If you have a Bible and hope you do, the beauty of the gospel, the God has saved us.

He's freed us from the power and the penalty of sin.

He's put us in Christ who's now our life.

So we've got together to surrender our lives and say our lives are yours and we're your

servants. It's not radical version of Christianity. This is biblical Christianity. It's what it means to be a follower of Christ.

We don't call the shots. He calls the shots.

The Radical Together Podcast with Teaching from David Platt.

Most people don't like to admit that they're lost, particularly in spiritual matters.

However, Luke 19 verses 1 through 10 teaches us that saving the lost is the very reason for

Christ coming as we'll hear from David today this truth plays out in the life of

Zakius a lost and despise tax collector who encounters the grace of God.

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well wealth of free resources on our website at radical dot net. Here's David with a sermon entitled

To Save the Lost from Luke 19.

I want to read you a story. It's a short story but it is a powerful story that I believe helps us understand the meaning of Christmas.

The story goes like this from Luke 19.

Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through.

A man was there by the name of Zakius. He was a chief tax

collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not because of the crowd.

So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree to see him since Jesus was coming that way.

If you grew up in church, is a song that is reverberating in the back of your mind right now.

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