Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sermon The Value of One by David McGee Page

This is a machine transcript of the sermon. It won't be completely accurate of what's said in the sermon.

One. This morning I wanted the time to loan you choose to a very familiar portion of Scripture Psalm twenty three verse one hundred. Most of us involved in my heart, the twenty third Psalm verse one is going to focus on on verse one and I know what it says the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want you. I remember reading that years ago, and I would I would think of it in the context God is my shepherd an idea. I don't want him. If you ever think of it that way. I think them so I now aligned. I was the reason I think Lord is my shepherd, and I really don't want him like why we write in our but that's not what it means that I have a number of different translations. It says, God, my shepherd. I don't need a thing the living translation says the Lord is my shepherd, I have all that I need the Lord is my shepherd I shall not be in one, the Lord is my shepherd. There is nothing that I lack and the amplified, says the Lord is my shepherd to see guide and showed me I shall not lack. So whatever were reading that verse nine. David is telling us that there was nothing that he lacks when we recognize that God is our divine Shepherd, so that the title of my message today is the value of one. The value one in my Remeron, alas, weeks message was what time is it so you can remember a time to begin well today were to look at the value of one. The value of one. So the first thing is, as we look at this the twenty third Psalm in the first verse is God is a high divine Shepherd is the one who watches over us is the one who keeps us he is the one who provides for us installed when the Lord God is my shepherd, I don't while black everything. Now a shepherd is a person who was a shepherd to want to watch over me, so that the shepherd is an individual who watches over sheet now what is a characteristic of a shepherd not know the Scripture tells us in John Sidney and Luke, Chapter fifteen, verses four four through seven. Jesus uses this illustration about a shepherd. This is a false one of you had a hundred sheep, and he lost one when you leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness to go after one until you found it when found can be sure that you would put it across your shoulders, rejoicing and when you got home, calling their friends and neighbors, saying celebrate with me. I found my lost sheep, cows on it. There is more joy in heaven over one sinner 's rescued life, than over ninety nine good people in and know they do not need a rescue. So I shepherd is someone who watches over his shape, and he watches over a sheet to the point that if one of them goes away goes astray, he is continue the goes out after now we are sizable and library files and one as a kid was a kid I want was that our cows always got out and I grass is always greener on the other side of fence on me. We had five wire fence with electric fences with all the stuff that we have one child that would always jump the fence. I'm not what you do this, jumped the fence. We went so far but until that analog between his legs are good and jump up a certificate of them gone on offense and that it would just walk through the data, but you know you are and I love you. Have you ever been out in the middle night in a cornfield. The cornfield above your head and then says, drop on video over here you go up at a quarter filled in when they come towards you, you turn them towards the bar. Now, just think about that. From there I am standing a little cornfield and as for your fifth event cattle stampeding toward me. I can't seem to fade in front of me and somehow that the other cattle are going to suit me, and turn and got onto the bar. I want you to know they can see what they are giving guys that jumped there is great because I have been run over by animals and it is not a pleasant situation, you know, is it easy as I call them dumb individuals in these in in in knowledge in these bull runs and stop a run in flammables and saw the stop. You got to be done to do that stuff goes when those things that year. Their NL and started to realize Carville, not jumping up and down and screaming and they all turned towards the barn and I'm fine thank you Jesus. I'm not one of the missing that I and that was the other always get out. We were always having to chase them. The lack of the whining. You just let them go and welcome back L why did you do that they were to value that you this letter the ball here we have a shepherd who has ninety nine, shape, and one of them is missing. And why do they just let it go because the shopper recognizes the value of one even one little sheet, so the volume one is seen in a God who tenderly searches, and this is the story. The value of God, the God sees Idaho who tenderly searches for a center for an individual who is without him. Integrally, starches, and joyfully for Ganz and restores them when they understand how we can price understanding God who is that maybe I'm like a wicked king or dictator sets on a throne and makes people the outcome is not en masse for mercy, you know off with his head no. Without the thousand one: we know also that there may receive that when the awkwardness and it was our governor highlighted too much of a doll. I remember that mom is not always when we got are made up now and that's not mercy. Last nakedness, but here we have a God who is trying to get. We have God who is trying to teach us the value of one value on