When he finally came to himself, we have seen, it was because he thought of home and how well cared for the hired servants were there. He made resolution to arise and go his father and confess his sins and that he was no longer worthy to be called His father's son. When he did this, he found to his astonishment that his father was not only willing to receive him back again as a son, but that he was also commanding his servants to bring out the best robe, and put it on him. And put a ring on his finger. And he then also commands that the servants bring the fatted calf there and kill it. And after that to eat and be merry. What do these things represent, is what we want to try to understand better at this time. We will take them in the sequence that they come.
These things mentioned in verses 22 and 23 represent the blessings of salvation, which are bestowed by the Father on the basis of Christ's righteous life and His sacrificial death on the cross for sinners.
1. The Best Robe represents Christ's Perfect Righteousness imputed to the person believing the Gospel. 2. In order to understand the doctrine of justification, we must ask some questions of these two verses: Romans 4: 18 & 19.
Romans 5: 18 & 19 – "Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life." "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous."
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
