Rick Warren - How to Get Closer to God (Even If You Feel Far)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The further away you get from God, the more trouble
you're going to have in your life, the more trials,
the more difficulties, the more stress, the more things are
going to go wrong because you're not cooperating with your creator.
You're not following God's plan for your life. And the
Bible says, the way of the unrighteous is rough, it's

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full of thorns, it's difficult, it's a rocky, rocky road.
The further I get away from God, the more trouble
I'm going to have in my life. On the other hand,
the closer I get to God, the more my life
is going to be transformed. And we can see this
all through the scripture that Paul, when he finally met

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Jesus Christ face to face, he was radically transformed from
a literally a terrorist, he was a religious terrorist, into
the apostle of Love, who wrote the most beautiful poem
on love ever written or penned by men. Was transformed
from a depressed person into a courageous person when he

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met God. When he got close to God, Moses got
so close to God the Bible says he was even
transformed in his appearance, and people had to even look
away from him. He almost like glowed, and he got
so close to God that God is light, and in
him is there are no darkness at all. He was

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literally physically transformed. Now, we all want to be close
to God, but the Bible says, all we, like sheep,
have gone astray. We've each turned into our own way.
In other words, like sheep, we tend to wander. You
don't have to teach sheep to drift off. They just
do it naturally by their very nature. They just kind

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of wander off when the shepherd has to bring him
back in, and they'll walk off a cliff, and you know,
sheep aren't really that bright an animal. They'll walk into
a den of wolves, and in all kinds of difficult
and dangerous situations. Sheep tend to wander in. The Bible
says all we, you and me, like sheep, tend to

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go astray. We don't tend to stay close to God.
We tend to wander off. How do you get close
to God? How do you stay close to God? And
if you've fallen away from God, how do you get
back in that close relationship to God? Some of you
you can point to a time in your life and
you go man. I remember when I was really I

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felt God's presence. I was close to God. I could
sense his friendship, I could sense the fellowship, and there
was a joy in my life. But I've lost that.
You know. It's kind of it's like you let the
air out of a balloon. How do I get back
to God if I've kind of wandered away, if kind
of lost the spark, Because if I'm not close to God,

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I don't have the power to make all the other transformations. Fortunately,
we have a story in the Bible on how to
get back to God and how to get close to
the Father. It's one of the most famous stories in
the entire Bible. Jesus told that it's the story of
the prodigal Son, or sometimes it's called the story of
the Loving Father, because it's really more about the Father

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than is about the son. And that story is in Luke,
chapter fifteen. Let me read you the story, and then
we'll pull some principles out of it on how to
transform your life spiritually Luke fifteen, verses eleven to twenty four.
Jesus told this story. A man had two sons, and

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the younger son told his father, give me my share
of your estate now, instead of waiting till you die.
So the father divided his wealth between his two sons.
A few days later, the younger son packed all his
belongings and left to live in a distant land. See,
he's already getting away from the father. He's getting distant
from the father. And he got as far away, basically

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as far away from the father as he could. He
goes to a distant land, and there he squandered the
gift he'd been given. And we've all done that, and
he wasted his life and money on wild parties and
reckless living. Now, about the time all his money ran out,
a se fear of famine hit the land, and he
began to starve because he was left with nothing. Now

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he's getting hungry now. The only job he could find
was feeding swine on a farm, and he became so desperate,
so hungry that even the pig slop he was feeding
the swine looked good to him. That no one would
give him anything for his hunger. When he finally came
to a census, he said to himself, this is crazy.

