Five Words to Live By: Lost By: Dr David Jeremiah For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. --Luke 19:10 Recommended Reading: Luke 15:3-7 Jesus said His mission was to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10). The Jews to whom He said those words were confused. How could they be lost? After all, they were the chosen people of God. People today who hear the biblical term lost have an equally hard time comprehending the meaning. Lost from who or what? In the Jews case, God had rebuked the spiritual leaders of Israel, her shepherds, for allowing their sheep to wander off into carnality and captivity. He said through the prophet Ezekiel, I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away (Ezekiel 34:16). The Jews were lost because they had wandered away from God and they needed to be found. Thats what Jesus meant in the three parables He told about the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son (Luke 15:3-32). Jesus was fulfilling Gods promise to seek the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 10:6; 15:24). But His mission was extended to all of Gods creation -- to reconcile the world back to God (2 Corinthians 5:18-20). If you are apart from Christ, you are lost. But Christ has come to seek and save you today. I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word lost. --Charles H. Spurgeon
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:59:29 +0000
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