I'm always so encouraged
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when we get
together and study the Bible,
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and we hope you
have been as well.
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Johnny, have you
got a closing thought?
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I would just like to go
back and in this scripture
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where it says that
there's joy in heaven
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over one sinner that repents.
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There's gonna be
great joy in heaven.
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If you're listening
and you just happen to...
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Oh, Christian programming
and you're listening,
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the Holy Spirit has already been
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working with you.
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Accept God's call to
repentance and come to the Lord.
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You will be accepted, forgiven
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and made a son
and a daughter of God.
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Amen. Amen.
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Praise the Lord.
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When I read through
these beautiful parables
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that we've
discussed, you just can't help,
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but see the
love, the compassion,
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the care from our Savior, Jesus.
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That's what these
parables are all about
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to show that
Jesus genuinely cares.
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And He's wanting
us to have His mind
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as Philippians 2:5 says,
"Let this mind be in you,
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which is also in
Christ Jesus, our Lord."
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And so, when I read
through these parables,
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I wanna have the heart of Jesus.
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As He's
explaining to these Pharisees
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who were complaining,
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He's saying, no, no, no, no.
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These tax
collectors, these sinners,
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they are My
precious children as well.
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And we need to have that.
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That's why I love
what Martin Luther said
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is a powerful quote here.
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But he says, "When
I look into myself,
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I don't know how I
could ever be saved.
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But when I look unto Jesus,
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I don't know how I
could ever be lost."
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Amen and amen.
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You know, that's
something that every night
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when I'm
praying, I thank God that
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He became a man
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that He humiliated
Himself to take on our flesh
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and become a man.
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And then that He went to
the cross to pay our debt...
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That's right.
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So that we could have
the gift of salvation.
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And you know, people
sometimes it's like, oh, grace,
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does that mean we
don't have to obey?
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No.
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Grace even gives
us the power to obey
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as God works in us to will
and to do His good pleasure.
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Just please know, we hope that
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you will receive the
love of the Lord today,
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that you will
understand your worth
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nothing less than the price
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that He paid for you
with His own life and blood.
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And that you'll turn
around and look to Jesus.
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And when you do,
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there's gonna be
rejoicing in heaven.
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Ryan, thank you for joining us.
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Johnny, thank
you for joining us.
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And for those of you at home,
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our prayer for you is
that the grace of our Lord
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and Savior Jesus
Christ, the love of the Father
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and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
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will be yours, not just today,
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but every day through eternity.
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