395: Andrew Bramhill - Exhortation: Parables of the Lord (Luke 15)

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   Welcome to Good Christophian Talks. Thank you for joining us this week on this podcast. We select one talk a week to help us get the Bible in our Daily News feed. Each week we post a talk that we previewed from suggestions sent in by listeners from around the world. Then we record a short intro beforehand as a personalized recommendation to you on why we are sharing the talk. And now let’s talk.

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   More about this week’s talk. This week’s talk was an excitation given by Brother Andrew Bramhill at the Riverwood Ecclesia in Sydney, Australia in January 10th of 2023. I really enjoyed this excitation based on the parables of the lost in Luke 15. I thought it was pretty funny, Brother Andrew says right at the beginning.

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   I’m sure you’re worried that you’re not going to learn anything new about this exploration of Luke 15 because you’ve heard this, these stories 1000 times. But I did learn something new. So I think he delivered on his promise. I think something I’d never thought of before is the difference in reaction to the father of the prodigal son when compared to the shepherd and the woman in the house. The shepherd and the woman in the house kind of immediately jump into action once they’ve lost something, while the father of the prodigal son kind of waits and his patient when his with his son when he is leaving and only springs into action once his son returns.

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   Lots of wonderful lessons. I personally feel always encouraged by Luke 15. I think it’s, you know, like many of the words of Jesus, a place where you can spend as many hours as you have in meditation. And I really appreciate it. Brother Andrew leading us in that on this one. Thanks again to the person who sent in this decision as a suggestion.

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   We do appreciate your suggestions. They are vital to the show now. So please anything you hear, please send in to us. And we here is Brother Andrew Bramhall, the parable of the lost. We’re in Luke chapter 15 this morning for our exaltation. If I can ask you to join me there and you will have been extremely familiar with it as we’ve read our way through and you’re going to think what’s what are we going to say this morning? That’s any difference that we haven’t heard already at the Christadelphian office.

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   I could probably sell you countless books for five year olds called the lost sheep, the Good Shepherd, all those things. We’ve known these stories of the Lord Jesus, haven’t we, for many a long year. And yet he wasn’t writing for he wasn’t speaking for five year olds, was he? The Lord Jesus Christ is speaking to thinking men and women who are interested in the Kingdom of God.

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   So let me ask you one or two questions about Luke chapter 15, just to see what you think about this. All these parables are very similar, aren’t they? Something gets lost, someone has to search, something is found, everybody’s happy. It seems to be as simple as that, doesn’t it? It’s a very straightforward message that you get from the parables and they’re all the same, seemingly. They’ve all got that same message. Well, well, let me ask you this then. Why does the Lord Jesus Christ have to give us 3 parables on that particular theme?

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   As far as I know, He doesn’t do it for any other. You know, we get parables on all sorts of themes and all sorts of subjects, but you get the parables of the lost and it looks very simple. And yet all of a sudden the Lord Jesus Christ is having to say it in three different ways.

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   Is, is, is that because it’s just really important and he wants to say it three times? Well, well, if that’s the case, why don’t the other Gospels say it? I, I know you can find a parable about a lost sheep in Matthew, but it’s slightly different to the one here in Luke. We won’t look at the differences, but it is a different context, the one we’ve got here in Luke.

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    Generally, the other Gospel writers don’t mention it. So if it’s really, really important, why only Luke? And we’re going to see whether or not they are in fact all the same or whether or not there’s something here which is a little bit different. Luke’s is the appropriate gospel for these. I, I, I think because Luke presents to us the Lord Jesus Christ in his role as a priest.

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    We, we know that from the opening of the gospel because the Gospel begins with a priest who is a failure. You remember that he’s Zacharias. He’s in the temple, the Angel appears, he doesn’t believe he’s an old man, he can’t have children with his wife, He’s something of a failure. And when he doesn’t believe, he’s not allowed to talk or to hear.

