The Story of the Two Sons

Lk. 15:11-24

The prodigal son said, while his father was kissing his neck, “I am not worthy to be called your son.” He didn't understand, like many that are sons of the Father through Christ, and like us at times, that all the worth that was and is, is in the heart of a loving Father who gave His only Son.

The Father gave us His only Son when we were yet without strength and ungodly (nothing in us at all like God).

God the Father was loving us while we were actively sinning. (Of course, as believers when we sin we can't have fellowship with and experience His love for us that never ends. Thank God for 1 Jhn. 1:9)

Furthermore, when we were His enemies is when we were reconciled to Him through and by the death of His only Son (Rom. 5:6-10). The son had the best (because of all the worth that was in the robe) robe put on him by his father. Isaiah 61:10, Christ is pictured there, for Israel, as garments of salvation and robes of righteousness. For us, as the Son's church, His heavenly bride, His very body, in Him alone is all the worth that we will ever need. He is our righteousness (1 Cor. 1:30).

The lie from the enemy is that "you are not worthy to be called a son or daughter of God." The reality is, is God and His Son, after all they have done, not worthy to make sons and daughters to them who would believe and receive the greatest love-gift that could ever be given?

With our best robe on, we are in our Father's house (Jhn. 14:1-2; 20:17) and celebrating and singing the song of all eternity, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain and has redeemed us to God by His blood."

It is an eternal song, a new song that never gets old.