today on renewing your mind.

And unlike the woman who turned up having an earth to find her coin and the good shepherd

who searched far and wide to find the lost sheep, there's nothing in this parable but the

father sending out a search party to find his son.

He waited and he prayed that the prodigal son would someday come home.

In his ministry, Jesus called for sinners to repent.

In some cases he did so sternly.

In other cases more gently and a way that expressed his care and concern for those who

needed to be found.

We have been on an expositional tour of Luke's Gospel with R.C. Sproul and that we're

in chapter 15 today where Dr. Sproul continues teaching on perhaps the most familiar of

Jesus parables where we see an extraordinary example of God's love and patience for

his lost people.

Well this morning we're going to continue with our study of the Gospel according to St.

Luke and in our last session of our study we were in the 15th chapter of Luke's Gospel

and I was dealing with the parable of the lost son or otherwise known as the parable of

the prodigal son and I joined it with the earlier parables of the lost sheep and the lost

coin and so was only able to get through a portion of the beginning of that parable.

So this morning I'm going to read again from Luke 15 beginning with verse 14 and reading

through the end of the chapter and I liked the congregation.

I'm pleased to stand for the reading of the Word of God but when he had spent all there

arose a severe famine in that land and he began to be in want.

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