So if you're there you can stand.
We're going to read from verse 11, parable of the prodigal son
Then he said, a certain man had two sons and the younger of them said to his father, father
give me the portion of goods that falls to me. So he divided to them his livelihood and
not many days after the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country and
there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all there arose
a severe famine in that land and he began to be in want, then he went and joined himself
to a citizen of that country. Sent him into his fields to feed swine and he would gladly
have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate and no one gave him anything.
But when he came to himself he said, how many of my father's hired servants have bred enough
and to spare and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go to my father and will say to
him, father I have sinned against heaven and before you and I am no longer worthy to be
called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants. And he arose and came to his
father. But when he was still a great way off his father saw him and had compassion
and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, father I have sinned
against heaven and in your sight and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But
the father said to his servants, bring out the best robe and put it on him and put a
ring on his hand and sandals on his feet and bring the fatted calf here and kill it and
let us eat and be merry for this my son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and his
found and they began to be merry. Now his older son was in the field and as he came
in June near to the house heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants
and asked what these things meant and he said to him, your brother has come and because
he has received him safe and sound your father has killed the fatted calf. But he was angry
and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. So he answered
and said to his father, blow these many years I have been serving you I have never transgressed
your cause and yet you never gave me a young goat that I might make merry with my friends.
But as soon as this son of yours came who has defoured your livelihood with harlots
you killed the fatted calf for him. He said to him, son you are always with me and all
that I have is yours. It was right that we should make merry and be glad for your brother
was dead and is alive again and was lost. Lord I want to thank you right now for this
morning I want to thank you for baby Misha, I want to thank you for the precious gift
that you give us in children and I want to thank you also Lord that you have given. Lord
you gave us your son, you have given precious gift to the Lord Jesus Christ to us today
and I ask Lord through this message that Lord Jesus you would be completely and utterly
glorified through your word. Lord I am asking that Lord something profoundly happened today
in the hearts through faith, through hearing your word to us today. So I ask right now
Holy Spirit of God that you would anoint me. I am asking for authority in your power Lord
speak forth.
And by the way with the dedication I imagine there might be some new people here, visitors
who have come to witness that so special welcome to you thank you for joining us. So this is
a, this is probably one of the most well known parables that Jesus taught and a parable is
a, it's an earthly story but it's got a heavenly meaning to it and to begin with Jesus speaks
about this son who runs away from home, this rebellious son who leaves the father's house
and goes and basically spends the inheritance that was rightfully his once his father died
on prodigal living which is just basically wasteful living and he ran away wasted everything
that he had, the sin that he had in his life because in that passage it says that he came
to himself he said I've sinned before heaven and my father and I'll return. His sin was
rebellion, it was self-indulgence, there was pride and there was also dishonour but he
hit rock bottom. He had tasted the world, he'd gone out and done everything his heart
desired but it didn't satisfy this man. He hit rock bottom and he came to a moment of
clarity when he said what I really want is back at home with the father in the house
and the father represents God. I think that'll be obvious and this lost son or the younger
son I'll call him in verse 18, when he returned he said, when he was about to rather he said
I will arise and go to my father and will say to him, father I have sinned against heaven
and before you and I am no longer worthy to be called your son, make me like one of your
hide. So this man has lived for himself, spent his livelihood for shame and dishonour to
the family but in him coming home he knew he had a place back home. He'd sinned, he'd
fallen, he'd repented and he'd returned. That was all good and well but this son, this
younger son still didn't feel in a sense that he belonged because he came back to the father
and his intention was I'm not going to be accepted, I'm not going to be received, I'll
come back but you know in the off chance maybe my father will make me a hired servant because
I'm no longer in my own witness and according to my own way I've lived don't actually belong
back in the father's house. And so this man like some of us today, he's fallen, we all
fall, we all stumble but we don't actually know that we can actually come back to the
father's house with loving arms. See this man, he'd fallen and in a sense he's thinking
to himself well I'll never actually match up, I'm never actually going to be good enough,
look at the life that I've led, I've stumbled and I've fallen numerous times, it'll be the
same thing he'd done over and over again but in his own estimation of himself he couldn't
see that God would, the father would welcome him back. He'd fallen so many times and he
didn't feel himself worthy to be accepted so there was a distance in a sense between
him and the father because like I said he wanted to come back as a hired servant, not
in the original place he was as a son. So he felt there a distance, he didn't fully
understand his acceptance and he couldn't draw close, he couldn't draw close to the
father. Although he repented and though he confessed his sin and realised what he'd done
wrong he still felt there's still a gap between me and the father, I don't have that acceptance,
I don't feel like I'm still accepted, I will just sit under him, I'll just be like one
of the hired servants because that's all I'm worthy for and we can feel like that today.
