Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, definitely for children of
Speaker 1: all ages. Welcome to another edition of Let's Get Biblical
Speaker 1: with your host, a man formerly in the world of
Speaker 1: stand up comedy and acting as an entertainer, and now
Speaker 1: an evangelist for Christ. Here he is your host, My
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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Let's Get Biblical with your
Speaker 1: boy Katie. What is this all about this doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like a biblical show. I mean, we're supposed to be
Speaker 1: opening up the Bible and being super serious, right, We're
Speaker 1: supposed to be right in it. But this is not.
Speaker 1: This is some hippity hop nonsense to start the show. Listen,
Speaker 1: come down, whether you're a believer, non believer, somebody just
Speaker 1: walking in their faith. Listen. We have a phrase around here,
Speaker 1: we dare you. We dare you to start your faith,
Speaker 1: reignite your faith, and continue your faith with us as
Speaker 1: we lace through the scriptures of the good Old b I. B.
Speaker 1: L e. The Basic Constructions before leaving Earth Manual and
Speaker 1: how we do that as we actually use testimony in
Speaker 1: hopes of transformation. But guess what, we're going to be
Speaker 1: very transparent with you as well. And I'm very excited
Speaker 1: about this month, the month of May. Here, spring is
Speaker 1: upon us. The flowers are blooming in certain parts of
Speaker 1: the world, a little bit of April showers have passed,
Speaker 1: and you're starting to see things blossom. And one of
Speaker 1: the things I love about the Bible is Jesus and
Speaker 1: his parables and something we've never really touched on here
Speaker 1: on the show, and I want to share them with you.
Speaker 1: Because as a student in the student ministry studies of
Speaker 1: Global University Online and through our church Great Church here
Speaker 1: in Texas, Castroville, Texas. Big shout out to our friends
Speaker 1: at Discover Church. That's right, and our friends Enlightel at
Speaker 1: Discover Church as well. Who listen. I was studying the
Speaker 1: Pariables a little bit and I'm in the book of
Speaker 1: what they call Hermeneutics. I know some of y'all are
Speaker 1: flipping right now through your Bible saying, I don't see
Speaker 1: the book of Hermanoutics in here. What's going on. It's okay,
Speaker 1: it's okay. That's not a book in the Bible. Hermonutics
Speaker 1: is the breakdown and the study of words, phrases, paragraphs
Speaker 1: and more in the Bible. And I'm not a big
Speaker 1: English guy, all right. It teaches you how to interpret
Speaker 1: the Bible, and man, I'm struggling through it. But when
Speaker 1: I open up the Bible now, things just pop. It
Speaker 1: really doesn't. I want to share that with you guys.
Speaker 1: Certain words pop, phrases pop, the stories pop, and the
Speaker 1: message pops. I love it. So if you get an opportunity,
Speaker 1: maybe go online take a Hermeneutics class and it'll enhance
Speaker 1: your walk with God one hundred percent. And today I
Speaker 1: want to talk about parables because we've never done it
Speaker 1: on the show in the couple of years we've been
Speaker 1: on the air. I try to share life things that
Speaker 1: I'm going through and pull out scripture wrapped around that life.
Speaker 1: But today it's going to be a little bit different.
Speaker 1: The month of May, we will be studying parables. So
Speaker 1: let's do just that, and we're going to start off
Speaker 1: with a good one. Because I am this guy. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys are this guy. I am
Speaker 1: the prodigal son. I am the prodigal son. No matter
Speaker 1: what I could do wrong, my mother and father will
Speaker 1: always love me. They will always be there with open
Speaker 1: arms ready to bring me back in. There have been
Speaker 1: several times in my life where I've battled alcohol, drugs, depression,
Speaker 1: a divorce. I've gone through these things, and every time
Speaker 1: my mother was there with her arms open. My father
Speaker 1: was there with his arms open to understand the situation
Speaker 1: I was going through. It sounds like our father above, right.
