My Comeback

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What's going on, everybody?
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of Beyond Sunday.
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I am your host, Lee Day, and I pastor Christ Family Outreach Church.
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Located, say it with me if you know it.
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Located in Amelia Courthouse, Virginia.
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And I want to say thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of Beyond Sunday, the podcast.
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So I want to talk to you on this particular episode about the comeback, your comeback, my comeback.
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Because the truth is, every one of us in life, one point or another, many, hey, let's just be real.
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Let's be honest.
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Many points in life.
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We're going to find ourselves needing a comeback.
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Now, if you got your Bibles, I want you to go ahead and get them open to Luke chapter 15.
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We're going to begin with the 11th verse.
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And I'm going to read seven or eight verses or so.
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So I want you to hang on tight.
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Hold on.
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Hang in there.
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When I'm done reading, we're going to swing back around and we're going to talk about it.
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And we're going to see how we can apply it, this scripture, this passage of the text to our lives right now.
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Many of you know this.
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It's the parable of the prodigal son.
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But in Luke 15, beginning with the 11th verse, this is what the word of the Lord says.
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And he said, There was a man who had two sons, and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.
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And he divided his property between them.
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Not many days later the younger son gathered all that he had and took a journey into the far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
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And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.
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So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
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And as he was longing and he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
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But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread?
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But I perish here with hunger.
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I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
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I am no longer worthy to be called your son.
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Treat me as one of your hired servants.
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Let's stop right there for a moment.
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Every person has been there before when for whatever reason we've ended up on a path that God had never called us to be on.
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That's true, isn't it?
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That's true.
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We've all come to a moment where we have realized we are walking down a road that God has never, one, God has never called us to walk down, but two, God doesn't even want us on it.
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And for some people, anger took them down that road.
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Others may have been deceived and didn't even realize what they were getting into to somewhat of a degree, anyway.
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And some may have even purposefully chosen out of rebellion and disobedience to walk down the road of sin just simply for pleasure.
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Some may have given in and given up simply because they've grown tired and weary of trying to do the right thing.
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They become tired of trying to fight the good fight of the faith.
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They have become tired of trying to go from faith to faith.
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Okay.
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And so there's many different reasons that cause us to go down the wrong road or that lure us or tempt us to go down the wrong road.
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But no matter what the reason for heading down the wrong path is, one truth, one truth remains the same.
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There must, and I mean capital letters must, there must be a comeback moment.
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It's critical.
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The prodigal son had his comeback moment.
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And it's found in the 17th verse.
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And I just want to read this one verse to you, Luke chapter 15, verse 17.
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I read it to you a moment ago, but I just want to refresh, um, I want to refresh your mind of this, your memory of this.
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But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread?
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But I perish here with hunger.
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He came to himself.
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The 17th verse literally tells us that.
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But when he came to himself, in other words, let me break this down.
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The prodigal son, he took responsibility, and I think that's a that is a thing that a lot of people, even within the church houses today, lack.
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He took responsibility and stopped trying to force the situation that he so desperately wanted to take place.
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He wanted to be out in that far country.
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He wanted to be doing it on his own.
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He wanted to be living in that sinful living.
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He wanted to be living that lifestyle where he could just please his flesh whenever and however and as often ever as he wanted.
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He knew.
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He knew that his way, the path that he chose to take, was coming to an end.
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Now, if you're taking notes, I want you to write this down.
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The prodigal son came to himself.
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He took responsibility.
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He understood how low he had fallen.
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And in Romans 12.2, you could jot that down as a reference, my good friends.
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In Romans 12.2, it says this do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.
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Now, some people simply need a new mindset.
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They need to hit the reset button simply because, and we've all been here before, they've fallen into what I say is stinking thanking.
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In other words, their mind needs to be renewed because they've fallen and begun to look like the world again in certain areas of their lives.
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Now, I'm gonna give you a couple steps here.
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I'm gonna start out obviously with step number one.
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Step number one of the comeback is realizing where you're at.
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We see that with the prodigal son.
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He came to himself.
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Luke chapter 15, 17th verse.
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So step number one of the comeback is realizing where you're at.
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You cannot realize the direction you need to go until you're first realizing where you've ended up.
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Where you've ended up.
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Now, I'm gonna read four verses or so, Luke 15, beginning with the 14th verse.
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Pay close attention.
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And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.
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So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country who sent him into his fields to feed pigs, and he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
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But when he had came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread?
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But I perish here with hunger.
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Again, I say the first step to the comeback is realizing where you're at in life.
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The prodigal son assessed his situation.
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Write that down if you're taking notes.
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The prodigal son assessed the situation.
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And maybe that's what you need to do today.
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Can I just say there's nothing wrong with daily taking a spiritual inventory of your life?
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But the prodigal son assessed the situation.
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And after realizing what he had done, he knew he needed to take action.
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Step number two in the comeback, here it is.
