The Reason Some Prodigal Sons Dont Come Home

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The Reason Some Prodigal Sons Dont Come Home
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They Are Enjoying The Pleasure Of Sin For A Season

• Luke 1512-13
• 12 And the younger of them said to his father,
  'Father, give me the portion of goods that falls
  to me.' So he divided to them his livelihood. 13
  And not many days after, the younger son gathered
  all together, journeyed to a far country, and
  there wasted his possessions with prodigal
  living.

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They Are Enjoying The Pleasure Of Sin For A Season

• Hebrews 1125
• choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
  people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures
  of sin,

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They Havent Gotten To The Pigpen Yet

• Luke 1514-16
• 14 But when he had spent all, there arose a
  severe famine in that land, and he began to be in
  want. 15 Then he went and joined himself to a
  citizen of that country, and he sent him into his
  fields to feed swine. 16 And he would gladly
  have filled his stomach with the pods that the
  swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

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They Havent Gotten To The Pigpen Yet

• Proverbs 1412
• There is a way that seems right to a man, But its
  end is the way of death.

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They Have Not Come To Themselves Yet

• Luke 1517
• "But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many
  of my father's hired servants have bread enough
  and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

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They Have Not Come To Themselves Yet

• Acts 2827
• For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
  Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes
  they have closed, Lest they should see with their
  eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should
  understand with their hearts and turn, So that I
  should heal them."'

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They Are Afraid Of What Their Family Will Say

• Luke 1518
• I will arise and go to my father, and will say to
  him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and
  before you,

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They Are Afraid Of What Their Family Will Say

• Luke 1529-30
• 29 So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo,
  these many years I have been serving you I never
  transgressed your commandment at any time and
  yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might
  make merry with my friends. 30 But as soon as
  this son of yours came, who has devoured your
  livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted
  calf for him.'

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They Are Afraid Of What Their Family Will Say

• Galatians 61
• Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass,
  you who are spiritual restore such a one in a
  spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest
  you also be tempted.

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