Speaker 1: We tend to forget that he's always there with his
Speaker 1: arms open. He's always there waiting for us. So we're
Speaker 1: going to study the parable of the Prodigal Son. Today
Speaker 1: it is in Luke fifteen versus eleven through thirty two.
Speaker 1: We're going to use the New Life Version standard Bible.
Speaker 1: So if you guys are going to be doing that,
Speaker 1: you can flip to just Luke chapter fifteen, chapter eleven
Speaker 1: versus thirty two. It doesn't matter what Bible you have.
Speaker 1: The reason why there's so many Bibles that have been
Speaker 1: written is it breaks down for you to better understand
Speaker 1: at a certain time or certain walk in your life.
Speaker 1: I started out with the New King James version. Man,
Speaker 1: did I have to go ahead and really have to
Speaker 1: google a lot of words? Then? Okay, talk about trying
Speaker 1: to interpret the Bible, right, But that's usually your closest
Speaker 1: to the writings that were originally out there. And then
Speaker 1: eventually you know, the stories are the same, the concept
Speaker 1: is the same, and everything that the Lord wants to
Speaker 1: share with you is the same, but it's just worded
Speaker 1: different because we're in a new world. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: face it. My son uses the word fire for cool, now, man,
Speaker 1: that's fire? What no? Fire means hot? Yeah, it's hot,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, forget about it. I'm done with this.
Speaker 1: I mean even back in the days when I was
Speaker 1: growing up, I use the word bad like it was cool.
Speaker 1: I'd get a new jacket. I look at my dad
Speaker 1: and he goes, oh, this is bad. He goes, do
Speaker 1: you want me to return it? It's different ways to
Speaker 1: interpret the Bible for better understanding. So let's go today
Speaker 1: and study the Parable of Prodigal Son. But before we do,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this something we always forget about when
Speaker 1: we read the Bible. Who wrote the passage? Luke? Right,
Speaker 1: Luke wrote this passage, But who is Luke? Luke was
Speaker 1: a physician and a missionary, and he was a companion,
Speaker 1: a real close companion of the apostle Paul, who he's
Speaker 1: writing to. You also should look at this addressed Theopolis,
Speaker 1: but it was intended for his church as well as
Speaker 1: the ultimate believing of all believers. So it's written for
Speaker 1: all of us. But at the time it was written
Speaker 1: for one of his friends, Theopolis, to help him with
Speaker 1: his church and engage more with his church. It was
Speaker 1: written right around sixty to eighty a d. And the
Speaker 1: theme of the book a Loup is the following. Luke
Speaker 1: presents Jesus as the Messiah, the Lord whose life, death
Speaker 1: and resurrection makes salvation available to all people everywhere, even
Speaker 1: to the least, the last, and the loss, And that
Speaker 1: leads us to the parable of the prodigal son, somebody
Speaker 1: who was lost. We're going to break down some of
Speaker 1: these verses. We may stop in between, because sometimes when
Speaker 1: I'm reading verses to you, the Lord puts something upon
Speaker 1: my heart at that time. I don't read this ahead
Speaker 1: of time. I'm reading it as you're reading it at
Speaker 1: the same time. So here we go, Luke, Chapter fifteen,
Speaker 1: verse eleven through thirty two, the parable of the prodigal Son,
Speaker 1: verse eleven. And he said there was a man who
Speaker 1: had two sons, and the younger of them said to
Speaker 1: his father, father, give me the share of the property
Speaker 1: that is coming to me, and he divided his property
Speaker 1: between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered
Speaker 1: all he had took a journey into a far country,
Speaker 1: and he squandered the property on reckless living. And when
Speaker 1: he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country,
Speaker 1: and he began to be in need. So we went
Speaker 1: and he hired hisself out to be one of the
Speaker 1: citizens of that country, who sent him into the fields
Speaker 1: to feed the pigs, and he was longing to be
Speaker 1: fed with the pods that the pigs hate, and no
Speaker 1: one gave him anything. Let's stop right there before we
Speaker 1: go any further. Here's this son who has it all.
