Hi, I'm Robert Jeffress, and I'm glad to serve as your Bible teacher every day on this great radio station.

On today's edition, a pathway to victory.

You see, if the first son represents the Jewish leaders who professed to be God-lovers but never followed through,

then the second son represented the Gentiles, the non-Jews, who for thousands of years had rejected God,

but now they had had a change of heart. They were the ones who were actually coming to faith in Christ at this point in Jesus' ministry while the Jews rejected Him.

Welcome to Pathway to Victory with author and pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress.

The Jews were God's chosen people for thousands of years, but when Jesus came, he opened the Kingdom of God to anyone who would believe.

Today on Pathway to Victory, Dr. Robert Jeffress says that it doesn't matter who you are or what you've done.

God's free gift of salvation is available to you. Now here's our Bible teacher to introduce today's message. Dr. Jeffress?

Thanks David and welcome again to Pathway to Victory. In a moment we'll resume a message I introduced earlier this week based on a story Jesus told that's recorded in Matthew 21.

Jesus gave us parables or stories to help us understand profound lessons about life.

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Now, it's time to get started with today's study of God's Word. Let's turn to the first book in the New Testament, Matthew, chapter 21.

I titled today's message the other story about the two sons.

If you have your Bibles, I want you to turn to Matthew, chapter 21. Matthew, chapter 21, we're continuing our series and the parables.

And as we do, I thought it was appropriate today that we choose the parable about the father that had the two sons. Remember that parable?

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