Hey, hey, welcome to the church home podcast with Judah Smith. My amazing husband. My name is Chelsea,

and he is about to give you an incredible message. And I know we are going to hear about Jesus and his love for you.

And if there's anything we can do as a church home community, we would love to serve you.

You can come to churchhome.org slash pastor chat, and we would love to have a conversation with you and just meet you

exactly where you are. Enjoy the message. Hey, welcome back. Thank you so much for tuning in here to church

home. I am Judah and excited to share a story with you. Now, if you've turned this on, you may not know.

It probably says part four somewhere on the

screen. So what that means is we are four kind of messages or talks in. If you go back to part one,

and you're like, Judah, I'm not watching all three of these leading up to four. Okay, fair enough.

But if you watch part one, it'll give you more kind of

historical context to a story that we're reading, which is approximately a couple thousand years

old, but it is extraordinary. It's about a man, an infamous crook named Zacchaeus,

who is befriended and loved by my hero Jesus.

And I think in a lot of ways, you and I can probably draw a lot of parallels in our own life to Zakias.

Now, maybe you're watching this and you're like, dude, I am not a crook, okay?

I'm not a bad person.

Fair enough.

But the name Zakias literally means pure or innocent.

So we've titled kind of the whole collection of talks here as a return to innocence.

What if that innocence, that sense of optimism and hope that you woke up with as a kid,

maybe you're a person of faith and you remember days when

you first met Jesus or first started to realize like God can do anything with my life. Remember those

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