>> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE
THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
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ILLUMINATED A WORLD
VEILED IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION
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ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF GOD.
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AND STILL TODAY, THE GREATEST
NEED OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION
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OF GOD'S LOVE AS
REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
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AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS
"THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL"
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WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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COMING TO YOU EACH WEEK
FROM SACRAMENTO CENTRAL CHURCH
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IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA.
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DISCOVER HIDDEN
TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD TODAY.
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>> I'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH
YOU THIS MORNING ONE OF THE MOST
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BEAUTIFUL STORIES IN THE BIBLE.
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THAT IS A PARABLE THAT JESUS
SHARED, AND IT'S GENERALLY KNOWN
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BY PEOPLE AS "THE PRODIGAL SON."
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I STARTED TO TRY AND COME UP
WITH SOME CREATIVE NEW TITLE,
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AND I REALIZED IT
DOESN'T NEED REINVENTING.
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THERE'S ONE EXAMPLE IN
THE BIBLE OF THIS STORY.
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IT DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE
GOSPELS OF MATTHEW OR MARK
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OR JOHN.
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IT'S ONLY FOUND
IN LUKE CHAPTER 15.
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AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD
IDEA TO JUST READ THROUGH THE
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STORY AS JESUS GAVE IT, AND THEN
WE'RE GOING TO BACK UP AND LOOK
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AT IT CAREFULLY BECAUSE
IT'S FILLED WITH JUST WONDERFUL
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ANALOGIES THAT HELP US
BETTER UNDERSTAND OUR FATHER AND
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THE PLAN OF SALVATION.
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SO, PLEASE TURN IN YOUR
BIBLES TO LUKE CHAPTER 15
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AND WE'LL BEGIN WITH VERSE 11.
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LUKE 15:11, "NOW A
CERTAIN MAN HAD TWO SONS.
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AND THE YOUNGER OF THEM SAID
TO HIS FATHER, 'FATHER, GIVE ME
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THE PORTION OF
GOODS THAT FALLETH TO ME.'
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SO HE DIVIDED TO
THEM HIS LIVELIHOOD.
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AND NOT MANY DAYS AFTER,
THE YOUNGER SON GATHERED ALL
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TOGETHER, AND JOURNEYED TO A FAR
COUNTRY, AND THERE HE WASTED HIS
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POSSESSIONS WITH
RIOTOUS OR PRODIGAL LIVING.
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BUT WHEN HE HAD SPENT ALL,
THERE AROSE A SEVERE FAMINE
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IN THAT LAND, AND
HE BEGAN TO BE IN WANT.
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THEN HE WENT AND JOINED HIMSELF
TO A CITIZEN OF THAT COUNTRY,
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AND HE SENT HIM INTO
HIS FIELDS TO FEED SWINE.
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AND HE WOULD GLADLY HAVE FILLED
HIS STOMACH WITH THE PODS THAT
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THE SWINE ATE, AND NO
ONE GAVE HIM ANYTHING.
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BUT WHEN HE CAME TO HIMSELF, HE
SAID, 'HOW MANY OF MY FATHER'S
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HIRED SERVANTS HAVE BREAD ENOUGH
AND TO SPARE, AND I PERISH
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WITH HUNGER!
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I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY
FATHER, AND I'LL SAY TO HIM,
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'FATHER, I HAVE SINNED AGAINST
HEAVEN AND BEFORE YOU, AND I AM
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NO LONGER WORTHY
TO BE CALLED YOUR SON.
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MAKE ME LIKE ONE OF
YOUR HIRED SERVANTS.'
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AND HE AROSE AND
CAME TO HIS FATHER.
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BUT WHEN HE WAS STILL A GREAT
WAY OFF, HIS FATHER SAW HIM AND
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HAD COMPASSION, AND RAN AND
FELL ON HIS NECK AND KISSED HIM.
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AND THE SON SAID TO HIM,
'FATHER, I HAVE SINNED AGAINST
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HEAVEN AND IN YOUR SIGHT, AND I
AM NO LONGER WORTHY TO BE CALLED
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YOUR SON.' BUT
THE FATHER SAID TO HIS
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SERVANTS, 'BRING OUT THE BEST
ROBE AND PUT IT ON HIM, AND PUT
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A RING ON HIS HAND
AND SANDALS ON HIS FEET.
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AND BRING THE FATTED CALF
HERE AND KILL IT AND LET US
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BE MERRY-- AND LET
US EAT AND BE MERRY;
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FOR THIS MY SON WAS
DEAD AND IS ALIVE AGAIN;
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HE WAS LOST AND IS FOUND.'
AND THEY BEGAN TO BE MERRY.
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NOW HIS OLDER
SON WAS IN THE FIELD.
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AND HE CAME AND DREW
NEAR THE HOUSE, HE HEARD MUSIC
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AND DANCING.
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SO HE CALLED ONE OF THE SERVANTS
AND HE ASKED WHAT THESE THINGS
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MEANT.
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AND HE SAID TO HIM, 'YOUR
BROTHER HAS COME, AND BECAUSE HE
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HAS RECEIVED HIM SAFE AND
SOUND, YOUR FATHER HAS KILLED
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THE FATTED CALF.' AND
HE WAS ANGRY AND WOULD
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NOT GO IN.
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THEREFORE HIS FATHER
CAME OUT AND PLEADED WITH HIM.
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SO HE ANSWERED AND SAID
TO HIM, SAID TO HIS FATHER,
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'LO, THESE MANY
YEARS I HAVE SERVED YOU;
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AND I'VE NEVER TRANSGRESSED
YOUR COMMANDMENT AT ANY TIME;
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AND YOU NEVER GAVE ME
AS MUCH AS A YOUNG GOAT,
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THAT I MIGHT MAKE
MERRY WITH MY FRIENDS.
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BUT AS SOON AS THIS SON OF YOURS
CAME, WHO HAS DEVOURED YOUR
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LIVELIHOOD WITH HARLOTS, YOU
KILLED THE FATTED CALF FOR HIM.'
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AND HE SAID, 'SON, YOU ARE
ALWAYS WITH ME, AND ALL THAT
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I HAVE IS YOURS.
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IT WAS RIGHT THAT WE SHOULD
MAKE MERRY AND BE GLAD, FOR YOUR
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BROTHER WAS DEAD AND IS
ALIVE AGAIN, AND HE WAS LOST
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AND IS FOUND.'" AND
THAT'S WHERE THE PARABLE
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ENDS.
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JESUS NEVER TELLS US WHETHER OR
NOT THE OLDER BROTHER WENT IN.
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THIS STORY IS A BEAUTIFUL STORY,
AND IT NEEDS TO BE STUDIED AND
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UNDERSTOOD IN THE CONTEXT THAT
IT IS THE THIRD IN A SERIES OF
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THREE PARABLES.
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JESUS TALKS ABOUT THE
PARABLE OF THE LOST SHEEP.
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HE TALKS ABOUT THE
PARABLE OF THE LOST COIN.
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AND THEN HE ENTERS AND HE
CONCLUDES WITH THE PARABLE OF
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THE LOST SON.
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NOW, ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT
JESUS IS SPEAKING TO SCRIBES
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AND PHARISEES THAT CONSIDER
THEMSELVES RIGHTEOUS AND THEY
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COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HOW GOD
COULD ACCEPT THESE PUBLICANS AND
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SINNERS SO FREELY AND GIVE THEM
ETERNAL LIFE AFTER THE SCRIBES
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AND THE PHARISEES HAD SERVED GOD
SO FASTIDIOUSLY OVER ALL THESE
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YEARS AND THE SINNERS WHO HAD
JUST WASTED THEIR LIVES SERVING
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THE DEVIL AND THE WORLD NOW
COULD BE ALSO ACCEPTED AND GIVEN
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EQUAL STATUS IN
HEAVEN IN THE FATHER'S HOUSE.
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AND SO, ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE
THINGS THAT JESUS IS TRYING TO
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TEACH IS THAT SALVATION IS
AVAILABLE TO ALL WHO COME TO
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THE FATHER'S HOUSE.
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AND SO WITH THAT BACKGROUND,
WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS
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GO THROUGH THIS STORY WITH YOU.
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BY THE WAY, YOU'RE IN THE STORY.
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YOU KNOW, I FOUND THAT IF
YOU GIVE A PERSON A BOOK AND YOU
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SAY, YOU KNOW, "I THINK
YOU'RE IN THIS BOOK SOMEWHERE."
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THEY'RE A LOT
MORE LIKELY TO READ IT.
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OR IF YOU HAND THEM A PICTURE
AND SAY, YOU KNOW, "ARE YOU IN
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THAT PICTURE SOMEWHERE?"
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THEY'LL STUDY THE PICTURE
AND WHAT'S THE FIRST THING THEY
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LOOK FOR?
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BUT I'M NOT TEASING YOU
WHEN I SAY YOU'RE IN THE STORY
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SOMEWHERE.
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BECAUSE THIS STORY REALLY
INVOLVES THE GREAT CONTROVERSY.
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IT TALKS ABOUT THE
FATHER, WHO IS THAT?
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IT'S OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.
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IT TALKS ABOUT A SON WHO
KNEW THE TRUTH AND WANDERED AWAY
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AND CAME BACK.
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ANYBODY WHO'S ENDED UP IN
THE PIGPEN, WHETHER YOU STARTED
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OUT THERE OR YOU WANDERED
THERE, YOU'RE IN THE STORY.
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IT TALKS ABOUT THOSE WHO WERE
RAISED IN THE FATHER'S HOUSE
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AND THEY NEVER
REALLY RUN AWAY FROM HOME.
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THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE OTHER
GROUP, WHO'VE BEEN RAISED IN
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THE FAITH OR IN THE CHURCH.
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AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE MAN WHO
SENT THAT BOY OUT INTO THE FIELD
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TO FEED PIGS AND
THAT'S THE DEVIL.
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AND SO, YOU'VE GOT THE FATHER'S
HOUSE AND THE FATHER'S SERVANTS.
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YOU'VE GOT THE FAR COUNTRY
AND THE FRIENDS THERE AND
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THE STRANGER WHO SENDS HIM
OUT IN THE FIELD TO FEED PIGS,
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YOU'VE GOT THE DEVIL, AND YOU'VE
GOT EVERYBODY ELSE INVOLVED.
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AND SO, EVERYONE IS
IN THIS STORY SOMEWHERE.
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ALRIGHT, FIRST OF ALL, LET'S
TAKE IT POINT BY POINT AND SEE
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WHAT WE CAN LEARN ALONG THE WAY.
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IT TALKS ABOUT ONE
FATHER AND TWO SONS.
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BY THE WAY, THERE
ARE TWO DESTINIES.
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JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED
BETWEEN TWO INDIVIDUALS.
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WE BELIEVE ONE WAS
LOST AND ONE WAS SAVED.
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THE INTERESTING THING IS
THEY BOTH ASKED FOR SALVATION,
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"A CERTAIN MAN HAD TWO SONS,
AND THE YOUNGER OF THEM SAID
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TO HIS FATHER, 'FATHER,
GIVE ME THE PORTION OF GOODS
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THAT FALLS TO ME.'"
SO THE FATHER, OF COURSE,
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REPRESENTS OUR FATHER,
WHICH ART IN HEAVEN, JESUS SAID.
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IF YOU READ IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT,
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THEY EVEN UNDERSTOOD IN THE TIME
OF CHRIST FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
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SCRIPTURES THAT GOD
WAS OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.
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MALACHI 2:10, "HAVE
WE NOT ALL ONE FATHER?
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HAS NOT ONE GOD CREATED US?"
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NOW, IT IS TRUE THERE ARE SOME
PEOPLE WHO HAVE REJECTED THEIR
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FATHER IN HEAVEN.
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THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS DECLARED,
"YOU ARE OF YOU FATHER,
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THE DEVIL."
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BUT ULTIMATELY, EVERYONE
BELONGS TO GOD THE FATHER.
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THIS IS OUR FATHER'S WORLD.
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THIS YOUNG MAN WANTED TO LEAVE.
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WHY?
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WHY DID HE WANT TO LEAVE?
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DOES THE BIBLE EVER TELL
US THERE WAS ANYTHING WRONG
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WITH THE FATHER?
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WELL EVENTUALLY, HE CAME TO
HIS SENSES AND FOUND OUT THAT
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THE FATHER WAS GOOD.
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BUT SOMEHOW, HE
DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THAT.
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YOU KNOW, IT'S OFTEN TRUE,
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE GOT
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'TIL IT'S GONE.
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AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO MIGHT
GROW UP IN A FAMILY, CHRISTIAN
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FAMILY, WHERE THERE'S SOME RULES
AND THERE'S SOME GUIDELINES AND
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THERE'S SOME STANDARDS AND
THEY LOOK IN THE WORLD OUT THERE
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AND THEY HEAR THE ALLURE OF THE
PLEASURES OF SIN, AND THEY BEGIN
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TO CHAFE UNDER THE RESTRICTIONS
OF THE FATHER'S HOUSE.
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AND THEY THINK, "I CAN'T WAIT
TO GET AS FAR AWAY AS I CAN."
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YOU NOTICE IT'S THE YOUNGER
SON, "AND TO ENJOY MY FREEDOM,
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I DON'T WANT TO BE
UNDER THE SHADOW OF MY FATHER.
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I WANT TO GET AS
FAR AWAY AS I CAN."
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AND YOU KNOW, WHENEVER I READ
THIS STORY, IT'S HARD FOR ME NOT
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TO RELATE A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE I
HAD ONE REAL BROTHER WHO STAYED
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HOME, WENT TO WORK FOR
DAD, AND DID ALL THOSE THINGS
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HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO.
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I WAS THE YOUNGER BROTHER
WHO WAS IRRESPONSIBLE AND WHEN
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I RAN AWAY FROM MY DAD'S
HOUSE IN FLORIDA, I WENT AS FAR
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AS I COULD GET
WITHOUT BUYING AN OCEAN LINER.
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AND THAT WAS CALIFORNIA.
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I WANTED TO GET AS FAR
AWAY, AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
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I WAS SO--WELL, I WAS SORT
OF UPSET WITH MY FATHER AND JUST
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WANTED TO BE OUT FROM UNDER
HIM AND SO FED UP WITH WHAT WAS
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GOING ON THERE THAT I DIDN'T
EVEN CALL HOME FOR MONTHS.
