recovering the lost is also seen in the Old Testament. Isaiah 62:5 says, “For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.” Through the prophet Jeremiah God declared, “I will rejoice over them to do them good and will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul” (Jer. 32:41). The story of Zaccheus’s conversion is one of the clearest biblical illustrations of God seeking
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