Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church history.

August is behind us, and also Labor Day is behind us, and so many think the summer has passed.

But why don't we hold on to it for one more week and talk about yet another

good read for the beach? And this is a book of sermons. The book is titled, The Savior of the

world, and its author is Benjamin Breckenridge, Warfield, the great lion of Princeton

Theological Seminary. And these sermons were all preached in the chapel on the campus of Princeton.

This book was first published in 1916 in the edition I have.

It's been published by Banner of Truth and it's beautifully bound.

And inside these covers, there are nine sermons on the person and work of Christ. The very first one is on the parable of the

prodigal son. And Warfield along the way mentions that sometimes repetition can dull our minds.

Some scripture passages are so familiar to us that we fail to just simply linger over them

and marvel at them.

Well, here is what Warfield tells us.

But even we, can we fail to be moved with wonder today at this great message that God in heaven rejoices?

Exalts and joy like this human father receiving back his son when sinners repent and turn to him.

He goes on to say, we are sinners, and our only hope is in one who loves sinners.

And has come into the world to die for sinners.

Marvel, marvel beyond our conception. But blessed be God, as true as marvelous.

Warfield would often, just in the middle of the lecture, pause, pull down his spectacles, put his

elbows on the podium and lean in and tell the students,

gentlemen, I love the supernatural.

And that's what we see here in this sermon and in this parable.

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