them.

And as you probably know, it was important for, in the Jewish culture, not to be defiled and to show that you were righteous and often wouldn't associate with people that were beneath you.

So Jesus used this illustration.

He said, if you have a hundred sheep and one of them strayed away and was lost in the wilderness, wouldn't you leave the other 99 and go in search of the lost one until you found it? And then wouldn't you joyfully carry it home on your shoulders? And when you arrived, Would you call together your friends and neighbors to rejoice with them with you because your lost sheep was found? Well, in the same way, heaven will be happier over one lost sinner who returns to God than over 99 others who haven't strayed away.

I work with an individual who had a pair of dogs that she really, really was close to.

And dogs being dogs, they got out of her yard and ran away.

She came into work and she was quite distraught.

He knew