Part 1 | God’s Heart for Those Who Aren’t Home
SERIES THEME: The parable of the Prodigal Son is the story of God’s unfailing Love. We meet a timeless story about the contrast between the heart of man and the heart of God. The word prodigal means “wasted”. And the beauty of this story is that God can redeem what seems lost. Chances are you’ve got a friend or family member who’s acted the part of the prodigal. This three week series leading up to Easter will be the PERFECT time to invite them with you to church. Take time to pray for them to come, maybe even fasting and praying so that God’s awakening work will transpire in their life. The message of our Father has always been the same no matter how discouraging someone’s journey may seem: Come Home!interacts with the people on screen who we often see in ourselves.
From Luke 15
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📖 Luke 15:1-3 (ESV) Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” 3 So he told them this parable:
📖 Luke 14:26-27 (ESV) “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
📖 Luke 14:33 (ESV) So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple
📖 Luke 14:35 (ESV) He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
1. God sees every .
Not all are the way.
A. = Lost because of its own .
📖 Luke 15:4 (ESV) What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
📖 Isaiah 53:6 (ESV) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
B. = Lost because of someone’s .
📖 Luke 15:8 (ESV) Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?
📖 Psalm 53:2-3 (ESV) God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. 3 They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one
Just because someone is from God does they do not to God.
📖 Isaiah 1:18 (ESV) though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
C. = Lost because of his own .
📖 Luke 15:12-14 (ESV) And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. 13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. 14 And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.
2. God every sinner’s .
📖 John 10:10 (ESV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
📖 Psalm 57:2 (ESV) I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.
3. God over every returned .
📖 Luke 15:7 (ESV) Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
📖 Luke 15:10 (ESV) Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
📖 Luke 15:22-24 (ESV) But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. 23 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
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