You can feel like that sitting here today that God is just, he's always angry at me,
I just feel like he's always angry at me, I wake up in the morning and I feel like he's
angry at me, I go to bed at night and he's angry at me. I don't know what I've done but
I always feel like a sense that I've done something wrong, that I don't measure up,
that I can't actually get into that place of liberty because one of the reasons Jesus
came was to set at liberty the captives and if you're listening to my voice today that
is for every single person in this room, every single person online, that he came to set
at liberty the captives and so this first son had a measure of liberty, he still knew
that he could come back but there was like a sense that he couldn't draw close and even
today many outside the church don't feel like they can come in because they don't feel worthy,
I'm not good enough, I haven't lived the life that the people in the church or the way they
presume God looks on them have lived and you see this in the, if you turn over to Mark
Luke 18, this is another parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector and in verse 9, this
is another one he spoke, he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves and they
were righteous and they despised others.
Two men went up to the temple to pray Jesus said, one a Pharisee, so the Pharisee is the
really good one, he's the one completely righteous and he's the goody two shoes, that's the Pharisee
and the other a tax collector, that's like the modern day drug dealer, everyone despised
him.
Now there's these two, the Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God I thank
you that I'm not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers or even as this tax collector,
I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess and the tax collector standing
afar off, afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast saying,
God be merciful to me a sinner and Jesus said in verse 14, I tell you this man went down
to his house justified rather than the other for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled
and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
So this Pharisee thought his own estimation of his goodness and his righteousness, everything
he'd done commended him to God's acceptance and that's what a lot of people outside the
church believe too, that they can't come in because they won't be accepted because they're
not good enough but yet Jesus said there's this other man who was afar off, couldn't
even lift his eyes because he was in deep shame and he knew his place before God as
a sinner but yet Jesus said this is the one who was justified, that word justified it's
like a meaning in a court, when you go to court and you are to receive your verdict,
if you are acquitted, that's what justification means, if you're acquitted that means you're
justified, it's done, there's a done deal where you are off.
Jesus said that this man, the man who couldn't even lift his eyes but in his own estimation
was a sinner, this is the one that Jesus said would be justified because the one who God
looks on and is merciful towards is the one who knows that he's not good enough and so
this man, the one who thought he wasn't good enough, this was the one who God actually
looked down on with love and mercy towards, the one who thought he wasn't worthy enough,
the one who thought he would never be good enough, that's the one who Jesus justified,
the one who he in Jesus' estimation was made righteous and see we know this other scripture
well but there's some of you that might know it, it's in Ephesians 2 verse 8 to 9, I'll
read it out, it says, for by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourself
it is the gift of God, not of works lest anyone should boast.
