WEBVTT 00:00:05.900 --> 00:00:10.599 Luke chapter 15, verse 11. It's a pretty popular 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:13.580 story. Some of you may have heard it before. 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:17.879 If you hadn't, that's okay. It's a great, great 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:23.219 story. Jesus tells a parable here of a man whose 00:00:23.219 --> 00:00:27.879 son went astray. And I know what some of you 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:29.800 are saying. Some of you are saying, well, you 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:32.590 just preached this passage. Not too long ago, 00:00:32.689 --> 00:00:34.490 and you are correct, but we're going to look 00:00:34.490 --> 00:00:37.250 at it again today. I felt like this was what 00:00:37.250 --> 00:00:39.250 we needed to look at today, and so we're just 00:00:39.250 --> 00:00:42.149 going to refresh ourselves with it, even if we 00:00:42.149 --> 00:00:45.570 did just look at it recently. Luke chapter 15, 00:00:45.829 --> 00:00:51.630 verse 11 is where we will start today. Let's 00:00:51.630 --> 00:00:55.969 pray, and then we'll jump in. God, we come to 00:00:55.969 --> 00:00:57.829 you. We thank you for your good word, dear Lord. 00:00:58.570 --> 00:01:00.729 We thank you for loving us. We thank you for 00:01:00.729 --> 00:01:04.510 the truth that's in this passage, God, that sometimes 00:01:04.510 --> 00:01:08.370 we just blow it, dear Lord. Sometimes we sin 00:01:08.370 --> 00:01:13.349 so greatly against you and against others. But 00:01:13.349 --> 00:01:15.430 dear Lord, I pray that we would know today that 00:01:15.430 --> 00:01:18.709 you love us, that if we are that one who has 00:01:18.709 --> 00:01:21.209 gone astray in our foolishness and our sinfulness, 00:01:21.269 --> 00:01:24.049 dear Lord, that we'd know you wait for us to 00:01:24.049 --> 00:01:27.040 come home. So I pray. That you just bless the 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:28.980 reading of your word, and I ask these things 00:01:28.980 --> 00:01:34.260 in Jesus' name. Amen. Luke chapter 15, verse 00:01:34.260 --> 00:01:41.000 11. Jesus had just told a couple of other parables 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.340 before this, and this kind of follows in line 00:01:43.340 --> 00:01:46.719 with the theme of that which is lost being found. 00:01:47.659 --> 00:01:52.000 And he also said in verse 11, a man had two sons. 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:55.079 The younger of them said to his father, Father, 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.939 give me the share of the assets I have coming 00:01:57.939 --> 00:02:03.340 to me. So he distributed the assets to him. Not 00:02:03.340 --> 00:02:06.379 many days later, the younger son gathered together 00:02:06.379 --> 00:02:09.439 all he had and traveled to a distant country 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:13.219 where he squandered his estate in foolish living. 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.560 After he had spent everything, a severe famine 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:22.080 struck that country and he had nothing. Then 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:24.099 he went to work for one of the citizens of that 00:02:24.099 --> 00:02:27.340 country, who sent him into the fields to feed 00:02:27.340 --> 00:02:31.560 his pigs. He longed to eat his field from the 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:35.400 carapods the pigs were eating, but no one would 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:39.120 give him any. When he came to his senses, he 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:43.819 said, How many of my father's hired hands have 00:02:43.819 --> 00:02:47.400 more than enough food? And here I am, dying of 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:51.159 hunger. I'll get up. Go to my father and say 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:54.419 to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven 00:02:54.419 --> 00:02:57.680 and in your sight. I'm no longer worthy to be 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:01.319 called your son. Make me like one of your hired 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:06.139 hands. So he got up and went to his father. While 00:03:06.139 --> 00:03:08.680 the son was still a long way off, his father 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:13.259 saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran 00:03:13.259 --> 00:03:15.780 through his arms around his neck and kissed him. 00:03:16.340 --> 00:03:20.259 The son said to him, Father, I have sinned against 00:03:20.259 --> 00:03:22.699 heaven and in your sight I am no longer worthy 00:03:22.699 --> 00:03:27.340 to be called your son. The father told his slaves, 00:03:27.620 --> 00:03:30.599 Quick, bring out the best robe and put it on 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:33.520 him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.900 his feet. Then bring the fattened calf and slaughter 00:03:36.900 --> 00:03:40.939 it. And let's celebrate with a feast. Because 00:03:40.939 --> 00:03:43.500 the son of mine was dead and is alive again. 