This is the full collection of sermons preached at City Light Church in Vicksburg, MS. For more information on the church and its ministries, please visit citylightvicksburg.org
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This is the full collection of sermons preached at City Light Church in Vicksburg, MS. For more information on the church and its ministries, please visit citylightvicksburg.org
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June 7, 2026
The Gospel of Luke: From Tree to Transformation - Audio
SERMON SUMMARY: Main Point: Zacchaeus came seeking to see Jesus, but what he didn't know was that Jesus was already seeking him. On June 7, 2026, Pastor Corey Deyamport opened Luke 19:1-10 and walked City Light Church through the story of Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector who climbed a sycamore tree just to catch a glimpse of Jesus passing through Jericho. The sermon's central claim is that this story is not primarily about a man who searched hard enough to find Jesus. It is about a Savior who was already moving toward a man before that man ever left the ground. A Desire Greater Than Dignity Pastor Corey Deyamport opened by painting a picture of who Zacchaeus was: wealthy, powerful, and deeply despised. As a chief tax collector, he managed a system designed to exploit his own people, and he was good at it. Yet something inside him that his money and position could never satisfy was stirring. When he arrived at the crowd and found no one making room for him, he did something undignified for a man of his standing. He ran. He climbed a tree. Pastor Corey Deyamport paused here to challenge the congregation, noting that sometimes the people closest to religious activity become the very ones who block broken people from seeing Jesus, not always with bad intentions, but by forgetting what it felt like to need mercy. The first evidence of grace, he noted, is when the hunger of your soul grows louder than the opinions of the crowd. A Savior Greater Than His Seeking Everything turns on verse five. Jesus arrives at the tree, looks up, and calls Zacchaeus by name, telling him to come down quickly because he must stay at his house that day. Pastor Corey Deyamport zeroed in on the word "must," drawn from the Greek word meaning divine necessity, a purpose established by the counsel and will of God for the salvation of people through Christ. Zacchaeus climbed a tree to see Jesus. Jesus stopped under the tree to save Zacchaeus. That distinction, Pastor Corey Deyamport argued, is the difference between a self-help message and the gospel. Our seeking is always a response to a grace already moving toward us. He reinforced this with John 15:16, Romans 5:8, and the imagery of Luke 15's seeking shepherd, woman, and father. A Salvation Greater Than Sin When Zacchaeus came down from the tree, something had already changed. He stood before Jesus, called him Lord, and announced that he would give half his goods to the poor and restore fourfold anything he had taken dishonestly. The law required only a fifth above what was taken. Grace moved him far beyond the law's floor. Pastor Corey Deyamport connected this to the rich young ruler in Luke 18, noting the contrast: one man walked away sad, unable to release his wealth. Zacchaeus gave it away joyfully, because what had found him was worth infinitely more. Jesus then declared salvation over his house and named him a son of Abraham, restoring what the crowd had tried to permanently revoke. Pastor Corey Deyamport closed by pointing from the sycamore tree to the cross, reminding the congregation that the same Jesus who stopped for Zacchaeus in Jericho would soon hang on a tree outside Jerusalem, bearing shame to purchase the salvation he freely gave. The invitation was simple: come down from whatever tree you are in, not polished, not put together, but as you are, to the Savior who is still seeking and still saving the lost.
