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All right.

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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.

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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.

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So I had to get all, you know, fixed up and ready 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, starts really early

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in the morning.

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

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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 lot of us that

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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 media,

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too much time interacting with people that you don't know in real life and probably will

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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 really does

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delve deep into the idea that we need to come back to a place of in-person community-based

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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 the news

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this morning.

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So I've been on the news four times, 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 special on the tree lighting

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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 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, I had received a word that I was

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going to be on television, that I was going to have a TV show and people had dreams and

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gave me words 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, several times I've said on some kind of broadcast

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on here that I was in a TV contract to actually be the host of a show, a reality TV show three

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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.

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Timing is everything.

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The thing that I remembered this morning is that I auditioned back when God gave me this

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TV word, let's say circa 2010, 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 television, but

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I hadn't worked in television yet.

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And I had done that internship.

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Remember for those of you that remember the story that as soon as God told me I was going

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to be on TV, I started going around knocking on doors, asking people to give me a TV internship.

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I'll get your coffee.

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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 understand because

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I believe in putting feet on my prayers.

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And if you don't believe in putting feet on your prayers, then that's where you're going

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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, even if it's imperfect.

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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 internship there.

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Are you in school for broadcasting?

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Dial tone.

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Ding.

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

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I wasn't in college for broadcasting, wasn't going to school to be working in television

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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.

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And I think that I would have been amazing at it. Okay.

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But I didn't even get a call back. I didn't even get a call back. And you guys,

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I was really sad about that. That made me feel really sad. I was like,

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I don't even understand. This is a perfect opportunity for me.

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

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Why can't I have it?

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And sometimes friends is because you need us to keep sewing towards the things

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that 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.

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Now 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, 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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Now,

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

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please go watch it. Cause 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. Remember the library you'd have a book and it was due and you

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bring it in. Cause you weren't done with it yet.

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And you'd ask them to give you an extension. You want to renew it.

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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.

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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

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about believing.

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If you believe something, then you're going to take action on it as well.

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Yes, there I am. Hi everybody. Okay.

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All right.

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So we're going to start that.

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We're going to start today.

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With just a little bit of just.

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Breathe in.

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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.

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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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Another trend that I'm seeing that I feel like I really need to release.

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I am seeing.

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As sad as this might be to some of you, I am seeing the ending of long.

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Running situationships here at the end of 2025.

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I'm going to talk about a couple of things that we've seen in

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relationships.

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And in relationships that they started out very promising,

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but now they've stalled out.

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They've 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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we need to move forward.

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And we need to move forward in peace.

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And we need to move forward in peace.

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And I'm not going to jump into another one,

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but just understanding 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. 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.

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Nothing is lost in the kingdom.

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And God said, I will not be mocked.

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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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favor of the right thing,

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but they're also in a different caliber of people that are more in

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favor of the wrong thing.

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And they're also in some situations.

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They're in some situations where they're not going forward.

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

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You know, standards, if you will,

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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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It's just, you know,

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it's just a matter of finding the right balance between the good and

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the bad.

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this is not the right fit for marriage.

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But I bless you.

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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

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morning.

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everything is working to our good.

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just in grief and in mourning.

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but instead understanding that everything is working to our good

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because God is for us and life is for us.

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So I want to talk about something today.

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That was introduced to me.

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And it's something that's going to hit your heart in a really great way

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as well, because as we wind down 25,

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As we wind down 2025 and we step into this other season,

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

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the 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

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That 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

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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

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And that is the story 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 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 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

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Relationships that you had an opportunity to be in in the past and you messed it up for whatever reason

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You decided that it wasn't the right thing for you or you had?

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Attachment style issues or you had unhealed heart stuff and you weren't mature enough to be in that relationship

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You picked a fight for you picked a fight with it. 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

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But we don't live in the past

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Nostalgia is just a fancy word for fear. 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 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 it. 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. 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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And so if I smell something gross,

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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, didn't have a trash compactor,

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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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And as soon as it got filled up,

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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 where the pig is going to eat.

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And this guy was so hard up that he was thinking

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that 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 came

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

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And the thing is friends 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, the love of the father,

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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 is the upper class family,

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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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back then they used to write letters

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and 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,

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in a way that I don't know 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

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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,

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but like ketchup, like Keh-Zah-Zah.

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So Keh-Zah-Zah was a ritual that was performed

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in these ancient times

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of cutting off disgraced family members.

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And I have some notes written down here.

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So if you disgraced the family,

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like say you ran off and married a Gentile,

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and we're only talking about men right now, friends.

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We're not talking about women.

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Keh-Zah-Zah was a man thing for the most part, a son thing.

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And if you disgraced the family,

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like maybe you married out of the lineage.

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you married a Gentile, you did something like this prodigal,

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you wasted your inheritance, you were in sinful living,

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whatever it was that you did that brought disgrace

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and shame to your family.

481
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When you came back and tried to reunite with your family,

482
00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.620
all the people of the town would meet you

483
00:25:20.620 --> 00:25:23.840
at the border of the town, okay?

484
00:25:23.840 --> 00:25:25.240
And they would take a clay pot,

485
00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:28.480
and normally that clay pot was filled with something bad,

486
00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:33.480
like spoiled food, or just like my grandma's slot bucket,

487
00:25:34.320 --> 00:25:36.560
they had clay pots that they put refuse in

488
00:25:36.560 --> 00:25:39.240
and different things, so it was a refuse pot, basically.

489
00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:42.680
And they would bring that to the border of the town,

490
00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:44.680
and as you were trying to come into town,

491
00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:48.800
they would smash it at your feet.

492
00:25:48.800 --> 00:25:51.440
And that was a sign to you and to everyone else

493
00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:53.860
that you are cut off from your people.

494
00:25:54.860 --> 00:25:58.300
You guys, I didn't know this part of the story.

495
00:25:59.660 --> 00:26:00.780
I didn't know it,

496
00:26:00.780 --> 00:26:04.020
but everyone that Jesus was talking to knew it.

497
00:26:04.020 --> 00:26:08.980
They knew that the prodigal deserved Kezaza, Jesus.

498
00:26:08.980 --> 00:26:10.940
That's what he deserved.

499
00:26:10.940 --> 00:26:13.020
This wasn't a private putting away.

500
00:26:13.020 --> 00:26:14.620
This wasn't a private conversation of,

501
00:26:14.620 --> 00:26:16.020
oh, hey, you've shamed your family,

502
00:26:16.020 --> 00:26:17.580
and now you're cut off from us.