00:03:44.219 --> 00:03:49.590 He was lost and is found. So they began. To celebrate. 00:03:50.689 --> 00:03:53.669 Now this is a popular passage in a well -known 00:03:53.669 --> 00:03:58.870 parable of Jesus. And rightfully so. I believe 00:03:58.870 --> 00:04:02.289 it's a parable that every one of us can connect 00:04:02.289 --> 00:04:05.710 with. Now the setting is very simple for us to 00:04:05.710 --> 00:04:08.669 understand what's going on. There's a father 00:04:08.669 --> 00:04:12.409 who has two sons and all is well. The father 00:04:12.409 --> 00:04:14.650 has raised the sons. The father has provided 00:04:14.650 --> 00:04:17.529 for the sons. Everything that the Father has 00:04:17.529 --> 00:04:20.490 will be the Son's, and everything is established 00:04:20.490 --> 00:04:23.170 for them. They're in a place of safety and security, 00:04:23.410 --> 00:04:27.709 and all their provisions are met. So there's 00:04:27.709 --> 00:04:30.089 really no need for the Son to leave. Why would 00:04:30.089 --> 00:04:33.689 the Son want to leave the presence of the Father? 00:04:35.149 --> 00:04:38.029 Because the Son has the same problem that many 00:04:38.029 --> 00:04:42.089 of us have, and that is the grass is always greener 00:04:42.089 --> 00:04:46.449 on the other side of the fence. where we are 00:04:46.449 --> 00:04:49.410 that doesn't look as good as where we want to 00:04:49.410 --> 00:04:51.750 be i don't i don't know what what what that is 00:04:51.750 --> 00:04:54.230 in us we just think that there's got to be something 00:04:54.230 --> 00:04:56.889 better there's got to be something better and 00:04:56.889 --> 00:04:59.649 we never stop to think that that maybe we're 00:04:59.649 --> 00:05:02.629 in a good place sometimes we think the grass 00:05:02.629 --> 00:05:04.589 on the other side of the fence is greener and 00:05:04.589 --> 00:05:07.230 sometimes we find out it's the same grass we've 00:05:07.230 --> 00:05:11.470 been eating or maybe even not as good and so 00:05:11.470 --> 00:05:13.689 the son had grew up in the father's house and 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:16.220 And you guys get this because you were all teenagers 00:05:16.220 --> 00:05:18.939 once. And, you know, your parents have rules 00:05:18.939 --> 00:05:21.259 and they have ways they like to do things. And 00:05:21.259 --> 00:05:23.600 you say, I don't want to follow these rules. 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:26.240 And they say, it's my roof, my rules. And they 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.379 say, it's time to find a new roof. You've had 00:05:28.379 --> 00:05:30.399 this conversation with your parents probably, 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.720 something similar to that. And if you've got 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:35.920 young kids and I've got bad news for you, you're 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:38.680 going to have that conversation with them. And, 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:41.339 like, there's something about. even if we're 00:05:41.339 --> 00:05:43.800 teenagers and maybe even adults, that we think, 00:05:43.860 --> 00:05:48.160 I want to go out and do it my way. And the son 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:52.699 here didn't even really work to do it his way. 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:54.839 He just said, Dad, give me some money. I'm going 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:56.399 to get this anyway, right? You're going to die. 00:05:56.500 --> 00:05:58.220 I'm going to get what's coming to me, so just 00:05:58.220 --> 00:06:01.100 let me have it now. And I want to go and do things 00:06:01.100 --> 00:06:03.579 my way, which was the first mistake that he made. 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:08.250 And the father allowed... the son to make this 00:06:08.250 --> 00:06:10.730 mistake. Now, maybe there's something we can 00:06:10.730 --> 00:06:13.529 gain from that, too, is that sometimes as parents, 00:06:13.569 --> 00:06:15.670 maybe you have to let your kids make those mistakes. 00:06:15.850 --> 00:06:17.470 Now, the father certainly knew that this was 00:06:17.470 --> 00:06:20.370 not going to be good for the son. It probably 00:06:20.370 --> 00:06:22.550 wasn't going to work out good. It was foolish 00:06:22.550 --> 00:06:26.990 to begin with, but nevertheless, the father granted 00:06:26.990 --> 00:06:31.930 the son's request. He gave him the money, and 00:06:31.930 --> 00:06:35.389 the son went out and lived foolishly, and we 00:06:35.389 --> 00:06:37.480 get it. I think that's why stories like this 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:39.740 are so good. Jesus was so brilliant at using 00:06:39.740 --> 00:06:42.519 these kind of stories because every one of us, 00:06:42.579 --> 00:06:45.959 this is probably your story. You were young one 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:49.100 day. You were so proud and so foolish you