The Parables of the Lost Sheep and Coin
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 30 November 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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In today’s First15, the last in our series on the parables, we’ll be looking at the parables of the lost sheep and coin. May you discover today how precious you are in the eyes of God. And may you be empowered to see yourself, your value, as he does.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's verse 15, the last in our series on the parables. |
| 0:09.0 | We'll be looking at the parables of the lost sheep and coin. |
| 0:14.0 | May you discover today how precious you are in the eyes of God. |
| 0:19.0 | And may you be empowered to see yourself, your value as he does. |
| 0:24.9 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 1:00.9 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Thank you. Our scripture for today comes from Luke 15, verses 4 through 7 and 8 through 10 scripture says what man of you having a hundred sheep if he has lost one of them does not leave the 99 in the open country and go after the one that is |
| 1:09.6 | lost until he finds it and And when he is found it, |
| 1:13.9 | he lays it on his shoulders rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and |
| 1:21.7 | his neighbors saying to them, rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost. |
| 1:28.9 | Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over |
| 1:36.0 | 99 righteous persons who need no repentance. |
| 1:40.8 | Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses loses one coin does not light a lamp and sweep the house |
| 1:49.5 | and seek diligently until she finds it and when she has found it she calls together her friends |
| 1:56.7 | and neighbors saying rejoice with me for i have found the coin that I had lost. |
| 2:04.2 | Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God |
| 2:08.6 | over one sinner who repents. |
| 2:14.1 | If the core of Jesus' teachings on the gospel could be summed up in two stories, |
| 2:19.3 | they would be the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin. |
| 2:24.3 | Both stories illustrate one crucially important truth. |
| 2:29.3 | God pursues us. |
| 2:32.3 | Both clearly display God's heart for us |
| 2:36.0 | in that He willingly and passionately |
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