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Everyone: Provide a one to two sentence summary: What is the Prodigal Son about?
Send on Signal/ write on paper
After reading through these phrases we will come back to them at the end:
The Rejoicing of Christ’ Unmerited Salvation is incompatible with a wrong heart.
- Luke 15:11-32
3 Intentions of the heart and their outcome’s
We will begin with some introductory context.
The first heart we will see is a heart intending to fulfill sinful desires, the second heart is the one seeking the Father in humility and the third is the heart intending to be glorified.
One heart is left with a life shambles, One heart leads to a celebration with the Father, and another heart leads sitting outside of the party alone and isolated from the Father.
Luke 15:11 (NASB 2020)
11 And He said
Context/introductory questions
Who is He, who is he speaking too.
(Who What Where When)
” Speaking to the Pharisee’s and The scribes
Struggling with “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
One of three parables in Response to the Grumbling of the Pharisee’s
Rejoicing in repentance- lost sheep and lost coin
A heart intending to fulfill Sinful Desire’s lead’s to Ruin vs 11-16
Luke 15:11 (NASB 2020)
11 “A man had two sons.
“Sinner and Pharisee”
The Tax Collector’s and Sinners is the Younger
A son would normally receive his inheritance at the death, here he says go ahead and give me what i’m owed now.
Im out.
It is also the Father that accommodate this and allowed this to happen.
Pharisee’s you think you understand the Love God let me show you something that makes no sense but display’s God’s mercy, graciousness, and patience.
Wild Living/Prostitutes Lk 15:30 “30 but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’”
Question: What might have motivated this decision?---Gratification of immediate desire’s
JC Ryle Summarizes the heart of mind of this younger son well:
We have in these words a faithful portrait of the mind with which we are all born.
This is our likeness.
We are all naturally proud and self-willed.
We have no pleasure in fellowship with God.
We depart from Him, and go afar off.
We spend our time, and strength, and faculties, and affections, on things that cannot profit.
The covetous man does it in one fashion, the slave of lusts and passions in another, the lover of pleasure in another.-
JC Ryle
Prov 16:25 “25 There is a way which seems right to a person, But its end is the way of death.”
Prov 16:18-19 “18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling.
19 It is better to be humble in spirit with the needy Than to divide the spoils with the proud.”
Carob pods can be found in the southern Levant, the Mediterranean, and southern Europe.
Being high in fat, they provided a cheap means to feed pigs that were being prepped for slaughter.
In the parable of the prodigal sign, it is a testament to how far off-track he really is when he longed to be fed with the pods—food with strong associations with an unclean animal
To a Jew Pigs were unclean, this is not just living among animals but living among the worst of them.
He was in desperation for the food that was left for the slaughtered - the things about to die.
He was not even given that!
JC Ryle again has a great summary of this situation.
Sin is a hard master, and the servants of sin always find it out, sooner or later, to their cost.
Unconverted people are never really happy.
Under a profession of high spirits and cheerfulness, they are often ill at ease within.
Thousands of them are sick at heart, dissatisfied with themselves, weary of their own ways, and thoroughly uncomfortable.-
JC Ryle
Question: How are we tempted to today to start this path?
What are our desire’s that may lead us astray if they rule our live’s?
Some here may have experienced ruin and some have yet to experience it by God’s grace
Laziness displayed in idol-ness: movies, apps, games with unchecked time
Lust to be loved - relationships
Peace from Sources outside of God- anxieties about future, school
A heart intending to Seek the Father in humility leads to Celebration with the Father vs 17-20
What is meant by Senses hear?
This is more then he smelled something.
Literally meaning he came to himself.
There was a clarity of himself and his situation.
Where does repentance begin?
Does it stop here?
The awakening of spiritual senses to your surroundings?
What if the story stopped here?
Question: If an unbeliever were to hear this phrase what is the natural thought?
What is wrong with this statement if you were to hear this online or in a public school setting?
Why does this in human wisdom sound wrong?
A right view and the place to Glorify God’s grace Luke 17:10 “10 So you too, when you do all the things which were commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’
”- JESUS
What happened after he came to his senses?
Are good thoughts enough?
Faith w/ out works verse enter?
This is the exemplified true belief!
The combination of the mind coming to its senses by the power of the Spirit and returning of the man to the Father.
Had he stopped at the thought he would have never actually made it to the Father.
The true belief lead to a true change in direction.
The father sent his slaves scurrying.
The best robe was a sign of position and the ring also, especially if, as many hold, a signet ring is meant (cf.
Gen. 41:42; Esth.
3:10; 8:2); such a ring conveyed authority.
In his destitution the son went barefoot.
But this was fitting only for a slave and the shoes marked him out as a freeman.
The fatted calf was clearly an animal carefully looked after for some special occasion.
Its use now shows that the father felt that there could scarcely be a more special occasion than this.
The old man’s overflowing joy finds expression in his memorable opposition of dead to alive again and of lost to found.
In the feast where they began to make merry perhaps the son found some of the solid pleasure he had looked for in vain in the far country.
Leon Morris, Luke: An Introduction and Commentary, vol.
3, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1988), 260.
Question: What is the typical response when someone’s hits rock bottom?
What is stirred up in the life of this young man after finding this reception?
Thankfulness for the grace of God knowing you sinned against heaven
Contentment in any status knowing everything is more than he deserved
Does this categorize your life?
A Heart intending to be exalted in Pride Leads to Separation from the Father and the Body vs. 25-31
The Pharisee’s who objected the Lord for receiving sinners and eating with them.
What caused him to respond in anger?
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