13 Sep Jesus Came For His Lost Sheep
Pastor Vincent - 10 October 2013
Follow The Lord's Instruction Closely In Spiritual Battle
It is human nature to worry about tomorrow. What if I can't do this, what if things don't work well tomorrow.. what if we often let what has yet to happen to rob away our present happiness in Lord. Before Jericho, the Lord said to Joshua, " See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.." God is always there, He is always present in your sadness, your current helplessness, your current family problem, relationship problems and even your insufficiency. But we often forget, we are often being frightened by what have yet to comeÉ the what if's in your mind - Satan is always instilling the fear, the deceptions and confuse our spirits so that we cannot look at the truth of God and draw strength from it. Behind the problem we are seeing everyday is actually the deeper spiritual battles that we need to fight against Satan - who is attacking us in every possible way just to divert us away from God's truth so that we feel the gospel irrelevant. But God has a precise instruction to our problems now, so that we can stand against the devil's scheme. Be in sync with God, hear what the Lord says and follow it carefully. As we wait upon the Lord and see what He is doing right now in our lives, we will then not be distracted by Satan into following our own desires and emotions. The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise and He has time for everything, therefore, go into prayer and ask God to reveal the very next thing we can do while waiting for His timetable. As we develop the instinct to hear Him through prayers, our faithful God will not hide from you and when the perfect time comes, your Jericho will be conquered, as you become more intimate with God.
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<Luke 15:1-7>
1 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. 2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
3 Then Jesus told them this parable: 4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ 7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
* <Isa 53:6>: We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way.
* <Eze 34:6>: My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.
* Sheep are dim-witted, easily distracted, and prone to wander into dangerous areas.
* A sheep which is lost = Spiritual lostness of fallen men.
* Jesus said: “We’re like sheep without a shepherd”.
* Jesus is the Great Shepherd who came for his lost sheep.
The 3 messages brought across by the parable of the lost Sheep
1) The Shepherd who cannot bear with losing one out of his hundred sheep.
⟹ The Shepherd’s “deep and exclusive relationship” with every of his sheep.
⟹ Our Lord Jesus exclusive affinity with us.
2) The Shepherd went all out in search of the lost sheep till he finds it.
⟹ The “resolve of the shepherd” to bring back his lost sheep.
⟹ We’re saved purely by God’s Grace.
⟹ Only by His grace, we can repent.
3) Inexpressible joy of the shepherd for having found the lost sheep.
⟹ More rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
⟹ The Joy of the repentance of one soul exceeds all joys.
The blessing of being lost and found.
1) What is it to be lost from God? Eternal implication?
2) God sent His Son to pay the full price of our sin and rebellion
* <John 3:16>: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
3) To be thoroughly kept eternally, never to be lost again.
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