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I would like to share my view on Luke 15:11-13. First with more emphasis on the loving father and his duel role as a Father and the chief shepherd.
Secondly the actions of the Son and a lost sheep.
Beginning at verse 1; Luke 15:1-32.
Notice in Luke 15:2-3 the complaints of the Pharisees that prompts Jesus to give 3 parables to make his point.
Notice what these 3 parables have in common.
Something someone possess.
Something lost.
and Something Found.
Take tote that while these were lost they never quit belonging to the possessor.
vs 4. What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, AND GO AFTER THAT WHICH IS LOST, UNTIL HE FIND IT?
vs 6 he says "Rejoice with me; for I HAVE FOUND ( MY SHEEP ) which was lost. "It never quit being his!
2nd Parable. vs 8. "Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, DOTH NOT LIGHT A CANDLE, AND SWEEP THE HOUSE, AND SEEK DILIGENTLY TILL SHE FIND IT?
vs 9. I HAVE FOUND THE PIECE WHICH I HAD LOST.
3rd Parable.
Luke 15:11-12. And he said, A certain man had two sons:
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them LIVING. I would suggest that the living that the father given him was more than just substance which ran out, there was also life.
Look at what happens in vs14.
"And when he had spent all, THERE AROSE A MIGHTY FAMINE IN
( THAT LAND;) and he began to be in want. A FAMINE IN THAT LAND!
We have a sheep doing what sheep do, wonders away from home into the wilderness and ends up in the pig pen.
If he was anything else but a son he would like the pig pen or the wilderness but he's a son who remembers his life in the fathers house and look what happens.
AND WHEN HE CAME TO HIMSELF, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, Luke 15:17-18.
When he came to himself!
I would draw your attention to
2 Peter 2:22. "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire".
A dog and a pig likes what they do. The fathers house is what they don't like, That's why they returned back to their old ways,
But a son "One born from above" doesn't turn back to his old ways and stay there, his Spirit won't let him enjoy it neither will his loving father.
"What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, UNTIL HE FIND IT?"
It's the Holyspirit what convicts us and keeps us. and when we return the Lord gladly accepts us back in the fold.
My understanding of that dear Peter is that if one wants to abandon/leave God, God will not go after him to bring him back. He waited for His son but didn't go after him. Every one of us is free to do freely anything he wants, stay with or leave God. Also the parable of the prodigal son shows us that salvation can be lost if sometime during our christian life we take the decision to leave God and return to our old sinful life. Unfortunately in real life there is no happy end in such stories, we have seen many times that prodigal sons never come back. GBU
part 1.
I would like to share my view on Luke 15:11-13. First with more emphasis on the loving father and his duel role as a Father and the chief shepherd.
Secondly the actions of the Son and a lost sheep.
Beginning at verse 1; Luke 15:1-32.
Notice in Luke 15:2-3 the complaints of the Pharisees that prompts Jesus to give 3 parables to make his point.
Notice what these 3 parables have in common.
Something someone possess.
Something lost.
and Something Found.
Take tote that while these were lost they never quit belonging to the possessor.
vs 4. What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, AND GO AFTER THAT WHICH IS LOST, UNTIL HE FIND IT?
vs 6 he says "Rejoice with me; for I HAVE FOUND ( MY SHEEP ) which was lost. "It never quit being his!
2nd Parable. vs 8. "Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, DOTH NOT LIGHT A CANDLE, AND SWEEP THE HOUSE, AND SEEK DILIGENTLY TILL SHE FIND IT?
vs 9. I HAVE FOUND THE PIECE WHICH I HAD LOST.
3rd Parable.
Luke 15:11-12. And he said, A certain man had two sons:
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them LIVING. I would suggest that the living that the father given him was more than just substance which ran out, there was also life.
Look at what happens in vs14.
"And when he had spent all, THERE AROSE A MIGHTY FAMINE IN
( THAT LAND;) and he began to be in want. A FAMINE IN THAT LAND!
Coincidence?
kind of reminds me of Jonah.
Now let's look at the son/lost sheep in part 2.
The Chief shepherd lost sheep.
We have a sheep doing what sheep do, wonders away from home into the wilderness and ends up in the pig pen.
If he was anything else but a son he would like the pig pen or the wilderness but he's a son who remembers his life in the fathers house and look what happens.
AND WHEN HE CAME TO HIMSELF, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, Luke 15:17-18.
When he came to himself!
I would draw your attention to
2 Peter 2:22. "But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire".
A dog and a pig likes what they do. The fathers house is what they don't like, That's why they returned back to their old ways,
But a son "One born from above" doesn't turn back to his old ways and stay there, his Spirit won't let him enjoy it neither will his loving father.
"What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, UNTIL HE FIND IT?"
It's the Holyspirit what convicts us and keeps us. and when we return the Lord gladly accepts us back in the fold.
God bless.
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