Homecoming 2024 (full service) Bro Glen Vollrath 6-2-2024

Man, Hellolujah, home coming. That would be a wonderful day, won't

it you? Man, It's good to be here this morning. God gives

us some house well, Amen, Every Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday

night here at Bethel a little bit of heaven to go to heaven with.

And then we're thankful for the presence of the Lord we feel this morning.

If you would, let's stand a man to thank God for what we feel,

asking to howard his way in our lives and get in at disservice.

God, we thank you for each one that's here. We thank you for

such a privileged Lord together in your house. We thank you God for how

you already that will. Let's keep the true to your word, Lord,

that you would bet with those that were gathered together. Lord, Lord,

we asked that you had come down and then have it the praise of your

people twelve round here among us, Lord, all day and day. Lord,

when you're working every life and every heart come by Minister God in touch.

Lord, bind every hendres and distraction. Lord driving far from us.

Lord, let us be pistols God and good the minister of the musicians and

the singers. God, Lord bless the worshipers God, each woman have gathered.

Will be sure to praise and thank you so much for it. Praise

God and Jesus Holy Name. We praise, Amen, Praise God, Amen

and amen. All right, singers, y'all come on around. Let's worship

the Lord this morning. A man, you're happy to be in God's house.

I mean, I'm happy to feel the presence of the Lord. Amen.

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green talk to even ancient thankful for the presence of the Lord. And I

was thinking this morning. There there's a Bible story that tells of a man

that had a life changing experience at a at a certain special location and for

the rest of his life you could see, Amen, he knew he could

go there and get in touch with God. Amen. And we're celebrating homecoming

today and celebrating the work of God that he's done here at Label. And

I'm thankful. I know in Label there's a place I could go, Amen,

and God can meet with me, and I know he'll make a change

in me. And I remember Amen the day and with talking said I to

take it to the place. Amen. And there's power and being able to

take the devil to a place a man when you know God will meet with

you. Amen. And I thank God that even Bet is such a place.

I'm thankful him in fourth place like this a man. If y'all help

us sing him in. I don't want these just to be words, but

I want us to reven this Amen, of the times God's met with us,

Amen, of the ways He's changed just for the better. Amen.

And realize. Amen, we should take it for granted. The previleence of

the Lord we feel this morning and then but y'all help us praise the Lord,

Amen, and a thankful hard for all that he's done for us.

Amen. When Paul and the Lord on the mask, he smood he never

wants the same again with fee math the Lord. He lived his food and

he started and fishing for me here way gone eater a fall. But nothing

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we will say name a fine forging person. Here we walked, beloved,

came every child. He say, I'm saying there is oh these said,

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you spared. Let me say, I forget we want job, saying so

I'm thinking, for says how ain't the bore are the time naples, Old

Lord of host, my st longest heat my made for the courts of the

Lord. My heart and my pleasure, cried out with the living God.

Yea, the sparrow hath found in house, and the swallowing ness for herself

where she may lay her young even thy alters the old Lord of Hosts,

my King and my God. Yea, the sparrow hath found in house to

swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young thy altar, Old

Lord and hosts, my God, my King, and my God. Blest

are they that with that dwell in thy house they still will be praising thee,

say lad, blest is the man who strengthens in thee and whose heart

are the ways of them passing through the valley of Paka, making a well,

the rain falling and filling the pools, they go from strength to strength,

every one of them out design appeared before God, O, Lord,

God of hosts. Here my prayer, give your old to God. Old

Jacob for the day and the courts is better than a thousand. I'd rather

be a doorkeeper, and I have the my God, that to twelve is

the tenth of the wickets. Have you passed through the valley of weeping?

Have you loan for a place of rest like the sparrow our savior did loan.

He thought for a place to lay his head and to lay his burdens,

to find refuse from this world for your heart and your mind and man

for your soul. To to day the place to belong. Welcome home.

This is the place and the place start to have you good. Let me

say, my gods and we looked out. Y'll get everything the same.

Oh oh away, listen friend, listen, listen. That's where we saw

to that it was fine where we stay day here we want to be yod

job. You need this same grin. This is the best ever ride.

This is the place where we saw today you was born. Where we say

here we recall the man that here we want to be yoll job. You

read this same Oh you o god, this is the place you see the

place where this isn't the place where we start today. You was born,

we say here, we bother I forget said here, we walked out.

