Charles Spurgeon Sermon - A Day to Remember

OBSERVE, DEAR FRIENDS when our Lord spoke this sentence to Zacchaeus. And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house."— Luke 19:9
Some of us may have fancied that he said it to the objecting people, but he did not. They may have heard it, and their objection may have been answered by it, but the main purpose of our blessed Lord, in uttering those words, was not to answer objectors, but to comfort one who might feel dispirited by their murmuring remark. 
"When they saw it, they all murmured,"
7. Saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
If he had not done so, he could not have gone anywhere, for all men are sinners. "All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." But this man was a sinner above others, for he had sold himself to the hated Roman power, and was authorized to collect the conqueror's taxes from his own people; so, of course, in the estimation of the Jews, he was the worst kind of sinner that could be found anywhere.
8. And Zacchaeus stood,—
And he did not talk at all like a sinner,—
8. And said unto the Lord; Beheld, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor;—
Some of those saints, as they reckoned themselves, had not done anything like as much as that: "The half of my goods I give to the poor;"—
8. And if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Which restitution was an act of justice; and when charity and justice go hand in hand, what more can we expect of men?
9, 10. And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

And that day he had both sought and saved one of the lost ones, for he had found Zacchaeus up in the sycomore tree, and he had brought salvation to the tax-gatherer's house. May he do the same for many who are here!

Charles Spurgeon Sermon - A Day to Remember

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