COG Ahnsahnghong ] We are from heaven.

Our forefathers in faith admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.
Why did they say that? Because they were looking for their own country where they had been before.

Heb 11:13-16 "And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country--a heavenly one."

John 6:38 "For I [Jesus] have come down from heaven..."

Luke 19:10 "For the Son of Man [Jesus] came to seek and to save what was lost."

Putting the above verses together, we come to a conclusion that Jesus came into the world to seek and to save the lost from heaven. When we study carefully Jesus' words in the Gospels, we can see that we are the lost ones.

Luke 15:4-7 "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent."

'One sinner who repents' was in heaven with ninety-nine rightous persons. To find the sinner, Christ the true shepherd came to earth.