They deny every job. You're in the safe you all the b I'm forgive

and said you do we walk out? Child day child? You in this

saftraight right? Yeah, you didn't see everybody? Yeah a man, yeah,

yeah, and this is my mother. Roberts eleven twenty five. Liberal

souls shall be made bad, that water shall be water. Also said today

about AMENI amber s, Hey, Amen, how many of you are glad

to be in the House of the Lord this morning? What a good looking

crowd, good looking people out there this morning. There's some good food out

there. I'm standing between you and that brother. Vall have to be standing

between you and that. I'm in jeopardy right now. I'd rather have Jesus

than being jeopardy. Amen. But it's good to see you, each and

everyone. I'm thankful that you're in here. Familiar faces on folk, folks

that used to be home folk, folks gonna be home folk, all of

you wonderful folks. So good to see you in the house of the Lord.

How many of you are feeling better ever since you started feeling the presence

of the Lord. Would you be feeling like you're feeling right now had you

not come into the House of the Lord. There's no house like his house.

I remember visiting Grandma's house. How many of you have good memories of

going to Grandma's fond memories, old house. Sweet The memories are for some

of us. Maybe some of you got beat with Grandma's limbers witts and you're

not reflecting so well on those wonderful years of spending time with Grandma. But

I appreciated Grandma. She was such a precious lady, Such a precious lady.

There's saints in this building this morning that I believe have been with us

for a good while. Now we're celebrating sixteen years as the Bethel Hole in

this church at this location. There had been a hole in this church prior

to our arrival, but for some reason it had some what this band had

dissolved. And I remember the Lord giving me a burden today of South Florida.

We were busy preaching at a brand new truck and trailer, and God

was a blessing. We were preaching a lot of days of the month.

God just gave me a burden for the LaBelle, and I thought, why

LaBelle. I don't even know where Labelle's at. Fortunately, it was in

Paradise down to South Florida, and I remember asking people, do you know

anything of LaBelle? No, I don't know anything of LaBelle. But then

I remembered good Brother Bill Thurton had been down here, and we came down

here sixteen years ago, I believe it was in two thousand and seven,

and it was with some precious people. Brother and sister Platte were here,

and brother and sister him and those were the only souls that were here at

that time. Sisterham is coming in now. As far as I know,

she is the only one that's still living. But over a period of time

God has blessed us that he has added to the church. Somebody told me

many years ago, in fact, sixteen years ago, they said, you'll

never build a holiness church in South Florida. And Brother Market junts and I

said, you're right, You're absolutely right. I will not do it,

but God will. How many of you know this is the Lord's doings and

it's marvelous in his eyes. I believe it's of the Lord, and so

I'm so thankful for every transplant, every soul that has been saved, everybody

that's been sanctified, everybody that's been filled with a holy ghost in this sacred

place. Did you appreciate the singing that the youth choir and younger don't choir

saying, I mean, it was just so good, so good. This

is the place where we dedicate every child. This is also the place where

we say goodbye. It's also a good place to come home prodigal sons and

daughters. You're out there this morning, and you're in a land and serving

God from a guilty distance. You could draw nine to God. He'll draw

nine to you. How many of you feel the presence of the Lord,

You've already acknowledged that you feel his presence. So we're celebrating sixteen years and

again, there was a church here before we got here, But we like

to merge the two works and give honor to those that labored in this region,

in this area prior to us. And I'm so thankful for those that

labored before us and made it possible for us to be here today. The

forerunners that follow the hordes of hell just to secure this piece of property.

You know, we have remodeled the building. But I'm just so thankful for

all of the blood, sweat, tears that have been poured into it,

Brother Jeremi, by own measures of ecclesiastical, ministerial and pastoral of successes.

I would say it's been a disaster. Not really, it's been really good.

It's been really good. God has held this in a wonderful way.

But I want to tell you something. Talent and genius cannot do this.

Only God can do this. And there's two other things that are very important

in this, this endurance and persistence. Not only did the apostle Paul have

feelings of discouragement and feelings of giving up, Elijah also had the same feelings,

and so did Jeremiah. In fact, the great prophet Jeremiah, it

is considered to be a major prophet. At one point he said that sitting

board, I'm done. I'm not even gonna minister your name. I'm not

gonna mention it. I'm not going to preach it anymore. But then he

said his words in my heart like a fire, shut up in my balls.

I'm wear it with for there and I cannot hold back, but they

still had those feelings. Are just giving up. They were gave out.

Talent and genius can keep you going and didn't keep the people before us going.

It hasn't kept us going for sixteen years. Talent genius is not enough.

