.”

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Theme;

• Man's life of yesterday may never be like his life today; (Percy Shelley" )

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Plant transformation

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Human transformation

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What are the changes in the life of Zacheous?

V8- 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.”

Changed in his prioritiesJesus is more than money, stable Job,

And position

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Luke 19;9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of AbrahamGal 3;7- Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham Changed in his faith.

He believed andimmediately welcomed the lord in his house.

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 V10 :For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Mark 2;17New Living Translation When Jesus heard this, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor--sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."

Changed in his status-Sinner to righteous

-Lost to Found-Not givers to givers

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• John 6• 5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd

coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” 6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

• 7 Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

• 8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, 9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”

• 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there). 11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

What changes experienced of some persons from this passage?

We are

satisfied

•It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

I will tell thisTo my Parents

Faith

Status

Priorities

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The Time of changed• Jesus did not spend several years

on them only ones (zacheous, disciples, the crowd, the boy)

• Not several months nor weeks• Not many Sundays they passed by• Zacheous was not change after his

retirement from his work nor old• But at the time that he heard the

message from Jesus

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How about you?

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You need to make a decision?

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.  The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.  ~Harold Wilson

James 4;14You do not know what will happen

tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then

vanishes

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Application What aspect in our life requires changes? Priorities Relationship

Time

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