Remember where we left off yesterday? Luke 15 gave use two parables that show how God takes the initiative to bring back the lost. Today we have the story of the lost Son, and in this case the father doesn’t go out to get the boy. The boy starts out where he needs to be, but leaves. Remember who he’s talking to, though: the Pharisees and religious leaders who said Jesus was diminishing himself by being near the riffraff he spent time with. This is is last lesson to that group, he’s going to speak to someone else next. So what does he need to tell them? That they are the son who never left. They stayed at home, serving as they should, but they lost the love they should have had for others.