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Ed Young - Facing Fear

August 11, 2025 | S25 E192 | 29:0

Ed Young - Facing Fear
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Facing Fear | August 11, 2025
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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
  • 00:13:57.015 --> 00:14:00.285
  • Us, and try to set some things right that he set wrong."
  • 00:14:00.285 --> 00:14:05.857
  • And she said, "he needs to come back and be an evangelist, and
  • 00:14:05.857 --> 00:14:10.228
  • Tell a lot of young people who think, 'boy, we're having a good
  • 00:14:10.228 --> 00:14:13.164
  • Time, we're really blowing through everything,' and let
  • 00:14:13.164 --> 00:14:16.301
  • 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
  • 00:14:31.916 --> 00:14:36.087
  • Island, ladies and gentlemen, our sin splatters over people,
  • 00:14:36.087 --> 00:14:39.857
  • Splatters over things, and goes on long after we've passed,
  • 00:14:39.857 --> 00:14:44.028
  • Collateral damage affects the universe, affects all the lives
  • 00:14:44.028 --> 00:14:49.434
  • Who are around it.
  • 00:14:49.434 --> 00:14:51.836
  • "that's," paul harvey's phrase, "the rest of the story."
  • 00:14:51.836 --> 00:14:57.875
  • There needs to be retribution, all that it can happen.
  • 00:14:57.875 --> 00:15:06.384
  • 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?
  • 00:15:30.174 --> 00:15:32.477
  • But look at his plight.
  • 00:15:32.477 --> 00:15:35.079
  • We see there, that when his brother came home, what was
  • 00:15:35.079 --> 00:15:39.617
  • His response?
  • 00:15:39.617 --> 00:15:41.552
  • Anger.
  • 00:15:41.552 --> 00:15:43.287
  • What was he angry at?
  • 00:15:43.287 --> 00:15:45.823
  • That his father had taken this young whippersnapper who'd been
  • 00:15:45.823 --> 00:15:49.994
  • So immoral, had taken him back in, and everybody was saying,
  • 00:15:49.994 --> 00:15:55.767
  • "your father is a fool, he's been conned by your younger
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  • Brother again."
  • 00:16:00.772 --> 00:16:03.341
  • And then the second thing, if you listened carefully when i
  • 00:16:03.341 --> 00:16:06.177
  • 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."
  • 00:16:16.788 --> 00:16:18.122
  • 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."
  • 00:16:21.826 --> 00:16:28.099
  • You see, he didn't understand, the prodigal, even he went off,
  • 00:16:28.099 --> 00:16:33.805
  • And boy, he had a great time, that great time had scarred his
  • 00:16:33.805 --> 00:16:38.576
  • Life, even though forgiven, for the rest of his days.
  • 00:16:38.576 --> 00:16:42.747
  • Marriage would not be like it would have been, trusting him
  • 00:16:42.747 --> 00:16:48.052
  • Would not be like it would have been, sleepless nights would not
  • 00:16:48.052 --> 00:16:52.090
  • Be there like they would be.
  • 00:16:52.090 --> 00:16:53.825
  • So he didn't understand that, he thought his father, "well, you
  • 00:16:53.825 --> 00:16:56.661
  • Didn't even kill a goat for me, have a party and you killed the
  • 00:16:56.661 --> 00:17:00.565
  • Fatted calf, had a barbecue, man, for all the family."
  • 00:17:00.565 --> 00:17:04.769
  • And you see, there was a misunderstanding of the party
  • 00:17:04.769 --> 00:17:08.072
  • That the father had thrown.
  • 00:17:08.072 --> 00:17:10.241
  • 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
  • 00:17:22.153 --> 00:17:24.889
  • Barbecue being served, and the dancing going on, the head of
  • 00:17:24.889 --> 00:17:28.593
  • 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.
  • 00:17:32.463 --> 00:17:36.400
  • But the elder brother, he didn't see the party like that.
  • 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:41.005
  • He said, "oh, you're showing favoritism.
