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Published: March 12, 2013, 2:40 a.m.

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Goals of Coming Back Series:
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1.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 To see you invite 2 people each week to church.

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2.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 To see those you invited give their hearts to Jesus.

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We\\u2019ve always belonged to Jesus.\\xa0

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(Ephesians 1:4) (NLT) Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.

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(Jeremiah 3:22) (NLT) \\u201cMy wayward children,\\u201d says the Lord, \\u201ccome back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.\\u201d \\u201cYes, we\\u2019re coming,\\u201d the people reply, \\u201cfor you are the Lord our God.

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Title of my message:\\xa0 The Lost

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o\\xa0\\xa0 I hate to admit it.\\xa0

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o\\xa0\\xa0 I want to be found.

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(Luke 15:1-2) (NLT) Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people\\u2014even eating with them!

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(Luke 15:3-7) (NLT) So Jesus told them this story: ^\\xa0\\u201cIf a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won\\u2019t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, \\u2018Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.\\u2019 In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven\\u2019t strayed away!

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Lost people, like sheep are:

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1.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Prone to wander off.

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(Isaiah 53:6) (NLT) All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God\\u2019s paths to follow our own.

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2.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Vulnerable when separated from the Shepherd.

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(1 Peter 5:8) (NLT) Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

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3.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Unaware they are lost. \\xa0

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(Ezekiel 34:16) (NIV84) I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak,

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(Jeremiah 3:22) (NLT) \\u201cMy wayward children,\\u201d says the Lord, \\u201ccome back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.\\u201d \\u201cYes, we\\u2019re coming,\\u201d the people reply, \\u201cfor you are the Lord our God.

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