Speaker 1: His dad is very wealthy in the Bible. When you
Speaker 1: have a lot of land a lot of animals, you're
Speaker 1: a very wealthy person, so much that he was giving
Speaker 1: it away to his sons as an inheritance. But his
Speaker 1: younger son said I want it now, and the father
Speaker 1: gave it to him. Why do you think the father
Speaker 1: does that? And notice I emphasize the word father, because
Speaker 1: the Lord will allow us to journey outside into the
Speaker 1: world to try things, hence maybe an addiction, maybe go
Speaker 1: to places we're not supposed to go. Why do you
Speaker 1: think the father allows that? You know, I used to
Speaker 1: think about this for a long time, and it's because
Speaker 1: we're all on this path, and sometimes that path is
Speaker 1: not lighted. We just continue down that path thinking we
Speaker 1: know where we're going. And when we don't ask for
Speaker 1: guidance or turn on that GPS, that God positional system,
Speaker 1: we get lost. And the pariable son got lost. He
Speaker 1: went out and squandered everything he had money, and he
Speaker 1: wasted it on everything, probably drinking, prostitution, gluttony, things that
Speaker 1: God frowned against in the Bible. But why would he
Speaker 1: allow him to do that. I know some of you
Speaker 1: are thinking God could stop him at him a moment.
Speaker 1: Free will a phrase that non believers and atheists hate
Speaker 1: to hear. Free will. This is a gift that God
Speaker 1: gave us free will in hopes that we will always
Speaker 1: come back to Him looking for guidance, understanding, love, empathy, respect.
Speaker 1: You're also challenged as well, because through the fire builds perseverance,
Speaker 1: which is biblical. Pastor Paul said that Apostle Paul, and
Speaker 1: when we go through that we're refined. Then we know
Speaker 1: not to go through that area again. I always liked
Speaker 1: what Pastor Stephen Ferdick said from Elevation Church. I know
Speaker 1: some of y'all don't like him, but in the past
Speaker 1: he did have something clever that he said, there has
Speaker 1: to be some area. Remember Jesus passed through Samaria when
Speaker 1: he didn't have to. We all have to go through
Speaker 1: some area that we don't want to go through in
Speaker 1: life in order to learn about it and not go back.
Speaker 1: This is what's happening with the prodigal son. There ended
Speaker 1: up being a famine in this country. He lost all
Speaker 1: that he had. He had to become this shepherd boy,
Speaker 1: and he was eating with the pigs and feeding the
Speaker 1: pigs just to live. So let's go on in verse seventeen,
Speaker 1: and it says, but when he came to himself, and
Speaker 1: he said, how many of my father's hired servants have
Speaker 1: more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger.
Speaker 1: This makes me laugh. He makes it seems like this
Speaker 1: is the father's fault, that he squandered all his wealth.
Speaker 1: Isn't it funny we do that with the Lord above
Speaker 1: when we go through troubles. Why is the Lord doing
Speaker 1: this to me? This is identical to what he's saying.
Speaker 1: But when he came to himself, he said, how many
Speaker 1: of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread,
Speaker 1: but I perish here with hunger. You put yourself in
Speaker 1: that situation because of the free will that was given
Speaker 1: to you. Verse eighteen says I will arise and go
Speaker 1: to my father, and I will say to him, Father,
Speaker 1: I have sinned against heaven, and before you I am
Speaker 1: no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me
Speaker 1: as one of your hired servants. And he arose and
Speaker 1: he came to his father. But while he was still
Speaker 1: a long way off, his father saw him and felt
Speaker 1: compassion and ran and embraced he kissed him, and he
Speaker 1: said to a son. Son said to his father, father,
Speaker 1: I have sinned against Heaven, and before you I am
Speaker 1: no longer worthy to be called to your son. But
Speaker 1: the father said to his servants, quickly, bring me my
Speaker 1: best robe. Put it on him, put a ring on
Speaker 1: his hand, put shoes on his feet, and bring the
Speaker 1: fat and calf, and kill it, and let us eat
Speaker 1: and celebrate. What where's my scooby doo moment? Rot? Right?