So just as a Pharisee, his justification came through his good works and he was completely
justified in his own estimation of himself but this scripture says here that we are,
by grace we've been saved through faith, grace is God's unmerited and undeserved favour on
our lives, also means the free giving of God, so it's free, that's God's grace to us, you
show someone grace, you give them something that they don't deserve, God gives us freely
grace, faith also comes freely and that is what that scripture says, that's how we are
saved, it's by grace, if it's something we can earn, it's not grace, that's not grace,
if you can earn it, it's not grace, grace can only come freely and God gives it in abundant
measure to us, he gives it and he offers it to the world, the free gift of grace, the
free gift of faith, faith in what? Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, faith that he died
the sinner's death, that he died, he rose again, reigns victoriously, has paid the cost
for you and I, that's the faith we have in. So this man back in Luke 15, the one who had
walked away and come back, now he may well have fallen, he may well have fallen numerous
times but in Romans 3 verse 23 to 24 it says, for all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ
Jesus. See, a lot of people and you may be one of them today, like I said, you feel like
you're in a place where maybe you've fallen, maybe it's each day, you feel like you can't
actually get ahead, that you're not actually measuring up before God's standard and you
feel condemned and you feel guilty, you just feel guilty all the time, you just live with
a sense of guilt over your life that I've got a, it's in my best interest and it's
in God's best interest that I just stay a foot away from him because I just can't draw
near him. But that's a lie, that's what guilt, guilt is always a result of accusation, that's
where guilt comes from, an accusation. You've got an enemy who is an accuser, you've got
your own thoughts that accuse yourself but you've also got an enemy, he's called Satan,
he's the accuser of the brethren. Now this scripture says that everyone has sinned, we've
all sinned, all of us, none of us have matched up to the glory of God, every person in the
world, even Aunty Thelma who's never done anything wrong, she's a sinner, unless she's
been washed by the blood of Jesus, unless she has been saved through faith in Jesus
Christ. We are all in that place until we have received the Lord Jesus Christ. We have,
it says in that scripture, been declared righteous. So again that means justified. We have been
in that place of the courtroom, we've come before God as guilty and God the righteous
judge, the verdict should be guilty but he gives us innocent because we look to the party
in front of us who is Jesus on the cross and it is him that takes the punishment, it's
him that takes the guilt that we deserve. That is the free gift of salvation and through
that, receiving Jesus by faith, you and I are justified, like I said we've been acquitted,
we've been reckoned righteous because of what the Lord Jesus Christ has done by putting
faith in him. So we day to day stand justified, we stand before God today with the righteousness
of Christ, it's his righteousness that is given to us. It's his righteousness given
to us. So you stand each day justified and so I think many people believe and that's
just a one off, it's done. The day you were born again, that's a once off. But you know
what, you're still, sometimes you're going to fall. But in that, you are being sanctified,
you are being made now more and more like Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Each day you're becoming less of this and more of this, you're becoming less of this
and more of this and you are being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. Egypt, Israel rather,
left Egypt. They were redeemed through the blood on the doorpost, on the lintels on the
doorpost, that took a day, that was a once off, a one day thing. It took 40 years however
to get Egypt out of Israel. That's sanctification, that's for us. So if you're sitting here today
thinking you know I just feel like I'm always guilty, I'm always condemned, I can never
match up. Christ is doing a work in you. You still stand justified, you still stand before
God with the righteousness of God. Now that's where some people get a little bit lost maybe
or they don't understand through ignorance that your justification, you stand today acquitted,
not guilty, that is forever. Yes you may fall but there is a work that God is doing in you
to transform you. Yes you may fall like this son did but you can come back to him because
God is merciful. You can come back to him and receive mercy and forgiveness and he promises
he will wipe that away. He'll wipe that away in an instant. So you no longer need to stand
at a distance from God. It's not necessary that you stand any longer from a distance
because this protocol he didn't actually trust, he didn't trust in the complete finished work
of the cross because he didn't understand justification. He didn't completely understand
that I can come back to a loving God into his loving arms and his arms that are completely
merciful and compassionate. He didn't believe he could come in, he thought I would just
come in as something else. I'm not welcome anymore, I can come in as a hired servant
and so that is not for us today. That is not for us. It is, you know, it feels like it's
our human nature to work. That's our human nature. You see it from the book of Genesis.
We feel like we have to earn something so when we fall, many of you feel like I now
have to earn my way back to God. I need to maybe I need to start getting up, I'm going
to get up early every morning God and I'm going to read my Bible and I'm going to make
my way back to you and you'll be happy with me. Or I'm going to start praying more and
you're going to be happy with me, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that and you're
going to be happy with me and that could just be maybe not so forthright but subtly in our
mind we can have that mindset like I've got to work my way back to God. But God doesn't
say that, he just says come freely, he says come to me because you see when this son came
back he received God's love. He came back, this son was expecting, you know my father
is just going to make me like one of the hired servants, I have accepted that but he doesn't.