  • 00:17:41.005 --> 00:17:44.475
  • Oh, yeah, for your son, not, 'my brother has come home,' oh, your
  • 00:17:44.475 --> 00:17:49.147
  • Son has come home."
  • 00:17:49.147 --> 00:17:51.482
  • We see an interesting thing here, we see, in the story of
  • 00:17:51.482 --> 00:17:55.186
  • 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
  • 00:17:59.457 --> 00:18:03.327
  • Prodigal and seven stanzas there with the older brother.
  • 00:18:03.327 --> 00:18:07.765
  • What is that?
  • 00:18:07.765 --> 00:18:09.100
  • It's unfinished, eight over here, seven here, the last
  • 00:18:09.100 --> 00:18:13.838
  • Stanza there is the question at the end.
  • 00:18:13.838 --> 00:18:17.008
  • 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
  • 00:18:21.546 --> 00:18:24.549
  • Interpretation of the word, because the scribes and
  • 00:18:24.549 --> 00:18:28.019
  • Pharisees has to decide, had to identify or not identify with
  • 00:18:28.019 --> 00:18:33.691
  • The elder brother whose sin was a sin of disposition and
  • 00:18:33.691 --> 00:18:38.663
  • Attitude and judgmental spirit.
  • 00:18:38.663 --> 00:18:42.300
  • Now, what's the rest of that story?
  • 00:18:42.300 --> 00:18:44.802
  • Well, you say, "there's a whole gospel."
  • 00:18:44.802 --> 00:18:46.437
  • No, it's not.
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  • How should this story of the father with two sons have
  • 00:18:47.905 --> 00:18:52.343
  • Been written?
  • 00:18:52.343 --> 00:18:55.546
  • A father had two sons and, let's give them names, the older son
  • 00:18:55.546 --> 00:19:00.318
  • Was joshua, yeshua, jesus, the younger son was adam, man.
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  • Adam, firstborn in history, yeshua, firstborn of the father,
  • 00:19:09.860 --> 00:19:16.067
  • Had two sons.
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  • The younger son took off, we know that.
  • 00:19:18.369 --> 00:19:21.906
  • But back home, we see the father brokenhearted, see the father
  • 00:19:21.906 --> 00:19:28.679
  • Praying every night for that boy.
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  • Yeshua, the older brother, hearing that prayer and the
  • 00:19:31.449 --> 00:19:34.518
  • Tears of the father.
  • 00:19:34.518 --> 00:19:38.055
  • And yeshua many times seeing his dad take his robe and wipe tears
  • 00:19:38.055 --> 00:19:41.792
  • Out of his eyes.
  • 00:19:41.792 --> 00:19:43.127
  • He said, "dad, what's the matter?"
  • 00:19:43.127 --> 00:19:44.862
  • "it's adam, he's still out there."
  • 00:19:44.862 --> 00:19:48.766
  • And then you can imagine, one night, that yeshua came back
  • 00:19:48.766 --> 00:19:52.570
  • Home early, he saw a light in adam's room.
  • 00:19:52.570 --> 00:19:56.007
  • And he said, "oh, maybe he's come home," and he runs up to
  • 00:19:56.007 --> 00:19:58.142
  • The room, and he's not there, but there's a light.
  • 00:19:58.142 --> 00:20:01.379
  • And he realized that every night his father had put a light in
  • 00:20:01.379 --> 00:20:05.116
  • The room in case adam came home at night, he could see the light
  • 00:20:05.116 --> 00:20:09.086
  • Waiting for him to come.
  • 00:20:09.086 --> 00:20:11.956
  • Yeshua saw the father aging, he watched him every day, he'd go
  • 00:20:11.956 --> 00:20:17.461
  • Out on top of their house and look up that road, hoping to see
  • 00:20:17.461 --> 00:20:20.798
  • Some sign that this would be the day that adam would come back.
  • 00:20:20.798 --> 00:20:25.803
  • And finally, yeshua would go to the market, he would ask as
  • 00:20:25.803 --> 00:20:30.574
  • Travelers would come through, did they see his son, did they
  • 00:20:30.574 --> 00:20:32.877
  • See his brother?
