The Prodigal Son: Redefining Redemption

0:00:00 – (Steve Gray): Hey, so you think you know your Bible? You think you know the story of the lost son because you’ve heard it so many times? You need to catch this next podcast of More Faith, More Life, because I’m going to teach you some things you’ve never heard before. You were made for more than the status quo. I’m Pastor Steve Gray, and this is the More Faith, More Life podcast. This podcast is for Christians with an ambitious heart who want to be more for their family, do more with their career, and see more of God’s promises in their life.

0:00:29 – (Steve Gray): I’ve spent many years as a worship artist, minister, nonprofit leader, bold truth speaker, and most importantly, father and spouse. When I was in my early 40s, I was craving more. More from God and more from life. I’d done everything I was supposed to do. My life was good, but it wasn’t good enough. So I spent the following years diving into the word of God and, and searching for the biblical principles that would bring me closer to God and help my purpose and life flourish.

0:00:59 – (Steve Gray): That’s what I want to share with you. In every episode, you’ll get practical tools based on real life experiences that you can put into action to redefine your faith and ultimately your life. So if you’re ready to do more, subscribe to More Faith, More Life and hear an unfiltered biblical truth every week. It’s time to be and experience more. Hello everyone, and welcome to another More Faith, More Life podcast. I’m Steve Gray and along with my wife Kathy, excited to bring you another parable. We’ve been doing parables every, every time, every week.

0:01:34 – (Steve Gray): And we’re. Last week we did on the the Lost Coin and the Lost Sheep, and today we’re going to do part one. We’re going to two parts because the story of the lost son, or what we call the prodigal son parable. Now you. You think you know this, so you have to pay attention because you’re  going to get a better understanding of how all the pieces fit together and you’re going to hear it in a really interesting way.

0:02:00 – (Steve Gray): As we’re going to tell you the first part. We’re only going to do the first son because as this parable starts out, we realize that teaching preachers, teachers really miss a lot of this and there’s a good reason. So I guess we should just wanna. Just get started.

0:02:15 – (Kathy Gray): All righty. Yeah.

0:02:16 – (Steve Gray): Okay, so this is Luke, chapter 15. Right, right, right.

0:02:21 – (Kathy Gray): Starting with verse 11.

0:02:22 – (Steve Gray): Yeah. Let’s get the setup of the parable.

0:02:25 – (Kathy Gray): Jesus continued. There was a man who had two sons the younger one said to his father, father, give me my share of the estate. So he divided his property between them. Not long after that, the younger son got together all that he had set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth.

0:02:45 – (Steve Gray): Okay, we can.

0:02:46 – (Kathy Gray): In wild living.

0:02:47 – (Steve Gray): Wild living. Yeah. Riotous living. Okay, we can stop there. All right, so here’s where it first falls apart. Because most people only preach, teach or share about one son, which is we’re going to talk about today. But the setup is not that. And the parable really isn’t about the first son as much as it’s about the second son. So the Bible starts out, Jesus starts out, a man had. Had what? Sons. Two sons.

0:03:13 – (Steve Gray): Now if you’ve been in church your life, you know, you can probably tell something about the first son, which we’re going to talk about today. And then you have absolutely no idea who, who, why, what, what’s the story? And as we teach parables, we have to understand there’s many, many things we can learn, enjoy, set up and, and express. But a parable usually has just one or two main points. And guess what? The main point is not the first son. The main point is the second son, which they’ll have to wait till next time to find out and see if I’m telling the truth or not or I know anything about this.

0:03:53 – (Steve Gray): So let’s go again. Now we have the first son. So here’s the setup. Now remember, I think it was when we’ve been talking about parables, we have to take it into the culture, all right? We don’t think anything of it, okay? Jesus sets this up as shock treatment. It’s crisis shock treatment, okay? So a son comes to his father and says, what? Give me my inheritance now. And that’s a shock that’s going to throw these God fearing people who have studied for centuries the word of God and have their own culture and a God culture.

0:04:27 – (Steve Gray): And that’s going to shock them because you don’t do that. When do you get your inheritance? After somebody passes, okay? But he basically is saying to his father, I’m willing to let you be dead to me. I want you to be. I mean, you’re as good as dead. I wish you were dead or I’m going to treat you like you’re dead. Okay? So I want it now. So they would have been shocked that a son would treat his father that way.

