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All right, welcome to Supernatural Saturday.

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It is so great to see all of your faces and you can see my face today.

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Look at that.

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Very excited to be on camera today.

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David has us all set up with Starlink over here in the studio at our house.

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So prayerfully that will continue to hold strong.

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And then also we will be set up at the wheelhouse studio before too long.

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David is down there working diligently to get the studio set up down there and we'll

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be live from there very soon.

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So why am I all spiffed up?

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I did put on a sweatshirt.

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I changed out of my suit jacket because I was on the news this morning.

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Did anyone catch me on the news?

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Raise your hand if you saw me on the news live.

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I did put it on my social media that I was going to be on Newsmax this morning.

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Did anyone see me on the news?

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Nobody.

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Nobody watches the news.

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Good.

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Cause you probably shouldn't watch the news.

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But at the same time I was on there, so I had to get all, you know, fixed up and ready.

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Guys.

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News starts early in the morning.

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I don't know how these people do this news thing because no, sir.

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Nuh uh.

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Starts really early in the morning.

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I heard that people, they get up like in the middle of the night.

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It's like the third shift.

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They get up at like four in the morning to go and do this new stuff.

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But I was on the news this morning to talk about the rise of AI relationships.

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People want to hear about, and the news story was there's a rise in people

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outsourcing their human connection to AI.

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Now, I don't think it's the majority of people, but I do think that there's a

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lot of us that lean way too much into the internet and away from community.

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And that doesn't have to be AI.

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It doesn't have to be a chat bot.

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It could also be just spending too much time scrolling too much time on social

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media, too much time interacting with people that you don't know in real life

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and probably will never meet in real life.

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So you guys know that my new book is coming out modern dating sucks, and it

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really does delve deep into the idea that we need to come back to a place of

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in-person community-based matchmaking.

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And you guys know that that's my mantra anyway.

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So it was really fun on the news this morning, but that is why I was there.

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But I want to tell you guys something else that occurred to me after I got off

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the news this morning.

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So I've been on the news four times.

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Four times I've well, that's not true.

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When I first moved here, I was on the news down in San Antonio.

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So five times I've been on the news in my life, actually six times.

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When I was a kid, I was on the news because they were doing some, you know,

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special on the tree lighting in downtown Cleveland and I'm on the news.

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So six times in my whole life, but as an adult, five times in the last.

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The last year, four times.

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Why is this significant?

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Because I really want to release something over all of you.

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So years ago, when I first started out in ministry,

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I had received a word that I was going to be on television,

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that I was going to have a TV show and people had dreams and gave me words

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based on these dreams of, Hey, I saw you on TV.

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You had your own TV show, blah, blah, blah.

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And I think that I've told you guys several,

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several times I've said on some kind of broadcast on here that I was in a TV

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contract to actually be the host of a show, a reality TV show,

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three different times.

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And every time something happened that made the contract fall through.

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And that's okay. Timing is everything.

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But the thing that I remembered this morning is that I auditioned back when

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God gave me this TV word, let's say circa 2010.

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I was not working in television yet.

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I had all these beautiful prophetic words that I was going to work in

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television, but I hadn't worked in television yet.

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And I had done that internship. Remember,

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for those of you that remember the story that as soon as God told me,

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I was going to be on TV.

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I started going around knocking on doors,

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asking people to give me a TV internship.

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I'll get your coffee. I'll, you know, get your dry cleaning.

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I'll do whatever you want me to do.

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Just let me hang around at the TV studio so that I can really learn and

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understand. Cause I believe in putting feet on my prayers.

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then that's where you're going wrong.

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You got to put feet on them.

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Imperfect action is still action and belief requires action,

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even if it's imperfect. And so I got out the phone book.

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This is how old the story is.

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And I searched and searched and searched for the TV stations in my city.

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And I called each one of them and asked the producers if I could have an

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internship there. Are you in school for broadcasting? No.

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Dial tone ding, you know,

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like I didn't have any reason to have an internship.

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I wasn't in college for broadcasting.

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Wasn't going to school to be working in television either in front of the

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camera or behind the camera, but I just had a word from the Lord.

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And I asked God, make sure that you ask God, if you need some kind of specified,

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specialized training, because I said, Lord,

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do you want me to go to school for broadcasting?

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At the time I was 35 years old. Do you want me to go back to school?

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I'll go to school for broadcasting. By the way,

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I did end up going to school for broadcasting,

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but at the time I didn't feel like God was leading me to do that.

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So long story short,

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before I went to school for broadcasting,

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before I got a job as a general manager of a television network,

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before any of that happened in my life, before I got an internship, by the way,

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one of those TV stations said yes.

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And I ended up being the GM of that station later.

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So I came in as an intern and then later on after broadcasting school,

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I became the general manager of that station.

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So shows you what can happen in a very short amount of time.

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If you will trust the Lord and you will move forward on the words he gives you.

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But before that,

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you guys know that I've always been the matchmaker and I've always been the

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love guru. I've,

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I've always been the person in my friend group that people come to for love

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advice. God's given me a lot of wisdom about relationships.

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I've always been the person that helped people get married and also get unmarried

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to help 15 of my friends, um, step into their forever love stories.

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And the bottom line is,

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is that good morning America had a random audition

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to have someone be their love guru.

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And so I auditioned,

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I didn't have any experience besides what I did in my personal and private life.

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I didn't have a resume. I didn't have a psychology, um,

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bachelor's degree. I didn't have, you know,

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I didn't have any of the things that I probably would have needed to be

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seriously considered for that.

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But I just really felt like the Lord highlighted it to me.

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And so I would have been on the news. I would have been on these morning shows.

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I wouldn't have been on like every week as the love guru,

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like answering relationship questions, kind of like dear Abby, but for love.

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Right. And how many of you think I would have been really amazing at that?

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Raise your hand. You're not, you're not, listen,

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you're not peeing on my leg and telling me it's raining.

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I believe I was born to do this and I think that I would have been amazing at it.

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Okay. But I didn't even get a call back.

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I didn't even get a call back. And you guys, I was really sad about that.

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That made me feel really sad. I was like, I don't even understand.

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This is a perfect opportunity for me. Why can't I have it?

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Why can't I have it? Someone's going to get it. Why can't I have it?

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And sometimes friends is because you need to keep sowing towards the things that

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God has given you to do.

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Because a lot of times we'll have a disappointment like that,

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and then we'll give up, right? Oh, this isn't from God.

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If this was from God, then it would have happened. This would have happened.

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I would have gotten this opportunity. Can't God do anything? Isn't the stuff,

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this is stuff we tell ourselves when we step out in faith and we do something

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crazy and it doesn't work out. But you guys guess who's on the news now,

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talking about love. Hello,

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this little chicken nugget right here. This one's happening, you guys.

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And I had a full circle moment this morning after I got off the news where

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they're looking to me for my expertise, where they're wanting me to weigh in.

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I got off and I went for a walk out here in the country where I live.

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And I was like, Oh my goodness. I,

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I actually not only am I on TV randomly sometimes,

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but also as the love guru, as the love expert,

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because what I tell you,

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I was super disappointed that I didn't get chosen for that part.

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And for that opportunity, I was super disappointed,

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but it wasn't long after that friends that I became the general manager of that

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television network, I would say within six months.

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And so you see, and that has led us here.

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Everything that I've done since then has led to here.

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And this is way more important to me than being on the news.

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But I just want to let you guys know that there's a lot of full circle moments

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out there for you.

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And I released that word at the beginning of 2025 full circle.

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And so many people have had full circle moments and it's not over yet.

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I'm just going to go ahead and call a continuance on that word into 2026,

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but God's going to add a new word.

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Make sure that you're with me at the beginning of the year,

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which is coming so fast friends. It's coming so fast.

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The beginning of 2026 is coming so fast and God is going to add to our

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Rosh Hashanah word, right?

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He's going to add to the words that he gave us there because God is building.

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He's always building on it.

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sometimes we have words that kind of are expired in the way that God wants to

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give us a new dream.

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And if you did not see last week's supernatural Saturday,

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please go watch it because it's all about that.

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It's all about bringing our dreams to the Lord,

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especially the unfulfilled ones and asking God to either extend them like a

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library book.

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Remember the library you'd have a book and it was due and you bring it in

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because you weren't done with it yet.

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You want to renew.

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I want to renew this book. I don't want to turn it in. I want to keep it.

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And so you need to bring those dreams to the Lord and say, Hey God,

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are you going to renew these dreams?

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Or do I need to turn them in and go get a different book?

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Do I need to be reading a different book in this season of my life?

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Then the one that I've been reading over and over again and really

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hoping that something more is going to happen with it.

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That's a word.

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And if you did not hear last week, supernatural Saturday,

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then please go.

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And listen to it because it is going to be a powerful,

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a powerful moment for you of really finding out.

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What you should be believing for in this season and what you should be

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taking action on.

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Two dual twofold.

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What you should be believing for,

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but also what you should be taking action on because it's not just about

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believing. If you believe something,

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then you're going to take action on it as well. Amen. Yes, there I am.

