WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:06.040 Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.679 the lost and found for transformation in Christ. 3 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:10.400 We're so glad you're here. 4 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:13.480 And wherever you're listening from, we believe God will transform 5 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:13.919 your life. 6 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.000 Do today's message. 7 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:26.800 The Gospel according to Saint Luke, chapter number fifteen. The 8 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:32.880 Gospel according to Saint Luke, chapter number fifteen, I'm reading 9 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:38.320 from the Tree of Life version of the Bible. I 10 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:43.079 want to read a few verses in You're hearing from 11 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:46.119 the greatest storyteller that has ever been on planet Earth. 12 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:56.119 Gospel according to Luke, chapter number fifteen. 13 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:04.480 The Holy Spirit told me. 14 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.200 Before I got on the plane to leave Dallas that 15 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.959 this was going to be a churchy day. Now, sometimes 16 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.359 we can hear something like that and it's people are 17 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:19.519 trying to manipulate that. 18 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:21.319 People are trying. 19 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:25.599 To instigate that. But I just felt like the Holy 20 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:32.280 Spirit there are some people that he's birthing into a 21 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:39.680 Pentecostal anointing. He's birthing them into a Pentecostal expression. It's 22 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:43.319 not for everybody, but when you've come out of deep sin, 23 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:52.519 you got to have a heavy anchor. I'm just saying, 24 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:56.439 I love the teaching crowd I love the reform crowd. 25 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:00.200 They're all accents of the same kingdom. 26 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.000 For me, I needed something that was. 27 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:08.639 Gonna I need an anointing that was gonna pull me out. 28 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:20.759 I wasn't in a gang. 29 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:24.319 Well I was for seven days, but I was gang adjacent. 30 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:30.120 And when you come out of a click and a 31 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:34.159 and a hood where you was down for something and 32 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:36.439 you know you was in somebody's face and you was 33 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:38.199 representing your like I needed to. 34 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.080 God had to bring me into something. 35 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:47.400 So I just I just feel like there's some people 36 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:49.240 that he's trying to unlock. 37 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:51.680 You're still trying. 38 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:56.439 To like be reserved and being like well, and He's like, 39 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:59.680 I need you to come all the way in. And 40 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:02.080 that's that doesn't mean a dance or a shout, but 41 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:06.479 that means a commitment. And I'm telling you, when you 42 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:13.000 commit with your mind, your body follows. As a man 43 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.000 thinketh in his heart. 44 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:31.960 So is he, Oh God, Jesus, Then ya shoe was said. 45 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:35.039 A certain man had two sons, and the younger of 46 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:38.400 them said to the father, father, give me the share 47 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:41.560 of the property that comes to me. So he divided 48 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:45.879 his wealth between them. Not many days later, the young 49 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:50.960 son gathered everything and traveled to a far country, and 50 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:58.000 there he squandered his inheritance on wild living. As we 51 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:01.439 continue to read, the brother is going to expose how wild. 52 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:02.280 His living was. 53 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:07.120 Now, when he had spent everything, a severe famine came 54 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:09.719 against that country, and he began to be in need. 55 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:12.360 So he went and joined himself to one of the 56 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:16.639 citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields 57 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:22.279 to feed pigs. And he was longing to fill up 58 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:27.360 on the carapods the pigs were eating, but no one 59 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.279 was giving him any. 60 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.360 No one was giving him any. 61 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:37.480 They was feeding the pigs, but they wouldn't feed him. 62 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:46.639 But when he came to his senses, he said. 63 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:50.399 How many of my father's hired workers have food overflowing, 64 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:52.439 but here I am dying of hunger. 65 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.600 I'll get up and go to my father, and I'll say. 66 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:00.720 To him, father, I have sinned against heavy and in 67 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.040 your presence I am no longer worthy to be called 68 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:03.519 your son. 69 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:07.560 Make me like one of your hired workers. And he 70 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.319 got up and he went to his own father. 71 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:15.680 But while he was still far away, his father saw 72 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:18.639 him and felt compassion. 73 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.399 He ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. 74 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:25.560 Then the son said to him, father, I have sinned 75 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:28.319 against heaven, and in your presence I am no longer 76 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:32.480 worthy to be called your son. But the father said 77 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:37.480 to his slaves, quick before this boy says something else. 78 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:43.480 Crazy, Quick before this boy thinks he's a slave. Quick. 79 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:50.959 See when you start making your way home, your father 80 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:52.600 ain't gonna wait for you to get in the house. 