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At my father's home, even the lowest paid workers eat well. Well,
I'm over here far away dying of hunger. So he goes,
I know what I'm gonna do. He says, I'm going
to re turn home to my father and humbly say, father,
i have sinned both against God and you, and I'm

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not worthy to be a part of the family or
called your son. But please just make me one of
your servants who works for you. So I'm not even
gonna be a family member. Just hire me out as
a servant. Make me one of your servants who works
for you. And with that attitude, he headed back home
to his father. But while the son was still a

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long distance away, he hadn't got all the way back home.
His father saw him coming, and filled with love and compassion,
he ran out to his son, threw his arms around
him and kissed him. The son said, no, he's got
his prepared speech. Father, I have sinned against both God
and you, and I'm no longer worthy of being called

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your son. But the father said to his servants, quick,
bring me the fine robe in our house and put
it on him. Then get my signet ring for his finger,
and shoes for his feet, and then roast the calf
that we've been fattening up. We're gonna celebrate with a

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feast of eating and drinking. For this child of mine
was distant and dead, but now he's back and alive.
He was lost, but now he's found. And so the
party began. Don't you love that story? Don't you just
love that? Yeah, you can clap for the story. That's
for Jesus. That's an incredible, incredible story, and it tells

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the story of how every one of us tends to
wander away from our creator, wander away from the father
who made us, wander away from the God who loves us.
This kid starts off staying, God, our dad or father,
I want you to give me much rightfully mine. It's
all about me, give me my. It's a very self

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centered life. And that's where we usually start in life.
Give me my, God, give me my. I want mine now.
And we're by the way. We're in a hurry, and
I want it and I want it now, and if
I can't pay for it, I'll put it on credit.
And so we're always in a hurry. Give me mine now.

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And so he takes off and he packs up, and
he heads off for Sunset Strip in Jerusalem, and there
he wastes his money and his time and his energy
on wine, women and song, particularly women, and he really
gets mets up and he hits the skids and he

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becomes homeless. And then on top of that, the nation
goes into a national recession because there's a famine in
the land, and now nobody has anything to eat, So
nobody's gonna give a panhandler or a street guiding to
eat because they don't have anything to eat. And then
he can't even find a job. Things go from bad

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to worse. Finally finds a farm where he hires himself
out to do the worst job on the farm, slopping pigs.
Now for a jew that's not a good thing. That's
not kosher, because you're not even supposed to touch a pig. Okay,
you're not even supposed to have anything to do with pork.
He gets the worst job a Jewish kid could get,

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slopping pigs, and he gets so hungry and he gets
so desperate. He's going, man, this stuff looks good. You
gotta be serious, seriously desperate if you think pigslop looks good.
And it says nobody gave him anything. And then it
says he wises up, and it says he came to

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his senses and he goes, shoot the servants, the poorest
paid guys in my dad's employment eat better than this.
What in the world am I doing? Now? He knows
he doesn't deserve his father's love. He knows he doesn't
deserve he's just wasted half of his dad's inheritance, all

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that his dad's burned his entire life working to earn.
And he goes, I know what I'm gonna do. I'm
not gonna go home and ask God to or asking
the father to just accept me back in the family.
I'm just go home and say, look, hire me. I'd
rather be a servant in your house than be over
here in a distant country, starving to death. And you
know the rest of the story. As we saw the

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father's response. Now from this story we gain the four
things you need to do to get back to God. Now,
I don't know where you are today. You may be
way way way way way way way way way far away.
Maybe I haven't been in church in years and years
and years, or maybe you are a little bit closer,

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or maybe you're a little bit closer, but maybe even
you've just been distant for a week and you've had
one of those weeks and you just thought, you know,
I really don't feel God's presence in my life, and
yet we all long to be close to God. How
do I get back to him? You do these four things.

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This is the pathway back to spiritual transformation. Number one.
I get fed up. That's the first. I get fed
up with my life. I get fed up with my circumstance.
I get fed up with the way I've been living.
I just get sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I am not gonna live this way anymore. I am

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too stressed out, I'm too lonely, I'm too depressed. I
am overworked and busy, and I don't even like myself.
Why would anybody like me? I don't even like me.
I don't like the life I'm living right now. Now.

