(MUSIC)
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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE ARE SO THRILLED THAT YOU
HAVE TUNED IN TO STUDY TOGETHER
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GOD'S WORD. WHAT A
PRIVILEGE IT IS THAT WE
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CAN GATHER ALL AROUND THE
COUNTRY - ALL AROUND THE WORLD -
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OPEN UP OUR HYMNALS - OPEN UP
OUR BIBLES IN WHATEVER LANGUAGE
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WE SPEAK, AND WE CAN
ALL WORSHIP THE SAME GOD.
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OPEN UP YOUR HYMNALS - FOR THOSE
OF YOU WHO ARE AT HOME, WE ARE
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GOING TO BE SINGING HYMN #373
THIS MORNING - SEEKING THE LOST.
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WE ARE GOING TO SING THE FIRST
AND THE LAST VERSES OF #373.
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(MUSIC)
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>> SEEKING THE LOST, YES, KINDLY
ENTREATING WANDERERS ON THE
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MOUNTAIN ASTRAY; "COME
UNTO ME," HIS MESSAGE REPEATING,
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WORDS OF THE MASTER
SPEAKING TODAY. GOING
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AFAR (GOING AFAR) UPON THE
MOUNTAIN (UPON THE MOUNTAIN)
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BRINGING THE WANDERER BACK
AGAIN, BACK AGAIN, INTO THE FOLD
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(INTO THE FOLD) OF MY REDEEMER
(OF MY REDEEMER) JESUS THE LAMB
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(JESUS THE LAMB) FOR SINNERS
SLAIN, FOR SINNERS SLAIN.
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THUS WOULD I GO ON
MISSIONS OF MERCY, FOLLOWING
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CHRIST FROM DAY UNTO DAY,
CHEERING THE FAINT AND RAISING
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THE FALLEN, POINTING
THE LOST TO JESUS, THE WAY.
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GOING AFAR (GOING AFAR) UPON
THE MOUNTAIN (UPON THE MOUNTAIN)
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BRINGING THE WANDERER BACK
AGAIN, BACK AGAIN, INTO THE FOLD
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(INTO THE FOLD) OF MY REDEEMER
(OF MY REDEEMER) JESUS THE LAMB
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FOR SINNERS
SLAIN, FOR SINNERS SLAIN.
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>>IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE
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HYMN THAT YOU WOULD LIKE
TO SING WITH US ON AN UPCOMING
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PRESENTATION, JUST CONTINUE
SENDING IN THOSE REQUESTS AND WE
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WILL SING THAT WITH YOU ON
A COMING UP STUDY TOGETHER.
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OUR NEXT HYMN WE'RE GOING
TO SING IS A FAVORITE OF PRETTY
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MUCH EVERYBODY ALL OVER THE
WORLD: HYMN #108 - AMAZING GRACE
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- HOW SWEET THE SOUND
THAT SAVED A WRETCH LIKE ME.
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WE'LL SING THE FIRST AND THE
LAST VERSES OF AMAZING GRACE .
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(MUSIC) >>AMAZING
GRACE! HOW SWEET THE
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SOUND THAT SAVED A
WRETCH LIKE ME! I ONCE WAS LOST,
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BUT NOW AM FOUND; WAS BLIND,
BUT NOW I SEE. WHEN WE'VE BEEN
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THERE TEN THOUSAND YEARS, BRIGHT
SHINING AS THE SUN, WE'VE NO
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LESS DAYS TO SING GOD'S PRAISE
THAN WHEN WE'D FIRST BEGUN.
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>>NOW PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR IS
GOING TO HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER
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AND WE'LL STUDY
TOGETHER. >>THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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LET'S GO AHEAD AND
BOW OUR HEADS TOGETHER.
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LOVING LORD, WE ARE JUST SO
THANKFUL FOR THE FREEDOM THAT WE
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HAVE AND THE
OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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WE'RE VERY THANKFUL FOR THESE
FASCINATING LESSONS FROM THE
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GOSPEL OF LUKE. JUST
PRAY FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
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BE PRESENT IN EVERY
ASPECT OF OUR TIME TOGETHER.
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BLESS THOSE BOTH HERE AND THOSE
WHO ARE WATCHING PART OF THE
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CLASS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
WE THANK YOU AND ASK THIS IN
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JESUS' NAME, AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>AMEN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH
TO OUR MUSICIANS AND I WANT TO
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WELCOME, ONCE AGAIN, OUR FRIENDS
THAT ARE WATCHING THE SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY TIME WITH US.
WE HAVE A FREE OFFER FOR TODAY'S
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STUDY AND IT'S A BOOK CALLED
THE HIGH COST OF THE CROSS .
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OUR LESSONS TODAY ARE GOING TO
BE DEALING WITH SOME OF THE MOST
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IMPORTANT PARABLES OF JESUS.
AND IF YOU'D LIKE A FREE COPY OF
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THIS, THEN ALL YOU HAVE TO
DO IS CALL 866-788-3966 - THAT'S
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866-STUDY-MORE AND WE'LL
BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO YOU.
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OH, AND ASK FOR OFFER #156 -
ONE MORE THING, YOU CAN READ IT
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RIGHT NOW IF YOU JUST GO TO THE
WEBSITE, IT'S AMAZINGFACTS.ORG
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AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE BOOK
THE HIGH COST OF THE CROSS .
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WE WANT TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
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IT'LL HELP
ENHANCE TODAY'S STUDY.
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BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
TODAY, YOU KNOW EVERY NOW AND
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THEN PART OF SABBATH SCHOOL IS
THAT WE HAVE SORT OF A MISSION
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HIGHLIGHT AND SINCE WE HAVE SOME
MEMBERS HERE OF THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH THAT RECENTLY WENT ON
A MISSION EXCURSION, I'D LIKE TO
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INVITE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE,
DR. JON FREED, HE'S GOING TO
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COME UP AND BE SHARING A LITTLE
BIT. AND MAYBE YOU COULD USE
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JUST THE PODIUM MIC -
ABOUT A TRIP TO ETHIOPIA.
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>>YEAH, DOUG, WE'VE GONE
FOUR TIMES NOW TO ETHIOPIA,
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THIS IS OUR FOURTH
MISSION TRIP THERE.
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ABOUT ONE TIME EACH YEAR WE
TAKE A GROUP OF PEOPLE - THE
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ORGANIZATION THAT WE GO
WITH IS CALLED HERE FOR THEM .
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IT'S A GROUP OF PHYSICIANS,
NURSES, AND EVANGELISTS THAT DO
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MISSION WORK OVER THERE - A
SMALL GROUP - AND I DO PLASTIC
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SURGERY SO WE USUALLY DO CLEFT,
LIP, AND PALATE SURGERIES AND A
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VARIETY OF OTHER THINGS.
THIS PARTICULAR TRIP WE DID
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ABOUT 50 SURGERIES IN TEN DAYS.
FIVE CLEFT PALATES, SEVERAL
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CLEFT LIPS, BURN SURGERY, A
VARIETY OF OTHER SKIN TUMORS,
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THINGS SUCH AS THAT. WE
WORKED AT THREE DIFFERENT
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HOSPITALS, ONE
OF THEM WAS GIMBIE
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ADVENTIST HOSPITAL.
I THINK ONE OF THE KEY
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COMPONENTS OF THE TRIP IS
THAT WE BRING ALONG EVANGELISTS.
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WE HAD PEOPLE FROM AMAZING FACTS
- THERE'S A MAN NAMED KENNETH
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THAT CAME FROM KENYA - HE WAS
AN AMAZING FACTS EVANGELIST THAT
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TRAINED AT AFCOE IN THE
PHILIPPINES AND NOW HE'S AN
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EVANGELIST IN KENYA. HE
TRAVELED OVER TO ETHIOPIA.
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HE GAVE MEETINGS MULTIPLE
DAYS WHILE WE WERE THERE.
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WHAT AN INSPIRATION IT IS TO
SEE THE CHURCH ABROAD AND HOW
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VIBRANT IT IS. WE HAD MEETINGS
EVERY DAY AND THE CHURCH WAS
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FILLED WITH A THOUSAND PEOPLE
EVERY MONDAY NIGHT, TUESDAY
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NIGHT, WEDNESDAY
NIGHT - PACKED. >>WOW.
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>>AT THE END OF THE EVANGELISTIC
SERIES EVERY EVENING, PEOPLE
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WOULD ALL KNEEL DOWN RIGHT WHERE
THEY WERE IN THEIR PEWS AND THEY
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WOULD PRAY FOR 25
MINUTES CONTINUOUSLY.
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HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE IN
OUR CHURCHES HERE IN THE UNITED
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STATES HAD THE WHOLE
CONGREGATION TURN AROUND, KNEEL
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AT THEIR PEWS, AND PRAY
FOR 25 MINUTES CONTINUOUSLY?
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THE DEDICATION IS
REALLY SOMETHING THERE.
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THE NEED IS GREAT IN ETHIOPIA.
THE PEOPLE ARE STARVING BOTH FOR
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THE WORD OF GOD AND ALSO FOR
HEALTH, SO IT WAS AN EXCITING
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EVANGELISTIC
SERIES AND MISSION TRIP.
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>>YEAH, NOW HOW WAS THE FOOD?
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>>IT'S DIFFERENT THAN WHAT
YOU'RE USED TO HERE, YOU KNOW?
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ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES
ME THINK OF IS YOU GET A LITTLE
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UNCOMFORTABLE OUTSIDE OF YOUR
OWN CULTURE AND I THINK THAT WE
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AS ADVENTISTS, EVEN AS
CHRISTIANS, WE SHOULD BE A
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LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE EVEN IN
OUR CULTURE HERE AND WE WERE A
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LITTLE BIT UNCOMFORTABLE OVER
THERE, BUT YOU SEEM TO MAKE DO.
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ONE INTERESTING STORY I WANTED
TO SHARE JUST, KIND OF, IN MY
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LAST MINUTE OR TWO, THERE
WAS ONE GENERAL SURGEON THAT WE
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WORKED WITH THERE IN ETHIOPIA,
NOT AN ADVENTIST, BUT A
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CHRISTIAN MAN, AND HE WAS
TELLING ME THE STORY OF A BEGGAR
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THAT HAD COME TO HIS CLINIC AND
HE HAD A DIABETIC FOOT ULCER AND
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HE TREATED HIM FOR AWHILE FOR NO
COST. EVENTUALLY HE HAD TO DO AN
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AMPUTATION ON THE MAN AND THE
MAN BEGGED HIM FOR SOME MONEY
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AND HE SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING
TO GIVE YOU ANY MONEY, BUT I'M
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GOING TO GIVE
YOU SOMETHING BETTER.
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I WANT YOU TO COME BACK IN TWO
DAYS AND I WANT YOU TO TELL ME
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WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO WITH
YOUR LIFE.' SO THE MAN THOUGHT
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ABOUT IT - HE LEFT - AND
HE CAME BACK TWO DAYS LATER.
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WHEN HE CAME BACK
HE SAID, 'I'VE DECIDED.
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I WANT TO BECOME A SHOEMAKER.'
SO THE GENERAL SURGEON SAID,
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'OKAY.' HE WENT INTO TOWN,
HE BOUGHT HIM ALL THE SHOEMAKER
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EQUIPMENT, HE SET HIM UP ON THE
GATE THERE OF THE HOSPITAL AND
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LET HIM DO ALL
THE SHOEMAKING STUFF.
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OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS THE
MAN GOT A BANK ACCOUNT, HE GOT
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ENOUGH MONEY TO TRAVEL TO THE
CAPITAL CITY IN ADDIS ABABA, IN
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ORDER TO GET A PROSTHESIS ON
HIS LEG AND THE MAN WALKS AROUND
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LIKE A NORMAL CONTRIBUTING
MAN OF SOCIETY NOW BECAUSE THE
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GENERAL SURGEON PUT A PERSONAL
INTEREST IN THAT MAN'S LIFE.
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RATHER THAN JUST GIVING HIM A
LITTLE BIT OF MONEY, HE GAVE HIM
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A GIFT THAT
WILL LAST A LIFETIME.
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AND I THINK THAT'S A TESTAMENT
TO ALL OF US - TO NOT BE AFRAID
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TO GET INVOLVED IN
SOMEBODY'S LIFE IN EVANGELISM.
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>>SO, NOW WHEN YOU WERE DOING
TREATMENTS THERE YOU DID THIS
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THROUGH A TRANSLATOR?
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>>YES, YOU KNOW, MOST OF
THE PEOPLE DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH,
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ALTHOUGH SOME OF THEM DO, AND
SO WE HAD TRANSLATORS WITH US.
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WE HAD OTHER MEDICAL PERSONNEL
THAT WORKED WITH US AS WELL.
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>>THAT'S AMAZING.
WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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WE SURE APPRECIATE THAT -
THAT LITTLE WINDOW AND WHAT'S
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HAPPENING IN OTHER
PARTS OF THE WORLD, AMEN?
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>>AMEN. >>I
REALLY APPRECIATE HEARING
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THESE MISSION STORIES. YOU KNOW,
THAT'S ONE OF THE SIGNS OF A
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HEALTHY CHURCH. SOMEONE SAID,
EITHER YOUR CHURCH IS GOING TO
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THE MISSION FIELD OR THEY ARE
A MISSION FIELD. AND SO WE WOULD
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LIKE TO STAY INVOLVED IN GOING
OUT AND HELPING PEOPLE WITH
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MEDICAL NEEDS AS WELL
AS WITH SPIRITUAL NEEDS.
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I GUESS THERE WERE SEVERAL
EVANGELISTIC PROGRAMS THAT
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HAPPENED IN CONCERT WITH
WHAT JON AND OTHERS WERE DOING
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MEDICALLY OVER
THERE IN ETHIOPIA.
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YOU KNOW, ONE OF THESE TIMES WE
NEED TO HAVE THEM ALSO SHOW SOME
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PICTURES BECAUSE I KNOW THEY'VE
GOT SOME GREAT PICTURES OF THAT.