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Hi, everybody. Okay.

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All right. So we're going to start that.

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We're going to start today with just a little bit of just.

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Breathe in, breathe out.

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Just reset for a second.

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I wanted to give you that update on some full circle moments.

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I believe that more and more of you are going to have full circle

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moments. Cause remember the siege is over.

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The siege is over.

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Whatever was blocking you before and keeping you from being able to do

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what it is that God has promised you that you can do.

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There's nothing stopping it.

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There's nothing blocking it.

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One another trend that I'm seeing that I feel like I really need to

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I am seeing.

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As sad as this might be to some of you,

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I am seeing the ending of long.

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promising, but now they've stalled out.

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They stalled out and they've actually been stalled out,

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kind of broke down on the side of the road for a little bit of time

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now. And people are trying to fix them. They have the hood up.

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They're trying to figure out what the problem is.

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It's a situation where we need to walk away from those things because

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it's not going to take us where we want to go.

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We're going to have to catch a different ride.

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And I don't mean jump out of that relationship and jump into another

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one, but just understanding.

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That this took us as far as we can go with it.

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And there's beauty to be had there. There's learning to be had.

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Right.

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And we need to move forward in peace.

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We need to move forward in peace.

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We need to move forward in peace,

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because we learned a lot of things in that relationship.

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But we need to take the good that we got from that.

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And we need to move forward in peace,

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knowing that God is going to use that. Nothing is lost in the kingdom.

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For those of you that get just all your panties in a wad about, Oh,

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I invested all this time and energy and money, and then nothing came of

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That is seed in the ground.

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And God said, I will not be mocked. Whatever you sow, you will reap,

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meaning that it's not wasted. It's invested. It's invested. Yes.

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You cannot see the fruit from it yet, but you will see the fruit from it.

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In the way that you date differently.

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In the different caliber of people that you choose that are more in

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alignment and more compatible to you. That's what I'm seeing.

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The ending of these relationships that have become situationships where

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they're not going forward.

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They also are leaving these people with a lot of different ideas and

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different.

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You know, standards, if you will, for what they want.

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Going forward in a good way.

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And none of them are ending with any kind of fight or any kind of.

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You know, it will, none of them are ending with ill will.

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They're all ending in a great way where both people are realizing,

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Hey, this is not the right fit for marriage,

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but I bless you and I thank you for the time that we've spent together.

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I was just having a conversation with one of those people this morning

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and talking about how there's so much momentum to be had when we take

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the good from any situation and we allow it to propel us forward.

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Instead of sitting in.

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You know, anger sometimes, but instead.

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us and life is for us.

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So I want to talk about something today that was introduced to me.

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And it really just hit my heart in a really great way.

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And I'm hoping that it's going to hit your heart in a really great way as

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well, because as we wind down 25,

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this other season,

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This parallel season to the season and year that we're in already with the

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Hebrew calendar.

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I believe that God wants to tie up some loose ends in our hearts.

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I do.

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I believe that he wants to make a way for us to release some things.

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Especially things that we're carrying that are going to keep us from being able to step into the things we've been praying for

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So there's anything in your heart that's really going to keep you from stepping into the things you've been believing for

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Let's just open our hearts to the Lord this morning and say hey God

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Reveal it and heal it if we're carrying any anger for carrying any kind of misplaced

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Expectations if we're carrying especially any kind of shame

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shame, especially

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Pray that you would reveal that that you would heal that if we're for carrying any

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Grudges against others against ourselves

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beating ourselves up for mistakes that other people made that we shouldn't have allowed them to make or that we have made just different things that

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Would cause us to have an inferiority complex

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Things that would cause us to not show up like sons and daughters in our everyday life

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Or we're asking that you would reveal and heal that in Jesus name. Amen. All right

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Whoo, my eyelashes are sticking together because I put all this stuff on my face for the news this morning

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And now my eyelashes every time I close my eyes, they don't want to open

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But we're gonna we're gonna muddle through. All right, we're not we're not gonna muddle through because the siege is over

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And my eyelashes are not gonna stick together

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So I want to talk to you about a very familiar story that we all know from the Bible and that is the story

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of the prodigal

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The prodigal everybody know that story, let me see the hands of the people that know about that story

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Raise your little hands if you know the prodigal story

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A lot of hands up a lot of hands up. So for those of you that don't know the prodigal story

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it's just the story of a

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man, okay a patriarch of a family a wealthier man that had two sons and

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The younger son wanted to take his inheritance and go

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He didn't want to stay didn't want to work for the father

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I wanted to take his inheritance and just go and do his own thing

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And so the father gave him his inheritance and then the Word of God says that he went out and he squandered it

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he

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mismanaged his inheritance and

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We could we could stop right there and we could do a whole teaching on

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mismanaging the things that God gives us the father gives us right we want all these things from the father like give it to me

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Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me, but we can't handle it

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We don't have the maturity to handle it

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It's not that God doesn't want to give it to us

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It's that we don't have the maturity to handle it. What are we gonna do with it?

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We're gonna squander it and a lot of us have already done that. We've squandered opportunities. We've squandered relationships

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there's at least some of you listening today that feel like

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hindsight is

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2020 and you're looking back at relationships that you had an opportunity to be in in the past and you messed it up for whatever

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Reason you decided that it wasn't the right thing for you or you had attachment style issues or you had unhealed heart stuff

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And you weren't mature enough to be in that relationship. You picked a fight for it for you picked a fight with it

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You left it whatever happened

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And I get it

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I do I see a lot of things that I could have done differently because hindsight is 2020, but we don't live in the past

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Nostalgia is just a fancy word for fear

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And so it's important that we don't look behind that we're looking forward

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Because there's nothing better back there than what God has before us

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And so if you're one of those people I just really want to encourage you to look forward

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Because God has redemption for your story

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He wants to redeem whatever it is that you think that you missed out on and I talked about that on last

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Supernatural saturday about how we're longingly looking at the boats that have pulled out of port thinking that there's no more coming but there is

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There's always boats pulling in seeing if you want to be the captain of them or not

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And so I just really want to encourage you that it's not over your chances

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Your opportunities are not over by any stretch of the imagination

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So this father gives it to him. He goes out. He mismanages that he gets himself in a lot of trouble

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Honestly, he's around good time friends. Anybody have those good time friends. They're happy to be with you when you're happy

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They want to be in your life when everything's going right, especially when the wine is flowing and you know

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The activities are coming and you're doing all kinds of fun things. But as soon as you go through a hard time crickets, they're gone

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You have no idea where they are, right?

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We've all been around people who are users or takers

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Especially if you're a giver and it sounds like this young man was the life of the party

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And he was allowing, you know his inheritance to be used to entertain other people and then pretty soon

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He was broke and there wasn't any of the people that were there when he was being so generous

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With his money and his time those people were now gone and he was left alone

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And it said that he got so low that he ended up in a pig yard

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He ended up thinking that the

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Pig slop.

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And for those of you that have been around a farm

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at all in your life, woo, pig pens.

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My grandparents had a farm and they had pigs.

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And that's about the stinkiest thing that you can imagine.

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Stinks so bad, stinks way worse than cows and horses.

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Pig, woo, stinky.

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Stinky as a pig pen.

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And I mean, like literally like,

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I have a really sensitive gag reflex.

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even if it's like rotten food in the refrigerator,

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like I start to throw up a little bit.

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And so that is the kind of stench

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that's coming from these pig pens.

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And I remember my grandma would have a bucket

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by her back door where she would just scrape

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all the garbage in.

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They didn't have a trash compactor.

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They didn't have a garbage disposal on their sink.

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This is back in the day.

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She just had a bucket and it was called the slop bucket.

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And everything in the world went into that slop bucket.

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Things that shouldn't go together, right?

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From all different types of meals.

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it was time to take it out to do what?

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To feed the hogs, to slop the hogs.

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And I, many a times in my young adolescence

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have slopped a hog, slapped a pig.

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No, I slopped a hog.

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And that just means taking out the slop bucket

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and pouring it in the trough

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where the pig is going to eat.

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And this guy was so hard up that he was thinking that

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that looked delicious.

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Now I'm telling you, even as a child,

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like trying not to throw up from the stench

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from the slop bucket and all the flies

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and just thinking about it makes me want to, okay.

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And he was so hungry and he was so down and out

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that he was thinking that that looked good,

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that that looked good.

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And it says that that's when he kind of

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came into his right mind.

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How many of you know that you've got to be out of your mind

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if you think that that is looking like a good thing?

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And so it says he came to himself

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and was like, I need to go home.

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I need to go home and face the music.

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I need to go home and face whatever it is.

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My father can make me a servant in his house, right?

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I'm a son.

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I've been a son, but he can make me a servant.

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And the thing is, friends,

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is that when Jesus tells the story,

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by the way, Jesus is the one telling the story.

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I took it at face value.

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The love of the father, the father running to his son

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and welcoming him back as his son,

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even though he's made all these bad decisions

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and giving him that ring, that signified authority.

