MESSAGE:
“LIVING IN KINGDOM COME:
…On The Home Front!”
KEY
VERSE: v. 22
“‘Hurry!’ called
out his father to the servants, ‘Bring the best clothes and put them on him!
Put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet, and get that calf we’ve
fattened and kill it, and we will have a feast and a celebration!’”
FOCUS: Dad knows best when he has the “father-heart” of God.
INTRODUCTION: “One of the first changes God did in my heart was a change of attitude toward honoring my father. God said: ‘You honor your mother, how about your father?’ I said, ‘Lord we are all a bunch of stubborn Germans and besides, Dad won’t listen to me.’ God said: ‘Son, you have it all wrong, I don’t want you to change your father, I want to change you.’ I said, ‘Okay, Lord, change me, and I will let you take care of the rest.’ And then I asked God to show me how to honor my father.” ~A son near by
I.
THERE IS HOPE WHEN “DAD”
IS LOVINGLY ACCESSIBLE
II.
NEW BEGINNINGS RISE WHEN “DAD” IS READY TO FORGIVE
III. “DAD’S” ABILITY TO ARBITRATE OPENS THE DOOR TO PEACE
CONCLUSION:
“Build me a son, oh Lord, whose heart will be clean, whose goal will be
high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who
will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the
future, yet never forget the past.” ~ Gen. MacArthur
PREACHING: Pastor Holland Lewis