Speaker 1: This kid just went out and he squandered everything. He
Speaker 1: went against everything the father had said. But the father
Speaker 1: had his open arms waiting for him. This is what
Speaker 1: we do with the Lord. Now. We run away, we stumble,
Speaker 1: We sometimes turn our back on God, and then we
Speaker 1: want to blame him, just like the son did in
Speaker 1: this parable. But the father wanted to still give him
Speaker 1: the best. This is what Jesus wants to do for you,
Speaker 1: still wants to give you the best. Our father in
Speaker 1: heaven sent Jesus Christ to be nailed on a cross,
Speaker 1: so you can have the best by following him as
Speaker 1: we go on. Verse twenty four says, for this, my
Speaker 1: son was dead. See, he thought his son was dead.
Speaker 1: He ran away because back then you didn't have a
Speaker 1: cell phone, you didn't have the internet. They didn't have
Speaker 1: the you know, they didn't have what they called faith book.
Speaker 1: See what I did there instead of Facebook, faith book.
Speaker 1: You see what I did there. He couldn't figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on with the son. He thought he was dead.
Speaker 1: For my son was dead and is alive again. This
Speaker 1: could mean several things. He could have been dead spiritually
Speaker 1: because he went to the ways of the world, and
Speaker 1: now he's back because he asked for forgiveness and he
Speaker 1: humbled himself in front of his father. That's what we
Speaker 1: have to do. We have to humble ourselves and come
Speaker 1: to the father. This is exactly what this is. And
Speaker 1: I love this so much. For this son was dead
Speaker 1: and is alive again. He was lost and now is found.
Speaker 1: And they began to celebrate. Now, his older son was
Speaker 1: in the field and he came and drew near the house,
Speaker 1: and he heard music and dancing. And he called one
Speaker 1: of the servants and said, what is the meaning of this,
Speaker 1: and he said to him, your brother has come home.
Speaker 1: Your father has killed the fat and calf, because he
Speaker 1: has received him back safe and sound. But he was
Speaker 1: angry and refused to go in. His father came out
Speaker 1: and treated him. But he answered his father and said, look,
Speaker 1: these many years I have served you, and I never
Speaker 1: disobeyed your command. Yet you never gave me the young
Speaker 1: goat that I might celebrate with my friends. But when
Speaker 1: the son of yours came, and who has devoured your
Speaker 1: property with prostitutes, and you killed the fat and calf
Speaker 1: or him, And he said to him, son, you're always
Speaker 1: with me, and all that is mine is yours. It
Speaker 1: was fitting to celebrate and be glad for this. Your
Speaker 1: brother was dead and is alive. He is lost, and
Speaker 1: now he is found. You see, the older brother got upset.
Speaker 1: This kind of represents the believers, the believers who don't understand.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute. That guy is in prison.
Speaker 1: He's killed forty people. He has repented and found Jesus.
Speaker 1: But I've been with you all along, ever since I
Speaker 1: was a kid. I went through Sunday School, I learned
Speaker 1: about you. I walked with you, and you're to tell
Speaker 1: me we're going to be walking together and heaven. Yes,
Speaker 1: Because remember on the cross, what did the thief say
Speaker 1: to Jesus, forgive me, may I be with you? You
Speaker 1: know things along that way, and Jesus said, you will
Speaker 1: be with me in the kingdom. Even the thief repented
Speaker 1: on the cross. Now, a lot of people call us unfair,
Speaker 1: but we are supposed to come to God. We all
Speaker 1: have different walks, some longer, some shorter. Some people on
Speaker 1: their deathbed right now. You have heard the stories before
Speaker 1: with people in their hospital beds. I was never a believer,
Speaker 1: but I saw a bright light. I saw demons battling
Speaker 1: for me as well. But when I said the name
Speaker 1: Jesus and saw Jesus, he saved me. There's people battling
Speaker 1: on their deathbed right now who don't know Jesus but
Speaker 1: are trying to know him. They're going through that spiritual battle.
