The Lost Sheep, Coin, and Son – LUKE 15, 1 Chronicles 28.

This chapter begin with Yeshua choosing to sit with Tax collectors and Sinner. It’s funny that the parts of the bible start off with Yeshua choosing to welcome sinners.

To lose something according to word blink means you had something but no longer have it. You were going in the correct path but lost your way, you had something in your possession and no longer have it. It our fathers love for us when we lose our way to lead us back to him.

Luke 15 vs 10, 15, 20 and 24 all give a parable of something we have once lost, and how we react to loosing something of value. With Yeshua losing the life of a believer is the same, he values us so much he died for us. His stake is on the table, so he will be willing to forgive when we like the prodigal son turn back home (to repent) and say Father I have sinned against heaven and against you, Luke 15:21. (As David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan replied, “The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.), Hence, the father filled with compassion for his son, put his arm around him and kissed him.

And the father this son of mine was once dead and now alive Again. (Luke 15 vs 20, 32), he was lost and is found. the key word being ‘again‘.

The parable of the lost sheep connotates one who loses a sheep going out to find the sheep, the lost coin as one who loses coin/your money going back to find it. So, also a son went astray because he died spiritually but is now alive again. (Repentance)

When we come to Christ there’s a great celebration in fact a feast, you easily get good things because you were once dead but now alive. It’s like major events in our lives when we get into school there’s a matriculation and celebration until test and study comes, in marriage ceremony there are lots of celebration until the test in marriage. It’s the same way when you come to Christ, there is always celebration until test starts. In some test it takes 1 hour for the exam, some 5hrs depending on how skilled or smart you are in the preparing. You have to work some call it slave like the elder son. Some people will quit the exam, some will struggle, some will copy but the test must go on. In marriage, it similar some will quit, some struggle ultimately the work for the test must go on.

It’s the same with Yeshua when he first met the disciples, he caught basket of fish for them, and said I’d make you fishes of men, and when the bridegroom left (Yeshua) their ministry started.

The Elder Son

It was the older son from the parable complained about slaving for the father and not disobeying his order(s). In Luke 15:31 The father’s response was you are always with me and everything I have is yours. If you stay with someone long enough you feel less need to impress them not because you don’t care but because we can get the things we want easily and that’s familiarity. So, as he got his spiritual food from Yeshua.

We may suffer to put the work because with Yeshua it’s about the value we place towards his work. Read (Matthew 20:9), clearly the worker that came at the 11th hour worked more, than those at the 10th, we would like to believe, right or not. It’s just my assertion that with Yeshua, it’s not about the time we spend doing the work (slaving as the elder son would say) but our heart towards the work, the value we place on it, it’s the value he placed on the lost soul that repents.

It’s the same with Mary and Martha, the long hours used in service but ended up saying “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me! “Luke 10:38-42. The real question is if one’s heart is not in it to do a service to the lord why do it. The bible says ‘for he is the kind of person who is always thinking about the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you’, Proverbs 23:7. The key word is always the bible says in Luke 14: 28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it. it is ok to estimate the cost of something but not always. And if we willingly do something for Yeshua, we love why to compare it to what others are doing (the elder son to the prodigal son and the Mary and Martha). Yes, you may suffer to work, but a soul that is found will always be celebrated. 2 Samuel 24:24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So, David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them. Clearly David heart is in this offering.

David and Solomon (A father to a son) 1 Chronicles 28 Tells us of David who had planned for the temple in verse 11. who had it in his heart to build a house for Adonai, who asked for the timber from Hiram to build the timber (1 Chronicles 2 vs 11), who got the threshing floor and skilled labor for the temple (1 Chronicles 2 vs 14), who fought battles for Israel but didn’t get rest during his lifetime to build a nation? who gave the instruction for all the works of the servant to build the temple (1 Chronicles 28 vs 13), who designated the weight of Gold, who served God from his youth until he died? DAVID DID. However, his son Solomon built the house for Yahweh. Why because David was a warrior who had shed blood. Who had a longer walk with Yahweh David or Solomon? Yet David said in verse 19 ” I have in writing as a result of hashem’s hand on me, and this has enabled me understand all the details of the plan” Luke 17: 9 “Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do?”. If we work or slave, it’s to his glory for a temple not made with hands to be built.

Takeaway – Davids’s heart, Solomons Temple (The perfect temple with a heart from God and Wisdom for Yahweh).

From Father to Son, the father rose Yeshua, but Christ died for us. So, Solomon built, but David had a heart for Yahweh. “And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17, Who was God more pleased with David or Solomon, who did God call a man after his own heart? who did God leave a covenant with?

David slaved more yet Solomon built the temple and was celebrated more than his father. Today we say Solomon’s colonnade or Solomon’s temple not David’s heart.

In building a temple or a converting a soul, it matters not some much who works more hours but that a soul is won.

Here on earth our life consists of what we have, but with Yahweh, Yeshua said unto them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” Luke 12:15, I timothy 6:6.

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