Because of amazing grace, persons who deserve to be punished severely because they were warned of the consequences of their actions, may yet be forgiven, reconciled and restored when they return home.

Aretha’s father threatened her that when things turned bad for her because he was certain they would, considering her defiance of his instructions, she ‘would beg him to take her back but he won’t.” Yet he did take her back when she returned like the prodigal son. And she did not even beg him.