June 22, 2025 • 41 mins
This message emphasizes the importance of recognizing and receiving the fullness of what has already been provided through redemption by the blood of Jesus. Believers are encouraged to develop a personal revelation of God’s love and see themselves as worthy of His lavish blessings—not by merit, but by Christ’s sacrifice. Drawing from scriptures and the parable of the prodigal son, the message contrasts two mindsets: one that boldly receives inheritance and restoration, and another that lives unaware of what’s already theirs. The call is to stir up faith, embrace sonship, and prepare for milestones of provision, favor, and purpose already paid for in Christ.
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Those Bibles around.
Make Jesus glad and the devilmad.
Say this together say, heavenlyFather, I'm glad to be here
today.
It is a year of milestones.
I thank you, lord, for the Wordof God.
Holy Ghost, shine your light onthe Word, make it food for my
faith, nourishment for my spirit.
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I thank you, father, that I'vegot the victory in Jesus' name,
amen.
Let's turn in our Bibles to twoplaces, thank you.
There Is that throat coat.
Am I kind of rattling and myvoice is a little bit raspy.
That's all right, I don't care,maybe you do, but I'm just
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going to preach anyway.
1 Peter, chapter 1, and alsoRomans, chapter 8.
Let's read verse 18.
Peter, speaking to the churchsuch as silver and gold from
your vain conversation, receivedby tradition from your fathers,
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but with or you were redeemedwith the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb, withoutblemish and without spot.
So glad we sang the blood songthis morning.
All right.
And then Romans, chapter eight,verse 32.
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One of my favorite verses hethat spared, not his own son but
delivered him up for us all.
How shall he not also, with him, freely give us all things?
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And the New English Bible saysit this way.
And with this gift, how can hefail to lavish upon us all he
has to give?
How can he fail to lavish on usall he has to give?
And so, today, I wanted tobegin a series entitled
Redemptive Realities.
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Redemptive Realities as I'vesaid, 2025 is a year of
milestones, and these milestonesare lined up just like when you
drive down any interstatehighway and they've got the mile
markers.
You go out I-10 and O, or you goout and take I-45.
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I mean, it starts in Galveston,i-45 starts in Galveston.
Mile marker's zero and it justgoes on up, up, up, up.
You get to spring.
It's about 70-something.
You know 70 miles.
Every mile there's a marker.
God has got your markers linedup.
They're not going to come, theyhave already been paid for up.
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They're not going to come, theyhave already been paid for.
I said they've already beenpaid for by the blood.
It's not something that God'sgot to cook up, it's not
something that you can earn, butit is something you have to
learn how to receive.
And you receive it how, byfaith.
You've got to know it's yours.
You've got to know it's coming.
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So our faith, then, is based onknowledge, or understanding of
the Word, or revelation of theWord, and that's why I preach
things over and over again,because faith cometh by hearing.
And hearing I mean you need tohear something more than one
time, you need to hear it overand over again, because we
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forget, we're distracted, weneglect.
I mean the children of Israelis our example.
I mean everything that'swritten in the Old Testament is
written for our admonition uponwhom the ends of the age are
come 1 Corinthians, chapter 10.
For our admonition upon whomthe ends of the age are come 1
Corinthians, chapter 10.
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So he didn't write all thosenegative things about Israel to
knock them and to denigrate them.
He did it so that we wouldunderstand that we're going to
have to overcome where theydidn't.
They kept forgetting that theywere blessed.
They kept forgetting in thewilderness that they were in
covenant with Almighty God.
They kept limiting themselves,they limited God.
As a matter of fact, not onlydid they limit themselves, they
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limited God Because what theyforgot?
His wonders in the field ofZoan and what he had done in
Egypt, how he parted the Red Sea, how he brought water out of
the rock twice, man, I'm tellingyou, he brought the quail.
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So many, so much, so many quail.
They got sick eating them.
It was almost Friday night.
I was like so much barbecue Imean you just couldn't eat it
all, but we did.
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So we have to have a thoroughunderstanding about the currency
of our redemption.
Our redemption is by the blood,the precious blood of the lamb
it was.
He was slain.
He was slain in God's mindbefore the foundation of the
world.
I mean that's calling the thingthat be not as though it were.
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Was he in fact slain?
No, not really, but he in themind of God, he was slain before
anything happened.
I mean God's plan of redemption, it predated anything.
And that's why I'm saying yourmilestones is not something
God's got to cook up, it's notsomething he's got a laboratory
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out back.
You know, hey, let me see I'vegot a milestone here for you
know, joaquin, let's seeJoaquin's milestone.
Let me see, let me get a cup ofsugar.
No, I mean it's already there,it's waiting for him.
So we've got to have a thoroughunderstanding of what the blood
has done, what it is doing andwhat it will do in order to
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actually receive all that Godwants to lavish upon us.
I say I like that word lavish.
You know I'm working on myreceiver.
You know, we spoke a couple ofweeks on adjusting our receiver.
This is kind of anotherextension of this.
I'm wanting you to begin toexpand your vision.
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I want you to allow God to dolavish instead of just barely
enough.
Well, you know, lord, if Icould just get rid of this
ingrown toenail, I'd be so happy.
If I could get rid of thetoenail fungus, I wouldn't ask
you for another thing, lord.
No, let's let him give useverything he's got.
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He wants to lavish some thingsupon you.
Glory to God.
You know, jesus, I want you tolisten to this right here now.
You need to remind yourself ofthis.
I've said it before, but I'mgoing to say it again Jesus
didn't teach from the aspect oftrying to get God to do
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something.
Okay, folks, here's how you getGod to do something.
No, he didn't teach that way.
Rather, he taught for man toreceive what God has already
done through the shedding ofblood.
That's how he taught.
He taught from that standpoint,not trying.
Oh, I hope God's in a good mood.
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Oh, oh, I hope I can persuadehim.
Oh, please, no, we're notbegging.
We're sons and daughters.
He's got us on the lavish list.
Some of y'all are going to getthis this afternoon about 3
o'clock.
You know I was meditating yearsago on these verses on the
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precious blood.
You know there's no blood likeit.
He has no rival, he has norival, he has no equal.
We sang it.
His blood is stands alone,there's no blood of bulls and
goats.
I mean, that did something forthe Old Testament.
We've got a much bettercovenant found upon better
promises, yes, upon betterpromises.
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They had forgiveness, but theyhad to have a continual
sacrifice.
Blood had to be shed everymoment of the day.
Fire had to keep going 24-7.
I mean they were busy, busy,busy, busy, busy, trying to
atone for the sin, trying todisguise it, trying to hide it.
Sin could not be reallyeliminated, it could only be
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covered.
But we have remission, it'stotally blotted out.
There is no sin problem.
There's nothing blocking usfrom his lavishing gifts, except
what Faith To believe.
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And I was thinking about theseone time, and and you know I was
thinking about john 3, 16 godso loved the world.
I've, I've knew that god lovedthe whole world.
I knew that jesus was savior ofthe world.
I grew up catholic and theytaught me some principles and
they just didn't teach me that Ineeded to be born again.
I've confronted my parishpriest that Gladys and I sat
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under him for nine months goingto instructions.
She's a Baptist girl and shejust was so sweet, she, she
saved.
I'm not even then, but I didn'twant to raise my kids as
heathens and I couldn't beBaptist.
There's no way I'm going to theBaptist church.
I tried it and tried a coupleof times, and a hellfire and
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brimstone was too hot for me tolisten to because I knew I was
probably headed there and Ididn't want to.
But don't wake me up and don'ttell me where I'm headed.
