Find Luke 15 in your Bibles. I'm Trevor Davis. I'm GCC's pastor, or as the leg says, Pastor Davis. Thank you, Elder Fedorenko. Be formal today.

Well, when those elders pray for me, it does something to my soul. We start a new series today. It's a very important series. It's going to prepare our church for the biggest Sunday of the year. Every year is Easter Sunday in our church.

But let me tell you, before I get to my notes, what's been happening over the last year and a half or so? God's rebuilding and reshaping the culture of our church to be more biblical. And one of the ways he did it is the Lord Jesus said that his house shall be called a house of prayer for the nations. And then it's as if the spirit of God asked us as leaders, do you think that when Great Commission Church gathers that it's a house of prayer? And about 18 months ago or so, the honest answer to that question would have been no.

Our prayers would have been kind of just token prayers. Maybe not many of them. We didn't have a prayer ministry. And so by God's grace, we set about to rebuild a culture of prayer in our church. And now it is established, we have a large army of prayer ministry team members in our small groups in our Sunday gatherings.

If you come here and the sermon doesn't really touch exactly what's going on in your life or if the music was good but you didn't sing about what's going on in your heart and you need something from God, you can be prayed for every week. You don't have to be a member of our church. This could be your first Sunday. If you want us to pray for you, we will. And the Lord has given us special grace and special power.

And the Lord has been blessing us so that if we lay our hands on the sick or the injured and pray for them, he's shown his loving kindness in so many ways that people are saying, I've been healed in this room when people prayed for me. Or maybe there was some kind of stronghold in their life or some kind of suffering, maybe some emotional suffering, maybe sometimes even suffering mentally. And we've watched the Lord through the loving prayers of the saints, begin to bring the grace of God to bear in people's lives. And he begins to lift these heavy things off of us and break these strongholds. And so we set about to create a culture of prayer by God's grace, and he did it.

That's not perfect, but it's established. It's here. And now, as we start this series called who Is yous One? A little harder work is in front of us, and that is to rebuild a culture of soul winning, to rebuild a commitment to evangelism, to reaching out to those who don't know the Lord and help them come to meet Jesus in saving faith. That's what this series is going to be about.

And today In Luke chapter 15, we're just going to look at a short story Jesus told in response to some criticism he received. And this series, who Is yous One? I've called this message bring Them Home, Having the heart of a Shepherd. So as you look at Luke 15 in your Bible, let me introduce this to you. We live in a world obsessed with numbers, do we not?

The bigger the crowd, the larger and greater the success. The more followers on social media, the more influence we have. But Jesus tells us something different. He's not just about the multitude. He's also about the One.

He notices the One. He values the One, and he pursues the One. And I want you to repeat after me say one aware. I want to teach us in the next four weeks that as we rebuild this culture in our church, that our church is going to become one aware. To be one aware means to have a heart like Jesus Christ, because he was one aware.

A heart that sees the individual in the crowd, a heart that seeks the lost, and a heart that rejoices over even one soul that is brought back home. So today, let's explore one of the parables of Jesus. And Jesus didn't just tell parables or stories by saying, hey, everybody, gather around. I've got a cool story to tell you. Typically, when he's telling these parables, it's in response to something somebody did or said around him.

Jesus, Parable of the lost Sheep is for us to learn what it means to truly be one aware. And the Lord spoke this parable responding to the religious leaders who were complaining about him because he was eating with tax collectors and sinners. He was hanging out with the wrong crowd in their minds. So Jesus turns to these religious leaders, they're called Pharisees. And he basically says, look, if you really understood God's heart, you wouldn't be complaining about me, you'd be searching with me.

And he tells this story to make the point clear. I'm going to read it for us now. Luke 15, 4, 5, 6, and then we'll have seven a little bit later. What man of you having a hundred sheep? If he loses one of them does not leave the 99 in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost until he finds it.

And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors saying to them, rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost. These are the words of the Lord Jesus. Let's bow in prayer together. Father, I thank you today for the gathering of the saints.

Old faces, new faces, young faces, aging faces. God, you put your church together again and you brought us together. This is always a miracle that I can't get over. You do it all the time. This is your day.

