The Upside Down World, Week 3, Day 4

LUKE 15:11-19

Lostness is individual. The younger son shows us one way to become a stranger to your father’s heart. He asks for his inheritance, in effect wishing his father dead. He forces the sale of family land and assets to realize his dream of independence. He wastes the resources that have taken generations to acquire. He breaks Jewish moral codes in “riotous living” and cleanliness codes by associating with Gentiles and living with pigs. He is a rebel who rejects the moral and religious values of his father in the name of sensual pleasure and self-expression. He believes his family to be a restraint on his freedom. His misery is self-inflicted.

Is there a rebel in you?

How does your rebellion manifest itself? 

FAMILY TIME—

Take the family through the story of the younger son’s rebellion.

What impact did it have on his father?

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