11/25/23 CONSIDER THE PRODIGAL

11/25/23 CONSIDER THE PRODIGAL

The Biblical story of the prodigal is moving, but it ends well. The rebellious child came to himself, realized his loss, confessed his selfishness (sinfulness) to God, returned to family, discipline and accountability. He was received, reconciled, and restored.

Sadly there are many more who despise home, family, heritage.
Sadly there are many who drag their children away from family, faith and heritage to raise them in the filth of worldliness, error, pretense and presumption.
Sadly those children are sacrificed on the altar of Moloch.

Every situation could turn out like the prodigal in the Bible, but stubbornness holds most of them captive. They not only refuse to leave the swill, they begin to love the swill and they require others to join them in the swill.

Our loving heavenly Father calls the wayward, but they wallow in self satisfaction.
He calls, while they squander their own inheritance and the inheritance of their children. 

Luke 15:11-24 KJV
11 And he (Jesus) said, A certain man had two sons:
12 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.
13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
20 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.
21 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.
22 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:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Keep in mind, he did not continue in the swill, he did not bring the pigs home as pets, he did not open a pork market, he did not start a pig farm. Just as he had forsaken his family and upbringing when he left them, he forsook the uncleanness of his rebellion when he returned home.