The Pursuer (3 of 3)
Series: Reckless
Craig Smith
Luke 15: 11-32
Introduction
Welcome to all our campuses. I'm so glad you're with us today for week three of our Reckless series where we're doing a kind of deep dive into probably the most famous parable that Jesus taught, often called the Parable of the Prodigal Son. But as we've seen, that title is too narrow, because this parable isn't just about the Prodigal, it's also about his brother, the Performer. And Jesus meant for us to understand powerful, life-changing truths from both of those sons.
From the Prodigal, Jesus taught us that our sin separates us from God, and that our sense of guilt and our attempts to make it right aren't the key to God's love. God's grace is.
From the Performer, Jesus taught us that God is more interested in our relationship with him than our performance for him, and our performance isn't the key to God's love. God's grace is.
And there's so much freedom that comes from those two truths. But we're not done yet, because there's still one more character we need to pay attention to, the father, the Pursuer. Now, obviously, the father in this parable represents God. And so already over the last two weeks we've seen a lot of what Jesus is teaching us about God from watching the father in this parable.
But two different times along the way we found ourselves asking questions about things the father did, or didn't do...and both times we set those questions aside and said we'll come back to them. Well, that's what we're going to do today. So why don't you go ahead and grab your Bible and make your way to Luke 15:11? We've already walked through this story verse by verse, so we're not going to do that again today. Instead, we're going to kind of helicopter in on the places in this story that caused us to ask those two nagging questions.
Main Body
Why did he say yes?
11 Jesus continued: ''There was a man who had two sons. (Lk. 15:11 NIV)
12 The younger one sa ...
Series: Reckless
Craig Smith
Luke 15: 11-32
Introduction
Welcome to all our campuses. I'm so glad you're with us today for week three of our Reckless series where we're doing a kind of deep dive into probably the most famous parable that Jesus taught, often called the Parable of the Prodigal Son. But as we've seen, that title is too narrow, because this parable isn't just about the Prodigal, it's also about his brother, the Performer. And Jesus meant for us to understand powerful, life-changing truths from both of those sons.
From the Prodigal, Jesus taught us that our sin separates us from God, and that our sense of guilt and our attempts to make it right aren't the key to God's love. God's grace is.
From the Performer, Jesus taught us that God is more interested in our relationship with him than our performance for him, and our performance isn't the key to God's love. God's grace is.
And there's so much freedom that comes from those two truths. But we're not done yet, because there's still one more character we need to pay attention to, the father, the Pursuer. Now, obviously, the father in this parable represents God. And so already over the last two weeks we've seen a lot of what Jesus is teaching us about God from watching the father in this parable.
But two different times along the way we found ourselves asking questions about things the father did, or didn't do...and both times we set those questions aside and said we'll come back to them. Well, that's what we're going to do today. So why don't you go ahead and grab your Bible and make your way to Luke 15:11? We've already walked through this story verse by verse, so we're not going to do that again today. Instead, we're going to kind of helicopter in on the places in this story that caused us to ask those two nagging questions.
Main Body
Why did he say yes?
11 Jesus continued: ''There was a man who had two sons. (Lk. 15:11 NIV)
12 The younger one sa ...
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