God Still Wants You

As we open up this idea of transformation, Romans, 12:2, I'm going to connect it to a narrative that is in the New Testament. And so, as we open up, thoughts were together, let's power One More Time Out. Heads in prayer and B YouTube out with me. Lord, we thank you that you want more for our lives. We thank you that. You don't want us just to be conformed to this world, but you want us to be different. It doesn't take much to be different these days. Lord, even prayer can be different. Even just saying, I'm going to read my Bible. More regularly can be different. Saying, I want to take you more seriously, can be difference. And so, Lord, we want to be different. We don't want to be conformed to this world, but we want to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. To be transformed from the inside out through your grace. And so, Lord, as we spend these next few moments opening up your word, fill up. Fill this room with your spirit once again, which song, I'll praise to you. And now we ask that our hearts will be open to you as you pour into us. Your will and plan and purpose for our lives. We pray be with me, the Lord bless the words that I am about to share, and I pray that my words will be your words for. I ask it in Jesus name. Amen.

So we going to turn out Bibles to the Book of Luke will be spending our time, and Luke chapter 15. And the verse that I have up here in Luke chapter 15, Is found in. Versus.

20 right there, verse 20. Let's go to that verse 20. So we answered and said to his father Lo these many years

I've been serving you am I in the right place there? I'm actually reading 29 my apologies. Here we go to B. Copy and heroes and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father, saw him and had what everyone compassion and ran and fell at the neck and kissed him. And the sunsets Him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and then your site I am no longer worthy to be called your son. This is the new King James version. Here, I am no longer worthy to be called your son. The Bible says that the father saw his son a great way off. but when he saw him, he didn't reject them. He kissed him. And he received him. The title of a message tonight is on the next slide. Hear the title of that message is God, still wants you? God still wants here no matter what you've been through, God still wants you, no matter what your past has been like, God still wants, you got still wants you in here? This is an important message. Especially as the author Luke is writing this because he is riding to a gentile audience, he addresses his letter to Theophilus a gentile, most likely a Greek And he says to Theophilus, you may be a gentile. You may be someone that isn't biologically through the bloodline from Abraham, but God wants you to know. Even though you're not biologically connected to Abraham, you can be connected to Jesus, Through belief in faith. That God still wants you Theophilus? God still desires. You even though you're a gentle, even though you were born outside of the Hebrew Nation, God still wants you, and I don't know if you've ever felt like an outsider before But God says he still wants you. I got something here. That I'm going to show you in a minute. But do you have anything that you have possession off and your friends asked you? Why in the world, do you still have that? Why in the world may be, your roommate has something and you like, why do you carry that around? Why do you have possession of this? Why do you still own this? It's been 15 years and you still haven't got rid of this. But you still want it. You still want it. This is one of the things that I have that I still want. This was call it in by my niece in Florida. She gave it to me a few years ago, she might have been like 6 years old when she did, they sent, you know, when you're a six-year-old, you're trying to keep within the lines, but you just can't quite make it. And he's, she's doing a pretty good job. But this is a canvas that she she painted and it says, Jesus loves me. Pretty simple, but an important message and I still want it because it reminds me firstly that no matter how old I am or wise, I am I can still learn something from someone younger than me. That's what it reminds me of and I'm so glad that she gave me this because it reminds me of this simple message. That God loves me. But secondly it says to me that God no matter what I've been through even though I don't get the coloring in right. Even though I'm kind of Outside the Lines. You still want me? You still desire. I'm even though I don't get a perfect, you still want me? And there are times, maybe you have something in your house. In fact, right now, we have a meal that my wife Christina made. That is still in the fridge and sometimes she'll say, do you want me to throw you the cell? And I do know, I still want it because my wife's. Leftovers support meal, the meals that she makes a better than Chipotle a better than do. Spurs are better than look at you. You can take me up on this offer, she has this lentil meal in the fridge. It's been there right now. She made it on Saturday and I said, you can throw it out. I still want it. And if you want to try this lentil meal she might invite you. I might not get another one for another month cuz I've just made a public announcement. You're all Welcome to our house full 4 dinner. But she has this smell and she'll say, I you done without her know that I still want it. And God is saying from to you, that maybe there is something that you feel like I need to, I need to throw out, it's getting but I've been through so much and God is saying, no matter what you been through the matter, what your past is, like, I still want you, and that's the story that was going to look at this evening. We're going to start with