I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and welcome to
3ABN's Family Worship.
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I'm Chris Shelton along with
my husband Pastor Kenny Shelton
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and we want to say happy Sabbath
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to each and every
one of you at home.
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And so glad that you
have chosen to take this time
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to join us.
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We're already having a good time
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around this table, aren't we?
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Yes, we are.
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It's already
been a piece of joy,
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a little bit of heaven
that helping me to feel better,
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I know that,
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and I pray it will
help you to feel better
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physically and spiritually.
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That's right.
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Before we get
started, I want to introduce
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the rest of our
family here at 3ABN.
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Over to my far left is my
brother-in-law Bruce Chance
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with his lovely
wife Tammy Chance,
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and I know many of you
know them from many, many years.
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Tammy is actually,
she couldn't sing today
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but she can sing,
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whether she's got a
voice or not I think.
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That's right.
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And then over to my far
right is Sister Mollie Steenson,
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and next to her is a
lovely Jill Morikone.
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And we are so thankful
all of you are here with us.
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And our family
at home is with us.
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Tonight's topic is entitled,
"You can come home any time".
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You can come home any time.
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Pastor Kenny, would you open
our Bible study here tonight
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with some prayer?
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Absolutely, and we're
going to encourage you at home
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to pray along
with us if you will.
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This is a very important study
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and I believe it's
gonna be a blessing
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because we're going
to invite the Holy Spirit
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to take possession of our
hearts and our lives and so.
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Let's pray
together and those of you,
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maybe you can even
kneel where you're at,
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if not just pray along with us.
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Let's pray.
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Our kind loving heavenly Father,
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we thank You for the
beginning of the Sabbath.
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We thank You that You
have set aside a specific day
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that we can come
apart from the world
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and worship You in
Spirit and in truth.
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Lord, we're thankful that
we can invite the Holy Spirit
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to be present in
the name of Jesus
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to be able to take
control of this study.
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The title is just, kind of,
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gives you spiritual goose bumps,
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we can come home at any time.
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And, O Lord, I just
pray in a special way
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as we are looking and
trying to find our way home
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that Your Holy Spirit
will lead, guide, and direct
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in all of our
hearts, and our minds.
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And especially
those that are at home,
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those right now who
are looking and wondering
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and thinking
about home, tonight,
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I pray that Your sweet spirit
now would draw close to us.
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May our minds, our
hearts be illuminated
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by the spirit of the living God.
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May we truly see Jesus
in this program tonight,
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maybe seen, heard, felt
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and may decisions
be made for eternity,
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and I thank you, Lord,
for each one that's here
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and each one who is
viewing in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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You know, group,
not very long ago,
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I was listening to
3ABN radio in the car
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and I heard
just part of a story.
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A lady talking
about this young lady
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that she was
ministering to in Oregon,
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and the lady in
Oregon, the young lady
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she had been in and out
of trouble for many years.
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And the part that really
made me feel a little heartsick,
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I got part of this
young lady's testimony.
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And when this young lady
was only six years old...
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Oh, boy.
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Her mother started dating a
man and he didn't like children.
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Oh, no.
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So the mother says,
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"You're going to have to leave."
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So you would immediately think
where she's gonna to put her
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with grandma, she
gonna put with aunt and uncle
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or maybe even in foster care,
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but that mother in Oregon,
here in the United States,
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put that child
out on the streets.
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That's poor.
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And so the lady
asked her, she says,
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"How does a six year
old survive on the streets?"
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And she said, "I
would eat out of trash cans,
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I would sleep under bridges."
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And then pretty soon she
began to be abused by men
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and it just
ruined her basically,
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she felt she had no
one, no one that loved her,
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no meaning in life,
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and certainly no home
she felt she could go to.
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Unlike this on the contrary
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today, we're gonna be
looking at the prodigal son.
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And the story
about the prodigal son
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from the Bible that
we're gonna discuss today,
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this young man he was loved,
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his father did
take good care of him.
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But his heart
wasn't always on home,
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he was always
looking at the lust
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and the enticements of the world
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and he didn't like to hear,
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don't do this
because it's not good for you
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or, you know,
walk this way, do this,
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he just didn't want
to obey the family rules
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that were set in that home.
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And so finally, he went to
his dad one day and he said,
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"You know, I'd like
to have my inheritance."
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You know, I thought about that
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as if the children came and said
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they want their inheritance.
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They are in trouble.
Right, they are in trouble.
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But this father was willing
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and he gave his
son his inheritance
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and then the son
went out on his own,
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and he began to live it up.
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Oh, boy.
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He was like the man,
he was the popular guy
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because all of a
sudden he had all this money
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and people flocked to him.
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But the sad thing is
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the acquaintances
that flocked to him,
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they just drew him
that much deeper into sin.
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Then a famine hit. Yeah.
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And when that famine hit,
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suddenly he was
out without money,
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he was without home,
he had no one to help him
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because he was
no longer popular,
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he no longer had that money,
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and he found himself
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having to take care
of a swine, Pastor Kenny.
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Yes.
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And for a Jewish young
man to take care of a swine,
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that was humiliating.
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Yes.
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You know, many of
us that don't eat pork.
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Well.
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You know, we kind of
relate to that a little bit
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because we think of it as being
the meat itself being unclean.
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So for a Jew, especially
they didn't want to touch it,
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they didn't
want to be around it.
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And he became so hungry
he began to eat even the husk
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that was left
just for the swine,
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that's how hungry he became.
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Would you finish telling
us the rest of this story?
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You know,
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I think probably is the
way we discussed a part of it
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and I think 'cause here is,
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believe it or not
there are many people
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who have never
heard this parable.
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This is what it
is, it's a parable.
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And everything that's in here
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there're spiritual applications,
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and that's what
I want out of it,
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the spiritual applications
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and almost every word
you can find something
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that certainly
spiritual leads you to Jesus.
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And I like the part,
you know, you told the part
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and again 'cause some
might have never heard this,
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that's why we want to go over
and then discuss a little more.
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Yes.
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I like the part when it
said he came to his senses,
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that's just the whole
deal for me right there,
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he finally came to his senses.
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And, you know, some
time when you're growing up,
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my Dad said, "If
you lack the sense,
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I'll help you find the sense."
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But he also said, he's gonna...
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Put some sense.
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He's gonna help
me find the sense...
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Put some sense into
you. He always said that.
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Put some sense into you.
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He didn't mean to help you.
Got a little bit of whipping.
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Little whipping and little...
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Usually he said we're
gonna knock some sense into you.
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There you go. So I'll
just put it out there.
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There you go.
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But anyway this
man came to his senses
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we realize in
that the, you know,
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he was at the very bottom
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and sometime it takes
being at the very bottom
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before we ever look up.
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When things are going our
way and then we go in his way,
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he never thought about
ever probably going back home.
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But he came to his
senses, he decided,
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"Hey, the best thing for
me to do is just go home."
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We just say sometime I
had to go home and eat crow
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because I'm sure he
raised a stink when he left
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and, you know, he just
really demanded what he wanted
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and he wanted his
own way, he was selfish
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and he didn't care about
anything or anybody else.
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If you really think about
it, he wanted his own way.
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Yeah.
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And then he had his own way,
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and then he found that
wasn't what was the best and so.
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Anyway he decided
to go home quickly
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and when he went
home a long way off,
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I love that part too
where it says a long way off.
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The father recognized him,
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and I keep thinking
about Christ recognizing us
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no matter what
shape that we maybe in
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and things of the
world we take into our body
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and things we get involved with
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it actually
changes our appearance.
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Oh, yes.
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It really does, you know,
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sometimes it's hard to recognize
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if you haven't seen somebody,
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didn't matter
how long he was gone,
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his father recognized him.
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Amen.
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And I like what it
says, he ran to his son.
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Maybe the son was running too,
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but the father ran to the
son and held him and kissed him,
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and welcomed him
back into the family.
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And I like the part too
and we'll talk more about it
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is he said, bringing,
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I'll more say
the closed to cloak.
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He did not want
the other servants.
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That boy was
willing to be a servant,
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he didn't plan on
coming back, but praise God,
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when you come back to Christ
no matter where you have been,
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He treats you as
though you've never sinned.
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When you confess and forsake,
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He treats as
though we've never sinned,
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and He puts that robe around us,
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He doesn't want other people
to have to see all that mess.
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And the father didn't want the,
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you know, the servants to
see his son the way he was,
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so he headed the long way off,
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he said bring it to
me and I'll cover him up.
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And so they did and of course,
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then the other son was
little bit angry about it
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and so we'll
talk more about that.
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And I think that
the other son was,
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he was the one supposed to
get double portion, wasn't he?
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And so instead of
getting double portion,
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he thought like he was messing,
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you know, he wouldn't
get anything probably.
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And he was trying
to if we look at that,
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I think we'll find,
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he was kind of like
the maybe the Jews of old,
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he was trying to work his way.
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You know, he was
diligent, he went out and did
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what the father asked him to do,
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he was loyal, he did it,
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but he did it from
all the wrong reasons.
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And sometimes we can serve
God from the wrong reasons.
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That's right.
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So anyway, that
just gives us a little
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synopsis of what this is
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and the questions
that we have are awesome
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and I know everybody has
a lot they want to share so.
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I think we're gonna
glean a lot from this story
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and if you want to
read more about it,
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you can turn in your Bibles
to Luke 15 and read there.
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So that there is so
many things in each part,
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you know, as you were talking
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and you mentioned
the father coming,
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immediately I
thought how many parents
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when that child comes home
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all tattered, all messed
up as it were by the world,
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how many of us
would embrace them
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or would we
say, "I told you so."
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What an opportunity, you see,
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but that father
had the love of God
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and he revealed Christ.
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So the first question
for all of us tonight is
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how are we like
this prodigal son?
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So jump in there. Yeah.
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Jill is thinking, "Okay,
do we have another hour?"
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Can we go back?
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Okay. Oh, you can.
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Just 'cause I have a question,
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so everybody can
give their opinion on it.
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Why do you think
the father went ahead
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and gave him his
inheritance when he demanded it?
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He didn't have to,
he could have said no.
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No, he didn't.
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I don't know I'm asking.
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Well, I think
that was one of the,
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you know, one of the
things that he really wanted.
