Gospels (46) - Luke 19:1-27

Teacher: Rusty Kennedy
​Series: Gospels

Rusty's Notes

Luke 19
JESUS VISITS ZACCHAEUS
1 He entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 There was a man named Zacchaeus (righteous one) who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

• They purchased their positions from the Roman Empire.
• Tax collectors would take more than was required by Caesar.
• Zacchaeus was a Jew who worked for the Gentiles.
• He was considered “earthly rich” but he was actually “eternally bankrupt”.

3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was not able because of the crowd, since he was a short man. 4 So running ahead, he climbed up a sycamore tree to see Jesus, since he was about to pass that way.

• Childlike – Curiosity and simple.
• Similar to Thanksgiving Day parade

5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down because today it is necessary for me to stay at your house.”

• God sought after Adam & Eve in the Garden when they hid.
• Jesus, while on earth sought out the lost.
• Today, the Holy Spirit seeks the lost through the Church.

6 So he quickly came down and welcomed him joyfully.

• Jesus was going to a tax collector’s home (sinner)
• Politically incorrect

7 All who saw it began to complain, “He’s gone to stay with a sinful man.”

• Tax collectors seen on the same levels as harlots and could not receive salvation… from a Jewish perspective.

8 But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord. And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much.”

• Faith came to Zacchaeus and he repented. He changed his mind about what he was doing.
• In Zacchaeus’ own home he became the guest because he made Jesus the Master of his life.

9 “Today salvation has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham.

• “A” son of Abraham
• Jesus is not offering salvation to the nation of Jews but to the individual Jew.
• This all changed after Matthew 12 when the Jews accused Jesus of working under the power of Beelzebub.

10 For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”

• This is the evangelists verse.

 
THE PARABLE OF THE TEN MINAS
11 As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem, and they thought the kingdom of God was going to appear right away.

• Jesus is speaking to more than the disciples.
• The disciples believed that since they had seen the miracle of Jonah (Lazarus), that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem to set up the Messianic Kingdom.

12 Therefore he said: “A nobleman (Jesus) traveled to a far country to receive for himself authority to be king and then to return. 13 He called ten of his servants (believers), gave them ten minas, and told them, ‘Engage in business until I come back.’
14 “But his subjects (Jews) hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us.’
15 “At his return (2nd Coming), having received the authority to be king, he summoned those servants he had given the money to, so that he could find out how much they had made in business. 16 The first came forward and said, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten more minas.’
17 “‘Well done, good servant!’ he told him. ‘Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, have authority over ten towns.’

• Received a reward.

18 “The second came and said, ‘Master, your mina has made five minas.’
19 “So he said to him, ‘You will be over five towns.’

• He too received a reward.

20 “And another came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina. I have kept it safe in a cloth 21 because I was afraid of you since you’re a harsh man: you collect what you didn’t deposit and reap what you didn’t sow.’

• It is important to know who the nobleman is…
• To actually know the heart of the nobleman.
• If you misinterpret the heart of the nobleman then you will live in fear and miss out on all that He has set aside for you.

22 “He told him, ‘I will condemn you by what you have said, you evil servant! If you knew I was a harsh man, collecting what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow, 23 why, then, didn’t you put my money in the bank? And when I returned, I would have collected it with interest.’ 24 So he said to those standing there, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’
25 “But they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’
26 “‘I tell you, that to everyone who has, more will be given; and from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away.

• As believers in Jesus, we have been entrusted with a spiritual gift.
• 1 Peter 4:10 - Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve others, as good stewards of the varied grace of God.[1]
• You either plug into life or plug into religion.
• The difference between living a life of religion and a life by the Spirit has to do with quality.
• The Judgment Seat of Christ
• 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 - each one’s work will become obvious. For the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work. 14 If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will experience loss, but he himself will be saved—but only as through fire.[2]
• Those who walk by the Spirit will receive responsibility and opportunity during the Millennial Reign of Christ here on earth.

27 But bring here these enemies of mine, who did not want me to rule over them, and slaughter them in my presence.’”

• This would be the unredeemed who face the Great White Throne Judgment in Revelation 20.

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (1 Pe 4:10). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (1 Co 3:13–15). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.