WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.720 I have been recently watching this show for the 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:07.219 last couple of seasons called Tracker. And maybe 00:00:07.219 --> 00:00:09.259 you've seen the show. If you haven't, I'm going 00:00:09.259 --> 00:00:11.220 to kind of tell you a little bit about it, but 00:00:11.220 --> 00:00:14.759 it's not super relevant. Tracker is this show 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:17.039 that centers around this guy named Coulter Shaw. 00:00:17.300 --> 00:00:22.079 And Coulter is, he's basically like a private 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:26.199 investigator on steroids. Every episode starts 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:28.620 with somebody going missing. Somebody gets kidnapped, 00:00:28.899 --> 00:00:31.140 they get lost in the woods or something, they 00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:34.140 go missing. And so what happens after that person 00:00:34.140 --> 00:00:36.820 goes missing is a loved one will reach out to 00:00:36.820 --> 00:00:39.979 Coulter and they will offer him a large amount 00:00:39.979 --> 00:00:43.579 of money to find their missing loved one. I mean, 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:45.780 we're talking like tens of thousands of dollars 00:00:45.780 --> 00:00:48.740 to find their missing loved one. And so as the 00:00:48.740 --> 00:00:51.399 episode progresses, Coulter does his thing. He 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:53.880 tracks down the person. Sometimes he has to kill 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:55.899 a few bad guys and, you know, he has to break 00:00:55.899 --> 00:00:58.939 out of, you know, TV stuff, right? But he finds 00:00:58.939 --> 00:01:01.820 the missing person and he brings them back to 00:01:01.820 --> 00:01:04.780 the people who love them. There's always two 00:01:04.780 --> 00:01:08.019 things at play in these episodes. The first thing 00:01:08.019 --> 00:01:10.579 I think about is the amount of money that the 00:01:10.579 --> 00:01:14.079 person, the loved one offers is showing the value 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:17.780 of the person who is missing. Think about for 00:01:17.780 --> 00:01:20.219 you, if somebody that you loved, one of your 00:01:20.219 --> 00:01:23.560 children or a relative or a friend or a coworker, 00:01:23.620 --> 00:01:25.200 if someone that you loved and you cared about 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.120 went missing, how much would you be willing to 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:32.019 pay to find them? And the second thing is when 00:01:32.019 --> 00:01:35.500 he finds them, he's not just finding somebody 00:01:35.500 --> 00:01:39.609 and bringing them home. He is redeeming and restoring 00:01:39.609 --> 00:01:43.549 their life and their relationship. He's bringing 00:01:43.549 --> 00:01:45.450 these people back together, and now they can 00:01:45.450 --> 00:01:47.250 be a family again, or now they can be friends, 00:01:47.349 --> 00:01:49.469 now they can be a couple. Whatever it is, he's 00:01:49.469 --> 00:01:53.150 bringing these people home and restoring relationship 00:01:53.150 --> 00:01:57.189 and redeeming life. And at the end of a lot of 00:01:57.189 --> 00:02:00.489 the episodes, after the reunion takes place, 00:02:00.609 --> 00:02:02.750 Colter's getting ready to leave, and he'll say 00:02:02.750 --> 00:02:05.730 something to the effect of, stay out of trouble. 00:02:07.780 --> 00:02:10.280 Now I want you to hold on to that line. Stay 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:13.199 out of trouble and take care of each other. You 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:14.979 see, I found that relevant to our lesson this 00:02:14.979 --> 00:02:17.780 morning because in Luke 15, Jesus tells three 00:02:17.780 --> 00:02:22.419 stories about four highly valued missing things. 00:02:22.780 --> 00:02:25.080 The first one is the sheep that wandered off. 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:27.860 The second one is a coin that gets lost. The 00:02:27.860 --> 00:02:30.219 third is a son who ran away. And then the fourth 00:02:30.219 --> 00:02:32.960 was the son who stayed. He never ran away, but 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:36.819 he was just as lost. because of his heart, as 00:02:36.819 --> 00:02:39.340 any of the other characters in these stories. 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:43.840 And in all of these stories, we see two consistent 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.180 themes. Just like in the episodes of Tracker, 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:51.819 we see the value of the lost and what I'm going 00:02:51.819 --> 00:02:56.520 to call the aftermath of redemption. And so we 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:59.960 start with the value of the lost. I want you 00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:02.400 to notice in all of these stories, like in Tracker, 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:05.180 there is a sense of urgency. There's priority 00:03:05.180 --> 00:03:07.960 placed on finding the thing or the person or 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:11.219 the animal that is lost. We're not talking about, 00:03:11.259 --> 00:03:13.300 you know, the random Lego that gets lost under 00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:15.199 the couch and it stays there for three years. 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:17.159 And then one day you're doing a deep cleaning 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.879 of the house and you finally find that Lego or 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:22.639 like. yesterday, I was cleaning up in our garage 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:24.219 because we had a bunch of stuff from when we 00:03:24.219 --> 00:03:26.219 moved. And then we sold my truck. And when we 00:03:26.219 --> 00:03:27.699 sold my truck, we just took everything out of 00:03:27.699 --> 00:03:29.139 it and threw it in the garage. So I'm cleaning 00:03:29.139 --> 00:03:30.780 up the garage because it looked like a mess. 00:03:30.939 --> 00:03:33.580 And I find a bunch because Peyton has a million 00:03:33.580 --> 00:03:36.719 Hot Wheels and Monster Trucks. So I find a bunch 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.680 of Hot Wheels and Monster Trucks in the garage. 00:03:39.099 --> 00:03:41.900 And this kid, even though he still has a bunch 00:03:41.900 --> 00:03:44.259 of Hot Wheels and Monster Trucks inside the house, 00:03:44.379 --> 00:03:46.500 he sees the ones that I found out of the garage. 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:48.419 And he's like, oh, I've been looking for that. 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:52.129 I'm like, No, you haven't. Because there's no 00:03:52.129 --> 00:03:54.550 urgency for something that you have an excess 00:03:54.550 --> 00:03:57.530 in. But when it's something that you really need 00:03:57.530 --> 00:04:04.490 to find, like a child or like a paycheck, anybody, 00:04:04.569 --> 00:04:07.009 we don't do paper paychecks anymore, but has 00:04:07.009 --> 00:04:10.509 anybody ever lost a paycheck? Anybody? Nobody's 00:04:10.509 --> 00:04:12.810 ever done that? Okay, so we've had some people 00:04:12.810 --> 00:04:15.689 lose a paycheck. I can remember one time in high 00:04:15.689 --> 00:04:18.490 school, I didn't have direct deposit set up or 00:04:18.490 --> 00:04:20.670 something, I guess. Oh no, I did like some yard 00:04:20.670 --> 00:04:22.310 work or somebody. So they gave me a check and 00:04:22.310 --> 00:04:26.589 I put it in my car. And as a high schooler working 00:04:26.589 --> 00:04:30.310 two jobs, like my car was messy and I lost the 00:04:30.310 --> 00:04:33.509 check. Eventually I found it. It was not in my 00:04:33.509 --> 00:04:35.910 car after all. It was in my room under some stuff 00:04:35.910 --> 00:04:38.089 on my desk. That's not the point. I lost the 00:04:38.089 --> 00:04:40.550 check and there was a lot of urgency in needing 00:04:40.550 --> 00:04:44.060 to find that check. And so that's what we're 00:04:44.060 --> 00:04:45.500 talking about here. We're talking about things 00:04:45.500 --> 00:04:48.899 that have high value, things that have to be 00:04:48.899 --> 00:04:52.399 found. And Jesus makes that clear in Luke 15, 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:54.639 starting in verses four through six. He says, 00:04:54.740 --> 00:04:57.180 what man of you having a hundred sheep, if he 00:04:57.180 --> 00:04:59.779 has lost one of them, does not leave the 99 in 00:04:59.779 --> 00:05:02.379 the open country and go after the one that is 00:05:02.379 --> 00:05:05.420 lost until he finds it. And when he has found 00:05:05.420 --> 00:05:07.959 it, he lays it on his shoulders rejoicing. And 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:10.399 when he comes home, he calls together his friends 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:12.959 and his neighbors saying to them, rejoice with 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:16.040 me for I found my sheep that was lost. Do you 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:20.680 see it? He goes after it. until he finds it. 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:24.600 He doesn't look and then give up. He doesn't 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:26.639 just look for it for a little bit and then decide, 00:05:26.740 --> 00:05:28.860 ah, it's not really worth it. He looks for it 00:05:28.860 --> 00:05:32.800 until he finds it. And then Jesus gives us another 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:35.079 picture in Luke 15, verses eight through nine. 00:05:35.300 --> 00:05:37.680 Or what woman having 10 silver coins, if she 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:40.579 loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep 00:05:40.579 --> 00:05:43.100 the house and seek diligently until she finds 00:05:43.100 --> 00:05:45.439 it. And when she has found it, she calls together 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:47.899 her friends and neighbors saying, rejoice with 00:05:47.899 --> 00:05:50.339 me for I have found the coin that I had lost. 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:56.180 She searches diligently. Diligently is a really, 00:05:56.259 --> 00:06:00.970 it's a really good word. There's effort. There's 00:06:00.970 --> 00:06:04.209 intention. There's effort and intention. She 00:06:04.209 --> 00:06:07.110 searches diligently all because this thing that 00:06:07.110 --> 00:06:11.550 she lost has value. She needs this coin. And 00:06:11.550 --> 00:06:14.649 then we get to the story of the son. Just to 00:06:14.649 --> 00:06:16.509 give you a little bit of backstory in case you're 00:06:16.509 --> 00:06:19.490 not familiar with this story. This is a son of 00:06:19.490 --> 00:06:21.689 a father who has two sons. They work with their 00:06:21.689 --> 00:06:24.069 father. Their father clearly has a lot to offer 00:06:24.069 --> 00:06:26.449 them. And they each have an inheritance waiting 00:06:26.449 --> 00:06:28.709 for them when their father dies. Well, this son 00:06:28.709 --> 00:06:30.910 decides to go to his father. He says, hey, I 00:06:30.910 --> 00:06:33.430 want my inheritance early. And the father gives 00:06:33.430 --> 00:06:35.350 it to him. For some reason, he gives him the 00:06:35.350 --> 00:06:37.689 inheritance. The son takes the inheritance. He 00:06:37.689 --> 00:06:40.269 goes off into what the Bible calls a far country. 00:06:40.449 --> 00:06:42.870 He goes out there and he does who knows what. 00:06:43.670 --> 00:06:46.649 things and he blows all of the money. He makes 00:06:46.649 --> 00:06:49.189 a mess of his life and he finds himself sleeping 00:06:49.189 --> 00:06:52.069 with pigs and he decides, he's like, I need to 00:06:52.069 --> 00:06:54.589 just go home and maybe if I go home, I can ask 00:06:54.589 --> 00:06:57.290 my dad if I can just be a servant in his household. 