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September 23, 2026 | JP Funk concludes the Neighboring series focusing on the story of Zacchaeus from Luke 19:1-10. He presents three key truths for experiencing Christ: willingness to feel self-conscious, Christ's invitation to experience Him, and the transformative demand an encounter with Christ brings. The message encourages believers to embrace their need for Christ, genuine faith, and intentional change.
Bellevue Baptist Church | Young Adults | Memphis, TN
So tonight we'll be speaking about Zacchaeus. This is the last sermon in our neighboring night series. Really excited to end this one here and see how the neighboring night goes. So go ahead and open to Luke 19 if you brought your Bible tonight. I want to open up the night with a scene from one of my favorite movies. This movie, if it's not in your letterbox top four, I don't know what you're doing. It's extremely quotable. It's eternal. You've probably seen it before growing up. It's The Incredibles. So there's a quick scene that I think will help us frame Zacchaeus tonight. As you know, Zacchaeus, as you probably hear in the song, growing up as a wee little man. But we learn tonight a little bit of his background, and I think this could be a young Zacchaeus. This could have been his mindset. Maybe not where he is in the passage, but as he grew up. So go ahead and turn your attention to the screen, and we will see a little bit of The Incredibles. Oh, I thought there was a little more, so that face kind of got me. I've watched that scene or a version of it like three times today. I love it. So what's going on in this scene? Mr. Incredible's boss, he's gaming the system. Their company is focused on maximizing profit. This guy has risen the ranks at this company, and he's made a lot of money from this game. He's good at it too. He's gained some notoriety from being good at preying on others. He's also got some short king energy, if you know what I mean. Like he is just, he's all about that. And that's kind of what I think of Zacchaeus growing up, because he had to be a little bit like this. At least that's how I imagine it. So we'll start in Luke 19 verses one through four. And the first truth that I'd like you to focus on tonight is this. To experience Christ, you must be willing to feel self-conscious. There are times when you're walking with Christ that naturally you're going to feel self-conscious. Starting in verse one, Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become very rich. He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowd. So he ran away and climbed a sycamore fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way. So here we have Zacchaeus. He's a tax collector. They would have considered him a sellout. He's a Jew, and he works for the Romans. He works for the oppressors. Not only did he work for their oppressors, but he collected taxes, and not just the amount that he was supposed to. He collected more taxes than he needed. We're going to see later in the passage, he admits to cheating people out of their own money. So he's cheating his own people. And he's not just a normal tax collector. You may be familiar with Matthew the disciple. He's a chief tax collector. He's over a whole region. Jericho is a commercial area, and he's the head honcho. So think of him as a man of influence. What's gone on as he's gained influence in his identity and being a tax collector, he's become very rich. I learned today that, I believe it's Joanna in the Smith Life group. I don't know if she's in here right now. She said she hates AI slop. So that was something, and that just made me think of AI. And you can go ahead and go on to the next point. I want you to think of Zacchaeus. This is just a joke. We'll be here for two seconds. But think of him as very rich. This is not a guy who's struggling to make ends meet in his apartment. He didn't just put three percent down on a two-bedroom, one-bath. This guy, the scriptures say, and we're going to see later, he is very rich. He's upper class. And so when you understand the kind of man he is and how much money he has, that's what makes verse four so surprising. If you go to verse four, it says that he runs ahead. He runs to the front of the event. He is like a child running after to make sure he gets to see his favorite NFL player. He even climbs this tree just to make sure he gets a good view of Jesus. He is willing to put himself out there. He had to feel a little self-conscious in this moment that this guy who's big and bad and has influence is sprinting ahead and just getting in a tree to see Christ. I wrote here that Zacchaeus didn't let his success kill his curiosity about Christ. We all know people who are too tuned in to chasing their own success or their own goals or even how others perceive them to where they can't even be focused on Christ at all because they're obsessed with self. Thankfully, Zacchaeus decided that he was willing to forget what other people thought of him and climbed up this tree anyway, because if he never would have done that, he would not have had the same encounter with Christ that he had that day. It was a very powerful encounter, as we'll learn. Approximately 1,400 years before this, so 1,400 years before Jesus met Zacchaeus, God also called his people, the Israelites, to do something very bold