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Sunday, May 19, 2024
8 “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? 9 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ 10 Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” —Luke 15:8–10
Why Does Jesus Care so Much?
1. We are the climax of creation
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” —Genesis 1:26
2. We bear the image of God
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. —Genesis 1:27
3. We are given God’s blessing and provision
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. —Genesis 1:28–29
The introduction of sin, confused God’s order, our image, and God’s blessing
The world doesn’t work as it should
Sin separated the center of God’s creation, so the world doesn’t
Sin separated God’s reflection in humanity, so the world doesn’t
Sin separated God’s blessing from all of creation, so the world doesn’t