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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 3: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 35 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 3: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 36 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 3: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 37 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 3: put God's very best in your life. Oh God bless you. 38 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 3: It's always a joy to come into your homes, and 39 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 3: if you're ever in our area, please stop by and 40 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 3: be a part of one of our services. I promise 41 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 3: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks 42 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 3: so much for tuning in and thank you again for 43 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 3: coming out. I like to start with something funny, and 44 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 3: I heard about this man he was in a dark restaurant. 45 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 3: He said that the lady's sitting next to him. Would 46 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 3: you like to hear a blonde joke? She said, well, 47 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 3: before you tell me, you should know I'm blonde, six 48 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 3: foot tall and a professional bodybuilder, and the lady next 49 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 3: to me is blonde, six foot two and a professional wrestler. 50 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 3: And the lady next to her is blonde, six foot 51 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 3: five and the kickboxing champion of the world. Now do 52 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 3: you still want to tell me? He thought about it 53 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 3: a moment, said now not if I'm going to have 54 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 3: to explain it three times. 55 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 5: Help me, Jesus give me a ride home today. This 56 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 5: is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 57 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 58 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 59 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 5: taught the word of God God. 60 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 3: I'll boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 61 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 3: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 62 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 3: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 63 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 3: how Grace is looking for you. So often we think 64 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 3: that God is only interested in the quote good people, 65 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 3: the people that have it all together, people that never 66 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 3: make mistakes, never give into temptation. If your performance is 67 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: good enough, then you can expect God's goodness. But if 68 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 3: you ever get off course, if you ever fail, you 69 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 3: ever have doubts, God says, too bad, it's your fault. 70 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 3: If you don't want me, I'll leave you alone. I 71 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 3: won't bother you. The truth is, it's just the opposite. 72 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 3: When you blow it, God doesn't turn away from you. 73 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 3: He turns to you. His grace comes looking for you. 74 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 3: When you have doubts. God doesn't say, what's wrong with you? 75 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 3: You need to have more faith. No, God will even 76 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 3: pass on over people with faith and come to you 77 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 3: the one that has doubts. Jesus told a parable about 78 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 3: a shepherd that had one hundred sheep, but one of 79 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 3: them went astray. The shepherd left the ninety nine and 80 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 3: went looking for the one. What was that? Grace came looking. 81 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 3: But we tend to write people off and think God 82 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 3: wouldn't have anything to do with them, Joel, they make 83 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 3: fun of me for coming to church. She's living the 84 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 3: wrong kind of life. He's out there on drugs. Now, 85 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 3: do you realize that over half of the New Testament 86 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 3: was written by a man that at one time hated believers. 87 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 3: Saul was the main enemy of the church. He was 88 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 3: having believers put in prison. But one day, while he 89 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 3: was traveling to Damascus on his way to persecute more believers, 90 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 3: a bright light shine down from heaven knocked him flat 91 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 3: on his back. A voice boomed out, Saul, why do 92 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 3: you keep persecuting me? Long story short, saw Paul became 93 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 3: the apostle Paul and wrote more of the New Testament 94 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 3: than anyone else. What happened, Grace came looking for Saul. 95 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 3: Don't ever write anybody off your family members. Your friends 96 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 3: may be making poor choices in the natural. You think 97 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 3: they're never going to fulfill their destiny. They're never going 98 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 3: to do what's right. Now, you have to remember Grace 99 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 3: is looking for them. You may write them off, but 100 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 3: God doesn't write them off. God knows how to get 101 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 3: their attention. If God can change Saul, the greatest enemy 102 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 3: of the church, and turn him into the greatest asset 103 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 3: of the church, God can touch your loved one. God 104 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 3: can turn your son around. God can change your daughter. 