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Let me just say this, Nothing is going to happen
in your life until first you get disad with the
way you are. Nothing's going to happen in your life
until you decide I don't like this. I'm tired of
being stressed out all the time. I'm tired of being
frustrated all the time. I'm tired of being overworked all

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the time. I'm tired of feeling distant from God. You
gotta get desperate, you gotta get hungry, you've got to
get anxious for change. Nothing happens until you get fed up.
In that passage in scripture, it says this, he wasted

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it all, he had nothing left. He got desperate and hungry,
and he finally came to his senses. And that's where
transformation starts. Are you there yet? If not, it's okay,
God I'll just leave. Let you stay there, and he'll

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allow a little rain in your life. And if that
doesn't work, he'll allow a little bit more in your life.
And if that doesn't work, he'll send the storm. Why
because God loves you just the way you are, But
He loves you too much to let you stay that way.
He will not let you waste your life. And when God,

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you know, wants to come and get our attention, he comes,
and he he knocks on the door, And if we ignored,
he just knocks on the door again. And then if
he we ignored, he knocks on the door again, and
if we ignored, he blows the door down. Some of

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you have had the door blown down in your life.
And you've lost your job, or you lost your marriage,
or you lost a friend, you lost something. Why Because
God does everything he does in your life out of love.
He does not want you to miss him, and he
does not want you to waste your life. You know

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the old phrase, you can lead a horse to water,
but you can't make him drink, but you can salt
his oats make him thirsty. God often makes you thirsty
by putting salt in your oats. And when you start saying,
I'm just so unsatisfied with my life, I just don't
like the way I'm living. I don't like this. Hello,

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that's God knocking on your door. The first step in
transformation is for you to get disgusted, to get discontent,
to get fed up with the way you're living. Jeremiah
twenty nine, verse thirteen says this. God says, you will
find me when you get serious about finding me, and

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you want it more than anything else. See, God's not
gonna reveal himself if I just kind of want to
do it on the casual it's kind of a part
time hobby. I gotta get fed up with the way
I'm living. Say, there's gotta be more to life than this.
There's got to be a better way to live than this.
There's got to be asaner way to live than this.
You get fed up. Second step. You own up first,

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I get fed up. Second, I own up. I own
up to my own sin. I own up to my
own sin. That's the second thing that this young man did.
He goes, this is nuts, this is nonsense, this is crazy.
I can't maintain this lifestyle I've been living right now.
It's just not sustainable. It's not fulfilling, and it's not sustainable.

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When he came to his senses, and that is you know,
he wakes up. You see, to live without God is insane.
To live without God does not make sense. To live
without God is not rational. To live without the creator
who made you is not logical. It doesn't make sense.

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When he came to his senses, he said, I have
sinned against God and you, and nothing's going to happen
till you come to stage two. And stage two is
you go all right, I just need to own up here.
I need to face up to the fact that I
have been not living God's way. I've been living my way.

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I've been doing it my way. I've been doing it
the way I think is best. I've been doing it
the way that protects all my fears. I've been doing
it the way that tries to control everything around me.
Even though I know I can't control it, I'm still
trying to control it all. And I'm getting tired of
holding onto all of the controls. I'm about ready to
resign as general manager of the universe because I've noticed

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it isn't cooperating with me, and so I own up.
And what do I own up to? I own up
to my sin. When he came to his census, he
said said, I have sinned now. In Isaiah fifty nine,
verse two, there on your outline, the Bible says this,
it's your sins. Your sins have separated you from your

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God and have hidden his face from you. Have you
ever prayed and you felt like God was a million
miles away? Have you ever prayed and felt like your
prayers are bouncing off the ceiling? Have you ever prayed
and felt like there's just like this veil between me
and God. I can't see God, I can't hear God,

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I can't feel God, and I feel like I'm just
talking to myself. Where does that come from? Your sins
have separated you from your God and have hidden his
face from you. That's where it comes from. It comes
from your sin. If you feel far from God, guess
who moved. God hasn't moved. God didn't move. God didn't

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go on vacation. God didn't move away to a foreign country.
God has always been there and he has never not
been there, and he loves you unconditionally. But if you
few far from God, you're the one who moved, and
you moved away by giving your love to something else.
When you give anything else your love, there's a word

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for that in the Bible. It's called an idol. Now
we think idols are like these little stone things that
people bow down to in words no no, no, no no.
An idol can look like your car. An idol can
look like your job. An idle could be a dress,
and idle could be the way you look. Anything that

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you love more than God becomes an idol. The First
and second commandments say, thou shalt have no other gods
afore me thou shalt not make any false idols. Money
can be an idol, success can be an idol. Golf
can be an idol. These are not bad things. They're
just not deserving the first place in your life. So

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I own up to my sin. Your sins have separated
you from your God. The fact is this, You're as
close to God as you choose to be. You can't
really blame anybody else. You can't blame your husband, you
can't blame your wife. You can't blame your mom, your dad,
the brother. You can't blame the government. That's one thing.