He says nothing of the sort. He says when he comes back to him that he gave and completely
honoured and loved him. He said in verse 22 when he returned, well 20 rather, he arose
and came to his father but when he was still a great way off his father saw him and had
compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him and the son said to him, father
I have sinned against heaven and in your sight and no longer worthy to be called your son
but the father said to his servants, banish him forever, I don't want to know about him.
He says, no he didn't say that, he said but the father said to his servants bring out
the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet and
bring the fatacuff here and kill it and let us eat and be merry. There was so much joy
in the house, there was no mention of his wrongdoings because he'd repented and come
back. See that's God's love for us. These things, the ring, the robe, the fatacuff,
these things were things that honoured the son and they demonstrated God's love for us,
for you and I, regardless of what we've done, regardless, sin is sin before God. Sin is
sin before God, that's why we celebrate communion, we remember what the blood has done, we remember
what the cross has done, we remember what Jesus has done through the death and I want
to actually look at what Paul said in Galatians 2.19 and I'll read it and then I'm going
to explain it. Galatians 2.19 he says, for I through the law died to the law that I might
live to God. I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live but Christ lives
in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who
loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace to God for if righteousness,
so if goodness in other words, comes through the law doing good things then Christ died
in vain. So not only do we have to have the revelation of God's love and actually know
and receive that by faith that when we come to him but we've got to actually like Paul
said walk by faith, he's saying in essence that he couldn't keep the law, the religious
rules of do's and do not's, he couldn't do it, he said that law is killing me, not the
law itself but inside me I can't do it, I just can't do it, it just kills me to do it.
He's saying I've died to the law, my life is hidden with Christ now by faith in what
he has done, he is in me and I am in him and it's all by his grace, again there's that
word that free giving of God, it was trusting in God's power, Paul was trusting in God's
power to change him, to sanctify him through the Holy Spirit but he was also trusting in
the justification, his right standing before God, remember that justification, he quitted,
he was rightfully made when he received Christ as Lord and Saviour, he's trusting in him
completely, you can't substitute anything for faith in this walk, as a Christian you
cannot substitute anything, no efforts, no works, no charitable deeds, no service, it's
all as Paul said by faith, it's by faith we receive the work of the cross, it's by faith
in what Jesus has done and that might sound very elementary but I want to tell you sometimes
we can fall and suddenly begin to think that we can't draw near to God, just suddenly,
like Paul wrote to the Galatians and he's saying you've fallen from grace, I think it
was the Galatians, he said you've fallen from grace, you're coming back under rules, you're
trying to earn your way to me, you're trying to earn your salvation, you're trying to earn
everything and please me by your good works, in essence that's what he's saying to them.
Now like I said having the revelation of God's love for us, that's what this son needed,
he needed to have the revelation of God's love for him that he could come back into
open arms, no questions asked, he'd already repented, he'd already confessed his sin as
long as we do that but he also had these accusations and like I said you have an enemy that you
need to deal with, you have an enemy who is the accuser of the brethren, his name is Satan
and we overcome him it says in Revelation chapter 12 verse 11, we overcome Satan actually
starting verse 12, in verse 11 it says, verse 10, then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven
now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have
come for the accuser of our brethren who accused them before our God day and night has been
cast down and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony
and they did not love their lives to the death.
So the first condition is that they firstly don't love their lives to the death but they
overcame Satan, they overcame those accusations of I'm not good enough, all this guilt that
people are living with, the condemnation, the accusation, we overcome that by it says
there the word of the Lamb, the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony so we can
actually when we are getting accused we don't have to receive them, those thoughts you have
to reject them, you have to speak against them and go no I've been sanctified, I've
been washed clean by the blood of Jesus, I've been redeemed, I've been cleansed, I've been
delivered and you speak the word of God over those accusations and they will leave because
they are only thoughts, that is how you overcome, you speak and you testify to what the blood
of Jesus has done for you in your life according to the word of God, you speak that word, that
is your weapon, you speak that word over your mind, you speak to those thoughts, you reject
those thoughts, go no I'm not coming under that, I've been washed, I've been cleansed,
I've been redeemed, I'm not living guilty anymore, I've been set free, I've been set
on high by the Lord Jesus Christ, I am set at liberty.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Now, that was the first son, now this second son, he didn't have the love of God either,
what was his problem?
