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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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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,

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you'd have a book and it was due and you bring it in because you weren't done

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with it yet. And you'd ask them to give you an extension.

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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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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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Amen.

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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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And when you invest in something, you bet, you know,

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when you invest in new tools that you can do.

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There's nothing stopping it.

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There's nothing blocking it.

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

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release.

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I am seeing.

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I am seeing the ending of long.

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I'm seeing a lot of people that are trying to fix their problems.

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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.

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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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But they're not fixable.

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

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

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

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

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relationship.

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

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relationship.

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I mean,

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

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relationship.

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I mean,

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

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I invested all this time and energy and money.

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And then nothing came of it.

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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 in the different caliber of people

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that you choose that are more in alignment and more compatible to you.

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That's what I'm seeing.

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The ending of these relationships that have become situationships where

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they're not going forward.

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

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different.

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You know, standards, if you will,

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for what they want 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, ill will, none of them are ending with ill will.

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

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Hey, this is not the right fit for marriage,

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but I bless you.

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And I thank you for the time that we've spent together.

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And I thank you for the time that we've spent together.

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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.

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With one of those people this morning.

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

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

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instead of sitting in.

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And there's so much power to be had when we take the good and we allow

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it to propel us forward.

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And there's so much power to be had when we take the good and we allow

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it to propel us forward.

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And I just want to emphasize that.

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And I just want to emphasize that.

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And I just want to emphasize that.

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Because God is for us and life is for us.

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And that is really, really, really important for us to remember.

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

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

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

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as well, because as we wind down 25,

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Even though we're already in 57 86.

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And we're in the calendar that we're in already.

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

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

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

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

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Expectations if we're carrying especially any kind of shame

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shame, especially

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

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Grudges against others against ourselves

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

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Would cause us to have an inferiority complex

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

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Or we're asking that you would reveal and heal that in Jesus name

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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

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But there is

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

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

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Your opportunities are not over by any stretch of the imagination

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

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

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

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

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You have no idea where they are, right?

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

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

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And he was allowing, you know

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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,

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is that when Jesus tells the story, by the way,

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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, okay?

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An aristocratic family, if you want.

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And that identifying ring of authority, the signet ring,

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you know, back then they used to 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,

483
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but like ketchup, like Keh-Zah-Zah.

484
00:24:34.840 --> 00:24:37.840
So Keh-Zah-Zah was a ritual that was performed

485
00:24:37.840 --> 00:24:39.280
in these ancient times

486
00:24:39.280 --> 00:24:42.280
of cutting off disgraced family members.

487
00:24:42.320 --> 00:24:44.360
And I have some notes written down here.

488
00:24:44.360 --> 00:24:45.960
So if you disgraced the family,

489
00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:48.240
like say you ran off and married a Gentile,

490
00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:50.240
and we're only talking about men right now, friends.

491
00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:51.640
We're not talking about women.

492
00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:56.160
Keh-Zah-Zah was a man thing for the most part, a son thing.

493
00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:58.400
And if you disgraced the family,

494
00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:00.560
like maybe you married out of the lineage.

495
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.600
you married a Gentile, you did something like this prodigal,

496
00:25:03.600 --> 00:25:07.760
you wasted your inheritance, you were in sinful living,

497
00:25:07.760 --> 00:25:10.660
whatever it was that you did that brought disgrace

498
00:25:10.660 --> 00:25:12.720
and shame to your family.

499
00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:17.720
When you came back and tried to reunite with your family,

500
00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.620
all the people of the town would meet you

501
00:25:20.620 --> 00:25:23.840
at the border of the town, okay?

502
00:25:23.840 --> 00:25:25.240
And they would take a clay pot,

503
00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:28.480
and normally that clay pot was filled with something bad,

504
00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:33.480
like spoiled food, or just like my grandma's slot bucket,

505
00:25:34.320 --> 00:25:36.560
they had clay pots that they put refuse in

506
00:25:36.560 --> 00:25:39.240
and different things, so it was a refuse pot, basically.

507
00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:42.680
And they would bring that to the border of the town,

508
00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:44.680
and as you were trying to come into town,

509
00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:48.800
they would smash it at your feet.

510
00:25:48.800 --> 00:25:51.440
And that was a sign to you and to everyone else

511
00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:53.860
that you are cut off from your people.

512
00:25:54.860 --> 00:25:58.300
You guys, I didn't know this part of the story.

513
00:25:59.660 --> 00:26:00.780
I didn't know it,

514
00:26:00.780 --> 00:26:04.020
but everyone that Jesus was talking to knew it.

515
00:26:04.020 --> 00:26:08.980
They knew that the prodigal deserved Kezaza, Jesus.

516
00:26:08.980 --> 00:26:10.940
That's what he deserved.

517
00:26:10.940 --> 00:26:13.020
This wasn't a private putting away.

518
00:26:13.020 --> 00:26:14.620
This wasn't a private conversation of,

519
00:26:14.620 --> 00:26:16.020
oh, hey, you've shamed your family,

520
00:26:16.020 --> 00:26:17.580
and now you're cut off from us.

521
00:26:17.580 --> 00:26:19.880
It was a public shaming.

522
00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:22.500
It was a public situation, all right?

523
00:26:22.500 --> 00:26:24.140
It was community rejecting,

524
00:26:24.140 --> 00:26:26.540
because remember, most of the people in your community

525
00:26:26.540 --> 00:26:29.540
you were probably related to at some level.

526
00:26:29.540 --> 00:26:30.920
That's why it was so shocking

527
00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.420
that Abraham left his father's house.

528
00:26:33.420 --> 00:26:36.100
He wasn't leaving a house, just one place.

529
00:26:36.100 --> 00:26:39.140
He was leaving his father's lineage and legacy.

530
00:26:39.140 --> 00:26:41.100
All these people were related to each other

531
00:26:41.100 --> 00:26:42.660
in some way, shape, or form, right?

532
00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:46.300
So he was leaving the land of his father's.

