In this episode, Bryce dives into the scriptures about God's care for us!
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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today, by the title of the episode, you know we're going to talk about, does Jesus really care about you? How do you know if God cares about you? There's millions of people, billions of people, so many people have existed before and will exist after you.
How do you know that you're valuable and God cares about you? We're going to talk about that, guys. We're going to be in Luke chapter 15 today. It's going to be amazing. And listen, the hard posture behind this was I started getting plugged into a church back in my hometown in Georgia. And Pastor James is just amazing. I want to have him on the podcast one day.
And man, Pastor James, when we did this series, this little series on Luke 15 at church, it rocked my world so much that this has been a passage that I continually go back on, reflect on, that I love talking about. And so today we're going to share it with you guys as well. So Luke chapter 15. Does God really care about you? Let's talk about it.
And there's gonna be three types of parables in Luke chapter 15. Parable of the lost sheep, parable of the lost coin, parable of the prodigal son. You guys might be familiar with them or may not. Don't wanna assume things, but here's the reality of parables. What is the purpose of a parable? You guys know, I've talked about this multiple times, but a parable is a sifting mechanism, okay?
It's a sifting mechanism to see who really wants the benefits of the kingdom over the king and who really wants the king. Right? King Jesus. Do you want King Jesus or do you just want what he has to offer? And these parables were a sifting mechanism for Jesus to get his point across.
And for those that didn't want Jesus but wanted the benefits of Jesus, they ran away from the parables because they were like, this guy's a bozo. He doesn't know what he's talking about. But for those people that wanted to know more, they would go, hey Jesus, what did you mean when you said this? You can see an example of that in Mark chapter 4.
But let's read through each of these parables and we're going to explain them. We're going to go through them one at a time. It's going to be great. Luke 15 verse 1. Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them. All right, time out, time out.
We got already in this book right now three types of sinners that have been described, all right? You got the rich sinners. You got the tax collectors, all right? These guys were like the Jewish tax collectors were people who would go to their own people. Imagine Rome, the government of Rome, would hire out these tax collectors, right?
And these tax collectors would be Jewish people amongst the Jews. And they would say, hey, listen, look, you got to go collect these fees, but overcharge the fee. And whatever you overcharge, the amount that you add on to the actual fee, that's going to be your salary. And so that's why these guys were rich sinners was because they would take more than they needed.
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