Notice he doesn't get to finish his speech. He was lost and is found and they began to celebrate. All three of these things represent something scripture that we'll look at and shoes on his feet and bring the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and celebrate for this, my son was dead and is alive again. But the father said to his servants, bring quickly the best robe and put it on him, put a ring on his hand. But, but the father said, notice he didn't let him finish treat me like a servant. And the son said to him, remember his speech, father, I've sinned against heaven and before you, and I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. That means God will come to you if you'll start coming to him and embraced him and kissed him. That's how he feels about prodigals and ran. And he arose and came to his father, but while he was still a long way off, that means the father is always looking for prodigals to come home. Now I just try to remember that because you're going to see in a moment that he's worked up his speech and the father doesn't let him finish it. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Now we're going to come back to this phrase, but watch this. I will arise and go to my father and I will say to him, father, I've sinned against heaven before you. More than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger. So he's saying, even my father's employees have more than enough. It means we have enough to provide for our family and more to help others. How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread? I just simply want to remind you, we've talked about the blessed life and beyond blessed that that doesn't mean the car we drive or the house we live in or anything like that. He's talking about employees or people who are enslaved. He said, how many of my father's hired servants? I just want you to notice the word hired because he's talking about employees here. It says, but when he came to himself, you know, that's the prodigal son when he realized he had been an idiot. The word is so amazing, you can open the word up and see something you've never seen. And I'm going to show you some things out of all my years of preaching, and especially on Luke 15, that I've never seen before. Notice how many times you'll see the word son or you'll see the word servant. But just notice, we're going to read a little bit of Luke 15. And so we're going to talk about the robe of righteousness and what that means. So we're going to take the next three weeks and look at these three gifts. But when the son returns, the prodigal son returns, the father gives him three gifts. And we're going to look at this in Scripture here. We're sons and daughters because of birthright, not behavior. But we're sons because of birthright, not because of behavior. But I've got to clarify some things about that.Īnd here's the main thing. I know we're servants, and I know we serve. I know that most of the apostles begin their epistles with servant of Jesus Christ, servant of God. And I'm taking it from the story in Luke 15 of the prodigal son in that he wanted to be treated like a servant because his behavior had been bad, but the father still treated him like a son. I'll be here all three weeks, and I'm calling the series Sons, Not Servants. So we're going to begin a three-week series. Today, we're starting a new series called Sons, Not Servants and how we've been given the gift of righteousness. Welcome to Worship in the Word with Pastor Robert Morris.
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