Ed Young - Facing Fear

October 3, 2025 | 29:0

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Pastor ed young: the young prodigal was guilty
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Of the sins of passion, the flesh.
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The older prodigal was the sin of disposition, spirit
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And attitude.
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Isn't that interesting?
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A father lost two sons.
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And the major thrust of this is the elder brother, the older
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Son, the firstborn, he wanted the pharisees to see you guys
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Are just like him, not sins of flesh, but sins of disposition,
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Of attitude, of a judgmental, negative, condemning spirit.
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You see, the older brother never left home, but he was as lost as
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A younger brother who went off in the far country.
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Let's read about the older brother, because this is really
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The climax of the story, and we tend to forget about him.
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Look at it.
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Luke 15, beginning there in verse number 25.
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"now his older son was in the field.
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And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music
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And dancing."
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A party, a celebration, a banquet.
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"so he called one of the servants and asked what these
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Things meant.
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And he said to him, 'your brother has come, and because he
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Has received him safe and sound.'"
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By the way, that's the word, probably, shalom there, it
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Means, "he received him," he was healthy, and he has been
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Reclaimed by the father, "'safe and sound, your father has
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Killed the fatted calf.'
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But he," the older brother, "was angry and would not go in," to
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The party.
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"therefore his father came out and pleaded with him."
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And, "so he answered and said to his father, 'lo, these many
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Years i have been serving you; i have never transgressed your
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Commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat,
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That i might make merry with my friends.
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But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your
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Livelihood with harlots,'" and, "killed the fatted calf
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For," them.
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"and he said to him, 'son, you're always with me,'" "all
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That i have is yours.
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It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your
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Brother was dead and is alive again, and," your brother, "was
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Lost and is found."
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What is the most dangerous word in the world?
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Think about it, what is the most dangerous word in the world?
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To answer that we probably need to go to the book of exodus.
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And you see there that the children of israel had been held
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In captivity for over 400 years.
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They were slaves to all the egyptians.
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Moses was there, advocating that pharaoh let them go, but he
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Didn't have a lot to work with, did he?
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He didn't have a lot of clout, until god gave him those 10
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Plagues that he could zap on those egyptians.
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And so, the first plague didn't work, the second plague is
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Perhaps the most interesting plague, it's the plague of
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Frogs, remember?
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And when you read in the bible there, it's almost humorous,
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You know?
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There are frogs everywhere, they came surging out of the nile,
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There were frogs in the food, there was frogs in the table,
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There was frogs there wherever they would go, frogs in the
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Royal pizza.
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And you can imagine pharaoh's wife and daughters
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Were standing on chairs screaming all the time, at all
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Those frogs in everything, in bed with you, wherever you
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Would go.
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He would back out the royal chariot and run over about
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100 frogs.
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I mean, it just permeated everything and pharaoh was
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Just upset.
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The noise, the croaking, all the time, you couldn't
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Hear anything.
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Frogs-frogs-frogs.
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And finally, pharaoh says, "hey, get rid of these frogs."
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And moses said, he said, "i have a frog-begone prayer."
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And he said, "i can pray that prayer any time and, pfft, the
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Frogs will be gone.
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But," he said, "pharaoh, i'm gonna let you decide when i pray
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That prayer, you tell me when to pray it and, pfft, no
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More frogs."
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Now, pharaoh thought that through, he said, "man, how do
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You live these frogs, their croaking and their screeching,
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And all the filth, and frogs in everything and everybody?"
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He said, "but then i'll have to let all my slaves go, i want
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Everybody to do all the work."
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So he was sort of balancing that in his mind.
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And all of a sudden, moses says, "well, what is it?
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You make the choice, when do you want me to pray the
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Frogs-begone prayer?"
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And moses pressed pharaoh, and pharaoh then gave us the most
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Dangerous word in the world.
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He said, "tomorrow," tomorrow, "i want to spend one more night
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With the frogs."
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Does that sound like anybody you know?
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One more night with that addiction, one more night with
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That unforgiveness, one more night with that attitude, one
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More night with that critical spirit, one more night.
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There you go, one more night with the frogs.
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I thought about that prodigal, we've already looked at
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Him thoroughly.
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He took off to the far country, we know the story, threw his
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Life away, extravagant living, wild living.
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And finally he ran out of bullets, a famine came, and he
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Knew he had to go back to his father.
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But, remember?
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He didn't go back to his father with the attitude, "oh, i'm
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Going back home, father, because i've broken your heart, i've
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Taken all your money, i've thrown it away."
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Oh, no, he went back because he was hungry, a hungry stomach
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Will preach better sermons than anything on this earth.
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And he was hungry and he made up that little speech, and if you
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Were here, you remember the speech he made up
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Was hypocritical.
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It's the same speech that pharaoh made up when he was
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Conning moses with a later plague.
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"father, i've sinned against heaven before the," same words
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In exodus.
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He said, "i'm no longer worried to be called your son, make me
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As a hired servant."
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So he made up his little speech, and he got up and left the pig
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Farm where he'd been slopping the hogs.
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Now, i wonder how long he worked for that pig farmer,
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I wonder how long.
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I think an extended period of time, he was there for a while.
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And i'm sure after he got the stench on him against everything
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He believed of god in his religion, i have a feeling that
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Almost every day he said, "tomorrow, i'm gonna get up and
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Go to my father," you know?
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"but i'm gonna spend just one more night with the hogs."
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Then the next day, he'd get caught up, and he'd remember the
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Shame he'd had to face, the embarrassment he had to face
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With the community, with his family, with his friends, with
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His dad.
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He said, "you know?
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I think i'll go tomorrow, i'll spend another night with
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The hogs."
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But then, you know the beautiful story, when he came to himself,
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Not, he repented, he just said, "i think i know a way back."
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He made his little speech and he started back home.
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His father ran, greeted him, we've dealt with that if you've
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Been around the last few weeks.
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And the father didn't wait until he cleaned up, i love that, he
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Put the robe over all of his raggedy, filthy, smelly clothes,
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Kissed him, sandals, a ring, and took him all the way back home.
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And now he was safe, secure, reinstated, back under the
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Covering of the wealth of the father.
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And, you know, somebody said, "well, that's the whole gospel,
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You know?"
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That's the whole story of someone discovered their sin,
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Goes back and the grace of god covers their sin.
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But he didn't bring anything, he didn't become a hired servant,
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You can't do anything yourself to make up for all the sin, the
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Garbage, to the father with his grace.
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And that's the way the grace of god operates in the life of
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Those who come home to him.
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We say, "that's the whole story."
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No, it's not.
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To finish out the story, and by the way, you can't put the whole
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Gospel into any one little section of the bible, it's
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Bigger than that, but to put some of the gospel into it,
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Let's imagine that a neighbor of that father, another prosperous
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Rancher-farmer, knew the boy all his life.
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And he would travel and make trade agreements in the area,
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And he went to the area where he knew the prodigal had lived for
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A number of years.
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He had discovered that after he'd come home.
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And so he goes there and he checks in the inn, and he asks
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The innkeeper, "you know, i had a young man came here some years
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Ago, and he lived with you a long time in this area.
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I wonder if you know him."
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And he described him and the innkeeper had no recognition,
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Until he said, "well, before he left, he ended up working for a
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Pig farmer outside of town."
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When he said that, all of a sudden, the innkeeper's
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Expression changed, and from somebody who was congenial and
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Gracious, suddenly you could see anger.
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He said, "oh-ho-ho yeah, now i know who you're talking about."
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And the neighbor said, "look, but he's back home with his
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Father and everything is great, and he's secured, everything has
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Been restored.
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It's a wonderful story."
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And that innkeeper said, "does he think that the forgiveness of
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The father is the only forgiveness that he needs?"
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Collateral damage, when sin goes out and begins to express
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Itself, there's collateral damage.
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With that, he walked out of the inn, he went on the streets, he
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Said he saw some men sitting out there in the village and he
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Began to talk with them.
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And he brought up the name of the prodigal again, said, "did
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You know this man when he lived here for a while?"
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And one of them turned and says, "i know exactly who you're
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Talking about."
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And he said, "i wanna tell you, he's back home with the father,
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He's doing fine, he's been totally restored."
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He said, "does he think that because he's back home now in
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The lap of luxury that everything is over?"
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He said, "i wish he discovered security with the father before
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He ever came down here and lived with us."
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He said, "do you see that young girl walking over there with a
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Baby on her hip, eastern style?"
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Said, "that little girl, that woman was a fine young person in
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Our area, but your prodigal is the father of that baby.
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Look at her."
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And he said, "by the way, you want to see how your prodigal
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Lived here?
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Go to the bank and ask them how much money he walked away from,
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How much he owes them."
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And he said, "by the way, if you want to stick around till about
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10 o'clock this morning, you'll see a lot of young men going
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Into the bar, even in the morning, to get dog drunk until
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They stagger out late in the afternoon," said, "those were
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Fine young men till your prodigal came here with all his
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Money, all of his charisma and all of his personality."
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He said, "he took people that were high and pushed them down,
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He took people who were down and pushed them lower."
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And this neighbor of the prodigal's family turned away,
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He said, i couldn't get it out of my mind, the forgiveness of
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The father, does he think that's all the forgiveness he needs?