00:06:57.769 --> 00:06:59.930 He's not even asking that he can go back and 00:06:59.930 --> 00:07:02.170 be a son. He's not asking that he goes back and 00:07:02.170 --> 00:07:05.089 takes his rightful place as heir. He's just asking, 00:07:05.110 --> 00:07:07.029 can I have a spot in the bunkhouse with the rest 00:07:07.029 --> 00:07:10.519 of the slaves? So he gets up, he goes home, and 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:13.560 this is what Luke 15 verses 20 through 24 tell 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:17.480 us. But while he was still a long way off, his 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:21.060 father saw him and felt compassion and ran and 00:07:21.060 --> 00:07:23.699 embraced him and kissed him. And the son said 00:07:23.699 --> 00:07:25.759 to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:28.600 and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:30.920 your son. But the father said to his servants, 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:33.939 bring quickly the best robe and put it on him 00:07:33.939 --> 00:07:36.980 and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet 00:07:36.980 --> 00:07:39.579 and bring the fattened calf and kill it and let 00:07:39.579 --> 00:07:42.740 us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:45.970 and is alive again. Again, he was lost and is 00:07:45.970 --> 00:07:51.069 found and they began to celebrate. We covered 00:07:51.069 --> 00:07:53.569 these parables a few months ago in our series 00:07:53.569 --> 00:07:56.850 where we really focus in on looking for the one, 00:07:56.910 --> 00:07:58.709 the one in our life that we know that is lost. 00:07:58.850 --> 00:08:01.709 And we emphasize the need to celebrate when those 00:08:01.709 --> 00:08:04.069 people come home. I told you, I want to bring 00:08:04.069 --> 00:08:07.430 so many lost people to the kingdom of God that 00:08:07.430 --> 00:08:10.769 we are the party planning commission of heaven's 00:08:10.769 --> 00:08:13.449 worst nightmare because we want to make heaven 00:08:13.449 --> 00:08:16.310 have to constantly be throwing parties because 00:08:16.310 --> 00:08:18.930 we are leading people to Christ. And so we look 00:08:18.930 --> 00:08:22.370 at these stories. And we see this good stuff 00:08:22.370 --> 00:08:24.910 of the father running, which in that culture 00:08:24.910 --> 00:08:27.670 is shameful for a man to run. But he doesn't 00:08:27.670 --> 00:08:30.470 care about shame. His son is home, so he runs. 00:08:30.629 --> 00:08:33.769 He embraces. He restores. He gives the best of 00:08:33.769 --> 00:08:37.539 everything. And for who? For who? The son that 00:08:37.539 --> 00:08:40.399 dishonored him? The son that took his inheritance 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.639 early and went off and wasted it? The son who 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.200 made a mess of his life? The son who probably 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:48.120 wasted it on awful things? I mean, I can just 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:51.279 think of the debauchery, the sinful nature of 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:53.860 all of the stuff the son got into. This is the 00:08:53.860 --> 00:08:57.100 guy that the father brings shame upon himself 00:08:57.100 --> 00:08:59.899 on to run to him, embrace him, restore him, and 00:08:59.899 --> 00:09:04.600 then throw a party? Yeah, that son. That's the 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.460 one that the father would do that for. And why? 00:09:07.659 --> 00:09:10.019 Because as the father says, read this out loud 00:09:10.019 --> 00:09:13.100 with me, my son was dead and is alive again. 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:19.919 He was lost and is found. How many of you, if 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:24.399 your child went missing, if your child took off 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:28.080 and you couldn't find them, how many of you would 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.909 celebrate when they came home? All of us. We 00:09:31.909 --> 00:09:34.450 all would. Yeah, hands in the air. Yes, we would 00:09:34.450 --> 00:09:37.110 celebrate. We would go to the ends of the earth 00:09:37.110 --> 00:09:41.750 to bring our children home. You maybe have said 00:09:41.750 --> 00:09:43.990 something like, there is nothing I wouldn't do 00:09:43.990 --> 00:09:47.049 for you. You know, I was sitting there as I was 00:09:47.049 --> 00:09:49.509 thinking about this lesson, I thought. I could 00:09:49.509 --> 00:09:51.870 count, I mean, we've only been here in Blairsville 00:09:51.870 --> 00:09:54.190 for a couple of months now. In fact, I was telling 00:09:54.190 --> 00:09:57.250 Chad yesterday that this weekend is like the 00:09:57.250 --> 00:10:00.029 one year anniversary of me coming to visit you 00:10:00.029 --> 00:10:02.870 guys. And then a few weeks later, we decided 00:10:02.870 --> 00:10:06.110 to move here. So in this short time that we've 00:10:06.110 --> 00:10:09.110 known you, I could probably count a lot of people 00:10:09.110 --> 00:10:13.070 that would do anything for my children. I was 00:10:13.070 --> 00:10:14.590 sitting there thinking, I'm like, I could probably 00:10:14.590 --> 00:10:16.610 count on one hand or two, maybe the amount of 00:10:16.610 --> 00:10:18.350 people in this room that would kill for my kids. 00:10:19.129 --> 00:10:21.110 And so think about what you would do for your 00:10:21.110 --> 00:10:24.370 own kids. That's what we're looking at here. 00:10:24.789 --> 00:10:28.070 We're looking at a picture of a God who says, 00:10:28.350 --> 00:10:31.190 I don't care what they've done. I don't care 00:10:31.190 --> 00:10:33.509 where they've gone. I don't care who they have 00:10:33.509 --> 00:10:36.190 been in their past. I don't care what they're 00:10:36.190 --> 00:10:39.210 involved in now. There is no price I would not 00:10:39.210 --> 00:10:41.929 pay to bring them home. And when they come home, 00:10:42.029 --> 00:10:45.169 there is no shortage of celebration that we would 00:10:45.169 --> 00:10:50.059 have. That's what we see here. My son was dead. 00:10:50.100 --> 00:10:52.360 He's alive again. He was lost. He's now found. 00:10:52.460 --> 00:10:55.059 These aren't just nice stories. This isn't Hallmark. 