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Robert Jeffress - The Value of Lost Things

December 31, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - The Value of Lost Things
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Value of Lost Things | December 31, 2025
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i am dr. robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory,"
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  • And happy new year's eve.
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  • Or corruption, it makes us wonder,
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  • Does god really love those wicked people,
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  • Or has he written them off as a lost cause?
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  • Well, today we will be looking at a passage
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  • In the book of luke that reveals the tender heart of god,
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  • Especially toward those who have lost their way.
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  • My message is titled the value of lost things
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  • I have a confession to make this morning.
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  • I lose things,
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  • Important things all of the time.
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  • I come by that bad habit naturally.
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  • You remember the saying,
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  • A place for everything and everything in its place?
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  • I never heard that once growing up from my parents.
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  • They were losing things all the time.
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  • I remember as a little kid hearing them yell
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  • Across the room to one another,
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  • "have you seen my keys?
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  • Have you seen my checkbook?
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  • Where's the remote control?"
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  • They were losing things constantly
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  • And they passed that disease onto me.
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  • And unfortunately i've passed it on
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  • To my two daughters as well.
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  • One of the things i'm losing all of the time
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  • Is my montblanc pen.
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  • Now, this pen is very important to me,
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  • Not just because it cost a lot of money,
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  • But it has sentimental value,
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  • A deacon in another church gave this to me 25 years ago.
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  • But as important as it is to me, i'm always losing it.
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  • Amy knows.
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  • I mean, even this morning i knew i was going to use this pen,
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  • I couldn't find it anywhere.
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  • I looked in all my drawers, i looked in all of my suit,
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  • But finally i found this pen.
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  • What was my attitude when i found this pen?
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  • Did i look at it and say,
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  • "you disgusting little pen,
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  • If you're going to wander away like that,
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  • I don't want to have anything to do with you,"
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  • And throw it away?
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  • No, i searched for it,
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  • And when i found it i rejoiced.
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  • Lost things have value and that's true of god as well.
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  • What is god's attitude towards sinners?
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  • God doesn't hate sinners.
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  • God loves sinners.
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  • He searches for them and he rejoices when he finds them.
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  • Lost people are of great value to god.
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  • And so to prove that point that god doesn't hate sinners,
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  • God loves sinners, he tells these three parables.
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  • Now let's look at them for just a moment,
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  • An overview of all three parables.
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  • In verse 4,
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  • He says, "what man among you,
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  • If he has a hundred sheep and he's lost one of them,
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  • Does not leave the 99 in the open pasture
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  • And go after the one which is lost until he finds it?"
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  • If you have a hundred sheep and you lose one of them,
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  • What do you say about the lost sheep?
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  • "well, if he wants to wonder away, that's fine with me.
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  • Let him go. i hope he gets eaten by a wolf."
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  • Is that what he says?
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  • No, he leaves the 99 to go search for that sheep
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  • That is lost.
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  • Verse 5,
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  • "and when he has found it,
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  • He lays it on his shoulders rejoicing,
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  • And when he comes home,
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  • He calls together his friends and neighbors saying to them,
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  • "rejoice with me for i have found my sheep which was lost."
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  • I tell you that in the same way,
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  • There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner
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  • Who repents than over 99 righteous persons."
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  • If they had quotation marks back then,
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  • That's what they would've put around it.
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  • Luke said 99 so-called righteous persons
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  • Who feel like they need no repentance.
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  • You know what sets off the fireworks in heaven?
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  • What gets god excited?
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  • It's not some legalist who checks off his to-do list
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  • Of things he has to do to please god.
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  • No.
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  • What causes heaven to explode in joy is that prostitute
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  • Who kneels at the feet of jesus weeping
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  • And repenting and asking for forgiveness.
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  • It's that thief on the cross who says,
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  • "lord, would you remember me
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  • When you come into your kingdom?"
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  • That's what causes heaven to rejoice.
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  • And to underscore that truth, he tells this climactic story,
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  • The story of the lost son,
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  • The story we often call the story of the prodigal son.
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  • I want you to notice that jesus tells the story
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  • In four acts.
