We need to be reminded about what really is Gods Work

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We need to be reminded about what really is Gods
Work

• This chapter begins with a snapshot of an ugly
  attitude. (Luke 151-2)

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We need to be reminded about what really is Gods
Work

• (Luke 151-2 NKJV) Then all the tax collectors
  and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. 2
  And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying,
  This Man receives sinners and eats with them.

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We need to be reminded about what really is Gods
Work

• Somehow the Pharisees in all of their study and
  religious experience had missed the true nature
  and work of the Lord.

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We need to be reminded about what really is Gods
Work

• Somehow the Pharisees in all of their study and
  religious experience had missed the true nature
  and work of the Lord.
• Jesus now tells three parables the lost sheep,
  the lost coin, and the lost son.

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We need to be reminded about what really is Gods
Work

• Somehow the Pharisees in all of their study and
  religious experience had missed the true nature
  and work of the Lord.
• Jesus now tells three parables the lost sheep,
  the lost coin, and the lost son.
• Here we see a moving, vivid picture of the human
  and divine side of conversion.

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We need to be reminded about what really is Gods
Work

• On the one hand we see the foolish reasoning of
  one in sin and the terrible consequences.
  (Isa 4822)

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We need to be reminded about what really is Gods
Work

• (Isa 4822 NKJV) There is no peace, says the
  LORD, for the wicked.

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We need to be reminded about what really is Gods
Work

• On the other hand we see how people come back to
  the Lord in an acceptable way. They do not just
  slip back in.

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We need to be reminded about what really is Gods
Work

• Above all we see the deep concern and the warm
  welcome of God to the sinner who returned.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Luke 1510-13 NKJV) Likewise, I say to you,
  there is joy in the presence of the angels of God
  over one sinner who repents. 11 Then He said
  A certain man had two sons. 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.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• 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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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• The demand for independence.

13
The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• The demand for independence.
• The son got tired of restraint, even though it
  leads to security and plenty.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• The demand for independence.
• The son got tired of restraint, even though it
  leads to security and plenty.
• Gods commands are always for our good. (Deut
  1013)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Deut 1013 NKJV) and to keep the commandments
  of the LORD and His statutes which I command you
  today for your good?

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Why love our enemies? (Matt 546)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Mat 546 NKJV) For if you love those who love
  you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax
  collectors do the same?

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Why give? (2 Cor 89)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (2 Cor 89 NKJV) For you know the grace of our
  Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet
  for your sakes He became poor, that you through
  His poverty might become rich.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Discontent.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Discontent.
• Satan likes to promote the idea that you are
  being left out.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Ex. All my life I have been doing what others
  wanted. Its my right!, I deserve it!.
  This is the spirit described here.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Worldly joy.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Ex. All my life I have been doing what others
  wanted. Its my right!, I deserve it!.
  This is the spirit described here.
• Worldly joy.
• The Bible admits that sin has its pleasures.
  (Heb 1125 2 Pet 213)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Heb 1125 NKJV) choosing rather to suffer
  affliction with the people of God than to enjoy
  the passing pleasures of sin,

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (2 Pet 213 NKJV) and will receive the wages of
  unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure
  to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and
  blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions
  while they feast with you,

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Several have told me, especially when depressed,
  that going out and getting drunk give you a
  high and a relief. The same it true of
  fornication.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Several have told me, especially when depressed,
  that going out and getting drunk give you a
  high and a relief. The same it true of
  fornication.
• The peer pressure on our young is great. They
  will think you are crazy not to. The young cannot
  see death, plus everyone else is doing it. (1
  Pt 44)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (1 Pet 44 NKJV) In regard to these, they think
  it strange that you do not run with them in the
  same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• The wasting of ones substance.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• The wasting of ones substance.
• When you lose your sense of responsibility to God
  everything else will soon follow.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• This son was not aware or seemed to care that he
  was throwing it all away. (Ex. I have seen both
  men and women throw away their family, job and
  eventually their lives.)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• This son was not aware or seemed to care that he
  was throwing it all away. (Ex. I have seen both
  men and women throw away their family, job and
  eventually their lives.)
• God has made us to do His will and be busy in it.
  (Ecc 1213 Jas 117)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Eccl 1213 NKJV) Let us hear the conclusion of
  the whole matter Fear God and keep His
  commandments, For this is mans all.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (James 117 NKJV) Every good gift and every
  perfect gift is from above, and comes down from
  the Father of lights, with whom there is no
  variation or shadow of turning.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• What are true riches? Do not throw this away.
  (Luke 1221)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Luke 1221 NKJV) So is he who lays up treasure
  for himself, and is not rich toward God.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• The hypnotic effect of sin.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• The hypnotic effect of sin.
• Sin gives you a power of control that does not
  exist! I can quit anytime. They are
  underestimating several things.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• The power of habit - When you are doing anything
  long enough, you feel compelled to continue.
  An act often repeated hardens into a habit, and
  a habit long continued petrifies into
  character.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Ex. I still have to fight because it is so
  much a part of me.

