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Luke chapter 15 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Luke chapter 15. Let us pray, oh heavenly Father,
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  we thank you Jesus. We thank you God Almighty for
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  life and life abundant. Thank you God for the power from
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  on high. Thank you Jesus for all the many
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  things that you've already done for us today.
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  Thank you God for your holy scriptures.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will give us
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  healing. God.
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  Heal our broken bodies. Father, heal our minds, God, our
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  hurts and our hang ups and our habits.
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  God, I pray for freedom. God, let the Spirit come.
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  Let the Holy Spirit fill us today.
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  God, I pray that you will endue us from power, from on high.
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  Father, I pray that you'll help us Lord to take up our cross and
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  to follow you. To put our hand to the plow God
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  and not look back. I pray God we count the cost.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that many of the captives
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  will be set free today. God, I pray that today is the
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  day of salvation for many. Lord, I pray that you will be
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  exalted above the nations, that Lord, it'll be you.
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  Father, that's the first thing on our mind and the last thing
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  on our mind, and it's what we are always meditating upon is
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  you. Jesus Christ.
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  You are preeminent. You are the supremacy, you are
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  everything, You are our everything.
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  You are life and you are breath and you are the way and the
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  truth and the life. And yes, God, we come to you in
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  spirit and in truth. Yes, we worship you God, with
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  all of our heart, with all of our mind, with all of our
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  strength. Lord, I pray that you help us to
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  love our neighbors as ourselves. I pray that you give us the
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  contentment, God, for the food and clothing that you've already
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  provided. God.
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  I pray for joy, Lord, to spring up.
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  I pray against the suicidal spirit God.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll give us victory over the
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  flesh. God, I pray that we will not
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  succumb to all of the woes of this life God and all of the
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  trickery. God and the deception, Father, I
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  pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us to break free
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  from all of the chains, to break free from all of the cares and
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  the tares and the briars, God that come up and try to choke
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  out the faith. Lord, I pray that faith
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  increases today. Lord, I pray that we have the
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  faith of a mustard seed. I pray God Almighty that Jesus
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  is what we put our faith into our whole heart, into our old
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  self, into. Lord, he is lovely and he is
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  beautiful. Yes, Jesus, we love you.
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  Thank you. Eyes like fire and hair like
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  wool, the voice of the many multitudes.
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  Thank you Jesus, that you are our everything.
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  We love you, King Jesus, and it's in your holy and precious
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  name that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. Then drew near unto him all the
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  publicans and sinners to hear him.
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  So look how he draws this crowd. And this is the crowd who's
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  trying to trap them to. And the Pharisees and the
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  scribes murmured, saying, this man receives sinners and eats
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  with them. So here we can see that Jesus
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  was a friend of sinners. Isn't that amazing that he loved
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  us even yet while we were still sinning?
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  And we would do well to make sure that we always keep our
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  story in mind, our testimony in mind.
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  And we need to remember where we came from.
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  And we also need to remember who we belong to.
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  And we need to keep those two points always in the forefront
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  of our mind, that we were once sinners, we were once lost, we
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  were once destitute and in need of a Savior.
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  And we cannot look down the nose at those that are in that
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  current state. Now, there are many who we think
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  are going to be there in the end, but they will not be.
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  They're just the suit and tie, ravenous wolves, the false
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  teachers. And then you can see that there
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  are many now that are strung out, there are many now that are
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  addicted to the flesh, and they're addicted to this life,
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  and they will be there with us because they see their need for
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  the repentance. Let's keep moving. 3 And he
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  spoke this parable unto them, saying, 4 What man of you having
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  100 sheep, if you lose, one of them does not leave the 99 in
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  the wilderness, and goes after that which is lost, until he
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  finds it. 5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his
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  shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he comes home, he calls together
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  his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with
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  me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.
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  Seven, I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven
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  over 1 Sinner that repents more than over the 99 just persons
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  which need no repentance. So here you can see that God
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  pursues us. You might, you might feel 1000
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  miles away from God, but he's only one step back because He's
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  been pursuing you, friend. He knows who belongs to him.
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  He makes it about his business to come and to find us in the
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  pig pen, to come and to find us in our mess.
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  And all we need to do is turn from sin and turn to the Savior
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  to receive our salvation, to receive our healing and to walk
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  in that bridal identity. And you can see the 99 that are
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  sitting on their blessed assurance.
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  They're the they are the Pew warmers.
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  They are the ones that attend the church and they are the ones
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  that have their name on a roll. And they are the ones who think
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  that all of their outward religious expression is what
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  saves them. And it is not.
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  It is a relationship with God Almighty through His Son Jesus
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  Christ that is day-to-day to day to hour to hour to hour to
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  moment by moment by moment to second by second by second to
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  heartbeat by heartbeat by heartbeat from breath to breath
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  to breath for the rest of your life, friend, from now until you
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  take your last breath and you will be ushered into paradise.
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  You will be ushered into the presence of God, praise God,
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  Hallelujah. 11 And he said a certain man had will go back to
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  8 either what woman, having 10 pieces of silver, if she lose
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  one piece, does not light a candle and sweep the house and
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  seek diligently until she finds it Here he's going to tell us
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  another parable of what it is like and how he sees us friends.
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  9 And when she has found it, she called her friends and her
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  neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have
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  found the peace which I had lost. 10 Likewise I say unto
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  you, There is joy in the presence of the angels of God
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  over 1 Sinner that repents. You can see our need for
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  repentance. You can see the God desires for
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  us to get right with Him, to put off the old man, to put off the
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  sin that is entangling us, and to return back to our proper
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  place, which is holy. Because He is holy, we can walk
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  in the light, we can put on the full armor of God, We can be
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  washed in the blood and be able to stand and to gird up our
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  loins, and to stand in the holy east of holy places, and to dine
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  and Sup with our Father and to commune with Him.
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  And we do not have to hide. Whenever we repent, we need to
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  confess all the things that are entangling us.
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  We need to consecrate the temple.
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  Get rid of all of the evil. Do not delight in the the evil,
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  but love the truth. Friends, put your face, fix your
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  eyes upon Jesus today, look at him, look upon him and be saved
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  today. Friends, confess that Jesus is
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  Lord. Believe in your heart that God
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  raised him from the dead and do not let this world have the last
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  say over your life. Do not be in love with this
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  world, but fall in love with Jesus and everything else will
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  flow out of that relationship. Friends, we need the repentance.
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  11 And he said, A certain man had two sons, 12 And the younger
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  of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of
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  goods that falls to me. And he divided unto them his
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  living. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered
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  all together, and took his journey into a far country, and
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  there wasted his substance with riotous living.
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  So you can see here that whenever we squander the
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  inheritance that God has for for us, his elect, we can see that
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  he desires to give us the good things.
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  And He desires to put us in heavenly places and to see us
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  with Him and to make us more than conquerors and to give us
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  the peace that comes from a relationship with Him and to
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  give us the joy that springs out of contentment what He is
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  desires to give us. A lot of times we trade that
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  like Esau, we trade our birthright for a bowl of soup.
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  Friends, because we're thinking of the natural, we're thinking
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  of the physical, we're thinking of the here and the now.
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  We think that this is all that there is and we would give up
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  eternity just to have a little pleasure and a little bit of
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  security down here. And we can reveal our inner
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  motives. Friends, when we chase the
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  dollar, whenever we are chasing Mammon and he's going to tell us
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  what it all results to. 14 And when he had spent all, there
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  arose a mighty famine in that land, and he began to be in
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  want. That is our state when we are
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  disconnected from God Almighty, when we turn our backs on Jesus
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  Christ, whenever we have tasted in the goodness of God and we
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  revolt and turn away from it. Whenever we renounce our faith,
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  whenever we walk away from the faith, there is nothing but
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  want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that
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  country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
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  As a Jew. This would have been the lowest
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  of the lowest of the lowest places to be in the same pigpen
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  as the swine, and this Jew would have seen just how far he had
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  fallen in this moment. 16 and he would feign have filled his
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  belly with the husks that the swine did eat, and no man gave
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  unto him. We can see that Satan's plan is
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  to steal, kill, and destroy. He cares nothing for us.
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  He masquerades himself, and he tries to get us to believe that
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  he has the power to give what he promises.
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  We can see that Satan is a deceiver and he tries to trick
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  us into believing that all of the good we can have.
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  But what happens is the longer we go along with them, the more
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  and more destitute we become. And you can see it here.
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  He started out with this riotous living.
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  I'm sure he was eating high on the hog.
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  He was living in the penthouse. He was at the top of his game
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  and threw a lot of sequences of events.