81 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:54.199 He's gonna run out to meet you. 82 00:05:54.519 --> 00:06:00.639 Quack, How fast can God deliver you out of your sins? 83 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:01.199 Quack? 84 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:06.000 How fast can he break an addiction? 85 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:11.920 Quack? How fast can he sever a soul tied? 86 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:25.920 Bring out the best robe and put it on him. 87 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.519 Put a ring on his hands, and sandals on his feet. 88 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:31.399 Bring the fatted calf and kill it. That celebrate with 89 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:34.240 the feast, for this son of mine was dead and 90 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:37.199 has come back to life. He was lost and is found. 91 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:42.000 They began. Then they began to celebrate. Now his older brother, 92 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.959 the father's older son, was out in the field. As 93 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.120 he came near the house, he heard music and dancing, 94 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:52.040 and he called out to one of the servants and 95 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:55.120 began to ask what thief things could be. The servants 96 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:58.319 said to him, your brother has come, and your father 97 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.839 has killed the fat at calf because he got home. 98 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:03.879 He got him back safe and sound. The older brother was. 99 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:08.800 Angry and didn't want to go in, so his father 100 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:12.120 came outside and pleaded with him. But he answered and 101 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:16.680 said to his father, look, so many years I've slaved. 102 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:21.639 Away for you. Not once did I ignore your order. 103 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:23.120 Yet you've never. 104 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:25.759 Given me a young coat so I could celebrate with 105 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:30.480 my friends. But when this son of yours came, dang, 106 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:31.120 he saw petty. 107 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:32.319 He won't even call him his brother. 108 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:38.199 When this son of yours came, the one who squandered 109 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:46.240 your wealth with prostitutes, not only was he petty, he's 110 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:51.439 a tea spiller. The text only indicated that he had 111 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:55.800 squandered his money on wild living, left it a little general. 112 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:00.959 The brother was like, he was spending money on hose. 113 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:13.959 He had hose, he had holes in different area, colds 114 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:25.680 area cours, hose ole, oove in different area, cove. 115 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:38.039 Area cours those Oh, it's in the book. Just reading 116 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:41.679 the book, some people are uncomfortable with the book. 117 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:49.600 The book said prostitutes. Huh, that's what it said. 118 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.360 Then the father said to him, son, you are always 119 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:03.840 with me, and everything that is mine, it's yours. But 120 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:09.519 it was right to celebrate and rejoice because this brother 121 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.440 of yours was dead but has come back to life. 122 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:17.360 He was lost, but it's found. 123 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:21.519 If you're taking notes on this message, I won't be 124 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:24.080 before you long. I want to preach from a subject 125 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:25.440 safe to come home. 126 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:29.879 When you get the peace of God on. 127 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:38.279 The inside, it becomes safe to come home. Tell at 128 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.200 least three people before you take your seats, it's safe 129 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:40.639 to come home. 130 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:43.360 It's safe to come home. It's safe to come home. 131 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:50.200 It is safe. It's safe to come home. It's safe 132 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:56.240 to come home. Jesus, being the master storyteller that he is, 133 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:03.120 decide to share a parable. 134 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:09.039 That is so compelling, so gripping. 135 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:17.440 It trumps many of the movies Hollywood attempts to produce. 136 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:19.080 Every year. 137 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:26.000 Shoe begins to tell a story about a very wealthy 138 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:34.399 man who had two sons, and the two sons are 139 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:38.120 in their father's house, but they're both having different experiences 140 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:39.080 with their father. 141 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.399 Parents. You can raise your children. 142 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:47.720 The same way, and they will all have a different 143 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:54.320 experience in the way that you raise them. I taught 144 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.200 all of my kids the word. I don't understand why 145 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.080 this one came out like that. They were having a 146 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:03.000 different experience than the other two. You did the same 147 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:05.120 thing the same way, but that doesn't mean they were 148 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:06.480 having the same experience. 149 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:09.320 These are different human beings. 150 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:15.679 Different interactions, different perspectives, different filters. And the younger son, 151 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:20.879 for whatever reason, looks his father in the face and says, 152 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:22.960 you know, the inheritance as I supposed to have when 153 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:28.240 you die, I'd like that now. I just want you 154 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:33.320 to know this is offensive. If my sons were to 155 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.600 come to me today and say, hey, Dad, you know 156 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:38.919 that insurance policy that you have on your life that 157 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.679 if you die kicks. 