00:10:55.259 --> 00:10:57.899 This isn't an episode of Tracker. This is why 00:10:57.899 --> 00:11:00.799 Jesus came. This is revealing to us the very 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:04.820 heart of God. If I were to put it in one sentence, 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.759 this is the value that the creator of the universe 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:12.879 places on people. And if I need to make this 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:15.860 personal for you, this is the value that the 00:11:15.860 --> 00:11:21.100 God of all creation places on you, regardless 00:11:21.100 --> 00:11:24.019 of where you've been, regardless of what you 00:11:24.019 --> 00:11:26.360 have done, regardless of what you said to the 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:28.580 person in the drive -thru line in front of you 00:11:28.580 --> 00:11:32.919 this morning. The God of all creation looks at 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:36.980 you and says, there is nothing I would not do 00:11:36.980 --> 00:11:43.220 to bring you home. That's why Jesus came. That's 00:11:43.220 --> 00:11:45.179 why he lived the life he lived. That's why he 00:11:45.179 --> 00:11:49.039 eventually died the way he did. This is why Jesus 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:52.700 came. Because God could not and he does not sit 00:11:52.700 --> 00:11:56.840 back and wait. God seeks, he pursues, he restores. 00:11:57.740 --> 00:11:59.899 You know, the thing I love about the story of 00:11:59.899 --> 00:12:02.460 the prodigal son is the father saw him from a 00:12:02.460 --> 00:12:04.899 long way off. And what I think about that is 00:12:04.899 --> 00:12:07.220 the father was sitting on his front porch waiting 00:12:07.220 --> 00:12:10.740 for the son to drive up the driveway. And he 00:12:10.740 --> 00:12:14.340 was watching. Because he just knew someday my 00:12:14.340 --> 00:12:17.000 son is going to come home. And I mean, I would 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:19.740 imagine the people at the local diner, the people 00:12:19.740 --> 00:12:21.879 at the farmer's market, the people in town, the 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:23.820 people at work, they would tell him, hey, dude, 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.299 you got to quit waiting on him. You got to quit 00:12:26.299 --> 00:12:29.200 looking. He's not coming back. It's time to give 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.259 up. Go ahead and take the missing person posters 00:12:31.259 --> 00:12:36.080 down. He's not coming home. And I bet he would 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:39.600 sit there and say, you have no clue. My son's 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.200 coming home. I know he's coming home. And he 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.419 waited and he looked and he waited. And finally 00:12:46.419 --> 00:12:48.919 the son came home. And then that leads us to 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.809 the aftermath of redemption. Because what happens 00:12:52.809 --> 00:12:55.490 after redemption happens? What happens after 00:12:55.490 --> 00:12:57.850 the son is restored? What happens after the sheep 00:12:57.850 --> 00:12:59.909 is brought home? What happens after the coin 00:12:59.909 --> 00:13:03.590 is found? Well, when redemption happens, we see 00:13:03.590 --> 00:13:06.289 it, celebration happens. Look again with me at 00:13:06.289 --> 00:13:09.049 Luke 15, verses six through seven. Rejoice with 00:13:09.049 --> 00:13:12.090 me, for I found my sheep that was lost. Just 00:13:12.090 --> 00:13:14.370 so I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven 00:13:14.370 --> 00:13:17.929 over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous 00:13:17.929 --> 00:13:23.070 persons who need no repentance. Heaven celebrates. 00:13:23.549 --> 00:13:25.750 And I really want to emphasize something this 00:13:25.750 --> 00:13:27.830 morning that I don't know that I emphasized before 00:13:27.830 --> 00:13:31.309 when we covered these parables. This celebration 00:13:31.309 --> 00:13:36.330 is never private. Think about in these stories, 00:13:36.590 --> 00:13:40.509 the man finds a sheep. He goes and tells everybody, 00:13:40.590 --> 00:13:42.769 hey, come on. We're having a party because my 00:13:42.769 --> 00:13:45.230 sheep has been found. The woman finds her coin. 00:13:45.289 --> 00:13:47.409 She goes around telling everybody, come on, we're 00:13:47.409 --> 00:13:49.049 having a party because my coin has been found. 00:13:49.129 --> 00:13:52.389 The father, his son comes home and he says, hey, 00:13:52.409 --> 00:13:55.429 we're having a party. My son has been found. 00:13:57.029 --> 00:14:00.809 Redemption. When redemption happens, it creates 00:14:00.809 --> 00:14:06.830 community -wide joy. When God restores someone, 00:14:07.110 --> 00:14:11.019 and you've seen it before. When somebody gives 00:14:11.019 --> 00:14:14.820 their life to Christ, when somebody leaves the 00:14:14.820 --> 00:14:18.299 life of addiction and they come home, when somebody 00:14:18.299 --> 00:14:21.220 gives up the life of crime and they start to 00:14:21.220 --> 00:14:23.700 straighten up their life, when somebody gives 00:14:23.700 --> 00:14:25.940 up the things that they were doing that was damaging 00:14:25.940 --> 00:14:27.879 their family, that was damaging the community, 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:29.899 that was hurting the church, when they give those 00:14:29.899 --> 00:14:32.500 things up and they start to live a normal, or 00:14:32.500 --> 00:14:35.799 not a normal, a good life, when you see that 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:38.200 happen, something happens to the people around 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:41.389 them. It changes their families. It changes their 00:14:41.389 --> 00:14:43.490 relationships. It changes their friend groups. 00:14:43.610 --> 00:14:46.289 It changes their communities. Because when God 00:14:46.289 --> 00:14:50.090 works in someone's life, it does not stay private. 00:14:50.230 --> 00:14:52.750 And if my life isn't affecting yours, then I 00:14:52.750 --> 00:14:55.049 need to ask myself, has God really redeemed me? 00:14:57.169 --> 00:15:02.549 If the world would see what God has done, it 00:15:02.549 --> 00:15:07.379 would create joy. It would overflow into everything 00:15:07.379 --> 00:15:10.379 that we are a part of. This is something that 00:15:10.379 --> 00:15:12.879 is not meant to stay contained to a building. 