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    And he’s turned into a mute for nine months. And then in Luke chapter 2, along comes a 12 year old. He’s in the temple. Boy, can he speak? Boy, can he answer questions? Boy, can he deliver the the blessing? And it’s, it’s as if the priesthood has moved from the old priesthood to the new priest who’s arrived and it’s the Lord Jesus Christ and, and all through the gospel. Interestingly, Luke’s the only gospel where Jesus gets lost or the parents think he’s lost at least as a 12 year old. Luke is the only gospel that tell us they can’t find his body when it comes to the resurrection. They’ve lost his body.

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    They don’t know where it is and it’s Luke. If you just turn over to chapter 19, it’s Luke who tells us in verse 10 that the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which is lost. It’s a great theme in the Gospel of Luke, and the high priest’s role is one of recovery of the things that are lost. I’ll just read to you a verse from Hebrews which says every high priest can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way.

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    It’s the job of the priest to find those that are lost, and this Gospel is going to be all about finding those who are lost. Just think about one or two common things about these parables. Then we said that they’ve all lost something. There’s always someone doing some searching and some looking, and The thing is found. And then there’s great rejoicing. And sometimes we’re clever and we say in parable #1 something has got lost outside the house.

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    And in parable #2 the coin has got lost inside the house. And in parable #3 you’ve got both those aspects because there’s a son who wanders off and gets lost, and there’s a son who stays at home and gets lost. And, and we piece it together in that way, and it seems to fit quite nicely.

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    And I think that works. But, but is there any significance in the numbers, do you think Brothers and sisters, parable #1 one sheep out of 100 wandering off? Is it feasible that from the truth, from the Gospel message, 1% will wander off Sposa that, that sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? That, that, that amongst our community of believers, 1% over time could, could drift away?

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    That sounds OK. What about parable #2 where the thing gets lost inside the house and it’s one in 10? Now, if parable #1 works, does parable #2 work? If it does, it’s saying that on average, 10% of our ecclesial members are here, but they’re lost. It’s not astonishing if that, if that’s right.

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    If so, how do we find them? Who are they? What are we going to do about recovery? I think that’s quite an interesting dilemma. From parable #2 and parable #3 there are only two sons. One is lost outside, one is lost inside. Everyone’s lost in parable #2 then #3 and maybe that’s right as well because we are all need in need of being found by the Lord Jesus, aren’t We are all in need of being recovered and brought back to Him. So let’s have a look at these three parables then, and just draw one or two lessons as we prepare to remember our Lord. If you’ve got Luke 15 open, you’ll just notice how Luke chapter 14 ends.

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    The Lord Jesus Christ finishes with these words he that hath ears to hear, let him hear the Lord Jesus Christ is emphasizing there isn’t. I want you to pay attention to the things I’ve got to say I’m speaking here words that will make a difference to you. Pay attention. Forget the chapter break then because in verse 1 of chapter 15, then drew near unto him. All the publicans and sinners fought to hear him. He’s been saying come and listen to my words. And the people that are coming to hear him are the publicans and sinners.

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    And those are the ones who who are in need of listening to the Lord Jesus. Those are the ones who came to hear what he had to say. And around the edge are the others. Because in verse 2, we see that there were Pharisees and scribes that they’re not drawing near. They’re that they’re sort of around the Pharisees and the scribes and they’re murmuring and they’re criticizing and they’re saying this man receives sinners and eateth with them.

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    And they’re, they’re, they’re criticizing the Lord Jesus for being with the publicans and sinners in their view. And maybe our ecclesial life is a little bit like that. There are those of us who are here and we want to know, we want to understand the Lord Jesus. We want to listen to what he has to say.

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    And then there are those of us who stand on the edge sometimes, and often those on the edge are the ones who criticize more and aren’t in the heart and aren’t wanting to contribute, but they are wanting to be on the edge and criticize a little bit. Maybe you experience that we we certainly do from time to time.