Self-righteousness.
He was self-righteous when his brother came and returned as joy, you know he should have
been joyful, he should have been so excited just as God the Father was, he wasn't, he
said in verse 25, he was what?
In the field and as he came in near to the house he heard music and dancing so he called
one of the servants and asked what these things meant and he said to him, your brother has
come and because he has received him safe in the sound, your father has killed the fat
calf and this is his response, he was angry and would not go in, therefore his brother
came out and pleaded with him so he answered and said to his father, lo, these many years
I've been serving you, I never transgressed your commandment at any time and yet you never
gave me a young goat that I might make merry with my friends but as soon as this son of
yours came who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fat calf for
him and he said to him, son you are always with me and all that I have is yours, it was
right that we should make merry and be glad for your brother, he was dead, your brother
was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found.
See God distinguishes men and women in the complete universe by not good and bad but
lost and found, that's the only one, you fall into one or two categories and this son, the
older son, he's saying, I've never done anything wrong, I've been perfect my whole life and
he probably was, I've never sworn, I've never stolen, I've never got drunk, I've never killed
anyone, I've filled out my tax report right, I did the Clean Up Australia Day every year,
everything he did was right and it was good but what was the problem?
It was self-righteousness, he thought he was justified so his example of himself being
justified before God wasn't Jesus, it was his own works, it was like the Pharisee, I've
perfected my way, I've done it, I've done it all, I've earned my way to God in everything
I've done, I've pleased him, I've done it all, I've never done anything wrong but the
Pharisee, he didn't receive salvation, it was a humble sinner, he couldn't even lift
his eyes to heaven, the tax collector, the one that everyone looked down on which is
like the first son, he felt like he was justified, he strived all his life and he was angry,
I've never done anything like this, I've never done anything like him but you know what,
in Isaiah 53 verse 6, this is a prophecy of what Jesus came to do, what he was going
to do, what he was going to be, everything he was going to redeem us from and in verse
6 he says, this is a prophecy though from Isaiah, he says, all we like sheep have gone
astray, this is before we received Christ, all we like sheep have gone astray, we have
turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all, so
not exactly a terrible crime, I don't read anything there, anything completely wrong
initially, we haven't committed terrible crime, it doesn't say we have all committed murder,
it doesn't say we've even got drunk, it just says we've gone our own way, that's the sin
that God held against mankind, we've gone our own way, we've been rebellious, self-pleasers,
we've lived by our own standards just like that older son, his standards that he lived
by, I can't believe you forgave him Dad, he spent your whole livelihood, everything
he did and he came back and here I am, I've done everything right, I've never done anything
wrong and you can't even, you've never done anything for me because he didn't have the
love of God, the Father said everything I have is freely yours, it's always been yours
but he couldn't enter in, he couldn't receive it because he didn't have the love of God,
like both hadn't had the love of God, the older brother who condemned the younger brother,
he could not receive it, he didn't have, he couldn't receive into what God had for him,
the liberty that he had for him because he didn't receive the love of God, he was there
in his own world working his way to goodness, he didn't understand the free gift of grace
that God had given because remember grace can't be earned, we've got to receive it freely
and it's a gift, this man, this older son, he couldn't, he couldn't receive the grace,
he wanted to be justified by his own merits, I'm going to get to God and it's going to
be from everything I do, so I want to ask you as I close, and this is a serious question,
I'm talking to a church, I'm talking to mainly Christians here, have you received God's free
gift of grace? Have you received that free gift, that precious gift, been saved by grace
through faith? Have you received it? Or just subtly are you doing things that are earning
you favour, earning you brownie points so to speak to God that he will be more accepting
of you? Just subtly, just the stings you just, just subtly, if I don't read my Bible for
10 minutes every day, I don't feel like I've done enough that day. That slight, it's a
millimetre but it moves you, it moves you out of that place where you're not in the
grace, you're not in the love, you're moving into rules, moving back under the law, also
it's going to kill you when you live like that because there's no liberty, that older
son had no liberty, he was angry, he was rebellious, he did everything right though, on the outside
he looked great, he didn't put a foot out of, yeah you know what I mean, he was perfect.
