S2E48 Prodigal 2

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welcome to the program. We are your host, Jose and Matthew.

Once again tonight we are passing it over to Jose

as well. He's had things laid on his heart, so

we're going to continue with the venue that we did

the last time. So Jose, but Mikey is yours.

Thank you. Matthew.

We're still going over Luke ta Keen and the parable

of the Prodigal Son, and it's been called throughout church history,

and again this is a lot of what's been on

my heart, especially on my my wife's heart as well.

Family members that were raising the church.

But have fallen away, and you know, and she's looking

at what they're going through and she's trying to help them.

You know, she's she's wondering what she can do to

bring them closer to God. Because Matthew, we know, no

matter what's going on, no matter what our issues are,

as long as we have that, that faith in God,

that relationship with God. As long as we know his son,

we know what he has planned for us, Matthew, it

doesn't really matter what's the trouble that we're suffering in

our life. Yes, they're very personal, Yes they affect us

on a day to day basis, But Matthew, we know

that greater things have been promised for us, and that's

where our hope lies. But there's people that forget that, Matthew.

They forget that, and in doing so, they well, they

chase after things they shouldn't chase after, Matthew, because they

think that's that's what's going to bring up happiness, that

that's what's gonna gonna help alleviate what they're going through.

And we know that's not true, Matthew. We know that

we're supposed to trust in our Lord. If we're really

in trouble, Matthew, we're supposed to cry out to him

and he will answer us. I mean, this is all,

this is all what's you know, what's said throughout the Bible,

and and so that's just what prompted me to look

into this parable because this is, you know, a great

example of what happens to a lot of people in

the church, Matthew.

They're raising the church and for whatever reason.

Normally I would suggest that a lot about the ego,

a lot about the self, a lot about wanting more

in life and and chasing that more. Well, you you

lose out on the real treasure that God's given us, Matthew.

So that's why we've done these last two episodes on

the Prodigal Sun, and we're gonna, you know, finish it

up tonight. Kind of the first one were kind of

explore the mindset of the person that follows a way,

the person that speaks after their own process instead of

seeking after the will of the Father, and where that

road leads, Matthew.

And and and I'm hoping.

Today to explore a little bit of how how how

to pull ourselves up out of that nose dive and

starry heading in the right direction, which we know is

the Kingdom of God, Matthew. So that's that's kind of

what my my idea be typed behind these states today.

Well, you know that's the best part, right when all

of a sudden the Prodigal Sun comes to his senses,

you know, you need to you know, we need to

figure out, how do you help somebody to that point?

How do you get him to that point?

Right?

Because verse seventeen, how do you do this? How do

you help somebody do this? Verse seventeen. But when he

came to himself, you know what you really have to

do is try to remind the people of what they are.

I mean, you do know who you are?

Right, yes?

I mean you want to you want to think in

your brain that well, let's just say this, let's just

make this very close and very personal. Right in my mind,

I am convinced that you know, I am my daddy's son.

And that's true. That is absolutely true. It is absolutely

true that I was trained up in the way I

should go. Of that there is not even a hint

of doubt that is true. He is gone and he's

entered his rest, and it would be shameful of me

to even desire him to come back and relieve my stress,

which I know he could do, no doubt about it.

But when I am feeling that, and when I remember

his great strength, I also remember that once I enter

the kingdom of heaven, Jose, and once you enter the

kingdom of heaven, our father was in heaven irregardless of

who our daddies were, Our father is in heaven. And

it's like during those stressful times you're longing and you're

looking for the absolute wrong ones, because there's only one

who can alleviate not only your signs, but your symptoms.

And he hasn't gone anywhere, and when he does, you'll

know it. He resides upon his thrones. That's where he is.

And it's amazing to me that. And you know, Jose,

there is this epidemic in the West that everybody knows,

this common thing that happens to preachers. Kids, that's what

they're called. Any children of the clergy, that's what they're called.

They're called creatures kids. And oh my goodness, there's some

famous ones or should I say infamous ones, infamous ones.

But how do you remind somebody that, hey, you're a Christians.

How do you get them to come to your sense?

You know, come to your senses? Look look around you,

everything the light touches is yours. It's yours by the

promises of a key who sit at the pong to throne.

All those places you haven't been, all those places you

long to go, all those places you cannot comprehend, according

to the promises of God, will be and is for

certainty yours. They're yours. Anything that can be valuable or

have value attributed to it will be rightfully yours. It'll

be rightfully yours. And that's the number one source of

all our troubles, right, Yes, ninety nine percent of our

troubles is consumed with finances, Jose. And of course that's

been We've just been brainwashed. I mean, the government has

done anything and everything they could possibly do to convince

it that if you need something, you must have their

currency to do so, right, right, So that's natural because

you know, when did you learn how to count? Jose?

What what great was that in elementary school that you

you was shown pictures of dimes and pennies.

And it's right at the beginning, Matthew, that's.

Right, that's right from the beginning, Yes, right from the

very beginning. You're going to you are an heir to creation.

Let's talk about the other thing. The other thing comes

in these magnificent bursts, much like a solar flare. You know,

these these troubles that ail us over valuables and things

that have value. It's like the constant heat of the sun.

But every once in a while there's a coronal mass ejection, right,

and this by way of death. And the New Testament

is illicit in its relaying of the message you will

not die, you cannot die. Once you've laid hold through

the promises, you become a son of God, and he

don't die, and you can't die. You're going to You're

going to live forever. I mean, once you take those

two things out, once you convince most people of these

two things, you have reminded them what they are, and

they come to their senses, much like what happens in

verse seventeen of Luke chapter fifteen. Now, I like how

different versions say it. But to make a long story short,

he come to you know, he come to his senses,

the kJ V says, and when he came to himself?

What is that? What is these two translations trying to

relate less? Flip back over to the New King James version.

It says, but when he came to himself, how do

you come to yourself? Jose?

Right?

Right, it's when your emotions have been dislocated, that is

to say. First Attle Salonians chapter five, verse twenty three

is very clear you are made in trinitarian form. You

are soma psych numa, so says God. You are what

the Greek calls your body, mind and spirit. And sometimes

a lot of distress will dislocate your psyche. Your mind

will wonder, so psychologists say you daydream, you have a

wandering mind. This was the place that the prodigal Sun

was in because his body and his spirit was of

course back in his place. His place was in his inheritance.

His inheritance was in a different country at his father's

house with his brother, and all of a sudden he

realized that my thoughts are back there. Why is my

body and my spirit here? He came to himself. All

of a sudden he had a Eureka moment, and his body,

his mind, and his spirit got on the same page.

What on earth am I doing here? I don't belong here?

That's really what we call we have to come to

grips with Jose, Right, how do you do that? So

that that that's my thoughts on the matter, Jose.

Back to you, well, Matthew, when specifically about that phrasing there,

what caught my eye was when I read the translation

that did he came to his senses but really he

came to himself. And even more confusing, then he came

to a sense of Matthew, because this is telling me

that all along, this within him doing the right thing,

was all along inside of him, but he was choosing

to go against it. That word in and greet and

Greek is the gene fourteen thirty eight.

It's the strongest number for Matthew.

And you know, so this and if we read the

parable correctly, then we understand that he was in the

family of the father.

He was there, he had everything he needed, you know,

it was all laid out for him.

He was going to get his inheritance, but he choose,

he chose to bend his insurance or use or wasted

inherent inheritance, you know, much in the same way that

we saw Esau and Reuben spoil their inheritance. Matthew, that,

like you said, that wandering eye, that that day dreaming,

that wanting, wanting, thinking that the grass is greener on

the other side. But when God uses this language that

he came to himself, that's what struck me, Matthew.

That that's what that's what made me kind of dig

into this.

Word and try to try to learn a little bit

more about what God's trying to say there. This is

not so saying that you know, you know, he did

a one eighty, or that he he became an you know,

he went from he became another person, though he came

to himself. He like you said, everything with the line

when he was at this point, everything is the line

correctly the way it should be, because his father, you know,

raised him up in the way which he should go,

and he knew what he was supposed to be doing before,

you know, before he faced all those temptations and brought

into it, Matthew. And and that makes me think about

Abraham and Isaac, because if father and in Luke fifteen,

he had to know what was going to happen when

he gave his stun an inheritance. He had to know

for all intents and purposes, he was, you know, sentencing

his son to death because he knew what he was

going to do with this inheritance.

Matthew.

So I can see the reactions when he is alive

he returns to the Father. It's like he's been written

from the dead, exactly the way Abraham believed that God

would do for Isaac if he had to sacrifice it.

