Devotion

Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Peter and John were in jail because they were telling all the people that Jesus had risen from the dead.  They had also healed a man.  These were things that drove the church leaders to a fury.  So when Peter was asked how he had cured the man He spoke the words above.  Had the church leaders been able to see, they would have known that Jesus was the same God that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had worshiped.  They would have known the truth of what Peter said.  Jesus is able to rescue the man who had been lame.  Not just from his physical ailment, but also from his greatest fault, his sin sickness that would lead to death.  

In the same way, Jesus rescued us from sin.  He declared the same when on the cross He said, "It is finished."  Now that His work is finished, let us do our work.  Let us be like Peter and spread the good news to all.  Jesus came to save sinners!

The lesson

Luke 19:1-10

Zacchaeus

19 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man named Zacchaeus was there. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, but since he was short, he could not see because of the crowd. 4 He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Jesus, because he was about to pass by that way. 5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” 6 He came down quickly and welcomed Jesus joyfully. 7 When the people saw it, they were all grumbling because he went to be a guest of a sinful man.

8 Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I am going to give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have cheated anyone out of anything, I will pay back four times as much.”

9 Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

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Notes:

Salvation in Greek is Soteri in Hebrew it's Jeshua (Jesus)