Leaving the 99 - Jesus & Herd Mentality

The Gospel According to St. Luke ^

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Then Jesus told them this parable:

“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent."

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Herd mentality is real.
Sheeple are real.

Look around, observe.

All one has to do is look at all this COVID and COVID vaccine BS or the soon-to-be ‘climate emergency’ propaganda build up. All one has to do is look and see that that same COVID and COVID vaccine herd mentality exists even in our own lives and homes cause sadly, it exists in small measure within these very forums.

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That’s alright.

Joe doesn’t remember asking Putin for meet anyway.

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I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

The so-called righteous people of the day placed no value on the lives of sinners, believing their behavior had rendered them undeserving of any effort toward reconciliation.

Matthew 5:20 New American Standard Bible 1995
“For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 5:31-32 New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)
31 And Jesus answered and said to them, “It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”