@threadofeverything: Jesus ends the lost sheep with a line we skip every time: more joy over one who repents than over ninety-nine righteous who need no repentance (Luke 15:7). Who has ever needed no repentance? Nobody. None is righteous, no, not one (Romans 3). So the ninety-nine can't be good people who stayed. And Scripture already calls us the sheep, all of us, straying (Isaiah 53:6; Psalm 119:176; Ezekiel 34; Matthew 15:24). God already said he'd come looking himself, "I will seek the lost" (Ezek 34:16), which is the same thing Jesus says out loud, "the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10). So who are the ninety-nine that never fell? The oldest reading of the Church, Irenaeus in the second century and Gregory the Great around the year six hundred, hears the hundred as one flock of everything made to know God: the angels and us. The uncountable host that never left (Dan 7:10; Luke 2:13), and the one kind that wandered, humanity, in Adam. The shepherd leaves the ninety-nine and goes down into the dark after the one, and that going-down is the incarnation. Part one of three: the Son in the sheep, the Spirit in the coin, the Father in the prodigal. #LostSheep #Luke15 #Parables #BibleStudy #ChristianTikTok

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