Mark rather Luke. I'm going to be reading from Luke chapter 15, verse 1 and 2 right here at just a set of seeing here now the tax collectors and sinners. Will old roaring me to him. Catch that first point. If you have your Bibles with you chapter 15 verse 1, the tax collectors and sinners withdrawing need to Jesus Starting off pretty well, right. Those two. And the Pharisees and the scribes, they grumbled. Isn't it interesting that when Sinners come close to Jesus The Pharisees begin to Grumble. No one was grumbling when nursing a came to Jesus, but as soon as a sinner comes to Christ, people begin to Grumble and I wonder that sometimes out greatest that text. I went way too far from Jesus, but you will notice haters. Let's pull them hate. As you will notice. People begin to Grumble and begin to change and change their posture as you're getting close to the Christ. The Pharisees began to Grumble as the Sinners can closer to Jesus. I don't know if you've experienced a challenge in your life, as you're getting closer to Jesus, many times, the enemy does not care if you're even in church, the enemy does not even if you're on the campus of Southern Adventist University, but once you start trying to take Serious alive and safe, God, I'm going to pray. I'm going to seek my life to be transformed. I'm going to sue if I'm going to sign up for Ministry Expo. I'm not satisfied with being only in the church. I want to be the church. I want to make a difference. I want to take you would seriously. I don't want to just be a hearer of the would I want to be a doer of the word. The enemy begins to crumble. The enemy starts saying, I'm not going to allow you to change without a fight transformation. Requires tension transformation is a fight and so this is what Jesus says. And I love this about Jesus because the Pharisees begin to accuse him and they say this man receives Sinners and eats with them. And I love what Jesus does because he doesn't address the accusation front on and this is wisdom for all of you. If someone attacks you don't get defensive about it, don't try to defend. This is what Jesus does. He doesn't get defensive, he treats the accusation with an illustration. And so he goes and he gives three Parables. He how many three this three Parables here and they all have something to do with those that are lost because Jesus is teaching each. Repentant sinner is a reason for Heavenly celebration as your grumbling and condemning Heaven is rejoicing. Isn't it interesting that sometimes God's people aren't synced with heaven? That the opportunity to celebrate was the Pharisees opportunity to grumble. And so Jesus is a sinner's, repentant is an opportunity to celebrate, and this is what he continues to say. He gives three Parables without going through all of them through the last one, but the first one is a sheep that is lost in the wilderness. And there's three kind of things. Three, kind of ways we can be lost first, he describes a sheep, that is lost. Now the Sheep one that away. The Sheep was still a sheep and never turned into a goat. But sometimes we don't intentionally. Leave God, we just wander away. Oh, there's a bit of green across here, reminds me when I was in the mall with my parents and I didn't intend to get lost. I just wanted to go to the aisle with the Legoland Transformers were okay. And as, as soon as I started going to that aisle, I recognized that I was lost, I didn't intend to be lost than some of us. Don't intentionally try to get lost, but we find ourselves in a place that we never thought we would end up. And now, we want to head back home with lost Desiring to get back home. And the shepherd. Praise God. Seeks to find us the Sheep one dead. Then there's the Lost coin. What everyone. Lost coin. Now the Lost coin is lost in the house and it's lost in the house because of neglect and the lost coin reminds us that we can be lost, even in the house of God, we can be lost even in church because of neglect. And because of a level of negligence that leads to us, not valuing the coin. And some people are lost in church because they've been neglected because they've been forgotten and the woman only notices the coin when she needs the coin. Have you even noticed that some people only notice you're gone when they need you? But when you're right there beside them, they don't they neglect you. They didn't take any opportunity to recognize you, but when you're gone and they need you, hey, bro, I need you, man. I need to move my couch up to the third level of towels. Can you help me out? All right, I'll remember that. You can be lost. The Bible says, even in the house of God. And so when the Bible says, someone is lost in the house, there is a celebration. When the core coin is found the coin is lost because of neglect but he is the parable of the prodigal son, is this the sun isn't lost because he wandered away. The sun is lost because he deliberately walked away. And so, we're going to spend some time in the parable of the prodigal son because God still wants, you not only when you want it away he is the reality about. God. Still wants those that say and leave because they deliberately walked away. How many of you were glad that there is three powerball's not only for those that wanted a way not only for those that are lost in the house but there is a parable for those that deliberately walked away. And God says, even if you deliberately walk away, God still wants you. God, still wants you and so we got to go through this. We going to verse 11, chapter chapter 15 verse 11. And this what the Bible says here And he said there was a man who had two sons and the younger of them set to Wii Spa. The father, give me the share of property that is coming to me. Give me what's mine. God, give me. What's mine? And he divided his property between them.

