Luke 15 – Lost & Found

Our Father seeks those who are lost – apart from Him despite His infinite and enduring love. When the legalistic leaders of Jewish society condemned Him for consorting with sinners and outcasts, Jesus told three parables illustrating God’s diligent outreach to His lost children. Perhaps the most well-known of these is the parable of the prodigal son. But in fact all of us are lost and estranged from God before we finally come to faith in Jesus’ Gospel and call upon the Name of Jesus for salvation. None of us is “good” apart from God, as we learn from the illustration of the “good” son in this parable who was shown to be just as lost as his prodigal brother.