God, I pray that our church would have a hungry heart. I pray you'd give them ears to hear. I pray, God, that you would inspire us to be one aware today. And we ask that you not let the enemy steal the seed that's going to be planted at the preaching of your word. In Jesus name.

And a grateful church said, Amen. So let me tell you what this parable does. In this parable, Jesus gives us five instructions. And you note takers, you're going to love this. Just a list of five, five instructions about how to have the heart of a shepherd.

If you're ready, say yes, I'm almost ready.

Number one, recognize the urgency. This is what Jesus will tell us, that a sheep is lost. This is a big deal. It's an emergency. Our Lord notes the undivided love of this shepherd.

If he loses one of them, Jesus says, so, you know, one out of 100, you still got most. You have the overwhelming majority of your flock still intact. But does the shepherd say, well, I still have 99. Most of my flock is still here. The percentages are still in my favor.

Does he say that? No. You want to know why? Because the shepherd knows that one sheep matters. And a lost sheep is not just wandering, friends, it's in danger.

Sheep are not like other animals. Raise your hand if you're a dog person in here. Look at all the dog people now. Raise your hand if you're a cat person. All right, we're have prayer ministry after the service for you, okay?

So you can work on that. Every time I make a cat joke, and I've done it for 26 years straight, somebody always writes on a ministry card. They're like, I'm never coming back. You're mean. I love cats.

I'm like, I love two cats too. It's just a joke. But here's the deal. We know dogs and cats we know that they can handle themselves when they're cornered, but not sheep. They lack natural defenses.

They don't have sharp claws. They don't have swift legs. Sheep are not athletic animals, and they lack keen instincts for survival. They're so dumb, they don't even know when they're in danger. And once they're separated from the flock, they become completely vulnerable to every predator.

They are then prone to any kind of injury. And you know what happens to a sheep that is separated from the flock. And eventually, if no one goes after, starves to death. Let me say it this way. A lost sheep is a dead sheep unless someone rescues.

And while you're writing that down, I want you to connect another dot, and that is this is how the Lord Jesus sees people who are lost in their sins and unsaved. A lost person is a dead person unless someone evangelizes him or her. You see the Lord, he doesn't look on the outward appearance. He sees beyond that. He sees beyond the confidence of the person who doesn't believe in him.

He sees beyond the success of that lost sheep. He even sees beyond the defiance in the heart of that person who doesn't believe in him. But spiritually, the lost are in grave danger.

There's an urgency here. Whether they know this or not, whether they recognize it or not, lost sheep are headed toward judgment. It's if Jesus words are true, and I think we all agree they are, a lost person is going to be separated from God for eternity in the lake of fire, a place that the Bible says was created for the devil and his angels because of their rebellion against God. And then we come along and do the same thing.

How can we be indifferent, knowing people around us are far from God and heading for a devil's hell? How can we not care? And now I want to ask you, is there a lost sheep in your life? Who do you know that needs Jesus? Because their situation is urgent and we must go after them.

A sheep is lost. We must recognize that urgency means understanding two things. You ready? Number one, urgency means that eternity is at stake. We're not just talking about if we don't hurry up, the rest of their life's going to be bad.

The next 20 years is going to be awful for them. If we don't hurry up, the next 20 billion years times 20 billion years will be terrible. There's an urgency that churches lose because we get focused on the 99. Now, God loves the 99, doesn't He? Yes or no.

But he also loves the one. It's not either or, it's both. And so urgency means eternity is at stake. And it means they're running out of time. I got word last week that a friend of mine, one of his siblings, just dropped dead at work.

Not sick, necessarily, just it was time for the number to be called. You know, God's appointed your birthday, and he's also appointed your death day. And you don't know when your death day is. And if you assume it's a long time from now, you haven't figured this thing out. Life is a vapor, James says.

It's like the exhaust coming out of the tailpipe of your vehicle on a cold winter's day. You can see it, and then it's gone. The next world is the one worth living for. Recognize the urgency. Here's the second instruction from Jesus in the parable.