were 00:06:49.100 --> 00:06:50.839 going to do it your way, and you went out and 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:53.759 you just made the worst decisions possible. And 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.560 you blew everything you had, and you didn't plan 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:57.079 ahead, and you didn't think straight, and you 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:00.319 did stupid, stupid things, and you find yourself 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:03.819 in a mess. It turns out all those things your 00:07:03.819 --> 00:07:05.819 parents had said, your grandparents had said, 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:09.500 they start to make a lot more sense. Like when 00:07:09.500 --> 00:07:12.699 you're young, your parents are so stupid. And 00:07:12.699 --> 00:07:14.839 then the older you get, your parents, they get 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.139 smart. It's the craziest thing. And nothing's 00:07:17.139 --> 00:07:20.680 changed. And so this guy was probably not so 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:23.639 different than you and I. His dad wasn't giving 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:25.740 him the life that he wanted. It's got to be better 00:07:25.740 --> 00:07:27.759 out there. Give me what I got. I'm going to go 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:29.819 out and live my life my way and do my thing. 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:33.620 And he did that. And he lived so foolishly and 00:07:33.620 --> 00:07:38.980 got himself in such a bad, bad situation. Now 00:07:38.980 --> 00:07:42.220 he ends up working for a pig farmer, feeding 00:07:42.220 --> 00:07:45.139 pigs. He wants to eat the pig slop. The text 00:07:45.139 --> 00:07:46.959 says they won't even give him none of the pig 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:48.920 slop. He's starving to death. There's a famine 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:52.699 in the land. His foolishness has got him in a 00:07:52.699 --> 00:07:56.939 bad, bad place. Now that might be where some 00:07:56.939 --> 00:07:59.550 of us are today. It might have been where you 00:07:59.550 --> 00:08:01.389 were when you were a teenager or it might be 00:08:01.389 --> 00:08:04.370 where you are as an adult. You may have made 00:08:04.370 --> 00:08:07.610 some really foolish decisions and they are painful. 00:08:08.470 --> 00:08:10.990 And man, we're in the midst of that pain. We 00:08:10.990 --> 00:08:13.910 don't like it. But a lot of times our decisions 00:08:13.910 --> 00:08:17.350 get us right there in that spot. And so he begins 00:08:17.350 --> 00:08:21.889 to think and he says, golly, when I was in my 00:08:21.889 --> 00:08:23.970 father's house, things were pretty good. He says, 00:08:24.069 --> 00:08:28.279 even my father's servants. Even they've got it 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.939 better than me. Even the people who work for 00:08:30.939 --> 00:08:33.899 my father were better taken care of than I am. 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:35.940 I'm not here with the pigs. I don't have anything 00:08:35.940 --> 00:08:39.019 to eat. I've got to do something. So he plans 00:08:39.019 --> 00:08:41.240 out this whole speech. I'm going to go home and 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:42.840 I'm going to tell my dad everything I've done. 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:47.399 And then he has to take that step to go back 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:50.659 home. And that's a hard step to take. Now, I 00:08:50.659 --> 00:08:52.659 don't know if any of you have ever been there 00:08:52.659 --> 00:08:55.220 before. I suspect you have where you've... You've 00:08:55.220 --> 00:08:57.240 decided to do things your way and you said, I 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.139 can do this. I'll do the way I want to do it. 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:02.740 I don't need you. And then all of a sudden you 00:09:02.740 --> 00:09:09.519 find out, uh -oh, I do need dad or mom or whoever 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.259 it may be. And that's a hard step to take to 00:09:13.259 --> 00:09:16.360 swallow that pride because now all of a sudden 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.000 you've got to go back and you've got to say, 00:09:18.179 --> 00:09:23.259 I need some help. And sometimes people don't 00:09:23.259 --> 00:09:27.679 take that step. Sometimes we're too ashamed or 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:31.360 sometimes we're just too proud. Sometimes we'd 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:35.820 rather just be proud and live in hungry and afraid 00:09:35.820 --> 00:09:39.659 and ashamed because we're too proud to take that 00:09:39.659 --> 00:09:43.340 step. And as hard as it may be, that step is 00:09:43.340 --> 00:09:46.480 what's going to restore us in life. Now maybe 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:49.620 for