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  • Look at verse 11, "and jesus said,
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  • "a certain man had two sons,"
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  • That's important.
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  • We focus on the son who left.
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  • But this story is just as much about the son
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  • Who stayed at home and the father of both of them
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  • As we'll see in a moment.
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  • This story is about a father and two sons.
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  • Look at verse 12,
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  • "and when the younger of them said to his father,
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  • "father, give me the share of the estate
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  • That falls to me,"
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  • And the father divided his wealth between them.
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  • The father pled with the son," verse 13 says,
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  • "and not many days later,
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  • The younger son gathered everything together
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  • And he went on a journey into a distant country,
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  • And there he squandered his estate with loose living."
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  • Verse 14, "now, when he had spent everything..."
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  • Hear me today.
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  • If you stay in the far country,
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  • If you live apart from god long enough,
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  • It will cost you everything,
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  • Everything that is of value to you.
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  • "now, when he had spent everything,
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  • A severe famine occurred in that country
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  • And he began to be in need."
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  • What happened to all of his friends?
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  • Once his money ran out, his friends ran away.
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  • Once his money was gone, his friends were gone as well.
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  • He found himself all alone with no resources whatsoever.
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  • So what did he do?
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  • Verse 15,
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  • "he went and he attached himself out to one
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  • Of the citizens of that country and he sent him,"
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  • Sent the son "into his fields to feed the swine."
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  • There was no more humiliating task for a jewish young man
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  • Than to feed, to slop the pigs.
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  • Pigs were unclean to the jewish people
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  • And here he was feeding the swine and he was so hungry.
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  • Verse 16,
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  • "he was longing to fill his stomach with the pods
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  • That the swine were eating
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  • And no one was giving anything to him."
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  • Now notice the steps that led to the return of the son.
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  • Verse 17,
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  • "but when he had come to his senses,"
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  • You know what that implies?
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  • The boy was out of his mind.
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  • He suffered from temporary insanity,
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  • And he was insane to leave the home of a father
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  • Who loved you,
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  • To leave the home of a father who had all kinds of wealth
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  • And could meet every need to go live in a country
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  • Where you ended up sloping the pigs.
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  • That was nuts.
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  • It's the same way with people
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  • Who try to live their life apart from god.
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  • There are people,
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  • Perhaps one of you listening right now to this message.
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  • You grew up as a christian.
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  • You grew up thinking that life with god was all important,
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  • But then you came to a place in your life where you said,
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  • You know what?
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  • I'm tired of all of these restraints.
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  • I want to be free.
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  • And so you turn your back on god
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  • And everything you believe so that you can be free.
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  • Listen to me.
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  • If you're living apart from god this morning,
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  • You're not free.
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  • When you run away from god,
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  • You become a slave to sin and you become a slave to satan.
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  • And satan is a cruel task master.
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  • It is insanity to walk away from the god who loves you,
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  • To serve satan who absolutely hates you
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  • And wants to destroy everything in your life.
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  • The boy realized that,
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  • He came to his senses and he said,
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  • "how many of my father's hired men
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  • Have more than enough bread,
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  • But i am dying here with hunger?
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  • My father's servants are living better than i am,
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  • What am i doing in this pigpen feeding the swine?"
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  • Verse 18, "he resolved, this is what i'm going to do.
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  • I will get up and i will go to my father
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  • And i will say to him,
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  • "father, i have sinned against heaven and in your sight,
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  • I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
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  • Make me is one of your hired men."
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  • Verse 20 says,
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  • "and he got up and he came home to his father."
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  • The son took the first step back toward his father.
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  • But you know what really matters in this story?
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  • It's not the return of the son,
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  • It's the response of the father.
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  • What really matters to you and me is
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  • If we do take that step back toward god,
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  • How is god going to respond?
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  • Look at what happens in verse 20.
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  • "but while the son was still a long way off,
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  • His father saw him."
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  • Have you ever wondered how is that possible?
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  • How does it happen that on the day that the son
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  • Decides to return, his father just happens to see him?
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  • Well, the father was a wealthy landowner.