Take responsibility. In the parable, the shepherd goes after the sheep. In fact, Jesus remarks about this shepherd, quote, does he not leave the 99 in the wilderness to go after the 1 that's lost? Let me tell you, our church is so good at the 99, I don't know a better one, that if you get in here and become part of the congregation and get involved, your soul, for the most part, is going to be cared for. Your presence is going to be celebrated, your absence is going to be recognized, and someone is going to care for your soul.

And if you stray away from God, we just chase right after you. It's good to be in our 99. It's so good that we can get used to how it is around here. We can get accustomed to whatever standard or level of excellence there is in music and preaching and children's ministry and small groups and all of that. You look up and time's on fast forward.

You haven't thought about a single one. And so will the shepherd. So Jesus says, won't he leave the 99 in the wilderness? And here's what I want to tell you. Our 99 are so cared for that we can leave you for a little bit.

We can leave you because we've got an army of staff and elders and deacons and deaconesses and small group leaders. And while we're going and pursuing the 1, the 99 is going to be cared for so we don't have to worry about that. That's why Jesus says, I want you to lead the 99 and go after the 1. Let me ask you this about this sheep. Will the sheep find its way back home after it's enjoyed sowing its wild oats?

Having freedom for the first time in the big, scary wilderness and enjoying the pleasures of its own autonomy, that you're not the boss of me and nobody's telling me what to do. Will that sheep just eventually go, you know what? It's time to go back home. The answer is no. The shepherd has to go after it.

Friends, seeking the lost is our job as the church. It's not just for pastors and missionaries. It's for every follower of Jesus. It's so important that Jesus gave us this command. In the first five books of the New Testament, in Matthew, go into all the world and make disciples of all the people groups.

In Mark, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. In Luke, this gospel of the kingdom will be preached to the ends of the earth, and then the end will come in John, as the Father has sent me, Jesus said, so I send you. And in Acts, chapter 1 8, he says, when you'll receive power, when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. This is our mission. It's every believer's responsibility.

So if someone in your life is without the knowledge of Jesus, if someone in your life is without saving faith, if someone in your life is without eternal life and you have a real connection to this person and they live within a reasonable amount of mileage to become a part of our group and become a part of our congregation, if all that's true about you, do you believe it's someone else's job to reach that person?

Isn't it your mission? So go after them. Take responsibility.

Somebody read this poem in a message I heard as a teenager, maybe I've been a Christian maybe a year and a half. I've never forgotten it. I always remembered the first line of it. I didn't know who wrote it. When I googled the first line of it, it just came out everywhere.

And lots of it's attributed to lots of people. So I'm just going to call it anonymous. But after the first service, I read this poem and people came to me because who wrote it? Who wrote it? Who wrote it?

I don't know. Google, I guess. I don't know. Google wrote it 1990.

But I've never really gotten over this poem before I read it to you. I want you to think about this. On that last day, on the last day of humans living on this planet, when Jesus says, it's time and it's over, and after that, to face judgment. What if there's a long line of the dead. We're all in the line, saved and unsaved.

And as we're walking forward toward the throne of God, the line forks. And off to my left are those who didn't know the Lord. And off to the left is the great white throne, Judgment. And that's where everybody who didn't believe in Jesus is sentenced to eternal judgment forever. And the line that forks to the right goes to the bema seat, Judgment, the judgment seat of Jesus, where every believer gives an account of how you lived your life before your savior, Jesus.

Of all the deeds done in the flesh, whether good or bad, the New Testament says, but we start in the same line. And what if right when you get up to the line where it forks, and because you're a Christian, you get to go off to the right? What if your loved ones and your best friends from work and high school and college and the soccer mom with you and the hunting buddy with you, and the guy that's in the hunting club and the ones that meet you down at the bar to watch the game, those people you know and love. What if as you go to the right, they have to go to the left and they turn and they see you? Here's the poem, my friend.

I stand in judgment now and feel that you're to blame somehow on earth I walked with you day by day, and never did you point the way. You knew the Lord in truth and glory, but never did you tell the story. My knowledge then was very dim. You could have led me safe to him. Though we lived together on the earth.

You never told me of the second birthday. And now I stand this day condemned. One reason you failed to mention him. You taught me many things, that's true. I called you friend and trusted you.

But I learned now that it's too late. You could have kept me from this fate. We walked by day and talked by night, and yet you showed me not the light. You let me live and love and die. You knew I'd never live on high.