533
00:26:46.300 --> 00:26:48.980
And so when you come back into the land of your father's

534
00:26:48.980 --> 00:26:52.340
after doing something disgraceful, they Kezaza you.

535
00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:54.780
That's what happens, right?

536
00:26:54.780 --> 00:26:56.380
It is community rejection.

537
00:26:56.380 --> 00:26:57.980
It is a social death.

538
00:26:57.980 --> 00:26:58.820
You're a pariah.

539
00:26:58.820 --> 00:26:59.940
You might as well have leprosy,

540
00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:02.540
even if you don't have leprosy, right?

541
00:27:02.540 --> 00:27:05.460
Because you're gonna be put in, you're put away in shame.

542
00:27:05.460 --> 00:27:07.260
And it was so powerful when I saw this,

543
00:27:07.260 --> 00:27:08.580
because it was permanent.

544
00:27:08.580 --> 00:27:10.900
If you were Kezazed, it was permanent.

545
00:27:10.900 --> 00:27:11.720
It was shameful.

546
00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:12.560
It was final.

547
00:27:12.560 --> 00:27:15.420
It was like being canceled in our day and age, right?

548
00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:17.180
It was a permanent situation.

549
00:27:17.180 --> 00:27:21.740
And everyone listening to Jesus talk and tell this parable,

550
00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:25.820
and you can find this in Luke 15, everyone knew it.

551
00:27:25.820 --> 00:27:29.460
And so the real supernatural revelation was lost on me.

552
00:27:29.460 --> 00:27:30.860
Maybe it was lost on you too.

553
00:27:30.860 --> 00:27:32.980
Some of you may have already known about Kezaza.

554
00:27:32.980 --> 00:27:34.180
I did not.

555
00:27:34.180 --> 00:27:38.060
But what happens next in the story with the father,

556
00:27:38.060 --> 00:27:41.100
this is why it's so crazy.

557
00:27:41.100 --> 00:27:42.760
We already thought it was amazing, right?

558
00:27:42.760 --> 00:27:44.820
Oh, the father sees him and he runs to him

559
00:27:44.820 --> 00:27:47.620
and he puts his robe on him and he puts his ring on him.

560
00:27:47.620 --> 00:27:49.000
We already love the story,

561
00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:50.980
but we're gonna love it even better right now

562
00:27:50.980 --> 00:27:54.620
because the father was subverting a shame-based system.

563
00:27:54.620 --> 00:27:56.180
Come on.

564
00:27:56.180 --> 00:27:58.820
Woo, he was going against protocol

565
00:27:58.820 --> 00:28:01.660
in a way that only the father can do.

566
00:28:02.980 --> 00:28:05.860
And that is so amazing for so many of us

567
00:28:05.860 --> 00:28:07.780
that have been through so much.

568
00:28:07.780 --> 00:28:09.540
And maybe we deserve to be rejected

569
00:28:09.540 --> 00:28:11.300
or maybe we deserve to be cut off.

570
00:28:11.300 --> 00:28:12.660
You know, we've all sinned

571
00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:14.660
and come short of the glory of God for sure.

572
00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:17.820
But because of Jesus and the finished work of the cross,

573
00:28:17.820 --> 00:28:20.340
that's what Jesus was talking about here.

574
00:28:20.340 --> 00:28:25.340
Because of that, we get to step into relationship with God.

575
00:28:26.540 --> 00:28:28.040
We get to step into sonship.

576
00:28:28.040 --> 00:28:29.540
We get to step into authority.

577
00:28:29.540 --> 00:28:31.380
We get to step into identity.

578
00:28:31.380 --> 00:28:33.660
And it's just so incredible.

579
00:28:33.660 --> 00:28:36.260
So when Jesus tells this story,

580
00:28:36.260 --> 00:28:38.500
he wasn't just telling a sweet little parable.

581
00:28:38.500 --> 00:28:39.340
He wasn't.

582
00:28:39.340 --> 00:28:42.260
He was telling a counter-cultural,

583
00:28:42.260 --> 00:28:46.800
subverting, crazy, mind-blowing story.

584
00:28:46.800 --> 00:28:48.820
That's what he was doing here

585
00:28:48.820 --> 00:28:51.100
of yes, unconditional love for sure.

586
00:28:51.100 --> 00:28:52.740
But more than that,

587
00:28:52.740 --> 00:28:55.580
he was turning an entire system on its head.

588
00:28:55.580 --> 00:28:56.420
Do you guys see that?

589
00:28:56.420 --> 00:28:58.900
An entire system that was based on rules

590
00:28:58.900 --> 00:29:01.940
and right and wrong, right?

591
00:29:01.940 --> 00:29:04.340
Based on black and white, wrong and right.

592
00:29:04.340 --> 00:29:07.040
He was subverting the entire system.

593
00:29:07.040 --> 00:29:08.660
That's what he was doing here.

594
00:29:08.660 --> 00:29:11.420
Because this prodigal son deserved Kizazah.

595
00:29:11.420 --> 00:29:12.860
He left his community.

596
00:29:12.860 --> 00:29:14.860
He sinned with Gentiles, right?

597
00:29:14.860 --> 00:29:16.700
He was not just out there with other Jews.

598
00:29:16.700 --> 00:29:17.700
That's not what he was doing.

599
00:29:17.700 --> 00:29:19.300
He was living among the Gentiles.

600
00:29:19.300 --> 00:29:21.460
He was wasting his inheritance.

601
00:29:21.460 --> 00:29:23.320
He was disgracing his family.

602
00:29:23.320 --> 00:29:25.220
You could just hear people whispering.

603
00:29:26.540 --> 00:29:28.060
And I think this is a really important message

604
00:29:28.060 --> 00:29:30.300
because a lot of you are gonna see family

605
00:29:30.300 --> 00:29:32.060
in this holiday season.

606
00:29:32.060 --> 00:29:34.300
Family that maybe wanna Kizazah you

607
00:29:34.300 --> 00:29:38.020
or maybe you've Kizazahed, all right?