105 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 3: This same man Paul wrote in the Book of Romans 106 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 3: about the grace that God freely gives us. If anyone 107 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 3: understood grace, it would be Paul. One translation of the 108 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 3: word freely that he specifically used is promiscuous, meaning that 109 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 3: God's grace will go to anybody. If someone is promiscuous, 110 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 3: they're loose, they're unrestrained. They'll be with anyone, doesn't matter. 111 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 3: That's the way God's grace is. You can be high 112 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 3: on drugs and Grace is looking for you. You can 113 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 3: be working in the wrong kind of place. Grace is 114 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 3: looking for you. You can be cheating people, dishonest, no integrity, 115 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 3: and God will leave the ninety nine and come after you. 116 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 3: You can be discouraged, depressed, about to give up on life. 117 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 3: The good news is right now, Grace is looking for you. 118 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 3: You may have made mistakes. You're not where you want 119 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 3: to be in life. You could easily sit on the sidelines, 120 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 3: let the accusing voices convince you that you're all washed up. 121 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 3: Nothing good is in your future. No, right now, Grace 122 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,799 Speaker 3: is coming to you. God is saying, I'm not mad 123 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 3: at you, I'm madly in love with you. I'm not 124 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 3: holding anything against you. I'm not keeping a record of 125 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 3: your mistakes. I'm not even interested in your past. I'm 126 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 3: interested in your future. Friends, it doesn't matter to God 127 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 3: where you've been, It matters to God where you're going. 128 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 3: That's why he's coming after you. That's why he won't 129 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 3: leave you alone. His grace will never give up. He 130 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 3: loves you too much to let you miss your destiny. 131 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 3: You can turn away again and again and again, but 132 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 3: you know what, Grace will keep coming wherever you go. 133 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 3: Grace will keep looking. You can't outrun the grace of God. 134 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 3: You can't do too much wrong to keep it away. 135 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 3: You can't turn away too many times. God's grace will 136 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 3: keep coming, saying I've got something better. I've got forgiveness, 137 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 3: I've got mercy, I've got restoration, I've got a new beginning. 138 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 3: And if you will shake off the guilt the condemnation, 139 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 3: start making choices that honor God. God will do for 140 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 3: you what he did for Paul. He'll bless you in 141 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 3: spite of your mistakes. He'll make something great out of 142 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 3: your life, in spite of your past. God never gives 143 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 3: up on you. Don't give up on yourself. Receive the grace. 144 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 3: Believe that there's something amazing in your future. John Chapter four. 145 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 3: Jesus was about to leave Judea and travel home to Galilee, 146 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 3: but he said to his disciples, I must go through Samaria. Well, 147 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 3: Samario wasn't necessarily the shortest route. Not only that, in 148 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 3: those days the Samaritans weren't friendly with the Jewish people. 149 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 3: His disciples said, Jesus, that's the long way. We'll go 150 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 3: a better route. Plus we might have some problems with 151 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 3: the Samaritans. Jesus said, no, I have to go this way. 152 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 3: I have an assignment. There's somebody I need to meet. 153 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 3: They got to Samaria. They were tired and hungry, and 154 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 3: Jesus sat down by a well ask his disciples to 155 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 3: go into town and get some food. In a little while, 156 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 3: this Samaritan woman came out to draw water from the well. 157 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 3: She had been married five times, been through a lot 158 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 3: of heartache and pain in life. She wasn't a respected woman, 159 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 3: wasn't considered a good woman, a moral woman. She was 160 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 3: looked down on and seen as second class. No doubt, 161 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 3: when some of the people in town saw her, they 162 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 3: would snicker, there's that lady, been married five times. Stay 163 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 3: away from her. Yet, the whole reason Jesus said I 164 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 3: must go through Samaria was to meet this woman. Jesus 165 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 3: struck up a conversation with her told her all about 166 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:47,319 Speaker 3: her life. Then he revealed himself as the Messiah to her. 167 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 3: When the disciples came back from buying food and saw 168 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 3: Jesus talking to this woman, the scripture says they were 169 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 3: amazed and bewildered. Not only was Jesus talking to he 170 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 3: a woman, not only a Samaritan, but of all people 171 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 3: this lady. Everybody knew she had a bad reputation. She 172 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 3: came from the wrong side of the tracks. She was 173 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 3: making poor choices. But this is what Grace is all about. 