158 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:45.480 In to mom and us. Is there a way we 159 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:52.840 can get that now? Basically you're saying. 160 00:11:54.440 --> 00:12:01.639 Inside, could you please die so I can get my money. 161 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:07.159 The father, who for whatever reason has so much peace 162 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.000 that he's able to shake off offense, can I just 163 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:14.519 pause and say, when you truly have the peace of God, 164 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:18.039 stuff that usually offends you don't offend you no more. 165 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:21.000 Stuff that used to get you riled up. 166 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.000 When you truly get the peace of God that passes 167 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.440 all understanding, that stuff just bounces off of you. 168 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:27.240 Like child, I'm not even playing that game with you. 169 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:29.960 I know you just told me to drop dead to 170 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:31.679 my face. But if you want the money, I'll give 171 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:32.679 you the money. 172 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:33.799 I'm not gonna even hold you. 173 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:37.039 So he gives the young son the money, and the 174 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:40.159 son runs straight out the house, packs all his stuff 175 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:43.639 and runs to a far away country and spends it 176 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:45.480 on wild living. 177 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:56.159 He starts paying for sex workers. He's gambling his money away, 178 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:58.639 He's drinking his money away. Whatever he's doing, he. 179 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:05.320 Is living why scripture said it was what wild living. 180 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:13.159 And he has this wild living, and the wild living 181 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:14.879 takes everything from him. 182 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:17.480 Isn't this crazy? 183 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:22.879 He gave to the lifestyle he wanted, but the lifestyle 184 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:28.360 he wanted did not give back. Anybody beside me in 185 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:30.879 this room ever gave to something that you really wanted 186 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:34.360 to do, but the return on the investment was not 187 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.519 what you thought it was going to be. You gave 188 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.879 everything to the relationship, you gave everything to the city, 189 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:42.840 you gave everything to the lifestyle, and the only thing 190 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:50.720 the lifestyle gave you back was heartbreak, disappointment, betrayal, disease. 191 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:54.639 He was messing with some holes. 192 00:13:54.679 --> 00:14:01.039 Now, I don't know, I don't know if there was 193 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:03.360 a safe way to practice sex back then. 194 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:08.879 You was gambling with your life. 195 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:14.200 He has spent all his money, and when all his 196 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:21.320 money is going, his entire inheritance was consumed by the life. 197 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:22.519 That he thought he wanted to live. 198 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.240 And at the end of it, when he had nothing, 199 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:29.519 he had to run to some of the citizens of 200 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:31.679 the town that he was not a part of. 201 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:33.519 Thank you, holy girl, so let me calm down. 202 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.399 He went to a far away country where the culture 203 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.919 and the customs and the climate was completely different than 204 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:44.399 the culture and the customs and the climate of his 205 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:48.399 father's house, and he didn't know how to live in that. 206 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.240 He thought he would like it till he got there. 207 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:52.919 Anybody beside me ever got something that you thought you wanted, 208 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:55.039 but as soon as you got it, you realize you 209 00:14:55.080 --> 00:15:01.840 don't want what you got. Anybody beside me made. 210 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:05.039 Plans to go do a thing, and after you did 211 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:07.000 the thing, you was like, why did I even do. 212 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:09.000 This thing? 213 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:12.720 So she goes over and he's like, hey, listen, I 214 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:14.720 ain't got no more money. I need to make some money. 215 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:15.639 What can I do? 216 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:19.639 And one of the citizens clearly was a farmer, and 217 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:23.039 he said, you can feed my pigs. 218 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:26.639 She goes to feed the pigs. 219 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:33.639 When he goes to feed the pigs, he realizes that 220 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.799 he's not just envious of the people that are living 221 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:40.639 in this town during the time of this famine. 222 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:43.159 They seem to still have. 223 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:45.919 Enough means to support themselves, but he has spent all 224 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:46.399 his money. 225 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:48.000 Then a famine breaks out. He's in the middle of 226 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:48.600 the famine. 227 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.159 Now he has a job feeding pigs, and he's now 228 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:58.559 jealous of the pigs he's feeding. He's feeding these pigs, 229 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:02.159 and he's like, man, and they they eating better than me. 230 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.679 I would I would like to have what the pigs 231 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:12.200 to have it. And then the workers that were helping 232 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:14.799 him and overseeing him while he was feeding the pigs 233 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.039 wouldn't let him have what the pigs had. 234 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:19.279 That's gangster. 235 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:24.759 We'll let the pigs have it, but you can't have it. 236 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:30.600 But please continue to pick up behind them. And then 237 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:38.399 scripture said he came to himself. I just want to 238 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:41.840 thank God, because I don't even know how it happens. 