I kept thinking, well, one ofthese days I'll get right with
God.
I mean, I really did think that, but I wouldn't let myself
really say it.
So she compromised, came allthe way over with me and we sat
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for nine months through thiswhole and not one time did he
tell us we need to be born again.
And on the final night of thething I kept patting myself on
the back because a lot of thosemonths was Monday night football
that I missed.
It was Monday nights and I gavethat up.
You know, I thought I was sospiritual.
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And the last night we had FatherPaulison from the Houston
Catholic Charismatic Center.
He was pastor of the CatholicCharismatic Center.
Have you ever noticed that bigchurch on the Gulf Freeway,
close to downtown, with a greenroof on it?
Catholic Charismatic Center.
He was pastor of the CatholicCharismatic Center.
Have you ever noticed that bigchurch on the Gulf Freeway,
close to downtown, with a greenroof on it?
Catholic Charismatic Center.
The charismatic renewal cameinto the Catholic Church in the
60s and he was the pastor ofthat church.
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And he was a pastor that wasborn again and filled with the
Holy Ghost.
And you know what he did.
He came that night to a bunchof Catholics and gave his
testimony and he said I'm adrunk.
Now, he didn't have it right.
He should have said I was adrunk, but he had that.
You know what they teach in AAI'm a drunk, no, you're not.
You were a drunk but anyway.
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And he confessed being analcoholic.
As a priest, he confessed thathe needed to get saved.
He confessed that he had to dosomething to avoid going to hell
.
And he's a Catholic priest.
Man, I made my head go tilt andit planted a seed.
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And when I did get saved, Iwent back to that other priest
and I confronted him.
I said how in the world did younot tell me in nine months that
I needed to get born again?
You got Father Paulus in there.
He gave us all of it, but hedidn't tell us that.
What's wrong with you?
I rebuked him.
He didn't have any good answers.
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I got outed him.
He didn't have any good answers.
I got out of there.
I shook the dust off my feet.
You want to hold people incaptivity.
You want to hold people inbondage.
You want to give people a bunchof religion and just hope like
one day somebody like me justaccidentally gets saved.
Is that your plan?
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No wonder they need money.
They need money.
They've got a plan to raisemoney.
I just think well, if youwouldn't waste so much money,
you'd have a lot of money if youknew what to do with it.
All right, so anyway, enough ofthe Catholics.
But anyway, I knew these thingsand I was meditating on.
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It wasn't until I made itpersonal.
It wasn't until I realized heloved me and that blood was shed
for me.
And what was that blood?
That blood really was liquidlove.
I I mean, there's no other wayto put it it's liquid love.
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There ain't nothing else to sayabout the blood of jesus except
it's god's love in liquid formshed for you.
There's no other kind of liquidcould have, no other kind of
blood could have done it.
But he did it for me and and Igot to meditating on that and I
got to realizing all that loveand all that sacrifice, yeah,
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for the world.
But it wasn't until Iappropriated it personally.
That's what you're going tohave to do about these
milestones.
He's got some personal thingsthat have to do with you and his
plan for your life and yourministry and your business and
your livelihood and your family.
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It's personal Until you know Igot to have.
You know I knew a lady one timeand you know she wasn't my
favorite.
But I mean I knew a lady onetime and, uh, you know I, she
wasn't my favorite but I mean Ihad to love her.
But I didn't like her muchbecause she's kind of arrogant
and one of the things she'd saya lot.
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When I heard her say it severaltimes well, I'm God's favorite,
well, you know, it made me,aggravated me.
But then, after I meditated onthis, I realized what she was
really saying.
She had to get into the placewhere, just between her and God,
god treated her like she washis favorite.
And that's what I startedthinking about.
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I started meditating.
He treats me like I'm hisfavorite son.
I'm not excluding anybody else,I'm not in competition with
anybody else, but he just he'sI'm his favorite.
And then I understood I heldthat against her.
I had to repent.
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Now did he pour this liquid loveout and buy and purchase with a
priceless currency that's worthmore than anything?
I mean I bought gold coins, infact specifically Krugerrands,
because why Well?
I like the way they look, hadnothing to do with South Africa,
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but they have a little copperin their gold coins and they're
beautiful.
They're rose gold and they havethis antelope on the one side
of them.
Beautiful coin.
And I remember having, you know, 20, 30 of them back in the
seventies when they sold for$360 a piece.
Well, right now they sell for$3,500 a piece.
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Pretty valuable.
I don't think you can put adollar amount on the blood of
Jesus.
It's priceless.
But he paid that for me.
Does it mean I'm perfect?
No, no, did it mean Abraham wasperfect?
No, there ain't no perfectpeople anywhere.
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There are no perfect people inthe Bible.
There was one perfect.
Jesus is the only perfect one.
So it had nothing to do withour worth as far as our behavior
, or anything else.
It had to do with his love.
He wants sons and daughters andwilling to pay for it.
Oh, come on, lift your handright now.
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Got to get this in your heartBecause otherwise you're going
to leave lavish on for somebodyelse.
You're going to talk yourself.
You're going to let the deviltalk you out of it.
You know you can go buy jewelryand diamond jewelry, you know,
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and you can buy a beautifuldiamond ring and it may three,
four, five carats and it'sbeautiful diamond ring and it's
gorgeous.
It's a piece of jewelry.
But most of the time if youjust buy something like that,
it's not really investment gradediamond.
I mean you couldn't afford thering.
That it's not really investmentgrade diamond.
I mean you couldn't afford thering.
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If you bought a five caratinvestment grade diamond, that
means it's near flawless andthat means under a microscope
you can't see the occlusions.
It might have one or two.
If you look at your prettylittle sparkly diamond ring that
everybody's going look at, thatWell, it's got occlusions.
You can't see it in the nakedeye.
Most people can't, but if youput a magnifying glass on it,
it's all cracked up and it'swell.
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That's why you can afford it.
Because it's not perfect.
Who wants perfect?
You want to put it in a safeand lock it away and never see
it again.
I don't know To me that, Idon't know that to me that just,
I don't care about somethinglike that that I can't look at.
I want to wear the thing.
If I'm gonna buy a prettydiamond, I don't care if it's
flawless.
We ain't flawless.
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But you know what.
We're worth something.
We're worth the blood of Jesus.
Why are we worth that?
Because he was willing to payit.
Get yourself separated from yourpersonal worthiness.
It's not about our personalworthiness, it's his worthiness,
because now we're one with him,see, and since we're with him
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and in him, we're worth it.
We're worth the price that waspaid, because if you have a
different opinion, then you'rebasically spitting in God's
faith and face and say, well,you just got gypped.
God, I'm not worth what waspaid for me.
You ought to know better.
Is that what you're going totell him?
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See, it's false humility, folks.
You've got to get rid of it.
No, you need the lavish.
Everybody say I need lavish.
I need lavish.
In 1 Peter 5, peter writes tothe church.
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He says be sober, be vigilantfor your adversary.
The devil, as a roaring lion,walketh about seeking whom he
may devour, whom resiststeadfast in the faith?
Your adversary.
The word adversary means alegal opponent.
Actually it just means like aprosecuting attorney.
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He's after you.
He wants to falsely accuse you.
He's after you.
He wants to falsely accuse you.
He wants you to believe thatyou're guilty when Jesus' blood
has cleansed you already.
That's right.
He wants you to believe you'renot worthy when Jesus' blood
made you worthy already.
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That's right.
And what does he say?
He says he wants to devour you.
That word devour means swallowup, gulp down.
I saw a video of a Komodo dragon.
It's a big old, huge lizard.