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  • He had responsibilities.
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  • Why would he happen to see his son
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  • On the day his son returns?
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  • I'll tell you why,
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  • Because that's all the father could think about.
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  • When his son left home,
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  • He was so paralyzed with sadness and disappointment.
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  • He couldn't perform his daily task.
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  • He could barely pull himself out of bed in the morning.
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  • Some of you know what i'm talking about.
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  • You have a child right now who's living apart from god.
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  • It consumes your mind and your heart.
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  • Sometimes you don't even know how to pray.
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  • You're so overcome with sadness
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  • Over that son who's away from god, that daughter.
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  • So every morning the father would get up
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  • And he would think to himself, perhaps today is the day.
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  • And all he would do is stand on that front porch
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  • Standing the horizon for any sign of his son.
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  • The day turned night, the father finally resigned himself,
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  • It wasn't going to happen,
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  • And he went back to bed thinking
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  • Perhaps tomorrow will be the day.
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  • And then one day while the father stands on that porch,
  • 00:12:09.451 --> 00:12:13.756
  • He looks out and on the horizon he sees a tiny dot.
  • 00:12:13.756 --> 00:12:18.828
  • And as that dot starts moving toward him
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  • And gets larger and larger, he recognizes the outline.
  • 00:12:21.530 --> 00:12:26.802
  • It's his son.
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  • It's his son walking toward home
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  • And the father lifts up his robe
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  • And he begins running as fast as he can to meet his son.
  • 00:12:35.411 --> 00:12:40.683
  • You see, in the middle east,
  • 00:12:41.283 --> 00:12:42.651
  • A wealthy landowner wouldn't run for anything,
  • 00:12:42.651 --> 00:12:44.854
  • That wasn't dignified,
  • 00:12:44.854 --> 00:12:47.556
  • But this father didn't care anything about dignity.
  • 00:12:47.556 --> 00:12:50.526
  • His son was coming back and he wanted to meet him.
  • 00:12:50.526 --> 00:12:54.196
  • As the son walked, the father ran.
  • 00:12:54.196 --> 00:12:57.166
  • And when he came to the son,
  • 00:12:57.166 --> 00:12:58.434
  • He embraced him and began to kiss him.
  • 00:12:58.434 --> 00:13:00.302
  • And the son thought, now here's the time,
  • 00:13:00.302 --> 00:13:02.137
  • And he begins his speech.
  • 00:13:02.137 --> 00:13:04.039
  • "father, i have sinned in your sight
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  • And in the sight of heaven, and" the father cuts him off.
  • 00:13:06.108 --> 00:13:09.211
  • He doesn't need to hear any speech.
  • 00:13:09.211 --> 00:13:11.347
  • All he needed to hear were the words, i am sorry.
  • 00:13:11.347 --> 00:13:14.550
  • And notice what the father says.
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  • The father says quickly to his servants,
  • 00:13:16.585 --> 00:13:18.754
  • "bring out the best robe,
  • 00:13:18.754 --> 00:13:21.190
  • The festival robe and put it on my son,
  • 00:13:21.190 --> 00:13:24.693
  • And put a ring on his hand,"
  • 00:13:24.693 --> 00:13:26.729
  • The signet ring that showed the authority of the father,
  • 00:13:26.729 --> 00:13:29.298
  • "and sandals on his feet and bring the fatten calf, kill it,
  • 00:13:29.298 --> 00:13:33.869
  • And let us eat and be merry for this son of mine was dead
  • 00:13:33.869 --> 00:13:38.807
  • And has come to life again,
  • 00:13:38.807 --> 00:13:40.776
  • He was lost and he has been found
  • 00:13:40.776 --> 00:13:43.679
  • And they begun to be merry."
  • 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:47.416
  • Now, that would've been a good place to end the story,
  • 00:13:48.517 --> 00:13:51.620
  • But the story doesn't end there because remember,
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  • If the son represents the sinner who comes back to god,
  • 00:13:56.191 --> 00:13:59.895
  • The father represents the god who welcomes him home.
  • 00:13:59.895 --> 00:14:03.699
  • The older brother represents the pharisees.