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ALRIGHT, WE HAVE AN IMPOSSIBLE
TASK TODAY, BUT WITH GOD ALL
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THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. AND
THAT'S BECAUSE WE'VE GOT TO
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COVER ALL OF THE GREAT PARABLES
OF THE BIBLE IN 40 MINUTES AND
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SO I DON'T - I DON'T KNOW HOW
WE'RE GOING TO DO IT BUT WE'RE
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GOING TO DO OUR BEST TO AT LEAST
COVER SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS.
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OUR LESSON TODAY IS WE'RE
DEALING WITH OUR STUDY GUIDE ON
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THE GOSPEL OF LUKE. WE'RE
IN LESSON #8 AND TODAY, IN
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PARTICULAR, IT'S
CALLED THE MISSION OF JESUS .
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AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING
ABOUT THE PARABLE OF THE LOST
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SON, THE LOST SHEEP, THE LOST
COIN, THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS.
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I DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO
GET ALL THAT IN BECAUSE I HAVE
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PREACHED ENTIRE
SERMONS ON EACH ONE OF THOSE.
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AND SO WE'VE GOT
A BIG ASSIGNMENT.
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OUR MEMORY VERSE, LUKE 19:10, I
INVITE YOU TO SAY WITH ME - YOU
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HAVE YOUR BIBLES THERE - LUKE
19:10 - IN OUR LESSON - IT'S
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FROM THE NEW KING
JAMES VERSION. ARE YOU READY?
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SAY IT WITH ME, "FOR
THE SON OF MAN HAS COME TO
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SEEK AND TO SAVE
THAT WHICH WAS LOST."
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NOW THE MISSION OF JESUS WAS
TO COME, TO SEEK - THERE'S AN
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EFFORT TO SEEK OUT AFTER, AND
TO SAVE - TO REDEEM - TO RECLAIM
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THAT WHICH WAS
PREVIOUSLY LOST AND PERISHING.
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THAT'S WHY JESUS
CAME INTO THIS WORLD.
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SO THAT'S GOOD NEWS BECAUSE ALL
HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF
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THE SON OF GOD. ALL ARE LOST.
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THAT MEANS JESUS CAME TO SEEK
EVERY ONE OF YOU THAT QUALIFIES
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AS LOST. AND TO DO WHAT WITH IT?
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TO SAVE. HE CAME
TO SAVE THE LOST.
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IF YOU WERE LOST HE CAME TO SAVE
YOU. IT'S A VERY SIMPLE GOSPEL
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MESSAGE IN JUST ONE VERSE.
NOW IN OUR STUDY, WE'VE GOT A
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TASK OF TALKING ABOUT A NUMBER
OF PARABLES THAT ARE IN THE
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BIBLE AND MOST OF THESE ARE
GOING TO BEGIN WITH JOHN CHAPTER
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15 - I'M SORRY, LUKE, RATHER
- LUKE CHAPTER 15 - IF YOU WILL
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TURN IN YOUR
BIBLES TO THAT PAGE.
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AND WE'VE GOT SEVERAL
VERSES WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER.
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MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO
READ THE FIRST VERSE, "THEN ALL
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THE TAX COLLECTORS AND THE
SINNERS DREW NEAR TO HIM TO HEAR
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HIM. AND THE PHARISEES AND THE
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SCRIBES COMPLAINED, SAYING,
'THIS MAN RECEIVES SINNERS AND
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EATS WITH THEM.'" SO
THEN HE SPOKE A PARABLE.
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SO THE CONTEXT OF THIS PARABLE
IS ON THE HEELS OF CRITICISM.
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DID THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OFTEN
CRITICIZE JESUS BECAUSE HE WOULD
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HANG OUT WITH
PUBLICANS AND SINNERS?
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YOU KNOW, ONE TIME IN
PARTICULAR, WHEN IT WAS, I
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GUESS, ESPECIALLY EGREGIOUS,
WAS IT WAS AFTER JESUS CALLED
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MATTHEW TO BE AN
APOSTLE. MATTHEW WAS WHAT?
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HE WAS A
PUBLICAN - TAX COLLECTOR.
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AND TO SHOW HIS GRATITUDE HE HAD
A DINNER FOR JESUS AND THE OTHER
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APOSTLES AND SO MATTHEW WANTED
TO INTRODUCE ALL OF HIS OTHER
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FRIENDS TO JESUS AND SO HE
BROUGHT THE OTHER TAX COLLECTORS
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AND THEIR GIRLFRIENDS, WHICH
WERE USUALLY PROSTITUTES, AND A
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LOT OF THE OFF-SCOURING OF
SOCIETY - THE UNDERWORLD, AS YOU
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WOULD SAY - AND HERE'S JESUS
SITTING AND EATING WITH THEM.
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AND WHEN THE PHARISEES SAW THAT,
THEY POINTED TO THE FIRST PSALM
00:14:07.26\00:14:12.76
- PSALM 1, "BLESSED IS THE MAN
THAT WALKS NOT IN THE WAY OF THE
00:14:12.76\00:14:18.90
SINNERS OR SITS IN
THE SEAT OF THE SCORNFUL."
00:14:18.90\00:14:21.40
AND THEY'RE SAYING JESUS IS
GOING AGAINST THE SCRIPTURE.
00:14:21.40\00:14:24.80
HE IS ASSOCIATING WITH -
HE'S BEFRIENDING SINFUL PEOPLE.
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AND THEY HAD INTERPRETED PSALM 1
TO MEAN THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO
00:14:31.20\00:14:34.70
SHUN SINNERS.
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IT'S NOT WHAT DAVID WAS TALKING
ABOUT IN THAT PSALM, IT MEANS
00:14:36.46\00:14:38.96
THAT WHEN YOU CHOOSE YOUR
LIFE COMPANIONS, THAT YOU CHOOSE
00:14:38.96\00:14:42.13
PEOPLE THAT ARE - HE THAT WALKS
WITH THE WISE WILL BE WISE - YOU
00:14:42.13\00:14:45.33
CHOOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE
GOING THE SAME DIRECTION.
00:14:45.33\00:14:47.93
IT DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T CARE
ABOUT OR WITNESS TO PEOPLE FROM
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ALL WALKS OF LIFE - AND THAT'S
HOW THEY HAD INTERPRETED IT.
00:14:50.43\00:14:54.50
SO HERE THEY SEE THIS RELIGIOUS
LEADER AND LATER HE TOLD THEM,
00:14:54.50\00:14:58.93
'IT'S NOT THE WELL THAT NEED A
PHYSICIAN, BUT THE SICK.' HE WAS
00:14:58.93\00:15:02.46
TRYING TO EXPLAIN, 'I'VE GOT
A SPECIFIC PURPOSE IN SPENDING
00:15:02.46\00:15:04.83
TIME WITH THIS - THESE
PEOPLE - IT'S NOT SO I CAN LEARN
00:15:04.83\00:15:07.56
THEIR WAYS, IT'S
SO I CAN REACH THEM.'
00:15:07.56\00:15:09.26
CHRISTIANS HAVE A VERY DELICATE
DANCE IN THIS WORLD, OF KNOWING
00:15:09.26\00:15:12.60
HOW TO HAVE FRIENDS THAT ARE
NOT SAVED AND TO INFLUENCE THEIR
00:15:12.60\00:15:17.43
FRIENDS WITHOUT
BEING INFLUENCED BY THEM.
00:15:17.43\00:15:20.16
AND WE ALL NEED
TO PRAY FOR WISDOM.
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SO THIS IS THE CONTEXT OF ALL
THESE PARABLES THAT NOW FOLLOW,
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AND HE BEGINS IN VERSE 4 - LUKE
15, VERSE 4 - "WHAT MAN OF YOU,
00:15:26.10\00:15:32.96
HAVING A HUNDRED SHEEP, IF
HE LOSES ONE OF THEM, DOES NOT
00:15:32.96\00:15:38.43
LEAVE THE NINETY-NINE IN THE
WILDERNESS, AND GO AFTER THE ONE
00:15:38.43\00:15:41.40
WHICH IS LOST UNTIL HE FINDS
IT? AND WHEN HE HAS FOUND IT, HE
00:15:41.40\00:15:45.13
LAYS IT ON HIS
SHOULDERS, REJOICING.
00:15:45.13\00:15:48.43
AND WHEN HE COMES HOME, HE
CALLS TOGETHER HIS FRIENDS AND
00:15:48.43\00:15:51.60
NEIGHBORS, SAYING TO THEM,
'REJOICE WITH ME, FOR I HAVE
00:15:51.60\00:15:54.90
FOUND MY SHEEP WHICH WAS LOST!'
I SAY TO YOU THAT LIKEWISE THERE
00:15:54.90\00:15:59.06
WILL BE MORE JOY IN HEAVEN OVER
ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS THAN OVER
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NINETY-NINE JUST
PERSONS WHO NEED NO REPENTANCE."
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VERY INTERESTING PARABLE.
FIRST OF ALL, HOW MANY IN THIS
00:16:06.63\00:16:10.53
WORLD ARE LOST? ONE
PERCENT? NINETY-NINE PERCENT?
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OR A HUNDRED PERCENT?
WITH ONE EXCEPTION, JESUS.
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OTHERWISE, EVERYBODY ELSE
THAT WAS BORN HAS SINNED, RIGHT?
00:16:17.53\00:16:22.36
MATTER OF FACT, I'VE GOT SOME
VERSES I'M GOING TO HAVE A FEW
00:16:22.36\00:16:25.16
PEOPLE HELP ME READ.
00:16:25.16\00:16:26.80
WE'RE JUST GETTING OUR MEDIA
DEPARTMENT WHERE THEY CAN START
00:16:26.80\00:16:28.50
INTEGRATING THE MICROPHONES
AND GET MORE PARTICIPATION.
00:16:28.50\00:16:31.13
SO SOMEBODY'S GOT
ISAIAH 53, VERSE 6.
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>>"ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE
ASTRAY; WE HAVE TURNED, EVERY
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ONE, TO HIS OWN WAY; AND
THE LORD HAS LAID ON HIM THE
00:16:38.53\00:16:41.36
INIQUITY OF US ALL."
>>WE HAVE ALL GONE ASTRAY.
00:16:41.36\00:16:45.76
NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT SHEEP ARE
SOME OF THE MOST WAYWARD OF ALL
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DOMESTIC ANIMALS. A
COW CAN FIND ITS WAY HOME.
00:16:50.76\00:16:55.10
A HORSE CAN FIND ITS WAY HOME.
00:16:55.10\00:16:56.86
THERE'S A STORY FROM WORLD WAR
I - 1914 - THERE WAS A MAN NAMED
00:16:56.86\00:17:02.36
JAMES BROWN - IT'S NOT THE BLUES
SINGER - HE WAS AN ENGLISHMAN.
00:17:02.36\00:17:04.10
HE LEFT HIS WIFE IN
STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND WITH
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THEIR TERRIER. HE
CROSSED THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
00:17:09.60\00:17:11.86
AND WAS FIGHTING ON THE
FRONT LINES OF FRANCE AND THEIR
00:17:11.86\00:17:15.63
TERRIER SHOWED
UP IN THE FOX HOLE.
00:17:15.63\00:17:17.83
THEY DON'T KNOW HOW HE GOT
ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.
00:17:17.83\00:17:20.80
IT'S STILL A
MYSTERY. BUT IT WAS HIS DOG.
00:17:20.80\00:17:24.20
HE'D COME TO FIGHT THE
GERMAN SHEPHERDS, I GUESS.
00:17:24.20\00:17:26.70
BUT DOGS CAN - THEY CAN DO THIS,
BUT SHEEP - SHEEP CAN GO A HILL
00:17:26.70\00:17:33.60
AWAY AND JUST BE
TOTALLY BEWILDERED.
00:17:33.60\00:17:35.96
THEY CAN'T - THEY DON'T HAVE
THAT MAGNETISM OF, YOU KNOW, THE
00:17:35.96\00:17:38.73
GYRO GPS OR SOMETHING THAT HELPS
THEM FIND THEIR WAY BACK AND
00:17:38.73\00:17:42.46
THEY'RE HELPLESS
UNLESS THEY'RE FOUND.
00:17:42.46\00:17:44.30
AND YOU KNOW HOW SHEEP GET LOST?
00:17:44.30\00:17:46.90
THEY DON'T WAKE UP ONE DAY AND
SAY, 'I THINK I'M GOING TO MAKE
00:17:46.90\00:17:49.63
A RUN FOR IT AND BOLT FOR THE
FENCE.' THEY JUST WANT - THEY
00:17:49.63\00:17:55.56
THINK ABOUT FOOD AND WHAT THEY
DO IS THEY'LL BE EATING GRASS
00:17:55.56\00:17:58.80
AND THEY'LL BE LOOKING UP - THEY
ONLY SEE THE NEXT TUFT OF GRASS
00:17:58.80\00:18:01.90
- AND SAY, 'OH IT LOOKS BETTER
THAN THIS ONE.' AND THEY GO EAT
00:18:01.90\00:18:03.66
THAT AND THEN THEY SAY, 'THAT
LOOKS BETTER.' AND THEY EAT THAT
00:18:03.66\00:18:06.00
AND THEY NIBBLE AND NIBBLE UNTIL
NEXT THING THEY KNOW THEY'RE A
00:18:06.00\00:18:07.90
COUPLE OF HILLS AWAY AND
THEY NIBBLE THEIR WAY INTO BEING
00:18:07.90\00:18:09.93
LOST. NOW THIS IS A SHEEP.
IN THE BIBLE YOU'VE GOT SHEEP
00:18:09.93\00:18:15.36
AND GOATS. WHAT
ARE SHEEP, GOOD OR BAD?
