The Love Of The Divine Trinity In Saving Sinners
THE LOVE OF THE DIVINE TRINITY
IN SAVING SINNERS
In Luke 15:1-32 the Lord Jesus spoke three parables unveiling and depicting how the divine Trinity works to bring sinners back through the Son by the Spirit to the Father. The Son came in His humanity as the Shepherd to find the sinner as a lost sheep and bring it back home (vv. 4-7). The Spirit seeks the sinner as a woman seeks carefully one lost coin until she finds it (vv. 8-10). And the Father receives the repenting and re turned sinner as a certain man receives his prod igal son (vv. 11-32). The entire divine Trinity treasures the sinner and participates in bringing him back to God.
It is important for us to understand why the Son is mentioned first in Luke 15. The reason the Son is first is that in God's salvation the One who comes, practically speaking, is the Son. The Son comes to accomplish redemption, which is the first need, because redemption is the foundation of our salvation. The redemption accomplished