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It’s hard for believers that have the same heart issues of the elder brother of the prodigal son to believe that Father would welcome His prodigal back home with great joy.......
@Judges1318 - It's nice to know that you are concerned about prodigal sons and daughters and are calling them back home to faith in Christ, instead of judging and condemning them.
I do think you have misunderstood what OSAS is telling prodigals.
We're not saying all is good with them while they have ran back into the world and riotous living, on the contrary, things are bad for them because they're going to experience unnecessary pain and suffering because they're following their "flesh" instead of the Spirit.
They have not lost their "sonship" - they are born again - a child of God - they can never be unborn.
When a person receives the Gift of Salvation by receiving the Blood and Body of Christ, they are also sealed with God's Holy Spirit and born again. The believer NEVER stops being a child to the Father. Once "born again" ALWAYS "born again" - ALWAYS a Child of God.
Prodigals that leave the Faith in Christ to run after the world ALWAYS hit rock bottom and eventually realize there is nothing in this world that compares to Father's House, they have tasted and know that the Lord is good and the world is not.
The Father CONTINUES to call them "son," not "servant." The Father places His robe and ring on the prodigal son, not because of ANY works that the son did to receive them - just because of WHO the Father is and the son was "born" to Him.
What would you say to a prodigal son or daughter?
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I LOVE this thread. To me it is the most important one on this site. Giving out the Truth of God's Word is needed in a world filled with deceptive preaching. Being able to show false doctrine for what it is has a high importance to Christians. Showing that man cannot earn, hold onto, keep what only God Almighty has provided is the basis of being a Christian.
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I am wondering why He only told two people?
Of course they must have been the only two sinners!!
PLAIN reading tells me only those two people had to stop sinning.
I do not make Jesus a liar.... but "your plain reading" makes a disaster of scripture.
Of course they must have been the only two sinners!!
PLAIN reading tells me only those two people had to stop sinning.
I do not make Jesus a liar.... but "your plain reading" makes a disaster of scripture.
How can I, or anyone, make a disaster of scripture by seeking to follow them?
Stand in awe, and do not sin (Psalm 4:4).
Abstain from all appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22).
Were passages like these written in vain?
For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake (Philippians 1:29). For he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin (1 Peter 4:1). Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow in his steps: who did no sin (1 Peter 2:21). If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me (Matthew 16:24). [because] My sheep hear my voice...and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish (John 10:27-28).
Comparing scripture with scripture reveals the full context of salvation.
- Believe
- Follow
- Suffer/Take up cross
- Cease from sin
- Never Perish
Even while "dead and lost" - STILL ALWAYS A SON. Did you notice the Father STILL called him "son of mine"?
@Judges1318 - It's nice to know that you are concerned about prodigal sons and daughters and are calling them back home to faith in Christ, instead of judging and condemning them.
I do think you have misunderstood what OSAS is telling prodigals.
We're not saying all is good with them while they have ran back into the world and riotous living, on the contrary, things are bad for them because they're going to experience unnecessary pain and suffering because they're following their "flesh" instead of the Spirit.
They have not lost their "sonship" - they are born again - a child of God - they can never be unborn.
When a person receives the Gift of Salvation by receiving the Blood and Body of Christ, they are also sealed with God's Holy Spirit and born again. The believer NEVER stops being a child to the Father. Once "born again" ALWAYS "born again" - ALWAYS a Child of God.
Prodigals that leave the Faith in Christ to run after the world ALWAYS hit rock bottom and eventually realize there is nothing in this world that compares to Father's House, they have tasted and know that the Lord is good and the world is not.
The Father CONTINUES to call them "son," not "servant." The Father places His robe and ring on the prodigal son, not because of ANY works that the son did to receive them - just because of WHO the Father is and the son was "born" to Him.
What would you say to a prodigal son or daughter?
@Judges1318 - It's nice to know that you are concerned about prodigal sons and daughters and are calling them back home to faith in Christ, instead of judging and condemning them.
I do think you have misunderstood what OSAS is telling prodigals.
We're not saying all is good with them while they have ran back into the world and riotous living, on the contrary, things are bad for them because they're going to experience unnecessary pain and suffering because they're following their "flesh" instead of the Spirit.
They have not lost their "sonship" - they are born again - a child of God - they can never be unborn.
When a person receives the Gift of Salvation by receiving the Blood and Body of Christ, they are also sealed with God's Holy Spirit and born again. The believer NEVER stops being a child to the Father. Once "born again" ALWAYS "born again" - ALWAYS a Child of God.
Prodigals that leave the Faith in Christ to run after the world ALWAYS hit rock bottom and eventually realize there is nothing in this world that compares to Father's House, they have tasted and know that the Lord is good and the world is not.
The Father CONTINUES to call them "son," not "servant." The Father places His robe and ring on the prodigal son, not because of ANY works that the son did to receive them - just because of WHO the Father is and the son was "born" to Him.
What would you say to a prodigal son or daughter?
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