Ed Young - The Prodigal: Lost and Found

April 19, 2026 | 27:29

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Prodigal: Lost and Found | April 19, 2026

By the way, you need to know about sheep.
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They're about the dumbest animal on the earth.
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That's that's true.
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They're beautiful, but they're dumb.
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They have no way to defend themselves from any prey.
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They will not even drink water unless it still is.
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The water's flowing.
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They don't get near it because they can't swim.
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And they're just helpless animals.
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Unless a sheep stays in the flock, in the sheepfold.
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Unless a sheep has a shepherd,
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No sheep can survive.
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A 16 year
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Old girl named carol
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Looked at her newborn son
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Very, very carefully because she knew
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It was the last time she'd ever see him.
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She looked at his feet
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And his hands and his face
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Because she had
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Given over to be adopted.
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She was on
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National honor student.
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Lovely in every way.
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Christian home, professionally christian. but
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A one night stand.
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She went out with a boy who had already gone to college
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On a football scholarship,
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And she'd gotten pregnant.
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Her father arranged for her to go to a
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Nother town and carry
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The child full term, and she gave birth to this boy.
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Then she went back to her school.
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No one knew anything about her parents and one cousin
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Continued.
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Her academic work was outstanding in every way,
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Found forgiveness from the lord in the church,
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And she lived the rest of her life
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Beautifully.
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For god.
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All of us in different ways,
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Ladies and gentlemen, could tell a story
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Of going out into the far country for a period of time.
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We've been talking about that as we've looked
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At the greatest story ever told.
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Found in luke chapter 15.
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Jesus was speaking to a large audience.
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In that audience, we see the kind of people
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That were there and the comment that was made.
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And then we see what led to jesus telling
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These three stories of lost and found.
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Chapter 15, verse one.
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Then all the tax collectors and the sinners
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Drew near to hear jesus, the tax collectors,
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They're called publicans, not republicans, but publicans.
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They are the jews who hugged him
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Selves, all sold and self to the romans,
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And they would collect taxes from all the rest of the jews.
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But all that they
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Over collected, they kept for themselves
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A built in system of exportation.
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And they were all filthy rich, and the audience
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Were the hated tax collectors.
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And then it says in the audience,
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There were sinners who were sinners.
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They were people of the land.
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They were people who had no status.
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They couldn't go to the synagogue.
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They couldn't go to the temple.
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They were disrespected by everybody.
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Disenfranchized.
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They were just sinners.
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They were throwaways.
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Nobody would speak to them.
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Certainly nobody would marry one of them.
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They would not get involved in the affairs of israel.
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They were the despised. in one sense.
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They were the untouchables, the sinners.
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They were the audience cheering jesus.
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And also in the audience were a couple of other groups.
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And it says, and the pharisees
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And the scribes complained,
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The pharisees, they kept all the law.
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They were super religious, super pious, super judgmental.
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And the scribes were those who copied the law
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And copied down the mishnah, the interpretation of law.
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And they were the theologians who applied the law.
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So the scribes and the pharisees,
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Along with the sinners and the tax collectors.
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And then they whispered to one another
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About jesus and said,
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This man receives sinners.
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And there we have a quartet of words
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As we have an overview of the greatest story ever
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Told, we will look at three quartets of words.
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This gives meaning to what jesus was teaching all of us.
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The crowd of that day and all of us today.
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Now remember, jesus is teaching us what god is like.
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What is god like?
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How does god? how?
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What is the modus operandi of god?
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That's what jesus exposes.
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He say, this is what god thinks.
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This is how god operates
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And he tells these stories.
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Let me read for you this first, a little parable here
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Because i think it's so beautifully written.
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Jesus says, what man
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Of you having a hundred sheep,
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If he loses
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One of them, does not leave the 99 in the wilderness
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And go after the one which is lost, and he finds it,
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And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders,
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Rejoicing.
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And when he comes home, he calls together his friends
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And neighbors, saying to them, rejoice with me,
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For i found my sheep which was lost.
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And i say to you that likewise
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There is more joy in heaven over one sinner
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Who repents than over 99 just person.
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They think they're just whose legs they need.
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No repentance.
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A sheep gets lost.
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By the way, you need to know about sheep.
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They're about the dumbest animal on the earth.
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That's that's true.
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They're beautiful, but they're dumb.
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They have no way to defend themselves from any prey.
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They will not even drink water unless it still is.
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The water's flowing.
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They don't get near it because they can't swim.
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And they're just helpless animals.
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Unless a sheep stays in the flock, in the sheepfold.
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Unless a sheep has a shepherd, no sheep can survive.
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No sheep can thrive.
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So how does this little sheep get lost?
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Here's the flock, here's the shepherd,
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And the sheep goes and says, well,
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There's some grass over there.
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And just
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Wandered over there and takes
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And there's some more grass over there.
