Living A Life That Makes God Smile! "There Is More Joy In Heaven Over One Sinner Who Repents!"

Pastor James Parker - True Purpose Church - 03-09-25 Luke 15 Amplified Bible 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners {including non-observant Jews} were coming near Jesus to listen to Him. Both the Pharisees and the scribes began muttering and complaining, saying, "This man accepts and welcomes sinners and eats with them." 3 So Jesus told them this parable: 4 What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety- nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost, {searching} until he finds it. 5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he gets home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!' 7 I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.