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  1. It seems to me that we have the impression that Jesus loved parties and banquets and went to them uninvited but there is only one place in the Gospels that I know of where Jesus actually invited Himself to stay at someone’s house. The incident is found in Luke 19 and it is about a rather short little man by the name of Zacchaeus. I think the whole story is worth studying because “he was rich” and marginalized by society for being “a chief tax collector” (Lk 19:2). That means that he was probably the supervisor of many other tax collectors or at least one of greatest of them around the vicinity of Jericho, another center of prosperity in Palestine.

    There is much about this story that is interesting. Like Matthew, another tax collector (Matt 9:9; Lk 5:27) who became one of Jesus’ disciples and writer of one of the Gospels, he had a prior interest in Jesus. It wasn’t like Jesus was barging in on his life but rather that in his heart, through the workings of the Holy Spirit, Zacchaeus invited Jesus in. Jesus knew his heart and simply accepted the invitation in a strange way. And so it is with many rich people. They appear hardened on the outside but are really searching on the inside for what is missing in their life. Many of the rich and famous are not as happy as they appear, wealth and power have not given them what they expected so they are still looking and hoping.

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