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The sheep wanders and there's some more grass over there.
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And for long the sheep is around the bend.
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No sense of direction.
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She doesn't have any sense of direction.
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And now the sheep can't hear the shepherd when he calls,
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He just wanders off.
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How does a sheep get lost?
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By gradualism?
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Not just riding out in the wilderness, running away.
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No, sheep just takes one little step, another
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Little step and goes over here and goes over there.
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That's how sheep get lost.
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How do you and i get lost?
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Same way.
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Well, we didn't go to church last sunday.
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We went to a ball game out of town and took the kids.
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We had a great time.
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We were going to drive back, but it was late and raining,
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And we just, you know, miss church.
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No big deal.
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We've all done that.
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I've done that.
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Then the next week we have company who's come
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And the company, they they don't go to church much.
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I didn't want to drag them up to our church.
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All of a sudden we we go over here, we visit over
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Here, we go to the lake, we go to a ranch.
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We're invited over here.
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And we wake up and say, you know what?
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I'm not at church much, and you know i'm not in
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Bible study.
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We just gradually move away and we say, you know,
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When i go to church,
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I don't feel what i used to feel with god.
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Something must be wrong up there.
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You know, i used to be close to god in the lord,
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But i don't feel that way anymore.
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Who moved?
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You see, that's how i get lost.
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That's how you get lost.
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We just wander away a little bit here,
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A little neglect there.
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We don't read our bible here.
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We won't pray there.
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We don't spend time.
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We don't listen.
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That's how we get lost. we just.
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When are you a christian?
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Oh, yes. i'm a christian.
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But we have lost something of the joy
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And the spontaneity and the freedom of
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Being in the flow and having the shepherd
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Speak to us daily, especially in god's house.
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That's how she get lost gradually.
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That's how we get lost gradually.
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Then what about the next parable that jesus told
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That you went out to seek?
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That was strange to the jews? but look at
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Verse eight.
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Oh, what woman having ten silver coins,
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If she loses one coin, does not light a lamp,
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Sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it,
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And when she's found it, she calls her friends
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And neighbors together, saying, rejoice with me, for
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I have found the peace that which i lost.
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Likewise, i say to you, there is joy in the presence
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Of the angels of god over one sinner
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Who repents, who turns around.
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What's the story?
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A piece of silver, probably a silver drachma.
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She would have it on her head band.
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It would be her dowry.
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Ten pieces means that she's married.
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Is like losing your wedding ring.
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And she lost the ring.
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Where did she lose it?
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In the house.
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She didn't go off somewhere.
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She didn't wander off.
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She lost it doing the work.
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She had secured it.
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She lost it to carelessness.
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Let me tell you, in a house
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There in israel, it would be a small house.
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One window about 18in and around
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The floor would be a dirt floor with reeds on it.
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And you can see how working you'd lose
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Your ring and how hard it be to find it.
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It would be dark.
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She'd have to sweep and look very carefully.
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She lost that ring through
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Carelessness.
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How do we lose our sons and daughters?
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Parents
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Through carelessness?
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You didn't notice when they came home.
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You didn't look in their eyes.
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You didn't smell the warning that was there.
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You didn't observe the friends they were running
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With, their habits and their background
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And what they were taught in their home.
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Everybody wants a happy home.
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But let's be honest.
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A happy home doesn't just happen.
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It's built.
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It's shaped.
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Day by day by day.
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The prodigal son says, dad,
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Give me everything that i will have coming.
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When you die, i want to get out of here.
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I'm tired of being at home.
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It's like a prison.
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I'm tired of my strict, pious older
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Brother who is so different from me.
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I need to get out and live my life and have freedom
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And express myself and be successful in the world.
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And so the father gave him
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What he would give him if he had died.
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And then that little phrase, that quartet of words,
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Not many days after
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He didn't leave immediately.
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What can what that young man did
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When he was still home before he left
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For he took off for the far country in what he did.
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You the thing he did. he dreamed.
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He dreamed
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About what is going to be like, man.
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What?
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How he would express himself, how all the instinctive drives
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That he had, that his father had kept control of,
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How he could just eat, drink and be merry and enjoy himself
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Anytime, anywhere, any way,
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Dreaming about
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Pleasure, hedonism,
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Lodging out, running my own life,
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Following all the passions that are in me.
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Man, this is really living it up.
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I got a question for you.
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Why is eat, drink and be merry
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And just let the good times roll?
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Why does a life committed to that
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Never work out?
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All hedonists in history
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End up as pessimists.
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Why do they never find the happiness and joy and freedom
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They're seeking?
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Why doesn't that work?
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Looks like it.
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Word is just
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Following the natural drives that we seem to have.
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But right down
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To the middle of that lifestyle,
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There is an immutable law
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That stands up and says hope
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This life will never work.
