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we open the word of God to Luke chapter
15 we're going to be doing this for
several Sunday evenings examining the
parable of the Prodigal
Son most people say well why would you
preach the parable The Prodigal Son on a
Sunday evening to a congregation
composed primarily of Believers why not
go to the mission with this well of
course the parable of the prodigal son
is a great evangelist passage no
question about that but there's much
more to it than that and all scripture
is profitable to
us and so tonight we want to talk about
the lessons of
life life is a
school life has its
dropouts you'll meet people all over
Chicago who in One Way or Another have
dropped out of
alcoholics or entertainment
addicts some of them have become
emotionally disturbed to the point where
others have to care for them and this is
always a sad
thing some do it with
activity some do it with isolation some
do it with
meanness I don't think anyone here
tonight wants to drop out of school of
course the ultimate in dropping out of
the school of life is suicide
it's rather interesting that the one
professional group in America that has
the highest rate of suicides is
psychiatrists and they are the ones who
are supposed to be helping us in the
school of life now there are three ways
you can learn in the school of life you
can learn by education I mean by that
reading books and listening to lectures
and watching movies and listening to
tapes you can learn about life through
education this is good
or you can learn about life through
example you can watch the lives of other
people and you can say I see that this
is what happened to him I don't want
that to happen to
me the Third Way of course is by
experience you have to go through it
yourself there's some things you cannot
learn except by experience you can read
books about swimming and watch movies
about swimming and even go watch the
Olympics and not know how to swim at
some point somebody has to push you in
the water you have to swallow some water
and gurgle a little bit and start
swimming this is how I learned how to
ride a
bicycle one of the neighbors was sick
and tired of seeing this kid running
around the street not knowing how to
ride a bicycle and so he put me on my
sister's bike without my sister's
permission and just gave me a
push and you either go or you drop and I
went I don't recommend you learn how to
drive an automobile that way but it it
worked for the bicycle
now when it comes to things that are
physical in the dexterity of the fingers
and the feet and the hands you have to have
have
experience but you know one of the
saddest ways to learn the lessons of Life
spiritually is to do it the way the
prodical son did the hard way it's not
necessary for a person to get
electrocuted to learn about
electricity it's not necessary for a
person to get poison poisoned to learn about
about
poison my doctor does not have to have
cancer to be able to operate on people
who do have
cancer nor is it necessary for us to
sin in order to learn some of the
lessons of life but sad to say this is
the way the prodigal
learned I want you to uh follow me as I
read Luke 15 beginning at verse 11 and
would you notice the three lessons that
this young man learned through the
difficult EXP experiences of
life and he said a certain man had two
sons and the younger of them said to his
father father give me the portion of
goods that falleth to me and he divided
unto them his
living and not many days after that the
younger son gathered all together and
took his journey into a far country and
there wasted his substance with riotous
living and when he had spent all there
arose a mighty f famine in that land and
he began to be in want and he went and
joined himself to a citizen of that
country and he sent him into his fields
to feed
swine and he would Fain have filled his
belly with the husk that the swine did
eat and no man gave unto
him and when he came to
himself he said how many of my father's
hired servants have bread enough in
Despair and I perish with
Hunger I will arise and go to my father
and will say unto him father I have
sinned against heaven and before thee
and am no more worthy to be called thy
son make me as one of thy hired servants
and he arose and came to his father but
when he was yet a great way off his
father saw him and had compassion and
ran and fell on his neck and kissed him
and the son said unto him father I have
sinned against heaven and in thy sight
and am no more worthy to be called thy
son but the father said to his servants
bring forth the best robe and put it on
him and put a ring on his hand and shoes
on his feet and bring the fatted calf
and kill it and let us eat and be merry
for this my son was dead and is alive
again he was lost and is found and they
began to be
mared now there are three lessons that
this young man learned in the school of life
life
first he learned a lesson about
Sin he learned the
meaning of
misery now none of us has to go out in
sin against the Lord to learn this
lesson about Sin we can learn it from
this book we can learn it from his
experience none of us has to go out and
practice sin to learn these lessons now
what did he learn about Sin well
basically he learned that sin is
deceitful you remember in the book of