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:15.659 It's not meant to be personal and quiet. Yeah, 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.379 we have a personal relationship with Jesus, but 00:15:18.379 --> 00:15:20.620 that personal relationship should show up. Because 00:15:20.620 --> 00:15:23.240 guess what? I love my wife. And anybody that 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:25.899 knows me knows that I love my wife, unless they 00:15:25.899 --> 00:15:27.720 see me picking on her. Then they may have some 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:30.320 questions. But I mean, if I'm picking on you, 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:32.519 that means I love you. I love my kids, and that's 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:34.480 why I talk about them so much. And if you know 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.139 me, you know I love my kids. When we have these 00:15:37.139 --> 00:15:39.159 things that are attached to us, our hearts. These 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:42.019 things that are happening inside of us, it overflows 00:15:42.019 --> 00:15:46.500 and the world has no choice but to see it. It's 00:15:46.500 --> 00:15:50.679 supposed to reshape our lives. It's supposed 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:53.320 to reshape our relationships and reshape our 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:57.240 communities. And that leads us to Luke chapter 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:02.460 16. Because if Luke 15 shows us how God redeems 00:16:02.460 --> 00:16:06.080 people, how he restores people, then Luke 16 00:16:06.730 --> 00:16:11.250 shows us how redeemed people live. And if you've 00:16:11.250 --> 00:16:14.250 read Luke 16, you're probably like, I don't really 00:16:14.250 --> 00:16:18.950 know how that fits. Bear with me. I want to ask 00:16:18.950 --> 00:16:22.269 you, and as we go through Luke 16, I want you 00:16:22.269 --> 00:16:26.190 to see the answer. What does life look like after 00:16:26.190 --> 00:16:28.750 the celebration? Because think about, you know, 00:16:28.750 --> 00:16:30.370 when somebody gets baptized, they give their 00:16:30.370 --> 00:16:32.929 life to Christ, we applaud, we may sing a song, 00:16:32.970 --> 00:16:35.190 it's this awesome moment. They come out, everybody 00:16:35.190 --> 00:16:37.830 gives them hugs, and we may write them cards, 00:16:37.929 --> 00:16:40.549 we give them a Bible, and we celebrate. But then 00:16:40.549 --> 00:16:44.769 what happens the next week in their life? What 00:16:44.769 --> 00:16:47.049 happens with our relationship with them? What 00:16:47.049 --> 00:16:50.850 does life look like after that? Well, I want 00:16:50.850 --> 00:16:52.789 you to look at what Jesus says in Luke 16, verse 00:16:52.789 --> 00:16:56.340 10. One who is faithful in a very little is also 00:16:56.340 --> 00:16:59.720 faithful in much. And one who is dishonest in 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:03.440 a very little is also dishonest in much. Well, 00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:08.210 if my life has been redeemed by Christ, My redeemed 00:17:08.210 --> 00:17:11.549 life is a faithful life. It's a life that is 00:17:11.549 --> 00:17:14.210 committed to the cause of Christ. It's a life 00:17:14.210 --> 00:17:17.390 that is very shrewd, as the scripture would say. 00:17:17.450 --> 00:17:20.170 It's a wise life, a life that looks at everything 00:17:20.170 --> 00:17:22.210 that I have, everything that I've got going on, 00:17:22.289 --> 00:17:26.710 and wisely thinks, how can I use this to glorify 00:17:26.710 --> 00:17:29.730 God? When Jesus redeems us, we don't just go 00:17:29.730 --> 00:17:32.430 back to living the same way that we used to live, 00:17:32.549 --> 00:17:34.869 the same ways that we always have, the same way 00:17:34.869 --> 00:17:37.750 that our family always has. When Jesus redeems 00:17:37.750 --> 00:17:41.750 us, our priorities have to shift. It is no longer 00:17:41.750 --> 00:17:44.789 about me. It's no longer about what I want. It's 00:17:44.789 --> 00:17:47.509 no longer about what I think I need. It is not 00:17:47.509 --> 00:17:50.930 about anything that I would imagine is my priority. 00:17:51.150 --> 00:17:53.869 We begin to see things differently. Our time 00:17:53.869 --> 00:17:56.910 is no longer ours. Our money is no longer ours. 00:17:56.970 --> 00:17:59.930 Our relationships are no longer ours. Our influence 00:17:59.930 --> 00:18:04.890 is no longer ours. It is God's. Because when 00:18:04.890 --> 00:18:08.190 he has saved my life, we'll say this, I owe you 00:18:08.190 --> 00:18:11.710 my life. There's no way I could ever repay you. 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:14.779 When somebody does something so great for you 00:18:14.779 --> 00:18:17.339 that you just have no other choice but to commit 00:18:17.339 --> 00:18:19.660 the rest of your life to doing good in honor 00:18:19.660 --> 00:18:22.980 of them. You know, I've talked before about my 00:18:22.980 --> 00:18:25.819 youth minister, Mr. Glenn. I mentioned how when 00:18:25.819 --> 00:18:28.539 I was little, life was not as good as it should 00:18:28.539 --> 00:18:30.880 have been. It wasn't the life that you would 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.380 want for your kid. And I stumbled into this church 00:18:33.380 --> 00:18:36.869 building at nine years old. kind of middle -aged 00:18:36.869 --> 00:18:39.170 guy comes up to me, introduces himself to me, 00:18:39.250 --> 00:18:41.509 and he ends up becoming the only father that 00:18:41.509 --> 00:18:43.690 I've ever known. He taught me everything that 00:18:43.690 --> 00:18:46.710 I know about fishing, driving, hunting, and he 00:18:46.710 --> 00:18:49.529 was just the best man that I could have ever 00:18:49.529 --> 00:18:52.390 asked for. And so when I got to high school, 00:18:52.509 --> 00:18:56.049 I felt like I needed to do for others what he 00:18:56.049 --> 00:18:59.690 did for me because he saved my life. And so what 00:18:59.690 --> 00:19:01.829 I felt like I needed to do was be a minister 00:19:01.829 --> 00:19:04.089 so that I could help save other people's lives. 