House Party 4 of 4
Be Cool
Luke 15:25-32 New Living Translation… “Meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house, 26 and he asked one of the servants what was going on. 27 ‘Your brother is back,’ he was told, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf. We are celebrating because of his safe return.’
28 “The older brother was angry and wouldn’t go in. His father came out and begged him, 29 but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends. 30 Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!’
31 “His father said to him, ‘Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours. 32 We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”
Introduction: We forget that God’s love is not a gate that detains us, but God’s love are guardrails that defend us from ourselves! Reference Romans 8:38
Transition: Jesus told more than thirty parables in three categories: the kingdom, judgment, and God’s grace.
The elder brother is angry, and having feelings of anger was well within his right. Reference Ephesians 4:26
Hot hostility is when you have resistance in thought or principle to what you witness being practiced.
Exposition: The elder brother was boiling hot with self-righteous indignation, but what he really needed to do, was to be cool.
Be cool! Why?…
This party is your party
This party could’ve been thrown at anytime
This party ought to change your grumble to glee
Conclusion: Our God through Jesus Christ, has all power, to cool us down when we’re too hot with anger!
Antonie E. Walker Ministries 