Dear Prodigals I Talk 1: Come Home!

WELCOME to our brand-new exciting series, Dear Prodigals. In the last 12 months, we studied the first four books of the Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. And finally, we have arrived at Deuteronomy, the last book of this five-book collection called the Torah…

The Jews call this collection as Torah, which we commonly translate as “Law”. And rightly so, because those five books contain the 613 Laws of Moses.

But in Hebrew, Torah literally means Teaching.

So, here’s the idea: We must read the first five books not as God’s laws for all eternity but as God’s teachings for all eternity.

Talk 1 recalls the story of the Prodigal Son who asked for half of his inheritance and squandered it all. He went back to his father, who ran, embraced him, and celebrated his homecoming with a party.

Deuteronomy is a book written to all Prodigals—every single person who wants to come home…

Thus, the title of Talk 1: Come Home!