June Series W1 "Your Assignment"

For five weeks in Romans 8 we settled who you are — loved, free, more than a conqueror. Now the question turns: what are you for? We open the new series, Your Assignment, with a man everybody thinks they know. Strip the flannelgraph off Zacchaeus and you find a sellout — the most hated man in Jericho — so hungry for something his money never bought that he climbed a tree like a child. And Jesus stopped under that tree, called him by name, and invited Himself to dinner before Zacchaeus repented of a single thing. The invitation always comes before the cleanup. Jesus didn't come to the tree to visit Zacchaeus; He came to send him — because the moment you're found is the moment you're commissioned. You were not rescued to sit. You were rescued and given an assignment.