0:04:56 – (Steve Gray): So it starts off with mistreatment and shock and, and they’re just like, what are, what, what kind of. And they Gasp. You know? Okay, yes. So we have to understand that point of how he’s saying, I wish you were dead or I’m going to treat you as dead. Okay? And we’ll understand in a little bit about that. All right? So anyway, as you said, then he goes off and he takes his. He gets the father, gives it to him and he leaves. And now he’s going to be like this kid that knows everything.

0:05:28 – (Kathy Gray): Oh, boy.

0:05:28 – (Steve Gray): And he’s going to squander it. Riotous living, one translation says. Wild living. And you know, he doesn’t spend it well. He doesn’t know enough about it. He’s not mature enough to do it. And he loses everything. All right?

0:05:42 – (Kathy Gray): Yep.

0:05:43 – (Steve Gray): He squanders it. And now he’s spent everything. Spent everything. Now he’s in need. Yeah, but he still probably thinks, I can figure this out. But something else happens. There’s a famine, you know, a famine in the land, and there’s shortages. And in other words, Jesus sets it up. The unexpected comes. You think you got it figured. I’ll take my inheritance. I’ll go do it. I’ll invest it. I can handle it. And then, not only does it not know how to handle money, he doesn’t realize you have to be prepared for the unexpected. In this world, as a. As spiritual people, we need to be ready for the expected, which is good.

0:06:20 – (Steve Gray): Hope is the expectation of good. Right. But there’s still evil and stupidity in the world. So we have to be ready for the unexpected as people on the mark. We are people not surprised.

0:06:32 – (Kathy Gray): That’s so good.

0:06:33 – (Steve Gray): We’re not the surprise. And if you’ll listen to God, he will even warn you of the unexpected ahead of time so you’re really prepared. Well, anyway, now he’s in big trouble. What does he do? He has to hire himself out. And where does he end up working? What’s his job?

0:06:48 – (Kathy Gray): Okay, let’s see. To a citizen who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

0:06:53 – (Steve Gray): Okay, that’s. Now there’s the other shocker. All right, so we have Jewish people who. The uncleanness. The un-cleanest. The unclean animal is pigs. You can’t eat it and you can’t own them. You can’t own them and sell them either. So we have two things here. Either the guy he’s working for is a. Also a very rebellious Jewish person. But I don’t think that’s the setup. I think the setup is, could it get any worse for this kid? He has lost everything.

0:07:23 – (Steve Gray): He hires himself out, probably to a pagan or a non-Jewish Person. Now he’s in a non-Jewish atmosphere where he was in a Jewish home. And he’s having to feed the pigs, which is unclean. Unclean animals. So Jesus sets it up like, okay, guys, could it get any worse for this kid? It can’t get any worse. That’s about as bad as it gets, as long. I mean, he’s alive, but that’s about it. Okay, then it says something happens.

0:07:51 – (Kathy Gray): Yes. Yeah, he came to his senses finally. He was eating the pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave me anything.

0:07:58 – (Steve Gray): So, pretty good setup from Jesus, right? Like, this is pretty wonderful.

0:08:02 – (Kathy Gray): He had better learn the lesson. That’s all I got to say. Well, when he came to his census, he said, how many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare? And here I am, starving to death.

0:08:12 – (Steve Gray): Okay. So he came to his senses. And what did his senses say? His father.

0:08:19 – (Kathy Gray): His father.

0:08:20 – (Steve Gray): His father. Coming back to his father. Now, there’s the part of the parable. It’s not the biggest part of it, but coming back to his senses, he begins to think about his father again. Now, he doesn’t really say, I love my father. He doesn’t say, I want a relationship with my father. He just says, my father has plenty and I’m starving. So he comes to his senses and he’s going to go back right now. It’s important, Kathy, that we set this up right and understand what happens in a moment. So, as a kid, have you. Well, you were the perfect kid. You never did anything wrong, so you would never have done this.

0:08:54 – (Kathy Gray): Well, I didn’t. For some reason, I never wanted to be disobedient or be rude. I don’t know if that was the generation that brought me up or what.

0:09:04 – (Steve Gray): And I don’t know what was wrong with me. It never even crossed my mind I was that way. I didn’t even know I was.

0:09:10 – (Kathy Gray): No, you were rebellious. I didn’t know.