00:19:05.450 --> 00:19:07.890 And that's the kind of reciprocal relationship 00:19:07.890 --> 00:19:10.269 we're talking about. God has saved us. He has 00:19:10.269 --> 00:19:14.349 redeemed us. So what do we do in exchange? We 00:19:14.349 --> 00:19:18.450 should go and save others. Now, we don't do the 00:19:18.450 --> 00:19:21.690 saving. We just bring people to the God who does. 00:19:23.390 --> 00:19:25.630 So we start to see that none of this belongs 00:19:25.630 --> 00:19:28.609 to us. Nothing belongs to me. It all belongs 00:19:28.609 --> 00:19:30.910 to God. And then Jesus tells the story of the 00:19:30.910 --> 00:19:34.279 rich man and Lazarus. I want you to look at Luke 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:37.079 16, verses 19 through 25, and we're going to 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:39.099 kind of paraphrase and jump through this one. 00:19:39.259 --> 00:19:41.400 But there was a rich man who was clothed in purple 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:44.059 and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every 00:19:44.059 --> 00:19:46.759 day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:49.779 Lazarus, covered with sores. The poor man died 00:19:49.779 --> 00:19:52.240 and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. 00:19:52.539 --> 00:19:55.319 The rich man also died and was buried. But Abraham 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:58.079 said, Child, remember that you in your lifetime 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:01.380 received your good things, but now he is comforted 00:20:01.380 --> 00:20:05.829 here and you. are in anguish. I think Jesus shows 00:20:05.829 --> 00:20:11.049 us something sobering here. That this life, the 00:20:11.049 --> 00:20:17.289 things that happened from 1998 for me to 2035, 00:20:17.509 --> 00:20:22.730 whenever I die, this life, it's not the end of 00:20:22.730 --> 00:20:26.920 the story. Whatever happens to you, whatever 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:29.460 happens to me in this life, what I did in this 00:20:29.460 --> 00:20:31.460 life, it's not the end of the story. There is 00:20:31.460 --> 00:20:34.339 something greater at stake. And what I really 00:20:34.339 --> 00:20:37.359 want us to know is a redeemed life doesn't just 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:40.319 live for comfort now. It lives with eternity 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:44.319 in view. Another way I would put it is, do you 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:47.700 live every day with an eternal perspective? Because 00:20:47.700 --> 00:20:51.500 what you do today will ripple into eternity. 00:20:52.250 --> 00:20:54.829 The way you talk to people, the way you greet 00:20:54.829 --> 00:20:57.049 people, the way you love on people, the way you 00:20:57.049 --> 00:20:59.730 serve, the life that you live today will affect 00:20:59.730 --> 00:21:03.029 the life that you have tomorrow. Abraham looks 00:21:03.029 --> 00:21:05.589 at the rich man. He says, well, you enjoyed life 00:21:05.589 --> 00:21:09.529 on earth, so now not so great for you in heaven. 00:21:09.690 --> 00:21:11.910 And what he's not saying is that you can't have 00:21:11.910 --> 00:21:13.950 a good life here and a good life in eternity. 00:21:14.269 --> 00:21:18.190 What he's saying is you did not focus on the 00:21:18.190 --> 00:21:23.049 eternal matters. A life that's redeemed notices 00:21:23.049 --> 00:21:26.789 people. The rich man wouldn't give Lazarus the 00:21:26.789 --> 00:21:30.730 time of day. And so when he got to eternity, 00:21:30.829 --> 00:21:34.349 Lazarus had the nice life, and the rich man just 00:21:34.349 --> 00:21:37.490 kind of suffered because he didn't notice Lazarus. 00:21:37.529 --> 00:21:39.549 He didn't give him what he needed. He didn't 00:21:39.549 --> 00:21:41.990 respond to the need. A redeemed life responds 00:21:41.990 --> 00:21:45.670 to the needs of people around them. A redeemed 00:21:45.670 --> 00:21:50.470 life reflects the heart of God. And so here's 00:21:50.470 --> 00:21:54.710 what we see. What we see is that God values what 00:21:54.710 --> 00:21:58.069 is lost so much so that he would do anything 00:21:58.069 --> 00:22:03.710 to go and save the lost. Think about the expensive 00:22:03.710 --> 00:22:06.329 or the high amounts of money that the people 00:22:06.329 --> 00:22:09.009 in these episodes of Tracker pay to find their 00:22:09.009 --> 00:22:12.180 loved ones. That's what we're talking about here. 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:14.680 We're talking about a God that would send His 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:18.079 Son from heaven to earth to live among men who 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:21.259 would hate Him, to die on a cross, a brutal death, 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:25.319 so that we could have a chance at a good eternity. 00:22:26.900 --> 00:22:30.599 That's what God shows us and how much He values. 00:22:31.059 --> 00:22:34.859 And because He values us, He pursues us. He redeems 00:22:34.859 --> 00:22:39.359 us. He restores us. He celebrates our restoration. 00:22:40.190 --> 00:22:44.509 And then he invites us into that same way of 00:22:44.509 --> 00:22:48.630 living. He invites us to not just be people who 00:22:48.630 --> 00:22:51.589 have been redeemed, but to be people who live 00:22:51.589 --> 00:22:54.769 redeemed and go out and bring other people to 00:22:54.769 --> 00:22:56.849 redemption. It's like when you know there's a 00:22:56.849 --> 00:23:00.490 good sale going on at the store and you tell 00:23:00.490 --> 00:23:02.869 people, hey, there's a good sale going on at, 00:23:02.950 --> 00:23:05.250 let's just use Alexander's. Alexander's having 00:23:05.250 --> 00:23:08.190 a big blowout sale. Go get a firearm for 50 % 00:23:08.190 --> 00:23:10.990 off. And so you tell everybody about it. You'll 00:23:10.990 --> 00:23:13.849 post on Facebook, go get your, and then everybody's 00:23:13.849 --> 00:23:15.890 going because they know there's a good sale. 00:23:16.769 --> 00:23:19.910 Or Orange Days is coming up at Nelson Tractor. 