..... (1) God will honor our choices. If we choose to walk away, He honors our will. He will plead with us with love and wisdom, even with blood and tears, but he will only knock. We have to choose to open the door and obey God. Such freedom has prices if you choose wrong over right and foolishness over wisdom. But it is so rewarding if you receive God and obey Him.
...... (2) Sin deceives you. It looks good. It taste good. It feels good for a while. But once it gets its poison in you, it is a downward ride form there to the pigs parlor, and only God having mercy and intervening with the washing of His Sons blood can your sins be atoned for and you restored and healed.
........(3) He also learned that he still had all his sonship rights and blessings. They were given him not for the good works he had done, but because of his BIRTH RIGHT.
...... (4) When he came back home, his return was FAR MORE the matter with God than all the dark sins he mixed with while he was deceived by the world and by the deceitfulness of sin. He learned all those sins combined were no match for the love God had for him. This Revelation Amazed him. Such grace, love, and mercy, and compassion made others mad that God was so kind and loving to the wayward son that had returned home, but despite their self righteous shallow love, God was exceedingly glad and so were the angels. He took His ring and put it on his son, He put his robe on him and then had the greatest welcome back party the family had ever seen before. Such love seems unfair to the world, but to God it is the perfect right thing to do.
But had the Prodigal son not come home, he would never have learned or known any of this of God the Father and he could have ended up dying having never come back home, and maybe even lost forever. Not a good place to depart from friends. Come home friends. Jesus is calling us all to come back home and experience the Fathers love.....deno.....share freely.
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