Showing posts with label Luke 15v11-32. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luke 15v11-32. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 March 2025

Lent 4 2025, Luke 15v11-32, Quaresma 4 2025, Lucas 15v11-32, روزه 4 2025، لوقا 15 v11-32


 


 
Loving God help us to follow you
On the road before us
To be your people in a world in crisis
And to stand with the vulnerable and the fearful.
 
Song “I’m leaning on you” https://youtu.be/ZokSGsGDum4?feature=shared
 
God of life we give thanks
For your wonderful world
For whales and worms
For falcons and finches
For snakes and snails
For bees and beetles
For tadpoles and toads
For your lasting love. 
 
We are sorry that we have broken the gift of your beautiful world and almost destroyed it, through being greedy and by just thinking of ourselves. We are sorry.  
 
Silence. 
 
Help us to love one another and look after your world. Amen
 
We say the Lords Prayer in our own language.
 
Reflection on Luke 15v11-32
 
Religious outcasts have gathered to hear Jesus, but the more religious members of the community grumble. This man welcomes people with whom no respectable Jew would have anything to do, and actually breaks bread with them. 
 
We are introduced to a farming family, a father and his two sons. The root meaning of the word property is life, but here the word is being used in the sense of means of family income, that which gives life to the family.
 
The younger son decides to take his share of the property (about one third) and make his own way in the world! He squanders it all and is left starving, and takes a job as a pig handler very offensive to Jews who dont eat pork. He eats the pig slops to survive. To fill his stomach pods possibly St. John's Bread, a sweet meal, but with little nourishment, even the wild carob, bitter with even less nourishment. These were used for famine food. Yet, it is more likely that the pods, possibly corn cobs, were edible. No one gave him anything. He had no have food to spare and was starving to death. 
 
The son returns to the family very broken very repentant and his father is overcome with joy and welcomes him.  Like the father when we turn round and recognizing our own mess and mistakes God welcomes us like the father. The father is overwhelmed because the "dead" son is "alive". The Jews called the ungodly "dead", but in the New Testament it applies to those who have not responded to the the gospel. He said to him the best robe possibly the son's former robe or one of the father's robes, or a robe kept for an honored guest, a ring, possibly the father's signet ring, but at least a ring whereby the father bestows authority on his wayward son. Sandals, the mention of sandals is somewhat strange, but, given that servants tend not to wear anything on their feet, the parable is probably making the point that the father is not treating his son as a servant. The fattened calf, meat was only prepared for extremely important (usually religious) occasions. This is about preparing a banquet in celebration for the lost son's return to the family.
 
The elder brother's reaction is bitter. He claims his father hasn't even given him a young goat, a worthless animal. Like the wayward son, the stay-at-home son is also lost, lost in himself.
 
In describing his wayward brother, the elder son calls him this son of yours. His father describes him as this brother of yours an interesting twist.
Irrespective of the elder brother's tantrum, the father does not withdraw his love from either son. Turning our lives around/repentance and forgiveness bring healing and joy, but only to one son.
 
In the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin, Jesus makes the point that God accepts those who come to him in repentance. In fact, he searches for them and rejoices over one sinner who repents. The self righteous son stays aloof and fails to experience his father's love. One son was lost to his father in body, the other was lost to his father in mind. Both had free access to the father's unlimited bounty, both needed to rely wholly on his kindness, but only one chose to do so, and this the worthless son. 
  
Jesus is expanding in Luke 15 the theme of lostness with Luke’s help.  Jesus has been addressing the Pharisees and the scribes, the religious authorities, those who have, for all these years been working like a slave for you, and never disobeyed your commands but have a bad heart attitude. The older son was incapable of entering sympathetically into his father's joys and sorrows just as the self righteous rich cannot identify with the poor, the refugee, the homeless. 
  
Our faith is an inheritance and we can squander it. Our society has been given an inheritance and we can end up selling off the silver. Our world has been given an inheritance and we are destroying it. Will we return to God? Will we recognise our bankruptcy? 
 
Song “We labour unto glory” https://youtu.be/cRuPZCXShg4?feature=shared
 
We walk alongside our sisters and brothers
Whoever they are, 
And just as we are
Solidarity in dark times, 
Give us your strength, wisdom
And compassion. Amen
 
با محبت خدا به ما کمک کن تا از تو پیروی کنیم
در جاده ای که پیش روی ماست
برای اینکه مردم شما در دنیای بحرانی باشید
و در کنار آسیب پذیران و هراسان بایستیم.
 