some of you today, maybe this story is kind 00:09:49.620 --> 00:09:51.879 of literally your situation. Maybe there's a 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.840 broken relationship you have with a parent. or 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:56.980 a child because of something like this. Maybe 00:09:56.980 --> 00:10:00.820 this scripture today is a good wake -up call 00:10:00.820 --> 00:10:04.779 for you to say, you know what? It's not good 00:10:04.779 --> 00:10:07.620 to live separated. It's not good to live in pain. 00:10:07.820 --> 00:10:10.919 It's not good when there's foolishness involved, 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.019 whether it's your foolishness or your child's 00:10:13.019 --> 00:10:15.679 foolishness or somebody else's foolishness. Our 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:18.500 desire should be for some restoration to take 00:10:18.500 --> 00:10:22.309 place, and it may be for some of us today. That 00:10:22.309 --> 00:10:25.889 it's time to take that step. That it's time to 00:10:25.889 --> 00:10:28.889 take that first step and say, man, I have really 00:10:28.889 --> 00:10:33.149 blown it and I'm in a bad place. But I want to 00:10:33.149 --> 00:10:36.330 go back where there's peace and safety and security. 00:10:37.429 --> 00:10:42.289 And so the son begins his journey home. And the 00:10:42.289 --> 00:10:46.169 beautiful part of the story is that as the father 00:10:46.169 --> 00:10:52.399 sees the son coming in the distance, Smirk or 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:54.659 smile and say, well, I told you so. I can't wait 00:10:54.659 --> 00:10:56.120 until he gets over here to tell him. His first 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:58.879 words were not, I told you so. And that's a good 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:03.179 lesson in there for us too. Okay, so maybe your 00:11:03.179 --> 00:11:05.440 child has done something or somebody else has 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:08.600 acted foolishly towards you. Maybe our first 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:11.559 response doesn't need to be one of, I told you 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.039 so, but one of compassion. To see that there's 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.720 somebody that's blew it and they know that they've 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.899 blown it. And they're coming back. before us 00:11:21.899 --> 00:11:26.259 in shame and in guilt and just feeling the weight 00:11:26.259 --> 00:11:29.460 of that. It's not a good time to say, I told 00:11:29.460 --> 00:11:34.700 you so. That's not love. The father, he had compassion. 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:37.600 He saw the son coming at a distance and he runs 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:41.519 out and he embraces the son and he says, my son 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:44.399 is home. Let's have a big party. Let's have a 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.299 feast. My son was dead, but now he is alive. 00:11:49.129 --> 00:11:53.210 And the father welcomes him back in with open 00:11:53.210 --> 00:11:59.570 arms. And this is a beautiful story because maybe 00:11:59.570 --> 00:12:01.990 it's not our story in real life. Maybe our life 00:12:01.990 --> 00:12:03.970 with our parents or other people have been good 00:12:03.970 --> 00:12:05.870 and we haven't made too many foolish decisions 00:12:05.870 --> 00:12:07.950 and things are pretty good. Praise the Lord if 00:12:07.950 --> 00:12:13.090 that's you. But this story is all of us because 00:12:13.090 --> 00:12:17.159 this story represents God. who's a good father, 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:19.799 who's provided for us and desires to take care 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:23.360 of us and give us all that we need in a place 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.480 of safety and security and say, look, you're 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:29.340 here. Just let me take care of you. That's what 00:12:29.340 --> 00:12:33.059 God says to each and every one of us. And how 00:12:33.059 --> 00:12:35.460 many times that we read God's command and see 00:12:35.460 --> 00:12:37.639 his instructions in our life and we just think, 00:12:37.740 --> 00:12:41.659 I want to do it my way. I don't want to do it 00:12:41.659 --> 00:12:45.580 God's way. I want to have fun. I want to do this. 00:12:45.580 --> 00:12:47.480 I want to do that. There's so many things in 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:50.440 our life, temptations and sin, that look so good 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:53.840 to us. And that grass on the other side looks 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:57.139 so green, but where God has placed us in God's 00:12:57.139 --> 00:13:01.200 presence is the best place for us to be. Because 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.179 it's there we have everything that we need. And 00:13:05.179 --> 00:13:08.100 some of you know what it feels like to be in 00:13:08.100 --> 00:13:09.679 the presence of the Lord. You know that joy. 