But notice the path of salvation. He’s returning home. Salvation no matter who you are is coming home.
Even if you’ve never been there, it’s coming home because it’s where you belong.
It’s where you, what you were made for.
So it’s coming home, even though it’s new, you come to the Lord and everything is new.
But wait a minute, it’s who I am. It’s what I’m supposed to be.
You start becoming who you’re supposed to be.
Now, when we read of the story of the prodigal son, we think of the sun, but the point is really not the sun.
The point is the Father, that’s the whole point. There’s nothing new about sinning, nothing new about and wasting everything.
That’s nothing new about messing up. We all know it. What’s new is what the Father’s gonna do.
People have all sorts of ideas about God. Even believers often have ideas about God as being unapproachable.
Even if they know the doctor in their heart is like that. He still, they feel it unapproachable unrelated bill.
The judge, I gotta try to measure up and measure up and I never quite measure up and he’s passing judgment I’m, I’m separate.
I’m away from him. If that were the case, the prodigal son would have come back, he would have been destroyed.
But watch what the father does. So we set out and came to his father.
But when he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, his father.
Now some people take this as the father may have been looking out, waiting for the sun.
He sees them from a distance. This is a picture that this is a picture of God given by God.
This is a picture of the Father given by the Sun. So this is major. This is who God is.
It says when the father saw him, he was moved with compassion.
The Greek word is everybody quick say it.
You see sometimes the Hebrew was easier than the Greeks. Sometimes he sprang the word splaying.
But that’s all you have to know here splaying.
We get the, we get the word spleen because the way they talked about their inner, you know, we say our heart, we don’t mean the organ but same way deep inside, deep, deep compassion.
His son sinned against him did every when totally dishonored him and and yet the father has all he says is he had deep compassion on Him with all our theology and all our doctrines.
Nothing gets it more powerfully right than this. You want to know God.
You want to see the heart of God. Here he is. Here it is.
And the prodigal son, it’s not about the Sun attempting to get the father.
You know, the Sun is trying to convince the father to take him back as a slave, as a servant, as a laborer.
But it’s not. And that’s the way we sometimes are with God.
If I, if I work good enough, you’re gonna, you’re gonna be okay with me.
It’s about the father’s love for the son. Regardless.
The father is the one who’s initiating and not the son.
I mean, the sun’s coming, but he’s not the one who’s, who’s, who’s gonna, it’s a father who’s gonna come to the sun.
Father’s just a note for you.
You’re the one who’s supposed to be taking initiative for the good of your Children.
You’re not supposed to be sitting around judging them or reacting to them.
You’re supposed to be loving them, giving them proactively love that Children are made to imitate, be a leader in love.
Now, with God, you think you came to the Lord?
Well, in one sense, we came to the Lord, but it was really God who initiated it every time you fall and you feel you can’t come to the Lord.
God is already initiating it, drawing you back. God, you, you, if you are, you are here today.
If you’re born again, you’re saved. You know, God, it wasn’t your idea. It wasn’t my idea.
It was God’s idea. We before we knew the God. Lord, we didn’t know we had no idea.
We didn’t, many of us didn’t care at all but God did. So a lot of you’re, you’re wondering something.
Am I gonna still stay safe? I’m gonna lose it. Listen, before you even cared about it.
God did so you can rest, you can be, you can be blessed, you can relax.
He cares more about you than you do cares more about your salvation than you do.
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