THE LOST SHEEP: LESSONS FROM A SEEKING SAVIOR (1 OF 4)
by Tim Badal
Scripture: Luke 15:1-32
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The Lost Sheep: Lessons From a Seeking Savior (1 of 4)
Series: Lost! Parables of a God Who Pursues
Tim Badal
Luke 15
This morning we start a new four-week series we've entitled ''Lost.'' We're going to be looking at Luke 15, which some have called ''The gospel in the Gospel.'' In it, Jesus tells three stories about His immeasurable love for us, His people, and how He has gone to great lengths to find that which was lost and bring us back into His fold. We'll learn about His perseverance and resilience in seeking after us and finding us when we have gone far away from Him.
This series will teach us not only the great gifts Jesus had for us while He was here on earth, but also the great compassion He has now as He rules and reigns from heaven over His people. Now the calling He has for us as His people is to be rescuers who will go as He did to seek and save the lost through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The central theme is that of lost things being found:
A lost sheep that was found by the shepherd.
A lost piece of silver that was found by a woman.
A lost son who was embraced by a loving father.
A lost sibling who will be embraced by that same father, even though he never wandered far from home.
Part of human existence is the reality that we lose things. If we've been on this earth for any amount of time, at some point we have all lost something of value. We've lost keys to our cars. We've lost our wallets. We've lost our cell phones. I'm really excited that my phone now has an app to help me find my home. It's called ''Where's My Phone''-a perfect app for an absent-minded person like myself. And we lose other things. Recently I was on a community Facebook page about the town fair going on in our community. At the fair, a woman had lost her wedding ring that went back three generations. We lose things of great value to us. But no matter what we lose, we go through the same process:
First, we realize we've lost something.
Then ...
Series: Lost! Parables of a God Who Pursues
Tim Badal
Luke 15
This morning we start a new four-week series we've entitled ''Lost.'' We're going to be looking at Luke 15, which some have called ''The gospel in the Gospel.'' In it, Jesus tells three stories about His immeasurable love for us, His people, and how He has gone to great lengths to find that which was lost and bring us back into His fold. We'll learn about His perseverance and resilience in seeking after us and finding us when we have gone far away from Him.
This series will teach us not only the great gifts Jesus had for us while He was here on earth, but also the great compassion He has now as He rules and reigns from heaven over His people. Now the calling He has for us as His people is to be rescuers who will go as He did to seek and save the lost through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The central theme is that of lost things being found:
A lost sheep that was found by the shepherd.
A lost piece of silver that was found by a woman.
A lost son who was embraced by a loving father.
A lost sibling who will be embraced by that same father, even though he never wandered far from home.
Part of human existence is the reality that we lose things. If we've been on this earth for any amount of time, at some point we have all lost something of value. We've lost keys to our cars. We've lost our wallets. We've lost our cell phones. I'm really excited that my phone now has an app to help me find my home. It's called ''Where's My Phone''-a perfect app for an absent-minded person like myself. And we lose other things. Recently I was on a community Facebook page about the town fair going on in our community. At the fair, a woman had lost her wedding ring that went back three generations. We lose things of great value to us. But no matter what we lose, we go through the same process:
First, we realize we've lost something.
Then ...
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