Today, as we continue to look at the story of Jesus telling of the father, of those two sons.

Today, we're going to deal with the younger rebellious son, and in the next message, I'll talk about the outwardly compliant son.

This younger boy, as we would say, he had the mind of his own. This is the kind who doesn't want to do

anything his parents tell him to do. He want to be his own boss. In fact, back in the 60s and the

70s, there used to be a big billboard in a small town in the south,

and it read as follows, attention teenagers, are you tired of being harassed by your stupid parents?

Act now. Move out. Get a job. Pay your bills while you still know everything.

Now the word parodical, which described this younger son in the story, it means rebellious

extravagance. Rebellious extravagance. I want to tell you, extravagance with children in any area creates

parodicals. Lack of boundaries and limitation with children create parodicals. Absence of training

and discipline create parodicals. But if you really want to be extravagant with your

children, young mom and dad, I want to tell you, there's one area you can be very extravagant with them.

That's your time. Be very extravagant with your time, with them. I want you to turn with me,

please. Luke 15. I hope you have it open in front of you.

Just want you to imagine the smirk on that boy's face as he was packing his Jerusalem designer jeans

and his man Zion designer shirts. I can imagine his surly face accusing his parents of being out of touch with

reality. I can imagine the bitterness that he had to a dad for his rules about going to church

and cleaning his room and doing his chores. The Bible said it was only a few days after he gathered some of his assets that his father gave him

and left probably went on a fire sale and converted these acids into cash, filled his pocket with cash,

went out into his convertible camel.

Have you ever seen a convertible camel? Seriously. They all are. He got into his convertible camel and popped up the wheels, front wheels, and whew, peeled robber, 30 feet, headed for the big apple.

Oh, baby, he's made it now.

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