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Do something about it.
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How many times in life have we thought about what needs to be done, but we don't go do what needs to be done?
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We know, we know what needs to be done.
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We just don't go out there and get it done.
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So step number two in the comeback is do something about it.
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If you know you got to get back into church, hey, go to church.
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If you know you got to start listening to praise and worship music again because it's edifying and the worldly stuff is tearing you down, change the station.
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Change the station.
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Do something about it.
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If you know the people that you're hanging out with are no good for you, do something about it.
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Do something about it.
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Just knowing it is half the battle.
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But if you want to win, if you want to be victorious, you got to complete the battle.
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You got to write this down.
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You got to finish well.
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And if you're out there and you're willing to participate, just say that out loud right now.
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In the count of three, we're going to say together, finish well.
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Finish well.
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Ready?
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One, two, three.
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Finish well.
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That's what we got to do.
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We got to finish well.
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We've got to do more than just want to finish well.
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We actually have to cross the finish line.
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And we can do it together in the family of Christ.
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Can somebody out there say amen to that?
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Glory to God.
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Hallelujah.
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He is the almighty God, my friends, and he will walk us through every single step of the way.
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Now, Luke 15, look at the 18th verse.
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I'm going to read three verses or so.
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This is what it says.
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We're moving on in the text.
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I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
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I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
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So this is his plan.
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He's going back to his daddy.
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I'm no longer, I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
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Treat me as one of your hired servants.
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Verse 20.
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And he arose and he came to his father.
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But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
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Now many people will simply talk about their comeback because that's the easy thing to do.
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Just talking about the comeback.
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But the act of planning, planning itself, okay.
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The act of planning is a waste of time if all you're gonna do is talk about your comeback.
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That's it.
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Just a waste of time.
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If you don't take what you've talked about, if you don't take your plan and put it into action, it's just a waste of time.
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So write this down, my friends.
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Plan of action.
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I want a plan of action.
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I don't want it to just be a plan in my head.
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I don't want it to just be a plan in my heart.
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I don't even want it to just be a plan in my mouth.
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I want it to be a plan of action.
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I want my head, my heart, my mouth, my spirit, my hands, my feet.
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I want everything to be all about it.
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I want it to be, my brothers and sisters, I want it to be a plan of action.
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Now in Jeremiah 8.4, jot that down as a reference.
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In Jeremiah 8.4, God was speaking to his people and he said, Thus says the Lord, when men fall, do they not rise again?
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If one turns away, does he not return?
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Yes, so good.
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Now, unfortunately, at the time, God was speaking to a people that hadn't yet come to themselves, as the prodigal son had done.
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They were choosing not to return.
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But this brings me to another point.
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You must understand the why in your comeback.
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You've got to have your reason.
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That's what's going to help motivate you along the process of fulfilling the plan of action, which is your comeback.
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Here's the deal: when you're not truly serving God, you don't have real victory.
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And this is why what seems to be joy and pleasure quickly fade and must continue to be found and placed in the life that does not honor God.
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Because the world's victories and pleasures are temporary.
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So if it's not going to be about the real reason and you're just putting in daily, momentary, temporary pleasures, it's going to burn out quick like a candle.
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You've got to make it all about the right reasons.
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Now the 20th verse says this, Luke chapter 15, verse 20.
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And he arose and came to his father.
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So now he's putting his plan into action.
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And he arose and came to his father, but while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion.
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Can we say amen?
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This is a beautiful picture of us and God.
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And he ran and embraced him and kissed him.
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Notice the position the father takes to the son's coming home.
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The father doesn't just wait as to teach his son a lesson, as he has to humble himself and walk all the way to the porch.
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Okay, as he's got to walk all the way to the front entrance of the tent, and the father just stare him down in anger.
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No, the father shows mercy.
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He shows grace.
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He shows such an unlimited level and amount of forgiveness and love.
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And this is what God is showing to us in this parable as a representative of him and us, you and I.
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So again, look at the position that the father takes to the son's coming home.
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The father runs to the son and embraces him.
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Hallelujah.
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Glory to God.
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If we only knew how often God was waiting to do that to us.
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How often was God or has God been waiting for us to come back from the road of despair, from the road of sin, from the road of destruction that we ourselves purposefully had chosen for our lives.
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Now I want you to look at the goodness, the faithfulness, and the love of God on display in the life of the Father, again, which we know represents God.
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The father does not come out and scold his son.
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The father does not come out and remind the son of his failures.
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He doesn't say, Where's all the stuff?
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Where's the inheritance that I work so hard for you to have?
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He doesn't come out and verbally beat him down and give him the I told you so speech.
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Where you been, boy.
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He knows, he knows his son knows where he's been.
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Verse 20 tells us that the father felt compassion for his son, and he went to his son and he embraced him and he kissed him.
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Write this down.
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The father, which is God, the father loves his children.
