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Just like you, I have heard a lot of sermons on the "Prodigal Son".
But were they correct?
Remember, every one is not a child of God.
Even Jesus talking to the religious people of his
day said they were children of the devil.
(John 8:44)
Now where in the story of the prodigal son do we find the
boy lost his sonship. He was a son and the older brother was a son.
The difference was,
the younger brother wanted his inheritance, and wanted it NOW.
But the older brother was waiting for the proper time .
Does that not sound like a lot of the teaching and
preaching we are hearing today.
God, give me my inheritance here and NOW on earth.
I'm a child of yours, give it to me NOW.
This parable has a message that the "Church" badly needs today.
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There came a day when it was all spent.
Nothing was left. And he was in the pig pen.
But he was welcomed home because he was still a son.
Everything left now belonged to the older brother,
who would receive it in the proper time.
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Are we squandering our inheritance here on earth?
A lot of preaching today is telling us to ask for it -
NOW.
But the father, with open arms, is wanting us to return home
before we die in a far country.