an individual. The value of a little glam and how the shepherd worthy of his name will always go and seek for the one that is lost, so it's not fifteen or this myth on mythological person was a wicked gleam in the house in Wonderland is not the type of God that we are serving the city, the God Israel from the Bible is the Messiah, who comes to seek and to save that which was lost in the Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. All have been lost. There isn't anybody who is not lost their way in life means that there are things in our life that we need to get there we need to get corrected and the Scripture gives the lifestyles of those directions that will give us direction for our life. So God God tenderly searches for Senate God joyfully forgives them, he joyfully forgive them with an extraordinary love that looks beyond false looks beyond problems, looks beyond difficulties and begins to talk noted to leave them back to himself. This law prompted Jesus to come to our. It was his love for mankind than the love for the lost. They came to St. John fifteen, sixteen, says, is one of scriptures also that the kind of challenges us. It says you have not chosen me, but my job is telling us you can choose God. Remember, God chose you a fortune in this world, to bear fruit. God chose you. HRH is as each one that we would each one of us being his child needs one of us would be part of his kingdom pictures is awesome and that our fruit would remain that it would be a divine purpose for each person that he has created, so the value of one is declarative. The purpose of one no in the parable of the ninety nine what he did. What did he do, he went out in search, the shepherd when I'll looking for the one, the shepherd shepherd God search for you. You're the one that God is looking for you are the one that God is looking for why they looking for you wisely looking for me. He wants to forget us. They must of forgot glass of all the garbage in our life and unassailable and and and and and established us not put us establish us in our life so that whatever we do will have a lasting effect and eternal effect, so the Lord is my shepherd I shall not lack any good thing now, the setting for this is Damon 's writings and now he's not sitting in his castle in his palace writing this Jewish tradition has it that David is indicating hiding from King Saul and David is in the back of the cave and King Saul 's camp in front of the king and David's men, has deserted him and what he does, he begins to write about the goodness of God in this very perilous situation. King Saul is trying building and Davidson hiding, and in this place of hiding in the back of a K he writes God is my shepherd I shall not like any good thing in my life. The value of one. The value of who is the recall when you were the one lost sheep do. Remember when Jesus found you were with you and I be if God hadn't, and touched our lives and we responded to in the present of Jesus listeners make their living off the land and the myth of the more step towards and all of them. They are shepherds, so no flock émigrés, without having a shepherd knows Locke ever grades without having a shepherd when I was on the farm younger. We had with a few cows out to sometimes reveal the pastors were not that vague and not that great but you know sometimes after you cut the hay off with everything anyone there with the hail fall later summer or early fall. It wasn't that productive to cut it again with the tractors and machinery. So you'd let how about that and watched over them, keep them in the field. Let's embrace while many want to take them back to the barn. Well, you know, and I've ever tried to herd cats were pardoned thousands lot like Percocet never heard caps. You never hear people herding cats, only on commercial use. He always got run over the alien of but here are trying to hurt a cat there. Try chasing a cat. What happens because the other way. So if you wanted to go that way about it, turn it this way, fell and outsmarted while cows are about the same shape, or even worse. I don't shaper of those we don't know shiver down. That's why God committed to present people don't, they can shape just wander off, I made your I should have. You will have an offense, you're never fine because they can just wander off and out, and that's why a shepherd always have to be on on control. They are the issues are going to wonder off the Bible says all we like sheep have gone astray. We all wander off to wander around and find yourself wondering what you're wondering about what far old just wondering what I'm after you go the mall yet but I will. I'm just wandered around see what I need him, wondering what I'm wondering about so initiate a shape does not have any natural defenses doesn't have clause doesn't have warrants for the most part, abhorrence, but that's only to signify a hardhead and the later shepherd with a lot of the staff protecting guide, so we only are a lot like sheep with no natural defenses against the enemy of our soul. We have no natural defenses against the enemy of my arsenal who wants to destroy us. It was wine going around Y seeking. We made about on this story will like this story. As they ran up front. But Maureen is a story that says when things settle down this individual. He logged twenty four hour ideologue twenty hour days and sometimes weekends in anyone's a working, he was thinking his wife try to slow him down, and they weren't as close as they once had been yet intended to drift away, just that she always seemed the one time that the time that the one thing he didn't have