00:18:15.36\00:18:17.96
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FOLLOWERS
OF THE SHEPHERD, BUT DO SHEEP
00:18:17.96\00:18:20.93
GET LOST? YEAH. YOU
KNOW HOW CHRISTIANS WANDER
00:18:20.93\00:18:23.90
FROM THE CHURCH?
THEY NIBBLE THEIR WAY.
00:18:23.90\00:18:26.93
THEY DON'T WAKE UP ONE DAY AND
SAY, 'I'M GOING TO MAKE A RUN
00:18:26.93\00:18:29.60
FOR IT.' THEY JUST START GETTING
CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE EDGE
00:18:29.60\00:18:33.76
UNTIL NEXT THING THEY KNOW
THEY'VE GONE OVER THE EDGE AND
00:18:33.76\00:18:36.16
THEN THEY LOOK AROUND AND CAN'T
FIND THE SHEPHERD OR ANY OF THE
00:18:36.16\00:18:39.10
OTHER SHEEP AND THEY JUST KIND
OF NIBBLE THEIR WAY INTO BEING
00:18:39.10\00:18:42.20
LOST. SO, WHAT
DOES THE SHEPHERD DO?
00:18:42.20\00:18:46.00
HE SAYS, 'WELL, I'VE
GOT NINETY-NINE PERCENT.
00:18:46.00\00:18:49.40
THAT'S NOT BAD.
I'M HAPPY WITH THAT.
00:18:49.40\00:18:52.03
I MEAN, LET'S NOT BE GREEDY.
00:18:52.03\00:18:53.43
ONE SHEEP, IT'S NOT TOO BAD A
LOSS RATIO.' BUT HE THINKS ABOUT
00:18:53.43\00:18:57.90
THAT POOR SHEEP OUT THERE, LOST,
EXPOSED TO THE WOLVES, AND HE
00:18:57.90\00:19:01.56
LEAVES THE
NINETY-NINE SAFE WITHIN A FOLD.
00:19:01.56\00:19:06.36
THEY'VE GOT THESE FENCED OFF
AREAS WITH RAILS AND THEY USED
00:19:06.36\00:19:08.83
TO MAKE FENCES, ACTUALLY, OUT
OF THORN BUSHES BACK THEN - KEEP
00:19:08.83\00:19:11.23
THE PREDATORS AWAY, KEEP THE
SHEEP IN - THEY'D JUST STACK UP
00:19:11.23\00:19:14.76
BUSHES. AND SO
THEY'VE GOT THE GOOD
00:19:14.76\00:19:17.43
SHEEP ALL SAFE IN THE FOLD.
HE LEAVES THEM AND HE GOES OUT
00:19:17.43\00:19:20.50
IN THE DARK AND ON THE CLIFFS
AND YOU'VE GOT THAT PICTURE OF
00:19:20.50\00:19:23.70
JESUS COMING TO SEEK AND
TO SAVE THAT WHICH IS LOST.
00:19:23.70\00:19:26.40
WHEN HE FINDS IT,
HE DOESN'T SCOLD IT.
00:19:26.40\00:19:28.80
HE TAKES IT IN HIS ARMS.
ANOTHER TRANSLATION SAYS HE PUTS
00:19:28.80\00:19:32.03
IT UPON HIS
SHOULDERS AND CARRIES IT HOME.
00:19:32.03\00:19:36.40
AND THIS IS A PICTURE OF HOW THE
LORD IS LONGING TO SAVE HIS OWN
00:19:36.40\00:19:39.86
AND TO SAVE THE LOST. AND
SO, THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE
00:19:39.86\00:19:44.33
STORY OF SALVATION AND
HOW THE LOST SHEEP ARE SAVED.
00:19:44.33\00:19:48.10
NOW, ONE MORE THING, BEFORE WE
LEAVE THIS PARABLE, I WANT YOU
00:19:48.10\00:19:50.80
TO THINK ABOUT: WHAT PERCENTAGE
OF THIS WORLD IS LOST?
00:19:50.80\00:19:54.33
EVERYBODY HAS SINNED. IN THE
PARABLE, HOW MANY ARE LOST? ONE.
00:19:54.33\00:19:59.10
ONE PERCENT - YOU KNOW, I'VE
HEARD THIS PARABLE USED ANOTHER
00:19:59.10\00:20:05.43
WAY. THE LORD HAS
AN INFINITE COSMOS
00:20:05.43\00:20:09.50
FULL OF CREATIONS. WE
ARE NOT THE ONLY LIVING
00:20:09.50\00:20:12.73
INTELLIGENT BEING IN
GOD'S INFINITE UNIVERSE.
00:20:12.73\00:20:16.16
WE ARE THE ONLY FALLEN
WORLD THAT THE LORD HAS.
00:20:16.16\00:20:20.36
THERE ARE UNFALLEN ANGELS
AND UNFALLEN INTELLIGENCES.
00:20:20.36\00:20:22.90
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT
THE SONS OF GOD AND SATAN GOES
00:20:22.90\00:20:26.80
TO THIS HEAVENLY MEETING THAT'S
NOT ON THE EARTH, WHERE THERE
00:20:26.80\00:20:30.03
ARE OTHER INTELLIGENT LEADERS
AND THE LORD LEFT THE UNFALLEN
00:20:30.03\00:20:35.13
WORLDS AND PURE ANGELS TO COME
TO THIS ONE WAYWARD REBELLIOUS
00:20:35.13\00:20:40.43
PLANET. HE
COULD HAVE SNAPPED HIS
00:20:40.43\00:20:43.30
FINGERS AND MADE A NEW WORLD,
BUT HE LEFT ALL OF THAT TO COME
00:20:43.30\00:20:45.63
HERE TO SAVE THIS LOST SHEEP.
AND SO, OUR WORLD IS SOMETHING
00:20:45.63\00:20:50.03
LIKE THAT LOST SHEEP ALSO AS,
YOU KNOW, EACH ONE OF US IS AS
00:20:50.03\00:20:54.26
WELL. ALRIGHT,
THEN YOU GET TO THE
00:20:54.26\00:20:57.30
NEXT PARABLE, WHICH IS
THE PARABLE OF THE LOST COIN.
00:20:57.30\00:21:01.16
AND YOU GO DOWN NOW TO VERSE
8, "OR WHAT WOMAN, HAVING TEN
00:21:01.16\00:21:07.66
SILVER COINS," -
THESE ARE DRACHMAS -
00:21:07.66\00:21:11.63
THEY WEREN'T WORTH A LOT.
00:21:11.63\00:21:13.00
THEY WERE
SILVER. THEY WERE PRETTY.
00:21:13.00\00:21:14.43
THEY WERE IMPRESSED
WITH THE IMAGE OF THE KING.
00:21:14.43\00:21:16.93
BUT SHE LOSES ONE OUT OF TEN -
"IF SHE LOSES ONE COIN, DOES NOT
00:21:16.93\00:21:25.53
LIGHT A LAMP, SWEEP THE HOUSE,
AND SEARCH CAREFULLY UNTIL SHE
00:21:25.53\00:21:29.86
FINDS IT?" SHE
DOESN'T SEARCH FOR FOUR HOURS.
00:21:29.86\00:21:33.66
SHE DOESN'T SEARCH FOR TEN DAYS.
SHE SEARCHES UNTIL SHE FINDS IT.
00:21:33.66\00:21:37.43
YOU NOTICE THAT? IT'S
LIKE SHE DOESN'T GIVE UP.
00:21:37.43\00:21:39.60
SHE SWEEPS - NOW SHE'S NOT
SWEEPING HOPING TO SWEEP UP THE
00:21:39.60\00:21:43.20
COIN, BUT A LOT OF THE HOUSES
THEN DIDN'T HAVE WOOD FLOORS OR
00:21:43.20\00:21:47.40
MARBLE FLOORS, THEY OFTEN HAD
DIRT FLOORS AND THE COIN COULD
00:21:47.40\00:21:51.73
EASILY GET KIND OF GROUND DOWN
INTO THE DIRT IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW
00:21:51.73\00:21:54.90
IT WAS LOST. NOW, ONE THING I
OUGHT TO SAY ABOUT THIS COIN -
00:21:54.90\00:21:57.50
YOU WOULD THINK, 'WHY WOULD SHE
BE SO DESPERATE TO SEARCH FOR
00:21:57.50\00:22:01.76
THIS COIN?' - I TELL
YOU WHAT, LET ME FINISH
00:22:01.76\00:22:04.26
READING THIS - SHE SEARCHES
CAREFULLY UNTIL SHE FINDS IT.
00:22:04.26\00:22:06.66
"AND WHEN SHE HAS FOUND IT, SHE
CALLS HER FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
00:22:06.66\00:22:09.40
TOGETHER, SAYING, 'REJOICE WITH
ME, FOR I HAVE FOUND THE PIECE
00:22:09.40\00:22:11.93
WHICH I LOST!'
LIKEWISE, I SAY TO YOU, THERE IS
00:22:11.93\00:22:15.50
JOY IN THE PRESENCE OF THE
ANGELS OF GOD OVER ONE SINNER
00:22:15.50\00:22:18.30
WHO REPENTS." NOW, IF
I HAD A SILVER DOLLAR -
00:22:18.30\00:22:22.23
SUPPOSE I HAD TEN SILVER DOLLARS
AND I LOST A SILVER DOLLAR.
00:22:22.23\00:22:24.60
I PROBABLY WOULDN'T
TELL ALL MY NEIGHBORS.
00:22:24.60\00:22:27.50
AND THIS WAS NOT
WORTH MUCH MORE THAN THAT.
00:22:27.50\00:22:31.10
IT WAS SILVER, BUT
IT WAS A SMALL PIECE.
00:22:31.10\00:22:34.00
A COUPLE THINGS TO CONSIDER.
THE COMMENTATORS SAY THAT WHEN
00:22:34.00\00:22:39.43
BRIDES GOT MARRIED THEY WERE
OFTEN GIVEN SILVER COINS THAT
00:22:39.43\00:22:42.76
WERE MEANT TO BE
PASSED ON THROUGH THE FAMILY.
00:22:42.76\00:22:46.76
THESE COINS HAD A SPECIAL
SIGNIFICANCE THAT WERE CONNECTED
00:22:46.76\00:22:50.96
WITH A DOWRY AND IT WAS A GIFT
AND SOMETIMES THEY'D EVEN STRING
00:22:50.96\00:22:54.60
THEM TOGETHER. AND SO,
IT WAS MORE THAN JUST A
00:22:54.60\00:22:59.00
MONETARY VALUE, IT WAS PROBABLY
HER TEN COINS THAT CAME WITH HER
00:22:59.00\00:23:03.96
WEDDING AND SHE LOSES ONE.
IT'S NOW BECOME INCOMPLETE.
00:23:03.96\00:23:08.23
AND SHE'S FRANTIC AND SO
SHE'S TELLING HER FRIENDS.
00:23:08.23\00:23:13.60
BECAUSE, OTHERWISE, YOU WOULDN'T
PROBABLY CALL THE NEIGHBORHOOD
00:23:13.60\00:23:15.56
TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE BECAUSE
YOU LOST A QUARTER AND YOU FOUND
00:23:15.56\00:23:17.80
IT. BUT THIS IS SOMETHING
SPECIAL THAT SHE'S LOST.
00:23:17.80\00:23:21.03
AND SO, WHAT DOES A WOMAN OFTEN
REPRESENT IN BIBLE ANALOGIES OR
00:23:21.03\00:23:26.16
SYMBOLOGY? A CHURCH.
00:23:26.16\00:23:30.10
CAN YOU THINK OF SOMETHING THAT
COMES IN QUANTITIES OF TEN IN
00:23:30.10\00:23:34.80
THE BIBLE? COMMANDMENTS, RIGHT?
00:23:34.80\00:23:40.16
AND HOW MANY DOES SHE LOSE? ONE.
00:23:40.16\00:23:43.93
SHE SAYS, 'OH, NINETY PERCENT'S
OKAY.' IS THAT WHAT SHE SAYS?
00:23:43.93\00:23:48.00
NO, SHE LIGHTS A
LAMP - WHAT'S A LAMP?
00:23:48.00\00:23:50.73
THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY
FEET. SHE GETS OUT THE BROOM OF
00:23:50.73\00:23:57.66
DILIGENCE AND EFFORT AND
SHE SWEEPS. AND AFTER SHE SWEEPS
00:23:57.66\00:24:03.83
THE DUST AWAY, SHE
GETS DOWN ON HER KNEES.
00:24:03.83\00:24:05.73
A LOT OF THE HOUSES
WEREN'T LIT VERY WELL BACK THEN.
00:24:05.73\00:24:10.13
SHE'S SEARCHING UNTIL SHE FINDS
IT. WHEN SHE FINDS IT SHE SAYS,
00:24:10.13\00:24:14.66
'OH, I WAS MISSING ONE OF
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - MAYBE THE
00:24:14.66\00:24:17.10
SABBATH TRUTH - SO I DON'T
WANT TO SAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS,
00:24:17.10\00:24:21.53
YOU KNOW, THIS ONE
COIN REPRESENTS THE SABBATH.
00:24:21.53\00:24:24.26
THAT'S JUST A - SORT
OF AN ANALOGY I'M MAKING.
00:24:24.26\00:24:27.50
IT'S REALLY TALKING
ABOUT LOST PEOPLE, ISN'T IT?
00:24:27.50\00:24:29.53
JESUS - THE WHOLE PARABLE IS
TALKING ABOUT FINDING THAT WHICH
00:24:29.53\00:24:32.46
IS LOST, BUT SOMETIMES THERE'S A
DUAL APPLICATION YOU MIGHT MAKE
00:24:32.46\00:24:36.16
IN SOME OF THESE
PARABLES - BUT FINDS THE ONE.
00:24:36.16\00:24:40.23
YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS HELD UP
A COIN TO THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS?
00:24:40.23\00:24:42.83
AND THEY SAID,
'WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
00:24:42.83\00:24:46.36
SHOULD WE PAY
TAXES TO CAESAR OR NOT?'
00:24:46.36\00:24:48.00
THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD JESUS
TRAPPED. AND JESUS SURPRISED
00:24:48.00\00:24:51.46
THEM BY ANSWERING THEIR
QUESTION WITH A QUESTION.
00:24:51.46\00:24:53.73
HE SAID, 'WHOSE NAME AND
INSCRIPTION IS ON THE COIN?'
00:24:53.73\00:24:58.70
AND HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING, 'WHOSE
NAME AND IMAGE IS ON THE COIN?'
00:24:58.70\00:25:02.93
THEY SAID - WELL, YOU KNOW, JUST
LIKE TODAY WE STAMP COINS WITH
00:25:02.93\00:25:06.00
THE, YOU KNOW, FACE OF A LEADER
- IT COULD BE A PRESIDENT.
00:25:06.00\00:25:10.86
NOW, IN AMERICA, WE TYPICALLY
WAIT UNTIL THEY'RE DEAD BUT, YOU
00:25:10.86\00:25:13.30
KNOW, IF YOU GO TO AUSTRALIA AND
CANADA AND A LOT OF PLACES, THE
00:25:13.30\00:25:17.26
QUEEN OF ENGLAND IS ON THEIR
MONEY. AND SO, THEY USED TO HAVE
00:25:17.26\00:25:20.76
THE LIVING KING STAMPED ON
THEIR MONEY IN BIBLE TIMES.
00:25:20.76\00:25:24.30
AND SO HE SAID, 'WHOSE NAME
AND IMAGE OR INSCRIPTION IS ON
00:25:24.30\00:25:29.03
THERE?' AND THEY
SAID, 'CAESAR'S.' AND,
00:25:29.03\00:25:31.46
OF COURSE, JESUS SAID, 'GIVE
TO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE
00:25:31.46\00:25:33.30
CAESAR'S; TO GOD THE THINGS THAT
ARE GOD'S.' BUT HERE YOU'VE GOT
00:25:33.30\00:25:36.20
A COIN - THIS WOMAN HAS GOT
A COIN - THEY'RE HERS - THEY'RE
00:25:36.20\00:25:38.46
PRECIOUS - AND THERE'S AN
IMAGE THAT'S BEEN STAMPED ON IT.
00:25:38.46\00:25:42.46
THAT COIN HAS BEEN INADVERTENTLY
DROPPED INTO THE DIRT AND - YOU
00:25:42.46\00:25:47.43
KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO
SILVER? SILVER'S NOT LIKE GOLD.
00:25:47.43\00:25:51.23
GOLD, YOU CAN DIG IT UP A
THOUSAND YEARS LATER, IT WILL
00:25:51.23\00:25:55.93
NOT OXIDIZE. SILVER
WILL START TO TURN BLACK
00:25:55.93\00:26:02.43
AND IT'LL START TO TARNISH.
AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE IMAGE OF
00:26:02.43\00:26:07.50
GOD ON HIS CHILDREN
WHEN WE FALL INTO THE GROUND?
00:26:07.50\00:26:10.30
WHEN WE ARE LOST? IT
STARTS BECOMING DEFACED.
00:26:10.30\00:26:14.53
AND SO, SHE'S DOWN THERE ON
HER HANDS AND KNEES AND SHE'S
00:26:14.53\00:26:18.36
LOOKING FOR IT AND SHE FINDS IT
AND SHE RUBS AND POLISHES IT AND
00:26:18.36\00:26:20.80
RESTORES IT TO THE OTHERS AND
THEN CALLS HER FRIENDS TOGETHER
00:26:20.80\00:26:25.00
AND THEY REJOICE THAT SHE'S
FOUND THIS VERY IMPORTANT SILVER
00:26:25.00\00:26:29.66
PIECE THAT WAS CONNECTED WITH
HER MARRIAGE - HER DOWRY - TO
00:26:29.66\00:26:33.33
HER FRIENDS - AND
THEY ALL REJOICE WITH HER.
00:26:33.33\00:26:36.23
SO THIS IS GIVING US
JUST ONE MORE PICTURE.
00:26:36.23\00:26:39.06
AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING
THAT IS SAID HERE, IN BOTH THESE
00:26:39.06\00:26:41.23
PARABLES, 'THERE IS JOY IN
HEAVEN' - HE SAYS, 'LIKEWISE
00:26:41.23\00:26:45.93
...THERE IS JOY IN HEAVEN OVER
ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS AND IS
00:26:45.93\00:26:50.86
RESTORED.' HOW CAN WE ON EARTH
MAKE PEOPLE HAPPIER IN HEAVEN?
00:26:50.86\00:26:55.03
YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT
CAUSING A PARTY IN HEAVEN?
00:26:55.03\00:26:59.86
YOU KNOW, WHEN WE, AS CHRISTIANS
AND THE CHURCH MEMBERS HAVE AN
00:26:59.86\00:27:04.23
EVANGELISTIC MEETING AND AT THE
END, GOD WILLING, YOU BAPTIZE
00:27:04.23\00:27:06.93
PEOPLE - OR PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY
KNEEL AND ACCEPT CHRIST YOU'RE
00:27:06.93\00:27:11.33
MAKING HEAVEN SING? HAVE
YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT?
00:27:11.33\00:27:15.03
WHAT COULD BE BETTER
THAN TO MAKE HEAVEN HAPPY?
00:27:15.03\00:27:17.63
ISN'T THAT A GREAT GOAL?
00:27:17.63\00:27:20.13
AND SO HE SAID, "LIKEWISE, I
SAY TO YOU," - I'M IN VERSE 10 -
00:27:20.13\00:27:25.76
"THERE IS JOY IN THE PRESENCE
OF THE ANGELS OF GOD OVER ONE
00:27:25.76\00:27:29.53
SINNER WHO REPENTS."
NOW, YOU NOTICE, FIRST IT WAS
00:27:29.53\00:27:34.20
ONE OUT OF A HUNDRED,
NOW IT'S ONE OUT OF TEN.
00:27:34.20\00:27:37.10
NOW HE GOES TO ONE MORE
PARABLE AND IT'S ONE OUT OF TWO.
00:27:37.10\00:27:40.36
YOU NOTICE THE RATIO
CONTINUES TO GET SMALLER.
00:27:40.36\00:27:44.73
NOW THERE'S A DIFFERENCE.
00:27:44.73\00:27:46.00
WE'VE TALKED
ABOUT THE LOST SHEEP.
00:27:46.00\00:27:47.30
WE'VE TALKED
ABOUT THE LOST COIN.
00:27:47.30\00:27:48.46
NOW WE'RE GOING TO
TALK ABOUT THE LOST SON.
00:27:48.46\00:27:49.93
THESE ARE THREE PARABLES
WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER.
00:27:49.93\00:27:52.20
NOTICE, DOES THE
SHEEP KNOW IT'S LOST?
00:27:52.20\00:27:54.90
THE SHEEP KNOWS IT'S LOST,
I MEAN, IT DOESN'T HAVE THE
00:27:54.90\00:27:59.26
ABSTRACT THINKING, BUT IT'S OUT
THERE BLEATING AND IT KNOWS IT
00:27:59.26\00:28:02.26
CAN'T FIND THE WAY HOME. IT
DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO GET BACK.
00:28:02.26\00:28:06.33
DOES THE COIN KNOW IT'S
LOST? IT DOESN'T KNOW IT'S LOST.
00:28:06.33\00:28:10.43
IT DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO GET BACK.
BUT THEN THERE'S A SON WE'RE
00:28:10.43\00:28:13.83
ABOUT TO READ ABOUT.
DOES HE KNOW HE'S LOST?
00:28:13.83\00:28:16.13
YEAH, HE ENDS UP COMING TO HIS
SENSES AND HE EVEN KNOWS THE WAY
00:28:16.13\00:28:20.43
HOME, BUT HE MUST CHOOSE.
SO IN ALL THREE STORIES, YOU'VE
00:28:20.43\00:28:23.66
GOT THREE LOST INDIVIDUALS OR
THINGS, BUT THEIR AWARENESS OF
00:28:23.66\00:28:29.16
WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE
LOST IS VERY DIFFERENT.
00:28:29.16\00:28:31.50
THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT
THERE IN THE WORLD THAT ARE LOST
00:28:31.50\00:28:35.63
THAT HAVE NO IDEA THEY'RE LOST.
HAVE YOU EVER MET PEOPLE THAT
00:28:35.63\00:28:38.50
DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S
A GOD? THEY DON'T CARE.
00:28:38.50\00:28:39.96
THEY DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE LOST.
THEY JUST FIGURE YOU DIE AND
00:28:39.96\00:28:41.76
THAT'S IT AND IT'S LIKE
THEY'RE SORT OF ON THEIR WAY TO
00:28:41.76\00:28:44.13
DESTRUCTION AND
OBLIVIOUS, LIKE THE LOST COIN.
00:28:44.13\00:28:47.83
THEN YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE OUT
THERE, THEY'RE IN THE WORLD.
00:28:47.83\00:28:51.83
THEY KNOW SOMETHING'S
MISSING FROM THEIR LIVES.
00:28:51.83\00:28:53.46
THEY'RE LOST BUT THEY
DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET BACK.
00:28:53.46\00:28:56.20
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THOSE
WHO HAVE SORT OF DELIBERATELY
00:28:56.20\00:28:59.43
REBELLED AND THEY GO AWAY AND
THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO - THEY
00:28:59.43\00:29:03.73
KNOW HOW TO GET BACK
- LIKE THE PRODIGAL SON.
00:29:03.73\00:29:05.90
SO WE'RE GOING TO
READ THAT PARABLE TOGETHER.
00:29:05.90\00:29:08.23
GO TO LUKE 15 AND YOU READ IN
VERSE 11, "A CERTAIN MAN HAD TWO
00:29:08.23\00:29:13.90
SONS. AND THE
YOUNGER OF THEM SAID TO
00:29:13.90\00:29:18.63
HIS FATHER, 'FATHER, GIVE ME THE
PORTION OF GOODS THAT FALLS TO
00:29:18.63\00:29:22.13
ME.' SO HE DIVIDED TO THEM HIS
00:29:22.13\00:29:24.66
LIVELIHOOD." WE
ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT THIS
00:29:24.66\00:29:27.83
PARABLE DURING PRAYER
MEETING EARLIER THIS WEEK.
00:29:27.83\00:29:29.93
NOW HOW MANY BOYS
ARE THERE IN THE STORY?
00:29:29.93\00:29:33.26
WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE IN THE
BIBLE LAW BETWEEN THE YOUNGEST
00:29:33.26\00:29:38.93
AND THE OLDEST?
FIRSTBORN GOT A DOUBLE PORTION.
00:29:38.93\00:29:44.66
THAT MEANS HE GOT TWO-THIRDS;
THE YOUNGEST GOT ONE-THIRD.
00:29:44.66\00:29:47.86
PART OF THE DOUBLE PORTION THE
FIRSTBORN GETS IS HE GETS THE
00:29:47.86\00:29:51.56
FARM. THE
YOUNGEST MIGHT GET SOME
00:29:51.56\00:29:55.43
ASSETS, BUT THE FARM COULDN'T
GO TO BOTH OR THERE MIGHT BE A
00:29:55.43\00:29:58.23
SPLIT AND RIVALRY AND SO
THE FARM WENT TO, USUALLY, THE
00:29:58.23\00:30:00.80
OLDEST BOY IN THE FAMILY, IF
THERE WAS A BOY, AND THEN THEY
00:30:00.80\00:30:06.10
HAD A LAW FOR THE DAUGHTERS OF
ZELOPHEHAD THAT OTHERWISE THEN
00:30:06.10\00:30:09.16
IT WOULD BE DIVIDED AMONG THE
GIRLS, BUT THE FIRSTBORN HAD THE
00:30:09.16\00:30:12.46
LARGEST PART. THE
YOUNGEST, THEY WOULD,
00:30:12.46\00:30:16.10
SOMETIMES, TAKE OFF
AND DO THEIR OWN THING.
00:30:16.10\00:30:18.53
YOU CAN FIND SEVERAL EXAMPLES
OF THAT IN THE BIBLE. YOU EVER
00:30:18.53\00:30:21.56
NOTICE, EVEN IN OUR CULTURE
TODAY, THAT THOSE THAT ARE THE
00:30:21.56\00:30:26.13
MOST RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE USUALLY
WERE THE OLDEST OF THE SIBLINGS?
00:30:26.13\00:30:30.30
BECAUSE THEY SPEND SO MUCH TIME
TAKING CARE OF THEIR YOUNGER
00:30:30.30\00:30:33.30
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THEY END
UP BEING THE MORE RESPONSIBLE.
00:30:33.30\00:30:36.80
AND THE YOUNGER ONE SAYS, 'LOOK,
I'M NOT GETTING MUCH AND I DON'T
00:30:36.80\00:30:42.00
WANT TO WAIT FOR YOU TO DIE.'
- IT WASN'T TOTALLY UNCOMMON FOR
00:30:42.00\00:30:45.83
THEM TO DIVIDE THE
INHERITANCE BEFORE THEY DIE.
00:30:45.83\00:30:51.46
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE PROPHET
CAME TO HEZEKIAH AND HE SAID,
00:30:51.46\00:30:57.93
'SET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER
BECAUSE YOU'RE TERMINAL.'
00:30:57.93\00:30:59.70
AND HE WAS GOING TO
DIVIDE HIS INHERITANCE.
00:30:59.70\00:31:02.90
DID KING DAVID CHOOSE THE NEXT
KING WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE?
00:31:02.90\00:31:06.33
SO SOMETIMES THEY'D EVEN DIVIDE
THINGS WHILE THEY WERE ALIVE.
