In Luke 15 Jesus tells three salvation parables one about a lost sheep one about a lost coin and one about a lost son the parable of the lost son a father and his two sons and his younger son comes to him and asks for his inheritance early this is a big no no in this culture essentially it's as if the younger son is coming to his father and saying father I wish you were dead but he gets his inheritance goes off and lives the good life squanders everything finally hits rock bottom and in that moment comes to his senses and comes back to the father begging for just even the lowest place in the family but his father welcomes him back and not only Welcomes him back into the family actually throws a party of all parties because what is lost is now found our Heavenly Father is the father in this parable and we see just how valuable what was lost is to him now I have two young sons myself and they're probably a bit younger than the sons that we read about in this parable but if I were to lose one of my sons it would wreck me see that's how the father views us if I were to lose one of my sons I wouldn't say well I've got the others and then we'll just go with him. No, God's love for us is seen in what is lost in the parable.
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