Zacchaeus
1/18/2001-
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Zacchaeus couldn’t play in the NBA if he were alive today
He could wear a pair of shorts as pants, it’s true!
He had to stand on a chair just to tie his shoe!
He collected taxes for the Romans but the fact is
He would take an extra coin or two
Zacchaeus—a traitor to the Jews
Now Jesus came down to Zacchaeus’s town
Folks was coming in from miles around
To see this wandering Rabbi who could raise the dead
Heal the sick and prove with miracles the things He said
Zacchaeus had been thinking ‘bout his life and all the things
That he had given up to get ahead
Zacchaeus—was hearing voices in his head…and they were saying
Now You don’t have a friend and you don’t have a life
The things that used to thrill you now just cut you like a knife
Your house is full of treasure, purse full of gold
But you could hear a penny drop inside the cavern of your soul
Been hurting everybody since the day that you was born
Taking money from the hungry, making widow ladies mourn
You got one last chance to make it out alive Zacchaeus
Zacchaeus
Jesus can make it right!
Jesus can make it right
He was staring in the mirror when he heard a cheer
And he knew that Jesus must be near
He ran down to the road where he saw a crowd
Packed together, smellin’ badly and being loud
Zacchaeus was so small he couldn’t see at all
In this sea of people he would drown!
Zacchaeus—how’s He gonna help you now?
Then Zacchaeus ran over to a Sycamore tree
Climbed as high as he could so that he could see
He didn’t care how he looked, what the people said
He only knew that without Jesus he was good as dead
Went out on a limb, and to his surprise
He saw Jesus staring up at him with big, brown eyes
And the shame of his sins covered him with fright, Zacchaeus
Zacchaeus, Jesus can make it right!
Jesus can make it right
Now when the people heard Jesus’s next words
Everybody thought they were absurd!
He said, “Zacchaeus come down from your tree, please do
I’m comin’ over to your house to have a snack or two”
Everybody figured that since Jesus wasn’t from here He was just a little bit confused
Zacchaeus—was nothin’ but bad news!
Then Zacchaeus dropped down to the earth below
And said, “Lord, I think there’s something that You ought to know
I’m giving half of my stuff to the city’s poor
And if I’ve cheated anyone I’ll give back four times more!”
Jesus said, “Son, you got it figured out!
Saving people like you is what I’m all about
Looks like another child of Abraham is born tonight!”
Zacchaeus! Zacchaeus
Jesus has made it right!
Jesus has made it right!
Now Zacchaeus went to stay with the Lord that day
while the others watched them walk away