Who's Your One 3: Not Foolish Just Focused

Micaiah Irmler

Luke 15:1-7 NLT

1 Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. 2 This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!3 So Jesus told them this story: 4 “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. 6 When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ 7 In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!

Key Thought: Leaving ninety-nine to go find one seems crazy unless you were that one or until you are that one.

I. the Ninety-Nine vs. 4

Don’t Mind Being Misunderstood

1. The Shepherd isn’t Foolish but
2. The Shepherd isn’t Crazy but has

II. Until the Sheep is Found. vs. 4

The shepherd doesn’t want to go home until you are home.

III. Brings them . vs. 4

Remember: God Doesn’t Put You Back

1. From the to the Family
2. Sheep don’t belong in a home.

IV. The Message is God’s but the is Ours vs. 7

Take Away: