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  1. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    What must we do, then, to be saved? To find God we must repent of the things we have done wrong, but if that is all you do, you may remain just an elder brother. To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right. Pharisees only repent of their sins, but Christians repent for the very roots of their righteousness, too. We must learn how to repent of the sin under all our other sins and under all our righteousness-the sin of seeking to be our own Savior and Lord. We must admit that we've put our ultimate hope and trust in things other than God, and that in both our wrongdoing and right doing we have been seeking to get around God or get control of God in order to get hold of those things. It is only when you see the desire to be your own Savior and Lord-lying beneath both your sins and your moral goodness-that you are on the verge of understanding the gospel and becoming a Christian indeed. When you realize that the antidote to being bad is not just being good, you are on the brink.
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  2. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    The message of the Bible is that the human race is a band of exiles trying to come home. The parable of the prodigal son is about every one of us.
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  3. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    It is only when you see the desire to be your own Savior and Lord-lying beneath both your sins and your moral goodness-that you are on the verge of understanding the gospel and becoming a Christian indeed. When you realize that the antidote to being bad is not just being good, you are on the brink. If you follow through, it will change everything: how you relate to God, self, others, the world, your work, your sins, your virtue.
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  4. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    What must we do, then, to be saved? To find God we must repent of the things we have done wrong, but if that is all you do, you may remain just an elder brother. To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.
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  5. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    Jesus, unlike the founder of any other major faith, holds out hope for ordinary human life. Our future is not an ethereal, impersonal form of consciousness. We will not float through the air, but rather will eat, embrace, sing, laugh, and dance in the kingdom of God, in degrees of power, glory, and joy that we can't at present imagine.
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  6. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    This means that Jesus's message, which is "the gospel," is a completely different spirituality. The gospel of Jesus is not religion or irreligion, morality or immorality, moralism or relativism, conservatism or liberalism. Nor is it something halfway along a spectrum between two poles-it is something else altogether.
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  7. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    حتى الأشخاص اللذين يظلون أوفياء لنا يموتون و يرحلون عنا, أو نموت نحن و نرحل عنهم
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  8. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    God's reckless grace is our greatest hope, a life changing experience.
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  9. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    the prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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  10. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
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  11. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    this is what a true elder brother would have done. He would have said, "Father, my younger brother has been a fool, and now his life is in ruins. But I will go look for him and bring him home. And if the inheritance is gone-as I expect-I'll bring him back into the family at my expense.
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  12. Timothy J. Keller _ The Prodigal God: Recovering

    By the time we get to the third story, and we hear about the plight of the lost son, we are fully prepared to expect that someone will set out to search for him. No one does. It is startling, and Jesus meant it to be so. By placing the three parables so closely together, he is inviting thoughtful listeners to ask: "Well, who should have gone out and searched for the lost son?" Jesus knew the Bible thoroughly, and he knew that at its very beginning it tells another story of an elder and younger brother-Cain and Abel. In that story, God tells the resentful and proud older brother: "You are your brother's keeper.
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