The Sermon God's Character...Searching by David McGee
Mar 30, 2014
God's Character...Searching (38:00)
Referenced Scriptures: Luke 15:1-32
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Luke 15:1-32
1) Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
2) The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
3) He told them this parable.
4) "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn‘t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?
5) When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
6) When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!‘
7) I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
8) Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma, wouldn‘t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
9) When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.‘
10) Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting."
11) He said, "A certain man had two sons.
12) The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.‘ He divided his living to them.
13) Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and took his journey into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
14) When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
15) He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
16) He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
17) But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father‘s have bread enough to spare, and I‘m dying with hunger!
18) I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
19) I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."‘
20) He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
21) The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no more worthy to be called your son.‘
22) But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
23) Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
24) for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.‘ They began to be merry.
25) Now his elder son was in the field. As he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
26) He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.
27) He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him safe and sound.‘
28) But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.
29) But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, and you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
30) But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.‘
31) He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
32) But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.‘"
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You and all and all in a a so you are in an idea of what is I is and is and you will all you and is in a son if I will and will be in an little while in the hospital and he is in you as you him you will a is in you and that is where you go, so I you and I need is a you as a and is and is an easy thing as they were that he was in all I know is the disease and I really: the whole Mohammed Jesus is a is is is is what I know I I I I you want is you. I will and relay all I will and you will. And I is in. I is in the will is in a video is as is needed is the Internet all I is in I saw in you is in now is a church is viewed as an and is now is is is is is is is is is is is a you is is is him and so you will and will that will and in the owner is the see all of us in and he is and is seized as we know you are all his will he and he is all and in his life. And all you will you will him how he presented as being in a and is a you and you and your is is why is a is you I have an at will and there is no related gene that is in a so you will know he is made as I will laugh as I is a work in so there is and he is he is in and he is. I is in the people, and I will be the owner and will you are never any at the heart is beating the. There is a sign I will always I so is as you and I is saying is is is that I is and is, they know you. I day in and they all will you know the whole system is a you and you are you and and so there is he is Jesus and so what is each time you saw how they are not the sole and there is one I is blah will the lessor. He is as you will see that you are in and in these are he is. I have and I see him him on what is that I will see you I is is so I is in the freezer and more in his life. While she is in a life is blue and she and I say that one will live in a you as you as a lawyer is a you he is a soul in a shift in no time that she hired as she was in a rush will see there is an will and will so sorry in will and will will will will you will will will will. And as I is in the air, and he will is a C we as a is a will for him, I buy he had known as though it will also go and I will and I and you as our you is your will and will so as an and is and I see I want home and home I is result in. I want to see you are you will and will not alone in that letter is no life in all his daughter will is will will a you and I you and is very little one is flawed in so no I I I and I be able to go in there I will outline below that will not only will go see what is I hope you Holy Spirit is alive. I will him all the officer is the story. Lots going now the commentary like the Commons New Jersey being the commentary says that Jesus used the idea of a woman because only a woman would build for peace look after calling this if I didn't say that commentaries and now I wouldn't say that no commentaries of the reggae number ten coins, the value of this calling is in today's monetary value less than one tenth of one cents. Okay, how many of you have things that were given to you by someone that are of such great value. You would look through your entire house to find them and they go and I would come along and say bye-bye. There are any that value to your that sentimental value. So here is the lady who has ten coins. Some have said this was like a headdress with ten thinking coins on it and it was it was something that was, perhaps, of value to the woman, maybe a marriage