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:14.940 You know that peace. You know that comfort. And 00:13:14.940 --> 00:13:18.159 some of you know what it feels like to step out 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:21.700 from that. Some of you know what it feels like 00:13:21.700 --> 00:13:25.960 to be out on your own doing it your way. To be 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:28.279 out living for the world. To be out living for 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.820 sin. And you know what it feels like. And you 00:13:31.820 --> 00:13:34.779 know what this son in the story felt like. Because 00:13:34.779 --> 00:13:37.850 you're there right now. You may have food on 00:13:37.850 --> 00:13:40.210 your plate today, but spiritually inside you 00:13:40.210 --> 00:13:43.110 just feel like you're just famished, like you're 00:13:43.110 --> 00:13:45.149 just starving, like you cannot make it. Like, 00:13:45.190 --> 00:13:49.610 how can I go on? Well, I've got good news for 00:13:49.610 --> 00:13:53.090 you today. God the Father wants you to come back 00:13:53.090 --> 00:13:56.289 to Him. All you've got to do is take that step. 00:13:57.629 --> 00:14:00.389 Yeah, you've probably blown it. Every one of 00:14:00.389 --> 00:14:03.090 us has. We have blown it with such foolishness 00:14:03.090 --> 00:14:06.320 in our life. And we have sinned so greatly and 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.620 God has provided for us and we know what he told 00:14:08.620 --> 00:14:12.700 us to do and we've just done the opposite. We've 00:14:12.700 --> 00:14:14.740 just abandoned him. We've just stepped away from 00:14:14.740 --> 00:14:17.240 him. We've just quit listening to him and gone 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:19.960 our own way and we find ourselves in such a rotten 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:23.899 place. But I want to tell you today that Jesus 00:14:23.899 --> 00:14:25.779 Christ died on the cross so that you could be 00:14:25.779 --> 00:14:29.679 forgiven. Whatever your sin may be, however great 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:31.539 it may be, I want you to know today that the 00:14:31.539 --> 00:14:33.809 Lord... He wants you to come home. He wants you 00:14:33.809 --> 00:14:35.629 to take that step. He wants you to get on that 00:14:35.629 --> 00:14:38.750 journey. He wants you to come before Him. He 00:14:38.750 --> 00:14:42.629 wants to give you compassion and grace. God doesn't 00:14:42.629 --> 00:14:45.429 desire to see you struggle and fail and live 00:14:45.429 --> 00:14:48.210 in foolishness. He wants to see you seek Him 00:14:48.210 --> 00:14:53.049 and put your trust in Him. So what are you going 00:14:53.049 --> 00:14:57.289 to do today? The invitation that God gives us 00:14:57.289 --> 00:14:59.269 through Jesus Christ is that we can come home. 00:15:00.169 --> 00:15:04.629 That our sins can be forgiven. Have you wandered 00:15:04.629 --> 00:15:09.429 far away from God? Today you can come home. If 00:15:09.429 --> 00:15:12.830 you take that step. If God's speaking to you 00:15:12.830 --> 00:15:16.370 today. Don't stay in a foreign land. Starving 00:15:16.370 --> 00:15:20.610 and worried and afraid. Seek the Lord. Let's 00:15:20.610 --> 00:15:24.509 pray. God we come to you. We thank you for your 00:15:24.509 --> 00:15:27.230 good word. I pray dear Lord that you would help 00:15:27.230 --> 00:15:30.129 us. In our life, in the midst of our foolishness, 00:15:30.149 --> 00:15:32.210 wherever we may be, dear Lord, maybe there are 00:15:32.210 --> 00:15:35.429 some in here that's just made some really foolish 00:15:35.429 --> 00:15:37.669 choices. Maybe there's some online, dear Lord, 00:15:37.769 --> 00:15:40.309 that's wandered far away from you, dear Lord. 00:15:41.710 --> 00:15:43.830 I pray today that they would just repent. To 00:15:43.830 --> 00:15:46.970 know that you love them, that you don't want 00:15:46.970 --> 00:15:48.710 them to stay in your foolishness, but you sent 00:15:48.710 --> 00:15:50.730 Jesus Christ to die on the cross so that they 00:15:50.730 --> 00:15:54.370 could be forgiven. So if there are some here 00:15:54.370 --> 00:15:56.049 today that don't know him, I pray that they take 00:15:56.049 --> 00:15:59.080 that step. to come to Jesus. If there are some 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:02.279 in here today, God, that are yours, and they've 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:04.960 just been like the prodigal son and wandered 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.919 away, I pray today that they would repent and 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.220 return to you. God, if you've spoken to anybody, 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:13.379 I pray that as this music plays, that they would 00:16:13.379 --> 00:16:16.820 come to you now. And I ask these things in Jesus' 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:18.019 name. Amen.