00:31:06.33\00:31:11.00
DID ISAAC DIVIDE HIS INHERITANCE
AND BLESS HIS CHILDREN YEARS
00:31:11.00\00:31:14.90
BEFORE HE DIED? HE
SAID, 'I DON'T KNOW THE DAY
00:31:14.90\00:31:18.53
OF MY DEATH' - IT TURNS OUT HE
ENDED UP LIVING 30 YEARS MORE,
00:31:18.53\00:31:21.80
BUT HE WAS GETTING NERVOUS ABOUT
HOW MUCH LONGER HE WOULD LIVE
00:31:21.80\00:31:24.96
AND, LET'S FACE IT, NONE OF US
REALLY KNOWS FOR SURE. AND SO,
00:31:24.96\00:31:27.83
ISAAC SAID, 'BRING MY SONS IN
THAT I MIGHT BLESS THEM.' AND HE
00:31:27.83\00:31:32.06
WAS GOING TO GIVE THE
BLESSING TO ESAU, THE OLDEST.
00:31:32.06\00:31:33.80
AND SO IT WASN'T UNCOMMON
FOR THEM TO DIVVY THINGS UP.
00:31:33.80\00:31:37.63
SO THE BOY WASN'T
REALLY SAYING, YOU KNOW,
00:31:37.63\00:31:39.90
'I CAN'T EVEN
WAIT FOR YOU TO DIE.
00:31:39.90\00:31:43.80
JUST HURRY UP AND DO IT.' YEAH,
WELL HE WAS ACTUALLY ASKING FOR
00:31:43.80\00:31:46.83
HIS MONEY PRETTY QUICK, BUT IT
WASN'T UNHEARD OF THAT YOU MIGHT
00:31:46.83\00:31:49.86
DIVIDE YOUR INHERITANCE
WHILE YOU WERE STILL ALIVE.
00:31:49.86\00:31:52.56
AND HE TAKES IT - "NOT MANY DAYS
AFTER" - AS LONG AS IT TOOK HIM
00:31:52.56\00:31:59.20
TO LIQUIDATE WHATEVER HE HAD
- "THE YOUNGER SON GATHERED ALL
00:31:59.20\00:32:02.60
TOGETHER," - ANYTHING THAT
HE'S GOT OF ANY VALUE AND HE -
00:32:02.60\00:32:05.16
"JOURNEYED TO A FAR COUNTRY."
WHAT DOES THAT FAR COUNTRY
00:32:05.16\00:32:10.20
REPRESENT? YEAH,
WHEN WE WANDER FROM GOD,
00:32:10.20\00:32:15.66
WE END UP IN THE FAR COUNTRY.
AND YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF
00:32:15.66\00:32:21.40
THE GIBEONITES
IN - WHAT IS THAT?
00:32:21.40\00:32:24.73
- THE BOOK OF JOSHUA CHAPTER 9
- WHERE THEY SAID, 'OH NO, WE'RE
00:32:24.73\00:32:29.00
NOT YOUR NEIGHBORS BUT WE COME
FROM A FAR COUNTRY.' AND YOU
00:32:29.00\00:32:32.00
OFTEN TALK ABOUT - JESUS TELLS
PARABLES ABOUT THIS KING LEAVES
00:32:32.00\00:32:35.90
SOME POSSESSIONS TO HIS SERVANTS
AND HE TRAVELS INTO A FAR
00:32:35.90\00:32:38.90
COUNTRY. IT'S
TALKING ABOUT THIS GREAT
00:32:38.90\00:32:41.56
GULF THAT SEPARATES THE
FATHER FROM HIS CHILDREN.
00:32:41.56\00:32:45.83
THIS BOY WANTS TO GET SO
FAR AWAY FROM THE FATHER THAT
00:32:45.83\00:32:48.80
THERE'S JUST NO
INTERNET CONNECTION.
00:32:48.80\00:32:51.36
HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING.
HE CAN JUST BE DOING HIS OWN
00:32:51.36\00:32:54.00
THING. NO ACCOUNTABILITY.
00:32:54.00\00:32:56.63
HE DOESN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
HIM WALKING UP INTO THE BAR AND
00:32:56.63\00:33:00.40
LOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDER AND
SAYING, 'WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU
00:33:00.40\00:33:02.80
DOING?' SO TRYING
TO GET AWAY FROM HIS
00:33:02.80\00:33:05.23
CONSCIENCE HE GOES AS FAR AWAY
AS HE CAN, AND WHILE HE'S THERE,
00:33:05.23\00:33:09.43
HE SAYS, 'AH, FREE
AT LAST. FREE AT LAST.
00:33:09.43\00:33:11.60
I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MY
PARENTS TELLING ME WHAT TO DO.
00:33:11.60\00:33:15.43
I DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH
THE ANGRY LOOKS OF MY OLDER
00:33:15.43\00:33:18.70
BROTHER.' AND WHILE HE WAS
THERE, IT SAYS HE "WASTED HIS
00:33:18.70\00:33:24.36
POSSESSIONS WITH
PRODIGAL [RIOTOUS] LIVING."
00:33:24.36\00:33:29.00
HE SQUANDERS IT. YOU
KNOW THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
00:33:29.00\00:33:32.46
OFTEN THE MOST RESPONSIBLE WITH
MONEY, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE,
00:33:32.46\00:33:35.63
ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE HAD
TO WORK, SOMEWHAT, TO GET IT.
00:33:35.63\00:33:39.70
IF PEOPLE ARE HANDED EVERYTHING
WITHOUT ANY EFFORT AND THEY
00:33:39.70\00:33:44.43
HAVEN'T LEARNED DISCIPLINE AND
SELF-CONTROL AHEAD OF TIME, IT'S
00:33:44.43\00:33:47.06
AMAZING HOW
QUICKLY IT CAN EVAPORATE.
00:33:47.06\00:33:49.50
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
STORIES OF PEOPLE THAT SUDDENLY
00:33:49.50\00:33:52.90
FELL INTO SOME GREAT INHERITANCE
AND IT EVAPORATES JUST WITHIN A
00:33:52.90\00:33:56.16
MATTER OF YEARS.
YOU'VE ALL HEARD STORIES ABOUT
00:33:56.16\00:33:59.63
SOMEONE WHO WON THE LOTTERY
AND THEN, NEXT THING YOU KNOW,
00:33:59.63\00:34:03.53
THEY'RE IN DEBT. AND
SO, THAT'S - THIS BOY HAD
00:34:03.53\00:34:08.76
NOT - HE'S NOT QUITE
LIKE HIS OLDER BROTHER.
00:34:08.76\00:34:11.53
AND HE SAYS, 'I'M GOING TO LIVE
IT UP.' YOU ONLY GO AROUND ONCE
00:34:11.53\00:34:14.56
IN LIFE, HE THOUGHT, AND
SO HE STARTS TO BUY DRINKS FOR
00:34:14.56\00:34:18.10
EVERYBODY AND HE'S GOT A LOT OF
FRIENDS AS LONG AS HE'S PAYING
00:34:18.10\00:34:20.40
THE BILL. AND HE
WASTED HIS SUBSTANCE.
00:34:20.40\00:34:25.53
HE WANTED TO LIVE FOR THE
MOMENT. HE WAS LIVING A TOTALLY
00:34:25.53\00:34:28.36
HEDONISTIC LIFE
FOR PHYSICAL PLEASURE.
00:34:28.36\00:34:31.06
BUT, ABOUT THE SAME TIME HE RUNS
OUT OF MONEY, "BUT WHEN HE HAD
00:34:31.06\00:34:38.46
SPENT ALL," - HE'S COMPLETELY
EXHAUSTED EVERYTHING - "THERE
00:34:38.46\00:34:43.46
AROSE A SEVERE FAMINE IN
THAT LAND, AND HE BEGAN TO BE IN
00:34:43.46\00:34:47.80
WANT." - HE
BEGINS TO REALLY SUFFER.
00:34:47.80\00:34:49.83
HE'S LOST ALL OF HIS EARTHLY
RESOURCES, EVERYTHING'S GONE,
00:34:49.83\00:34:53.50
AND HE'S EXPERIENCING
SEVERE PRIVATION AND HARDSHIP.
00:34:53.50\00:34:56.90
AND SO, NOW HE'S
FORCED TO ACTUALLY WORK.
00:34:56.90\00:34:59.93
AND HE GOES AND HE "JOINED
HIMSELF TO A CITIZEN OF THAT
00:34:59.93\00:35:03.03
COUNTRY, AND HE SENT HIM
INTO HIS FIELDS TO FEED SWINE."
00:35:03.03\00:35:08.10
NOW, JUST - I THINK MOST OF US
KNOW THAT JESUS, BEING JEWISH,
00:35:08.10\00:35:14.50
HE'S TALKING TO
A JEWISH AUDIENCE -
00:35:14.50\00:35:16.83
THE LOWEST ANIMAL
FOR A JEW WAS A PIG.
00:35:16.83\00:35:22.66
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'THE PIG
THAT IS WASHED IS RETURNED TO
00:35:22.66\00:35:26.83
WALLOWING IN THE MIRE' AND 'YOU
DO NOT GIVE THAT WHICH IS HOLY
00:35:26.83\00:35:29.50
TO THE DOGS' AND 'DON'T GIVE
THAT WHICH IS HOLY TO THE SWINE'
00:35:29.50\00:35:35.60
AND SO THE IDEA THAT YOU WOULD
HAVE TO FEED PIGS - THE DEMONS
00:35:35.60\00:35:39.63
ENTERED A HERD OF PIGS AND
THERE'S JUST THIS ASSOCIATION IN
00:35:39.63\00:35:44.13
THE JEWISH MIND IT
WAS CONSIDERED UNCLEAN AND
00:35:44.13\00:35:46.56
SCAVENGERS. AND HE'S OUT THERE.
00:35:46.56\00:35:52.96
HE'S GONE TO A FAR COUNTRY WHERE
THEY DON'T FOLLOW THIS AND HE'S
00:35:52.96\00:35:55.93
GONE TO THE VERY
LOWEST PROFESSION.
00:35:55.93\00:35:59.20
HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER
DRIVEN BY A PIG YARD?
00:35:59.20\00:36:06.40
HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER FED PIGS?
00:36:06.40\00:36:11.20
WE HAD A NEIGHBOR THAT HAD
PIGS AND, THIS IS SOMETHING OF A
00:36:11.20\00:36:16.13
CONUNDRUM FOR ADVENTISTS, AND
EVERY NOW AND THEN THEY WOULD
00:36:16.13\00:36:18.96
LEAVE. THEY'D SAY,
'CAN YOU WATCH OVER
00:36:18.96\00:36:20.90
OUR RANCH WHILE WE'RE GONE?'
AND WE WOULD MILK THEIR COWS AND
00:36:20.90\00:36:23.26
THEIR GOATS AND FEED THEIR
PIGS - CHICKENS TOO - AND WHEW!
00:36:23.26\00:36:26.96
YOU KNOW, I COULD NEVER FIND
A BETTER WORD TO DESCRIBE IT
00:36:26.96\00:36:32.80
EXCEPT TO TELL YOU
THAT PIGS ARE PIGS.
00:36:32.80\00:36:35.23
THEIR WORD HAS BECOME THE BEST
LABEL BECAUSE - AND THEY SMELL.
00:36:35.23\00:36:40.73
IT IS JUST A RANK
SMELL. THEY SEEM TO ENJOY IT.
00:36:40.73\00:36:44.53
AND HE'S OUT THERE AND HE'S NOT
ONLY FEEDING THE PIGS BUT, THE
00:36:44.53\00:36:49.90
BIBLE SAYS THAT HE IS SO HUNGRY
THAT THE PODS - THE HUSKS - THAT
00:36:49.90\00:36:54.20
HE'S FEEDING THE PIGS,
ARE LOOKING APPETIZING TO HIM.
00:36:54.20\00:36:57.46
YOU GET HUNGRY ENOUGH AND EVEN
PIG FOOD STARTS LOOKING GOOD.
00:36:57.46\00:37:03.06
AND SO, HE'S - WHILE HE'S THERE
AND HE'S STARTING TO - HAVING
00:37:03.06\00:37:08.73
DAYDREAMS ABOUT STEALING THE
FOOD FROM THE PIGS, IT GOES ON
00:37:08.73\00:37:12.86
TO SAY, "AND NO
MAN GAVE HIM ANYTHING."
00:37:12.86\00:37:16.23
SO HE'S, YOU
KNOW, MAYBE PANHANDLING.
00:37:16.23\00:37:21.40
HE'S TRYING TO GET SOMETHING AND
NO ONE'S GIVING HIM ANYTHING.
00:37:21.40\00:37:23.83
NO ONE WILL GIVE HIM ANY HELP.
00:37:23.83\00:37:25.33
HE FINALLY COMES TO HIS SENSES -
"BUT WHEN HE CAME TO HIMSELF," -
00:37:25.33\00:37:28.10
VERSE 17 - "HE SAID, 'HOW MANY
OF MY FATHER'S HIRED SERVANTS
00:37:28.10\00:37:33.23
HAVE BREAD ENOUGH AND TO
SPARE," - THEY EAT TO THE FULL.
00:37:33.23\00:37:37.26
WHEN JESUS FED
PEOPLE, WERE THERE LEFTOVERS?
00:37:37.26\00:37:41.36
WHEN HE MULTIPLIED
BREAD, WERE THERE LEFTOVERS?
00:37:41.36\00:37:44.13
NOTICE HE DOESN'T
NUMBER HIS FATHER'S SERVANTS.
00:37:44.13\00:37:46.26
HE DOESN'T SAY, 'MY FATHER'S
GOT SIX SERVANTS.' HIS FATHER,
00:37:46.26\00:37:48.33
EVIDENTLY, HAS
A LOT OF SERVANTS.
00:37:48.33\00:37:50.96
HE SAYS THERE'S SO MANY OF
THEM. HIS FATHER IS WEALTHY.
00:37:50.96\00:37:53.93
HE SAYS, 'THEY
ALL EAT TO THE FULL.
