A Dad You Can Come Home To
Luke 15:11-32
Skip Heitzig
| Luke 15 (NKJV™) | |
| 11 | Then He 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 falls to me.' So he divided to them his livelihood. |
| 13 | "And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. |
| 14 | "But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. |
| 15 | "Then 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 gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. |
| 17 | "But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! |
| 18 | 'I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, |
| 19 | "and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants."' |
| 20 | "And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still 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 to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.' |
| 22 | "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. |
| 23 | 'And bring the fatted calf here 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. |
| 25 | "Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. |
| 26 | "So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. |
| 27 | "And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.' |
| 28 | "But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. |
| 29 | "So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. |
| 30 | 'But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.' |
| 31 | "And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. |
| 32 | 'It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.'" |
New King James Version®, Copyright © 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.
A Dad You Can Come Home To - Luke 15:11-32 from our study Father's Day Messages with Skip Heitzig from Calvary Albuquerque.
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