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One Soul is Beyond Price

Read Luke 15

Jesus’ stories in Luke 15 tell us that you have never locked eyes with another human being who isn’t valuable to God. This is the only recorded time Jesus ever told three parables in a row.  There are some common threads that run through these stories.

 1.  Something of great value was missing. 

The missing sheep was very important to the shepherd.  The lost coin was vital to the woman’ survival.  And the wayward son mattered greatly to the father.  Jesus is showing us through these three simple stories that these people—the wanderers, the lost, the spiritually confused—actually have value to the heavenly Father.  All of this in the face of Pharisees and the teachers of the law who carried around little unpublished lists of people who they don’t think are very important.

 2.  That which was missing was important enough to warrant an all-out search.

 The shepherd went out looking until he found the sheep.  The woman hunted through her house until she located the coin.  The Father’s eyes kept scanning the horizon, waiting for the day when his son would come back home.  When you really value something, that winds up lost; you just naturally want to search for it. 

 3.  Retrievals result in rejoicing—they all threw a party.

After the shepherd retrieved the sheep he threw a party.  The woman found the coin and she threw a party.  The son came home and the father threw the biggest party of all. The parable of the lost sheep, lost coin, and lost son show the lostness of mankind. When you really value something, and it winds up lost, you just naturally search for it.

Jesus said He came to earth to “seek and to save that which was lost.”  And right before He left He said, “As the Father sent me, now I’m sending you.”

If you take all of the world’s computers, every great invention, every super victory in life, every gigantic skyscraper, every queen, every king and all of the world’s finest things, it does not even begin to compare to the value of one soul.

Jesus said that the combined riches of this entire world are not worth losing your soul—“What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his souls?”  One soul is more valuable than the riches of the entire world.

There is no substitute for taking time for people. 75% of the Lord’s miracles took place when he was interrupted.  My only schedule is to glorify God.  One souls is worth any interruption. One soul is worth any amount of fear you have to push through.  One soul is worth any amount of scripture memorization or Bible Study or spending your Saturday attending a souls winning seminar.