  • 00:20:32.877 --> 00:20:34.211
  • And so it came back, he knew generally where adam was, and he
  • 00:20:34.211 --> 00:20:39.583
  • Had reports on adam.
  • 00:20:39.583 --> 00:20:41.052
  • Until finally it came back that adam was sick, and adam was now
  • 00:20:41.052 --> 00:20:49.827
  • Slopping pigs for a pig farmer.
  • 00:20:49.827 --> 00:20:53.998
  • And he went in and got his courage up, and yeshua went in
  • 00:20:53.998 --> 00:20:57.234
  • And said, "father, i've heard from adam."
  • 00:20:57.234 --> 00:21:00.471
  • "where is he?"
  • 00:21:00.471 --> 00:21:02.506
  • "he's working on a farm."
  • 00:21:02.506 --> 00:21:04.175
  • "oh, good."
  • 00:21:04.175 --> 00:21:06.043
  • "but he's sick."
  • 00:21:06.043 --> 00:21:07.978
  • "oh, what kind of farm is it?"
  • 00:21:07.978 --> 00:21:11.148
  • "it's a pig farm."
  • 00:21:11.148 --> 00:21:14.685
  • The father would have crushed his chest, "oh no, oh no, not my
  • 00:21:14.685 --> 00:21:19.824
  • Boy adam, oh no."
  • 00:21:19.824 --> 00:21:22.727
  • Yeshua said, "father, i'm gonna go and get adam and i'm gonna
  • 00:21:22.727 --> 00:21:27.732
  • Bring him home."
  • 00:21:27.732 --> 00:21:29.066
  • He said, "son, you can't do that, you're my only son, the
  • 00:21:29.066 --> 00:21:33.337
  • Only son that i have left, i can't let you go in the far
  • 00:21:33.337 --> 00:21:36.607
  • Country, it's too risky for you to go."
  • 00:21:36.607 --> 00:21:38.676
  • He said, "father, i'm going."
  • 00:21:38.676 --> 00:21:41.312
  • So, early the next morning, yeshua got up, he made his way
  • 00:21:41.312 --> 00:21:45.516
  • To the pig farm, and it was night and he went in a little
  • 00:21:45.516 --> 00:21:49.286
  • Shack there.
  • 00:21:49.286 --> 00:21:51.322
  • And he got close, he could smell the stench of human waste and
  • 00:21:51.322 --> 00:21:56.260
  • Pig waste, and slop and slime.
  • 00:21:56.260 --> 00:21:58.896
  • And he went over, and adam was asleep there, and touched him
  • 00:21:58.896 --> 00:22:03.167
  • And he had high fever, and saw he was delirious, and he
  • 00:22:03.167 --> 00:22:06.737
  • Awakened him.
  • 00:22:06.737 --> 00:22:08.072
  • And yeshua said, "the odor was more heinous and more
  • 00:22:08.072 --> 00:22:11.909
  • Overwhelming than i could believe."
  • 00:22:11.909 --> 00:22:13.511
  • And he said, "i awakened my brother, he didn't know me.
  • 00:22:13.511 --> 00:22:16.213
  • Then he recognized me, and said, 'yeshua.'"
  • 00:22:16.213 --> 00:22:20.017
  • He said, "i've come to get you, i'm gonna take you back home."
  • 00:22:20.017 --> 00:22:23.254
  • He said, "it's too late, i'm dying, it's too late."
  • 00:22:23.254 --> 00:22:26.090
  • He said, "besides that, i've run up a big debt, i owe the pig
  • 00:22:26.090 --> 00:22:29.827
  • Farmer a lot of money, he'll not let me go."
  • 00:22:29.827 --> 00:22:32.797
  • He said, "i'm gonna take you home."
  • 00:22:32.797 --> 00:22:35.666
  • Then the pig farmer shows up, and the pig farmer says, "you
  • 00:22:35.666 --> 00:22:40.571
  • Can't take him, he's gonna stay here till he works and pays me
  • 00:22:40.571 --> 00:22:46.544
  • Back every dime he owes me."
