Lost, Then Found // Second Chances | Ps. Andy Heis

I hope and pray. I hope and pray that uh

that God speaks to you today. I got

something for you. I really believe that

God wants to do something in your life.

Listen, I don't know. I don't know if

you're here and uh maybe you've been

going to church your whole life. I don't

know. I'm excited that you are. Maybe

you're here and you're just trying to

figure out like my friend, I see

something different in their life and I

want to know what it is and they tell me

to keep coming to this church and so

you're here today to kind of check it

out. May maybe you're here just to kind

of prove to everybody that what we're

doing here is janked up and it's not

right and and it's stupid and I don't

know I don't know why you're here. But

listen, I'm hoping and praying that

every individual number one experiences

the presence of God more than anything

else. And then number two will will will

know for a fact that before you leave

this place that Jesus Christ is madly

and passionately in love with you and

desires a relationship with you more

than anything else. And I'm hoping that

you leave here. I don't care how long

you've been in church your whole entire

life. I I hope and pray that you leave

here changed some way, form, or fashion.

And if you're here today and you don't

you're you're thinking like, um, I'm

just here to check it out. Listen, I

don't think it's by accident. I don't

think it's by accident one bit that

you're here. I think you're here for a

divine appointment because God loves you

so much and he wants to meet you right

here today in this in this cinema, in

this movie theater, how whatever you

want to call it. I really think that God

wants to meet you today and it's not by

accident that you're here. Right. So,

let me dive into the story. I I I just

basically want to share a story with

you. It's a story that Jesus told. He he

spoke in what they called parables. And

parables were basically stories that he

used fictional characters, but they

illustrated the people of that time. And

he used also basically these fictional

characters also illustrate the people of

our time today. All right? And so, I

think that it can replicate all the way

up to 2026. And so I want to I want to

share a story with you about what we

call in the church as the prodical son

or or the lost son. And so basically

you're going to see three different

people in here, but we're only going to

talk about two. We're going to talk

about a father who represents Jesus.

Then we're going to talk about a younger

son, which represents us. All right? Uh

and and then the older son is a whole

another story behind it, but we won't

get into that today. So we're going to

talk about a father and we're going to

talk about uh his younger son. And and

basically the younger son was wanting to

run away from the father. All right. Now

remember we represent the son and the

father represents the dad. So I here's

what I want. I want to read the

scripture. Scripture will be on the

screen. It be on the text. Uh uh the

text will be right up here. I I want to

read it to you and I just kind of want

to stop and break it down to you and

just kind of explain to you what I

believe Jesus is saying to the people

he's speaking to. And and it's just for

us as much for us today as it was to the

people Jesus was talking to. So here's

what it says in Luke 15 11. It says

this. It says to illustrate the point

further. Jesus told them this story. Now

when he says to illustrate the point

further, he had just got through telling

two other stories. He talked about a

lost coin where a lady lost lost some

money and she started flipping her house

upside down to look for her lost coin

that she had lost. Then it also talked

about a man who had lost a sheep and he

had 100 sheep, lost one. And the Bible

says that he left the 99 to go look for

the sheep. Where are the sheep? The

shepherd is Jesus. All right? And so

basically it goes into now talking about

a son that was lost. And so says to

illustrate the point further, Jesus told

them this story. A man had two sons. The

younger son told his father, I want my

share of your estate now before you die.

So his father agreed to divide his

wealth between his sons. says the

younger son told his father, "I want my

share of your estate now before you

die." So, I need you to get a picture. I

here's a dad and here's a young son. The

son thinks he knows it all. He got it

all figured out. And he tells his daddy,

"Hey, Dad, I want your inheritance

before you die. I want everything. The

will that you've written up for me, I

want it so that I can go out and live

for my life the way I want to live my

life." Now, what you got to understand

is when you look at the scripture, it

says, "I want my share of your estate."

Which means that this daddy was loaded.

All right. He had lots and lots and lots

of money. He had some cash. All right.

Or euros or pounds or whatever y'all do

over here. All right. I don't know. But

he had lots of money. All right. And so

basically the son comes to him and tells

him, "Dad, I want that money." Now, you

got to understand if he lived in an

estate, he had everything he want. He

had servants. These servants would come

and fold his clothes for him. These

servants would fix his dinner for him.