Not many days later. The Bible says the youngest son gathered, all he had and took a journey into a far country and there, he squandered his property, Reckless. To Reckless living and when he had spent everything, a severe famine, a rose in that country and he began to be in need here. The Prodigal Son makes a choice. He says god father I'm going to leave you and the father is a reflection of God in this Parable. I'm going to leave you but here's the thing, I want to get what's mine first. And the Bible says that once he got what was his? He left quickly and he left quickly and he went with his friends. And we see a dichotomy here, because as, as we read in, Romans, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed. He left his father. Who loved him to hang out with people that liked him. What's the difference between those that love your? And those that like you What's the difference? One of the differences is those that like you will tell you what you want to hear, but those that love you will tell you what you need to hear a man. Those that like you will be there when you're taking care of them and and and you're giving them dinner and you're shouting them and meal and going to a film. But those that love you add a unconditionally because they love isn't based on what you give them. That love is based on their relationship with you. How many of us may prefer to hang out with those that like us versus those that love us, he The Father loves the son and his love was not based on conditions like his friends. His love was based on the conviction, the conviction of a loving father,

How many of us? Have experienced baby. But the Bible says in Proverbs that wounds of a friend that are better than the kisses of an enemy. that there are some words that have friends will give not out of hate but out of love and one illustration of this is is when you go, if you've ever known someone or a loved one that maybe maybe wasn't feeling well, and the doctor says, we need to operate Now I know. Shane requires a wound. We actually had a friend that had to go through an operation due to cancer and this is the thing. If you don't, if you allow the cancer to remain, it will kill the patient but sometimes you need to remove the cancer to save life because sometimes a short-term thing can lead to a life-long results. And so I'm knife in the hands of an enemy May kill year, but I had the knife in a hand of a doctor can heal you Answer. The question is, which one is it? And so God is saying, like, I prune a Vine sometimes I'll have a knife that cuts things away but it's never to harm you. It's only to heal your. I don't just like you. I love you and there is sometimes there will be a short-term wound for a long-term results. And so this young man was just thinking short-term, right? He was just thinking short-term and it looked hurtful on the surface, but God was really trying to help him a little deeper beneath, and sometimes you need that friend. Being a true friend, takes energy and you risk a relationship, but sometimes you need a friend to tell you you're not acting, right? Sometimes you need a friend to tell you. Dwight, Dwight is that your cologne or do I smell trash right now? Because you bought you bought that you bought that cheap stuff. And I don't care how much you try to convince me. Old Spice. Does not smell good. Okay. I don't care how funny the commercials are. I don't care how much they spend on branding. Old Spice. Can never smell good. All right, then sometimes you need a friend to tell you that. I'm your friend this evening. Don't spend your money on Old Spice an X, you need a friend to tell you. You don't, you don't smell good right now. You need a friend to tell you. You were out of line when you said that sometimes you need a friend to tell you that you're acting right now like a know-it-all and you need to remain humble payment. Sometimes we need a friend because flattery flattery can make us lose our focus. And so the Bible says, the father loved him, but his friends liked him and he went with his friends and he said, God, I do father, I don't want to leave here without my belongings. Because the sun would have rotted the belongings then belong to the father. and I wonder sometimes,

Do we follow God for his stuff? How do we follow God because of who he is? Do we follow God because of what he can give me and God I love you for the miracle. But do I love you because of your grace because of your messy. Got when the miracle happens, I'm right there. But if you don't do what I say, I'm going to turn my back on you. He wanted his belongings but he never wanted to belong to the father. So he took all he had the Bible says and then in verse 14, it says and when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in the country and he began to be in need

He was having fun.

