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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Live from the Saints Headquarters in Tolleson,
arizona, spreading the Gospel,equipping the Saints, standing
for the word of truth,proclaiming God's grace.
Now, on a podcast near you,welcome your host, pastor Joshua
, on the Saints Will OvercomeMinistries.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
This is Pastor Joshua, with theSaints Will Overcome Ministries
.
How you all doing today.
It's good to be with you.
God bless you.
I'm here manning all battlestations.
It's Father's Day.
I want to wish all you fathersa happy Father's Day.
We're fighting the enemy on hisown territory.
We got the throttle fullyengaged, we got the pedal to the
(01:17):
metal and we ain't taking noprisoners.
Ladies and gentlemen, can I getan amen?
Okay, ladies and gentlemen,here we go.
We got a special guest with usonce again Timmy the Android.
Why don't you just say helloand greet everybody on the show
today?
If you can, thank you, timmy, Ireally appreciate it.
(01:39):
Ladies and gentlemen, peoplestill try to figure out why
Timmy the Android is on the show.
Well, to be quite honest, for arobot with no soul, he has a
lot more faith than a lot ofpeople that.
I know it might rhyme, but it'sthe truth.
Ladies and gentlemen, everybody.
I want to talk about thescriptures.
I want to talk about theprodigal son.
I want to give glory to thefather of all, and that father
(02:02):
is Father God.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want toplay a soundbite because here
on the Saints Will Overcome.
We like dedicating things tothe truth, and I want to talk
about fathers today, and I wantto show the importance of the
human father, and then I want tojuxtapose that to the
importance of the heavenlyfather.
Ladies and gentlemen, are youready?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Wow, this event is really looking good and guys,
everybody's respecting oneanother and it's really turning
out nice.
I want to get right to thepoint here, basically.
Okay, who am I?
Everybody knows.
My name is Officer C Williams.
I've been called Billy D.
I've been called Ray Parker.
Some people call me theReverend, because I do some
(03:05):
singing around here from time totime.
But today what I want to talkabout is my biggest job, that's
being a father.
I look at a lot of these youngmen in here and I see like these
pictures holding the footballgot all of that going on.
I see that all the time.
I see so many people walkingaround here that show so much
(03:27):
potential, but maybe somewherealong the way that guidance
wasn't there.
So what I'm trying to talk toyou all about today is each and
every one of you, be it yourfather or be it that you have
the ability to talk to childrenin whatever way, or be it that
you have the ability to talk tochildren in whatever way.
(03:51):
I just want to point out thefact that me personally, I
didn't have my father when Igrew up.
At the age of six, my familybroke up.
I came from Detroit, east sideof Detroit, came out here and
started a new life.
Okay, there was a lot ofatrocities that go on.
I can go the long story.
Everybody got theirs.
(04:11):
Okay, I'm not trying to go intoall of that, but the bottom
line was my boss wasn't there.
I would see men they look likemy dad.
I missed him.
I would want to talk.
He wasn't available.
It's okay cool.
I grew up very masculine kid.
Okay, love girls, hit hard,like to play ball, like to play
basketball, everything masculine.
(04:31):
But the thing was was the meansof passage was missing.
I didn't have one.
My means of passage was howhard I could hit.
My means of passage was how bigwas my knot in my pocket?
My means of passage was howwell could I hold my liquor?
My means of passage were all ofthese negative influences,
because I was influenced bythose who didn't have an
(04:54):
influence themselves Blind,leading the blind, a bunch of
kids out there trying to survive.
So I can't take claim to beingso smart and making all of the
right decisions.
I'm here because God allowed meto be here.
(05:15):
I didn't grow up saying I'mgonna be a correctional officer
one day.
No, I had much dreams moregrandiose, if you will Figuring.
I'm a very talented guy and Ican take it anywhere, but God
places you exactly where youneed to be.
I'm very happy to be here.
I lost my wife less than twoyears ago.
23 years, all right, okay.
(05:55):
I got three beautiful children.
Not having my dad man, I got afirm fight to be a father.
I didn't realize how difficultit was when Mama was gone, until
she was gone.
Being a provider is a piece ofcake compared to being a single
parent, being involved.
