I am blessed with Luke 15 - I for sure know that I am not holy but I must repent every seconds, minutes and hours of my life to see God. I now know that God does not focus on those who are just but He does focus on those repent before God. those with clean heart, and I believe if I have a pure heart Gods favor is automatically with me. that means God can hear my prayer.
The parable of the prodigal son is full of spiritual insights. The tone of the repentance prayer, shows that when you disown your parent it is a sin against heaven and not just your parent.More so, it shows that the saints must learn how to request.The elder son of the man had access to everything.But, he never made any request. Let's learn how to pray to God.There are somethings that must be requested:- before we can be given.
This is no doubt an ausome portion of scripture concerning frogivness when we are willing to acknowledge our sin, turn from it and return home to our heavenly father....however the story is oftentimes misinterpreted that the Lord is mercifull to us when we continue in sin and turn his grace into disgrace. Titus ch 2 tells us that grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust and to live soberly and RICHEOUSLY in this present world.....not to continue in ungodlieness and use this portion of scripture as an escape goat & that our father is always there for us when we decide to return! 2 Thessalonions ch 2 tells us that GOD HIMSELF will send us a strong delution and we will believe a lie and be dammed...all because we loved not the truth....part of truth is.....real, true, sincere repentence of your sins and turning away from your old lifestyle being babtised in Jesus name & recieving the babtism of the holy ghost as thy did in the book of acts! Never should we take advantage of Gods grace and mercy and treat it as a light thing!
IT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE.IT SHOWED ME THAT GOD IS ALWAYS THERE FOR ME. I JUST NEED TO GO HOME AND REPENT TO HIM AND TO ASK HIM WITH ALL MY HEART TO FORGIVE ME AND LET ME COME BACK INTO HIS HOUSE. I AM NOT WORTHY TO BE IN HIS HOUSE. BUT I LET HIM KNOW THAT I HAVE SCREWED UP AND WANT HIS FORGIVENESS AND WILL SETTLE FOR A LESSER JOB IN HIS HOUSE. I AM HAPPY TO BE PART OF HIM IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM.
Luke 15 is such a wonderful and an amazing passage that sums up the mission of our Saviour Jesus Christ. It further a rebuke to those who think that the Lord Jesus came for the righteous. No matter to which degree, we are yoked and burdened with shortcomings and sins. He is yet Gracious and Merciful. The challenge is; Are we unto the task and humble enough to accept His offer and seek his forgiveness?!
The father in this verse was so forgiving annd he never gave up hope on his son. He requested the best for his son even though he had squandered away all that his father worked hard for. The father could have taken a harsh attitude and said: "Well son, that's what you get!" and left it at that. Instead the father ran to his son and welcomed him with open arms. This is just an illustration showing our heaveny Father's love he has for us. We are sinners and Jehovah God freely provided the means to forgive our sins. If God could forgive us such a great amount freely, we should be willling to forgive others freely in imitation of God.
Everybody needs to repent because we are all siners the more santified you are the more you realize our condition. However God sees only his son if you are a son of God by election. He chose us not the other way around but if you have not increased your faith you will be embarassed by it.If only one of the children pf God goes astray he will find him and bring him back to the fold. If necessary he will even brake your leg to bring you back on his own shoulders until your leg heals.
We have been forgiven before repentance. You as modern day Pharisees have not repented yet you shall be forgiven. The sprit of a Pharisee is that of one who trusts in the law to save them. This is the spirit that is in enmity with Christ who is the spirit of prophecy. The spirit of prophecy is the spirit of God. God knew that no man could obey the law yet you try. No matter how much I try to make you repent you shall not so I have to forgive you anyway lest I become an accuser which is the job of the prosecutor. The devil accuses and God forgives. This is the ultimate defeat of Satan.
The Prodigal Son parable is Lord Jesus' response to the Pharisees and scribes hypocrisy ( Lk 15:1,2). They should have had worked harder at converting sinners and society's outcast instead of overlooking them. Pharisees, unlike our Lord Jesus, were not the good shepherds because instead of loving and serving people they burdened them with load which themselves would never dare carry ( Lk 15:5). Also, though the Pharisees acted as if they were godly people, actually they were worse sinners than the one they shun in public because while other sinners repented the Pharisees didn't ( LK 15:21).
@ Barry Pierce Luke chapter 15 doesn't tells us for certain that "in the presence of angels" refers to God Himself Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
1. This is a beautiful parable of forgiveness after repentance ( Romans 10:13), for a person needing salvation and ( 1 John 1:9) for a person who is already saved.;
2. This parable also gives Christian parents that have witness our children being saved at a young age and bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the lord ( Ephesians 6:4) and have to try to create a godly environment in the home a much needed inspiration;
3. Enrolling our children in a good Christian school and being active in a good bible believing church enhances this godly environment;
4. This is important because we as parents need to recognize our children as an investment not only for our good, but for their good future here on earth and for all eternity;
5. Proverbs 22:6 tells us to bring up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart far from it;
6. This is the advantage that believers who have created an environment as I have described above have over believers and non-believers that have not or do not participate in bringing up a child the way they should go according to God's holy word;
7. This father most obviously did bring up both boys in the nurture and admonition of the lord to get results like this;
8. A life time of being faithful to God's truth came home to roost;
9. God always honors faithfulness in being obedient to his holy scriptures, commandments, precepts, principals, and statutes;
10. It is never too late to get started, but the longer we wait the more difficult it can be;
11. Earlier is better than later, but later is better than never.
This passage has encouraged me that wayward children do return. My eyes are to not be set on the loss or going away of my child but on the feast preparation. I want to be like God the father and rejoice in the fact that my once dead child is alive and no longer lost but found.