And he spent everything. I don't know how much that was, but it sounds like his dad was a very wealthy man, and maybe took a while to spend all that money. and I'm sure he had fun and I'm going to be very transparent with you and you probably already know this but

There are some that say and if you don't know this, this may be a news flash. Failure. But people that say, sin isn't fun, I know, being totally transparent with you. No one would be sitting if it wasn't fun, okay? He had fun, he, you know, someone wants it. If you're not, if you're not going to hit, not enjoying seeing, you're not doing it right. That's what someone said, but sin is fun, but it's not fulfilling. And that's the difference sin can be fun, but it's not fulfilling, and he was having fun, but then he stopped having fun. When the famine hit and see some things can be fun until a famine hits. It was fun until It was fun until I got an F on my paper. It was fun until it became an addiction.

Are you not hearing me on this side? It was fun until someone got hurt.

Fun. It was fun until and he was having fun until the femen hit. It was fun until I ran out of money. It was fun until everyone else found out about it. And now what I thought I was doing and secret is now exposed to everyone. things can be fun until have you ever went through an until moment in your life? It was fun until it was fun until I got the news that I wasn't expecting. It was fun until, and for this young son, it was fun until the famine hit, and some of you may be going through that famine right now. Hebrews chapter 11 verse 24, says that Moses chose to be mistreated rather than enjoy the fleeting pleasure of sin. The Bible says, the right there in Hebrews that sin is pleasurable but it's fleeting

It will be fun but it'll never be fulfilling. And so the famine hits and it's no longer fun anymore. He's right there and verse 15 says. So we went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into the fields to feed pigs.

and as he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, And no one gave him anything.

Set. You know, some of you may have thought that the Bible did the bible say that, he ate what the pigs ate.

He didn't, right? He didn't even eat what the pigs, eat ate. And the Bible says that no one gave him anything. This is how low he's gotten. He is most likely in a gentile country because there are pigs. They're, they're, you know, Hebrews Jews. Do not own pigs, who would like be like an Adventist opening up an alcohol store, right? It's just an oxymoron, right Jews. Do not have pig farms.

And the Bible says that he was treated in this far country less than a pig. He was not even worthy to eat what the pigs ate. That's the level he's got into. And the interesting thing is he used to be surrounded by friends, but when the money ran out, he's now surrounded by swine. His friends are no longer around. I'm sure he paid for their meals and I'm sure, you know, everyone's got a friend like this, right? You go out. You've been planning for the week. This is what we doing. There's always that friend, that says, I forgot my wallet. I forgot my phone icon. Cash app. You, I'll get you next time and you like, yeah, bro, I'll get you get me next time and next time never comes right next time. Never comes in in and there's always that person, you know, the person. Laughing that you like. So, so here. He took care of his friends, but when he needed them, they weren't here for him. He is now surrounded by pigs. And the Bible says that he longed to eat the food that the pigs ate.

I wonder who you may not relate to being in a in a, in a, in a pen full of pigs. But have you ever longed for something that is empty. Have you ever longed for something that couldn't really satisfy? Have you ever gotten to a point in your life that you didn't care where the attention came from? So long as you got some kind of attention, even though it's bad attention, there is some of us that is so hungry to be filled will go to the wrong places to fill its So hungry to experience something that only God can give us. And so there, he's in the pig pen longing. For his heart, to be filled, no one can give him anything that's over 17. The Bible says, but when he came to himself, he said, how many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread. But I perish. He with hunger. And I would say, for me, this is the most powerful part of the story. So I need you to listen here, pay attention to this point because this year Al theme is be transformed by the renewing. What about what by the renewing of our mind? The Bible says that when he came to himself When he came to himself, when he's mine, started to begin to become renewed, he remembered the love of the father. In fact, I would say it was the love of the father, that began to renew his mind. That's what began to awaken him. When he came to himself up until this point, he was not acting like himself. He was with the pigs and he realizes, this is not me. Have you ever been caught in a situation? And you tell yourself this ain't me. This is not me. You come to your senses and you go, this ain't me. Maybe you're a mellow person. But some Something's Happened and you become angry. You become beside yourself and it's just a little thing. And you start saying to you. So I don't know why that made me so mad. This ain't me. Maybe maybe for someone else. It's when you're going you're going to certain places and you're saying this ain't me. Maybe it's the thing you're watching and you just say to yourself, This Ain't Me. Maybe it's the people that you're hanging out with and you're saying this ain't me. Maybe it's the way you're dressing and you're trying to copy the culture of the world, but then you realize this same me, we weren't made to be drug addicts. We were made to be alcoholics. We were made to be interested in thinking more about what others think, rather than what God thinks. And there comes a point where we say, this ain't me. It's not me. The Bible says, when he came to himself, he realized this ain't me. I am the son of a loving father and I'm being treated less than swine. This ain't me. Have you ever reach that point? What you felt like this ain't me. Never marry someone that doesn't know who they are in Christ, because they will be one way one day. And they will have no anchor and because they have no anchor, the waves just toss them about everywhere and they don't know who they are. And as a result, you start getting confused because you stopped wondering. I thought you told me you love me one week and now you're avoiding me the next week and not even responding to my messages. And I'm I'm I'm not going to stand up for this and so this same me. See you later wouldn't want to be. This ain't me. This ain't me. And so he the swine reflect his condition and he says, this ain't me.