These servants would scratch his back.

These servants would do whatever he

wanted them to do. He also had his own

bedroom. He had his own Spider-Man

sheet, Mandalorian Grove sheets, I don't

know, on his bed. He had whatever he

wanted on his sheets. Listen, I

guarantee you he had pictures of his son

on his mantel or on his hallway. He had

a refrigerator. This boy had everything

he wanted inside his daddy's house. He

could have gone to the refrigerator and

get anything out of the refrigerator. He

could have got a Guinness. Ain't that

what you said last service? A Guinness.

Yeah, I've already I tried a Guinness. I

went through the Guinness factory here

and I hope I don't offend anybody, but

uh you'll find out later on with the

message that I don't really like

alcohol, but I got to the top and they

gave us like a shot and I took a shot

and sent it back. I blew groceries

everywhere. It was nasty. And so, um but

HE COULD LISTEN, THIS son had everything

that he wanted, but he looked at his dad

and said, "Dad, I want my life the way I

want my life." Listen, there's a lot of

us in this room that have that same

mentality. It's called the I want

mentality. I want my life. I'm going to

do my life the way I want to do my life.

I don't care what you want from me, God.

I'm going to do what I want to do. And

so, basically, this son had everything

he wanted. He just didn't like his

daddy's boundaries. But inside his

daddy's house, he was safe. Inside his

daddy's house, he was protected. Inside

his daddy's house, he had purpose.

inside his daddy's house. He had

everything you wanted, but he thought

that he could do it better. And so Jesus

is telling them, "Hey, you represent the

son and there's a place where I have

everything that you want as your father.

I have everything that you want, but you

still desire to live on your own and do

the do the things that you want to do

and you want your life for your life."

And basically, there's a great

possibility in this room and in all the

other campuses that are watching,

there's a great possibility there are

people that are living right now with

the I want mentality. I want my life and

I don't want anybody else to have part

of my life. I'm going to live the way I

want to live my life. And to be honest

with you, when you do that, and you'll

see next in the text, when you do that,

you begin to live a dangerous life. You

begin to live a life that's got no

purpose. You begin to live a life that's

that's missing things, and you're trying

your best to figure out what's going on

in my life. So, I'm about to get you

there in just a second to help you

understand what's happening and how you

get back to having a full life. All

right. So it goes on to say, "The

younger son told his father, I want my

share of your estate now before you

die." So listen to what it says. He

says, "So his father agreed to divide

his wealth between his son." So his

father agreed. You know what

his the daddy didn't get down on his

knee whenever his son said, "Hey, I want

my share of your estate." The daddy

didn't get on his knee and say, "Son,

would you just please stay? I just beg

you to stick around and hang out with

us. Ju just stay, son." He didn't do

that. the the dad said, "All right, if

that's what you want to do, because you

have free will, you can do what you want

to. You you can step outside of these

boundaries if you want to and you can go

do your own thing. If you want your

life, you go live your life." Now,

listen, everybody in this room, if

you're here today and you say, "You know

what? I don't want to have anything to

do with God. I don't need God in my

life. I'm going to do what I want to do

without God." God's not going to look at

you and say, "Would you just please

stay? Stick around. I just need you with

me. Just just don't don't leave." You

know what's going to happen? God's gonna

say, "Okay, if that's what you want,

then go. You can go and you can go with

everything that I've blessed you with.