at Jericho. This is the same location of another story that you may be familiar with. Joshua was leading the Israelites into the promised land, and this was the first city that they were called to conquer when they came out of the wilderness. They had been in the wilderness, if you're familiar with the story of the Exodus and the Israelites in the Old Testament, for 40 years. This had been a long time coming. They had actually just had their first meal that wasn't manna, so they are really excited and really want to get into the promised land. They would be ready for battle. They may be a little scared about the battle, but they were ready for the next step. But God's direction for them, their plan, if you're familiar with the story of Jericho in the Old Testament, was very different than what any general would have advised. Paraphrasing from Joshua 6, verses 3 through 5, you'd see, you and your fighting men should march around the town once a day for six days. So instead of going to attack, instead of making a planned attack, instead of any sneak attacks, God was telling his people, Joshua, to lead them to march around the city. They had to feel a little weird doing this. They were military warriors, and they were being told, hey, don't go attack yet. March around the city once a day for six days. And then on the seventh day after you've done that, I want you to march around the city for seven different times. And then when you're done with that, and you blow all these horns, all the people are going to shout as loud as they can, and only then will the walls of Jericho fall down. Only then will I provide the success that we've talked about. And so you can imagine how self-conscious these people would have been walking around over and over every day, or the doubt that could have gone in their mind when they're walking around, and they know, hey, I know God told me to do this. I know I should maybe be doing this, but I just, I don't want to. You could see the doubt that they would have, but they had to be okay with being self-conscious walking around, or what those other, the people that lived in Jericho, or anyone else would have said about them to be obedient to God in that moment. They had to be okay with the noise. Or maybe you need an example that's a little bit more personal. I remember about six months ago, there was a sermon that Ben Mandrell gave where he was talking about people being called into the ministry. And so just for context, I'm a back row Baptist. I sit about five rows from the very back. I have sat there for years now. I've heard hundreds of Bellevue sermons growing up here, but I knew pretty, before they even started the music, I mean, my heart was racing. I knew that I needed to go down there and be prayed for, but all of my thoughts were just things like this. I don't want people in my business. I don't want people to go down and see me get prayed for. I don't want people talking about, oh, JP might not work at AutoZone anymore. He might go into ministry. Oh, we've always thought he was going to do that. Oh, and I was so concerned. I was so self-conscious about what other people were thinking of me that I was hesitating being obedient to God. And praise God, I did get out of my seat and I did go get prayed for. And that was such a blessing to me. But there are going to be times when, to experience Christ, you have to be okay with the fact that you're a little self-conscious and you're not confident and you just need to follow through. And we see Zacchaeus have that curious attitude here as well. So let's look at what Jesus does next for truth number two. Truth number two, Christ invites us to experience Him. Christ, we will see, is the one who invites us, not the other way around. Verse five, Jesus came by. He looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. Zacchaeus, he said, quick, come down. I must be a guest in your home today. It's impossible for us to really know what was going on in the heart of Zacchaeus. Could he have been a friend of Matthew, the other tax collector, and been trying to keep up? And he's trying to figure out who this Jesus guy is. Could he have just become so successful and so rich that he was burnt out trying to find meaning in something else? The Bible leaves us to wonder, but what we do know is that Jesus went directly to Zacchaeus and said his name verbatim and specifically invites him. And this isn't, you know, a casual invite. It's not, hey Zacchaeus, well, you know, maybe if you're free a little bit later, you could have some dinner if you're hungry, but you don't really have to because I don't want you to feel pressure. I'm just throwing it out there. He doesn't, he doesn't invite him in some casual way. He says with authority. He says it with his chest. He has a little oomph behind him. Hey, I must be a guest in your house today. Essentially saying, I want to spend time with you. I want to know you. There is a directness. There's a genuineness. There is a specificness that Jesus has here when he's inviting Zacchaeus. Verse six, Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy, but the people were displeased. He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner, they grumbled. Zacchaeus responds with great excitement and joy, and the people are jealous. The crowd doesn't understand Jesus's heart for, for the people.