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It says he put a ring on his finger,

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that signified authority and putting a cloak around him,

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that signified identity.

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You are identified by the clothes you wear,

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just like you are nowadays.

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You are identified by the clothes you wore in those times.

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And so this man was an upper class man, this father,

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this upper class family, okay?

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An aristocratic family, if you want.

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And that identifying ring of authority, the signet ring,

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you know, back then they used to, you know,

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write letters and, you know,

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buy things and sell things or whatever,

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and they would put their signia on it.

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So it gave him back the family ring

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and also back his identity of the garment

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that he would put on.

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And so a really powerful story,

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if that's all we ever got from it.

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But just recently I was introduced to the Hebrew

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or the Hebraic meanings behind the story.

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And I'm telling you,

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and I really believe that God wants us to,

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wants to deliver us from shame this morning.

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He wants us to deliver us from inferiority this morning,

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and he wants to help us step back

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into what Jesus was really talking about.

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And that is true sonship in a way that I don't know

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that I have even experienced,

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and I don't know if you have either.

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And so let today, this morning be the beginning of that.

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So let's talk about the real Hebraic meaning

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behind this story.

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So there was a ritual that the Jews,

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and remember everyone that Jesus was telling the story to

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would have known what I'm about to say.

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They were Jews.

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So they would have already known

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what a son like that deserved.

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They would have already known

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what would happen to a son like that

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if he ever deigned to come back home.

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You know how they say you can't go home again?

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Well, you can't.

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In this instance, in the Jewish culture,

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you really can't go home because if you go home,

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something is going to happen to you called Keh-Zah-Zah.

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And all my Hebrew scholars can correct my Hebrew,

484
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but like ketchup, like Keh-Zah-Zah.

485
00:24:34.900 --> 00:24:37.640
So Keh-Zah-Zah was a ritual that was performed

486
00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:38.940
in these ancient times

487
00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.860
of cutting off disgraced family members.

488
00:24:41.860 --> 00:24:44.060
And I have some notes written down here.

489
00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:45.720
So if you disgraced the family,

490
00:24:46.080 --> 00:24:48.180
like say you ran off and married a Gentile,

491
00:24:48.260 --> 00:24:50.200
and we're only talking about men right now, friends.

492
00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:51.340
We're not talking about women.

493
00:24:51.800 --> 00:24:55.760
Keh-Zah-Zah was a man thing for the most part, a son thing.

494
00:24:56.540 --> 00:24:58.360
And if you disgraced the family,

495
00:24:58.500 --> 00:24:59.980
like maybe you married out of the lineage.

496
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.540
you married a Gentile, you did something like this prodigal,

497
00:25:03.800 --> 00:25:07.680
you wasted your inheritance, you were in sinful living,

498
00:25:07.940 --> 00:25:10.580
whatever it was that you did that brought disgrace

499
00:25:10.580 --> 00:25:12.060
and shame to your family.

500
00:25:12.420 --> 00:25:17.700
When you came back and tried to reunite with your family,

501
00:25:18.260 --> 00:25:20.680
all the people of the town would meet you

502
00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:23.580
at the border of the town, okay?

503
00:25:23.580 --> 00:25:25.220
And they would take a clay pot,

504
00:25:25.280 --> 00:25:28.460
and normally that clay pot was filled with something bad,

505
00:25:28.460 --> 00:25:33.900
like spoiled food, or just like my grandma's slot bucket,

506
00:25:34.100 --> 00:25:36.520
they had clay pots that they put refuse in

507
00:25:36.520 --> 00:25:38.880
and different things, so it was a refuse pot, basically.

508
00:25:39.140 --> 00:25:42.320
And they would bring that to the border of the town,

509
00:25:42.380 --> 00:25:44.420
and as you were trying to come into town,

510
00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:47.960
they would smash it at your feet.

511
00:25:48.520 --> 00:25:51.320
And that was a sign to you and to everyone else

512
00:25:51.320 --> 00:25:53.560
that you are cut off from your people.

513
00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:58.020
You guys, I didn't know this part of the story.

514
00:25:59.300 --> 00:26:00.580
I didn't know it,

515
00:26:00.860 --> 00:26:03.660
but everyone that Jesus was talking to knew it.

516
00:26:04.120 --> 00:26:08.520
They knew that the prodigal deserved Kezaza, Jesus.

517
00:26:09.080 --> 00:26:09.900
That's what he deserved.

518
00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:12.640
This wasn't a private putting away.

519
00:26:13.080 --> 00:26:14.680
This wasn't a private conversation of,

520
00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:15.980
oh, hey, you've shamed your family,

521
00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:17.400
and now you're cut off from us.

522
00:26:17.420 --> 00:26:18.840
It was a public shaming.

523
00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:22.540
It was a public situation, all right?

524
00:26:22.540 --> 00:26:23.960
It was community rejecting,

525
00:26:24.520 --> 00:26:26.500
because remember, most of the people in your community

526
00:26:26.500 --> 00:26:29.080
you were probably related to at some level.

527
00:26:29.560 --> 00:26:30.840
That's why it was so shocking

528
00:26:30.840 --> 00:26:33.120
that Abraham left his father's house.

529
00:26:33.260 --> 00:26:35.940
He wasn't leaving a house, just one place.

530
00:26:36.120 --> 00:26:38.580
He was leaving his father's lineage and legacy.

531
00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:41.100
All these people were related to each other

532
00:26:41.100 --> 00:26:42.720
in some way, shape, or form, right?

533
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:45.920
So he was leaving the land of his father's.

534
00:26:46.120 --> 00:26:49.100
And so when you come back into the land of your father's

535
00:26:49.100 --> 00:26:51.640
after doing something disgraceful, they Kezaza you.

536
00:26:52.220 --> 00:26:54.540
That's what happens, right?

537
00:26:54.620 --> 00:26:56.160
It is community rejection.

538
00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:57.640
It is a social death.

539
00:26:58.020 --> 00:26:58.580
You're a pariah.

540
00:26:58.780 --> 00:26:59.900
You might as well have leprosy,

541
00:27:00.040 --> 00:27:02.540
even if you don't have leprosy, right?

542
00:27:02.540 --> 00:27:05.120
Because you're gonna be put in, you're put away in shame.

543
00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:07.300
And it was so powerful when I saw this,

544
00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:08.240
because it was permanent.

545
00:27:08.420 --> 00:27:10.400
If you were Kezazahed, it was permanent.

546
00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:11.560
It was shameful.

547
00:27:11.620 --> 00:27:12.240
It was final.

548
00:27:12.280 --> 00:27:15.380
It was like being canceled in our day and age, right?

549
00:27:15.380 --> 00:27:16.840
It was a permanent situation.

550
00:27:16.840 --> 00:27:21.320
And everyone listening to Jesus talk and tell this parable,

551
00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:25.180
and you can find this in Luke 15, everyone knew it.

552
00:27:25.560 --> 00:27:29.380
And so the real supernatural revelation was lost on me.

553
00:27:29.620 --> 00:27:30.860
Maybe it was lost on you too.

554
00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:32.700
Some of you may have already known about Kezazah.

555
00:27:33.020 --> 00:27:35.700
I did not, but what happens next

556
00:27:35.700 --> 00:27:40.600
in the story with the father, this is why it's so crazy.

557
00:27:40.760 --> 00:27:42.760
We already thought it was amazing, right?

558
00:27:42.760 --> 00:27:44.840
Oh, the father sees him and he runs to him

559
00:27:44.840 --> 00:27:46.740
and he puts his robe on him

560
00:27:46.740 --> 00:27:47.620
and he puts his ring on him.

561
00:27:47.700 --> 00:27:48.920
We already love the story,

562
00:27:49.080 --> 00:27:50.840
but we're gonna love it even better right now

563
00:27:50.840 --> 00:27:54.360
because the father was subverting a shame-based system.

564
00:27:54.860 --> 00:27:55.220
Come on.

565
00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:58.340
Woo, he was going against protocol

566
00:27:58.460 --> 00:28:01.380
in a way that only the father can do.

567
00:28:02.600 --> 00:28:05.840
And that is so amazing for so many of us

568
00:28:05.840 --> 00:28:07.320
that have been through so much.

569
00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:09.380
And maybe we deserve to be rejected

570
00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:11.220
or maybe we deserve to be cut off.

571
00:28:11.340 --> 00:28:12.620
You know, we've all sinned

572
00:28:12.620 --> 00:28:14.620
and come short of the glory of God for sure.

573
00:28:14.620 --> 00:28:17.720
But because of Jesus and the finished work of the cross,

574
00:28:17.760 --> 00:28:19.820
that's what Jesus was talking about here.

575
00:28:20.300 --> 00:28:26.480
Because of that, we get to step into relationship with God.

576
00:28:26.500 --> 00:28:28.000
We get to step into sonship.

577
00:28:28.060 --> 00:28:29.440
We get to step into authority.

578
00:28:29.540 --> 00:28:30.900
We get to step into identity.