0:09:12 – (Steve Gray): I didn’t. It never crossed my mind whether it was wrong or right. Wrong or right never crossed my mind. It just. Just do it like he did, I guess.

0:09:21 – (Kathy Gray): I guess so.

0:09:22 – (Steve Gray): But anyway, so. But being the person I am and getting myself into a lot of situations back then as a kid and up to almost. Well, up to when we were married, when you get yourself into trouble, you kind of rehearse what you’re going to say or maybe if you get pulled over by the police, you know, see the red lights and the. You have had that happen one time. But that was a funny thing.

0:09:47 – (Kathy Gray): That’s a really funny Thing.

0:09:48 – (Steve Gray): But they let you go, didn’t they?

0:09:49 – (Kathy Gray): Well, yeah, because they saw my picture on a billboard and they said, look, she’s. She’s the first lady of that church up the hill. Let her go.

0:09:57 – (Steve Gray): Yeah, so it’s hilarious. She gets pulled over by the police by a billboard of herself, and they see her on the billboard, and they laughed and she laughed and they let her go.

0:10:08 – (Kathy Gray): Yeah, they said, there’s the first lady of that church. Let her go.

0:10:14 – (Steve Gray): So that was a funny thing. But, you know, if you get into trouble and you realize you’re caught or you rehearse in your brain, this is. Okay, here’s how I’m going to explain it, right? Or here’s how you know how I’m going to get by. And maybe I can talk somebody out of it, right?

0:10:28 – (Kathy Gray): Yeah.

0:10:29 – (Steve Gray): Okay. So that’s exactly what he does. He says, I know what I’ll do. I’ll go back to my father. And he begins to think what he’s going to say. Can you find. I should have told you to find that.

0:10:37 – (Kathy Gray): I see. I’ve sinned. Okay, so I’m going to go back to my father and say to him, father, I’ve sinned against heaven and against you. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants. So he got up and he went to his father.

0:10:52 – (Steve Gray): Okay, so let’s. Let’s rehearse the one. Number one. Number one, he says, what about himself? He said, I’ve sinned.

0:10:59 – (Kathy Gray): I’ve sinned against you. And number two, against heaven and against you.

0:11:01 – (Steve Gray): Okay, I’m going to say that. Number two, I’m going to say, then.

0:11:05 – (Kathy Gray): I’m no longer worthy to be called your son.

0:11:07 – (Steve Gray): And then three, he’s going to say.

0:11:09 – (Kathy Gray): Go ahead and make me like one of your hired servants.

0:11:12 – (Steve Gray): Yeah, just make me one of your servants. So there’s three things he rehearses in his head. When I get to dad, I’m going to spill my guts to him. I’ll say those three things, and then hopefully he’ll make me a servant and I can at least make a living. I won’t have to eat pig food. Okay, so that’s what he does. Okay, so now he goes back. Now we have. The other thing about the culture is what happens. The father sees him from afar, off or in the distance.

0:11:41 – (Steve Gray): What does the father do?

0:11:42 – (Kathy Gray): All right. And was filled with compassion for him. He ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

0:11:51 – (Steve Gray): Okay, so there we have another shock. Okay, this is Going to be a shock to the Jewish people, but it’s to show the personality and the heart of the Father, because that’s what the goal is. As those people listening, he’s saying, push yourselves back into a covenant with your Father, Heavenly Father, Our Father, which is in heaven, renew it with God. Come to your senses, look at your lives. And it wasn’t, by the way, it wasn’t necessarily there. Some of it was their fault.

0:12:21 – (Steve Gray): But, you know, Rome had taken over Israel, particularly Jerusalem. Is it their fault that they’re losing their land? Taxes are terrible, they’re mistreated. No, because Rome’s doing it. But yes, it’s because of compromised religion that opened the door for Rome to come in. Because God promised, that’ll never. You follow my ways. That’ll never happen to you. So, yes, but it mostly was the compromise religion, religious leaders, that opened the door for them to be oppressed by Rome.

0:12:52 – (Steve Gray): Now the fact that they’re sitting there listening, oppressed by Rome may not be. They may be very religious people, but everybody suffers. So he’s saying, even though we’re suffering, the kid was suffering. The kid made mistakes. The kid. Come to your senses, push yourself back as close to the Father. Even though religion is compromised, you can do it. You don’t have to be the compromise pastor, teacher, worship leader, Sunday school teacher, youth leader, or pew warmer.

