We all want to know and try to guess what the future holds for us.  We make our plans, we map out our way, but it always ends up different than expected.   We have little control over the future, and this leads to worry and sometimes no small amount of sorrow.  But there is one who does know the future and he has made himself accessible to you.  

Scriptural base  Isaiah 65:17-25  
“For behold, I create new heavens   and a new earth,   and the former things shall not be remembered   or come into mind.But be glad and rejoice forever   in that which I create;   for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,   and her people to be a gladness.I will rejoice in Jerusalem   and be glad in my people;   no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping   and the cry of distress.  No more shall there be in it   an infant who lives but a few days,   or an old man who does not fill out his days,   for the young man shall die a hundred years old,   and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.  They shall build houses and inhabit them;   they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.  They shall not build and another inhabit;   they shall not plant and another eat;   for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,   and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.  They shall not labor in vain   or bear children for calamity,   for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD,   and their descendants with them.Before they call I will answer;   while they are yet speaking I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;   the lion shall eat straw like the ox,   and dust shall be the serpent’s food.   They shall not hurt or destroy   in all my holy mountain,”   says the LORD.

Here's the Scripture text one which the sermon is based:  

The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Zion;   behold, your king is coming,   sitting on a donkey’s colt!”

 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”   (John 12:12-19)

When we hear the parable of the Prodigal Son,  we get so wound up in his gripping story, that we forget to ask,  "What is Jesus teaching us here?"    When we consider who the parable was originally aimed at:  a bunch of grousing pharisees, who ridicule Jesus for welcoming sinners,   we begin to realize that the meaning of the parable, for most us, is much more than  simply enjoying the harrowing tale of the prodigal. 

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