174 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 3: It's promiscuous. It doesn't just come to the people that 175 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 3: you might think the quote good people to fine, upstanding people. No, 176 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 3: it goes to people like this lady that have made mistakes, 177 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 3: people that have gone through heartache and pain. People that think, Joel, 178 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 3: it's too late, I've blown it. I don't deserve it. 179 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 3: This is what Grace is all about. That day was 180 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 3: a turning point in her life. Well, Joel, my coworkers, 181 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 3: they don't even believe in God. That's all right. Grace 182 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 3: is looking for them. Well, Joel, he's out selling drugs. 183 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 3: God doesn't have anything to do with him, Sure he does. 184 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 3: Grace is looking for him. Well, she's working in the clubs. 185 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 3: That's okay. Grace can go into a club. God's grace 186 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 3: knows no boundaries, has no limitations. Well, they don't worship 187 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 3: like me, Joel. They come from a different faith. That 188 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 3: doesn't stop God. Grace is looking for them. Our titles 189 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 3: don't set a boundary for the creator of the universe. 190 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 3: Well they're Muslim, their Buddhists, their Hindu. That doesn't stop God. 191 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 3: Our God is all powerful. Our religious names, our different affiliations, 192 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 3: that can't stop the creator of the universe. This woman 193 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 3: was a Samaritan. They came from a different faith, yet 194 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 3: she was the first one that God revealed himself to 195 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 3: as the Messiah. Not to the Jewish leaders, not to 196 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 3: the rabbis in the synagogue in today's language, not to 197 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 3: the pope, not to the minister on television, but to 198 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 3: the girl working in the clubs, to the young man 199 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 3: that's never been to church. The longer I live, the 200 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 3: more I realize God will save who he wants to save. 201 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 3: God will have mercy on who he wants to have mercy. 202 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 3: His grace is looking for people that don't have the 203 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 3: best reputation, for people that have blown it and failed. 204 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 3: For people that have made a mess. It can penetrate 205 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 3: any situation. Are you writing someone off thinking that they're 206 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 3: too far out there, they're never going to change, Or 207 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 3: are you writing yourself off thinking you've made too many mistakes, 208 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 3: You've missed too many opportunities. Now you have to sit 209 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 3: on the sidelines. No grace is coming to you. No 210 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 3: mistake you've made is too much for the mercy of God. 211 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 3: Nothing you've done has canceled your destiny. You can still 212 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 3: become who God's created you to be. Now. Quit listening 213 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 3: to those lies telling you that you've seen your best 214 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 3: days and you had your chance. No God is the 215 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 3: god of another chance. Never give up on you. His 216 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 3: call on your life is irrevocable. His grace is going 217 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 3: to keep coming to you. You may ignore it today, 218 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 3: but it'll be there tomorrow and the next week, and 219 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 3: next month, even next year. This is what Jonah did 220 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 3: in the scripture. God told him to go to the 221 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 3: city of Nineveh, but he didn't want to go there. 222 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 3: He went the other direction. He ended up being thrown 223 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 3: overboard into the middle of the ocean. He should have drowned, 224 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 3: it should have been the end, but grace showed up 225 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 3: in the form of a well. This big fish swallowed 226 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 3: him three days later spit him out on the dry ground. 227 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 3: What am I saying? You can't outrun God's grace. Wherever 228 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 3: you go, Grace is going to come looking for you. Moses, 229 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 3: when he was a young man, he murdered a man. 230 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 3: He had to flee for his life, spent years on 231 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 3: the back side of the desert. Looked like he had 232 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 3: missed his desk. But forty years later, Grace came looking 233 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 3: for him. God said, Moses, I have not forgotten about 234 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 3: my calling on your life. You may have delayed it, 235 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 3: but you didn't cancel it. You're still going to fulfill 236 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,119 Speaker 3: what I put you here to do. And like Moses, 237 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 3: you may have made choices that have delayed your destiny, 238 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 3: but God is saying you have not canceled your destiny. 