Sins of the flesh would include such things as drunkedness, adultry, stealing, gambling, profanity. There are two types of sin: sins of passions and sins of disposition or sins of the flesh and sins of the spirit. He failed to realize that he was commiting sins as damaging to the soul as the coarser sins of the younger brother It is not enough to be good to be Christian we must be good in a nice way. God save us from a stuffed-shirt morality. “Incompatibility” is the lawyers word for the offensive nagging of people who are smugly moral and piously unbending. The little girls prayer-Lord, Make all good people nice 4 He did the right things but in the wrong spirit.
He wasted no money nor scarred his soul with dissipation-But he was undesirable nevertheless. True he stayed at home, did the chores, kept the rules. He possessed a sort of unattractive goodness that was deeply repulsive. The year has its winter storms, the glow of day is followed by the gloom of night 2 The elder brother is a sudden discord, but without him the story would have been untrue to life. They began to be merry-that is a fitting climax.
In the outline below, King observes that the elder brother “failed to realize that he was sins as damaging to the soul as the coarser sins of the younger brother.” 1 King removed this chapter from his annotated copy of Hamilton's book, Horns and Halos in Human Nature, and kept the torn pages in the same file folder as this sermon. Wallace Hamilton's sermon “That Fellow Who Stayed at Home,” which deals with the prodigal son's older brother. King bases the following handwritten outline on J.
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