Speaker 1: But no matter how long the walk, no matter how
Speaker 1: long the race that you've been in, are somebody next
Speaker 1: to you is in, you continue to run your race.
Speaker 1: And that's what it's all truly about, because we're all
Speaker 1: going to be with Him in heaven. One day, Kingdom
Speaker 1: will come and we will rejoice no matter how long
Speaker 1: your walk is, keep that in mind the next time
Speaker 1: you look at that person in a church pew, the
Speaker 1: next time you look at somebody in a grocery line
Speaker 1: who may be leaning a little left, as they call
Speaker 1: today in society, somebody who has that you know, upside
Speaker 1: down cross on their throat, that dresses Gothic, they're in
Speaker 1: a different walk. And it also goes back to a
Speaker 1: commandment in the Bible, thou shalt not judge. It took
Speaker 1: me a long time to understand as a believer, Thou
Speaker 1: shalt not judge. We do it every day. But now
Speaker 1: I look at it as I don't know their walk,
Speaker 1: I don't know their story, I don't know their testimony.
Speaker 1: That's why your testimony is very important to share. And
Speaker 1: guess what when you do that, When you share your
Speaker 1: testimony to others and how God saved you and where
Speaker 1: you're at, that is spreading the Gospel. And that's what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to do, and we're supposed to do according
Speaker 1: to the Book of Acts. We say it every week.
Speaker 1: Take the Gospel to the ends of the earth. This
Speaker 1: prodigal son is just like me. Man. I remember when
Speaker 1: I didn't know God and I knew of him. Okay,
Speaker 1: early in my life, I got married, had a son,
Speaker 1: and went through a rough divorce. You know, when you're
Speaker 1: in the mid twenties and you're separated and you go
Speaker 1: through a divorce, it's tough. And then my ex wife
Speaker 1: decided to move out of the state, many states away.
Speaker 1: I'd only see my son once a month, if that,
Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes for only eight hours. I drive sixteen hours
Speaker 1: to go see him. For eight I didn't have anything.
Speaker 1: I lived in friends' basements. I lived in my parents
Speaker 1: unfinished house. I was barring vehicles. I was borring money
Speaker 1: just to go see my son. I was working dead
Speaker 1: end jobs. I was struggling, and I was doing the
Speaker 1: things a prodigal son would do, not to my parents
Speaker 1: on earth at that time, but to my father in heaven.