thing you like a wedding ring are a engagement ring or something like that but it has value, but no value what initiative, while it's lost. I was thinking of this in the divine economy. They of people of all of the billions of people who have ever lived. People who are living and the people who all have will yet Tom, and you put me in the mix. I what value to why have in the sea of humanity and the answer is absolutely not. And then the other answer is absolutely everything, absolutely not. If it's what all the billions of people of all that I've ever lived in all that are living now, however, will live, and you put yourself right in the middle of all of that MSC of humanity. What is one person work and a bad economy of the billions now what is one nothing we get that one is everything means nothing means everything, because in God 's eyes. Every one of us is important. That's what is illustrating here in this economy on these ten coins. The value is absolutely worthless, but to the woman is everything a coin is everything. And in our lives in any score what he taught me talk to the Pharisees, you know you are you are here with these people and they are people of a doubtful reputation. Jesus here not like God because the God we know in our heads here would have nothing to do with these worthless people. So Jesus is telling them about the ninety nine sheep and the one that is lost. He's telling them of ten coins and one is lost because he's trying to get them to switch to switch their God concept from a box of knowing what they believe to their heart and understanding what they believe and how the God values and looks. He looks for the one that is lost. He searches he had in the divine economy of billions of people, one lost coin. He will search to billions of the earth to find what issue do she lights a lamp she scours the house looking in every nook and crime until she finds it, and then when she finds it was she the she spends the claim to pay for the party. The claimant. She has found it is worth couldn't pay for the party itself claimed the coin that she's just found it could even begin to pay for the party. She struggled to celebrate about finding the coin. I don't know yet. You would think of it was the youngest of the coin, I found is worth ten million dollars. I'll I'll spend the one million to celebrate on this case, it's worth less than one quarter of a penny or one tenth of a penny, but were not have a party and no matter what it cost wrong. I celebrate because I found my calling the value of the coin, the value of the person and then the last one here. The lost son might not remember Pharisees Sadducees are around Jesus and these people of what's the word powerful rep Asian. He is wasting his time with them Jesus was trying to tell them the story and help them understand what God the father is like, and then this will destroy the lost son. Verse eleven, there was a once a man who had two sons, the younger set. His father, father, I want right now. What's going. Let's coming to me. You know if I told my dad that they are the oligopolistic coming to me in the other flattened me know and it is a gone to your work now, let's coming to Mahar date off the belt in and will will will fix it will fix you up and out and so, but God the father, you know, sometimes we bellyache and complain so much. The God he ends up giving us what we ask for the be careful what you ask for because God may give it to you the and out, and there are times in which God-given is what the Sundance sky. I deserve this in him. I deserve what's coming to me that I'm not waiting around here until you die to get what belongs to me. You give it to me now and I'm leaving because I've had enough of this living under your rule, so the father says, okay son, I'll give you all that is yours like our life. We get to choose who were going to serve. We get to choose what to do with our life. We get to choose what to do with talents or abilities. We get to choose all of that but all that together and buses here is David 's all yours. I am acting. Oh God, thank you very much; my life the way I want to forget these rules because they just hinder me from becoming what I know I can be, and so dine than the young guy takes his stuff and need God. The properties were divided in their. He went out and he lived on you. Disciplines and dissipate. He wasted everything he had. He was wasted. I think that applies to different terminologies different settings of people 's lives. They went out and got wasted. Well, this young man went out and got wasted. He wasted everything you have and gone through all of his money and when you have it. After he just won a string of bad luck yet always that everything he had and then as a famine down when things go wrong, they always go wrong now. I hear some tell wait for the other shoe to drop. It's just young about one foot in the grave, and one on a banana peel, you know, I just can't get ahead in life because and in a I don't think any of those promises. I think all of those are whining whiny whiny promises that we used to complain about our life and complain about things and don't really see promises and God has a promise is given in our heart and no matter how bad things are. I'm always safe in God 's hands. God has a plan God has a purpose. God is no work things out. I must be faithful to what God has called me to be because I'm not running off and spin and everything I got think anyone good on me and want me and mine. I want. I'm going to allow God to lead me and take what I've got. I'm going to use it wisely and to use my investments. My talents. I'm going to exchange is the hardest thing to do exchange hours for wages in the divine economy. God has a way of investing and bringing back multiplied thing. Seat our economy, our talents of our society. We exchange time for wages in the divine economy, we invest to receive some tenfold. Some thirty volts on fifty fold some hundredfold bid in the divine economy is like planting one grain of