ON MISSION Part 2: The Selfish Brother

God doesn’t see you as broken. He sees you as loved.

Luke 15:1
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.

Mark 2:17
…Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Luke 15:2
But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them

2 Ways to get lost:
1. You can get lost running from God (younger son)
2. You can get equally lost at home with God (older son)

OBS: Older Brother Syndrome

Luke 15:25-32
“Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. ‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’ “The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’ “My son,” the father said, “you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.” 

Signs you may have OBS:
We loose our heart for people who are far from God.

Narcissism

God didn’t design the church to be about us.

Church Narcissists:
People who demand that the Church be about them.

Hebrews 5:12
In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!

Luke 15:28
“The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him..

Signs you may have OBS:
You get angered when life doesn’t go your way.

We must follow Jesus more for what He has given us than for what He will do for us.

Luke 15:29
But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:30
But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

“A clear conscience is a clear sign of bad memory.”
~Mark Twain

“Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
~C.S. Lewis

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