(06:16):
I look at a lot of you and Isee my son's face when I look at
you, and so it gives me afierce fight and I'm asking all
of you.
I hear some of you on the phoneyou know that's my job.
I got to listen sometime, youknow and I hear some of you
talking to your sons, to yourdaughters.
(06:38):
That's the difference, you see.
Your presence in their livesgives them validation.
They ain't got to find it inthe streets, them who have jobs
busting your tail for thatdollar and forgetting about the
child that's watching you everyday.
What's most important right nowis to pay attention.
(06:59):
We, as fathers, are logicallycapable of being able to watch
our child and say you know what?
I see that habit.
I'm going to curb it right nowand get them where they need to
be.
That's how we do it, and if wedo it, if enough of us are
trying, you don't have to be wayup here, way down there.
Just the fact that you say Ilove you, I'm watching you,
(07:19):
makes a world of difference, man, because it's that guy in the
street that say hey, man, I gotyou, I got you.
He ain't really got it, ain'tnobody going to ever have you
like your daddy got you.
When you love your child andyou understand the pains of life
, you will fight, and I ask allof you men, stand up, be fathers
, and this will change tomorrow,I promise you.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Thank you, thank you, Ladies and gentlemen, I'm back
and he's correct and I'm aperfect example of that.
I grew up a hard life.
A lot of you don't know aboutme in the audience.
(08:04):
My past life I did drugs in mypast, ran with gangs, pretty
much did everything you canimagine.
That was not good for you and,like I tell people, I praise God
, the Father, because I'm notdead, locked up or in the
hospital somewhere laid out,Because I should be growing up a
very rough lifestyle, trappedin violence, just a different
(08:27):
world, a crazy world.
But God delivered me.
And going back to what theofficer said, he's a hundred
percent right, the correctionalofficer because I was searching
for something and I was full ofanger and hate for many years
probably 15, 20 years in myheart, full of bitterness
because I didn't have thatfoundation.
I didn't have that satisfactionof being able to talk to a
(08:52):
father even though he was fivemiles down the street, and I
forgave him and I still talk tohim and I moved on and I had to
learn a valuable lesson in lifethat this unforgiveness in my
heart and this bitterness wouldnot let me move on.
And I thought I had all thepower and I thought I had all
the control.
(09:13):
But one day I woke up and therewas just too much pain and
suffering and misery because Iunderstood, when the Holy Spirit
spoke to me, I couldn't moveany further in the relationship
with my Father God.
It just simply wasn't allowed.
And the scripture came ringingback to my mind, into my heart,
(09:36):
that if I don't forgive I won'tbe forgiven.
And I used to be kind oflegalistic many, many years ago
and thought, well, that's notfair, that's not right.
But once I had thephilosophical understanding of
what the Bible was propagating,what the Bible was relating, the
truth in that message was itwasn't that it was legalistic,
(10:00):
it was because if I didn'tforgive I wouldn't be forgiven,
because my relationship with Godwould come to a standstill and
it would die slowly and thatbitterness would take over, take
root and allow the enemy tocome in and steal me away.
Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen,so I would like to just read a
(10:27):
story about the prodigal son andthen relate what God means by
being a father, because we reada lot of this scripture, we read
a lot of these narratives andpeople for years miss the point
of what God is trying toactually say.
So, ladies and gentlemen, areyou ready?
(10:49):
Wow, ladies and gentlemen,pretty soon, here, Timmy the
(11:12):
Android is going to take overthe show.
For what Need Am I?
He's just interjecting wheneverhe feels the need to.
But who blames him?
He's excited and it's Father'sDay, so we're going to continue
on with the prodigal son.
Okay, now just bear with mehere.
This is really beautifulteaching.
It's going to get ourunderstanding here, it's going
to get our feet under us andthen, after this, we're going to
(11:33):
close out.
Ladies and gentlemen, so I canbe a father today and I can
worship the ultimate Father andI can spend time with my family.
And Jesus is talking about this,and so we're going to leave off
, and that's why.
Thus, the opening statement ofverse 11 says this.
And he said which is Jesus?
There was a man who had twosons, and the younger of them
(11:53):
said to his father Father, giveme the share of my property that
is coming to me.
And he divided his propertybetween them.
So this son has got an issuewith the father.
