God's Grace at the Top of a Sycamore Tree - You Can't Judge the Future from the Past - JS Gillespie

The church at Philadelphia emerges bright and glorious against a background of dismal failure and disappointment in the churches which have gone before. So often in the scriptures we find that the past is not sufficient to predict the future. God's saving grace for the broken sinner, received by faith is able to transform the least promising of lives; transforming Moses from fugitive to deliverer, Rahab from Harlot to grandmother of King David, Saul from persecutor to preacher and Zacchaeus from thief to philanthropist. The secret lies in knowing and experiencing the transforming power of the Lord Jesus in His truth and holiness.