{"id":40513,"date":"2026-05-27T23:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40513"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:06:07","slug":"26-0528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0528\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jesus Celebrates"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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In Luke 15, Jesus tells three stories of something lost and something found. A lost sheep. A lost coin. And a lost son.\u00a0 At the end of each story, Jesus describes a celebration. The point is clear. Jesus is happiest when the lost are found.<\/p>\n

Jesus rejoices because he knows what awaits the saved. In Heaven, you will at long last, have a heart just like his. Guiltless. Fearless. Tirelessly worshiping. Flawlessly discerning. Jesus also rejoices that we are saved from hell.\u00a0 He says there\u2019s only one sound there, and that is the \u201cweeping and gnashing of teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every person you meet has been given an invitation to dinner.\u00a0 When one says yes, celebrate!\u00a0 When one hesitates, urge him to get ready. You don\u2019t want anyone to miss the party.<\/p>\n

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In Luke 15, Jesus tells three stories of something lost and something found. A lost sheep. A lost coin. And a lost son. At the end of each story, Jesus describes a celebration. The point is clear. Jesus is happiest when the lost are found.<\/p>\n

Jesus rejoices because he knows what awaits the saved. In Heaven, you will at long last, have a heart just like his. Guiltless. Fearless. Tirelessly worshiping. Flawlessly discerning. Jesus also rejoices that we are saved from hell. He says there\u2019s only one sound there, and that is the \u201cweeping and gnashing of teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every person you meet has been given an invitation to dinner. When one says yes, celebrate! When one hesitates, urge him to get ready. You don\u2019t want anyone to miss the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40515,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40513\/revisions\/40515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}