42
The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• Ex. I still have to fight because it is so
  much a part of me.
• The demands of sin. (Luke 1514-16)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Luke 1514-16 NKJV) 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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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• You will find yourself doing things you never
  dreamed of. (John 834)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (John 834 NKJV) Jesus answered them, Most
  assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a
  slave of sin. (Ex. Drugs, fornication . High
  becomes hard to keep.)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Ex. Drugs, fornication . High becomes hard to
  keep.)

47
The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Ex. Drugs, fornication . High becomes hard to
  keep.)
• Soon you cannot have the same high, then comes
  the famine. There is no more fulfillment and
  satisfaction but cold hard reality. What then?

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• No man would give to him. - There are no
  rewards for Satan, he does not care.

49
The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• No man would give to him. - There are no
  rewards for Satan, he does not care.
• Judas found this out. (Matt 271-5)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Mat 271-5 NKJV) When morning came, all the
  chief priests and elders of the people plotted
  against Jesus to put Him to death. 2 And when
  they had bound Him, they led Him away and
  delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• 3 Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had
  been condemned, was remorseful and brought back
  the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests
  and elders, 4 saying, I have sinned by
  betraying innocent blood. And they said, What
  is that to us? You see to it! 5 Then he threw
  down the pieces of silver in the temple and
  departed, and went and hanged himself.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• This is all headed to a point where one becomes
  unable to escape. (Eph 419 2 Pt 214 1 Tim
  42)

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (Eph 419 NKJV) who, being past feeling, have
  given themselves over to lewdness, to work all
  uncleanness with greediness.

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (1 Tim 42 NKJV) speaking lies in hypocrisy,
  having their own conscience seared with a hot
  iron,

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The Digression of the Sinner (Lk 1511-13)

• (2 Pet 214 NKJV) having eyes full of adultery
  and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable
  souls. They have a heart trained in covetous
  practices, and are accursed children.

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The Process and Fruits of Repentance (Luke
1517-19)

• (Luke 1517-19 NKJV) But when he came to
  himself, he said, How many of my fathers hired
  servants have bread enough and to spare, and I
  perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to
  my father, and will say to him, Father, I have
  sinned against heaven and before you, 19 and I
  am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make
  me like one of your hired servants.

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The Process and Fruits of Repentance (Luke
1517-19)

• An honest reflection upon ones life.

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The Process and Fruits of Repentance (Luke
1517-19)

• An honest reflection upon ones life.
• This is very hard to do. Many rationalize, blame
  others, and loose their conscience.

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The Process and Fruits of Repentance (Luke
1517-19)

• An honest reflection upon ones life.
• This is very hard to do. Many rationalize, blame
  others, and loose their conscience.
• Can you see your own sin?

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The Process and Fruits of Repentance (Luke
1517-19)

• An honest reflection upon ones life.
• This is very hard to do. Many rationalize, blame
  others, and loose their conscience.
• Can you see your own sin?
• A refection upon the goodness of the Father. (Rom
  24)

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The Process and Fruits of Repentance (Luke
1517-19)

• (Rom 24 NKJV) Or do you despise the riches of
  His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not
  knowing that the goodness of God leads you to
  repentance?

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The Process and Fruits of Repentance (Luke
1517-19)

• Look at your own sins and ingratitude and know
  God will take you back.

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The Process and Fruits of Repentance (Luke
1517-19)

• Look at your own sins and ingratitude and know
  God will take you back.
• This Godly sorrow will lead to repentance. (2 Cor
  710)

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The Process and Fruits of Repentance (Luke
1517-19)

• (2 Cor 710 NKJV) For godly sorrow produces
  repentance leading to salvation, not to be
  regretted but the sorrow of the world produces
  death.