He's deceitful, this son isarrogant, this son is selfish
and he says I want myinheritance, Not when you die, I
(12:16):
want it now.
Now, many days later, theyoungest son, gathered all he
had and took a journey into afar country and there he
squandered his property inreckless living.
So what we're talking abouthere is this person, this family
.
They were Jews and remember inprevious teachings they didn't
(12:38):
eat pork, they only ate kosherfood, and I explained that it
was an object lesson about theGentiles and about the Jews and
God was going to bring in thechurch and God was going to make
everything clean.
So let's continue on.
He journeyed into a far countryand then he squandered his
(13:00):
property in reckless living.
And when he had spenteverything, a severe famine
arose in that country and hebegan to be in need.
So he went and hired himselfout to one of the citizens in
that country who sent him intothe fields to feed pigs.
Now let's think about that,ladies and gentlemen.
(13:20):
We just read the story and wesay so what?
He got hired and he fed pigs.
Well, his father was affluent,His father was rich in love, His
father was merciful.
And the Jews back then teachingan object lesson in this story?
They didn't eat pigs.
(13:41):
They considered pigs one of themost filthiest animals that
there ever were and still is,and even to this day they are
biologically and by theiractions.
They are one of the filthiestanimals.
And so I mean God even redeemedpigs, believe it or not, and
that's for another story anothertime.
But he sent him into the fieldsto feed pigs.
(14:04):
So he's working for a Gentilefeeding pigs in an occupation
that was forbidden by the Jews.
This is the lowest of thelowest, of the lowest his son
could get, of the lowest of thelowest his son could get.
So he was probably spending hismoney on women, debauchery,
(14:25):
licentious living.
And then he's working, when hesquanders everything, and he's
feeding pigs.
And he was longing to be fedwith the pods that the pigs ate
and no one gave him anything,Just as the pigs are there in
the trough eating.
This son that had everythingbecause he was in the presence
(14:47):
of his father, was longing toeat with the animals, the filthy
animals, Not because the fatherdrove him off, but because he
told his father I know betterand even though you provided
everything for me, it's stillnot good enough.
(15:08):
Why?
Because I just don't want you.
I don't want to serve you likemany people in this world, Even
though I taste your water, God,I taste your faithfulness, I
taste your common grace.
I taste your goodness of wakingup every day.
I taste your love when thebirds sing in the trees, when I
(15:32):
hear the wind rustle through theleaves, when I hear a sweet
song, when I get to taste goodfood.
But I don't want you and Idon't need you, even though you
provided everything.
So leave me alone and give mewhat's mine.
But when he came to himself, hesaid how many of my father's
(15:53):
hired servants have more thanenough bread, but I perish here
with hunger.
I will arise and go to myfather and I will say to him
father, Isn't that true for allof us?
Ladies and gentlemen, we havesinned against heaven and before
(16:19):
him, continuously sinned beforeheaven and before him,
continuously sinned beforeheaven and for him not longer
worthy to be called his son.
But he still treats us withlove, to the point to where he
sent his son to die on the crossto give us everlasting life.
We were that son at enmity withthe father, on the run from him
(16:43):
, hiding in the shadows, hidingin the darkness, not wanting to
confess our sins, because theenemy, Satan, the demons, have
us chained to our depressions,our anxieties, our hate, our
bitterness, our anger, our hate,our bitterness, our anger, the
murder we had in our heart.
(17:04):
And God said I had to weigh andcontinue on.
He arose, came to his father,but while he was still a long
way off, his father saw him andfelt compassion.
He was a long way off in thedistance, ladies and gentlemen,
in that physical line of sight,we were a long way off in the
(17:27):
distance within our relationshipwith Father God.
And he saw us, he saw me, hesaw Joshua without a father, he
saw Joshua on drugs.
He saw Joshua in his bitternessand hate and his anger for
years.
And he looked at me and he feltcompassion.
And look what the father did.
(17:48):
And he ran and embraced him andhe kissed him.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, theJewish culture, fathers didn't
run.
They found it undignified Histunics, a mess, flying
everywhere, as he's runningtowards his son, tears falling
from his eyes, given thisillustration of a physical
(18:11):
father and his son, and he runsto him in an undignified way and
say, even though you ran fromme, way, and say, even though
you ran from me, I'm runningtowards you because I love you
and because I'm your father.