for broken sinners, they haven't grasped that yet, nor have they grasped how much they also need Christ. They don't understand how broken they are. They're just jealous of attention. And so to give an illustration on this, one of my favorite AutoZone memories, it really is not that funny, but it just became an inside joke over time, was I received a Microsoft Teams meeting invite from, I explained a little bit of our hierarchy last week, but my senior vice president, Luke, great guy. So he's several levels above me, probably has 300 people that are kind of under his purview, really high up in our company, all that fun stuff. And I got this invite and they had a floor-wide meeting. And normally like an admin would set that up and that's their job and they manage all logistics. But for some reason, this one came from him and he just did not set it up right. So it looked like when everyone got the invite, it was coming directly from him to spend one-on-one time with you. So how do I feel when I get that invite? I'm like, oh man, like Luke wants to spend some time with me, like I'm super fired up, I'm excited. Luckily I didn't act on it, because about two minutes later there was an intern and this intern, love him, he hit all the stereotypes of an intern. He had a baby face, he looked young, like he was just hitting all the stereotypes. He replied all, not even like on an email, but on the Teams chat to 300 people and said, hey Luke, are you sure you meant to send this to me? And man, it just became an inside joke on our team. And I felt a little bad. I was like, oh, I wonder if Luke wants to spend time with me this day. And it was just the whole thing. And so why do I bring that up? Not to make fun of him, but just to think, why was I so excited for just a second before Logic hit in that Luke had sent me a one-on-one invite? And you could say a few different things, but I think when I get to the root of it, I didn't really see myself as worth his time. And I don't say that in a degrading way. I feel fine about who I am and how I was at work. But what I mean is he was so in the AutoZone world, so impactful at the company that me getting one-on-one time with him didn't make sense, really. I didn't feel worth the time. And that's why it made me excited. And Zacchaeus is realizing this on a whole nother level to a 10th degree. It's almost, you can't even compare it because Zacchaeus is realizing that he is unworthy of this invitation from Jesus. Zacchaeus knows that he's extremely greedy. He knows that he's cheated. He knows that in the eyes of everyone else, he's a sellout of his people. I mean, he knows how deeply broken he is on the inside and that is why he's so excited. And tonight we're gonna talk about a lot and we're gonna have some questions at the end. We have a whole nother point, but if you could take one thing from tonight, I would say, realize that we are Zacchaeus in this story. This is not a story that we listened to tonight. I don't like the word story. I like account because it really happened, but I keep saying story. This is not an account we listened to tonight because we just wanna learn more, like get some tweaks or some nuggets or anything. Like we have to realize that we are Zacchaeus. We are the notorious sinner. And it has to go into our heart for this to be impactful for us tonight. So I guess the question would be, do you remember when you first came to know the Lord and how excited were you? Or maybe you came to know the Lord when you were young because that's some of our stories in here. But a time when you repented and you felt the freedom from God, you felt his overwhelming love and forgiveness. We have to continually remind ourselves of that moment and remind ourselves of the gospel week over week, over week, over week, or we're not gonna look at ourselves as Zacchaeus, but we're gonna look at ourselves as a different character in this story. And that is not who we are. We are the one who needs Christ. And we always have to remind ourself of that. Absolute banger verse, Psalm 32 one. It says, you could meditate on this for 15 minutes straight. You could journal about this for an hour. It's one of my favorite verses. Psalm 32, verse one. Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight. When you sit in that and when you realize how much you need forgiveness, that there's just a joy. There's a great excitement that Zacchaeus had that we should take note in and emulate when we think about how Christ has forgiven our disobedience and how our sin is as far as the East is from the West. Now, let's finish our account with one final truth. Truth number three is that an experience with Christ demands change. As we'll see here in a moment, when you spend time with Christ, your life will look different. An experience with Christ demands change. Verse eight. Meanwhile, Zacchaeus stood before the Lord and said, I will give half my wealth to the poor, Lord. And if I have cheated people on their taxes, I will give them back