608
00:29:38.020 --> 00:29:39.340
There's a whole different layer here

609
00:29:39.340 --> 00:29:41.100
that I feel like Holy Spirit's trying to take us to

610
00:29:41.100 --> 00:29:42.500
right now, all right?

611
00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:45.140
And so God is trying to show us grace

612
00:29:45.140 --> 00:29:49.220
in a way that is going to hopefully change the way

613
00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:52.100
that we think about the people that have done us wrong

614
00:29:52.100 --> 00:29:54.460
and the people that think that we have done them wrong

615
00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:55.700
or the people that just don't like us.

616
00:29:55.700 --> 00:29:56.700
They don't love, they don't,

617
00:29:56.700 --> 00:29:59.740
they just have rejected us for whatever reason.

618
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.680
When he returns, when the prodigal son returns

619
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:06.160
to the village, I'm sure he fully expected.

620
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:08.120
This is why it took him so long to come back.

621
00:30:08.120 --> 00:30:11.560
This is why he was rather be laying around with the pigs

622
00:30:12.520 --> 00:30:13.560
instead of coming back.

623
00:30:13.560 --> 00:30:16.800
Because when he came back, it makes sense now.

624
00:30:16.800 --> 00:30:17.680
When he came back,

625
00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:20.720
he knew that he was going to be facing Kazaza.

626
00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:22.520
And that's why he was hoping that his father

627
00:30:22.520 --> 00:30:23.880
would just see it in his heart

628
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:26.960
to just even make him a servant in his house.

629
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:28.240
Do you guys see it now?

630
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:30.280
Do you see it?

631
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:33.400
He would have been ostracized and cut off.

632
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:35.800
He would have been shamed and disgraced.

633
00:30:35.800 --> 00:30:38.080
He would have been cut off from his people,

634
00:30:38.080 --> 00:30:41.000
but he was hoping that the father would see it in his heart

635
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:43.360
to just even allow him to be a servant.

636
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:45.680
Wow.

637
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.400
And some of you need this type of grace

638
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:50.720
with grown adult children, with grandchildren,

639
00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:52.120
with brothers, sisters,

640
00:30:52.120 --> 00:30:56.320
you need to extend this grace to people in your lives

641
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.760
instead of continuing to cut them off in disgrace.

642
00:31:00.760 --> 00:31:03.080
So Jesus shifts the story now.

643
00:31:03.080 --> 00:31:04.760
And it would have been a great story

644
00:31:04.760 --> 00:31:06.520
if he didn't get Kazazad

645
00:31:06.520 --> 00:31:09.400
and the father just let him come back home.

646
00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:12.000
Come on, come back home, prove yourself.

647
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:13.600
All right, you got some proving to do.

648
00:31:13.600 --> 00:31:15.360
You got some explaining to do.

649
00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:17.880
But that is not what happened.

650
00:31:18.800 --> 00:31:21.080
The father did what he's about to do,

651
00:31:21.080 --> 00:31:25.560
what I'm about to tell in the story that you all know,

652
00:31:25.560 --> 00:31:27.240
but I'm gonna tell it from a different perspective.

653
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:31.560
He did all this without even an apology from the prodigal.

654
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:34.440
You guys, we need to take that in.

655
00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:37.280
He didn't make him prove himself.

656
00:31:37.280 --> 00:31:39.320
He didn't let him grovel.

657
00:31:39.320 --> 00:31:41.120
It was none of that.

658
00:31:41.120 --> 00:31:43.160
None of that happened.

659
00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:45.160
So the next thing that happens

660
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.880
is that the father is watching for the son, okay?

661
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.880
Word got around that this guy was headed back to town.

662
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:53.960
Because you and I might say,

663
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:56.200
hey, you know, there's no telephones and stuff.

664
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:59.240
So how do people know to meet you out

665
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:02.120
at the border of the town to Kazazad you?

666
00:32:02.120 --> 00:32:04.920
Yeah, because word of mouth travels fast.

667
00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:07.840
And people knew that he was heading back home.

668
00:32:07.840 --> 00:32:12.160
Word on the street was the prodigal was coming back

669
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:14.200
with his tail between his legs.

670
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:15.480
And the father knew that,

671
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:17.800
and the father was watching for him.

672
00:32:17.800 --> 00:32:19.680
You like how I keep having binoculars?

673
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:21.320
The father was watching for him.

674
00:32:21.320 --> 00:32:24.240
The father, it says that he was watching for him.

675
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:29.240
And when he saw him yet afar off y'all, afar off.

676
00:32:29.280 --> 00:32:30.720
And this makes sense to me now,

677
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:32.240
because the father wanted to get to him

678
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:34.960
before the maddening crowd got to him,

679
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:37.400
before all the people that didn't have the father's heart,

680
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.000
before all the people that didn't love him.

681
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.800
And a lot of us, unfortunately,

682
00:32:41.800 --> 00:32:45.480
those people have gotten to us before the father got to us.

683
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:47.760
The people at our church, the people in our community,

684
00:32:47.760 --> 00:32:52.160
the people that cut us off without even a second glance.

685
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.320
A lot of us have experiences where we've been Kazazad,

686
00:32:55.320 --> 00:32:57.240
even if we shouldn't have been.

687
00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:58.480
I don't tell this story often,

688
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:00.480
but when I was divorcing my first husband,

689
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:02.320
I had a woman from the church come

690
00:33:02.320 --> 00:33:05.480
and knock on my front door and tell me

691
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:07.480
why I was sinful and wrong

692
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:09.760
and shouldn't be doing what I was doing.

693
00:33:09.760 --> 00:33:11.720
That chick was trying to Kazazad me.

694
00:33:13.040 --> 00:33:14.520
She was, why?

695
00:33:14.520 --> 00:33:15.840
Because I was getting divorced.

696
00:33:15.840 --> 00:33:17.320
She didn't want to hear my side of the story.

