Your Value to God

June 15, 2008

Title:  Your Value to God

Text:  Luke 15

Proposition:   God has redeemed no matter how good or bad we are.

Application:  We must value people for the image of God in which they were created.

Intro:  The lost tornado items filling the tables right now.

2.  The Sheep – 1% - a penny.

            99 safely in the fold goes the old Sunday School Song

-          Illustration – Diane Hester. The rescuers did not decide that since everyone else was safe there was no need to go and find Diane.

2.  The Coin – 10%

            - Necklace would be retirement for the woman

            - Search for the pocket knife. Dean Bacon's pocket knife was found during tornado clean up. He had lost it while cleaning a filter on farm machinery prior to the tornado.

3.  The two Sons

            Oldest & Youngest – 66.67%/33.3%

-          What about the return?

Mt 20 – Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard