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Jesus was always doing His Father’s will when He came to earth, with the purpose of saving people and bringing them into a relationship with God. Jesus said: “He came to seek and to save the lost.” This needs to be our purpose in life: to seek out people who need Jesus and to lead them to Jesus so that He can save them from their sins.
As we begin to look at Luke 15, we see Jesus’ priority: to save lost people! Jesus gives three parables that show us His priority is saving people from their sin. If you are going to save people, you first have to seek them out. You have to develop a relationship with them.
In Luke 15: 1-2; “Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that He was associating with such sinful people – even eating with them.”
We see the issue that the church is still dealing with today. Have we lost our purpose of reaching lost people? Jesus was spending time with sinners, and the religious people were upset with Jesus. Why is He a godly man, spending time with sinners? So the religious people are complaining that Jesus is not with them, but with sinners?
Jesus was living on purpose and not just associating with sinners; He was on task. He was building relationships with people so that they would see the love of Jesus. Jesus was not compromising; He was commissioned to reach lost people. How can you reach lost people if you are not with lost people?
How can we shine like light if we are only light in church? We need to be the light of the World, like Jesus! Light needs to shine in the darkness.
Today, are we really desiring to be like Jesus, or are we more like the religious people? I pray that I would be so aware of lost people who need Jesus! Help me see and begin to form relationships with people who need the Savior!
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His One and Only Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16. This is still the purpose of Jesus today!