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Said, i checked out of the inn the next morning and the
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Innkeeper's wife was there.
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And she came to me and knew i knew this prodigal who had lived
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In the area, and she said, "i want you to know i've forgiven
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Him, but," she said, "let me tell you what he needs to do.
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He needs to come back from the security and the wealth of his
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Father's house, and come back here and spend some time with
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Us, and try to set some things right that he set wrong."
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And she said, "he needs to come back and be an evangelist, and
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Tell a lot of young people who think, 'boy, we're having a good
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Time, we're really blowing through everything,' and let
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Them see the high cost of low living.
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He needs to help these young men to see the error of his ways and
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To point them how they cannot live like that."
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Oh, that question, collateral damage, we don't sin on an
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Island, ladies and gentlemen, our sin splatters over people,
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Splatters over things, and goes on long after we've passed,
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Collateral damage affects the universe, affects all the lives
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Who are around it.
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"that's," paul harvey's phrase, "the rest of the story."
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There needs to be retribution, all that it can happen.
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People looked at the older brother, say, "well, he's sort
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Of a better guy."
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If some of you parents had lived in that community and this young
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Guy came there with all the money and all the charisma and
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All the smiles and everything going great, would you rather
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Your daughter date him or the older brother?
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Secure, working, faithful.
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Oh, we take the older brother every time, wouldn't
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We, parents?
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But look at his plight.
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We see there, that when his brother came home, what was
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His response?
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Anger.
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What was he angry at?
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That his father had taken this young whippersnapper who'd been
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So immoral, had taken him back in, and everybody was saying,
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"your father is a fool, he's been conned by your younger
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Brother again."
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And then the second thing, if you listened carefully when i
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Was reading, what the older brother said to his dad,
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His father.
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He said, "listen, he took all of our money and he spent it there
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On wild living."
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He said, "i was here all the time working in the field,
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Working with the animals, and i was totally obedient to you."
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You see, he didn't understand, the prodigal, even he went off,
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And boy, he had a great time, that great time had scarred his
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Life, even though forgiven, for the rest of his days.
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Marriage would not be like it would have been, trusting him
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Would not be like it would have been, sleepless nights would not
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Be there like they would be.
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So he didn't understand that, he thought his father, "well, you
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Didn't even kill a goat for me, have a party and you killed the
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Fatted calf, had a barbecue, man, for all the family."
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And you see, there was a misunderstanding of the party
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That the father had thrown.
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The father, we know, threw the party for himself, celebrating
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For all the community that his boy had come back home and was
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Under his covering again.
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It was for the father.
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If you'd gone in that party with the band playing and the
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Barbecue being served, and the dancing going on, the head of
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The line would not be the prodigal, it'd be the father.
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He'd be congratulated, his boy's back home, the father.
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But the elder brother, he didn't see the party like that.
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He said, "oh, you're showing favoritism.
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Oh, yeah, for your son, not, 'my brother has come home,' oh, your
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Son has come home."
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We see an interesting thing here, we see, in the story of
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The prodigal, in 15th chapter, and the story of the elder
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Brother, you divide those up and there are eight stanzas in the
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Prodigal and seven stanzas there with the older brother.
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What is that?
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It's unfinished, eight over here, seven here, the last
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Stanza there is the question at the end.
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He said, "my son who was dead is alive, who's lost is found."
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He leaves it open-ended for the eighth stanza in the
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Interpretation of the word, because the scribes and
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Pharisees has to decide, had to identify or not identify with
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The elder brother whose sin was a sin of disposition and
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Attitude and judgmental spirit.
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Now, what's the rest of that story?
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Well, you say, "there's a whole gospel."
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No, it's not.
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How should this story of the father with two sons have
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Been written?
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A father had two sons and, let's give them names, the older son
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Was joshua, yeshua, jesus, the younger son was adam, man.
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Adam, firstborn in history, yeshua, firstborn of the father,
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Had two sons.
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The younger son took off, we know that.
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But back home, we see the father brokenhearted, see the father
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Praying every night for that boy.
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Yeshua, the older brother, hearing that prayer and the
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Tears of the father.
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And yeshua many times seeing his dad take his robe and wipe tears
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Out of his eyes.
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He said, "dad, what's the matter?"
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"it's adam, he's still out there."
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And then you can imagine, one night, that yeshua came back
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Home early, he saw a light in adam's room.
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And he said, "oh, maybe he's come home," and he runs up to
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The room, and he's not there, but there's a light.
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And he realized that every night his father had put a light in
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The room in case adam came home at night, he could see the light
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Waiting for him to come.
