Lessons from Luke 15:11-32

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The parable of the lost son, in verses 11-32, captures the love of our heavenly Father, God, for sinners and His willingness to forgive and receive back repentant sinners.

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I like to share 5 lessons from the parable above.. Let's dive into the lesson.

1. Don’t be wise in your eyes. The prodigal son thought he was wise and even wiser than his father. That was why he was too forward and asked his father for his inheritance. He felt he was wiser than his brother who continued serving his father even after he had divided his estate between them. The elder brother stayed back at home.

The prodigal son probably didn’t want anyone to know what he was doing with his inheritance. Therefore, he went to a far country where nobody would see what he was doing or advise him. Whoever is not accountable to anyone is dangerous to himself and everyone around him!

1. Don’t be wasteful. Avoid foolish, reckless living. The prodigal son could still have done better with his inheritance. He could have gone to a far country and invested wisely. He could have proved his critics wrong. But he didn’t, because his motive was wrong from the outset. Luke 15:13b says he got to that far country and “wasted all his money in wild living” (New Living Translation). The Bible in Basic English says, “All his money went in foolish living.” Anything you waste will soon finish.

Don’t waste the investment of God in your life. Don’t waste the gifts and opportunities God has given you. Don’t receive the grace of God in vain (2 Corinthians 6:1). You cannot continue in sin that grace may abound (Romans 6:1).

What you have may be plenty today, but don’t be wasteful. Be a prudent manager of the resources given to you. After Jesus had fed 5,000 and 4,000 men, besides women and children, miraculously, His disciples gathered the leftovers; nothing was wasted (John 6:12-13; Matthew 14:20; Luke 9:17; Matthew 15:35-38; Mark 8:20).

1. There are always enough people to help a wasteful person squander his resources, but none may be there to help him during the resultant season of poverty. Nobody helped the prodigal son after he had wasted his possessions with prodigal living and a severe famine came upon the land (Luke 15:13-14). All his fair-weather friends abandoned him.

He was forced to go and work in a piggery, hoping to eat the food meant for pigs, but he wasn’t given it (Luke 15:15-16). If the prodigal son was a Jew, he must have been a shame to himself and his family, because Jews would never touch or keep pigs. Pigs were considered unclean.

1. Genuine repentance is the only way out for a sinner. The prodigal son returned home after he had wasted all his possessions and hunger taught him a lesson! He came to his senses, humbled himself, and returned home (Luke 15:17-21). Genuine repentance is the only salvation for every child who has run away from home. It is the only solution to the plight of anyone who has abandoned God.

The father of the prodigal son welcomed him back home and treated him like a son, not like one of his servants as he had requested. He threw a party for him (Luke 15:23-24, 32). There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents (verse 10).

It doesn’t matter how far you’ve gone from God, repent of your sins and return to God. God is faithful and just to forgive you your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). No matter how deep the stain of your sins, God can remove it and make you as clean as freshly fallen snow. Even if you’re stained as red as crimson, He can make you as white as wool (Isaiah 1:18). Stop running away from God. Whoever comes to Jesus, He shall not cast out (John 6:37).

5.child should make his parents glad. When the prodigal son ran away from home, he made his father sad. The father said he had been considered dead and lost (Luke 15:24, 32). Therefore, his father was mourning.

When a child walks away from home or takes other insensitive actions, it makes his parents sad. Make your parents happy; don’t be a source of sorrow to them. “A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the grief of his mother” (Proverbs 10:1 New King James Version). Proverbs 15:20 says a similar thing: “A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother” (New King James Version).

Similarly, when believers or non-believers sin, they don’t make God’s heart glad. God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked; He wants the wicked to turn from his way and live (Ezekiel 33:11). However, the God of justice will punish sin one day. The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23). Live a life of holiness; make God’s heart glad.

Also, Christians should seek to make their parents in the Lord glad by obeying the Word of God or walking in truth and following instructions (3 John 4; Proverbs 13:1)

The story is one that shows us the unending love if God no matter how far wrong a child goes but one thing changes everything the heart of repentance..

The world we live in today there's a lot of hate and blood shed may the Lord touch the hearts of those inflicting the pain and they turn a new leaf.

To the administration team I salute you all and please ketsy keep this community alive 🥰❤❤🙏🙏