697
00:33:17.360 --> 00:33:19.000
She didn't care what my side of the story was.

698
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:20.280
She just showed up and here's the thing.

699
00:33:20.280 --> 00:33:21.680
She wasn't even a friend of mine.

700
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:23.880
She never even talked to me at church hardly.

701
00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:25.000
She didn't invite me to lunch.

702
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:26.040
She didn't invite me to coffee.

703
00:33:26.040 --> 00:33:29.320
She just tried to come to my house and Kazazad me.

704
00:33:29.320 --> 00:33:30.800
And a lot of us have had those,

705
00:33:30.800 --> 00:33:32.560
we've had those experiences.

706
00:33:32.560 --> 00:33:35.280
Raise your hand right now if you've had that experience.

707
00:33:35.280 --> 00:33:38.480
Where the father was trying to get to us,

708
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:40.240
but the people's voices were louder.

709
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:41.920
We weren't listening to the father's heart

710
00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:43.800
because people were screaming in our ear

711
00:33:43.800 --> 00:33:45.840
about how bad we were and how wrong we were

712
00:33:45.840 --> 00:33:47.200
and how we shouldn't have done what we did

713
00:33:48.040 --> 00:33:49.640
and religious voices.

714
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:51.560
Remember the elder brother is watching all this

715
00:33:51.560 --> 00:33:53.040
and he ain't happy about it.

716
00:33:53.040 --> 00:33:55.000
Religion is never gonna run to meet you.

717
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:59.920
It's going to relish in you being ostracized and shamed.

718
00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:01.720
Religion loves shame.

719
00:34:03.800 --> 00:34:04.640
Come on.

720
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:09.120
Anyone else ever had someone try to shame you publicly

721
00:34:09.120 --> 00:34:11.560
for whatever it was that was going on in your life?

722
00:34:11.560 --> 00:34:13.400
But the father sees him afar off

723
00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:14.400
and now it makes sense to me.

724
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:17.239
He wanted to get to him before the others got to him.

725
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:19.040
So he was watching,

726
00:34:19.040 --> 00:34:21.120
making sure that he could get to him

727
00:34:21.120 --> 00:34:23.080
before this ritual happened.

728
00:34:23.080 --> 00:34:25.520
And so he ran out, he ran.

729
00:34:25.520 --> 00:34:27.719
First of all, friends, patriarchs don't run.

730
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:31.000
They don't, they don't run, okay?

731
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:33.199
They don't, they don't have their Nikes on.

732
00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:34.360
They're not running.

733
00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:38.760
They're just having people run to them and come to them.

734
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:40.719
They're not running to other people.

735
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:43.520
Once you get to this level in your family,

736
00:34:43.520 --> 00:34:45.480
as a man in this day and age,

737
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:49.679
a patriarch, a man of great standing,

738
00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.000
you're not going to be running.

739
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:53.000
So he ran.

740
00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:55.560
He ran to his son.

741
00:34:55.560 --> 00:34:59.080
He got to his son before the haters got to him.

742
00:34:59.080 --> 00:35:00.080
He got to him.

743
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

744
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

745
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,

746
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,

747
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

748
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.

749
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:46.640
I will not allow him to be disgraced. His actions disgraced himself. But the father

750
00:35:46.640 --> 00:35:50.640
was trying to circumvent this. And that's what Jesus came to do on that cross,

751
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

752
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

753
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:05.600
father wanted to restore the prodigal before anyone had a chance to publicly reject him.

754
00:36:06.240 --> 00:36:10.560
And this is such a beautiful picture of God's supernatural grace because it outruns shame. You

755
00:36:10.560 --> 00:36:15.680
know that beautiful song that says that he kicks down the door, reckless love. Anyone know that

756
00:36:15.680 --> 00:36:21.120
song, reckless love? That's what it reminds me of the story of the prodigal. You don't have to

757
00:36:21.120 --> 00:36:26.640
do any of this, but you do. You show up, you kick down the doors of our shame, the walls of our

758
00:36:26.640 --> 00:36:33.840
shame. You kick them in. I love that. He outran judgment for his son. He outran shame for his son.

759
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

760
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

761
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,

762
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

763
00:36:59.600 --> 00:37:04.000
just pray over us. And then we're going to do an activation. Is this powerful? You guys, when I

764
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:11.040
heard about it, it just rocked my heart. It makes this story so much more special to me. I always

765
00:37:11.040 --> 00:37:21.600
love this story, but it makes it so much more powerful for me. And you guys, even if you're not

766
00:37:21.600 --> 00:37:28.880
right now, right now, even if you're not relating to the prodigal, because maybe you've been

767
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:35.280
living a good life for Jesus for a long time, please don't allow yourself to step into the

768
00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:42.480
shoes of the older brother. Don't allow yourself to step into those shoes.

769
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:52.880
Understand what God is saying right now. He didn't want you to be shamed. He doesn't want

770
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:59.040
you to be shamed and he doesn't want us to shame anybody else. Yes, there will be boundaries in

771
00:37:59.040 --> 00:38:04.960
relationships. There will be relationships, unfortunately, that we have to not have contact

772
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:12.000
with, but we can do that honorably. We can do that gracefully. We can do that in the love of the

773
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:17.200
father, right? That's how we can do that. We don't have to cut people off. We don't have to curse

774
00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:22.480
people's names. We don't have to do those things. And I really believe that there's some reconciliations

775
00:38:22.560 --> 00:38:28.480
for this holiday season that God wants to usher in as we understand this. As you let go of your

776
00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:35.920
own shame and you let go of the rejection that you're carrying because of the way that people

777
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:41.120
have cut you off and treated you, as you let go of that, that's not your identity anymore.

778
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:47.600
You become the son and daughter of God that you are, and then you carry yourself differently

779
00:38:47.600 --> 00:38:52.560
and God can do different things through you and to you because of that. And then also the people

780
00:38:52.560 --> 00:38:58.400
that we've cut off, that we're holding grudges against, that maybe if they groveled, we might

781
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:04.240
forgive them. God really wants to do some work in our hearts today. So go ahead and close your eyes.