If he had to go through with it, he.

Had the faith that God would raise would be able

to raise up either because of all the.

Other promises that he gave him before.

So I'm seeing a lot of parallels, Matthew, between between

between this probable son and what Abraham went through with Isaac.

It's really it's really amazed me looking at it from

that point.

And it should and you know, let's talk about that

a minute. Okay, why did his dad say that? Right?

Why did his dad say that he's come back from

the dead. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you certainly are a place.

When you become discombobulated from your body, you're dead. You're

most certainly dead. When your psyche or your spirit is

in absence of your body, you're dead. You're dead. And

this is exactly what his dad knew. We have a place, right,

We have a habitable zone, right, Jose. Yes, that is

to say that we cannot survive underwater, can we No,

we have a place. And we humans come in two forms,

so says First John, chapter three. You can either be

a child of God and they have habitable environments. They

really do. And those habitable environments are grossly different than

the habitable environments for the children of the devil. Take,

for instance, what is one place, Jose, you would not

go as a Christian wors one place you would never go,

even under bribe. What is one place you would not go,

even if you were bribed to do so.

I'd never go to a ship club, Matthew.

Do you want to know why, I'll tell you why.

That is not a habitable zone for the children of God. Right,

And this is what his dad knew. His dad knew

that he was inhabiting places where the children of God

had not exist. And we all need to be reminded

of this. Now, make no mistakes about it. This is

a true statement. If you live like the devil, you

will receive the devil's new But don't be surprised if

once you enter that place, if you be a child

of God, all of a sudden, everything will stop working correctly.

For example, Jose, if you go to the bottom of

the deep end of a swimming pool and you decide

to sit on the bottom, you can most certainly do

that correct correct Can you do that for an hour? No, Matthew, No,

you will lose your faculties, won't you Jose. Yes, in

short order, and a whole lot short of order than

an hour. Same thing will happen to you if you're

going to these places you should not be, if you

be a child of God, they will come with consequences.

You will lose your composure. In time, you will most

certainly lose your confidence. Let's ask that theory, Jose. I'm

sure that your mother's very nice, isn't she? Yes, And

she's very pleasant and very encouraging to you, all those

positive things that you need, right correct? What would happen

if she found out you were frequenting a strip club?

I'd get and she'd she'd get on me, Matthew, Jose,

stop stop, okay, yes, I'll tell you. What would happen, Jose,

You'd beat I'm a coward. Tell me how old is

your mother?

So she's big and.

Tough for.

No, no, So riddle me, Jose, why wouldn't you tell

her you were going to your strip club? I'll tell

you why? Because your award And just exactly like I said,

if you go outside your habitable zone, you will first

of all your composure. Then you'll lose your confidence and

become a coward. And from that point right there from

that event horizon. I assure you what psychology taught me

in the Institution of higher learning. Hose you will break down,

Yes you will. You'll break down bit by bit. The

cracks in your well being will multiply until you just crumbled.

Do you understand the difference between having cracks and crumbling?

Yep, that's what.

Will happen to you. And that's what happens to people

who do these sort of things. All of a sudden,

their life no longer has cracks. Here, a crack, here,

a crack there. Man, there's a crack over here in

the foundation. No no, no, no, no, there reaches a threshold

where it just crumbles. It just crumbles. And this is

the sort of thing you need to remind him of.

Well, Matthew, that that kind of matches one of the

places I found fourteen thirty eight at and that's in

Matthew twelve twenty six, where it says, if Satan cast

out Satan, he is divided against himself, how then will

his kingdom stand?

This is what you're talking about, Matthew.

If you're been raised in the church, okay, you've got

the front facing part of you that looks like a Christian, Matthew.

But in the back room you're you're partying with the devil.

Then that's going to crumble exactly like you said, Matthew,

your being is going to crumble.

Yes, it will first start with your psyche like I said,

your psychic will crumble, Then your body will crumble, then

your spirit will crumble, and then you'll just wind up this. Well,

psychologists call this a psychological mess. You'll wind up just

a psychological mess. You will actually either acquire high blood

pressure or diabetes or this or that, or abesity or anaxia. Yeah,

you'll become a mess. You will crumble because you have

deviated from the design of the living God. So we

have to get these brothers and sisters. Okay, you have

to get these brothers and sensors to come to their senses.

They have to come to themselves because where they lie

in their strength and then their vitality is in the

promises of God, not as where their strength lives. That

is where they are alive. You know, it's amazing to

me that there's a big difference between being alive and living,

right popping, big difference between being alive and living. But

you know, hard things to comprehend, hard things to wrap

your mind around. But when he came to himself, said,

now many of my father's hired servants have read enough

and to spare, and I perish.

With hunger, hey man, So I want to hit a

couple more verses, Matthew, where I found that that strongest

number in absolutely in Matthew sixteen twenty four. It said,

then Jesus said to his disciples, if anyone desires to

come after me, let him deny himself, kick up his cross,

and follow me. The next one Matthew Matthew eighteen four. Therefore,

whoever humbled himself as this little child is the greatest

in the Kingdom of heaven. And then one more Matthew

twenty three twelve. And whoever exalts himself will be humbled,

and he who humbles himself will be exalted. And Matthew,

this is just this is just lining right up with

everything you've been featuring tonight. And I know it's because

because you know this word and you know your Bible.

But this is what we're talking about. We when we're

when we've got these two cells, Matthew, right when we're

divided against our cell, when we know the way where

we should go when we know what we should be doing.

We know the team's commandments, we know the be attitudes.

But yet we choose to rebel against that and do

our own thing, do our own will I mean, and

right there and where Jesus said that he exolves himself

will be humbled, right that, that's you exalting yourself above

everybody else, because you're saying you're more important. What you

want is more important than even with what God wants.

And and he just told us exactly what's gonna happen.

And so the only way to to come to your senses, Matthew,

the only way to come to yourself and and have

that be correct, is if you are aligned with Jesus,

aligned with what what Jesus had said here in the Gospels.

You're you're gonna take up the cross just like she did.

You're gonna humble yourself just like she did, Matthew. We're

gonna humble ourselves as a child is, and only then

we'll be we'll be considered the greatest in the kingdom.

So it's just it's just the whole opposite way, Matthew,

of what our naturalistic thinking is the way our our

our selfish feelings are, the way our our self preservation

is right. We think we have to do certain things

in order to survive, in order to help our family survive,

that h make certain compromises and and I mean, if

we just believe what God himself said, Matthew, he's telling

us that that's not the way, that's not the way

he wants it.

That's not his will.

If you truly are his, if you truly are in

his kingdom, everyone else comes first, and you're just you're

just out there trying to do his will whatever whatever

that is, Matthew. In your in your household, you know,

you're putting your family first. In your workplace, you're putting

your employee and your and your your fellow coworkers first.

You know, when you're when you're out there in the world,

you're putting those that that you interact with, you're putting

them first and seeing to their to their needs. Which

is it's just totally contradictory to to what to what

the what's in the air today, Matthew, it's totally contradictory

to how we're told to deliver our lives today.

So that's what I'm hoping this that's little stuff.

We'll remind us of what we're supposed to be doing,

how we're supposed to be acting, acting.

You know, let's think about that for a minute. And

you know, let's think about why all these references are

to children, you know, because that's what we're really dealing with,

the prodigal son. Here, we're dealing with a child. We

are dealing with how do we say this the best

way to translate this, You know, ladies and gentlemen, it's

amazing how a child, in their minds, they cannot be

separated from their parents. Literally, their little innocent world is

solely dependent on their parents, and they don't know it.

They do know. When they're hungry, they go crying to

their parents. When they're cold, they go crying to their parents.

When they get hurt, they go crying to their parents.

Hearken to my voice, ladies and gentlemen, hearken to my voice.

They do not ever even assume that the authority to

fix anything lies within themselves. This is common knowledge. It

is common knowledge. Every parent that's ever had a child

can tell you that this is exactly what's happening with

the prodigal son. He has been dislocated from his parent,

He's been dislocated from his inheritance. So it is with

the children of God. If you exalt yourself, you think

the answers to all the problems you might encounter originates

within yourself. This is common knowledge. It's just a matter

of scology. This is the exact opposite way that a

Christian lives. A Christian lives knowing everything that they have

and are are attributed to the promises of God. I've

already stated this at the beginning of this program. What

we will receive is what we have inherited from God

the Son. There is no part of the New Testament

that does not say that we don't have a kingdom.

