So we're going to begin a three week series. I'll be here all three weeks and I'm calling the series sons not servants and

I'm taking it from the story in Luke 15 of the prodigal son in that he wanted to be treated

like a servant because his behavior had been bad, but the father still treated him like a son. And so I know that we do serve

the Lord. I know that most of the Apostles begin their epistles with Servant of Jesus Christ Christ, servant of God. I know we're

servants and I know we serve. But I've got to clarify some things about that and

here's the main thing. We're not sons because we serve. We serve because

we're sons. and I'm using sons here in a generic sense ladies

please forgive me for that because the Bible does call you sons and but don't get upset about it because it also calls men the bride

of Christ.

So we get it both ways, okay?

So I'll be talking about sons and daughters, but I might just say sons because I'm a

pastor and I love alliteration and sons and servants begins with S so if you'll

just okay everybody all right on that, okay.

All right.

So we're sons and daughters of the most high, but were sons because of birthright, not because

of behavior. I'm going to say that one more time.

We're sons and daughters because of birthright, not behavior. And we're going to look at this

in scripture here, but when the son returns, the prodigal son returns, the father gives him three gifts.

So we're going to take the next three weeks and look at these three gifts. The first is the robe of righteousness. He gives

them a robe, a ring, and shoes. And so we're going to talk about the robe of righteousness

and what that means, right? But just notice, we're going to read a little bit of Luke 15.

Notice how many times you'll see the word son or you'll see the word servant.

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