One of my favorite scriptures
that Paul wrote to the Romans
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is found in
chapter 8 in verse 15
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here's what he said,
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"For you did not received
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the spirit of
bondage again to fear,
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but you received
the Spirit of adoption,
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by whom we cry
out, 'Abba! Father!'"
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Join us today on
Issues and Answers
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and find out why that
is such a special promise.
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Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn
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and we welcome you once
again to Issues and Answers.
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We have someone
returning this week
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and his name is Ernie Pyle,
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he is our special
guest and a special friend.
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Ernie, so glad that
you could come back.
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My privilege,
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I suddenly had a good time
last week with you, Shelley.
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Amen.
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You know,
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you and my husband
have known each other
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since academy days.
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1960. Oh, mercy.
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Seems old when you think
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you've known
somebody for 56 years.
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Someone asked me one time said,
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how good a
friends are you and Jim,
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I know him as Jim,
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you all know him
as JD and I said well,
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we are good enough friends
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that we've been partners
in about eight businesses
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and we still talk to each other.
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So I think that sums that up.
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And we do have some fun
sometimes sitting around
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and talking about
some of the things
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you all have
gotten into and done.
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Well,
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Ernie is one of the
speakers for a special ministry
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called knowing god ministries,
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and this ministry
focuses on the names of God.
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And you were telling us
last time a little about
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how it began with
you and Dr. Rob Sheppard
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and how you began teaching
this at the Arlington Church.
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And it was supposed to
be what six weeks in a...
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Supposed to be three
months. Three months?
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Yeah, and ended up
to be a year and half
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and we began to pray that if God
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saw that we had a
ministry in a message
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that he would give
us some place to go,
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and that he would
give us the funds,
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and Shelley, we've done no,
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I'm a sales
trainer by profession
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and I know how to push
things and get things done.
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But we've done no advertising
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or we just go by word of
mouth from church to church.
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We've had the
privilege of doing camp meetings
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all over the country.
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We've done Baptist churches,
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so our message is for everybody,
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because when you're
talking about the love of God,
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you can talk to anybody.
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We have a Sabbath school class
that has about 65 to 75 members
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and they're the ones
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that give about 90
percent of our funding.
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And a nice thing
about our ministry
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is that
everything's absolutely free.
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Rob and I did not ever
want someone to question,
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are we doing this for traveling
or money or things like that,
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we do the seminars
free, our materials are free,
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on our website we
have over 500 sermons
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and Sabbath school lessons
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that anybody can
download for free.
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The reason being is,
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Rob and I know what
God has done in our lives.
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Amen.
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And we have to go share
that message with other people.
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And praise the Lord for that,
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and since you've mentioned that,
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if you would like
go to their website,
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the website is
knowinggodministries.com
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and that is
plural on the ministry.
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Ministries knowing god
ministries, all lower case,
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and you might want to go
there to contact Ernie or Rob,
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and have them
come to your church
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or to get some of the materials,
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and the materials they
give out at the seminars,
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they were here for our
Thompsonville Adventist Church
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and the materials they
gave out were beautiful,
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it was amazing to
get, everyone was up here.
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We surprise people.
You do surprise people.
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They're always kind of waiting
for the other shoe to fall
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and with knowing god
ministry there is no other shoe.
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That's praise the Lord.
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All right, so we
have spoken previously
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when you were here last
week about the name of Yahweh.
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Now, today I've
already teased to this,
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but tell me what is your
favorite name for God and why?
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My favorite name by
far, Shelley, is Abba,
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A-B-B-A which
literally is translated daddy.
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Now, sometimes
people are uncomfortable
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with the word
daddy for God the father.
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I had a person
name Mike in Oklahoma.
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On Friday night
I always introduce
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what the topics
are for the next day
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and I introduced that
mine was going to be Abba,
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and he came up to me afterwards
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and says I'm not
gonna be here tomorrow,
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and I curiously ask
how come and he said,
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I had a daddy
that was worthless.
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He beat me, he beat my mother
and I don't want to hear this.
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And I looked daddy
and I said to him, Mike,
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I cannot help what
your earthly daddy was like,
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what a pity?
