Everyone loves a good story and a good storyteller.

But there is no storyteller like the Lord Jesus,

and there are no greater stories told than the ones Jesus shared.

In this study, spiritual stories, we consider the parables Jesus told and their

application to us. These are truly the greatest stories ever told, and the Lord has something

he wants to say to you through them. Let's join Scott Pauli now.

Do you remember when we started this part of the studies of the Pyrables of Jesus in Luke 15,

that I said to you there were two groups of people there present when Jesus told these stories.

There was on one hand the publicans and the sinners. That was the outcast, if you will, the people that were very obviously worldly-minded

people. On the other hand, you had the Pharisees and the scribes, the religious elite of the day.

Well, Jesus wasn't speaking to one group or the other.

He was speaking to both.

And he was not speaking about one group or the other.

He was speaking about both because all of sin and comes short of the glory of God.

The point in Luke 15 and Jesus' parables is that we are all lost.

You may be lost in the far country or you may be lost

at home, but without Jesus, you're lost. So we come to the end of Luke chapter 15, the part of the

story known as the elder brother. Remember the prodigal son is perhaps the most famous part of

the chapter and the most familiar but he had a brother

at luke chapter 15 verse number 25 now his elder son was in the field and as he came and drew night

of the house he heard music and dancing and he called one of the servants and asked what these

things meant and he said into him thy brothers brothers come and thy father killed the fatted calf

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