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He pressed at home to his dad
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like a child would
come to us sometime
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and they want this
drivers, they want a car,
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and they just kind of keep it up
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and they want to
get this vehicle.
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And of course, that was,
you know, in the Jewish economy
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that was, really they
actually divided things up
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before the death of the parents.
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It could be divided up in there
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and if there was
property involved,
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then naturally long
as dad was still alive
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the property was
still, he still occupy it.
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So that was not uncommon
to go and divide things up
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but to give them something
was, wasn't it out the ordinary?
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All of a sudden we are bend.
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I'm thinking too
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that the son had
the wrong attitude
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and the wrong concept
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of what it was gonna
be like to be out there.
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He was thinking the
grass is gonna be green.
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Oh, yes. Oh, don't you know it.
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But the grass
is not always green
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and sometimes it's just meaner.
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Yes. That's right.
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And do you think his
father might have known that.
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Let's say, I'm thinking,
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you know, as we
read like the father
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to our heavenly Father.
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Yes.
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He sees our hearts mourning
to go often do the wrong thing.
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And what is the
father's ultimate goal always?
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The ultimate goal is
deals in redemption to save us.
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And so he knows, don't you think
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that when this
son goes out there,
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he's gonna run into the
harsh realities of life.
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Yes.
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He's probably never had
to deal with anything harsh,
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any of those harsh realities.
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Right.
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And, you know, it even
says that Jesus grew in wisdom
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from the things that
He experienced in life.
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And so this young man
maybe the father was thinking,
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you know, half of my
wealth, its well worth it.
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If my son comes
to the end of himself
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and comes back
with the right heart
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and the right
attitude, that's just a thought.
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That's miracle, Mollie.
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I think, yeah,
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and he represents God
himself in this parable.
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And God, see, this
part of this parable
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is to teach us that
God is a loving God,
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not any exacting God, and
as the question was asked,
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I wrote down rain here
'cause we can read in scripture
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that the rain falls on the
just as well as the unjust.
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And if our heavenly Father knows
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how to give us good gifts.
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Yeah.
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And so I think, we
were talking about healing.
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There is a lot of people
that have never accepted Christ
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and yet they find healing.
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Life only comes from
heaven, only from the Father,
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so I think being
that loving example
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he was willing
to give of himself
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to give that good gift.
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So Jill does, I
think a question,
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you know, and I've
come to this conclusion,
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you know, reading a little
here and studying and praying,
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that many times
that God will give us
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what we asked for...
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He desires our heart.
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Because we keep asking for it
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and just what you brought,
point you're bringing out.
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He knows what
He's gonna do to us,
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but because we continue to ask,
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He goes ahead and
He gives it to us,
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have you found that?
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Absolutely.
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And I think I was gonna say,
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to me in the
story I see free choice.
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Oh, yeah.
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That's what God gave
me and at the beginning
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He never wanted us to serve
Him out of fear but out of love.
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And so Adam and
Eve in the garden
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were given the option of eating
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of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil or not eating
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and choosing to live.
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And so they were
given free choice.
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So I think when the son asked
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and the father knew
it was the wrong choice,
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but maybe in the end he knew
it would bring him back around
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because God knows
everything, I like that.
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But I think
that's our God of love,
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He gives us free choice.
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Okay, if you
want it, if you ask,
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I will let you go that route
even though it pains my heart,
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even though I don't want
you go in that way, you can go
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because I would never force you
or hold you against your will.
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He doesn't.
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Yeah, that's another
story in itself, another lesson,
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He never will force us.
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And I thought it too
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when he was asking that question
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of the children of Israel
when they were in the desert,
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and they wanted to meet
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and the Lord
sent all those quail.
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Oh, boy.
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He think, they got very
sick the Lord knew that,
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you know, so He was giving
them what He knew they needed
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but they were asking
for something different,
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so He gave them
what they ask for.
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The basic
lesson, I think it's like
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my son was praying
about a job and changing jobs.
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And I said, "Well, you know,
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you of course you want
to see God's will in it
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because even though
your heart tells you
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that's where
you would like to go
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and your head says
that's where you'd like to go.
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If it's not within God's will,
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it's gonna blow up in your face.
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Yeah.
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So that's kind of just
the basic, don't you think?
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Yes.
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Because if we
just choose ourselves,
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we're gonna mess it up.
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I think the man was
trying to teach his son a lesson
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because he didn't have
to give him the inheritance,
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you know, because he
wasn't living a Christian life,
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All right, so. Yeah.
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I mean, he was, that's
the way of teaching him.
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I think that's what the
man was trying to portray.
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Yeah.
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Isn't that, that's
pretty typical live
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as our heavenly
Father like you say,
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He's watching over us,
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He knows, you know,
beginning from the end,
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He knows each
and every one of us,
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and I keep
saying this that's why,
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you know, the Bible
is very, very clear.
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You just mentioned while ago,
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rains on the just
and the unjust alike.
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And so it was very clear
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that God has our
best interest at heart,
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He has your best
interest at heart.
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And sometime things
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and when I say bad
things happen to good people.
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Absolutely.
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You know, they
probably say, well, almost they,
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you know, kind of
like the Job situation,
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you know, but a lot of time
God allows those things again
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to get our
attention and I can see it
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in this account here,
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you can come home any time.
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And that is what so
wonderful about this,
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you can come home
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and if you
wandered far away from God,
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that song says,
"Now I'm coming home."
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That's beautiful to know that
we can come home at any time,
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but we need to
come to our senses.
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Yes. Yeah.
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And if not and
we're praying about it,
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sometime God has ways
to bring us to our senses.
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Have you found that
in everybody's life here?
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Really. The refining fire.
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The refining fire
sometime. That's right.
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Oh, wow. He's
gonna get our attention.
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That's how like,
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you know, when we act
like the prodigal son,
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when we follow our own lust
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rather than
really praying about it.
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You know, I
remember reading one time
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if you're praying
about getting married,
00:18:25.47\00:18:27.47
you know, and you're
just praying once a day,
00:18:27.50\00:18:29.40
well, you need to pray
at least four times a day.
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Increase that prayer
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because we need
an answer from God,
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but many times we step
out and we walk our own path,
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and we're
following those fires of lust
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just like the prodigal son did.
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And so all of
these things God allows,
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I love what you said,
and maybe that's the basis
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because heaven is our
goal, heaven is our final home.
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And all of these
are refining tools
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where that potter,
you know, the clay.
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And He's molding,
and He's making us
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into that fine pottery
into the jewel for heaven,
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so I think that's beautiful.
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And ultimately,
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you know, ultimate
purpose is to redeem us.
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Oh, absolutely.
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And the next question,
how we like the prodigal son?
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And I think
about that prodigal son
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before he had
conjured it up in his mind,
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what it was gonna be like.
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If I didn't have the restraints,
00:19:21.16\00:19:23.16
if I had all that money,
he had figured having it,
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he had painted the picture
in his mind, you ever do that?
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You know, and his was, you
know, as the story depicts,
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you know, his inheritance.
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But think about this,
how we like the prodigal son?
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If a woman that
becomes an adulterer
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because she paints in her
mind if I'm with this other man,
00:19:39.91\00:19:43.14
it's gonna make me
so much happy or the man
00:19:43.18\00:19:46.61
or someone that steals,
00:19:46.65\00:19:49.25
if I just had
that and what it does.
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See, it doesn't
make you happier.
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Again, the grass
is not always greener,
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what it does is it brings damage
00:19:55.92\00:19:57.99
and harm to you.
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Even if it is something,
00:19:59.53\00:20:01.70
let's say you never get caught
00:20:01.73\00:20:03.87
in your act of whatever
it is that you're doing,
00:20:03.90\00:20:06.74
still brings
harm and damage to you
00:20:06.77\00:20:09.40
and you still have
that to do deal with so.
00:20:09.44\00:20:12.14
With me, the prodigal son,
00:20:12.17\00:20:13.84
he had this vain
imaginations thinking
00:20:13.88\00:20:17.45
the things were
gonna be so much better
00:20:17.48\00:20:19.51
and it just wasn't.
00:20:19.55\00:20:20.88
He just didn't, he
didn't like rules, did he?
00:20:20.92\00:20:23.15
He didn't like any regulations.
00:20:23.18\00:20:24.65
He didn't want
anybody to tell him
00:20:24.69\00:20:26.02
when to get up
and when to go to bed.
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I heard one young person
said at one time he said,
00:20:27.96\00:20:30.53
"But I want to be on
my own before too long."
00:20:30.56\00:20:32.99
I said, "What
you're gonna do different
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when you're on your
own, you do it right now."
00:20:34.40\00:20:35.86
Pay your bills. Yeah.
00:20:35.90\00:20:39.10
You don't think
about that. Right.
00:20:39.13\00:20:40.47
But, you know, what he said,
00:20:40.50\00:20:41.90
"Because I can stay
up as late as I want."
00:20:41.94\00:20:44.34
And I thought right in
there, he is not material.
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That was his big deal,
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I can stay up as late as I want
00:20:48.28\00:20:49.81
and go to bed
when I want and get up,
00:20:49.84\00:20:51.38
reality is like you
have to pay your bills,
00:20:51.41\00:20:52.98
you got a job, you have
more responsibilities so.
00:20:53.01\00:20:54.35
You got to get
up in the morning.
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He did have his own thoughts
00:20:55.88\00:20:57.22
so I come to that
conclusion to this guy.
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And he was the
younger son so. Yes.
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You know, I thought as I
was reading through this story,
00:21:02.59\00:21:05.19
and we were breaking it down
and putting questions to it,
00:21:05.23\00:21:08.26
I thought how the
Father's heart had to hurt,
00:21:08.30\00:21:11.63
even for Lucifer,
00:21:11.67\00:21:13.50
and because Lucifer in my mind
was the prodigal son as well
00:21:13.54\00:21:17.74
and those fallen angels.
00:21:17.77\00:21:19.57
No one loved them
more than the Father.
00:21:19.61\00:21:23.18
You know, and how it
had to break His heart,
00:21:23.21\00:21:25.51
how He had to look down
throughout all history as you,
00:21:25.55\00:21:29.25
you know, we alluded to
'cause God can see everything
00:21:29.28\00:21:32.92
and He knows what
lesson we're gonna learn.
00:21:32.95\00:21:35.19
And see the harm
and the heartache
00:21:35.22\00:21:37.39
it was going to cause.