00:37:53.93\00:37:57.10
THE SERVANTS EAT BETTER THAN
I'M EATING.' HE'S THINKING, YOU
00:37:57.10\00:38:01.60
KNOW, I'VE GOT IT PRETTY GOOD.'
DO WE HAVE IT PRETTY GOOD?
00:38:01.60\00:38:09.06
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN REALLY
HUNGRY? I DON'T MEAN HUNGRY
00:38:09.06\00:38:12.86
BECAUSE YOU'RE FASTING FOR A DAY
OR TWO. YOU ALWAYS KNOW YOU CAN
00:38:12.86\00:38:15.26
BRING THAT TO AN
END WHENEVER YOU WANT.
00:38:15.26\00:38:17.16
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN HUNGRY
AND NOT HAD ANYTHING TO EAT AND
00:38:17.16\00:38:20.03
THERE'S NO PROSPECTS
CLOSE BY? THAT'S PRETTY TOUGH.
00:38:20.03\00:38:23.93
AND YOU START APPRECIATING, WHEN
YOU PRAY FOR YOUR FOOD, IT'S NOT
00:38:23.93\00:38:28.63
JUST A RITUAL, BUT WHEN YOU
PRAY FOR YOUR FOOD YOU'RE REALLY
00:38:28.63\00:38:31.73
THANKFUL THAT YOU
HAVE ALL YOU CAN EAT.
00:38:31.73\00:38:34.70
AND SO HE'S THINKING - HE
COMES TO HIMSELF AND HE STARTS
00:38:34.70\00:38:39.36
DAYDREAMING ABOUT THE HOT BREAD
THAT HIS MOM WOULD PULL OUT OF
00:38:39.36\00:38:42.90
THE OVEN AND HOW HE'D SLATHER
IT WITH HONEY AND WHATEVER ELSE
00:38:42.90\00:38:45.60
THEY HAD BACK THEN AND
THAT HE WAS EATING TO THE FULL.
00:38:45.60\00:38:49.13
AND HE THINKS, I
THOUGHT I HAD IT SO BAD.
00:38:49.13\00:38:52.00
I COULDN'T WAIT TO GET
AWAY FROM HOME, NOW LOOK AT ME.
00:38:52.00\00:38:53.86
FEEDING PIGS -
HE COMES TO HIMSELF.
00:38:53.86\00:38:57.93
YOU KNOW, THIS IS DESCRIBING
SOME WHO HAVE GROWN UP IN THE
00:38:57.93\00:39:01.90
CHURCH - WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT
THE PRODIGAL - THEY KNOW THE
00:39:01.90\00:39:05.33
LORD, THEY KNOW THE FATHER,
THEY KNOW WHERE THE FATHER LIVES
00:39:05.33\00:39:10.36
AND THEY'RE JUST
OUT IN THE WORLD.
00:39:10.36\00:39:13.10
THEY'RE THINKING IT WOULD BE
BETTER AWAY FROM THE FATHER'S
00:39:13.10\00:39:15.70
HOUSE AND OUT IN THE WORLD,
AND FOR A WHILE, EVIDENTLY, THEY
00:39:15.70\00:39:18.83
ENJOY IT. IF SIN HAD
NO ATTRACTION, PEOPLE
00:39:18.83\00:39:23.53
WOULD NEVER LEAVE
GOD OR THE CHURCH.
00:39:23.53\00:39:25.20
BUT THE BIBLE SAYS
THERE ARE PLEASURES OF SIN.
00:39:25.20\00:39:28.36
MOSES REFUSED THE
PLEASURES OF SIN FOR A SEASON.
00:39:28.36\00:39:32.96
YOU NOTICE IT DOESN'T LASTLONG.
AND SO SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU
00:39:32.96\00:39:36.90
KNOW, BEING A CHRISTIAN IS HARD.
YOU CAN'T DO THIS AND YOU CAN'T
00:39:36.90\00:39:39.00
DO THAT AND, OH MAN,
MY FATHER'S SO STRICT.
00:39:39.00\00:39:41.56
I'M GOING TO GO AS FAR FROM
MY FATHER AS I CAN SO I'M JUST
00:39:41.56\00:39:44.20
GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME.
BUT I NEED MY FATHER'S THINGS.
00:39:44.20\00:39:48.63
I DON'T WANT MY FATHER BUT I
WANT HIS RESOURCES.' YOU KNOW,
00:39:48.63\00:39:54.93
THE HEALTH THAT WE HAVE - THE
STRENGTH THAT WE HAVE IN ORDER
00:39:54.93\00:40:00.10
TO SIN WITH
ENTHUSIASM COMES FROM GOD.
00:40:00.10\00:40:03.33
AND PEOPLE WHO ARE LOST WILL
PRAY FOR STRENGTH SO THEY CAN
00:40:03.33\00:40:07.13
ENJOY SIN. THEY'LL
ASK GOD TO GIVE THEM
00:40:07.13\00:40:10.40
HEALTH SO THEY CAN
ENJOY THEIR SIN BETTER.
00:40:10.40\00:40:13.66
THEY ASK FOR THE BLESSINGS OF
THE FATHER BUT THEY DON'T WANT
00:40:13.66\00:40:16.86
THE FATHER. YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:40:16.86\00:40:19.96
SO BUT NOW HE'S BEGINNING TO
THINK, 'MAYBE I NEED MY FATHER.
00:40:19.96\00:40:25.83
MAYBE IT'S A PACKAGE
DEAL.' HE CAME TO HIMSELF.
00:40:25.83\00:40:30.13
HE SAID, "HOW MANY OF MY
FATHER'S HIRED SERVANTS HAVE
00:40:30.13\00:40:33.70
BREAD ENOUGH TO
SPARE?" 'HERE I'M A SON!
00:40:33.70\00:40:36.20
HIS HIRED
SERVANTS ARE DOING BETTER.
00:40:36.20\00:40:38.43
I AM PERISHING.' NOTICE THE WORD
'PERISHING' - GOD SO LOVED THE
00:40:38.43\00:40:42.26
WORLD, THAT WE MIGHT NOT
PERISH, HIS SON WAS GIVEN.
00:40:42.26\00:40:46.70
"I WILL ARISE" - LIKE THE WORD
OF GOD COMES TO JONAH AND SAYS,
00:40:46.70\00:40:50.90
'ARISE.' "I WILL ARISE AND GO TO
MY FATHER, AND WILL SAY TO HIM,
00:40:50.90\00:40:57.26
'FATHER,'" - NOW YOU'VE GOT TWO
THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING HERE.
00:40:57.26\00:41:00.73
FIRST, WHEN HE COMES TO
HIMSELF, HE'S REPENTING.
00:41:00.73\00:41:04.26
WHEN HE SAYS, 'I WILL SAY TO
MY FATHER' - HE'S CONFESSING.
00:41:04.26\00:41:08.06
TWO VERY IMPORTANT THINGS YOU
DON'T HEAR VERY MUCH ABOUT IN
00:41:08.06\00:41:10.60
THE CONVERSION
EXPERIENCE THESE DAYS.
00:41:10.60\00:41:13.06
A LOT OF CHURCHES, BASICALLY,
TELL PEOPLE TO JUST COME AND SAY
00:41:13.06\00:41:16.40
THIS 60-SECOND PRAYER - OR LESS
- BUT THE BIBLE TEACHES THERE
00:41:16.40\00:41:21.10
SHOULD BE AN ATTITUDE OF
REPENTANCE AND THERE SHOULD BE
00:41:21.10\00:41:24.53
DELIBERATE AND CONSCIOUS
CONFESSION THAT IS MADE TO GOD.
00:41:24.53\00:41:27.76
WE OUGHT TO BE AWARE OF WHAT
OUR SINS ARE, AS THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:41:27.76\00:41:32.23
REVEALS THEM TO US, AND CONFESS
THEM TOGOD. SO HE'S COMING HOME,
00:41:32.23\00:41:36.13
HE'S REPENTING AND HE'S
CONFESSING AND HE IS COMING.
00:41:36.13\00:41:39.16
NOW THERE'S A LOT OF
VERSES THAT CONNECT WITH THIS.
00:41:39.16\00:41:41.90
HE SAYS, 'I WILL GO TO MY
FATHER.' - HE REHEARSES HIS
00:41:41.90\00:41:45.33
SPEECH - I'LL SAY, "FATHER, I
HAVE SINNED AGAINST HEAVEN AND
00:41:45.33\00:41:48.86
BEFORE YOU, AND I AM'" - THERE
ARE TWO CATEGORIES - GOD AND MAN
00:41:48.86\00:41:54.06
- LOVE THE LORD AND LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR - HE SAYS, 'I'VE SINNED
00:41:54.06\00:41:56.60
AGAINST BOTH.' - "AND I AM NO
LONGER WORTHY" - WHAT IS IT THAT
00:41:56.60\00:42:00.86
MAKES US WORTHY TO
RECEIVE CHRIST'S FORGIVENESS.
00:42:00.86\00:42:05.76
YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES US WORTHY?
BEING AWARE THAT WE'RE NOT
00:42:05.76\00:42:09.30
WORTHY. WE HAVE
NOTHING TO PLEAD.
00:42:09.30\00:42:12.86
THE GREATEST THING WE CAN
PLEAD IS OUR DESPERATE NEED.
00:42:12.86\00:42:15.46
BUT WE CAN'T PLEAD OUR
WORTHINESS AND THIS IS WHAT THE
00:42:15.46\00:42:18.80
SON IS DOING. AND
THIS IS A PARABLE OF JESUS.
00:42:18.80\00:42:20.76
HE'S SAYING, 'YOU'VE GOT TO COME
BACK AND SAY 'I'M NOT WORTHY.''
00:42:20.76\00:42:23.30
SO IT'S NOT OUR WORTH, IT'S HIS
LOVE. "I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY
00:42:23.30\00:42:28.63
FATHER...I AM NO LONGER
WORTHY TO BE CALLED YOUR SON.
00:42:28.63\00:42:32.30
MAKE ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR HIRED
SERVANTS.'' YOU'RE NOT REALLY
00:42:32.30\00:42:36.56
PREPARED TO BE A SON UNTIL
YOU'RE PREPARED TO BE A SERVANT.
00:42:36.56\00:42:39.23
YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID, 'I AM
AMONG YOU AS ONE WHO SERVES AND
00:42:39.23\00:42:43.70
IF YOU'RE GOING TO
FOLLOW ME, THAT'S YOUR MODEL.'
00:42:43.70\00:42:46.43
SO HE AROSE AND HE
CAME TO HIS FATHER.
00:42:46.43\00:42:51.30
BUT NOTICE WHAT HAPPENS - VERSE
2O - I'M IN LUKE 15, VERSE 20 -
00:42:51.30\00:42:54.46
"BUT WHEN HE WAS STILL A GREAT
WAY OFF," - HE'S COMING FROM A
00:42:54.46\00:42:58.76
FAR COUNTRY - "HIS FATHER
SAW HIM" - HOW'D THAT HAPPEN?
00:42:58.76\00:43:02.36
HE'S SCANNING THE HORIZON
WITH BINOCULARS, SYMBOLICALLY.
00:43:02.36\00:43:08.70
WHAT IS THE FATHER THINKING
ABOUT ALL THE TIME HIS SON IS
00:43:08.70\00:43:11.30
GONE? HE'S
THINKING, 'I LET ALL OF
00:43:11.30\00:43:14.63
THAT MONEY GO DOWN THE ROAD.
I SHOULD NEVER HAVE DONE THAT.'
00:43:14.63\00:43:17.46
IS HE THINKING ABOUT THE MONEY
THAT'S LOST? IS HE THINKING
00:43:17.46\00:43:21.50
ABOUT 'THAT GOOD FOR NOTHING - I
RAISED HIM AND TOOK CARE OF HIM
00:43:21.50\00:43:24.33
ALL THOSE YEARS - WATCHED OVER
HIM - TRIED TO TEACH HIM AND HE
00:43:24.33\00:43:27.06
JUST - HE BASICALLY REJECTS ME
AND EVERYTHING I'VE TAUGHT HIM.'
00:43:27.06\00:43:30.60
OR IS HE JUST WANTING HIS
SON BACK? HE'S WANTING THE SON -
00:43:30.60\00:43:35.60
THE RELATIONSHIP - "BUT WHEN HE
WAS A GREAT WAY OFF, HIS FATHER
00:43:35.60\00:43:39.23
SAW HIM AND HAD COMPASSION,"
- HIS HEART WAS MOVED -
00:43:39.23\00:43:42.46
"AND RAN AND FELL ON
HIS NECK AND KISSED HIM."
00:43:42.46\00:43:46.56
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE
STORY WHEN JACOB WAS REUNITED
00:43:46.56\00:43:49.56
WITH ESAU - AND LATER JOSEPH
- BUT WITH ESAU, THESE BROTHERS
00:43:49.56\00:43:58.03
HAD NOT SEEN EACH OTHER AND ESAU
HAD EVERY RIGHT TO BE VERY UPSET
00:43:58.03\00:44:00.46
AT JACOB BECAUSE OF WHAT
HE HAD DONE TO STEAL FROM HIM.
00:44:00.46\00:44:04.63
AND IT LOOKED LIKE, FOR A WHILE,
ESAU WAS GOING TO GET EVEN, BUT
00:44:04.63\00:44:07.90
WHEN JACOB KEPT SENDING GIFTS
AHEAD, ESAU'S HEART WAS MELTED.
00:44:07.90\00:44:12.03
WHEN HE FINALLY SAW HIS BROTHER
HE RAN AND HE FELL ON HIS NECK
00:44:12.03\00:44:14.66
AND HE KISSED HIM. YOU
KNOW, AS SOON AS THE FATHER
00:44:14.66\00:44:18.13
SAW THE SON
COMING, HE RAN TO HIM.
