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Service Notes
Graham give update on delay of departure
Time of prayer next week as kids and teachers are headed back to school
Reading Introduction
Didn’t realize how many songs there were about the Prodigal Son.
The thought of God embracing or running towards us is overwhelming.
Title of the sermon: Therefore Came His Father comes from vs. 28
It is such an incredible, wonderful truth that I recognize I should not even be allowed to speak of it much less be the benefactor of it.
Luke 15:11–32 (KJV 1900)
11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:
12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
And he divided unto them his living.
13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
20 And he arose, and came to his father.
But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.
And they began to be merry.
25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Pastoral Prayer
Graham and Olivia as they wait for you to guide their next step
Bro Gardner and his family as he continues to battle cancer.
Kara Hilburgers father who has leukemia
Families as they prepare for a new school year
The lost who might be among us us watching online
The response of God’s children to this story
Sermon Introduction
This is passage for long-time churchgoers.
This is a passage for people who don't struggle as much with running from God as they struggle with condemning those who do.
Look at how the older brother relates to the father.
Servant to Master - these many years do I serve thee,
Father as only a giver of commands - neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment:
It dishonors God to treat him as a master in need of slave labor.
What honors God is not slave labor, but childlike faith in his all-sufficiency.
The son who would not come home
The story of the prodigal is not a story about sins it is a story about lostness.
Chapter heading might read “The Lost Son” / If is there it is for the prodigal but the older was the one who wouldn’t come home.
Father had two sons
Luke 15:11 “11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:”
Retell the story with emphasis on the later section
The younger son set out in rebellion.
He knew what he wanted.
His desires led him to gamble all in getting what God condemned.
He loved sin.
It promised satisfaction to appetite and ambitions.
Lured him by its promises.
Its fascinations hypnotized him.
He had his fling.
He rebels against the father.
He shows that he is dissatisfied with his father's provision, his father's restrictions, and his father's guidance.
It was different with the elder son.
He liked it at home.
Not that he loved his father.
Like the rest of us, he wanted to have his own way.
He thought he was smart enough to manage his father and to get out of him what he wanted.
He loved himself too much to be interested in pleasing anybody but himself.
Pride born of self-conceit was his guiding star.
Joy of the home was missing a son
Luke 15:28 “28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.”
The heart reveals itself
This heart issue did not reveal itself when there was work to be done
This heart issue did not reveal itself in a personal conversation with the Father
The heart issue manifested itself when grace was being shown to his brother.
Pharisees murmur
The older brother is to represent the pharisees who Jesus is speaking to.
Luke 15:1-2 “1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.”
Pastoral Prayer: Pastors, pray so much in your services that nominal Christians are bored that you talk so often to the God they only say they believe in.”
you can ask yourself today where you find your joy
The far country has many roads
Luke 15:13 “13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.”
Luke 15:28 “28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.”
Ways to leave home
Path of the younger
Here is a type whose lostness is obvious.
It is obvious to the son and to others.
He is not at home; he is in the far country.
He is not a worker; he is a waster.
He is not lifting up; he is dragging down.
He is not creating; he is destroying.
Typified by discontentment and desire to please self.
Came home.
Recognized father's sufficiency - "How many of my father's hired hands have more than enough food."
Determined to come home - “I will arise and go to my father.”
Robe, Ring, Shoes
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