Luke 15:28 But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, 29 but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’ 31 And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”
The above is the conclusion to the three parables of the "lost": the lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost son. In each of them, when someone found what they had lost, they rejoiced and asked people to rejoice with them. But Jesus extended the last parable becauase now He was talking about people with an eternal soul. The father rejoiced, but his other son did not. He had been out working hard and came home to everybody eating. Of course, in context, Jesus was picturing the response of the religious leaders to Jesus; rather than rejoice over the salvation He had brought to the world, they were angry because they did not control the situation; they did not get to determine who was worthy to receive it. That would take humility. Do we, deep down, want to see people pay for their sins(especially against us) or receive God's grace in Christ?
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