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“I don’t hang around with people I don’t like.”

“I have some issues and problems, but that’s between God and me, and at least I am better off than so-and-so.”

“If they too worked harder at doing what’s right, then they would be better off.”

The way many are doing church, isn’t the “right way!”

I find it hard to be friends with people who do the

wrong things.

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It’s not my responsibility to help people who won’t help themselves.

I’m feeling grateful to be a Christian when you see other people’s failures and flaws.

I sometimes judge those who see things differently.

I feel better about myself than because of “all the things I do for the Lord.”

Feeling grateful to be a Christian when you see other

people’s failures and flaws.

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Luke 15:17-19

25 “Now his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

26 “And he summoned one of the servants and began inquiring what these things could be.

27 “And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound

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“received him back safe and sound.”

“to receive something one previously possessed.”

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28 But he became angry and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began pleading with him.

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Did the father tell the older son that he was watching for his brother every day? If not, did he know it?

Why did the father not tell the elder brother that his younger brother had come home?

Why did the father not invite the older brother to the celebration.

Did the brother have a right to be upset with the father’s actions just mentioned?

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29 “But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;

30 but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’ �

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1. Did the father make known to his older son that he could have a party with his friends and kill a lamb? If not, should he have? � ��

2. Should the elder son have asked to have a party with his friends?

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31 “And he said to him, ‘Son, you have always been with me, and all that is mine is yours.

32 ‘But we had to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and was lost and has been found.’”

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A Mick Jaggar Proverb

“You can’t always get what you want, but you will get what you need!”

but the he did

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Never forget that God is Sovereign and He can do whatever He wants to and whenever He wants to.

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Hebrews 4:16

Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

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