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Our sermon will be on Luke 14:15-24
We have a website: https://tahlequahworshipcenter.com/
We are recommending that everyone wears a mask for a week or two.
We have started Wednesday Night service back up
We will have a work day on 3/6/2022
Prayer requests
Coleman Family
Georgey
Dorcas
Cristy’s Grandparents
Sandra
Jim’s Son
Jack
Songs
Love Lifted Me
Little Is Much When God Is In It
How Great Thou Art
The Lost
A few years ago I went racing in the Broken Arrow area.
They had these electric carts that I know went over 50, I think they went 80.
They weren’t your everyday go-carts.
Anyway, I went one round and smoked everyone.
Then I ate some supper.
We had another round after that.
I got out there and got sick.
I just knew I was going to throw up in my helmet.
I had to quit in the middle of the round.
I got out and the guy watching the track said “Why are you stopping, you’re winning.”
I said, “I’m about to lose it”
I went straight to the bathroom.
I won’t tell you what happened in there.
I told you all that to tell you what happened after that.
I’m still really sick at my stomach and dizzy.
I must have had a mild sinus infection.
Anyway, I head up 169 to get home and somewhere along the way I get lost.
You can ask Cristy this, I never get lost.
Even in places that I don’t know, I don’t lose my cool.
I called Cristy.
I told her I didn’t know where i was.
I couldn’t see the signs very well.
Well, just having a voice I recognized on the phone with me helped.
I soon was able to see a sign and figure out I was in Owasso.
I hit an exit, turned around and got back on 44/412.
I was lost, but then I was found.
This week we had Sue’s funeral.
One of the things that I found out was that one of Sue’s favorite Bible stories is the story of the lost sheep.
I already had this sermon planned for today.
We are going to talk about:
The Lost
The Situation
Before this account, Jesus had been at a Pharisees house.
I’m assuming that he’s somewhere else now.
In verse 1, it says the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near.
One thing we know for sure is that one of his inner circle was Matthew.
He was a tax collector.
The fisherman were probably considered sinners.
So most of Jesus’ disciples were tax collectors or sinners.
What they didn’t understand is that all of us are sinners.
We’ll come back to that later
Here’s the truth, many people don’t understand the situation they are in.
We church people look down on those we consider sinners.
We ARE the sinners.
So Jesus is going to talk to us about his love for those who are lost.
He’s going to tell us 2 stories.
The Sheep
I know this is about sheep, but most of us don’t identify with them.
Except Sandra.
For those of us that don’t, think of the sheep as a baby calf.
They can’t do much for themselves.
They need us and their momma for everything.
We lost 2 calves last year.
For us, it’s a big loss, but we don’t depend on that income.
For someone back then, they depended on their sheep as income.
So finding a lost sheep was important.
Imagine someone finding their sheep and putting it on their back.
They would be happier than a camel on hump day.
What the pharisees are missing is that they should be happy that people are being saved.
They should be happy that people’s lives are being saved.
Instead they are saying he’s associating with them.
Heaven rejoices when someone who is lost is saved.
Here’s one last nugget - the shepherd had to go out away from the flock to find the lost sheep.
We have to go out.
The Silver
The first story talked about how much rejoicing there would be when a sinner is saved.
The second story talks about the thoroughness of the search.
I believe the first story is pointed toward the Pharisees, pointing out the fact that they need to be rejoicing.
This story is aimed at them but is especially aimed at the disciples and us.
Are we searching everywhere?
A while back, maybe a year ago, we lost the keys to our truck.
We searched through the couch, under the bed, in the yard.
We looked everywhere we thought it could be.
I don’t know if you know how much those keys cost, but they have to be programmed.
It cost over $200 to replace it.
The point is that we looked everywhere.
The coin was valuable to this woman.
It was probably worth a day’s wage.
She was happy she found, especially after so long a search.
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