Biggest ones get three, 400pounds.
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And that's what they do withsmaller prey, bigger prey.
They bite them and they'vepoisoned in their saliva and
they wait.
Sometimes it takes a month fora big buffalo to die.
But eventually they'll get sickand they'll get infected and
then they'll die.
And while they're dying thenthey'll start eating on them.
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But generally speaking, if theycan find a little goat, I saw a
video of about a 40-pound goat,this 300-pound Komodo dragon
came up on it and I mean it tookabout five bites and swallowed
the whole thing Head, tail,hooves, legs, everything.
And he went like this Gulp andyou see that goat going down in
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his stomach and you could hearthe goat screaming from the
belly.
I mean, you know it's prettyhard.
You know when Jesus comesthey're going to be at peace one
way or another.
I mean, the commoder dragon'snot going to be looking for meat
anymore.
He's going to eat whatever.
Dragon's not going to belooking for meat anymore.
He's going to eat whateverPlants.
I guess A lion will lay downwith a lamb, but we ain't there
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yet.
The lion is out to gulp you down.
He's trying to swallow youwhole.
He's trying to swallow up anylavish that you get.
He's trying to prevent you fromreceiving what belongs to you.
Come on, praise God.
And so as we increase, what doesthe Bible say?
Revelation 12, 11,.
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They overcame him by the bloodof the lamb and the word of
their testimony.
They love not their lives underthe death.
You overcome by the blood ofthe lamb and having knowledge of
what the blood has done, isdoing and will do, and you're
going to say so You're going tohave a confession.
You're going to have asystematic discourse of what the
blood is continually doing onyour behalf to cause the
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lavishness of God to manifest inyour life everywhere it belongs
.
Word of your testimony and love, not your life unto the death.
What does that mean?
It means you're never afraid.
You are never afraid.
You're never afraid of theprosecuting attorney.
You're never afraid ofcircumstances.
You're standing up.
You're bold.
The righteous are as bold as alion.
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We didn't show any cowardicedealing with Iran.
We just waited, waited for theright moment.
You know it usually takes amonth to get all those B-2
bombers lined up and they're allin Missouri.
They're not where they belong.
They got to get them outfitted.
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They got to put those bombs inthere.
They're huge bombs, they're30,000-pound bombs, times two on
each B-2.
It took two weeks, what usuallytakes a month?
Somebody's working overtime,Somebody's getting the job done,
and then precision.
I mean they've got to drop abomb.
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It flies at 50,000 feet.
They've got to drop thisbunker-busting bomb and blow a
bomb.
It flies at 50,000 feet.
They've got to drop this bunkerbusting bomb and blow a hole
and then they've got to comebehind it and drop another one
in the same hole.
Don't try that at home.
I mean it's amazing.
You can't tell me God didn'thelp them.
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You can't tell me God wasn'tinvolved.
It's amazing.
And so we overcome.
We're never afraid of the devil.
We're never afraid ofcircumstances.
We're not afraid of an evilreport.
Okay, I got an evil report.
I'm not afraid of it.
I'm not afraid of cancer.
I'm not afraid of diabetes.
I'm not afraid of glaucoma.
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I'm not going to have it.
I'm not afraid of diabetes.
I'm not afraid of glaucoma.
I'm not going to have it.
I'm not afraid of normalpressure hydrocephalus I'm not
going to have it.
So, as we increase in therevelation of the blood of our
redemption, we've got boldnessto receive.
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Now let's look at Luke 15.
Get anything out of this.
Today I want to build yourfaith.
I don't want anybody leftbehind.
We've got half a year left,plenty of time for us to prepare
for the lavish.
And Luke 15, I'm not going toread all of it, verses 11
through 32, I give you thehomework today.
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You all read that sometimetoday.
It's this parable Jesus spoke,the parable of the prodigal son
Years and years and years ago,when I was preparing to start
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this church and I was preparingand I'd heard from God I hadn't
yet met with Brother Osteen Iwas wanting to strategize just
how I was going to tell him.
And one thing I knew I wasn'tgoing to tell him is God told me
to start the church?
Goodbye.
I wasn't going to tell him isGod told me to start the church?
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Goodbye.
I wasn't going to do that.
But I was going to tell himwhat was in my heart.
Not God told me what's in myheart, brother Osteen, to start
this church.
I believe it's time for me tostart the church, and I'm
submitting this idea to you.
You've got full veto power.
And so when I decided to do thatand I thought, okay, what's the
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timing?
And it needed to be pretty soonbecause I'm you know, I'm
behind schedule Should havestarted at the church two years
before.
I did.
So I'm in trouble nowfinancially because I've missed
God.
And I followed, I missed thewitness.
And so, uh, god gave me thisphrase and he said start praying
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.
This, this phrase give me the.
Give me the goods that thatfalleth unto me.
Give me the goods that fallethunto me, give me the portion of
goods that falleth unto me.
And who said that?
Well, the prodigal son saidthat to his father in Luke 15.
So I went over to Luke 15.
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I started meditating on thatwhole thing and I mean I got a
boatload of stuff, you know, atthat time.
And so then, right after that,before I'd met with him, brother
Osteen was raising money.
Seven years of harvest.
He wanted to raise missionsmoney and this was I think I
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forgot what the year was, youknow what in the seven, because
we'd already given into thatbefore.
But he was having a specialprayer meeting on a on an off,
not like Tuesday night orsomething, and he had me up on
the platform praying and I gotto pray.
I said I prayed that very samething from the platform Father,
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give us the portion of goodsthat falleth unto us so that we
can participate.
So I mean, I got you know talkabout, you know intelligence and
little.
You know little.
And so then I did meet with himand, and, and he hesitated and
I waited for him.
I waited for him until afterthe first of the year.
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This was in September.
So let's look at this parable.
It's a parable about how Godvalues us.
Everybody say God values me.
And so, uh, the two sons, yougot the father and the two sons.
Jesus is telling this parable.
Obviously, the father is a typeof the father God.
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And then there's two sons.
I call them Junior and Bubba.
Junior is the firstborn and inthe Jewish household the
firstborn has always got thedouble.
He's got the double.
He's got the double, doubleinheritance, double portion.
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He gets twice as much asanybody else, because the Bible
says he's the beginning of hisstrength.
That's sealed, that's, that'srecognized.
That's what that's.
That's tradition, that'srecognized, that's tradition.
But it wasn't Junior that asked,it was Bubba.
Bubba goes and says Father,give me the portion of goods
that falleth unto me.
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In other words, I don't want towait until you die to get mine,
I want mine now.
And guess what the father did?
The father did it.
The father gave him his portion.
Let's just say it's a milliondollars.
I don't know what it was, buthe left town.
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Well, now the father can't givehim a million and not give
Junior his double.
Can't Everybody say he can't?
I mean that'd be illegal.
He can't do that.
Now he gave it to him.
As of that moment.
You see, they've got aflourishing enterprise.
I mean the pile.
I think about the Ponderosa andPaul Cartwright.
You know he had three sons, sothey've got two sons.
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I mean he's got, listen, he'sgot a cattle ranch.
He's got cattle that aremultiplying every day.
I mean he's just frozen as ofthis date that you want the
portion, this is what it's worth.
I'll give you a million dollars, but tomorrow it's going to be
worth more than that.
But you're going to get it now.
So he had to write a check tothe son, other son, twice as
much at that time.
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But then it's, it's accruing.
Do you see that?
I mean it's accruing?
I mean he's got oil royaltiesover there on the back 40.
I mean he's got rare earthminerals that he's selling.
He's got he bought goldKrugerrands when they were $300
and now they're 3,500.
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Are y'all getting this?
Read your Bible, don't just sitthere.
No, get into the.
I mean, make yourself part ofthe story.
That's what I did.
I had to do that because I hada house that was foreclosed on
or about to be.
My circumstances were nothinglike this.
There wasn't no lavish in mylife, but I had to establish
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what God wanted that I hadn'treceived.
Are y'all following me now?
I mean, god loved me.
Cut the covenant for me.
I'm his favorite and yet I'mnot receiving what I should.
All right, so these two boys,you've got Bubba, who's the type
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of a backslider.
Because what did he do?
As soon as he, he got his, hismoney, he left for Dodge city
and went to the long branchsaloon, saw Miss Kitty, and the
Bible says he wasted his, hisinheritance, on riotous living.
I'll just say wine, women andsong.
That's about what it was,because brother said he wasted
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it on harlots.
So wine, women and song.
He, he, he, he blew through theinheritance.
So wine, women and song.
He blew through the inheritance, bellied up to the bar and just
got into the Texas Hold'em gameand just blew it.
And then he had to go to work.
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He worked for a hog farmer andthen there was a famine and the
hog farmer couldn't even pay himand no man gave to him and he's
out there in the hog pen andhas to eat what the hogs are
eating.
Have you ever been in a hog pen?
Have you ever smelled a hog pen?
You will gag.
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Won't go into detail how I did,but anyway.
But you know what he realized.
See, he knew he had aninheritance.
At least he knew that and heasked for it and he got it, got
to give him kind of a gold starfor that.
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And then, yes, he blew it, buthe knew he'd sin and he's in
there and he'd come down tohimself.
I mean he, he is, I mean hejust, I mean he'd finally ran
man, this is terrible.
And how many hired hands is mydaddy got that have three
squares and a roof over theirhead.
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I know what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go back to myfather's house.
I'm going to say, father, Ihave sinned before heaven and
before you.
I'm no longer worthy to becalled thy son.
If you would just treat me likethe hired hands, just treat me
like the hired hand.
What did he expect?
He expected to be disinherited.
He expected to be disowned.
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He expected to just changestatus.
He had no revelation of sonship, he had no revelation of the
mercy of his father.
But he did have a revelationthat he had sinned, and so he
did repent.
He went back, but all of theBible says the father saw him
come in a great distance.
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The father never gave up on him.
The father was watching for himevery day and he saw him way
out there coming up the road andthe father runs to him and
embraces him.
Can you imagine what he smelled?
Like, father, I've sinnedbefore heaven and against thee.
That's as far as he got forheaven and against thee, that's
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as far as he got.
The father says bring the bestrobe.
See, there had to be servantsout there with the father.
I mean when the father leftthey all went with him.
I mean they were standingaround watching the whole thing
happen.
The hired help Bring the bestrobe.
The hired help Bring the bestrobe.
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Glory to God.
Everybody say the best robe.
See, that's authority.
Get those shoes.
Get those shoes that aretwo-tone, wonder blue and navy
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blue, that are eel and ostrich,and put them on his feet
standing.
Everybody say standing andbring the signet ring.
I want the boy to be able tosign the checks, I want him to
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be able to execute the father'sbusiness on my behalf, because
he's my son.
And bring the fatted calf andlet's have a celebration, let's
have music and dancing, let'shave the glory of God, when a
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revelation of the Father's mercyand the revelation of the
Father's love and the revelationof the sonship, the revelation
of really the bloodline, nothingcould extinguish the bloodline.
Are y'all getting this.
Now, the day we got saved, ourbloodline changed.
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I don't know what your lastname is, but it's irrelevant as
far as the kingdom is concerned,because we're all named with
the name of Christ, we're namedwith the name of Jesus.
We're named with the name ofJesus, we're in his family.
I mean, he's our heavenlyfather.
We've got this royal bloodlineand just because we stub our toe
and mess up, if we'll just goahead and repent, he just gets
rid of all of it right now anddoesn't hold it against us.
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Oh, come on, let's praise himright now.
Hallelujah, the best robe,shoes and a ring.
Now, you know, junior, theykilled the fatted calf.
They got fajitas.
I don't think it was justfajitas, I think they had
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enchiladas, frijoles, refritos,flour tacos, flour tortillas,
corn tortillas Both, gotta, bothGot to have both.
Anyway, they had a real party.
And Junior see now Junior,let's look at Junior.
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Junior was not happy.
Junior is the type of Christianwho has not strayed.
He's not strayed, he's there onthe Ponderosa.
However, junior identifies moreas a servant than a son.
You know, he's involved in allthe cattle branding and he's in
the calf roping and the Broncobusting and all of the, all of
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the stuff the hired help is paidto do.
That's what he does, he, helikes to be out there with the
guys and, uh, you know, eat withthem and probably bunks with
them instead of being in thehouse.
And even though he got a checkfor double portion, I mean he
doesn't really know what to dowith it.
It's just kind of sitting inhis bank account and he has no
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authority On payday.
He's kind of waiting for daddyto give him another check.
He's kind of waiting for daddyto give him another check.
And he said he's mad.
He said, son, why are you mad?
What's wrong?
My son was dead and now he'salive.
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He was lost and now he's found.
It's right that we have acelebration.
Come on, man, get with theprogram.
Well, you wouldn't even killfor me a skinny goat.
Everything I have is yours.
No revelation of what belongedto him.
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The father's just waiting forhim to take over.
The father would like to travel.
The father would like to.
You know, he's a widower andhe's gotten married to a young
lady that's 40 years younger andhe'd like to take her on a trip
and he would just like to relaxa while.
He's built this big ranch andeverything, and he's got a son
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that doesn't even know how tofunction in business.
Are y'all getting this now?
So he had no revelation ofsonship, no revelation of his
inheritance, really norevelation of the bloodline.
Jealous of his brother, he hadno robe, no shoes, shoes and no
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ring, and yet he could have hadone.
He's got a closet with his nameon it.
He could have just gone overthere and put it on, but he
didn't.
Are y'all getting this now?
I'm talking to you about howyou're going to have to get your
faith engaged in yourconsistent confession, your
faith engaged in your consistentconfession, your systematic
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discourse of speaking about itengaged, in order for those
milestones to appear.
Everybody say my milestones arecoming on See.
So when the revelation came ofBubba's standing, you had the
fatted calf, the music, thedancing, making merry, the
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celebration.
That's the type of the glory.
The glory is gold, the glory isweight, the glory is
supernatural.
It's both the anointing andit's also supply that we need
now.
We're going to need a lot ofsupply to do what God has called
this church to do.
It's my church and my mission.
We all have the same church andthe same mission.
We all have a part to play.
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We all have a part tocontribute.
It's not going to happen untilwe're all on board.
Are you with me?
I mean, the work of the kingdomis suffering.
As many of you as have not puton your robe and your shoes and
your ring and you're not willingto do kingdom business.
I'm telling you, we're allengaged in kingdom business.
It's not, it's not just GWC,it's not just my God votes, it's
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the kingdom of God.
Glory to God, hallelujah, you'regetting anything out of this
today Redemptive reality.
So we're enlarging ourreceivers to receive all that
God wants to lavish upon us andwe'll see a mighty outpouring of
the Holy Ghost.
Come on, lift your voices.
Give the Lord a shout of praiseHallelujah.
Come on, shout the victory.
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Come on, let's shout thevictory.
Glory to God.
Glory to God, hallelujah, gloryto God.
Did you get anything out ofthis this morning?
Well, I enjoy preaching thesetruths and uh, you know, we did
start the church.