782
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:15.840
Because I feel like some of us are just standing on the edge of community, holding so much shame.

783
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:20.800
We just haven't been getting into community. We don't allow people to get close to us.

784
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:27.520
We've kind of kazazled ourselves because we're carrying so much shame. People haven't cut us off,

785
00:39:27.520 --> 00:39:33.760
but we've cut ourselves off. We've cut ourselves off because of perceived failure, because of

786
00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:38.560
mistakes, because we've just internalized the belief that we're just not worthy and no one

787
00:39:38.560 --> 00:39:43.760
could really actually ever love us. But God doesn't want us to be cut off anymore. He wants us to be

788
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:52.640
reconnected to community, to friendship, to love, to marriage, to family. Because we're no longer

789
00:39:52.640 --> 00:39:57.280
marked by our mistakes. We are marked by the blood of Jesus. We are. We're not disqualified.

790
00:39:57.280 --> 00:39:59.920
We're fully qualified by the blood of Jesus.

791
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.

792
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

793
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

794
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.

795
00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:33.600
I am the one that who restores you, restores your reputation, your name,

796
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

797
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:44.800
restores everything that's been lost. Everything has been stolen. I am the one who interrupts

798
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

799
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

800
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

801
00:41:01.600 --> 00:41:09.120
be cut off. I am the one that has grafted you back into the vine. I am the one who carries you.

802
00:41:09.120 --> 00:41:16.320
I am the one who loves you. I am the one who is inviting you to fully come home to me,

803
00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:22.640
fully come home. So put your hand on your heart right now.

804
00:41:23.520 --> 00:41:27.440
You can close your eyes, not close your eyes, whatever you want to do. But I want you to think

805
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:34.720
right now about a time where people have tried to perform this ceremony of shame on you,

806
00:41:34.720 --> 00:41:40.480
have tried to shame you, tried to cut you off, tried to disgrace you, maybe even publicly

807
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:46.720
humiliate you, kazazad you. And I also want you to think of any time where you've done that to

808
00:41:46.720 --> 00:41:52.480
someone else. Maybe it was a family member. Maybe it was something at church that happened,

809
00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:58.880
a relationship, a friend group, maybe even yourself. You've tried to kazazad yourself,

810
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:08.480
shame yourself, humiliate yourself, talk to yourself in just such a gross inner voice

811
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:11.280
that's just so full of condemnation and judgment.

812
00:42:17.680 --> 00:42:19.760
What shame story has been following you

813
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:25.920
that you've been rehearsing over yourself? Or maybe you've been rehearsing over someone else.

814
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:31.040
What shame story do you keep talking about and keep telling over someone else's life?

815
00:42:42.080 --> 00:42:43.920
If you want to share, go ahead and put it in this chat.

816
00:42:47.600 --> 00:42:54.880
I want you to picture the father not hesitating but running to you, welcoming you with open arms,

817
00:42:54.880 --> 00:43:01.200
giving you authority, not making you prove yourself, just giving you authority because

818
00:43:01.200 --> 00:43:06.640
you're a son, you're a daughter, giving you garments of identity. And I also want you to

819
00:43:06.640 --> 00:43:11.440
see him doing that to the person who wronged you because he does long to do that. He may not do it

820
00:43:11.680 --> 00:43:15.920
because he does long to do that. He may not do it through you. You may have nothing to do with

821
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:21.120
their redemption story and it may be safe for you to not be in relationship with them. That's fine,

822
00:43:21.120 --> 00:43:25.360
but you can not be in relationship with them and still release them from this kazaza.

823
00:43:27.200 --> 00:43:30.640
And I really want to encourage you to do that right now. They may not even be alive on the

824
00:43:30.640 --> 00:43:35.760
earth anymore. They may be someone that you hope to never see again in your life, but you can still

825
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:49.360
release them. You can, and we need to. God wants to cover us all with the blood of Jesus,

826
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:54.880
with that robe of righteousness that Jesus has provided for us at the cross. And the enemy can't

827
00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:58.880
uncover us. You guys, if you decide to wear that robe of righteousness, the enemy cannot take it

828
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:08.080
off of you. He can't. So I want you to repeat after me. If you want to make this declaration,

829
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.

830
00:44:18.560 --> 00:44:31.200
The father is re-robing me. The father is re-ringing me. Come on. The father is re-naming me.

831
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:38.720
And today can be the day that I fully come home to his heart. This can be my homecoming day.

832
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:45.200
This can be the day that I actually allow the father to robe me and ring me.

833
00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:59.280
To reconcile me, to restore me. Yes, Lord.

834
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.000
But it's a great question.

835
00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:13.000
Yes, because you guys were not our mistakes.

836
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:17.000
I had a quote on a website years ago and it was about forgiveness.

837
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:20.000
And it was the very beginning of me teaching the heart work and the

838
00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:26.000
quote just said that.

839
00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:29.000
You know, when we're the full, the full circle of forgiveness,

840
00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:33.000
we're not our mistakes.

841
00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:36.000
We're not the people that they've caused us because they are not their

842
00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:38.000
mistakes and we are not our pain.

843
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:40.000
That was the quote that they quoted me on this website as saying.

844
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:43.000
Because true.

845
00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:45.000
Oftentimes when people wrong us or when we wrong others.

846
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.000
Our identity gets.

847
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:54.000
Placed into that mistake.

848
00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:55.000
So if someone's wronged you in your little black book,

849
00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:57.000
they're the liar cheater user abuser loser.

850
00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:01.000
And oftentimes we think of ourselves that way when we're the ones that

851
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:04.000
made the mistake. We're failures. We're stupid.

852
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:09.000
We're unworthy of love.

853
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:12.000
And so God wants to strip us.

854
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:15.000
Of the shame.

855
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:18.000
He wants to put back on us.

856
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:22.000
The identity of sons and daughters.

