Peter Roselle: Let Holy Spirit Synchronize Your Heart with God (Luke 15:32)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 01/06/2021

Peter Roselle: Let Holy Spirit Synchronize Your Heart with God (Luke 15:32)
This message was shared at King of Kings on Pentecost Sunday, 5/23/2021. Quotes: “Jesus is telling stories within a bigger story. The prodigal son is only part of it. He loves these sinners, but He also knows if He can get these Pharisees straightened out, that they would have a head start, a power package that will operate for the Kingdom. Many of the Pharisees got saved, including the Apostle Paul. Jesus is thinking, "I want to reach to both sides... Pharisees and sinners... Democrats and Republicans. Whichever side we're on He loves us all.”

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John 16:7
It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you;  but if I depart, I will send Him to you.

Philippians 2
5-6 This is how you should think among yourselves with the mind that you have  because you belong to the Messiah, Jesus:  Who, though in God's form, did not regard His equality with God as something He ought to exploit.

What would we call that? Pulling rank... If anybody ever could have pulled rank, boy, I'll tell you what! Jesus had the goods! And He didn't pull rank. He loved people. My reason for telling you this is that it relates to the Prodigal Son. I'm guessing we've all heard about him if you've been saved any length of time, especially as it relates to salvation. The son in the pig sty is like a person who's caught up in sin, but they "come to their senses" and come back to the Father.

What a beautiful symbol of the orphan returning home. But maybe there's a little more to this than just that; it a truth that is contained inside a bigger package. Part of the clue is right here at the beginning of Luke chapter 15: "All the tax collectors and sinners..." say it with me... "drew near to Him." "Drew near to Him." How many people are drawing near to you? What was it about Jesus that caused sinners to draw near to Him but not draw near to the Pharisees? What was it? The presence of the Holy Spirit. He carried it with Him. Remember when He came up when He got baptized... like a dove... we will look into that one sometime... it was another one of those violent "rendering of the heavens" like it says in Isaiah 64:1 "Rend the heavens and come down." 

So, this picture is a bit of a conflict of two camps. "The Pharisees and scribes complained saying, 'This man receives sinners and eats with them." So maybe this is where the Pharisees were looking and the tax collectors and sinners were over here, thinking, "Oh, we thought Jesus had potential but He is hanging out with the right people."

Don't say that... I was one of those "not right people." Somebody loved me in! "This man receives sinners and eats with them..." that challenges their rank, and their hierarchy, but [winning the lost] is exactly what they should have been doing.

We know He loves these tax collectors and sinners, but does He also love the Pharisees? Yes... You're all pretty quick to say that... that's great. And then it says, "He spoke this parable to them." And it just says "this parable," but it's not just the parable of the prodigal son... there is more to it. I'll just take a couple of minutes here to think this through because it applies to our daily living. 

First of all, I don't think He knew in the morning when He was having breakfast that this was going to happen that day. I think He lived His life in coordination with heaven and listening to the Father at all times. I don't want you to think He had some special advantage that we don't have. What He did was listen to His father all day long. He only did what He heard the father do... and saw the father do... Sorry, heard the father say and saw the father do. Why can't we do that? Well, you might say, "Because I am not hearing God, so what do I do?" Wait until you do hear Him. It's much better to wait to hear what God says than to do the wrong thing. Anybody else know about that one? I have made lots of tuition payments on that one. 

Jesus is telling stories within a bigger story. The prodigal son is only part of it. He loves these sinners, but He also knows if He can get these Pharisees straightened out, that they would have a head start, a power package that will operate for the Kingdom. Many of the Pharisees got saved, including the Apostle Paul. Jesus is thinking, "I want to reach to both sides... Pharisees and sinners... Democrats and Republicans. Whichever side you're on. He loves us all.