Hebrews the warning is there lest any of
you be hardened through the
deceitfulness of
sin now sin is very deceitful for
example sin promises
life and always brings
death he learned that you see sin says
to you oh you can have pleasure and
Hebrews 11:25 says there is pleasure in
sin if there were not pleasure in sin
people wouldn't sin but you see sin
begins with pleasure and then it leads to
to
pain you remember when Jesus performed
his first miracle when he turned the
water into wine and the people drank the
wine they said to the Toastmaster of the
wedding Feast you've saved the best wine
until now for the Christian who obeys
God the Best Is Yet To Come there's
pleasure and more pleasure and more
pleasure the path of the just is is The
Shining Light that shineth more and more
under that perfect day there's fruit and
more fruit and much fruit but sin
operates just the opposite it begins
with pleasure then less pleasure then
less pleasure then no pleasure then pain
and then intense pain and then eternal etal
etal
pain and this young man learned the hard
way that sin promises life but it always
brings death the father said in verse 24
this my son was dead now I don't have to
amplify this tonight you folks know from
the word of God that sin will kill
everything in US sin will kill the
conscience sin will kill the
intelligence sin will ultimately kill
the will it paralyzes sin kills the body
sin can damn the
soul sin promises life and always brings
death what does James say lust when it
hath conceived bringeth forth sin like
the birth of a baby and sin when it is
full grown bringeth forth
death the second thing he learned about
Sin was that sin promises freedom and
always bring
slavery the boy was sick and tired of
being home he cried out for Freedom
there's something in everybody that just
cries out for freedom I don't want to be
under anybody's discipline later on
we're going to have the sad
responsibility of meeting his elder
brother I'm tempted to believe that if I
had an elder brother like that I might
have wanted to leave home too I don't
know but the Lord doesn't give this as
an excuse here's a young man who says I
don't want to be fenced in don't Fence
Me In don't tie me down I want to have
freedom many years ago PT foresight the
great congregational Theologian in Great
Britain made a magnificent statement I
have never forgotten it I didn't hear
him say it I read it in one of his books
and Dr fory
said every man's responsibility is not
to find his
freedom but to find his
master Every Man's responsibility is not
to find his
freedom but to find his master everybody
has to have a
master there must be some power that
controls our lives and the master you
choose will determine the life that you
live and this young man said I want to
be free I want to run my own life of
course this is a part of the promise
that Satan comes along with in Genesis
CH 3 Satan said to the first uh woman he
said now look why do you want to be
under the thumb of God you can be free
why if you'll partake of this fruit
you'll know the difference between good
and evil and you'll be like God that's
been the lie that Satan has foed upon
civilization ever since man can be like
God that's Romans chapter 1 they
worshiped and serve the creature rather
than the
Creator and sin always promises freedom
but brings slavery it's the worst kind
of slavery because when that slavery
first begins it seems like
Freedom doing what I want to do enjoying
what I want to enjoy but they forget
that the important thing in life is not
doing what I want to do or enjoying what
I want to enjoy but being what God wants
me to be being is far more important
than doing or
enjoying and slavery begins with a sense
of f false freedom and then it turns
into just a little bit of slavery and a
little bit more and a little bit more
until finally the person is completely
enslaved by sin this young man was out
looking for Freedom he ended up being
told what to do by the
pigs you see the pigs weren't working
for him he was working for the
pigs he discovered a third deceitful
thing about Sin Sin sin promises life
and always brings death sin promises
freedom and always brings slavery sin promises
promises
success and always brings failure now
everybody wants to be a success some
people don't know what success is but
this fell said I want to be a success I
don't want to be here at home and my
father tells me what to do and my big
brother tells me what to do if I were
just on my own I would be a great
success and sin promises success be
independent be your own
self you know what God's success formula
is if you've never memorized it memorize
it save you some trouble Matthew 25: 21
that's God's success formula where he
says well done thou good and faithful
servant thou H has been Faithful over a
few things I will make thee ruler over
many things enter thou into the joy of
of the Lord now there are three parts to
that success formula number one you
ruler number two you start with a few
things and God gives you many things if
you're faithful number three you start
with work and you end up with joy now
this is God's success formula you start
as a servant learning how to take orders
and you graduate if you're faithful to
being a ruler knowing how to give orders
you start with a few things and if
you're successful with them being
