Luke 15:1–32
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Have you misplaced your joy? Has it become easier to complain than to laugh? Do you wake up, hoping only to make it through another day?
Good News, we have found your joy! Today we gather for God’s glory and our good.
We can share God’s Joy, when He Receives Glory. God receives Glory, when we trust His plan of restoring our lives to His design. Repentance is a change of live resulting from a change of mind and attitude concerning GOd’s design for our lives.
Jerry Vines says, “If Jesus isn’t enough, you will become a bitter old Christian!”
“These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
When we lose something, we look for it. When we find it we rejoice. When we lose our joy, we should search for it, and when we find it we should rejoice.
Jesus, Luke 15:1–32 teaches us that when we lose our joy in the christian life we should seek for it, restore it, and enjoy it. God’s rejoices, when he receives glory. God receives glory, when sinners repent. Jesus combines three parables together to reveal the secret to finding our lost joy. First:
Jesus Warns Us that Complacency and Complaining prevents Finding Lost Joy.
Jesus Warns Us that Complacency and Complaining prevents Finding Lost Joy.
Complacency produces Complaining, Complaining prevents you from sharing God’s joy, over sinners repenting.
The easiest way not to fix a problem is to complain about it. If you have lost your joy you must look for it. When you find it share your joy with others. Joy is not to be enjoyed in a vacuum. God desires that we share His joy, when He receives glory.
Our true happiness, depends on how we enjoy God’s goodness. Our Joy is only complete when we share God’s joy.
God rejoices more over the one repentant sinner, than the 99 complacent believers, in the pews.
God rejoices more over the one repentant sinner, than the 99 complacent believers, in the pews.
Losing a $1 when you have a $100 does not seem like a big lost. But to God losing one soul, He created, is a big deal.
You were so valuable, that God himself came to seek and find you, in your lostness.
Jesus personally came to seek and save you.
You are important to God. You are valuable to God. God created you in His image. God desires to restore His image in you no matter how marred you are.
When Jesus finds you, He restores you, and invites all His friends to rejoice with him.
Friends, God is not forgetting about you when the attention shines on someone, whom He has just redeemed and restored. He is inviting you to celebrate with Him, in His joy.
Your Salvation cost Jesus everything, shouldn’t someone else’s salvation cost you a little something. It may cost you the spotlight for a little while, as Jesus rejoices over finding a lost soul.
God’s progressive plan of salvation will sometimes cost you to step into the spotlight. Finding joy may cost you your comfort, and move you out of complacency.
We should repent if we have failed to realize that God desires we celebrate His victories. God’s glory brings us our joy. GOD receives Glory when one sinner repents.
You may not know God values you so much that He gave up everything to redeem you (15:4).
You may need to repent if you are not here to hear from God (15:1).
You may have forgotten the cost of your redemption (15:5). Repentance may put us in the spotlight. Repentance may call us out of complacency and cost us some humility. Christ humbled Himself, by coming to earth and walking upon sinners to save save the lost.
God will stop everything to accomplish redemption.
God will stop everything to accomplish redemption.
The shepherd lost 1% but Jesus tells of a lady who lost 10% of her joy. This lady lost a day’s pay. If you make $12.50 per hour, It would be like cashing you two week pay check, and misplacing a days pay. Losing $100 would matter to you. You would trash your car, turn house upside down, retrace all your steps looking for your $100. So, when we lose our joy in the Christian life, why don’t we look for it?
What would you do? I would stop everything, until I find my $100.
We sometimes fail to find our joy, because we are so independent. We suffer in silence or Complain and blame everyone and everything else, for our unhappiness. This women looks for her coin alone, but when she finds it she has a public celebration. The Christian life is meant to be shared with God and God’s people. We find our joy, by sharing in the wins and recovered loses with others.
Jesus say their is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner, who repents. Give God credit fro the joys of recovered losses.
God’s Compassion Calls for celebration
God’s Compassion Calls for celebration
Finally, Jesus, ask, how much would you rejoice if you lost 50% of everything you hold near and dear? The story of the prodigal son is a parable of a man who has only two sons and he loses one.
The Father not only waits and searches, but He celebrates when He can restore the lost son.
We can buy happiness, because true joy is the gift of God.
How often do we try to buy our way back into the joy of God? In the movie “Legends of the Fall,” culture teaches us that we are restored to a Father’s grace, when we restore what we have taken.
The Bible teaches that God’s grace restores us, because we have lost everything He has given us.
You cannot buy something that God’s freely gives. Jesus paid the cost of our redemption. God freely gives us all that is Jesus’.
God Restores Our Joy, when We rejoice and Celebrate with Him.
God Restores Our Joy, when We rejoice and Celebrate with Him.
We lose our joy, when don’t don’t realize, where it has always been.
Joy may costs us the spotlight.
Joy must be shared, to be fully enjoyed.
Joy is recovered in God’s victories.
God says we have to celebrate, when a brother or sister is restored to life, through repentance and trust in Jesus’ search and rescue mission.
Jesus paid it all, so we can enjoy it all.