آهنگ "من به تو تکیه می کنم" https://youtu.be/ZokSGsGDum4?feature=shared
 
خدای زندگی را شکر می کنیم
برای دنیای شگفت انگیز شما
برای نهنگ ها و کرم ها
برای شاهین ها و فنچ ها
برای مارها و حلزون ها
برای زنبورها و سوسک ها
برای قورباغه و وزغ
برای عشق همیشگی شما
 
متاسفیم که با حرص و طمع و فقط به فکر خودمون هدیه دنیای زیبای تو رو شکستیم و تقریبا نابودش کردیم. ما متاسفیم.
 
سکوت
 
به ما کمک کنید تا یکدیگر را دوست داشته باشیم و مراقب دنیای شما باشیم. آمین
 
ما دعای لرد را به زبان خودمان می خوانیم.
 
تأمل در لوقا 15 v11-32
 
طردشدگان مذهبی برای شنیدن عیسی جمع شده اند، اما اعضای مذهبی تر جامعه ناله می کنند. این مرد از افرادی استقبال می کند که هیچ یهودی محترمی با آنها کاری ندارد و در واقع با آنها نان می شکند.
 
ما با یک خانواده کشاورز، پدر و دو پسرش آشنا می شویم. معنای ریشه ای کلمه مال زندگی است، اما در اینجا این کلمه به معنای درآمد خانواده است که به خانواده حیات می بخشد.
 
پسر کوچکتر تصمیم می گیرد که سهم خود را از دارایی (حدود یک سوم) بگیرد و راه خود را در دنیا باز کند! او همه چیز را هدر می دهد و گرسنه می ماند و به عنوان یک خوک نگهدار کار می کند که برای یهودیانی که گوشت خوک نمی خورند بسیار توهین آمیز است. او برای زنده ماندن خوک ها را می خورد. برای پر کردن غلاف معده‌اش احتمالاً نان سنت جان، یک غذای شیرین، اما با غذای کم، حتی خرنوب وحشی، تلخ با غذای کمتر. از اینها برای غذای قحطی استفاده می شد. با این حال، احتمال بیشتری وجود دارد که غلاف ها، احتمالاً بلال ذرت، خوراکی بوده باشند. هیچ کس چیزی به او نداد. او غذایی برای ذخیره نداشت و از گرسنگی می مرد.
 
پسر بسیار شکسته و بسیار پشیمان به خانواده باز می گردد و پدرش غرق در شادی می شود و از او استقبال می کند. مثل پدر وقتی دور می‌گردیم و به اشتباهات و کثیفی‌های خودمان پی می‌بریم، خدا مثل پدر از ما استقبال می‌کند. پدر غرق است زیرا پسر "مرده" "زنده" است. یهودیان غیر خدایان را "مرده" می نامیدند، اما در عهد جدید این امر برای کسانی که به انجیل پاسخ نداده اند اعمال می شود. او به او گفت بهترین ردای احتمالاً ردای سابق پسر یا یکی از ردای پدر، یا ردایی که برای مهمان محترم نگهداری می شود، یک انگشتر، احتمالاً انگشتر امضای پدر، اما حداقل انگشتری که پدر به وسیله آن به پسر سرکش خود اقتدار می دهد. صندل، ذکر صندل تا حدودی عجیب است، اما، با توجه به اینکه خدمتکاران تمایل دارند چیزی روی پاهای خود نپوشند، این مثل احتمالاً به این نکته اشاره می کند که پدر با پسر خود به عنوان یک خدمتکار رفتار نمی کند. گوشت گوساله پروار شده فقط برای مناسبت های بسیار مهم (معمولاً مذهبی) تهیه می شد. این در مورد تدارک یک ضیافت برای جشن بازگشت پسر از دست رفته به خانواده است.
 
واکنش برادر بزرگتر تلخ است. او ادعا می کند که پدرش حتی یک بز جوان، یک حیوان بی ارزش، به او نداده است. مانند پسر سرگردان، پسر خانه نشین نیز در خود گم شده است.
 
پسر بزرگتر در وصف برادر سرکش خود او را این پسر تو خطاب می کند. پدرش او را به عنوان این برادر شما توصیف می کند که یک پیچ جالب است.
صرف نظر از عصبانیت برادر بزرگتر، پدر عشق خود را از هیچ یک از پسران پس نمی گیرد. چرخاندن زندگی ما به اطراف / توبه و بخشش شفا و شادی می آورد، اما فقط برای یک پسر.
 