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  He found himself in the pig pen with an empty belly.
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  And that's where we find ourselves anytime we turn our
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  backs on God. And it never starts out that
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  way. It seems fun and games in the
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  beginning. It seems as if God's holding out
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  on us in the beginning. And what happens as we go on, we
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  see that when we were in our Father's house, it was much
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  better. And He gives us all of the gifts
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  at the appropriate time when we're able to steward them.
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  And He doesn't just keep lavishing us with all of the
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  riches of heaven that we cannot steward well.
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  And those very blessed things that God gives to us becomes the
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  entanglement because we are not stewarding them well.
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  And God knows when to give His children the gifts that they can
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  steward, the gifts that they can actually enjoy.
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  So if you feel like God is holding out on you, perhaps you
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  need to start with what He's already given you.
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  Start taking care of the things that He's already entrusted to
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  you, friend, and then if you're faithful with little, you'll be
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  faithful with much. 17 And when he came to himself, he said, how
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  many hired servants of my father's have bred enough and to
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  spare, and I will perish with hunger.
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  So here he starts thinking about how even the hired servants that
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  his father has are eating better than him, and he is his child.
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  And we could see that this prodigal is turning his mind
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  back to the father. 18 And I will arise and go to my father,
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  and I will say unto him, Father, I've sinned against heaven, and
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  before you. So not not only did he bring the
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  father back to his mind, but he actually put it into action.
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  He actually put some feet to the thought.
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  He actually went 19 and am no more worthy to be called your
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  son. Make me as one of your hired
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  servants. So we can see here that as long
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  as he was in his father's house, he knew that he would be taken
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  care of. 20 And he arose and came to his father.
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  But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had
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  compassion, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
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  So we can see here that the father did not go to the son.
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  The Father waited for the Son to make the connection, to make the
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  application, to see and to actually decide and make a
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  decision for the Father. And God doesn't take any
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  hostages. God waits until we choose Him
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  and it brings him so much more glory.
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  And it is a divine mystery that God could have put us in the
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  garden without the tree, with the knowledge of good and evil,
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  He could have put us in the garden without.
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  And what did He do? He put us in that garden.
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  And he told us we could eat of all the trees except for the
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  One. What did he do?
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  He put us in the garden with the serpent.
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  And why? It is wisdom to ask yourself why
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  he could have done it any other way.
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  But why did he choose this way? And the answer is to bring him
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  the most amount of glory. And you can see it in this story
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  of the prodigal. The prodigal has to choose to go
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  back. The prodigal has to come to his
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  senses. It wasn't enough for the Father
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  to just keep him in his house and to just make him obedient.
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  It is us we have to make that decision.
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  And when we do, because we have free will, it brings the Father
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  so much more glory. Friends 21 And the son said unto
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  him, Father, I've sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am
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  no more worthy to be called your son.
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  He was worthy of death in this culture, Friends.
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  And the Father fell upon him, and made him his son quickly, so
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  that he would not be put to death. 22 But the Father said to
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  his servants, Bring forth the best Rd., put it on him, and put
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  a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet, and show the community
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  that he is mine, He is my Son. He is not a traitor.
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  And this is what God does for you, and he does for me.
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  We are worthy of death, we are worthy of hell.
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  We are worthy of eternal damnation and separation from
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  God. But what does he do?
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  He calls us his own. He invites us in to paradise.
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  He invites us in to his heavenly abode.
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  He seats us there with Christ, and we are not worthy of it.
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  But it is only by the blood of Jesus Christ that we can enter
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  in friends, and that is this covering. 23 And bring here the
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  fattened calf, and kill it, and let us eat and be merry. 24 For
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  this my son was dead and is alive again.
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  He was lost and is found, and they began to be merry.
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  God prepares A banquet for us in the presence of our enemies,
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  this marriage supper of the Lamb.
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  And here we can see that we were once dead in our trespasses, we
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  were dead in our sin. And if we would have died, we
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  would have been eternally separated from God forever and
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  ever, a billion times over, dying and never being able to
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  die. And here you can see that the
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  doesn't see us in our sinful state.
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  The Father sees us clothed and in a robe, and he sees us with
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  the ring, and he prepares the banquet for us.
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  Praise God. Hallelujah. 25 And now the elder
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  son was in the field, and as he came, and he drew near to the
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  house, and he heard music and dancing. 26 And he called one of
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  the servants and asked what these things meant. 27 And he
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  said unto him, Your brother has come, and your father has killed
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  the fattened calf, because he has received him safe and sound.