  • 00:14:04.633 --> 00:14:07.803
  • Remember this story was told for the benefit
  • 00:14:07.803 --> 00:14:10.606
  • Of the pharisees.
  • 00:14:10.606 --> 00:14:12.708
  • The pharisees didn't rejoice when sinners come to god,
  • 00:14:12.708 --> 00:14:17.146
  • They hated it.
  • 00:14:17.146 --> 00:14:18.247
  • And you see that in the reaction
  • 00:14:18.247 --> 00:14:20.382
  • Of the older brother, verse 29.
  • 00:14:20.382 --> 00:14:22.384
  • "but he answered and said to his father,
  • 00:14:22.384 --> 00:14:25.087
  • "look, for so many years i have been serving you
  • 00:14:25.087 --> 00:14:29.525
  • And i've never neglected a command of yours,
  • 00:14:29.525 --> 00:14:32.528
  • And yet you have never given me a kid,
  • 00:14:32.528 --> 00:14:34.930
  • A fatten calf, that i might be merry with my friends.
  • 00:14:34.930 --> 00:14:38.901
  • And when this son of yours came who has devoured your wealth
  • 00:14:38.901 --> 00:14:43.472
  • With harlots, you killed the fatten calf for him.""
  • 00:14:43.472 --> 00:14:47.509
  • Listen to me,
  • 00:14:47.509 --> 00:14:49.712
  • Whenever you see so-called christian dealing in hatred
  • 00:14:49.712 --> 00:14:54.116
  • And contempt towards sinners, you know why they do that?
  • 00:14:54.116 --> 00:14:58.153
  • You know why they view sinners with such disdain?
  • 00:14:58.153 --> 00:15:01.323
  • Because they are infected with their own self-righteousness.
  • 00:15:01.323 --> 00:15:04.893
  • They imagine themselves
  • 00:15:04.893 --> 00:15:06.428
  • To be much holier than they really are.
  • 00:15:06.428 --> 00:15:09.631
  • If you have contempt for sinners,
  • 00:15:10.366 --> 00:15:13.569
  • It's because you have a bad case of self-righteousness.
  • 00:15:13.569 --> 00:15:18.273
  • You know we have our own pharisees
  • 00:15:19.041 --> 00:15:21.710
  • In the religious world today.
  • 00:15:21.710 --> 00:15:23.512
  • I think about some i know right now.
  • 00:15:23.512 --> 00:15:26.615
  • They love to point out people in public life
  • 00:15:26.615 --> 00:15:30.586
  • They think are sinners and they call them heathen,
  • 00:15:30.586 --> 00:15:34.523
  • Unworthy, scoundrels.
  • 00:15:34.523 --> 00:15:37.659
  • They deal with them with absolute contempt.
  • 00:15:37.659 --> 00:15:42.097
  • They think they are spiritual giants,
  • 00:15:42.097 --> 00:15:45.667
  • But in fact they are simply smugs, self-righteous,
  • 00:15:45.667 --> 00:15:48.971
  • Little snots in the eyes of god.
  • 00:15:48.971 --> 00:15:51.840
  • God hates that.
  • 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.109
  • He absolutely hates that.
  • 00:15:54.109 --> 00:15:55.944
  • If you want to know what the heart of god is,
  • 00:15:55.944 --> 00:15:57.913
  • It's not to hate sinners, it is to love them.
  • 00:15:57.913 --> 00:16:01.350
  • It's to pray for them and rejoice when they come to god.
  • 00:16:01.350 --> 00:16:05.687
  • That is the heart of the heavenly father.
  • 00:16:05.687 --> 00:16:08.390
  • The pharisees didn't get that.
  • 00:16:08.390 --> 00:16:09.758
  • Look at verse 31,
  • 00:16:09.758 --> 00:16:11.393
  • "the father said to him,
  • 00:16:11.393 --> 00:16:12.661
  • "my child, you have always been with me,
  • 00:16:12.661 --> 00:16:15.931
  • And all that is mine is yours,
  • 00:16:15.931 --> 00:16:18.700
  • But we had to be merry and rejoice
  • 00:16:18.700 --> 00:16:21.403
  • For this brother of yours was dead
  • 00:16:21.403 --> 00:16:23.839
  • And has begun to live,
  • 00:16:23.839 --> 00:16:26.008
  • And was lost and has been found.""