Ladies and gentlemen, that'swhat God did for us, Picking up
(18:33):
on verse 21,.
And the son said to him father,I have sinned against heaven
and before you I am no longerworthy to be called your son.
And the son said to him and hewas lost and now he is found.
(19:09):
And they begin to celebrate.
Ladies and gentlemen, this isus before Christ lost and we
have a seat at the table inGod's kingdom because we have an
inheritance his adopted sonsand daughters.
We will sit in his house in thevery end.
(19:34):
And they wanted music anddancing.
They began to celebrate, justas the angels rejoice over every
soul that is saved.
The father says in the story tohis servants let's celebrate,
(19:57):
for he was dead.
Now he is alive Now.
His older son was in the fieldand as he came he drew near to
the house and heard music anddancing.
And he called one of theservants and asked what these
things meant.
And he said to him your brotherhas come and your father has
killed the fattened calf becausehe has received him back safe
(20:19):
and sound.
But he was angry and refused togo in.
His father came out andentreated him, but he answered
his father, Look, these manyyears I have served you and I
have never disobeyed yourcommand.
Yet you never gave me a younggoat that I might celebrate with
my friends.
But when this son of yours came,who has devoured your property
(20:42):
with prostitutes right there,ladies and gentlemen, we get
some commentary.
With prostitutes we prostitutedourselves to darkness, to lies,
to mistruths, to the demonicprincipalities, until God saved
us, ladies and gentlemen.
(21:02):
And he continues to tell hisdad you killed the fattened calf
for him.
And he said to him son, you arealways with me and all that is
mine is yours.
It was fitting to celebrate andbe glad, for this is your
brother.
And he was dead and now he isalive.
He was lost and now he is found.
(21:27):
Ladies and gentlemen, that isthe wooing of the Holy Spirit,
that is God in action, comingfor us, forgiving us, running
all the way across the world tobe with us, laying a kiss upon
our cheek, putting the ring ofinheritance on sandals on our
(21:51):
feet, slaughtering the fattenedcalf for us, celebrating in the
heavens, all because we camehome.
Ladies and gentlemen, this isPastor Joshua, with the Saints,
Will Overcome Ministries.
Happy Father's Day, and Godbless you all.
Live from the Saints Headquarters in Tolleson,
arizona, spreading the Gospel,equipping the Saints, standing
for the word of truth,proclaiming God's grace.
Now, on a podcast near you,welcome your host, pastor Joshua
, on the Saints Will OvercomeMinistries.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
This is Pastor Joshua, with theSaints Will Overcome Ministries
.
How you all doing today.
It's good to be with you.
God bless you.
I'm here manning all battlestations.
It's Father's Day.
I want to wish all you fathersa happy Father's Day.
We're fighting the enemy on hisown territory.
We got the throttle fullyengaged, we got the pedal to the
(01:17):
metal and we ain't taking noprisoners.
Ladies and gentlemen, can I getan amen?
Okay, ladies and gentlemen,here we go.
We got a special guest with usonce again Timmy the Android.
Why don't you just say helloand greet everybody on the show
today?
If you can, thank you, timmy, Ireally appreciate it.
(01:39):
Ladies and gentlemen, peoplestill try to figure out why
Timmy the Android is on the show.
Well, to be quite honest, for arobot with no soul, he has a
lot more faith than a lot ofpeople that.
I know it might rhyme, but it'sthe truth.
Ladies and gentlemen, everybody.
I want to talk about thescriptures.
I want to talk about theprodigal son.
I want to give glory to thefather of all, and that father
(02:02):
is Father God.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want toplay a soundbite because here
on the Saints Will Overcome.
We like dedicating things tothe truth, and I want to talk
about fathers today, and I wantto show the importance of the
human father, and then I want tojuxtapose that to the
importance of the heavenlyfather.
Ladies and gentlemen, are youready?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Wow, this event is really looking good and guys,
everybody's respecting oneanother and it's really turning
out nice.
I want to get right to thepoint here, basically.
Okay, who am I?
Everybody knows.
My name is Officer C Williams.
I've been called Billy D.
I've been called Ray Parker.
Some people call me theReverend, because I do some
(03:05):
singing around here from time totime.