239 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:43.799 It doesn't say that the. 240 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:45.639 Conviction of the Holy Spirit hit him. 241 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:49.799 It does not say that that that he remembered the 242 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:54.000 words of his father. But somehow, some way, he came 243 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:58.200 to himself. And and I just want to say, that's 244 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:02.840 what a pig pen will do a pig pin will 245 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:06.640 make you come to yourself. Sometimes you have to hit 246 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:09.319 rock bottom and stay there so long. 247 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.319 That you start asking yourself, do I. 248 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:14.960 Really want to be in this situation anymore? Sometimes you 249 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:17.680 have to be so broke so long that you finally 250 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:20.720 say to yourself, do I really want to be in 251 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:21.440 this situation? 252 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.720 Somehow? Sometimes the people that you love the most have. 253 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:28.079 To disassociate themselves with you so you can feel their 254 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:31.119 absence enough to say, do I really want to be 255 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:32.559 in this situation? 256 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:34.839 And Scripture says he. 257 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:44.200 Came to himself, he's down there with the pigs, and 258 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:46.319 it finally dawns on him. 259 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:52.319 The slaves in my father's house eat better than me. 260 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:53.279 Right now. 261 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:56.200 Now this is the year of our Lord, twenty twenty six. 262 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:57.799 So I just want to want everybody to know when 263 00:17:57.839 --> 00:17:59.079 you hear the worst slavery, you don't. 264 00:17:58.880 --> 00:17:59.200 Have to be like. 265 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.920 We ain't talking about American slavery, We're not talking about 266 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:04.680 chattel slavery. 267 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:06.440 We're talking about. 268 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:10.160 A master who owned slaves and treated those slaves with 269 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:16.079 decency and respect. His son knew that the slaves in 270 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:17.759 his father's house was. 271 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:20.240 Eaten better than he was eaten. Right now. 272 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.119 So he came to himself, and I gotta say that 273 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.839 when you come to yourself, then you can have the 274 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:33.680 journey of getting peace. For peace to really be inhabited 275 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:35.799 by a believer, you must first. 276 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:37.039 Have a safe enough mind. 277 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:43.400 You cannot experience peace in your life until your mind 278 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.759 is safe enough to heal. Your mind has to change 279 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:51.119 your mind. You have to be renewed in your mind 280 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.279 and your thinking. You have to have your inner narrative 281 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:57.640 change from the inside out. If you are ever going 282 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:00.359 to be who God has called you to be and 283 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.680 receive the promises that God wants you to have, you 284 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.599 can't still have a pig sty mentality and be a 285 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:10.480 brother or a sister, a son. 286 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:14.680 And a daughter in the Kingdom of God. 287 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.279 When he came to himself, this level of self awareness 288 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:20.119 gave him the indication that I. 289 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:28.480 Cannot heal amongst hogs. I can't heal with these hogs. 290 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:34.119 I came to myself around these hogs, but I can't 291 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:38.920 heal amongst these hogs. If I'm gonna get healed, I'm 292 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:41.880 gonna have to change my environment. I can come to 293 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:45.519 my senses around you crazy people, but I can't heal 294 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:49.279 around you crazy people. I'm gonna have to change my environment. 295 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:51.200 I'm gonna have to get out of this house. I 296 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:53.240 might have to move out of this city. I might 297 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:57.680 have to leave the entire state. I don't know who 298 00:19:57.680 --> 00:19:59.680 I'm preaching to you today, but God is breaking some 299 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:01.480 of your all up with the people that you thought 300 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:03.559 you were gonna be with the rest of your life, 301 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:14.480 only because you cannot heal amongst some hogs. Please don't 302 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:19.680 call your friends hogs. I don't want nobody to run 303 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:21.319 out of here. After listening to the sermons, be like, 304 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:21.920 I'm gonna. 305 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:24.279 Have to leave you because you are hoged out. 306 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:30.599 He came to himself, he said, I can't heal amongst 307 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:32.519 these hogs. I'm gonna have to go home. And he 308 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:35.680 starts rehearsing the speech for his daddy. He was like, Okay, 309 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:37.839 I'm gonna go home because because the slave is eetting 310 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:39.319 better than than than me. 311 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:42.720 Right now, I'm going home. And but I know I 312 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:43.359 messed up. 313 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:45.960 I know I basically looked my daddy in the eye 314 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:47.680 and told him to drop dead, and for some reason 315 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:50.759 he didn't slap me across his face. And so, and 316 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:52.319 he gave me the money and I spent it all, 317 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:55.319 and dang, he is not gonna let me back in 318 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:57.559 the house like I used to be. But I gotta apologize, 319 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:00.759 So I'm gonna be like, Dad, I have sin before 320 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.759 heaven and in your presence, and I am not worthy 321 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:04.519 to be your son. 322 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:08.240 Make me, make me. 323 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:10.799 As one of your slaves. Yeah, just let me be 324 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:12.880 one of your slaves. I'll be just happy to be 325 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:14.960 back in the house. I don't even have to have 326 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:16.480 my previous status. 