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But tomorrow be here
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because I'm gonna introduce
you to your heavenly daddy,
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who will never let
you down nor forsake you.
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Mike's a very humble person
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and every month since
that time in Oklahoma,
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we get a check from him
for knowing god ministry.
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Amen.
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I love the name daddy
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because I had a
tremendous daddy.
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Very close to him, he
died about 18 years ago,
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I'm still missing,
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I think about coming up to 3ABN
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how I would love to call him
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when we got
through and say daddy,
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I was on 3ABN and you
know, he would be so thrilled.
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It's a very special name to me.
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Can I share a
little story about?
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Sure.
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Okay, nine years ago come
July 13th one of our grandson,
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Shay Landry Carr was born.
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He weighed,
Shelley, 1 pound 14 ounces.
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Wow.
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Sue and I saw him
as they were moving him
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from one
operating room to another
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for about 30 seconds,
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and he look like a little bird.
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We were just heart broken
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God science and
medicine are tremendous.
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Amen.
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And now, he's
gonna be nine years old,
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he is just a
normal kid, a great kid.
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When he was about
to learn how to talk,
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when he come over to my house,
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I had pulled him aside
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and I'll pull him
up in my favorite chair
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setting him on my lap
and I would go say Shay,
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grandpa, Shay, grandpa.
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You noticed I didn't say,
Shelley, Shay, grandfather.
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That's so formal, you know,
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it's like sitting
around a table at Thanksgiving,
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grandfather would you
pass you know cell phone,
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I want it that grandpa, grandpa.
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Well, one day I
came by Sue's office
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and she was in there
with Shay saying grandma.
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So, you can
imagine which one won,
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I was grandma
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but you see how
personal and beautiful
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that word daddy is.
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Now, Shelley, one of the things
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I love about
the Aramaic language
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is that they
work in word pictures
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but you like to hear
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what the word
picture for abba, daddy is.
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I love it.
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Want you to picture
a daddy in the floor
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with his children and
their unwrapping presence
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and they're rolling
around in the floor wrestling
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with each other, laughing
and having a great time.
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That's the word
picture for daddy.
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I've never heard that.
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And I think how
beautiful in heaven,
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it will be times when
we will be very formal
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and we'll worship
God and we'll sing,
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but you know for eternity
just think of that interaction
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that we can have
with our daddy up there.
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You know and even now, I mean,
you know, some of my story,
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my daddy was
killed in a plane crash
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when I was only six years old.
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He was 30 and so I
grew up without a father,
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and I was fearful,
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I was thought to be
fearful of God the father.
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Yes.
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I had a love affair with Jesus
but fearful of God the father
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because I saw
him as being judgment
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all ready to
strike me down any moment.
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And I recall
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when I first
studied the word Abba
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and found that it
could mean papa or daddy,
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it was very intimate
expression and, you know,
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Jesus on the cross
cried up Abba father,
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so he had that
intimate connection.
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And I remember the
first time I prayed, Ernie,
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and used the title
Abba and it was something,
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some special because suddenly
it wasn't like this formal,
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I wasn't where it
wasn't a formality.
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I was praying to my Abba,
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to my daddy in heaven
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and that is a very,
very special feeling.
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Yes, yes, it is.
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And that's why the
names of God are so important
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because every name
that he gives himself
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is a description
of his character,
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it's a promise of what
he will do in our lives,
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but different names
appeal to different people.
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And all of a
sudden to some people
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daddy becomes a
very, very, beautiful word.
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Abba is only found
really in three places
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in the New Testament,
two of them is from Paul.
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He talks about adoption.
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Adoption back in the
Roman time was a big thing.
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Yes, it was.
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First of all if you
were born in a poor family,
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you had no chance
in life whatsoever.
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And Paul says that
ever once in a while
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from the poor
family a rich family
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would adopt a
child and bring them over
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and all of a
sudden that meant wealth,
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education and opportunity
and every thing to that child.
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They became co-heirs.
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That's right, and
the child would cry out
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once he got to
know these new parents,
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you know daddy,
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daddy he was so happy
to have a chance in life.
