The Lost Sheep Luke 15

The Lost Sheep
Luke 15:3-7

One day, Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees (those were Jewish leaders), and to other people called "sinners" who came to hear Jesus, and he told them this story

"If there was any man of you that had 100 sheep, and one of them got lost, wouldn't that man leave the 99 that were left in the wilderness and go to look for the sheep that was lost, and keep looking until he found it?

And when this man found his lost sheep, he would carry it on his shoulders, and be very happy and thankful that he had found it. When he came home, he would call his friends and neighbours together, and say to them "be very happy and thankful with me, because I have found my sheep which was lost!"

and then Jesus said to the Pharisees and sinners, "and so I say to you, in the same way, in heaven there shall be great rejoicing over one person who repents ... even more than 99 other people who already believe in Jesus.

(To repent means that this person believed that they were doing things that they knew they shouldn't do, or not doing things they knew they should do, and they knew that they needed to believe in the Lord Jesus as their Saviour)

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Questions:
1 Who did Jesus tell this story to?
2 How many sheep did the man have all together? How many sheep got lost?
3 What did the man do with the 99 sheep who were left?
4 What did the man do after he found his lost sheep and got home?
5 What did Jesus say happened in heaven when a person repents?

Answers:
1 the Pharisees and people called "sinners"
2 100 sheep, 1 got lost
3 he left them in the wilderness and went looking for his lost sheep until he found it.
4 he called his friends and neighbours together and asked them to be very happy and thankful with him.
5 Jesus said there is great rejoicing in heaven over one person who repents.. even more than 99 other people who already believed in Jesus.

V. Gross/May'06