Title: See Me as One of the Workers!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Luke 15:11-32
Title: See me as one of the servants!
If you look at the contents of the text, a man has two sons, and the first son listens to his father and obeys as he is, whereas the second son not only does not listen to his father well, but also argues and fights against his father in everything his father tells him to do. In the end, he asked his father to bring a portion to return to him, and he suddenly left his side.
He left home because he didn't want to hear his father's nagging. First of all, he had the property he inherited from his father. I didn't have any regrets right away because I didn't have any worries. As a result, he was busy spending the money he had. Money is hard to earn, but easy to spend. Likewise, the wealth of the second son's wealth was quickly exhausted due to his debauched life.
It was a severe famine, and even the public sentiment was atrocious. Because the people's hearts are ferocious, those who do not have no choice but to be even more destitute. It was only then that he realized his own poverty and tried to beg here and there, but because the time was right, he had no place to accept him. You can't help but go into a pig-raising house and just paste it on your throat. However, his family's circumstances are also difficult, so he wants to eat as much as he can, even the pig's mussels, to fill his stomach, but the Bible records that even that was not enough. It would be unimaginable for me. But the difficult circumstances made him that way.
And then he groaned deeply. “How many laborers in my father’s house are plentiful, and in the end I die of hunger here!” As he was thinking about it, whatever he had in mind, he jumped out of his seat and got up, eight! Rather, when I am dying here, I go to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. See me as one of the hired men!” He made up his mind and started running to his father that way.
By examining the contents of the text up to this point, we will have to engraved deeply into our hearts what we need to feel and realize. The text is the content that Jesus explains in parables by going into illustrations that could happen in real life at that time in order to enlighten the Jews at that time. Such an example can happen in our reality today.
What parent in the world wants their child not to do well? The wish of every parent who has children is that their children do well. In this way, all parents give advice, scolding, and sometimes scolding their children when they go down the wrong path in the hope that their children will be well. However, from the point of view of the children who accept it, they regard the advice of their parents as regulating them and, on the contrary, refuse to obey. If such conflicts between parents and children occur frequently, in the end, the child will suddenly leave the side of the parent like the prodigal son in today's text.
These behaviors of children also contain the intention that they do not want to be subject to parental control, but rather, the very bad idea that the parents should suffer because of me by leaving home like that is at the center. But it's not just the parents who suffer when they leave home. You have to know that in the end you will find yourself in a much greater predicament. If you look at the words of the prodigal son in the text, you can easily guess it!
Parents who have lost their children are also unhappy. No matter how much a child disobeys their parents and runs away from home, which parent can sleep comfortably when their child is leaving the house? Whether he sleeps or wakes up, where is this guy eating at the right time... Where is he sleeping well... Who is he not fighting with... There is no day to feel comfortable. On the other hand, if I open my eyes, I look outside Dong-gu several times a day, anxious whether I will come back now or later, because I am eagerly waiting for the children who have left home to return to their parents' arms as soon as possible.
How much less is this true of humans who do not have the truth? How long must God, the Lord of all things, be waiting for His children who have left home? In the sight of God, all human beings are like the prodigal son. Wouldn't it be great if such prodigal sons could realize their own plight even through various tribulations and pains while they were away from home and return to their father's arms as soon as possible? But every time he sees his children, who do not realize their plight even after eating the bread of suffering, and who do not think about returning home even after eating and drinking because the world gives them the rotten fruit and rotten drink, is heartbreaking.
In today's text, we can see the prodigal son quickly realizing his situation and returning to his father's arms. When all the prodigals leave the house, they leave the house as triumphant as if they would never see their parents again. It's as if the world welcomes you. However, it is only for a while, when money is thickly in the pocket, and after the money runs out, Nadingu is treated as garbage. Those who have left the house have no reason to know that. So, for a while, they get excited because they have money, but when they run out of money, they quickly become shabby.
Humans are most humble when they have nothing. What will we do then? Will he repent of his sins and return to his father's house? Or will you continue to live in the world with your own ego up to the end? The Bible makes it clear that the prodigal son who returns with repentance for his sins will be accepted, but the one who refuses to return home without breaking his stubbornness to the end, even if he has the status to become a child of God, will never be accepted. have.
In addition, the Bible records that the Father welcomed the prodigal son who returned after he sincerely repented of his mistakes without asking about his past wrongdoings. The reason is that the prodigal son, who has been away from home, knows better than his father what kind of pain the prodigal son has lived through. Because such a child would never again disobey his father and say that he would leave the house.
Therefore, sometimes this great pain brings greater maturity. But we must keep in mind that not everyone is like that. This is because there are so many prodigals in this world who have left their father's house and have not been able to return. If we can, we should know that the life of obedience, obedience, and following under the Father is a much more blessed life. How are you currently living? If you are living the life of a prodigal son who left home, return to your father's arms immediately. With a sincere heart, “See me as one of the hired men!”