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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

Timothy Keller
Son, Giving, Needs

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

Timothy Keller
Father, Son, Judging
Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

Timothy Keller
Jesus, Father, Son
Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

Timothy Keller
Father, Mean, Son
"The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith".

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