four times as much. Jesus responded, salvation has come to this home today. For this man has shown himself to be a true son of Abraham. For the son of man came to seek and to save those who are lost. Again, this account here leaves a little bit to be desired. We don't know the exact conversation between Jesus and Zacchaeus. I wish so badly that we could know a little bit more. But what we can clearly tell from the passage is that Zacchaeus was radically different than before he spent time with Jesus. He was completely different. What Zacchaeus is saying here is he's not just giving lip service to the Lord. He is quite literally putting his money where his mouth is. You see that he's willing to pay back four times as much than what he cheated other people out of. And he's willing to give away half of his net worth just to respond in faith. And so don't miss verse nine when it talks about why salvation has come to the house, his house today. Verse number nine, it says, salvation has come to the house of Zacchaeus today. But why is that? It's because he's shown himself to be a true son of Abraham. There are probably some in the room tonight that true son of Abraham is a phrase that's a little bit confusing. If you're newer to church or newer to the Old Testament, that is definitely something that could throw you off. The son of Abraham is an idiom that talks about, that is basically saying the Jewish people. And so when he is called a true son of Abraham, Christ is calling him a true child of faith, a true Jew, a true Israelite, one who is truly faithful. The way Abraham is described in the Bible is one of faith. God is consistently referred to as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And that is Abraham is the one who's really, I don't wanna say the father of faith, but he is the one. When we talk about faith, Abraham is generally the first one we think of. And that's from Hebrews 11. It says, by faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he received as an inheritance. And he went out not knowing where he was going. And by faith, he went to live in the land of promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of him with the same promise. We see that Abraham, his faith was what propelled his obedience. Faith precedes obedience here. So faith is what we need to think about when it comes to this point here. To illustrate this, I wanted to try something a little silly. So I need one volunteer to come up here with me. I promise you will have the easiest job on earth. PJ, raise his hand. All right, PJ, you can come up here. This is, it's a little simple, but I could not think of anything better to describe what we're gonna talk about. And it's not gonna be anything super fun. I only, we're only gonna put two Mentos in there. But all right, PJ. There's no shot. What do you mean, no shot? No, no, you're fine. Don't worry, don't worry. You don't trust me? You don't trust me? I don't know, this. Yeah, yeah, okay. So just hold this and get two Mentos out, all right? When I practice this, it is not gonna go anywhere near y'all. And my integrity might be on the line for saying that, but I think we're gonna be good. Maybe, no, you're good. It's barely gonna come out. Okay, so what I wanna harp on for a second before we watch this is that if you think back to the point we're on, when you experience the presence of God, when he reveals himself to you, when you spend time with him and you read his word and he softens your heart, when you pray to God, when you meditate on scripture, when you spend time with other godly friends and they encourage you, when you fast, I don't know if any of y'all have done that, but fasting is a physical reminder of a spiritual need. If you ever fast, if you ever just don't eat lunch for a day and you give something to the Lord, I promise he will respond to you and you will experience him. And the whole point of what we're about to do is that when you experience God, you will start to overflow with his presence and things will be different about you. So PJ, what I need you to do is you gotta do it pretty quick, okay? And if it's really lame, we're gonna throw more Mentos in there. But I don't think it will be. So I'm gonna open it up. I drop it and you close it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, I'm not gonna close it. Yeah, nothing crazy is happening. All right, three, two, you ready? You're not even here. Okay. It's gonna be a little anticlimactic, but what I want you to point, what I wanna point out is, thank you, PJ. Let's give him a hand real quick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In what's very vivid right here, when you start, like I said, all of those things earlier, when you're engaging in the spiritual disciplines, when you experience God, when all of those things are happening, the natural response is for Christ's love to overflow in you in the same way that God designed. I'm not gonna pretend to understand the physics here. I'm not a science guy, but.
