Today on Renewing Your Mind, the parable of the lost Son.

There was one lost sheep on that hill far away, far off from the streets of gold.

And that one who strays from the fellowship of the church is sought by the Lord

until he is found and brought home. This is about compassion.

This is above the love of Christ for His people.

Jesus told a series of parables that expressed his care and concern for the lost,

people who needed to be found, to be loved, to be forgiven.

Today on Renewing Your Mind, RC Sproul returns to His sermon series from the Gospel of Luke.

And as we begin our study of chapter 15, we'll learn that Jesus seeks and saves His own.

We're going to continue our study of the Gospel according to Saint Luke this morning.

We're beginning a new chapter, chapter 15.

But instead of starting at verse 1, I'm going to start at verse 11

and read through verse 32, which is Luke's record of the parable of the prodigal Son.

Now, I have not forgotten that there are two shorter parables that Jesus gives before

the parable of the prodigal Son. And I will then therefore incorporate those preparatory parables

in the sermon this morning.

But for our purposes now, we'll be looking beginning at verse 11 through verse 32

and I would ask the congregation, please, to stand for the reading of the Word of God.

Then he said, a certain man had two sons.

And the younger of them said to his father,

Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.

And so he divided to them his livelihood and not many days after the younger son gathered all together,

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