This audio file is a teaching of Luke 15, the first 10 verses. Pastor Charlie starts with the background study of the Greek word, apollumi. This word means something or someone marked out for destruction, and often, eternal destruction. It is often translated as perish or destroy. Apollumi is the word Jesus uses in Luke 15 for people who are lost. Jesus gives us three parables of lost things in Luke 15. He uses the stories of a lost sheep, lost coin, and lost son. The main point of the teaching is that anything that is valuable that is lost must be diligently searched for. It's obvious that we help anyone who is hurt, like a child who hurts himself or an elderly person who falls. Even animals, like Jesus said, like an ox, sheep or donkey, are helped when they are hurt or wounded. So why do we walk right past people who are marked out for eternal destruction and we don't help them. That is the shocking reality of what happened in the parable of the Good Samaritan. How could a priest and Levite walk right past a man who was wounded by the roadside. Yet, Christians do that all the time when they walk past lost people and never tell them about Jesus Christ. We look at the stories of Levi the tax collector in Luke 5 and Zacchaeus in Luke 19. These stories show that Jesus Christ came to seeking and save that which is lost.