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I own this side.
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If you remember solomon solomon, who had everything
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This world could ask for, he tried it all.
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Read it carefully.
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He tried women, man.
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He wasn't extreme. he went to he.
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He tried power.
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What a powerful man he was.
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He tried riches.
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He became the richest man in all of history.
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He tried horticulture.
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He tried building.
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He tried agriculture.
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Solomon read it.
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He tried everything and reached the end result of everything.
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Solomon had it all.
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But in the end, they ask him, solomon,
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Tell me about your lives, all that you have done.
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He said, it's all zero.
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It's all vanity.
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So why is it when we just
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Launch out, let the good times roll.
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That life never works.
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That life never ends. and genuine.
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Why is that?
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I'm going to tell you.
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It's the fact that god
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Has placed eternity
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In every heart, in every life, right here in this world.
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He's put eternity in you.
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He's put eternity in me.
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And there's always will be a restlessness
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Until we, through jesus christ,
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Get a relationship with our heavenly father.
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See, all of us are going to live forever.
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Yeah, we're all immortal,
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And nothing in this world will satisfy
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Except we get in a relationship with our father
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Because there's a eternity in you.
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There's eternity in me.
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And that is a magnificent thing.
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So see, the prodigal goes out there
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And he says, not many days after he dreams,
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But his dream was a false dream.
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But he had that dream.
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And then the next quartet of words are really fabulous.
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This is the one that that really sings for me.
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Look at verse 17.
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It says, he came to himself.
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He came to himself.
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The final quartet of words.
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Those full words
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Are perhaps one of the greatest copyrights
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God ever gave to humanity.
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In other words, he is saying that when you are engaged
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In horns and not in halos,
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When you're the far country and not at home,
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When your life is broken, and that that's not who you are.
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That's not who i am.
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How many times i've said, you know, i did that,
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But that's not really who i am, right?
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We've all said that and that's that's not my character.
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That's not what i really believe.
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I don't know what got into me.
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That's not who i am.
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And here we have jesus saying
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Of the prodigal when he was there with the pigs,
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He came to himself.
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That is a great compliment
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On our human nature.
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You're human nature.
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That's a great a convert.
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And describing who we really are as human beings.
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We don't want to live with the flesh.
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That's where the horns are.
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We want to live in the spirit.
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That's where the halos are.
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But there's that conflict that is there.
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Human nature.
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A lot of people say, well, don't
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You know, human nature can't be changed.
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You can be changed.
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I can be changed by the power of god in christ.
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You doubt it?
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Take your bible some time and look at first
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Corinthians chapter number six, verse ten.
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It tells the people who will never make the kingdom
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Of god a long list.
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Scary liars, cheaters, swindlers,
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Adulterers, fornicators,
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A long list of bad,
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Godless people who will never make heaven.
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He's speaking to the church at corinth,
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And when he gets through the list, he says such words.
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Some of you,
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You see,
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By the power of god in christ, he says, you've been changed.
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You've been forgiven.
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You've come back home from the far country.
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And that happens all the time.
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16 year old boy
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Dylan mccullough was in a
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English class third period.
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He looked out the window
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And he saw there a mercedes benz drive up read.
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He'd never really seen one.
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Had those big gold hubcaps, tanned exterior.
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He wondered who in the world that was.
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Had he saw a man get out of that mercedes?
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And straight and tall and confidence
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Walked like an athlete,
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And he knew he was going into the school.
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He was thinking, well, i wonder what he wants.
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You see this young man
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Was brought up in a broken home by a single mother.
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He was adopted, but there were other children,
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And he had no way out except at 16.
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You could already tell he was a fabulous athlete.
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He was fast.
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He was tough.
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An outstanding football player.
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And a few minutes in this class, the pink slip came in
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And they said, go to the principal.
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So dylan got up, went off, the principal sat down,
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And the man who got out of that mercedes
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Benz came over to him and shook his hand.
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He says, i'm sherman smith.
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I'm the backfield coach at university
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Of miami here in ohio, and i've come to offer you
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A football scholarship.
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And sherman talked to him in that room.
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He talked about discipline.
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He talks about life.
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He talked about all the basic things.
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And now dylan was attracted to him
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Like no man he'd ever been attracted to before.
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He said, now this is a real man.
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This is someone i want to play for now.
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He received a lot of other offers when he graduated.
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I mean, he was outstanding,
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But he decided
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He would go to the university of miami,
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Where sherman smith was a coach.
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And when he got there and signed the first day,
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Smith got all the boys together.
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He said, gentlemen,
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While you're here, i'm
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Going to treat every one of you as if you were my son.
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He said, you may not need a father,
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But that's the way i'm going to treat you anyway,
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Because you are here.
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My primary purpose is to make a man out of you.
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And in the process, you become a football player
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And boy, then that year that
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Sherman smith, coach dillon, it was really something.