the mento and the coke and the chemical reaction that happens, and it has to overflow in the same way God has written it in the human existence, that when we spend time with Him and we do all those things that I just talked about, you are naturally going to want to share what you've read about in His Word. You're naturally going to want to share your faith with other people. You are naturally going to want to invite people to church or be more committed, or you're going to respond in a way when God fills up your heart that you can't do anything but overflow with His love, and it's going to propel you more to service because it's going to make you more faithful. You're going to be obedient. There's this chain effect that when you spend time with God and you experience with Him, it demands a change. You have to change, and sometimes it's not even something you fight. It's natural. This is what happens. You will naturally overflow when you experience God. And so that was my first time ever trying an illustration like that. With my time remaining, I want to take a play out of Ben Mandrell's book, Our Pastor, and go through about three questions for us to discuss together. I guess more for me to discuss, but you get what I'm saying. Question number one, a thoughtful evangelist asked, I want to be bold and unashamed of the gospel. I also want to be sensitive to others around me. How do I balance this? This is a question that every single person will wrestle with as they become more involved with those who are opposed to Christianity or don't agree with it. And how do we show that spirit-filled Christians are often the exact opposite as we're portrayed as? I have continually felt this tension my whole life. I grew up in the church, grew up quickly learning Romans 116, for I'm unashamed of the gospel, for it's the power of God to salvation that saves those who believe. That is the core of who I am. Christ is the cornerstone of my life. I am unashamed. I want to talk about God. When I was at the workplace, I wanted to, but I also was sensitive to moments like this when I just remember being at, I call it a lunch table, but it makes it sound like it's middle school, like this team table that we would eat at a lot and be my team members. And there would be people there that I respected and looked up to so much, were great at their job, managed everyone, treated people well. But I distinctly remember one of the guys who I used to report to, and then a peer of his, they were saying, they were ranting about their own parents. They were probably about 40. And they said, hey, I just wish my parents would stop mailing me these Bibles. When do they know that we're not going to want our kids to have anything to do with the Bible? And man, it's just so heavy to hear that. And so here I am, how do I be bold? How do we be unashamed, but also be sensitive to the approach with that person may be different than someone else. And I wish I had some very easy, clear answers for you, but I have two suggestions to talk through. The first one, Proverbs 27, 6, the first part of that says, faithful are the wounds of a friend. Faithful are the wounds of a friend. This is a little intuitive, but when you begin to learn about someone and develop a genuine relationship with them, not for the end goal of sharing the gospel, but when you genuinely care about them holistically, you can more confidently speak into their life. When you get to know someone's story, when you get to hear those things I just mentioned at our table eating lunch, and you just listen, and you ask a few questions, you earn the right to go a whole level deeper. The amount of questions that you can ask and then respectfully engage in conversation about faith, as long as you're authentically walking with the Lord, is a whole nother level. And so a genuine care, when you have genuine care for someone, if you wound them, faithful are the wounds of a friend. If you have to ask some questions that maybe are a little dicey, they will respect you when they know that you care about them genuinely, but relational equity is a real thing. We need that. Suggestion number two, and this could go for a lot of things, but we need to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to us what someone's need is. If you feel like the Spirit is leading you to give someone a Bible, you should absolutely do that. You should be all over that. You should be excited to do that. I'm by no means discouraging anything like that, but if the Spirit is also just prompting you to sit there and listen to someone and hear a story that's tough to hear and say, I'm so sorry that one of your leaders at your church said that, or I'm so sorry that this happened to you. I'm so sorry that they walked away from you when they should have been walking towards you. If that is also obedience. So you have to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit of God in those kind of moments. I mean, there are so many times I'd be in a conversation and I'm just praying, Lord, I have no idea what to say right now. Lord, please give me the words. Lord, I need you to talk because I'm going to mess this up. I mean, there are so many. When you're thinking about someone's soul and how delicate it can be, I just encourage you, lean into the Holy Spirit, ask him to reveal to you what you need to say, and I promise you'll not regret that. Question number two, a self-reflective Christian asked, Jesus went to eat at, quote, a notorious sinner's house. I've always been told to be careful with who I surround myself with. Which one is right? I feel like whenever you have this kind of conversation with someone, they're really far on one end of the equation. And there are some people I know that, you know, proclaim Christ, but they might say, hey, you know, I'm a Christian. I have freedom. I can hang out here. I can hang out with these people and they act invincible. And I would say that is not true. It matters who you hang around. We'll talk about that in a second. And it matters what you're taking in. But man, there are also a few times growing up when, you know, I'm trying to learn how to live for the Lord, and I would spend time with people who were lost. And, you know, you're hanging out with someone who's lost, and lost people do lost things. And I just feel like sometimes when I talk to people, they'd look at me like I had three eyes. They'd be like, you were with them? And I'm like, well, yes. Like, I'm trying to live out my faith. Like, I don't know what you want me to do here. And so, man, still, there's so much wisdom that has to go