Seeing The World Through The Eyes of Christ

That's right, I'll just go back and sit down and and listen to some good music. Thank you all for that. Everything the service and so far and all the singing, we appreciate that. That's good saying something about good singing Before You Preach, you know what I'm saying, it just sets the tone for everything that in it, it really does. And Well, Bible says, this is the day that the Lord has made. We will lot and be what in it, we will be glad in it. Well how about this? Well, I guess it was about this time a little bit earlier Friday. I said that to myself that we are rejoicing because of what the Supreme Court decision that they came down with and it changed about 50 years.

I guess if you if you just wanted to be plain and simple, 50 years of murder is what it did. That's what it change. Now course, states can still Do what they want to do. California has already said that we're going to be a an abortion Sanctuary state. Are you go to California and they can't provide housing for the people homeless people? All over the streets can't provide care for people. Can't provide lights for people but yet they're ready to say but you can come here and have an abortion and that's something. They can't take care of, you can't help you economically or spiritually. But I tell you what, you, come out here and live and you can have an abortion boy, wouldn't that be a great thing to do to go live out there? Just so we can have an abortion in that. Something, this doesn't change everything but it was a win for Christianity and it was a win for God on Friday at. Absolutely. He was in and I'll tell you someone else that was in it and not just someone but people there's been people for the last 50 years that's been fighting for this. I heard a preacher another day, say that the day that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Roe in 1973 that he came home and his mother was at the kitchen table with a friend and said that they were talking about it and wondering what they could do to help change this. He said and my mother died about 15 years ago, he said so she never you know, saw it change the course but he said she's probably smiling in heaven, you know today. And one other thing, let me say this before we get into our message, one of the things I noticed when it came down, you know you you see a lot of Christian leaders who who would comment on it?

But I heard very few Christian people. But I know comment on it. On Facebook, very few like your friends, very few people commented on it. and I talked to a lot of people over the years and there's a lot of people who identify as being a Christian, Who is pro-abortion?

Now when I look at that you say what kind of Christian be can a person? Be a Christian still be Pro abortion? Well if you're Christian, you've accepted Christ so if you've accepted Christ as your Christian

But I'm a Christian that is pro-abortion.

To me and this is my opinion, but I believe it's biblical. Is a person.