00:21:37.43\00:21:39.19
You know, so we're actually
as we are a prodigal son
00:21:39.23\00:21:42.36
and we're conjuring up
all these things in our mind
00:21:42.40\00:21:44.80
that the grass is
greener on the other side,
00:21:44.83\00:21:46.87
basically we're
doing what Lucifer did,
00:21:46.90\00:21:49.37
we're just
following in his footsteps.
00:21:49.40\00:21:52.67
I wonder what it would be like
00:21:52.71\00:21:54.04
if I was sitting on that throne.
00:21:54.08\00:21:56.31
What it would be like...
00:21:56.34\00:21:57.68
Well, we don't need those rules,
00:21:57.71\00:21:59.65
we can be holy without that law.
00:21:59.68\00:22:02.45
You see, we're
following in His footsteps,
00:22:02.48\00:22:05.19
but many times it
takes that refining fire
00:22:05.22\00:22:09.42
to bring us back to our mind.
00:22:09.46\00:22:11.19
I think sin always
begins in the mind.
00:22:11.23\00:22:14.00
You know, and the Bible tells us
00:22:14.03\00:22:15.50
how it's conceived and
then when it brings forth,
00:22:15.53\00:22:18.27
it comes to death finally.
00:22:18.30\00:22:21.04
But it's conceived in the mind.
00:22:21.07\00:22:22.54
So the son I believe
00:22:22.57\00:22:23.94
what you've said
had these imaginations,
00:22:23.97\00:22:26.21
had these thoughts but I
think sin also originates
00:22:26.24\00:22:30.25
because we don't
understand the Father.
00:22:30.28\00:22:32.28
Oh, it's true.
00:22:32.31\00:22:33.65
And so the son,
00:22:33.68\00:22:35.02
I personally don't believe
00:22:35.05\00:22:36.82
had a proper understanding
of his father's love.
00:22:36.85\00:22:40.69
He didn't know that the rules
the father had put around him
00:22:40.72\00:22:43.79
were for his protection,
were to make him happy.
00:22:43.83\00:22:48.36
God's law, James tells
us is the law of liberty,
00:22:48.40\00:22:51.67
but he didn't understand that
00:22:51.70\00:22:53.23
and so all he
saw was restriction.
00:22:53.27\00:22:56.24
But when he came to himself
00:22:56.27\00:22:58.57
when he was at
the end of his rope,
00:22:58.61\00:23:00.91
I believe that was not
only did he come to himself,
00:23:00.94\00:23:03.85
but I think he
came to understand
00:23:03.88\00:23:05.28
his father a bit
better and understand,
00:23:05.31\00:23:08.05
look at how my
father treated everyone,
00:23:08.08\00:23:10.42
look at his character.
00:23:10.45\00:23:11.79
Absolutely.
00:23:11.82\00:23:13.15
And so I think many
times in my own life
00:23:13.19\00:23:15.56
when I begin to step
outside of God's will
00:23:15.59\00:23:17.59
and begin to act out,
00:23:17.63\00:23:19.36
it's because I don't even
have a clear conception of God.
00:23:19.39\00:23:22.00
No.
00:23:22.03\00:23:23.37
I think He's a God of
judgment instead of God of love.
00:23:23.40\00:23:25.90
Yes.
00:23:25.93\00:23:27.27
And I think if we
were all honest here,
00:23:27.30\00:23:29.07
we probably all felt that way,
00:23:29.10\00:23:31.17
even keeping the
Ten Commandments.
00:23:31.21\00:23:33.64
You know, how often as a
child you waited to that sun,
00:23:33.68\00:23:37.48
sun was down on Saturday night
so you could go do something.
00:23:37.51\00:23:41.52
I've heard the story
about go and playing ball or...
00:23:41.55\00:23:46.19
Those Shelton boys.
I don't know about it.
00:23:46.22\00:23:48.52
You know what I'm saying
00:23:48.56\00:23:49.89
but it's because
we looked at it more
00:23:49.92\00:23:52.49
as something that
wasn't as good that was rigid
00:23:52.53\00:23:56.93
and how many times that
have we heard all you people,
00:23:56.97\00:23:59.93
you think the law
is gonna save you.
00:23:59.97\00:24:01.60
It has nothing to
do with that. Right.
00:24:01.64\00:24:03.61
It has to do
with what God is given
00:24:03.64\00:24:05.91
for our own well-being
00:24:05.94\00:24:08.14
because out of love
He wants to protect us
00:24:08.18\00:24:11.05
and He wants to
prepare us for the kingdom.
00:24:11.08\00:24:13.15
And can you imagine
00:24:13.18\00:24:14.52
what heaven is gonna
be like in the kingdom?
00:24:14.55\00:24:16.95
I mean, I've read some
things that just overwhelming,
00:24:16.99\00:24:19.82
you know, traveling
00:24:19.85\00:24:21.69
and it's gonna be
such a high time together.
00:24:21.72\00:24:24.99
So we just have a
little piece of it here.
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Amen.
00:24:26.39\00:24:27.73
Well, let's look at
question number two, shall we?
00:24:27.76\00:24:29.86
It says, we've kind of
already touched on that,
00:24:29.90\00:24:32.67
maybe we don't even need
to, but the second question was,
00:24:32.70\00:24:35.67
our God's command
and biblical instructions
00:24:35.70\00:24:38.01
throughout
scripture nothing more
00:24:38.04\00:24:39.77
than restrains of our freedom?
00:24:39.81\00:24:42.74
You just gave a
real good answer to that,
00:24:42.78\00:24:45.05
they're really not restraints,
00:24:45.08\00:24:46.65
they're really
God's love letters to us.
00:24:46.68\00:24:49.12
He knows, I mean, we have
rules for our children, right?
00:24:49.15\00:24:54.22
When they're young, you
don't want them touching
00:24:54.26\00:24:56.06
that hot stove or picking up
the glass that might hurt them.
00:24:56.09\00:25:00.66
And so He's given us
these amazing commandments
00:25:00.70\00:25:04.57
that surpass any
laws that we have
00:25:04.60\00:25:07.40
because in ten rules, ten laws,
00:25:07.44\00:25:10.41
it can cover every
aspect of our life.
00:25:10.44\00:25:13.04
And yet, you can't even count
00:25:13.07\00:25:14.74
how many laws that
man has on the books,
00:25:14.78\00:25:17.81
you know, trying to
cover all those aspects.
00:25:17.85\00:25:20.72
So do you have
any other thoughts
00:25:20.75\00:25:22.65
from question number two
00:25:22.68\00:25:24.02
than what Jill has already said?
00:25:24.05\00:25:25.39
I just had a short
personal experience
00:25:25.42\00:25:27.56
if I can share them.
00:25:27.59\00:25:28.92
When I was thirteen and
half I was very difficult.
00:25:28.96\00:25:32.76
I'm still difficult now,
00:25:32.79\00:25:34.13
but I mean, I was
extremely difficult.
00:25:34.16\00:25:36.46
And I was involved in a
certain youth group at church
00:25:36.50\00:25:39.87
and my parents saw
that the activities
00:25:39.90\00:25:43.47
I was involved in
00:25:43.51\00:25:44.84
and the association
of the other young people
00:25:44.87\00:25:47.74
was pulling me from Jesus.
00:25:47.78\00:25:49.11
Yes.
00:25:49.14\00:25:50.48
And so they set down a
rule, an ultimatum and said,
00:25:50.51\00:25:54.05
"Jill, you cannot
go to that anymore."
00:25:54.08\00:25:56.62
I was so mad.
00:25:56.65\00:25:59.85
And I hurt my
parents thinking back on it
00:25:59.89\00:26:03.43
that makes me cry
00:26:03.46\00:26:04.79
because I yelled
at my parents, I said,
00:26:04.83\00:26:09.26
"Who do you think you are
to tell me I can't do that?
00:26:09.30\00:26:12.60
And I need to
hang with young people,
00:26:12.63\00:26:15.44
you're trying to restrict me."
00:26:15.47\00:26:17.07
Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Mercy me.
00:26:17.11\00:26:20.18
And I hated them
for that decision
00:26:20.21\00:26:25.48
and, you know,
what they didn't change,
00:26:25.51\00:26:27.52
they said, "We don't
care, Jill, if you hate us,
00:26:27.55\00:26:30.05
we don't care what happens,
this is for your best good."
00:26:30.09\00:26:34.82
It took me six months of
kind of struggling turmoil
00:26:34.86\00:26:39.26
till I realized that they knew
what they were talking about.
00:26:39.29\00:26:43.50
And that association
was pulling me from Jesus.
00:26:43.53\00:26:46.60
Absolutely.
00:26:46.63\00:26:47.97
Not saying it was the church,
00:26:48.00\00:26:49.34
it was just the
certain associations
00:26:49.37\00:26:50.71
that I happened to
be associating with.
00:26:50.74\00:26:53.48
And so I look at that
00:26:53.51\00:26:54.88
like the father
here in the prodigal son
00:26:54.91\00:26:57.11
and then and they
did it out of love
00:26:57.15\00:27:00.68
because they wanted me
to make choices for Jesus.
00:27:00.72\00:27:03.45
And they didn't change no
matter how much you begged,
00:27:03.49\00:27:06.09
and pleaded, and
threatened, they didn't change.
00:27:06.12\00:27:08.49
And I think that's the
mistakes a lot of parents make.
00:27:08.52\00:27:10.93
Oh, absolutely, yes.
00:27:10.96\00:27:12.29
You know, the kids
keep on and the parents,
00:27:12.33\00:27:13.66
you know, okay, give in
and it doesn't work out at all.
00:27:13.70\00:27:17.47
So I have respect for that,
00:27:17.50\00:27:19.93
that they didn't change
even when you said that,
00:27:19.97\00:27:22.30
you know, that you hated
them and everything else,
00:27:22.34\00:27:24.97
they didn't change.
00:27:25.01\00:27:26.34
It was the best thing
they could have ever done.
00:27:26.37\00:27:27.84
I'm so thankful for
00:27:27.88\00:27:29.38
and I've told them
that over and over.
00:27:29.41\00:27:31.05
Thank you for that decision.
