Religious People

Prodigals

By Dean Fulks, January 19, 2025

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Lu. 15:1-2: Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”



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Lu. 15:3 – So he told them this parable:



Lu. 15:10 – Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents



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Lu. 15:11 – And he said, “There was a man who had two sons.”



Lu. 15:28a – But he was angry…



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Lu. 15:28b-29 – and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.



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Lu. 15:30 – But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!



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