Topic > THE LOST SHEEP, THE LOST MONEY AND THE LOST SON - 2253

During Jesus' life he taught in many different ways one of them told parables. The parable is an earthly story with heavenly meaning. This means that Jesus was making up a story in which there would be real people, doing something that was common in those days. Sometimes he used values, material or spiritual, that were precious in ancient times. So he was doing everything to make the story more realistic. But under the grip of the poor man or woman and under the animal or a subject there was always something much more complicated, something about his father, himself and the people who followed God or not. Jesus told the parable quite often, usually the audience was the publicans and the "lost" people who passed by and stopped to listen to the stories of Jesus. He told many, but I think the most important parables concern The Lost Sheep, The Coin lost and The Lost Son. Because those are the parables where he shows that God loves sinners. Those parables can only be read in Luke. The Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin are almost certainly thematically linked, along with the parable of the Lost Son, which follows them. Many think that The Lost Sheep and The Lost Coin are actually a double parable. The Russian Bible proves this. In it those parables are written under the same title. Luke places these parables as addressed both to tax collectors and sinners, and to the Pharisees and teachers of the law who complained about Jesus' association with those sinners. The parable thus becomes a response to the accusations of the Pharisees and at the same time an announcement of the joy of finding the lost. "Joachim Jeremias includes the parable of the lost coin as an "apologetic parable" or defense against critics of Jesus."1 Thus the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin are an apologia, or defense, against critics of Jesus, the Pharisees. At the same time, they are a proclamation of the good news to those who are lost. Reading the parable is not as easy as it seems at first glance. Jesus spoke to the people in such a way that they did not understand. He explained what he said to only a few, who had difficulty grasping it and sometimes denied it outright. There are many ways to understand or, better to say interpret, the parables of Jesus in a way and...... middle of paper......) hello gave him the spiritual resurrection and gave him back the power that the son had before. God's love for us is incomprehensible. When some people "did not welcome Jesus, James and John asked Jesus: "Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to destroy them?"12"13. Jesus then rebuked them. Jesus came to save sinners, not to destroy them. Heavenly Father loves the lost so much that He gave His most precious treasure, His Son, to die for the lost. Jesus loves the lost so much that He willingly died for the lost. The main idea of ​​these parables is that we must love the sinner as Jesus and his father loved him. We must not react to abuse with further abuse. We must act when we are abused, with love and we must be very careful not to “become a stumbling block to the lost.” Rather, we must become a stepping stone for the lost to reach Christ”14. This is only part of what the parables tell us. He also tells us not to have a judgmental attitude towards the lost. As the eldest son had done towards the youngest. The parable says to demonstrate our love for sinners by bringing them to the Savior. As Jesus did when he came to save the lost. So the main point of those parables is GOD LOVES SINNERS.