to get it was very little evidence it were growing up and he was missing it, they complained about books. He wasn't reading to them, James. He wasn't playing within and trips. He wasn't taking with them after a while they stop complaining or expecting the lives might be even different. I'll be more global when things get settled down, he thought what he felt guilty, he told himself. I'm going to do and then I'm going to do this. I am doing this for them. His wife asked him about going to church instead. While the leaflet of time for that sort of thing when things settle down. His doctor told him he had elevated blood pressure and high cholesterol. They told himself. Maybe plenty of time for that when things settle down quietly efficiently irresistibly. His body was preparing to do them in one morning his wife woke at three a.m. and he was not beside her. She went downstairs to driving the bed and saw him sitting still in front of the computer 's head hanging low. She touched him, but he didn't respond when the paramedics got there. They told him that he has suffered wholeheartedly and suffered a massive heart attack things that find some of them know and and and and I like that story, but the ideas. This when things settle down when things changed without the Scripture. What do we use as a guideline for our lives. Without the Scripture. What do we use as a guideline for our lives. We use our old values our own thinking. But the Scripture gives the last value in the Scripture gives less whole, the Scripture teaches us the value of one. The value of you and I each of us as individuals and how that God values you to the point that he is a divine Shepherd looking for you and this story is about people going astray, wandering off, how do we know when we wandered off when we wake up and know the world lost dear, dear, when we wake up and realize that we are not in the home life is what it is when I'm alone I wonder what were wondering after so we need the Scriptures we need the Scriptures teach us the value of life and the value of who we are to lose our way is to lose ourselves in to lose ourselves in the sin of self that we got no one here but ourselves see that's not the value of one. The value of one is not that I am the only one time important and I'm going to do it my way. Now were looking at the value of God, and how that God sees his value in Austin that the ninety and nine are there and what is gone. Enable common search for, we need a shepherd John three sixteen says this is not much God loved the world, speaking of God coming to us. He gave his son is one and only son. And this is why so many no one need be destroyed by believing in him. Anyone can have a whole lasting life value of one. The shepherd, I lack nothing shall not be in one by believing in him. Anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go through all the trouble of sending his son merely to point an accusing finger. I didn't come here to point fingers at us, telling the world how bad it was, God is about. He came to help. They came to put the worldwide to anyone who trusts in him is acquitted. Anyone who refuses to trust in him has long since been under the sentence of that and why. Because of a person 's value to believe in the one-of-a-kind son of God when we were introduced to him. God has come to introduce himself to us the value of one in teaching the basics of math I read this as I don't moment in teaching the basics of math, we must know all their constant and relative value and that sounded to know the basics of math, math, another confident relative value. What that means is the number one is always the same value was another one. One is always the same value as another one of the constant relative value jail is always a constant while the value to it never changes. Ray is always a constant relative value of three. It is always the same one cannot be too. It must be one cost around the value I the number one is not worth more than another one. So they have the same value in the same way. Everyone counts every person counts to God. You are one of my raise your hand say I am one. Thank you I am one. All of us are one and we all have the same value to the eye, one that I have the same value as every other one, it means that God was looking you differently what's in the value one. Now we say, while we hear you I hate you can do this and I can do then I can do this in Uganda is not what it's about, God does is look at us and say you have more value than this one because you have this talent, and that person doesn't so therefore you are value every one of us have the same value. The value one, and what that means is, God would come looking for you individually just as much as you would come looking for me or another person-to-person besides God would look for them just like you look for you. What does we all have the same value. God would never say all that see that's it's a troublemaker. Let it go and advise how I forget that personnel them, but I guess God will last any cc you as a value of one and Jesus would come and die for you if you were the only person to ever believe in him, because every person has the same value. The value of one and so you have this shepherd Jesus. Jesus is telling us a story on the ninety and nine and is and how that the shepherd would go and search for the one that you are so I am not more important to God than you are and you and him that I am, or anyone else. The shepherd seeks the wandering sheep. The shepherd will see will lost sheep who tells us that were lost are lost. This isn't that we are without God that we are without