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  Praise the Lord whenever we finally come to our senses,
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  whenever we finally return to the Father's house and He sees
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  us. Made whole he sees us safe and
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  sound. 28 And he was angry. Who?
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  Would not go. In and therefore came his father
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  out and entreated him. 29 And he answering said to his father,
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  Lo, these many years do I serve you?
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  Neither transgressed I at any time your commandment, and yet
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  you never gave me a kid that I might make merry with my
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  friends. So you can.
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  See here that this root of bitterness has sprung up in this
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  brother, and you can see here that he's trying to come to the
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  Father and give his resume of all of the things that he's done
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  for the Father. But it doesn't work that way.
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  Grace abounds, friends, and it is not by our works that we are
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  saved, so that any man should boast.
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  It is. Only by the blood of the Lamb
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  that we're going to get there, and it is by the grace of God
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  that we're going to get there, and this grace abounds. 30.
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  But as soon as your son was come, which has devoured your
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  living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.
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  So here this brother was presuming that his other brother
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  had. Squandered.
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  All the wealth with prostitutes, and here he comes back and the
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  father treats him better than his brother who's been with him
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  the whole time. And it is only by the grace of
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  God that someone at the end of their life can give their life
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  over to the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved and enter into
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  eternity and escape the fires of damnation.
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  But what risk we take at trying to wait till the end?
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  And this older brother would have done well to remember that.
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  If he was. To finish this race well, his
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  rewards would have been greater than the younger brother who
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  squandered his life and squandered the inheritance and
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  then came in at the last moment. And you could see it here in our
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  day, in our hour. You can see it here in this
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  lifetime. There are many who gave their
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  life to the Lord at a young age, and they've lived a righteous
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  life and they when they die and they go into the presence of the
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  Lord, they will be richly rewarded for this long life.
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  And there is nothing better in this world than to serve God
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  while you were young and to accept your lot in life.
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  And if you were to finish the race, well, your rewards will be
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  many friends and there will be some who wait and they live a
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  debaucherous lifestyle. And at the very end, the gospel
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  is presented and they accept it and they are also ushered into
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  eternity, but they have nothing to bring with them friends.
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  But you can flip that around and you can say that there are a lot
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  of people who are resentment. They are resentful of those who
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  get to come into the same place, and they got to have their cake
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  and eat it too. And they themselves, their
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  rewards are snatched from them even though they go.
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  And the least shall be 1st and the 1st shall be least.
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  And this calls for wisdom, friends. 30.
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  One. And he said unto him, Son, you
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  are ever with me, and all that I have is yours.
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  This is the Christian walk. This is the faith filled walk.
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  Friends. All that is the Father's belongs
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  to us, friends. This whole world in the galaxies
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  above and the depths below, friends, it was all created by
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  Him and for Him and to Him. And whenever you come in a right
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  relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ, it's all
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  available to you. You just have to reach out and
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  grab it friends. I pray.
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  That you found that 32 and it was me that we should make merry
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  and be glad for this. Your brother was dead and is
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  alive again and was lost and is found and will end there.
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  Wow, what? A chapter.
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  What an amazing. Story that Jesus tells us.
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  These are from the lips, the very lips of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. We can see here his thoughts
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  about what it looks like for those that are trapped in sin
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  and they finally come to their senses while they still have
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  breath in their lungs. They were dead and now they are
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  alive and we do not need to be like the older brother and try
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  to push out and keep out those that are squandering their
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  inheritance now. If there's breath in their
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  lungs, there's still hope for them, friends.
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  And we would do well to celebrate anytime that a Sinner,
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  no matter their past, anytime a Sinner comes to their senses, it
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  is a cause for celebration. Do not let a root of bitterness
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  spring up. Do not try to keep those out of
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  the Kingdom of God. Because.
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  Our Father will be sore displeased whenever we try to
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  keep those out of the Kingdom because we don't see ourselves
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  properly as once completely debased and separated from Him.
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  There is not one that is good, no, not one.
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  Friends, all of our righteousness is but filthy
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  rags. It is only the righteousness of
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  Jesus Christ that gets us there. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter. I know I sure have, many times
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  over. I'm praying for.
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  You. We'll see.
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  You back here. Tomorrow, God bless you.