God, you know, god showed up,god took care of us.
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And uh, we, we got ourmilestones working.
We've had many, many, manymilestones in 30 plus years and
uh, and, we're not throughgetting them.
Amen, there's lots more to come.
Hallelujah, glory to God.
Thank you, jesus.
Those Bibles around.
Make Jesus glad and the devilmad.
Say this together say, heavenlyFather, I'm glad to be here
today.
It is a year of milestones.
I thank you, lord, for the Wordof God.
Holy Ghost, shine your light onthe Word, make it food for my
faith, nourishment for my spirit.
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I thank you, father, that I'vegot the victory in Jesus' name,
amen.
Let's turn in our Bibles to twoplaces, thank you.
There Is that throat coat.
Am I kind of rattling and myvoice is a little bit raspy.
That's all right, I don't care,maybe you do, but I'm just
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going to preach anyway.
1 Peter, chapter 1, and alsoRomans, chapter 8.
Let's read verse 18.
Peter, speaking to the churchsuch as silver and gold from
your vain conversation, receivedby tradition from your fathers,
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but with or you were redeemedwith the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb, withoutblemish and without spot.
So glad we sang the blood songthis morning.
All right.
And then Romans, chapter eight,verse 32.
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One of my favorite verses hethat spared, not his own son but
delivered him up for us all.
How shall he not also, with him, freely give us all things?
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And the New English Bible saysit this way.
And with this gift, how can hefail to lavish upon us all he
has to give?
How can he fail to lavish on usall he has to give?
And so, today, I wanted tobegin a series entitled
Redemptive Realities.
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Redemptive Realities as I'vesaid, 2025 is a year of
milestones, and these milestonesare lined up just like when you
drive down any interstatehighway and they've got the mile
markers.
You go out I-10 and O, or you goout and take I-45.
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I mean, it starts in Galveston,i-45 starts in Galveston.
Mile marker's zero and it justgoes on up, up, up, up.
You get to spring.
It's about 70-something.
You know 70 miles.
Every mile there's a marker.
God has got your markers linedup.
They're not going to come, theyhave already been paid for up.
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They're not going to come, theyhave already been paid for.
I said they've already beenpaid for by the blood.
It's not something that God'sgot to cook up, it's not
something that you can earn, butit is something you have to
learn how to receive.
And you receive it how, byfaith.
You've got to know it's yours.
You've got to know it's coming.
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So our faith, then, is based onknowledge, or understanding of
the Word, or revelation of theWord, and that's why I preach
things over and over again,because faith cometh by hearing.
And hearing I mean you need tohear something more than one
time, you need to hear it overand over again, because we
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forget, we're distracted, weneglect.
I mean the children of Israelis our example.
I mean everything that'swritten in the Old Testament is
written for our admonition uponwhom the ends of the age are
come 1 Corinthians, chapter 10.
For our admonition upon whomthe ends of the age are come 1
Corinthians, chapter 10.
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So he didn't write all thosenegative things about Israel to
knock them and to denigrate them.
He did it so that we wouldunderstand that we're going to
have to overcome where theydidn't.
They kept forgetting that theywere blessed.
They kept forgetting in thewilderness that they were in
covenant with Almighty God.
They kept limiting themselves,they limited God.
As a matter of fact, not onlydid they limit themselves, they
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limited God Because what theyforgot?
His wonders in the field ofZoan and what he had done in
Egypt, how he parted the Red Sea, how he brought water out of
the rock twice, man, I'm tellingyou, he brought the quail.
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So many, so much, so many quail.
They got sick eating them.
It was almost Friday night.
I was like so much barbecue Imean you just couldn't eat it
all, but we did.
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So we have to have a thoroughunderstanding about the currency
of our redemption.
Our redemption is by the blood,the precious blood of the lamb
it was.
He was slain.
He was slain in God's mindbefore the foundation of the
world.
I mean that's calling the thingthat be not as though it were.
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Was he in fact slain?
No, not really, but he in themind of God, he was slain before
anything happened.
I mean God's plan of redemption, it predated anything.
And that's why I'm saying yourmilestones is not something
God's got to cook up, it's notsomething he's got a laboratory
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out back.
You know, hey, let me see I'vegot a milestone here for you
know, joaquin, let's seeJoaquin's milestone.
Let me see, let me get a cup ofsugar.
No, I mean it's already there,it's waiting for him.
So we've got to have a thoroughunderstanding of what the blood
has done, what it is doing andwhat it will do in order to
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actually receive all that Godwants to lavish upon us.
I say I like that word lavish.
You know I'm working on myreceiver.
You know, we spoke a couple ofweeks on adjusting our receiver.
This is kind of anotherextension of this.
I'm wanting you to begin toexpand your vision.
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I want you to allow God to dolavish instead of just barely
enough.
Well, you know, lord, if Icould just get rid of this
ingrown toenail, I'd be so happy.
If I could get rid of thetoenail fungus, I wouldn't ask
you for another thing, lord.
No, let's let him give useverything he's got.
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He wants to lavish some thingsupon you.
Glory to God.
You know, jesus, I want you tolisten to this right here now.
You need to remind yourself ofthis.
I've said it before, but I'mgoing to say it again Jesus
didn't teach from the aspect oftrying to get God to do
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something.
Okay, folks, here's how you getGod to do something.
No, he didn't teach that way.
Rather, he taught for man toreceive what God has already
done through the shedding ofblood.
That's how he taught.
He taught from that standpoint,not trying.
Oh, I hope God's in a good mood.
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Oh, oh, I hope I can persuadehim.
Oh, please, no, we're notbegging.
We're sons and daughters.
He's got us on the lavish list.
Some of y'all are going to getthis this afternoon about 3
o'clock.
You know I was meditating yearsago on these verses on the
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precious blood.
You know there's no blood likeit.
He has no rival, he has norival, he has no equal.
We sang it.
His blood is stands alone,there's no blood of bulls and
goats.
I mean, that did something forthe Old Testament.
We've got a much bettercovenant found upon better
promises, yes, upon betterpromises.
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They had forgiveness, but theyhad to have a continual
sacrifice.
Blood had to be shed everymoment of the day.
Fire had to keep going 24-7.
I mean they were busy, busy,busy, busy, busy, trying to
atone for the sin, trying todisguise it, trying to hide it.
Sin could not be reallyeliminated, it could only be
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covered.
But we have remission, it'stotally blotted out.
There is no sin problem.
There's nothing blocking usfrom his lavishing gifts, except
what Faith To believe.
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And I was thinking about theseone time, and and you know I was
thinking about john 3, 16 godso loved the world.
I've, I've knew that god lovedthe whole world.
I knew that jesus was savior ofthe world.
I grew up catholic and theytaught me some principles and
they just didn't teach me that Ineeded to be born again.
I've confronted my parishpriest that Gladys and I sat
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under him for nine months goingto instructions.
She's a Baptist girl and shejust was so sweet, she, she
saved.
I'm not even then, but I didn'twant to raise my kids as
heathens and I couldn't beBaptist.
There's no way I'm going to theBaptist church.
I tried it and tried a coupleof times, and a hellfire and
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brimstone was too hot for me tolisten to because I knew I was
probably headed there and Ididn't want to.
But don't wake me up and don'ttell me where I'm headed.
I kept thinking, well, one ofthese days I'll get right with
God.
I mean, I really did think that, but I wouldn't let myself
really say it.
So she compromised, came allthe way over with me and we sat
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for nine months through thiswhole and not one time did he
tell us we need to be born again.