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AND YOU KNOW, 30 YEARS LATER
WHEN I TALKED TO MY FATHER,
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HE WAS STILL UPSET ABOUT THAT.
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AND THAT JUST--I DIDN'T REALLY
REALIZE HOW MUCH IT HURT HIM
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THAT HERE HE'S GOT THIS
15-YEAR-OLD THAT'S OFF LIVIN'
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SOMEWHERE WITH THESE STREET
PEOPLE IN CALIFORNIA AND NEVER
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EVEN CALLED.
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I MEAN, ONCE EVERY FEW MONTHS,
I'D MAKE A COLLECT PHONE CALL
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AND JUST SAY, "YEAH, I'M FINE."
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WOULDN'T TELL HIM VERY MUCH AND
THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THAT.
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AND DIDN'T REALLY REALIZE,
YOU KNOW, KIDS SOMETIMES DON'T
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REALIZE HOW MUCH THEY HURT
THEIR PARENTS OR HOW MUCH THEIR
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PARENTS LOVE THEM.
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AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ONE
OF THE THINGS THE PARENTS DO,
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IT'S SORT OF A CURSE,
THEY SAY, "I HOPE YOU HAVE
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KIDS JUST LIKE YOU."
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ONE FATHER, TWO SONS.
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AND HE SAYS, "FATHER, GIVE ME
THE PORTION OF GOODS THAT FALLS
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TO ME."
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THIS MIGHT YOU
CALL ESTATE PLANNING.
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NOW, THAT MIGHT SEEM
ODD TO YOU OR VERY COLD.
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I MEAN WHAT WOULD IT MEAN IN OUR
CULTURE TODAY IF A BOY WALKED UP
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TO HIS DAD AND SAID, "YOU KNOW,
I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT'S GOING
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TO TAKE YOU TO DIE, BUT WHATEVER
YOU'RE THINKING OF GIVING ME IN
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THE WILL, CAN I HAVE MINE NOW?"
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AND I'VE ACTUALLY HEARD
PREACHERS PORTRAY IT THAT WAY.
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IN THE FAR EAST OR
IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
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THAT IS NOT THAT UNUSUAL
BECAUSE FATHERS TYPICALLY
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DIVIDED THEIR ESTATE TO THEIR
CHILDREN WHILE THEY WERE ALIVE.
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THAT'S ASSUMING THEY HAD
SOME INFLUENCE, AND THAT WAS
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SUPPOSEDLY SUPPOSED TO HELP THEM
GET ESTABLISHED WITH THEIR WIVES
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AND THEIR NEW FAMILIES.
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AND SO, THIS YOUNG BOY, HE'S NOT
MARRIED, SO HE IS ASKING THAT.
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HE SAYS, "LOOK, I DON'T REALLY
HAVE ANY PROSPECTS BUT DON'T
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WAIT UNTIL I'M
ENGAGED AND START A FAMILY.
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DAD, I WANT MY INHERITANCE NOW."
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HE WASN'T REALLY
SAYING, "I WISH YOU WERE DEAD."
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BUT THAT COULD'VE BEEN IMPLIED.
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ONE THING THAT YOU CAN
UNDERSTAND FROM THIS IS HE'S
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KIND OF SAYING, "I WANT YOUR
MONEY, BUT I DON'T WANT YOU."
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NOW BEFORE I RUSH PAST
THIS POINT, THE FATHER DOES IT.
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HE GIVES HIM THE ESTATE.
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I'D LIKE TO JUST TAKE A MOMENT
AND TALK TO PARENTS HERE ABOUT
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ESTATE PLANNING.
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YOU KNOW, IT'S POSSIBLE TO
GIVE TOO MUCH TO YOUR CHILDREN.
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DO YOU KNOW THAT?
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AND BELIEVE ME, I HAVE SEEN IT.
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IT IS POSSIBLE AND MY DAD
UNDERSTOOD THAT MONEY COULD
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DESTROY YOU.
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HE TOOK THE BULK OF HIS ASSETS
AND HE PUT IT IN A FOUNDATION.
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MY DAD WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN.
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IF HE WAS A CHRISTIAN, I WOULD
HOPE THAT HE WOULD'VE TAKEN
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THE BULK OF HIS ASSETS AND
PUT IT INTO GOD'S WORK SOMEHOW.
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IF YOUR CHILDREN ESPECIALLY ARE
NOT BELIEVERS, IF YOU INVEST THE
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BULK OF YOUR RESOURCES IN THEM--
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN TRAGIC
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STORIES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
CHRISTIANS ALL THEIR LIFE AND
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THEY'VE ACCUMULATED SOME WEALTH
AND THEN THEY DIE AND THEY GIVE
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IT TO THEIR CHILDREN THAT DO
NOT BELIEVE AND WHAT HAPPENS?
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THAT MONEY THAT COULD'VE
GONE INTO THE CAUSE OF GOD AND
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EXPANDING THE KINGDOM OF GOD
IS SQUANDERED ON WORLDLY THINGS
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OR IT'S FRITTERED AWAY.
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AND YOU KNOW, THOSE PARENTS,
THEY MAY LOVE THEIR CHILDREN
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BUT I BELIEVE THAT THERE'S
AN ACCOUNT THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE
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TO GOD FOR ACTUALLY
ENCOURAGING WASTEFULNESS.
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I THINK YOU OUGHT TO GIVE, EVEN
TO YOUR UNBELIEVING CHILDREN,
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YOU OUGHT TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING
TO DEMONSTRATE YOU LOVE THEM.
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BUT YOU ALSO OUGHT TO
DEMONSTRATE TO YOUR CHILDREN
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THAT YOUR PRIORITY IS GOD.
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YOU WILL SEND A MESSAGE TO
THEM BY MAKING SURE YOU REMEMBER
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THE WORK OF GOD IN YOUR WILL.
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SO, THE FATHER DIVIDED
UNTO THEM HIS SUBSTANCE.
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NOW, IT DOESN'T TELL
US HOW MUCH HE GAVE HIM.
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BUT THIS EVIDENTLY
WAS A MAN OF SOME MEANS.
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HE'S THE YOUNGER SON AND SO
ACCORDING TO THE LAW, THE OLDER
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SON, THERE'S ONLY TWO BOYS,
HE WAS TO GET A DOUBLE PORTION.
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IF THERE'S ONLY TWO SONS, THAT
WOULD MEAN THE OLDER SON GETS
00:14:02.76\00:14:04.96
2/3, THE YOUNGER SON WOULD GET
1/3, THE FATHER, HE, OF COURSE,
00:14:04.96\00:14:09.20
GETS TO ENJOY THE HOUSE AND ALL
OF THE EXISTING ASSETS AS LONG
00:14:09.20\00:14:12.90
AS HE'S ALIVE.
00:14:12.90\00:14:15.00
AND SO, HE GAVE THIS
SON WHAT HE ASKED FOR.
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NOW, DID IT END UP
DOING THE SON ANY GOOD?
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WHICH BRINGS ME TO ANOTHER
IMPORTANT POINT, DOES GOD
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SOMETIMES ANSWER PRAYERS
WHEN WE'RE NOT PRAYING FOR
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THE RIGHT THING?
00:14:29.76\00:14:31.76
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO
ASK GOD FOR SOMETHING AND PLEAD
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FOR SOMETHING THAT MAYBE YOU
SHOULDN'T GET, BUT HE'LL GIVE IT
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TO YOU BECAUSE YOU
SAY, "I'VE GOT TO HAVE IT."
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DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
PLEAD AND YEARN FOR QUAIL?
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GOD DIDN'T SAY, "YOU KNOW,
I REALLY THINK QUAIL SHOULD BE
00:14:45.90\00:14:48.86
PART OF YOUR MENU."
00:14:48.86\00:14:50.90
THEY ASKED FOR
SOMETHING ADDITIONAL.
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THEY STARTED LUSTING
FOR THE FLESHPOTS OF EGYPT.
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GOD SAY, "OKAY, I'M
GOING TO GIVE YOU QUAIL.
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I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU QUAIL
LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HAD QUAIL.
00:14:57.93\00:15:01.20
I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU QUAIL SO
IT'S GOING TO BE PILED UP 3-FEET
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DEEP ALL AROUND THE CAMP.
00:15:03.73\00:15:05.23
YOU'RE GOING TO EAT QUAIL SO
YOU ARE SO FULL OF QUAIL, IT IS
00:15:05.23\00:15:07.86
GOING TO COME OUT OF YOUR NOSE."
00:15:07.86\00:15:09.36
THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS,
AND THAT'S TALKING ABOUT--THAT
00:15:09.36\00:15:12.30
WAS AN EXPRESSION THEY
USED IN HEBREW FOR VOMITING.
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I WON'T GO INTO DETAIL.
00:15:15.06\00:15:16.50
BUT HE SAID, "I'LL GIVE
YOU WHAT YOU'RE PRAYING FOR."
00:15:16.50\00:15:20.96
ONE TIME, THEY PRAYED AND SAID,
"OH, WOULD GOD WE HAD DIED IN
00:15:20.96\00:15:23.86
THIS WILDERNESS!"
00:15:23.86\00:15:26.13
AND GOD SAID, "OKAY, I'M
GOING TO ANSWER YOUR PRAYER.
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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR."
00:15:28.46\00:15:30.60
SOMETIMES, GOD'LL ANSWER PRAYERS
AND YOU'LL BE SORRY HE DID.
00:15:30.60\00:15:35.66
SO, YOU NEED TO PRAY
ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL.
00:15:35.66\00:15:38.56
AND THE FATHER SAID, "OKAY, I'M
GOING TO GIVE YOU WHAT YOU'RE
00:15:38.56\00:15:41.83
ASKING FOR."
00:15:41.83\00:15:42.60
YOU NOTICE THE BOY WANTS
THE FATHER'S RESOURCES, BUT HE
00:15:42.60\00:15:47.23
DOESN'T WANT THE FATHER, 'CAUSE
THE FIRST THING THAT HAPPENS
00:15:47.23\00:15:50.56
AFTER THE FATHER DIVIDES
THE INHERITANCE, IT SAYS HE
00:15:50.56\00:15:54.10
TAKES THE MONEY AND HE RUNS.
00:15:54.10\00:15:57.76
YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER THE STORY
ABOUT THE MENENDEZ BROTHER A FEW
00:15:57.76\00:16:03.06
YEARS AGO, LYLE AND ERIC
MENENDEZ, WHO HAD VERY WEALTHY
00:16:03.06\00:16:07.43
PARENTS.
00:16:07.43\00:16:09.26
AND ON AUGUST 20TH, 1989,
WE MAY NEVER KNOW EXACTLY WHAT
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THE REASONS ARE, THE
BOYS TOOK A SHOTGUN AND THEY
00:16:14.10\00:16:19.10
MURDERED THEIR
PARENTS IN THE LIVING ROOM.
00:16:19.10\00:16:23.43
THEN, THEY CONCOCTED SOME STORY.
00:16:23.43\00:16:25.03
THEY WENT TO A MOVIE.
00:16:25.03\00:16:25.96
IT WAS ALL PREMEDITATED, TOOK
RECEIPTS OF THIS "BATMAN" MOVIE
00:16:25.96\00:16:29.16
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE GONE
TO, AND CAME HOME AND FEIGNED
00:16:29.16\00:16:34.20
THAT THEY WERE CALLING 9-1-1
AND THAT SOMETHING HAD--THERE
00:16:34.20\00:16:37.23
HAD BEEN THIS TERRIBLE
MURDER, AND THE POLICE EVIDENTLY
00:16:37.23\00:16:39.00
BELIEVED IT AND STARTED
SEARCHING FOR THE MURDERERS.
00:16:39.00\00:16:41.03
BUT THEN, THEY NOTICED THE BOYS
IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AND MONTHS
00:16:41.03\00:16:45.30
FOLLOWING THE MURDER WERE
LIVING PRETTY HIGH ON THE HOG.
00:16:45.30\00:16:49.73
I MEAN THEY WERE SPENDING
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
00:16:49.73\00:16:52.56
ON CARS AND PRIVATE TENNIS
LESSONS AND ROLEX WATCHES.
00:16:52.56\00:16:57.36
AND AS A MATTER OF FACT, I THINK
THEY SPENT A MILLION DOLLARS
00:16:57.36\00:17:00.30
OF THEIR PARENTS' MONEY.
00:17:00.30\00:17:01.83
THEY DIDN'T WANT THEIR PARENTS,
BUT THEY WANTED THEIR PARENTS'
00:17:01.83\00:17:04.56
MONEY.
00:17:04.56\00:17:06.33
AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT
OF PEOPLE HERE AND IN THE WORLD,
00:17:06.33\00:17:10.46
THEY WANT THE BLESSINGS OF GOD.
00:17:10.46\00:17:13.96
THEY WANT EVERYTHING GOOD
THAT GOD CAN GIVE THEM, BUT THEY
00:17:13.96\00:17:16.20
DON'T REALLY WANT GOD.
00:17:16.20\00:17:17.90
AND SOME PASTORS OUT THERE
EXPLOIT THAT WEAKNESS IN HUMAN
00:17:17.90\00:17:21.53
NATURE AND THEY'VE TWISTED
THE GOSPEL INTO THIS PROSPERITY
00:17:21.53\00:17:25.66
GOSPEL THAT SAYS, "YOU KNOW, IF
YOU TAKE GOD, YOU GET ALL THESE
00:17:25.66\00:17:29.10
GOODIES, BUT YOU'VE
GOT TO TAKE GOD ALSO."
00:17:29.10\00:17:32.46
BECAUSE WHAT THE PEOPLE
REALLY WANT IS THE GOODIES,
00:17:32.46\00:17:34.50
THEY DON'T WANT GOD.
00:17:34.50\00:17:35.43
THEY SAY, "ALRIGHT WELL, IF THE
ONLY WAY TO GET THE GOODIES IS
00:17:35.43\00:17:37.46
TO TAKE GOD, OKAY, I'LL
COME TO GOD AND I'LL BE WEALTHY,
00:17:37.46\00:17:42.26
HEALTHY AND WISE.
00:17:42.26\00:17:44.30
AND I'LL HAVE ALL
THESE BLESSINGS AND RICHES."
00:17:44.30\00:17:47.43
AND THEY'VE GOT THIS
WHOLE PROSPERITY GOSPEL.