00:23:20.230 --> 00:23:23.509 I got you. That fee's going to be in the mail, 00:23:23.549 --> 00:23:26.329 right? Yeah. So there's a big deal going on at 00:23:26.329 --> 00:23:28.990 Nelson Tractor. Everybody, go get you a new lawnmower. 00:23:29.710 --> 00:23:32.430 You tell everybody about it because you know 00:23:32.430 --> 00:23:34.769 you've experienced something really good and 00:23:34.769 --> 00:23:36.630 you want the people around you to experience 00:23:36.630 --> 00:23:39.210 something really good. That's what we're looking 00:23:39.210 --> 00:23:42.059 at here. It's not a lie. that sits in a pew and 00:23:42.059 --> 00:23:44.500 says, God's been so good to me. We sing the goodness 00:23:44.500 --> 00:23:47.039 of God. It's a life that goes out and tells and 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:49.740 shows people how good God is so that they will 00:23:49.740 --> 00:23:52.940 come and find out how good he is. I told you 00:23:52.940 --> 00:23:55.339 before, we get so focused on the come and see 00:23:55.339 --> 00:23:58.160 and we forget about the go and do or go and be. 00:23:58.279 --> 00:24:00.880 We need to go out and be the billboard for how 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:06.250 good Jesus is and how much he loves people. This 00:24:06.250 --> 00:24:09.250 is why I think it is so cool when I see a bumper 00:24:09.250 --> 00:24:13.049 sticker that just says Jesus loves you. I think 00:24:13.049 --> 00:24:14.990 it's so cool when somebody's wearing a shirt 00:24:14.990 --> 00:24:17.769 that says, ask me how much God loves you. Like 00:24:17.769 --> 00:24:20.329 we need to tell people, we need to show people 00:24:20.329 --> 00:24:24.549 how valued they are, regardless of where they've 00:24:24.549 --> 00:24:27.150 been. Because again, there is no telling what 00:24:27.150 --> 00:24:29.630 awful things the son did in the prodigal son 00:24:29.630 --> 00:24:33.430 story, but the father does not care. He restores 00:24:33.430 --> 00:24:37.589 him anyways. because our God is a gracious and 00:24:37.589 --> 00:24:40.529 merciful God. And so what does that look like 00:24:40.529 --> 00:24:42.470 for us today? What does it look like for us this 00:24:42.470 --> 00:24:45.829 week and the rest of our lives? Well, maybe for 00:24:45.829 --> 00:24:49.309 you, it means just simply returning to God or 00:24:49.309 --> 00:24:52.410 giving your life to God for the first time. It 00:24:52.410 --> 00:24:56.250 means giving up the things that you've been chasing. 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.059 the things that you have been striving for, the 00:25:00.059 --> 00:25:02.180 disappointments that you found yourself in because 00:25:02.180 --> 00:25:03.960 you've been looking for approval, you've been 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:06.339 looking for value, you've been looking for satisfaction 00:25:06.339 --> 00:25:08.799 in this world, and you're realizing that you 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:11.160 just keep coming up empty every time. It means 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:15.220 giving your life to God. And if you've been a 00:25:15.220 --> 00:25:17.799 follower of Jesus before, but maybe you've wandered, 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:19.859 you've drifted, I want you to know you can come 00:25:19.859 --> 00:25:22.480 home. Wherever you have been, there is a place 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:25.940 for you at God's table. And he is waiting to 00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:31.099 redeem and restore your life. I want you to hear 00:25:31.099 --> 00:25:34.400 this clearly because this is something we need 00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:38.160 to make clear. God is not sitting there waiting 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:42.039 to shame you. God's not sitting on the porch 00:25:42.039 --> 00:25:44.640 waiting for you to walk up the driveway and then 00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:46.059 he's just going to look. Well, look what the 00:25:46.059 --> 00:25:50.440 cat done drug in. I figured you'd come back begging 00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:53.549 for money one of these days. I figured you'd 00:25:53.549 --> 00:25:55.509 come back, want a place to sleep. That's not 00:25:55.509 --> 00:25:59.130 what God is doing. That's not what we see in 00:25:59.130 --> 00:26:01.549 Scripture, is it? We see a God that sits there. 00:26:01.650 --> 00:26:04.309 He sees, and I can just imagine, I love just 00:26:04.309 --> 00:26:07.250 trying to think of this story, the imagery of 00:26:07.250 --> 00:26:09.869 the father sitting on his porch. He sees his 00:26:09.869 --> 00:26:11.970 son from a long way off, and I can just imagine 00:26:11.970 --> 00:26:16.259 the smile that comes on his face. And I can imagine 00:26:16.259 --> 00:26:19.420 how quickly he gets up, he runs. I mean, think 00:26:19.420 --> 00:26:21.339 about it. He's probably not a fast guy because, 00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:24.059 you know, he's probably old. He runs as fast 00:26:24.059 --> 00:26:26.059 as he can. He's probably hobbling a little bit. 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:28.460 And he gets his son, he grabs him in this big 00:26:28.460 --> 00:26:32.720 bear hug, and he just squeezes him tight. And 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:35.920 I can imagine that because I've come home after 00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:39.140 a week of camp where I've been gone, and I remember 00:26:39.140 --> 00:26:42.480 every time it's the same thing. The excitement 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:44.940 on my boys' faces when I walk through the door 00:26:44.940 --> 00:26:46.940 and the excitement that I have that I get to 00:26:46.940 --> 00:26:52.640 see them again. And that's what I think God feels 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.839 when one of his children decides, I'm done running. 00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:00.099 I'm done living the life that I thought I wanted. 