The Wee Little Man (4 of 5)
Series: Real Life With Jesus
Jeff Strite
Luke 19:1-10
A man went for physical checkup and the nurse asked him how much he weighed. He held his stomach in and replied, "160 lbs." She got him on the scales, weighed him and said: "No, your weight is 166 lbs.
The nurse then asked him how tall he was. Standing very straight he answered, "5 feet 10 inches." The nurse measured him and said, no - he was only 5’9".
Then the nurse asked him what his normal blood pressure was. After looking at her for a moment he said, "How can you expect my blood pressure to be normal??? I came in here a tall, slender man and you have already made me short and fat."
Zacchaeus was a wee little man
and a wee little man was he.
He climbed up in a sycamore tree,
for the Lord he wanted to see.
And as the Master passed that way,
He looked up in the tree.
And He said "Zacchaeus, you come down.
For I’m going to your house today."
How many of you have sung that song as a child? It’s a cute song. And the impression you get from it is that Zacchaeus is a sweet little old man who had only one basic problem: he was too short to see Jesus.
That would be true except for one basic fact - Zacchaeus was not a sweet little old man.
I. In fact, he was probably one of the most hated men in the region of Jericho.
Why was he hated?
Was it because he was so short?
Well, no. Although I don’t suppose that helped. I suspect his height was a problem. It made it easy for others to make fun of him, push him aside, persecute him, or even ignore him.
If you’ll pardon the pun, as far as others were concerned, Zacchaeus just didn’t measure up.
His shortness was at the root of his problems - but that was not why he was disliked. I believe the reason Zacchaeus was disliked was that he had an attitude problem. I think Zacchaeus had become a angry and bitter man because of the way people treated him.
WHY ELSE would a man take a job with such a nega ...
Series: Real Life With Jesus
Jeff Strite
Luke 19:1-10
A man went for physical checkup and the nurse asked him how much he weighed. He held his stomach in and replied, "160 lbs." She got him on the scales, weighed him and said: "No, your weight is 166 lbs.
The nurse then asked him how tall he was. Standing very straight he answered, "5 feet 10 inches." The nurse measured him and said, no - he was only 5’9".
Then the nurse asked him what his normal blood pressure was. After looking at her for a moment he said, "How can you expect my blood pressure to be normal??? I came in here a tall, slender man and you have already made me short and fat."
Zacchaeus was a wee little man
and a wee little man was he.
He climbed up in a sycamore tree,
for the Lord he wanted to see.
And as the Master passed that way,
He looked up in the tree.
And He said "Zacchaeus, you come down.
For I’m going to your house today."
How many of you have sung that song as a child? It’s a cute song. And the impression you get from it is that Zacchaeus is a sweet little old man who had only one basic problem: he was too short to see Jesus.
That would be true except for one basic fact - Zacchaeus was not a sweet little old man.
I. In fact, he was probably one of the most hated men in the region of Jericho.
Why was he hated?
Was it because he was so short?
Well, no. Although I don’t suppose that helped. I suspect his height was a problem. It made it easy for others to make fun of him, push him aside, persecute him, or even ignore him.
If you’ll pardon the pun, as far as others were concerned, Zacchaeus just didn’t measure up.
His shortness was at the root of his problems - but that was not why he was disliked. I believe the reason Zacchaeus was disliked was that he had an attitude problem. I think Zacchaeus had become a angry and bitter man because of the way people treated him.
WHY ELSE would a man take a job with such a nega ...
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