And on the final night of thething I kept patting myself on
the back because a lot of thosemonths was Monday night football
that I missed.
It was Monday nights and I gavethat up.
You know, I thought I was sospiritual.
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And the last night we had FatherPaulison from the Houston
Catholic Charismatic Center.
He was pastor of the CatholicCharismatic Center.
Have you ever noticed that bigchurch on the Gulf Freeway,
close to downtown, with a greenroof on it?
Catholic Charismatic Center.
He was pastor of the CatholicCharismatic Center.
Have you ever noticed that bigchurch on the Gulf Freeway,
close to downtown, with a greenroof on it?
Catholic Charismatic Center.
The charismatic renewal cameinto the Catholic Church in the
60s and he was the pastor ofthat church.
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And he was a pastor that wasborn again and filled with the
Holy Ghost.
And you know what he did.
He came that night to a bunchof Catholics and gave his
testimony and he said I'm adrunk.
Now, he didn't have it right.
He should have said I was adrunk, but he had that.
You know what they teach in AAI'm a drunk, no, you're not.
You were a drunk but anyway.
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And he confessed being analcoholic.
As a priest, he confessed thathe needed to get saved.
He confessed that he had to dosomething to avoid going to hell
.
And he's a Catholic priest.
Man, I made my head go tilt andit planted a seed.
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And when I did get saved, Iwent back to that other priest
and I confronted him.
I said how in the world did younot tell me in nine months that
I needed to get born again?
You got Father Paulus in there.
He gave us all of it, but hedidn't tell us that.
What's wrong with you?
I rebuked him.
He didn't have any good answers.
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I got outed him.
He didn't have any good answers.
I got out of there.
I shook the dust off my feet.
You want to hold people incaptivity.
You want to hold people inbondage.
You want to give people a bunchof religion and just hope like
one day somebody like me justaccidentally gets saved.
Is that your plan?
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No wonder they need money.
They need money.
They've got a plan to raisemoney.
I just think well, if youwouldn't waste so much money,
you'd have a lot of money if youknew what to do with it.
All right, so anyway, enough ofthe Catholics.
But anyway, I knew these thingsand I was meditating on.
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It wasn't until I made itpersonal.
It wasn't until I realized heloved me and that blood was shed
for me.
And what was that blood?
That blood really was liquidlove.
I I mean, there's no other wayto put it it's liquid love.
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There ain't nothing else to sayabout the blood of jesus except
it's god's love in liquid formshed for you.
There's no other kind of liquidcould have, no other kind of
blood could have done it.
But he did it for me and and Igot to meditating on that and I
got to realizing all that loveand all that sacrifice, yeah,
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for the world.
But it wasn't until Iappropriated it personally.
That's what you're going tohave to do about these
milestones.
He's got some personal thingsthat have to do with you and his
plan for your life and yourministry and your business and
your livelihood and your family.
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It's personal Until you know Igot to have.
You know I knew a lady one timeand you know she wasn't my
favorite.
But I mean I knew a lady onetime and, uh, you know I, she
wasn't my favorite but I mean Ihad to love her.
But I didn't like her muchbecause she's kind of arrogant
and one of the things she'd saya lot.
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When I heard her say it severaltimes well, I'm God's favorite,
well, you know, it made me,aggravated me.
But then, after I meditated onthis, I realized what she was
really saying.
She had to get into the placewhere, just between her and God,
god treated her like she washis favorite.
And that's what I startedthinking about.
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I started meditating.
He treats me like I'm hisfavorite son.
I'm not excluding anybody else,I'm not in competition with
anybody else, but he just he'sI'm his favorite.
And then I understood I heldthat against her.
I had to repent.
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Now did he pour this liquid loveout and buy and purchase with a
priceless currency that's worthmore than anything?
I mean I bought gold coins, infact specifically Krugerrands,
because why Well?
I like the way they look, hadnothing to do with South Africa,
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but they have a little copperin their gold coins and they're
beautiful.
They're rose gold and they havethis antelope on the one side
of them.
Beautiful coin.
And I remember having, you know, 20, 30 of them back in the
seventies when they sold for$360 a piece.
Well, right now they sell for$3,500 a piece.
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Pretty valuable.
I don't think you can put adollar amount on the blood of
Jesus.
It's priceless.
But he paid that for me.
Does it mean I'm perfect?
No, no, did it mean Abraham wasperfect?
No, there ain't no perfectpeople anywhere.
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There are no perfect people inthe Bible.
There was one perfect.
Jesus is the only perfect one.
So it had nothing to do withour worth as far as our behavior
, or anything else.
It had to do with his love.
He wants sons and daughters andwilling to pay for it.
Oh, come on, lift your handright now.
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Got to get this in your heartBecause otherwise you're going
to leave lavish on for somebodyelse.
You're going to talk yourself.
You're going to let the deviltalk you out of it.
You know you can go buy jewelryand diamond jewelry, you know,
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and you can buy a beautifuldiamond ring and it may three,
four, five carats and it'sbeautiful diamond ring and it's
gorgeous.
It's a piece of jewelry.
But most of the time if youjust buy something like that,
it's not really investment gradediamond.
I mean you couldn't afford thering.
That it's not really investmentgrade diamond.
I mean you couldn't afford thering.
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If you bought a five caratinvestment grade diamond, that
means it's near flawless andthat means under a microscope
you can't see the occlusions.
It might have one or two.
If you look at your prettylittle sparkly diamond ring that
everybody's going look at, thatWell, it's got occlusions.
You can't see it in the nakedeye.
Most people can't, but if youput a magnifying glass on it,
it's all cracked up and it'swell.
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That's why you can afford it.
Because it's not perfect.
Who wants perfect?
You want to put it in a safeand lock it away and never see
it again.
I don't know To me that, Idon't know that to me that just,
I don't care about somethinglike that that I can't look at.
I want to wear the thing.
If I'm gonna buy a prettydiamond, I don't care if it's
flawless.
We ain't flawless.
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But you know what.
We're worth something.
We're worth the blood of Jesus.
Why are we worth that?
Because he was willing to payit.
Get yourself separated from yourpersonal worthiness.
It's not about our personalworthiness, it's his worthiness,
because now we're one with him,see, and since we're with him
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and in him, we're worth it.
We're worth the price that waspaid, because if you have a
different opinion, then you'rebasically spitting in God's
faith and face and say, well,you just got gypped.
God, I'm not worth what waspaid for me.
You ought to know better.
Is that what you're going totell him?
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See, it's false humility, folks.
You've got to get rid of it.
No, you need the lavish.
Everybody say I need lavish.
I need lavish.
In 1 Peter 5, peter writes tothe church.
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He says be sober, be vigilantfor your adversary.
The devil, as a roaring lion,walketh about seeking whom he
may devour, whom resiststeadfast in the faith?
Your adversary.
The word adversary means alegal opponent.
Actually it just means like aprosecuting attorney.
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He's after you.
He wants to falsely accuse you.
He's after you.
He wants to falsely accuse you.
He wants you to believe thatyou're guilty when Jesus' blood
has cleansed you already.
That's right.
He wants you to believe you'renot worthy when Jesus' blood
made you worthy already.
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That's right.
And what does he say?
He says he wants to devour you.
That word devour means swallowup, gulp down.
I saw a video of a Komodo dragon.
It's a big old, huge lizard.
Biggest ones get three, 400pounds.
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And that's what they do withsmaller prey, bigger prey.
They bite them and they'vepoisoned in their saliva and
they wait.
Sometimes it takes a month fora big buffalo to die.
But eventually they'll get sickand they'll get infected and
then they'll die.
