LW Baptist

Sunday school children enjoy singing Zacchaeus’ story from Luke 19. Zacchaeus was a crooked businessman whose small stature moved him, in a crowd, to climb a tree to see Jesus.

Children will sing “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/The Savior passed along that way and looked up in the tree/He said, Zacchaeus you come down/For I’m coming to your house today.”

The Bible’s account records here Jesus’ purpose in coming to Zacchaeus’ town. Jesus only passes through Jericho on his last visit to Jerusalem, but he tells Zacchaeus why he came: to find and redeem unsaved people. The crowd reacts negatively to Jesus showing grace to him. But Zacchaeus’ transformation shows in his response: “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone, I restore it fourfold.” Jesus replied, “Today salvation has come to this house, because (to the crowd) he, too, is a son of Abraham,” pointing to saving faith like the patriarch’s, and concluding, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Zacchaeus’ story is the 10 a.m. worship theme at LW Baptist on Nov. 14. The men’s Bible study group meets on Monday at 10 a.m., and the Energizers will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m., studying Malachi’s prophecy of God’s matchless blessing.

For more information, call (562) 430-8598.