The Transforming Power of Salvation (What Changes When We Get Saved?)
Luke 19:1-10 · April 3, 2022
In “The Transforming Power of Salvation,” Calvary Chapel Tucson explores how encountering Jesus changes a person’s life. Through the story of Zacchaeus, the message highlights the signs of salvation: forgiveness, eternal life, repentance, faith, a relationship with God, and a desire to follow the Holy Spirit’s leading.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
01:14 The name “Jesus” means salvation
02:03 A blind man receives his sight, glorifies God, and follows Jesus—a picture of salvation
02:26 Zechariah 9:9 - Behold, your King is coming to you
03:05 The name Zacchaeus means "called by the Lord"
05:06 Jericho is a type, a symbol, a foreshadowing of the Christian walk beginning
06:02 Luke 19:1-8 - Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house
22:26 Luke 19:8 - See, Lord, I am [now] giving half of my possessions to the poor (Amplified Bible)
22:53 Luke 19:9 - Today salvation has come to this house
23:41 Galatians 3:6-7 - Believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness
24:18 Luke 19:10 - For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost
25:20 Zacchaeus met Jesus and was transformed, the fruit of his salvation was repentance
26:17 The changes to your inner man, in your relationship to God and to your behavior when you are given salvation
26:35 Your sins are forgiven…keep short accounts
27:38 You are given eternal life
29:41 Christ is in you and you are in Christ…Father, Son, Spirit
30:05 A desire to change—Repentance
31:35 You will live by faith
31:52 You become a child of God—you have a heavenly Father
32:29 The Holy Spirit flows out of you and you demonstrate the fruit of the Spirit
33:01 You want to do the things He wants you to do—the process of sanctification
35:29 Closing prayer