And while they're dying thenthey'll start eating on them.
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But generally speaking, if theycan find a little goat, I saw a
video of about a 40-pound goat,this 300-pound Komodo dragon
came up on it and I mean it tookabout five bites and swallowed
the whole thing Head, tail,hooves, legs, everything.
And he went like this Gulp andyou see that goat going down in
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his stomach and you could hearthe goat screaming from the
belly.
I mean, you know it's prettyhard.
You know when Jesus comesthey're going to be at peace one
way or another.
I mean, the commoder dragon'snot going to be looking for meat
anymore.
He's going to eat whatever.
Dragon's not going to belooking for meat anymore.
He's going to eat whateverPlants.
I guess A lion will lay downwith a lamb, but we ain't there
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yet.
The lion is out to gulp you down.
He's trying to swallow youwhole.
He's trying to swallow up anylavish that you get.
He's trying to prevent you fromreceiving what belongs to you.
Come on, praise God.
And so as we increase, what doesthe Bible say?
Revelation 12, 11,.
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They overcame him by the bloodof the lamb and the word of
their testimony.
They love not their lives underthe death.
You overcome by the blood ofthe lamb and having knowledge of
what the blood has done, isdoing and will do, and you're
going to say so You're going tohave a confession.
You're going to have asystematic discourse of what the
blood is continually doing onyour behalf to cause the
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lavishness of God to manifest inyour life everywhere it belongs
.
Word of your testimony and love, not your life unto the death.
What does that mean?
It means you're never afraid.
You are never afraid.
You're never afraid of theprosecuting attorney.
You're never afraid ofcircumstances.
You're standing up.
You're bold.
The righteous are as bold as alion.
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We didn't show any cowardicedealing with Iran.
We just waited, waited for theright moment.
You know it usually takes amonth to get all those B-2
bombers lined up and they're allin Missouri.
They're not where they belong.
They got to get them outfitted.
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They got to put those bombs inthere.
They're huge bombs, they're30,000-pound bombs, times two on
each B-2.
It took two weeks, what usuallytakes a month?
Somebody's working overtime,Somebody's getting the job done,
and then precision.
I mean they've got to drop abomb.
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It flies at 50,000 feet.
They've got to drop thisbunker-busting bomb and blow a
bomb.
It flies at 50,000 feet.
They've got to drop this bunkerbusting bomb and blow a hole
and then they've got to comebehind it and drop another one
in the same hole.
Don't try that at home.
I mean it's amazing.
You can't tell me God didn'thelp them.
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You can't tell me God wasn'tinvolved.
It's amazing.
And so we overcome.
We're never afraid of the devil.
We're never afraid ofcircumstances.
We're not afraid of an evilreport.
Okay, I got an evil report.
I'm not afraid of it.
I'm not afraid of cancer.
I'm not afraid of diabetes.
I'm not afraid of glaucoma.
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I'm not going to have it.
I'm not afraid of diabetes.
I'm not afraid of glaucoma.
I'm not going to have it.
I'm not afraid of normalpressure hydrocephalus I'm not
going to have it.
So, as we increase in therevelation of the blood of our
redemption, we've got boldnessto receive.
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Now let's look at Luke 15.
Get anything out of this.
Today I want to build yourfaith.
I don't want anybody leftbehind.
We've got half a year left,plenty of time for us to prepare
for the lavish.
And Luke 15, I'm not going toread all of it, verses 11
through 32, I give you thehomework today.
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You all read that sometimetoday.
It's this parable Jesus spoke,the parable of the prodigal son
Years and years and years ago,when I was preparing to start
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this church and I was preparingand I'd heard from God I hadn't
yet met with Brother Osteen Iwas wanting to strategize just
how I was going to tell him.
And one thing I knew I wasn'tgoing to tell him is God told me
to start the church?
Goodbye.
I wasn't going to tell him isGod told me to start the church?
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Goodbye.
I wasn't going to do that.
But I was going to tell himwhat was in my heart.
Not God told me what's in myheart, brother Osteen, to start
this church.
I believe it's time for me tostart the church, and I'm
submitting this idea to you.
You've got full veto power.
And so when I decided to do thatand I thought, okay, what's the
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timing?
And it needed to be pretty soonbecause I'm you know, I'm
behind schedule Should havestarted at the church two years
before.
I did.
So I'm in trouble nowfinancially because I've missed
God.
And I followed, I missed thewitness.
And so, uh, god gave me thisphrase and he said start praying
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.
This, this phrase give me the.
Give me the goods that thatfalleth unto me.
Give me the goods that fallethunto me, give me the portion of
goods that falleth unto me.
And who said that?
Well, the prodigal son saidthat to his father in Luke 15.
So I went over to Luke 15.
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I started meditating on thatwhole thing and I mean I got a
boatload of stuff, you know, atthat time.
And so then, right after that,before I'd met with him, brother
Osteen was raising money.
Seven years of harvest.
He wanted to raise missionsmoney and this was I think I
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forgot what the year was, youknow what in the seven, because
we'd already given into thatbefore.
But he was having a specialprayer meeting on a on an off,
not like Tuesday night orsomething, and he had me up on
the platform praying and I gotto pray.
I said I prayed that very samething from the platform Father,
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give us the portion of goodsthat falleth unto us so that we
can participate.
So I mean, I got you know talkabout, you know intelligence and
little.
You know little.
And so then I did meet with himand, and, and he hesitated and
I waited for him.
I waited for him until afterthe first of the year.
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This was in September.
So let's look at this parable.
It's a parable about how Godvalues us.
Everybody say God values me.
And so, uh, the two sons, yougot the father and the two sons.
Jesus is telling this parable.
Obviously, the father is a typeof the father God.
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And then there's two sons.
I call them Junior and Bubba.
Junior is the firstborn and inthe Jewish household the
firstborn has always got thedouble.
He's got the double.
He's got the double, doubleinheritance, double portion.
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He gets twice as much asanybody else, because the Bible
says he's the beginning of hisstrength.
That's sealed, that's, that'srecognized.
That's what that's.
That's tradition, that'srecognized, that's tradition.
But it wasn't Junior that asked,it was Bubba.
Bubba goes and says Father,give me the portion of goods
that falleth unto me.
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In other words, I don't want towait until you die to get mine,
I want mine now.
And guess what the father did?
The father did it.
The father gave him his portion.
Let's just say it's a milliondollars.
I don't know what it was, buthe left town.
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Well, now the father can't givehim a million and not give
Junior his double.
Can't Everybody say he can't?
I mean that'd be illegal.
He can't do that.
Now he gave it to him.
As of that moment.
You see, they've got aflourishing enterprise.
I mean the pile.
I think about the Ponderosa andPaul Cartwright.
You know he had three sons, sothey've got two sons.
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I mean he's got, listen, he'sgot a cattle ranch.
He's got cattle that aremultiplying every day.
I mean he's just frozen as ofthis date that you want the
portion, this is what it's worth.
I'll give you a million dollars, but tomorrow it's going to be
worth more than that.
But you're going to get it now.
So he had to write a check tothe son, other son, twice as
much at that time.
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But then it's, it's accruing.
Do you see that?
I mean it's accruing?
I mean he's got oil royaltiesover there on the back 40.
I mean he's got rare earthminerals that he's selling.
He's got he bought goldKrugerrands when they were $300
and now they're 3,500.
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Are y'all getting this?
Read your Bible, don't just sitthere.
No, get into the.
I mean, make yourself part ofthe story.
That's what I did.
I had to do that because I hada house that was foreclosed on
or about to be.
My circumstances were nothinglike this.
