Few stories reveal the heart of God for sinners, like the triplet of parables found in Luke 15.

With the parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son, we see God's heart to bring sinners home to himself.

And to demonstrate his great love for sinners, God gave up His Son, Jesus Christ, so that

you and I could become His sons and daughters by faith.

Let's join Scott Pauli now as we study Luke 15.

No one has ever been more effective at telling a story to send home a message than the Lord Jesus Christ was. In fact, the people that heard him would say, never a man spake like

this man. There was authority in the words of

jesus and at the same time there was a beautiful simplicity and clarity uh the simplest people in the

crowd the most uneducated people in the multitude could understand what he was saying and then on the

other end of the most educated the most well thought of people on the crowd

were being instructed, were being given wisdom that they had not yet understood.

Only Jesus could do that.

We've returned today to Luke chapter 15 to one of our Lord's most famous parables.

Of all the stories he told,

the story of the lost, the parable of the lost sheep and the lost coin and the lost son

is recorded for us in Luke chapter number 15.

Now, the most famous part of that, of course, is the prodigal son.

I'll show you by the time we get to the end of the chapter, there actually were two of them.

There was one boy lost in the far country and another one lost at home.

So the whole chapter is really not about this prodigal son.

It is about the fact that all people are lost without God and that Jesus Christ has come to bring us home.

We laid the foundation in the opening verses of Luke 15.

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