0:13:21 – (Steve Gray): You don’t have to be compromised because come to your senses, come back to your father. That’s. It is a pretty strong thing because it’s almost really two parables in a way. That’s why we can divide it up. But that’s still not the main thing that Jesus is going to say to him. And that comes next week. Okay, so he comes to his senses, and then. So then the Father sees him. And now he’s going to. And now Jesus is going to shock a little bit, too, because the Father gets up and what does he do?

0:13:51 – (Kathy Gray): All right, he runs to him.

0:13:53 – (Steve Gray): Deutsch. Slow down. He does what? He runs.

0:13:55 – (Kathy Gray): Yeah, he runs.

0:13:56 – (Steve Gray): In their culture, a father of any dignity at all never runs. They don’t run. The walk would have been okay, signaling, waving, sending the servants to get him. But a father getting up and running in public was just. I don’t know what you can compare it to. Well, maybe you can compare it to me in the airport. You see people run in the airport all the time, right? Yeah, all the time. There’s people running, you know. Oh, I guess you’re running late.

0:14:25 – (Steve Gray): Have you ever seen me run in the airport? No, Steve, I’m too dignified for that. I’d rather miss my flight. I’ll just go over and say, hey, what’s a. I’ll go to another airline and say, give me a ticket. I’m not running. Remember the time we. We’ve been late a few times and we had our luggage with us too, but we scurried a little bit, you know, we didn’t dilly dally, but I wasn’t going to run.

0:14:47 – (Kathy Gray): Well, one of those times you pretended I was real disabled or something. And one of those trams went by.

0:14:54 – (Steve Gray): Oh, the light honk. The lights going. And sometimes they honk at you and they’re little. Little like golf carts.

0:14:59 – (Kathy Gray): They have little old ladies on them and stuff like that to take the. To their gate a mile away. And so one time I said, please, Steve, I want to run. And I wouldn’t do it. I’m not up to it. And so you waved down the guy and he was very kind.

0:15:13 – (Steve Gray): Yeah. And I told her, I’m not going to run. And she’s nervous and we’re going to be late. He said, get in. And he took us there.

0:15:19 – (Kathy Gray): Yeah, that was very kind of him. Yeah, yeah, that was kind of him. Because it saved you.

0:15:24 – (Steve Gray): Yeah. Okay, so they’re showing this is an unusual father, right. That a father would do that. They probably have never seen that. And if they did, it would have been undignified, and it would be considered he’s undignified. But. Well, also think of the. We don’t understand this, but think of the clothing they’re wearing in order to do that. You know, there’s scriptures where they have to take their cloak and tuck it so they can hurry and run and go, you know, and some scriptures about that or escape, you know.

0:15:54 – (Steve Gray): And so he would have had to take his kind of tuck it up so you’d have seen his legs. And that was just undignified. Okay, so it’s not the parable point, but it just shows character of the Father. And then further on after he’s being insulted by his son, almost. I wish you were dead or I’m willing to live like I don’t have a father. Right. So give me my stuff. Okay, but what did he do? He ran to him. And then.

0:16:20 – (Kathy Gray): Okay, and then the father said to his servants, no, first of all, oh, no.

0:16:23 – (Steve Gray): The son said, no, wait, what’d the Father do? The father runs.

0:16:27 – (Kathy Gray): The father runs.

0:16:28 – (Steve Gray): And what does he do when he gets.

0:16:29 – (Kathy Gray): Threw his arms around him and kissed him?

0:16:32 – (Steve Gray): So all that is like, wow, we didn’t expect that. We expected him to slap him. Did you know that because of his behavior that people in the neighborhood, your little neighborhood that you live in with other people, if the son had just come in, they actually had the right to slap him, beat him up, even with sticks for bringing rebellion into the community.

0:17:06 – (Steve Gray): So this is another reason what the father did. He got to his son before anybody else could get to him. That’s why he ran. Because once the people saw, oh, okay, well, he’s going to throw his arms around him and give his son a kiss and a hug and be willing to run out there and be undignified. I guess everything’s okay. Something has happened. It’s okay. Which it wasn’t at this point, but it’s going to be okay.