How do you know, this is the scripture I'm going to finish with, how do you know where
you are? How do I know where I'm at? Am I in grace, am I in the love of God or am I
still working and self-righteous? This is an honest question for us and this, with this
I close, this is Isaiah 61 verse 10, again this is a prophecy given about what the Lord
Jesus would do, what has come and he's already done it. Isaiah 61, 10, I will greatly rejoice
in the Lord, he's talking about God's people that are going to be redeemed, my soul shall
be joyful in my God for he has clothed me with the garment of salvation, he has covered
me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments and as a bride
adorns herself with jewels. I'm going to read those first few lines, I will greatly rejoice,
are you rejoicing in what God has done? You're rejoicing in your own merit, your own works,
your own goodness, our soul shall be joyful, is there joy, do you have a joy? When we come
to Christ it's righteousness, peace and joy, the peace and joy are the expressions of the
righteousness that you've received, the righteousness of Christ through faith in him. Do you have
the joy? That's an indicator, do you have that joy? He has clothed me with the garments
of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness. Now it says my soul shall
be joyful in my God, that's not just religion, that's salvation, there's no religion there,
there's no legalism, there's no works, there's no law, it's all freely given by God and it's
all freely received. Now have you received the gift of grace through faith and through
that you're justified, you are quitted before God sees Christ in you, the righteousness
of Christ? Are you believing in the goodness of your own works? And you know there'll be
another way you tell because if a drug dealer or a heroin addict walked through that door
or a prostitute, how your heart responds, I'll tell you. I am more than welcoming to
any person, it doesn't matter what their background they walk through, I want those people to
come in, they're like the modern day tax collectors, they're the ones that Christ died for and
they're the ones we ought to welcome. I just want to pray for us because this is something
we need to consider, it's not a light message, straightforward but it's not light. Father
I want to just acknowledge right now that everything, everything we have, like our whole
being our salvation Lord, it all comes from you but everything Lord comes through your
grace Lord. I want to thank you for your grace Lord that is free, I want to thank you for
the gift of faith that is free, I want to thank you that Lord we have in Christ's redemption,
we have deliverance, we have salvation all through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ. I want to thank you Father God, your word declares that we receive it by faith.
I'm asking right now Lord, by your Spirit you would show each of us Lord where we stand
before you. Lord I'm asking Lord there would be a restart in us where we have fallen from
grace Lord and we are moving to works, faith plus works maybe. Father God I'm asking by
your Spirit Lord you would show us here today where we are at. Lord it's only you, you are
the revealer Holy Spirit of our hearts, it's only you who can reveal Lord what is truly
deep Lord in our hearts and in our motives, in our actions, in our thoughts. So I'm asking
right now Lord, I'm asking you would do something so wonderful and so powerful and Lord I want
to lift up every person here who has been walking condemned, they feel constantly guilty
like you are angry with them. I'm asking right now Lord, it's just a measure of love Lord
that they have not had revealed to them. I'm asking Lord because you have already shared
abroad that love by your Holy Spirit into each of our hearts. So I'm asking right now
Lord it would be revealed in a deeper measure. We would have the great revelation of your
love for each of us personally. Lord we don't want to know intellectually that you love
us. Father God we're asking for a relationship, we're asking for that loving relationship
Lord so we know that we can draw near to you that you are so forgiving and you are loving,
you are compassionate, you are merciful. I thank you Lord Jesus for your blood and Lord
those people who are struggling Lord with guilt and accusation, Father God I'm asking
right now Lord you would come and you would scatter every accusation, Lord you would scatter
every one of those enemies. I'm asking Lord that those minds would be completely renewed
and transformed through the washing of your word Lord. They would know today Lord that
the blood has set them free, that they no longer live condemned, they no longer live
guilty but Lord they would know your love, they would know Lord that you have set those
captives free. Lord I declare right now liberty over every person, those Lord who have been
walking like the lost son. Father God I'm asking right now Lord you would bring liberty
to their lives, those that have been walking like the older son. Father God I'm asking
right now Lord they would be set on high Lord, they would be completely liberated today.
Father God we would be a people who walk by faith, completely by faith and under your
grace walking in and through it, receiving it and ask it in Jesus name, Amen.