503
00:26:17.580 --> 00:26:19.880
It was a public shaming.

504
00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:22.500
It was a public situation, all right?

505
00:26:22.500 --> 00:26:24.140
It was community rejecting,

506
00:26:24.140 --> 00:26:26.540
because remember, most of the people in your community

507
00:26:26.540 --> 00:26:29.540
you were probably related to at some level.

508
00:26:29.540 --> 00:26:30.920
That's why it was so shocking

509
00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.420
that Abraham left his father's house.

510
00:26:33.420 --> 00:26:36.100
He wasn't leaving a house, just one place.

511
00:26:36.100 --> 00:26:39.140
He was leaving his father's lineage and legacy.

512
00:26:39.140 --> 00:26:41.100
All these people were related to each other

513
00:26:41.100 --> 00:26:42.660
in some way, shape, or form, right?

514
00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:46.300
So he was leaving the land of his father's.

515
00:26:46.300 --> 00:26:48.980
And so when you come back into the land of your father's

516
00:26:48.980 --> 00:26:52.340
after doing something disgraceful, they Kezaza you.

517
00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:54.780
That's what happens, right?

518
00:26:54.780 --> 00:26:56.380
It is community rejection.

519
00:26:56.380 --> 00:26:57.980
It is a social death.

520
00:26:57.980 --> 00:26:58.820
You're a pariah.

521
00:26:58.820 --> 00:26:59.940
You might as well have leprosy,

522
00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:02.540
even if you don't have leprosy, right?

523
00:27:02.540 --> 00:27:05.460
Because you're gonna be put in, you're put away in shame.

524
00:27:05.460 --> 00:27:07.260
And it was so powerful when I saw this,

525
00:27:07.260 --> 00:27:08.580
because it was permanent.

526
00:27:08.580 --> 00:27:10.900
If you were Kezazed, it was permanent.

527
00:27:10.900 --> 00:27:11.720
It was shameful.

528
00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:12.560
It was final.

529
00:27:12.560 --> 00:27:15.420
It was like being canceled in our day and age, right?

530
00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:17.180
It was a permanent situation.

531
00:27:17.180 --> 00:27:21.740
And everyone listening to Jesus talk and tell this parable,

532
00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:25.820
and you can find this in Luke 15, everyone knew it.

533
00:27:25.820 --> 00:27:29.460
And so the real supernatural revelation was lost on me.

534
00:27:29.460 --> 00:27:30.860
Maybe it was lost on you too.

535
00:27:30.860 --> 00:27:32.980
Some of you may have already known about Kezaza.

536
00:27:32.980 --> 00:27:34.180
I did not.

537
00:27:34.180 --> 00:27:38.060
But what happens next in the story with the father,

538
00:27:38.060 --> 00:27:41.100
this is why it's so crazy.

539
00:27:41.100 --> 00:27:42.760
We already thought it was amazing, right?

540
00:27:42.760 --> 00:27:44.820
Oh, the father sees him and he runs to him

541
00:27:44.820 --> 00:27:47.620
and he puts his robe on him and he puts his ring on him.

542
00:27:47.620 --> 00:27:49.000
We already love the story,

543
00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:50.980
but we're gonna love it even better right now

544
00:27:50.980 --> 00:27:54.620
because the father was subverting a shame-based system.

545
00:27:54.620 --> 00:27:56.180
Come on.

546
00:27:56.180 --> 00:27:58.820
Woo, he was going against protocol

547
00:27:58.820 --> 00:28:01.640
in a way that only the father can do.

548
00:28:02.980 --> 00:28:05.860
And that is so amazing for so many of us

549
00:28:05.860 --> 00:28:07.780
that have been through so much.

550
00:28:07.780 --> 00:28:09.540
And maybe we deserve to be rejected

551
00:28:09.540 --> 00:28:11.300
or maybe we deserve to be cut off.

552
00:28:11.300 --> 00:28:12.660
You know, we've all sinned

553
00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:14.660
and come short of the glory of God for sure.

554
00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:17.820
But because of Jesus and the finished work of the cross,

555
00:28:17.820 --> 00:28:20.340
that's what Jesus was talking about here.

556
00:28:20.340 --> 00:28:25.340
Because of that, we get to step into relationship with God.

557
00:28:26.540 --> 00:28:28.040
We get to step into sonship.

558
00:28:28.040 --> 00:28:29.540
We get to step into authority.

559
00:28:29.540 --> 00:28:31.380
We get to step into identity.

560
00:28:31.380 --> 00:28:33.660
And it's just so incredible.

561
00:28:33.660 --> 00:28:36.260
So when Jesus tells this story,

562
00:28:36.260 --> 00:28:38.500
he wasn't just telling a sweet little parable.

563
00:28:38.500 --> 00:28:39.340
He wasn't.

564
00:28:39.340 --> 00:28:42.260
He was telling a counter-cultural,

565
00:28:42.260 --> 00:28:46.800
subverting, crazy, mind-blowing story.

566
00:28:46.800 --> 00:28:48.820
That's what he was doing here

567
00:28:48.820 --> 00:28:51.100
of yes, unconditional love for sure.

568
00:28:51.100 --> 00:28:52.740
But more than that,

569
00:28:52.740 --> 00:28:55.580
he was turning an entire system on its head.

570
00:28:55.580 --> 00:28:56.420
Do you guys see that?

571
00:28:56.420 --> 00:28:58.900
An entire system that was based on rules

572
00:28:58.900 --> 00:29:01.940
and right and wrong, right?

573
00:29:01.940 --> 00:29:04.340
Based on black and white, wrong and right.

574
00:29:04.340 --> 00:29:07.040
He was subverting the entire system.

575
00:29:07.040 --> 00:29:08.660
That's what he was doing here.

576
00:29:08.660 --> 00:29:11.420
Because this prodigal son deserved Kizazah.

577
00:29:11.420 --> 00:29:12.860
He left his community.

578
00:29:12.860 --> 00:29:14.860
He sinned with Gentiles, right?

579
00:29:14.860 --> 00:29:16.700
He was not just out there with other Jews.

580
00:29:16.700 --> 00:29:17.700
That's not what he was doing.

581
00:29:17.700 --> 00:29:19.300
He was living among the Gentiles.

582
00:29:19.300 --> 00:29:21.460
He was wasting his inheritance.

583
00:29:21.460 --> 00:29:23.320
He was disgracing his family.

584
00:29:23.320 --> 00:29:25.220
You could just hear people whispering.