0:17:30 – (Steve Gray): But he saved his son from possibly being beat up. They had the right to do that, to beat him with sticks. And they didn’t. They actually. And you look at Old Testament scripture, they actually. A rebellious kid could actually be killed. But they wouldn’t have done that in Jesus day. It just wasn’t that far along. But they could have slapped him around by bringing insult into. Remember we talked about an honor and shame community, not just the home, not just as a person.

0:17:57 – (Steve Gray): Shame. You don’t just shame yourself, you shame everybody because you are part of the family. So his father was actually shamed, but apparently he says it’s okay. So as long as I see it’s okay with the father, then we don’t need to do anything. Okay, so then remember the three things. So now he’s with his dad. Now he’s got three things he’s going to say, right? To get right with his father. What’s the first one?

0:18:18 – (Kathy Gray): Father, I’ve sinned against heaven and against you. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son.

0:18:25 – (Steve Gray): Okay, Is that one?

0:18:26 – (Kathy Gray): And then he. Well, previously he had said, make me.

0:18:29 – (Steve Gray): Well, wait, that’s actually two. I’ve sinned against heaven. That’s one. And then two is, I’m no longer worthy to be your son.

0:18:37 – (Kathy Gray): Right?

0:18:38 – (Steve Gray): Now, remember when he rehearsed, how many things did he rehearse?

0:18:40 – (Kathy Gray): He had three things.

0:18:41 – (Steve Gray): Three things to say.

0:18:43 – (Kathy Gray): Yes.

0:18:43 – (Steve Gray): And yet once the father’s arms are around him and he’s holding onto him now, right. He can’t get the third one out, remember? I mean, he’s smart kid that way. He rehearsed his excuses. So he gets it. The father’s arms are around him and he says, I’ve sinned against Heaven, I’m no longer worthy to be your son. He can’t say, just make me a servant. And he doesn’t have to. He doesn’t have to. He can’t get it out.

0:19:12 – (Steve Gray): He rehearsed it. He said he was going to say three things, but he only said two things. Something has changed here. And he’s starting to change a little too, because he doesn’t. He says, I’m no longer worthy to be your son. But that’s where. That’s my confession. But I don’t know. He could have been a servant, but he’s thinking differently. Something’s going on here. Yes, okay, so anyway, how’s that part conclude then? Is that where it concludes?

0:19:38 – (Kathy Gray): So I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. But then the Father said to his servants, yeah, quick, bring the best robe and put it on him. And put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found. So they began to celebrate.

0:20:06 – (Steve Gray): Okay, so let’s, without getting too far off the subject, just a little bit of theology though, okay? We cannot, once our brains get this, once our minds wake up to this, now, bang, the light comes on. You really can’t preach that to an unsaved person as a prodigal, even though it says that he’s lost. Can’t do it. Because the lost are the, when we say the lost, we’re meaning unsaved people. Right? Non born again people.

0:20:34 – (Steve Gray): You don’t take a non born again person and call them a son or daughter. Right. In order to be a son or daughter, you have to be born again into the family of God. But how badly is badly? How badly it’s preached. Wrong. They take that and turn the prodigal into an unsaved person. But the prodigals are around our community who used to be used to want to be in the Father’s house, go to church, serve God, that.

0:21:03 – (Steve Gray): But then they decided, I don’t need my father anymore. I don’t need it. I’m not going to pray anymore. I’m not going to go to church anymore. Just going to live my life. Maybe if something goes wrong, I’ll pray or go to the, you know, I’ll pray to the Father, but. So the prodigals are people who were just like the coin was in the house. The prodigals are the people who made a commitment, who know the father who lived in the father’s family was in the father’s family.

0:21:28 – (Steve Gray): So he was lost. But that doesn’t mean the father doesn’t know where he is. It doesn’t mean he couldn’t have found him. He had servants. They could have gone and found him, drug him back. But he didn’t and he was dead. But does that mean he’s unsaved now or. No, he’s still a son. So we have to understand what was lost and what was dead. Now we can understand the parable. This is the first half. It’s not the main.

0:21:55 – (Steve Gray): It’s pretty strong, though. Yes, it might be one of them. Okay. What was lost and what was dead? The relationship to the father, the kid wasn’t really lost. Like, you can’t find him and he wasn’t dead. Like now he resurrected from the dead. The relationship was dead. When he said, I want my inheritance now, and he left. The relationship was dead, but it came back alive. My son’s back and the relationship that was dead is alive.

