One Drachma

(Lk15:8-11)



God is the Owner.

By His word He made all things and became their Owner, and

With His blood He purchased souls and became their Owner (1Pe1:18; Rev5:9-10).



Faith is knowing one's Owner and thus knowing his self-worth, and

The life of this faith is, in order to participate in the Owner's joy, finding the lost and returning to the

Owner.



While the owner knows the value of his possessions for which he paid a price, and cherishes them,

The thief does not know the value of the things he stole and thus does not cherish them.



The Bible is the story of God

Longingly seeking the lost souls imprinted with His image (Ge1:26),

Like the owner who searches carefully for the lost silver coin.



The misery of mankind is, however, that

They have degraded themselves to images of beasts,

Resulting in demeaning oneself and falling into despair, a sense of inferiority or even suicide.



This is because, deceived by the devil to be an owner like God (Ge3:5-6),

Adam, the ancestor of mankind, ate the forbidden fruit and thus was banished from the Garden,

Now belonging to the devil (2Pe2:19), and

His descendants became lost, wanderers without their owner (Ge4:14).



God sent Moses to Egypt and

Gave a sense of pride as God's people

To the Israelites who belonged to the pharaoh and brought them out (Ex3:7-12).



The sanctuary where

The stone tablets were inside the Testimony and

The Passover which they observed there every year (Ex12:2-10)

Reminded them that they were

God's possessions, kingdom of priests and holy people (Ex19:5).



Nevertheless, since they often forgot their Owner and went astray (Is1:3),

The prophets cried out to them to return to Him.



Jesus came and said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days" (Jn2:19), because

Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,

He would pay the highest price of His own blood and purchase the souls of men.

Thus, His gospel was preached

To the lost sheep of Israel, such as the tax collectors and the prostitutes (Mt10:5-6).



As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that:

1)     The Father paid the highest price of the blood of the One and Only Son and became the eternal Owner (He10:10; Rev5:10);

2)     Condemned the thief, the devil (Jn10:10; 1Jn3:8); and

3)     No longer paying the price of the blood of animals to make His people, paid the price of His own blood for souls and made them His eternal possession (1Pe1:18-19).



He rose and ascended to the heavenly throne as

The Lord, the Owner of all (He1:2).



The Holy Spirit came in the name Yeshua -

The pride and the confidence of Yeshua - and

Lets believers know He is their Owner.



The man of the Spirit knows his new self-worth, and

Therefore, he is not ashamed in the world.

He loves to be in the church where his worth is even more magnified, and

Eagerly goes out to seek the lost souls to return them to the Owner so that

in the last day he would be found

Belonging to Christ, with His image formed in him (1Co15:23; Gal4:19) and

Finally share His happiness (Mt25:23).



O Lord,

How is it that

You treated me to be worth the blood of the One and Only Son

When I am so lowly and worthless?

I am so happy that I have

The church that considers me worthy!

I am happy, I am confident!

I love You, Lord! Amen.