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You can't blame the government for you spell blame, be lame,
and that's being lame when you blame other people for
your spiritual condition. Well, if my husband were a more
dedicated believer, really, well if my girlfriend was more on
fire for Christ. Really, you are as close to God

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as you choose to be. And the fact is you
haven't been desperate. You haven't been fed up enough to
say I am desperate to know God. God. You know,
if I were to hold you underwater, you would struggle.
But when you really started running out of breath, you

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would really struggle because you would be desperate for air.
When you're that desperate, you don't just get fed up.
You own up and he say I've got to know God.
You're as close to God as you choose to be. Now,
when I own up and I say, God, I've owned it.
I've been going my way. I've been I've been doing

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your way. I've been going my way. I've been doing
what I want to do. When I do that, what
is God's response to my facing up to my sin?
He goes, yeah, Yeah, let me tell you what else
you're doing wrong. No, he doesn't rub it in. When
I come and I say, God, I've really you know,
you know what I've done. I'm really sorry. What does

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he do? Well, look at the next verse. Here's the
prayer you should pray, Psalm fifty one. By the the way,
David prayed this prayer after he'd committed adultery and killed
a wife's husband. So this is a pretty serious sin here.
So I'm fifty one to one to four. David says, this,
be merciful to me, Oh God, because of your constant love,

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because of your great mercy, wipe away my sin, Wash
away all my evil, and make me clean. I recognize
my faults, and I'm conscious that I have sinned against you.
What's your circle of phrase? Recognize my false That means

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to own up. I face up to my sins. I
own up to my sins. He says, I recognize my fault.
And what is God's response when I own up? When
I face up? Look at the next verse. The Lord says,
no matter how deep the stain of your sins, I
can remove it. I can make you clean as freshly

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driven snow. Not a beautiful verse. He says, no matter
what you've done, no matter who you've done it with,
I can I can remove it. This is this is
the uh, this is the oxy clean versus the Bible. Okay,
he said, man, I can take it out. You know
that's stain. You think, Man, I'm never gonna forget that

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one bad and that was so bad and it's gonna
haunt me the rest of my life. God says, I
can remove that stain. This is the stain remover verse
in the Bible. Now, doctors will tell you that every
so often you need to go and get a check cup,
and you need to have your heart checked every so often,

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and you had need to have your colon checked every
so often. That's a fun one. Anybody want to give
a testimony on that right now? Okay? Anybody have you
know personal story from this week? Yeah? Okay, Uh, But
you have to get regular checkups quiet because if something's
growing wrong in your body, you want to know sooner
or not later. Right And the same is true with

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your your life. If sin starts growing in you, it
can become a cancer. It's better to nip it in
the bud, like Barney Fiffe would say, before it gets
really big. You gotta do this spiritual checkup on a
regular base basis. And where do you do it. You

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do it in your thought life. It's a checkup from
the neck up, and you got to think about your thoughts.
Just like you need a physical checkup regularly, you need
a spiritual checkup regularly. Tewod Corinthians five seventeen. Anyone who
belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old

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life is gone, a new life has begun. Now that's
a positional statement. What that means is God says you
are a new person. Doesn't mean you don't have to
stay the same anymore. You don't have to listen to
those old impulses. You now have a new power in
your life to make it through. The Bible says this.

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Test yourselves and make sure you're solid in the faith.
Don't drift along taking everything for granted. Give yourself regular checkups,
and if you fail the test, do something about it.
I love that message paraphrase, and that's what we're talking
about here. In owning up, the Bible says that before

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you take the Lord's supper that you should do a
spiritual checkup every time. That this is a time to
pause and not to just get fed up, but to
own up and say, Okay, is there anything in my life?
Pal one thirty nine, search me, Oh God, and know
my heart, try me and know my thoughts. See if
there be any wicked way in me, and lead me

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in the way everlasting. That'd be a good verse to
memory someone thirty nine, three twenty four. It's a it's
a search light verse. God says this verse in Second Corinthians,
First Corinthians eleven. A man ought to examine himself before
he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. So,
in other words, we need to do this second thing.

