Finding Hope: The Joy of Redemption in Christ
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1. "People get lost for all kinds of silly reasons. That's part of the human condition. Luke 15, which we just heard part of, is one of the most important chapters in all of the Bible. It includes three of the most famous parables ever told. The three parables each deal with something that is lost. A lost sheep, a lost coin, and does anybody know what the third was? The lost son." [02:02] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Jesus cares about bringing them home. I love how the chapter begins. Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. We could write an entire message from the Bible. We could write an entire message from that one phrase. Tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around Jesus. That shows us two things. First of all, the tax collectors and the sinners were hungry for Christ's message. They were not coming out of idle curiosity or to merely observe or to find fault with him. They were coming out of deep spiritual need." [02:02] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "Think for a moment how different the narrative might have been if we read instead that the Pharisees and the teachers rejoiced that the tax collectors and sinners gathered to hear Jesus' teachings. That's the way the story ought to read. But there was something dark in the hearts of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, just as there was something dark in the hearts of the tax collectors and the sinners. At least the tax collectors and the sinners were aware of their need." [05:33] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Jesus does not want us to stay where we are comfortable. He told them these parables. Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one. Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. In the same way I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of angels of God over one sinner who repents. Now these two parables and the one that follows them about the prodigal son defines Jesus' mission in the world. Jesus came to seek and to save that which is lost. Period. That's the heart of the gospel." [05:33] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Jesus answered them, it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. That was Jesus' target audience. Everyone who has ever gone astray. Paul writes in his letter to Timothy, Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. That's the heart of the gospel and that's why it's called the good news of Jesus Christ. Why is it good news? Because we are all sinners." [07:27] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6. "We look at ourselves and we think to ourselves, we're pretty good folks compared to some others. Maybe we are. I think we are. Don't you? Pretty good. But that doesn't mean we've arrived. At heart, we still have a problem. There's a flaw, a weakness. Paul, once described his own situation. He said, I don't understand my own actions, for I do not do what I want to do. And I do the very things that I don't want to do. And I think he was describing at least some of us. He certainly was describing me sometimes." [09:20] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7. "There is a deep flaw within us that is what the Bible calls sin. A reporter once asked the great evangelist, Dwight L. Moody, what people gave him the most trouble? And immediately he answered, I have had more trouble with Dwight L. Moody than any other man alive. He was speaking for us, isn't he? We are sinners in need of a saintly, and those who have been found not lost. But that's not the way the world shapes up." [12:42] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
8. "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us. I'll say it again. There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us. And it's true. We take comfort in the fact that we are baptized believers in Jesus Christ, and we should take comfort in that. But it does not give us license to reject those who may not be as fortunate as we are." [12:42] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
9. "Do you understand that God weeps over his lost children just as those parents were weeping over their lost children in that tsunami? Listen again to how Jesus ends these parables. Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them doesn't he leave the 99 in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it and when he finds it he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home or suppose a woman has 10 silver coins and loses one doesn't she light a lamp sweep the house search carefully until she finds it God weeps over any of his children who are lost that is why it is important that we reach out to those who are lost as well." [14:39] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
10. "Imagine how the sinners and tax collectors felt as they listened to Jesus tell these stories because of their position in society they were the outcasts and estranged from family and polite company imagine their joy their relief their comfort in knowing that someone loved and accepted them that God was eagerly searching them out no wonder the tax collectors and sinners gathered to hear Jesus they knew what it was like to be lost and have no one looking for them society told them they were too unworthy to stand in the presence of the father and then here comes Jesus telling us that they are deeply loved they are valued they are precious in his sight and that God is eagerly seeking them to bring them back home it must have sounded too good to be true yet that is the gospel Jesus came to save the lost that is why it's called the good news of Jesus Christ." [16:29] (75 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "Jesus cares about bringing them home. I love how the chapter begins. Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. We could write an entire message from the Bible. We could write an entire message from that one phrase. Tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around Jesus. That shows us two things. First of all, the tax collectors and the sinners were hungry for Christ's message. They were not coming out of idle curiosity or to merely observe or to find fault with him. They were coming out of deep spiritual need." [02:02] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "Think for a moment how different the narrative might have been if we read instead that the Pharisees and the teachers rejoiced that the tax collectors and sinners gathered to hear Jesus' teachings. That's the way the story ought to read. But there was something dark in the hearts of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, just as there was something dark in the hearts of the tax collectors and the sinners. At least the tax collectors and the sinners were aware of their need." [05:33] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Jesus does not want us to stay where we are comfortable. He told them these parables. Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one. Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. In the same way I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of angels of God over one sinner who repents. Now these two parables and the one that follows them about the prodigal son defines Jesus' mission in the world. Jesus came to seek and to save that which is lost. Period. That's the heart of the gospel." [05:33] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Jesus answered them, it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. That was Jesus' target audience. Everyone who has ever gone astray. Paul writes in his letter to Timothy, Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. That's the heart of the gospel and that's why it's called the good news of Jesus Christ. Why is it good news? Because we are all sinners." [07:27] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6. "We look at ourselves and we think to ourselves, we're pretty good folks compared to some others. Maybe we are. I think we are. Don't you? Pretty good. But that doesn't mean we've arrived. At heart, we still have a problem. There's a flaw, a weakness. Paul, once described his own situation. He said, I don't understand my own actions, for I do not do what I want to do. And I do the very things that I don't want to do. And I think he was describing at least some of us. He certainly was describing me sometimes." [09:20] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7. "There is a deep flaw within us that is what the Bible calls sin. A reporter once asked the great evangelist, Dwight L. Moody, what people gave him the most trouble? And immediately he answered, I have had more trouble with Dwight L. Moody than any other man alive. He was speaking for us, isn't he? We are sinners in need of a saintly, and those who have been found not lost. But that's not the way the world shapes up." [12:42] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
8. "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us. I'll say it again. There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us. And it's true. We take comfort in the fact that we are baptized believers in Jesus Christ, and we should take comfort in that. But it does not give us license to reject those who may not be as fortunate as we are." [12:42] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
9. "Do you understand that God weeps over his lost children just as those parents were weeping over their lost children in that tsunami? Listen again to how Jesus ends these parables. Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them doesn't he leave the 99 in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it and when he finds it he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home or suppose a woman has 10 silver coins and loses one doesn't she light a lamp sweep the house search carefully until she finds it God weeps over any of his children who are lost that is why it is important that we reach out to those who are lost as well." [14:39] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
10. "Imagine how the sinners and tax collectors felt as they listened to Jesus tell these stories because of their position in society they were the outcasts and estranged from family and polite company imagine their joy their relief their comfort in knowing that someone loved and accepted them that God was eagerly searching them out no wonder the tax collectors and sinners gathered to hear Jesus they knew what it was like to be lost and have no one looking for them society told them they were too unworthy to stand in the presence of the father and then here comes Jesus telling us that they are deeply loved they are valued they are precious in his sight and that God is eagerly seeking them to bring them back home it must have sounded too good to be true yet that is the gospel Jesus came to save the lost that is why it's called the good news of Jesus Christ." [16:29] (75 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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