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Hey, Taste and See Freedom. I'm trying to find a quiet place. I ran out of the church

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because the music is so loud in there as the kids work on a fundraiser for a missions trip.

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And I came outside and the speakers outside are playing the music. So hopefully you can

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hear me. So sorry that I didn't get day six in last night. So I pray I get six and seven

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to you today. And yesterday, as it says in the copy here, the Lord, when I asked the

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Lord, what, what am I praying for Jerusalem for Israel, for the Jews around the earth,

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I saw the word prodigals. And just my heart began to see so differently. The prodigals

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and so I want to make this kind of quick because I don't know if you guys can hear me. So I'll

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find out later if you guys can hear me. Or when it's when I post it, I'll see if it was

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effective. So I'm sorry about the noise in the background. I'll find a quiet place a

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little bit. But let me just read you some scriptures about the Lord's heart for prodigals.

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In Ezekiel. Wow, there's so much noise here. Okay. Hopefully you can hear me. So

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Ezekiel 3416 I will seek the lost I will God says I will seek the lost and he will bring back

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the strayed sorry and I will I will seek the lost and I will bring back the strayed and I

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will bind up the injured and I will strengthen the weak and the fat and strong I will destroy

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and I will feed them in justice. There's something Alicia, can you hear me? There's

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so much noise here. I don't know if you can hear me. So I'm going to read these

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words about the Lord's heart toward prodigals, which is what he

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had instructed me to pray for day six. And so, you know, here he said in Ezekiel 3416,

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I will seek the lost. I will bring back the strayed I will bind up the injured. And of

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course, Jesus and Luke said, the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost and

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which was lost and I had never put together, you know, of course, in Ezekiel, it's the Son of Man,

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the Son of Man, the Son of Man, the Son of Man, which is why the religious people hated so much

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that Jesus used that. But, you know, he was answering this that it's God himself.

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That that pursues those that are lost his heart for prodigals is he knows that which twisted

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he knows how they got so deceived how they got so filled with rage and hurt and hatred.

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In Jude in in Jude 22 and 23. The Lord talks about having mercy for those that are in doubt

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of righteousness that have strayed and snatching them out of the fire showing mercy

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but being clear about despising the sin that has corrupted them despising the stains on their

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clothes to feel like I'm yelling over this noise. So again, I hope this is coming through.

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A second Timothy 225 correcting God's opponents and gentleness that he may perhaps grant them

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repentance leading them into the knowledge of the truth. I once saw a vision of the United States

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covered in a map a paper map and I saw part of the paper map torn back and all inside were

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slithering snakes and then I saw the gracious hand of the bride.

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extended in mercy. And because her hand was not extended, pointed in judgment, calling

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them snakes, but extended invitingly into mercy, because she didn't forget who she was.

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It gave many of the snakes courage to, to believe that even though they had to admit

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they were snakes, there was hope they didn't have to remain snakes. And there's more to

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the story, but it's the goodness of God that leads us to repentance. 1 Timothy 2.24, who

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desires God himself, desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of truth.

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In Matthew 18, 12 and 13, Jesus says, what do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep

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and one has gone astray, does he not leave the 99 on the mountains and go in search of

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that one who went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over

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it more than the 99 that ever went astray. This doesn't mean he's not rejoicing over

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the 99, but it's like, yes, victory, we have saved the one that was lost to us. That's

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how God feels about the prodigals. 2 Timothy 2.26, that they may come to their senses and

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escape the snare of the devil after being captured by him to do his will. So those that

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are acting in agreement that they are no better than the children of Satan, the Lord longs

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for them to come to their senses and escape that deception, escape that lie.

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Ezekiel 18.23, have I pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord, and not

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rather that he should turn from his way and live. That's the heart of God as we pray to

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call back the prodigals. 1 Corinthians 6.11, and such were some of you, but you were washed

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and were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by the spirit

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of our God. We can't forget that we were once prodigal. We can't forget that it was us whose

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sins needed to be forgiven. We can't forget that it was us whose perversion of thought,

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of word, of deed, defiling ourselves, destroying ourselves and others in God were what Jesus

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needed to atone for on the cross so that we long that the prodigals come back as God longs that

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the prodigals come back. Luke 5.31 and 32, and Jesus answered them, those who are well have no

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need of a physician, but those who are sick, I have come to call the righteous, not the righteous,

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but sinners to repentance. For I have no pleasure, Ezekiel 18.32, in the death of anyone, declares

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the Lord. So turn and live. Luke 15.24, for this, my son was dead and is alive. He was lost and is

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found. And they began to celebrate. That, of course, is the story of the prodigal that Jesus

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shared about the nature of the Father towards sinners. Matthew 9.13, go and learn what this

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means. I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners. 2nd

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Peter 3.9, the Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise, as some count slowness, but is patient

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toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should. Hebrews 12.13, and make straight

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paths for your feet so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

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Consequently, Hebrews 7.25, God is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through

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Christ Jesus our Lord, since he always lives to make intercession for them. And Galatians 6.1,

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brothers, if anyone is caught in transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a

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spirit of gentleness.

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Keeping watch over yourself lest you to be tempted father

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Thank you so much for your heart for prodigals for your patience toward prodigals

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For you have not

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been anxious to come you have been anxious or

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Anticipating or desiring that more and more come Lord help us to not only pray that the prodigals of Jerusalem

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The prodigals of Israel and the prodigals of the Jews everywhere come

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To you come open their eyes receive the price that you paid for them on the cross in Yeshua haMashiach

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That they too that we too would be moved

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Toward reaching the prodigals the prodigals of the Jews the