The Woman Sweeping the House

This Woman in our Parable represents any Christian person who would seek to tell sinners around her of their need of the Lord Jesus Christ. But in order to find them, she must light a lamp, and then she must sweep the room. Where is the lost coin, she wonders? Where is the lost sinner that I care about and value? I will light a lamp to find then. I will sweep the room, and maybe it will turn up.

The Woman Sweeping the House shows her love for God's law and her desire to see a sinner brought to a conviction of their sins, and believe in Jesus Christ. The Woman sweeping the house is the picture of her attempting to find the lost sinner using both the law and the gospel of Christ. She uses the broom of the law to attempt to show the sinner what sin is, and why that person needs to be saved. With the law she will sweep to bring conviction of sin. But by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. It is only by the washing of water with the word of the gospel, that is the only way that the sinner can really be brought out of their lost condition, and find grace and peace and salvation.