About the Lord's Business

Luke 2:49 And Jesus said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” 50 But they did not understand the statement which He spoke to them.

When Jesus was left to himself, at the age of twelve, he headed off to the Temple. His parents lost sight of Him for a few days and were shaken by the experience. They find Him in the Temple talking to the spiritual leaders of that day. He says He's about His Father's business.

What is the Father's business?

When He becomes thirty and begins His public ministry He says what He is about. "...for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” This is His Father's business!

As Jesus dies on the cross He states, "It is Finished!" What is finished? His Father's business! At the cross He completely fulfilled the work of the Father. There was nothing more He had to do. It was complete!

If Jesus finished the Father's work why do we seek and save the lost today?

First, we do not seek and save the lost as Christ did. He sought them out and did the saving! We proclaim His salvation to all but never assist in the saving of a person in the true sense.

Second, we were lost and now we are found. We are telling the story about what happened to us. We were lost and then saved and whosoever will may come!

We are people who declare the finished work of the Lord. He alone won our freedom! We owe it all to Him, all to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson strain and He washed it white as snow!