There is a kingdom with which we are a part

of that. It is not ours, is it, Jose. No.

It reminds me of the sons of Thunders. We approach

the king and said, what one of us said, at

your right side? One of us said at your left side.

Of course, Jesus replied, you have no idea what you're asking. Literally,

Jesus was in a parabolic way. Do you know what

parabolic means? Jesus spoke in parables that's from the Greek.

So I'm being very exact in my words. Powerabolus in Greek,

so I'm being very parabolic in stating that he was

saying to the sons of Thunder, No, no, no, no, no,

you don't want it to be your kingdom. There's only

one kingdom, and the kingdom is in the hands of

the father, and he decides who in goes to where

and who does what. The sons of Thunder was wanting

to establish their own kingdoms within his kingdom. They didn't

know what they were talking about, because we only have

an inheritance of something else. It's not ours, isn't Jose

Tell me, Jose, did I die and come back from

the dead?

No, you did not matter.

No, No did Martin Luther King? No? Did George Washington? No?

There is but one thing. And he writes, Supreme, this

is why that word was impregnated. And believe me when

I say I'm using that in a very calculating way.

That Greek word was impregnated into those verses, specifically to

relay that idea that a child instinctively knows this, and

for some reason when we grow up we think otherwise,

don't we especially teenagers. Right, I'll be the first in

stating that I know the dumbest teenager that ever lived

it was me. Well, do the same. For some reason,

we think that, well, if I get a promotion, well

if I get a different house, if I live in

a different zip code, all these things we can do,

and none of that trap matters. None of it matters,

None of it matter. What matters is that's our king

and our father as an inheritance, and we're a part

of it. And you can either be a part of

it or you could be miserable. Look, no one understand this.

Ladies and gentlemen. You've probably been deceived. You've probably been

deceived into believing that the church is a building. You've

been lied to. Your preachers, and your teachers and your priests,

they lied to you. I'm going to tell you the truth.

The church is the congregation. It's not the building. The

church is the congregation, not the building.

Hose that, Matthew.

There's one more place that I want to cover where

there's Chief fourteen thirty eight shows up in and it's

in Mark twelve thirty three, and I'm going to read

it out of the NAFB because of the way it

translates the word for us here it said, and to

love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding,

and with all the strength, and loved one's neighbor at himself.

It's much more than all the burnt offerings and sacrificers.

And Matthew, we know that this is what Jesus responded

when they tried to question him about the greatest commandment.

And that's what all the prodigal son is all about, Matthew.

That's why, that's what his brother accuses him. He reminds,

the brother reminds the Father that he's followed all the commandments,

and yet this this brother has not.

It's the reason.

Why the when the when the probibal son returns, why

he said that that he had thinned against heaven right

and against them end before the Father. So, boy, Matthew,

when I saw that word in that verse, it's just

again another reminder of coming to to ourselves, coming to

coming to himself, the probigal son coming to himself, and

us coming to ourself, Matthew, when we're aligned in following

the commandments of the Father and following the beattitude laid

out by the Son Matthew.

Then we're aligned with the Holy Spirit. We are complete, we.

Are ourselves as we're supposed to be. We've returned to ourselves.

The individual that does this has returned to himself, Matthew.

And yeah, I know I've read I've read this parable, Matthew,

just like a well like as as a as a

baby Christian. Right, as a way to read it to

be encouraged when we fall off the wagon, as a

way to preach to those individuals that that are the

situation that the prodigal son was, Matthew, that find themselves

in the pig pen, in the pig sty. Right, this

is a great, a great place to go to to

show them what God hasn't starved with them, Matthew. But

when you actually see the words that God uses and

line them up, it's just again, of course I make

perfect set. Of course, there's no confusion of what God's

trying to say, Matthew. But it just blows me away that,

you know, the way, the way he puts this word

throughout his whole Bible and leading this all to that,

to that Mark twelve and Tower and to the greatest Commandment.

I mean, it's just it's just It just blowed me

away back.

It amazes me, and I should not be surprised, but

it does it to me every single time I start

studying it.

Every single time, Yep, I agree, every single time it

has the same effect. It has the same effect. It

ever changes. And that's that's quite amazing to me. And

it should be quite amazing to me because after all

this time, after all this time, I still look at

and just marvel after it. I'm marvel after it. That

it's a wonder. It truly is a wonder had it?

