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Luke 15:1-2 NLT - Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. 2 This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!
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Proverbs 14:12 ESV - There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Isaiah 65:1-2 NLT – The LORD says, “I was ready to respond, but no one asked for help. I was ready to be found, but no one was looking for me. I said, ‘Here I am, here I am!’ to a nation that did not call on my name. 2 All day long I opened my arms to a rebellious people. But they follow their own evil paths and their own crooked schemes.
Romans 1: 21-24 NLT - 21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 So God abandoned them (gave them over to their wants and desires) to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired.
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Luke 15:11-12 NLT - 11 To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons. 12 The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.
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Luke 15:13 - 13 “A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living.
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Luke 15:14 -16 NLT - 14 About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. 15 He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. 16 The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.
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Luke 15:17 -20 NLT - 17 “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! 18 I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, 19 and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’ 20 “So he returned home to his father.
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Repentance…
1. We come to our senses. There’s an “Acknowledgement” of the Father, all that we have in the Father! There is NOTHING greater than being restored, reconciled to Him and in a right relationship with Him!
2. We Confess our sins against Him.
3. We Turn from our sins against Him.
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Luke 15:20 NLT - 20 “So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. When he sees his son, he’s filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
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Luke 15:21-24 NLT- 21 His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son.’22 “But his father said to the servants, ‘Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet. 23 And kill the calf we have been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast, 24 for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.’ So the party began.
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Luke 15:25-27 NLT - 25 “Meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house, 26 and he asked one of the servants what was going on. 27 ‘Your brother is back,’ he was told, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf. We are celebrating because of his safe return.’
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Luke 15:28-32 NLT - 28 “The older brother was angry and wouldn’t go in. His father came out and begged him, 29 but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends. 30 Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!’ 31 “His father said to him, ‘Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours.
32 We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”
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Luke chapter 15 should change our perspective about those who are lost! It should change our perspective about the love, grace, mercy and forgiveness of God! [ipDGEsdTyVA] |