People love to hide, but HATE not to be found.

Two Groups:

Tax collectors and “sinners”

Pharisees and teachers of the law

Which do you most identify with?

The younger son does not want his father, but his father’s stuff.

Repentance does not lead to despair; it leads to hope

The older son does not want the father either; he too is after his father’s stuff

The older son had spent his whole life doing his father’s work, but his heart had grown very different from his father’s heart.

Jesus is the true older brother, the one who left home to bring us back to the Father.

To those who identify with the younger son: Consider responding to Jesus’s call to come home to the Father

To those who identify with the older son: Consider repenting of your hardness and realign with the heart of your Father