"What did the Lord who came to this earth and saved you and me say? He said, “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance” (Luke 5:32). That is true. The Lord never comes to those who pretend they are the righteous. Our Lord came to this earth for people who actually feel guilty because of the sins they have committed, because of their evil hearts, and because of the sins of their pasts and those they commit now. In other words, He came for those who have guilty consciences before God because of the sins in their hearts.

But what are people really like? Of a hundred people, ninety-nine don’t have guilty consciences. They live with absolutely no guilt of conscience. People who don’t have any pain in their God-given consciences and have no problems, those who have no guilt of conscience and live believing only in their own hearts cannot become God’s lost sheep. Of course God wanted to clothe all people in the salvation of the remission of sins. But because God wanted to find sinners and make them into the righteous, He told us through this Word today that there is one person in a hundred who will be truly saved.

I am sure that the Lord’s first parable here is for everyone in the world. All the people of the world must know that those that will be saved are one in a hundred. If you read the Old Testament, it says, “I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion” (Jeremiah 3:14). A lot of people are actually living in this world, but there really aren’t many who meet the Lord. On the other hand, there are more people than can be counted who go to hell."

Paul C Jong