857
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:29.000
He wants to put back on us.

858
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:32.000
The identity of walking in the finished work of the cross and being

859
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.000
righteous, just because of what Christ did for us.

860
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:42.000
He wants to break off everything.

861
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:45.000
That would tell you that you not only have made mistakes,

862
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:47.000
but you are a mistake. We got it. We got to let go of that.

863
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:49.000
We had a powerful time at the Austin women's retreat.

864
00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:50.000
And we got to let go of that.

865
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:51.000
We got to let go of that.

866
00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.000
We got to let go of that.

867
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:53.000
We got to let go of that.

868
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:54.000
We got to let go of that.

869
00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:55.000
We got to let go of that.

870
00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:56.000
It was just incredible.

871
00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:58.000
It was incredible transformational time.

872
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.000
So as we see from the prodigal story,

873
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.000
we don't have to earn our way back into God's love and neither do other

874
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:04.000
people, the other people that have wronged.

875
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:05.000
Us.

876
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:12.000
They do not have to earn their way back into God's love.

877
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:13.000
I already told you guys,

878
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:16.000
but the father did not ask for the son to explain himself to grovel,

879
00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:17.000
to be a sinner.

880
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:18.000
And I'm not going to do that.

881
00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:21.000
I'm going to make sure that we have appropriate heaven.

882
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:31.000
Orchestrated boundaries.

883
00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:34.000
But not all the psycho babble that keeps us in these constant shame,

884
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.000
sin cycles. We don't want that. And we need to release that today.

885
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:38.000
And so for some of you,

886
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:40.000
I just want to just release over you that your story isn't over.

887
00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:42.000
It's being rewritten and such beautiful.

888
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:43.000
And I want to encourage you to accept it,

889
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:44.000
even if you feel like you don't deserve it.

890
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:48.000
And especially if you feel like you don't deserve it.

891
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:51.000
Especially because a lot of us have been living like spiritual orphans.

892
00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:54.000
We really have. We're here. Yeah. We're showing up.

893
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:57.000
We're hoping that God is going to bless us with what it is that we've

894
00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:58.000
come here for.

895
00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:01.000
But we don't really believe that we deserve it.

896
00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:03.000
That's the difference between being an orphan and being a son.

897
00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:06.000
You're hoping as an orphan,

898
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:09.000
you're hoping that someone will have benevolence on you as an orphan.

899
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:11.000
You're hoping that someone's going to give you something,

900
00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:12.000
but as a son and daughter,

901
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:15.000
you just go down and you sit at the table and you just start eating.

902
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:21.000
Is that not true?

903
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:23.000
Is that not true? As an outsider.

904
00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:26.000
Think about even those of you that, you know,

905
00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:29.000
would be dining at someone else's home where it's not your home.

906
00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.000
You're not the son and daughter of that house.

907
00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:33.000
You don't just go and get in the fridge. Do you? And just.

908
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:37.000
You don't do that. You wait to be invited. You wait to be, you know,

909
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:40.000
asked to sit down. You wait to be invited to eat.

910
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:42.000
But the sons and daughters of the house don't do that.

911
00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:44.000
The sons and daughters just go over and they dig in.

912
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:47.000
They don't ask for permission to go in the fridge.

913
00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:50.000
They just do whatever they want. Right?

914
00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:54.000
Why? Because that all belongs to them.

915
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:57.000
And this is the message that the father tried to tell the elder brother

916
00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:59.000
who was so ticked off.

917
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:02.000
And now I understand why the elder brother was so ticked off.

918
00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:04.000
Not only did the younger brother not get.

919
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:07.000
Which he should have been. The other brother was so pious.

920
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.000
Like I've done everything right. I've served the father.

921
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.000
I've been exactly what I'm supposed to be.

922
00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:14.000
And then he sees this younger brother get all this favor,

923
00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:15.000
get all this love.

924
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:17.000
Get all this undeserved.

925
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:31.000
Grace.

926
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:37.000
And then on top of that, the father throws a big party for him.

927
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:41.000
Kills a, kills the fatted calf, throws a big party invites.

928
00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:43.000
All the people, please.

929
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:45.000
See the story.

930
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:48.000
All the people that would have been meeting him out at the edge of town

931
00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:50.000
and Kazaa's eyeing him.

932
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.000
The father now by his own embrace of his son,

933
00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:57.000
by running out and showing everyone you better not.

934
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.000
You better not even think about it.

935
00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:00.000
That's what I'm doing.

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

937
00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:04.800
I'm bringing him back in, I'm giving him authority.

938
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:08.680
And this guy was a landowner, this guy was a big deal.

939
00:50:08.680 --> 00:50:11.400
And so no one's gonna mess with what he wants to do.

940
00:50:11.400 --> 00:50:14.560
And he's also giving his son his authority.

941
00:50:14.560 --> 00:50:16.960
So not only you're not gonna mess with me,

942
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:18.700
but now you're not gonna mess with my son

943
00:50:18.700 --> 00:50:23.040
because he has the same authority that I do, right?

944
00:50:23.040 --> 00:50:26.440
But then he takes him home and he invites all the people

945
00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:30.200
that were ready to shame him, to celebrate him.

946
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:34.820
Whoa, this story is just blowing me up.

947
00:50:36.160 --> 00:50:37.860
You guys, do you see it?

948
00:50:38.900 --> 00:50:40.360
Do you see it?

949
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:42.720
I just want you to know the greatest moments of your life.

950
00:50:42.720 --> 00:50:44.640
And I don't want you to have sour grapes about this.

951
00:50:44.640 --> 00:50:48.320
I don't want you to have an ego about this, not sour grapes.

952
00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:50.840
I don't want you to have an ego about this.

953
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:54.940
I don't want you to have a big head about this,

954
00:50:54.940 --> 00:50:57.860
but there's gonna be moments in your near future

955
00:50:57.860 --> 00:51:00.300
where God is going to literally celebrate you

956
00:51:00.300 --> 00:51:02.020
in the presence of your enemies.