00:44:18.13\00:44:20.86
THE BIBLE SAYS, IN JAMES CHAPTER
4, 'DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND HE WILL
00:44:20.86\00:44:26.36
DRAW NEAR TO YOU.' THAT IS A
WONDERFUL PROMISE. I DON'T HEAR
00:44:26.36\00:44:28.90
PEOPLE USE THAT VERY OFTEN,
BUT IT IS A WONDERFUL PROMISE.
00:44:28.90\00:44:31.23
THAT MEANS ANY EFFORT OR STEP
THAT YOU MAKE TO DRAW NEAR TO
00:44:31.23\00:44:34.50
GOD, HE COMPENSATES WITH A
CORRESPONDING EFFORT TO DRAW
00:44:34.50\00:44:37.66
NEAR TO YOU. >>AMEN.
00:44:37.66\00:44:38.96
>>SO IF YOU THINK, 'OH MAN, I'VE
GOT A MILE TO GET TO GOD.' NO
00:44:38.96\00:44:41.30
YOU DON'T. YOU'VE
ONLY GOT HALF A MILE
00:44:41.30\00:44:42.53
BECAUSE AS SOON AS HE SEES
YOU COMING HE COMES TO MEET YOU.
00:44:42.53\00:44:45.23
HE WILL DO EVERYTHING HE CAN
TO MAKE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU
00:44:45.23\00:44:50.33
AND HIM SHORTER. AND
WHILE HE WAS A GREAT WAY
00:44:50.33\00:44:54.40
OFF, THE FATHER RAN TO HIM.
AND HE'S BEEN LOOKING FOR HIM.
00:44:54.40\00:45:00.40
THE BOY IS - HE'S
GOT, YOU KNOW, HE'S WEARY -
00:45:00.40\00:45:04.70
LONG JOURNEY - HE'S
DRAGGING DOWN THE ROAD.
00:45:04.70\00:45:06.86
HIS FATHER SEES HIM COMING,
HE RUNS TO MEET HIS SON. AND SO
00:45:06.86\00:45:12.23
THERE WAS THIS GREAT REUNION
OF THE FATHER AND THE SON.
00:45:12.23\00:45:15.06
HE'S CLINGING TO HIS SON AND
HIS SON BEGINS TO CHOKE OUT HIS
00:45:15.06\00:45:17.66
REPENTANCE AND HE SAID, "FATHER,
I HAVE SINNED AGAINST HEAVEN AND
00:45:17.66\00:45:23.60
IN YOUR SIGHT, AND AM NO LONGER
WORTHY TO BE CALLED YOUR SON."
00:45:23.60\00:45:25.76
AND THAT'S ALL HE NEEDS TO SAY.
00:45:25.76\00:45:27.36
THE FATHER DOESN'T SAY 'DRAW
NEAR TO GOD, HE'LL DRAW NEAR TO
00:45:27.36\00:45:30.36
YOU.' HE DOESN'T EVEN GET TO
FINISH HIS PRAYER OF REPENTANCE.
00:45:30.36\00:45:32.46
THE FATHER INTERRUPTS AND HE
SAYS, "BRING OUT THE BEST ROBE
00:45:32.46\00:45:36.66
AND PUT IT ON HIM,"
- WHY? TO COVER UP -
00:45:36.66\00:45:38.90
THIS IS JUSTIFICATION, FRIENDS.
00:45:38.90\00:45:41.16
HE COVERS HIS SIN WITH THE BEST
ROBE - THE FATHER'S ROBE - "AND
00:45:41.16\00:45:44.43
PUT A RING ON HIS HAND" - IT
HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DRESS
00:45:44.43\00:45:48.30
MESSAGE, THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE
SAME THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN
00:45:48.30\00:45:51.53
JOSEPH WAS GIVEN AUTHORITY, THE
PHARAOH PUT A RING ON HIM - THAT
00:45:51.53\00:45:54.96
WAS A SEAL - IT WAS A TOOL
REPRESENTING THAT YOU ARE NOW A
00:45:54.96\00:45:58.10
MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, YOU ARE
NOT A SERVANT, YOU ARE A SON.
00:45:58.10\00:46:01.00
YOU HAVE AUTHORITY IN THE FAMILY
- "AND SANDALS ON HIS FEET.
00:46:01.00\00:46:04.86
AND BRING THE FATTED CALF HERE
AND KILL IT," - THEY SAVED THIS
00:46:04.86\00:46:09.73
FOR FEASTS AND
SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
00:46:09.73\00:46:11.40
BY THE WAY, EVERYBODY'S
REJOICING NOW EXCEPT FOR THE
00:46:11.40\00:46:15.90
OLDER BROTHER AND THE CALF
BECAUSE THERE WAS A SACRIFICE -
00:46:15.90\00:46:21.80
FOR THE BOY TO BE REINSTATED
REQUIRED A SACRIFICE - AND FOR
00:46:21.80\00:46:27.60
YOU AND I TO BE REINSTATED
REQUIRES A SACRIFICE AND JESUS
00:46:27.60\00:46:32.06
WAS SACRIFICED. AND HE
SAID, "'FOR THIS MY SON
00:46:32.06\00:46:36.03
WAS DEAD AND IS ALIVE AGAIN; HE
WAS LOST AND IS FOUND.' AND THEY
00:46:36.03\00:46:40.43
BEGAN TO BE MERRY."
ALL THE SERVANTS ARE HAPPY.
00:46:40.43\00:46:43.06
THERE'S REJOICING
IN HEAVEN, JESUS SAID.
00:46:43.06\00:46:44.76
EVERYONE'S HAPPY EXCEPT
THE OLDER BROTHER WHO'S IN THE
00:46:44.76\00:46:47.36
FIELD. HE'S OUT WORKING.
00:46:47.36\00:46:49.63
"AND AS HE CAME AND DREW NEAR
TO THE HOUSE," - NOTICE, THE
00:46:49.63\00:46:52.83
BROTHER'S WORKING AND
THE FATHER'S WATCHING.
00:46:52.83\00:46:54.60
THE FATHER'S WATCHING FOR THE
SON; THE BROTHER'S WORKING FOR
00:46:54.60\00:46:57.00
THE FARM - KIND OF
LIKE MARY AND MARTHA.
00:46:57.00\00:47:00.33
"AND DREW NEAR TO THE HOUSE,
HE HEARD MUSIC AND DANCING."
00:47:00.33\00:47:05.96
- AND HE THOUGHT, 'THAT'S NOT
ALLOWED' - "SO HE CALLED ONE OF
00:47:05.96\00:47:08.93
THE SERVANTS" - HE WOULDN'T EVEN
GO IN AND FIND OUT FOR HIMSELF -
00:47:08.93\00:47:11.66
HE SAID, 'WHAT'S GOING ON?'
THEY SAID, "YOUR BROTHER HAS
00:47:11.66\00:47:14.36
COME, AND BECAUSE HE HAS
RECEIVED HIM SAFE AND SOUND,
00:47:14.36\00:47:17.50
YOUR FATHER HAS
KILLED THE FATTED CALF."
00:47:17.50\00:47:19.36
THAT KIND OF SAID THE WHOLE
THING: THERE'S BEEN - BEING A
00:47:19.36\00:47:22.33
SACRIFICE - THERE'S BEING A
PARTY - A FEAST - "BUT HE WAS
00:47:22.33\00:47:25.46
ANGRY AND WOULD NOT GO IN."
A SERVANT WENT IN AND TOLD THE
00:47:25.46\00:47:28.83
FATHER - "THEREFORE HIS FATHER
CAME OUT AND PLEADED WITH HIM.
00:47:28.83\00:47:31.26
SO HE ANSWERED AND SAID TO HIS
FATHER, 'LO, THESE MANY YEARS I
00:47:31.26\00:47:35.26
HAVE BEEN SERVING YOU; I NEVER
TRANSGRESSED YOUR COMMANDMENT AT
00:47:35.26\00:47:38.26
ANY TIME; AND YET YOU
NEVER GAVE ME A YOUNG GOAT,
00:47:38.26\00:47:41.90
THAT I MIGHT MAKE
MERRY WITH MY FRIENDS.
00:47:41.90\00:47:44.96
BUT AS SOON AS THIS SON OF YOURS
CAME," - IT DOESN'T SAY, 'MY
00:47:44.96\00:47:48.40
BROTHER' - HE'S LIKE, 'LOOK,
I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR HIM, YOU
00:47:48.40\00:47:51.66
ARE.' - "BUT AS SOON AS THIS SON
OF YOURS CAME, WHO HAS DEVOURED
00:47:51.66\00:47:56.90
YOUR LIVELIHOOD WITH HARLOTS,
YOU KILLED THE FATTED CALF FOR
00:47:56.90\00:48:00.10
HIM.' AND HE SAID TO HIM, 'SON,
YOU ARE ALWAYS WITH ME, AND ALL
00:48:00.10\00:48:05.23
THAT I HAVE IS YOURS.'" -
NOW, YOU NOTICE HOW THIS PARABLE
00:48:05.23\00:48:06.86
BEGINS? IT SAYS,
'THE FATHER DIVIDED TO
00:48:06.86\00:48:09.53
THEM HIS INHERITANCE.'
THE SAME TIME THE YOUNGER SON
00:48:09.53\00:48:13.86
GOT HIS, THE
OLDER BROTHER GOT HIS.
00:48:13.86\00:48:17.13
HE SAID, 'YOU OWN THE
FATTED CALF. YOU OWN THE FARM.
00:48:17.13\00:48:21.93
IT'S ALL YOURS.' SO THE FATHER
SAYS, 'ALL THAT I HAVE IS YOURS.
00:48:21.93\00:48:24.76
I GAVE IT TO YOU.' BUT
HE DIDN'T REALLY BELIEVE IT
00:48:24.76\00:48:28.70
OR HE COULD HAVE HAD A PARTY.
00:48:28.70\00:48:31.76
HE SAID, 'YOU COULD HAVE
DONE THIS ANY TIME YOU WANTED.
00:48:31.76\00:48:33.46
SEE, THE OLDER
BROTHER WAS WORKS ORIENTED.
00:48:33.46\00:48:40.43
THE YOUNGER BROTHER
WAS IN NEED OF GRACE.
00:48:40.43\00:48:44.23
THE FATHER LOVED THEM BOTH.
THIS IS JUST A GREAT STORY.
00:48:44.23\00:48:48.86
NOW, IF I WERE TO DRAW SOME -
WELL, LET ME FINISH IT UP HERE -
00:48:48.86\00:48:51.83
THE FATHER SAYS, IN
VERSE 32 - WELL, HE SAYS,
00:48:51.83\00:48:55.13
"AND ALL THAT I HAVE IS YOURS.
00:48:55.13\00:48:57.06
IT WAS RIGHT THAT WE SHOULD
MAKE MERRY AND BE GLAD, FOR YOUR
00:48:57.06\00:48:59.50
BROTHER WAS DEAD AND IS
ALIVE AGAIN, AND WAS LOST AND IS
00:48:59.50\00:49:01.56
FOUND.'" YOU'VE GOT TO SEE
IT THROUGH GOD'S PERSPECTIVE.
00:49:01.56\00:49:05.56
SO, WHAT DOES THIS TELL US?
00:49:05.56\00:49:11.83
FIRST OF ALL, IT TELLS US
THAT THE FATHER IS WILLING TO
00:49:11.83\00:49:16.50
SACRIFICE
EVERYTHING TO HAVE US SAVED.
00:49:16.50\00:49:20.56
COULDN'T THE FATHER HAVE
LECTURED THE BOY AND SAID, 'HERE
00:49:20.56\00:49:23.63
YOU COME. I KNEW EVENTUALLY
YOU'D COME DRAGGING BACK.
00:49:23.63\00:49:26.00
WHERE'S YOUR MONEY?
ALL THAT MONEY I GAVE YOU,
00:49:26.00\00:49:28.80
WHAT'D YOU DO WITH IT? HA!
SURE ENOUGH, I TOLD YOU SO.'
00:49:28.80\00:49:31.66
THE FATHER COULD HAVE FOLDED HIS
ARMS AND PUT HIS HANDS ON HIS
00:49:31.66\00:49:34.90
HIPS AND TAPPED HIS FOOT
AND LOOKED DOWN ON HIS SON.
00:49:34.90\00:49:36.86
DOES THE SON ALREADY
KNOW THAT HE'S SINNED?
00:49:36.86\00:49:40.66
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE WORST
THINGS YOU CAN SAY TO SOMEBODY -
00:49:40.66\00:49:44.36
A PRODIGAL FAMILY MEMBER AND
A PRODIGAL SON - IF THEY'VE BEEN
00:49:44.36\00:49:48.86
AWAY AND THEY COME BACK, 'WHERE
HAVE YOU BEEN? OH, I HEARD THAT
00:49:48.86\00:49:53.36
YOU WERE OUT.' YOU EMBRACE
PEOPLE WHEN THEY COME BACK.
00:49:53.36\00:49:58.63
BEST THING YOU CAN DO IS JUST
EMBRACE THEM AND SAY, 'WE ARE SO
00:49:58.63\00:50:00.90
GLAD TO SEE YOU HERE.' >>AMEN.
00:50:00.90\00:50:04.13
>>'WE ARE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE
HERE.' I MET WITH SOMEBODY THIS
00:50:04.13\00:50:08.26
WEEK THAT WAS DISFELLOWSHIPPED
MANY YEARS AGO AND -
00:50:08.26\00:50:12.10
ANGRY, BITTER -
I PLED WITH THEM.
00:50:12.10\00:50:17.86
'I'M NOT GOING
BACK, EVERYBODY KNOWS.
00:50:17.86\00:50:19.40
WHAT WILL THEY THINK?' AND
I SAID, 'THEY'LL BE SO GLAD.