It's persistence. There's upsets, there's times things turns upside down. We've

been in different locations, but God has saw us through. And I cannot

think of a single service where God's presence has not been in our mid since

God that has done this. It's his doings. It's marvelous in our eyes

of it. But persistence. The Bible said that Elijah was a man subject

to our passions as we are, but the difference was he prayed. That's

why he was successful in this life. We can be successful only if Jesus

is the one orchestrating the events of our life and also enabling us. He's

the orchestrator, right, He's the author, he's the finisher of our faith

that we haven't done this, but He has done this. And it's beautiful.

It's a beautiful thing to look out here and see what God has done.

And how many of you know God's not finished but sometimes between the point

of getting started, or between the point of the beginning and the ending,

there's a period there that you wonder, has everybody gave up on us?

Is everybody tired of you're in us? Is everybody okay with us just shutting

it down. We've been there. We've been there when the rent was due.

We've been there whenever the people in the community didn't like the fact that

would have been the wholeness church was in this region. We've been there and

they said, you will not put a hole Inness church in side of the

city limits of thebel We've been there when holiness was not respected, it was

despised and hated that. It wasn't talent and genius that got us to this

point, it was endurance and persistence in God. This is what my confidence

hangs on. My confidence hangs on the voice of the Lord said, there

is to be a holiness work in Libel, that if God has ordained it,

every time the enemy comes in like a flood, because he will come

in sometimes like an emmy tide, sometimes like a flood. But when the

enemy comes in like a flood, then by what the spirit of the Lord,

we can rest assure knowing that the spirit of the Lord shall up raise

up with standard against it. And there's been times, I'm telling you,

we've overcome feelings of discouragement, doubt, and despair, and even the demons

of hell that have opposed us, only because of the goodness and the grace

of the Lord. We just held on until the storm was over. We

just embraced the cross until the flood tides. And the way when Mighty bellows

over us rolled, I'm telling you they did too. They rolled over us.

They planted us flat on our face, our hope and our strength,

that our confidence has been in the Lord, when man has failed us,

when the dagger betrayal has smote us in the heart. Our Lord has been

faithful, sister. We're here right now because he's been faithful. They said,

there was seventy four here last Sunday, seventy seven here this morning.

That is because of the goodness and the grace of the Lord. That's a

far crime from four that was here sixteen years ago. Somebody that meant well.

They called me about four years into this ministry and they said, you're

going to lose every son and your daughter, every son you have in your

daughter in an attempt to try to save people in the bell. They said,

we've been there, we've lived there, We've moved away from Label in

order to save our family. And I said, the only thing I can

hold on to, dear brother, is when y'all got sent out, God

sent me in. He said, what I'm just telling you, gonna lose

your entire family. It ain't happening yet, only the calls of the goodness

of the Lord. Only because of the grace of God. Talent and genius

could not do it, but how good God could do it. And I

want you to know, if God has helped us these sixteen years, God

can help us another sixteen years. Because he can help us sixteen years,

he can help us for sixteen generations. Deffie Terry's I'm telling you, I

feel the presence of the Lord in his place this morning. I'm thankful for

what God has done. There's not enough time to have some testify and thank

Him for what he's done for us here, but we will do that some

tonight. I do thank you. It's such a privilege to have our brother

Johnson, my missionarybody here this morning and his precious family. Brother Barfield,

your family to have y'all home. I'm telling you that's so good. And

the grandson is Sister Pollard. Let me tell you something for him. I

was going to a place of business in central Florida. I had an appointment

there. It was a good appointment. I was picking up a paycheck from

one of my customers. And I was near what's called the Polk Parkway,

if anybody's familiar with the Pole Parkway, just off to the west side of

Lakeland, Florida. And I was driving there and Sister Monica Barfield had forwarded

me a clip of Sister Pollard singing while she was in the assistant living facility.

And the Holy just got to move it on Sister Pollard. And I'll

tell you this, the Holy just got to move it on me as well.

And I will never forget it. Brother man, you were talking about

how the Lord gives us have places by divine appointment, and how we can

take the devil to the place and say this is where I met with God.

I met with God right there on the Pole Parkway. God came by

and the spirit war witness with my spirit, and I shook his hand twice.

I said, any grandson of Sister Pallard is a friend of mine,

and I'm so glad he's here this morning. The visitors on the back to

you there the brother and the black shirt that mean to sing doing you.