579
00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:32.780
And it's just so incredible.

580
00:28:33.360 --> 00:28:35.960
So when Jesus tells this story,

581
00:28:36.260 --> 00:28:38.260
he wasn't just telling a sweet little parable.

582
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:39.200
He wasn't.

583
00:28:39.260 --> 00:28:41.860
He was telling a counter-cultural,

584
00:28:42.780 --> 00:28:45.960
subverting, crazy, mind-blowing story.

585
00:28:46.520 --> 00:28:48.220
That's what he was doing here.

586
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:51.080
Of yes, unconditional love for sure.

587
00:28:51.180 --> 00:28:52.360
But more than that,

588
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.140
he was turning an entire system on its head.

589
00:28:55.620 --> 00:28:56.340
Do you guys see that?

590
00:28:56.500 --> 00:28:58.440
An entire system that was based on rules

591
00:28:58.580 --> 00:29:01.380
and right and wrong, right?

592
00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:04.260
Based on black and white, wrong and right.

593
00:29:04.340 --> 00:29:06.520
He was subverting the entire system.

594
00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:08.320
That's what he was doing here.

595
00:29:08.320 --> 00:29:10.800
Because this prodigal son deserved kazazah.

596
00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:12.500
He left his community.

597
00:29:13.100 --> 00:29:14.860
He sinned with Gentiles, right?

598
00:29:14.860 --> 00:29:16.600
He was not just out there with other Jews.

599
00:29:16.700 --> 00:29:17.580
That's not what he was doing.

600
00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:18.900
He was living among the Gentiles.

601
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:20.600
He was wasting his inheritance.

602
00:29:21.120 --> 00:29:23.040
He was disgracing his family.

603
00:29:23.080 --> 00:29:24.700
You could just hear people whispering.

604
00:29:26.460 --> 00:29:27.980
And I think this is a really important message

605
00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:29.740
because a lot of you are gonna see family

606
00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:31.440
in this holiday season.

607
00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:34.200
Family that maybe wanna kazazah you

608
00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:37.120
or maybe you've kazazahed, all right?

609
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:39.280
There's a whole different layer here

610
00:29:39.280 --> 00:29:41.120
that I feel like Holy Spirit's trying to take us to

611
00:29:41.120 --> 00:29:42.420
right now, all right?

612
00:29:42.560 --> 00:29:44.900
And so God is trying to show us grace

613
00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:47.780
in a way that is going to hopefully

614
00:29:48.500 --> 00:29:49.920
change the way that we think

615
00:29:50.140 --> 00:29:51.960
about the people that have done us wrong

616
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:54.360
and the people that think that we have done them wrong

617
00:29:54.360 --> 00:29:55.660
or the people that just don't like us.

618
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:56.640
They don't love, they don't,

619
00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:58.740
they just have rejected us for whatever reason.

620
00:29:59.520 --> 00:29:59.900
So.

621
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.600
When he returns, when the prodigal son returns

622
00:30:02.600 --> 00:30:05.600
to the village, I'm sure he fully expected.

623
00:30:06.020 --> 00:30:08.080
This is why it took him so long to come back.

624
00:30:08.220 --> 00:30:11.460
This is why he was rather be laying around with the pigs

625
00:30:12.320 --> 00:30:13.580
instead of coming back.

626
00:30:13.580 --> 00:30:16.840
Because when he came back, it makes sense now.

627
00:30:16.860 --> 00:30:17.640
When he came back,

628
00:30:17.760 --> 00:30:19.620
he knew that he was going to be facing Kazaza.

629
00:30:20.540 --> 00:30:22.520
And that's why he was hoping that his father

630
00:30:22.520 --> 00:30:23.840
would just see it in his heart

631
00:30:23.840 --> 00:30:26.900
to just even make him a servant in his house.

632
00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:28.020
Do you guys see it now?

633
00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:30.420
Do you see it?

634
00:30:31.280 --> 00:30:33.540
He would have been ostracized and cut off.

635
00:30:33.700 --> 00:30:35.160
He would have been shamed and disgraced.

636
00:30:35.580 --> 00:30:37.820
He would have been cut off from his people,

637
00:30:37.860 --> 00:30:41.020
but he was hoping that the father would see it in his heart

638
00:30:41.020 --> 00:30:43.320
to just even allow him to be a servant.

639
00:30:44.520 --> 00:30:45.040
Wow.

640
00:30:45.700 --> 00:30:48.300
And some of you need this type of grace

641
00:30:48.300 --> 00:30:50.460
with grown adult children, with grandchildren,

642
00:30:50.940 --> 00:30:51.940
with brothers, sisters,

643
00:30:51.940 --> 00:30:55.540
you need to extend this grace to people in your lives

644
00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:59.660
instead of continuing to cut them off in disgrace.

645
00:31:00.520 --> 00:31:02.660
So Jesus shifts the story now.

646
00:31:02.840 --> 00:31:04.620
And it would have been a great story

647
00:31:04.620 --> 00:31:06.080
if he didn't get Kazaza'd

648
00:31:06.560 --> 00:31:08.800
and the father just let him come back home.

649
00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:11.620
Come on, come back home, prove yourself.

650
00:31:11.940 --> 00:31:13.480
All right, you got some proving to do.

651
00:31:13.660 --> 00:31:15.120
You got some explaining to do.

652
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:17.500
But that is not what happened.

653
00:31:18.520 --> 00:31:20.860
The father did what he's about to do,

654
00:31:20.860 --> 00:31:25.520
what I'm about to tell in the story that you all know,

655
00:31:25.660 --> 00:31:27.100
but I'm gonna tell it from a different perspective.

656
00:31:27.380 --> 00:31:31.560
He did all this without even an apology from the prodigal.

657
00:31:32.560 --> 00:31:34.460
You guys, we need to take that in.

658
00:31:35.500 --> 00:31:36.840
He didn't make him prove himself.

659
00:31:37.360 --> 00:31:38.620
He didn't let him grovel.

660
00:31:39.340 --> 00:31:41.160
It was none of that.

661
00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:42.380
None of that happened.

662
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:45.080
So the next thing that happens

663
00:31:45.080 --> 00:31:48.740
is that the father is watching for the son, okay?

664
00:31:48.740 --> 00:31:52.400
Word got around that this guy was headed back to town.

665
00:31:52.520 --> 00:31:54.040
Because you and I might say,

666
00:31:54.320 --> 00:31:56.200
hey, there's no telephones and stuff.

667
00:31:56.320 --> 00:31:59.200
So how do people know to meet you out

668
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:01.780
at the border of the town to Kazaza you?

669
00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:04.340
Yeah, because word of mouth travels fast.

670
00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:07.600
And people knew that he was heading back home.

671
00:32:08.080 --> 00:32:12.000
Word on the street was the prodigal was coming back

672
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:13.640
with his tail between his legs.

673
00:32:13.820 --> 00:32:15.480
And the father knew that,

674
00:32:15.560 --> 00:32:17.080
and the father was watching for him.

675
00:32:17.800 --> 00:32:19.520
You like how I keep having binoculars.

676
00:32:19.760 --> 00:32:21.020
The father was watching for him.

677
00:32:21.080 --> 00:32:23.520
The father, it says that he was watching for him.

678
00:32:23.980 --> 00:32:29.200
And when he saw him yet afar off y'all, afar off.

679
00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:30.540
And this makes sense to me now,

680
00:32:30.560 --> 00:32:32.300
because the father wanted to get to him

681
00:32:32.300 --> 00:32:34.940
before the maddening crowd got to him,

682
00:32:34.940 --> 00:32:37.400
before all the people that didn't have the father's heart,

683
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.840
before all the people that didn't love him.

684
00:32:39.840 --> 00:32:41.660
And a lot of us, unfortunately,

685
00:32:41.660 --> 00:32:44.900
those people have gotten to us before the father got to us.

686
00:32:45.500 --> 00:32:47.660
The people at our church, the people in our community,

687
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:51.580
the people that cut us off without even a second glance.

688
00:32:51.940 --> 00:32:54.680
A lot of us have experiences where we've been Kazazad,

689
00:32:55.420 --> 00:32:57.060
even if we shouldn't have been.

690
00:32:57.400 --> 00:32:58.440
I don't tell this story often,

691
00:32:58.560 --> 00:33:00.200
but when I was divorcing my first husband,

692
00:33:00.500 --> 00:33:03.500
I had a woman from the church come and knock

693
00:33:03.500 --> 00:33:07.480
on my front door and tell me why I was sinful and wrong

694
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:08.940
and shouldn't be doing what I was doing.

695
00:33:09.600 --> 00:33:11.500
That chick was trying to Kazazad me.

696
00:33:12.800 --> 00:33:13.660
She was.

697
00:33:13.660 --> 00:33:15.700
Why? Because I was getting divorced.

698
00:33:15.840 --> 00:33:17.280
She didn't want to hear my side of the story.

699
00:33:17.380 --> 00:33:19.000
She didn't care what my side of the story was.

