Luke: Part 75- The Parable of the Sheep

<span style="font-weight: 400">Our scripture reading for this morning is from Luke 15:1-7. Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400">This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!</span> <span style="font-weight: 400">So, Jesus told them this story:</span> <span style="font-weight: 400">“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it?</span><b> </b><span style="font-weight: 400">And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ </span><b> </b><span style="font-weight: 400">In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!</span>