Summary
On the grass that this world offers us and we nibble and it's good and we see some more and we nibble and we nibble and it's not because we intentionally want to leave our flock, but we get distracted. They hear Jesus, pose this question which one of you would not leave the flock and go search for that lost sheep until you find it they hear this and they think it's absurd. Now let's consider the tax collectors and the sinners, those who are hearing this question by Jesus, which one of you, having 99 or 100 sheep wouldn't leave the 99 and go after the one until you found it. While it sounds like absurdity to the Pharisees, it sounds like security, security to the tax collectors, to the sinners, to the sheep who are lost because they know that they are valuable enough to the shepherd, that the shepherd would leave the flock in order to pursue and find the one who is lost. Their chastise through the prophet, where they say, or where he says to them, therefore you shepherds hear the word of the Lord, as I live says the Lord God, because my sheep have become a prey and my sheep have become food for all the wild animals since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves and have not fed my sheep. Turning to verse 5, when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices, and when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.
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- :Lost?" 10-8-23 — If you wouldn't please open your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke, the 15th chapter. If you're using a Pue edition of the Bible, you can find this on page 67 in the New Testament. We're in chapter 15 of…