Changing Your Condition By Changing Your Position

It’s time for Christians to wake up and experience the life changing truth and boundless love of Almighty God! I’m talking about changing your condition by changing your position.

Zaccheus was a little man that wanted to see Jesus. The Bible says he was chief among the tax collectors and he was rich. But can I tell you he was poor. He was living a life of moral depravity.

As far as the Jews were concerned you couldn’t get much lower than a tax collector. Zaccheus didn’t know God and his position was as low as they came. Not only was he short in stature he was short in morals. Why was he rich? He was rich because he stole and extorted money from others. He was more concerned with self than anyone else.

It’s time for the church to get out of the gutters of selfishness and moral depravity. Zaccheus wanted to see Jesus. So much so he was willing to change his position. The Bible says he went and climbed up into a sycamore tree.

Turn to your neighbor and say, “Climb up.” Matthew 15 says that Jesus climbed up a mountain and the multitudes followed him. If you want to know how to spark a revival start CLIMBING UP and watch and see others follow you.

God said, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, even as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts (Is 55:8,9).” It’s time to climb up higher.

When you change YOUR position other people will change. The Bible says when they got to where Jesus was he healed them. Sounds like revival to me. When you change your position you will change your condition.

Zaccheus climbed up into the tree and Jesus looked up. When you are up you cause others to look up. When you are down you cause others to look down. Jesus looked up and called Zaccheus by name. Immediately Zaccheus’ life was changed. He started making amends for his ways. Jesus said, “Today salvation is come to your house.”

I believe it’s time for some folks to start climbing up. Any man, woman, or child that will change their position will change their condition. You need a change in your life and it will start when you are willing to climb out of the depths of sin and move up higher.

(From e-mail) I think it started when Madeline Murray O’Hare complained she didn’t want prayer in school, and we said, OK.

Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school, the Bible that says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love thy neighbor as thyself. And we said, OK.

Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self esteem. And we said an expert should know what he’s talking about so we won’t spank them anymore.

Then someone said teachers and principles better not discipline our children when they misbehave. And the school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don’t want bad publicity and we don’t want to be sued. And we accepted their reasoning.