00:27:31.08\00:27:32.58
It is so important that parents,
00:27:32.61\00:27:34.52
Christian parents stay
plugged into the source,
00:27:34.55\00:27:37.42
the source of
life, the source of hope,
00:27:37.45\00:27:39.92
the source of instruction,
there's so much instruction
00:27:39.95\00:27:42.56
in God's Word for
each and every one of us.
00:27:42.59\00:27:44.89
I know when my kids have said,
"I don't like you anymore."
00:27:44.93\00:27:48.23
I could easily
turn back and say,
00:27:48.26\00:27:50.37
"I love you and I love you
00:27:50.40\00:27:52.30
and this is why mommy
has made this decision
00:27:52.33\00:27:54.80
because I love you."
00:27:54.84\00:27:56.74
You know, so...
00:27:56.77\00:27:58.31
The Book of James 4:4
00:27:58.34\00:28:00.58
talks about the friendship
of the world is empty,
00:28:00.61\00:28:04.28
you know, against God.
00:28:04.31\00:28:05.88
And I found something I thought
it was very, very interesting
00:28:05.91\00:28:09.25
that's actually in the so
called Adventist home most
00:28:09.28\00:28:11.35
and lot of Seventh-day
Adventists have that book.
00:28:11.39\00:28:13.22
It's very, very good, everybody
ought to have the book.
00:28:13.25\00:28:15.72
And just going
along what you were saying
00:28:15.76\00:28:17.79
and kind of what I experienced,
I didn't like to be bossed,
00:28:17.83\00:28:20.53
I didn't like be told what to
do growing up, and you know...
00:28:20.56\00:28:24.73
I don't know sure if I can use
the word darn in our program.
00:28:24.77\00:28:28.04
But by Dad did say that about me
00:28:28.07\00:28:30.64
and that hurt
worse than any beating
00:28:30.67\00:28:32.31
or whipping or
correction ever get, he said,
00:28:32.34\00:28:34.98
"You're the
darndest kid I've ever seen."
00:28:35.01\00:28:37.78
Because I was
wanting to have my way,
00:28:37.81\00:28:41.12
it's the only time I
ever heard him say that,
00:28:41.15\00:28:42.55
you know what I'm saying.
00:28:42.58\00:28:43.92
It was just too
much for him sometime
00:28:43.95\00:28:46.29
because I always was questioning
00:28:46.32\00:28:47.66
and wanted my own
way and do and so.
00:28:47.69\00:28:49.82
But the
association you mentioned out,
00:28:49.86\00:28:52.13
I thought was
interesting, you said here.
00:28:52.16\00:28:54.33
"Every association we form,
00:28:54.36\00:28:56.30
however, limited exerts
some influence upon us."
00:28:56.33\00:29:00.34
Notice it, however limited.
00:29:00.37\00:29:01.77
Oh, I wont hurt because
they're just gonna go here once,
00:29:01.80\00:29:03.67
you don't hurt
because, you know...
00:29:03.71\00:29:05.34
I will watch it for few minutes.
00:29:05.37\00:29:06.71
Just be few minutes we'll watch,
00:29:06.74\00:29:08.08
it doesn't matter
but notice what it says.
00:29:08.11\00:29:10.11
It says, "It is impossible
00:29:10.15\00:29:11.48
to overestimate the
importance for this world
00:29:11.51\00:29:14.72
and the next of the associations
00:29:14.75\00:29:17.12
we choose for ourselves
00:29:17.15\00:29:19.25
and for more
especially for our children.
00:29:19.29\00:29:23.02
You know, I wish more parents.
00:29:23.06\00:29:25.86
You told me the story about,
00:29:25.89\00:29:27.23
Mollie, meeting that
little girl at Walmart,
00:29:27.26\00:29:29.23
I think it was.
00:29:29.26\00:29:30.67
Was it Walmart about a
week or so a little girl came up
00:29:30.70\00:29:33.64
to you and you said...
00:29:33.67\00:29:35.00
That was at Kroger.
At Kroger, okay, Kroger.
00:29:35.04\00:29:38.87
I knew when she looked at me,
00:29:38.91\00:29:40.24
like wait a
minute that's not right.
00:29:40.28\00:29:42.14
It was at a store, I
should've just kept it generic
00:29:42.18\00:29:44.65
and it was at a store.
00:29:44.68\00:29:46.38
And, you know,
it's just so important
00:29:46.41\00:29:49.48
that as I've lost my
train of thought was,
00:29:49.52\00:29:53.22
I was gonna say
finding which store it was,
00:29:53.25\00:29:54.99
but how neat that the
children they're looking up
00:29:55.02\00:29:57.99
that we set the right example
that there is not more parents.
00:29:58.03\00:30:00.96
Those parents were home
schooling their children
00:30:01.00\00:30:03.70
because it was
so important to them
00:30:03.73\00:30:05.80
what environment
they were around.
00:30:05.83\00:30:08.07
I did the very same.
00:30:08.10\00:30:09.90
By profession, I was a teacher
00:30:09.94\00:30:11.67
and I finished my
degree in a public school,
00:30:11.71\00:30:14.68
but I knew that that's not where
00:30:14.71\00:30:16.08
I wanted my children.
00:30:16.11\00:30:17.75
I worked in the public school
00:30:17.78\00:30:19.11
and I knew that that's not
where they needed to grow up,
00:30:19.15\00:30:22.18
but there is so many
Christian parents anymore
00:30:22.22\00:30:25.35
they don't mind to
send their children off
00:30:25.39\00:30:27.72
to any school.
00:30:27.76\00:30:29.19
Well, you know, they're
gonna have to meet at some time,
00:30:29.22\00:30:31.56
but they've got to learn,
00:30:31.59\00:30:32.93
they've got to
be grounded first.
00:30:32.96\00:30:34.43
Got to have the foundation.
00:30:34.46\00:30:35.80
Yes, you got to
have that foundation,
00:30:35.83\00:30:37.63
and I love that that
those children were telling you
00:30:37.67\00:30:40.04
they're watching 3ABN.
00:30:40.07\00:30:41.44
And their favorite
program was 3ABN Today.
00:30:41.47\00:30:43.87
That's amazing. Yes, yeah.
00:30:43.91\00:30:46.14
And, you know,
the mother explained
00:30:46.17\00:30:47.88
how they started watching 3ABN,
00:30:47.91\00:30:50.45
she had them watching
children's programming
00:30:50.48\00:30:52.65
and the programming was okay,
00:30:52.68\00:30:54.32
but the commercials
between the programs
00:30:54.35\00:30:57.32
she would find so offensive.
00:30:57.35\00:31:00.82
She just couldn't let
them watch the commercials
00:31:00.86\00:31:02.89
but they knew
they could watch 3ABN
00:31:02.92\00:31:05.23
and there would never
be anything offensive.
00:31:05.26\00:31:07.66
And I thought that was
a commendable thing too.
00:31:07.70\00:31:10.63
You know, you ask the
question our God's commands
00:31:10.67\00:31:13.74
and biblical
instruction throughout scripture
00:31:13.77\00:31:18.27
nothing more than restraints.
00:31:18.31\00:31:19.64
And I wanted to
share Proverbs 3:1 and 2.
00:31:19.67\00:31:22.94
And I want to share
it out of the Amplified.
00:31:22.98\00:31:25.01
The scripture says,
00:31:25.05\00:31:26.38
"My son, forget not
my law or teachings."
00:31:26.41\00:31:29.08
Now are those God's commands
in His biblical instructions.
00:31:29.12\00:31:32.62
"My son, forget
not my law or teachings
00:31:32.65\00:31:35.16
and let your heart
keep my commandments.
00:31:35.19\00:31:38.76
For length of days..."
Do you want length of days?
00:31:38.79\00:31:41.26
"And years of
life worth living,"
00:31:41.30\00:31:43.10
the amplified says,
00:31:43.13\00:31:44.60
"And tranquility
inward and outward
00:31:44.63\00:31:46.94
and continuing through,
00:31:46.97\00:31:48.87
'Hey, its old
age thank you, Lord,'
00:31:48.90\00:31:51.97
through old age till
death they shall add to you."
00:31:52.01\00:31:55.81
Do you want a life worth living?
00:31:55.84\00:31:58.78
Then there been the
instruction in God's Word
00:31:58.81\00:32:03.69
is what gives us
that life worth living
00:32:03.72\00:32:07.79
even throughout
old age unto death.
00:32:07.82\00:32:10.83
That's right.
00:32:10.86\00:32:12.19
And then it was
when the prodigal son,
00:32:12.23\00:32:14.26
when his mind
returned and he began to think,
00:32:14.30\00:32:17.03
you know, the servants
don't live the way I'm living.
00:32:17.07\00:32:20.20
The servants at
my father's house
00:32:20.24\00:32:22.40
eat better than I do,
00:32:22.44\00:32:23.77
they didn't want
nothing and he was broken.
00:32:23.81\00:32:27.31
You know, it reminded
me of a story recently
00:32:27.34\00:32:29.51
that I was someone
shared from Canada on YouTube.
00:32:29.54\00:32:33.28
And this missionary
was giving his testimony,
00:32:33.31\00:32:35.98
they had gone into Iran
and they heard stories about,
00:32:36.02\00:32:38.59
you know, going over there
and something could happen.
00:32:38.62\00:32:41.66
But he thought well,
you know, we're going,
00:32:41.69\00:32:43.02
we're doing the Lord's
work it's not gonna happen.
00:32:43.06\00:32:45.76
They were on their way
back to the United States,
00:32:45.79\00:32:49.06
they had given their passports,
him and another gentleman
00:32:49.10\00:32:52.13
and they had been
doing missionary work
00:32:52.17\00:32:54.20
and they never
received their passports back.
00:32:54.24\00:32:57.01
And they came and
they took these men
00:32:57.04\00:32:59.14
and they put them in prison
00:32:59.17\00:33:01.14
and they began to beat
them and not give them the food.
00:33:01.18\00:33:05.01
And it got to the
point, you know, he is praying,
00:33:05.05\00:33:07.68
he is thinking, how
can a God of heaven,
00:33:07.72\00:33:09.58
how can He allow this
to be happening to us now.
00:33:09.62\00:33:13.05
We were here doing work for Him,
00:33:13.09\00:33:15.22
he got to the point he thought,
00:33:15.26\00:33:16.59
you know, this is
not worth it anymore.