585
00:29:26.540 --> 00:29:28.060
And I think this is a really important message

586
00:29:28.060 --> 00:29:30.300
because a lot of you are gonna see family

587
00:29:30.300 --> 00:29:32.060
in this holiday season.

588
00:29:32.060 --> 00:29:34.300
Family that maybe wanna Kizazah you

589
00:29:34.300 --> 00:29:38.020
or maybe you've Kizazahed, all right?

590
00:29:38.020 --> 00:29:39.340
There's a whole different layer here

591
00:29:39.340 --> 00:29:41.100
that I feel like Holy Spirit's trying to take us to

592
00:29:41.100 --> 00:29:42.500
right now, all right?

593
00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:45.140
And so God is trying to show us grace

594
00:29:45.140 --> 00:29:49.220
in a way that is going to hopefully change the way

595
00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:52.100
that we think about the people that have done us wrong

596
00:29:52.100 --> 00:29:54.460
and the people that think that we have done them wrong

597
00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:55.700
or the people that just don't like us.

598
00:29:55.700 --> 00:29:56.700
They don't love, they don't,

599
00:29:56.700 --> 00:29:59.740
they just have rejected us for whatever reason.

600
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.680
When he returns, when the prodigal son returns

601
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:06.160
to the village, I'm sure he fully expected.

602
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:08.120
This is why it took him so long to come back.

603
00:30:08.120 --> 00:30:11.560
This is why he was rather be laying around with the pigs

604
00:30:12.520 --> 00:30:13.560
instead of coming back.

605
00:30:13.560 --> 00:30:16.800
Because when he came back, it makes sense now.

606
00:30:16.800 --> 00:30:17.680
When he came back,

607
00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:20.720
he knew that he was going to be facing Kazaza.

608
00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:22.520
And that's why he was hoping that his father

609
00:30:22.520 --> 00:30:23.880
would just see it in his heart

610
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:26.960
to just even make him a servant in his house.

611
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:28.240
Do you guys see it now?

612
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:30.280
Do you see it?

613
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:33.400
He would have been ostracized and cut off.

614
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:35.800
He would have been shamed and disgraced.

615
00:30:35.800 --> 00:30:38.080
He would have been cut off from his people,

616
00:30:38.080 --> 00:30:41.000
but he was hoping that the father would see it in his heart

617
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:43.360
to just even allow him to be a servant.

618
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:45.680
Wow.

619
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.400
And some of you need this type of grace

620
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:50.720
with grown adult children, with grandchildren,

621
00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:52.120
with brothers, sisters,

622
00:30:52.120 --> 00:30:56.320
you need to extend this grace to people in your lives

623
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.760
instead of continuing to cut them off in disgrace.

624
00:31:00.760 --> 00:31:03.080
So Jesus shifts the story now.

625
00:31:03.080 --> 00:31:04.760
And it would have been a great story

626
00:31:04.760 --> 00:31:06.520
if he didn't get Kazazad

627
00:31:06.520 --> 00:31:09.400
and the father just let him come back home.

628
00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:12.000
Come on, come back home, prove yourself.

629
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:13.600
All right, you got some proving to do.

630
00:31:13.600 --> 00:31:15.360
You got some explaining to do.

631
00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:17.880
But that is not what happened.

632
00:31:18.800 --> 00:31:21.080
The father did what he's about to do,

633
00:31:21.080 --> 00:31:25.560
what I'm about to tell in the story that you all know,

634
00:31:25.560 --> 00:31:27.240
but I'm gonna tell it from a different perspective.

635
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:31.560
He did all this without even an apology from the prodigal.

636
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:34.440
You guys, we need to take that in.

637
00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:37.280
He didn't make him prove himself.

638
00:31:37.280 --> 00:31:39.320
He didn't let him grovel.

639
00:31:39.320 --> 00:31:41.120
It was none of that.

640
00:31:41.120 --> 00:31:43.160
None of that happened.

641
00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:45.160
So the next thing that happens

642
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.880
is that the father is watching for the son, okay?

643
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.880
Word got around that this guy was headed back to town.

644
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:53.960
Because you and I might say,

645
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:56.200
hey, you know, there's no telephones and stuff.

646
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:59.240
So how do people know to meet you out

647
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:02.120
at the border of the town to Kazazad you?

648
00:32:02.120 --> 00:32:04.920
Yeah, because word of mouth travels fast.

649
00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:07.840
And people knew that he was heading back home.

650
00:32:07.840 --> 00:32:12.160
Word on the street was the prodigal was coming back

651
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:14.200
with his tail between his legs.

652
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:15.480
And the father knew that,

653
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:17.800
and the father was watching for him.

654
00:32:17.800 --> 00:32:19.680
You like how I keep having binoculars?

655
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:21.320
The father was watching for him.

656
00:32:21.320 --> 00:32:24.240
The father, it says that he was watching for him.

657
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:29.240
And when he saw him yet afar off y'all, afar off.

658
00:32:29.280 --> 00:32:30.720
And this makes sense to me now,

659
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:32.240
because the father wanted to get to him

660
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:34.960
before the maddening crowd got to him,

661
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:37.400
before all the people that didn't have the father's heart,

662
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.000
before all the people that didn't love him.

663
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.800
And a lot of us, unfortunately,

664
00:32:41.800 --> 00:32:45.480
those people have gotten to us before the father got to us.

665
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:47.760
The people at our church, the people in our community,

666
00:32:47.760 --> 00:32:52.160
the people that cut us off without even a second glance.

667
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.320
A lot of us have experiences where we've been Kazazad,

668
00:32:55.320 --> 00:32:57.240
even if we shouldn't have been.

669
00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:58.480
I don't tell this story often,

670
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:00.480
but when I was divorcing my first husband,

671
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:02.320
I had a woman from the church come

672
00:33:02.320 --> 00:33:05.480
and knock on my front door and tell me

673
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:07.480
why I was sinful and wrong

674
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:09.760
and shouldn't be doing what I was doing.

675
00:33:09.760 --> 00:33:11.720
That chick was trying to Kazazad me.

676
00:33:13.040 --> 00:33:14.520
She was, why?

677
00:33:14.520 --> 00:33:15.840
Because I was getting divorced.

678
00:33:15.840 --> 00:33:17.320
She didn't want to hear my side of the story.

679
00:33:17.360 --> 00:33:19.000
She didn't care what my side of the story was.

680
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:20.280
She just showed up and here's the thing.

681
00:33:20.280 --> 00:33:21.680
She wasn't even a friend of mine.

682
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:23.880
She never even talked to me at church hardly.

