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InVerse 3rd Quarter 2024: Stories that Transform

Sikhu Daco

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Joe Reeves

01 Rooted in Faith

02 Lost but Found

03 Discovering the Treasure

04 Caught in the Crossfire

05 Persistent in Prayer

06 Loving our Neighbor

07 The Wedding Garment

08 Bearing Fruit

09 Giving to God

10 Called to Serve

11 Living for Eternity

12 Filled with the Spirit

13 Building on the Rock

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

My name is Justin Kim and host of the show and so happy to be in the studio with Joe and Israel and lovely Siku.

The men are also lovely but that's not politically correct to say and we wanna say that we're welcome to see you guys here whether by podcast or video on social media or through the old medium of satellite network TV.

We are studying the stories of Jesus and we in previous seasons We've looked at last day events and hard theology and the Old Testament and some of these overarching, just heavy, heavy topics.

And we studied last week that is a temptation to think that these are just light stories.

There's these heavy truths in the stories of Jesus as well.

So whether you're familiar with Jesus or not, we're gonna study 1 very famous and well known, but still having truth for us, stories of Jesus.

Those are all dashes in there to modify the Jesus story.

We're going to be studying today, but as we always do, we're not just going to read for reading sake.

We're going to be studying and asking the Holy Spirit to guide us.

We want to encourage you guys to pray with us.

And today, you know, I'll pray, because I really don't pray on the show, and I'll be good, so let's pray together.

Gracious Father, we thank you very much for this medium.

Father, we ask for a special blessing that you smile on each of those who are listening and watching and partaking in our conversation.

Father, we are not here just to wax eloquent or wax even ineloquent.

May this not just be an intellectual exercise or a superficial exercise, But we ask for your Holy Spirit to help us understand Luke 15 on the state of lostness and what your Son intended when he spoke these truths originally we pray in Jesus name.

Amen Joe if you can start from reading Luke chapter 15.

If you guys out there have your Bibles, open it with us.

You can open up your Bible app on your phone.

And you can also, if you don't know what I'm talking about, go to hopetv.org slash inverse, and you can watch last week's episode where we actually talk about the importance of parables.

And you can also go to inversebible.org slash, slash, what do we do, inverse?

Bible.org Oh, inversebible.org, and you can actually look at the Bible study guidance study along with us.

We are in the section called Stories That Transform, right?

We're gonna read, let's see, where should we start, Joe?

Luke chapter 15, let's start from verse 11 and let's just go until we feel like ending.

All right, this is the parable of the lost son.

Luke 15, verse 11 says, then he said, a certain man had 2 sons and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, journeying to a far country and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.

Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no 1 gave him anything.

But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger?

I will arise, go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son.

Make me like 1 of your hired servants.' And he arose and came to his father, but when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.

Okay, let's pick up verse 22 with Israel.

But the father said to his servants, bring out the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet and bring the fatted calf here and kill it and let us eat and be merry.

For this my son was dead and is alive again.

Now his older son was in a field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

So he called 1 of the servants and asked what these things meant.

And he said to him, your brother has come and because he has received him safe and sound your father has killed the fatted calf.

Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him.

So he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years I have been serving you, I never transgressed your commandment at any time, and yet you never gave me a young goat that I might make merry with my friends.

But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.

And he said to him, son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.

It is right that we should make merry, and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive and was lost and is found.

Right, this is a classic proverb, more and more, not, we just came back from a young adult retreat, And you would assume that this parable was familiar with everyone and this person that I sat with, hey, this is the first time I ever read this.

And I explained to them, I was like, man, that's a powerful story.

So just even my synopsis of it was like, man, is that in the Bible?

And there may be some of you, this is your first time.

So whether it's your first time or this is your scholar, let's get into this.

Siku, what are some things that pop out immediately in reading of this parable?

Before we actually get into it, maybe can you give us a little bit of intro?

Chapter 15 has 2 other parables before it, and these 3 are kind of considered a trio.

Okay, So the 2 parables that precede this 1 are also talking about something that's lost.

In the first 1, it's a sheep that is lost, and in the second 1, it is a coin that is lost.

The audience that Jesus is speaking to, he's speaking to Pharisees and scribes.

These are religious individuals, and he is in the company of irreligious people.

He's got the tax collectors gathering around him, and then he speaks these parables in that context.

And the first 1, the shepherd has 100 sheep.

1 gets lost, and he leaves the 99 to go and find that 1.

And at the end of it, there's rejoicing, you know, over that 1 sheep that was found.

And you have a similar situation in the second parable that he tells where there's a coin, there are 10 coins, and this woman loses 1 coin.

And she turns over her house searching for this 1 coin, and when she finds it, she calls everybody together and there's great rejoicing.

And so those are the 2 that precede this 1.

So there's the train of thought that flows with all of them is that something is lost and then is found.

And then there are differences between what is lost and the awareness of what is lost.

Awareness that what is lost has of its being lost.

Okay you can editorialize your own comment there.

So that the sheep may know that it's lost because you know, it's all by itself But the coin does not know that it's lost and then the Sun doesn't feel lost in the beginning But then realizes that he's not where he should be.

Yeah, it's a profound point There are like 3 states of lostness.

1 doesn't know, doesn't want to get back.

1 doesn't know in the beginning, but later finds out and wants to get back.

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