Who needs to be able to cultivate a Biblical Christian worldview that that person does not have a Biblical Christian worldview and something else they need is they need to get in a church that will teach them. The biblical Theology of life. Of what God says about life. And if not, you just have a very shallow understanding. Of what Christianity really is. But we thank God for the ruling by the Supreme Court, and it's still going to be tough, still have battles to fight, but there's people who have given their lives to fight this, and we ought to thank them for it because 50 years later, we see the fruit of it. Amen. All right. Well today we're going to talk about, you know, our our prayer 90 Day prayer challenge. God give me your W for the Lost heart for the loss was I Was preparing this message today and this is the title of our message that's coming from Luke 15. So if you have your Bible, go ahead and turn their Luke 15 seeing the World Through The Eyes of Christ. And so as I was studying this and when I finished I thought to myself, not only should we pray and be praying, Lord, give me your heart for the loss. We out to also be praying, Lord. Give Me Your Eyes For The Lost. Help us to see this world. This culture lost people like you see them help us to see them Through The Eyes of Christ. So if you'll look at the back of your bulletin, you'll notice that we have a very long outline this morning and you going to say, okay it's going to be 12:30. So here's what I want you to do, I'm going to get through this and it won't be 12:30 but you need to buckle up your Pew belts right now because I'm going to start and I want to go fast. But this is really, really good teaching right here. I mean, I couldn't hardly help from hollering and yelling myself when I was discovering some of these truths. So we turn to Luke chapter 15 and we're not going to read all that because that's about 32 versus But let me just tell you what, this is, Luke chapter 15. Is the parable of the one lost sheep. You know, that Parable we studied it here before. If it's actually one Parable, but people call it three Parables, they say the lost sheep, the Lost corn coin and the lost son. It's actually one Parable with three sections. So with the first section, we going to look at is the lost sheep. Then we're going to look at the Lost coin and then we're going to look at the Lost Sun and what I want you to think as we're going through this is this scripture gives us a to Nature's the nature of mankind but also the nature of God, we see that in these three short stories here. So let's get right to the heart of it. Why did Jesus, why did he teach me this terrible here to the people? Look at it and verses 1 and 2 of chapter 15. Then all the tax collectors in the center's, Drew near to him, to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes. What did they do? Complain. Complain saying this man receives centers and eats with them, you know that there's churches church members in churches that complain when somebody comes the church. That's not saved or somebody come to church this, maybe not the same ethnicity than they are what we going to do about that and how we going to stop this. I was out, I was a member of a church once they had a bus Ministry and they go out and get children and some white. Someone will black if someone were Hispanic and people at the church didn't like it. Because this church was going out trying to reach centers of all color. And the people in the church didn't like it. Well, the Pharisee saw Jesus sitting down eating with Sinners. Just think of it like that. He was having a meal with a lost person. He wouldn't with the church people. He was with lost people and he was having a meal. The Pharisees saw that. And they started complaining and criticizing him because what he was doing, it doesn't take much size to criticize. Does, it doesn't take much size to criticize, and a lot of people thinks that criticism may be their spiritual gift. I was talking to a pastor one time and he was telling me the story. He said, he knew a pastor that Pastor to church about 125 people and he said the Pastor told him, he said, every single one of them, he says, all they do is criticize. He said, now, you would think you would have some he said every one of them would criticize all the time. He said, finally, at the end of my sermons he said I just started calling on the deacon. He was a brother Bob could you please stand and closes in the word of criticism? He said because that's what they did. He didn't ask him to pray. He just told me the word criticism well look at it. Look at it in verse for here of chapter 15. What man of you having 100 sheet if he loses one in them does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost until he finds it. Look at verse 8 or what woman, having ten silver coins if she loses one coin does not light a lamp and sweep the house and searched carefully until she finds it and then look at verses 11 through 13. Then he said a certain man had two sons and the younger them said to his father, father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me, so he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after the younger son gather, all together journey to a far country and they're wasted his possessions with prodigal. Living. But here's what I want to do, I want to give you the three characteristics. Of a man or a woman boy or girl. Who is without God, this is the nature of mankind. The first three points I'm going to show you and then the last one's going to be the nature of God. So here's point one, and it's simply this, we see in this parable of the sheep, the wicked weakness of Man Without God the weakness of Man Without God. So we're talkin about people who are unsaved. Look at it and Verses 4 through 6. What man