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A short film · Luke 15

A Great Way Off

The Father never stopped watching the road.

“But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”
Luke 15:20 (KJV)

Lost“yet a great way off”
Seen“his father saw him”
Found“he was lost, and is found”

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The story

Michael is forty-four, self-made, and done with God. Then a hospice calls. The father who walked out when Michael was nine has died, and he left a shoebox behind.

Inside: thirty-four birthday cards that were never mailed, a child's baseball glove, a worn Bible, and one last letter. It asks for nothing. It tells him the truth, and it tells him about a Father who never left.

Jesus told this story first: a son a great way off, and a father who saw him coming and ran.

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The Scripture behind the film

Jesus told this story first, in Luke 15. Every verse here is from the King James Version.

The father ran

And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Luke 15:20

Lost and found

²²But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: ²³And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: ²⁴For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Luke 15:22–24

Joy in heaven

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Luke 15:7

When a father leaves

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Psalm 27:10

Hearts turned home

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Malachi 4:6

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