  • 00:16:26.008 --> 00:16:31.914
  • How does the story end?
  • 00:16:32.414 --> 00:16:34.550
  • We don't know.
  • 00:16:34.917 --> 00:16:36.051
  • The curtain comes down, the lights go out.
  • 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.621
  • We don't know if the older son
  • 00:16:39.621 --> 00:16:40.923
  • Ever came into the father's house or not.
  • 00:16:40.923 --> 00:16:42.958
  • You know why jesus doesn't tell us?
  • 00:16:42.958 --> 00:16:44.860
  • Because at that point it was still an open question,
  • 00:16:44.860 --> 00:16:48.430
  • Would the pharisees repent and recognize their need
  • 00:16:48.430 --> 00:16:51.500
  • For forgiveness just like the tax gatherers and sinners,
  • 00:16:51.500 --> 00:16:54.736
  • Or would they remain outside the father's house?
  • 00:16:54.736 --> 00:16:59.608
  • These parables, especially the last one,
  • 00:16:59.608 --> 00:17:03.078
  • Have two applications to those of you who are prodigals.
  • 00:17:03.078 --> 00:17:07.816
  • Maybe i'm speaking to some of you right now,
  • 00:17:08.750 --> 00:17:11.286
  • You feel like there's a giant gulf between you and god.
  • 00:17:11.286 --> 00:17:15.124
  • You think god would never let me into heaven.
  • 00:17:16.091 --> 00:17:18.460
  • I could never become a christian because pastor,
  • 00:17:18.460 --> 00:17:20.929
  • You just don't know what i've done.
  • 00:17:20.929 --> 00:17:24.366
  • Listen to me.
  • 00:17:24.366 --> 00:17:25.667
  • God doesn't hate you, he loves you.
  • 00:17:25.667 --> 00:17:29.037
  • And the reason he loves you so much
  • 00:17:29.037 --> 00:17:31.540
  • Is because he wants you to be in heaven with him forever.
  • 00:17:31.540 --> 00:17:35.210
  • And that's why he's sent his son jesus to die for you.
  • 00:17:35.210 --> 00:17:39.581
  • Jesus didn't come and die for your goodness.
  • 00:17:40.516 --> 00:17:42.684
  • He came and died for your badness and my badness.
  • 00:17:42.684 --> 00:17:46.388
  • He didn't die just for those little sins,
  • 00:17:46.388 --> 00:17:49.091
  • He died for those humongous sins.
  • 00:17:49.091 --> 00:17:52.394
  • God doesn't hate you.
  • 00:17:52.394 --> 00:17:54.863
  • And maybe you're a christian,
  • 00:17:55.497 --> 00:17:57.599
  • But you've wandered away from god
  • 00:17:58.367 --> 00:18:00.002
  • And you've wondered, can god ever receive me back again?
  • 00:18:00.002 --> 00:18:04.072
  • Can i ever restore that relationship with him
  • 00:18:04.072 --> 00:18:06.742
  • That i've squandered?
  • 00:18:06.742 --> 00:18:08.744
  • Listen, if you will take one step toward god,
  • 00:18:08.744 --> 00:18:12.514
  • He will come running toward you.
  • 00:18:12.514 --> 00:18:15.984
  • It doesn't matter where you are today,
  • 00:18:15.984 --> 00:18:18.253
  • How far you are away from god,
  • 00:18:18.253 --> 00:18:20.989
  • God loves you and he rejoices when you come home.
  • 00:18:20.989 --> 00:18:26.228
  • But there's a second application
  • 00:18:26.862 --> 00:18:28.230
  • To the older brothers who may be listening to this message.