I'm good to see you this morning. Who else is over here? Looks

like the rest are home, folks raise the Lord and brother fall Wrath.

There are giants in the land today. I was getting dressed for church this

morning, and I said, there's giants in the land. Not only are

there giants in the land physically, there's giants in the land spiritually. I

appreciate him, I appreciate everything he stands for him as precious wife. Just

to know there here today is man. It just brings strength, does it

not? Just brings strength to the Bethel hole in his church. To know

that we're not friendless, to know that we've got brothers and sisters of Lafe,

precious faith of this caliber capacity, so good to have them here this

morning. Brother Vonaras, come around and obey the Lord. If you have

been touched, aready, would you just ring your hands up to Heaven and

love with Jesus An. We appreciate this to your brother. Wonderful to be

in the house of the Lord today. Glad to be here be among us.

People really do appreciate the invitation to be here for they and the folks

here a beathful holiness church and just so meaning to I don't know your names,

really thankful for you and remember your faces from being through before. And

that's just thankful for what the Lord's doing for going to fill it this wonderful

for God is God for him, and it's really thankful for that. God

is good. David said, I was glad when they said them, and

there let us go into the House of the Lord. You know the wonderful

thing about this place, and a lot of focus has been on sundayscreen this

wing on the House of God, and Brother Harold has reminded us of the

work and the labor and it's went into building a work right here. But

the reason this is a special place is it's a meeting place and we do

get to meet our friends and our loved ones here and thank God for that.

But more importantly it's a meeting place with the Lord. Man, well,

we can meet God right here in the House of the Lord. The

place has been designated for that. I know. You can meet Him in

the woods I know you can meet him right down the road, sitting at

your dinner table, and a whole lot of other places. The Lord comes

by and meets with us. Thank God for that. I'm glad He'll meet

with us all around the day, twenty four hours a day. He never

sleeps, and he never slumbers. He's always available. Thank God for that.

But I'm lad for a place where we can come to the House of

the Lord with people of like faith and like mind, and come together to

worship the Lord, and to know, if confidence, that God will meet

with us, and may do you. I have felt his presence here today.

Enjoyed the service, I tell you, George, of those young people,

Thank God, Amen, that's You're very blessed have these young men and

young women, young children worshiping the Lord, singing for him, quoting those

scriptures, enjoyed those stem commandments. Wasn't that wonderful, church Man? It

was? And I enjoyed that. I always enjoy hearing the children do their

Bible versus we do that, And it's always a blessing to hear children learning

the world of God. Amen, home coming Sunday. It's what a privilege

it is to be able to assemble. The yeahs, people were glad you're

here. Since I don't know you, most of you, I don't know

who's his. That's good. I'm rich relivering. Amen, So we're mad.

I do know Brother Marcus and dear friends of Ourns. Just to leave

you there boys on here their visiting. I know that, but we're really

glad that they're here today with us. Man for my wife, I appreciate

her and she's been the love of my mine for thirty seven years. Yeah,

I only one that only one of walk and you say amen, thank

God for my wife. Appreciate her today and just thank God for this this

service. I hope the Lord to speak to somebody's heart today and a minister

to you on this homecoming Sunday. I know we been a lot of preparation

for this day, and there was a lot of hard work, and I

appreciate all that you've done to make this a special day. But the most

special thing you could ever happening somebody you went home. Those special things happened

today. You have your bibles, will be reading a very familiar scripture of

portion of text the Book of Saint Luke and the fifteenth chapter Saint Luke,

chapter fifteenth. If you wouldn't please stand for the reading of top word,

and we begin reading in the eleventh verse. And he said a certain man

had two somons. The younger of them said to his father, give me

the portion of goods that falled to me, and he divided unto him.

He's living. Not many days after, the younger son gathered altogether and took

his journey into a forei country, and they're wasted as substance with riteous.

When he had spent all the arose a mighty family in that land, he

began to be in warmt and he went and joined himself to a citizen of

that country. He sent him into fields defeat swine, and he would fain

have filled his body with the husk that was wine did eat, and no

man gave unto him. When he came to himself, he said, I

mean he hired servants of my fathers, have read enough and to spare,

and I perished with hunger. I will arise and go to my father,

and I will say it to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven

and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

Make me as one of thy iron servants. He arose and came to his

father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw

him, had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

And the son said to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and

in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

But the father said to his servants, bring forth the best ruth, put

it on him, and bring a ring, and put a ring on his

hand, and shoes on his feet, and bring him of the fatted calf,

and kill it, and let us eat and be married. For this

my son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found,

and they begin to be married. This is a very familiar parable,

I knowe to most of you Bible readers of the prodigal son. Brother Howel

already mentioned. You know about the prodigals coming home. And that's where this

come from, that statement he made concerning those that were all those that had

left the safety of the House of God and the safety of the sheep fold.