You know, every single thing that Saw one nineteen says

of it is true. And that's a pretty tall order,

you know. I wonder how many people even know on

Psalm one nineteen is about. I wonder if they know

it's an acrostic. You know, it is the longest chapter

in the Bible, and the chapter is about the Bible,

and it is set up as an acrostic in Hebrew.

That is to say that every stanza is in alphabetical

order from Aluf to twelve. That should gets your attention.

If it doesn't, it should. But when's the last time

you heard that, Jose, It's been a while.

I know it does, but Yeah, it's been a while

since I've had heard somebody say that.

And it is a big chapter to bite off and.

Shoot, no doubt about it being the longest chapter in

the Bible. But that's for a reason. And you know,

this is one of the primary things that we probably

should do. These people who are discombobulated with themselves, they're dislocated,

you know, one of the very most the first thing

you should do would be to convince them and encourage

them to do devotions. Right now, to a lot of people,

that means a lot of different things, right, Jose. When

I say that to you, you know, Jose, have you

been doing your devotions? In your mind? Mind? What's a devotion?

When I hear that word, Matthew, I I I think about,

you know, reading specific passages in the Bible that would

remind me to pray in a certain way, remind me

to get thank, remind me to worship, because those again,

when we're not when we're not aligned, right, Matthew, we

forget about all those things.

But that's to me, that's what a devotion should do.

It should be a reminder of what we're supposed to

be doing.

Interesting, okay, interesting, well, to me, I always use the

acronym tag. It's a tag, well like an across stick.

But anyway, time along is God. That's what it is.

It is time alone with God. That's what a devotion

is by definition. Now, lots of churches you have this

little you know, booklet to go along with it, and

there's many devotional books you can get. Right you go

to a Christian bookstore, well, if there are any Christian

book stores, you can go to one and get these

devotionals where you have you know, three hundred and sixty

five pages and them usually and you have one devotion

for today where you read this and you know it's

your time alone with God. It doesn't have to be that.

Your time alone with God could possibly be you just

setting aside, you know, three minutes out of your day

to pray. Because I hate to be the bearer of

bad news people, but this is a fact. Isn't it amazing, Jose,

how many people that are just discombobulated. You ask them, well,

have you prayed about it? Invariably? They say no, don't

they right? Invariably? So I need to say that the

most important thing you need to relate to these people

is well, they need to you know, spend time alone

with God. Yes, you can read the Bible, and I

strongly suggest you do to do so. But in the

very beginning it will be a struggle for them just

to pray. Well, Jose, yeah, I will. I mean you

will have to convince them to pray about it. And

a lot of times you'll get this, You'll just get

a feeling that they can't do it. So there's been

many times when I've you know, slapped my hands on

somebody's shoulder and said, well, can I pray with you?

Lets you and I pray about it first, and that

it started them doing their own prayer. But ladies and gentlemen,

we are made in God's image, aren't we, Jose.

Amen.

That means we are incredibly shystematic. Now, this manifests itself

by what we call habits. Right, we are habitual. We

can literally program ourselves to do things every day, and

we do, don't we, Jose Let me ask you something.

What's the very first thing you do after you open

your eyes in the morning.

Do I have to go at the head of the

rest and the first Matthew? But after that, okay, I

brushed my teeth.

That's that's It's just I don't I don't want to

wake my wife up with ikey breath.

Matthew, I brush my teeth.

Aymen, could I deter you from that? I couldn't deter

you from that? Could I? Even if I invited you

to my house, Even if I invited you to my house,

that's what you do in the morning, I couldn't stop you. Yes. Absolutely,

Yet this is one of our strengths being made in

God's image. We can we can do something. We can

program our bodies to do it, and that's easy to

do with today's technology. That is to say, if I

prayed for you, and let's say you know it was

you know, let's say in the afternoon after work five o'clock,

be very easy for me to text you and remind you, hey,

Jose you need to you need to say a prayer

to the Lord. You need to pay him, you need

to pay what is due him. Jose.

Amen. Amen.

So it's very easy for us to encourage our brothers

and sisters in that way in today's world. With electronics.