Yes, I called you a friend in life and trusted you through joy and strife. And yet on coming to the end, I cannot now call you my friend.

Take responsibility. The shepherd goes after the sheep. Number three. Commit to the search.

Jesus would say, don't stop till you find them. Commit to the search, Jesus said, this shepherd searches until he finds it.

You know what that means? That means that a real shepherd doesn't just go looking for a lost sheep, do a quick scan of the area and then give up. He doesn't shrug his shoulders and say, well, you know, I tried. I gave it the old effort. No, a shepherd keeps looking.

He stays on the move. He's relentless. Because the lost sheep matters. And may I say to us very boldly, this must become our church's resolve. I insist on it.

I insist that we obey Jesus. But the question is, how often do we give up too soon? You know, we might pray for someone for a little while, but then we don't see an immediate change. And so we stop. Or we invite them to church once or twice.

Easter, Mother's Day, to your child's baptism. But when they don't show interest, we move on. And the truth is, it's easy to let discouragement make us quit. But our example is not our own weakness. Our example is Jesus.

And Jesus is persistent. So you keep praying and you keep reaching out and write this down. Note takers. The search isn't over until the lost are found. So, look, I'm looking for my one until the day I die.

When I win one, I'm getting another one. And when I win one, I'm getting another one. Because if there's one thing you can't do in heaven, it's convince a sinner to believe in Jesus. It'll be too late. We get the joy of doing this here.

And may I say to you, somebody did it for you. Somebody heard a sermon like this, started praying for your soul, and here you are.

Keep loving them, even when it seems like nothing is changing. As Jesus said when he taught us about prayer, ask, seek, knock, a S K. He told us to keep knocking because eventually doors open.

So you commit to the search. Number four. Oh, we're running out of our list of five. You're getting ready to have all the truth, and it's going to be on you. Ready?

Number four, Carry the burden. Be willing to do the hard work. Look, if it was easy for a church to be evangelistic and win people to the Lord and bring ones in all the time, everybody would do it. Do you know what the average size of the average congregation in America is? 80% of the evangelical churches in America have 80 people in them or less.

The overwhelming majority of the evangelical churches in America didn't baptize one person last year. I mean, I think I'd have pushed my wife in the tank just to get one. And she knows the Lord.

You know what the enemy's done. He said, I'll just make sure that America's rich with wealth and they can have all the Bible teaching they need. It doesn't threaten my kingdom at all. But what threatens the kingdom of darkness is a praying, witnessing church.

So we carry this burden. Luke 15:5 gives us a powerful image. Jesus says when he's found it, he lays it on his shoulders. And if it was me, I lay it on my shoulder. Grunting, sighing no, he lays it on his shoulders.

What rejoicing. Let me tell you what he's just done. He's just climbed up and down mountain hills. He's walked for miles and miles around. He's gone and fanned out.

Gone this way, had to retrace his steps. Gone this way. Two ridges ago, he turned his ankle. He's gone through briars. He's tripped and fallen on rocks.

He's all bruised, he's bleeding. If they had canteens back then. He's almost out of water.

But he hears something in the distance. He hears the cry of one of his female sheep. And he finds her. And she's on the edge of the riverbed. Her wool is caught in briars.

It's just barely holding up. And the current of the river is just flowing over her coat of wool, and it's making her heavier and heavier. And he gets there just in time. Because if she falls in that water, it's over. And he lifts her out of there, his wounded body and all.

He has to take time in his bare hands and get her untangled from the briars that she was in. Now they're both bleeding. He lifts her double weighted wet body over onto his shoulders. And he turns and looks, and he sees how far he's got to go back. And Jesus says, the heart of a shepherd rejoices in this.

He doesn't complain. He doesn't say it's too hard. He doesn't say, you didn't give me enough time to change my schedule. He puts the sheep on his shoulders and he rejoices. And he can't wait to get back home.

Here's something surprising. Lost sheep don't make it easy, do they? They don't just walk back home. They're scared. They're exhausted.

Sometimes they're too stubborn to move. But the shepherd doesn't just lead the sheep home. He carries it. And may I say to you, helping someone come to Jesus is no different. It takes time.