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:04.200 I'm ready to come home. God's not waiting to 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:07.559 shame you. He is ready to receive and redeem 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:10.980 you. He is waiting to celebrate. And maybe for 00:27:10.980 --> 00:27:12.859 you, it means committing to living differently, 00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:17.559 to seeing your life as not your own, as not your 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:20.200 own personal project, but as something that God 00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:23.779 can use for eternal impact, as something that 00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:26.880 God can use to really reshape the entire world. 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:29.839 And that just starts with one step this week. 00:27:30.329 --> 00:27:33.029 Maybe it is deleting social media off of your 00:27:33.029 --> 00:27:36.029 phone. Maybe it is just deciding, I'm going to 00:27:36.029 --> 00:27:38.630 stop doing the things that I know hurt the people 00:27:38.630 --> 00:27:40.609 around me. I'm going to stop doing the things 00:27:40.609 --> 00:27:43.470 that I know hurt me. Maybe it just means giving 00:27:43.470 --> 00:27:45.730 up an hour of your week to make some phone calls 00:27:45.730 --> 00:27:47.930 and check in on people. I don't know what it 00:27:47.930 --> 00:27:50.849 is for you personally, but we can all do one 00:27:50.849 --> 00:27:54.650 small thing this week that will make it clear 00:27:54.650 --> 00:27:57.690 to our brains that this life is not our own. 00:27:57.789 --> 00:28:03.460 It is God's. I think back to that line in Tracker. 00:28:04.220 --> 00:28:06.400 Stay out of trouble and take care of each other. 00:28:07.819 --> 00:28:10.940 And in a much deeper way, I think that's what 00:28:10.940 --> 00:28:14.519 Jesus calls us to. I'm so excited. After we finish 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:16.420 Luke, we're going to go into a series on the 00:28:16.420 --> 00:28:18.220 book of Acts, and we're going to see what the 00:28:18.220 --> 00:28:20.400 early church looked like and how they lived and 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:22.420 how they cared for not only the people around 00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:24.700 them, but the people in their church family. 00:28:26.099 --> 00:28:29.880 It's a life that says, stay out of trouble. Do 00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:32.000 good things, right? Don't go doing the things 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.440 that got you caught up and got you kidnapped 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:38.839 before. Don't do that. Do good things and take 00:28:38.839 --> 00:28:41.859 care of each other. Take care of the people around 00:28:41.859 --> 00:28:44.420 you. Make sure the people around you have their 00:28:44.420 --> 00:28:50.099 needs met. God has found us. He's rescued us. 00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:53.180 He has redeemed us. If we are in Christ, if we 00:28:53.180 --> 00:28:54.720 have been clothed with Christ, if we've given 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:57.019 our lives to him, if we've buried the old life 00:28:57.019 --> 00:28:59.480 in baptism and rose up to new life, then we have 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:01.859 been redeemed. We have been restored. And so 00:29:01.859 --> 00:29:05.059 now what we have to do, we have no other choice. 00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:09.619 We have to live differently. We stay out of trouble. 00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:13.619 We take care of one another and we live for eternity. 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:19.190 Because when Jesus redeems us, When he restores 00:29:19.190 --> 00:29:23.509 our lives, he invites us into a joy and hope 00:29:23.509 --> 00:29:27.970 filled life that looks different. And if my life 00:29:27.970 --> 00:29:30.450 doesn't look different than the world, then I 00:29:30.450 --> 00:29:34.150 need to reevaluate what I'm doing. He invites 00:29:34.150 --> 00:29:36.230 us into a life that doesn't follow the world's 00:29:36.230 --> 00:29:40.130 priorities. It doesn't tell us or do what the 00:29:40.130 --> 00:29:43.509 world tells us to do and who to be. It is a life 00:29:43.509 --> 00:29:49.539 that wisely lives today in light of. So today, 00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:51.519 wherever you are, whatever your struggle may 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:54.559 be, I want to ask you very simply, are you living 00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:59.200 with eternity in mind? Are you living with the 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:02.660 next thousand, hundred thousand, million? I mean, 00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:05.140 we can keep going if you know eternity never 00:30:05.140 --> 00:30:07.980 ending, right? Are you living with that in mind? 00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:10.559 Are the actions we're making today, the things 00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:11.940 we're doing today, the life that we're living 00:30:11.940 --> 00:30:14.960 today, are they rippling into eternity for good? 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.599 Or are they leading us to a place of suffering 00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:21.720 and torment? Not to be hellfire and brimstone, 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:25.559 but I want the good place where I get to live 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:29.859 with God in fellowship with the saints for eternity. 00:30:31.789 --> 00:30:33.829 And if you're not living with eternity in mind, 00:30:33.910 --> 00:30:35.450 if you want to start, whether you were baptized 00:30:35.450 --> 00:30:38.809 50 years ago or you are just now considering 00:30:38.809 --> 00:30:41.789 a life with Jesus, wherever you stand on the 00:30:41.789 --> 00:30:44.390 spectrum of life, I want you to know the invitation 00:30:44.390 --> 00:30:47.730 is clear. It is real. We want you to come if 00:30:47.730 --> 00:30:50.369 you need to as we stand and as we sing.