239 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 3: You can still fulfill your purpose. You can still accomplish 240 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 3: your dreams. You need to get ready. God is going 241 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 3: to bring opportunities back across your path that you missed 242 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 3: out on. You're going to still become who God's created. 243 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 2: You to be. 244 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 3: A pastor. Friend of mine stopped by a small convenience 245 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 3: store one evening to pick up some milk. There was 246 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 3: a young man in line behind him that was buying 247 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 3: cigarettes and alcohol. He looked very distraught. You could tell 248 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 3: that he was on drugs. This pastor knew he was 249 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 3: supposed to reach out to him, talk to him, pray 250 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 3: for encourage him, and he was going to do it 251 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 3: after they both had paid outside the store, But when 252 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 3: the clerk turned his back, the young man ran out 253 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 3: the store, jumped in his car, and sped off stole 254 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 3: those items. The pastor's family was out in the car waiting. 255 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 3: They saw all this take place. They said, Dad, he 256 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 3: went that way in a blue car. This pastor felt 257 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 3: so compelled that he had to find that man. They 258 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 3: got in the car and started driving through the community 259 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 3: looking for that blue car. What was that grace? Looking 260 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 3: for that young man, tracking him down. The scripture says 261 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 3: God came to seek and to save those that are lost. 262 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 3: Sikh means to go after to pursue to track down. 263 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 3: About twenty minutes later, one of the kids said, Dad, 264 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 3: there it is. They spotted the blue car at another 265 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 3: grocery store. The pastor went in. The young man had 266 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 3: another basket of alcohol and cigarettes. He was going to 267 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 3: steal them again when he saw the pastor. He nearly 268 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 3: passed out. The pastor said, young man, God's hand is 269 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 3: on your life. This is not the way you're supposed 270 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 3: to be living. You're better than this, So I's got 271 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 3: real big He said, Who are you? He said, I'm 272 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 3: a pastor here in town. God sent me to track 273 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 3: you down to let you know you have a destiny 274 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 3: to fulfill. He began to tremble and tears came down 275 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 3: his cheeks. He said, I'm a heroin addict. I've gone 276 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 3: to rehab again and again and again, but I just 277 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 3: can't quit. The pastor said, tonight is your night. If 278 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 3: you're willing to walk away, the power of those addictions 279 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 3: are going to be broken. He put the cigarettes back, 280 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 3: put the alcohol away, and that night was his new beginning. 281 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 3: That was his turning point. Today he's totally free, living 282 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 3: a clean, sober life. The scripture says God so loved 283 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 3: the world. It doesn't say God so loved the good people. 284 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 3: God so loved people that have it all together. No, 285 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 3: God loves people with addictions. God loves people that have 286 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 3: gotten off course. God loves people that have made mistakes. 287 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 3: His grace is unrestrained. In fact, Paul said, where sin abounds, 288 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 3: grace does much more abound. You would think the further 289 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 3: you got away from God, the less interested he would be. 290 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 3: But it's just the opposite. God leaves the ninety nine 291 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 3: and comes searching for you when you go the wrong way, 292 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,199 Speaker 3: like Jonah. God's going to descend a well when you 293 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 3: get off course, like this young man with addictions. God's 294 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 3: gonna have somebody come track you down. When you make 295 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 3: a mess of your life, like the lady at the well, 296 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 3: God's going to say, I must go through Samaria, I 297 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 3: must let you know I have a new beginning. I 298 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 3: read a story about an older gentleman that was on 299 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 3: his death bed. He was in a small hospital all 300 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 3: alone in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains in California. 