957
00:51:03.140 --> 00:51:05.800
The Psalmist said, in the presence of my enemies,

958
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:08.340
he welcomes me as his special guest

959
00:51:08.340 --> 00:51:10.020
with blessings overflowing.

960
00:51:10.020 --> 00:51:13.100
His goodness and unfailing kindness will be with me

961
00:51:13.100 --> 00:51:15.260
all of my life.

962
00:51:15.260 --> 00:51:16.700
Woo, come on.

963
00:51:19.100 --> 00:51:21.820
The people that are hating on you from afar

964
00:51:21.820 --> 00:51:24.300
and they can't wait to see your downfall.

965
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:26.380
I know it's sad to say, but for some of us,

966
00:51:26.380 --> 00:51:28.620
there are people out there that would like nothing better

967
00:51:28.620 --> 00:51:30.940
than to see something unfortunate happen to us.

968
00:51:30.940 --> 00:51:32.580
Maybe not like us die or something,

969
00:51:32.580 --> 00:51:37.580
but like lose our money or lose our relationship or whatever.

970
00:51:38.940 --> 00:51:41.220
They don't want good things for us.

971
00:51:41.220 --> 00:51:42.700
They hate us.

972
00:51:42.700 --> 00:51:46.340
They've come into agreement with a spirit of hatred.

973
00:51:46.340 --> 00:51:48.760
But Father, we just release them today.

974
00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:52.300
You command us in your word to pray for those that hate us

975
00:51:52.340 --> 00:51:55.620
and despitefully use us, right?

976
00:51:55.620 --> 00:51:57.500
And so we just pray for them today, Lord,

977
00:51:57.500 --> 00:51:59.660
that you would just help them, God,

978
00:51:59.660 --> 00:52:02.980
to see that we all deserve kazazah,

979
00:52:02.980 --> 00:52:05.280
but you sent Jesus to the cross

980
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:08.460
so that we can receive your unmerited grace and favor.

981
00:52:09.780 --> 00:52:10.620
Woo.

982
00:52:12.140 --> 00:52:13.960
Not just to us, but through us, Lord.

983
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:16.880
And so we just release that, but we know,

984
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:18.100
and we don't relish in this.

985
00:52:18.100 --> 00:52:19.740
We relish in the favor of the Father,

986
00:52:19.740 --> 00:52:24.240
but there will be a time when they get to see us celebrated.

987
00:52:26.500 --> 00:52:28.220
It's just the word of God.

988
00:52:28.220 --> 00:52:29.460
It's just what it says.

989
00:52:31.380 --> 00:52:32.860
It's just what it says.

990
00:52:32.860 --> 00:52:37.860
So we're not bystanders and we're not orphans.

991
00:52:39.580 --> 00:52:41.860
We are children of the house.

992
00:52:41.860 --> 00:52:44.540
And so God is inviting us to come and sit at the table

993
00:52:44.540 --> 00:52:49.060
and dig in today, not stand outside the door,

994
00:52:49.060 --> 00:52:52.260
not say, oh God, I'll just be a servant in your house.

995
00:52:52.260 --> 00:52:53.680
I'll just be a servant in your house.

996
00:52:53.680 --> 00:52:54.660
I got divorced.

997
00:52:54.660 --> 00:52:55.500
I messed up.

998
00:52:55.500 --> 00:52:56.320
I did this.

999
00:52:56.320 --> 00:52:57.160
I did that.

1000
00:52:57.160 --> 00:52:57.980
You know, I'll just serve you.

1001
00:52:57.980 --> 00:52:59.140
Whatever you want, God.

1002
00:52:59.140 --> 00:53:01.220
No, he's saying, what do you want?

1003
00:53:01.220 --> 00:53:04.180
Go listen to last week's Supernatural Saturday.

1004
00:53:04.180 --> 00:53:05.000
What do you want?

1005
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:07.260
What makes your heart beat fast?

1006
00:53:07.260 --> 00:53:09.660
The Father wants to not only embrace you,

1007
00:53:09.660 --> 00:53:13.420
but he also wants to show you that you can't be replaced.

1008
00:53:13.420 --> 00:53:14.260
He wants to embrace you.

1009
00:53:14.260 --> 00:53:16.380
Mary, your time is up, sweetie pie.

1010
00:53:16.380 --> 00:53:17.220
Not.

1011
00:53:17.220 --> 00:53:18.160
I'm sorry, yep.

1012
00:53:18.160 --> 00:53:19.000
Okay, hold on.

1013
00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:24.000
He wants to embrace you, not replace you.

1014
00:53:25.560 --> 00:53:29.160
Okay, all right, he does.

1015
00:53:29.160 --> 00:53:31.000
He wants to embrace you, not replace you.

1016
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:33.000
He doesn't wanna replace you as a son and daughter

1017
00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:35.280
at his table and you become a servant.

1018
00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:37.080
No, that isn't what he wants.

1019
00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:40.760
That's not what God is looking to do.

1020
00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:43.720
Sorry, I'm just looking to see if anyone needs to be muted.

1021
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:48.560
He doesn't wanna do that.

1022
00:53:49.520 --> 00:53:50.360
He's not doing that.

1023
00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:51.540
You may be doing that to yourself.

1024
00:53:51.540 --> 00:53:54.380
You may be downgrading yourself to a servant.

1025
00:53:54.380 --> 00:53:55.420
You're working for God.

1026
00:53:55.420 --> 00:53:57.060
You're punching a time clock for God.

1027
00:53:57.060 --> 00:53:58.680
Just how can I serve you?

1028
00:54:00.340 --> 00:54:03.380
He wants you to love him and he wants to love you

1029
00:54:03.380 --> 00:54:04.940
because you are a child of God.

1030
00:54:09.100 --> 00:54:10.980
All right, okay.

1031
00:54:10.980 --> 00:54:14.320
So I wanna speak a blessing over all of us.

1032
00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:15.740
We're down to the wire here.