0:22:26 – (Steve Gray): And my son who was lost has been found and the relationship is now alive. And who made the relationship alive? The father did. The father did. That’s. Now that’s a surprise. He should have been slapped around, should have been punished, and at the very least, maybe a servant. But instead he throws a feast. He celebrates. He kills the fatted calf. That’s a big deal. That’s a big phrase. And he celebrates my son’s back.

0:22:55 – (Steve Gray): So that tells you if you are a person who’s. You’ve kind of fallen into. And we’ll get to part two next time, the second son. But if you’ve kind of fallen into what I would call nominal, relaxed relationship with God, like there’s no passion, there’s no desire to read. You don’t want to read the Bible and you don’t really care to go to church, that may be your fault. Could be the church’s fault too. Could be your church is in compromised religion and that’s why you don’t get any better.

0:23:21 – (Steve Gray): That’s why Jesus is telling them this parable to saying, look, push yourself forward towards the Father. Do it. Come to your senses. Reignite. Well, let God reignite this relationship. But you have to come to your senses and say, I know what I need to do. I need to get back right with my father, and maybe he will just make you a servant. This kid didn’t. His father didn’t make him be a servant. Instead, he threw a celebration.

0:23:49 – (Steve Gray): And once he, by the way, once he put his robe on him and the ring and the shoes. All that signifies that he’s treating his son like a prince. Let’s just say that royalty. And it says, because now if he gets that ring, that means he can go do business. And his father, he can go do a transaction and push that. You know, they used to put him on wax and they’d do the ring or they’d see the signet ring.

0:24:13 – (Steve Gray): Oh, so they, they would now treat the son like they would treat the father. Even though the son has mistreated the father, he’s come to his senses. And his father then anoints him with the same anointing, the same power, able to do business. Every. Everything is restored. And that is what I say is going to happen to you. If you could come to your senses. Those listening today, if you can come to your senses.

0:24:40 – (Steve Gray): And at first it’s hard because you’ve lost your senses. And it’s hard. You don’t have passion, you don’t have a desire. Well, I don’t feel like going to church. I don’t feel like praying. I don’t feel like reading the Bible. I don’t feel like talking to God and being spirit. Okay, that’s all right. Just do it anyway. Start heading that direction and God will do the rest. Head that direction and God will do the rest.

0:25:06 – (Steve Gray): And that’s the first part of the parable of the first son. And we need to learn it. Like I said, this is not about. Okay, I guess I could say if one person gets saved preaching it wrong, okay, but we need to get it right. This is for the people who are sitting in church or who stopped sitting in church, who have just lost that relationship. They just squandered what they knew and what they could have in God. And now they need to come to their senses. That’s part one of this wonderful parable of the lost son who was found. But he was found because he decided to be found, right?

0:25:44 – (Kathy Gray): Yes.

0:25:45 – (Steve Gray): The father didn’t go hunt him down, but in the parable of the sheep, he does. In the parable of the coin, you just keep digging around the house till you find it. So all of them apply to different kinds of people. See, some people, there’s outing, they go find the sheep. Others the coin is in the house and suddenly you get found and God comes through. The others, you’re squandered. And you’ve been sitting at home watching TV on a Sunday morning instead of getting up and going to church and serving the Lord and doing some good stuff. So that’s the part one. Next week we’ll get part two of it. We’ll maybe recap a little bit.

0:26:19 – (Steve Gray): And part two is the actual what Jesus is going to say is happening at the moment that he’s talking. That is not happening at the moment that he’s talking. Right. Because the Son didn’t show up while Jesus is telling the parable and here he is. Right. But second part is happening while he is speaking. And that’s why we have to do it. Tell your friends. Subscribe and tell them about this podcast and follow us and catch us every week so you can be a part of this. And you notice today you think you know the story of the parable of the lost son and the prodigal son. But how many things did you learn today that you said, oh, I never heard that before. Oh, I didn’t know that. And it just makes it come alive. And it made it come alive in your life today.

0:27:01 – (Steve Gray): So go to stevegrayministries.com, and you can see right there that we’ve got my books, Mighty Like Gideon and If You Only Knew, and other things that’ll help you on your journey as we ignite you again. Right? So get some more faith, because more faith is going to produce what, Kathy? More life. And then this is a perfect parable about that. Till next time. Bye. Bye.