1. Jesus cares equally about both women and men.
8 Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? Luke 15:8 (ESV)
2. We are precious to God.
16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Isaiah 49:16 (ESV); Zephaniah 3:17.
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (ESV)
3. Until God finds us, we are helplessly lost.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins Ephesians 2:1 (ESV)
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV)
10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.”
Romans 3:10–11 (ESV)
44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. John 6:44 (ESV)
15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. Romans 9:15–16 (ESV)
3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3 (ESV)
9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, Galatians 4:9 (ESV)
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. , Ephesians 1:3–6 (ESV)
4. God and the angels rejoice when a lost sinner is found.
9 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ 10 Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents. Luke 15:9–10 (ESV)
2 looking to Jesus . . . who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross . . . Hebrews 12:2 (ESV)