into this, but I would refer you to Proverbs 13 20. It says, whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. This is a clear warning that you will become like those who you're around. I've heard it said that you're a combination of your five closest friends, or maybe said a different way. You're a combination of your five biggest influences. And so, I would just encourage you to think about, are your top five influences in your life, are those people that are helping you become... they're forming the path of where you're going. Are those Christ-like influences? I mean, basic question, are they Christians? Or then, are they Christians that are helping you grow? Because if they're not, by no means am I saying, hey, kick them out of your life. Don't spend time with them. Nothing like that. But you need to be extremely intentional. We need to be extremely intentional in who is influencing us, and that's an easy way to look at it, is who are the five closest friends you have, or people that are influencing you. And if they're not believers, I would just say, man, try to pull some other godly friends into your life, and still spend time intentionally with those people, but just make sure that they're not dragging you down. It is so much easier to be dragged down than it is to pull someone up, and you just need to be very intentional. But we need to be very intentional about who we spend our time with. Last question for tonight. A believer struggling with comparison asks, sometimes new believers have so much exciting fruit in their lives. I haven't felt like that in ages. Am I doing something wrong? You know, that's a thoughtful question. It's true that when someone comes to Christ, there are often more noticeable external sins, if you will, that seem to change. That might be, you know, cursing, or drunkenness, or anything like that that's more outward, and that should always encourage us. As someone who's been walking with the Lord for maybe a few years, when there's someone who's new that comes to faith, that should always fire us up. That should not incur jealousy. That should not... that should not... that's not where we need to go. If that's happening, we should pray against that. But also being realistic, when you walk with the Lord for several years, there will be times of a dry season. There'll be times of a drought. There'll be times of discouragement. Some of that may be a little self-inflicted, but oftentimes it's not. It's just more of a dry season. And so I would encourage you with Psalm 51. This is a well-known psalm after David was in some notorious sin. And man, Psalm 51, 10 through 12 are verses that you could quote every day, and it would fill your spirit up. Creating me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me, but restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. This should be a frequent prayer for us. Every day should be, if you will, a mini-rededication to our life with the Lord. If you've gone multiple months, multiple weeks, maybe multiple years, without God giving you a solid season of growth, or you haven't felt used by the Lord in a good amount of time, I would just encourage you, write that verse down. Go to God when you're driving home, or play that verse or something, but just engage with that scripture and pray it back to God, and I promise God will start to soften your heart again, and you'll walk with Him. In summary here, I think I'm actually a little over time. I'm surprised by it. Just to review, truth number one, to experience Christ, you must be willing to feel self-conscious. There will be times in your Christian walk you're going to feel a little awkward, you're going to feel a little unsure, and God is still calling you to be obedient. Number two, Christ invites us to experience Him. Christ is calling you specifically and intentionally. He said, you must come to my house today. This isn't a relaxed call. He wants to spend time with you, and He loves you. Point number three, an experience with Christ demands change. When you spend time with God, you cannot help but overflow.
it is the way God has made the dynamic of our relationship. And so tonight I have two invitations, and the first one would be for the spiritually lost. You probably saw the last verse of our lesson tonight. We didn't spend much time on it, but it said, the Son of Man, Jesus, came to seek and save those who were lost. And so what is lost? What does that mean? Think of someone who's physically lost. Say they're in a new city. It's the first time they're there. Say they don't have an iPhone with service. They don't know where to go. They don't have any connections. They don't have any directions. They don't have an agenda. They don't have anything to do. They're just there. Well, what do you do then? You just wander. You do your best. You try to do your thing. That's what someone who's physically lost would do. Try to find some food, probably. It's the same thing spiritually. That's what Christ has said about someone who is not in right relationship with Him. They are spiritually lost. They are wandering. They're trying to just figure out something that can make them happy. It's often been described, you've probably heard, as you're trying to fill a God-sized hole in your heart, and that can't be filled apart from Christ. And so if that's you tonight, the worship band's gonna come back up in just a little bit, or can go ahead and come back up, that's fine. We're gonna have some counselors in the back, and I just encourage you, if you're not 100% sure that you have a personal relationship with Christ, if you're not sure about His death, burial, and resurrection, please talk to someone tonight because they would love to do that. And the last invitation in the room, I just want to encourage you all, and I'll get off my soapbox at the end, but for neighboring night, I just want you to think about what we learned the past four nights. The good, the last four weeks, the Good Samaritan, we learned he needed to meet someone's physical need. Then we learned about Jesus washing the disciples' feet. He needed to give a good example. We learned, Corey taught about Paul last week, who was all things to all people, so he could reach them with the gospel. Tonight we learned about Jesus and Zacchaeus, and from the best we can tell, I'm sure they talked some, obviously, but Jesus just spent time with Zacchaeus. And so as you're considering next week who you're gonna spend time with, who you're praying for, who you're gonna serve, just think about what did they need. Think about how you can best serve them.