301 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 3: It was close to midnight, and just as he was 302 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 3: about to pass, one of the nurses called her minister, 303 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 3: Father O'Malley, and asked if he would come and pray 304 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 3: for the man. There was a big storm taking place 305 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 3: outside wind rain streets were flooded. He said he'd get 306 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 3: there as quickly as he could. What should have been 307 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 3: a thirty minute drive took him over two hours. Father 308 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 3: O'Malley showed up at the hospital three o'clock in the morning. 309 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 3: The nurse said, we don't know much about this man. 310 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 3: He has no family, no friends come to see him. 311 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 3: He's been in and out of the hospital the last 312 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 3: two years, but he won't open up to anyone. It's 313 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 3: not friendly at all. Father O'Malley went in and said, hello, sir, 314 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 3: I was passing by tonight and I thought i'd stop 315 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 3: in and see how you're doing. The man said, very gruffly, 316 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 3: you weren't passing by. It's three o'clock in the morning. 317 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 3: You know I'm about to die. Father O'Malley prayed for 318 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 3: him for a few minutes, and he said, is there 319 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 3: anything you'd like to talk about? Anything you need to 320 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 3: make right. The men wouldn't say a word, so Father 321 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 3: O'Malley started talking about the big storm outside, about the 322 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 3: football season, on and on. Eventually the man opened up 323 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 3: joined in the conversation. About three hours later, close to daybreak, 324 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 3: he said, Father O'Malley, there is one thing I have 325 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 3: to get off my chest. I've never told anyone, and 326 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 3: it's haunted me my whole life. He told how he 327 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 3: had worked as a switchman at the railroad his whole career. 328 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 3: One night thirty one years earlier, two days before Christmas, 329 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 3: he and the crew were drinking heavily. There was a 330 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 3: big storm outside that night, as well a lot of wind, 331 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:57,199 Speaker 3: hardly any visibility. They needed somebody to go out and 332 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 3: make the switch for the overnight freight train. He was drunk, 333 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 3: so he volunteered to do it. He accidentally hit the 334 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 3: wrong button, and that freight train slammed into a passenger car, 335 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 3: killing a young couple and their two daughters. He said, 336 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 3: nobody has ever known what really happened that night. I've 337 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 3: lived with the guilt and the shame. I haven't ever 338 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 3: been big enough to even admit to the family that 339 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 3: it was my fault and to tell them how sorry 340 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 3: I really am. There was a long, long pause. Father 341 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 3: O'Malley eventually gently took the man's hand, said, sir, the 342 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 3: people in that car were my parents and my sisters. 343 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 3: And if I can forgive you, you can be certain 344 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 3: God forgives you as well. What is that Grace came 345 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 3: looking for him. That's how good God is. Even when 346 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 3: we run away, God runs to us, even when we 347 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 3: don't measure up. God says that's okay. I forgive you anyway. Well, Joel, 348 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 3: he doesn't deserve it. It was his fault. He brought 349 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 3: the trouble on himself. That's what grace is all about. 350 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 3: You can't earn it, you don't have to be good enough. 351 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 3: It's a free gift. All you have to do is 352 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 3: receive it. Don't go your whole lifetime like this man, 353 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 3: living guilty, condemned, beating yourself up for past mistakes, thinking 354 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 3: that you have to pay God back by giving up 355 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 3: your peace, your joy, your happiness. Listen, the price has 356 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 3: already been paid two thousand years ago. It's not our goodness, 357 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 3: it's God's goodness. God has made us worthy. But we 358 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 3: think no, God's never gonna help me. I brought this 359 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 3: trouble on myself. But think of it as a father. 360 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 3: Imagine our son, Jonathan, maybe five years old. I hear 361 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 3: him screaming, Daddy, come help me in a look outside, 362 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 3: and he's hanging from a tree branch, kind of high 363 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 3: in the air, holding on for dear life. If he falls, 364 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 3: he going to get hurt. I wouldn't say, hang on, Jonathan, 365 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 3: Let me think about how good you've been lately. And 366 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 3: Victoria has Jonathan been cleaning his room? Has he been 367 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 3: treating his sister? 368 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 6: Right? 