corn and getting to ears on a stock that's the divine economy. God doesn't exchange hours for wages. God is in the multiplication business and he has a way of multiplying our talents multiplying who we are, but we get locked into because God is in this box, and this is how I live, and this is how we work. This is what we get. This is what we give and you don't understand preacher. This is how life is the general mostly millionaires. The new billionaires that are in America come from other countries as they don't know your supposed exchange hours for money. They think it is a land of opportunity, that's a different sermon, but in our divine economy. God wants us to look at things differently and what is God trying to tell us it doesn't know while let's get rich quick. I've got something for you you just meet me after church all help you with your investments is not of that either. It's not worth that God leads us, guides us even in our finances. So anyhow, the Golden age spent everything, he loses everything and he ends up. Oh how how far down, he can go how much he could be wasted. He's feeding the pigs corncobs. He cannot eat the slot that he feeds the pigs because the pigs have more value than he does not obviate the pigs fairy because the pace of more value than he does. That's falling pretty far when he got wasted. So he finally might recognizes you know what I need to go home. My father servants are much better off than this. Someone apologize, ask for forgiveness go home first twenty. What is Jesus telling us he's telling us about God the father K when it was still a long way off, his father saw him, seek God isn't going to teach us a lesson are wasted, and this will teach us a lesson, his forgiveness and love will clean this up. Welcome us back for us on the path again just the right position, get us in the right places, and he is waiting for us. He's watching for us in the whole pain and longing for us to wake up from our ways, goodness, and try our life around the game and he's there NYC do this heart pounding. He ran out the father just as much. My son. I recognized his walk. I recognize that guy out there. This guy who is in writing and sent me in and know comes from a paper I know that's my son. I can see it. I know his walk. I know his farm. I know it's him. He's a lot better in his lot raggedy air, but that's my son and he runs out to get him that God was Jesus and the Pharisees were they doing when you know he just hangs around with all these doubtful rough what's the word. Full reputation. He just hangs around with these people of a doubtful reputation, God the father is running to them what to do kisses and hugs and you think when you stink. Now I came back from Africa spent twenty three hours of playing off the plane hug my wife, Judith, please think FFF FFF head. I guess now that have to do that love when this is an NL, but that's not but God the father. He has a look at so you know you're given in the pigpen evening slot with dogs and you just now. Yet it will let you a vast first and will take them. God takes us as we are. He accepts us as we aren't any clean this up. We don't have to clean myself up and then come home. We come home and then God cleaned this up. He accepts us and he loves us and he does all the best for us and then this one last partier. The older son. The older brother, the one who stayed home the whole time what's going on. There's a party at the house. What's happening all your brother came home. My brother Irina slopped that took off with the money and went, and probably wasted it all and now he comes home. Yeah, your father is walking around the party having the party I been here all my life, and nobody's ever had a party for me this is this is just outrageous. I'm not going into the house and what happens your brother stalked off in angry salt and refused to join. Who are these people. Jesus is telling the Pharisees. You're the older brother, you have all these prejudices against people you know who God can love and who we can't love you know what God can and can't do and you won't practice you see the father came out and he tried to talk to him, but he wouldn't listen. Look how many years I've stayed here serving you. You never you never give one moment of grief. I've never given you one moment of grief, but you have. Have you ever thrown a party for me and my friends, then this son of yours who has thrown away your money on horrors and shows up with this and you can love feast, his father said son, you don't understand your with me all the time and everything that is mine is yours. That is, I think the key to this whole thing. Never allow yourself to become jealous never allow yourself to become envious because everything that the father has is yours. You already have the ring you already have the garments of righteousness you already have the case, the seals use my son and my child. You have all of that. Every thing that I have is yours. So in our life. Let's begin to see what God is like. He searches for the loss. He values the lost even whenever it's seemingly worth less, it's worth nothing, but it's worth everything in the sun that has wasted he's ready to come home and taken back. He's looking for him to come over the hill and as soon as he breaks the hill. The father season and that he's going to repent. He already knows the hearts he hugs and kisses and then send it to call the sermons taken off these rides and put shows on his feet than in a garment on him. I will change, and where may we welcome him back and home and in the one who is always there, just kind of the neuroma life. I never left. I should've left my son went out, so my wild oats and done all the things like my brother, but I'd like I didn't do that. I'm good and he missed the blessing of God, because he was so self-righteous Pharisees our lives we find ourselves thinking we want to be wasted. How wasted you want to be that the pigs have more value than you. The fathers watching for you to come home righteous. I've