1. “Something New” Luke 15

2. I. Two approaches to life

3. A. Moral conformity

4. Moral Conformity Compliance Emphasize standard (God’s or the community’s) over personal desires “I am not going to do what I feel like doing, but what tradition wants me to do”

5. B. Self discovery

6. Self-Discovery Freedom from convention Personal autonomy “I am the only one who can decide what is right and wrong for me. I will find happiness when I find my true self and live that way”

7. C. The clash

8. Moral Conformity vs. Self-Discovery “The immoral people (the people who do their own thing) are the problem with the world. Moral people are the solution.” “The bigoted people (the people who say we have the truth) are the problem with the world. Progressive people are the solution.”

9. Moral Correctness vs. Self-Discovery “The good people (like us) are in and the bad people who are the real problem in the world are out” “The open minded and tolerant people are in and the bigoted, narrow minded people, who are the real problem in the world, are out”

10. Moral Sin

11. Open Minded Intolerant

12. OpenMinded Morally Correct

13. OpenMinded

14. II. A new approach

15. A. Two sons

16. OlderSonYoungerSon

17. PhariseesSinners

18. Moral Correctness Self-Discovery

19. YoungerSonOlderSon “I am not worthy” “I don’t deserve” “I am worthy” “I deserve” Repents Resents

20. Acts 15:5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed

21. Acts 6:7 Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.

22. B. New life

23. 1 Peter 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever

24. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

25. Ephesians 4:22-24 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

26. The Flesh Moral Conformity Self Discovery

27. The Flesh LawLicense

28. OlderBrotherYoungerBrother

29. Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

30. The Flesh MoralSelf The Spirit

31. III. The seeker

32. A. God initiates

33. Luke 19:10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost

34. 1 John 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us.

35. John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day

36. Philippians 1:6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ

37. Philippians 2:13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

38. B. A true older brother

39. C. Coming home

40. John 14:1-3 Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.