You can go with the gifts that I'll

bless you with. You can go with the

personality I've blessed you with. You

can go with everything, but it still

ain't gonna work out for you. Nothing's

gonna work out. It's all going to be

empty one day. So, he goes on to say,

says a few days later, this younger son

packed up all his belongings. Get the

picture. Remember, he had everything he

wanted inside that house. And so, he

packed his bags, baby. He's like, "Man,

I'm going to go live on my own. I'm

going to do what I want because I can

run my life better than anybody else

running my life." So few days later this

younger son packed all his belongings

and moved to a distant land. You know I

I believe that when he comes to a place

of talking about a distant land you

remember everything is illustrated. So

what I think that Jesus is saying here

when he says he moved to a distant land

I believe he's trying to explain to us

that there's a place for you to really

move away from God to move outside the

boundaries of God to walk in the I want

mentality. There has to be a place where

in your conscience because to be honest

with you, the Bible tells us that

everybody knows that there's something

out there larger than them. The Bible

tells us that everybody knows in their

real in their heart that there is a God,

that there is a creator, that he is

real. And we don't have time to cover

all of that today. We could be here all

day on that. And Jamie's a lot smarter

than me, so maybe he'll preach it next

week. Big picture is this is that there

for you to have to walk away from God

because you know truth whether you know

where you act like you don't or not or

whether you say you don't know truth you

you know truth

what has to happen is some way form or

fashion we have to suppress that truth

and we have to push it away so what do

we do we have to find things wrong with

the church we have to find things wrong

with Christians we have to find things

wrong with God we got to find things

wrong with everybody that represents God

as much as possible so that we can feel

better about ourselves walking away from

the truth

And what do you do? You go to a distant

place in your mind. You go to a distant

place in your conscience. You go to a

distant place to move away from who God

is. And there's a great possibility out

of all four locations that are watching

tonight today. There's a great

possibility that all the people that's

here right now in this service, a 12:00

service, that there's a great

possibility that there are people

sitting in the chairs that have

suppressed the truth. You know the

truth, but you said my way's better. I

know better. And so you're living the I

want mentality when in reality I think

the question I'd have for you is how's

it working out for you? How's it working

out for you? It goes on to say

it says so when he moved to this distant

land he says and there he wasted all his

he wasted he didn't say he spent says he

wasted

all his money on wild living. You know,

whenever I think about life, when I

think about what what was Jesus trying

to communicate with the people at this

point, when I think about money, to have

a real life, you got to have money some

way, form, or fashion. It whe there's a

little money, whether it's a lot of

money, whether it's, you know, mediocre

money, you got to have money some way,

form, or fashion to live. And so, I

believe what Jesus is saying when he

says he wasted all his money. I think

what he's saying is is that he moved

away when he moved away with all his

dad's stuff and he wasted his life his

money on wild living. He was basically

saying when you move away from God, you

begin to waste your life on things that

don't matter. Because wild living didn't

matter. It didn't do anything to help

his life. And if you're here today and

Jesus is not a part of your life, what I

would say to you as as gentle and as

kind as I can, I personally believe that

there's a place where you're wasting

your life because God created you for

him. God created you to glorify him. God

created you to raise the name of Jesus

and make his name famous. God raised

you. God. Listen, God God placed you on

this earth. What allowed you to be born

your creator so that you could serve him

for the purpose of him serving you and

for the purpose of you serving others

and for the purpose of you having

purpose in your life by knowing the

creator, by knowing God, by allowing

Jesus to walk in your life. And any

listen, anything outside of Jesus, I'm

telling you, hear me and I'm fix to give

you my story in just a second. Anything

outside of Jesus is a waste. It's a

waste.

There's nothing outside of Jesus that

that satisfies. Only Jesus satisfies.

This is what it goes on to say. So there

he wasted all his money on wild living.

Then he goes on to say, he says about

the time his money ran out, a great

famine swept over the land and he began

to starve. Listen, there will come a

time I need you to hear me. If you're

here today and you're like, I'm living

the I want mentality. I'm going to live

my life for me. I'm gonna do what I want

to do. I'm going to push God away and

I'm going to suppress the truth and I'm

going to do what I want to do. I'm going

to live for me. Here's what's going to

happen. I believe that what Jesus is

saying here is he's saying that his

money ran out and a great famine swept

over the land and he began to starve. I

believe that that is spiritual. I

believe there is a spiritual famine

that's taking place in your life and you

are spiritually starving for truth.

There will come a place where you'll

start to starve and you'll start looking

for answers because you're wondering,

"How in the world did I ever get to this

place, man? Nothing ever satisfies. My

God, there's got to be more to life than

this."

Listen, whenever I was 24 years old,

um that's when I met Jesus. That's when

I gave my life to Christ. So, so um I

would me and my boys would go to the

clubs every weekend. I every weekend.

And we did it for years. And so I'll be

honest with you, I didn't like to drink.

I don't like the taste of alcohol. It's

nasty to me. That's why I bought blue

groceries whenever I drank the Guinness.