00:17:47.43\00:17:49.40
I TALKED ABOUT THAT A LITTLE
LAST WEEK WHEN I WAS TALKING
00:17:49.40\00:17:53.23
ABOUT THE RICH YOUNG RULER,
BUT IT APPLIES HERE AS WELL.
00:17:53.23\00:17:57.90
DO YOU REALLY WANT THE LORD
OR DO YOU JUST WANT THE FRINGE
00:17:57.90\00:18:01.96
BENEFITS?
00:18:01.96\00:18:03.33
IF YOU COULD CHOOSE BETWEEN THE
FATHER AND FATHER'S BLESSINGS,
00:18:03.33\00:18:06.96
WOULD YOU SAY, "YOU KNOW,
EVEN IF MY LIFE IS ONE OF TRIAL
00:18:06.96\00:18:10.86
AND A CROSS, I
STILL WANT THE FATHER.
00:18:10.86\00:18:14.03
I LOVE HIM MORE THAN HIS STUFF"?
00:18:14.03\00:18:17.13
I THINK SOMETIMES WE TRAIN
OUR CHILDREN TO WANT OUR STUFF
00:18:17.13\00:18:20.16
INSTEAD OF US BECAUSE WE DON'T
HAVE TIME FOR OUR CHILDREN, AND
00:18:20.16\00:18:23.80
INSTEAD WE BUY THEM LITTLE GIFTS
AND TOYS AND GIVE THEM THINGS
00:18:23.80\00:18:26.63
TO GET THEM OUT OF OUR HAIR.
00:18:26.63\00:18:28.13
BUT WE DON'T GIVE THEM OUR TIME,
AND SO WE ARE TRAINING THEM TO
00:18:28.13\00:18:32.46
VALUE OUR STUFF INSTEAD OF US.
00:18:32.46\00:18:35.80
WHAT DOES GOD REALLY WANT?
00:18:35.80\00:18:37.86
DOES HE WANT TO JUST GIVE
US THINGS OR DOES HE WANT US?
00:18:37.86\00:18:42.13
HE WANTS A RELATIONSHIP WITH US.
00:18:42.13\00:18:45.26
WELL, THIS YOUNG MAN
TOOK THE MONEY AND HE RAN.
00:18:45.26\00:18:48.00
AS SOON AS HE GOT THINGS PACKED,
HE WENT INTO A FAR COUNTRY.
00:18:48.00\00:18:51.73
HE SAID, "I WANT TO GET AWAY, SO
FAR AWAY FROM DAD THAT I DON'T
00:18:51.73\00:18:55.50
EVEN KNOW
ANYBODY THAT KNOWS DAD.
00:18:55.50\00:18:58.16
I WANT TO GET SO FAR AWAY THAT
HE'S NOT GOING TO KNOW ANYBODY
00:18:58.16\00:19:00.93
THAT KNOWS ME.
00:19:00.93\00:19:02.53
I'M GOING TO DO THINGS THAT HE
WON'T KNOW ABOUT AND SO, I DON'T
00:19:02.53\00:19:06.70
WANT TO BE UNDER HIS
SHADOW OR HIS EYE ANYMORE."
00:19:06.70\00:19:10.53
BUT WHERE CAN YOU REALLY
FLEE FROM GOD'S PRESENCE?
00:19:10.53\00:19:14.13
IS THERE ANYWHERE YOU CAN GO?
00:19:14.13\00:19:16.20
AND SO WHILE THAT YOUNG MAN WAS
GONE, IT SAYS, "HE WASTED HIS
00:19:16.20\00:19:22.60
POSSESSIONS WITH
RIOTOUS OR PRODIGAL LIVING."
00:19:22.60\00:19:28.36
HE JUST SAID, "LOOK,
I'M GONNA GO INTO THE WORLD
00:19:28.36\00:19:33.46
AND I'M GOING TO HAVE FUN.
00:19:33.46\00:19:35.30
AND HOW MANY YOUNG PEOPLE DO
WE ALL KNOW AND THEY SAY, 'YOU
00:19:35.30\00:19:38.20
KNOW, MAYBE WHEN I'M OLDER, I'LL
SERVE GOD BUT WHEN I'M YOUNG,
00:19:38.20\00:19:41.73
I WANT TO ENJOY THE WORLD.'"
AND SO, THEY GO OUT THERE
00:19:41.73\00:19:44.80
IN THE WORLD.
00:19:44.80\00:19:45.86
NOTICE THE WORLD "WASTED."
00:19:45.86\00:19:48.76
AS A MATTER OF FACT, SOME PEOPLE
WHEN THEY GET DRUNK OR HIGH,
00:19:48.76\00:19:50.76
HOW DO THEY DESCRIBE IT?
00:19:50.76\00:19:52.53
"I WAS WASTED."
00:19:52.53\00:19:54.33
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE WASTED
THEIR LIVES LIVING, TRYING TO
00:19:54.33\00:19:58.00
FIND SATISFACTION IN THE WORLD.
00:19:58.00\00:20:00.76
YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO
HAPPINESS IN THE WORLD.
00:20:00.76\00:20:03.76
I KNOW.
00:20:03.76\00:20:05.76
I DRANK, I SMOKED, I
USED DRUGS, I LIVED IMMORALLY.
00:20:05.76\00:20:12.26
I DID EVERYTHING I COULD
THINK OF THAT THE WORLD DOES.
00:20:12.26\00:20:14.80
WILD LIVING, ALL-NIGHT PARTIES,
I WON'T EVEN GO INTO DETAIL.
00:20:14.80\00:20:20.46
BUT I KNOW WHAT'S OUT
THERE AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:20:20.46\00:20:23.03
IT LEAVES YOU SICK AND
HUNG-OVER AND EMPTY AND GUILTY.
00:20:23.03\00:20:26.56
YOU FEEL ASHAMED.
00:20:26.56\00:20:27.83
YOU FEEL DIRTY.
00:20:27.83\00:20:30.13
IT DOESN'T BRING SATISFACTION.
00:20:30.13\00:20:31.80
THERE'S NO PURPOSE.
00:20:31.80\00:20:34.53
BUT THERE'S THE PLEASURE OF
SIN HAS AN ALLURE TO IT, AND
00:20:34.53\00:20:40.26
THE DEVIL TRIES TO
MARKET IT TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE
00:20:40.26\00:20:43.10
THAT THEY'RE MISSING OUT.
00:20:43.10\00:20:45.26
AND SO, THEY GO AND THEY DO THE
DANCING SCENE AND THE PARTYING
00:20:45.26\00:20:48.90
SCENE AND THE SCENE OF THE
WORLD AND ALL THE ENTERTAINMENT
00:20:48.90\00:20:53.03
AND THE TALK OF THE
WORLD AND THE SPORTS CRAZES AND
00:20:53.03\00:20:56.90
ALL THE DIFFERENT SHOPPING
ADDICTIONS AND IT DOESN'T BRING
00:20:56.90\00:21:01.30
ANY SATISFACTION.
00:21:01.30\00:21:04.23
HE HAD MONEY FOR A
WHILE AND WHEN HE HAD MONEY,
00:21:04.23\00:21:07.10
HE HAD FRIENDS.
00:21:07.10\00:21:08.50
AND LIFE WAS ONE BIG PARTY.
00:21:08.50\00:21:11.23
BUT HOW LONG DOES IT
LAST WHEN YOU LIVE THAT WAY?
00:21:11.23\00:21:15.86
ANY INHERITANCE THAT'S RECEIVED
HASTILY LIKE THAT IS SQUANDERED.
00:21:15.86\00:21:18.93
YOU KNOW, THE NEW
AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE SAYS,
00:21:18.93\00:21:22.86
"HE SQUANDERED HIS
ESTATE WITH LOOSE LIVING."
00:21:22.86\00:21:27.00
PROVERBS 6:26, "FOR ON ACCOUNT
OF A HARLOT, ONE IS REDUCED TO A
00:21:27.00\00:21:33.30
LOAF OF BREAD AND AN ADULTERESS
HUNTS FOR THE PRECIOUS LIFE."
00:21:33.30\00:21:38.03
BY THE WAY, HIS BROTHER SAID,
"THIS SON OF YOURS WHO'S WASTED
00:21:38.03\00:21:40.76
HIS SUBSTANCE WITH HARLOTS."
00:21:40.76\00:21:43.10
HE'D BEEN
LIVING AN IMMORAL LIFE.
00:21:43.10\00:21:47.86
PROVERBS 21:17, "HE WHO
LOVES PLEASURE WILL BECOME
00:21:47.86\00:21:52.23
A POOR MAN."
00:21:52.23\00:21:56.13
PROVERBS 23:19, "HEAR, MY
SON, AND BE WISE, AND GUIDE YOUR
00:21:56.13\00:22:01.03
HEART IN THE WAY.
00:22:01.03\00:22:02.30
DO NOT MIX WITH WINE BIBBERS OR
WITH GLUTTONOUS EATERS OF MEAT
00:22:02.30\00:22:06.23
FOR THE DRUNKARD AND THE
GLUTTON WILL COME TO POVERTY AND
00:22:06.23\00:22:09.83
DROWSINESS WILL
CLOTHE A MAN WITH RAGS."
00:22:09.83\00:22:14.13
IT'S NOT JUST THE
DRINK, IT'S EVEN THE FOOD.
00:22:14.13\00:22:16.66
SOME PEOPLE MAKE A LIFE; INSTEAD
OF EATING TO LIVE, THEY LIVE TO
00:22:16.66\00:22:19.63
EAT AND THEY WORSHIP
THE PLEASURE OF THE PALATE.
00:22:19.63\00:22:23.60
OTHERS, IT'S DRUGS
OR YOU TAKE YOUR PICK.
00:22:23.60\00:22:27.83
THERE'S A BROAD SPECTRUM
OF DISTRACTIONS IN THE WORLD.
00:22:27.83\00:22:31.33
ISAIAH 55:2, "WHY DO YOU SPEND
YOUR MONEY FOR THAT WHICH IS NOT
00:22:31.33\00:22:36.16
BREAD AND YOUR WAGES FOR
THAT THAT DOES NOT SATISFY?
00:22:36.16\00:22:40.66
LISTEN CAREFULLY TO ME AND EAT
WHAT IS GOOD, AND LET YOUR SOUL
00:22:40.66\00:22:44.03
DELIGHT ITSELF IN ABUNDANCE."
00:22:44.03\00:22:46.86
SO, THE SON IS OUT
THERE SQUANDERING HIS LIFE.
00:22:46.86\00:22:50.16
WHO IS PAYING THE
EXPENSE FOR HIS FOLLY?
00:22:50.16\00:22:54.63
THE FATHER IS.
00:22:54.63\00:22:56.03
HE'S DOING THIS AT
THE FATHER'S EXPENSE.
00:22:56.03\00:22:58.93
AND ALL THOSE YEARS THE FATHER
WORKED TO RAISE THAT MONEY,
00:22:58.93\00:23:03.60
THE SON IS NOW WASTING IT.
00:23:03.60\00:23:06.40
WE ARE WASTING THE SACRIFICE OF
JESUS SOMETIMES WHEN WE RUN TO
00:23:06.40\00:23:11.00
THE WORLD.
00:23:11.00\00:23:12.10
AND THEN, IN HIS
MERCY, GOD SENDS TROUBLE.
00:23:12.10\00:23:16.53
IT SAYS A FAMINE AROSE.
00:23:16.53\00:23:19.33
GOD OFTEN SENDS
TROUBLE TO SAVE US.
00:23:19.33\00:23:22.73
A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE
IN THE WORLD WILL TELL YOU
00:23:22.73\00:23:25.63
WHEN THEY COME BACK
TO THE LORD, THEY'LL SAY,
00:23:25.63\00:23:27.40
"YOU KNOW, THEN A CRISIS
CAME AND GOD PUT THIS WEIGHT ON
00:23:27.40\00:23:31.36
MY BACK AND SENT ME TO MY KNEES.
00:23:31.36\00:23:33.73
THERE WAS THIS TERRIBLE HEALTH
PROBLEM THAT I HAD" OR "MY BEST
00:23:33.73\00:23:37.30
FRIEND DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT
AND SUDDENLY, I WOKE UP."
00:23:37.30\00:23:40.66
SOME FAMINE
COMES INTO THEIR LIFE.
00:23:40.66\00:23:43.13
THEY BEGIN TO RUN OUT OF
THE RESOURCES OF THE WORLD,
00:23:43.13\00:23:46.90
AND THEY REALIZE IT'S EMPTY.
00:23:46.90\00:23:50.26
WHEN YOU PRAY FOR THE SALVATION
OF YOUR LOVED ONES, DO YOU JUST
00:23:50.26\00:23:56.03
PRAY FOR THEIR PROTECTION OR
HAVE YOU PRAYED AND SAID, "LORD,
00:23:56.03\00:23:58.80
YOU DO WHATEVER IT TAKES"?
00:23:58.80\00:24:01.53
"IF IT MEANS YOU NEED TO SEND
A FAMINE IN ORDER TO SAVE THEM,
00:24:01.53\00:24:04.40
SEND A FAMINE."
00:24:04.40\00:24:06.63
THERE'S BIBLE SUPPORT FOR THAT.
00:24:06.63\00:24:09.30
NOW, WE ALL KNOW THE STORY ABOUT
ELIJAH PRAYING THAT GOD WOULD
00:24:09.30\00:24:12.30
SEND THE RAIN AT THE END
OF THE FAMINE BUT MANY PEOPLE
00:24:12.30\00:24:15.56
FORGET ELIJAH IS THE ONE
WHO PRAYED FOR THE FAMINE.
00:24:15.56\00:24:19.86
JAMES 5:17, "ELIJAH WAS A MAN
WITH A NATURE LIKE OURS AND HE
00:24:19.86\00:24:24.86
PRAYED EARNESTLY
THAT IT WOULD NOT RAIN."
00:24:24.86\00:24:28.96
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?
00:24:28.96\00:24:30.40
NOW IN CALIFORNIA, WHAT ARE
WE PRAYING FOR, RAIN OR NO RAIN?
00:24:30.40\00:24:33.70
BUT IF CALIFORNIA STARTS GOING
DOWN THE WRONG ROAD MORALLY,
00:24:33.70\00:24:39.46
I GUESS IT'S TIME, ISN'T IT?
