Relationship Rights
“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.” Luke 15:29 NKJV https://www.bible.com/114/luk.15.29.nkjv Many would readily treat the prodigal son as the only lost son in the parable of the lost son. Whereas, Jesus teaches the needs for repentance from two perspectives of both the misuse and disuse of sonship. While the younger but prodigal son misuse his sonship right, the older and prudent son disuse his sonship privileges. Although the misuse of sonship right turned the prodigal son into a slave in a strange land out of the reach and the mercy of the Father, the disuse of sonship right admits the prudent son into the colony of servants right within the vineyard of the Father. Eventually, the loving and merciful Father lost both the riotous and religious sons to a misuse and disuse of relationship rights...