Tonight we started a new series entitled Quantum Leap. In the show the main character bounced through time chaning the past for good. During this series I want to bounce through my life and use it to change the future for good. Tonight we read from Luke 15:11-32, the parable of the prodigal son. Some things to keep in mind when you read this passage: To ask for an inheritance before the death of your fathe would be about the same as saying, "You are useless, I don't need you, I just want your money, and I wish you were dead." Second, pigs were considered unclean animals, they shouldn't be eatan, they shouldn't even be touched. Third, runing for old men was conisdered disgraceful and beneath them. Finally, fatted calves were set aside for special occasions and were very expensive.
I grew up in a Christian House, we went to church all the time, I was fine with God. My parents liked Him and worshipped Him, so I did too. My parents read their bibles, so I did too. But ti was their faith, not my own. It was June 1990, I was 9 and I lived in a small town in Oregon at the time and my parents took my borther and I to Portland to see a group called the Power Team. The power team was a group that would break things to show God's power being used through them, at the end they presented a message from Luke 15. At the end fo the message they asked for anyone that wanted to come forward, just as the son returned home, we were returnign to God, asking him for forgivness. I went forward and prayed, making faith in God my own, not something I did because of my parents. I started a personal relationship with God that night and all of my sins were forgiven. I became saved at that moemnt. I was dead, but had been made alive again, I was lost, but had been found by God.
Do any of you find it amazing that God, represented by the Father in this story, was willing to take his son back home? Do you find it amazing that he didn't just make his son grovel at his feet begging for forgiveness, but ran out and forgave him instantly? do you find it amazing that God was willing to forgive everything that son had done. God is waiting for you to come home. He wants to forgive you and welcome you back. All that it takes is you deciding to go to Him, a simple decision that you want to have a relatioship with your Heavenly Father. And when you make that decision and start heading toward home, when you ask him for forgiveness, he will come running to you, loving you no matter what, forgiving you every thing you have done, not holding it over you, but instead celebrating that his sons and daughters who were dead are live again, who were lost are now found! Are you ready to go home?
I give tonight: A+
Favorite Moment: Youth getting saved!
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