Muni g on Aug. 16, Average prices obtaining ment version of the parable of the prodigal Son and his reception in the Father's home. Nineveh that great and sinful city at enmity with God hears God's call to repentance and comes to itself and like the prodigal seems to say... "I will arise and go to my Father and will say unto Him, Father I have sinned,. and as in our Lord's story so in this story of the Old Testament the Father's love flows over to His penitent people and even for Nineveh despite all her sins and wickedness there is forgiveness as she repents and comes to God, That is the lesson of the story and greater there is none, and this is the theme of the whole revelation of God in Old Testament and New... "God 50 loved the world... Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He is the propitiation for our sins" Those comfortable words!
Contrast Chapter 4. But in the Old Testament story as in the New there is a further 30 message, we read "it displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was very angry" and he says "Take I beseech Thee my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live" This chapter wishes to press home the meaning of the story by contrasting the normal Lark attitude of the Jew to outsiders with the age-long love of God.
Cutlet Shoulder The Jew fenced himself about with the law, he forgot his own sin a: God's continual forbearance and tor-giveness, he forgot God's promise to Abraham that in him should all the families of the earth be blessed, he came to see himself the chosen of God and all the rest which knew not the law to be accursed, so in our Lord's time it is not only the Gentiles who ire condemned but when our Lord speaks to the uninstructed Jews, the publicans and sinners, the Pharisees ard scribes murmured against His saying "This man receive th sinners and eateth with them." Here Jonah is equated with scribes and Pharisees, the Jew is shown as the older brother in the parable who was angry and would not go in, the' his father came out and intreated Him. "No no," he says, "you can have your son who has devoured your living with harlots but TT! have nothing to do with him"—and the' the Father says "It is meet that we make merry and be glad" and the' our Lord says "there is joy it the presence of the angels of God"—Jonah, scribes znd Pharisees, the elder brother and all hard heerted unforgiving people are excluded from the circle warmed by the love of God which can only embrace those who by their forgiveness of others show a willingness to be included within that circle.
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