When He Came to Himself

In our first three sessions we have studied the prodigal's pursuit of the World and sinful pleasures and His loss of everything in the far country. We have seen that the prodigal wanted to have his share of his father's livelihood and leave to go the far country because he was not thankful for all that his father had given to him and done for him in raising him thus far. He wanted to be able to go away to experience the pleasures of the world.

He would ask for his father's inheritance; his father's livelihood. His father was so gracious as to have given him this. He took the money and possessions and he went into the far country to spend it on riotous living. These were the selfish and sinful things that he had dreamed about doing, in a place where his father could not reach him. After he ran out of money, and a famine came to the land, he found himself in great need it says in verse 14.
In verse 15 it says that he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. It says in verse 16 that he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything. wishing for a better life. What could he do? It says here in the text in verse 17 – "But when he came to himself…" This is what we want to think about together at this time.