00:24:39.46\00:24:42.53
DO YOU THEN PRAY FOR FAMINE?
00:24:42.53\00:24:45.66
WELL, WHAT WILL THAT MEAN TO ME?
00:24:45.66\00:24:48.06
IF IT MEANS THE SAVING OF A
NATION OR THE SAVING OF GOD'S
00:24:48.06\00:24:52.30
PEOPLE, SHOULD WE PRAY THAT GOD
SENDS TROUBLE THAT GOD'LL SAVE
00:24:52.30\00:24:57.36
HIS PEOPLE?
00:24:57.36\00:24:58.80
YOU KNOW, FOLKS HAVE ASKED
ME BEFORE, "WHAT DO YOU THINK IS
00:24:58.80\00:25:02.03
GOING TO BRING THE LATTER RAIN?
00:25:02.03\00:25:03.43
WHAT DO YOU THINK
IS GOING TO REVIVAL?"
00:25:03.43\00:25:05.10
IF I READ MY BIBLE CORRECTLY,
IT'S GOING TO BE PERSECUTION.
00:25:05.10\00:25:08.86
THERE'LL BE TRIAL.
00:25:08.86\00:25:10.03
GOD'S PEOPLE DURING
TIMES OF PLENTY END UP BECOMING
00:25:10.03\00:25:12.76
LAODICEAN.
00:25:12.76\00:25:14.06
WE THINK WE'RE RICH
AND INCREASED WITH GOODS
00:25:14.06\00:25:15.60
AND IT'S OFTEN ONLY
AFTER WE GO THROUGH A FAMINE
00:25:15.60\00:25:18.30
THAT WE TURN BACK TO GOD
AND WE COME TO OUR SENSES AGAIN.
00:25:18.30\00:25:22.63
SO WHEN YOU PRAY FOR YOUR
LOVED ONES THAT MAY BE LOST, I'M
00:25:22.63\00:25:26.00
ASSUMING THAT WE
ALL KNOW SOMEBODY.
00:25:26.00\00:25:27.93
LET ME JUST SEE IF I'M RIGHT.
00:25:27.93\00:25:28.86
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW SOMEONE,
A LOVED ONE, A FAMILY MEMBER,
00:25:28.86\00:25:31.96
FRIEND THAT'S LOST?
00:25:31.96\00:25:33.40
AND YOU PRAY FOR THEM, AND
YOU'RE TEMPTED TO PRAY THAT
00:25:33.40\00:25:36.23
GOD'LL PROTECT AND BLESS THEM.
00:25:36.23\00:25:37.43
MAYBE WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE
SAYING IS, "LORD, DO WHATEVER
00:25:37.43\00:25:40.43
YOU NEED TO DO TO SAVE THEM"?
00:25:40.43\00:25:42.63
BECAUSE WHAT GOOD WILL IT
BE IF THEY'RE COMFORTABLE AND
00:25:42.63\00:25:45.56
PROTECTED AND SO THEY DIE IN
THEIR BED OF OLD AGE AND THEY'RE
00:25:45.56\00:25:49.06
LOST.
00:25:49.06\00:25:50.53
WOULDN'T YOU RATHER HAVE
GOD DO WHATEVER HE NEEDS TO DO
00:25:50.53\00:25:53.60
TO SAVE THEM?
00:25:53.60\00:25:55.73
SO, YOU MIGHT PRAY
THAT GOD'LL SEND A FAMINE.
00:25:55.73\00:25:58.26
THAT'S WHAT ELIJAH-- DID
THAT FAMINE BRING THE NATION
00:25:58.26\00:26:00.76
BACK TO GOD?
00:26:00.76\00:26:02.43
IT DID.
00:26:02.43\00:26:03.83
IT BROUGHT A REVIVAL ULTIMATELY.
00:26:03.83\00:26:07.96
SO, A FAMINE AROSE.
00:26:07.96\00:26:10.86
NOW WHILE THAT YOUNG MAN WAS
BUYING DRINKS FOR EVERYBODY IN
00:26:10.86\00:26:18.20
THAT FOREIGN LAND, WHEN
HE HAD MONEY, HE PROBABLY HAD
00:26:18.20\00:26:20.46
A LOT OF FRIENDS.
00:26:20.46\00:26:21.13
HE WAS WASTING HIS
SUBSTANCE WITH RIOTOUS LIVING.
00:26:21.13\00:26:24.30
AND YOU CAN BUY THE ILLUSION OF
LOVE IF YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH MONEY.
00:26:24.30\00:26:28.73
I'VE SEEN THAT PLAY OUT.
00:26:28.73\00:26:32.76
IF YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH MONEY, YOU
CAN BE A WRINKLED, OLD MAN OR
00:26:32.76\00:26:37.50
WOMAN AND YOU CAN FIND
SOMEONE WHO'LL SAY, "I LOVE YOU
00:26:37.50\00:26:42.83
AND YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL."
00:26:42.83\00:26:46.06
TRUST ME.
00:26:46.06\00:26:49.26
I'VE SEEN IT.
00:26:49.26\00:26:50.40
IT'S REAL TRAGIC.
00:26:50.40\00:26:53.50
BUT WHEN THE MONEY
RUNS OUT, THE LOVE RUNS OUT.
00:26:53.50\00:26:58.66
THERE'S ANOTHER VERSE IN
THE BIBLE THAT TALKS ABOUT THAT.
00:26:58.66\00:27:01.20
PROVERBS 14:20, "THE POOR MAN IS
HATED EVEN BY HIS OWN NEIGHBOR."
00:27:01.20\00:27:06.93
WHY?
00:27:06.93\00:27:07.76
THE POOR MAN'S
ALWAYS BORROWING EVERYTHING.
00:27:07.76\00:27:09.66
"BUT THE RICH MAN
HAS MANY FRIENDS."
00:27:09.66\00:27:13.23
AND I THINK THERE'S A LITTLE
BIT--NOW, DOES SOLOMON KNOW
00:27:13.23\00:27:14.80
ABOUT RICH MEN?
00:27:14.80\00:27:17.03
WERE THEY FRIENDS?
00:27:17.03\00:27:19.93
AND WHEN THAT YOUNG BOY'S
RESOURCES RAN OUT, HOW MANY
00:27:19.93\00:27:24.86
FRIENDS DID HE HAVE LEFT?
00:27:24.86\00:27:27.86
OH, THERE'S A FAMINE THAT AROSE
IN THAT COUNTRY AND HE BEGAN TO
00:27:27.86\00:27:31.63
BE IN WANT AND HE WENT TO HIS
BUDDIES THAT HE USED TO DRINK
00:27:31.63\00:27:34.10
WITH.
00:27:34.10\00:27:34.73
THEY WERE ALWAYS WILLING TO
TAKE A DRINK WHEN HE WAS BUYING
00:27:34.73\00:27:37.43
OR WHEN THEY NEEDED SOME NEW
CONTRAPTION FOR THEIR CHARIOT.
00:27:37.43\00:27:41.86
HE SAID, "OH,
I'LL BUY IT FOR YOU.
00:27:41.86\00:27:43.40
IT'S ON ME."
00:27:43.40\00:27:44.13
'CAUSE HE FOUND EVERYONE
LIKED HIM WHEN HE WAS GENEROUS,
00:27:44.13\00:27:46.00
THE GOOD OL' GUY.
00:27:46.00\00:27:47.56
AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE'S
OUT AND HE SAID, "HEY, HEY BUD,
00:27:47.56\00:27:50.00
YOU KNOW, I'M KINDA
RUNNIN' A LITTLE SHORT HERE.
00:27:50.00\00:27:52.86
WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO HELP ME?"
00:27:52.86\00:27:53.90
"NO, I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE."
00:27:53.90\00:27:56.26
"NOT NOW, I'M
HAVING HARD TIMES MYSELF."
00:27:56.26\00:27:59.06
NO MAN GAVE HIM ANYTHING.
00:27:59.06\00:28:01.80
NOW, THERE'S SOME
SIGNIFICANCE TO THAT VERSE.
00:28:01.80\00:28:04.23
WHEN WE ARE IN SPIRITUAL WANT,
IS THERE ANYTHING ANY MAN CAN
00:28:04.23\00:28:08.83
REALLY DO FOR US?
00:28:08.83\00:28:11.56
OR DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM THAT
ONLY GOD CAN REALLY ADDRESS?
00:28:11.56\00:28:15.16
AND NO MAN'LL REALLY GIVE
YOU WHAT ONLY GOD CAN GIVE YOU.
00:28:15.16\00:28:18.76
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FIND YOUR
SATISFACTION EXCEPT IN THE LORD.
00:28:18.76\00:28:22.93
SO FINALLY, HE JOINS HIMSELF
TO A CITIZEN OF THAT COUNTRY
00:28:22.93\00:28:30.20
WHO SAYS, "YEAH,
I GOT A JOB FOR YOU.
00:28:30.20\00:28:32.43
I WANT YOU TO FEED MY PIGS."
00:28:32.43\00:28:35.86
AND HE SENDS HIM INTO THE FIELD
THERE AND PIGS LIKE TO WALLOW IN
00:28:35.86\00:28:40.83
THE MUCK, AND HE'S SLOGGING
AROUND OUT THERE IN THE MIRE AND
00:28:40.83\00:28:45.10
THE MUCK AND HE'S SLOPPING PIGS.
00:28:45.10\00:28:48.66
HE'S THROWING
HUSKS OUT TO THE PIGS.
00:28:48.66\00:28:51.40
AND YOU KNOW,
THAT'S A DIRTY JOB.
00:28:51.40\00:28:55.36
I'VE GOT A NEIGHBOR THAT
HAD PIGS WHEN WE LIVED UP IN
00:28:55.36\00:28:57.36
THE HILLS.
00:28:57.36\00:28:58.23
AND ONCE THEY HAD TO LEAVE TOWN,
HE NOT ONLY ASKED ME IF I'D MILK
00:28:58.23\00:29:00.93
THE GOAT AND FEED THE HORSE, BUT
HE SAID, "AND CAN YOU TAKE CARE
00:29:00.93\00:29:04.63
OF OUR PIGS?"
00:29:04.63\00:29:05.70
AND I'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO FIND
A BETTER WAY TO DESCRIBE WHAT
00:29:05.70\00:29:09.00
THAT'S LIKE EXCEPT TO
TELL YOU THAT PIGS ARE PIGS.
00:29:09.00\00:29:13.00
THEY GOT A WHOLE WORD THAT'S
GROWN UP AROUND THEIR REPUTATION
00:29:13.00\00:29:15.90
BECAUSE THEY STINK AND THEY'RE
FILTHY AND THEY'RE UNCOUTH.
00:29:15.90\00:29:19.73
AND IF YOU'RE A JEW, WHAT WOULD
BE THE LOWEST THING THAT YOU
00:29:19.73\00:29:25.46
COULD END UP DOING?
00:29:25.46\00:29:27.80
CHRIST IS SPEAKING NOW, OF
COURSE, TO JEWISH LISTENERS.
00:29:27.80\00:29:30.76
AND THEY UNDERSTAND.
00:29:30.76\00:29:32.16
JUST TO REMIND YOU, EVEN JESUS
SAID, SPEAKING OF THE PIGPEN,
00:29:32.16\00:29:36.16
"DO NOT GIVE WHAT IS HOLY TO THE
DOGS NOR CAST YOUR PEARLS BEFORE
00:29:36.16\00:29:42.06
SWINE FOR THEY WILL TRAMPLE
THEM UNDER THEIR FEET AND TURN
00:29:42.06\00:29:45.66
AND TEAR YOU IN PIECES."
00:29:45.66\00:29:47.36
AGAIN, PETER SAYS, "BUT IT'S
HAPPENED TO THEM ACCORDING TO
00:29:47.36\00:29:49.73
THE TRUE PROVERB; THE DOG
HAS RETURNED TO HIS OWN VOMIT,
00:29:49.73\00:29:52.36
AND THE PIG HAVING BEEN WASHED
WHO ARE WALLOWING IN THE MIRE."
00:29:52.36\00:29:56.26
SOME OF YOU REMEMBER
THAT CARTOON WRITTEN BY
00:29:56.26\00:30:00.16
CHARLES SCHULTZ, "PEANUTS."
00:30:00.16\00:30:02.20
AND ONE OF THE
CHARACTERS, WHAT WAS HIS NAME?
00:30:02.20\00:30:04.76
PIGPEN.
00:30:04.76\00:30:06.16
AND EVERYWHERE HE WENT, HE
TOOK WITH HIM THIS ATMOSPHERE OF
00:30:06.16\00:30:10.13
FILTH THAT JUST SWIRLED AROUND
HIM AND HE ALWAYS HAD FLIES
00:30:10.13\00:30:13.63
BUZZING AROUND HIM.
00:30:13.63\00:30:15.23
AND MAYBE CHARLES SCHULTZ HAD
A FRIEND LIKE THAT GROWING UP.
00:30:15.23\00:30:19.56
WE PROBABLY ALL KNOW SOMEBODY
IN SCHOOL, ESPECIALLY ELEMENTARY
00:30:19.56\00:30:22.73
SCHOOL.
00:30:22.73\00:30:23.80
HOPEFULLY, THEY GROW OUT OF IT.
00:30:23.80\00:30:25.53
THAT ALWAYS SHOWED UP LOOKING
A LITTLE BIT LIKE PIGPEN,
00:30:25.53\00:30:28.66
AND YOU WORRIED ABOUT
THEIR HOME SITUATION, RIGHT?
00:30:28.66\00:30:32.76
GOD'S GOT SOME CHILDREN
OUT THERE IN THE WORLD THAT
00:30:32.76\00:30:35.46
ARE LIKE PIGPEN.
00:30:35.46\00:30:37.73
AND IN THEIR THOUGHTS AND IN
THEIR LIVES AND IN THEIR ATTIRE,
00:30:37.73\00:30:41.53
THEY JUST LOOK LIKE THE WORLD.
00:30:41.53\00:30:43.70
AND THEY'RE FILTHY, THEY'RE
POOR AND THEY'RE WRETCHED
00:30:43.70\00:30:50.16
AND THEY'RE MISERABLE.
00:30:50.16\00:30:53.93
YOU REMEMBER THE
DEMONIAC THAT JESUS DELIVERED?
00:30:53.93\00:30:57.16
AND HE CAST THE DEVILS
OUT AND WHERE'D THE DEVILS GO?
