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Text: Luke 15:8-10
Theme: Jesus is not prejudice.
He is the friend of the down and out as well as the up and in.
The parables of Jesus can be divided into three categories.
The first teaches us about the characteristics of the Kingdom.
The second teaches us about the characteristics of the King.
The third teaches us about the characteristics of Kingdom citizens.
This evening’s message is a parable that describes the characteristics of the King.
In this chapter, Jesus tells three parables: The Parable of the Lost Sheep, the Parable of the Lost Coin, and the Parable of the Lost Son.
Each parable teaches us something about God and each teaches us something about the sinner.
The first parable—that we looked at last week—teaches us that sinners are weak and helpless and lost.
The second story reminds us that we are worthless without Christ in our lives.
In the 1st parable, God is like the good shepherd who goes out looking for that one lost sheep.
In the 2nd parable, God is like the faithful housewife who diligently searches in the dirt until she finds the coin that was lost.
Together, as a unit, these parables illustrate to what lengths a loving heavenly Father will go to in order to seek and to save lost people.
After all, Jesus told his disciples that was the reason for his coming.
In Luke 19:10 Jesus said: “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
KJV
The context of these parables found in vs. 1-2.
The Jewish religious leaders are agitated about the company that Jesus has been keeping.“Now
the tax collectors and “sinners” were all gathering around to hear him.
2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
(Luke 15:1-2, NIV)
In answer to their criticism, our Lord tells three stories.
Let’s look at the second one: Luke 15:8-10 "Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth."
I. WE NEED A SAVIOR LIKE JESUS BECAUSE WE ARE ALL LIKE LOST COINS
1. the second story of this parable reminds us that we are worthless without Christ
a. the Bible does not paint a flattering picture of the lost sinner
1) we are like ashes under the feet (Mal.
4:3)
2) we are like autumn trees without fruit (Jude 12)
3) we are like blind guides (Mat.
15:14)
4) we are like a brood of poisonous snakes (Mat.
3:7)
5) we are like clouds without rain (Prov.
25:16)
6) we are like a garden without water (Isa.
1:29)
7) we are like wild waves of the sea (Jude 13)
b. according to this parable, we are like lost coins
2. what are coins minted for?
... what is their purpose?
a. coins are issued as legal tender, and are made to be circulated
ILLUS.
On the U.S. Mint website, here is what it says about money.
“When money is used to intermediate the exchange of goods and services, it is performing a function as a medium of exchange.
It thereby avoids the inefficiencies of a barter system.”
3. coins only serve their purpose when they are used for their intended purpose
a. if a coin is lost, it is out of circulation
b. if it is lost, it is not doing the thing it was minted to do—it has become worthless
ILLUS.
By September of 1857, the passenger ship Central America had completed 43 round trips and had once again set sail from Panama for New York City.
According to the stories reported in the newspapers of that day, there were 476 passengers and 102 crewmen aboard the ship.
The ship also carried approximately fifteen tons of newly minted gold coins bound for New York banks and businesses.
In addition to the gold bound for New York, there were many individual prospectors on board carrying the wealth they had found in the gold fields of California.
Off the coast of North Carolina, the ship was battered by a hurricane.
She ultimately sank in over 8,000 feet of ocean with all of her gold and most of her passengers.
The loss shook public confidence in the economy, and contributed to the financial Panic of 1857.
In the depths of the sea are those gold coins are worthless—just yellow metal sitting in the mud.
In 1988 a team of treasure hunters from Columbus, Ohio, located the wreck and began bringing the gold to the surface using a remote controlled robot named `Nemo.’
For 150 years all that gold sat worthless on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Only after is was recovered was it worth anything once more.
A. MAN IS WORTHLESS UNLESS HE IS DOING WHAT HE WAS CREATED TO DO
1 just as a coin was created for a purpose so were you
a. what is that purpose you ask?
ILLUS.
The Westminster Confession, the great, great grand daddy of the our Baptist Faith and Message says that: Man's chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy him forever.
2. your purpose is to bring glory and honor to God with your life
a. in your sinful and lost condition you cannot do that
3. in this parable, Jesus speaks of the worthlessness of man without Christ
a. the Bible describes the unsaved person in these words, "They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one."
(Rom.
3:12, NIV)
4. but God treasures his creation
a. we are of value to him
"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Pet.
3:9, NIV)
b. that is why God sent His Son into the world
Luke 19:10 "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."
5. like the gold of the steamship Central America, the sinner is lost and he is worthless until Christ recovers him for the sake of the Kingdom of God
B. THE CONDITION OF THE LOST COIN
1. it was lost in darkness
v. 8 "Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle ...”
a. the sinner is also lost in darkness
"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."
(John 3:19, NIV)
2. it was lost in dirtiness
v. 8 ". . .
and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?”
a. the lost coin is somewhere down in the dirt on the floor
b. in Ephesians 4:22 Paul writes that our old nature is corrupt and full of deceitful lusts
1) the word corrupt means worthless
c. society never wants to face the reality of man’s wickedness and moral failures
1) some will blame Dysfunctional homes
2) others will blame Disenfranchisement of the have-nots by the have-alls
3) still others will blame the Desensitization of man’s social consciousness by violence-filled TV shows, movies, music and video games, hate-filled websites and a toxic culture
d. but man’s problem runs deeper
1) the real problem is that man is Depraved—spiritually and morally, and physically—from the day he is born
“The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good.
God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
Everyone has turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
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