[Focus Bible Study] Lesson #3: The Lost Sheep (Luke 15:1-7)

THE KING’S STORIES

THE LOST SHEEP LUKE 15:1-7

GOD PURSUES US “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all who wander are lost, The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

GOD PURSUES US “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.

All who found them have devoured them.”

Jeremiah 50:6-7 PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

GOD PURSUES US “Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her … For who is like me?

What shepherd can stand before me? … Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.”

Jeremiah 50:44-45 PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

GOD SAVES US “The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought...For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search out for my sheep and will seek them out.”

Ezekiel 34:4, 11 PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

GOD SAVES US “And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations. And they shall know that I am the LORD their God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the LORD God. And you are my sheep, human sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the LORD God.” Ezekiel 34:29-31 PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

GOD REJOICES OVER US “The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will exult over you with loud singing.”

Zephaniah 3:17 PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

GOD REJOICES OVER US “And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’

Just so, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.”

Luke 15:6-7 PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

THE KING’S STORIES

THE LOST SHEEP LUKE 15:1-7