But today what I want to talkabout is my biggest job, that's
being a father.
I look at a lot of these youngmen in here and I see like these
pictures holding the footballgot all of that going on.
I see that all the time.
I see so many people walkingaround here that show so much
(03:27):
potential, but maybe somewherealong the way that guidance
wasn't there.
So what I'm trying to talk toyou all about today is each and
every one of you, be it yourfather or be it that you have
the ability to talk to childrenin whatever way, or be it that
you have the ability to talk tochildren in whatever way.
(03:51):
I just want to point out thefact that me personally, I
didn't have my father when Igrew up.
At the age of six, my familybroke up.
I came from Detroit, east sideof Detroit, came out here and
started a new life.
Okay, there was a lot ofatrocities that go on.
I can go the long story.
Everybody got theirs.
(04:11):
Okay, I'm not trying to go intoall of that, but the bottom
line was my boss wasn't there.
I would see men they look likemy dad.
I missed him.
I would want to talk.
He wasn't available.
It's okay cool.
I grew up very masculine kid.
Okay, love girls, hit hard,like to play ball, like to play
basketball, everything masculine.
(04:31):
But the thing was was the meansof passage was missing.
I didn't have one.
My means of passage was howhard I could hit.
My means of passage was how bigwas my knot in my pocket?
My means of passage was howwell could I hold my liquor?
My means of passage were all ofthese negative influences,
because I was influenced bythose who didn't have an
(04:54):
influence themselves Blind,leading the blind, a bunch of
kids out there trying to survive.
So I can't take claim to beingso smart and making all of the
right decisions.
I'm here because God allowed meto be here.
(05:15):
I didn't grow up saying I'mgonna be a correctional officer
one day.
No, I had much dreams moregrandiose, if you will Figuring.
I'm a very talented guy and Ican take it anywhere, but God
places you exactly where youneed to be.
I'm very happy to be here.
I lost my wife less than twoyears ago.
23 years, all right, okay.
(05:55):
I got three beautiful children.
Not having my dad man, I got afirm fight to be a father.
I didn't realize how difficultit was when Mama was gone, until
she was gone.
Being a provider is a piece ofcake compared to being a single
parent, being involved.
(06:16):
I look at a lot of you and Isee my son's face when I look at
you, and so it gives me afierce fight and I'm asking all
of you.
I hear some of you on the phoneyou know that's my job.
I got to listen sometime, youknow and I hear some of you
talking to your sons, to yourdaughters.
(06:38):
That's the difference, you see.
Your presence in their livesgives them validation.
They ain't got to find it inthe streets, them who have jobs
busting your tail for thatdollar and forgetting about the
child that's watching you everyday.
What's most important right nowis to pay attention.
(06:59):
We, as fathers, are logicallycapable of being able to watch
our child and say you know what?
I see that habit.
I'm going to curb it right nowand get them where they need to
be.
That's how we do it, and if wedo it, if enough of us are
trying, you don't have to be wayup here, way down there.
Just the fact that you say Ilove you, I'm watching you,
(07:19):
makes a world of difference, man, because it's that guy in the
street that say hey, man, I gotyou, I got you.
He ain't really got it, ain'tnobody going to ever have you
like your daddy got you.
When you love your child andyou understand the pains of life
, you will fight, and I ask allof you men, stand up, be fathers
, and this will change tomorrow,I promise you.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Thank you, thank you, Ladies and gentlemen, I'm back
and he's correct and I'm aperfect example of that.
I grew up a hard life.
A lot of you don't know aboutme in the audience.
(08:04):
My past life I did drugs in mypast, ran with gangs, pretty
much did everything you canimagine.
That was not good for you and,like I tell people, I praise God
, the Father, because I'm notdead, locked up or in the
hospital somewhere laid out,Because I should be growing up a
very rough lifestyle, trappedin violence, just a different
(08:27):
world, a crazy world.
But God delivered me.
And going back to what theofficer said, he's a hundred
percent right, the correctionalofficer because I was searching
for something and I was full ofanger and hate for many years
probably 15, 20 years in myheart, full of bitterness
because I didn't have thatfoundation.