faithful God gives you many things you
start with good hard work and if you're
faithful God gives you
Joy you can see this Illustrated All
Through the Bible it was true of of
Joseph God said Joseph one day you're
going to be a king but I've got to start
you off as a servant and so he began as
a slave in Piper's household he began as
a laborer in the jail in the prison one
day God made him a ruler he started off
taking care of a few things one day God
gave him the whole land of Egypt he
started off with hard work and one day
God gave him the joy of sitting on the
throne this was true of David David
started by taking care of a few sheep he
started off as a servant he became a
ruler he started off with a few sheep he
ended up with the nation of Israel he
started off with hard work and he ended
up with joy this was true of
Nehemiah this was true of Timothy this
was true of Paul this was true of the
Apostles this is God's success formula
Now The Prodigal Son reversed that
formula sin comes to you and says start
off as a
ruler and you'll be a big wheel he
started off as somebody important where
did he end up a
servant sin says start off with
everything boy just take as much as you can
can
get where did he end up nothing lost his
shoes lost his ring that ring was a mark of
of
sunship sin says to you start off with
great joy and where do you end up
toil you see The Prodigal Son completely
reversed God's formula for Success
because sin promises success and always brings
brings
failure and alas we still have people
today who say I don't intend to start at
the bottom I'm going to start at the top
God says all right you want to start at
the top it's a long fall
I don't intend to start with a few
things I'm too important for that I want
to start with many things fine it's a big
big
loss I don't intend to work not going to
get me to get my hands dirty I'm just
going to enjoy
life you'll end up working toil
pain and so sin always promises success
and brings
failure finally sin promises that you'll
find yourself but you lose
yourself it says here he came to himself
with which means he was beside himself
he wasn't
himself uh s sin comes and says to the
young man or the young woman it doesn't
have to be young either it could be an
older person you know you really got to
find yourself get out there in the world
and live it up and really find yourself
you'll never find yourself until you express
yourself I was handed a newspaper
clipping this evening I always
appreciate it when people give me these
things because I can't read
everything uh a psychologist has
recommended that we permit teenagers to
have trial
marriages you're not married but you
live together as though you are married
this takes the pressure off of
adolescence and um if it works out fine
you can get married if it doesn't work
out well you can just forget about it oh
but that doesn't
work it's been proved over and over
again I'm surprised he hasn't read the
studies on this that where there is no
commitment there can be no growth in
love and devotion and you can't build a
home on that kind of a
thing you can't build a marriage on the
installment plan you've got to put your
name on that contract and say it's
forever but this is the way sin is you
see sin says oh you can find
yourself but ultimately you end up
losing yourself you see when you yield
yourself to Jesus Christ you find
yourself each one of us is different and
you work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling God doesn't make you
like anybody else God doesn't say I have
to be like DL moody or DL Moody had to
be like Charles Spurgeon or Spurgeon had
to be like McShan or mcshain had to be
like Calvin when you yield yourself to
sin you become like everybody
else sin has a way of conforming you to
everybody else sin is
a sin is a factory sin is a an assembly
line where everybody comes out with the
same scar and the same pain and the same
ruin but Jesus Christ doesn't work that
way he's the Potter who takes each life
individually and mold you the way he
wants you to be so this young man the
hard way learned a lesson about Sin he
learned the meaning of misery sin does
not keep its
promises it promises life and brings
death it promises freedom and brings
slavery it promises success and brings
failure it promises you'll find yourself
and you lose
yourself there's a second lesson he
learned he not only learned a lesson
about Sin the meaning of misery but he
learned a lesson about himself the
meaning of
maturity I want to talk to you about
maturity our world has become a great
big play
pin and a lot of immature people are
toys I have a feeling that some of the
automobile accidents out on our highways
are caused by grownup people thinking
cars in a sandbox in somebody's
backyard an automobile for some socalled
adults becomes a toy and get out of my
way I think it was yesterday we were
coming home we going to a banquet I
forgotten which and to oh it was this
morning I think I think two
cars they were racing each other down
street a lot of immaturity now this boy
had the idea he wanted to be mature did
you notice in this
lesson the false marks of
maturity you see one mark of immaturity
is not knowing what maturity is for
example this boy was
indifferent they think that by being
indifferent I don't care what my