Here we have a son that left his father's home, a place of

safety, a place of security, a safe harbor, the sheep fold,

and he was in communion with the Father. He was saved, if you

will. He was one that was safe within the fold. He was among

the sheep, He was among the family. He was part of the family

of God. This is where this young man was, and he had safety

there. He had a security there, and all the things that he needed

was provided for him right there. All did he needed. He didn't have

to go nowhere else to serve. He didn't have to go anywhere else to

find things that he needed. It was all provided in the father's house.

But there come a time that there was a longing in his heart, and

the Bible says he went into a far country that was a place away from

God. It was a life without God. It was a life indulging in

the pleasures of sin. He was outside of the safety of the father's house,

and he had went out and drifted deep into sin. He leaves the

father's house and he walks among people that he had not been familiar with and

had not been the people he had known. He had not reflected the principles

and the structure that he had found in the father's house. And as this

young man begins to wander away, and he begins to seek after his whole

heart's desire long and for something else out there pulling on his heart. It's

your man beginst indulge in things that he was never allowed to do in the

father's house. He begins indulgent things that he had long to try. But

it wasn't turning out the way he thought it would. It wasn't working.

It's good for him like he thought it might. Run all tell you,

the devil a pull on people's hearts, and he'll drag him away from the

safety of God. He'll cause him to be pulled away by temptation. Friend,

you don't have to be pulled away. The only way you are is

when you yield to the temptation. The troll is pulling on you. Doesn't

have to control you, but it's when you yield to that. And this

young man yields to that takes his money, and the Bible says he wastes

it on riighteous living. Righteous living means unruly, unrestrained, disorderly, reckless,

wasting his inheritance. It's a lifestyle of sin. That's the kind of

life this young man began to indulge in. And this is the kind of

like this young man began to find himself trapped in There's something about sin Bren

that's not so fun. It entangles you, It gets a hold of you,

it gets a grip on your life. You think you can control it,

you think you can handle this. I've talked to people before that's right

on the dence of going out of the House of God. I trying to

pull for them. I'm trying to tell them, this is not what you

want to do. You don't want to go the way you wanted to go.

You don't realize what you're doing. You don't understand the danger out there.

You don't know, you don't understand what the devil has it's thought for

you. I remember talking to a specific young man. He was young,

married man, and the devils are pulling on him, and I told him

those things, and I said, son, you don't understand. The devil's

out to destroy you. He's out to ruin your life. He's out to

wreck your whole. I could see it in his eyes, and I said,

you don't believe what I'm telling you, do you? And he shook

his head. He said no, he didn't believe it. Brother Jesse.

He thought he could control that, He thought he could go out there he

could keep a handle on sin and he didn't have to control his life.

He didn't have to wreck his marriage, he didn't have to ruin him.

But he was so mistaken. The devil drug him out through the murk of

sin. I'm telling you, I don't want to go into a lot of

detail about his life, but he destroyed his lie. Not too many months

ago, he calls me in a drunken stupor. He said, brother Glynn,

can you pray for me? Will you pray for me? I said,

where are you at? He told me where is it? I said,

let me come where yet? And he said, no, just pray

for me. And I talked to him a little longer, so I headed

to his house. I found out he had been under the influence of alcohol

for about five days, wasn't eating, just drinking himself away. He was

out trouble. His life was wrecked, his marriage is almost completely destroyed.

His children don't want anything to do with him anymore. I'm telling your friend,

don't you underestimate what the devil a do you if edly the house of

God, the house of God is that place of safety. Everybody that leaves

the house of God, don't leave for the same reasons. There are variety

of reasons people leave the House of God. This young man in my text

today, he left seeking pleasure. He left seeking all the sin and the

world had to offer. So I will leave the House of God because they're

being drawn away seeking after the deceitfulness of riches. Money has drawn people away

from the House of God. I'm telling you it's a reason the Bible calls

it the deceitfulness of riches. Riches won't make you happy. Friend. Money

will not buy you peace of min He'll not buy you joy and your soul.

The only real joy you'll ever find us in the House of God.