hope. We are without life, eternal life where we are dragging the baggage of our on our life behind us, and God wants us to learn from it. Much of the forget-me-not and had to let it go. God loves us. John three sixteen God so loved the world that he gave the world is this anything like that& blah blah one of the world that he came and he gave himself for us. I felt about you, the wine is that God will touch our lives, and that each individual one will have fruit that remains have lasting value. So whenever we have the understanding of the value of one yourself. What you do, has eternal benefit line because it has an internal influence when we recognize that God loves us. God loves us. Their fruit. R furcal remain. He cares for you. He cares for me as much a success for any of his children because of the value of one if I were the only person in history and the history of humankind, it would still have common dive for me. If you were the only person in history of humankind to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. He would come anyone die for you, because he cannot does not see us differently. He sees us as the value of one that we recap abilities we have talents which are different things we can do that. I was thinking about that and I was wondering, what does God need us for what is it that he needs us. For that he could do himself is all-powerful, all-knowing, if I can fix things. You asked for it isn't what he needs us for its how we can become when he created us to be the value of one so as we look at this and began to understand you are important to God because your new no strings attached, no idea that wall. I've got this down. They don't have this one so therefore I'm better, though we each have value in his site, the value of one the Lord, what is he losing is my shepherd, and the shepherd is the one who watches over his sheep God, the divine creator is my shepherd, and am I being that she would wander off. He would come for me, and he has. And when he has come for me, he will lean, mean green pasture so that I can be nourished, he will guide and protect me his lot in with staff. They will guide and protect it will take me in the paths of righteousness, because he is a divine Shepherd watches over always have someone who's watching not to mark down what I've done wrong. But the plan my horse, protect and guide you always walk beside you with me, he will never leave me nor forsake me. So as we began to understand the character of God was not putting it in a contact on the value of one. I began to see that God loves me because I'm me. Not because I'm better than or less than he loves me because of the soul. Today's sermon is the value of one which is the value of a eye. The value of me the value of me saying the value of me, not against, but recognizing who we are and why is he touched us so that our fruit would remain our divine purpose is in GodOne. This morning I wanted the time to loan you choose to a very familiar portion of Scripture Psalm twenty three verse one hundred. Most of us involved in my heart, the twenty third Psalm verse one is going to focus on on verse one and I know what it says the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want you. I remember reading that years ago, and I would I would think of it in the context God is my shepherd an idea. I don't want him. If you ever think of it that way. I think them so I now aligned. I was the reason I think Lord is my shepherd, and I really don't want him like why we write in our but that's not what it means that I have a number of different translations. It says, God, my shepherd. I don't need a thing the living translation says the Lord is my shepherd, I have all that I need the Lord is my shepherd I shall not be in one, the Lord is my shepherd. There is nothing that I lack and the amplified, says the Lord is my shepherd to see guide and showed me I shall not lack. So whatever were reading that verse nine. David is telling us that there was nothing that he lacks when we recognize that God is our divine Shepherd, so that the title of my message today is the value of one. The value one in my Remeron, alas, weeks message was what time is it so you can remember a time to begin well today were to look at the value of one. The value of one. So the first thing is, as we look at this the twenty third Psalm in the first verse is God is a high divine Shepherd is the one who watches over us is the one who keeps us he is the one who provides for us installed when the Lord God is my shepherd, I don't while black everything. Now a shepherd is a person who was a shepherd to want to watch over me, so that the shepherd is an individual who watches over sheet now what is a characteristic of a shepherd not know the Scripture tells us in John Sidney and Luke, Chapter fifteen, verses four four through seven. Jesus uses this illustration about a shepherd. This is a false one of you had a hundred sheep, and he lost one when you leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness to go after one until you found it when found can be sure that you would put it across your shoulders, rejoicing and when you got home, calling their friends and neighbors, saying celebrate with me. I found my lost sheep, cows on it. There is more joy in heaven over one sinner 's rescued life, than over ninety nine good people in and know they do not need a rescue. So I shepherd is someone who watches over his shape, and he watches over a sheet to the point that if one of them goes away goes astray, he is continue the goes out after now we are sizable and library files and one as a