Grace that only goes to the deserving is not grace. It is a merit system with better branding.
The crowd grumbled because they had a theology that said blessing flows toward those who earn it and away from those who don’t. Yeshua had a different theology entirely. He came to seek the lost…not to reward the found.
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Little Man. Big Tree. Part II
The crowd that had been following Yeshua into the city, hoping to witness something extraordinary, watched Him walk straight past all of them and into the house of the one person in Jericho nobody would have chosen.
Little Man. Big Tree. Part I
And Zacchaeus was not just a tax collector… he was the chief tax collector. He ran the whole operation in Jericho, one of the wealthiest cities in the region, sitting on major trade routes where goods moved constantly, and every cart, every merchant, every transaction was an opportunity to take a cut.
His neighbors knew exactly how he had gotten rich. He had gotten rich by bleeding them.