
Last week - the story
Context -
Ken Bailey
Younger Son
Freedom
Christ frees us for life in him
Older Son
2/3 left is all his
In the
supervising staff
Comes in - hears a commotion
Summons a boy and asks
What is going on?
Won’t go in -
Older Son had a
Head Server
Father as host, Oldest as most esteemed server
Guest of Honor - the Younger Brother
Older Son:
Violates his relationship
Rebellion
Broke relationship, not a law
Refuses partnership
Despises his brother
Only sees his relationship with his Father as servant/master
“His heart is full of envy, pride, bitterness, sarcasm, anger, resentment, self-centeredness, hate, stinginess, self-satisfaction, and self-deception. Yet, he probably sees his own actions as a rigtheous search for honor.” —The Cross and the Prodigal, Ken Bailey
This is what is so dangerous about self-righteousness.
Masked as
Countless stories - pride comes before the fall
Compassion needed
Same judgement used on
Like a computer?
Have you restarted it?
So basic, it is forgotten
Where is the father in all this?
Father - breaks all protocol by going out
They had an audience
Not summons but beseech, entreats
He was lost but now is found
Come to the
Story ends before we know what happens
Today, we need to answer it
In our own self-righteousness, will we come in?
Leave it outside and be free in Christ
Stay outside and be devoured by it
Come to the table
The party!
The reminder - I was a lost one
Join the meal of lost ones!