00:33:16.62\00:33:19.89
My only way out is to
commit suicide and he tried.
00:33:19.93\00:33:23.93
And when he tried
to commit suicide,
00:33:23.97\00:33:25.97
he had a vision or
maybe it was really happened,
00:33:26.00\00:33:29.80
I'm not sure but
Jesus came and visited him.
00:33:29.84\00:33:34.51
And He reminded
him that even the man
00:33:34.54\00:33:36.51
that's been beating him,
00:33:36.54\00:33:37.88
He says, "How do you
think, I feel about him?"
00:33:37.91\00:33:39.85
Yes.
00:33:39.88\00:33:41.28
And he reminded him
that Christ loved him,
00:33:41.32\00:33:45.25
and He gave him
a reason to live.
00:33:45.29\00:33:48.26
And so when the
next time the man
00:33:48.29\00:33:50.63
that came in that
was doing the beating,
00:33:50.66\00:33:52.63
came in to beat
him again, he said,
00:33:52.66\00:33:54.20
"You know, it looks like
00:33:54.23\00:33:56.26
we're gonna be
together for a long time,
00:33:56.30\00:33:59.13
could we at least be friends?"
00:33:59.17\00:34:01.47
And he stretched out his hand.
00:34:01.50\00:34:03.67
Stretching out his
hand to the perpetrator.
00:34:03.71\00:34:05.97
That's forgiveness.
00:34:06.01\00:34:07.34
And when we did that, the
perpetrator began to cry...
00:34:07.38\00:34:10.48
Praise God. "How to be friends?"
00:34:10.51\00:34:13.45
And then he shared his name
00:34:13.48\00:34:16.22
and from then on they were like
00:34:16.25\00:34:17.75
by the time those
men were released,
00:34:17.79\00:34:20.32
there were about
four different guards
00:34:20.36\00:34:22.62
and the guy that was beating him
00:34:22.66\00:34:25.36
that he said, "You know,
we want what these men have."
00:34:25.39\00:34:28.76
Yes.
00:34:28.80\00:34:30.13
And in a sense that
was them coming home.
00:34:30.17\00:34:33.07
Amen. Coming home to Jesus.
00:34:33.10\00:34:35.30
Amen. Coming home to life.
00:34:35.34\00:34:38.71
And it goes along
with question number four,
00:34:38.74\00:34:41.48
what hope is there for
any person who is spiritually,
00:34:41.51\00:34:46.08
physically or mentally
00:34:46.11\00:34:48.32
at their lowest point in life
00:34:48.35\00:34:50.35
feeling they're no
good for anyone or anything.
00:34:50.39\00:34:53.25
That's where this
man was in that jail,
00:34:53.29\00:34:56.19
he had lost all
hope he'd given up on God
00:34:56.22\00:34:59.19
and when he gave up on God,
00:34:59.23\00:35:00.66
God was right there
to carry him through.
00:35:00.70\00:35:03.57
That's where the
prodigal son was,
00:35:03.60\00:35:05.47
he had no more
hope, he was famished,
00:35:05.50\00:35:08.20
he was weak, he was
hungry, he was filthy,
00:35:08.24\00:35:13.07
and he thought,
"I'm going home."
00:35:13.11\00:35:15.41
As, you know, the good
news when you talk about,
00:35:15.44\00:35:17.55
every time somebody says hope,
00:35:17.58\00:35:19.35
you know, without hope
we're almost miserable.
00:35:19.38\00:35:22.68
We have to have hope.
00:35:22.72\00:35:24.05
And I know Matthew 18,
00:35:24.09\00:35:26.25
it talks about
Jesus came to seek
00:35:26.29\00:35:29.22
and save those which are lost.
00:35:29.26\00:35:31.96
Well, that gives me
hope and encouragement,
00:35:31.99\00:35:34.26
seek and save
those who were lost
00:35:34.30\00:35:35.66
and then it goes on in verse 12
00:35:35.70\00:35:37.73
and it says that he left the 99,
00:35:37.77\00:35:41.74
you know, the sheep, he
went out to get that one
00:35:41.77\00:35:43.74
that was having some difficulty.
00:35:43.77\00:35:45.81
And so that gives me
hope and encouragement,
00:35:45.84\00:35:48.74
you know, there may
be a hundred sheep there,
00:35:48.78\00:35:50.45
if there is just one
that's having an issue...
00:35:50.48\00:35:52.41
Well, here the
one son had an issue
00:35:52.45\00:35:54.78
that Jesus will leave that 99
00:35:54.82\00:35:57.59
and He will go out to
seek, to draw him back,
00:35:57.62\00:36:00.39
to reconcile him back
00:36:00.42\00:36:01.76
into the right
relationship with Him.
00:36:01.79\00:36:04.36
And that to me is hope. It is.
00:36:04.39\00:36:06.83
That gives me
hope and encouragement
00:36:06.86\00:36:08.43
and strength to say,
we might wonder out there
00:36:08.46\00:36:11.53
but by God's grace if we call,
00:36:11.57\00:36:14.44
He's not gonna
leave us out there.
00:36:14.47\00:36:15.80
Amen.
00:36:15.84\00:36:17.17
You know, what so
beautiful about what you shared,
00:36:17.21\00:36:18.67
Sister Chris, is that
God used the gentleman
00:36:18.71\00:36:22.01
who was being beaten to
bring Jesus to someone else.
00:36:22.04\00:36:25.55
And so, we were
talking in the story
00:36:25.58\00:36:27.65
about the father
00:36:27.68\00:36:29.12
and the relationship to the son,
00:36:29.15\00:36:30.49
but God calls each one of
us to minister to other people,
00:36:30.52\00:36:34.06
to share the love of
the Father with them.
00:36:34.09\00:36:37.33
If I can share
two scriptures quick.
00:36:37.36\00:36:39.59
These are two of my
favorites, this is John 6:37,
00:36:39.63\00:36:43.37
Jesus speaking,
00:36:43.40\00:36:44.73
"All that the Father
gives Me will come to Me,
00:36:44.77\00:36:47.34
and whoever comes to Me
I will never cast away."
00:36:47.37\00:36:52.81
And so you might feel like,
"I'm at the end of my rope,
00:36:52.84\00:36:55.94
I've done too
much, I've gone too far,
00:36:55.98\00:36:58.78
I've kicked
against God for years."
00:36:58.81\00:37:01.92
And He says, "Come
home, come home to Me
00:37:01.95\00:37:05.65
because I love you."
00:37:05.69\00:37:07.02
Amen, yes.
00:37:07.06\00:37:08.39
And the other one sometimes,
00:37:08.42\00:37:09.76
I mentioned before the
false perception of the Father
00:37:09.79\00:37:13.23
and sometimes we
think, well, Jesus loves us.
00:37:13.26\00:37:15.76
But God the Father
is a little bit stern
00:37:15.80\00:37:18.03
which is not a biblical concept
00:37:18.07\00:37:20.27
but it's how Satan
twist that in our mind.
00:37:20.30\00:37:24.24
And John 16:27, it says,
00:37:24.27\00:37:29.31
"For the Father
Himself loves you."
00:37:29.34\00:37:32.08
Amen.
00:37:32.11\00:37:33.45
Jesus talking to His disciples,
so we think God is stern,
00:37:33.48\00:37:38.69
Jesus is love,
00:37:38.72\00:37:40.06
but God's the
one who sent His Son.
00:37:40.09\00:37:42.19
Son to reveal the
Father's love, yes.
00:37:42.22\00:37:45.99
And though He's not stern,
00:37:46.03\00:37:49.36
it doesn't mean that
when we come back to Him
00:37:49.40\00:37:52.53
that we don't face consequences
for what we have done.
00:37:52.57\00:37:58.81
I'll share a quick story.
00:37:58.84\00:38:00.54
When I was little,
I was five years old,
00:38:00.58\00:38:03.61
and we had a cousin
that used to come and visit.
00:38:03.65\00:38:06.85
They would say now that
she had ADD or something that,
00:38:06.88\00:38:10.42
you know, she was
like wild as a bash.
00:38:10.45\00:38:13.79
Yeah, she needed rhythm
or something, I don't know.
00:38:13.82\00:38:16.22
And so she
always was into things
00:38:16.26\00:38:19.03
and where she didn't belong,
00:38:19.06\00:38:20.70
and me and her
were the same age,
00:38:20.73\00:38:23.16
and we had an
upstairs where the boys slept,
00:38:23.20\00:38:26.00
and there was a window
that led right out to the roof.
00:38:26.03\00:38:28.70
And me and her were up
there one day and she said,
00:38:28.74\00:38:32.11
"Let's just go out on
the roof that will be fun."
00:38:32.14\00:38:35.41
And I said, "Oh, no, no."
00:38:35.44\00:38:37.48
I said, "We'll get
in so much trouble."
00:38:37.51\00:38:39.68
And she said,
"No, it will be okay."
00:38:39.71\00:38:41.75
She said, my dad was
home with us and she said,
00:38:41.78\00:38:45.02
"He'll never know
that we're out there."
00:38:45.05\00:38:46.55
And she said, "It will be okay."
00:38:46.59\00:38:48.19
She talked and she
talked and so I said okay.
00:38:48.22\00:38:50.89
So she opened the
window and she got out
00:38:50.93\00:38:53.50
and she crawled all the
way to the edge of the roof
00:38:53.53\00:38:56.83
with almost her
feet hanging off.
00:38:56.87\00:38:59.23
Well, I got out and I
wasn't near that nervy
00:38:59.27\00:39:01.64
and she kept saying
come down here and I said,
00:39:01.67\00:39:03.41
"No, I'm not going that far."
00:39:03.44\00:39:05.97
Oh, all of a sudden my dad
sticks his head off the window
00:39:06.01\00:39:10.11
and I just went, 'cause
I thought we were in so...
00:39:10.15\00:39:13.11
But you know what he did?
00:39:13.15\00:39:14.48
He said, "Hey, girls," he
said, "What you're up to?"
00:39:14.52\00:39:17.29
He's say, just like kind
and everything and I thought,
00:39:17.32\00:39:21.12
"Wow, we're not gonna
get in trouble about this."
00:39:21.16\00:39:24.69
And I said, "It
wasn't my idea, Dad."
00:39:24.73\00:39:27.50
I said Abby want.