683
00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:25.000
She didn't invite me to lunch.

684
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:26.040
She didn't invite me to coffee.

685
00:33:26.040 --> 00:33:29.320
She just tried to come to my house and Kazazad me.

686
00:33:29.320 --> 00:33:30.800
And a lot of us have had those,

687
00:33:30.800 --> 00:33:32.560
we've had those experiences.

688
00:33:32.560 --> 00:33:35.280
Raise your hand right now if you've had that experience.

689
00:33:35.280 --> 00:33:38.480
Where the father was trying to get to us,

690
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:40.240
but the people's voices were louder.

691
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:41.920
We weren't listening to the father's heart

692
00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:43.800
because people were screaming in our ear

693
00:33:43.800 --> 00:33:45.840
about how bad we were and how wrong we were

694
00:33:45.840 --> 00:33:47.200
and how we shouldn't have done what we did

695
00:33:48.040 --> 00:33:49.640
and religious voices.

696
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:51.560
Remember the elder brother is watching all this

697
00:33:51.560 --> 00:33:53.040
and he ain't happy about it.

698
00:33:53.040 --> 00:33:55.000
Religion is never gonna run to meet you.

699
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:59.920
It's going to relish in you being ostracized and shamed.

700
00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:01.720
Religion loves shame.

701
00:34:03.800 --> 00:34:04.640
Come on.

702
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:09.120
Anyone else ever had someone try to shame you publicly

703
00:34:09.120 --> 00:34:11.560
for whatever it was that was going on in your life?

704
00:34:11.560 --> 00:34:13.400
But the father sees him afar off

705
00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:14.400
and now it makes sense to me.

706
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:17.239
He wanted to get to him before the others got to him.

707
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:19.040
So he was watching,

708
00:34:19.040 --> 00:34:21.120
making sure that he could get to him

709
00:34:21.120 --> 00:34:23.080
before this ritual happened.

710
00:34:23.080 --> 00:34:25.520
And so he ran out, he ran.

711
00:34:25.520 --> 00:34:27.719
First of all, friends, patriarchs don't run.

712
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:31.000
They don't, they don't run, okay?

713
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:33.199
They don't, they don't have their Nikes on.

714
00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:34.360
They're not running.

715
00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:38.760
They're just having people run to them and come to them.

716
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:40.719
They're not running to other people.

717
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:43.520
Once you get to this level in your family,

718
00:34:43.520 --> 00:34:45.480
as a man in this day and age,

719
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:49.679
a patriarch, a man of great standing,

720
00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.000
you're not going to be running.

721
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:53.000
So he ran.

722
00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:55.560
He ran to his son.

723
00:34:55.560 --> 00:34:59.080
He got to his son before the haters got to him.

724
00:34:59.080 --> 00:35:00.080
He got to him.

725
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.400
before he was publicly shamed. He was a dignified man, I believe. He was a landowner. He was the

726
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:11.760
head of his household. This story is talking about him being, you know, a man of great reputation

727
00:35:11.760 --> 00:35:19.120
in different ways. And why did he pull up his robe, I'm assuming, and sprint to his son,

728
00:35:19.120 --> 00:35:23.680
besides the fact that he didn't want him publicly shamed? And it's because the father was saying,

729
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:32.480
shame, public shame is not going to get to my son before I do. Come on, you guys. Shame is

730
00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:38.080
not going to get to my son before I do. I will not allow him to be cut off.

731
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:46.640
I will not allow him to be disgraced. His actions disgraced himself. But the father

732
00:35:46.640 --> 00:35:50.640
was trying to circumvent this. And that's what Jesus came to do on that cross,

733
00:35:50.640 --> 00:35:56.800
to circumvent the disgrace that we already had earned by just being born into sin. By one man's

734
00:35:56.800 --> 00:36:01.280
sin, we all became sinners. But by one man's righteousness, we all became righteous. And the

735
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:05.600
father wanted to restore the prodigal before anyone had a chance to publicly reject him.

736
00:36:06.240 --> 00:36:10.480
And this is such a beautiful picture of God's supernatural grace, because it outruns shame.

737
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:15.520
You know that beautiful song that says that he kicks down the door, reckless love. Anyone know

738
00:36:15.520 --> 00:36:21.520
that song, reckless love? It reminds me of the story of the prodigal. You don't have to do any

739
00:36:21.520 --> 00:36:27.040
of this, but you do. You show up, you kick down the doors of our shame, the walls of our shame,

740
00:36:27.040 --> 00:36:33.840
you kick them in. I love that. He outran judgment for his son. He outran shame for his son.

741
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:40.800
God wants to outrun our shame, our rejection, our past with the blood of Jesus that's been pursuing

742
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:46.320
us, pursuing us friends. And it's time that we allow it to catch up with us. So I want to just

743
00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:52.880
release a prophetic declaration over all of us today. For those of you that don't know the song,

744
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:59.600
reckless love, go listen to it. It's powerful. Okay. Go ahead and close your eyes. I want to

745
00:36:59.600 --> 00:37:03.760
just pray over us. And then we're going to do an activation. Is this powerful? You guys,

746
00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:10.640
when I heard about it, it just rocked my heart. It makes this story so much more special to me.

747
00:37:10.640 --> 00:37:15.840
I always love this story, but it makes it so much more powerful for me.

748
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.160
And you guys, even if you're not right now,

749
00:37:25.040 --> 00:37:28.880
right now, even if you're not relating to the prodigal, because maybe you've been

750
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:31.520
living a good life for Jesus for a long time,

751
00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:36.480
please don't allow yourself to step into the shoes of the older brother.

752
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:39.520
Don't allow yourself to step into those shoes.

753
00:37:42.720 --> 00:37:49.200
Understand what God is saying right now. He didn't, he didn't want you to be shamed. He

754
00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:55.040
doesn't want you to be cazazad and he doesn't want us to cazazad anybody else. Yes, there will

755
00:37:55.040 --> 00:37:59.200
be boundaries in relationships. There will be relationships, unfortunately, that we have to,

756
00:37:59.200 --> 00:38:06.640
you know, not have contact with, but we can do that honorably. We can do that gracefully. We can

757
00:38:06.640 --> 00:38:12.160
do that in the love of the father, right? That's how we can do that. We don't have to cut people

758
00:38:12.160 --> 00:38:16.480
off. We don't have to curse people's names. We don't have to do those things. And I really

759
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:20.960
believe that there's some reconciliations for this holiday season that God wants to

760
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:25.200
usher in. As we understand this, as you let go of your own shame,

761
00:38:25.200 --> 00:38:44.160
rejection that you're carrying because of the way that people have cut you off and treated you as you let go of that. Yeah, that's not your identity anymore. You become the son and daughter of God that you are, and then you carry yourself differently. And God can do different things through you and to you because of that. And then also the people that we've cut off, that we're holding grudges against,

762
00:38:45.120 --> 00:38:53.120
that maybe if they groveled, we might forgive them. God really wants to do some work in our hearts today. So go ahead and close your eyes.