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I get fed up, and then I do an own up.
I get a face up to what I need to do. Okay,
Now here's the third step to get in back to God,
to getting back in his love and his grace. Not
that he doesn't love you. He always loves you no
matter where you are. But to feeling that love. Here's

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a third thing. I get fed up. I own up
number three, I offer up. I offer up my life.
I offer up myself. I offer up my total being.
And this is a third thing that we find this
young man did. He got fed up. He came to

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his senses. He owned up. He says, I've sinned against God,
and then he offered up. Now. Notice in Luke chapter
twelve fifteen, verse twelve, the son drifted away saying, give
me my share. And in Luke fifteen nineteen, when he
comes back, he returned to the father saying, make me
a servant. Do you notice any change in attitude there? Hello,

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He leaves saying give me, give me, give me, gim me,
give me, give me. He comes back, saying, make me.
That is transformation. That is true transformation. When your heart
moves from self centeredness to God's sinneredness, that's transformation. Are

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you there yet? Are you still in the gimme, gimme,
gim me, give me, give me. What can God do
for me? Give me my stuff now to make me
your servant. That's the transformation. He returns saying make me.
That's a heart trend and that is the greatest transformation. Well,
from self centered to God's sendreness. Are you letting God

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do that in you? Now? That transformation it doesn't happen overnight.
God is still working on me on this one, and
it's gonna be your entire life. He's going to work
on It's never instant, but there is a decision that
starts the process. Second, Dreen these three eighteen says this,

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we reflect the Lord's glory and are being transformed. That
means a continuing process. We are being transformed, not just once,
but on a ongoing basis. It's a process. We're being
transformed into His likeness now with ever increasing glory. And
I leave that for just a minute, which comes from

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the Lord. Was the spirit that we'd transformed. You know,
the Bible was written the New Testament in Greek. You
know what the word there is in Greek metamorphous. Ou
does that sound like anything? You know? Metamorphosis? It's the
word we get met what's the metaphor of morphosis. It's
when a butterfly goes from a caterpillar to a pupa

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a chrysalis, and from a pupa chrysalis into a butterfly.
That's metamorphosis. It hadn't happened overnight. In fact, there's that
stage where it's sitting there in that chrysalis, it forms
that little cocoon. It's pretty ugly. Ever seen one of
those things. It doesn't look very beautiful to me, But

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when it breaks out, that butterfly is stunning. I so
badly want to be that, and I want you to
be that. I want you to be transformed from the
lowly caterpillar into the beautiful butterfly. That is what transformation

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is all about. It is metamorphosis. It is going from
you know, when you're a caterpillar, what can you do?
Not much except munch on leaves b boom boo boom
boo boom boo, boom boo, boom boom, and you're stuck
on the ground. And I'm sure when caterpillars have looked
in the air butterflies go. You never get me up

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in one of those things. God made you to be
a butterfly. God made you to soar. God made you
to be beautiful, not ugly beautiful. But you've got to
go through the transformation process and the transformation process is

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number one. Get fed up with the way you've been living,
and then own up. Get honest to God. God, I
admit I have been living for myself. I've been doing
it my way, and do that check up and then
offer up myself. Transformation is a process, but the starting

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point is what the prodigal son said. Make me. That's
offer up, make me, transform me, change me. God, I
don't want to live the rest of my life the
way I'm living right now. Change me. Romans twelve to one.

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This is our theme verse, but let me read you
the verse before it. Because God is merciful to you.
Offer yourselves. Offer yourselves. That's it. I offer up myself.
That's step one. I get fed up. Okay, I own up,

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and now I offer up. Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice,
holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act
of worship. And don't be confis to the pattern of
this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
No transformation until you do the offer up. And it's
important to notice the father's response. Luke fifteen twenty three.

