-This was the hardest part trying to find out how many were actually used in the NT

-Get a piece of raw meat out and begin to describe how Jesus first finds us

-We are dead, cold, raw, and unflavored (Eph. 2:1-3)

-We make the world sick

-This is lukewarm christianity: Revelation 3:15-18

-When we are lukewarm people we are not believers to Jesus, we make him sick and he throws us up out of his mouth

-Tell story of Jordan's steak and how it was not cooked right nor flavored right and she spit it out

-Comes from the greek words Para and ballo

-It means beside and throw

-The idea is that you are throwing 2 things beside one another to show an illustration of deeper meaning

-Jesus says to the disciples in short form that parables are used to bring the message of the gospel across in a way which makes sense to those whose eyes and ears have not been opened to salvation

-Lets be honest Jesus is a smart dude and somethings he says i have to go back and read over and over to understand, but in a parable form im like okay i get this

-The first was how Jesus finds us: DEAD AND RAW

-The 2nd is what Jesus does when he meets us in our filth

-Info behind the text: younger son gets his inheritance 1st this is not right in their culture, basically wishing his father dead (GOD)

-More info: The father did not just give his son money, the way that he gave him money was to sell half of his land in order to give the son his inheritance- this now means he has 2/3 of his estate left
*By doing this he is asking his father to be dead and to tear his identity apart

-He was reckless with the world and realized his misfortune

-He ended up having to be hired maybe by a gentile, this is detestable to a jew, but this is the cost of sin. It always takes you farther than you want to go

-He came to his father filthy and nasty (RAW, LUKEWARM)

-He came asking to be a hired hand, not a slave. A slave lives on the land, the hired hand does not. He wants to pay his father back

-The father should have been waiting like a father who was waiting in the living room for his daughter to get back home past curfew

-We cannot think that this story is just about one son, it is a compare and contrast between 2 brothers

-The older brother is put into the parable to represent religion and morality can bring you salvation

-Remember who Jesus was talking too tax collectors and sinners (younger brother) and pharisees (older brother)

-So we come to Jesus as one who is raw and dead, tasteless. One who is a sinner and one who is trying to make religion be there salvation.

-All 3 fig. languages that we are examining are the same in the fact that they are helping us understand hard theology with an easy illustration

-simile is used to compare with the use of "like" or "as"

-Im as mad as a bull in a china cabinet

-I am learning quickly that the wedding day is a lot about Jordan

-But I have also learned that its about me as well and if I never asked her our wedding day would not be possible

-But here's the deal Jordan and I are just a small representation of the bride and groom of Christ

-I did not meet Jordan like Jesus did at first. He first me and her and everyone in here like the raw meat and the two brothers.

-Jesus in our filth sprinkles us with salt or tony's cause I like to spice it up! Or he opens up his arms to us like a father, but my favorite is the bride of christ.

-Ask Greg to come meet me at the aisle and do the ceremony

-Begin to tell of how Jesus invites us into marriage and prepares us for our wedding day. Us as the bride he has made us elegant and beautiful and is inviting us down the aisle.