327 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:18.160 See, when you're. 328 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:20.319 Desperate to come home, you'll take anything to get back 329 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:24.599 in that house. When you're desperate to come home, you like, Daddy. 330 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:26.440 I don't know if it's gonna be the same, But 331 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:28.119 when I come back in, I don't even have to 332 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:29.440 sleep in the bed. You can just put me in 333 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:31.279 the cot on the floor, you can put me in 334 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:31.759 the garage. 335 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:37.240 As long as I'm in your house, I'm safe. Daddy. 336 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:41.599 I have sin before heaven and in your presence, and 337 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:44.079 I am not even worthy to be your son. 338 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:47.319 And make me as one of your slaves. 339 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:53.440 Yeah, Daddy, I have sin before heaven and in your presence. 340 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:57.160 I am not worthy to be your son. Make me 341 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:58.200 as one of your slaves. 342 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:00.400 Started feeling good to him as he was walked at home. 343 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.559 I'm a repent real good dad. 344 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:10.559 I I have said before I haven't and in your presence, 345 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:14.960 I'm not worthy to be your son. You ain't gonna 346 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:16.400 even you don't even have to call me your son, 347 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:21.119 no more, make me as one of your slaves. 348 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:28.359 Maybe no, I sound too excited. I have said. 349 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:50.599 I'm sending before heaven, and in your presence, mm hmmm, 350 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:54.640 I'm not worthy to be your son. 351 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:01.359 It made me one of yours. 352 00:23:05.079 --> 00:23:07.119 Know that ugly cry when you cannot get nothing. 353 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:16.920 I could just let me, just let me be a slave. 354 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:24.039 Yeah, that that's the one right there. 355 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:26.720 I'm gonna use that one. 356 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:32.160 Yeah, I said, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm have a good 357 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:36.799 ugly cry when I see him. 358 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:40.440 And he was walking down the street and he started 359 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:44.240 to get close to his father's house and what he 360 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:44.759 didn't know. 361 00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:56.960 He couldn't see his father, but his father could see him. 362 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:02.200 And when his father saw him, his father beat his 363 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:08.519 son to the punch. The father scripture says. 364 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:10.599 He saw his son afar off. 365 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:17.640 Because he had been looking for him. Hear me the 366 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:22.039 father had been looking for the son, but he never 367 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:32.440 left his house because the father has a boundary. I 368 00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:35.599 don't know who I'm preaching to right now, but you 369 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:37.039 gotta have some boundaries. 370 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:39.880 Oh Oh, I want you. I want to have. 371 00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:43.039 Relationship with you again, but I'm not gonna go hunt 372 00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:46.799 for where you went with my money. I want to 373 00:24:46.839 --> 00:24:50.519 restore the relationship we had previously, but there's no way 374 00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:52.960 I'm going out there to where you went. 375 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:55.920 See see see. 376 00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:59.839 I think a lot of times we as believers get 377 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:07.640 hard up in the romanticism of the Savior and that 378 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:11.880 he's a good shepherd and that he'll leave the ninety 379 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:17.559 nine and go after the one. Yeah, and we got 380 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:21.160 good songs about it, you know, all the other well 381 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:25.160 me never andy, reckless. 382 00:25:24.519 --> 00:25:33.119 Love of God, Oh, it chases me down, fight till 383 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:39.640 I'm found, leaves the ninety nine, and I couldn't learn it. 384 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:51.880 The song is dope, and it's the truth for sheep 385 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:52.720 that are lost. 386 00:25:57.680 --> 00:25:59.319 You taking notes, You're about to get a good note 387 00:25:59.359 --> 00:25:59.720 right here. 388 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:07.480 It is the truth that a good shepherd will leave 389 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:12.000 the ninety nine to go after the sheep that is lost. 390 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.039 But the shepherd is not chasing. 391 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:19.119 The sheep that left. 392 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:24.640 I hope I can help somebody in this room. 393 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:27.119 I want you to know that, Joe. God has a. 394 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:30.720 Boundary when you leave the house willingly and knowingly. 395 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:32.319 You need to understand. 396 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:38.680 God is not chasing a rebellious son. God is not 397 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:44.200 chasing a rebellious daughter. We're not talking to somebody who 398 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:49.839 innocently was like, oh my god, the amusement park is 399 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:50.680 so big. 400 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:56.319 Mom, Dad, buzz. 401 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:05.720