I didn't have that satisfactionof being able to talk to a
(08:52):
father even though he was fivemiles down the street, and I
forgave him and I still talk tohim and I moved on and I had to
learn a valuable lesson in lifethat this unforgiveness in my
heart and this bitterness wouldnot let me move on.
And I thought I had all thepower and I thought I had all
the control.
(09:13):
But one day I woke up and therewas just too much pain and
suffering and misery because Iunderstood, when the Holy Spirit
spoke to me, I couldn't moveany further in the relationship
with my Father God.
It just simply wasn't allowed.
And the scripture came ringingback to my mind, into my heart,
(09:36):
that if I don't forgive I won'tbe forgiven.
And I used to be kind oflegalistic many, many years ago
and thought, well, that's notfair, that's not right.
But once I had thephilosophical understanding of
what the Bible was propagating,what the Bible was relating, the
truth in that message was itwasn't that it was legalistic,
(10:00):
it was because if I didn'tforgive I wouldn't be forgiven,
because my relationship with Godwould come to a standstill and
it would die slowly and thatbitterness would take over, take
root and allow the enemy tocome in and steal me away.
Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen,so I would like to just read a
(10:27):
story about the prodigal son andthen relate what God means by
being a father, because we reada lot of this scripture, we read
a lot of these narratives andpeople for years miss the point
of what God is trying toactually say.
So, ladies and gentlemen, areyou ready?
(10:49):
Wow, ladies and gentlemen,pretty soon, here, Timmy the
(11:12):
Android is going to take overthe show.
For what Need Am I?
He's just interjecting wheneverhe feels the need to.
But who blames him?
He's excited and it's Father'sDay, so we're going to continue
on with the prodigal son.
Okay, now just bear with mehere.
This is really beautifulteaching.
It's going to get ourunderstanding here, it's going
to get our feet under us andthen, after this, we're going to
(11:33):
close out.
Ladies and gentlemen, so I canbe a father today and I can
worship the ultimate Father andI can spend time with my family.
And Jesus is talking about this,and so we're going to leave off
, and that's why.
Thus, the opening statement ofverse 11 says this.
And he said which is Jesus?
There was a man who had twosons, and the younger of them
(11:53):
said to his father Father, giveme the share of my property that
is coming to me.
And he divided his propertybetween them.
So this son has got an issuewith the father.
He's deceitful, this son isarrogant, this son is selfish
and he says I want myinheritance, Not when you die, I
(12:16):
want it now.
Now, many days later, theyoungest son, gathered all he
had and took a journey into afar country and there he
squandered his property inreckless living.
So what we're talking abouthere is this person, this family
.
They were Jews and remember inprevious teachings they didn't
(12:38):
eat pork, they only ate kosherfood, and I explained that it
was an object lesson about theGentiles and about the Jews and
God was going to bring in thechurch and God was going to make
everything clean.
So let's continue on.
He journeyed into a far countryand then he squandered his
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property in reckless living.
And when he had spenteverything, a severe famine
arose in that country and hebegan to be in need.
So he went and hired himselfout to one of the citizens in
that country who sent him intothe fields to feed pigs.
Now let's think about that,ladies and gentlemen.
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We just read the story and wesay so what?
He got hired and he fed pigs.
Well, his father was affluent,His father was rich in love, His
father was merciful.
And the Jews back then teachingan object lesson in this story?
They didn't eat pigs.
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They considered pigs one of themost filthiest animals that
there ever were and still is,and even to this day they are
biologically and by theiractions.
They are one of the filthiestanimals.
And so I mean God even redeemedpigs, believe it or not, and
that's for another story anothertime.
But he sent him into the fieldsto feed pigs.
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So he's working for a Gentilefeeding pigs in an occupation
that was forbidden by the Jews.
This is the lowest of thelowest, of the lowest his son
could get, of the lowest of thelowest his son could get.
So he was probably spending hismoney on women, debauchery,
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licentious living.
And then he's working, when hesquanders everything, and he's
feeding pigs.
And he was longing to be fedwith the pods that the pigs ate
and no one gave him anything,Just as the pigs are there in
the trough eating.
This son that had everythingbecause he was in the presence
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of his father, was longing toeat with the animals, the filthy
animals, Not because the fatherdrove him off, but because he
told his father I know betterand even though you provided
everything for me, it's stillnot good enough.