00:50:19.40\00:50:22.03
YOU JUST COME BACK.' 'BUT
I'M NOT A MEMBER.' I SAID, 'IT
00:50:22.03\00:50:26.46
DOESN'T MATTER.' I SAID,
'YOU JUST COME BACK.' AND I DID
00:50:26.46\00:50:28.73
EVERYTHING I COULD TO JUST
REASSURE THEM THAT PEOPLE WOULD
00:50:28.73\00:50:34.13
REJOICE TO SEE THEM COME BACK -
FAMILY WOULD REJOICE TO SEE THEM
00:50:34.13\00:50:37.96
COME BACK. PEOPLE,
SOMETIMES, WOULD PREFER
00:50:37.96\00:50:41.73
TO STAY OUT THERE IN THE PIGPEN
- IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE AT
00:50:41.73\00:50:44.00
ALL. THE ONE WHO IS THE YOUNGER
SON, HE COULD ALSO, SORT OF,
00:50:44.00\00:50:49.80
THE OLDER SON, HE KIND
OF REPRESENTS THE JEWS.
00:50:49.80\00:50:55.60
YOU REMEMBER THE JEWS WERE
REALLY GOING TO BE UPSET THAT
00:50:55.60\00:50:58.43
HERE THEY'D
WORKED ALL THESE YEARS.
00:50:58.43\00:51:00.96
THEY'D STAYED WITH THE FARM, SO
TO SPEAK, AND THE GENTILES, WHO
00:51:00.96\00:51:06.83
LEFT AT THE TOWER OF
BABEL, THEY'VE BEEN OUT THERE,
00:51:06.83\00:51:09.83
YOU KNOW, WORSHIPING PAGAN GODS.
ALL OF A SUDDEN FOR THEM TO BE
00:51:09.83\00:51:12.63
GIVEN ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF
JEHOVAH THAT THE JEWS HAVE BEEN
00:51:12.63\00:51:16.76
GUARDIANS OF THE TRUTH,
THAT JUST DIDN'T SEEM FAIR.
00:51:16.76\00:51:19.70
YOU KNOW HOW MANY PARABLES
JESUS TOLD THAT WERE LIKE THAT?
00:51:19.70\00:51:22.33
LIKE THE ONE WHO SHOWED UP IN
THE VINEYARD AFTER - IN THE 11TH
00:51:22.33\00:51:26.40
HOUR - AND THE ONES WHO WERE
THERE ALL DAY LONG WORKING, THEY
00:51:26.40\00:51:28.53
SAID, 'HOW DARE YOU
PAY THEM AS MUCH AS US?
00:51:28.53\00:51:32.66
WE'VE WORKED THROUGH THE HEAT
OF THE DAY.' AND SO THERE WAS A
00:51:32.66\00:51:35.26
REAL STRUGGLE FOR THE NATION
OF ISRAEL WHEN GOD SAID TO THE
00:51:35.26\00:51:38.90
GENTILES, 'YOU ARE GOING TO
HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO ALL OF THE
00:51:38.90\00:51:44.20
PRIVILEGES OF GOD AND SALVATION
AS ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.'
00:51:44.20\00:51:48.33
THEY SAID, 'WHAT? WE'RE
FIRST. WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
00:51:48.33\00:51:50.50
WE DID ALL THIS WORK.
WE'VE GONE THROUGH ALL THESE
00:51:50.50\00:51:54.90
STRUGGLES.' AND SO JESUS TOLD A
00:51:54.90\00:51:57.30
NUMBER OF PARABLES
TO ILLUSTRATE THAT.
00:51:57.30\00:51:59.20
THIS ONE COULD ALSO
BE UNDERSTOOD THAT WAY.
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TO STUDYING WITH
YOU AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
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>>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES.
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>>YOU KNOW, WE GREW UP IN A
NEIGHBORHOOD UP IN THE MIDWEST
00:52:32.53\00:52:37.70
THAT WAS A
PRETTY BAD NEIGHBORHOOD.
00:52:37.70\00:52:40.33
AND WHEN I BECAME A
TEENAGER I STARTED USING DRUGS.
00:52:40.33\00:52:44.50
I WAS ON - I STARTED USING
METH WHEN I WAS LIKE, I THINK,
00:52:44.50\00:52:47.26
SIXTEEN - FIFTEEN - SOMETHING
LIKE THAT. I WAS HAVING SOME
00:52:47.26\00:52:50.40
PROBLEMS IN MY LIFE I REALLY
DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH.
00:52:50.40\00:52:53.53
THE ONLY THING I REALLY KNEW WAS
VIOLENCE SO THIS NIGHT HERE I
00:52:53.53\00:52:59.73
WAS GOING TO
INFLICT VIOLENCE ON MYSELF.
00:52:59.73\00:53:02.10
I WAS REALLY HIGH AND REALLY
DEPRESSED SO I TOOK - YOU KNOW,
00:53:02.10\00:53:06.00
I HAD THIS .40 CALIBER. SO
I REMEMBER I PUT ONE IN THE
00:53:06.00\00:53:09.30
CHAMBER AND I STUCK IT TO THE
SIDE OF MY HEAD LIKE THIS AND
00:53:09.30\00:53:11.76
THAT GUN HAD A
HAIR TRIGGER, YOU KNOW?
00:53:11.76\00:53:17.13
I REMEMBER I WAS TAPPING IT
'CAUSE A PART OF ME SAID, 'NO, I
00:53:17.13\00:53:21.76
DON'T WANT TO DO THIS.'
BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY
00:53:21.76\00:53:25.46
EVIL PRESENT
THERE SAYING, 'DO IT.'
00:53:25.46\00:53:27.93
I JUST SAID TO MYSELF, I
SAID, 'GOD, IF YOU'RE REAL SHOW
00:53:27.93\00:53:32.00
YOURSELF TO ME.' MY MOTHER TOOK
ME TO CHURCH WHEN I WAS A LITTLE
00:53:32.00\00:53:37.96
KID AND WE USED TO SING JESUS
LOVES ME AND I REMEMBERED THAT
00:53:37.96\00:53:42.90
SONG. IT STARTED
PLAYING IN MY MIND.
00:53:42.90\00:53:45.63
AND I ALMOST HAD LIKE A VISION
OF ME AS A LITTLE KID, YOU KNOW,
00:53:45.63\00:53:50.00
IN SABBATH SCHOOL WE USED TO
BANG THOSE STICKS TOGETHER AND
00:53:50.00\00:53:59.16
SING JESUS LOVES ME AND
I HEARD THAT IN MY MIND.
00:53:59.16\00:54:06.40
SO I SAID, 'WOW.'
SO I JUST KIND OF LIKE
00:54:06.40\00:54:13.96
PUT THE GUN DOWN AND I KIND OF
FELL ON MY BEDSIDE THERE AND I
00:54:13.96\00:54:17.03
SAID, 'LORD' - I JUST BASICALLY
PRAYED THIS CRAZY PRAYER - I
00:54:17.03\00:54:23.36
SAYS - I TOLD HIM EVERYTHING
THAT WAS WRONG WITH ME.
00:54:23.36\00:54:25.06
AND I REMEMBER ONE DAY I WAS
DRIVING AROUND, I KIND OF FELT
00:54:25.06\00:54:28.06
LOST, AND I DROVE BY THIS
CHURCH AND I SEEN TOM OUT THERE.
00:54:28.06\00:54:31.50
TOM WAS JUST OUT THERE
WATERING THE FLOWERS, YOU KNOW?
00:54:31.50\00:54:35.93
>>IT'S LIKE I CAUGHT A VISION
OUT OF THE SIDE OF MY EYE.
00:54:35.93\00:54:38.63
THIS BIG, HUSKY GUY WITH TATTOOS
WALKING UP AND SAYING 'HELLO'
00:54:38.63\00:54:45.53
AND I SAID - SO I ASKED IF I
COULD HELP HIM AND HE TOLD ME
00:54:45.53\00:54:50.00
THAT HE DRIVES BY THE CHURCH ON
OCCASION AND EVERY TIME HE GOES
00:54:50.00\00:54:56.83
BY HE'S THINKING
THAT HE SHOULD STOP IN.
00:54:56.83\00:54:59.46
>>AFTER HE SHOWED ME AROUND THE
CHURCH, YOU KNOW, I WAS LIKE,
00:54:59.46\00:55:04.66
'OKAY, MAN, IT'S NICE
MEETING YOU' AND THIS AND THAT.
00:55:04.66\00:55:08.26
SO I JUMPED IN MY CAR AND
I STARTED HEADING DOWN THE
00:55:08.26\00:55:11.20
DRIVEWAY AND THE NEXT THING
YOU KNOW, IN LIKE MY PERIPHERAL
00:55:11.20\00:55:15.46
VISION, I SEE HIM COMING AROUND
THE CORNER LIKE JERRY RICE
00:55:15.46\00:55:18.06
RUNNING A FOOTBALL - NO, NOT
THAT FAST, BUT YOU KNOW, HE WAS
00:55:18.06\00:55:24.10
TAKING OFF AFTER ME AND HE
SAYS, 'HEY, HEY, HEY, HOLD ON.'
00:55:24.10\00:55:28.16
>>I ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD LIKE
TO HAVE SOME BIBLE STUDIES AND
00:55:28.16\00:55:31.33
HE SAID, 'YEAH.' >>HE
WOULD COME BY THE HOUSE.
00:55:31.33\00:55:34.00
WE'D ALL START - WE'D START
HIDING THE BEER CANS AND TRYING
00:55:34.00\00:55:37.36
TO AIR OUT THE WEED SMELL.
THERE WAS A PRESENCE THAT CAME
00:55:37.36\00:55:41.33
WITH TOM THAT WAS COMFORTING,
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:55:41.33\00:55:46.30
EVEN THOUGH I WASN'T TAKING THE
BIBLE STUDIES AS SERIOUSLY AS I
00:55:46.30\00:55:50.00
SHOULD HAVE, LOOKING BACK, THERE
WAS JUST A PRESENCE ABOUT HIM
00:55:50.00\00:55:54.60
BEING THERE IN THE
HOUSE THAT WAS COMFORTING.
00:55:54.60\00:55:57.10
I TOLD TOM, I SAID, 'TOM, YOU
KNOW YOU CAN'T WIN EVERYBODY.'
00:55:57.10\00:56:00.76
>>I LOOKED AT HIM AND I KNEW.
00:56:00.76\00:56:02.76
I SAID TO HIM, 'REUBEN, I NEVER
GET ANYBODY.' I SAYS, 'THE HOLY
00:56:02.76\00:56:08.66
SPIRIT WILL DO THAT.' AND I KIND
OF IN MY HEART KNEW THAT THE
00:56:08.66\00:56:14.53
HOLY SPIRIT WAS
GOING TO WORK ON REUBEN.
00:56:14.53\00:56:17.13
>>SO THEN TOM KIND OF
LEFT THE PICTURE FOR AWHILE.
00:56:17.13\00:56:20.30
AND THEN, I THINK, ONE DAY
AT MY MOTHER'S HOUSE THEY WERE
00:56:20.30\00:56:22.96
WATCHING THE FINAL
EVENTS IN BIBLE PROPHECY .
00:56:22.96\00:56:25.60
SO I WATCHED THAT AND I REMEMBER
THE SCENE WHERE THEY HAD THE
00:56:25.60\00:56:32.80
HELLFIRE AND STUFF - YOU KNOW,
THEY WERE OUTSIDE THE CITY AND
00:56:32.80\00:56:37.40
IT SHOWED THE HELLFIRE COMING
DOWN AND BURNING PEOPLE AND
00:56:37.40\00:56:42.16
STUFF AND I REMEMBER SAYING
TO MYSELF, 'THAT'S WHERE I WOULD
00:56:42.16\00:56:47.03
BE, RIGHT THERE.' AFTER THE
HELLFIRE SCENE I SAW THE SAINTS
00:56:47.03\00:56:50.76
IN THE CITY AND THE NEW
JERUSALEM AND JESUS RECREATING
00:56:50.76\00:56:56.83
THE EARTH AND I SAID, 'I
WANT THAT TO BE MY - ME AND MY
00:56:56.83\00:57:06.16
FAMILY.' THERE WAS SOMETHING
ABOUT THE WAY DOUG PREACHED
00:57:06.16\00:57:09.40
AND THINGS THAT I
FELT THAT TOUCHED ME.
00:57:09.40\00:57:11.60
BECAUSE HE'S KIND OF LIKE
MYSELF, YOU KNOW, HE'S - HE
00:57:11.60\00:57:16.23
DIDN'T GROW UP LIKE
THAT, YOU KNOW, HE -
00:57:16.23\00:57:20.23
HE DONE DRUGS AND THINGS SO
I KIND OF FOUND THESE COMMON
00:57:20.23\00:57:24.06
GROUNDS THAT I HAD WITH HIM
AND I LIKED HOW HE JUST KIND
00:57:24.06\00:57:27.30
OF LIKE KEPT IT
REAL WITH HIS PREACHING.
00:57:27.30\00:57:29.53
AND THEN PASTOR RODLEY CAME TO
THE CHURCH AND I GOT TO KNOW HIM
00:57:29.53\00:57:34.83
VERY WELL AND WE STARTED
DOING SOME FINISHING STUDIES.
00:57:34.83\00:57:39.36
HE WANTED TO MAKE SURE I
UNDERSTAND WHAT I WAS DOING AND
00:57:39.36\00:57:42.83
THINGS AND BAPTIZED
ME. MY WIFE, MY BROTHER.
00:57:42.83\00:57:46.33
NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE
DONE, WHERE YOU COME FROM, WHERE
00:57:46.33\00:57:51.73
YOU'VE BEEN, NO MATTER HOW BAD
OF A SINNER YOU THINK YOU ARE,
00:57:51.73\00:57:55.70
THE LORD JESUS LOVES YOU
NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE.
00:57:55.70\00:58:01.10
>>FRIENDS, IT'S BECAUSE OF
GOD'S BLESSING AND YOUR SUPPORT,
00:58:01.10\00:58:04.76
THOUSANDS OF OTHERS, JUST LIKE
REUBEN, HAVE FOUND JESUS AND
00:58:04.76\00:58:08.56
ETERNAL LIFE. (MUSIC)
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