have you a hundred sheets? He loses one of them does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after 1 which is lost until he finds it. And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors saying to them Rejoice with me. For I have found my sheep, which was lost. So, here's a Shepherd out in the wilderness and he loses one, he tells a 99 holdup right here. I'm going to go find that one. And he finds it and he rejoices when he finds it, you know what the Bible says about us? It Compares us to sheep. And the Bible says all we like sheep have gone astray, that's what the Bible says. So did you know that it's really not a compliment to be compared to a sheep? It's not popping it to be compared. Let me tell you. Number one, she dumb. Cheap are dumb. You say what do you mean by? That was one of the dumbest animals around because a sheet easily gets lost. Running With The Pack, a hundred of them. And what I'm just me and resolve and he goes off and eats on his own on Sunday, turn around look for. Where's the rest up? And he can't find. He don't know how to find them, and he's lost. So the shepherd has to go. Now, you think about this, you can't get rid of a cat knows where his home is. A horse is going to go to the Corral that always go to Corral a cow. Always go to the barn. Every single one up. If but a sheet not a sheep, he'll nibble here. He'll browse there. He'll keep on going and going. A sheep is not very smart. Did you know that a dog is smart? If you have you found out that a dog is marked by the dog. We had one time, he was old black dog. You come up and I fed him cuz I figured everything that comes up. And he limped. And I don't know where he came from, he, and he stayed there for a long time. And I fed him with our other dog and all. And one day, my daddy, got that dog and put them in the back of his truck. He said I'm getting rid of that. You don't need that, dog. I said that's fine. Whatever. He took him 15 miles away and sold him out of the bed. His truck I want, you know, three days later. He was late at my front door. And I said this at this, dog. It only had three legs and you couldn't walk on the other leg. He went 15 miles and found my house again, I mean, a dog is smart. They told the story one time about this Old Gentleman, you know how older men like to go to the Country Store and sit around and talk and K. Well this older man. He went to the Country Store every day, just sit around and talk play checkers with one day. This young fellow drove up the car. He wanted something to drink, he went in and accept that, man. They're playing checkers, but across from that man was a dog. And that man looked and he said that young fella said that your dog, he said, yeah, and the man moved a piece on the checkerboard. He said that dog stuck his power out there and move the check or two. And that young fella said, Your dog, he plays Checkers with you. He said, oh yeah, he said he plays every day. He said, where you got the smartest dog I've ever seen. He said, he's not that smart. He's, I've already beaten two out of three games, fetty WAP. Smart, but I'm tell you, a dog is smart. But how about the Sheep? No animals can be trying. You train a horse in training, a dog and trying to seal. You can train an elephant. You can train a line you ever been to the circus? How many of these animals you see, jumping through hoops walking through fire doing all this. You ever seen a sheep at the circus? You never will, you can't? You cannot train a sheet. They will not do tricks. And the Bible says, concerning those of us who are in the flesh. There is none that I understand if no not one. In other words, spiritually speaking people, without Jesus are like sheep, who, wonder and don't know where they're going. So you got something we need to know about people when we look at them Through The Eyes of Christ. That there spiritually ignorant. They don't know where they going. They don't understand what they're doing. Exactly right, the weakness of Man Without God. And he uses a story here of the sheet because sheep are done. Let me taste my map sheep are dependent. If she can't defend Forest. That's why the Bible says Jesus was moved with compassion. When he saw the multitude, he says scattered abroad as a sheet without a w Shepherd. That's what Jesus said about the lost people. Now, here's what she would do. They get lost and it's what the Shepherds used to call a condition called cast cast. What would happen is the sheet will go out and eat and then he would lie down most time in some rocky area where the ground is a little bit unlevel. And he would lie down and turn up on his back and then get caught in like a little crevice, not a dick, just a crab, and he couldn't get up in his legs are be up like that. He'd be just, you know, it all whatever sound just as you know, that they make and he'd be there crying and all and said, finally, they would just stop and it would just lay there with her feet up and they couldn't get up, they couldn't roll over and get up on their own. So, is she cannot fend for himself? And unless the shepherd comes and put in the put him on his feet, he will perish. Well, that's the way I lost people are. That's the way I was until Jesus came and put me on my feet. I was like a sheet turned over on my back and couldn't get up. That's what I was like. They're dumb their dependent. And they're defenseless. You're being kicked by horse. My horse can kick. They can defend themselves hoarse can kit. Around. Horns, he can but A tiger has claws. Alligator has Jaws. A bird can fly from you picking that he can escape a deer can run from you. He can just got a skunk can spray you A turtle is slow as in BB. He draw back up in that shell. What can a sheet do nothing and be devoured? That's all he can't. He can't run.

