Luke 15:1-7

You have always been  God’s child  you belong to Him. The Holy Spirit is always near listening for our cry of help so that He can fully come into our life. He is waiting for us to see our sins, repent asking for forgiveness and then to accept the solution that God the Father provided… Jesus Christ , the Savior, who willingly gave His life for ours and broke down the wall that separated us from the Father. 

Ask Him in and watch the miracle in your life unfold.

Jesus compared the joy of finding a lost sheep to the joy of heaven over a sinner’s repentance. The unstated conclusion is that the hope of such a conversion was the reason Jesus associated with the undesirable of society.

The scribes and Pharisees believed that they did not need to repent because they were not lost.

Luke 15:1-7

15 Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. ² And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.” ³ So He spoke this parable to them, saying:

⁴ “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? ⁵ And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ ⁷ I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

¹² “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? ¹³ And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. ¹⁴ Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. 

Matthew 18:12–14

²⁵ For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 

1 Peter 2:25

¹⁰ for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” 

Luke 19:10

¹⁷ When Jesus heard it, He said to them,  “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” 

Mark 2:17