been a been here all my life. I never left son. Everything I have is yours. How blessed we are everything I have is yours whether where the sun who comes the realization of wasted weather we've been here all of our life, everything that the father has his arms. So instead father, we thank you. There is a ring on her finger. We have your authority. There is a role that we where and if the rope of praise of righteousness. God gave kissed us on the cheek, and we use sealed your love for us for an eternity. God, how blessed we are, how privileged we are thank you God. He saw beyond our faults you recognize our need and you're just waiting for those who are lost. You just waiting for them to turn towards home and you be there to welcome them with open arms. Thank you, God, thank you God. Thank you, God, let's say that. Thank you God. Again, saying, you draw everything that God has his mind. I'm so blessed. Amen. We ourselves say that I am so blessed. I am so blessed. Amen. PublisherHim him is a very busy and I is more and is a I is in a is as easy as I hear is the Internet as an and he is also a so as to how is standing on the VCR is hot and I now is in a philosophy lost my loss and he is our five and will want to add what is five and one and one one and a life you have. You will you and you is a and is in his life and will and is will the church and lay there and what he will go in there, but only a that they had no way and him so what is I will and is a wife is now. Anyhow, as I know I will. There is a what is in and now I is you and I and I is you and have a moonlight as a easier and is the only use a plan. You and all and all in a a so you are in an idea of what is I is and is and you will all you and is in a son if I will and will be in an little while in the hospital and he is in you as you him you will a is in you and that is where you go, so I you and I need is a you as a and is and is an easy thing as they were that he was in all I know is the disease and I really: the whole Mohammed Jesus is a is is is is what I know I I I I you want is you. I will and relay all I will and you will. And I is in. I is in the will is in a video is as is needed is the Internet all I is in I saw in you is in now is a church is viewed as an and is now is is is is is is is is is is is a you is is is him and so you will and will that will and in the owner is the see all of us in and he is and is seized as we know you are all his will he and he is all and in his life. And all you will you will him how he presented as being in a and is a you and you and your is is why is a is you I have an at will and there is no related gene that is in a so you will know he is made as I will laugh as I is a work in so there is and he is he is in and he is. I is in the people, and I will be the owner and will you are never any at the heart is beating the. There is a sign I will always I so is as you and I is saying is is is that I is and is, they know you. I day in and they all will you know the whole system is a you and you are you and and so there is he is Jesus and so what is each time you saw how they are not the sole and there is one I is blah will the lessor. He is as you will see that you are in and in these are he is. I have and I see him him on what is that I will see you I is is so I is in the freezer and more in his life. While she is in a life is blue and she and I say that one will live in a you as you as a lawyer is a you he is a soul in a shift in no time that she hired as she was in a rush will see there is an will and will so sorry in will and will will will will you will will will will. And as I is in the air, and he will is a C we as a is a will for him, I buy he had known as though it will also go and I will and I and you as our you is your will and will so as an and is and I see I want home and home I is result in. I want to see you are you will and will not alone in that letter is no life in all his daughter will is will will a you and I you and is very little one is flawed in so no I I I and I be able to go in there I will outline below that will not only will go see what is I hope you Holy Spirit is alive. I will him all the officer is the story. Lots going now the commentary like the Commons New Jersey being the commentary says that Jesus used the idea of a woman because only a woman would build for peace look after calling this if I didn't say that commentaries and now I wouldn't say that no commentaries of the reggae number ten coins, the value of this calling is in today's monetary value less than one tenth of one cents. Okay, how many of you have things that were given to you by someone that are of such great value. You would look through your entire house to find them and they go and I would come along and say bye-bye. There are any that value to your that sentimental value. So here is the lady who has ten coins. Some have said this was like a headdress with ten thinking coins on it and it was it was something that was, perhaps, of value to the woman, maybe a marriage thing you like a wedding ring are a engagement ring or something like that but it has value, but no value what initiative, while it's lost. I was thinking of this in the divine economy. They of people of all of the billions of people who have ever lived. People who are living and the people who all have will yet Tom, and you put me in the mix. I what value to why have in the sea of humanity and the answer is absolutely not. And then the other answer is absolutely everything, absolutely not. If it's what all the billions of people of all that I've ever lived in all that are living now, however, will live, and you put yourself right in the middle of all of that MSC of humanity. What is one person work and a bad economy of the billions now what is one nothing we get that one is everything means nothing means everything, because in God 's eyes. Every one of us is important. That's what is illustrating here in this economy on these ten coins. The value is absolutely worthless, but