  • 00:22:46.544 --> 00:22:50.881
  • And then, we see, yeshua said to the pig farmer, "i'll take his
  • 00:22:50.881 --> 00:22:56.353
  • Place, i'll slop the hogs, i'll become your slave, i'll pay back
  • 00:22:56.353 --> 00:23:03.961
  • Everything he owes."
  • 00:23:03.961 --> 00:23:05.763
  • So, the next morning, on the slave roster, there was a new
  • 00:23:05.763 --> 00:23:09.767
  • Name up there, yeshua.
  • 00:23:09.767 --> 00:23:14.672
  • And yeshua stayed and worked and felt the whip and the shame, the
  • 00:23:14.672 --> 00:23:19.910
  • Degradation of slavery, slopping the pigs, the hogs, sleeping
  • 00:23:19.910 --> 00:23:24.315
  • With them, until he earned enough money to pay the pig
  • 00:23:24.315 --> 00:23:27.084
  • Farmer back.
  • 00:23:27.084 --> 00:23:29.386
  • And then he went and he said, "adam, we're ready to go home,"
  • 00:23:29.386 --> 00:23:32.790
  • And adam now couldn't walk.
  • 00:23:32.790 --> 00:23:35.659
  • So yeshua had to have a yoke, and he took a cross, and tied it
  • 00:23:35.659 --> 00:23:40.898
  • To his back, tied himself to the cross and got adam, and they
  • 00:23:40.898 --> 00:23:46.203
  • Started trudging their way home, walking their way home.
  • 00:23:46.203 --> 00:23:52.276
  • And when they were yet a far way away, far away off, the father
  • 00:23:52.276 --> 00:23:58.682
  • Saw them.
  • 00:23:58.682 --> 00:24:00.117
  • He didn't care what they said in the synagogue, he didn't care
  • 00:24:00.117 --> 00:24:04.088
  • What the community said, he didn't care what the rest of the
  • 00:24:04.088 --> 00:24:06.924
  • Family said, he ran to get those boys, and he didn't wait till
  • 00:24:06.924 --> 00:24:11.328
  • They cleaned up, but because both of them were filled with
  • 00:24:11.328 --> 00:24:14.698
  • The stench and the slime and the dust and the filth and the dirt
  • 00:24:14.698 --> 00:24:18.736
  • And the hogs, and he kissed them, covered them with
  • 00:24:18.736 --> 00:24:22.406
  • His robe.
  • 00:24:22.406 --> 00:24:23.741
  • And then yeshua, jesus, took adam, you and me, began to walk
  • 00:24:23.741 --> 00:24:33.017
  • Back to the door of the house, and the father looked and said,
  • 00:24:33.017 --> 00:24:36.887
  • "this is my beloved son, in whom i'm well pleased.
  • 00:24:36.887 --> 00:24:43.961
  • He was dead, he's alive, he was lost and he's found."
  • 00:24:43.961 --> 00:24:52.336
  • All of us adams who are here, every one of us, all of us
  • 00:24:52.336 --> 00:24:56.607
  • Adams, who are here, all of us adams, we have gone in so many
  • 00:24:56.607 --> 00:25:02.880
  • Ways of sin of passion or sin of disposition, and we've gone out
  • 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:07.918
  • Into the slime.
  • 00:25:07.918 --> 00:25:10.220
  • Ah, but yeshua, jesus has come and he picks us up, and he says,
  • 00:25:10.220 --> 00:25:19.430
  • "come back home, come all the way back home."
  • 00:25:19.430 --> 00:25:24.768
  • Ed: there's never been a better time than right
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  • Now to make god a priority in your life.
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  • That's why we've created this 90 day devotional, "putting god
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  • First," number one.
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  • And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
  • 00:25:41.118 --> 00:25:44.455
  • Direction of guidance you and i need every day to walk
  • 00:25:44.455 --> 00:25:48.058
  • Through life.
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  • It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
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  • Become all that god has designed you to become.
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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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