763
00:38:59.120 --> 00:39:05.120
Because I feel like some of us are just standing on the edge of God's mercy.

764
00:39:05.120 --> 00:39:26.080
Because I feel like some of us are just standing on the edge of community, holding so much shame. We just haven't been getting into community. We don't allow people to get close to us. We've kind of kazazed ourselves because we're carrying so much shame. People haven't cut us off, but we've cut ourselves off. We've cut ourselves off because of perceived failure, because of mistakes, because we've let people down, because we've let people down.

765
00:39:27.040 --> 00:39:41.040
God doesn't want us to be cut off anymore. He wants us to be reconnected to community, to friendship, to love, to marriage, to family, because we're no longer marked by our mistakes. We are marked by the blood of Jesus.

766
00:39:41.040 --> 00:39:48.000
We are. We're not disqualified. We're fully qualified by the blood of Jesus.

767
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.680
Jesus. So hear the word of the Lord today. Shut your eyes. Hear the word of the Lord today.

768
00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:15.040
God says to you, I am the father that runs to you. I want you to picture him in your

769
00:40:15.040 --> 00:40:20.800
mind, running to you, running to you, blocking out the things that are trying to hurt you and

770
00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:28.640
destroy you and cut you off. I am the father that runs to you. I am the one who restores you.

771
00:40:29.200 --> 00:40:33.600
I am the one that who restores you, restores your reputation, your name,

772
00:40:33.600 --> 00:40:39.760
restores your fortunes. I, his vengeance is his. He is the one that repays. He is the one that

773
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:44.800
restores everything that's been lost. Everything that's been stolen. I am the one who interrupts

774
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:51.680
the ceremony of your shame. I am the one that interrupts what the enemy is trying to do

775
00:40:51.680 --> 00:40:56.640
through people. I am the one that interrupts what the enemy is trying to do through your own mind

776
00:40:56.640 --> 00:41:01.600
and heart. I am the one that interrupts that. I am the one that is not going to allow you to

777
00:41:01.600 --> 00:41:09.520
be cut off. I'm the one that has grafted you back into the vine. I am the one who carries you. I am

778
00:41:09.520 --> 00:41:18.640
the one who loves you. I am the one who is inviting you to fully come home to me, fully come home.

779
00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:22.640
So put your hand on your heart right now.

780
00:41:23.600 --> 00:41:27.600
You can close your eyes, not close your eyes, whatever you want to do. But I want you to think

781
00:41:27.600 --> 00:41:34.960
right now about a time where people have tried to perform this ceremony of shame on you, have

782
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:41.600
tried to shame you, try to cut you off, try to disgrace you, maybe even publicly humiliate you,

783
00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:47.680
kazazad you. And I also want you to think of any time where you've done that to someone else.

784
00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:52.800
Maybe it was a family member. Maybe it was something at church that happened, a relationship,

785
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:58.000
a friend group, maybe even yourself. You've tried to kazazad yourself,

786
00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:08.160
you know, shame yourself, humiliate yourself, talk to yourself in just such a gross inner voice

787
00:42:08.720 --> 00:42:12.560
that's just so full of condemnation and judgment.

788
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:19.760
What shame story has been following you

789
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:25.920
that you've been rehearsing over yourself, or maybe you've been rehearsing over someone else?

790
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:31.040
What shame story do you keep talking about and keep telling over someone else's life?

791
00:42:38.160 --> 00:42:43.920
If you want to share, go ahead and put it in this chat.

792
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:53.920
I want you to picture the father not hesitating, but running to you,

793
00:42:55.440 --> 00:43:00.320
welcoming you with open arms, giving you authority, not making you prove yourself,

794
00:43:01.120 --> 00:43:05.040
just giving you authority because you're a son, you're a daughter, giving you

795
00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:10.960
garments of identity. And I also want you to see him doing that to the person who wronged you

796
00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:15.840
because he does long to do that. He may not do it through you. You may have nothing to do with

797
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:21.040
their redemption story, and it may be safe for you to not be in relationship with them. That's fine,

798
00:43:21.040 --> 00:43:25.280
but you can not be in relationship with them and still release them from this kazazad.

799
00:43:27.120 --> 00:43:30.560
And I really want to encourage you to do that right now. They may not even be alive on the

800
00:43:30.640 --> 00:43:35.120
earth anymore. They may be someone that you hope to never see again in your life,

801
00:43:35.120 --> 00:43:42.240
but you can still release them. You can, and we need to.

802
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:51.040
God wants to cover us all with the blood of Jesus, with that robe of righteousness that

803
00:43:51.040 --> 00:43:55.840
Jesus has provided for us at the cross. And the enemy can't uncover us. You guys,

804
00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:59.440
if you decide to wear that robe of righteousness, the enemy cannot take it off of you.

805
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:08.080
He can't. So I want you to repeat after me. If you want to make this declaration,

806
00:44:09.520 --> 00:44:18.400
I want you to declare that the father is restoring me. Come on. The father is restoring me.

807
00:44:18.560 --> 00:44:28.560
The father is re-robing me. The father is re-ringing me. Come on. The father is re-naming me.

808
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:36.960
And today can be the day that I fully come home to his heart. This can be my homecoming day.

809
00:44:38.080 --> 00:44:44.080
This can be the day that I actually allow the father to robe me and ring me.

810
00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:49.040
To reconcile me, to restore me.

811
00:44:53.040 --> 00:44:57.040
Yes, Lord.

812
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.000
I'm going to get back to you.

813
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:02.000
I'm going to get back to you.

814
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:03.000
I'm going to get back to you.

815
00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:04.000
I'm going to get back to you.

816
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:05.000
I'm going to get back to you.

817
00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:06.000
Yes, because you guys, we're not our mistakes.

818
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.000
I had a quote on a website years ago.

819
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:09.000
And it was about forgiveness.

820
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:16.000
And it was the very beginning of me teaching the heart work and.