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Maybe you need to hear that today.
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And if you already knew it, which I hope you did, then I just want you to be encouraged and refreshed and blessed in the reminder that Abba, your father God, Yahweh, the creator of all things good of the heavens and the earth, he loves you.
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No matter where you've been, how far you've fallen, no matter where you come from, no matter who your family lineage has been in, he loves you.
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No matter how much sin you were wrapped up in, right before you started listening to this episode, your Father God, He loves you.
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So do not let the enemy use guilt or shame from where you've been to keep you from going where you need to be.
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Get a plan of action and actually get to stepping.
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Now listen, guilt is a roadblock.
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It is used by the enemy as a roadblock to keep you from coming home to God.
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Guilt is a hazard in the road trying to hinder you, trying to hinder you from your comeback.
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I want you to look at the 21st verse.
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I'm gonna read it to you.
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Luke 15, 21 says this and the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
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I am no longer worthy to be called your son.
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And we talked a lot about confession, okay, on this episode.
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About coming to self, about realizing how far he had fallen, okay, about wanting to go back home.
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All these are pieces, if you will, in the process of confession.
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It is so important in our walk and in our relationship with God that we take time and repent and confess of the things that we have done that are sin against our Heavenly Father.
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But I want you to write this down.
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There's power in my confession.
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Why?
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Because it releases us from the burden of guilt that the enemy tries to put on us, and and honestly, that we put on ourselves, to be completely honest, that we put on ourselves.
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When we ask Jesus Christ to forgive us, listen to me, he does.
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And his blood has washed us and we are forgiven and we are clean and we are set free.
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And the son goes home, he asks for forgiveness, hoping to at least have the opportunity to work for his father as a servant in order to make a large enough living to be able to eat and not die.
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But the father, ooh, listen to this.
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But the father had better plans for his son.
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The father had better plans for his son, and the father's got better plans for you, and the father's got better plans for me.
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Now I want you to think about that.
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The son had came to himself, okay?
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And in the 19th verse, he had plans to come home and be one of his father's servants.
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But God, listen, God's plans are better than my plans.
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God's plans are better than your plans.
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God's plans are better than our plans and the prodigal's plans.
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Now I'm going to read you two verses, Luke 15, 22 and 23.
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We're going to move on quickly.
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But the father said to his servants, Bring quickly the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet, and bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.
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Look at this.
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Look at this.
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This father is rejoicing that the one lost in sin has come home.
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He's rejoicing, and the one that run away has come home.
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And he says, Let us eat and celebrate.
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Verse 24.
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I'm gonna go ahead and get into it.
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For this my son was dead and is alive again.
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He was lost and is found.
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And the scripture says at the end of the 24th, 24th verse, and they began to celebrate.
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Oh, that's so precious.
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It's beautiful.
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The son thought that his past was gonna impact his present.
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I need you to hear that.
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The son thought that because of where he had gone and who he had become was going to impact his present, but it didn't.
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God had better plans.
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Thank God God had better plans.
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Don't ever let your past of falling short of the mark keep you from hitting the mark today.
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Go get it.
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Go get it.
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Go hit the mark.
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Now let me point out something here.
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The son made it home.
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The sun made it home.
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And on his way back, he didn't let his failures turn him around.
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He wasn't concerned about fear of what his father might say to the point to where it would turn him around.
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He did not turn back.
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The fear of being unsuccessful as a servant did not turn him around.
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The unknown of what was about to take place in this family reunion did not turn him around.
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Stop worrying about what's going to happen if I go back to my church?
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What's going to happen if I have to humble self and go back into that church that I left?
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Stop worrying about it.
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If that's where God has you and that's where God's calling you, go back home.
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Go home to that church, wherever it is, in whatever state, in whatever county, wherever it is you live, wherever God has called you to serve, wherever God has called you to grow.
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Get inside the church that God has called you to grow in.
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Not a dead church and a live church.
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I love that the Father celebrates the comeback of his wayward son.
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That's what our God does.
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That's what our God does.
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Let's pray together.
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Father, in the name and in the blood of Jesus, I am just so grateful that your ways are better than our ways.
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Your thoughts are higher than our thoughts, Father God.
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Your plans are better than our plans.
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And Father, I lift up every person that is in need of a comeback right now, Father.
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God, that they would cry out to you and they would just simply ask you for help.
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And that by the way of your Holy Spirit, you would continue, Father, to lead, guide, and direct them back home.
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In the name and the blood of Jesus, I rebuke the enemy from placing any more roadblocks or hazards in the streets.
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Father, and the ones that are there, I pray in the name of the blood of Jesus that they be removed, and that it all be for your glory and in your will.
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In the name of the blood of Jesus Christ, all God's people said.
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Amen, amen, and amen.
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To God be the glory, my friends.
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And until next time, stay in prayer.
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Continue to recognize the presence of God and stay in his word.