Parable of the Lost Sheep — Jesus Loves the Lost! — Lessons from Luke 15 #1

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Luke 15:3-7

³ Then Jesus told them this parable:

⁴ “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?
⁵ And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders
⁶ and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
⁷ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

 Luke 15:3-7

“The Ninety and Nine” by Elizabeth C. Clephane (1868)

There were ninety and nine that safely lay
In the shelter of the fold.
But one was out on the hills away,
Far off from the gates of gold.
Away on the mountains wild and bare.
Away from the tender Shepherd’s care.
Away from the tender Shepherd’s care.

Hymn of Christ’s Parable of the Lost Sheep!

References & Reflections

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Lost_Sheep
[2] https://chongsoonkim.blogspot.com/2013/11/i-was-lost-and-now-found.html
[3] https://dwellingintheword.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/2031-luke-15/
[4] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+15
[5] http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/n/i/90_and_9.htm