00:39:27.53\00:39:28.86
And he said,
"Well, that's okay."
00:39:28.90\00:39:31.83
He said, you
know, I was thinking,
00:39:31.87\00:39:33.20
he said that's little
bit dangerous out there.
00:39:33.23\00:39:35.50
And he said, "You know,
00:39:35.54\00:39:36.87
if you're just gonna slip
and fall, you really get hurt."
00:39:36.91\00:39:39.07
And he said, "I'm thinking
the best thing is for you
00:39:39.11\00:39:41.34
to ease back."
00:39:41.38\00:39:42.71
He said, just kind of
start to crawl backwards.
00:39:42.74\00:39:45.48
And all the time
my mind I'm saying,
00:39:45.51\00:39:47.75
"We're not in
trouble, I can't believe it."
00:39:47.78\00:39:50.75
You know, "He's just
talking so nicely and kind
00:39:50.79\00:39:53.66
and telling us to come back in."
00:39:53.69\00:39:55.06
I'm thinking this is great.
00:39:55.09\00:39:56.42
That was smart, you know.
00:39:56.46\00:39:57.79
And so we did, you know,
where I eased back in first
00:39:57.83\00:40:00.70
and then she finally,
00:40:00.73\00:40:02.33
and all the time he was
talking, be careful now,
00:40:02.36\00:40:04.83
just come back real
easy, you know, on there.
00:40:04.87\00:40:07.47
Got us both in, he
said, "You girls have had it."
00:40:07.50\00:40:10.41
Oh, mercy.
00:40:10.44\00:40:11.77
Oh, Yeah.
00:40:11.81\00:40:13.14
And we got a good one,
we got a good spanking.
00:40:13.17\00:40:15.78
But I think about
that how he encouraged,
00:40:15.81\00:40:18.01
you know, he talked to
us with the right attitude,
00:40:18.05\00:40:20.32
but we still had to
face the consequences
00:40:20.35\00:40:22.62
that we went against.
00:40:22.65\00:40:24.95
And it turned out
00:40:24.99\00:40:26.32
that the neighbor
had seen us on the roof
00:40:26.35\00:40:27.69
and called him and said,
00:40:27.72\00:40:29.06
your two little
girls are on the roof.
00:40:29.09\00:40:30.43
Oh, yeah.
00:40:30.46\00:40:31.79
And so, and I think about it
00:40:31.83\00:40:33.16
as a parent how
scared you would be
00:40:33.19\00:40:35.16
when you look out and
you see a five year old
00:40:35.20\00:40:36.87
on the roof, you know.
00:40:36.90\00:40:38.23
Terrifying.
00:40:38.27\00:40:39.60
But he knew
just how to handle it
00:40:39.63\00:40:40.97
and he just encouraged us back
00:40:41.00\00:40:42.40
but we still
suffered consequences.
00:40:42.44\00:40:44.11
You know, if he had
yelled "What are you doing,"
00:40:44.14\00:40:47.48
he might have scared her
because she was on the roof
00:40:47.51\00:40:50.98
and she would probably fell off.
00:40:51.01\00:40:52.85
You know, what I mean,
00:40:52.88\00:40:54.22
and Tammy would have
passed out and rolled off.
00:40:54.25\00:40:55.58
Yeah, exactly.
00:40:55.62\00:40:56.95
Would have been because
she knew what it was like,
00:40:56.99\00:40:58.72
but he handled
00:40:58.75\00:41:00.09
the way our Heavenly
Father would handle it.
00:41:00.12\00:41:02.02
Exactly. Come on back.
00:41:02.06\00:41:03.79
Yeah, I've got that
Matthew 11:28, "Come unto me."
00:41:03.83\00:41:07.36
Oh, yes.
00:41:07.40\00:41:08.73
"All ye that labor
and are heavy laden."
00:41:08.76\00:41:10.43
Well, that's what
your dad was saying,
00:41:10.47\00:41:12.43
"Come unto me,
you're about to get killed."
00:41:12.47\00:41:16.24
Exactly.
00:41:16.27\00:41:18.07
I want to share
just a real quick quote
00:41:18.11\00:41:20.88
and this is found in the
book of A Call to Stand Apart
00:41:20.91\00:41:24.91
by Ellen White and it reads,
00:41:24.95\00:41:26.75
"The love of God
still yearns over the one
00:41:26.78\00:41:29.38
who has chosen to
separate from Him,
00:41:29.42\00:41:32.25
and He sets in
operation influences
00:41:32.29\00:41:35.66
to bring him back
to the Father's house."
00:41:35.69\00:41:38.66
That goes so well
with your story with John 6
00:41:38.69\00:41:42.56
and with John 16
and her verse as well.
00:41:42.60\00:41:46.70
But I love that because
no matter how far we've gone
00:41:46.74\00:41:51.01
to the edge of the precipice
00:41:51.04\00:41:53.04
in life, you know, how
far, how low we've got into sin.
00:41:53.07\00:41:58.48
I mean, if we stop
and think about it,
00:41:58.51\00:42:00.38
can sin ever separate us
from our Heavenly Father?
00:42:00.42\00:42:03.89
Bible says no.
00:42:03.92\00:42:05.25
No.
00:42:05.29\00:42:06.86
No, and He's putting into
place, He loves us so much,
00:42:06.89\00:42:09.99
that's why we should
never, ever stop praying
00:42:10.03\00:42:12.46
for our family
members, one another
00:42:12.49\00:42:15.20
because He's putting into place
00:42:15.23\00:42:17.00
things that will
help to bring us back.
00:42:17.03\00:42:20.10
This passage, this little quote
00:42:20.14\00:42:22.30
gave me hope
even for my children.
00:42:22.34\00:42:25.34
Yes.
00:42:25.37\00:42:26.71
I have children that have
wandered away from the truth.
00:42:26.74\00:42:29.74
And my grandchildren,
we've got a grandson
00:42:29.78\00:42:32.25
that's thinking about
going into the service.
00:42:32.28\00:42:35.15
The moment he told me...
00:42:35.18\00:42:37.39
I was getting ready, he
was gonna move the ministry
00:42:37.42\00:42:40.56
and I was getting ready to
call and get some gas for him,
00:42:40.59\00:42:43.39
he told me that I just started
crying, and I couldn't do it.
00:42:43.43\00:42:46.33
He wants to be a Navy SEAL.
00:42:46.36\00:42:50.37
I mean, life is tough enough
00:42:50.40\00:42:53.03
without putting
yourselves in harms way.
00:42:53.07\00:42:55.14
And what these
people, you know, praise God
00:42:55.17\00:42:58.01
there have been people
that have helped to keep us free
00:42:58.04\00:43:00.94
in this world that we live in.
00:43:00.98\00:43:03.68
But like he told me, he said,
00:43:03.71\00:43:05.61
"It didn't have to be me
though, does it grandma?"
00:43:05.65\00:43:08.88
But, you know,
even in conversing with
00:43:08.92\00:43:11.55
and talking with him,
00:43:11.59\00:43:12.92
I talked with him
for 30 minutes on it.
00:43:12.95\00:43:14.89
You know, well, you can't
do this and you shouldn't.
00:43:14.92\00:43:17.79
It's the way in
which you talk to them
00:43:17.83\00:43:19.66
and remember
people who give you advice
00:43:19.69\00:43:23.06
if you listen,
and they love you.
00:43:23.10\00:43:24.73
That's right. You
know, that they love you.
00:43:24.77\00:43:27.37
I always say that about my
mother, I said it many times.
00:43:27.40\00:43:30.01
I always agreed with her
00:43:30.04\00:43:32.77
and did what she
asked me to do as an adult.
00:43:32.81\00:43:36.24
You know, as being
her pastor for 12 years.
00:43:36.28\00:43:38.98
But every time she gave me
a piece of advice, I listened.
00:43:39.01\00:43:42.78
Amen. Why?
00:43:42.82\00:43:44.15
Because I knew she loved me.
00:43:44.19\00:43:45.92
We know our
Heavenly Father loves us,
00:43:45.95\00:43:47.96
the advice, commands He
has given us in His Word,
00:43:47.99\00:43:50.63
we need to listen.
00:43:50.66\00:43:52.09
And I think one of
thing that encourages me
00:43:52.13\00:43:55.66
we fell so far and so deep,
we can't get back on our own.
00:43:55.70\00:44:00.80
That's right.
00:44:00.84\00:44:02.17
So what you read and I
hear, He's prepared a way,
00:44:02.20\00:44:05.24
He calls us through the
power of the Holy Spirit.
00:44:05.27\00:44:09.18
He puts that inside of
us to want to go back home.
00:44:09.21\00:44:12.61
We can't even
muster that up on our own.
00:44:12.65\00:44:15.45
We've gone so far away from Him,
00:44:15.48\00:44:17.69
we were so separated from
Him that we can't come back
00:44:17.72\00:44:20.72
if it was not for the
wooing of the Holy Spirit.
00:44:20.76\00:44:23.83
As the Holy Spirit woos us
back into that relationship.
00:44:23.86\00:44:27.53
So that shows right
there He cares for me.
00:44:27.56\00:44:30.57
He cares for the one
who's went so far out
00:44:30.60\00:44:32.93
that you think
there is no way back,
00:44:32.97\00:44:35.44
but the Holy
Spirit, when he comes back
00:44:35.47\00:44:37.34
'cause the Holy Spirit
is pleading and working
00:44:37.37\00:44:40.51
and things
happening in their life
00:44:40.54\00:44:42.64
to get their attention.
00:44:42.68\00:44:44.48
And so I'm very
grateful and thankful for that
00:44:44.51\00:44:47.62
and I want that Holy
Spirit to continue to do that,
00:44:47.65\00:44:49.68
you know, in each of
our hearts and our lives
00:44:49.72\00:44:51.62
to woo us and keep us in that
right relationship with Him.
00:44:51.65\00:44:54.82
I'll tell you what,
00:44:54.86\00:44:56.19
the grass is not
greener on the other side.
00:44:56.22\00:44:58.13
The fields are not any
better on the other side, right?
00:44:58.16\00:45:00.56
Worse.
00:45:00.60\00:45:01.93
It's worse on the other side
00:45:01.96\00:45:03.30
because it causes so
much division, separation,
00:45:03.33\00:45:04.67
and the things of this world,
you know, what's out there.