700
00:33:19.080 --> 00:33:20.280
She just showed up and here's the thing.

701
00:33:20.280 --> 00:33:21.500
She wasn't even a friend of mine.

702
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:23.440
She never even talked to me at church hardly.

703
00:33:23.740 --> 00:33:25.000
She didn't invite me to lunch.

704
00:33:25.040 --> 00:33:26.000
She didn't invite me to coffee.

705
00:33:26.080 --> 00:33:28.060
She just tried to come to my house and Kazazad me.

706
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:30.600
And a lot of us have had those,

707
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:32.260
we've had those experiences.

708
00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:34.640
Raise your hand right now if you've had that experience,

709
00:33:36.460 --> 00:33:38.480
where the father was trying to get to us,

710
00:33:38.520 --> 00:33:40.160
but the people's voices were louder.

711
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:41.920
We weren't listening to the father's heart

712
00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:43.800
because people were screaming in our ear

713
00:33:43.800 --> 00:33:45.860
about how bad we were and how wrong we were

714
00:33:45.860 --> 00:33:47.200
and how we shouldn't have done what we did

715
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:49.060
and blah, blah, blah, religious voices.

716
00:33:49.580 --> 00:33:51.540
Remember the elder brother is watching all this

717
00:33:51.540 --> 00:33:53.060
and he ain't happy about it.

718
00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:54.980
Religion is never going to run to meet you.

719
00:33:55.040 --> 00:33:59.840
It's going to relish in you being ostracized and shamed.

720
00:34:00.460 --> 00:34:01.500
Religion loves shame.

721
00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:04.320
Come on.

722
00:34:04.520 --> 00:34:08.560
Anyone else ever had someone try to shame you publicly

723
00:34:08.860 --> 00:34:11.060
for whatever it was that was going on in your life?

724
00:34:11.060 --> 00:34:13.380
But the father sees him afar off

725
00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:14.400
and now it makes sense to me.

726
00:34:14.420 --> 00:34:17.239
He wanted to get to him before the others got to him.

727
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:18.239
So he was watching,

728
00:34:19.080 --> 00:34:21.139
making sure that he could get to him

729
00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:23.040
before this ritual happened.

730
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:25.219
And so he ran out, he ran.

731
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:27.380
First of all, friends, patriarchs don't run.

732
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:31.040
They don't run, okay?

733
00:34:31.040 --> 00:34:32.960
They don't have their Nikes on.

734
00:34:33.260 --> 00:34:33.880
They're not running.

735
00:34:34.540 --> 00:34:38.679
They're just having people run to them and come to them.

736
00:34:38.739 --> 00:34:40.239
They're not running to other people.

737
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:43.360
Once you get to this level in your family,

738
00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:46.060
as a man in this day and age, a patriarch,

739
00:34:46.460 --> 00:34:51.739
a man of great standing, you're not going to be running.

740
00:34:52.080 --> 00:34:52.719
So he ran.

741
00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:55.260
He ran to his son.

742
00:34:55.620 --> 00:34:58.640
He got to his son before the haters got to him.

743
00:34:59.020 --> 00:34:59.900
He got to him.

744
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.680
before he was publicly shamed. He was a dignified man, I believe. He was a landowner. He was the

745
00:35:06.680 --> 00:35:11.520
head of his household. This story is talking about him being, you know, a man of great reputation

746
00:35:11.520 --> 00:35:18.980
in different ways. And why did he pull up his robe, I'm assuming, and sprint to his son,

747
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:24.020
besides the fact that he didn't want him publicly shamed? And it's because the father was saying,

748
00:35:24.020 --> 00:35:32.860
shame, public shame, is not going to get to my son before I do. Come on, you guys. Shame is not

749
00:35:32.860 --> 00:35:41.240
going to get to my son before I do. I will not allow him to be cut off. I will not allow him

750
00:35:41.240 --> 00:35:48.280
to be disgraced. His actions disgraced himself. But the father was trying to circumvent this,

751
00:35:48.300 --> 00:35:53.780
and that's what Jesus came to do on that cross, to circumvent the disgrace that we already had

752
00:35:53.780 --> 00:35:59.200
earned by just being born into sin. By one man's sin, we all became sinners, but by one man's

753
00:35:59.200 --> 00:36:03.320
righteousness, we all became righteous. And the father wanted to restore the prodigal before

754
00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:08.240
anyone had a chance to publicly reject him. And this is such a beautiful picture of God's

755
00:36:08.240 --> 00:36:12.640
supernatural grace because it outruns shame. You know that beautiful song that says that he kicks

756
00:36:12.640 --> 00:36:18.360
down the door, reckless love. Anyone know that song, Reckless Love? That's what it reminds me

757
00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:24.200
story of the prodigal. You don't have to do any of this, but you do. You show up, you kick down

758
00:36:24.200 --> 00:36:31.340
the doors of our shame, the walls of our shame, you kick them in. I love that. He outran judgment

759
00:36:31.340 --> 00:36:37.800
for his son. He outran shame for his son. God wants to outrun our shame, our rejection, our

760
00:36:37.900 --> 00:36:43.560
past with the blood of Jesus that's been pursuing us, pursuing us friends. And it's time that we

761
00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:50.300
to catch up with us. So I want to just release a prophetic declaration over all of us today.

762
00:36:51.460 --> 00:36:54.980
For those of you that don't know the song, Reckless Love, go listen to it. It's powerful.

763
00:36:56.380 --> 00:37:01.400
Okay. Go ahead and close your eyes. I want to just pray over us. And then we're going to do

764
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:06.600
an activation. Is this powerful? You guys, when I heard about it, it just rocked my heart.

765
00:37:08.220 --> 00:37:11.840
It makes this story so much more special to me. I always love this story,

766
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:16.040
but it makes it so much more powerful for me.

767
00:37:19.620 --> 00:37:22.160
And you guys, even if you're not right now,

768
00:37:24.780 --> 00:37:29.060
right now, even if you're not relating to the prodigal, because maybe you've been

769
00:37:29.060 --> 00:37:31.680
living a good life for Jesus for a long time,

770
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:36.560
please don't allow yourself to step into the shoes of the older brother.

771
00:37:40.060 --> 00:37:42.700
Don't allow yourself to step into those shoes.

772
00:37:47.600 --> 00:37:53.060
Understand what God is saying right now. He didn't want you to be shamed. He doesn't want

773
00:37:53.060 --> 00:37:58.820
you to be kazazahed and he doesn't want us to kazazah anybody else. Yes, there will be

774
00:37:58.820 --> 00:38:03.220
boundaries in relationships. There will be relationships, unfortunately, that we have to,

775
00:38:03.220 --> 00:38:06.540
you know, not have contact with, but we can be in contact with. And I want you guys to

776
00:38:06.540 --> 00:38:11.360
understand that we can do that honorably. We can do that gracefully. We can do that

777
00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:16.560
in the love of the father, right? That's how we can do that. We don't have to cut people off.

778
00:38:16.620 --> 00:38:21.020
We don't have to curse people's names. We don't have to do those things. And I really believe

779
00:38:21.020 --> 00:38:25.940
that there's some reconciliations for this holiday season that God wants to usher in

780
00:38:26.140 --> 00:38:32.720
as we understand this, as you let go of your own shame and you let go of the

781
00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:37.420
rejection that you're carrying because of the way that people have cut you off and treated you,

782
00:38:37.500 --> 00:38:44.840
as you let go of that, that's not your identity anymore. You become the son and daughter of God

783
00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:49.280
that you are, and then you carry yourself differently and God can do different things

784
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:53.540
through you and to you because of that. And then also the people that we've cut off,

785
00:38:53.540 --> 00:38:59.280
that we're holding grudges against, that maybe if they groveled, we might forgive them.

786
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:04.820
God really wants to do some work in our hearts today. So go ahead and close your eyes.

787
00:39:09.860 --> 00:39:12.720
Because I feel like some of us are just standing on the edge

788
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:19.400
of community, holding so much shame. We just haven't been getting into community. We don't

789
00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:25.680
allow people to get close to us. We've kind of kazazled ourselves because we're carrying so much

790
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:31.920
shame. People haven't cut us off, but we've cut ourselves off. We've cut ourselves off because of

791
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:37.400
perceived failure, because of mistakes, because we've just internalized the belief that we're

792
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:42.000
just not worthy and no one could really actually ever love us. But God doesn't want us to be cut

793
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:49.560
off anymore. He wants us to be reconnected to community, to friendship, to love, to marriage,

794
00:39:50.020 --> 00:39:55.360
to family, because we're no longer marked by our mistakes. We are marked by the blood of Jesus.

795
00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:59.980
We are. We're not disqualified. We're fully qualified by the blood of Jesus.

796
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.860
Jesus. So hear the word of the Lord today. Shut your eyes. Hear the word of the Lord today.

797
00:40:06.640 --> 00:40:15.120
God says to you, I am the father that runs to you. I want you to picture him in your

798
00:40:15.120 --> 00:40:21.000
mind, running to you, running to you, blocking out the things that are trying to hurt you and

799
00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:28.800
destroy you and cut you off. I am the father that runs to you. I am the one who restores you.