father's thinks I don't care about my
home you hear this phrase ask me if I
care that's supposed to be a mark of
maturity that's not a mark of maturity
it's a mark of immaturity mature people do
do
care mature people care very
deeply that what they do doesn't hurt somebody
somebody
else but he thought that indifference
was a mark of maturity and his friends
saidoh I like to see you do that well
that's great
I notice here he was independent father
give me he didn't say father what's the
best way to use my inheritance father
you work so hard to get this for me how
should I use it no
Independence a lot of these folks don't
know the difference between Independence
and true Freedom they think that
Independence is a mark of maturity I can
hardly wait till I'm old enough to do
what I want to
do well you'll never get that place
unless you come to the place where the
Lord is able to tell you what what to do
God can't turn somebody loose who can do
whatever he wants to do I can't do
whatever I want to do nor can you that's
the worst kind of bondage it's not a
mark of
maturity I notice here his impatience
verse 13 not many days after he gathered
it all together and went out to the far
country impatience is not a mark of
maturity it's a mark of immaturity
children can't wait is it Christmas yet
is it my birthday yet are we there yet
children can't wait adults can
wait I've spent many hours talking with
people about this matter of marriage oh
we just can't wait if it's the real
thing it'll
keep if it's not the real thing you
better give yourself time to find out
it's not the real thing if it's the real
thing it will keep it'll it'll pass the
test indifference and Independence and
impatience but the real Mark here of immature
immature
and he thought it was a mark of really
being grown up Indulgence he wasted his
substance in riotous living a little kid
says to his mother as she sends him off
to bed boy just wait till I'm grown up
I'm going to stay up all
night and you know when he gets old
enough to be able to decide to stay up
all night you know what he's going to do
he's going to go to
bed he'll be
tired Indulgence why do people have the
idea it's a mark of maturity to SP spend
money any way you want to spend it
that's not maturity that's
childish and yet some Christians spend
their money like a kid going to a County
Fair it's a mark of maturity they think
to be able to eat drink and be married
do what you want to do
Indulgence and yet this is hardly a mark
of maturity you see maturity means you
can tell the
difference when a person is mature he's
able to make distinctions
when you're teaching a little child how
to talk for example and the the doggy
goes running across the street and you
say bowwow and the CH little child says
bowwow so he comes to the conclusion it
has two ears and four legs and a tail
it's a bowwow and so you're driving out
in the country and you see a cow there
four legs and two ears and a tail bowow
oh no no moooo
oh so you got to make a distinction see
now as a child grows older and matures
distinctions this young man was unable
to make distinctions for
example he didn't know the difference
between popularity and
success he thought that because he was
popular he was successful and he wasn't
he was popular because he was
rich if your circle of friends is in
your life because of what you have and
not because of what you are they aren't your
your
friends the Lord Jesus Christ was the
poorest of the poor yet he gathered
around himself a wonderful group of
people because of who he was and what he
was not because of what he
had popularity is a lot is is a great
deal different from success and success from
from
popularity there are many people who are
successful who aren't
popular Jeremiah Was a success he wasn't
popular Paul was a success he wasn't
popular there are many people who are
popular who aren't successful barabus
was popular the crowd said give us
barabus crucify Jesus he was popular he wasn't
wasn't
successful you can go through the Bible
and you can go through history and find
people who didn't know the difference
between popularity and success between
reputation and
character and my friend if you are
building building your life on the
things that you possess to get the crowd
that you want you're a
failure this young man didn't know the
difference between prices and values a
lot of people haven't learned
that prices and values you go to a
little child and you have
um well you have a nickel and a
dime you can't buy much with the two of
them together anymore but you have a
nickel and a dime you say which one do
you want well the nickel is bigger and
so a child goes by size unless someone
has whispered in his ear take the time
see the average child goes by
size and yet you and I would say now
wait a minute that dime is worth much
more than the nickel neither one is
worth much but the dime is worth more
than the nickel this young man did not
know the difference between prices and
values he thought that because he had
things he had
values someone has said that a teenager
is a person who knows the value the
price of everything and the value of
nothing that's not true of every
teenager it's also true of some
adults it's good to have the things that
money can buy if you don't lose the
buy what good is a $100,000 house
without a