It takes patience. And I don't know another way to say it, it takes work. I wrote in my note, there's a burden to carry. Evangelism is more often than not, inconvenient. We won't rebuild the culture of our church and become a witnessing, gathering church like this.

If our solution is we'll just add this to our already full schedule. If we want to be a different kind of church, and if you want to make a difference in the life of your one, it requires that you change you, that you alter your schedule, that you change your priorities. It's never going to be convenient. It's just always going to be worth it. You know, my friends, the Arnolds are here.

They love the Lord. God was good to us when he brought them to our church. And I heard this story, I verified it with them in the hallway in the lobby between services. So Christian was out there at the park one day in the city park, and she. She sees a gal and she introduces herself and they kind of become friends on the spot.

And she says, don't you want to come visit our church? They said, we sure would. We don't really know much about church. They get here, they introduce them to me, and this couple says to me, look, we're new to all this, but our life isn't great. We need some help and we don't know where to start.

Do you think you can help us show? Do you think you can show us God? And we're like, this is what we do for a living. Absolutely we can. And so eventually, that same couple, they come into my small group that meets at my house with me and Angie and our group, and, man, they're getting loved by Jesus.

And then one Wednesday night, the husband, he gets saved right there in my house at our small group meeting. It doesn't happen all the time, but it happened this time, and it was awesome. And then the wife had the ladies pray for her. A big prayer, like huge prayer requests in her life. God answered that prayer.

The next Wednesday, an hour before small group happened, she busted into our door. Y'all remember what you prayed for me? God just answered it right now. And she's crying at the end of that meeting. She hears the gospel, she gets saved.

We're waiting to baptize both of them now. Look, I did not evangelize that couple. They did. The Arnolds are out there looking for ones saying, hey, you could be a lost sheep. Don't you want to come home to the shepherd?

I just got to do the easy, low hanging fruit part of it. Does that make sense? They did the work by the Holy Spirit who turn their hearts toward folks and says, do they know the Lord or not? This is what we're talking about. This is what it means to be one Aware.

And God is faithful and loves sinners. And he saves them. Yes, Salvation's of the Lord. Look, lost sheep might resist at first. They struggle with doubt.

They struggle with sin. You know what I hear all the time? Look, I'd love to be part of your church, but I got too much going wrong in my life. I need to go get some things straight, and then I'll come be religious. That's backwards.

No, Jesus catches you, then he cleans you. Yes. And so look, that may be you today. You're like, I've been thinking about you guys, but I don't look like you. I don't dress like you.

I don't have the same worldview as you. I can't be you. Let me tell you, we hadn't always been us. We've received redemption and lift. Jesus redeemed us and he saved us.

And then he lifted us out of this miry pit and he gave us skill in living. And we became better neighbors and better citizens. And all because Jesus did it for us. He can do the same for you.

They might need more than just a single conversation. My brothers and my sisters. They may need somebody to walk with them through the message.

That's why I'm telling you, carry the burden. Don't get discouraged. And notice this. The shepherd isn't complaining. While carrying the sheep, he's rejoicing.

What we often see as a burden, Jesus sees as a joy. Number five. Celebrate the rescue.

Jesus says, I need you to rejoice when the lost are found. In Luke 15:6, the shepherd doesn't just bring the sheep home. He calls together his friends and his neighbors and he says, rejoice with me, for I found my sheep which was lost.

So let me ask you this. Once the shepherd returns home with the sheep securely on his shoulders, does he slip in quietly, get into his night clothes, pat himself on the back and go to bed? No. Jesus says he's got something much bigger in mind. It's late at night.

He calls up his friends and his neighbors. He wakes them all up. He. He says, y'all get over here to my house. Rejoice with me.

We're gonna have a party. I found that one that was lost.

And why does he do that? Listen to me very carefully. When one lost sheep comes back, it's not just his victory. The whole village felt the weight of that missing sheep. So it wasn't just his problem.

It was their loss. It wasn't just his concern. It was their concern. It wasn't just his vulnerability. It was their Vulnerability.

So naturally, when restoration happens, it's not a private pat on the back. It's a shared celebration. So relief ripples through the community and joy flows through the community. And the Lord Jesus, my friends, is crystal clear. This is how heaven reacts when one sinner repents.

