Sermon Audio: The Older Brother
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 15:25-32
Duration: 30:31
Size: 13.9 MB
Luke-The Investigative Gospel
The Older Brother
Luke 15:25-32
But the most important part of the parable is really how the story ends: with the self-righteous older son refusing to share in his father’s welcome.
We will do almost anything, suffer almost any hardship, travel almost any distance, to get where we all eventually want to be: home.
I. The Older Son’s Absence
He was oblivious to what had just transpired at home between his father and his younger brother.
II. The Older Son’s Anger
The older son was angry because the younger son had been accepted into a relationship with the father.
III. The Father’s Appeal
Like he did with the younger son, he publicly humbled himself to go to his older son and find yet another lost son.
IV. The Older Son’s Answer
The older son had served his father many years and never disobeyed his command. But, he did not do so because he loved his father.
All these years the older son had been serving his father for what he could get from him.
V. The Father’s Assertion
Jesus did not end the parable. Jesus wanted them – and all of us too – to consider how to respond to the invitation to join the banquet.