00:30:57.16\00:31:00.73
THEY WENT INTO THE PIGS.
00:31:00.73\00:31:02.93
THAT MAN WHO WAS LIVING THERE
AMONG THE DEAD WAS SURROUNDED
00:31:02.93\00:31:05.43
BY PIGS.
00:31:05.43\00:31:07.23
THAT'S THE PICTURE OF
THE LOST WORLD THAT WE'RE IN,
00:31:07.23\00:31:10.40
AND HE ENDED UP IN THE PIGPEN.
00:31:10.40\00:31:13.76
STARTED OUT THINKING, "OH,
I'LL BE SO MUCH BETTER OFF IF
00:31:13.76\00:31:16.16
I CAN JUST GET AWAY FROM HOME.
00:31:16.16\00:31:17.30
I'LL BE FREE."
00:31:17.30\00:31:20.26
AND THEN, HE BEGAN TO FIND OUT,
"YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT AS NICE AS
00:31:20.26\00:31:23.33
I THOUGHT."
00:31:23.33\00:31:25.76
EVENTUALLY, YOU MIGHT
ENJOY THE PLEASURES OF SIN FOR
00:31:25.76\00:31:28.76
A SEASON BUT IT DOESN'T LAST.
00:31:28.76\00:31:31.23
YOUR SIN WILL FIND YOU OUT
AND THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS THERE IN
00:31:31.23\00:31:33.63
NUMBERS 32:23, THERE ARE
ALWAYS DIFFICULT RETURNS ON
00:31:33.63\00:31:41.36
THE INVESTMENT WITH SIN.
00:31:41.36\00:31:45.00
WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK,
PROBABLY JUST AFTER A WHILE,
00:31:45.00\00:31:50.20
FEEDING THOSE PIGS, GETTING
SO HUNGRY THAT HE COULD FEEL THE
00:31:50.20\00:31:56.30
TOP OF HIS STOMACH SHAKING HANDS
WITH THE BOTTOM OF HIS STOMACH.
00:31:56.30\00:31:59.90
AND EVEN THE HUSKS
OF THE PIGS LOOKED GOOD.
00:31:59.90\00:32:06.33
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SO HUNGRY
THAT YOU'D EAT EVEN THE FOOD
00:32:06.33\00:32:09.10
YOU LIKE THE LEAST?
00:32:09.10\00:32:13.73
I WON'T TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE,
BUT I'VE GOT SOME THINGS THAT
00:32:13.73\00:32:19.63
I JUST CAN'T EAT, I DON'T
KNOW HOW ANYBODY CAN EAT 'EM.
00:32:19.63\00:32:24.56
WELL, I'LL TELL
YOU WHAT THEY ARE.
00:32:24.56\00:32:26.76
IT'S BEETS.
00:32:26.76\00:32:28.53
FIRST TIME I ATE
BEETS, I THOUGHT, "WHY WOULD
00:32:28.53\00:32:31.63
ANYBODY EAT DIRT?"
00:32:31.63\00:32:32.86
IT TASTED LIKE DIRT TO ME.
00:32:32.86\00:32:34.76
I SEE SOME OF YOU NODDING.
00:32:34.76\00:32:35.60
IT'S JUST WE'RE
ALL MADE DIFFERENT.
00:32:35.60\00:32:37.93
CAN I HAVE AN AMEN?
00:32:37.93\00:32:41.76
HA HA!
00:32:41.76\00:32:44.23
BUT I'VE NEVER BEEN
HUNGRY ENOUGH TO EAT BEETS.
00:32:44.23\00:32:46.66
HE WAS SO HUNGRY, HE WAS
WILLING TO EAT THE PIGS' FOOD.
00:32:46.66\00:32:53.00
NOW, SOMEONE'S GOING TO BRING
BEETS TO THE POTLUCK TODAY.
00:32:53.00\00:33:01.60
AND THEN, HE BEGAN TO YEARN
AFTER THE AROMA OF THE FRESH
00:33:01.60\00:33:06.06
BAKED BREAD IN HIS
FATHER'S HOUSE AND TO THINK,
00:33:06.06\00:33:11.40
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?
00:33:11.40\00:33:13.13
I HAD IT SO GOOD.
00:33:13.13\00:33:14.16
HERE, I WAS WEARING BRAND-NEW
CLOTHES OFF THE HANGER.
00:33:14.16\00:33:17.76
AND NOW, I'M WEARING RAGS.
00:33:17.76\00:33:20.70
I HAD A CLEAN BATH EVERY DAY.
00:33:20.70\00:33:22.20
AND NOW, I STINK
WITH NOWHERE TO BE CLEAN.
00:33:22.20\00:33:27.03
I WAS SURROUNDED WITH
SERVANTS AND NOW I'M SURROUNDED
00:33:27.03\00:33:29.40
WITH PIGS.
00:33:29.40\00:33:31.20
I HAD FRIENDS THAT WOULD
ALWAYS SHARE AND LEND, AND
00:33:31.20\00:33:34.50
NOW NOBODY'LL GIVE ME ANYTHING.
00:33:34.50\00:33:37.06
I HAD A FAMILY, AND NOW
I'M SERVING A STRANGER."
00:33:37.06\00:33:40.36
AND HE SAYS, "HOW MANY SERVANTS
IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE EAT BETTER
00:33:40.36\00:33:47.10
THAN ME?
00:33:47.10\00:33:48.43
THEY'VE GOT AN ABUNDANCE
OF BREAD, THE SERVANTS DO."
00:33:48.43\00:33:56.00
AND FINALLY, HE
CAME TO HIS SENSES.
00:33:56.00\00:33:59.03
LUKE 15:17, "WHEN HE CAME TO
HIMSELF, HE SAID, 'HOW MANY OF
00:33:59.03\00:34:04.23
MY FATHER'S HIRED SERVANTS
HAVE BREAD ENOUGH AND TO SPARE
00:34:04.23\00:34:07.76
AND I PERISH WITH HUNGER?'"
YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T NEED
00:34:07.76\00:34:13.20
TO EAT THE PIGS' SLOP.
00:34:13.20\00:34:15.60
GOD WANTS US TO
COME TO OUR SENSES.
00:34:15.60\00:34:18.40
SOMETIMES IT TAKES A
WHILE FOR PEOPLE TO REALIZE,
00:34:18.40\00:34:21.36
"WHAT AM I DOING IN THE PIG PEN?
00:34:21.36\00:34:23.46
I COULD BE IN
THE FATHER'S HOUSE."
00:34:23.46\00:34:25.50
YOU'LL NEVER FIND SATISFACTION
WITH WHAT THE WORLD HAS
00:34:25.50\00:34:28.60
TO OFFER.
00:34:28.60\00:34:29.26
YOU'LL ONLY FIND IT
IN THE BREAD OF GOD.
00:34:29.26\00:34:31.56
THERE IS BREAD IN
THE FATHER'S HOUSE.
00:34:31.56\00:34:34.66
NOW, WHAT IS THE FATHER'S HOUSE?
00:34:34.66\00:34:36.56
WELL ULTIMATELY, JESUS SAID,
"I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR
00:34:36.56\00:34:38.93
YOU; IN MY FATHER'S
HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS."
00:34:38.93\00:34:41.53
ULTIMATELY, THE
FATHER'S HOUSE IS HEAVEN.
00:34:41.53\00:34:44.70
WHILE WE'RE IN THIS
WORLD, THE CLOSEST THING TO THE
00:34:44.70\00:34:47.06
FATHER'S HOUSE IS THE CHURCH,
WHAT WE CALL THE "HOUSE OF GOD."
00:34:47.06\00:34:51.20
AND WHEN YOU COME TO CHURCH
EVERY WEEK, AND WE OPEN UP
00:34:51.20\00:34:54.76
THE BIBLE, THIS
IS THE BREAD OF LIFE.
00:34:54.76\00:34:57.90
THERE IS BREAD IN THE
FATHER'S HOUSE AND TO SPARE.
00:34:57.90\00:35:01.36
THERE IS AN ABUNDANCE.
00:35:01.36\00:35:02.73
THE FAMINE, THERE'S A FAMINE
FOR THE WORD OF GOD OUT THERE
00:35:02.73\00:35:06.40
IN THE WORLD.
00:35:06.40\00:35:07.66
YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF
AMOS CHAPTER 8, "'THE DAYS ARE
00:35:07.66\00:35:09.66
COMING,' SAYS THE
LORD, 'WHEN I WILL
00:35:09.66\00:35:11.16
SEND A FAMINE ON THE
LAND.'" NOT A FAMINE FOR FOOD
00:35:11.16\00:35:14.10
OR A THIRST FOR WATER, BUT
FOR HEARING THE WORD OF GOD
00:35:14.10\00:35:18.23
AND MEN'LL WANDER FROM
NORTH TO SOUTH AND EAST TO WEST
00:35:18.23\00:35:21.33
LOOKING FOR THE WORD OF
GOD AND THEY'LL NOT FIND IT.
00:35:21.33\00:35:26.53
YOU LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE TALK
ABOUT OUT THERE IN THE WORLD,
00:35:26.53\00:35:29.10
AND SOME OF THE GOOFY
THINGS THAT PEOPLE BELIEVE AND
00:35:29.10\00:35:33.13
THE EMPTY THINGS, THE
HUSKS THAT THEY'RE EATING.
00:35:33.13\00:35:36.43
WHY DO YOU WANT TO EAT
THAT WHICH IS NOT BREAD?
00:35:36.43\00:35:40.13
AND THERE'S NO SATISFACTION.
00:35:40.13\00:35:41.50
THERE'S NO NUTRITIONAL VALUE
IN THE FOOD OF THE WORLD, BUT
00:35:41.50\00:35:45.60
THERE'S BREAD IN THE FATHER'S
HOUSE THAT WILL SATISFY YOU.
00:35:45.60\00:35:49.56
IT'LL GIVE YOU A
PURPOSE FOR LIVING.
00:35:49.56\00:35:52.16
IT'LL NOURISH YOUR SOUL.
00:35:52.16\00:35:53.56
BY THE WAY, WHAT IS THAT BREAD?
00:35:53.56\00:35:55.56
JESUS SAID, "I AM THE BREAD
THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN."
00:35:55.56\00:35:58.33
CHRIST IS THE WORD.
00:35:58.33\00:36:00.63
CHRIST IS THAT BREAD OF LIFE.
00:36:00.63\00:36:02.53
AND SO, HE SAID, "I'M GOING TO
GO BACK TO WHERE THE BREAD IS.
00:36:02.53\00:36:07.03
WHY DID I EVER LEAVE?"
00:36:07.03\00:36:08.80
YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE
WHO ARE RAISED IN THE CHURCH
00:36:08.80\00:36:12.83
ARE AT RISK.
00:36:12.83\00:36:14.30
'CAUSE IF YOU GREW UP SURROUNDED
WITH FRESH BREAD EVERY DAY,
00:36:14.30\00:36:17.66
YOU GET TO WHERE
YOU TAKE IT FOR GRANTED.
00:36:17.66\00:36:19.76
YOU GET OUT THERE IN THE
WORLD AND YOU START FINDING OUT
00:36:19.76\00:36:22.40
THE BIZARRE AND ZANY AND EMPTY
THINGS THAT THE WORLD BELIEVES,
00:36:22.40\00:36:26.13
THEIR IDEA OF BREAD, AND HOW
PEOPLE JUST CHASE THEIR OWN TAIL
00:36:26.13\00:36:30.16
LOOKING FOR PURPOSE OUT
THERE AND DO THE CRAZIEST THINGS
00:36:30.16\00:36:34.76
TRYING TO FIND HAPPINESS.
00:36:34.76\00:36:36.20
AND YOU START THINKING,
"WHAT AM I DOING OUT HERE?
00:36:36.20\00:36:39.46
IN THE CHURCH, I HAD PURPOSE.
00:36:39.46\00:36:42.13
IN THE CHURCH, I HAD
TRUTH THAT SATISFIES."
00:36:42.13\00:36:48.20
SO, HE CAME TO HIMSELF.
00:36:48.20\00:36:50.16
AND YOU NOTICE IT ALSO
SAYS, "THE SERVANTS HAVE BREAD
00:36:50.16\00:36:54.60
ENOUGH AND TO SPARE."
00:36:54.60\00:36:56.96
YOU KNOW, WHEN
JESUS FED THE MULTITUDES,
00:36:56.96\00:36:58.80
WAS THERE BREAD TO SPARE?
00:36:58.80\00:37:01.06
WERE THERE LEFTOVERS?
00:37:01.06\00:37:02.76
WHEN ELISHA, NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE
KNOW THIS STORY, WHEN ELISHA
00:37:02.76\00:37:06.56
MULTIPLIED THE BREAD IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT, THERE WAS EXTRA.
00:37:06.56\00:37:10.13
WHEN HE MULTIPLIED
THE OIL, THERE WAS EXTRA.
00:37:10.13\00:37:12.83
GOD HAS LEFTOVERS.
00:37:12.83\00:37:15.43
SO, HE REALIZES, "YOU KNOW,
I NEED TO GO BACK TO MY FATHER
00:37:15.43\00:37:18.13
AND I'M GOING TO
MAKE CONFESSION."
00:37:18.13\00:37:21.43
HE SAID, "I WILL ARISE AND I'LL
GO TO MY FATHER AND I'LL SAY,
00:37:21.43\00:37:24.16
'FATHER, I HAVE SINNED AGAINST
HEAVEN AND AGAINST THEE AND I'M
00:37:24.16\00:37:26.86
NO MORE WORTHY TO
BE CALLED THY SON.'"
00:37:26.86\00:37:30.13
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT
HAS TO HAPPEN IF WE'RE GOING
00:37:30.13\00:37:32.20
TO MAKE OUR WAY HOME, WE NEED
TO REALIZE THIS IS GOING TO BE
00:37:32.20\00:37:35.43
GRACE IF OUR
FATHER TAKES US BACK.
00:37:35.43\00:37:37.43
WE DON'T DESERVE IT.
00:37:37.43\00:37:38.86
HE WENT OUT PROUD.
00:37:38.86\00:37:40.86
HE'S COMING HOME HUMBLE.