821
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:19.000
The quote just said that, you know, when we're the full,

822
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:20.000
the full circle of forgiveness,

823
00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:22.000
the final layer of forgiveness is when we're willing to no longer

824
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:26.000
identify someone by the pain that they've caused us.

825
00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:29.000
No longer willing to identify them by the pain that they've caused us

826
00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:34.000
because they are not their mistakes and we are not our pain.

827
00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:38.000
That was the quote that they quoted me on this website as saying.

828
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:39.000
Because it's true.

829
00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:42.000
Oftentimes when people wrong us, when we wrong others,

830
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:45.000
our identity gets.

831
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.000
Placed into that mistake.

832
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:50.000
So if someone's wronged you in your little black book, they're the liar,

833
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:53.000
cheater, user, abuser, loser.

834
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:55.000
Right. That's how you think of them.

835
00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:56.000
That's how you think of them.

836
00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:57.000
That's how you think of them.

837
00:45:57.000 --> 00:45:59.000
That's their identity to you.

838
00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:02.000
And oftentimes we think of ourselves that way when we're the ones that

839
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:03.000
made the mistake.

840
00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:04.000
We're failures.

841
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:06.000
We're stupid.

842
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:09.000
Run worthy of love.

843
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:13.000
And so God wants to strip us.

844
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:15.000
Of the shame.

845
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:18.000
He wants to put back on us.

846
00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:21.000
He wants to put back on us.

847
00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:31.000
The dignity of sons and daughters.

848
00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:34.000
Of walking in the finished work of the cross and being righteous,

849
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:36.000
just because of what Christ did for us.

850
00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.000
He wants to break off everything.

851
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:41.000
That would tell you that you not only have made mistakes,

852
00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:43.000
but you are a mistake. We got it. We got to let go of that.

853
00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:45.000
We got to take it back.

854
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:46.000
We got to let go of it.

855
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:48.000
And what we did was we got to learn to let go of the sin.

856
00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:51.000
And we learned to let go of the sin of transgressions,

857
00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.000
of the transgressions of the law.

858
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.000
And we learned to let go of the sin of transgressions there.

859
00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.000
And a lot of people were really set free from a lot of the things that

860
00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:57.000
I'm talking about right now.

861
00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:59.000
And it was, it was just incredible.

862
00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:00.000
It was incredible transformational time.

863
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.000
So as we see from the prodigal story,

864
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:04.000
we don't have to earn our way back into God's love and neither do other

865
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:06.000
people, the other people that have wronged.

866
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:07.000
Us.

867
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:11.000
They do not have to earn their way back into God's love.

868
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:15.000
And so I want to give you a little bit of a heads up on this.

869
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:17.000
Because I know this is a little bit of a long story,

870
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:19.000
but I want to give you a little bit of a heads up on this.

871
00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:21.000
Because I know this is a little bit of a long story,

872
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:23.000
but I want to give you a little bit of a heads up on this.

873
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:26.000
Once again, I'm not using this as a template for human relationships.

874
00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:29.000
We want to make sure that we have appropriate heaven.

875
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:30.000
Orchestrated boundaries.

876
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:33.000
But not all the psycho babble that keeps us in these constant shame,

877
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:34.000
sin cycles. We don't want that.

878
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:35.000
And we need to release that today.

879
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:36.000
And so for some of you,

880
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:39.000
I want to encourage you to accept that.

881
00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:41.000
And I want to encourage you to accept that.

882
00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:42.000
Because I think it's worth.

883
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.000
Your time and effort and such beautiful.

884
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:48.000
Words of grace.

885
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:49.000
In this season of your life.

886
00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:51.000
And I just really want to encourage you to accept it,

887
00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:52.000
even if you feel like you don't deserve it.

888
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.000
And especially if you feel like you don't deserve it.

889
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:57.000
Especially because a lot of us have been living like spiritual orphans.

890
00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:59.000
We really have we're here. Yeah, we're showing up.

891
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.000
We're hoping that God is going to bless us with what it is that we've

892
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:03.000
come here for.

893
00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:06.000
And God is going to bless us with what it is that we've come here for.

894
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:07.000
And that is being a son.

895
00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:16.000
You're hoping.

896
00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:17.000
As an orphan,

897
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:20.000
you're hoping that someone will have benevolence on you as an orphan

898
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:22.000
more, please, please, more, more.

899
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:24.000
You're hoping that someone's going to give you something.

900
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:25.000
But as a son and daughter,

901
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:27.000
you just go down and you sit at the table and you just start eating.

902
00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.000
You're hoping that someone's going to give you something.

903
00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.000
You're hoping that someone's going to give you something to eat.

904
00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:40.000
Think about even those of you that.

905
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:41.000
You know,

906
00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:43.000
would be dining at someone else's home where it's not your home.

907
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:45.000
You're not the son and daughter of that house.

908
00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:47.000
You don't just go and get in the fridge. Do you? And just.

909
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:48.000
You don't do that.

910
00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:51.000
You wait to be invited. You wait to be, you know, asked to sit down.

911
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:53.000
You wait to be invited to eat.

912
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:55.000
But the sons and daughters of the house don't do that.

913
00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:58.000
They just do whatever they want.

914
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:07.000
Right. Why? Because that all belongs to them.

915
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:10.000
And this is the message that the father tried to tell the elder brother

916
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:11.000
who was so ticked off.

917
00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:14.000
And now I understand why the elder brother was so ticked off.

918
00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:16.000
Not only did the younger brother not get.

919
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:18.000
The younger brother.

920
00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:20.000
The elder brother was so pious.

921
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:22.000
Like I've done everything right. I've served the father.

922
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:32.000
I've been exactly what I'm supposed to be.

923
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:35.000
And then he sees this younger brother, get all this favor,

924
00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:38.000
get all this love, get all this undeserved grace.

925
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:41.000
And then on top of that, the father throws a big party for him.

926
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:43.000
And then he goes, I'm sorry,

927
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:44.000
I didn't mean to do that. I'm sorry.

928
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:45.000
I didn't mean to do that.

929
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:46.000
And then at this point,

930
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:49.000
a lot of people please see the story.

931
00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:52.000
All the people that would have been meeting him out at the edge of town

932
00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:53.000
and.

933
00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:57.000
And him the father now.

934
00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:00.000
By his own embrace of his son, by running out and showing everyone,

935
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.000
you better not.

936
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.880
That's what's gonna happen here.

937
00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:02.000
You better not even think about it.

938
00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:04.800
I'm bringing him back in, I'm giving him authority.

939
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:08.680
And this guy was a landowner, this guy was a big deal.