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Yeshua saw the father aging, he watched him every day, he'd go
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Out on top of their house and look up that road, hoping to see
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Some sign that this would be the day that adam would come back.
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And finally, yeshua would go to the market, he would ask as
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Travelers would come through, did they see his son, did they
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See his brother?
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And so it came back, he knew generally where adam was, and he
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Had reports on adam.
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Until finally it came back that adam was sick, and adam was now
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Slopping pigs for a pig farmer.
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And he went in and got his courage up, and yeshua went in
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And said, "father, i've heard from adam."
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"where is he?"
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"he's working on a farm."
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"oh, good."
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"but he's sick."
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"oh, what kind of farm is it?"
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"it's a pig farm."
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The father would have crushed his chest, "oh no, oh no, not my
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Boy adam, oh no."
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Yeshua said, "father, i'm gonna go and get adam and i'm gonna
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Bring him home."
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He said, "son, you can't do that, you're my only son, the
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Only son that i have left, i can't let you go in the far
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Country, it's too risky for you to go."
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He said, "father, i'm going."
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So, early the next morning, yeshua got up, he made his way
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To the pig farm, and it was night and he went in a little
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Shack there.
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And he got close, he could smell the stench of human waste and
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Pig waste, and slop and slime.
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And he went over, and adam was asleep there, and touched him
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And he had high fever, and saw he was delirious, and he
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Awakened him.
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And yeshua said, "the odor was more heinous and more
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Overwhelming than i could believe."
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And he said, "i awakened my brother, he didn't know me.
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Then he recognized me, and said, 'yeshua.'"
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He said, "i've come to get you, i'm gonna take you back home."
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He said, "it's too late, i'm dying, it's too late."
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He said, "besides that, i've run up a big debt, i owe the pig
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Farmer a lot of money, he'll not let me go."
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He said, "i'm gonna take you home."
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Then the pig farmer shows up, and the pig farmer says, "you
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Can't take him, he's gonna stay here till he works and pays me
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Back every dime he owes me."
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And then, we see, yeshua said to the pig farmer, "i'll take his
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Place, i'll slop the hogs, i'll become your slave, i'll pay back
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Everything he owes."
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So, the next morning, on the slave roster, there was a new
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Name up there, yeshua.
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And yeshua stayed and worked and felt the whip and the shame, the
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Degradation of slavery, slopping the pigs, the hogs, sleeping
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With them, until he earned enough money to pay the pig
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Farmer back.
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And then he went and he said, "adam, we're ready to go home,"
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And adam now couldn't walk.
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So yeshua had to have a yoke, and he took a cross, and tied it
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To his back, tied himself to the cross and got adam, and they
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Started trudging their way home, walking their way home.
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And when they were yet a far way away, far away off, the father
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Saw them.
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He didn't care what they said in the synagogue, he didn't care
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What the community said, he didn't care what the rest of the
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Family said, he ran to get those boys, and he didn't wait till
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They cleaned up, but because both of them were filled with
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The stench and the slime and the dust and the filth and the dirt
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And the hogs, and he kissed them, covered them with
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His robe.
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And then yeshua, jesus, took adam, you and me, began to walk
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Back to the door of the house, and the father looked and said,
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"this is my beloved son, in whom i'm well pleased.
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He was dead, he's alive, he was lost and he's found."
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All of us adams who are here, every one of us, all of us
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Adams, who are here, all of us adams, we have gone in so many
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Ways of sin of passion or sin of disposition, and we've gone out
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Into the slime.
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Ah, but yeshua, jesus has come and he picks us up, and he says,
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"come back home, come all the way back home."
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Female announcer: too many believers are stuck in a
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Powerless version of faith.
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But that's not what god wants for you.
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Dr. young shows how purity, power, and prayer can unlock
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So don't settle for less than god's best.
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Call the number on the screen and request your copy
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Ed: proverbs 22:6, says, "train up a child in the way he should
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Go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
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There are two direction in which a child should go, the mega and
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The micro.
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The mega direction is towards god and his ways, the micro is
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The bent of the child.
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Every parent should be pointing their child toward god, that's
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The mega-mega, that's our priority.
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At the same time, we should be observing our kids, to nurture
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Their personality, talents and gifts, micro,
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Watch them, study them, listen to them.
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Now, i know, in my own life, each of my three sons were so
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Different growing up and they're different today.
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God wants us to encourage the way he has wired them to grow,
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Your children, as i sought to do that with my sons.
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And with the foundation of god's truth and encouragement of a
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Loving family, we will help our kids to go off into the world
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Ready to soar for him, to become everything god designed them
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To become.
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Ed Young - Facing Fear

October 3, 2025 | 29:0

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