kid was a kid I want was that our cows always got out and I grass is always greener on the other side of fence on me. We had five wire fence with electric fences with all the stuff that we have one child that would always jump the fence. I'm not what you do this, jumped the fence. We went so far but until that analog between his legs are good and jump up a certificate of them gone on offense and that it would just walk through the data, but you know you are and I love you. Have you ever been out in the middle night in a cornfield. The cornfield above your head and then says, drop on video over here you go up at a quarter filled in when they come towards you, you turn them towards the bar. Now, just think about that. From there I am standing a little cornfield and as for your fifth event cattle stampeding toward me. I can't seem to fade in front of me and somehow that the other cattle are going to suit me, and turn and got onto the bar. I want you to know they can see what they are giving guys that jumped there is great because I have been run over by animals and it is not a pleasant situation, you know, is it easy as I call them dumb individuals in these in in in knowledge in these bull runs and stop a run in flammables and saw the stop. You got to be done to do that stuff goes when those things that year. Their NL and started to realize Carville, not jumping up and down and screaming and they all turned towards the barn and I'm fine thank you Jesus. I'm not one of the missing that I and that was the other always get out. We were always having to chase them. The lack of the whining. You just let them go and welcome back L why did you do that they were to value that you this letter the ball here we have a shepherd who has ninety nine, shape, and one of them is missing. And why do they just let it go because the shopper recognizes the value of one even one little sheet, so the volume one is seen in a God who tenderly searches, and this is the story. The value of God, the God sees Idaho who tenderly searches for a center for an individual who is without him. Integrally, starches, and joyfully for Ganz and restores them when they understand how we can price understanding God who is that maybe I'm like a wicked king or dictator sets on a throne and makes people the outcome is not en masse for mercy, you know off with his head no. Without the thousand one: we know also that there may receive that when the awkwardness and it was our governor highlighted too much of a doll. I remember that mom is not always when we got are made up now and that's not mercy. Last nakedness, but here we have a God who is trying to get. We have God who is trying to teach us the value of one value on an individual. The value of a little glam and how the shepherd worthy of his name will always go and seek for the one that is lost, so it's not fifteen or this myth on mythological person was a wicked gleam in the house in Wonderland is not the type of God that we are serving the city, the God Israel from the Bible is the Messiah, who comes to seek and to save that which was lost in the Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. All have been lost. There isn't anybody who is not lost their way in life means that there are things in our life that we need to get there we need to get corrected and the Scripture gives the lifestyles of those directions that will give us direction for our life. So God God tenderly searches for Senate God joyfully forgives them, he joyfully forgive them with an extraordinary love that looks beyond false looks beyond problems, looks beyond difficulties and begins to talk noted to leave them back to himself. This law prompted Jesus to come to our. It was his love for mankind than the love for the lost. They came to St. John fifteen, sixteen, says, is one of scriptures also that the kind of challenges us. It says you have not chosen me, but my job is telling us you can choose God. Remember, God chose you a fortune in this world, to bear fruit. God chose you. HRH is as each one that we would each one of us being his child needs one of us would be part of his kingdom pictures is awesome and that our fruit would remain that it would be a divine purpose for each person that he has created, so the value of one is declarative. The purpose of one no in the parable of the ninety nine what he did. What did he do, he went out in search, the shepherd when I'll looking for the one, the shepherd shepherd God search for you. You're the one that God is looking for you are the one that God is looking for why they looking for you wisely looking for me. He wants to forget us. They must of forgot glass of all the garbage in our life and unassailable and and and and and established us not put us establish us in our life so that whatever we do will have a lasting effect and eternal effect, so the Lord is my shepherd I shall not lack any good thing now, the setting for this is Damon 's writings and now he's not sitting in his castle in his palace writing this Jewish tradition has it that David is indicating hiding from King Saul and David is in the back of the cave and King Saul 's camp in front of the king and David's men, has deserted him and what he does, he begins to write about the goodness of God in this very perilous situation. King Saul is trying building and Davidson hiding, and in this place of hiding in the back of a K he writes God is my shepherd I shall not like any good thing in my life. The value of one. The value of who is the recall when you were the one lost sheep do. Remember when Jesus found you were with you and I be if God hadn't, and