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    But here we’ve got these people who are eager to hear what the Lord Jesus Christ has to say, and he’s going to tell them this parable about the lost sheep. You know the parable extremely well. This man who has 101 wanders off and quite how you know you’ve got precisely 100 sheep, I’m not sure. I go walking on the Yorkshire Dales or the Welsh hills in England and there’s hundreds of sheep and they’re all over the place.

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    And quite how you would count them to know you’ve got 100, I’ve no idea. And how you would identify that one was missing, I’m not sure how you do that. And this shepherd seems to know, he knows exactly who his sheep are. And he doesn’t just know that now there are 99. He knows that one is missing and he knows which one is missing. This is the the Good Shepherd, isn’t it? Who knows his flock And come back me to Isaiah, would you please?

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    You can always find Old Testament references which support the parables and look like a foundation. We’re going to Isaiah 40 please, to start with Isaiah chapter 40. This is God with his people. Isaiah 40 verse 11, and you can find plenty of references like this in the Old Testament. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd.

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    He shall gather the lambs with his arms and carry in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young. And you could turn over to chapter 49 and verse 22 and find something very similar. This is a picture of the Good Shepherd who gathers together, who collects, who brings them in his arms back to where they should be.

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    And that’s the idea that comes out in this parable in Luke chapter 15. So, so, so the shepherd has identified that one is missing and he’s going to leave. He’s 99. I don’t think he’s abandoning them. I think he’s leaving them in the care of others, but he’s off to find the one.

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    And and I want you to note the determination of this shepherd because he will search until he find it at the end of verse 4. And nothing is going to stop this shepherd finding his sheep.

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    Now the big question is why is the sheep missing? And that’s that’s a big question that we need to ask for each of these parables. And when we ask that question, we’re going to unlock something different for each of these parables. Now, why is this sheep missing? And now I suggest to you that sheep don’t wake up in the morning and think, I’m fed up with this flock.

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    I don’t want to be here anymore. I’m going to grace somewhere else. Sheep don’t think like that. Sheep don’t behave like that. That’s not how they work. I, I, I think I’m speculating a bit. I think that sheep just kind of wander a bit. You know, they’re happy grazing. They don’t really intend to separate from the rest of the flock.

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    And somehow this sheep has just found itself separated. It didn’t choose particularly, but it’s, it’s been a bit foolish, it’s been a bit mindless and it’s just found itself separated and, and it’s absolutely certain that wherever the sheep is, it cannot find its way back. It it cannot find its way back to the flock.

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    So it needs a shepherd to go and find it. Just maybe, brothers and sisters, the sheep has been listening to the wrong voice. John tells us that his sheep know his voice and sheep certainly know the voice of the shepherd. Well, maybe they’ve just been listening to the wrong one and they’ve just found themselves wandering down a different path because they’ve been listening to the wrong shepherd. Whatever they reason, this is going to need some intervention by the Good Shepherd.

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    And of course the Lord Jesus Christ, who presents himself to us as the Good Shepherd, is going to be the one who will go out there and search and find, and he will make sure this this individual sheep is recovered. Verse 6, when he cometh home, notice he brings the sheep to his home, not back to the wilderness where the others were.

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    He called together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost and there’s great joy, isn’t that? And the Lord Jesus Christ finishes that parable by saying, I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over once Sinner that repenteth this lost sheep more than over 90 and 9 just persons which need no repentance.

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    Those who don’t think they’re lost. You lot around the edge. He’s I’m sure he’s pointing at the scribes and Pharisees, or at least he’s got them in his gaze. They’re the ones who thought they were justified. They didn’t think they needed to be found. And Jesus is saying, I don’t need to go looking for you because as far as you’re concerned, you are the self-righteous. You’re not lost.

