A good friend of mine asked me to post a written transcript of my teaching about the elder brother today. Here it is. Follow the jump if you want the whole thing.
Good morning everyone. For the last few months, we have been taking a close look at the story
of Jesus through the eyes of Luke. As you have heard us say repeatedly, Luke
was a smart guy who set out to write a careful account of Jesus’ life, death,
and resurrection and we have looked at a lot of what he had to say. Today is
our last day in this series on Luke and we are going to talk about one of his
best known stories—the parable of the prodigal son. This is one of the passages
that is really fun to teach about. Typically, when we hear this story, we hear
about the returning lost son or the lavish love of God, but today our focus is
going to be more on the older brother, who is probably the one who we don’t
think about as much. Actually, today we will talk about more than just the
elder brother, but we will reintroduce these others as well as we take somewhat
of a broader view.
If you have your Bibles, you may want to grab them and turn
with me to Luke 15. Over the course of the morning, we will be covering the
whole chapter.