در مثلهای گوسفند گمشده و سکه گمشده، عیسی به این نکته اشاره می کند که خداوند کسانی را که با توبه نزد او می آیند، می پذیرد. در واقع، او آنها را جستجو می کند و از یک گناهکار که توبه می کند خوشحال می شود. پسر خود صالح، گوشه گیر می ماند و عشق پدرش را تجربه نمی کند. یک پسر در بدن پدرش گم شده بود، دیگری در ذهن پدرش گم شد. هر دو به هدایای نامحدود پدر دسترسی آزاد داشتند، هر دو باید کاملاً بر مهربانی او تکیه کنند، اما تنها یکی این کار را انتخاب کرد و این پسر بی ارزش بود.
 
عیسی در لوقا 15 موضوع گمشدگی را با کمک لوقا گسترش می دهد. عیسی فریسیان و کاتبان، مقامات دینی، کسانی را که در تمام این سال‌ها مانند یک برده برای شما کار می‌کردند و هرگز از دستورات شما سرپیچی نمی‌کردند، خطاب می‌کرد، اما روحیه قلبی بدی داشتند. پسر بزرگتر قادر به ورود دلسوزانه به شادی ها و غم های پدرش نبود، همانطور که ثروتمندان خود صالح نمی توانند با فقیر، پناهنده، بی خانمان همذات پنداری کنند.
 
ایمان ما یک میراث است و می توانیم آن را هدر دهیم. جامعه ما به ارث رسیده است و ما می توانیم نقره را بفروشیم. دنیای ما به ما ارث داده شده و ما آن را نابود می کنیم. آیا به سوی خدا برمی گردیم؟ آیا ما ورشکستگی خود را تشخیص خواهیم داد؟
 
آهنگ "ما کار می کنیم تا جلال" https://youtu.be/cRuPZCXShg4?feature=shared
 
ما در کنار خواهران و برادرانمان قدم می زنیم
هر که هستند،
و همینطور که هستیم
همبستگی در دوران تاریک،
به ما قدرت، عقلت بده
و شفقت. آمین
 
Deus amoroso, ajude-nos a segui-lo
Na estrada diante de nós
Para ser seu povo em um mundo em crise
E ficar com os vulneráveis ​​e os medrosos.
 
Música "Estou me inclinando em você" https://youtu.be/ZokSGsGDum4?feature=shared
 
Deus da vida, agradecemos
Por seu mundo maravilhoso
Por baleias e vermes
Por falcões e tentilhões
Por cobras e caracóis
Por abelhas e besouros
Por girinos e sapos
Por seu amor duradouro.
 
Lamentamos ter quebrado o presente do seu lindo mundo e quase o destruído, por sermos gananciosos e apenas por pensar em nós mesmos. Lamentamos.
 
Silêncio.
 
Ajude-nos a amar uns aos outros e cuidar do seu mundo. Amém
 
Rezamos a Oração do Senhor em nossa própria língua.
 
Reflexão sobre Lucas 15v11-32
 
Párias religiosos se reuniram para ouvir Jesus, mas os membros mais religiosos da comunidade resmungam. Este homem acolhe pessoas com quem nenhum judeu respeitável teria algo a ver, e na verdade parte o pão com elas.
 
Somos apresentados a uma família de fazendeiros, um pai e seus dois filhos. O significado raiz da palavra propriedade é vida, mas aqui a palavra está sendo usada no sentido de meio de renda familiar, aquilo que dá vida à família.
 
O filho mais novo decide pegar sua parte da propriedade (cerca de um terço) e fazer seu próprio caminho no mundo! Ele esbanja tudo e fica morrendo de fome, e aceita um emprego como tratador de porcos, muito ofensivo para os judeus que não comem carne de porco. Ele come as fezes dos porcos para sobreviver. Para encher seu estômago, possivelmente o Pão de São João, uma refeição doce, mas com pouco alimento, até mesmo a alfarroba selvagem, amarga com ainda menos alimento. Estes eram usados ​​como alimento para a fome. No entanto, é mais provável que as vagens, possivelmente espigas de milho, fossem comestíveis. Ninguém lhe deu nada. Ele não tinha comida de sobra e estava morrendo de fome.
 
O filho retorna à família muito quebrado, muito arrependido, e seu pai é tomado de alegria e o recebe. Como o pai, quando nos viramos e reconhecemos nossa própria bagunça e erros, Deus nos recebe como o pai. O pai fica sobrecarregado porque o filho "morto" está "vivo". Os judeus chamavam os ímpios de "mortos", mas no Novo Testamento isso se aplica àqueles que não responderam ao evangelho. Ele disse a ele a melhor túnica, possivelmente a túnica anterior do filho ou uma das túnicas do pai, ou uma túnica guardada para um convidado de honra, um anel, possivelmente o anel de sinete do pai, mas pelo menos um anel pelo qual o pai concede autoridade ao seu filho rebelde. Sandálias, a menção de sandálias é um tanto estranha, mas, dado que os servos tendem a não usar nada nos pés, a parábola provavelmente está enfatizando que o pai não está tratando seu filho como um servo. O bezerro gordo, a carne era preparada apenas para ocasiões extremamente importantes (geralmente religiosas). Trata-se de preparar um banquete em comemoração ao retorno do filho perdido à família.
 