  • 00:18:29.431 --> 00:18:33.835
  • Perhaps you see yourself as a good, moral religious person
  • 00:18:33.835 --> 00:18:37.873
  • And you find yourself looking down
  • 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:40.242
  • With contempt on people you consider to be sinners,
  • 00:18:40.242 --> 00:18:43.078
  • "thank god i'm not like them.
  • 00:18:43.078 --> 00:18:46.014
  • Thank god i'm not a drug dealer.
  • 00:18:46.014 --> 00:18:48.617
  • I'm not an adulterer.
  • 00:18:48.617 --> 00:18:49.818
  • I'm not a child molester.
  • 00:18:49.818 --> 00:18:51.119
  • I'm a good person.
  • 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:52.588
  • Thank god i'm not like them."
  • 00:18:52.588 --> 00:18:55.023
  • And frankly, it kind of makes you a little nauseated
  • 00:18:55.023 --> 00:18:57.292
  • When you see somebody who was a sinner
  • 00:18:57.292 --> 00:18:59.661
  • Claiming to come to god in faith,
  • 00:18:59.661 --> 00:19:01.964
  • You view that with suspicion.
  • 00:19:01.964 --> 00:19:03.365
  • "how could that person ever be saved?"
  • 00:19:03.365 --> 00:19:05.901
  • Listen, if that's your attitude,
  • 00:19:05.901 --> 00:19:07.903
  • You are just as far outside the father's house
  • 00:19:07.903 --> 00:19:11.540
  • As the most vile sinner is.
  • 00:19:11.540 --> 00:19:15.043
  • Joe stoll was the president of moody bible institute
  • 00:19:16.111 --> 00:19:21.016
  • For a number of years,
  • 00:19:21.016 --> 00:19:23.118
  • And joe stoll tells a story about when dan rather,
  • 00:19:23.118 --> 00:19:27.623
  • The former cbs anchorman came to visit the moody campus
  • 00:19:27.623 --> 00:19:32.160
  • To do an interview on the radio with joe stoll.
  • 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:35.497
  • Joe stoll confesses that he really wasn't thrilled
  • 00:19:35.497 --> 00:19:38.200
  • With the idea of dan rather coming on his campus.
  • 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:41.503
  • I mean, after all,
  • 00:19:41.503 --> 00:19:42.871
  • He was part of the left-leaning liberal media,
  • 00:19:42.871 --> 00:19:45.774
  • But he was surprised at how warm dan rather was,
  • 00:19:45.774 --> 00:19:50.145
  • How gracious he was,
  • 00:19:50.145 --> 00:19:51.747
  • How interested he seemed to be in what joe stoll was saying.
  • 00:19:51.747 --> 00:19:57.052
  • During one of the breaks, rather explained why.
  • 00:19:58.053 --> 00:20:00.555
  • And by the way i know this to be true
  • 00:20:00.555 --> 00:20:02.224
  • Because dan rather told me the same thing a year ago.
  • 00:20:02.224 --> 00:20:05.961
  • He said to stoll, he said,
  • 00:20:05.961 --> 00:20:07.396
  • "i grew up in houston, texas.
  • 00:20:07.396 --> 00:20:09.731
  • My grandmother raised me.
  • 00:20:09.731 --> 00:20:11.833
  • And in my grandmother's home,
  • 00:20:11.833 --> 00:20:13.568
  • She had two things that she read,
  • 00:20:13.568 --> 00:20:16.171
  • The bible and the sears, roebuck catalog."
  • 00:20:16.171 --> 00:20:20.275
  • And she said,
  • 00:20:20.642 --> 00:20:21.576
  • "every day i was growing up,
  • 00:20:21.576 --> 00:20:24.446
  • My grandmom read to me the bible."
  • 00:20:25.213 --> 00:20:27.983
  • Well, there was a call in portion of the program,
  • 00:20:28.984 --> 00:20:31.887
  • So somebody called in and said,
  • 00:20:31.887 --> 00:20:33.455
  • "i have a question for mr. rather.
  • 00:20:33.455 --> 00:20:36.425
  • Mr. rather, if you were to stand before god
  • 00:20:36.425 --> 00:20:40.329
  • And he were to ask you, why should i let you into heaven,
  • 00:20:40.329 --> 00:20:44.599
  • What would you say?