So, just think about that. That's the reason Jesus said, let me tell you something Pharisees. The reason I keep company with Sinners is because they're like sheep without a shepherd. That's the point. He's trying to make. Men are the weakness of Man Without God dumb spiritually dependent. And defenseless, that's what the point Jesus is making Point number two. Not only do we see the weakness of Man Without God number two, we see the worthlessness of Man Without God look at in verses 8 and 9. Or he says he goes to the next parable of the lost coin, or the next section or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp. Sweet, the house and searched carefully until she finds it, and when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors to give us a Joyce with me. For I have found the piece which I had lost that. Let me tell you something. If you have a coin let's say that coin is worth $50,000. If it's lost, what is it worth to you? Nothing. You can't use it. You don't have it, you can't find it. It may be late in there worth $50,000, but if you don't know where it is, if not, it is worthless to you, it's out of circulation. It's not doing what God created it to do. It's no good to be spent. It's no good to be treasured. It is absolutely worthless and you see friends a man without God is worthless. Is absolutely worthless. A man may think that he is good. Apopka people before. I don't, I don't do, I don't do nothing but good. It's what they say. I don't do nothing but good. But if you don't know Christ, you know what God says about you, you're good for nothing. I think about that. You good for nothing. You have a Ph.D, you can be a doctor or a lawyer or scientist, you can research, you can develop, you can discover things. But if your if you have a relationship that is void of God, God said you are good for nothing. It's what he says. You're like this lost coin. You may be worth $1000000 to the medical field but to me, you're worth nothing. Because you lost your good-for-nothing. So we see that this coin here was lost in darkness is so it says here. And look what it says in verse 28 or what woman having ten silver coins if she loses one point does not light a lamp. You see this coin was lost in darkness. Now that tells us that this old coin where it whatever it was was lost in darkness and friend every man who does not have a relationship with Christ is lost in darkness, that's what the Bible says. You see, Mankind, we bought into this intellectual superiority and so we worship at The Shrine of our mind but the Bible says that we are in darkness. If we don't have a relationship with Jesus, listen to what John 3:19 says. And this is the condemnation that light has come into world but men loved Darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil anyone who is not saved is because they loved Darkness. Rather than like this coin was lost in darkness. People are lost in darkness, not only that this coin was lost in. Dirtiness look what it says here after that she lied elapsed. Sweet the house and searched carefully and Yoshi Fonzie. So she start sweeping her house. You got a broom out, start sweeping started stirring up the dust because somewhere down there, in that dirt was that lost coin. You see friend ever sent her this lost is not only lost in darkness because he stumbles But he don't know where he's going because he's lost in the dirt of this world. Now, people say, well not, wait a minute, I know there's a lot of people out there that's evil and wicked, but that's not me. I don't go to church and I don't think about God, but I'm on my own business, I pay my taxes, I'm good to my wife. Good, my kids, I try to support them. That's not me. I'm a righteous very moral person. There's nothing dirty about me. Well then that person needs to read Psalm 53, verse 2 and 3. Listen to what the Bible says about all of mankind. God look down from heaven upon the Children of Men. To see if there were any that didn't understand that Dead Sea God. Every one of them is gone back. They are altogether but calm filthy That's what God says about Mankind. That does not have a relationship and him. They are all together. All of them. Filthy, Was the Bible say about our own righteousness? Is like, filthy, what filthy rags. Feel lost in the dark, she gets a lamp lost in the darkness. She gets a broom lost in the dirt. You see how that is a picture of humanity and then lastly and this is not easily seen from the text.