00:37:40.86\00:37:43.10
SO WHEN YOU COME HOME, IT NEEDS
TO BE WITH A SPIRIT OF HUMILITY,
00:37:43.10\00:37:47.90
REALIZING, "YOU KNOW,
I'VE WASTED MY LIFE, I'VE
00:37:47.90\00:37:50.73
WASTED MANY PRECIOUS YEARS."
00:37:50.73\00:37:53.43
HOSEA 14:1-2, "O ISRAEL,
RETURN TO THE LORD YOUR GOD,
00:37:53.43\00:37:59.73
FOR YOU HAVE STUMBLED
BECAUSE OF YOUR INIQUITY."
00:37:59.73\00:38:02.60
LISTEN TO THIS, "TAKE WORDS
WITH YOU, AND RETURN TO THE LORD
00:38:02.60\00:38:06.80
AND SAY TO HIM, 'TAKE AWAY ALL
INIQUITY; RECEIVE US GRACIOUSLY,
00:38:06.80\00:38:12.03
FOR WE WILL OFFER THE
SACRIFICES OF OUR LIPS.'"
00:38:12.03\00:38:15.40
THE SON WAS PREPARING A SPEECH.
00:38:15.40\00:38:18.36
WHEN WE COME BACK TO GOD,
SHOULD WE TAKE WORDS WITH US?
00:38:18.36\00:38:22.20
WHAT DOES THIS SYMBOLIZE?
00:38:22.20\00:38:23.93
PART OF THE STEP--ONE
OF THE STEPS IN SALVATION
00:38:23.93\00:38:27.66
IS CONFESSION.
00:38:27.66\00:38:29.60
IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU OFTEN HEAR
PREACHERS TALK ABOUT COMING BACK
00:38:29.60\00:38:34.63
TO GOD AND THEY'LL SIMPLY SAY,
"YOU JUST COME AND YOU REPEAT
00:38:34.63\00:38:37.60
THIS PRAYER, AND NOW
YOU'VE GOT ETERNAL LIFE."
00:38:37.60\00:38:39.50
AND WE REALLY DON'T TEACH WHAT
IT MEANS TO HUMBLE OURSELVES, TO
00:38:39.50\00:38:43.46
REPENT AND TO
CONFESS TO GOD OUR SINS.
00:38:43.46\00:38:47.86
YOU DON'T CONFESS 'EM TO PEOPLE.
00:38:47.86\00:38:49.96
THERE MIGHT BE SOMEONE YOU NEED
TO APOLOGIZE WITH OR RECONCILE
00:38:49.96\00:38:52.43
WITH AND SOMETIMES, THERE'S
RIGHTS THAT NEED TO BE RIGHTED
00:38:52.43\00:38:57.10
OR WRONGS THAT NEED TO BE
RIGHTED WITH OTHER INDIVIDUALS.
00:38:57.10\00:39:01.66
BUT YOU SHOULD CONFESS YOUR
SINS TO GOD, AND YOU KNOW WHAT
00:39:01.66\00:39:05.80
THEY ARE.
00:39:05.80\00:39:07.26
YOU MIGHT EVEN
ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:39:07.26\00:39:09.56
TO HELP YOU MAKE A LIST,
AND WE'RE TO COME TO THE LORD.
00:39:09.56\00:39:14.33
NOW, HE BEGINS TO
MAKE THIS JOURNEY.
00:39:14.33\00:39:16.96
AND THIS IS ONE OF THE
BEAUTIFUL PARTS OF THE STORY.
00:39:16.96\00:39:19.30
SO, THE BOY GETS UP AND IT
SAYS HE'S GONE TO A FAR COUNTRY.
00:39:19.30\00:39:22.56
HE PROBABLY--THE FIRST THING
HE DID WHEN HE GOT OUT OF TOWN
00:39:22.56\00:39:25.33
IS HE BOUGHT A
CHARIOT WHEN HE LEFT.
00:39:25.33\00:39:27.66
AND HE RODE THIS GILDED
CHARIOT TO THIS FAR COUNTRY.
00:39:27.66\00:39:30.40
NOW, THE CHARIOT'S BEEN PAWNED.
00:39:30.40\00:39:32.46
HIS CLOTHES AND HIS
JEWELS HAVE ALL BEEN PAWNED.
00:39:32.46\00:39:35.63
HE'S GOT NOTHING.
00:39:35.63\00:39:36.60
HE'S GOING BACK HOME ON FOOT.
00:39:36.60\00:39:39.33
HIS SANDALS ARE WORN
OUT IF HE EVEN HAS THEM,
00:39:39.33\00:39:42.16
AND IT'S A LONG TRIP.
00:39:42.16\00:39:44.40
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THE
JOURNEY HOME TAKES A WHILE.
00:39:44.40\00:39:49.23
YOU CAN READ WHERE EVEN MARY AND
JOSEPH TOOK THEIR EYES OF JESUS
00:39:49.23\00:39:52.43
AND IT SAYS, "WHEN THEY FOUND
CHRIST, WE HAD SPENT THREE DAYS
00:39:52.43\00:39:56.53
SORROWING, SEARCHING FOR YOU."
00:39:56.53\00:39:59.00
WE TAKE OUR EYES OFF CHRIST,
IT MIGHT TAKE A WHILE TO FIND
00:39:59.00\00:40:01.40
OUR WAY BACK.
00:40:01.40\00:40:02.70
SOME PEOPLE HAVE A REVOLVING
DOOR IDEA OF GOD THAT YOU CAN
00:40:02.70\00:40:07.00
LEAVE HIM AND COME BACK
AND LEAVE HIM AND COME BACK.
00:40:07.00\00:40:08.93
IT'S DANGEROUS TO LEAVE HIM
BECAUSE SOMETIMES, YOU WANDER
00:40:08.93\00:40:11.43
AWAY FROM THE LORD AND YOU
GO, YOU KNOW, 10 MILES IN THIS
00:40:11.43\00:40:14.76
DIRECTION, YOU'VE GOT TO
TURN AROUND AND BACKTRACK.
00:40:14.76\00:40:17.80
GOD'LL RECEIVE YOU RIGHT AWAY,
BUT SOMETIMES IT'S A PROCESS TO
00:40:17.80\00:40:21.90
EXTRICATE
YOURSELF FROM THE PIGPEN.
00:40:21.90\00:40:25.63
SO, HE BEGINS HIS JOURNEY HOME.
00:40:25.63\00:40:28.06
"AND HE AROSE," I LIKE ALL THE
TIMES I FIND IN THE BIBLE WHERE
00:40:28.06\00:40:32.70
IT SAYS WHEN PEOPLE
CAME TO GOD, "THEY AROSE,"
00:40:32.70\00:40:35.93
"AND CAME TO HIS FATHER."
00:40:35.93\00:40:38.43
GOD SAID TO JONAH,
"ARISE AND DO MY WILL."
00:40:38.43\00:40:42.56
INSTEAD, HE WENT DOWN TO JOPPA.
00:40:42.56\00:40:45.73
"BUT WHILE HE WAS STILL A GREAT
WAY OFF, HIS FATHER SAW HIM."
00:40:45.73\00:40:51.73
HOW IS IT HIS
FATHER SAW HIM SO SOON?
00:40:51.73\00:40:56.60
BECAUSE THE FATHER
IS LOOKING FOR HIM.
00:40:56.60\00:41:00.70
CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT
THANKSGIVING WAS LIKE IN THAT
00:41:00.70\00:41:02.96
FATHER'S HOUSE WITH
THAT EMPTY CHAIR EVERY YEAR?
00:41:02.96\00:41:06.56
AND HE JUST CONSTANTLY THOUGHT
ABOUT THAT SON THAT WAS MISSING.
00:41:06.56\00:41:09.60
WHAT DO YOU THINK IT DID TO
THE LIVING--NOT THE LIVING SON,
00:41:09.60\00:41:13.23
THE SON THAT STAYED HOME
WHEN HE SAW THE FATHER PINING
00:41:13.23\00:41:18.66
FOR THE MISSING SON?
00:41:18.66\00:41:20.93
HE PROBABLY BEGAN TO
GET A LITTLE BIT RESENTFUL.
00:41:20.93\00:41:23.56
HE SAID, "LOOK, I'M
STILL HERE AND I SEE YOU ALL
00:41:23.56\00:41:25.56
THE TIME LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD.
00:41:25.56\00:41:27.13
WHAT ABOUT ME?"
00:41:27.13\00:41:29.26
AND I THINK DURING THE
TIME THE FATHER WAS LONGING FOR
00:41:29.26\00:41:32.33
AND PINING AND YEARNING FOR THIS
MISSING SON, HE KEPT GLANCING UP
00:41:32.33\00:41:37.23
THE ROAD, WISTFULLY,
WISHING HIS SON WOULD COME BACK.
00:41:37.23\00:41:40.36
SO THAT AS SOON AS HE SAW
THE FAMILIAR SILHOUETTE OF HIS
00:41:40.36\00:41:43.63
SON CRESTING THE HILL, EVEN
THOUGH HIS STEP WAS A LITTLE
00:41:43.63\00:41:48.80
SLOWER, HE SAID, "THAT'S HIM.
00:41:48.80\00:41:51.83
HE IS COMING HOME."
00:41:51.83\00:41:53.80
DID THE FATHER SAY, "LOOK, I'M
GOING TO WAIT UNTIL HE COMES TO
00:41:53.80\00:41:56.03
THE FRONT DOOR AND I'M GOING
TO TAP MY FOOT AND FOLD MY ARMS
00:41:56.03\00:41:58.00
AND SAY, 'WELL, LOOK AT YOU!
00:41:58.00\00:42:01.20
WHERE ARE THOSE FINE
CLOTHES THAT YOU WERE WEARING?
00:42:01.20\00:42:03.76
YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SO SMART.
00:42:03.76\00:42:05.73
YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN TO ME.
00:42:05.73\00:42:06.73
I WAS RIGHT, WASN'T I?
00:42:06.73\00:42:08.16
ALL THOSE LECTURES THAT
YOU WEREN'T LISTENING TO!'"
00:42:08.16\00:42:11.23
IS THAT WHAT THE FATHER DOES?
00:42:11.23\00:42:14.56
THAT'S WHAT MY FATHER DID.
00:42:14.56\00:42:17.83
AND SOMETIMES, I THINK THOSE OF
US THAT ARE HERE, WE DON'T ACT
00:42:17.83\00:42:20.76
LIKE THE FATHER IN THE PARABLE.
00:42:20.76\00:42:22.96
MOMS AND DADS, WHEN OUR KIDS
MAKE MISTAKES AND WE TOLD THEM
00:42:22.96\00:42:26.60
NOT TO GET INTO TROUBLE AND
THEY GET INTO TROUBLE, WE LIKE
00:42:26.60\00:42:29.56
SOMETIMES FOLD OUR ARMS
AND SAY, "I TOLD YOU SO."
00:42:29.56\00:42:33.43
BUT IT DOESN'T SAY
THE FATHER DID THAT.
00:42:33.43\00:42:35.23
YOU KNOW WHY?
00:42:35.23\00:42:36.93
I'M SLOWLY LEARNING.
00:42:36.93\00:42:38.23
YOU USUALLY DON'T HAVE TO
TELL A PERSON WHEN THEY'VE DONE
00:42:38.23\00:42:40.20
SOMETHING DUMB.
00:42:40.20\00:42:41.93
THEY USUALLY KNOW IT.
00:42:41.93\00:42:43.90
AND WHAT THEY REALLY
NEED IS NOT YOUR LECTURE,
00:42:43.90\00:42:47.20
THEY NEED YOUR ACCEPTANCE.
00:42:47.20\00:42:50.56
NOW, THERE MIGHT BE TIMES
WITH OUR KIDS THAT YOU MIGHT
00:42:50.56\00:42:53.46
NEED TO DEBRIEF A LITTLE BIT.
00:42:53.46\00:42:56.46
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:42:56.46\00:42:57.90
BUT WHAT THEY REALLY NEED
IS ACCEPTANCE WHEN THEY'VE MADE
00:42:57.90\00:43:00.53
MISTAKES.
00:43:00.53\00:43:02.30
AND SO, HE BEGAN
HIS JOURNEY HOME.
00:43:02.30\00:43:05.26
AND HE SAW HIM COMING NEAR.
00:43:05.26\00:43:07.06
WHAT DID THE FATHER DO?
00:43:07.06\00:43:08.16
HE RAN AND HE HAD COMPASSION.
00:43:08.16\00:43:10.06
INSTANTLY, HE WAS
FILLED WITH COMPASSION.
00:43:10.06\00:43:12.83
"AND HE FELL ON HIS
NECK AND HE KISSED HIM."
00:43:12.83\00:43:16.23
IMMEDIATELY, HE
RECEIVES HIM, HE EMBRACES HIM.
00:43:16.23\00:43:20.26
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS IN
JAMES 4:8, "DRAW NEAR TO GOD
00:43:20.26\00:43:24.30
AND HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU."
00:43:24.30\00:43:27.13
AS SOON AS GOD SEES YOU DRAWING
NEAR, YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER,
00:43:27.13\00:43:30.40
HE RUNS TO MEET YOU.
00:43:30.40\00:43:33.00
HEBREWS 10:22, "LET US DRAW
NEAR WITH A TRUE HEART IN FULL
00:43:33.00\00:43:37.76
ASSURANCE OF FAITH, HAVING OUR
HEARTS SPRINKLED FROM AN EVIL
00:43:37.76\00:43:40.93
CONSCIENCE AND OUR
BODIES WASHED WITH PURE WATER."
00:43:40.93\00:43:43.93
DRAW NEAR.
00:43:43.93\00:43:45.80
1 CHRONICLES 28:9, "IF YOU SEEK
HIM, HE WILL BE FOUND BY YOU.
00:43:45.80\00:43:51.93
BUT IF YOU FORSAKE HIM,
HE'LL CAST YOU OFF FOREVER."
00:43:51.93\00:43:54.40
THAT'S WHAT
DAVID SAID TO SOLOMON.
00:43:54.40\00:43:55.96
SEEK GOD, HE WILL BE FOUND.
00:43:55.96\00:43:57.50
HE WANTS TO BE FOUND BY
YOU, BUT WE NEED TO COME HOME.
00:43:57.50\00:44:01.70
WE NEED TO DRAW NEAR TO GOD.
