{"id":4255,"date":"2017-07-27T10:21:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:21:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:21:21","slug":"zacchaeus-bill-clinton-and-seeing-lost-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2017\/07\/zacchaeus-bill-clinton-and-seeing-lost-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Zacchaeus, Bill Clinton, and Seeing Lost People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>There are many kinds of vision problems. Myopia, nearsightedness. Hypermetropia, farsightedness. Amblyopia, lazy eye. Heterotropia, crossed eyes.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s also I-say-I\u2019m-a-Christian-but-I-don\u2019t-see-like-Jesus-did-opia, not seeing lost people like Jesus did.<br \/>\nJesus didn\u2019t have any vision problems. He saw lost people. They weren\u2019t invisible to him. He didn\u2019t rush by them. He didn\u2019t ignore them. He wasn\u2019t too busy for them.<br \/>\nHe saw them crying by themselves on the back row of the church.<br \/>\nHe saw them dropping off their kids at day care so they could make it to their second job.<br \/>\nHe saw them with a scotch in hand, looking overwhelmed at the class reunion.<br \/>\nHe didn\u2019t step to the right side of the sidewalk when he saw them standing on the left. He didn\u2019t make assumptions about them because of the way they dressed. He didn\u2019t avoid being seen with them because of how that might impact his ministry.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t look at lost people as if they were second-class citizens. He didn\u2019t see their tattoos and piercings as obstacles to their salvation. He didn\u2019t see their \u201cWill work for food\u201d sign and think cynically, Yeah, right. He didn\u2019t see their addictions as disqualifiers that needed to be conquered before they could come back to church.<br \/>\nHe didn\u2019t see them as sin, but sinners who needed salvation.<br \/>\nHe didn\u2019t see lost people as lost causes, because\u2014<strong>to Jesus\u2014there are no lost causes!<\/strong> Jesus loves lost people, so he saw them.<br \/>\nOnce you start looking in the Bible for Christ\u2019s vision for lost people, it\u2019s like shopping for a red Subaru. Have you ever stopped in to check out a red Subaru at a dealership, decided to think about it overnight, and then saw red Subarus everywhere while driving home? They were there all along, but you didn\u2019t notice them until you started thinking about red Subarus.<br \/>\nOnce we start thinking about lost people, we\u2019ll start seeing them everywhere, like Jesus did.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhen Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, \u2018Woman, you are set free from your infirmity\u2019\u201d (Luke 13:12).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, \u2018Do you want to get well?\u2019\u201d (John 5:6).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled\u201d (John 11:33).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJesus looked at him and loved him\u201d (Mark 10:21).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, \u2018Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today\u2019\u201d (Luke 19:5).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once we start thinking about lost people, we\u2019ll start seeing them everywhere, like Jesus did.<br \/>\nJesus saw Zacchaeus, which is a little surprising, because at first glance Jesus seeing Zacchaeus doesn\u2019t seem to be the point of this story (Luke 19:1-10). The first four verses of this passage introduce us to a short man who was working really hard to see Jesus. We aren\u2019t told why he wanted to see Jesus, or that he was a believer in Jesus, or that he was interested in becoming a believer of Jesus; we\u2019re just told that he wanted to see Jesus.<br \/>\nI remember wanting to see President Bill Clinton.<br \/>\nA tornado hit a trailer park across the street from a college where I worked in central Florida. About a dozen people were killed. It was terrible. At the end of the week, President Clinton came to the trailer park to make a speech about how much he cared and how the government was going to help the people impacted by the storm to get back on their feet. I remember wanting to see the president up close, so I worked really hard to maneuver myself through the crowd into a position where I could see him walk by. I wasn\u2019t a fan of his; still, I wanted to see him for myself. <strong>It\u2019s not every day you get to see the president up close.<\/strong><br \/>\nSeeing him was kind of a letdown. He looked more normal and wrinkly than I expected.