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The Process and Fruits of Repentance (Luke
1517-19)

• This repentance is not a comparison to others nor
  a selective repentance.

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• (Luke 1520-24 NKJV) And he arose and came to
  his father. But when he was still a great way
  off, his father saw him and had compassion, and
  ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. 21
  And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned
  against heaven and in your sight, and am no
  longer worthy to be called your son.

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• 22 But the father said to his servants, Bring
  out the best robe and put it on him, and put a
  ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. 23
  And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and
  let us eat and be merry 24 for this my son
  was dead and is alive again he was lost and is
  found. And they began to be merry.

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• The father saw him a great way off. He then ran
  to him.

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• The Lord is waiting and seeking you. (Jonah
  410-11 Acts 1727 Rev 320)

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• (Jonah 410-11 NKJV) But the LORD said, You
  have had pity on the plant for which you have not
  labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a
  night and perished in a night. 11 And should I
  not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are
  more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons
  who cannot discern between their right hand and
  their left and much livestock?

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• (Acts 1727 NKJV) so that they should seek the
  Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him
  and find Him, though He is not far from each one
  of us

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• (Rev 320 NKJV) Behold, I stand at the door and
  knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the
  door, I will come in to him and dine with him,
  and he with Me.

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• What if your own children left the Lord?

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• The love of God exceeds anything we would have
  for our own child. Why did Jesus not come
  down from the cross? (Rom 56-8)

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• (Rom 56-8 NKJV) For when we were still without
  strength, in due time Christ died for the
  ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man
  will one die yet perhaps for a good man someone
  would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates
  His own love toward us, in that while we were
  still sinners, Christ died for us.

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• Remember what Jesus said the angels do? (Luke
  1510)

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• (Luke 1510 NKJV) Likewise, I say to you, there
  is joy in the presence of the angels of God over
  one sinner who repents.

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• God will forgive and receive you completely back
  into His fellowship. (Rom 47-8)

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The Forgiveness of the Father (Luke 1520-24)

• (Rom 47-8 NKJV) Blessed are those whose
  lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are
  covered 8 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD
  shall not impute sin.

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• (Luke 1525-32 NKJV) Now his older son was in
  the field. And as he came and drew near to the
  house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he
  called one of the servants and asked what these
  things meant. 27 And he said to him, Your
  brother has come, and because he has received him
  safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted
  calf.

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• 28 But he was angry and would not go in.
  Therefore his father came out and pleaded with
  him. 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.

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• 30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who
  has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you
  killed the fatted calf for him. 31 And he
  said to him, Son, you are always with me, and
  all that I have is yours. 32 It was right that
  we should make merry and be glad, for your
  brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost
  and is found.

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• Who does the elder son represent? (Luke 189)

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• (Luke 189 NKJV) Also He spoke this parable to
  some who trusted in themselves that they were
  righteous, and despised others

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• Some of the hardest hearts I have seen has come
  from those raised in the church.

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• The spirit of the Pharisee is to make ones own
  political end the focus of their
  righteousness. (John 544)

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• (John 544 NKJV) How can you believe, who
  receive honor from one another, and do not seek
  the honor that comes from the only God?

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• This son fought the work of the father.

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• Everyone has an influence, where do you stand?
  (Matt 2313, 15)

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• (Mat 2313 NKJV) But woe to you, scribes and
  Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the
  kingdom of heaven against men for you neither go
  in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are
  entering to go in.

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• (Mat 2315 NKJV) Woe to you, scribes and
  Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and
  sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you
  make him twice as much a son of hell as
  yourselves.

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• Even in this he thought of himself as serving the
  father!

93
The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• Even in this he thought of himself as serving the
  father!
• This son did not have the heart of the father.

94
The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• Even in this he thought of himself as serving the
  father!
• This son did not have the heart of the father.
• Does those who are lost cause you concern?

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• Do you rejoice when one is forgiven? (Ex. Church
  struggles)

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The Blindness of the Elder Son. (Luke 1525-32)

• Do you rejoice when one is forgiven? (Ex. Church
  struggles)
• Conclusion Everyone is in this parable. Where
  are you?