1033
00:54:19.900 --> 00:54:23.780
Hmm, God is telling some of you guys, your robe is ready.

1034
00:54:24.740 --> 00:54:26.620
Your ring is ready.

1035
00:54:26.620 --> 00:54:29.300
Come on, your robe is ready.

1036
00:54:29.300 --> 00:54:30.140
Your ring is ready.

1037
00:54:30.140 --> 00:54:31.740
Your place at the table is ready.

1038
00:54:32.620 --> 00:54:36.160
It is, so I want you just to close your eyes

1039
00:54:36.160 --> 00:54:39.740
and I'm just going to, I'm just gonna speak a blessing

1040
00:54:39.740 --> 00:54:41.500
over all of us this morning.

1041
00:54:43.140 --> 00:54:46.460
Woo, and for some of you, once again,

1042
00:54:46.460 --> 00:54:48.200
this is what needs to flow through you

1043
00:54:48.220 --> 00:54:49.660
towards somebody else.

1044
00:54:49.660 --> 00:54:52.220
It's not just to you, it's through you.

1045
00:54:55.460 --> 00:54:57.240
Yes, Lord, yes, Lord.

1046
00:54:58.300 --> 00:54:59.660
All right, thank you, God.

1047
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.440
So I just want to do an old-fashioned kind of blessing.

1048
00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:09.240
May the Father outrun every lie,

1049
00:55:09.240 --> 00:55:13.860
every shame, every mistake, every accusation.

1050
00:55:13.860 --> 00:55:18.400
May the sound of broken pots that have been broken at

1051
00:55:18.400 --> 00:55:22.360
your feet in the past never define you ever again.

1052
00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:29.580
Jesus. May you walk in sonship and daughterhood.

1053
00:55:29.860 --> 00:55:33.780
May you know the embrace of the Father who restores,

1054
00:55:33.780 --> 00:55:37.900
and may this be the season that you fully allow yourself

1055
00:55:37.900 --> 00:55:44.900
to come home as an heir and a joint heir with Christ.

1056
00:55:44.900 --> 00:55:46.820
All right, so friends, I want you to try to walk this out

1057
00:55:46.820 --> 00:55:48.140
this week in different ways.

1058
00:55:48.140 --> 00:55:53.860
If you hear the accusing voices of the past,

1059
00:55:53.860 --> 00:55:55.500
because a lot of times we just do this to ourselves.

1060
00:55:55.500 --> 00:55:57.060
It's not even anyone else doing it to us.

1061
00:55:57.060 --> 00:55:59.140
It's us trying to shame ourselves.

1062
00:55:59.140 --> 00:56:03.340
I want you to remember that God is waiting with your ring

1063
00:56:03.340 --> 00:56:06.980
and with your robe, and I want you to picture yourself

1064
00:56:06.980 --> 00:56:11.260
not only not coming into agreement with the accusations,

1065
00:56:11.260 --> 00:56:12.780
but actually coming to the Father

1066
00:56:12.780 --> 00:56:14.660
and allowing Him to embrace you,

1067
00:56:14.660 --> 00:56:18.380
allowing Him to ring you, allowing Him to robe you,

1068
00:56:18.380 --> 00:56:21.900
allowing Him to help you, allowing Him to run to you

1069
00:56:21.900 --> 00:56:25.580
as He wants to and desires to do.

1070
00:56:25.580 --> 00:56:30.220
And I want you to really try to step back into community.

1071
00:56:30.220 --> 00:56:34.260
Instead of fearing community, instead of fearing rejection,

1072
00:56:34.260 --> 00:56:36.900
I want you to allow the love of the Father

1073
00:56:36.900 --> 00:56:40.540
and this revelation that we've gotten this morning together

1074
00:56:40.540 --> 00:56:45.260
to actually propel you back into relationship with people

1075
00:56:45.260 --> 00:56:46.540
without the fear of rejection,

1076
00:56:46.540 --> 00:56:49.780
knowing that you've already been accepted in the beloved.

1077
00:56:49.780 --> 00:56:51.700
All right, I love y'all.

1078
00:56:51.700 --> 00:56:52.540
I appreciate you.

1079
00:56:53.140 --> 00:56:56.380
Was this powerful for you as it was for me?

1080
00:56:56.380 --> 00:56:59.940
So powerful for me, especially the idea

1081
00:56:59.940 --> 00:57:01.940
that not only did the Father run,

1082
00:57:01.940 --> 00:57:05.100
not only did He circumvent the ceremony of shame,

1083
00:57:05.100 --> 00:57:09.300
but then He threw a celebration with the very same people

1084
00:57:09.300 --> 00:57:12.060
that were about to, you know,

1085
00:57:14.580 --> 00:57:16.020
cut you off.

1086
00:57:16.020 --> 00:57:16.860
Wow.

1087
00:57:18.380 --> 00:57:19.780
Wow, wow, wow.

1088
00:57:19.780 --> 00:57:21.860
Yes, the replay should be up sometime today.

1089
00:57:22.300 --> 00:57:23.660
Maybe let someone in your life

1090
00:57:23.660 --> 00:57:28.660
that you think really needs to hear this, hear it.

1091
00:57:28.860 --> 00:57:30.460
I know that it's for our community,

1092
00:57:30.460 --> 00:57:34.300
but perhaps play it for someone who really needs to hear it.

1093
00:57:35.540 --> 00:57:36.980
I think that's how you can pay this.

1094
00:57:36.980 --> 00:57:38.820
You can pay this message forward

1095
00:57:38.820 --> 00:57:39.980
because I believe there's a lot of people

1096
00:57:39.980 --> 00:57:42.340
who need to hear this message.

1097
00:57:42.340 --> 00:57:44.220
I love you guys.

1098
00:57:44.220 --> 00:57:45.780
Have a supernatural Saturday.

1099
00:57:45.780 --> 00:57:46.980
See you soon.

1100
00:57:46.980 --> 00:57:48.220
Thank you. God bless.