800
00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:35.080
I am the one who restores you, restores your reputation, your name, restores your fortunes.

801
00:40:35.680 --> 00:40:40.820
I, his vengeance is his. He is the one that repays. He is the one that restores everything

802
00:40:40.820 --> 00:40:47.300
that's been lost. Everything that's been stolen. I am the one who interrupts the ceremony of your

803
00:40:47.120 --> 00:40:53.620
shame. I am the one that interrupts what the enemy is trying to do through people. I am the

804
00:40:53.620 --> 00:40:57.920
one that interrupts what the enemy is trying to do through your own mind and heart. I am the one

805
00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:02.960
that interrupts that. I am the one that is not going to allow you to be cut off. I'm the one

806
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:10.720
that has grafted you back into the vine. I am the one who carries you. I am the one who loves you.

807
00:41:10.980 --> 00:41:19.040
I am the one who is inviting you to fully come home to me, fully come home.

808
00:41:20.720 --> 00:41:26.480
So put your hand on your heart right now. You can close your eyes, not close your eyes,

809
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:33.280
whatever you want to do. But I want you to think right now about a time where people have tried to

810
00:41:34.420 --> 00:41:39.200
perform this ceremony of shame on you, have tried to shame you, try to cut you off,

811
00:41:39.520 --> 00:41:42.560
try to disgrace you, maybe even publicly humiliate you,

812
00:41:44.220 --> 00:41:48.840
kazazad you. And I also want you to think of any time where you've done that to someone else.

813
00:41:49.700 --> 00:41:55.100
Maybe it was a family member. Maybe it was something at church that happened, a relationship,

814
00:41:55.100 --> 00:42:00.240
a friend group, maybe even yourself. You've tried to kazazad yourself,

815
00:42:01.680 --> 00:42:05.120
you know, shame yourself, humiliate yourself,

816
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:12.840
talk to yourself in just such a gross inner voice that's just so full of condemnation and judgment.

817
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:20.080
What shame story has been following you

818
00:42:21.740 --> 00:42:26.060
that you've been rehearsing over yourself, or maybe you've been rehearsing over someone else?

819
00:42:26.180 --> 00:42:31.360
What shame story do you keep talking about and keep telling over someone else's life?

820
00:42:41.880 --> 00:42:44.060
If you want to share, go ahead and put it in this chat.

821
00:42:50.160 --> 00:42:53.920
I want you to picture the father not hesitating, but running to you,

822
00:42:55.860 --> 00:43:00.480
welcoming you with open arms, giving you authority, not making you prove yourself,

823
00:43:01.300 --> 00:43:05.040
just giving you authority because you're a son, you're a daughter, giving you

824
00:43:06.460 --> 00:43:11.300
garments of identity. And I also want you to see him doing that to the person who wronged you,

825
00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:16.060
because he does long to do that. He may not do it through you. You may have nothing to do with

826
00:43:16.060 --> 00:43:20.620
their redemption story, and it may be safe for you to not be in relationship with them. That's

827
00:43:20.660 --> 00:43:25.260
fine, but you can not be in relationship with them and still release them from this kazaza.

828
00:43:27.180 --> 00:43:30.920
And I really want to encourage you to do that right now. They may not even be alive on the

829
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:35.820
earth anymore. They may be someone that you hope to never see again in your life, but you can still

830
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:49.420
release them. You can, and we need to. God wants to cover us all with the blood of Jesus,

831
00:43:49.520 --> 00:43:55.140
with that robe of righteousness that Jesus has provided for us at the cross. And the enemy can't

832
00:43:55.140 --> 00:43:58.880
uncover us. You guys, if you decide to wear that robe of righteousness, the enemy can't not take

833
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:08.120
it off of you. He can't. So I want you to repeat after me. If you want to make this declaration,

834
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:18.920
I want you to declare that the father is restoring me. Come on. The father is restoring me.

835
00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:31.440
The father is re-robing me. The father is re-ringing me. Come on. The father is renaming me.

836
00:44:32.820 --> 00:44:38.840
And today can be the day that I fully come home to his heart. This can be my homecoming day.

837
00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:45.480
This can be the day that I actually allow the father to robe me and ring me.

838
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:53.720
To reconcile me, to restore me.

839
00:44:58.040 --> 00:44:59.000
Yes, Lord.

840
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:00.880
I don't know.

841
00:45:04.140 --> 00:45:08.180
I had a quote on a website years ago.

842
00:45:08.620 --> 00:45:09.580
And it was about forgiveness.

843
00:45:09.580 --> 00:45:12.720
And it was the very beginning of me teaching the heart work and.

844
00:45:12.980 --> 00:45:14.760
The quote just said that.

845
00:45:14.900 --> 00:45:18.260
You know, when we're the full, the full circle of forgiveness,

846
00:45:19.640 --> 00:45:23.200
When we're willing to no longer identify someone by the pain that

847
00:45:23.200 --> 00:45:24.140
they've caused us.

848
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:29.460
When we're no longer willing to identify them by the pain that they've

849
00:45:29.460 --> 00:45:29.880
caused us.

850
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:33.260
Because they are not their mistakes and we are not our pain.

851
00:45:33.600 --> 00:45:36.860
That was the quote that they quoted me on this website as saying.

852
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:38.880
Because it's true.

853
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:42.260
Oftentimes when people wrong us, when we wrong others,

854
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:43.880
Our identity gets.

855
00:45:44.560 --> 00:45:45.120
And we're not the ones that make the mistake.

856
00:45:45.120 --> 00:45:45.120


857
00:45:45.120 --> 00:45:45.120


858
00:45:45.120 --> 00:45:46.280
Place into that mistake.

859
00:45:46.620 --> 00:45:50.200
So if someone's wronged you in your little black book, they're the liar.

860
00:45:50.240 --> 00:45:52.320
Cheater user, abuser, loser.

861
00:45:52.620 --> 00:45:54.340
Right. That's how you think of them.

862
00:45:54.700 --> 00:45:56.100
That's their identity to you.

863
00:45:57.780 --> 00:46:00.420
And oftentimes we think of ourselves that way.

864
00:46:00.420 --> 00:46:03.580
When we are the ones that made the mistake. We're failures.

865
00:46:03.720 --> 00:46:04.520
We're stupid.

866
00:46:05.660 --> 00:46:07.400
We're unworthy of love.

867
00:46:08.420 --> 00:46:11.000
And so God wants to strip us.

868
00:46:12.180 --> 00:46:13.440
Of the shame.

869
00:46:14.040 --> 00:46:16.800
He wants to put back on us.

870
00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:19.660
The identity of sons and daughters.

871
00:46:21.560 --> 00:46:25.880
Of walking in the finished work of the cross and being righteous just

872
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:27.440
because of what Christ did for us.

873
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:29.520
He wants to break off everything.

874
00:46:29.740 --> 00:46:30.160
He wants to break off everything.

875
00:46:30.160 --> 00:46:30.160


876
00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:34.500
That would tell you that you not only have made mistakes,

877
00:46:34.720 --> 00:46:35.520
but you are a mistake.

878
00:46:35.520 --> 00:46:37.440
We got it. We got to let go of that.

879
00:46:37.540 --> 00:46:39.980
We had a powerful time at the Austin women's retreat.

880
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:43.500
We did some powerful activations there.

881
00:46:43.540 --> 00:46:46.220
And a lot of people were really set free from a lot of the things that

882
00:46:46.220 --> 00:46:47.400
I'm talking about right now.

883
00:46:48.140 --> 00:46:50.200
And it was, it was just incredible.

884
00:46:50.200 --> 00:46:52.260
It was incredible transformational time.

885
00:46:52.580 --> 00:46:54.360
So as we see from the prodigal story,

886
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:57.020
we don't have to earn our way back into God's love and neither do other

887
00:46:57.020 --> 00:46:59.700
people, the other people that have wronged us.

888
00:46:59.860 --> 00:47:02.580
They do not have to earn their way back into God's love.

889
00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:04.560
I already told you guys,

890
00:47:04.720 --> 00:47:07.800
but the father did not ask for the son to explain himself to grovel,

891
00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:10.880
to even apologize before he accepted him back.

892
00:47:11.660 --> 00:47:14.920
Once again, I'm not using this as a template for human relationships.

893
00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:21.000
We want to make sure that we have appropriate heaven orchestrated

894
00:47:21.140 --> 00:47:21.620
boundaries.

895
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:26.300
But not all the psychobabble that keeps us in these constant shame,

896
00:47:26.640 --> 00:47:29.760
sin cycles. We don't want that. And we need to release that today.

897
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:31.540
And so for some of you,

898
00:47:31.560 --> 00:47:33.980
I just want to just release over you that your story isn't over.

899
00:47:35.020 --> 00:47:37.700
It's being rewritten in such beautiful.

900
00:47:38.200 --> 00:47:39.300
Words of grace.