But the the big picture is is I I didn't

like to drink. So I was a DD. I was a

designated driver. And so I would drive

all my my buddies around, my boys. I'd

drive them and we'd go to the we'd go to

the Circle K and we get the cheap beer.

We get the cheap alcohol because

everything else inside the club is

expensive. So we we pour. All right. So

we sit we sit out in the parking lot and

we finish the beer. And every single

week, every single week in the parking

lot, we'd have the exact same

conversation. The exact same

conversation. I guarantee you there are

people in this room that's had this

conversation before if I was guessing.

And in the other rooms that are

watching, we This is what the

conversation went like. My god, there's

got to be more to life than this.

There's got to be more to life than

this. I mean, it's the same old mundane,

same old thing every single week. I

mean, I I I I get up on Monday, hate

Mondays, got to go to work because it's

the rest of the week. I get to

Wednesday, hump day, fired up about

Wednesday, fire, it excites me. And I

don't know if y'all like us, we have to

do weekends and stuff on that's our days

off. And then Friday gets here and woo,

it's a party. Saturday's here, man. I'm

off work, everything's great. Sunday,

I'm off work, everything's great. Oh my

god, Monday's back here. Monday's

miserable because I got a whole week to

got to go to work. And then oh,

Wednesday's here. Hump day. And then we

get to Friday and here we go again.

Party day on Saturday. Sunday. Here we

go again. Monday. I hate Monday.

Wednesday. Hump day. And then Friday.

And here we go again. It's Saturday. And

here goes Sunday. And Monday. And then

we go. I don't know if that makes any

sense because I'm just maybe giving you

the American life. I don't know what

y'all's work looks like. But here's the

deal. There's a place where it becomes

so mundane and you're sitting there

miserable because everything is just a

cycle of just constant misery of

constant the same thing every single day

all day and you're missing out on what

life's really about because that

miserable Monday where you have work

when you have Jesus it becomes a mission

field and all of a sudden my job's got

purpose. I I there's so much we could

talk about, but the big picture is is

like listen, God didn't create you to

live a mundane life. He didn't create

you in this cyclical world of just doing

the same old thing every day, Monday,

home day, weekend, woo, Monday. It's

that's not it. That's not what he

created you for.

Thing about it is is there's a place

where there's a lot of people in this

room who are spiritually starving.

And here you are today getting adhered

to a American, a redneck country boy

from Alabama. Y'all don't even know what

that means. But the big picture is

everybody else in Alabama does. The

thing about it is is you. God brought me

here to share with you that he's in love

with you and he's calling you to himself

and he's trying to get you out of this

cyclical cycle. If that's the I say I

think I said the same thing twice. He's

trying to get you out of it. He wants

you free. And the only way you find

freedom is in him.

I can't explain it. Listen,

24 years old. I'm going I'm going to the

clubs. I'm going to the bars.

Sundays I'd go to church because that's

what we do. That's what we do in

America. We go to church on Sunday

because that's what everybody does. And

so we go to church on Sunday. I'd go to

church for the wrong reasons. I like it

when people go to church for the wrong

reasons. I'd go to church for the wrong

reasons. I'd go to church looking for a

good church girl. I'd go to a big church

because there's more fish in a big pond.

I I I went to a big church looking for a

good church girl. I never heard what the

preacher said, the pastor. THERE'S ONE

DAY BECAUSE HE TALKED about like he

talked about sports. I love sports. He

talked except soccer. I'm just kidding.

Don't throw nothing at me in Jesus name.

Listen. Oh, what do y'all play? Ga

Gaelic. Oh yeah. Yes. Listen. So the the

big SO HE PREACHES AND I ACTUALLY LISTEN

TO WHAT HE'S SAYING AND HE'S ANSWERING

ALL MY QUESTIONS THAT ME AND MY BOYS

HAVE ON FRIDAY NIGHTS, SATURDAY. He's

answering all my questions and I'm like,

"Huh,

I think I'm going to try this Jesus

thing. I'm gonna give it a shot." And

that day I said, "I I'm I'm going after

Jesus with everything that I am." I

didn't know ANY OTHER WAY TO DO IT. AND

SO THAT'S WHAT I PLANNED ON DOING. And

so I used to work for Coca-Cola. It was

the worst job in America. Don't ever

work for Coca-Cola. All right. Maybe

Guinness, but not Coke. So on Friday, I

was a hell raiser. On Monday after that

Sunday, I gave my life to Christ. I was

a holy roller. I'm 54 years old. I know

it's hard for some of y'all to believe.

