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Hendersonville Seventh-day Adventist Church, NC

Lost

David Wright

02 The Lost Coin

01 The Lost Sheep

03 The Lost Son

On Monday afternoon this past May, when Mother Kimmy Simmons could not find her three-year-old little girl, Athena.

She was not in a room where she had been playing prior, and she searched every room of the house in vain.

They lived in a tightly packed neighborhood in Lake Stevens in Washington, just about 30 miles north of Seattle on I-5, and Kimmie began to call all of her neighbors.

Have you seen her out in the street anywhere?

Let me call the neighbors down the street They were looking before long Hundreds were searching for the missing girl Asking around knocking on doors, the police were called, they got involved.

Trying to organize, where are we gonna go, how are we gonna do this, okay, as every minute it heightens a little bit more.

The county search and rescue team joined in.

They tried to organize the volunteers in this search.

How far, based on the time, could she have gotten on foot, they were asking.

Could she have wandered off into the woods nearby their home?

And if so, how far could she have traveled by now?

A helicopter was even called in and became part of the search for three-year-old Asana.

All the while, mother Kimmy Simmons saying things like, it just felt like my stomach dropped out, like my heart stopped beating, like all of a sudden I forgot how to breathe.

And then after 4 agonizing hours, Kimmy's hope that she would ever see her little girl again began to significantly wane.

All the easy solutions had been exasperated.

There was no way she was playing in a neighbor's room at this point.

Everyone in the whole area knew that something was going on.

Kimmy Simmons, the mother, had a sister that was there and she was up in the bedroom of 1 of Kimmy's sons.

It's a good reason to clean up your room, kids.

And as she tried to straighten the covers just a little bit, guess who was inside tucked under the covers of her brother's bed?

Completely unaware that anything was going on.

Didn't know that there was even a problem.

Unaware that she was lost, and of all places she was lost, where?

Today we're continuing our story, we're entitling Lost.

This is actually the second part, The Lost Sheep, The Lost Coin, and eventually we will get to The Lost Son.

But we are looking at this piece about the lost coin this morning.

You may recall from 2 weeks ago about the story, the parable, if you will, of the good shepherd that searches until he finds his lost sheep.

And He doesn't reprimand, he doesn't beat up the sheep, but he graciously carries the lamb home on his shoulders, perhaps tucked in his arms, Trying to calm and quiet the little sheep.

We looked at 3 beautiful characteristics of God last week, that God always initiates the seeking.

Secondly, we saw that God is gracious as seen in Romans 5 verse 8 that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

And when Jesus finds the lost, like I mentioned before, he doesn't scold, but he picks them up in his arms.

And thirdly, we saw that God loves to celebrate, a theme that we will see in these very well-known parables.

Often we think of them as parables for children, but they have huge impacts on us as adults as well.

As we see a God that loves to celebrate, loves to rejoice over the lost, that was found.

I can't imagine heaven throwing a party for me.

But they did and But they did, and they did it for you too.

We saw that it is the heart of Christ, And if it's the heart of Jesus, it really ought to be our heart as well.

If we're going to be like Him, then we need to tenaciously pursue the lost, to be abundantly gracious with people.

And to celebrate with heaven over 1 sinner that repents That was last time But this time we're continuing on And we're looking at the parable now of the lost coin.

He told them in succession, 1 right after the next.

And just as a reminder, he's talking to the Pharisees and the scribes that complained.

Because Jesus hung out with the wrong crowd at times.

He was surrounded by tax collectors and sinners.

He wasn't participating in their sinful practices, but was offering them a way out.

And obviously he did it in such a winsome way, we read last time, that this crowd, these sinners if you will, were attracted to him and enjoyed listening to him.

When those people want to hang out with church people, praise the Lord.

And so Jesus had just finished the story of the lost sheep.

He was sought after by the good shepherd and brought home with much celebration and then he goes right into this second story and so we'll pick that up.

We're in Luke chapter 15 and we're just looking at 3 verses this morning.

We read there, or what woman having 10 silver coins, if she loses 1 coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

Verse 9, and when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together saying, rejoice with me, for I have found the peace which I lost.

Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over 1 sinner who repents.

So going back to verse 8, reading it now a little bit more microscopically, or what woman having 10 silver coins?

Some have thought that the coins were part of a 10-piece dowry that would be worn by married women, and when a coin was lost, It meant some significant things in regards to her marriage, her reputation, and various things.

Now the coin doesn't know that it's lost.

And we see here that the coin is lost in the home, which is opposite, or different I could say, of the sheep that knows he is lost, that knows she is lost, but does not know the way back.

The coin does not have any capacity, if you will, to understand its lost condition.

It's in some unconsciousness or unconscious state, unconscious of its spiritual state.

And we could say their souls are certainly in peril, but they are both unconscious and unconcerned.

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