Another look at John 10.

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Beckworth

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PennEd said:
The other dude inadvertently made a great point.
What repenting did the lost coin do? It is the SEEKER that looks for it until it is found.

Would the Prodigal son have stayed away if God didn't discipline him and allow him to go through very rough times?
Suppose he invested part of his inheritance, and NEVER ran out, continued his prodigal living. Would he have EVER came to his senses and returned? Or was it God's discipline on His child that opened his eyes?
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The reason WHY he repented is not the question. The question is, can a child of God lose his salvation. And this parable of the lost sheep teaches us that they can. If they couldn’t lose their salvation, then why does the Holy Spirit describe the sheep as “lost”? He would just be temporarily misplaced.

These 3 parables are an answer to the scribes and Pharisees who criticized Jesus for eating with sinners. Jesus has already told them His purpose is to “seek the lost”, in Luke 19. These 3 parables teach several lessons—not just one. Jesus is showing them He is trying to save the lost. That’s why He came into the world in the first place. That’s why He eats with sinners. He’s trying to save them. The story of the lost sheep illustrates that. In the story of the prodigal son, another lesson from that story is that these Pharisees and scribes are like that older brother— self’-righteous and jealous. They do not want Jesus to make disciples. Jesus said they search the world to make one proselyte but make him 2 fold more the child of hell than before. In the one about the gold coins, it’s about the rejoicing in heaven over 1 sinner who. “Repents.” There is no salvation, nor restoration without repentance.
 
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Beckworth said:
Oh, no; I totally agree that the lost sheep ia Not the church; but disagree that the lost sheep is the nation of Israel. What makes you think this? Read the context. This story was told by Jesus to answer a criticism of Him by the Pharisees and scribes. They didn’t think He ought to eat with sinners. He tells this story to show that His mission here on earth is to seek the “lost” not the saved. The lost sheep is just a person who WAS in the fold of God but left and was lost.(spiritually). The lost lamb was a sinner”, like the kind that Jesus ate with. The lost sheep may represent a Jew, who is lost, they were the chosen people of God after all, but the main point of the story, asI see it, is to show the scribes and Pharisees that Jesus was sent to bring sinners back to the fold.
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He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Matthew 15:24
 
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