home what good is a $50,000 ring without
love and here's a young man who didn't
know the difference between prices and
values we have people like that today he
didn't know the difference between
Independence and
freedom see God says you can't be
independent nobody here tonight can be
independent we come into this world as
little children as babies totally
dependent as a child grows into
adolescence he becomes
independent but as he grows into
maturity and adulthood he becomes inter
dependent you can't be independent I
dare you to manufacture your own electricity
electricity
I dare you to have your own police
system your own fire system I dare you
to have your own medical supplies you
can't do it nobody can be independent we
desperately need each other especially
in the
city we've learned to be
interdependent and true freedom is not
Independence I'm going to have my own
way true Freedom means I'm
interdependent I'm going to become what
God wants me to become and make my
contribution ution to this world to the
church to the
home but this young man didn't know the
difference between Independence and
freedom I suppose every young man every
young woman at some point has
said I want to be totally free I want to
be absolutely
independent only to find out it just
doesn't work so he learned the meaning of
of
maturity we won't go into it in detail
I've already preached about this in a
previous message but his two prayers
indicate the change in his life verse 12
father give me that's the baby verse 19
father make
me that's the mature person the immature
person goes through life saying give me
give me give me give me the mature
person says make me make me fulfill in
me what you want to fulfill which leads
us to our third lesson that he learned
he learned the meaning of misery a
lesson about about Sin he learned the
meaning of maturity a lesson about
himself and he learned the meaning of
Mercy a lesson about salvation and of
course that's the main lesson of this
Parable back in verse 1 and two of
chapter 15 then Drew near unto him all
the tax collectors and the Sinners to
hear him Jesus and the Pharisees and
scribes murmured saying this man
receiveth Sinners plural and eateth with
them and so here you had two groups of
people you had the scribes and Pharisees
over there criticizing you had the
publicans and sinners over here
listening to the Lord Jesus as I pointed
out in our first message in this series
is it not
unusual Jesus attracted Sinners the
Pharisees repelled
them we have the crazy idea that when
you get more like the Lord Jesus unsaved
people want less and less to do with you
that just isn't true true the more we
become like the Lord Jesus the more
there is an attractiveness to us where
the salt of the earth and salt makes
people thirsty they don't agree with
this they don't understand this but they
say there there's something there and I
want to find out what it
is and so the whole thrust of this
Parable is that our loving Heavenly
Father receives sinners now the
Pharisees couldn't figure that out their
theology said if you are a sinner you're
done for
but my Lord says if you are a
sinner come to
me I think this is one of the most
beautiful pictures of what Paul wrote
over in Ephesians chapter 2 let me read
it to you but God who is rich in Mercy
for his great love with which he loved
us even when we were dead in sins has
made us alive together with Christ by
grace are you be saved now what's he
saying here he's saying number one God
is great in love number two God is rich
in Mercy and number three God is rich in
Grace did you know that people are not
saved simply because God loves
them God loves the whole world and the
whole world's not saved when God's love
is translated into grace and mercy through
through
Calvary then there's salvation now
what's the difference I've told you many
times what the difference
is Grace means God gives me what I don't
deserve Mercy means God doesn't give me
what I do deserve can you remember that
Grace means God gives me what I don't
deserve Mercy means God doesn't give me
what I do deserve now this Parable says
to me God is great in love when the
father saw him he had compassion on him
and he ran to him and he embraced him
and he kissed him and he talked to
him I wonder how many fathers would do that
today this is Calvary love God so loved
the world you know in the other two
parables in this chapter the parable of
the lost sheep the parable of the lost
coin the shepherd went out to find the Sheep
Sheep
sheep the woman went out and found the
coin but here the father did not go out
and find the
son interesting isn't it you see the
first two Parables show us that God
searches for Sinners the last Parable
says Sinners should come to
God some of our great Evangelical
churches today are being split right
down the middle over the old argument
which nobody has yet settled between
man's decision and God's election and
the Lord Jesus kind of put them both
together in this in these in these
Parables he said look yes God does go
out and find the lost sheep sheep didn't
come back the man went out and found him
yes the woman does look for the Lost
coin with the image on it we have the
image of God and God comes for
us but lest anybody think it's very
mechanical he adds this third Parable
