Like Father, Like Son | Disciples Who Make Disciples
Disciples Who Make Disciples
“Like Father, Like Son”
Luke 15:1-31
“Come follow Me and I will MAKE you FISHERS of MEN.” – Mark 1:17
DISCIPLES who make DISCIPLES.
Everyone lives forever SOMEWHERE.
The Church is the BODY of CHRIST. Consequently, what was true of JESUS PERSONALLY, should also be true of US COLLECTIVELY.
Luke 15:1-31 (pg. 1,623)
v.1 “Now the TAX COLLECTORS and SINNERS were gathering AROUND to hear JESUS.”
v.4 “Suppose one of you has a HUNDRED sheep and loses ONE of them. Does he not LEAVE the ninety-nine in the open country and GO AFTER the lost sheep until he finds it?”
When we lose something of value, we FOCUS on what’s been LOST, even MORE than what’s UN-LOST.
v.8 “Or suppose a woman has TEN silver coins and loses ONE.”
When you LOSE something of great VALUE, you to great LENGTHS to FIND it.
Jesus isn’t talking about being lost PHYSICALLY, He’s talking about being disconnected, relationally.
v.11 “Jesus continued, There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, father give me MY SHARE of the estate. So he DIVIDED his property between them.”
The Father loved the son MORE than his REPUTATION. In this culture that meant the father was a FOOL.
v.20 “So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off. his father saw him and was filled with COMPASSION for him.”
The Father desired a RELATIONSHIP with the son, not a LOCATION.
v.24 For this son of mine was DEAD and is ALIVE again; he was LOST and is FOUND.
People RECONNECTING with their Father in heaven, is what lights up the HEART, of our Father in Heaven.