Speaker 1: And now I'm sitting here sharing this with you, it's
Speaker 1: really opening up to me to the point where man
Speaker 1: I was the prodigal son. I was that man in
Speaker 1: that life, in that darkness for many years, even as
Speaker 1: a stand up comic, when I thought I was shedding
Speaker 1: light and trying to help people, I would step on
Speaker 1: people to get somewhere. Yeah, I'll take care of you
Speaker 1: step on them so I can step up. But then
Speaker 1: when God put an amazing testimony in my life before
Speaker 1: the one that I just shared with you, he transformed
Speaker 1: my life, and that's why I'm here today. I'm the
Speaker 1: prodigal son. Are you the prodigal son? We're all prodigal
Speaker 1: sons and daughters of God. We all push and walk
Speaker 1: away from time to time, so as we can conclude
Speaker 1: this parable of the prodigal Son. This is a story
Speaker 1: about forgiveness, redemption, showing God's unconditional love and the joy
Speaker 1: of repentance. The prodigal son came up to his father
Speaker 1: and said, forgive me. I've hurt you in your eyes
Speaker 1: and God's eyes. His earthly father was right there, ready
Speaker 1: to give him all the riches that he had, just
Speaker 1: to have his son in his arms. Our Father in
Speaker 1: Heaven did that. He gave his only begotten son, a
Speaker 1: treasure for your sins and mine. He was there with
Speaker 1: open arms. Think about Jesus on the cross. How was
Speaker 1: his arms? Oh, let that hit for a moment. Let
Speaker 1: that set in. His arms are open. His arms never close,
Speaker 1: no matter how far you try to run away. The
Speaker 1: Prodigal Son also highlights the relationship between a father and
Speaker 1: his son, showing the grace of God toward us all
Speaker 1: sinners again Luke, Chapter fifteen, verses eleven through thirty two,
Speaker 1: the Prodigal Son. I'm glad we started off this series
Speaker 1: with this, because we're all sinners. We all run away
Speaker 1: from the Lord, we all run away from our father
Speaker 1: in heaven because we think we know better. When this
Speaker 1: good old Bible is such a beautiful love letter to us,
Speaker 1: and we truly dig into it, and the letters, the
Speaker 1: words show so much grace toward us, even more than
Speaker 1: we will ever know. Get into that Bible today. Have
Speaker 1: you never read the Bible? It's okay starting proverbs. Whatever
Speaker 1: the day is today, say it's May, I don't know, seventh,
Speaker 1: eighth whatever. I may be way behind as we record
Speaker 1: these broadcasts ahead of time, but whatever the day is,
Speaker 1: start with that proverb proverb chapter seven, and then every
Speaker 1: day read a proverb. Go from there. Then get into
Speaker 1: the Bible. Go into Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John learn
Speaker 1: about Jesus. That's how you learn about Jesus. They wrote
Speaker 1: about Jesus. Luke was a doctor. And if you're somebody
Speaker 1: who likes to know ABCDFG in order. Man. Luke did
Speaker 1: just that. He was a doctor, all right, he was
Speaker 1: a physician. Luke's a good one to read. You want
Speaker 1: to know more of the heart of Gesis, get into John.
Speaker 1: You want to know more about the disciple of Jesus
Speaker 1: and the Old Testament stories of Jesus, go to Matthew.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. I love Peter. I'm Peter, so I'll read
Speaker 1: the Book of Peter a lot. But with that, I
Speaker 1: just want you to know that you may be still running,
Speaker 1: you may be still trying to find something. Just remember
Speaker 1: we're all prodigal sons and daughters. And His arms are
Speaker 1: always open. His arms are open right now for you.
Speaker 1: And this is the moment where you open his arms backs.
Speaker 1: You open your arms back, open up your palms, close
Speaker 1: your eyes, and repeat after me. If you're ready for
Speaker 1: a change in your life and you're tired of hitting
Speaker 1: your head on this proverbial seeing going after that brass
Speaker 1: ring in life when you should be going after a
Speaker 1: crown of glory, this is your opportunity. Repeat after me.
Speaker 1: Dear God, I'm a sinner. I stumbled daily, I fall
Speaker 1: short of the glory of God. But I know you
Speaker 1: were real that you were born, that you died, that
Speaker 1: you rose again on the third day. For my sins
Speaker 1: and for your victory. Dear Lord, I need a savior.
Speaker 1: Please be my personal lord and savior today. Cleanse my soul,
Speaker 1: cleanse me of my sins. Forgive me and allow me
Speaker 1: to walk with you to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: Dear Lord, I thank you and I love you. We
Speaker 1: pray in the precious name of Jesus. Amen. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the club. Get your nose in the Bible, as a
Speaker 1: friend of mine always says Captain Logos. How are you big?
Speaker 1: Shout up, Get your nose in the Bible. God bless
Speaker 1: you all, and we'll see you next week with another
Speaker 1: parable on the way.