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    I’m going to go and I’m going to invest my time in those who need recovery. So the Lord Jesus Christ sets that principle for us in parable #1 and we then come to parable #2 which isn’t now about a a shepherd, but it’s now about a woman. I think that’s significant whenever we read of particularly Christ’s interactions with women or Christ’s involvement with women or use of women as as a symbol, it’s always the bride, it’s always the ecclesia.

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    So in parable #1 he set the example. He said, this is what I do when someone’s lost, I go and find and I’m going to bring back. I’m going to search until I recover. Now, it’s the job of the woman, it’s the job of the ecclesia. And this is all happening in the house, isn’t it? So this woman has got 10 pieces of silver, and if she loses one, what’s she going to do?

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    Well, she’s going to light a candle, sweep the house and seek diligently until she find it. Now, one in 10 coins. You could look at symbolism here. You could look at symbolism about 10 Jews making up a synagogue. And if one is missing, it affects the fellowship of that. There was an idea that 10 coins were something to do with bridal ornaments.

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    And if one is missing, maybe the the wedding can’t take place or the wedding won’t be right. Maybe it’s just money that’s put aside for a reason. These 10 coins losing one out of those 10, well, this is economically significant, isn’t it? 10% is lost. But let’s ask the question, why is the coin lost?

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    Now? I’m not a coin, but I know coins can’t lose themselves. This, this coin hasn’t made any decision to get lost, has it? So somehow someone in the house has mislaid the coin, maybe the woman herself, maybe someone else in the house, something has happened and this coin is lost. It’s not gone, still there, but it’s lost.

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    And, and, and some of our members, brothers and sisters in our community will be like that, that they’ve not gone, that they might, they might still be attending, that they might still be sitting in their seats week in, week out. But spiritually, their relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ is broken and, and, and they are lost and they’re among us. Maybe it’s you.

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    And this is quite sobering, isn’t it? Now, the kind of houses that this, this woman would live in will be very simple. Before walls, there would be a door. There may possibly be a window in the far wall, but it will be dark, it will be dingy, and it will be a sandy or an earthy floor, maybe with some reeds to drop a coin on that it’s going to be hard to find.

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    So this woman is going to look and she’s going to look hard to find this coin. And what does she do? There are two things she does to find the thing that’s lost. One is she lights a candle and the other is she sweeps. Now those two things aren’t just chosen to embellish the story.

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    When you think about it, the Lord Jesus Christ is making a point there, that the light, well, the Word of God is the light, isn’t it? A lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path. That’s what the Word of God is. And maybe therefore, brothers and sisters, if we’re looking for the lost in our ecclesia, introduce more Scripture.

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    Find a way of doing that. Find a way of talking about Scripture a bit more. We’ll all be very good at talking about holidays and cars and this and that, but it’s just introduce a bit of Scripture and and talk to brothers and sisters and see where you’ll see where their faith is.

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    If they can’t talk about the scriptures and the things that are meaningful to them, then maybe they’re becoming lost. So this woman introduces more light, and then she sweeps. And it’s a it’s a Passover type symbol, isn’t it? Sweeping for the leaven? That might not be a pleasant process. You sweep A dusty floor, dust flies, furnitures all over the place.

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    This could cause trouble. But this woman is going to find the coin that’s lost. Coin hasn’t lost itself. Coin isn’t to blame. I suggest it’s just missing and needs to be found. So parable #2, I suggest to you, is a great symbol about ecclesial life. We ought to be looking for that which is lost.

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    Which brings us then to parable #3. Parable #3 begins in verse 11, Parable of the Prodigal Son. You know it extremely well. He said a certain man had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. So you, you know this story.

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    Here comes the son. He looks very demanding. He looks very uncaring. In rather blunt language, he says, Give me my inheritance. You’re going to die one day. It’ll all come to me and my brother. I’ll have it now, please. It’s rather uncaring, unthoughtful, isn’t it? It’s, it’s also implying more than that. It’s also implying I don’t want to live in your house anymore. And if this is a picture of of God, as I think it is, and his children, here is someone saying, I don’t want to live in God’s house anymore and I certainly don’t want to live with my brother anymore.