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eatswithsinners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/Meme10_EatsWithSinners_LostCauses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMaybe it was the same thing with Jesus for Zacchaeus. Maybe he didn\u2019t really like Jesus or prefer his politics. Maybe he just wanted to see him up close. It\u2019s not every day you get to see a man who claims to be your Messiah, so, like me with President Clinton, Zacchaeus worked hard to position himself where he could see Jesus.<br \/>\nI respect Zacchaeus. <strong>He wasn\u2019t going to let anything keep him from seeing Jesus<\/strong>, including the crowd or his lack of height, so he climbed a sycamore-fig tree to get a better view. Sycamore-fig trees could be thirty to forty feet tall, with short trunks and plenty of branches that were easily accessible from the ground.<br \/>\nI respect Jesus. He\u2019s wonderful. He was intent on seeing Zacchaeus. He wasn\u2019t going to let anything keep him from seeing Zacchaeus, including the crowd or Zacchaeus\u2019s lack of height.<br \/>\nIsn\u2019t that interesting? We always focus on how intent Zacchaeus was on seeing Jesus, but have you thought about how intent Jesus was on seeing Zacchaeus?<br \/>\n<strong>We all need to know how much Jesus wants to see us\u2014and see us saved.<\/strong><br \/>\nThere were a ton of people in Jericho who wanted to see Jesus. Have you ever tried to find someone in a large crowd? It\u2019s much easier to find someone in a large crowd these days because of cell phones, but Jesus didn\u2019t have this option. Well, I guess he could have invented a cell phone for himself and Zacchaeus if he so desired, but then he would have had to invent plastic, cell phone towers, electricity, satellites, microchips, malls, cell phone kiosks, customer service agents who aren\u2019t very helpful, and a million ringtones of the latest Top 40 hits being sung by the youth in Jerusalem. That would have been a little complicated, so he just found \u201cthe spot\u201d and looked up.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what the text says. \u201cWhen Jesus reached the spot, he looked up\u201d (Luke 19:5). That\u2019s the first key to seeing people like Jesus saw people.<\/p>\n<h4>SEEING PEOPLE . . . WHERE THEY ARE<\/h4>\n<p>Where are lost people? Everywhere. They work with you, play with you, and maybe even live with you. They\u2019re sitting next to you in biology class, coaching your daughter\u2019s soccer team, complaining that you don\u2019t come home for Christmas anymore, married to your ex-husband, sitting in the seat at church in front of you and in the sycamore-fig tree next to the road.<br \/>\nJesus met Zacchaeus where he was. He met him at \u201cthe spot.\u201d What is the spot? <strong>It\u2019s the place where grace and sin meet<\/strong>\u2014and where hope is born. Jesus didn\u2019t expect Zacchaeus to meet him at his spot, because Jesus didn\u2019t have a spot. Jesus said it this way: \u201cFoxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head\u201d (Luke 9:58). Sometimes it appears we have it wrong when we expect sinners to meet us at our spot. The outreach programs of most churches seem to be built around the goal of getting lost people to come to church (our spot), which I admit can be very effective. But I\u2019d love to see more programs that effectively get Christians to go meet lost people at their spots.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eatswithsinners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4086 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/EatsWithSinners_CrossTheStreet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn this event we see Jesus meeting Zacchaeus at his spot. In the previous chapter, we learned that Jesus wants us to leave the ninety-nine sheep in the open field and go out to search for the one lost sheep. He wants us to move the furniture and search the entire house for the lost coin. He wants us to run out and meet the lost son as he\u2019s making a turn for home. He wants us to \u201cgo and make disciples of all nations\u201d (Matthew 28:19). <strong>He wants our spot to be wherever lost people are.<\/strong><br \/>\nJesus didn\u2019t expect Zacchaeus to find him. He didn\u2019t send Zacchaeus a home mailer with directions to his spot. He didn\u2019t hang a banner with the words \u201cCome Worship at Our Spot!\u201d on his church building. No, Jesus didn\u2019t expect Zacchaeus to do all the work, so he met him where he was.<br \/>\nFish don\u2019t jump into the boat. Good soil doesn\u2019t jump onto the seeds. Disciples don\u2019t make themselves. Sheep, coins, and sons don\u2019t find themselves. We have to go to their spots and look for them.<br \/>\nJesus went to the spot where he knew he could find Zacchaeus, and when he arrived there, he looked at him.