But it was lost in disgrace. You say what? What do you mean by that? Well, when a woman got married in those days, she was given ten pieces of silver. It was something like a wedding band. And those pieces of silver would have a hole in the middle and they would run a string through there and she would tie around her head and where those 10 silver coins like a bandana. That's what it was like and she would wear them. But if she had ever been unfaithful to her husband, they would take one silver coin off right in the middle of her forehead. And take that one out. So when people out in Publix are they would say We'll look this one.

She don't have a 9 coins. Now, you see why this woman was running around her house, trying to find this coin. She had lost one. People would think that she was an adulterous when she put her bandana on it. So she was trying to find this but no matter how valuable it is, if it's lost its lost, its worth no more than a Wooden Nickel. If it's lost, no matter how valuable it is. You see friends. The Bible says that concerning those without Christ. We have all together become unprofitable. That's what it say. Just like that coin. You lose a $50,000 coin. What is it? You can use it don't matter. He says we've all become unprofitable. A lost coin, can't be treasure, can't be spent. Can't be enjoyed why? Because is lost friends. God is giving you a purpose. What is that purpose to glorify him? Where was Jake? Owen lost, it was lost in the darkness and she had to light a candle. In the Bible says men loved Darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. You never know how sometimes small children are afraid of the dark, you know, that they have to have a night light on the Afraid of the Dark. It did something sometimes. We laugh at children for being afraid of the dark, but yet there's many adults running around us afraid of the light. They're afraid of the like they're afraid of the light of Jesus Christ, they will not come because their deeds are evil their lost in darkness. This was also lost in dirtiness because she had to take a broom to sweep it down in the dirt. Was that calling it was lost in disgrace because no longer was she the pride and joy of her husband? Cuz she only had nine silver Corum. She was an adulteress in perception anyway, So, what are we saying? We said so far Man Without God, we looked at his weakness. He's like a sheet dumb and dependent and defenseless like a lost coin, a man without God, it's worthless. If you lose your coin you can't spend it. It's worthless and so lost in darkness. Dirtiness and disgrace. Number three, I want you to see the wretchedness of Man Without God and we see this in the lost. Son, that look at it beginning and verse 14. Here's this song and this son tells his father father give me my inheritance right now. Here's what he was saying. When do you normally get an inheritance? When someone what dies? Here's a man. His father is living in this song. Says father. Give me my inheritance. What was he saying? Father I wish you were dead. I wish you would just go ahead and die so I can get my money. That's what he saying to his own Daddy, because he wanted the inheritance hair does nothing come until a person dies. He basically, he's saying, father, I wish you were dead. I just wish you would die. And so, what is Jesus telling us here? Well, number one of the richest wretchedness of man, look at it first before teen dating, when he got, his inheritance went out and left the country and went somewhere else and just spend it all, their roads are severe famine in the land. He began to be in. Won't he lost it all lost? All of his inheritance, then he went and joined himself to a status on the backcountry and he sent him away into the fields, the feed flying a Jewish, man, feeding Swan, what you couldn't get any worse than that. That was the lowest you could go. Lost it all Feed & Swine verse 16 and he would gladly have filled his stomach with the Pods at the sliding. A, he didn't have anything to eat. He wanted to eat. The pig food. He wanted to eat that inverse. Same thing when he came to himself. He said, how many of my father's hired service at bread enough to spare. I perish with Hunger. This is this is a story about a man that's without got the wretchedness of Man Without God. Where does it begin? First of all, depression. Look what he said when he had spent all their Rosa famine in the land. Or what's Jesus saying? He's telling us, no matter what you depend on, no matter how wealthy you are friends. One day is going to leave you, or you going to leave it. One of the other is going to happen, the things of this world that there's a come in a time. When you going to run out of all your resources you going to run out of breath and going to run out of light. You going to run out of strength and you may have a lot of money in the bank. But behind this story and Beyond this story is a greater spiritual meaning of the impoverished condition of any man woman boy or a girl without the Lord Jesus Christ, when your without Crest, you ought to be depressed. That's what's going to happen. Number to degradation a life of degradation. You think he ever dreamed that he would spend his life in a Hog Pen.

if somebody, if I got an inheritance and it was a really big inheritance, I can almost guarantee you. I'm not going to be out there. Slopping Hogs, and I'm not going to be eating hard food. This boy was he ended up in a Hog Pen. It took him a long time but that's where he ended up. So, friends, I want to tell you something this morning. I've heard a lot of people tell me, you know, I just don't know where I'm going in life. I just wish I knew. Where I was going. I want to tell you something.

I can tell each of you this morning where you going in life, You say what, how do you know that? Because where you going is where you're headed.