touched our lives and we responded to in the present of Jesus listeners make their living off the land and the myth of the more step towards and all of them. They are shepherds, so no flock émigrés, without having a shepherd knows Locke ever grades without having a shepherd when I was on the farm younger. We had with a few cows out to sometimes reveal the pastors were not that vague and not that great but you know sometimes after you cut the hay off with everything anyone there with the hail fall later summer or early fall. It wasn't that productive to cut it again with the tractors and machinery. So you'd let how about that and watched over them, keep them in the field. Let's embrace while many want to take them back to the barn. Well, you know, and I've ever tried to herd cats were pardoned thousands lot like Percocet never heard caps. You never hear people herding cats, only on commercial use. He always got run over the alien of but here are trying to hurt a cat there. Try chasing a cat. What happens because the other way. So if you wanted to go that way about it, turn it this way, fell and outsmarted while cows are about the same shape, or even worse. I don't shaper of those we don't know shiver down. That's why God committed to present people don't, they can shape just wander off, I made your I should have. You will have an offense, you're never fine because they can just wander off and out, and that's why a shepherd always have to be on on control. They are the issues are going to wonder off the Bible says all we like sheep have gone astray. We all wander off to wander around and find yourself wondering what you're wondering about what far old just wondering what I'm after you go the mall yet but I will. I'm just wandered around see what I need him, wondering what I'm wondering about so initiate a shape does not have any natural defenses doesn't have clause doesn't have warrants for the most part, abhorrence, but that's only to signify a hardhead and the later shepherd with a lot of the staff protecting guide, so we only are a lot like sheep with no natural defenses against the enemy of our soul. We have no natural defenses against the enemy of my arsenal who wants to destroy us. It was wine going around Y seeking. We made about on this story will like this story. As they ran up front. But Maureen is a story that says when things settle down this individual. He logged twenty four hour ideologue twenty hour days and sometimes weekends in anyone's a working, he was thinking his wife try to slow him down, and they weren't as close as they once had been yet intended to drift away, just that she always seemed the one time that the time that the one thing he didn't have to get it was very little evidence it were growing up and he was missing it, they complained about books. He wasn't reading to them, James. He wasn't playing within and trips. He wasn't taking with them after a while they stop complaining or expecting the lives might be even different. I'll be more global when things get settled down, he thought what he felt guilty, he told himself. I'm going to do and then I'm going to do this. I am doing this for them. His wife asked him about going to church instead. While the leaflet of time for that sort of thing when things settle down. His doctor told him he had elevated blood pressure and high cholesterol. They told himself. Maybe plenty of time for that when things settle down quietly efficiently irresistibly. His body was preparing to do them in one morning his wife woke at three a.m. and he was not beside her. She went downstairs to driving the bed and saw him sitting still in front of the computer 's head hanging low. She touched him, but he didn't respond when the paramedics got there. They told him that he has suffered wholeheartedly and suffered a massive heart attack things that find some of them know and and and and I like that story, but the ideas. This when things settle down when things changed without the Scripture. What do we use as a guideline for our lives. Without the Scripture. What do we use as a guideline for our lives. We use our old values our own thinking. But the Scripture gives the last value in the Scripture gives less whole, the Scripture teaches us the value of one. The value of you and I each of us as individuals and how that God values you to the point that he is a divine Shepherd looking for you and this story is about people going astray, wandering off, how do we know when we wandered off when we wake up and know the world lost dear, dear, when we wake up and realize that we are not in the home life is what it is when I'm alone I wonder what were wondering after so we need the Scriptures we need the Scriptures teach us the value of life and the value of who we are to lose our way is to lose ourselves in to lose ourselves in the sin of self that we got no one here but ourselves see that's not the value of one. The value of one is not that I am the only one time important and I'm going to do it my way. Now were looking at the value of God, and how that God sees his value in Austin that the ninety and nine are there and what is gone. Enable common search for, we need a shepherd John three sixteen says this is not much God loved the world, speaking of God coming to us. He gave his son is one and only son. And this is why so many no one need be destroyed by believing in him. Anyone can have a whole lasting life value of one. The shepherd, I lack nothing shall not be in one by believing in him. Anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go through all the trouble of sending his son merely to