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Why?
Because I just don't want you.
I don't want to serve you likemany people in this world, Even
though I taste your water, God,I taste your faithfulness, I
taste your common grace.
I taste your goodness of wakingup every day.
I taste your love when thebirds sing in the trees, when I
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hear the wind rustle through theleaves, when I hear a sweet
song, when I get to taste goodfood.
But I don't want you and Idon't need you, even though you
provided everything.
So leave me alone and give mewhat's mine.
But when he came to himself, hesaid how many of my father's
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hired servants have more thanenough bread, but I perish here
with hunger.
I will arise and go to myfather and I will say to him
father, Isn't that true for allof us?
Ladies and gentlemen, we havesinned against heaven and before
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him, continuously sinned beforeheaven and before him,
continuously sinned beforeheaven and for him not longer
worthy to be called his son.
But he still treats us withlove, to the point to where he
sent his son to die on the crossto give us everlasting life.
We were that son at enmity withthe father, on the run from him
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, hiding in the shadows, hidingin the darkness, not wanting to
confess our sins, because theenemy, Satan, the demons, have
us chained to our depressions,our anxieties, our hate, our
bitterness, our anger, our hate,our bitterness, our anger, the
murder we had in our heart.
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And God said I had to weigh andcontinue on.
He arose, came to his father,but while he was still a long
way off, his father saw him andfelt compassion.
He was a long way off in thedistance, ladies and gentlemen,
in that physical line of sight,we were a long way off in the
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distance within our relationshipwith Father God.
And he saw us, he saw me, hesaw Joshua without a father, he
saw Joshua on drugs.
He saw Joshua in his bitternessand hate and his anger for
years.
And he looked at me and he feltcompassion.
And look what the father did.
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And he ran and embraced him andhe kissed him.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, theJewish culture, fathers didn't
run.
They found it undignified Histunics, a mess, flying
everywhere, as he's runningtowards his son, tears falling
from his eyes, given thisillustration of a physical
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father and his son, and he runsto him in an undignified way and
say, even though you ran fromme, way, and say, even though
you ran from me, I'm runningtowards you because I love you
and because I'm your father.
Ladies and gentlemen, that'swhat God did for us, Picking up
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on verse 21,.
And the son said to him father,I have sinned against heaven
and before you I am no longerworthy to be called your son.
And the son said to him and hewas lost and now he is found.
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And they begin to celebrate.
Ladies and gentlemen, this isus before Christ lost and we
have a seat at the table inGod's kingdom because we have an
inheritance his adopted sonsand daughters.
We will sit in his house in thevery end.
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And they wanted music anddancing.
They began to celebrate, justas the angels rejoice over every
soul that is saved.
The father says in the story tohis servants let's celebrate,
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for he was dead.
Now he is alive Now.
His older son was in the fieldand as he came he drew near to
the house and heard music anddancing.
And he called one of theservants and asked what these
things meant.
And he said to him your brotherhas come and your father has
killed the fattened calf becausehe has received him back safe
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and sound.
But he was angry and refused togo in.
His father came out andentreated him, but he answered
his father, Look, these manyyears I have served you and I
have never disobeyed yourcommand.
Yet you never gave me a younggoat that I might celebrate with
my friends.
But when this son of yours came,who has devoured your property
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with prostitutes right there,ladies and gentlemen, we get
some commentary.
With prostitutes we prostitutedourselves to darkness, to lies,
to mistruths, to the demonicprincipalities, until God saved
us, ladies and gentlemen.
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And he continues to tell hisdad you killed the fattened calf
for him.
And he said to him son, you arealways with me and all that is
mine is yours.
It was fitting to celebrate andbe glad, for this is your
brother.
And he was dead and now he isalive.
He was lost and now he is found.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that isthe wooing of the Holy Spirit,
that is God in action, comingfor us, forgiving us, running
all the way across the world tobe with us, laying a kiss upon
our cheek, putting the ring ofinheritance on sandals on our
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feet, slaughtering the fattenedcalf for us, celebrating in the
heavens, all because we camehome.
Ladies and gentlemen, this isPastor Joshua, with the Saints,
Will Overcome Ministries.
Happy Father's Day, and Godbless you all.
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