I got that baby face. I got that olive

olay. Works wonders, baby. Listen, I I I

I basically my life is still radically

changed because it was the real deal. He

changed my life the same way he wants to

change yours. Some of you in your other

in all your rooms that you're watching

me and maybe you're here, you're seeing

all these people around you worshiping

Jesus like, man, why they just got their

hands raised? They like on a roller

coaster or something like, man, why they

all look passionate and getting all

fired up and JUST WHAT'S WRONG WITH

THESE PEOPLE? WHAT WHAT'S WRONG WITH

THEM? THEY THEY'VE met Jesus. Jesus

radically changed their life just like

he wants to change your life. Listen,

God did not put you here by accident.

Listen, if you got a heartbeat inside

your chest and you got air in your lungs

and you're standing on this ground, hear

me. You have got A PURPOSE AND GOD'S NOT

DONE WITH YOU. HE wants to use you in a

big way. Y'all clap more in the first

service. This must be better. And I'm

sweating harder in my belly button.

Anyway,

listen. God wants to use you.

It's purpose. THAT'S WHY YOU GOT TO COME

EVERY WEEK TO LEARN. YOU NEED TO COME

AND SIT UNDER PASTOR JAMIE'S preaching

and pastor Lobby and all the other

pastors got weird names. Listen,

I'm just kidding. I love you, Lobby.

Listen, I I need you to understand. I

need you to understand that God is so in

love with you. I'm fix to show you.

Remember, we're the son that ran. This

is what happens with the son. This is

what what happens. It says he persuaded

a local farmer to hire. So, remember he

started he was starving. HE WAS HUNGRY.

THIS old boy could have picked up and

went back home anytime he wanted to. But

his pride got him. His pride got him so

much like I just my dad, you know, I'm

just not going to go back. I you know,

my dad probably told me like I don't

need to leave. But he gave it to me

anyway. He told me like I I should

probably say he actually agreed, but I

shouldn't have gone. But I don't I I'm

going to go to this pig pin because I

don't want to look like a a And

so what did he do? says, "A young man

became so hungry that even the pods he

was feeding the pigs looked good to him.

So he went and worked at a pig farm. A

pig farm.

His pride kept him in his place. There's

a great possibility there are people

here today that have made fun of God,

who have made fun of Christians, who

have who have said, "I'll never do any

of that Christian stuff."

And honestly, you're hearing right now

that you know what? I really need to

make a decision to follow Jesus.

But what's happening is is you're

pushing it away because your pride's

keeping you from falling in love with

Jesus and giving your life to him

because you've told everybody else,

"I'll never do that." Can I go ahead and

tell you right now, if you've said

negative things to Christians, they're

not going to be mad at you if you give

your life to Christ. They going to

celebrate with you whenever you give

your life to Christ. They gonna be

pumped for you. And what I would say is,

if that's you, what I would say is is

come to Jesus. Get up out of the pig

pin, the spiritual pig pin. Stop eating

with the pigs, man. Get you get your get

you some abundant life. Jesus came to

give you abundant life. And so, let him

give you what life is really about. It

goes on to say this. Says, "The younger

man became so hungry that even the the

pods he was feeding the pigs looked good

to him, but no one gave him anything."

Listen, nobody in this world is going to

give you anything but Jesus. Jesus is

the only one that can give you true

life. He's it. Jesus is the only one.

says this. Says when he finally came to

his senses,

listen everybody you see worshiping like

getting their hands up. I hope my belly

ain't falling out. Listen, everybody's

got their hands up worshiping and you

looking around like many people are

weird. Guess what? They had a defining

moment in their life when they finally

came to their senses. Every single one

of them, everybody in this room who

followed Jesus, including myself, has a

defining moment at some point where they

met Jesus. And I'm one of them. 24 years

old. I just got through telling you I

had a defining moment in my life where I

made a decision to pursue after Jesus

and he radically changed my life. Has

everything been perfect? Has everybody

thing been great? Am I perfect? Lord,

no. Not even close.

