All right, I want you to turn in your Bibles to Luke Chapter 15, and we're going to continue our series called Lost and Found.

And the first message I shared in the series, I've shared two, but the first one I called it the Believers battle. This

message I'm calling the brothers battle. The brothers battle. Now there are two sons in this story

that Jesus told about the Prodigal son.

There's the Prodigal son, obviously.

But then there's the older brother.

I'm not going to ask you to raise your hand, so don't raise your end, but some of you, how many

of you don't raise your hand?

I shouldn't say it, I shouldn't ask.

Some of you relate more to the older brother in the story than the

prodigal son. That's my wife Debbie. She would relate more to him because

she's never left home. She got saved at nine and she's never

left home and she will tell you very quickly I relate more to the prodigal son

obviously so we're a good team. But the reason I didn't ask you to raise your hands

is because those of you who relate more to the older brother would embarrass those of

us that, you know, don't relate to the older brother we'd be like yeah I guess I do but it's

church I don't want to lie you know so so I want to talk to you about the brothers

battle and what I mean by that is what about how he felt that he's the one that didn't leave home and the one that did leave home and the one that

did leave home and squandered his father's inheritance was getting the party.

And how do we feel toward prodigals and how do we feel toward people who are struggling

with sin in their life, maybe a sin that we don't struggle with. How do we feel? And so Jesus

tells this parable to help us understand. So let me show you a little bit about

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