There wasn't no lavish in mylife, but I had to establish
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what God wanted that I hadn'treceived.
Are y'all following me now?
I mean, god loved me.
Cut the covenant for me.
I'm his favorite and yet I'mnot receiving what I should.
All right, so these two boys,you've got Bubba, who's the type
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of a backslider.
Because what did he do?
As soon as he, he got his, hismoney, he left for Dodge city
and went to the long branchsaloon, saw Miss Kitty, and the
Bible says he wasted his, hisinheritance, on riotous living.
I'll just say wine, women andsong.
That's about what it was,because brother said he wasted
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it on harlots.
So wine, women and song.
He, he, he, he blew through theinheritance.
So wine, women and song.
He blew through the inheritance, bellied up to the bar and just
got into the Texas Hold'em gameand just blew it.
And then he had to go to work.
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He worked for a hog farmer andthen there was a famine and the
hog farmer couldn't even pay himand no man gave to him and he's
out there in the hog pen andhas to eat what the hogs are
eating.
Have you ever been in a hog pen?
Have you ever smelled a hog pen?
You will gag.
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Won't go into detail how I did,but anyway.
But you know what he realized.
See, he knew he had aninheritance.
At least he knew that and heasked for it and he got it, got
to give him kind of a gold starfor that.
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And then, yes, he blew it, buthe knew he'd sin and he's in
there and he'd come down tohimself.
I mean he, he is, I mean hejust, I mean he'd finally ran
man, this is terrible.
And how many hired hands is mydaddy got that have three
squares and a roof over theirhead.
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I know what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go back to myfather's house.
I'm going to say, father, Ihave sinned before heaven and
before you.
I'm no longer worthy to becalled thy son.
If you would just treat me likethe hired hands, just treat me
like the hired hand.
What did he expect?
He expected to be disinherited.
He expected to be disowned.
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He expected to just changestatus.
He had no revelation of sonship, he had no revelation of the
mercy of his father.
But he did have a revelationthat he had sinned, and so he
did repent.
He went back, but all of theBible says the father saw him
come in a great distance.
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The father never gave up on him.
The father was watching for himevery day and he saw him way
out there coming up the road andthe father runs to him and
embraces him.
Can you imagine what he smelled?
Like, father, I've sinnedbefore heaven and against thee.
That's as far as he got forheaven and against thee, that's
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as far as he got.
The father says bring the bestrobe.
See, there had to be servantsout there with the father.
I mean when the father leftthey all went with him.
I mean they were standingaround watching the whole thing
happen.
The hired help Bring the bestrobe.
The hired help Bring the bestrobe.
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Glory to God.
Everybody say the best robe.
See, that's authority.
Get those shoes.
Get those shoes that aretwo-tone, wonder blue and navy
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blue, that are eel and ostrich,and put them on his feet
standing.
Everybody say standing andbring the signet ring.
I want the boy to be able tosign the checks, I want him to
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be able to execute the father'sbusiness on my behalf, because
he's my son.
And bring the fatted calf andlet's have a celebration, let's
have music and dancing, let'shave the glory of God, when a
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revelation of the Father's mercyand the revelation of the
Father's love and the revelationof the sonship, the revelation
of really the bloodline, nothingcould extinguish the bloodline.
Are y'all getting this.
Now, the day we got saved, ourbloodline changed.
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I don't know what your lastname is, but it's irrelevant as
far as the kingdom is concerned,because we're all named with
the name of Christ, we're namedwith the name of Jesus.
We're named with the name ofJesus, we're in his family.
I mean, he's our heavenlyfather.
We've got this royal bloodlineand just because we stub our toe
and mess up, if we'll just goahead and repent, he just gets
rid of all of it right now anddoesn't hold it against us.
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Oh, come on, let's praise himright now.
Hallelujah, the best robe,shoes and a ring.
Now, you know, junior, theykilled the fatted calf.
They got fajitas.
I don't think it was justfajitas, I think they had
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enchiladas, frijoles, refritos,flour tacos, flour tortillas,
corn tortillas Both, gotta, bothGot to have both.
Anyway, they had a real party.
And Junior see now Junior,let's look at Junior.
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Junior was not happy.
Junior is the type of Christianwho has not strayed.
He's not strayed, he's there onthe Ponderosa.
However, junior identifies moreas a servant than a son.
You know, he's involved in allthe cattle branding and he's in
the calf roping and the Broncobusting and all of the, all of
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the stuff the hired help is paidto do.
That's what he does, he, helikes to be out there with the
guys and, uh, you know, eat withthem and probably bunks with
them instead of being in thehouse.
And even though he got a checkfor double portion, I mean he
doesn't really know what to dowith it.
It's just kind of sitting inhis bank account and he has no
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authority On payday.
He's kind of waiting for daddyto give him another check.
He's kind of waiting for daddyto give him another check.
And he said he's mad.
He said, son, why are you mad?
What's wrong?
My son was dead and now he'salive.
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He was lost and now he's found.
It's right that we have acelebration.
Come on, man, get with theprogram.
Well, you wouldn't even killfor me a skinny goat.
Everything I have is yours.
No revelation of what belongedto him.
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The father's just waiting forhim to take over.
The father would like to travel.
The father would like to.
You know, he's a widower andhe's gotten married to a young
lady that's 40 years younger andhe'd like to take her on a trip
and he would just like to relaxa while.
He's built this big ranch andeverything, and he's got a son
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that doesn't even know how tofunction in business.
Are y'all getting this now?
So he had no revelation ofsonship, no revelation of his
inheritance, really norevelation of the bloodline.
Jealous of his brother, he hadno robe, no shoes, shoes and no
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ring, and yet he could have hadone.
He's got a closet with his nameon it.
He could have just gone overthere and put it on, but he
didn't.
Are y'all getting this now?
I'm talking to you about howyou're going to have to get your
faith engaged in yourconsistent confession, your
faith engaged in your consistentconfession, your systematic
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discourse of speaking about itengaged, in order for those
milestones to appear.
Everybody say my milestones arecoming on See.
So when the revelation came ofBubba's standing, you had the
fatted calf, the music, thedancing, making merry, the
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celebration.
That's the type of the glory.
The glory is gold, the glory isweight, the glory is
supernatural.
It's both the anointing andit's also supply that we need
now.
We're going to need a lot ofsupply to do what God has called
this church to do.
It's my church and my mission.
We all have the same church andthe same mission.
We all have a part to play.
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We all have a part tocontribute.
It's not going to happen untilwe're all on board.
Are you with me?
I mean, the work of the kingdomis suffering.
As many of you as have not puton your robe and your shoes and
your ring and you're not willingto do kingdom business.
I'm telling you, we're allengaged in kingdom business.
It's not, it's not just GWC,it's not just my God votes, it's
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the kingdom of God.
Glory to God, hallelujah, you'regetting anything out of this
today Redemptive reality.
So we're enlarging ourreceivers to receive all that
God wants to lavish upon us andwe'll see a mighty outpouring of
the Holy Ghost.
Come on, lift your voices.
Give the Lord a shout of praiseHallelujah.
Come on, shout the victory.
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Come on, let's shout thevictory.
Glory to God.
Glory to God, hallelujah, gloryto God.
Did you get anything out ofthis this morning?
Well, I enjoy preaching thesetruths and uh, you know, we did
start the church.
God, you know, god showed up,god took care of us.
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And uh, we, we got ourmilestones working.
We've had many, many, manymilestones in 30 plus years and
uh, and, we're not throughgetting them.
Amen, there's lots more to come.
Hallelujah, glory to God.
Thank you, jesus.
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