00:45:04.70\00:45:07.64
I've learned more and more
listening to my mind of late.
00:45:07.67\00:45:10.84
And I've always not,
00:45:10.87\00:45:12.44
things of the world is
just not really important
00:45:12.47\00:45:14.41
because I know we're
gonna pass away so it's gone,
00:45:14.44\00:45:16.64
but more and more it's just
like I had to be very careful
00:45:16.68\00:45:19.38
because I know God
says go, we have to occupy.
00:45:19.41\00:45:24.75
But right quick and
right quick you say right here,
00:45:24.79\00:45:26.42
occupy what doing this, now,
00:45:26.45\00:45:27.79
this is not I'm
gonna waste my time on.
00:45:27.82\00:45:29.76
Almost everything
I find in the world,
00:45:29.79\00:45:32.19
I'm looking and I'm
saying I'm wasting my time.
00:45:32.23\00:45:34.93
Not that there're other
things we do and we have to do,
00:45:34.96\00:45:37.37
your job, and
different things like that.
00:45:37.40\00:45:38.83
But we had to very careful, I do
00:45:38.87\00:45:41.00
because I'm
trying to look and say,
00:45:41.04\00:45:43.34
this is what's important.
00:45:43.37\00:45:45.24
Our work for God is
a most important thing,
00:45:45.27\00:45:49.01
always other things
will pass away, you see.
00:45:49.04\00:45:52.88
All these other things are
almost like, it's foolishness,
00:45:52.91\00:45:55.02
things that were foolishness,
it's empty against God.
00:45:55.05\00:45:57.82
And that's really brought
home so we keep that in mind,
00:45:57.85\00:46:00.89
we'll strive to try
to do the best we can
00:46:00.92\00:46:02.72
for Christ everyday.
00:46:02.76\00:46:04.33
You know, I often pray
for my children and friends,
00:46:04.36\00:46:07.30
you know, I'm sure
all of you have friends
00:46:07.33\00:46:08.86
that you would
love to accept Jesus,
00:46:08.90\00:46:11.30
accept the truth is to pray
for conviction and conversion.
00:46:11.33\00:46:15.74
Because the prodigal son here,
I mean, he was not convicted,
00:46:15.77\00:46:19.34
and he was not converted
until he hit rock bottom,
00:46:19.37\00:46:23.71
and then he hit rock
bottom, that stony heart he had
00:46:23.75\00:46:27.62
began to change
into a heart of flesh.
00:46:27.65\00:46:30.52
But he made a
decision to turn. That's right.
00:46:30.55\00:46:33.79
That was his turning point.
00:46:33.82\00:46:35.16
And unfortunately for many
people it takes rock bottom
00:46:35.19\00:46:40.10
before you decide which
direction you want to go,
00:46:40.13\00:46:43.77
where you get serious.
00:46:43.80\00:46:45.13
The question that
you started to get,
00:46:45.17\00:46:47.10
it brought my mind is
when was he converted?
00:46:47.14\00:46:52.51
Is it when he made that decision
00:46:52.54\00:46:54.21
that he's gonna go back home?
00:46:54.24\00:46:55.88
Or was that the
beginning of conversion
00:46:55.91\00:46:58.11
when daddy wrapped
his arms around him
00:46:58.15\00:47:00.65
and he's seen that he's
really gonna be restored back
00:47:00.68\00:47:03.18
that really broke his heart.
00:47:03.22\00:47:04.99
I mean, I don't know if there
is just a real answer to that
00:47:05.02\00:47:07.19
but what do you think
because just because he said,
00:47:07.22\00:47:10.63
"Listen, I've
been to rock bottom
00:47:10.66\00:47:13.56
that doesn't mean
I've been converted.
00:47:13.60\00:47:14.93
I'm at rock
bottom, I hit the bottom,
00:47:14.96\00:47:16.46
there's no place
for me to go but up."
00:47:16.50\00:47:18.20
His misery
conquered his pride, you know,
00:47:18.23\00:47:23.10
as when he turned it
was that turning point,
00:47:23.14\00:47:25.04
you got to make a
decision, that's our part.
00:47:25.07\00:47:27.61
Yes. Our part is the decision.
00:47:27.64\00:47:29.64
I had a friend shared
with me once about her son,
00:47:29.68\00:47:33.11
she was a praying woman
00:47:33.15\00:47:35.18
and her son was one of the
sons that needed to get back.
00:47:35.22\00:47:40.19
And she said, she
would pray for him
00:47:40.22\00:47:42.32
and as though she
heard the Spirit of the Lord
00:47:42.36\00:47:46.96
speak to her heart.
00:47:47.00\00:47:48.33
Why is this then every
time I start to bounce him off
00:47:48.36\00:47:50.90
of the sidewalk, you run
and put a pillow under him.
00:47:50.93\00:47:55.54
That was what she said
that was quickened to her heart.
00:47:55.57\00:47:59.04
The Lord was trying
to get his attention
00:47:59.07\00:48:01.14
and she kept rescuing him from
every one of his situations.
00:48:01.18\00:48:05.68
And so there are times
00:48:05.71\00:48:08.65
when the safest
place for my children
00:48:08.68\00:48:12.35
is in the hands
of God, Holy Father,
00:48:12.39\00:48:15.26
whatever you
see is best for them
00:48:15.29\00:48:17.69
to bring them into
that place with You
00:48:17.73\00:48:19.56
that You would have them there.
00:48:19.59\00:48:21.53
Father, I'll let
them in Your hands.
00:48:21.56\00:48:23.83
And it is so hard for we parents
00:48:23.87\00:48:26.10
to leave them in His
hands when we want to do
00:48:26.13\00:48:28.57
is go rescue, you
know, from a situation.
00:48:28.60\00:48:32.74
Yes, good. That's great, Mollie.
00:48:32.77\00:48:34.54
I was thinking of what
you had read, Sister Chris.
00:48:34.58\00:48:37.28
"The love of God
yearns over the one
00:48:37.31\00:48:39.15
who has chosen to
separate from Him"
00:48:39.18\00:48:40.95
and He sets an
operation influences
00:48:40.98\00:48:43.79
to bring him back
to the Father's house,
00:48:43.82\00:48:45.79
that's exactly what God
was doing with that mother
00:48:45.82\00:48:47.92
and the mother's child.
00:48:47.96\00:48:49.62
Setting an operation influences.
00:48:49.66\00:48:51.63
Now, some of those
influences are painful.
00:48:51.66\00:48:54.10
Some of them
are the consequences
00:48:54.13\00:48:55.93
as I mentioned of our choices,
00:48:55.96\00:48:59.00
but I think God uses
the gentlest means necessary
00:48:59.03\00:49:03.00
to get our attention.
00:49:03.04\00:49:04.37
And if it just takes the
tap that's what who you is,
00:49:04.41\00:49:06.84
but sometimes it takes
a bigger stumble or fall
00:49:06.88\00:49:11.08
or something big in
order to get our attention.
00:49:11.11\00:49:14.35
And I feel like I
felt a lot of ways
00:49:14.38\00:49:17.62
when I was raising my children
00:49:17.65\00:49:19.39
because as Kenny said earlier,
when he talked to his grandson,
00:49:19.42\00:49:22.96
he did it in the most
loving way that he could
00:49:22.99\00:49:25.89
so his grandson would listen.
00:49:25.93\00:49:27.50
A lot of times
when we're raising kids,
00:49:27.53\00:49:31.53
we have the rules but
we don't show that much of
00:49:31.57\00:49:35.14
"This is because I love
you that I'm doing this."
00:49:35.17\00:49:37.77
Sometimes it's don't do this
and don't do that, and I'm not.
00:49:37.81\00:49:40.58
You know, we need to
take more time to say,
00:49:40.61\00:49:43.45
"I love you so much,
this is why that I'm saying
00:49:43.48\00:49:46.78
that you can't do this or
you can't be a part of this."
00:49:46.82\00:49:49.48
Because how you say
something is to anybody
00:49:49.52\00:49:52.95
makes all the
difference in the world.
00:49:52.99\00:49:55.32
And you don't just
love them when they're good.
00:49:55.36\00:49:58.53
You can ask any of my children
00:49:58.56\00:50:00.20
and one of them
is right over there,
00:50:00.23\00:50:01.90
"Why does your mother love you?"
00:50:01.93\00:50:03.26
And he'll say, I bet
he'll say it just like that,
00:50:03.30\00:50:05.40
"Because I'm hers."
00:50:05.43\00:50:07.34
I love my kids
'cause they're mine,
00:50:07.37\00:50:09.00
it's not their performance.
00:50:09.04\00:50:11.64
It's not a performance-based
love for my children.
00:50:11.67\00:50:14.24
Right. I love my children.
00:50:14.28\00:50:16.01
And, you know, we're
looking at this prodigal son
00:50:16.04\00:50:19.38
where God finally
got his attention.
00:50:19.41\00:50:21.48
And all the worst
thing in the world
00:50:21.52\00:50:23.95
maybe you could think
that could happen to your son
00:50:23.99\00:50:26.15
was maybe for him to windup
in prison, think about that.
00:50:26.19\00:50:29.36
How many people that are out
of prison have you heard say,
00:50:29.39\00:50:33.90
"I thank God that
He put me in prison."
00:50:33.93\00:50:37.40
Because it was there
00:50:37.43\00:50:38.77
when I was away from
all these other distractions
00:50:38.80\00:50:41.90
that he finally
got my attention.
00:50:41.94\00:50:43.61
Do you know in prison...
00:50:43.64\00:50:44.97
Some of the people
that go into the prison,
00:50:45.01\00:50:47.31
they have been so
addicted to something,
00:50:47.34\00:50:49.61
the substance abuse for so long
00:50:49.64\00:50:52.05
that it's only
once they're in prison
00:50:52.08\00:50:54.65
if that substance abuse
is broken over their lives.
00:50:54.68\00:50:57.92
And if you've got a mind
clouded with some substance,
00:50:57.95\00:51:02.52
you know, the Spirit of
the Lord has difficulty now.
00:51:02.56\00:51:06.09
He can do anything and I'm
not saying it's impossible,
00:51:06.13\00:51:08.63
but you get that cloud off of.