901
00:47:41.120 --> 00:47:43.180
And I just want to encourage you to accept it,

902
00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:44.560
even if you feel like you don't deserve it.

903
00:47:44.860 --> 00:47:46.920
And especially if you feel like you don't deserve it.

904
00:47:48.740 --> 00:47:51.580
Especially because a lot of us have been living like spiritual orphans.

905
00:47:51.780 --> 00:47:54.160
We really have we're here. Yeah. We're showing up.

906
00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:57.940
We're hoping that God is going to bless us with what it is that we've

907
00:47:57.940 --> 00:47:58.780
come here for.

908
00:47:59.100 --> 00:48:01.100
But we don't really believe that we deserve it.

909
00:48:01.100 --> 00:48:03.720
That's the difference between being an orphan and being a son.

910
00:48:03.960 --> 00:48:06.020
You're hoping as an orphan,

911
00:48:06.020 --> 00:48:07.140
You're hoping that God is going to bless you with what it is that you

912
00:48:07.140 --> 00:48:07.140


913
00:48:07.140 --> 00:48:09.180
And you're hoping that someone will have benevolence on you as an

914
00:48:09.180 --> 00:48:09.500
orphan.

915
00:48:10.220 --> 00:48:12.540
More, please, please more, more.

916
00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:14.840
You're hoping that someone's going to give you something.

917
00:48:15.040 --> 00:48:16.320
But as a son and daughter,

918
00:48:16.380 --> 00:48:19.160
you just go down and you sit at the table and you just start eating.

919
00:48:21.100 --> 00:48:22.160
Is that not true?

920
00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:26.660
Is that not true? As an outsider.

921
00:48:33.500 --> 00:48:35.700
You're not the son and daughter of that house.

922
00:48:35.780 --> 00:48:37.860
You don't just go and get in the fridge. Do you? And just.

923
00:48:39.860 --> 00:48:40.740
You don't do that.

924
00:48:41.340 --> 00:48:44.960
You wait to be invited. You wait to be, you know, asked to sit down.

925
00:48:45.120 --> 00:48:47.180
You wait to be invited to eat.

926
00:48:47.620 --> 00:48:49.840
But the sons and daughters of the house don't do that.

927
00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:52.220
The sons and daughters just go over and they dig in.

928
00:48:52.620 --> 00:48:54.560
They don't ask for permission to go in the fridge.

929
00:48:54.560 --> 00:48:54.580
They don't ask for permission to go in the fridge.

930
00:48:55.740 --> 00:48:57.480
They just do whatever they want.

931
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:00.720
Right. Why? Because that all belongs to them.

932
00:49:00.860 --> 00:49:04.100
And this is the message that the father tried to tell the elder brother

933
00:49:04.100 --> 00:49:05.640
who was so ticked off.

934
00:49:06.200 --> 00:49:09.600
And now I understand why the elder brother was so ticked off.

935
00:49:10.240 --> 00:49:12.860
Not only did the younger brother not get.

936
00:49:12.860 --> 00:49:12.900
The younger brother got into a fight.

937
00:49:12.900 --> 00:49:12.900


938
00:49:12.900 --> 00:49:12.900


939
00:49:14.180 --> 00:49:15.800
Which he should have been.

940
00:49:16.140 --> 00:49:18.700
The elder brother was so pious. Like I've done everything right.

941
00:49:18.740 --> 00:49:19.720
I've served the father.

942
00:49:19.940 --> 00:49:22.640
I've been exactly what I'm supposed to be.

943
00:49:22.940 --> 00:49:26.040
And then he sees this younger brother, get all this favor,

944
00:49:26.320 --> 00:49:29.160
get all this love, get all this undeserved.

945
00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:30.280
Grace.

946
00:49:31.260 --> 00:49:34.980
And then on top of that, the father throws a big party for him.

947
00:49:36.260 --> 00:49:40.060
Kills a, kills the fatted calf, throws a big party invites.

948
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:43.520
All the people, please see the story.

949
00:49:43.820 --> 00:49:48.040
All the people that would have been meeting him out at the edge of town

950
00:49:48.040 --> 00:49:49.440
and Kazaa's eyeing him.

951
00:49:49.500 --> 00:49:53.240
The father now by his own embrace of his son,

952
00:49:53.300 --> 00:49:56.000
by running out and showing everyone you better not,

953
00:49:56.220 --> 00:49:57.980
you better not even think about it.

954
00:49:58.140 --> 00:49:59.420
You see what I'm doing.

955
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.300
That's what's gonna happen here.

956
00:50:01.860 --> 00:50:04.380
I'm bringing him back in, I'm giving him authority.

957
00:50:04.580 --> 00:50:07.820
And this guy was a landowner, this guy was a big deal.

958
00:50:08.560 --> 00:50:11.240
And so no one's gonna mess with what he wants to do.

959
00:50:11.340 --> 00:50:13.760
And he's also giving his son his authority.

960
00:50:14.940 --> 00:50:16.960
So not only you're not gonna mess with me,

961
00:50:16.980 --> 00:50:18.620
but now you're not gonna mess with my son

962
00:50:18.620 --> 00:50:22.440
because he has the same authority that I do, right?

963
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:26.300
But then he takes him home and he invites all the people

964
00:50:26.300 --> 00:50:30.000
that were ready to shame him, to celebrate him.

965
00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:34.760
Whoa, this story is just blowing me up.

966
00:50:35.860 --> 00:50:37.700
You guys, do you see it?

967
00:50:38.640 --> 00:50:39.680
Do you see it?

968
00:50:39.980 --> 00:50:42.680
I just want you to know the greatest moments of your life.

969
00:50:42.700 --> 00:50:44.600
And I don't want you to have sour grapes about this.

970
00:50:44.640 --> 00:50:48.040
I don't want you to have an ego about this, not sour grapes.

971
00:50:48.160 --> 00:50:50.500
I don't want you to have an ego about this.

972
00:50:50.780 --> 00:50:54.660
I don't want you to have a big head about this,

973
00:50:54.660 --> 00:50:57.520
but there's gonna be moments in your near future

974
00:50:57.520 --> 00:51:00.300
where God is going to literally celebrate you

975
00:51:00.300 --> 00:51:01.720
in the presence of your enemies.

976
00:51:02.780 --> 00:51:05.680
The Psalmist said, in the presence of my enemies,

977
00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:07.980
he welcomes me as his special guest.

978
00:51:08.300 --> 00:51:09.780
With blessings overflowing,

979
00:51:10.240 --> 00:51:12.160
his goodness and unfailing kindness

980
00:51:12.160 --> 00:51:14.460
will be with me all of my life.

981
00:51:15.240 --> 00:51:16.680
Woo, come on.

982
00:51:18.660 --> 00:51:21.760
The people that are hating on you from afar

983
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:23.900
and they can't wait to see your downfall.

984
00:51:23.900 --> 00:51:26.380
I know it's sad to say, but for some of us,

985
00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:28.580
there are people out there that would like nothing better

986
00:51:28.580 --> 00:51:30.780
than to see something unfortunate happen to us.

987
00:51:30.780 --> 00:51:32.560
Maybe not like us die or something,

988
00:51:32.660 --> 00:51:37.400
but like lose our money or lose our relationship or whatever.

989
00:51:38.660 --> 00:51:40.420
They don't want good things for us.

990
00:51:41.260 --> 00:51:42.120
They hate us.

991
00:51:43.060 --> 00:51:45.640
They've come into agreement with the spirit of hatred.

992
00:51:46.100 --> 00:51:47.780
But Father, we just release them today.

993
00:51:48.600 --> 00:51:52.300
You command us in your word to pray for those that hate us

994
00:51:52.300 --> 00:51:55.480
and despitefully use us, right?

995
00:51:55.520 --> 00:51:57.420
And so we just pray for them today, Lord,

996
00:51:57.520 --> 00:51:59.640
that you would just help them, God,

997
00:51:59.680 --> 00:52:02.140
to see that we all deserve kazazza,

998
00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:04.940
but you sent Jesus to the cross

999
00:52:04.980 --> 00:52:08.180
so that we can receive your unmerited grace and favor.

1000
00:52:09.900 --> 00:52:10.100
Woo.

1001
00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:13.900
Not just to us, but through us, Lord.

1002
00:52:13.940 --> 00:52:16.040
And so we just release that, but we know,

1003
00:52:16.740 --> 00:52:18.080
and we don't relish in this.

1004
00:52:18.160 --> 00:52:19.600
We relish in the favor of the Father,

1005
00:52:19.600 --> 00:52:23.760
but there will be a time when they get to see us celebrated.

1006
00:52:26.560 --> 00:52:27.560
It's just the word of God.

1007
00:52:28.020 --> 00:52:29.220
It's just what it says.

1008
00:52:30.940 --> 00:52:32.340
It's just what it says.

1009
00:52:33.220 --> 00:52:38.920
So we're not bystanders and we're not orphans.

1010
00:52:39.120 --> 00:52:41.000
We are children of the house.

