Attracting Sinners
Submitted by jesuslover on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 00:14.
Attracting Sinners
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PDF Format- 1 NOW THE tax collectors and (notorious and especially wicked) sinners were all coming near to (Jesus) to listen to Him.( Luke 15:1)
- Typical Lovers of the World
- Indignant Pharisees and Scribes
- And the Pharisees and the scribes kept muttering and indignantly complaining, saying, This man accepts and receives and welcomes (preeminently wicked) sinners and eats with them. (Luke 15:2)
- Upholding Tradition
- First Parable
- So He told them this parable:
- What man of you, if he has a hundred sheep and should lose one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness (desert) and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?
- And when he has found it, he lays it on his (own) shoulders, rejoicing. (Luke 15: 4-5)
- Finding the Lost Sheep
- The Joy in Heaven
- And when he gets home, he summons together (his) friends and (his) neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep which was lost.
- Thus, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one (especially) wicked person who repents (changes his mind, abhorring his errors and misdeeds, and determines to enter upon a better course of life) than over ninety-nine righteous persons who have no need of repentance. (Luke 15:6-7)
- Second Parable
- Or what woman, having ten (silver) drachmas (each one equal to a day's wages), if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and look carefully and diligently until she finds it?
- And when she has found it, she summons her (women) friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the silver coin which I had lost.
- Even so, I tell you, there is joy among and in the presence of the angels of God over one (especially) wicked person who repents (changes his mind for the better, heartily amending his ways, with abhorrence of his past sins). (Luke 15:8-10)
- Searching for the Lost Coin
- Rejoicing with Friends and Neighbors
- Rejoicing Over a Penitent Sinner