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Opening
Wait a minute, that was the wrong passage pastor.
I have been to many Easter morning services, and this NOT the text you read for Easter.
Where pastor, is the Angel, the empty tomb, where is the Easter story.
I agree, but what if the true Easter story is about the result of Easter.
What if this year we focus on what the Easter story is about, and that is forgiveness.
Our story begins with a man who made a mistake.
We all make mistakes, some are bigger then others.
I made a mistake a two weeks ago, life got in the way of “Life.”
I did not mow the yard for over two weeks.
This week I had to deal with the results of that mistake.
I started the mower only to have it die as soon as I started mowing.
The grass was to high, so I had to adjust the mower up, and then mow.
Before it was over I had to mow, not once, but twice, and then we had to rake the yard.
We understand that decisions have consequences.
Lets look at our story and consequences of decisions made.
Body
The youngest son in our story made a decision.
He asked for all the money he had coming to him.
But he was not supposed to get that money until his father died.
His first mistake was to ask for the money, the wealth, before his father was dead.
Anyone listening to Jesus story would have been shocked to hear that the son asked for the money before his father’s death.
It was a highest level of disrespect to his father.
He was saying Dad I only wish you were dead, but I am going to act like you are dead.
He then made the second mistake.
He asked for all the money he had coming to him.
But he was not supposed to get that money until his father died.
His first mistake was to ask for the money, the wealth, before his father was dead.
Anyone listening to Jesus story would have been shocked to hear that the son asked for the money before his father’s death.
It was a highest level of disrespect to his father.
He was saying Dad I only wish you were dead, but I am going to act like you are dead.
His second mistake was to run away.
He left his family.
He moved to far country.
Then he used his money recklessly.
He felt his money was going to last forever, and he lived that way.
He squandered all his money.
All his security, all his future plans were gone.
After he had spent all his funds, Life happened.
Life happened in the form of a severe famine.
With a famine, money is short, the food is gone, hope vanishes.
When a famine sets in, parties end, and survival begins.
People do what they need to do survive.
He went from playboy, to farm boy.
He was used to dining at the finest restaurants, now he hoping to eat with the pigs.
He was so hungry he was ready to eat pig food.
People do what they need to do survive.
He went from playboy, to farm boy.
He was used to dining at the finest restaunts, now he hoping to
His decisions had consequences.
The decisions he made at the beginning of the story is what he living out now.
But notice he makes another decision.
He made the decision to return to his father.
But he understands that.
even though he is going, home, it will not be the same.
We understand that mistakes we have made in the past can and do change our future.
He was ready to live, not as a son, but as a servant.
But, that is only if, his father would let him come home.
Image his shock.
The father does the unthinkable.
He welcomes the son back, in fact, he runs to meet him.
No father would run to meet a repentant son.
The son should instead, come, maybe crawling, to the father, begging for forgiveness.
But that is not the picture we see.
Instead, it the father how rushes to the son.
He embraces him and kisses him.
The father had been watching for the son, and now he had come home, and the father could not wait any longer.
He gathers his robe, throws dignity to the wind, and begins to sprint as fast as his aged legs can take him to his long lost son.
Instead of rejection, the son find acceptance.
These items represent full reinstatement into the family.
The best robe was probably the father’s own, since the patriarch had the finest robe in the house.
A fattened calf was selected and fed for a special occasion such as a wedding feast.
Bailey claims that the choice of a calf over a goat or a sheep indicates that the whole village is to be invited, confirming the father’s desire to reconcile his son to the community
The father forgive him.
Don’t we all want to experience forgiveness.
I read about a father and son who got in a fight.
The son Pedro, left home.
Later, when the father became ill, he wanted to reconcile with his lost son.
He heard his son was living in Mexico City.
So the father put the following add in the local newspaper.
Dear Pedro, all is forgiven.
Meet me at, and he gave the name of the restarunt they often went to on a April 5th at noon.
The father waited for the day to come, he was nervous as he made his way to the meeting place.
Image his surprise when he turned the corner and found not just his son, but over 500 men named Pedro looking for forgiveness.
There is a little of that younger son in all of us.
We like the Pedro, are looking for forgiveness.
Forgiveness made possible by Easter.
You see the power of Easter is that Easter forgiveness can reset your entire life.
It did for the younger son.
Would you say going from wearing rags, and eating with pigs to wearing the finest robe, and eating at a banquet of the fattened calf., is a reset?
A new start.
Conclusion
This Easter, we have all made mistakes.
Decisions that misled us.
We have all, at one time or another, found ourselves in a far county.
We have seen the consequences of these decision.
We all make mistakes.
At the beginning of this message I confessed I had made a mistake, I let the grass go.
I had not mowed the grass, so I had mow twice and then to rake the yard.
I wish all the mistakes I make were that easy to fit.
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