where the father in love just Waits and suffers
and when the son makes that move
home the father's there to meet him more than
than halfway
halfway nobody
nobody
nobody can look up to God and
say I wasn't saved because you didn't
save me Mr Moody used to pray Lord save
the elect and then elect some
more now that may not be very good
theology I don't know but the sentiment
of it I like I have yet to go to a
Rescue Mission and say to the people now
if you're one of God's elect listen to
me I don't know who the elect are only
God does and so I'm glad I can preach
the word of God to whosoever Will and
let God take care of the rest of it the
father in love met the
son he's great in love he was rich in
Mercy now if you read Deuteronomy
chapter 21 you'll find out what the law
said he was supposed to
do Deuteronomy CH 21 says if a man has a
son who is stubborn and rebellious go
tell the elders about it take him
outside the city and stone him to
law and so when this boy came home the
father could have taken him outside the
city and stoned him to death but Mercy
means God does not give us what we do
deserve I deserved hell I still
do but God in his Mercy
forgave and God is Not not only rich in
Mercy he's rich in Grace Grace means God
gives me what I don't deserve what did
he give to the fellow did you notice
here that everything he was looking for
he found back
home Russell Conwell used to run all
over the world giving his famous lecture
which is in print on Acres of diamonds
he told the same stories over and over
again about people who went all over
looking for what they wanted to find
when they got back home there it
was that's what happened here this young
man wanted to have clothes he ended up
in a dirty old robe in the pig pin when
he came home he got clothes he wanted
jewelry when he came home he got a got a
ring he wanted the best shoes they put
shoes on his feet he wanted to eat they
gave him a meal they killed the fatted
calf he wanted to have parties they gave
him a
party now why didn't the father give all
of this to him before he left home he
wasn't ready for
it he wasn't ready for it too bad he had
to learn the hard way but he learned the
meaning of Mercy he learned a lesson
about salvation God is rich in
Grace God is rich in Mercy and God is
great in love the boy came home and he
said look I'll work my way I'll be a
servant oh but by grace are you saved
through faith and that not of yourselves
it's the gift of God not of Works lest
any man should
boast and so he put the robe on him and
the ring on him and the shoes on him and
the food in him and the joy around him
and everything he would look looking for
he found back
home which says this to me the things
you are looking for in life you'll never
find until you come to the
father God has
them you'll find
substitutes but you won't find the
realities of life until you come to the
father this young man was um lost this
my son was lost and he's found
again this young man was ignorant it
says he came to himself this young man
was dead my son was dead he's alive
again here are the three conditions of
every unsaved person lost
lost ignorant
ignorant
dead but it says he came to the
father whenever I read that little
phrase he came to the father I instantly
think of John chapter 14 and verse 6
remember what it says Jesus said I am
the way the truth and the life no man
comes to the father but by me if you're
lost I'm the
way if you're ignorant I'm the truth if
you're dead I'm the life you can come
through me to the father in other words
it was not a cheap thing for the father
to forgive his son don't get the idea it
was a cheap sentimental thing oh no it
was an expensive thing a costly thing it
cost the father for this boy to sin and
it cost the father for this boy to come
home and it cost the
father to forgive me it cost him his son Jesus
Christ well there are some of these
lessons we cannot learn except by
experience the first lesson please don't
learn by experience the second lesson
please don't learn by experience you can
learn about Sin from God's word you can
learn about maturity from God's word
that third lesson salvation that's
something you have to
experience I wonder if anybody here
tonight will say I will arise and
go because if you will you'll discover a
beautiful thing the father's going to
meet you more than
halfway and you won't come home to being
a servant before you even get there
you'll find his arms around you the
Embrace of love the kiss of love the
forg foress of love from your heavenly
pray thank you Father for giving us in
the word your truth I pray for any who
may be here tonight who have never come
home never come to the father to be
saved through Jesus
Christ thank you Father that you are
great in love you are rich in Mercy you
are rich in Grace thank you you haven't
given us what we do deserve you gave to
Jesus what he didn't deserve oh how he
suffered for
us thank you that your grace is free we
can't earn it we can receive it by faith
I help I pray father that you'll help
people here tonight to come and receive
Jesus Christ and be born into your
family receive the robe of righteousness
and the Ring of sunship and the
spiritual food and begin to be Mary and
continue to be Mary until they enter
into the joy of the Lord eternally for
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