to the woman is everything a coin is everything. And in our lives in any score what he taught me talk to the Pharisees, you know you are you are here with these people and they are people of a doubtful reputation. Jesus here not like God because the God we know in our heads here would have nothing to do with these worthless people. So Jesus is telling them about the ninety nine sheep and the one that is lost. He's telling them of ten coins and one is lost because he's trying to get them to switch to switch their God concept from a box of knowing what they believe to their heart and understanding what they believe and how the God values and looks. He looks for the one that is lost. He searches he had in the divine economy of billions of people, one lost coin. He will search to billions of the earth to find what issue do she lights a lamp she scours the house looking in every nook and crime until she finds it, and then when she finds it was she the she spends the claim to pay for the party. The claimant. She has found it is worth couldn't pay for the party itself claimed the coin that she's just found it could even begin to pay for the party. She struggled to celebrate about finding the coin. I don't know yet. You would think of it was the youngest of the coin, I found is worth ten million dollars. I'll I'll spend the one million to celebrate on this case, it's worth less than one quarter of a penny or one tenth of a penny, but were not have a party and no matter what it cost wrong. I celebrate because I found my calling the value of the coin, the value of the person and then the last one here. The lost son might not remember Pharisees Sadducees are around Jesus and these people of what's the word powerful rep Asian. He is wasting his time with them Jesus was trying to tell them the story and help them understand what God the father is like, and then this will destroy the lost son. Verse eleven, there was a once a man who had two sons, the younger set. His father, father, I want right now. What's going. Let's coming to me. You know if I told my dad that they are the oligopolistic coming to me in the other flattened me know and it is a gone to your work now, let's coming to Mahar date off the belt in and will will will fix it will fix you up and out and so, but God the father, you know, sometimes we bellyache and complain so much. The God he ends up giving us what we ask for the be careful what you ask for because God may give it to you the and out, and there are times in which God-given is what the Sundance sky. I deserve this in him. I deserve what's coming to me that I'm not waiting around here until you die to get what belongs to me. You give it to me now and I'm leaving because I've had enough of this living under your rule, so the father says, okay son, I'll give you all that is yours like our life. We get to choose who were going to serve. We get to choose what to do with our life. We get to choose what to do with talents or abilities. We get to choose all of that but all that together and buses here is David 's all yours. I am acting. Oh God, thank you very much; my life the way I want to forget these rules because they just hinder me from becoming what I know I can be, and so dine than the young guy takes his stuff and need God. The properties were divided in their. He went out and he lived on you. Disciplines and dissipate. He wasted everything he had. He was wasted. I think that applies to different terminologies different settings of people 's lives. They went out and got wasted. Well, this young man went out and got wasted. He wasted everything you have and gone through all of his money and when you have it. After he just won a string of bad luck yet always that everything he had and then as a famine down when things go wrong, they always go wrong now. I hear some tell wait for the other shoe to drop. It's just young about one foot in the grave, and one on a banana peel, you know, I just can't get ahead in life because and in a I don't think any of those promises. I think all of those are whining whiny whiny promises that we used to complain about our life and complain about things and don't really see promises and God has a promise is given in our heart and no matter how bad things are. I'm always safe in God 's hands. God has a plan God has a purpose. God is no work things out. I must be faithful to what God has called me to be because I'm not running off and spin and everything I got think anyone good on me and want me and mine. I want. I'm going to allow God to lead me and take what I've got. I'm going to use it wisely and to use my investments. My talents. I'm going to exchange is the hardest thing to do exchange hours for wages in the divine economy. God has a way of investing and bringing back multiplied thing. Seat our economy, our talents of our society. We exchange time for wages in the divine economy, we invest to receive some tenfold. Some thirty volts on fifty fold some hundredfold bid in the divine economy is like planting one grain of corn and getting to ears on a stock that's the divine economy. God doesn't exchange hours for wages. God is in the multiplication business and he has a way of multiplying our talents multiplying who we are, but we get locked into because God is in this box, and this is how I live, and this is how we work. This is what we get. This is what we give and you don't understand preacher. This is how life is the general mostly millionaires. The new billionaires that are in America come from other countries as they don't know your supposed exchange hours for money. They think it is a land of opportunity, that's a different sermon, but in our divine economy. God wants us to look at things differently and what is God trying to tell us it doesn't know while let's get rich quick. I've got something for you you just meet me after church all help you with your investments is not of that either. It's not worth that God leads us, guides us even in our finances. So anyhow, the Golden age spent