The Value of One

Review:

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Question for today: “Is my one all that important? Should I really focus on just my one this year?”

The answer is the answer to the question, “How valuable is one person to God?”

Matthew 10:29–30 (NASB95)

God values one .

God values one .

More important: God values one .

2 Peter 3:9 (NASB95)

We see the value of one illustrated in Jesus’ life and ministry.

Jesus took time for:

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Most places Jesus went, he paused to speak to, minister to, and to heal . Why? Because each one .

In the first message of this series, we saw many disciples of Jesus showed concern for a single person.

All of this should confirm for us that:

Just matters to God.

matters to God.

When you focus on just your one you are following the example of Jesus and the early disciples.

This is such a contrast to what we see in our society.

Our doesn’t value the one.

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God cares about lost person

This is powerfully illustrated in three of Jesus’ best known parables, all three of which together are meant to teach us one thing: God cares about the one and values each and every one, rejoicing when just one repents and turns to him.

Luke 15

There’s a lot here, but notice these things:

There are three different for being lost:

The lost sheep just from the flock.

The lost coin became lost through the of the one who was supposed to care for it.

The lost son was .

There are three different of loss:

One lost sheep (out of 100)

One lost coin (out of 10)

One son (out of two)

There is the same over each loss:

Thought he had sheep left, was still valuable enough to leave the rest, and travel across fields, over hills and streams, and look in ravines and thickets and forests to find.

Though she had left, was still valuable enough to take the time and effort to seek.

Though he had left, was still valuable enough that the father never stopped waiting and looking for his return.

There are three different used to recover the lost:

The shepherd , looking behind every rock and down into every crevice until he found the sheep.

The woman with the lost coin stayed at home but she until she found the lost coin.

The father and waited for God to work on his son.

There is response over finding the lost:

There are three different finding the lost had:

One sheep: 

One coin: 

One son: 

There is all three stories make:

God cares about .

APPLICATION

If you focus on leading your one to Christ this year, .

If you give serious time, effort, and prayer to reach your one for Christ this year, you are doing exactly what .

If you lead your one to Christ this year, you will .

One person . Your one matters to God. He/she should matter a lot to you.