  • 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:46.868
  • Rather paused, he said,
  • 00:20:47.369 --> 00:20:49.571
  • "well, i know it would not be
  • 00:20:49.571 --> 00:20:52.174
  • Because of any good thing i did.
  • 00:20:52.174 --> 00:20:55.577
  • If i was led into heaven,
  • 00:20:55.577 --> 00:20:57.279
  • It would have to be because of the grace of god."
  • 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:00.315
  • And then joe stoll said,
  • 00:21:00.816 --> 00:21:03.652
  • "i have no idea what the spiritual condition
  • 00:21:03.652 --> 00:21:06.221
  • Of dan rather is.
  • 00:21:06.221 --> 00:21:08.457
  • This is not a story about his spiritual condition,
  • 00:21:08.457 --> 00:21:11.993
  • But about my shame.
  • 00:21:12.461 --> 00:21:14.830
  • The shame is it didn't cross my mind once to pray
  • 00:21:14.830 --> 00:21:18.867
  • For dan rather,
  • 00:21:18.867 --> 00:21:20.369
  • That god would compassionately reach out
  • 00:21:20.369 --> 00:21:23.238
  • And embrace his soul, cancel hell and guarantee heaven.
  • 00:21:23.238 --> 00:21:28.577
  • I was so mad about all this political stuff
  • 00:21:29.478 --> 00:21:32.147
  • Instead of thinking about his need for a savior.
  • 00:21:32.147 --> 00:21:35.884
  • I refuse to be a middleman in a compassion transaction
  • 00:21:35.884 --> 00:21:41.289
  • Between god and one who possibly needed him."
  • 00:21:42.224 --> 00:21:47.796
  • What about you?
  • 00:21:48.163 --> 00:21:49.931
  • What about you?
  • 00:21:50.298 --> 00:21:52.134
  • These stories are for any of you
  • 00:21:52.768 --> 00:21:56.304
  • Who are living outside the father's house right now.
  • 00:21:56.304 --> 00:21:59.674
  • Maybe you're outside god's house
  • 00:22:00.308 --> 00:22:02.110
  • Because of blatant sin in your life.
  • 00:22:02.110 --> 00:22:05.347
  • Maybe you are away from the father
  • 00:22:05.347 --> 00:22:06.948
  • Because of a sense of self-righteousness.
  • 00:22:06.948 --> 00:22:10.051
  • But whatever the reason god's message to you is the same,
  • 00:22:10.051 --> 00:22:16.658
  • Come home,
  • 00:22:16.958 --> 00:22:18.994
  • Come home to the father who loves you.
  • 00:22:19.828 --> 00:22:24.099
  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Even at this very moment,
  • 00:22:29.404 --> 00:22:30.939
  • I know that god is calling his children to come home.
  • 00:22:30.939 --> 00:22:34.776
  • If you're taking this step today,
  • 00:22:34.776 --> 00:22:36.511
  • Let me be the first to affirm your wise decision.
  • 00:22:36.511 --> 00:22:40.248
  • Our loving god is standing at the door
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  • With open arms prepared to receive you today.
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  • Well, today is december 31st,
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  • The final day of the now is the time matching challenge.
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  • I lost my mom this past year.
  • 00:24:10.438 --> 00:24:13.675
  • I'm an only child.
  • 00:24:13.675 --> 00:24:15.443
  • I have no children.
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  • He helps me feel so loved by the lord,
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  • And that i am not alone,
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  • And that he's going to see us through.
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  • I'm a truck driver.
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  • I'm divorced and i don't have kids.
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  • I don't ever go home.
  • 00:24:32.427 --> 00:24:33.628
  • I stay out here.
  • 00:24:33.628 --> 00:24:34.896
  • And i listen to you all every day on radio.
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  • You all are a bus and dogs out here listening.
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  • Of the world.
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  • God sent me a wake up call and i wakened up
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  • And i quit drinking.
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  • I will not turn my back on god again.
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  • Well, first of all, it is limited.
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  • It's things that are limited that have value,
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  • And our time is very limited.
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