Title: One Lost Sheep/Matthew 18:12-14
Contents: One Lost Lamb/Matthew 18:12-14
the Lord's interest
(Matthew 18:12) What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them is lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountain and go and search for the lost sheep?
What do you think?
Jesus' words about the little boy are likened to a lost sheep. The education of the Lord's disciples is thoroughly objective. In general, the parables of the Lord were directed to the disciples. In many parables, Jesus first asks for the opinions of his disciples. The Lord's question about the one lost sheep is a question for all the saints. Fundamentally, the thoughts of the saints must be the same as the thoughts of the Lord. The Lord's interest is the saint's interest, and the Lord's purpose should be the saint's purpose. The voice of the Lord toward the disciples is a question with this purpose.
The disciples did not have the heart of a shepherd who loved a lost sheep. The thoughts and lives of the disciples were extremely common.
Only their obsession with carnal life, their lust for wealth and glory, and their interest in fame and power dominated them. But the disciples the Lord wants must be special. The life of a disciple must be the life of the Lord, which is even more unfortunate. We live our lives as disciples. But many shepherds have a voice but no heart. The shepherd's heart must be the unchanging heart of Christ.
The Lord's question, 'What do you think?' must be posed to myself. It is even more so because we can become perfect saints and perfect servants only when we have the heart of Christ.
a lost sheep
A shepherd's concern is to keep and raise all sheep. The fact that a sheep is lost is a shock to the shepherd. The shepherd must do all he can to find the sheep and feed them good pasture. The shepherd's interest in finding the lost sheep is the Lord's interest. The Lord wanted the disciples to have the shepherd's attention. As shepherds, the disciples must feed the sheep. In addition, you must be zealous to seek out the lost sheep.
The disciples who accompanied Jesus, the Master, had to build up their training as shepherds. However, the disciples' training as shepherds did not have a satisfactory maturity. The interest of the church and the interest of the saints must be here. It must be a living church, a church of life, that is devoted to finding the lost sheep.
Lord's Sacrifice
(Matthew 18:13) Truly I say to you, if they find it, they will rejoice over it more than the ninety-nine that have not gone astray.
Because he left the shepherd.
A lost sheep is alone. A wandering being, a being like the prodigal son. A sheep that has left the shepherd has no guarantee of life. It is a life of insecurity and hunger, and you must always feel threatened with your life.
The sheep that left the shepherd do not acknowledge all these circumstances. Rather, it rationalizes. Falling into the illusion of a better future, they fall into the swamp of wandering. But the shepherd is different. Knowing all too well the plight and danger of the lost sheep and everything that will come to them, they set out to find the sheep.
The Lord's sacrifice is here. He became the sacrificial material through the voice of the shepherd because he had to save the people who were wandering because of sin. The voice of the Lord toward the countless people who are standing on the road of wandering is a heartbreaking cry to come back soon. If the sinful life lost in the swamp of darkness is lost, today's church must be the voice of a true shepherd. But the problem lies in the fact that today's churches ignore the lost sheep. The sacrifice of the Lord is because the people have sinned. Just as the sheep left the shepherd, the Lord had to be sacrificed because humans left God.
tribute to love.
It was because he loved Adam that he made clothes of skin for Adam, who sinned. If God had not loved Adam, he would have had nothing to do with Adam's actions. The same is true. If the shepherd doesn't love his sheep, he won't go looking for the sheep that are out of the fence. For a shepherd who loves sheep, it has nothing to do with the property value of the sheep. It is only the passion for loving sheep that makes them seek them. As the shepherd of the lost sheep, Jesus sought the sinner. Jesus, who came to a life stained with sin, paid the price of love through the cross.
The price of the Lord's sacrifice is worthless. The sacrifice is so great and so great that it cannot be measured. Human beings live with great grace in Christ. Those who receive grace must pay the price for the grace they deserve. All human beings are indebted to love.
the joy of the Lord
(Matthew 18:13) Truly I say to you, if you find it, you will rejoice over it more than the ninety-nine that did not go astray (Matthew 18:14) In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that even one of these little ones should be lost. nira
you will be more happy
The joy of the shepherd who found the sheep cannot be expressed in words. The text expresses that joy, 'they will rejoice more than the ninety-nine that have not gone astray'. The image of a shepherd embracing a bruised, torn and wounded sheep is love itself overflowing with meekness. There is neither hatred nor distrust. He is a prodigal son who deserves resentment, but there are only tears of love. The Lord is here. we are here
Our Lord is coming to sinners who are wandering, not knowing where to go, with their bodies defiled, torn, and weary. He is the Lord who embraces and kisses and dances like a father who welcomes the returning prodigal son. The Lord is the Father of love who wipes dirty places and puts on new clothes for a feast. The God who spares one soul in the land of Sodom, a world of sin, is our Lord. Because the Lord values one life more than the whole world, it is overflowing with greater joy.
father's will
Just as it is the shepherd?셲 will to find the lost sheep, it is God?셲 will for the little ones to be saved and to come to perfection. God sent his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to this earth for the sake of the little ones. We feel the love of Christ in the sight of a shepherd looking for a lost sheep. It is the amazing love that He loved one life and was crucified to save it. The endless concern for the lost sheep is the concern of a loving father.
Equal love, not partial love, that is the will of God our Father. There is an old saying that there is no finger that does not hurt by biting Earl's finger. For a shepherd, the ninety-nine sheep are important. But I'm more interested in the one stray sheep. Just as a child who is not normal is compassionate, a lost sheep is even more heartbreaking to the Lord.
All saints are brothers and sisters who serve the same Father. Just as we take pity on my brother, our saints should become one family and one love in the Lord.