The Loving Father (2 of 4)
Series: Come Home for Christmas
Bob Ingle
Luke 15:11-32
Have you ever lost one of your children for a short time like in a store, or a park, or your neighborhood? Remember how freaked out with terror you were? When Avery was 3 yrs old, we lost here for three or four minutes at the Animal Kingdom in Disney World. You know what we didn't do? Not once did we think to ourselves, 'Well, we've got other kids. Let's just focus on them.' We didn't say, 'Well, when we get home we'll start working on having another one to replace her.' We would have searched everywhere we could, spent everything we had, exhausted all the energy we possessed to get that little girl back.
Every Christmas we celebrate the greatest birth of the greatest Person who came to solve our greatest problem to provide the greatest gift. Every person is a sinner by birth, choice, and experience hopelessly separated from God unless He comes after us, finds us, forgives us, and makes us His very own. Jesus came to rescue us from our sin and from ourselves. 1 Timothy 1:15: ''Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners...''.
Last week we began our Christmas series that is a bit unusual. We're in Luke 15 studying the parable of Jesus commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In it we don't find the particulars of Christmas, but the purpose of it. We don't read how Jesus came into the world. We read why. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. That's us.
Last week, we looked at this story primarily focused on the younger son. This week I want us to look at it primarily focused on the loving Father. Luke 15:11-24 (READ)
The Loving Father: Brokenheartedly Granted His Son's Request.
V12: ''Then He said: ''A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.' So he divided to them his livelihood.''
I ...
Series: Come Home for Christmas
Bob Ingle
Luke 15:11-32
Have you ever lost one of your children for a short time like in a store, or a park, or your neighborhood? Remember how freaked out with terror you were? When Avery was 3 yrs old, we lost here for three or four minutes at the Animal Kingdom in Disney World. You know what we didn't do? Not once did we think to ourselves, 'Well, we've got other kids. Let's just focus on them.' We didn't say, 'Well, when we get home we'll start working on having another one to replace her.' We would have searched everywhere we could, spent everything we had, exhausted all the energy we possessed to get that little girl back.
Every Christmas we celebrate the greatest birth of the greatest Person who came to solve our greatest problem to provide the greatest gift. Every person is a sinner by birth, choice, and experience hopelessly separated from God unless He comes after us, finds us, forgives us, and makes us His very own. Jesus came to rescue us from our sin and from ourselves. 1 Timothy 1:15: ''Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners...''.
Last week we began our Christmas series that is a bit unusual. We're in Luke 15 studying the parable of Jesus commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In it we don't find the particulars of Christmas, but the purpose of it. We don't read how Jesus came into the world. We read why. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. That's us.
Last week, we looked at this story primarily focused on the younger son. This week I want us to look at it primarily focused on the loving Father. Luke 15:11-24 (READ)
The Loving Father: Brokenheartedly Granted His Son's Request.
V12: ''Then He said: ''A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.' So he divided to them his livelihood.''
I ...
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