Wherever you're headed, that will be your destination if you leave here and go east, you going to run into the ocean, eventually you go west, you going to run into the mountains. You go north, you'll probably run into Virginia, you go south, you'll probably hit South Carolina. You are going where you're headed. The look at your life, this morning. Where are you headed? If you're headed somewhere without Christ and your loss and you're doing life on your own, I can tell you where you're going, you're going where you're headed and you're headed for Destruction, that's where you're going. That's your destination is destruction. May take you a while. To get there is more here. Took his inheritance and left and probably several years passed before he found himself in the van but he was headed that direction the whole time and that's where he ended up in the hogpen a life or depression, a life of degradation

This is Jesus looking at the Pharisees. This is why I sit down with Sinners there, like lost sheep. And they're like a lost coin. Now, do you want now? Do you understand while I sit down with sooner, this is the way humanity is. And then dissatisfaction. Look what he said, verse 16. He would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, there was an ongoing hunger in him. Again, there's a deeper meaning than just physical hunger. Hear what he saying here is the husk of this world. The pigpens of this world will not satisfy the longings of your heart. You might as well get out of the pigpen cuz it's not going to satisfy you. He has given us. God has given us a hunger that can only be met when we were in God's house when we have God living on the inside of us. That's the only time it will be met. Jesus is painting a picture of wretchedness. So they criticize and they say all these people. He said, I'll tell you why they're weak. Like she, they're worthless like a lost corn and The Wretched like a lost son. That's why I hang out with sinners. And friends. That's why we should be going out and spreading the gospel and hanging out with Sinners, we need to see culture and the World Through The Eyes of Christ. Amen. That's what we need to do. Well, I come to the last point. The first three have been about Mankind, weakness, a man without God worthlessness a man without God the wretchedness of Man Without God lastly I want you to see this the wind so list of God toward man I hope I spelled it right I think I did the hard word to spell the wind. So mess of God toward man, I want to I want you to look at something in here. That's not only shows us the story, the nature of man. Be stories that this Parable, these three sections show us the nature of God. You say, what, how do you see that not only the nature of God? It shows us the nature of the trinity. The son, the spirit and the father. Let's look at it. Number one, the rescue in nature of the song. Remember the one, the Sheep, Look at the shepherd, is he goes on and he leaves 99 and he seeks W the one. Why would he do that? Because friend, that is the nature of a Good Shepherd. That's the nature of it. What did Jesus call himself? I am the good white shepherd, He will go and seek the one. Let me tell you something. Do you know that the nature of Christ for his nature is today? You know what the nature of Christ is today. It is the nature to rescue loss centers. Why did the Bible say Christ? Come in the world to seek and SWAT save that which is lost, he is the Good Shepherd, all that the father give to me. I will in no wise cast out You see, we see the rescue in nature of the Sun. In the sectional with the sheet, the lost sheep. But we also see the revealing nature of the spirit in the section with the Lost coin. What did this woman do? She took a broom And began to sweep, she lit a candle and begin to look. Did you know that that's the ministry of the holy spirit in your life? You say, what what are you talking about? What does the Holy Spirit do the Bible says he illuminates

If you're not saying you have no spiritual faculties about you, but once you're saved all of a sudden you can read the Bible and was the Holy Spirit that illuminates, the words of the Bible, he teaches you truth gives you like the show you which way to walk what I need to do. The thoughts I need to have he is an Illuminating. Holy Spirit. What do you want to do? She lost the coin. She lit a candle and then what she took the broom and swept the floor.