<br \/>\n<strong>Lost people want to be seen.<\/strong><br \/>\nI think that\u2019s why so many teens work so hard to make their physical appearance as shocking as humanly possible. They want people to see them\u2014to notice them. Critical attention is better than no attention at all.<br \/>\nI think that\u2019s why so many men invest so much time and energy in achieving visible success in the business world, or in having the nicest yard on the block or the nicest car in the parking garage. They want people to see them\u2014to notice them.<br \/>\nI think that\u2019s why so many women seem obsessed with enhancing, preserving, restoring, and revealing their bodies.<br \/>\n<strong>People want to know that their existence matters.<\/strong> They want to know they matter. Jesus looked up and saw Zacchaeus because Zacchaeus mattered to Jesus.<br \/>\nJesus then did the next most important thing we can do in the same situation: he spoke to Zacchaeus. He said, \u201cZacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today\u201d (Luke 19:5). Jesus could see where Zacchaeus was\u2014up a tree\u2014and knew that he was not where he was supposed to be, so he invited himself to his house. Zacchaeus accepted the offer immediately and happily.<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\nDo you know what I would have done if President Clinton had stopped in front of me, looked me in the eye, and said, \u201cArron, come out here immediately. I must stay at your house today\u201d? I would have said, \u201cFantastic!\u201d<br \/>\nZacchaeus was just hoping for a glimpse of Jesus, and now Jesus is declaring to the entire crowd that he has selected him to be his host for the day. This was a big deal. Jesus hadn\u2019t waited for Zacchaeus to invite him; he skipped that step altogether, inviting himself to Zacchaeus\u2019s house and proclaiming to the crowd that Zacchaeus mattered.<br \/>\nPeople just want to matter.<strong> Legalists just want to mutter.<\/strong><br \/>\nLuke wrote, \u201cAll the people saw this and began to mutter, \u2018He has gone to be the guest of a sinner\u201d (Luke 19:7). At least legalists are consistent. You always know what you\u2019re going to get from them.<\/p>\n<h4>SEEING PEOPLE . . . AND WHAT THEY CAN BE<\/h4>\n<p>The crowd of people only saw Zacchaeus as a sinner. That\u2019s not who Jesus saw. Jesus saw a lost man who needed to be found. Through being seen this way, Zacchaeus saw the need to change and was transformed in several important ways, as Luke 19:8 tells us.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/eatswithsinners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/Meme11_EatsWithSinners_Hearts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFirst, Zacchaeus \u201cstood up.\u201d What does that mean? Was Zacchaeus sitting? Or is this Luke\u2019s way of telling us that Zacchaeus had been immediately transformed into a man of great stature\u2014morally speaking? I choose to believe the latter.<br \/>\nSecond, Zacchaeus said, \u201cLook, Lord!\u201d He was no longer a man desperate for a glimpse of a celebrity but a man who has seen the face of his Lord.<br \/>\nAnd third, Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector who stole money from his fellow Jews on behalf of the Roman government, promised to give half of his possessions to the poor and repay four times the amount of money he had obtained dishonestly.<br \/>\nBeing seen for who you can be is a powerful and transformational force.<br \/>\nJesus wasn\u2019t shortsighted when it came to Zacchaeus. He saw Zacchaeus as a man with potential who needed salvation and needed to be welcomed gladly by his own people, so he proclaimed for all to hear: \u201cToday salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost\u201d (Luke 19:9-10). Jesus showed the people of Jericho that he saw Zacchaeus not as a man who had fallen short and needed to be punished, but as a man who was now saved. By calling Zacchaeus a son of Abraham, Jesus showed that he saw Zacchaeus as truly repentant and worthy to be honored among his own, which is important because, as R. C. Foster notes, \u201cPublicans [tax collectors] were regarded as having forfeited their birthright as sons of Abraham.\u201d<br \/>\nIn reminding us that he was at this spot to seek and save what was lost, Jesus showed everyone that <strong>he sees lost people not as distractions but as his purpose for being on this planet.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat do you see when you look at lost people?<br \/>\nWhen Yukio Shige sees lost people, he sees people who need to be saved, as a Time magazine article reveals.