Proclamation:
“Jesus
continued: ‘There was a man who had two sons.
The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’
So he divided his property between
them. Not long after that, the younger
son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered
his wealth in wild living. … he hired
himself out … to feed pigs … When he came to his senses, he said … my father’s
servants have food to spare … So he got up and went to his father … his father
saw him and was filled with compassion for him … Let’s have a feast and
celebrate. For this son of mine … was
lost and is found …” Luke 15:11-32 (NIV)
Explanation:
These
are the words of Jesus, The Christ, as recorded by Luke, the physician, under
the influence of The Holy Spirit of God.
Here the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around Jesus but the
Pharisees and the teachers of the law were still there. This was probably outside of the home of the
prominent Pharisee where He had been invited to dinner. Jesus told them the parable of the lost
sheep, and the parable of the lost coin, before He told them the parable of the
lost son. Each of these three parables
focuses on the joy associated with finding the one that was lost.
Application:
The
son in this parable is thought to represent those of us who are saved but left
the sheepfold and slid back into the sinful pleasures of the world. When we came to our senses and recognized
what we had with our Heavenly Father, we repented, and admitted that we were
wrong. We were wrong for leaving in the
first place and for what we did while we were gone. However, we got up out of the mess that we
were in and came back home. Like the
lost son, we were forgiven and welcomed back into the sheepfold.
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