00:44:01.70\00:44:03.50
MALACHI 3:7, "'YET FROM THE DAYS
OF YOUR FATHERS, YOU HAVE GONE
00:44:03.50\00:44:08.10
AWAY FROM ME, FROM MY ORDINANCE,
AND YOU'VE NOT KEPT THEM.
00:44:08.10\00:44:12.16
RETURN TO ME AND I
WILL RETURN TO YOU,'
00:44:12.16\00:44:15.60
SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS."
00:44:15.60\00:44:17.23
SO ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE, DO
YOU SEE THAT IF WE ARE WILLING
00:44:17.23\00:44:19.90
TO REPENT, IF WE'RE WILLING
TO CONFESS, IF WE'RE WILLING
00:44:19.90\00:44:22.10
TO COME BACK TO GOD AND SOFTEN
OUR HEARTS AND HUMBLE OURSELVES,
00:44:22.10\00:44:26.23
HE'LL RECEIVE US?
00:44:26.23\00:44:28.60
HE'LL RUN TO MEET US.
00:44:28.60\00:44:30.53
AND HOW DID THE
FATHER ACCEPT HIM?
00:44:30.53\00:44:33.06
HE PUT THE BEST ROBE ON HIM.
00:44:33.06\00:44:34.93
WHAT DOES THAT REPRESENT?
00:44:34.93\00:44:36.36
HE COVERS HIS FILTH.
00:44:36.36\00:44:38.06
THAT'S JUSTIFICATION.
00:44:38.06\00:44:39.10
THAT'S THE ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
THAT GOD'LL GIVE TO EVERYBODY
00:44:39.10\00:44:41.63
THAT COMES TO HIM.
00:44:41.63\00:44:43.70
JUST LIKE WE ARE, HE THEN
COVERS UP THE WHOLE MISTAKE OF
00:44:43.70\00:44:47.30
THE PIGPEN WITH HIS BEST ROBE.
00:44:47.30\00:44:50.46
WHY IS IT THE BEST ROBE?
00:44:50.46\00:44:52.60
WHAT DID JACOB MAKE FOR
JOSEPH, HIS SON THAT HE LOVED,
00:44:52.60\00:44:56.10
THE BEST ROBE?
00:44:56.10\00:44:57.63
JACOB WAS LIKE THE FATHER,
JOSEPH LIKE JESUS THE SON
00:44:57.63\00:45:02.06
HAD THE BEST ROBE.
00:45:02.06\00:45:05.10
AND HOW DID THE BROTHERS
COVER THE SIN, I'M TALKING
00:45:05.10\00:45:08.73
ABOUT JOSEPH'S BROTHERS?
00:45:08.73\00:45:10.10
WHEN THEY TOOK THE ROBE
FROM JOSEPH, THEY COVERED IT
00:45:10.10\00:45:13.06
WITH BLOOD AND THEY
PRESENTED IT TO THE FATHER.
00:45:13.06\00:45:16.33
THIS REPRESENTS THAT
BLOOD-STAINED ROBE OF CHRIST
00:45:16.33\00:45:19.50
THAT HE OFFERS
US TO COVER OUR SIN.
00:45:19.50\00:45:22.23
WE COME JUST AS WE
ARE AND HE ACCEPTS US.
00:45:22.23\00:45:24.93
AND HE PUTS A RING ON HIS FINGER
AND SOME PEOPLE, THEY LIKE
00:45:24.93\00:45:31.46
JEWELRY, AND THEY LOVE TO
POINT TO THIS AND SAY, "AH-HA!"
00:45:31.46\00:45:35.70
AND I LIKE TO REMIND
THEM, "FRIENDS, THAT HAD NOTHING
00:45:35.70\00:45:37.20
TO DO--IT MAY HAVE BEEN
THE UGLIEST RING IN THE WORLD."
00:45:37.20\00:45:39.20
IT WAS A SIGNET RING.
00:45:39.20\00:45:40.90
IT HAD TO DO WITH YOU NOW HAVE
THE AUTHORITY OF THE FAMILY.
00:45:40.90\00:45:44.13
YOU REMEMBER WHEN AHASUERUS
TOLD ESTHER AND MORDECHAI,
00:45:44.13\00:45:46.70
"LOOK, I'M GOING
TO GIVE YOU AUTHORITY.
00:45:46.70\00:45:48.46
HERE'S A RING."
00:45:48.46\00:45:49.46
WHEN JOSEPH WAS BROUGHT
INTO THE PALACE OF PHARAOH,
00:45:49.46\00:45:52.03
HE SAID, "I'M GOING
TO GIVE YOU AUTHORITY.
00:45:52.03\00:45:53.33
HE'S A RING.
00:45:53.33\00:45:54.10
SO, YOU CAN SEAL DOCUMENTS."
00:45:54.10\00:45:55.40
AND THE FATHER WAS SAYING TO
THE SON, "I'M NOT MAKING YOU AS
00:45:55.40\00:45:57.73
A HIRED SERVANT.
00:45:57.73\00:45:58.86
YOU'RE COMING BACK
WITH A FULL STATUS OF A SON.
00:45:58.86\00:46:01.76
I'M GIVING YOU THE BEST ROBE,
AND I'M GIVING YOU A FAMILY
00:46:01.76\00:46:05.00
SIGNET RING SO THAT YOU'VE
GOT THE AUTHORITY OF A SON,
00:46:05.00\00:46:07.86
EVEN THOUGH YOU
WASTED YOUR INHERITANCE."
00:46:07.86\00:46:10.20
THIS IS WHAT GOD IS SAYING,
"BEHOLD WHAT MANNER OF LOVE
00:46:10.20\00:46:13.43
THE FATHER'S BESTOWED
ON US," 1 JOHN CHAPTER 3,
00:46:13.43\00:46:17.00
"THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED
NOT JUST THE SERVANTS OF GOD
00:46:17.00\00:46:20.06
BUT THE SONS OF GOD."
00:46:20.06\00:46:22.06
HE ADOPTS US BACK
IN AS HIS CHILDREN.
00:46:22.06\00:46:25.70
EVEN THOUGH BY EVERY RIGHT,
HE SHOULD SAY, "I'M THROUGH
00:46:25.70\00:46:28.46
WITH YOU, I'M WRITING YOU OFF."
00:46:28.46\00:46:30.56
AND A LOT OF FATHERS DO THAT.
00:46:30.56\00:46:32.83
SONS RUN AWAY FROM HOME.
00:46:32.83\00:46:35.06
THEY SAY, "I'M
THROUGH WITH YOU."
00:46:35.06\00:46:38.00
YOU KNOW, IN SOME RELIGIONS,
SONS GO AWAY AND FATHERS SAY,
00:46:38.00\00:46:42.80
"LOOK, IF YOU CHANGE YOUR
FAITH, I'M GOING TO DISOWN YOU.
00:46:42.80\00:46:45.56
I'M GOING TO ACT
LIKE YOU'RE DEAD."
00:46:45.56\00:46:49.16
HE COMES HOME AND HE
CELEBRATES AND ACCEPTS HIM.
00:46:49.16\00:46:54.03
NOW, THE FATHER SAYS, "BRING THE
FATTED CALF HERE AND KILL IT."
00:46:54.03\00:46:58.60
THERE'S A SACRIFICE THAT'S MADE.
00:46:58.60\00:47:01.46
"AND LET US EAT AND BE MERRY."
00:47:01.46\00:47:03.86
THERE'S REJOICING THAT'S
HAPPENING NOW 'CAUSE THE SON
00:47:03.86\00:47:06.46
HAS COME HOME.
00:47:06.46\00:47:07.53
WHAT HAPPENS IN
HEAVEN WHEN SOMEONE IS SAVED?
00:47:07.53\00:47:11.26
REJOICING IS WHAT HAPPENS.
00:47:11.26\00:47:15.66
YOU CAN READ IN LUKE
15:6, THE SAME CHAPTER,
00:47:15.66\00:47:18.93
"AND WHEN HE COMES HOME,
HE CALLS TOGETHER HIS FRIENDS
00:47:18.93\00:47:22.46
AFTER HE'S FOUND HIS LOST SHEEP.
00:47:22.46\00:47:24.43
HE SAYS, 'REJOICE WITH ME.'"
LUKE 15:9, "AND WHEN SHE FINDS
00:47:24.43\00:47:28.70
THE MISSING COIN, SHE
CALLS HER FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
00:47:28.70\00:47:31.80
TOGETHER SAYING, 'REJOICE
WITH ME FOR I FOUND THE PIECE
00:47:31.80\00:47:35.20
WHICH WAS LOST!'"
LIKEWISE JESUS ADDS, "I SAY TO
00:47:35.20\00:47:39.20
YOU THERE IS JOY IN THE PRESENCE
OF THE ANGELS OF GOD OVER
00:47:39.20\00:47:43.26
ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS."
00:47:43.26\00:47:45.63
YEAH, IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW
FAR AWAY THEY WENT FROM GOD,
00:47:45.63\00:47:48.80
HOW DESPICABLE THEIR WASTE
WAS, HOW MANY PRIVILEGES THEY
00:47:48.80\00:47:53.13
SPURNED, HOW MUCH JESUS SUFFERED
FOR THEM, THERE'S REJOICING
00:47:53.13\00:47:58.10
IN HEAVEN WHEN ONE OF
THOSE CHILDREN COMES HOME.
00:47:58.10\00:48:01.16
AND THAT'S STILL TRUE TODAY.
00:48:01.16\00:48:04.76
NOW, YOU'LL NOTICE IN THE STORY
IT SAYS, "THE PRODIGAL SON,
00:48:04.76\00:48:09.63
PART ONE."
00:48:09.63\00:48:11.60
I WAS EVEN TEMPTED
TO TITLE THIS SERMON,
00:48:11.60\00:48:14.86
"THE PRODIGAL SONS"
BECAUSE THERE'S TWO IN THE STORY
00:48:14.86\00:48:20.40
THAT ARE REALLY PRODIGAL,
JUST IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
00:48:20.40\00:48:24.06
RIGHT NOW, WE'RE GOING TO
PAUSE AND THINK ABOUT THE BEAUTY
00:48:24.06\00:48:29.33
OF THE FATHER'S RECEPTION.
00:48:29.33\00:48:31.86
HE FULLY RECEIVES HIS SON JUST
AS HE IS WHEN HE COMES HOME,
00:48:31.86\00:48:36.76
EVEN THOUGH IT'S
COST HIM SO MUCH.
00:48:36.76\00:48:39.76
HE WANTS THE SON.
00:48:39.76\00:48:41.50
HE'S NOT WORRIED
ABOUT HIS WASTED RESOURCES.
00:48:41.50\00:48:44.40
WHAT HE WANTS IS THE SON.
00:48:44.40\00:48:46.26
AND WHAT THE LORD WANTS,
OUR FATHER, WANTS EVERY CHILD
00:48:46.26\00:48:49.33
THAT HAS WANDERED AWAY AND HE IS
LOOKING TO HAVE EACH ONE OF US
00:48:49.33\00:48:54.53
COME HOME.
00:48:54.53\00:48:55.40
NOW, I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU
ARE IN YOUR JOURNEY WITH GOD.
00:48:55.40\00:48:59.40
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SEE YOURSELF
AS ONE OF THE SONS THAT STAYED
00:48:59.40\00:49:01.76
HOME OR IF ONE THAT HAD MAYBE
SQUANDERED, IT'S POSSIBLE THERE
00:49:01.76\00:49:06.10
ARE EVEN THOSE
WHO ARE IN CHURCH.
00:49:06.10\00:49:07.70
I KNOW THERE ARE FOLKS WHO ARE
WATCHING, MAYBE ON VIDEO OF THIS
00:49:07.70\00:49:10.03
PROGRAM, AND YOU'RE OUT THERE
IN THE WORLD AND YOU'RE WATCHING
00:49:10.03\00:49:12.83
ON TV OR SOMEONE
GAVE YOU A CD OR A DVD.
00:49:12.83\00:49:19.06
BUT EVEN THOSE WHO MIGHT
BE SITTING IN THE CHURCH, IT'S
00:49:19.06\00:49:21.33
POSSIBLE TO HAVE PEOPLE WHO OUT
OF HABIT OR A SENSE OF LOYALTY,
00:49:21.33\00:49:25.06
THEY COME TO CHURCH EACH WEEK,
BUT THEY KNOW THEY'VE BEEN IN
00:49:25.06\00:49:27.86
THE PIGPEN AND THEY'RE STILL
IN THE PIGPEN AND YET THEY'RE
00:49:27.86\00:49:31.90
IN CHURCH.
00:49:31.90\00:49:33.90
BECAUSE AS SOON AS THEY LEAVE
CHURCH, THEY'RE IN THE WORLD
00:49:33.90\00:49:36.43
AND THE WORLD'S IN THEM.
00:49:36.43\00:49:38.00
AND GOD IS PRAYING AND LOOKING
DOWN THE ROAD LIKE YOUR--HE'S
00:49:38.00\00:49:43.26
YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER, LIKE
THE FATHER IN THE STORY YEARNING
00:49:43.26\00:49:45.53
FOR YOU TO SAY, "THE
WORLD JUST IS NOT SATISFYING ME.
00:49:45.53\00:49:49.20
THERE'S NO PEACE,
THERE'S NO HAPPINESS."
00:49:49.20\00:49:51.06
AND HE WANTS YOU TO COME HOME.
00:49:51.06\00:49:52.53
THE SERVANTS IN THE FATHER'S
HOUSE HAVE PLENTY OF BREAD,
00:49:52.53\00:49:56.26
AND THERE'S JOY IN
THE FATHER'S HOUSE.
00:49:56.26\00:49:58.76
HE WANTS YOU TO
REJOICE WITH HIM.
00:49:58.76\00:50:01.26
AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU
TO TURN TO OUR CLOSING SONG.
00:50:01.26\00:50:04.96
IT'S "I HAVE WANDERED FAR
AWAY FROM GOD AND NOW I'M COMING
00:50:04.96\00:50:09.16
HOME," HYMN NUMBER 296.
00:50:09.16\00:50:12.93
AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO
STAND AND I'M GOING TO MAKE AN
00:50:12.93\00:50:17.30
APPEAL THIS MORNING AND INVITE
SOME WHO MAY BE HERE WHO SENSE
00:50:17.30\00:50:23.46
THAT THEY'RE IN THAT CATEGORY
THAT THEY'VE BEEN OUT IN THE
00:50:23.46\00:50:26.53
WORLD, THEY'RE NOT
SATISFIED, THEY'RE EMPTY, MAYBE
00:50:26.53\00:50:30.40
THEY'VE DRIFTED FROM GOD.