But the big thing is is he radically

changed my life and he's given me

purpose.

So,

there's a place where some of you here

need to have a defining moment where

you're going after the I want mentality.

The I want mentality. I'm gonna do what

I want to do. I'm gonna follow my life.

I'm going to do what I want to do. And

then you gonna get in that pig pin and

there's a place where you need to turn

around and you say, "You know what? I'm

going to go home to daddy. I'm going to

go meet my dad. I'm going to go back and

tell my dad. Dad, I've made a mistake."

Listen what? Listen what listen what the

boy did. Listen what the son did. So

he's sitting at the pig pin. He came to

his senses and this is what he said to

himself at home. Even the hired

servants, the servants that folded his

clothes, that made his dinner, that

scratched his back. He says, "Even the

hired servants have food enough to

spare, and here I am dying of hunger.

I'll go home to my father." He He's

humbled himself. Hum. This is It takes

humility to say, you know what? I was

wrong. The I won't mentality don't work.

I was wrong.

says, "Even the hired, I will go home to

my father and say, 'Father, I've sinned

against both heaven and you, and I'm no

longer worthy of being called your son.

Please take me on as a hired hand."

There's a place where humility has got

to set in. He's like, "You know what?

I'm wrong. I've been wrong forever

trying to live my life, doing my life

the way I want to do it. And now I'm

going to place my life under the

authority of Christ, and I'm gonna

follow Jesus." His life is so much

better than anything we could ever do

for our personal life.

So, it goes on to say, "Woohoo! This is

This is good." All right, you ready? All

right. I'm about to get a little

passionate, y'all. Okay, with that,

y'all good? In Liverpool, in Liverpool,

they they said, "You can't get excited."

I know y'all got some issues with the

UK. We need to have some freedom groups

for y'all. Listen, I make y'all happy.

When I was at the UK, there are certain

things that we say and do in America

that's different than what they do in

America that's bad and and the UK that's

bad. And so, I flipped everybody off in

the UK. I gave him the peace sign, but I

did it sideways. And apparently, that's

the Okay, it's the bird. Anyway, listen.

So, so

it says, "So he returned home to his

father and while he was still a long way

off,

daddy's outside waiting on him. He's

looking for his boy."

SAYS, "FATHER SAW HIM COMING." FILLED

WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION, HE CAME. HE

RAN to his son, embraced him, and kissed

him. And his son said to him, "Father,

I've sinned against both heaven and you,

and I am no longer worthy of being

called your son." But his father said TO

THE SERVANTS, "QUICK, BRING THE FINEST

ROBE IN THE HOUSE AND PUT IT ON MY SON.

GET A RING FOR his finger and sandals

FOR HIS FEET. KILL THAT FAT HEER WE HAVE

BEEN that we had in the for in the in

the farm. WE WE MUST CELEBRATE with a

feast for this son of of mine was dead

and is now returned to life. He was

lost, but now he is found. SO LET THE

PARTY BEGIN."

SO YOU DIDN'T KNOW JESUS LIKED TO PARTY,

DID YOU? I told y'all he met me at a

club.

I got saved at a club. He rescued me at

a club. He likes a party.

Listen, let me give you a picture. I

want you to think about this. All right?

Think about think about the daddy, the

father who represents God. Every single

day, he goes out to the end of the

driveway, the camel way, I don't know

whatever they had back then. All right?

He's at the edge of his yard, I'm sorry,

garden. And he's looking across across

the fields and every single day he's

looking at his other son saying, "Hey, I

know your younger brother's coming home

one day. I need you to keep an eye out

for him because I know he's going to

come home one day. AND HEY, SERVANTS, I

NEED YOU TO KEEP AN EYE OUT. My my boy,

my son, is coming home. I need you to

keep up and find him. I need you to

look. I'm going to be out here looking

for him on a regular basis. I need you

to look for my boy. And then there's

that one day when that old boy came to

his senses

and all of a sudden his dad's looking

out across the fields that he'd been

looking out for days and months, maybe

even years looking for his boy. and he

looks across the fields and he sees this

he sees this this somebody's just

walking looks like a silhouette and he

sees this he sees this this man coming

across the fields and he's looking he's

like it it look it looks like my boy it

IS THIS MY SON IT'S MY BOY MY BOY IS

HOME YOUNGER BROTHER OLDER BROTHER S MY

BOY IS HOME AND HE SEES HIM WALKING TO

HIM AND THE BIBLE SAYS HE TAKES off

running sprinting not walking. He don't

come up to him like shame, shame, shame.

