TWO LOST SONS AND ONE LOVING FATHER (2 OF 2)
by Josh Malone
Scripture: Luke 15:11-32
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Two Lost Sons and One Loving Father (2 of 2)
Series: Lost and Found
Josh Malone
Luke 15:11-32
Lost and Found. That's our testimony as Christ followers. We were lost and now we are found. We didn't find God, God found us. God is in the business of seeking and saving lost people. That's the good news of the Bible that we are made in God's image for God's glory and though we have sinned and marred that image God is in the business of restoring us. He's in the business of adopting, saving, rescuing, forgiving sinners. That's what Jesus life, death, and resurrection are all about... God reconciling people to Himself for His great glory. These stories which all go together really as one large parable in Luke 15 are about just that. God saving people.
The story of the prodigal son is Jesus' most famous story. I heard where Charles Dickens called it the greatest short story. - But we tend to miss some things in this story...
I remember years ago a preacher asking me and a friend if we thought this story was about lost people or saved people. Here is who its about YOU. ME. US. We many times apply it Christians sort of recommitting their life to Christ. -- The point of the story is that people are sinners far from God and our only hope is a gracious God who saves.
We tend to think the story is about the prodigal son. The main character, the most outlandish character, the most shocking character in the story is not the prodigal son. It's the father, the father is the star.
We tend to think there is one prodigal... one lost son. There is two.
What we are going to see this morning is how God desires to save sinners of all types. There is great encouragement in this story for us and a great warning. It's a story about our heart tendencies and God's heart for sinners. It's a story about the desperate plight we are in. As we read through it... and talk through it ask yourself... who do I identify with?
Context: Luke 15:1-2- Now the tax collectors a ...
Series: Lost and Found
Josh Malone
Luke 15:11-32
Lost and Found. That's our testimony as Christ followers. We were lost and now we are found. We didn't find God, God found us. God is in the business of seeking and saving lost people. That's the good news of the Bible that we are made in God's image for God's glory and though we have sinned and marred that image God is in the business of restoring us. He's in the business of adopting, saving, rescuing, forgiving sinners. That's what Jesus life, death, and resurrection are all about... God reconciling people to Himself for His great glory. These stories which all go together really as one large parable in Luke 15 are about just that. God saving people.
The story of the prodigal son is Jesus' most famous story. I heard where Charles Dickens called it the greatest short story. - But we tend to miss some things in this story...
I remember years ago a preacher asking me and a friend if we thought this story was about lost people or saved people. Here is who its about YOU. ME. US. We many times apply it Christians sort of recommitting their life to Christ. -- The point of the story is that people are sinners far from God and our only hope is a gracious God who saves.
We tend to think the story is about the prodigal son. The main character, the most outlandish character, the most shocking character in the story is not the prodigal son. It's the father, the father is the star.
We tend to think there is one prodigal... one lost son. There is two.
What we are going to see this morning is how God desires to save sinners of all types. There is great encouragement in this story for us and a great warning. It's a story about our heart tendencies and God's heart for sinners. It's a story about the desperate plight we are in. As we read through it... and talk through it ask yourself... who do I identify with?
Context: Luke 15:1-2- Now the tax collectors a ...
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