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    Give me my share. And I’m off. And it’s a very unpleasant attitude that’s presented here in the sun. But let me just let me just ask you this. If the shepherd had known that a sheep was about to wander off, don’t you think he’d have been very careful to make extra precautions to make sure that the sheep didn’t wander off? And don’t you think that if the woman knew a coin was in danger of being lost, she’d be extra careful to make sure they were all locked away safely and she knew exactly where they were? I’m, I’m speculating, but that sounds right, doesn’t it? When you get to parable #3 and it’s about God and his children, one of the children say, I want to leave. The father doesn’t raise one word of opposition. Don’t you think that’s interesting? No, not, not only that, arguably the father makes it easy because he says, OK, you want your share of the inheritance. Here it is, off you go.

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    Isn’t that interesting? And then when the when the shepherd realizes that a sheep is missing, he’s off out there. He’s looking through highways and byways until he finds his sheep and brings it back. When the woman realizes a coin is missing, she’s lighting candles, she’s sweeping the floor, she’s creating turmoil in order that she might recover it.

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    When the sun goes missing, Father does absolutely nothing. This isn’t the same parable at all, is it? This is, this is interesting. Now we’re beginning to see that the Lord Jesus Christ is telling us different things here. And I’d like to suggest in parable #3 we’re seeing insights into how God works with his children.

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    This isn’t about Christ going and looking for that one thing that’s lost. This isn’t about the ecclesia and needing to be spiritually strong and helping all our members come together. This is how God deals with his children, how he deals with you, and how He deals with me. And it’s very insightful. And here he is letting the sun go. And we should be alarmed by that. And the reason God is letting the Son go is because this Son has made a deliberate decision to go. This would be a godly house.

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    Godly principles will be there. This Son will be brought up with a good understanding of the things of God, and he is making a deliberate choice to leave. And the Father won’t stop him. I’m sure the Father will have had conversations in the past about what’s right and what’s wrong and where it’s best to be.

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    But the son is saying, I’m not interested. I, I want out of here. I’m going to live in a different house and he’s going to leave and he’s going to enjoy his money and he’s going to move to a different country, to a Gentile country. He’s going to serve a Gentile master. And God is allowing the principle of free will here. If you want to leave, you can leave. He’s not physically going to stop you. And then in the parable, we have the principle of free will. But then Providence kicks in because when this man is at his lowest point, a famine comes.

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    You know, it couldn’t get worse for him, but it does. And he’s in a Gentile land, serving a Gentile Lord without any friends, feeding swine, unclean animals. You know this, this man is brought low, isn’t it? And maybe that’s maybe that’s how God works with his people. You can choose to leave, but maybe Providence is trying to bring you back. And maybe that bringing back process isn’t a pleasant one, but perhaps it would have been better to stay put in the first place.

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    And it’s remarkable, isn’t it, that when this man comes to his senses, verse 18 you know it, I will arise, go to my father and we’ll say unto the Father, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. I am no more worthy to be called thy son. Make me as one of thy hired servants. So, so this man has a change of heart. We know that he’s going to confess his sins to his father. He’s going to come go back and and he’s going to be like you and me because when he gets back, he’s effectively saying I’m going to earn your respect, make me a servant and I’m going to earn your respect.

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    I’ll work for you. And we all need to realise that that’s not how our relationship with it is with God. You, you could sit here this morning, brothers and sisters, and you can make your vows and make your commitment that you’re going to be better and stronger and a more dedicated disciple. And you will go out and you will fail and you’ll come back next week and you’ll have to make the same vows again.

59. 26:57

    And you’ll go out and you’ll fail. And eventually we get to the point where we realise it doesn’t work like that, because this man needs to learn something and he’s about to learn it from the Father now, the father who’s been waiting for the son to come back. I wonder if he knew how bad things had got.