940
00:50:08.680 --> 00:50:11.400
And so no one's gonna mess with what he wants to do.

941
00:50:11.400 --> 00:50:14.560
And he's also giving his son his authority.

942
00:50:14.560 --> 00:50:16.960
So not only you're not gonna mess with me,

943
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:18.700
but now you're not gonna mess with my son

944
00:50:18.700 --> 00:50:23.040
because he has the same authority that I do, right?

945
00:50:23.040 --> 00:50:26.440
But then he takes him home and he invites all the people

946
00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:30.200
that were ready to shame him, to celebrate him.

947
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:34.820
Whoa, this story is just blowing me up.

948
00:50:36.160 --> 00:50:37.860
You guys, do you see it?

949
00:50:38.900 --> 00:50:40.360
Do you see it?

950
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:42.720
I just want you to know the greatest moments of your life.

951
00:50:42.720 --> 00:50:44.640
And I don't want you to have sour grapes about this.

952
00:50:44.640 --> 00:50:48.320
I don't want you to have an ego about this, not sour grapes.

953
00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:50.840
I don't want you to have an ego about this.

954
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:54.940
I don't want you to have a big head about this,

955
00:50:54.940 --> 00:50:57.860
but there's gonna be moments in your near future

956
00:50:57.860 --> 00:51:00.300
where God is going to literally celebrate you

957
00:51:00.300 --> 00:51:02.020
in the presence of your enemies.

958
00:51:03.140 --> 00:51:05.800
The Psalmist said, in the presence of my enemies,

959
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:08.340
he welcomes me as his special guest

960
00:51:08.340 --> 00:51:10.020
with blessings overflowing.

961
00:51:10.020 --> 00:51:13.100
His goodness and unfailing kindness will be with me

962
00:51:13.100 --> 00:51:15.260
all of my life.

963
00:51:15.260 --> 00:51:16.700
Woo, come on.

964
00:51:19.100 --> 00:51:21.820
The people that are hating on you from afar

965
00:51:21.820 --> 00:51:24.300
and they can't wait to see your downfall.

966
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:26.380
I know it's sad to say, but for some of us,

967
00:51:26.380 --> 00:51:28.620
there are people out there that would like nothing better

968
00:51:28.620 --> 00:51:30.940
than to see something unfortunate happen to us.

969
00:51:30.940 --> 00:51:32.580
Maybe not like us die or something,

970
00:51:32.580 --> 00:51:37.580
but like lose our money or lose our relationship or whatever.

971
00:51:38.940 --> 00:51:41.220
They don't want good things for us.

972
00:51:41.220 --> 00:51:42.700
They hate us.

973
00:51:42.700 --> 00:51:46.340
They've come into agreement with a spirit of hatred.

974
00:51:46.340 --> 00:51:48.760
But Father, we just release them today.

975
00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:52.300
You command us in your word to pray for those that hate us

976
00:51:52.340 --> 00:51:55.620
and despitefully use us, right?

977
00:51:55.620 --> 00:51:57.500
And so we just pray for them today, Lord,

978
00:51:57.500 --> 00:51:59.660
that you would just help them, God,

979
00:51:59.660 --> 00:52:02.980
to see that we all deserve kazazah,

980
00:52:02.980 --> 00:52:05.280
but you sent Jesus to the cross

981
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:08.460
so that we can receive your unmerited grace and favor.

982
00:52:09.780 --> 00:52:10.620
Woo.

983
00:52:12.140 --> 00:52:13.960
Not just to us, but through us, Lord.

984
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:16.880
And so we just release that, but we know,

985
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:18.100
and we don't relish in this.

986
00:52:18.100 --> 00:52:19.740
We relish in the favor of the Father,

987
00:52:19.740 --> 00:52:24.240
but there will be a time when they get to see us celebrated.

988
00:52:26.500 --> 00:52:28.220
It's just the word of God.

989
00:52:28.220 --> 00:52:29.460
It's just what it says.

990
00:52:31.380 --> 00:52:32.860
It's just what it says.

991
00:52:32.860 --> 00:52:37.860
So we're not bystanders and we're not orphans.

992
00:52:39.580 --> 00:52:41.860
We are children of the house.

993
00:52:41.860 --> 00:52:44.540
And so God is inviting us to come and sit at the table

994
00:52:44.540 --> 00:52:49.060
and dig in today, not stand outside the door,

995
00:52:49.060 --> 00:52:52.260
not say, oh God, I'll just be a servant in your house.

996
00:52:52.260 --> 00:52:53.680
I'll just be a servant in your house.

997
00:52:53.680 --> 00:52:54.660
I got divorced.

998
00:52:54.660 --> 00:52:55.500
I messed up.

999
00:52:55.500 --> 00:52:56.320
I did this.

1000
00:52:56.320 --> 00:52:57.160
I did that.

1001
00:52:57.160 --> 00:52:57.980
You know, I'll just serve you.

1002
00:52:57.980 --> 00:52:59.140
Whatever you want, God.

1003
00:52:59.140 --> 00:53:01.220
No, he's saying, what do you want?

1004
00:53:01.220 --> 00:53:04.180
Go listen to last week's Supernatural Saturday.

1005
00:53:04.180 --> 00:53:05.000
What do you want?

1006
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:07.260
What makes your heart beat fast?

1007
00:53:07.260 --> 00:53:09.660
The Father wants to not only embrace you,

1008
00:53:09.660 --> 00:53:13.420
but he also wants to show you that you can't be replaced.

1009
00:53:13.420 --> 00:53:14.260
He wants to embrace you.

1010
00:53:14.260 --> 00:53:16.380
Mary, your time is up, sweetie pie.

1011
00:53:16.380 --> 00:53:17.220
Not.

1012
00:53:17.220 --> 00:53:18.160
I'm sorry, yep.

1013
00:53:18.160 --> 00:53:19.000
Okay, hold on.

1014
00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:24.000
He wants to embrace you, not replace you.

1015
00:53:25.560 --> 00:53:29.160
Okay, all right, he does.

1016
00:53:29.160 --> 00:53:31.000
He wants to embrace you, not replace you.

1017
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:33.000
He doesn't want to replace you as a son and daughter

1018
00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:35.280
at his table and you become a servant.

1019
00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:37.080
No, that isn't what he wants.

1020
00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:40.760
That's not what God is looking to do.

1021
00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:43.720
Sorry, I'm just looking to see if anyone needs to be muted.

1022
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:48.680
He doesn't want to do that.