00:51:08.66\00:51:11.07
I really believe that
we could get the cloud,
00:51:11.10\00:51:13.97
the enemy's cloud off
of the minds of people
00:51:14.00\00:51:18.17
that they would turn to God.
00:51:18.21\00:51:19.54
Amen.
00:51:19.57\00:51:20.91
Oh, yes, He has us so diluted,
00:51:20.94\00:51:24.18
what's the word
that Revelation uses?
00:51:24.21\00:51:27.28
He's using sorcery
and we don't realize it.
00:51:27.32\00:51:31.22
I remember listening to
one of Pastor Ivor's messages
00:51:31.25\00:51:34.52
and he asked
the church, he said,
00:51:34.56\00:51:35.89
"Well, how many of, you
guys, have faced sorcery today?"
00:51:35.92\00:51:38.43
And no hand went up till he
was finished with the sermon,
00:51:38.46\00:51:41.60
because we don't...
00:51:41.63\00:51:42.96
Yes, because we don't realize,
we don't recognize the sorcery
00:51:43.00\00:51:47.60
until we begin to really
dig in and open up the avenues
00:51:47.64\00:51:51.77
that the enemy
uses towards our mind.
00:51:51.81\00:51:54.98
I think we're probably close
00:51:55.01\00:51:57.15
maybe with this
question number seven.
00:51:57.18\00:52:00.02
What lessons can be learned
by the prodigal son's father,
00:52:00.05\00:52:04.59
covering his ragged
appearance with his own robe?
00:52:04.62\00:52:09.42
There's so many things
that brought to my mind.
00:52:09.46\00:52:12.49
When you say the robe, you know,
00:52:12.53\00:52:14.36
first thing I think about
and everybody I'm sure does it,
00:52:14.40\00:52:16.53
the robe of his
righteousness has to cover,
00:52:16.56\00:52:20.54
you see, my poor pathetic life
00:52:20.57\00:52:22.70
and all the things I've
done wrong and all my sin.
00:52:22.74\00:52:25.64
But it's also
interesting in there,
00:52:25.67\00:52:27.48
He cannot give us
that robe of righteousness
00:52:27.51\00:52:29.68
while we still have sin.
00:52:29.71\00:52:33.01
If we have one unconfessed sin,
00:52:33.05\00:52:35.28
we cannot
receive the latter rain
00:52:35.32\00:52:36.72
or that robe of righteousness
so it's very important.
00:52:36.75\00:52:39.02
You feel, oh, I don't...
00:52:39.05\00:52:40.39
All I have to do is get down
on knees and pray to confess.
00:52:40.42\00:52:42.96
He's faithful and
just to forgive us.
00:52:42.99\00:52:44.46
So, it's more simple
than what people thought,
00:52:44.49\00:52:47.93
they start looking what
they may be have to give up
00:52:47.96\00:52:50.13
and change their life
and do everything, you know,
00:52:50.17\00:52:52.37
just come to Him.
00:52:52.40\00:52:53.74
And you make such a good point.
00:52:53.77\00:52:55.10
Get down on your knees and
pray because think about this,
00:52:55.14\00:52:58.37
we cannot have
unconfessed sin in our life.
00:52:58.41\00:53:00.84
We're all on
agreement with that.
00:53:00.88\00:53:02.21
Yes.
00:53:02.24\00:53:03.58
Boy, I had to think
long and hard if I could,
00:53:03.61\00:53:06.35
you know, come
up with all the sins
00:53:06.38\00:53:08.58
I've committed but
when you get on your knees
00:53:08.62\00:53:10.72
and ask the Father.
00:53:10.75\00:53:12.09
I always say,
search me on God thing
00:53:12.12\00:53:13.99
that I say so often God knows.
00:53:14.02\00:53:17.89
And so, Lord, lead
me, show me those areas
00:53:17.93\00:53:21.90
that I need to confess
before You those forgotten sins
00:53:21.93\00:53:25.50
that I've done.
00:53:25.53\00:53:26.87
"Father, what I want
to do is stand before You
00:53:26.90\00:53:28.60
with clean hands and heart,
help Lord, help, help me."
00:53:28.64\00:53:31.91
He'll help you. Amen.
00:53:31.94\00:53:33.27
Do you know he did that
to me just a few weeks ago?
00:53:33.31\00:53:37.65
The story was
brought back to my mind.
00:53:37.68\00:53:39.25
I was in first grade
00:53:39.28\00:53:41.42
and I was out playing
with the neighborhood children
00:53:41.45\00:53:43.25
and we were jumping from
upside down water and trough
00:53:43.28\00:53:47.02
up to a swing set pole.
00:53:47.06\00:53:50.16
And I missed it
and my arm went back
00:53:50.19\00:53:54.40
and it twisted and broke.
00:53:54.43\00:53:56.50
I knew my daddy
like you knew your daddy,
00:53:56.53\00:53:59.73
my daddy wasn't a Christian
and I knew I was in trouble.
00:53:59.77\00:54:03.61
So I made up a story that
the oldest child pushed me,
00:54:03.64\00:54:07.81
and I hung on to that
story for years and years.
00:54:07.84\00:54:10.78
And right after the Lord
He says you haven't told them,
00:54:10.81\00:54:15.18
you know, you
haven't said you're sorry.
00:54:15.22\00:54:17.89
And it wasn't but
maybe a week later
00:54:17.92\00:54:19.95
and I meet that
mother and we're talking
00:54:19.99\00:54:22.02
and I said, "By the
way, I didn't tell the truth,
00:54:22.06\00:54:25.63
I'm sorry about that."
00:54:25.66\00:54:27.36
They all kind of laughed at me,
00:54:27.40\00:54:28.73
but it still was important to me
00:54:28.76\00:54:31.27
that I mentioned that to her.
00:54:31.30\00:54:32.63
You confessed a sin.
00:54:32.67\00:54:34.00
Yeah, you know, and but
like the prodigal son here,
00:54:34.04\00:54:36.87
you said nothing unclean.
00:54:36.91\00:54:39.87
See he had hit rock
bottom and he repented,
00:54:39.91\00:54:42.38
he turned from his
sin, went back home,
00:54:42.41\00:54:46.85
and so then the
father covered him.
00:54:46.88\00:54:48.28
And I love this quote
from the same book it says,
00:54:48.32\00:54:51.45
"The father will
permit no contemptuous eye
00:54:51.49\00:54:54.79
to mark at his
son's misery and tatters."
00:54:54.82\00:54:57.83
See Jesus, He
doesn't browbeat us,
00:54:57.86\00:55:02.23
"I told you if you
would have done this,
00:55:02.26\00:55:04.23
I told you if you
lied about that boy pushing
00:55:04.27\00:55:06.43
your life would be like..."
00:55:06.47\00:55:07.80
He doesn't do
that, He loves us back,
00:55:07.84\00:55:11.17
and He gives us
His robe, His robe,
00:55:11.21\00:55:13.71
not ours because we have
no good within ourselves,
00:55:13.74\00:55:16.41
our very best is as filthy
rags that is so, you know,
00:55:16.44\00:55:20.52
many times we
think we were something
00:55:20.55\00:55:22.48
but when you stop him
00:55:22.52\00:55:23.85
and put it in
perspective of scripture
00:55:23.89\00:55:25.55
that the very best you
can do as a filthy rag.
00:55:25.59\00:55:29.62
And I know you,
ladies and you gentlemen,
00:55:29.66\00:55:31.43
have had filthy
rags, that's our very best.
00:55:31.46\00:55:34.10
We're nothing without Him.
00:55:34.13\00:55:36.33
And He loves us so much that
He's willing to put His love,
00:55:36.36\00:55:40.67
His righteous, He doesn't
want people to make fun of you,
00:55:40.70\00:55:43.71
Bruce, when you're fallen.
00:55:43.74\00:55:45.87
He says, He washes those sins,
00:55:45.91\00:55:47.81
He throws them to
the bottom of the sea.
00:55:47.84\00:55:51.21
I like the story you
tell about one man that was,
00:55:51.25\00:55:53.95
came to Jesus and
he was a new creature
00:55:53.98\00:55:56.55
and someone stood
up at prayer meeting
00:55:56.58\00:55:58.29
and said, "Yes, but you
were part of hell's angels,
00:55:58.32\00:56:00.49
you did this and you did that."
00:56:00.52\00:56:02.29
And he said, "How
could I, I'm just a baby."
00:56:02.32\00:56:04.96
I'm just six months
old. I'm just a baby.
00:56:04.99\00:56:08.26
He's in his 40s but he
said, I'm six months old,
00:56:08.30\00:56:10.10
he made a new life.
00:56:10.13\00:56:12.00
How could I've
done all these things,
00:56:12.03\00:56:13.37
that's an impossibility.
00:56:13.40\00:56:14.74
I think it's a
way we all look at it.
00:56:14.77\00:56:16.10
And this is how we
should treat one another,
00:56:16.14\00:56:17.47
it's not our past, our
past is not gonna define us.
00:56:17.51\00:56:21.01
It's where we end up.
00:56:21.04\00:56:23.21
It's who we are now.
00:56:23.24\00:56:24.68
And when we've done
wrong, we have to do quickly
00:56:24.71\00:56:26.35
'cause we have minute left,
is that we have to confess,
00:56:26.38\00:56:29.45
he knew he had done two things.
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He sinned against the
Father in heaven, right,
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and he sinned
against his father.
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And he was determined to
go back and make it right.
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And there may be
someone at home, Pastor Kenny,
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that you feel like you
have had no home, no hope,
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nothing to hang on
to, Jesus is there,
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and you can come
home at any time.
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Get on your
knees like Mollie said
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and ask for
forgiveness, make things right,
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and call upon your Father.
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Would you like to call
upon the Father for us?
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Absolutely, let's
close with prayer.
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Shall we pray with
us, will you please?
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Our loving Father in heaven,
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we thank You for
the study of Your Word.
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Thank You for the
power of Thy Holy Spirit,
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we thank You for the
thoughts that You brought
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for those who are listening,
those who are watching,
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we pray for conviction of heaven
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to be upon each and every one.
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And, Lord, may we find You,
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and find an ample
place in our hearts for You
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that we might be saved in
Your kingdom when You come.
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Thank You for the story,
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you can come home at
any time in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Until next time
may our precious Lord
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continue to bless
each and every one of you.
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Amen.
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