2019-09-22 Whos' Your One (3)
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1 All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to him.
2 And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
3 So he told them this parable:
4 “What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?
5 When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
6 and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’
7 I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don’t need repentance.
lk 15:
I. Do you live missionally?
I. Do you live missionally?
1 All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to him.
2 And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
3 So he told them this parable:
4 “What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?
5 When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
6 and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’
7 I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don’t need repentance.
1 All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to him.
2 And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
lk 15:1-7
A. To reach our city, we must spend time with sinners.
A. To reach our city, we must spend time with sinners.
1 All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to him.
2 And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
Illus: You have heard the phrase that “Good Christians don’t smoke, drink, dance, nor spend time with people who do.”
As a teenager I clearly learned that Christians should not spend time with sinful people. We are Christians should be separate from the world. Right?
Yes, we are called to holiness, yes, we are called to pursue righteousness, but we are not called to remove ourselves from the very mission field God has placed us.
How can you be salt and light if you put yourself in the salt shaker or stick the light under a shade.
God doesn’t want to remove you from your lost friends and family, but he wants you to change the way you relate to them.
Instead of being influenced by them, he wants you to become the influencer. He wants his gospel to be seen through you.
When you spend time with those outside of the body of Christ, ask yourself this, am I allowing them to change me, or am I allowing God to use me to change them?
29 Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were guests with them.
30 But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus replied to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are sick.
32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
B. We are called to live in, but not of the world.
B. We are called to live in, but not of the world.
1 All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to him.
2 And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
Illus: The pharisees and scribes probably had good intentions in avoiding the tax collectors and sinners.
Frankly, they probably thought they were doing the the fellow Israelite by warning them about destructive behavior and being tarnished by wicked people.
The old testament is full of warning about not associating with wicked people.
But there was a reason… every time the people of Israel spent time with sinful people, the people of Israel adoped the the sinful people’s sins.
frankly speaking, is spending time with sinful people leads you to sin, you probably need to stop.
BUT God’s intent is that his people would be a transformational people. In other words, that their following of God would rub of on others.
We live in the world, in neighborhoods, in families, in workplaces, in hobbies… but not of them.
We are called to view the relationships around us as missional relationships. Places where the light of the gospel within us can shine.
14 I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15 I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
18 As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
Jn 17:14-19
II. Every person matters to Jesus.
II. Every person matters to Jesus.
3 So he told them this parable:
4 “What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?
5 When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
6 and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’
lk 15:3-
A. Jesus pursues every person, and so should we.
A. Jesus pursues every person, and so should we.
3 So he told them this parable:
4 “What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?
5 When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
6 and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’
Lk 15:
Illus: Jesus has and is pursuing you.
You think— oh I know that one who wandered away. It is “THAT” person.
There is a temptation to think… oh my sins aren't that bad, and see no need to be rescued.
You think— oh I know that one who wandered away. It is “THAT” person.
There is also the temptation to think, you don’t know how bad my sins are, there is no way he would come save me.
The very pride in your heart
The very pride in your heart
Jesus loves every person. Jesus died for every sin. There is no sin so small nor sin so great that Jesus is not pursuing you nor rescuing you.
Jesus expounded on what he mean’t my rescuing that one, you, in the story of the prodigal son...
11 He also said: “A man had two sons.
12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.’ So he distributed the assets to them.
13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living.
14 After he had spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he had nothing.
15 Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
16 He longed to eat his fill from the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one would give him anything.
17 When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!
18 I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.
19 I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired workers.” ’
20 So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him.
21 The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son.’
22 “But the father told his servants, ‘Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
23 Then bring the fattened calf and slaughter it, and let’s celebrate with a feast,
24 because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
11 He also said: “A man had two sons.
12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.’ So he distributed the assets to them.
13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his estate in foolish living.
14 After he had spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he had nothing.
15 Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
16 He longed to eat his fill from the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one would give him anything.
17 When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!
18 I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.
19 I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired workers.” ’
20 So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him.
Lk 15:11-
Luke 15:11-
In responding the the pharisees who accused him of eating with the tax collectors, Jesus made an even bolder statement. Notice that Jesus did’t just pursue the prodigal son, but he also went outside mid dinner to pursue the older angry self righteous brother.
No matter whether you sin in like the prodigal son, or the self righteous brother, Jesus Christ pursues you. Both are lost sheep, both are pursued by the good shepherd.
B. Jesus pursues those who have fallen away, and so should we.
B. Jesus pursues those who have fallen away, and so should we.
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3 So he told them this parable:
4 “What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?
5 When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
6 and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’
Illus: We need to fight the temptations to think that because we grew up in christian families in a christian nation that we are christians.
The only thing that can make you a genuine Jesus following Christian in Jesus Christ Himeslf.
The pharisees thought they were good. They stood in the side accusing Jesus of being with those people.
I know in christian gossip, which is an oxymoron, that we talk about people and who they hang out with.
You know what that makes us… the scribes and the pharisees that are so impressed with their self righteousness, that they do not see the need for Jesus.
There is good news, the story of Jesus pursuing the lost sheep, the prodigal son does not end with just the prodigal son coming home
25 “Now his older son was in the field; as he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.
26 So he summoned one of the servants, questioning what these things meant.
27 ‘Your brother is here,’ he told him, ‘and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’
28 “Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
29 But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.
30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’
31 “ ‘Son,’ he said to him, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.
32 But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ ”
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Notice that the father leaves the party to go and plead with the older brother. In the same way that he pursued the prodigal, he also pursues the self righteous.
No matter whether you sin in like the prodigal son, or the self righteous brother, Jesus Christ pursues you. Both are lost sheep, both are pursued by the good shepherd.
III. Christ is a different kind of shepherd.
III. Christ is a different kind of shepherd.
7 I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don’t need repentance.
LK 15:3:7
A. A wandering sheep faced consequences from the shepherd.
A. A wandering sheep faced consequences from the shepherd.
Illus: Interesting fact about shepherding in biblical times. It was normal for a shepherd to pursue a wayward sheep.
Upon finding that sheep, the shepherd would place the sheep on his back like we have in so many pictures… and then the shepherd would then break it’s legs so to serve as an example to all the sheep of what would happen if they wandered off.
He made an example of the prodigal.
But Jesus is a different kind of shepherd. Where the regular shepherd breaks the sheep, Jesus chose to be broken for us.
That is the story of the gospel… That Jesus took what we deserved for our wanderings.
6 We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished him for the iniquity of us all.
Is 53:
Does God want you to spend time with sinful people?
How is Jesus a different kind of shepherd?