1023
00:53:49.680 --> 00:53:50.520
He's not doing that.

1024
00:53:50.520 --> 00:53:51.520
You may be doing that to yourself.

1025
00:53:51.520 --> 00:53:54.360
You may be downgrading yourself to a servant.

1026
00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:55.400
You're working for God.

1027
00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:57.040
You're punching a time clock for God.

1028
00:53:57.040 --> 00:53:58.660
Just how can I serve you?

1029
00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:03.360
He wants you to love him and he wants to love you

1030
00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:04.920
because you are a child of God.

1031
00:54:09.080 --> 00:54:12.480
All right, okay, so I want to speak a blessing

1032
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:14.280
over all of us.

1033
00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:15.720
We're down to the wire here.

1034
00:54:19.880 --> 00:54:23.760
Hmm, God is telling some of you guys, your robe is ready.

1035
00:54:24.680 --> 00:54:26.560
Your ring is ready.

1036
00:54:26.560 --> 00:54:29.240
Come on, your robe is ready.

1037
00:54:29.240 --> 00:54:30.080
Your ring is ready.

1038
00:54:30.080 --> 00:54:31.680
Your place at the table is ready.

1039
00:54:32.560 --> 00:54:36.080
It is, so I want you just to close your eyes

1040
00:54:36.080 --> 00:54:39.680
and I'm just going to, I'm just gonna speak a blessing

1041
00:54:39.680 --> 00:54:41.440
over all of us this morning.

1042
00:54:43.080 --> 00:54:46.400
Woo, and for some of you, once again,

1043
00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:48.160
this is what needs to flow through you

1044
00:54:48.160 --> 00:54:49.640
towards somebody else.

1045
00:54:49.640 --> 00:54:52.200
It's not just to you, it's through you.

1046
00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:57.240
Yes, Lord, yes, Lord.

1047
00:54:58.280 --> 00:54:59.640
All right, thank you, God.

1048
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.440
So I just want to do an old-fashioned kind of blessing.

1049
00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:09.240
May the Father outrun every lie,

1050
00:55:09.240 --> 00:55:13.860
every shame, every mistake, every accusation.

1051
00:55:13.860 --> 00:55:18.400
May the sound of broken pots that have been broken at

1052
00:55:18.400 --> 00:55:22.360
your feet in the past never define you ever again.

1053
00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:29.580
Jesus. May you walk in sonship and daughterhood.

1054
00:55:29.860 --> 00:55:33.780
May you know the embrace of the Father who restores,

1055
00:55:33.780 --> 00:55:37.920
and may this be the season that you fully allow yourself

1056
00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:44.920
to come home as an heir and a joint heir with Christ.

1057
00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:46.840
All right, so friends, I want you to try to walk this out

1058
00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:48.140
this week in different ways.

1059
00:55:48.140 --> 00:55:53.880
If you hear the accusing voices of the past,

1060
00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:55.520
because a lot of times we just do this to ourselves.

1061
00:55:55.520 --> 00:55:57.060
It's not even anyone else doing it to us.

1062
00:55:57.060 --> 00:55:59.140
It's us trying to shame ourselves.

1063
00:55:59.140 --> 00:56:03.320
I want you to remember that God is waiting with your ring

1064
00:56:03.320 --> 00:56:04.740
and with your robe.

1065
00:56:04.740 --> 00:56:06.980
And I want you to picture yourself,

1066
00:56:06.980 --> 00:56:11.240
not only not coming into agreement with the accusations,

1067
00:56:11.240 --> 00:56:13.460
but actually coming to the Father and allowing him

1068
00:56:13.460 --> 00:56:16.060
to embrace you, allowing him to ring you,

1069
00:56:16.060 --> 00:56:18.380
allowing him to robe you, right?

1070
00:56:18.380 --> 00:56:21.900
Allowing him to help you, allowing him to run to you

1071
00:56:21.900 --> 00:56:25.580
as he wants to and desires to do.

1072
00:56:25.580 --> 00:56:30.220
And I want you to really try to step back into community.

1073
00:56:30.220 --> 00:56:34.280
Instead of fearing community, instead of fearing rejection,

1074
00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:36.900
I want you to allow the love of the Father

1075
00:56:36.900 --> 00:56:40.540
and this revelation that we've gotten this morning together

1076
00:56:40.540 --> 00:56:45.260
to actually propel you back into relationship with people

1077
00:56:45.260 --> 00:56:46.540
without the fear of rejection,

1078
00:56:46.540 --> 00:56:49.780
knowing that you've already been accepted in the beloved.

1079
00:56:49.780 --> 00:56:51.700
All right, I love y'all.

1080
00:56:51.700 --> 00:56:52.540
I appreciate you.

1081
00:56:53.140 --> 00:56:56.380
Was this powerful for you as it was for me?

1082
00:56:56.380 --> 00:56:59.940
So powerful for me, especially the idea

1083
00:56:59.940 --> 00:57:01.940
that not only did the Father run,

1084
00:57:01.940 --> 00:57:05.100
not only did he circumvent the ceremony of shame,

1085
00:57:05.100 --> 00:57:09.320
but then he threw a celebration with the very same people

1086
00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:12.060
that were about to, you know,

1087
00:57:14.580 --> 00:57:16.020
cut you off.

1088
00:57:16.020 --> 00:57:16.860
Wow.

1089
00:57:18.380 --> 00:57:19.780
Wow, wow, wow.

1090
00:57:19.780 --> 00:57:21.860
Yes, the replay should be up sometime today.

1091
00:57:22.380 --> 00:57:23.700
Maybe let someone in your life

1092
00:57:23.700 --> 00:57:28.700
that you think really needs to hear this, hear it.

1093
00:57:28.900 --> 00:57:30.500
I know that it's for our community,

1094
00:57:30.500 --> 00:57:34.360
but perhaps play it for someone who really needs to hear it.

1095
00:57:35.580 --> 00:57:37.020
I think that's how you can pay this.

1096
00:57:37.020 --> 00:57:38.860
You can pay this message forward

1097
00:57:38.860 --> 00:57:39.980
because I believe there's a lot of people

1098
00:57:39.980 --> 00:57:42.340
who need to hear this message.

1099
00:57:42.340 --> 00:57:44.260
I love you guys.

1100
00:57:44.260 --> 00:57:45.820
Have a supernatural Saturday.

1101
00:57:45.820 --> 00:57:47.020
See you soon.

1102
00:57:47.020 --> 00:57:47.860
Thank you.

1103
00:57:47.860 --> 00:57:48.680
God bless.