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    The older brother seemed to know what kind of lifestyle his his younger brother was having. I wonder if news filtered back. If it filtered back. The father doesn’t send any food parcels, does he? He doesn’t send a bit of money to help. He doesn’t send any messages saying come home son. All is forgiven that the Father’s still at the point where he is doing nothing, and he will do nothing until the original decision is reversed.

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    As soon as the Son said I want out of here, God can’t do any more and he let him go. Soon as the Son says I want back in, then the Father just leaps into action, doesn’t he? Maybe he’s waiting for you to say, I want to come back. And the Father, we discover was there and he was watching and he was looking for the earliest sign.

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    And as soon as he sees the sign, he’s out there running. Isn’t it? We, we often comments, don’t we? This is the only example in Scripture of God running. And he’s doing it in haste to bring back this Son who’s changed his mind and wants to be back in the Father’s house. And you’ll notice when the when the son gets back to the Father, he’s got his prepared speech ready, hasn’t he?

63. 28:43

    He’s going to say his words. And he does in verse 21. Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight notice it’s that way round. He’s sinned against God and in his Father’s sight. That’s always, it’s always that way round. And I’m no more worthy to be called thy son. And the rest of the bit is make me a hired servant. But God intervenes.

64. 29:04

    The Father intervenes at that point and doesn’t let me say that you can’t work your way back into my respect. You can’t earn it. It’ll be my gift. Here, have clothes, have shoes, have this fattered calf, welcome back into my house. It’s my gift to you. You can’t earn it. You will be a failure if you try and earn it. But you can receive it as a gift. And that’s what God is doing.

65. 29:31

    And it’s, it’s going to work its way through in the other son, isn’t it? Because as the parable continues, there’s another son. And this other son has now gone out of the house. And he’d been there and he’d served and he’d followed all the commands and he’d done it out of a very cold, clinical kind of response to the things of God.

66. 29:51

    And he was serving, but there was no love in it. I he, he wanted the inheritance. He wanted to have the lifestyle of his brother. And he certainly wasn’t coming back into the house if his brother was back. You, you, you know how the story goes. And, and you’ll notice, brothers and sisters, that it ends with an invitation, The father saying your brother’s back, come into the house. The father’s saying that and the parable isn’t concluded. It’s it’s famous, this parable for not having an ending. You know, we’re all saying, well, what happens to the older brother?

67. 30:23

    Does he come back or doesn’t he? And the answer is we don’t know because what the Lord Jesus Christ is doing to all these Pharisees and all these scribes on the edges saying, you are that older brother. They knew he was talking about them. Do you want to come back or not? And if the Lord Jesus Christ had said, but the older brother didn’t listen and he never came in, He’d have given them their answer, but he’s actually extending an invitation and they could come back. Now, there’s one last thing I just want to point out. I finished now, brothers and sisters, I’ve tried to draw to your attention some lovely pictures here, particularly in parable #3 about how God is working. He’s waiting.

68. 31:01

    And as soon as you show a desire to return to Him, He will leap into action and be pleased to give his gifts to us. But I just want to show you the transformation that he’s looking for in you and me. Because when this young man started out in verse 11, his his demand to the father was give me. Maybe in our relationship with God, that’s where we start out with, I meant maybe not as as bleakly as this, but we do say in our prayers, it would be good if you did this for me. Could you help me with that?

69. 31:42

    Could I pray to you about this? And we ask God for lots of things. Maybe that’s where our relationship starts. But as you look a little bit further on and this man has changed completely. In verse 19, he says I am no more worthy to be called thy son. Make me. Those two words are very different.

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    There was a time when we might have been saying, give me our prayer. Now has to be very different. We need to be saying to God, make me, make something of me, that this is all I am, but in your hands you can make something of me. And I’m throwing myself on your mercy and your grace. And that’s where this man came to. And that’s where we are, brothers and sisters now as we come to break bread, to remember the one who looks after those who are lost.

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