I really can relate to both brothers, so many times when I have done my own thing and found myself in desperation, my father welcomes me back with open arms! I have also been jealous, when someone (man) that I thought was unrighteous, being blessed! Thank God for repentance and showing me his will!
Rev. Lawrence Williams on Luke 15:13 - 11 years ago
Luke 15:13 This young man went far from the will of God to do his own thing, far from righteousness, and when that happends, we often fine ourselves in a terrible place.
THis chapter is so rich in the lesson of forgiveness and shows how damaging anger is to us, how it can blind us to the truth. The brother was so blinded by his anger toward his brother that he didn't see the good in the situation and God's love for him. God had returned a lost brother to the family. Oh to have that closure so often in life we are hurt and there is no closure from the ones who hurt this is such a picture of hope for the family for the hurting father and it shows God hurts when we are hurting and He rejoices when we are repentent for our sins as Christians as well as the lost. Amen that I have a loving Father in heaven who wanted to adopt me AMEN
This is one of the most beautiful stories in the bible of forgiveness and also how we as humans often first see only what we want to see ie, the envy of the elder brother blinded him. He didn't see God's hand upon the situation he could only see he was missing out. oh it touches me so deeply this story as I struggle with being different from alot of people I know. I struggle with loneliness I know I am not alone praise to you Oh LORD but my reality when I compare myself to others is lonely. I have suffered alot of rejection in my life but this story shows me God is greater than my situation and He will show me the way if I keep looking through His eyes.
I like this chapter because it talks about a son that took all he had and wasted it. And when he came back to his father his father took him back with open arms. And that is how Jesus is when we do wrong and want to go off on are own and we know we done wrong and we come back to the father he will welcome us back with open arms.
"And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them." ( Luke 15:2)
There was a man who came to a virtuous woman and told her of a wounded man who lay dying. He needed her help, yet, this man was in a less than virtuous place. Acknowledging this to her, and as if the very asking was asking virtue to stoop to a lowly place to help a dying man, she went.
She bound up the wounds of the dying man. Her work saved the man.
Love does not always look right. Jesus received sinners, and ate with them. To the Pharisees and Scribes, this did not look right.
Jesus talked to the woman at the well, alone, and she was a Samaritan. To the disciples, this did not look right.
Love does not always look right.
Jesus healed people in the temple, in synagogues, along roadsides, in houses, and in mountains and graveyards. Jesus healed from the cross; to one beside him on the cross, to those standing beneath His cross.
Love does not always look right, but love is always right.
The prodigal son left the father's house, went out to the world himself, he pluck himself out of the father's hand. ( John 10:28) The far country turn out to be a place called "PIG PEN". When you hit rock bottom, there is 3 things that will happen to you if you let it - vs. 17, he came to himself, vs. 18, I will rise and go, vs. 20, he arose and came. The father was still watching the road to see if the son was coming home, the father run to meet him, that is just like Jesus, he running toward you with open arms to welcome home again.
"...And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them..." ( Luke 15:1-10) All roads lead to houses and in houses are people.
I am lost once but I am now found.
Thank you Jesus.
He loved him!
Of course YES, because Angels always gather in the presence of God ( Job 1:6).
2. This parable also gives Christian parents that have witness our children being saved at a young age and bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the lord ( Ephesians 6:4) and have to try to create a godly environment in the home a much needed inspiration;
3. Enrolling our children in a good Christian school and being active in a good bible believing church enhances this godly environment;
4. This is important because we as parents need to recognize our children as an investment not only for our good, but for their good future here on earth and for all eternity;
5. Proverbs 22:6 tells us to bring up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart far from it;
6. This is the advantage that believers who have created an environment as I have described above have over believers and non-believers that have not or do not participate in bringing up a child the way they should go according to God's holy word;
7. This father most obviously did bring up both boys in the nurture and admonition of the lord to get results like this;
8. A life time of being faithful to God's truth came home to roost;
9. God always honors faithfulness in being obedient to his holy scriptures, commandments, precepts, principals, and statutes;
10. It is never too late to get started, but the longer we wait the more difficult it can be;
11. Earlier is better than later, but later is better than never.
There was a man who came to a virtuous woman and told her of a wounded man who lay dying. He needed her help, yet, this man was in a less than virtuous place. Acknowledging this to her, and as if the very asking was asking virtue to stoop to a lowly place to help a dying man, she went.
She bound up the wounds of the dying man. Her work saved the man.
Love does not always look right. Jesus received sinners, and ate with them. To the Pharisees and Scribes, this did not look right.
Jesus talked to the woman at the well, alone, and she was a Samaritan. To the disciples, this did not look right.
Love does not always look right.
Jesus healed people in the temple, in synagogues, along roadsides, in houses, and in mountains and graveyards. Jesus healed from the cross; to one beside him on the cross, to those standing beneath His cross.
Love does not always look right, but love is always right.