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1/3 of the estate.
According to Jewish law.
wreckless living....
famine
Deep need.
Got a job feeding pigs.
eat pig food.
NO ONE GAVE HIM ANYTHING.
(only the Father that ever gave him anything!)
Came to His senses.
could be an idiom for coming to a place of repentance.
Note, the son’s confession was never completed....
The father interrupts, brings out the robe the ring, the sandals.... indicating this son was more than a son!
Robe… given to a guest of honor.
Ring- signified deep authority.
Sandals- not a slave, a free man.
The older son was not present when the party began, so he was not aware of it.
Perhaps he was busy, or perhaps, unlike his father who kept looking for his son.... this brother had a distant relationship with botht he father and the brother.
He becomes angry and won’t go in.
The father comes out and pleaded with him to come into the party.
This son of yours… hmmm.Note, he won’t acknowledge his own brother....
look at how the father corrects him in Luke 15.32
This brother of yours… hmmm.
The older brother was not only criticizing the younger brother… he was criticizing the father as well.
Look at Luke 15.31
The Father uses words of affirmation… it was necessary to celebrate.
It is not only a necessity, it was urgent.
Let’s talk.
Where did the younger son go?
A far country.
Note, the far country doesn’t involve miles it involves attitude.
It involves the heart.
Southwest Airlines- Wanna Get Away.
The younger son wanted a far country, but it was really a place away from home.
Away from his father.
Away from his brother.
Away.
He did wanna get away.
In context… the sheep was lost through foolishness.
He lost the sheep.
The coin was lost through carelessness.... it was misplaced.
But the younger son, he was lost through willfulness… His own will put him on the road to being lost.
He wanted his own way, rebelling against his father and breaking his father’s heart in the process.
It was his will.
The older brother had a will too.... but....
The older brother.
I am not going to dwell on this character today, though I could.
Let’s get him out of the way quickly… Read Luke 10:25-28
Love God.
Love your brother or neighbor.
The older brother could not do this.
A key point on this brother.
He would not forgive his brother.
but he also wouldn’t forgive his father.
And while the older brother did do his father’s will… he was a hard worker and faithful… he did it out of obligation and not out of love.. it wasn’t in his heart, it was in his head.
He was a lot like Jonah.
This older son was angry.... at his brother.... but also at his father.
he wouldn’t go into the house or the celebration.
There are plenty of elder brothers in the world.
They refuse to fellowship, celebrate, or forgive.
And they usually are curmudgeons for their efforts.
The Prodigal
Wasteful.
wasteful of what?
His inheritance… his father’s love....perhaps his father’s forgiveness.
Wasteful.
The obvious meaning is his father’s inheritance, or money.
Why?
He wanted more.
We know that by what he does.
More things, this his things could buy.
He valued things more than people (his family).
He valued pleasure more than responsibility (the family farm.)
He valued there ( a distant country) more than here (his family).
In Luke 12 there is an argument between two brothers over their inheritance.
Look at the bomb Jesus drops in the middle of the conversation in Luke 12.15
Beware of covetousness.... why?
The covetous person will never be satisfied.
No matter how much he/she obtains, their heart will be dissatisfied.
A dissatisfied heart will bring a disappointed life.
The Prodigal
You Can’t Enjoy What You Have If You Ignore The One Who Has You
This prodigal (wasteful) son was dissatisfied in his heart and it gave him a dissatisfied life.
Dissatisfied with a place to live a family to love and a life to live.
So he left.
New scenery.
New people.
New life.
And he became miserable.
Do You Wanna Get Away?
Have You Ever?
Pastors who move.
Husbands who leave.
Fathers who check out.
Wives who give up.
Children who run.
Christians who fall.
Church people who walk.
We are all prodigals in some way.
The perfect church doesn’t exist; the perfect spouse does not exist; the perfect family has not yet been created; whatever it is that you may leave for, it isn’t there.
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