point an accusing finger. I didn't come here to point fingers at us, telling the world how bad it was, God is about. He came to help. They came to put the worldwide to anyone who trusts in him is acquitted. Anyone who refuses to trust in him has long since been under the sentence of that and why. Because of a person 's value to believe in the one-of-a-kind son of God when we were introduced to him. God has come to introduce himself to us the value of one in teaching the basics of math I read this as I don't moment in teaching the basics of math, we must know all their constant and relative value and that sounded to know the basics of math, math, another confident relative value. What that means is the number one is always the same value was another one. One is always the same value as another one of the constant relative value jail is always a constant while the value to it never changes. Ray is always a constant relative value of three. It is always the same one cannot be too. It must be one cost around the value I the number one is not worth more than another one. So they have the same value in the same way. Everyone counts every person counts to God. You are one of my raise your hand say I am one. Thank you I am one. All of us are one and we all have the same value to the eye, one that I have the same value as every other one, it means that God was looking you differently what's in the value one. Now we say, while we hear you I hate you can do this and I can do then I can do this in Uganda is not what it's about, God does is look at us and say you have more value than this one because you have this talent, and that person doesn't so therefore you are value every one of us have the same value. The value one, and what that means is, God would come looking for you individually just as much as you would come looking for me or another person-to-person besides God would look for them just like you look for you. What does we all have the same value. God would never say all that see that's it's a troublemaker. Let it go and advise how I forget that personnel them, but I guess God will last any cc you as a value of one and Jesus would come and die for you if you were the only person to ever believe in him, because every person has the same value. The value of one and so you have this shepherd Jesus. Jesus is telling us a story on the ninety and nine and is and how that the shepherd would go and search for the one that you are so I am not more important to God than you are and you and him that I am, or anyone else. The shepherd seeks the wandering sheep. The shepherd will see will lost sheep who tells us that were lost are lost. This isn't that we are without God that we are without hope. We are without life, eternal life where we are dragging the baggage of our on our life behind us, and God wants us to learn from it. Much of the forget-me-not and had to let it go. God loves us. John three sixteen God so loved the world that he gave the world is this anything like that& blah blah one of the world that he came and he gave himself for us. I felt about you, the wine is that God will touch our lives, and that each individual one will have fruit that remains have lasting value. So whenever we have the understanding of the value of one yourself. What you do, has eternal benefit line because it has an internal influence when we recognize that God loves us. God loves us. Their fruit. R furcal remain. He cares for you. He cares for me as much a success for any of his children because of the value of one if I were the only person in history and the history of humankind, it would still have common dive for me. If you were the only person in history of humankind to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. He would come anyone die for you, because he cannot does not see us differently. He sees us as the value of one that we recap abilities we have talents which are different things we can do that. I was thinking about that and I was wondering, what does God need us for what is it that he needs us. For that he could do himself is all-powerful, all-knowing, if I can fix things. You asked for it isn't what he needs us for its how we can become when he created us to be the value of one so as we look at this and began to understand you are important to God because your new no strings attached, no idea that wall. I've got this down. They don't have this one so therefore I'm better, though we each have value in his site, the value of one the Lord, what is he losing is my shepherd, and the shepherd is the one who watches over his sheep God, the divine creator is my shepherd, and am I being that she would wander off. He would come for me, and he has. And when he has come for me, he will lean, mean green pasture so that I can be nourished, he will guide and protect me his lot in with staff. They will guide and protect it will take me in the paths of righteousness, because he is a divine Shepherd watches over always have someone who's watching not to mark down what I've done wrong. But the plan my horse, protect and guide you always walk beside you with me, he will never leave me nor forsake me. So as we began to understand the character of God was not putting it in a contact on the value of one. I began to see that God loves me because I'm me. Not because I'm better than or less than he loves me because of the soul. Today's sermon is the value of one which is the value of a eye. The value of me the value of me saying the value of me, not against, but recognizing who we are and why is he touched us so that our fruit would remain our divine purpose is in God