Luke 19:1-10 relates a story that may illustrate this concept. (of salvation being oriented to this life.) Jesus visits the home of a wealthy tax collector named Zacchaeus, who declares that he will give half of his wealth to the poor and generously repay anyone whom he might have defrauded. Jesus responds to this declaration by saying, “Today salvation has come to this house.” What does he mean? The main point cannot be that Zacchaeus is going to go to heaven when he dies. As the word today indicates, the focus is not on the man’s eternal destiny but on the immediate quality of his earthly life. Elsewhere in Luke, riches are presented as a false master that enslaves people (16:13) and prevents them from living life as God intends (for example, from being rich toward God, 12:21;  from hearing Moses and the prophets, 16:28-30; or from following Jesus, 18:22-23). For Zacchaeus, then, salvation means being set free from this slavery to mammon; his (partial) renunciation of wealth demonstrates that devotion to possessions will not rule his life. – Mark Allen Powell on Luke