00:50:30.40\00:50:32.46
IT'S SO EASY FOR THE
WORLD TO TAKE OVER BECAUSE WE'RE
00:50:32.46\00:50:34.86
SURROUNDED BY IT EVERY DAY.
00:50:34.86\00:50:36.83
GOD WANTS YOU TO LIVE NOT ONLY
IN THE FATHER'S HOUSE ONE DAY
00:50:36.83\00:50:40.43
A WEEK WHEN YOU'RE IN
CHURCH, HE WANTS YOU TO ABIDE IN
00:50:40.43\00:50:43.10
THE FATHER'S HOUSE EVERY DAY.
00:50:43.10\00:50:45.66
IF YOU COME TO HIM JUST LIKE
YOU ARE, HOW IS GOD GOING TO
00:50:45.66\00:50:49.33
RESPOND?
00:50:49.33\00:50:50.76
YOU LOOK IN THE STORY
HERE AND YOU CAN SEE IT, RIGHT?
00:50:50.76\00:50:53.66
HE RUNS TO MEET YOU.
00:50:53.66\00:50:55.30
YOU DRAW NEAR TO HIM.
00:50:55.30\00:50:56.36
HE'LL DRAW NEAR TO YOU.
00:50:56.36\00:50:58.03
HAVE YOU BEEN UNSATISFIED
WITH THE THINGS OF THE WORLD?
00:50:58.03\00:51:01.66
HAVE YOU FELT EMPTY AND
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THAT PEACE?
00:51:01.66\00:51:04.70
AS WE SING THIS SONG AND
YOU'D LIKE TO RETURN TO THE LORD
00:51:04.70\00:51:08.63
OR IF YOU HAVE SOME
SPECIAL NEED OF PRAYER, I'D LIKE
00:51:08.63\00:51:11.76
TO INVITE YOU TO COME.
00:51:11.76\00:51:12.80
VERSE 1, "LORD,
I'M COMING HOME."
00:51:12.80\00:51:16.26
[MUSIC]
00:51:16.90\00:51:22.40
? I'VE WANDERED FAR
AWAY ? ? FROM GOD. ?
00:51:25.06\00:51:31.66
? NOW, I'M COMING
HOME. ? ? THE PATHS OF SIN ?
00:51:31.66\00:51:39.96
? TOO LONG I'VE TROD. ?
? LORD, I'M COMING HOME. ?
00:51:39.96\00:51:48.96
? COMING HOME, COMING
HOME, ? ? NEVER MORE TO ROAM. ?
00:51:48.96\00:52:00.10
? OPEN WIDE THINE ARMS OF LOVE
? ? LORD, I'M COMING HOME. ?
00:52:00.10\00:52:11.46
>> IN JUST A MOMENT, WE'LL SING
VERSE 3 TOGETHER, BUT I'D JUST
00:52:12.76\00:52:16.70
LIKE TO EXTEND THE APPEAL AGAIN.
00:52:16.70\00:52:19.50
WHO IS OUR EXAMPLE OF WHAT IS
TRUTH AND WHAT IS RIGHTEOUSNESS?
00:52:19.50\00:52:24.86
IT'S CHRIST.
00:52:24.86\00:52:26.96
HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING CHRIST
BEFORE YOU AS YOUR EXAMPLE?
00:52:26.96\00:52:31.16
ARE YOU LIVING THE LIFE
THAT HE WANTS YOU TO LIVE?
00:52:31.16\00:52:34.80
I REALLY BELIEVE, AND I'VE
BEEN UNDER CONVICTION, FRIENDS,
00:52:34.80\00:52:37.93
PERSONALLY THAT GOD IS WANTING
US TO LIVE BY A HIGHER STANDARD.
00:52:37.93\00:52:43.93
YOU KNOW, IT'S POSSIBLE
FOR A PERSON TO BE SO USED TO
00:52:43.93\00:52:47.93
THE PIGPEN THAT THEY
DON'T EVEN KNOW THEY'RE THERE.
00:52:47.93\00:52:51.96
I WAS JUST OUT IN THE DESERT
A FEW DAYS AGO AND WE DROVE OVER
00:52:51.96\00:52:56.20
TO A TOWN OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE DESERT THAT HAD BEEN BUILT
00:52:56.20\00:53:00.86
RIGHT BY A
SEWER TREATMENT PLANT.
00:53:00.86\00:53:03.66
AND I COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT
PEOPLE COULD LIVE BY SOMETHING
00:53:03.66\00:53:07.30
THAT SMELLED SO BAD.
00:53:07.30\00:53:09.66
AND I GUESS THEY
JUST GET USED TO IT.
00:53:09.66\00:53:13.00
YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S
HAPPENED TO A LOT OF FOLKS
00:53:13.00\00:53:14.83
IN THE CHURCH.
00:53:14.83\00:53:16.46
WE'RE NOT REALLY
READING OUR BIBLES.
00:53:16.46\00:53:18.36
WE'RE NOT PRAYING EVERY DAY.
00:53:18.36\00:53:19.60
WE'RE NOT TRYING
TO BE LIKE CHRIST.
00:53:19.60\00:53:21.26
WE'RE HOPING THAT IF WE JUST GO
THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF RELIGION
00:53:21.26\00:53:25.10
THAT SOMEHOW THAT'LL BE GOOD
ENOUGH, AND WE'VE JUST GOTTEN
00:53:25.10\00:53:28.23
USED TO THE PIGPEN.
00:53:28.23\00:53:32.00
WHAT ARE YOU FEEDING ON?
00:53:32.00\00:53:33.56
ARE YOU FEEDING ON THE
WORD OF GOD, THE FATHER'S BREAD?
00:53:33.56\00:53:36.16
OR ARE YOU FEEDING ON
THE HUSKS OF THE WORLD?
00:53:36.16\00:53:39.10
YOU'RE SPENDING MORE TIME IN
THE WORD OR WATCHING TELEVISION,
00:53:39.10\00:53:42.63
MOVIES AND VIDEOS?
00:53:42.63\00:53:44.60
SURFING THE INTERNET AND
ALL THE GIBBERISH AND GARBAGE
00:53:44.60\00:53:46.56
THAT'S OUT THERE.
00:53:46.56\00:53:48.93
I REALLY BELIEVE
WE'RE NEAR THE END, FRIENDS.
00:53:48.93\00:53:52.86
AND IF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS
SPEAKING TO YOU RIGHT NOW, MAYBE
00:53:52.86\00:53:56.86
THAT'S GOD ASKING YOU TO COME TO
YOURSELF, COME TO YOUR SENSES.
00:53:56.86\00:54:00.43
SAY, "YOU KNOW,
IT'S LEAVING ME EMPTY.
00:54:00.43\00:54:02.96
I WANT TO COME BACK AND REALLY
LIVE FOR GOD, FOLLOW HIS WILL
00:54:02.96\00:54:06.36
FOR MY LIFE."
00:54:06.36\00:54:07.53
AS WE SING VERSE 3 TOGETHER,
IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL PRAYER ON
00:54:07.53\00:54:11.70
YOUR LIFE OR IF YOU SENSE IT'S
TIME FOR YOU TO COME BACK, COME
00:54:11.70\00:54:15.10
AND WE'LL PRAY
WITH YOU, VERSE 3.
00:54:15.10\00:54:19.23
? I'M TIRED OF SIN ?
? AND STRAYING, LORD. ?
00:54:19.56\00:54:25.73
? NOW, I'M COMING HOME.
? ? I'LL TRUST THY LOVE, ?
00:54:25.73\00:54:34.40
? BELIEVE THY WORD. ? ?
LORD, I'M COMING HOME. ?
00:54:34.40\00:54:43.03
? COMING HOME, COMING
HOME, ? ? NEVER MORE TO ROAM. ?
00:54:43.03\00:54:54.13
? OPEN WIDE ? ?
THINE ARMS OF LOVE, ?
00:54:54.13\00:54:59.86
? LORD, I'M COMING HOME. ?
00:54:59.86\00:55:05.76
>> WILL THE FATHER
RECEIVE US IF WE COME?
00:55:06.70\00:55:09.03
EVEN MORE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE
IN THIS PARABLE THAT WE'VE READ.
00:55:09.03\00:55:13.13
GOD IS ANXIOUS.
00:55:13.13\00:55:15.40
HE'S PAID SO MUCH
FOR OUR REDEMPTION.
00:55:15.40\00:55:17.50
IF WE SHOW EVEN THE
INKLING OF DRAWING NEAR TO HIM,
00:55:17.50\00:55:20.93
HE RUNS TO MEET US.
00:55:20.93\00:55:23.20
"DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND
HE'LL DRAW NEAR TO YOU."
00:55:23.20\00:55:25.70
AND HE'LL COVER YOU WITH
THAT ROBE THAT HAS BEEN WASHED
00:55:25.70\00:55:28.76
AND MADE WHITE IN
THE BLOOD OF HIS OWN SON.
00:55:28.76\00:55:31.13
HE WANTS YOU TO
BE SAVED, FRIENDS.
00:55:31.13\00:55:33.50
LET'S SING VERSE 5 TOGETHER.
00:55:33.50\00:55:34.60
AND AGAIN, IF THERE ARE ANY
AND THE HOLY SPIRIT'S SPEAKING,
00:55:34.60\00:55:37.16
MAYBE IN THE BALCONY OR IN
THE ORGAN LOFT THERE, COME DOWN
00:55:37.16\00:55:40.26
AND WE'LL HAVE
PRAYER TOGETHER, VERSE 5.
00:55:40.26\00:55:45.10
[MUSIC] ? I NEED
HIS CLEANSING BLOOD, ?
00:55:46.10\00:55:55.30
? I KNOW. ? ?
NOW, I'M COMING HOME. ?
00:55:55.30\00:56:02.36
? O WASH ME WHITER
THAN ? ? THE SNOW. ?
00:56:02.36\00:56:08.03
? LORD, I'M COMING HOME. ?
? COMING HOME, COMING HOME, ?
00:56:08.03\00:56:19.06
? NEVER MORE TO
ROAM. ? ? OPEN WIDE ?
00:56:19.06\00:56:27.00
? THINE ARMS OF LOVE, ?
? LORD, I'M COMING HOME. ?
00:56:27.00\00:56:36.90
>> FATHER IN HEAVEN, LORD,
WE'RE VERY THANKFUL FOR THIS
00:56:39.20\00:56:43.00
PICTURE THAT WE'VE SEEN IN THIS
BEAUTIFUL PARABLE, THIS TIMELESS
00:56:43.00\00:56:46.96
STORY THAT REVEALS YOUR LOVE,
THAT YOU ARE STANDING THERE
00:56:46.96\00:56:51.00
WITH YOUR ARMS STRETCHED OUT.
00:56:51.00\00:56:53.23
INDEED, THIS IS WHAT
HAPPENED TO JESUS ON THE CROSS.
00:56:53.23\00:56:56.06
HE STRETCHED OUT HIS ARMS
TO DEMONSTRATE HIS LOVE AND
00:56:56.06\00:56:59.20
HIS WILLINGNESS TO RECEIVE US.
00:56:59.20\00:57:02.26
WHY WOULD WE HESITATE?
00:57:02.26\00:57:04.63
LORD, I PRAY THAT EACH
PERSON THAT HEARS THE CALL, THE
00:57:04.63\00:57:08.43
HOLY SPIRIT'S STIRRING THEIR
HEARTS TO ARISE AND TO COME
00:57:08.43\00:57:12.36
TO THEIR SENSES AND TO
GO TO THEIR FATHER'S HOUSE
00:57:12.36\00:57:15.10
THAT THEY'LL RESPOND RIGHT NOW.
00:57:15.10\00:57:17.23
I PRAY, LORD, THAT THOSE
WHO HAVE COME FORWARD WILL SENSE
00:57:17.23\00:57:20.96
THAT YOU ARE EMBRACING THEM,
THAT YOU ARE SAYING THAT YOU
00:57:20.96\00:57:24.13
LOVE THEM, THAT YOU'LL RECEIVE
THEM, THAT YOU'LL CLEANSE THEM,
00:57:24.13\00:57:27.73
THAT THEY CAN BE ACCEPTED
BACK INTO YOUR HOUSE, NOT WITH
00:57:27.73\00:57:30.70
THE STATUS OF SERVANTS
BUT THE STATUS OF SONS.
00:57:30.70\00:57:34.76
I PRAY YOUR BLESSING
IN THEIR LIVES, LORD.
00:57:34.76\00:57:37.23
HELP THEM TO KNOW THAT
THEIR SINS ARE FORGIVEN.
00:57:37.23\00:57:39.63
AND THEN, AS WE JUST SANG
IN THE SONG, LORD, WE'RE COMING
00:57:39.63\00:57:42.96
HOME AND BY YOUR
GRACE, NEVER MORE TO ROAM.
00:57:42.96\00:57:47.36
WE WANT TO COME HOME,
AND WE WANT TO STAY HOME.
00:57:47.36\00:57:50.40
I PRAY, LORD, THAT WE
CAN GROW IN OUR FAITH.
00:57:50.40\00:57:53.46
THANK YOU FOR THE ACCEPTANCE
THAT YOU DEMONSTRATE IN THIS
00:57:53.46\00:57:56.50
BEAUTIFUL PARABLE,
LORD, THAT YOU'RE WILLING TO
00:57:56.50\00:57:58.96
RECEIVE US AS YOUR CHILDREN.
00:57:58.96\00:58:00.86
I PRAY THAT WE'LL BE WILLING
TO ABIDE IN THE FATHER'S HOUSE
00:58:00.86\00:58:04.23
AND TO EAT YOUR BREAD.
00:58:04.23\00:58:06.10
BLESS US, LORD, AND I
PRAY THAT YOU'LL FILL US
00:58:06.10\00:58:08.86
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT,
HELP US TO BE YOUR WITNESSES.
00:58:08.86\00:58:12.40
AND LORD, PREPARE US
FOR YOU'RE SOON COMING.
00:58:12.40\00:58:15.36
WE ASK IN CHRIST'S NAME, AMEN.
00:58:15.36\00:58:18.36
[MUSIC]
00:58:19.36\00:58:24.36