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Yeah.
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Another place I'm gonna share
with you in just a little bit
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because not many people realize
where this, that word was used,
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but I do have a question.
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I know this is
your issues and answers
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but you don't mind
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if I ask you a question, do you?
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Go ahead.
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Okay, are you familiar with
a parable of the good daddy?
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The parable of the good
daddy, not right on my head.
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You probably know
it a little bit better
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as the prodigal son.
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Okay. Okay, now, Shelley.
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why is that parable entitled
the story of the prodigal son,
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he is not the hero by any means.
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Truly. The daddy is the hero.
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And it's my belief that
if we had only the story,
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the parable of the good daddy
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that we have everything
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in the theme of
salvation in that story.
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You know, I would
like to illustrate.
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Sure.
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We all know the
story, father had two sons.
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The elder one worked hard,
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the younger one
wanted his own way.
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The story picks up
where he comes to his father,
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and he says, father,
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I don't like
what's happening here,
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I want to go have my own fun.
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Only I know
what's better for me.
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Really, what he was
saying Shelley, was old man,
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I can't wait for you to die.
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Give me my inheritance. So
give me my inheritance now.
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What a son?
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He'd done this many times
and finally the story picks up
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were the good
daddy gives him his wish,
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and so we find the
son as he is leaving home,
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he gonna have wine,
women and song, a good time,
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meet all of his dreams.
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And the daddy,
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he stood on the porch
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and he looked way down that road
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and he watched his son
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till he was
finally out of sight.
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I wonder at times if the son
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kind of gave his
daddy the back of his hand,
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if he turned
around and waved daddy.
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Most likely he didn't
even give him a thought.
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But I've also wondered
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what did this daddy
think as he saw his son.
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Well, Shelley,
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I know what was going
through the daddy's mind,
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would you be
interested in knowing that?
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Yes, I would.
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Because you see I
only have to go to Daniel.
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In the Book of Daniel,
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God called an angel and he said,
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I want you to go
down there and tell Daniel
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that he is my special treasure.
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And so the daddy watched
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as his special treasure
was going down the road.
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I only have to go
to Isaiah 49 Chapter
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where God asked a
very interesting question.
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He says, Shelley, can a
woman forget her sucking child?
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Well, the answer is sadly yes.
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We read all the time
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where babies are
dumped in garbage dumps,
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left in closets,
thrown, you know.
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So a woman can forget
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but God says, I
will not forget you.
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In fact, he says,
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I have your name engraved,
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we'd say today tattooed
on the palms of my hand.
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Imagine that, Shelley,
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your name, my
name on God's hands.
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And so as that daddy
sat and watch his son go,
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he said, I won't forget you.
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I'll never forget you.
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I'll keep your name on my hands.
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How do I know
how the daddy felt?
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I only need to
go to Jeremiah 13,
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when God was overlooking
his wayward children,
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and he says, my
eyes well up with tears,
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and they run down my cheek,
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and so we see the daddy crying.
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He also says in Jeremiah,
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I thought you
would call me my father
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and not turned
away from following me.
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Yes, yes, this was
what was going through
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and then finally what was going
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through the
daddy's mind is Hosea 11,
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one of the most beautiful
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but yet saddest
chapters in the Bible
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where again God speaking
to his wayward children,
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he says, it was you
that I thought how to eat.
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It was you
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who I took in my hands
and taught how to walk.
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It was you that
I held in my arms
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but you didn't want
anything to do with me,
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and I have to let you go.
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And so we find the good daddy
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not mad, not angry, crying,
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saying I'll never
forget you and longing
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'cause he knew the heartache
that his son was going through.
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What a picture of our daddy.
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Then Luke, you know,
Luke has interesting word,
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he says, well,
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the boy came to
his senses you know.
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I often wondered
and haul with that.
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Yeah.
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Here he is a Jewish boy
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fighting the pigs
for slop to keep alive.
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Shelley, you can't
get any lower than that.
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How did he come to his senses?
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Well, there's
two powers working.
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It's always two powers working.
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One was saying,
well, you can't go home.
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You're a
disgrace to your family.
