Sermon Outlines - The Merciful Father 3-14-2010

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Posted by: Pastor Van Buskirk	3/9/2010 8:53 PM
Luke 15 The Merciful Father A major challenge of this era is father-son relationships. Absent or unloving father. Disobedient son. Poor communications. Broken homes. Separation. Even where there are loving fathers, sons often rebel. The culture lures them away. Jesus told a parable about a rebellious son (Luke 15). He asked his father for his inheritance and went to a foreign land to drink and frequent prostitutes. Soon the money ran out and presumably friends as well. He got a pigpen job, a disgrace for a Jew, and earned not enough to eat. But, he remembered his father and decided to return home and ask to be a slave. Luke 15:20-24 (ESV) says, “And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' But the father said to his servants, 'Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to celebrate.” This is the merciful Father. He waits for his son to return that He may take him into His home forever. Likewise, the Father in heaven waits for you in love. If you have been rebellious, and who has not been, He waits for you to turn back and to receive His gracious welcome. He covers you with the robe of the righteousness of his obedient Son Jesus Christ. He shows you that you belong to His family. He celebrates with the angels and whole company of heaven that you have a new life. He shares the greatest inheritance of all times with you. No matter what relationship you have had with your earthly father, know that you can come home to your merciful Father and be forgiven of your rebellion for the sake of Jesus Christ. Come home! Amen. Pastor Raymond Van Buskirk, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Baytown, TX www.rlcbaytown.org
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