It's a party in heaven. There's no eye rolling in heaven. They're like, not this again. Or they're not like, oh, finally. They don't grumble like the Pharisees did in verse 2.

Heaven doesn't stand aside skeptical. Heaven rejoices loudly, proudly, and joyfully when a sinner comes to Jesus. You know what my question is? What about us? If we're serious about having the heart of a shepherd, then we need to join in that heavenly joy right now, right here where we are.

And when someone turns from sin, we don't sit back critiquing how long it took them or how messy their journey was. We throw open the doors and we celebrate. And we recognize that what was lost isn't lost anymore. It's home. Let me say to you, that's why baptism matters.

Baptism's the first party. Baptism is when a person who's believed in Jesus and repented of their sins puts on the jersey of Team Jesus and says, I'm his now. And the church says, we're practicing what heaven does. And as a side note, when somebody gets baptized here, don't congratulate them on that achievement, because they didn't do it. Jesus did it.

So you know what you say to them? You go up to them and you hug them and you say, welcome to the family, brother. Welcome to the family, sister. Look what Jesus did. He gave you new life.

Let's get it right. Let's understand it better.

Baptism is that visible, loud. Look what God has done. Moment. And we should be fired up about that every time. We're about to double our baptisms for the whole year in the next few weeks.

How about that? We baptized seven. We got six in the queue. Is that good? Let me tell you another thing.

Let me tell you why. Well, I've been in a church. They baptized 30. Fantastic. What I want to know is, where are they 90 days later?

Let me tell you the grace that God's given our church in the last five years. Of all the people we baptized, 89% of them are still in fellowship here. Look what God did. So look, if we baptize you, we keep you. It's the ones that we adopt.

They're the ones sometimes that are shaky. So you go, I Left the last church. It didn't kill me. I could leave this one. We need to celebrate these baptisms.

Yes. All right. I'm almost done.

The final challenge today is go after your 1. Who is your One? You may need to take the next week and pray and ask God to give you the right names. Who in your life needs the Lord Jesus? Who's your lost sheep?

Because, friends, this parable of Jesus isn't just a nice story. It's a call to action. It's our mission. So let's leave our places of comfort and let's go right into the inconvenience. Let's go after the One.

And when we bring them home, we're going to get better at celebrating. I want to show you this book. It's been a long time since I've said anything like what I'm about to say publicly about a little book. It's a 30 day devotional. I just finished it.

It changed my life, changed my perspective. It altered my daily schedule. The book's not the power. The message in the book is the power. It's called who's yous One 30 Day Prayer Guide.

Our whole church is starting this tomorrow for seventh grade. All the way up to if you're in your 90s or you're 100 years old, you need one of these. If you're below seventh grade, you're not quite old enough yet. So don't get one of these books. But if that's you.

And I mean, people were grabbing them on their way out, taking one for their husband that was sick at home or whatever. Starting tomorrow, we're going to go through one of these a day, this 30 day devotional. And we're going to begin to say, God, I want to be one. Aware not only that, what these devotionals, I've already done it, so mine's already written in. You'll have a verse at the top, a little thought from the verses about your 1.

And depending on what they're talking about, you'll have a couple of blanks. Well, I have three ones. So I wrote three names in every blank every day. The three people I'm praying for that I'm about to go witness to and bring into the church by the grace of God. So on one side you have that, on the other side you have a prayer and I just write their names in there again and pray for them.

It's the verses that get you thinking about how God sees ones, what happens to ones if you don't get the gospel to them. I'M telling you, there's some power in the word of God and there's some power in our church coming together and and praying about this. So I want you to take one of these and participate with us on the way out today and watch what God does as he prepares our church for the harvest on Easter Sunday. That make sense free for you? It's about for prayer today.

Lord, you're doing it. You're bringing lost sheep and you're saving their souls and you're handing them to us to disciple God and we ask you to do more. But I pray for everybody in this room that's a believer. God speak to them this week about who their one is. God make our prayers effective, make our evangelistic efforts true.

And God let us see an absolute flood of baptisms over the next few weeks for the glory of Jesus and a faith filled church said Amen.

Amen.

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