The only real peace you'll ever find us in the House of God. It's

not out there in money. Money won't do that. But many have left

the safety of the House of God in search of riches. Oh yeah.

Many have left because they resided the rigid rules, or the strictness, or

the responsibilities that fuck the Father placed upon them. They said, this is

too hard. I don't know live this way. I don't like the way

they tell it there. I don't like what they expect you to do.

I don't like what the word of God says why can't I go do this,

and why can't I do that? They don't honor in love the world

of God. I tell you, the word of God has got some rules.

The Word of God has got some commands a man. But some have

left the House of God because the want to come under any of that.

We got a generation today they don't like nobody telling them nothing. How they

knew you saw them had left because they resented the rules at the Father's house.

They didn't appreciate the safety of their rules. They didn't appreciate the benefit

of that kind of life, but they resented the rules in the Father's house.

So we walked away from the Father's house. Because they become discouraged in

the house of God, their parent of life suffered. Their Bible reading began

to be delected in their life. They didn't necessarily say I don't like to

God, I don't want nothing to do with the church. But they just

got this courage. They got weak spiritually, and they just didn't have what

they took to withstand against the evils of this day and be able to stand

against cetifications of the enemy of their soul. They began to get weakened.

Their spirit and weak in their life, and this crazement kept the hold of

them. And in a little while somebody said to him, had whispered in

there and said, what's the use You ain't got what you're supposed to have

anyway. You stand up with the satsan, raise your hands, but your

heart's got hid it. You sing with a choir, but you're not really

in that. Oh. No, disturnment has called the media person. Don't

walk out of the house of God. Other people have least because they were

dead, they had been hurt, they had been wounded in the house of

the Lord. So the greatest heard anybody will ever face is it hurt that

you find mhmm by those that love you and you love them. And that's

how you You know, you say some things to me. You know,

I might say not said, and you know, brother Sam, you might

walk up and say something and I said, what's you lint? Sense?

You? Yeah? I brush you all pretty easy. H The fact of

the matter is, I said, you know, if you don't past you,

you better have tousk in. I don't like that, brother, But

you know who can penetrate through that more than anybody else, Those this cob

system, those that are the dearest to me, and when they perk you.

Some people have walked away, Well did I said, friend, who

reason that a person leaves? It's really not all that important. That just

wants you to love. It don't matter if you got hurt, if it's

discouraged, It didn't matter a few alls for the world. Are you resire

the rules? Amen? It really matter to him this law is he left

the house of God. It didn't make much difference to him. What calls

you to leave, Just long as he accomplished to pull you away from the

house of God, that's what mattered to the devil didn't make much difference to

him. And I'll tell you something. I know that those that leave the

house of God, that leave the Father's house, that ultimately, if they

don't find their way back home, we know that ultimately it all ends up

in the same place. Aultimately their life is failed in destruction. And hell

if they don't find their way back home. But that's not so. Don't

misunderstanding the statement of fixing to say here, because I'm speaking of in this

life, all people that leave the House of God don't end up in the

same place in this life. Some of them will go down to the deepest

in the darkest places and ruts in love of sin, and they live on

skin row. Some of them will end up in the most horrible conditions man

about alcohol, are trials and many other sinful attractions. It gripped their lives

and calls him to fall in the ruin, but all of them don't.

Some people will lead a very respectable life and in the eyes of the world,

very successful. I've heard Christians often look at somebody that's living a very

sinful lifestyle, no profession of God, not interested in church, but very

successful. Take an advantage of others in business, do it wrong, lie,

cheating, conniving in a lot of different ways, but seem like inspite

of it all, they succeed in so many ways. It's fighting it all.

Seem like they get by and do well. Don't suffer very much in

this life. Don't suffer financial heartship, don't suffer physical heartship, and look

like you just go and go, and you wonder, Lord, why in

the world will they get by? Everybody don't end up in the same place

when they leave the house at all. So lead very successful and respectable eyes

in the eyes of the world. But some lead to seclution, loneliness,

isolation, meaning things happened to people who walk away from the Father's house.

But don't you understand something. There's a way back home. Yeah, I

said, there's a way that can praise God. There's brand in the Father's

outside of the glory to God. There's safety in the father's house, their

security in the father's house. There's a place of regions in the father's house.

There's a way back home in a matter where you didn't it. No

matter where you are today, I don't know how preaching you this morning,

But in no matter where your love is, len't you freak if you're outside

of this heart of safety? There is a way back. Sometimes we give

up on people. We look at where they're at. We think, oh

God, how could they ever find their way home? How could they ever

get back? How could they ever come back to the knowledge of the truth.