<br \/>\nShige sees lost people at the Tojinbo cliffs in Japan almost every day. He knows they\u2019re lost, because they aren\u2019t looking at the view. \u201cThey don\u2019t carry a camera or souvenir gifts,\u201d he says. \u201cThey don\u2019t have anything. They hang their heads and stare at the ground.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen Shige sees these lost souls, he approaches them with a smile and a simple hello. He might ask them about how they came to the cliffs and where they\u2019re staying, and\u2014if given the chance\u2014he might lightly touch one shoulder. When he does this, Shige says, the person he\u2019s talking to often breaks into tears. These people, the lost souls who come to the Tojinbo cliffs with no camera and no souvenirs, have not come to see the view; they\u2019ve come to end their lives.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4163\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/p\/eats-with-sinners\/9781631468322?utm_source=Disciplemaker&amp;utm_medium=Zacchaeus.%20Clinton%2C%20Lost%20People&amp;utm_campaign=Eats%20with%20Sinners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eats-With-Sinners.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Read chapter 1 now<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Tojinbo cliffs are a well-known site for suicide. Shige, a retired detective, knows this, so two or three times a day he patrols the cliffs, trying to prevent lost souls from taking their lives. If he can talk them off the cliffs, he invites them back to his office and eats with them.<br \/>\nThe Time article details these important meals: \u201cThere\u2019s no rush in Shige\u2019s office. He offers those who go there oroshi-mochi, a dish of pounded sticky rice served with grated radish. Traditionally the food is prepared to celebrate the New Year, with each family taking its own rice to be mixed with that of its neighbors. \u2018When people come here and eat mochi, they remember their childhood\u2014father, mother, siblings, hometown. They remember they\u2019re not alone,\u2019 Shige says.\u201d<br \/>\nThese meals are working. Shige has prevented 188 people from committing suicide. He\u2019s literally saved 188 lives!<br \/>\nThese people, the lost souls who come to the Tojinbo cliffs with no camera and no souvenirs, have not come to see the view; they\u2019ve come to end their lives.<br \/>\nThe article notes that the melody of \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d plays when Shige\u2019s cell phone rings. Now I have to admit the obvious: a religious ringtone doesn\u2019t mean Shige\u2019s a Christian, especially since \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d is known in Japan even among the general population. I can\u2019t prove whether Shige is a Christian or not, but I think I can prove\u2014based on his actions\u2014that Shige loves helping people who are lost in this life.<br \/>\nThe Time article ends with this quote from Shige: \u201cI want Tojinbo to be the most challenging place. Not where life ends, but where it begins.\u201d<br \/>\nI pray that you\u2019ll see people who are not where they are supposed to be,<strong> go to their \u201cspot,\u201d look at them, and simply say, \u201cHow about you and I get something to eat?\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nI pray that you\u2019ll join me in eating with sinners and in making our dinner tables the most challenging places . . . not where life ends, but where it begins.<\/p>\n<h4>SEEING LOST PEOPLE<\/h4>\n<p>Practice looking at people and assuming the best, not the worst. A local mall is a good place to try this out.<br \/>\nDevelop the habit of praying for the people you see on a daily basis. You will find that this practice helps you to see people the way Jesus does.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been reading with Arron Chambers from his book <em>Eats With Sinners<\/em>. Read the first chapter or watch Arron talk about his book here- <a href=\"http:\/\/eatswithsinners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eatswithsinners.com<\/a>. Get your copy for personal or group use at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/p\/eats-with-sinners\/9781631468322?utm_source=Disciplemaker&amp;utm_medium=Zacchaeus.%20Clinton%2C%20Lost%20People&amp;utm_campaign=Eats%20with%20Sinners\">navpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many kinds of vision problems. Myopia, nearsightedness. Hypermetropia, farsightedness. Amblyopia, lazy eye. Heterotropia, crossed eyes. There\u2019s also I-say-I\u2019m-a-Christian-but-I-don\u2019t-see-like-Jesus-did-opia, not seeing lost people like Jesus did. Jesus didn\u2019t have any vision problems. He saw lost people. 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