Explaining Luke
Chapter 15 explains the seeking and uniting. God seeks to unite humanity to himself. In this chapter we see three main examples; seeking/finding the talent, finding the lost sheep and finally the unity of the prodigal son with his father. In the following verses, Jesus presents three parables to help the Pharisees and scribes understand the relationship He has with sinners. Jesus is speaking with two groups: The tax collector and sinner, and the Pharisees and Scribes, who had a problem with how he related to sinful people. He gives three different parables about seeking what is lost because what is lost seems to be very important. In these parables, Jesus tells us about the man who searches for the lost sheep, the women who …show more content…
The three different parables about seeking what is lost are very important. It is how we live in God. We remove our life from this visible world to that world which is not seen by exchanging, not the place, but the very life itself and its mode. It was not we ourselves, who were moved towards God, nor did we ascend to Him; but it was He who came and descended to us. It was not we who sought, but we were the object of His seeking. The sheep did not seek for the shepherd, nor did the lost coin search for the master of the house; He it was who came to the earth and retrieved His own image, and He came to the place where the sheep was straying and lifted it up and stopped it from straying. He did not remove us from here, but He made us heavenly while yet remaining in earth and imparted to us the heavenly life without leading us up to heavens, but by bending heaven to us and bringing it down. As the prophet says,” He bowed the heavens also, and came down.” (Ps. …show more content…
God loves everyone and especially the once who are in need and are weak. The bible doesn’t say God loved good people. Nor those that would love him back. God loves the unlovable and the lonely alike as well. He loves the lonely one who has no one else to love him, He loves the one who loves God, and He loves the one who never thinks about God. He loves everyone. For example; when the Lord Jesus, God in a body, was hanging on the cross, dying for the whole world, He turned to one of the thieves next to Him. The thief expressed His faith in what Christ was doing. Jesus said to him, “Today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). God dying for the whole world and forgiving one individual in the process just as He reached out to the thief on the cross in the midst of his great universal sacrifice for humanity, He reaches out to us with His love today.
What led to the return of the son to his father’s house that the son lived a sinful life, but then he realized what he did was wrong and went back to his father to beg for forgiveness. Jesus wanted to teach His disciples that no matter how much they sinned in life, if they came back to God, and asked for forgiveness, He will be able to forgive you and welcome you back no matter what. God is a forgiving God. God forgives those who asks for repentance and is able to not go back to commit that sin again. Christ came to die for our sins in order to open a way for
Chapter 15 explains the seeking and uniting. God seeks to unite humanity to himself. In this chapter we see three main examples; seeking/finding the talent, finding the lost sheep and finally the unity of the prodigal son with his father. In the following verses, Jesus presents three parables to help the Pharisees and scribes understand the relationship He has with sinners. Jesus is speaking with two groups: The tax collector and sinner, and the Pharisees and Scribes, who had a problem with how he related to sinful people. He gives three different parables about seeking what is lost because what is lost seems to be very important. In these parables, Jesus tells us about the man who searches for the lost sheep, the women who …show more content…
The three different parables about seeking what is lost are very important. It is how we live in God. We remove our life from this visible world to that world which is not seen by exchanging, not the place, but the very life itself and its mode. It was not we ourselves, who were moved towards God, nor did we ascend to Him; but it was He who came and descended to us. It was not we who sought, but we were the object of His seeking. The sheep did not seek for the shepherd, nor did the lost coin search for the master of the house; He it was who came to the earth and retrieved His own image, and He came to the place where the sheep was straying and lifted it up and stopped it from straying. He did not remove us from here, but He made us heavenly while yet remaining in earth and imparted to us the heavenly life without leading us up to heavens, but by bending heaven to us and bringing it down. As the prophet says,” He bowed the heavens also, and came down.” (Ps. …show more content…
God loves everyone and especially the once who are in need and are weak. The bible doesn’t say God loved good people. Nor those that would love him back. God loves the unlovable and the lonely alike as well. He loves the lonely one who has no one else to love him, He loves the one who loves God, and He loves the one who never thinks about God. He loves everyone. For example; when the Lord Jesus, God in a body, was hanging on the cross, dying for the whole world, He turned to one of the thieves next to Him. The thief expressed His faith in what Christ was doing. Jesus said to him, “Today you will be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). God dying for the whole world and forgiving one individual in the process just as He reached out to the thief on the cross in the midst of his great universal sacrifice for humanity, He reaches out to us with His love today.
What led to the return of the son to his father’s house that the son lived a sinful life, but then he realized what he did was wrong and went back to his father to beg for forgiveness. Jesus wanted to teach His disciples that no matter how much they sinned in life, if they came back to God, and asked for forgiveness, He will be able to forgive you and welcome you back no matter what. God is a forgiving God. God forgives those who asks for repentance and is able to not go back to commit that sin again. Christ came to die for our sins in order to open a way for