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Here’s a coin and it’s lost and absolutely oblivious to the fact!
You say, well of course because it’s an inanimate object it has no sense of lostness, no sense of fear, no sense of death, no sense of judgement.
Ah! But we are not like that, we have certain sensitivities that should alert us to our lostness but sometimes we are like the coin, lost and totally unaware of it. We have become hardened to the fact that we are lost and heading for judgement. The Holy Spirit did not want it like that.
But we have closed up our ears and understanding and hardened our hearts. We have become like that coin, an inanimate object.
And we are lost right in the very House of God. We come here often or to some other place to hear God’s Word but keep ignoring it as though we were just an inanimate object. Wake up! Wake up! You’re lost! You’re lost! Judgement is coming!
4. This Piece Of Silver Is Lost And In Darkness!
This dear lady goes looking for her silver, guess what? She lights a light. You see when something is lost in the darkness the best thing to do is to light a light! The hymn writer said, “The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin! The light of the world is Jesus.”
The long hours of daylight in summer and the short hours of daylight in winter produce some discernible characteristics in the Swedish people. Jan Lindstrom, a columnist for the Stockholm newspaper Expressen, said, “We Swedes have two lives; the dark one in winter and another in summer under the sunlight.” Studies have been made of the effect of long daily periods of sunlight on people’s behavior, temperament, and work habits. It is thought that people, like plants, are photographic. They blossom in the sun. A Stockholm professor says, “people feel stronger, psychologically are more happy in the summer.” In another sense many people lead two lives. They appear to their friends to be walking in the light as Jesus is in the light. In fact there is a dark side to their lives, and they have not forsaken the works of darkness.
The light has come and it’s there for you to walk in, not simply to look at.
You know, as we have been hearing with respect to the eclipse, the sunlight cannot be done without. This world would freeze to a standstill if we did not have the sun. And yet if we walk out into the midday sun and stare up at its rays it will blind you. The light of the sun is there for to walk in but not to look at!
But some have spent far too much time looking at the light Jesus brought to this world and they are going spiritually blind.
That light shines in the Saviour, in the Scriptures, in the Saints!
Two Indians who had been watching a lighthouse go up came over to see the thing open on the big day. It was all set up with the lights and the bell and the horn; but the day it was due to open, the worst fog of all fogs came in. One Indian said to the other, “light shine, bell ring, horn blow, but fog come in just the same.” We’ve never had more lights shining, and bells ringing, and horns blowing in the church than we have today. We’ve never had more fog. It need not be that way, there is light for you! Vance Havner in, ‘On this rock I stand.’
5. This Piece Of Silver Is Found Bringing Great Joy!
”Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which was lost.”
Just as this woman rejoices over the finding of her lost silver so the Holy Spirit rejoices over the finding of a lost soul.
Three celebrated explorers were invited to dinner at the geographical club in London. Sir Vivian Fuchs had explored Greenland, East Africa, and the Antarctic. Dr. John Hemmin had gone on an expedition to Brazil. Robin Hanbury-Tenison had explored Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela, the Sahara, and the Amazon. They met at the royal geographical society, a quarter mile from their destination. Within fifteen minutes they were lost in the back streets of London.
The Bible reminds us there is great joy in heaven over one sinner that repents!
Dear friend can you imagine the kind of joy there would be in heaven and on earth if you who are lost would be found of the dear Saviour and be saved even today? Why not call upon His name and repent, believing He and He alone is able to save you?
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