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Humble Hero
unforsaken sin. It is a principle of life that transforms the character
and controls the conduct. Holiness is wholeness for God, entire
surrender of heart and life to the principles of heaven to live within
us.
In business life Christians are to represent to the world the way
in which our Lord would conduct business. In every transaction,
we are to show that God is our teacher. “Holiness to the Lord”
is to be written on ledgers, deeds, receipts, and bills of sale. By
abandoning unrighteous practices, every converted person will show
that Christ has entered his heart. Like Zacchaeus, he will give proof
of his sincerity by making restitution. “If the wicked restores the
pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of
life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live.”
Ezekiel 33:15
.
If we have injured others, been deceptive in trade, or defrauded
anyone, even though it might be within the letter of the law, we
should confess our wrong and make restitution as far as it lies in our
power. It is right to restore not only what we have taken, but all that
it would have accumulated if wisely used during the time we had it.
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To Zacchaeus, the Savior said, “Today salvation has come to this
house.” Christ went to his home to give him lessons of truth and to
instruct his household in the things of the kingdom. Shut out from
the synagogues by the contempt of rabbis and worshipers, now they
gathered in their own home around the divine Teacher and heard the
words of life.
When we receive Christ as a personal Savior, salvation comes
to our lives. Zacchaeus had received Jesus, not merely as a passing
guest, but as One to live in the temple of the heart. The scribes and
Pharisees accused him as a sinner, but the Lord recognized him as a
son of Abraham. See
Galatians 3:7, 29
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