Knowing the depths of sin there entangled in their lives and all messed up

in so many ways? We think, how will they ever get that straight?

How will they ever get that fixed? I'm telling you, brother,

there's a way back home. How they knew you and in this parable that

Jesus gave us. We see in verse number seventeen. The first step to

finding your way back home bread is to admit, how to acknowledge where you're

at and the sin you have committed. He's in and when he came to

himself, Hey, friend, that's how to be uncoming to you, saying

there's gotta be awaited e. They gotta be a realization then what I'm doing,

what I'm doing. He's not getting me aware. You gotta be someunthing

on the inside. It comes to an acknowledgement. Oh God, I don't

want to be where I'm at. Oh God, I know I shouldn't be

doing what I'm doing. Oh God, stir my heart, make me up.

God, we'll just run the hard at somebody. We must recognize where

we are and admit I need for God. This man said, Hey,

I look at myself. Look where I'm at. He said, Man,

if I can home in the father's house, the dad servants, he's got

a better I got here. I am perisson with hunger. I'm beating this

wave. Such a shameful john for a Jewish boy friend. I'll kay something.

I don't know who this is. For your life may be leading you

into places that you wouldn't want to picture to know about it. You wouldn't

want your family to do secrets that you don't want nobody. And I'll tell

you something. Acknowledge for you and God. Admit your condition. That's the

first step to find in your day. You might sit on the for you

every Sunday, but you have strayed from the Father's house. And I won't

tell you that. You know it and God knows it. God knows it,

and you knowledge. You must acknowledge where you're at. You must admit

your need of God. And then I want you to notice the verse number

eighteen. You must you must act upon that that you acknowledge. You know

it's a lot of people sit on a Sunday morning. They rolled out of

that man that slept in and worked hard all week, that's carried to the

House of God all their life as children. They know what tried. Mama

and Daddy's in the house of God. Grandma ram holding the house of God.

But this wayward child is setting it. Hold rolled out of the man,

rubbing their fingers to their heads and saying, how in the world did

I get here? I need to go to church. But they don't do

it. You ain't gologistic knowledge, and you gotta act upon it right.

You gotta let up in your mind. I know where I'm messed up.

I know I've done roll. I'm gonna this something. I'm having God,

Glory to God. I've heard the testimony of people when they were in trouble

and they were out in sin and they have problems in their life, and

they said, oh God, you'll help me right here. I won't go

to church. I'm gonna do better. Praise God. Be former pastor mine.

He's dead. Brother Stone. He was in the World War too,

and he was there and he said it looked like the whole wild was on

fire. He said, he's on the ship when they were bombing Oknawan and

he said, bombs and going off, planes on fire, falling eye the

sky, body's floating in the water. He said, it looked like the

whole world was on fire. I said it about like he used to say.

He said, I scab now they do die. He said, I

promise God, if you'll let me get that on, I'm gonna serve you.

Res God about eighteen nineteen year old boys hearing the day he knew he

was wayward. He knew he was done right. He said, Oh God,

if you're that man, I'll go back. But you know what he

said, He said, I got home, I forgot about God. He

said, I started drinking. He said, I drank till I bombed.

Grant what you did, he said, I drank and I get drunk,

and I wouldn't know where my car was at find myself back at home.

Didn't he know where my all who he goes wrecked and he being a ditch

somewhere found my way home. And he'd tell about all that, he said.

But one day he said, I went to church twenty five years old,

and he said that my Lord saved me. He found his way back

home. He tell I'm ringing. You got act about it. You just

need some mind, some thoughts in your mind. Said I know I need

to do better. I know I need to pray more. I know I

need to go to the house of God. I know I need to do

this for that prince. You must act upon it. This young man saw

his lead and said, all these sinners to himself, And the Bible says

he a room went back to the father's house. Oh go read to God,

and I'll tell you something else about it. The Bible says that he

had in his mind, he had all built up in his mind how it's

gonna be. When he got there, he said, this is where to

me. He said, they're gonna look at me, and I'll say,

what a mess. I'm letting record that one's got to read between Lin't you

aren't gonna look at me and say you ought to be ashamed of yourself?

You just talk better that, right, I know, better living, you

know, preach to your mom. Dad. Yeah, that's what he had

in his man. You know what, his responsors don't be there. He

said, I'm gonna say I'm ashamed of myself. I'm said against heaven.

