Section 9
adornment of the robe on the body, of the ring on the hand, and of the sandals on the feet makes the poor prodigal match his rich father and qual ifies him to enter the father's house and feast with the father.
In Luke 15:23 the father goes on to say to the slaves, "And bring the fattened calf; slaughter it, and let us eat and be merry." The fattened calf signifies the rich Christ (Eph. 3:8) killed on the cross for the believers' enjoyment.
In this parable we see that God's salvation is of two aspects, the outward aspect and the inward aspect. The outward aspect is Christ as our righteousness to justify us, and the inward aspect is Christ as our life and life supply to satisfy us. After coming back to his father, the prodigal son enjoyed all the riches of God's provision in His salvation. He enjoyed Christ as his outward righteousness, he enjoyed the Spirit as the seal indicating that he belongs to the Father and that the Father and all His wealth belongs to him, he enjoyed the power of God's salvation separating him from the world, and he also enjoyed the inner Christ, the Christ who is his life and life supply. Therefore, he could be come a very happy person. With his father he