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Filled with love and compassion, he ran out to his son,
threw his arms around him and kissed him, and he said,
bring the best, bring the best robe, bring the best
bring bring the best shoes, bring the fatted calf. In
all these things. The father's response. Notice he didn't wait

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for the son to come home while he was still distant.
He ran out the moment you just.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Say, God, I'm tired of living the way I have
been living.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
God, I'm tired. He will do more than halfway. He
will run out to meet you. God is not waiting
for you to come knock on the door, or he's
waiting for this moment in your life. He runs out
to you, He takes an issue, He throws his arms
around you, He kisses you, and he says, okay, look,

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I know you blew it. Go get the best rope,
get the best clothes in the house. And then he says,
go get my signet ring. Do you know why? He
says that you know what a signet ring is. In
those days, the signet ring was your credit card, because
you take the ring and you press it into wax,
and that was like a credit card. He said, go

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get my unlimited Black American Express and bringing out to
my son who just blew half of my income. God
doesn't holding the grudge against all the the dumb stuff
you've done. He's ready to lavishly pour this on, bring
out the best, bring out the bestes, do all these things.

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God has a better plan for your life than you
can imagine. If you knew there was a better way
to live than there is right now, the way you've
been living, wouldn't you want to know about it? Yeah,
that's what transformation is all about. People said, well, I'm
living the good life, and you are. You live in America,

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you live the good life. You're looking good, you're feeling good,
you got the goods. You know, there's only one problem
with the good life. It isn't good enough.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
You were made for more than the good life. You
were made for the better life.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Life. You cannot even imagine anymore than that caterpillar can
imagine what it's like to be a butterfly. You can't
even imagine it. You cannot even imagine it. It is
so much better. And there are people who live next

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to you and they got the car, and they got
the cash, and they got the clothes, and they're going,
I'm living it, I'm living the good life, and they're
missing the better life. And then there's one other thing
I do. Once I come home and I'm enwrapped in

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God's love, and he hugs me and he kisses me,
and he says, bring out the best. All is forgiven,
All is forgiven. Go get the credit card, Go get
the rope, Go get the shoes. Let's let's have a barbecue.
And in that celebration, you now come home, not the condemnation.

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You come back to God in celebration. Here's the fourth thing.
I lift up my praise, and they just go, thank
you God, thank you for your grace, thank you for
your love, thank you for your goodness. I lift up
my praise. Luke fifteen, here's what the Father says. We're

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gonna celebrate with a feast of eating and drinking. He
was lost, but now is found. So the party begins
and life becomes a party. When life comes to transformation.
The Bible says in Psalm sixty eighty four, sing to God,
sing praises to his name. Lift up. There's that word,

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lift up my praises, lift up a song to him.
His name is the Lord. Now the Father celebrated. He
had a celebration, not a condemnation. A celebration when the
son came back home. I'm fed up and I'm owning up,
and I'm gonna offer up and now I lift up

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my praise and we're gonna party, and we're going to celebrate,
and we're going to sing. Let's bow our heads for prayer. Father.
When we think of your grace, we are overwhelmed. It
makes our hearts want the same. There's no way that

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we deserve this kind of reaction, this kind of celebration,
this kind of welcoming when we come home. But we
come to you, and first we say we're fed up.
We're fed up with the way we've been living. We're
fed up of life without Christ. We're fed up with

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doing it all on our own power. We're just fed
up with all of that. And we own up. We
realize that you haven't moved, but we have. And now
the reason we're not close is because we've allowed other
things to cloud our vision of you. We have allowed
idols in our lives. We have loved other things more

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than you, and that has made you feel distant. But
we come back and we own up to our sin,
and then we offer up ourselves. We're not saying give me,
give me, give me anymore. We're saying, make me, make me,
make me. If you've never accepted Jesus gift of salvation,
say Jesus Christ right now. I accept your gift of salvation.

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Thank you for loving me and dying for me on
the cross. I give myself back to you. I offer
up myself to you. Make me your servant, and I
ask you to transform my life. In your name. I

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pray Jesus Amen.