He remembers the father in the pig pen. And he starts to recall it and now he's coming to himself. Some people believe that God can only meet you in certain places and I just want to tell you this evening. Guess you're going to go to Ministry Expo after this, and there's going to be opportunities to join a life group. And yes, God can meet you in a life group. And there's going to be opportunities to join Christian service and serve. And yes, you can do that. And God will meet you there. You'll get to join an arc. You get to join Ministries here in church. And God will meet you in all these places, but I want you to know that God doesn't just meet you. Maybe in the four walls of the church God will meet you in places like a pig pen. That God is not limited to where he can meet you. Yes, he can meet you on an edic trip. Praise God for that, but he can also meet you when you don't even feel like opening up your Bible. The Bible says that the Holy Spirit was working on his mind, even while he's in the pig pen, God will show up and interesting places. God will show up in unexpected places. God will show up when you're depressed than eating the readers trying to feel better. God will show up, God will show up. Even on a street corner, he will show up. Even in a club, he will show up. Even in the Lion's Den he showed up for Moses. Even off the he killed an Egyptian, God will show up. God will show up. God doesn't just show up in certain places, my God is too big for that. He'll show up even in a pigpen, he'll show up even to his son that willingly left. The father, He'll show up.

God is not limited by our circumstance, he'll show up anywhere. And I just want you to recognize maybe this that you turn the definition of real success is when we come to realize who we really are That is the definition of real success that the sun is experiencing a transformation in his life and he's beginning to realize why God created him. Why God you didn't make me for this. This ain't me. I'm better than this. I'm not meant to be with the swan. I am the son of the father. That's who I really am. Real success is knowing who we are in Christ. Amen.

And how did he come to himself? He remembered the goodness of the father and I believe that God wants to remind a generation of the goodness of God, because that's when our minds can be renewed, the goodness of God renews our mind. And I just wonder what would happen on our campus. If we came to ourselves, if we began to realize who we are and what God has called us to, what would happen three Hebrew, boys knew who they were and they withstood a fire. That was seven times hotter through the ruler of the Known World King Nebuchadnezzar. It's amazing what God can do when people come to realize who they are. The Bible says that Jesus didn't even start his public Ministry until The Father in Heaven declared who Jesus was. It's powerful when we know who we are in God and it was a reminder to everyone day that Jesus. This is my beloved Son with whom. I am well pleased, a reminder of who Jesus was and what would happen if we remember who we are in God. The Bible says, he came to his mind and I wanted this evening, if there's someone saying God, I made for more than this, I'm better than this. Someone is coming to their mind, maybe even this evening. And saying God, you're working on my heart even before I had another week passes here on campus, I want to get my mind right, not just for classes, I want to get my mind right with you.

And so the Bible continues, he got his mind, right? And he began to change and he began to make his way to the father and the devil knows when when you get your mind right, you will start heading back to the father. Never let the devil. Make you think you have gone too far to head back? To Christ to head back home. And so he starts heading back his mind has changed. And the Bible says, in verse 18, he says I will rise and go to my father and say to him. Father, I have sinned against heaven. And before year, he's writing an apology letter and we going to finish with this

He's writing an apology. Have you ever had to write an apology to someone? He have some of you will not in your heads and you'll like, how do I get this right? And I'm sure the sun was there and as he's riding, he's like, hey Now that that's not right, that's that's probably 2 in to 2 and formal. Okay, maybe it's like what's up? It's like no, I'm very unsophisticated.