June 7, 2026
The Gospel of Luke: From Tree to Transformation - Video
SERMON SUMMARY: Main Point: Zacchaeus came seeking to see Jesus, but what he didn't know was that Jesus was already seeking him. On June 7, 2026, Pastor Corey Deyamport opened Luke 19:1-10 and walked City Light Church through the story of Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector who climbed a sycamore tree just to catch a glimpse of Jesus passing through Jericho. The sermon's central claim is that this story is not primarily about a man who searched hard enough to find Jesus. It is about a Savior who was already moving toward a man before that man ever left the ground. A Desire Greater Than Dignity Pastor Corey Deyamport opened by painting a picture of who Zacchaeus was: wealthy, powerful, and deeply despised. As a chief tax collector, he managed a system designed to exploit his own people, and he was good at it. Yet something inside him that his money and position could never satisfy was stirring. When he arrived at the crowd and found no one making room for him, he did something undignified for a man of his standing. He ran. He climbed a tree. Pastor Corey Deyamport paused here to challenge the congregation, noting that sometimes the people closest to religious activity become the very ones who block broken people from seeing Jesus, not always with bad intentions, but by forgetting what it felt like to need mercy. The first evidence of grace, he noted, is when the hunger of your soul grows louder than the opinions of the crowd. A Savior Greater Than His Seeking Everything turns on verse five. Jesus arrives at the tree, looks up, and calls Zacchaeus by name, telling him to come down quickly because he must stay at his house that day. Pastor Corey Deyamport zeroed in on the word "must," drawn from the Greek word meaning divine necessity, a purpose established by the counsel and will of God for the salvation of people through Christ. Zacchaeus climbed a tree to see Jesus. Jesus stopped under the tree to save Zacchaeus. That distinction, Pastor Corey Deyamport argued, is the difference between a self-help message and the gospel. Our seeking is always a response to a grace already moving toward us. He reinforced this with John 15:16, Romans 5:8, and the imagery of Luke 15's seeking shepherd, woman, and father. A Salvation Greater Than Sin When Zacchaeus came down from the tree, something had already changed. He stood before Jesus, called him Lord, and announced that he would give half his goods to the poor and restore fourfold anything he had taken dishonestly. The law required only a fifth above what was taken. Grace moved him far beyond the law's floor. Pastor Corey Deyamport connected this to the rich young ruler in Luke 18, noting the contrast: one man walked away sad, unable to release his wealth. Zacchaeus gave it away joyfully, because what had found him was worth infinitely more. Jesus then declared salvation over his house and named him a son of Abraham, restoring what the crowd had tried to permanently revoke. Pastor Corey Deyamport closed by pointing from the sycamore tree to the cross, reminding the congregation that the same Jesus who stopped for Zacchaeus in Jericho would soon hang on a tree outside Jerusalem, bearing shame to purchase the salvation he freely gave. The invitation was simple: come down from whatever tree you are in, not polished, not put together, but as you are, to the Savior who is still seeking and still saving the lost.
May 31, 2026
The Gospel of Luke: Eyes for the Blind - Video
SERMON SUMMARY Main Point: Seeing Jesus is an act of grace that only comes from Jesus himself. On May 31, 2026, Pastor Brian Crawford preached from Luke 18:31-43, a passage Luke intentionally placed two stories side by side: disciples who can see but cannot see, and a blind man who cannot see but sees everything that matters. The central question running through the whole sermon is simple and searching: what does it actually mean to have eyes for Jesus? The disciples were physically present but spiritually veiled. Jesus tells the Twelve exactly what is about to happen in Jerusalem, with remarkable detail. He describes betrayal, mockery, flogging, death, and resurrection. And yet Luke records three separate phrases to describe their response: they understood nothing, the saying was hidden, and they did not grasp it. Pastor Brian Crawford argues this is not casual confusion. It is a complete veiling of the eyes, one that only God can lift. The disciples had every advantage and still could not see. Seeing Jesus is never the reward for proximity or religious effort. The cross was God's deliberate plan, not a tragedy he allowed. Pastor Brian Crawford draws on Peter's sermon in Acts 2:23 to show that every person involved in the crucifixion, from the Jewish leaders to Judas to the Gentiles to the crowds, bore real guilt. And yet all of it unfolded according to God's foreknowledge and predetermined plan. Human responsibility and divine sovereignty both stand. The suffering was unbearable and real, but the resurrection on the third day makes this moment one of unspeakable joy held inside unbearable pain. Bartimaeus saw Jesus because grace was given to the humble, not the privileged. The blind beggar had no theological training, no eyewitness experience of miracles, and no social standing. Blindness in the first century meant economic ruin, social rejection, and religious shame. And yet when the crowd told him Jesus of Nazareth was passing by, he called out "Son of David," a title packed with messianic weight drawn from 2 Samuel 7. Pastor Brian Crawford points out the stunning irony: the man with no eyes sees what the disciples with every advantage could not. Grace, he argues, lives in humility. God opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble, and that includes the grace to see. Jesus stopping for Bartimaeus is a picture of how grace restores dignity. The crowd tried to silence the beggar. Jesus stopped. In stopping, he publicly honored a man everyone else dismissed. Pastor Brian Crawford makes the point directly: it does not matter how many people look past you. If Jesus sees you, you are seen. Faith is grace given to see Jesus rightly and ourselves honestly. Pastor Brian Crawford closes by defining faith not as willpower or religious striving but as a grace-given ability to see Jesus as the Son of David and Savior, and to see ourselves as people who have nothing to bring and everything to receive. Bartimaeus did not hide his need when Jesus asked what he wanted. He said it plainly. That kind of honest, humble confession is exactly what Jesus invites every person into, believer and seeker alike, every single day.
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