everything, he loses everything and he ends up. Oh how how far down, he can go how much he could be wasted. He's feeding the pigs corncobs. He cannot eat the slot that he feeds the pigs because the pigs have more value than he does not obviate the pigs fairy because the pace of more value than he does. That's falling pretty far when he got wasted. So he finally might recognizes you know what I need to go home. My father servants are much better off than this. Someone apologize, ask for forgiveness go home first twenty. What is Jesus telling us he's telling us about God the father K when it was still a long way off, his father saw him, seek God isn't going to teach us a lesson are wasted, and this will teach us a lesson, his forgiveness and love will clean this up. Welcome us back for us on the path again just the right position, get us in the right places, and he is waiting for us. He's watching for us in the whole pain and longing for us to wake up from our ways, goodness, and try our life around the game and he's there NYC do this heart pounding. He ran out the father just as much. My son. I recognized his walk. I recognize that guy out there. This guy who is in writing and sent me in and know comes from a paper I know that's my son. I can see it. I know his walk. I know his farm. I know it's him. He's a lot better in his lot raggedy air, but that's my son and he runs out to get him that God was Jesus and the Pharisees were they doing when you know he just hangs around with all these doubtful rough what's the word. Full reputation. He just hangs around with these people of a doubtful reputation, God the father is running to them what to do kisses and hugs and you think when you stink. Now I came back from Africa spent twenty three hours of playing off the plane hug my wife, Judith, please think FFF FFF head. I guess now that have to do that love when this is an NL, but that's not but God the father. He has a look at so you know you're given in the pigpen evening slot with dogs and you just now. Yet it will let you a vast first and will take them. God takes us as we are. He accepts us as we aren't any clean this up. We don't have to clean myself up and then come home. We come home and then God cleaned this up. He accepts us and he loves us and he does all the best for us and then this one last partier. The older son. The older brother, the one who stayed home the whole time what's going on. There's a party at the house. What's happening all your brother came home. My brother Irina slopped that took off with the money and went, and probably wasted it all and now he comes home. Yeah, your father is walking around the party having the party I been here all my life, and nobody's ever had a party for me this is this is just outrageous. I'm not going into the house and what happens your brother stalked off in angry salt and refused to join. Who are these people. Jesus is telling the Pharisees. You're the older brother, you have all these prejudices against people you know who God can love and who we can't love you know what God can and can't do and you won't practice you see the father came out and he tried to talk to him, but he wouldn't listen. Look how many years I've stayed here serving you. You never you never give one moment of grief. I've never given you one moment of grief, but you have. Have you ever thrown a party for me and my friends, then this son of yours who has thrown away your money on horrors and shows up with this and you can love feast, his father said son, you don't understand your with me all the time and everything that is mine is yours. That is, I think the key to this whole thing. Never allow yourself to become jealous never allow yourself to become envious because everything that the father has is yours. You already have the ring you already have the garments of righteousness you already have the case, the seals use my son and my child. You have all of that. Every thing that I have is yours. So in our life. Let's begin to see what God is like. He searches for the loss. He values the lost even whenever it's seemingly worth less, it's worth nothing, but it's worth everything in the sun that has wasted he's ready to come home and taken back. He's looking for him to come over the hill and as soon as he breaks the hill. The father season and that he's going to repent. He already knows the hearts he hugs and kisses and then send it to call the sermons taken off these rides and put shows on his feet than in a garment on him. I will change, and where may we welcome him back and home and in the one who is always there, just kind of the neuroma life. I never left. I should've left my son went out, so my wild oats and done all the things like my brother, but I'd like I didn't do that. I'm good and he missed the blessing of God, because he was so self-righteous Pharisees our lives we find ourselves thinking we want to be wasted. How wasted you want to be that the pigs have more value than you. The fathers watching for you to come home righteous. I've been a been here all my life. I never left son. Everything I have is yours. How blessed we are everything I have is yours whether where the sun who comes the realization of wasted weather we've been here all of our life, everything that the father has his arms. So instead father, we thank you. There is a ring on her finger. We have your authority. There is a role that we where and if the rope of praise of righteousness. God gave kissed us on the cheek, and we use sealed your love for us for an eternity. God, how blessed we are, how privileged we are thank you God. He saw beyond our faults you recognize our need and you're just waiting for those who are lost. You just waiting for them to turn towards home and you be there to welcome them with open arms. Thank you, God, thank you God. Thank you, God, let's say that. Thank you God. Again, saying, you draw everything that God has his mind. I'm so blessed. Amen. We ourselves say that I am so blessed. I am so blessed. Amen. Publisher