1011
00:52:41.380 --> 00:52:44.460
And so God is inviting us to come and sit at the table

1012
00:52:44.460 --> 00:52:48.460
and dig in today, not stand outside the door,

1013
00:52:49.060 --> 00:52:51.860
not say, oh God, I'll just be a servant in your house.

1014
00:52:52.260 --> 00:52:53.620
I'll just be a servant in your house.

1015
00:52:53.680 --> 00:52:54.520
I got divorced.

1016
00:52:54.660 --> 00:52:55.300
I messed up.

1017
00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:55.800
I did this.

1018
00:52:55.960 --> 00:52:56.600
I did that.

1019
00:52:56.600 --> 00:52:57.980
You know, I'll just serve you.

1020
00:52:58.020 --> 00:52:59.080
Whatever you want, God.

1021
00:52:59.200 --> 00:53:00.620
No, he's saying, what do you want?

1022
00:53:01.060 --> 00:53:04.060
Go listen to last week's Supernatural Saturday.

1023
00:53:04.160 --> 00:53:04.840
What do you want?

1024
00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:06.300
What makes your heart beat fast?

1025
00:53:07.220 --> 00:53:09.660
The Father wants to not only embrace you,

1026
00:53:09.700 --> 00:53:13.240
but he also wants to show you that you can't be replaced.

1027
00:53:13.520 --> 00:53:14.480
He wants to embrace you.

1028
00:53:14.520 --> 00:53:16.340
Oh, Hillary, your time is up, sweetie pie.

1029
00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:17.080
No, I'm sorry.

1030
00:53:17.160 --> 00:53:17.360
Yep.

1031
00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:18.860
Okay, hold on.

1032
00:53:22.080 --> 00:53:24.300
He wants to embrace you and not replace you.

1033
00:53:25.580 --> 00:53:25.800
Okay.

1034
00:53:27.260 --> 00:53:28.920
All right, he does.

1035
00:53:29.340 --> 00:53:30.960
He wants to embrace you, not replace you.

1036
00:53:31.040 --> 00:53:32.940
He doesn't want to replace you as a son and daughter

1037
00:53:32.940 --> 00:53:34.600
at his table and you become a servant.

1038
00:53:35.200 --> 00:53:36.780
No, that isn't what he wants.

1039
00:53:38.160 --> 00:53:40.320
That's not what God is looking to do.

1040
00:53:40.780 --> 00:53:43.120
Sorry, I'm just looking to see if anyone needs to be muted.

1041
00:53:46.900 --> 00:53:48.480
He doesn't want to do that.

1042
00:53:49.140 --> 00:53:50.080
He's not doing that.

1043
00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:51.420
You may be doing that to yourself.

1044
00:53:51.660 --> 00:53:53.880
You may be downgrading yourself to a servant.

1045
00:53:54.460 --> 00:53:55.360
You're working for God.

1046
00:53:55.460 --> 00:53:56.980
You're punching a time clock for God.

1047
00:53:57.060 --> 00:53:58.420
Just how can I serve you?

1048
00:54:00.080 --> 00:54:03.040
He wants you to love him and he wants to love you

1049
00:54:03.080 --> 00:54:04.960
because you are a child of God.

1050
00:54:08.940 --> 00:54:09.600
All right.

1051
00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:13.100
Okay, so I want to speak a blessing over all of us.

1052
00:54:13.940 --> 00:54:15.740
We're down to the wire here.

1053
00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:23.480
God is telling some of you guys, your robe is ready.

1054
00:54:24.440 --> 00:54:25.840
Your ring is ready.

1055
00:54:26.720 --> 00:54:27.380
Come on.

1056
00:54:28.200 --> 00:54:29.240
Your robe is ready.

1057
00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:29.960
Your ring is ready.

1058
00:54:30.060 --> 00:54:31.380
Your place at the table is ready.

1059
00:54:32.280 --> 00:54:33.180
It is.

1060
00:54:33.400 --> 00:54:35.620
So I want you just to close your eyes

1061
00:54:35.720 --> 00:54:39.620
and I'm just going to speak a blessing

1062
00:54:39.620 --> 00:54:41.160
over all of us this morning.

1063
00:54:43.100 --> 00:54:43.520
Woo.

1064
00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:46.340
And for some of you, once again,

1065
00:54:46.520 --> 00:54:48.260
this is what needs to flow through you

1066
00:54:48.260 --> 00:54:49.340
towards somebody else.

1067
00:54:49.660 --> 00:54:52.620
It's not just to you, it's through you.

1068
00:54:55.420 --> 00:54:56.160
Yes, Lord.

1069
00:54:56.340 --> 00:54:56.980
Yes, Lord.

1070
00:54:58.280 --> 00:54:58.660
All right.

1071
00:54:58.800 --> 00:54:59.320
Thank you, God.

1072
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.340
So I just want to do an old-fashioned kind of blessing.

1073
00:55:05.640 --> 00:55:09.080
May the Father outrun every lie,

1074
00:55:09.500 --> 00:55:13.140
every shame, every mistake, every accusation.

1075
00:55:14.600 --> 00:55:18.400
May the sound of broken pots that have been broken at

1076
00:55:18.400 --> 00:55:21.440
your feet in the past never define you ever again.

1077
00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:29.160
Jesus. May you walk in sonship and daughterhood.

1078
00:55:29.160 --> 00:55:32.760
May you know the embrace of the Father who restores,

1079
00:55:33.900 --> 00:55:38.400
and may this be the season that you fully allow yourself to come

1080
00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:43.260
home as an heir and a joint heir with Christ.

1081
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:48.080
So friends, I want you to try to walk this out this week in different ways.

1082
00:55:48.160 --> 00:55:53.180
If you hear the accusing voices of the past,

1083
00:55:53.600 --> 00:55:55.480
because a lot of times we just do this to ourself,

1084
00:55:55.480 --> 00:55:57.060
it's not even anyone else doing it to us,

1085
00:55:57.060 --> 00:55:58.640
it's us trying to shame ourselves.

1086
00:55:58.640 --> 00:56:04.320
I want you to remember that God is waiting with your ring and with your robe.

1087
00:56:04.620 --> 00:56:06.320
And I want you to picture yourself,

1088
00:56:07.020 --> 00:56:10.500
not only not coming into agreement with the accusations,

1089
00:56:10.820 --> 00:56:14.500
but actually coming to the Father and allowing him to embrace you,

1090
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:17.640
allowing him to ring you, allowing him to robe you,

1091
00:56:18.280 --> 00:56:19.800
all right, allowing him to help you,

1092
00:56:20.120 --> 00:56:24.460
allowing him to run to you as he wants to and desires to do.

1093
00:56:25.180 --> 00:56:29.820
And I want you to really try to step back into community.

1094
00:56:30.180 --> 00:56:33.880
Instead of fearing community, instead of fearing rejection,

1095
00:56:34.420 --> 00:56:39.160
I want you to allow the love of the Father and this revelation that we've

1096
00:56:39.160 --> 00:56:44.500
gotten this morning together to actually propel you back into relationship with

1097
00:56:44.500 --> 00:56:46.420
people without the fear of rejection,

1098
00:56:46.640 --> 00:56:48.680
knowing that you've already been accepted in the beloved.

1099
00:56:49.580 --> 00:56:52.540
All right. I love y'all. I appreciate you.

1100
00:56:52.540 --> 00:56:56.000
Is this powerful for you as it was for me?

1101
00:56:56.540 --> 00:56:58.560
So powerful for me.

1102
00:56:58.880 --> 00:57:01.840
Especially the idea that not only did the Father run,

1103
00:57:02.120 --> 00:57:04.880
not only did he circumvent the ceremony of shame,

1104
00:57:05.220 --> 00:57:11.380
but then he threw a celebration with the very same people that were about to,

1105
00:57:13.160 --> 00:57:15.340
you know, cut you off.

1106
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:16.440
Wow.

1107
00:57:18.220 --> 00:57:19.380
Wow, wow, wow.

1108
00:57:19.580 --> 00:57:21.660
Yes, the replay should be up sometime today.

1109
00:57:21.660 --> 00:57:26.300
Maybe, maybe let someone in your life that you think really needs to hear this.

1110
00:57:27.540 --> 00:57:28.280
Hear it.

1111
00:57:28.640 --> 00:57:30.400
I know that it's for our community,

1112
00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:34.220
but perhaps play it for someone who really needs to hear it.

1113
00:57:35.340 --> 00:57:37.000
I think that's how you can pay this.

1114
00:57:37.220 --> 00:57:38.820
You can pay this message forward,

1115
00:57:38.820 --> 00:57:41.200
because I believe there's a lot of people who need to hear this message.

1116
00:57:42.120 --> 00:57:43.480
I love you guys.

1117
00:57:44.100 --> 00:57:45.420
Have a supernatural Saturday.

1118
00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:46.420
See you soon.

1119
00:57:46.900 --> 00:57:47.540
Thank you.

1120
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:48.000
God bless.