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The next year, though, smith went and became a coach.
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University of illinois
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And dillon mccullough stayed there all four years.
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He was outstanding, made the hall of fame in the
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University rights for over 4000 yards his senior year,
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And he was
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Called.
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He was commissioned.
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He was drafted to play with the cincinnati bengals.
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Professional football nfl, but early he was there
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For about one minute and he had a career ending
00:23:31.922 --> 00:23:35.893
Injury, could not play any longer,
00:23:35.893 --> 00:23:39.430
But dillon went into coaching high school,
00:23:39.430 --> 00:23:42.166
Coaching married children, christian.
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All the influence of sherman smith
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In the process, he decided, you know,
00:23:49.540 --> 00:23:51.442
I'd like to move in coaching the college ranch.
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He called coach smith,
00:23:54.278 --> 00:23:56.981
Who was now with the seattle
00:23:56.981 --> 00:23:59.917
Seahawks professional coach,
00:24:00.518 --> 00:24:03.454
And he said, you know, coach, i'd like to coach in college.
00:24:03.454 --> 00:24:06.056
And and smith said, dylan, why don't you come
00:24:06.056 --> 00:24:09.894
And be one of our interns here with seattle
00:24:09.894 --> 00:24:12.863
In the nfl where we've got a position for you?
00:24:12.863 --> 00:24:15.733
And that's exactly what he did.
00:24:15.733 --> 00:24:18.168
That's exactly what he did.
00:24:18.769 --> 00:24:20.838
Now, last year,
00:24:20.838 --> 00:24:23.741
Dylan
00:24:23.974 --> 00:24:25.543
Discovered that a law had been changed in
00:24:25.543 --> 00:24:28.212
Pennsylvania, that you could now find out at a certain time
00:24:28.212 --> 00:24:32.983
Who your daddy was,
00:24:33.450 --> 00:24:34.852
Who your mother was, if you'd been adopted.
00:24:34.852 --> 00:24:37.855
So he found out and got the number of someone named carol.
00:24:37.855 --> 00:24:42.259
Remember?
00:24:42.560 --> 00:24:44.328
And he called carol and said,
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I'm your son.
00:24:47.231 --> 00:24:48.299
That was given up for adoption.
00:24:48.299 --> 00:24:49.700
He told her what had happened in his life,
00:24:49.700 --> 00:24:52.436
And she was thrilled
00:24:52.903 --> 00:24:53.971
And said, we've got to get together, son.
00:24:53.971 --> 00:24:56.974
And then he was very reluctant.
00:24:56.974 --> 00:24:58.876
He said,
00:24:58.876 --> 00:25:00.811
I want to ask you
00:25:00.811 --> 00:25:02.880
About my my father.
00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:05.583
My dad.
00:25:05.583 --> 00:25:07.484
And carol said, you know, i don't know what happened
00:25:07.484 --> 00:25:09.920
To him.
00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:10.454
Said, i lost track.
00:25:10.454 --> 00:25:11.488
I knew he went to college and played football,
00:25:11.488 --> 00:25:14.124
But i don't know where he is now.
00:25:14.124 --> 00:25:15.726
I can't tell you how to get in contact with him.
00:25:15.726 --> 00:25:18.762
He said, would you tell me his name?
00:25:18.762 --> 00:25:20.431
He said, sure.
00:25:20.431 --> 00:25:21.165
She said it was sherman smith.
00:25:21.165 --> 00:25:27.938
Today,
00:25:28.138 --> 00:25:30.140
Then in mcgregor and sherman smith, sherman
00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:32.409
Has retired from coaching pro football.
00:25:32.409 --> 00:25:35.546
They're very close father and son. him.
00:25:35.546 --> 00:25:38.482
And they just can't believe
00:25:38.482 --> 00:25:41.352
How all god always with christians finishes up
00:25:41.352 --> 00:25:45.589
That which he begins.
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Everybody wants a happy home.
00:25:50.094 --> 00:25:53.097
But let's be honest.
00:25:53.097 --> 00:25:54.598
A happy home doesn't just happen.
00:25:54.598 --> 00:25:57.501
It's built.
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It's shaped.
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Day by day by day.
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That's why i want to encourage you to read
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This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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This 90 day devotional is from
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Decades of real life pastoring,
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Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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In the page of this book each day
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You will find a simple rhythm
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As of scripture,
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Practical, down to earth navigation,
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And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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We're not talking about something complicated here.
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We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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15 minutes.
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Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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Your home on what matters the most in christ
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Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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Your life.
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Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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Everything else changes.
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Conversations change.
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Priorities change.
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Hearts begin to change.
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Take that first step today.
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Call the number or visit the website below
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And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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And begin your 90 day journey right now.
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Ed Young - The Prodigal: Lost and Found

April 19, 2026 | 27:29

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