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Matt.18:10 See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. 18:11 For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost. 18:12 "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? 18:13 If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. 18:14Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

What is the context of Christ words here, the context is stunning, which is thousand's of years of the law, those outcast by the law, and yet others group whom did not believe they were lost. Now Christ was changeling their core beliefs, did they have the truth, did they love the truth, and foremost did the love their Father YHWH? How were some lost?

John 8:40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.

Many were lost simply because there was no forgiveness of sin under the law for adultery. In fact, there were many sins that end up in death according to the law. However, the Jews could not just kill a person for religious belief being under the power of the Roman empire so they removed the person from their association as accounted dead. The living dead among them having no sacrifice for sins left under the law. Mind you now, this was a community steep in these judgments as part of life, truly there were lost sheep that could not come back even if they had wanted too.

Mark 1:41 Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean."

A little one was not a proud Pharisee or even a Scribe who upheld the law and consider themselves clean by its rules, but individual cut to the heart by there bad conduct whom were coming to Christ Jesus for healing by having their sins forgiven outside the law that rejected them as dead!

Today many proud and arrogant ones who love debating scriptures applies these verses too themselves, or a religious organizations, which itself act like the Pharisee casting names out as being wicked while publicly slandering those they have cast out as evil slaves. None of this implies Christ point here. Christ himself was one of these little ones, he was rejected as a sinner having a demon and his name cast out as wicked among the majority Jews. Soon the disciples would be cast outside the Jewish faith as sinner against the law, apostates, many of them murdered.

John. 7:43 So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
7:44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. 7:45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
7:46 The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
7:47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you? 7:48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

But sin here is the key, without blood sin could not be blotted out, and where a person is judged dead by righteous law there was no repentance for sins left, its finished, over, of no value in society, lost to any future hope of being associated with God's people on this earth. Those murdering Jesus did not do so with regret or unwillingly. Instead their hearts were fully convinced Christ was a sinner, and by his forgiving the sins of outcast little ones accursed by law, demanded the law to destroy him as accursed also.

1 Corinthians 12:3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.

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