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The other power
simply said, go home.
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Well, you can't
go home, your church,
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what would they think about you?
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Go home
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and finally the
cruellest of all,
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nobody cares,
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but that voice
came through, go home.
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And so we find the boy gets up,
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must stop by seven-eleven
and got some index cards
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'cause we're told he
started writing out his speech
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and notice how
Luke has his speech,
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he starts out as dear father.
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And so he is
working on a speech.
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Meanwhile the daddy
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does what, daddy's
do everyday, Shelley?
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He got up and stood on
the front porch of his house
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and he looked and he looked,
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and he hoped and he prayed
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and one day could that be,
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I think it is, it's my son.
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Now, I want you to
listen to the next part
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because this is the
beautiful part of the story.
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It says the daddy ran.
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Amen.
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Now why is that important?
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Well, in the Jewish culture,
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the man was
everything in his house,
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and he stood at the
front of his door on his porch
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and no matter who came up
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family, friends,
visitors, dignitary,
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didn't make a bit of difference,
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they came to his
front door to be accepted.
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That's a picture of a father.
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Tell you the picture of a daddy.
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A daddy sees his
son, Shelley, and he runs.
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He's so eager.
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Yeah, can you see
the servants are like,
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I didn't know the
old man could even move,
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and when he gets there,
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the son pull out his index card
and he starts his great speech,
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father, I have sinned.
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But, you know, what
daddy's do, Shelley?
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They're too busy, they
don't listen to speeches,
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they hug, they kiss, they cry,
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they tell the
servants get shoes for my boy,
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get the ring for my boy
and he start saying, well,
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I'll start at the
bottom, I'm not worthy,
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but daddies don't listen.
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And he says get the
ring, this is my son,
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and we're going to
throw a big party for him.
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That's what daddies do.
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And, Shelley,
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knowing god ministry has
the privilege of going out
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and sharing that
picture of people
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because I
believe the greatest tool
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the devil uses is
that nobody cares,
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your parents are ashamed of you,
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your church is ashamed of you.
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And so many people
listen to the wrong voice,
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they're listing
to that voice, yes.
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And they say, you can't go back.
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What an embarrassment?
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You got to get
yourself cleaned up,
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you got to go through that.
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The voice, the other
voice in the pit said go home,
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go home, go home,
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and finally when he went home,
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there comes the daddy.
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Amen.
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Such a beautiful story.
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The reason that I know
the story is true, Shelley,
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I've been in the hot pan.
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I've been where
nobody wanted to talk to me.
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I've been where
religious leaders
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as I came down the
aisle turned their back
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but God...
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Amen. Amen.
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Kept saying, Ernie, come home,
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come home
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and that's why
Rob Sheppard and I
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feel that we have
to share this message
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because without
my earthly daddy,
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I would not be
the person I'm today.
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Without my heavenly
daddy, I would be lost.
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You know, it is such a
beautiful picture what we,
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I like what you call up
the parable of the good daddy
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rather than the
parable of the prodigal son,
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but it is such a
beautiful picture of God
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and how, you know,
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he just chases us
down with his love.
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I mean he's, that's
what he's all about.
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I think that
there're so many people,
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you were gonna tell us
one more place where Abba was,
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so I don't want to
break you off in this.
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Let's go to that next
round we reserve that.
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Okay, then we'll come back yeah.
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The next one
kind of surprises you
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because it's
happened on a Thursday night.
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But wait a
minute, let me back up
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because did they
use the word Abba
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in the story of the prodigal...
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No.
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Okay, that is the
beautiful picture.
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That is the beautiful picture.
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It is the picture
of the ultimate daddy.
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It matches the word
between the Aramaic.
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Yeah, see one of the
beautiful things about
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Jesus coming to this earth
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was he came to
illustrate the Old Testament
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that told all about
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the character and
the goodness of God.
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Amen.
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And so, that's why
that story is so important,
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it's the ultimate illustration
of what a daddy is like.
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Amen.
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Let's go back
Thursday night 2000 years ago.
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The disciple had never seen
Jesus like he is this night,
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tired, worn out,
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so we know he took his
three favorite disciples.