I mean right now, I have many of these things

that I've set up. Take note, as of late, we

had on Chris L. Leslie for an interview, and take note,

ladies and gentlemen, On the twenty fifth of every month,

I've already scheduled a reminder that I am to text

him and ask him how he's coming along on his

first book on December twenty fifth, as being the date

of Christmas. He has told me that he has enough

material for three books, three volumes on the subject. He

can prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that December

twenty fifth has nothing to do with unclean spirits and paganism.

Nothing.

He has enough evidence to write three books on it.

So he has given me his word that he's pretty

sure he can get the first one published with no

problem by next Christmas. I have been made in my

father's image, and I am incredibly habitual. I can program

myself to be systematic, and by the word of the Lord,

that's what I will do. Every twenty fifth of every month.

I will send him a reminder. You know, the only

way that the image of God can crumble into a

mess is by intention. It is not by design be

done intentionally, And the only way to put Humpty Dumpty

back together again is to get systematic, start working according

to your design.

Amen, hose Amen, Matthew, yep, And that is.

A pretty simple way to put it. So this is,

you know what we need to be doing. Encourage you people, Hey,

are you doing devotions? You need to a number one

pray and if you've got time and the place, because

the place isn't always that easy to get old of,

especially in this generation. I mean, you know, I hate

to get people out of their comfort zone. But many

of these young people that graduate high school, Jose, they

can't find a job. Did you know that? Yep? Did

you know there's not enough jobs for them? So they

will pack together in apartments. I mean it's not uncommon

for eight or ten of them to get together in

one apartment because they'll all be able to get part

time jobs. Did you know that?

Right?

So them finding the time to read their Bible could

be very tricky if they have you know, eight or

nine ruminants, so everybody's allowed to look on their phone.

Encourage them. Will need to get a Bible app and

just read the Bible on your phone. Then they won't

know they won't distribute it. But you need to encourage

them to get connected with God's word because I assure

you you don't know about the Lord Jesus Christ by

your church building. No, that's a lie. No, no, no.

The only way you know about the Lord Jesus Christ

is because of the Word of God. I paradly just

shocked most of them. But most of you have been

convinced that you know about Jesus because of the church. No,

you don't. You know of the Lord Jesus Christ and

everything that he has dictated for his children to accomplish

only from the Bible, God's Holy Word. You know, it's

amazing to me that how all these buildings they'll have

adochisms and creeds, right, Jose, yep, and they have confirmations,

ladies and gentlemen. The Bible don't have no creeds, it doesn't.

Those are only associated with individual buildings. And you know what,

I'm fairly well certain that if there's people listening to

my voice that are part of the Kingdom of Heaven

and have become dislocated, it's the clergy's fault.

You know.

Jose and I have developed quite a relationship over the

past decade, but I've never seen Jose's face, and that's

the truth. I have no idea what his wife's favorite

air freshen or candles are. I have no idea what

his house smells like, because the only link between Jose

and I is the Bible, God's Holy Word, and his spirit.

That's it. He goes to a different building than I do,

and I don't even go to a building anymore.

I've had enough of them. I've had enough of them.

I'm a part of a congregation, and that congregation don't

have an address. That congregation doesn't have a number inscribed

upon it. Did I say it in a way that

we get your attentions? Yeah, buildings are inscribed with an

address assigned by the government. Congregation don't, doesn't.

Jose, Nope.

Do you know what I am? Jose, I'm gonna blow

your mind. You realize I'm a South African, I'm an Australian,

I'm a German. Do you know I'm in every time zone?

Did you know that?

Amen?

My congregation is everywhere. The light touches the promise ermeates

God's creation, It has no boundaries. Amen.

Amen.

So you know that's my best advice for people that

have found themselves dislocated and discombobulated, dis oriented. If you

want to get your orientation and figure out where you're at,

get your bearings. If you want to get your bearings,

get to the Bible, God's Holy Word. And I assure

you he did not write it to confuse you. And

you don't need them idiots telling you what it says.

Can you read, Jose.

And I read yet, Matthew.

Have you ever heard me tell you what the Bible says? No,

you haven't. I've always told you to read it. Yes,

I can expound on what it actually says in his

original language. And that's really what I've done for you,

right right. I've taught you what the Greek says, or

what the told you what the Hebrew says, because that's

what the Bible, God's Holy Word is. It's not a translation,

and that's what I'm telling all of you. You don't

need me to tell you what it says. That is available,

and really the English translation you're looking at, it's just

a gateway for when you get hungry, because you're gonna

get hungry and you're gonna scratch your head and say, well,

that's an awful strange way to put out the English.

