Lesson 89
SOME PARABLES: LOST SHEEP, LOST COIN, PRODIGAL SON
Luke 15:1-32
1. Who came near to hear Jesus? ____________________________________
2. Why did the Pharisees and scribes murmur? _______________________
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3. What did the shepherd do when one sheep was lost? _______________
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4. What did he do after finding it? ________________________________
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5. What happens in heaven when a sinner repents? ___________________
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6. What was the approximate value of a "piece of silver"? __________
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7. Why do you think she sought "diligently" for such a coin? _______
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8. What did she do when she found it? ______________________________
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9. What does the younger son ask of his father? ____________________
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10. What was the father's response? _________________________________
11. Why do you think the younger son "went into a far country"? _____
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12. What is "riotous living"? _______________________________________
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13. Does sin offer lasting satisfaction? ___________ Explain. _______
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14. Being in want, what did the younger son do? _____________________
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15. Why would "feeding swine" be so disgraceful to a Jew? ___________
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16. What does it mean, "He came to himself"? ________________________
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17. What did he determine to do? ____________________________________
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18. What did he determine to tell his father? _______________________
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19. What does "he arose and came to his father" imply? ______________
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20. What does his father's "seeing him afar off" suggest? ___________
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21. What was the father's reaction? _________________________________
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22. Whereas the son renounced his sonship, the father commanded what
to be done? _____________________________________________________
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23. One separated from the Father is said to be ____________________,
to be ___________________.
24. What was the reaction of the "elder" brother when he heard of his
brother's return? _______________________________________________
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25. What did the elder brother tell his father? _____________________
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26. What was the father's response? _________________________________
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27. According to this parable, of what does sin rob one? ____________
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