"The Ring"
The Bible says...
"The Father gave his son a ring for his hand"
Luke 15:22
The Ring of Reconciliation!
The "Eight Jewels" of the "Ring of Reconciliation"
2. Access... verse 2 3. Joy in hope... verse 2 4. Joy in suffering... verse 3 5. Perseverance... verse 4 6. Character... verse 4 7. Hope... verse 5 8. Love... verse 5 |
Romans 5:1~5
Verse 1...
Therefore being justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Verse 2...
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace
wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the
glory of God.
Verse 3...
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also:
knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Verse 4...
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Verse 5...
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God
is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
which is given unto us.
KJV
"The Prodigal Son" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Road To Ruin
Luke 15:11~16
Verse 12~ Self-will...
And the younger of them said to his father,
Father, give me the portion of goods
that falleth to me.
And he divided unto them his living.
Verse 13 ~ Selfishness
And not many days after the younger son
gathered all together,
Verse 13 ~ Separation
and took his journey into a far country,
Verse 13 ~ Sensuality
and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Verse 14 ~ Spiritual Destruction
And when he had spent all,
there arose a mighty famine in that land;
and he began to be in want.
Verse 15 ~ Self-abasement
And he went and joined himself
to a citizen of that country;
and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Verse 16 ~ Starvation
And he would fain have filled his belly
with the husks that the swine did eat:
and no man gave unto him.
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The Road To Recovery
Luke 15:17-24
Verse 17 ~ Realization
And when he came to himself, he said,
How many hired servants of my father's
have bread enough and to spare,
and I perish with hunger!
Verse 18 ~ Resolution
I will arise and go to my father,
and will say unto him, Father,
I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
Verse 19 ~ Repentance
And am no more worthy to be called thy son:
make me as one of thy hired servants.
Verse 20 ~ Reconciliation
And he arose, and came to his father.
But when he was yet a great way off,
his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Verse 22 ~ Reclothing
But the father said to his servants,
Bring forth the best robe,
and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand,
and shoes on his feet:
Verse 23-24 ~ Rejoicing
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it;
and let us eat, and be merry:
For this my son was dead, and is alive again;
he was lost, and is found.
And they began to be merry.
KJV