I wonder what that actually says. The resources are available

today for you to find out what the Greek and

what the Hebrew actually says for free. Jose Don't you

do this for free every single time you look at

the Bible.

Amen.

This is freely available, the original Hebrew and Greek. It's

readily available. And that's what we need to encourage you

to do. You need to pray about it. You need

to pray about your situation. I understand your situation could

be a mess. I have family members right now in

that are in dire straits. And guess who's faulted this.

They took themselves outside of the promises of God. Nobody

took them, you know, nobody put them under change and

drugged them away from God's promises and all. They did

that all by themselves. So I understand your plight, but

I know this God is faithful, Amen, Jose.

Amen.

Matthew, your final comments please.

Well, Matthew.

I think an important thing to remember about the Luke

fifteen and the Parable of the prodigal Son, is that

when he finally does come to himself, Matthew, and finally

knows he has to return to the Father, he repents.

He gets down on his knees and repent before the

Father in heaven and he gets down on his knees

and repent before his own father for what he's done,

what he's sinned against him. So, I mean, God, God's

telling you the whole formula here, Matthew. He knows, he

knows what we're gonna do. He knows we're gonna fall,

we're gonna stumble. He knows that some of us, Matthew,

are gonna walk away. But he's given us the whole

formnute for how to return. That's what he wants. He

wants you to repent. He wants you to stop being

a sinner and enter into the Kingdom of heaven. And

we've been given the whole formula. And I mean, we

didn't really even get into, Matthew, how prophetic these verses are.

And what it means, you know, and.

What it means and what is to come right, the

prophetic implications of the prodigal son. And that's but I

don't think, I don't think we need to go there

with this study right now, Matthew. I think we need

to understand and we need to bring those that have

turned their back on the Father and let them know

that there is a path back to remember how they

were raised to remember what they were instructed as a child,

and that God's still here waiting. The Father is still waiting,

and he's going to celebrate just like the Father did

in Luke fifteen, Matthew. And it's a beautiful thing. It

should encourage us if we're the prodigal son, it should

encourage us, if our loved ones are the prodigal ones,

it should just encur Just Matthew, that God's still thinking

to grow to the kingdom and he and he knows

how to do it. So let's let's continue to do

what you said, Matthew. Will continue to pray, Let's continue

to read our bible, and let God's will be done.

Let God's will be done.

You know.

It brings me to remembrance, Matthew, Chapter nine, verse thirteen,

because there's no other better verse than this in this time.

It really is. Because he calls you to tell you

to go and learn, right, he says, go figure out

what this means. Go figure out what this means, people, Matthew,

Chapter nine, verse thirteen, Go and learn what this means.

I desire mercy and not sacrifice, for I did not

come to call the righteous, but sinner to repentance. Oh,

my goodness. You need to get something to write with.

You need to write this down. Ladies and gentlemen. You

need to write this down if you're discombobulated and dislocated

and dis oriented about who and what you are. Matthew

chapter nine, verse thirteen. But go and learn what this means.

I desire mercy and not sacrifice, for I did not

come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Jose,

please take us out of here in prayer.

You're heavenly Father who we love and serve.

I thank you once again, and I will thank you

continuously for allowing us to gather as your congregation.

Father.

I thank you for giving us your word. I thank

you for giving us your holy spirit to guide us

do this study. And I thank you for drawing together

those that need to hear this message. Father, Lord, I

pray today that you remind us whether we are the

prodigal son, whether we are the brother that has remained

with the father, whether we are that father that is

seeking lost children. Lord, remind us to spend time with you,

remind us to pray, remind us to lay our burdens

on you, Father, and remind us that you have given

us your word, show us the light our path in

the way which we shall go. Lord, I pray for

those that are currently lost, those that you seek to

return to your sheepfold. Lord, I pray that you put

that yearning for your son in their heart. Let it burn,

draw them to you. Let them hear this ncs that

Let them walk into whatever person is nearby, whatever crimson

is downding near them, that they may hear your word, Lord,

and come closer to your son and enter into your kingdom. Lord,

to ask all this and the name of your son,

our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Amen, Amen and Amen. Until next time, ladies and gentlemen,

God bless, God speed.

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