Everybody knows your name. YOU YOU'RE A

BAD SON. HE DIDN'T DO THAT. THAT'S THE

WAY a lot of people think God is.

Basically, he ran TO HIS BOY, TACKLED

HIM, HUGGED HIM, KISSED HIM, AND GET GET

YOUR TAIL UP. HEY, KILL THAT COW. WE

GOING TO HAVE A FEAST TONIGHT. WE GOING

TO PARTY. PUT A RING ON his finger,

sandals on his feet, whatever that

means. ENJOY MY BOY TONIGHT. HE'S HOME.

Let me give you a bigger picture.

I believe that Jesus is standing at the

edge of heaven and he's watching you.

Daughter, son, who's saying today, I'm

tired of the pig pin. I'm going to come

to my senses and I think I'm going to

get up from this place and I'm going to

do something different in my life. And

Jesus sitting at the he's sitting at the

edge of heaven and he's looking and he

says, "Hey angels. Hey Michael. Hey

Gabriel. Hey, listen. My daughter's

gonna come home. I know today's the day.

Today's the day. I feel she's coming

home today. I WANT Y'ALL TO WATCH FOR

Y'ALL BE LOOKING. Y'ALL, MY SON, my my

boy, he's coming home today. He's down

there at at Lighthouse Church. And I'm

telling you, he's going to come home

today. She's going to come home today.

I'm looking. I'm watching. And then

inside your heart, you start to push

away all the suppression that you did

with the truth. You start recognizing

LIKE, I WAS WRONG. OH MY GOODNESS, I'M

IN with the spiritual pigs and I need to

get out. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, YOU SAY,

"JESUS, I'M COMING AFTER YOU." AND ALL

OF A SUDDEN, YOU START MAKING YOUR WAY

TOWARDS GOD. And Jesus is in heaven

LOOKING DOWN SEEING YOU. IT'S LIKE,

"HEY, ANGELS, MICHAEL, GET THE GET THAT

HORN READY. GABRIEL, GET YOUR VOICE

CLEARED OUT. GET READY TO SING CUZ we

going to HAVE A PARTY TONIGHT. MY GIRL,

SHE'S COMING HOME. MY BABY, MY BOY IS

COMING HOME TONIGHT." AND ALL OF A

SUDDEN, Jesus begins to chase after you.

He tackles you. He hugs you. He kisses

you and SAYS, "GET THE PARTY READY."

WE'RE HAVING A PARTY. MY DAUGHTER'S

HERE. My daughter's home.

He's looking for you. He loves you so

much.

He's calling your name.

He's calling you by name. And he's

saying, "Come home."

He's on the edge of He's on the edge of

heaven waiting every day for you to

come. You know why? Because he loves you

that much.

He loves you so much.

Listen, this there's nobody in this

room, including myself, including Jamie,

especially Jamie, that does not deserve

God,

nobody in this room.

But Jesus, he said that yet while we

were still bad people, while we were

still not good people, the Bible uses

the word sinners. While we were yet

sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus gave

his life for you so that you can have

life. You can have an abundant.

And what I would say to you today is if

your heart is strayed away from God, I

would say come home. Get up out that pig

pin and let's go. Man, God's got so much

for you. Would you let him have you?

Daughter, he loves you.

Hey son, he loves you. You take one step

towards him, he going to take a hundred

towards you. You start walking towards

him, he's going to run towards you. Just

takes that. It just takes one step. He's

coming to get you.

So why don't you let him have you? All

right. You could do that by just crying

out to him today like, "God, I'm done."

That's what I did. I didn't do nothing.

All I said in my spirit, I said,

"Today's today. Today today I'm

following Jesus and he changed my life.

Let him change yours." All right.