And that's what happened to Zacchaeus when Jesus sat at his table. A sinner was called to repentance that day. Before it was all over, Zacchaeus promised to give back half his possessions to charity, with special provisions to pay back anyone he had cheated. "Today salvation has come to this house," Jesus announced (Luke 19:9). And so it had. Salvation walked in the door when Jesus walked in. Salvation sat at table when Jesus sat down. And whenever Jesus spoke, salvation was speaking. And what Jesus used to say was always a variation on what He said at the home of that little man in Jericho: "the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost," (19:10). Wherever Jesus is, you see, there is forgiveness of sins. And where there is forgiveness of sins, there is life and salvation. That's what it's all about, this Christian faith.
"Dying to Live - the Power of Forgiveness," Harold L. Senkbeil, page 93