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He asked them to
pray and he went ahead.
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We found out that he
lay prostrate on the ground,
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clinging the ground praying.
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The world was coming upon him
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and Mark in the
16 chapter tells us
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that in the greatest hour
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when the decision was
made to go to the cross
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that Jesus cries out daddy,
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daddy,
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the most intimate word
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a son can use with his daddy
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and it was at that place
he calls out for his daddy
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and he pleads with
him, take this away from me,
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I don't want to go through this.
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If there is any other way,
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you see that's how a
son talks to his daddy,
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but he ends up by
saying and thank God he did,
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nevertheless thy will be done.
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So, Jesus say in his humanity
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there at the
Garden of Gethsemane
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in the time he was
making the uttermost decision
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cries out daddy,
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then it tells us,
Shelley, in our relationship
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that we need to open
up and share our concerns
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and our thoughts
and our feelings.
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So often we think when
we pray or we look at God
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that we gonna got
to have that formality
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God invites just
a bearer of soul.
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Amen.
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He already knows us, says,
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I knew you
before he was even born,
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but how much it does,
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I remember many
times when I was in trouble
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when I went home and sit
down and talk to my daddy,
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how comforting it was.
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He sometimes was
strict with me on it,
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but I knew he cared
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and it was just that
comfort of sitting down
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and saying,
daddy, I'm in trouble
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that's what our
heavenly daddy ask us to do,
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open up our heart
and he will work with us.
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You know, Ernie,
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you were very blessed
to have a loving father,
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someone who modeled
God's unconditional love,
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because so there
is so many people
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who don't have that
and as that young man
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that you said did
not want to attend,
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it's a little more difficult
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but there is a lot of people
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who've grown up and
they have been the picture
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that has been
painted in their mind of God
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doesn't match what
the scriptures really say.
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And it's so
difficult for them to know
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but it is so true as Paul said,
00:26:01.56\00:26:05.13
you have not been received
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the spirit of
bondage again to fear
00:26:07.56\00:26:10.47
but you've receive
the spirit of adoption
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and when you have been adopted,
you can cry out Abba, Father,
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Daddy, God, please.
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And so this is something
that I think it is a beautiful,
00:26:20.94\00:26:23.95
and thank you for
sharing the stories,
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it's a beautiful message.
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You know I had a lady come to me
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and she said all of my life,
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I've been searching to
find out to who my dad was.
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Yeah.
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And she says I've spent
thousands of dollars doing it
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and she says thank you,
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I don't think I'll never
find out my earthly daddy,
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but thank you for introducing
me to my heavenly daddy.
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What a picture of
God changed in her life
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and I think that's the pictures
that we need to know, yes,
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God is approachable
and I'll say it many times,
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the greatest desire
that our daddy has for us
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is to spend eternity with you.
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Amen.
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You know and how can we
not love a daddy like that.
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You know, Ernie,
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that there was a time that
I was praying very earnestly
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with many, many tears
and the spirit of the Lord
00:27:18.60\00:27:23.51
just impressed this
thought upon my mind
00:27:23.54\00:27:26.21
that for years I had cried out
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that I wished
that my daddy had lived
00:27:28.58\00:27:30.81
that I wanted to be
able to crawl into his lap
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and have someone who would say,
okay, I'm gonna take care of it
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and the Spirit of
the Lord said to me,
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but I've always been here,
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I'm your daddy and that
was, that was an amazing thing,
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that was life
changing right there.
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Yeah, yeah, that
is life changing.
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Well, I cannot believe
how fast our time has gone.
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I think could sit and
listen to this all day along
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but we're going to
have to say goodbye
00:27:54.77\00:27:57.34
to Ernie Pyle right
now and goodbye to you.
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We just want you to
know that your Abba, father,
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your daddy God is
calling out to you right now.
00:28:05.38\00:28:09.48
He wants to establish
that relationship with you,
00:28:09.52\00:28:14.56
the one in the picture sitting
down, opening up the presence,
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rolling around
together that's God,
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may not be creative
thinking, your picture is,
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but that's God.
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Join us next time.
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