I said, to get you, dad, And he said, I don't

even want you to call me son no more. Just make me be my

servant, prays God. So you know that a long place you got down

there on outside, had a long hunt down there. Nobody likes to stay

here, and you just had any tasting neither of that. That's the one

I'll take. That's the worst one you got. But I've been laying to

have it. Rick, did you hear this moment? And I'm the same

with my voice, and you're thinking about what you need to do. Oh,

you to understand something. It ain't gonna be like you. Thank it.

WI. You're gonna slapp You gotta repet, you gotta mean business.

You gotta get right with God. I'll tell you what you'll find in the

house of God. You'll find somebody got hold know you suck the whole celebrate

somebody that was come home. I talk your behind him. You love h

Some years ago, I was involved in a situation. I wouldn't I wouldn't

involved you. I was involved in the respiration of a situation where somebody hit

you commit the horrible, shameful ship. He was very shameful. But it

come out they got cold. Hm. When you come out, there's a

husband and wife involved in this situation. When he come out, the guilty

party confessed that stood up with me. He said, I'm sorry, and

they ran the hold and they bound down into the halter and in the weeping

crowd of the you know what de sights you're gonna do, yes, stand

bak saying no more can deserve that. They fell in there with the brother

right, and they got in there to praying with this person and they went

with him. They cried with them, right, he said, God,

I forgive you. Yeah, yeah, you know what. There was no

shall there's too much hurt, too much shame. The day was forgiveness that

day, Oh God, there was some setback and didn't want it to be

that way. They want a judgment, right, that didn't want You're gonna

find father and you'll find forgiveness. You'll find love. You'll find somebody that

says I love you, love you. That's what you'll find. Your Father's

outside of the devil will tell you a lot of anacious group. Come on

the bad pianos, you will love. You'll tell you a lot of things.

You'll tell you how bad it'll be. You'll tell you how it's gonna

be handled. And you know, you just it just becomes more than you

get batter. I'm gonna tell you that you're gonna find forgiveness in the father's

house and you're gonna find love. I don't know who I'm preaching to you

this morning. I know I've said that already. Maybe it's to some way

with person who's left the father's house, or maybe it's somebody dis contantly leaving

the father's house. I will tell you the best place you can ever finds

at the Father's house, a place of security and safety and a wicked and

adultery generation. A day that we have gone so wrong, the world has

lost its way, Jenny, believe. I can't want to believe, want

a man's win. But I'll tell you there's some places of safety. Now

here's the place I hear this one brief. The spear of the Lord is

where God will reach you. Falla will help you, God will restore you.

Oh, yes, hey, go, don't kill the body death.

We donna celebrate. Don't bring the word. Let's celebrate. My son that

was lost has been family, My son that I thought was dead. Oh,

let's celebrate, ready gone praying. There's a place for you in the

Father's Ask what you say, okay about in this morning. There's somebody just

in the way. This is somebody falling away. This is somebody slipping out,

Lord, Lord, this is somebody hungry to come back into the Father's

house. All these halts roll with this morning. Friend, you need God

in your life. You'll meet me then, Amen. I told you this

is a meeting place. It's a place where you can meet God. This

morning. It's a place where you can buy. It's a piece in your

heart. It's a place where you can find salvation and be rescard too,

the joy of your sudies. Come out it today? Friend? Is it

one this morning? Oh? It's here one this morning. You're drifted away

an' lord to God? Lets you feel the Lord and calling in the head

to recognizing me for God. Why don't you come? Why don't you come

to this halter? Why don't you turn your life around? Why don't you

say that's enough? Dover, I'm going back to the father's house, Honey,

come at it today for him. Would you like to see the home?

Oh, glory to God. Would you like to talk? Oh?

Issus been the Lord Kyle and old you today? Fred glory glory? How

are you starting? Oh? You sting? I'm telling you this hell that

street in the house of the Lord. Would you come? Would you come

by? Yah? Oh lory, Hello, Lujah, thank you Jesus,

Oh siafre Why don't you step out? Come up here? That's a saints

writ Oh lordy, why don't you come? Why don't you s thank you?

Tess real the tan leake? Have we late, sir? I see

my chaplet that was Hubria and that t distred the army. Do not bring

Gordles deserve not fry go, sir, it's so jo still. Oh mister

say he's waiting mood? What the fuck? God just served? Oh bank

up? Not that I wonder him really, Oh oh the naughty he left

just a bide losy's I believe that with sways friend way back. That's sir,

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