Then he just starts with father. Father. He remembers that. Back home is his father and this is what he says, he's riding his apology note. And he said, father, I have sinned against heaven. And before year, I am no longer worthy to be called your son treat me as one of your hired servants. Father, I know I'm not worthy to be called your son but I'm coming home. Don't treat me like a son. Treat me like a servant. And so he's making his way back home. And by now he's his clothes at added by now, he's looking famished by now. You can probably see the ribs on his side by now, he's his face, is probably tucked into his cheeks and he's heading back home. And the Bible says that his father saw him a long way off. He saw him a long way off in the Bible says that he began to run to his son. He didn't stay stand-offish, he began to run to his son and as he comes to his son, the sun begins to read the apology letter. And this is so powerful is so powerful. He begins to read the apology letter and English Majors. Tell me, tell me when the lettuce with tell me when the reading stops, he begins to read to respond. And he says, father father, before you hug me before you embrace me hear the ready, kiss Timmy said, I have sinned against heaven and before year, I am no longer worthy to be called your son but he's the reality. Did he finish his apology? He didn't get all the way through the big he missed is. Treat me like one of your servants. And what God is saying, is that you cannot earn your way back to me that I'm not going to treat you like a servant. When you come back, I'm going to treat you like a son. He didn't get to the point where he's making the transaction with God and saying God I'm going to earn my love back to you. God says no you're accepted. Even though you smell funny. Even though you came back and you look famished, even though you took the estate you, I still wanted by me. You're still wanted. You still wanted. He didn't even finish his apology before his father, put on a Gucci coat around him.

And it's one thing to put a Gucci coat on someone after they've had a shower. It's another thing, when they still in their racks, To show you that your righteousness isn't put upon you. When you've cleaned yourself up, its put upon you because you've just come back. And so he puts his righteousness around him, he gave him another, what Louis Vuitton bill. I don't know how much those are, but I'm sure they're expensive. I've never been to a Louis Vuitton store but when he's there he puts the best word. The Bible says, he put it on him and he put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. He felt unworthy. But God said his father said, I still want you and as the music team comes up.

The Bible says that he ran to his son. Now, you have to know in the Middle East. You will never in public. See old noble people with authority run, okay, you'll never see them run because noble people don't run. In fact, back in Bible times in order to be able to run as the father and he would have been wearing a robe and he would have had to lift up his Road in order to get to his son and run. But to show your legs back then, especially a man of nobility would have been shameful. And the Bible says that the father exposed his legs, in order to get to the sun, he took the shame of the Sun so that he could get to the sun.

And as he's running.

Nowhere in the Bible know where in the Bible will year. See God Illustrated as running except this story. Now someone might say it's in the Greek. I didn't study the Greek. I just did a word search in English. You can come see me later if it's in the Greek. Know where in the Bible? Will you see God running? Except in this story he's running to the Sun. And is he's running to the Sun.

The Bible says that he embraced them and this is what I love about this story. but, even though this is the only time we picture God running, I love the direction he's running in. Because if you're ever going to have a picture of God running, this is what the Bible says. It's going to be running towards a sinner. It's going to be running towards someone. That's not deserving of his love. It's going to be running towards someone that that that left him deliberately. And the Bible is saying that God still runs today. Still runs today and he still wants you, he still wants you, he's running towards you.

The other brother. That'll be for another time. He was lost in the father's house and the Bible says he went out to the field to get him and this is what I want to leave it with. We're going to close up right here. You can be lost in two fields. One son was lost. With a with a pics. But even though he sinned, he repented, The other son was lost in a field that was on to the house. What's interesting to me is the son that was in the house, that was playing Church. Was more lost than the sun with the pigs? It is a dangerous thing to play church because we can have a false sense of security. He was more lost in the sun with the pigs. And as a result he couldn't recognize when transformation happened. The identifying Mark of God's church is to know when Miracles at taking place and I want you to know this evening that God doesn't care which field you're in. He went out to both sons and that God is still running. He still wants you, his Mercy is still running, his goodness is still running, his grace is still running, his power is still running and it's running off to you. I invite you to stand up right now. We're going to sing this song Together. God's goodness is still running after us.