577th Post Jesus Said Concerning Parables Con't. - Parables on Forgiveness Con't. - Parable of the Prodigal Son Con't. - 4th Post Luke 15: 11 - 32 Con't.

Luke 15: 11 - 32 Parable of the Prodigal Son Con't.  4th Post.
Last post we were talking about the younger son living in a strange land.  This son spent all of his inheritance just before the famine came in the land.  When the young son had money, he did not worry about anything.  Then when the famine came and what he thought were friends deserted him, when they found out he was broke.  It is when you are down that you will find out who are your true friends.  After looking for work, the young man takes a job from the compassion of a friend who was a citizen of this country.  The only job he could get was feeding the pigs.  To a Jew, pigs are considered unclean.  He not only had to feed them, no one would feed him; so as his hunger increased, the food he was feeding the pigs started to look good to him.  This young man had sunk pretty low since his arrival.  The young man had an inheritance, he lost it.  It is when he was feeding the pigs, that he realized that when he was living at home his father treated his servants, better than he was being treated here.  The son knew that when he asked for his inheritance early, he could never go back as being his father's son.  That is why he will ask that his father take him back as a servant in his house.  It is interesting that Jesus used this example of inheritance.  When you decide to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, your inheritance starts in His Heavenly Kingdom.