A reação do irmão mais velho é amarga. Ele alega que seu pai nem mesmo lhe deu um cabrito, um animal sem valor. Assim como o filho rebelde, o filho que fica em casa também está perdido, perdido em si mesmo.
 
Ao descrever seu irmão rebelde, o filho mais velho o chama de "este seu filho". Seu pai o descreve como "este seu irmão", uma reviravolta interessante.
Independentemente da birra do irmão mais velho, o pai não retira seu amor de nenhum dos filhos. Mudar nossas vidas/arrependimento e perdão trazem cura e alegria, mas apenas para um filho.
 
Nas parábolas da Ovelha Perdida e da Moeda Perdida, Jesus ressalta que Deus aceita aqueles que vêm a ele em arrependimento. Na verdade, ele os procura e se alegra por um pecador que se arrepende. O filho hipócrita permanece distante e não consegue experimentar o amor de seu pai. Um filho estava perdido para seu pai em corpo, o outro estava perdido para seu pai em mente. Ambos tinham livre acesso à generosidade ilimitada do pai, ambos precisavam confiar totalmente em sua bondade, mas apenas um escolheu fazê-lo, e este é o filho inútil.
 
Jesus está expandindo em Lucas 15 o tema da perdição com a ajuda de Lucas. Jesus tem se dirigido aos fariseus e aos escribas, às autoridades religiosas, aqueles que, por todos esses anos, têm trabalhado como escravos para vocês, e nunca desobedeceram seus comandos, mas têm uma atitude de coração ruim. O filho mais velho era incapaz de entrar em simpatia nas alegrias e tristezas do pai, assim como o rico hipócrita não consegue se identificar com os pobres, os refugiados, os sem-teto.
 
Nossa fé é uma herança e podemos desperdiçá-la. Nossa sociedade recebeu uma herança e podemos acabar vendendo a prata. Nosso mundo recebeu uma herança e estamos destruindo-a. Voltaremos para Deus? Reconheceremos nossa falência?
 
Canção “Trabalhamos para a glória” https://youtu.be/cRuPZCXShg4?feature=shared
 
Caminhamos ao lado de nossas irmãs e irmãos
Quem quer que sejam,
E assim como somos
Solidariedade em tempos sombrios,
Dê-nos sua força, sabedoria
E compaixão. Amém
 

Monday, 19 June 2017

Luke 15v11-32, The Prodigal Son


In the parable of the Prodigal Son we are introduced to a farming family, a father and his two sons. The younger son decides to take his share of the property (about one third) and make his own way in the wide world of sex, drugs, rock-n-roll! The wayward son, now starving, has to undertake a job as a pig handler. He is so down on his luck he is willing to eat the pig slops to survive. He soon recognizes his sin, both against heaven/God and against his father.

The father welcomes his wayward son back into the family. The parable is not saying the father is, or represents, God, but the situation does illustrate the way God treats a repentant sinner. The father now rejoices because the "dead" son is "alive". The Jews called the ungodly "dead", but in the New Testament it applies to those who have not responded to the kingdom message (the gospel) and who therefore cannot share in the resurrection-life of Christ.

The elder brother's reaction is very bitter. He claims his father hasn't even given him a "young goat", a fairly worthless animal. Like the wayward son, the stay-at-home son is also lost, lost in himself.
In describing his wayward brother, the elder son calls him "this son of yours." His father describes him as "this brother of yours" - an interesting twist.
Irrespective of the elder brother's tantrum, the father does not withdraw his love from either son.
Repentance and forgiveness bring fellowship and joy, but sadly, to only one son.
The parable of the Prodigal Son is one of those stories which has a locked-in interpretation. The parable is often used to teach the truth that God welcomes the repentant sinner. The story of a loving, forgiving, accepting father, illustrates the way God treats those who turn to him for mercy. Indeed, this idea has a central place in the parable, but there is more.
As verses 1 and 2 show, the parable addresses the muttering of the Pharisees who cannot accept the way Jesus "welcomes sinners and eats with them." In the parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin, Jesus makes the point that God joyously accepts those who come to him in repentance. In fact, he actively seeks after them and rejoices "over one sinner who repents." Jesus then goes on to tell the parable of the Prodigal Son so as to illustrate the way people respond to God's grace, his unlimited loving kindness. The wayward son repents and enters in to his father's joyous acceptance, but the righteous son stays aloof and so fails to experience his father's love.
So, some argue that the Parable is all about the elder son (the Pharisee, the self-righteous, rather than the younger prodigal son. It could be teaching us to accept the lost brother, the new convert, but rarely does a congregation not welcome a new convert. Some argue that it's all about welcoming the outcast, the poor, the oppressed within society and in the third world. For some the parable is all about forgiving and accepting a brother who has gone astray and may have hurt us in the process. 