That's what the Holy Spirit does. Friends wants your saved? You get saved and all the sudden, the Holy Spirit gets his broom of conviction out and he starts cleaning up the dirty spots in your life. He starts sleeping on our hearts. Well, I didn't know you knew about that. Oh yeah. You need to sweep that. Don't sweep it under the rug, you get rid of that, you get the vacuum and you vacuum at up, don't you leave that under your rug? That's what the Holy Spirit does c. Start Sweeping in our life as a Ministry of upheaval and if I ever happen to you than you can, thank God for that that you got a holy spirit inside of you who tells you when you go wrong he make make you feel guilty and things but that's his Illuminating sweeping Ministry in your life. and thank God that he's the one that has the broom of conviction because he's stirring your heart cuz he know you're like a piece of Lost, Silver that needs to be found and then thirdly, The rescue in nature of the song, One lost sheep. The revealing nature of the spirit revealing to us what we need to do, how we need to change in the Lost coin. And then finally, we see the receiving nature of the father with the lost son. Now, think about this, this son, he was in a Hog Pen in the far country. The Bible says he finally comes to himself, it says I'm going to go back home. I've just got to go back home. I can't live like this anymore, but it's been years if I go back home with my father, except me? I mean, I mistreated my, I basically told him, I wish you were dead. Give me my inheritance and now I have wasted it all. I spent everything I have lost it all, but I need to go back home. Is the father going to accepting? Well, let's look at what the Bible says here. He says in verse 19, I am no longer worthy to be called your son, make me like one of your hired servants. So he decided he would go to his father verse 20. He arose and came to his father but when he was still a great way off, his father sign and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him, And the son said to him father I have sinned against heaven in your sight and no longer worthy to be called your son. So what the father do, just put him on the next train out of their father said to his servants. Bring out the best row, put it on and put a ring on his hand. Sandals on his feet, cook up the fatted, calf cooking up killing, let us eat and be merry for this. My son was dead and is alive again. He was lost like the Sheep. He was lost like the coin and now he is found.

I don't know if any of you've ever had rebellious children.

That run away from home or mistreated you or maybe went four years and wouldn't even speak to you.

If that's the case, I'm sorry about that but I can guarantee you one thing. If they had a change of heart and wanted back that relationship, you would accept them. Because that's your child. You see the father, never stopped loving him. And as soon as he saw that song, he jumped over the banister on that front porch and he started running toward that boy were in this story. The father is a picture of God. But God, the Bible never depicts God in a hurry. This is the only place in the Bible where it depicts God running running to meet this boy, only place in the Bible. He is literally running to meet his son friends list that matter what you've done. No matter how bad you been, where you been that matter, how your life has disgraced and dishonor God. It doesn't matter how weak you are that matter how wretched you are, doesn't matter how worthless that you have lived. You may have wasted your life, it doesn't matter. Because if you'll come running down this aisle today, to accept Christ, I guarantee you he'll run and meet you. He will run and meet you and we can kill the fatted calf and we'll put the best roads on you. That will just lift you up because that's what a father does. He'll wrap his arms around you, he'll kiss you on the neck, he will receive you to himself. Think about these three stories lost sheep. We see the rescue and nature of the Sun, the Lost coin, the revealing nature of the spirit and the lost, son, the receiving nature of God, that's who God is. So now you see that? Not only should we be praying. God, give me your heart for the loss. Let's also. Pray God, give me your eyes for the loss. They meant. Let's pray. Father, we thank you. And praise. You and love you today. Lord, For Your Precious word. And Lord, thank you that we can learn so much from this. or we know that those who are out there without you, That they're weak. They're there, spiritually ignorant. We know that. They're dependent. They're defenseless when it comes to facing the Flash. The Wiles of the devil in the ways of this world. Or we know that it doesn't matter if we have a Ph.D, it don't matter. If we have a string of letters behind our name, 6in long, if we don't know you Our life is worthless. No matter how smart, how much money we're living in darkness. We're living in dirtiness. We're living in disgrace because you did not create us to live like this. You created us to know you and to give you glory and lower way, all we all know, all we need to do is turn on the TV and see the wretchedness of men and women who live without God. Living the lives and supporting abortion and things like that week. We see that Lord to help us also to see you win some this that no matter where we been, or what we're doing, or how bad our life has been. If we will turn to you, you will reveal to us what we need to know. You will rescue us from the pit. And you will receive us to yourself in heaven for those of us who called you Abba. Father forcing Christ name. I do pray. Amen.