In truth, this parable is all about the two sons. One son lost to his father in body, the other lost to his father in mind. Both had free access to the father's unlimited bounty, both needed to rely wholly on his kindness, but only one chose to do so, and this the worthless son. Reliance on the free grace of God in Jesus Christ is the only means of accessing the fullness of his promised blessings.  The rewards of eternity are wholly on the basis of God's freely given grace.

Sunday, 10 March 2013

Lent 5 10th March 2013 Luke 15v11-32 The Prodigal Son


The Scribes and Pharisees grumble because Jesus is eating with sinners, in other words the ordinary people the hamarez the people of the land. Tax collectors were seen as collaborators with the Romans, while the term "sinners" was used for those who do not keep the Levitical law ie most people.

This is a story of a man who lost both sons. Although the selfishness of the older brother is less obvious than the younger son, he could not empathise with his father's joys and sorrows. So here is a story of two lost sons. Only one is found and experiences the father's joy.
 
A younger son said to his father give me my share of the estate so he divided the property. It would be unusual to divide an estate between the sons before the father's death, but it is only a story. It is, of course, possible that the son is taking a share of the family property (one third) and so foregoing his inheritance. The parable illustrates the father's generosity and leaves us wondering whether the younger son will show himself worthy of the father's trust. The root meaning of property is life, but here the word is being used in the sense of means of family income, that which gives life to the family.

After a few days later the younger son went on a journey to a distant country.  He squandered his inheritence in wild, reckless, and loose living. After he had spent everything he began to needy so he hired himself out to feed pigs. To fill his stomach, he ate pods possibly St. John's Bread, a sweet meal, but with little nourishment, or the wild carob, bitter with even less nourishment. These were used for famine food, or possibly corn cobs. No one gave him anything. When he came to his senses and had no food he decided to return to his father. 
 
So he got up and went home. While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion and he ran, threw his arms around him and hugged him. He put on him the best robe, possibly the son's former robe or one of the father's robes, or a robe kept for an honored guest- a ring, possibly the father's signet ring, but at least a ring whereby the father bestows authority on his wayward son, sandals. The mention of sandals is somewhat strange, but, given that servants tend not to wear anything on their feet, the parable is probably making the point that the father is not treating his son as a servant. The fattened calf was killed. Meat was only prepared for extremely important (usually religious) occasions. This is about preparing a banquet in celebration for the lost son's return to the family. 

Meanwhile his older brother in the fields when he came near to the house on his way home, heard music and dancing. So he called one of the workers he asked what the commotion was all about. They told him and the brother got very angry. He is angry with the father welcoming back his waistral son, and possibly that he is about to commit usufruct, so the property that belongs to the older son is given to the younger son. He refused to go in so his father went out and pleaded with him to share the joy of his brother's restoration.
 
The elder brother is offended by the fuss made of the wayward brother, particularly as the elder brother regards himself as a faithful son and yet his father never gave him a feast and speaks of "this son of yours" - The language distances the elder brother from his brother who in his opinion is beyond redemption.

The father calls his son - my child. The words here describe an affectionate, but offended response by the father. How could the elder son think that mercy toward the wayward son has in any way affected the standing of the elder son? The father said "You are always with me. Everything I have is yours - everything of mine is yours". The elder brother's status is unchanged by the father's welcome of the wayward son. I thought your brother was dead - and he's alive. I thought he was lost - and he is found.

In Luke 15 the theme is lostness. The first two parables teach that being lost and found makes God very happy. In the third parable, the parable of the Lost Son or the Prodigal Son, Jesus makes the same point, but in this parable the focus shifts from the tax collectors and sinners to the Pharisees and scribes, those who have, for all these years been working like a slave for you, and never disobeyed your command-its about a heart attitude. The parable invites the religious not to be self satisfied but preoccupied by those who are lost and return to the fold.

We all have been given an inheritance, our faith is an inheritance and as God's people  we  can squander it; our society has been given an inheritance and we can end up selling off the silver or treat it wisely as one who has been entrusted with sacred things to pass on to our children and grandchildren. We need to choose wisely.


Winter

Winter

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