369 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: Dad? 370 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 3: Hurry, come help me just second, Jonathan, I got to 371 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 3: check your report card. That wouldn't even enter into my mind. 372 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 3: That's my son. I'm gonna do anything I can to 373 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 3: help him. That's the way our heavenly Father is. Even 374 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 3: when you make the mistake, even when you bring the 375 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 3: trouble on yourself, God is so merciful, he says, I'll 376 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 3: still help you to get out. That's why it's called 377 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 3: amazing grace. You don't deserve it, you didn't earn it. 378 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 3: It's just the goodness of God. One time in the scripture, 379 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 3: Jesus was traveling through a town and there was a 380 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 3: man named Zacheus, the chief of the tax collectors. He 381 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 3: wanted to see Jesus, but he was a small man. 382 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 3: The streets were packed and so crowded. He just id 383 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 3: to climb up into a tree to get a better view. 384 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 3: As Jesus came passing by, out of the hundreds and 385 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 3: hundreds of people screaming, waving, trying to get his attention, 386 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 3: Jesus stopped, looked up in the tree and said, Zachias, 387 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 3: come down. I want to go to your house and 388 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 3: have dinner. They had never met before, but Jesus knew 389 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 3: his name. The religious leaders, the Pharisees, they got very upset. 390 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 3: They couldn't understand why Jesus would want to associate with Zachias, 391 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 3: a tax collector. They were known for being dishonest, cheating people, 392 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 3: taking advantage of them. They had a bad reputation. They 393 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 3: thought if Jesus were for real, he would know he 394 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 3: was going to dinner with the wrong kind of person. 395 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 3: The scripture says. They were displeased that he was the 396 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 3: guest of a notorious sinner. Isn't it interesting, out of 397 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 3: all the people there that day, Jesus went home with 398 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 3: the most notorious sinner. This didn't line up with the 399 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 3: Pharisees theology. They thought that Jesus would rebuke Zachius or 400 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 3: at least ignore him, but certainly not go home with him. 401 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 3: But this is where grace shows off. Grace comes to 402 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 3: the least likely to those that don't deserve it, to 403 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 3: those that have made a mess. Religion says, stay away, man, 404 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 3: you're bad. God says I'm coming to see you. I'm 405 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 3: gonna make you better. Jesus didn't preach to Zachius. He 406 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 3: didn't beraate him, say you lousy sinner that kis what 407 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 3: do you mean cheating people? You ought to be ashamed 408 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 3: of yourself. He simply loved him. He showed him mercy. 409 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 3: He became his friend, and zach Keius, of his own 410 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 3: free will said, from this day forward, I'm gonna give 411 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 3: half my income to the poor, and if I've harmed 412 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 3: or cheated anybody, I'm gonna make things right. He changed 413 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 3: his ways not because he was shamed into it, but 414 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 3: because he was loved in to it. The scripture says, 415 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 3: it's the goodness of God that leads to repentance. For 416 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 3: some people, all they've heard about is how mad God 417 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 3: is at them, how they need to do better, how 418 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 3: they don't measure up. But when you really understand the 419 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 3: grace of God, the fact that God is for you, 420 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 3: and even if you're a most notorious sinner, God is 421 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,360 Speaker 3: not holding that against you. If Jesus were here on 422 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 3: earth today, he would say, I want to come over 423 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 3: and hang out with you today. Grace is looking for you, 424 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 3: and if you'll receive it, quit beating yourself up, living 425 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 3: guilty and condemned. Then you'll have the power to break 426 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 3: strongholds and anything that's holding you back. When Jesus spoke 427 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 3: to the woman that was caught in adultery, all the 428 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 3: men wanted to stone her, but Jesus said, you that 429 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 3: are without sin cast the first stone, and everybody walked away. 430 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 3: Jesus said to the lady, neither do I condemn you. 431 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 3: Now go and sin no more. He didn't say, go 432 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 3: and sin no more than I won't condemn you. Lady, 433 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 3: get your act together, start making better choices, then I'll 434 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 3: forgive you. No, he said, I don't condemn you. Now 435 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 3: go and change your ways. See the principle is if 436 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 3: people feel condemned, they feel berated, told that they don't 437 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 3: measure up, then they don't change. They live guilty, feeling 438 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 3: bad about themselves, weighted down by life. But when you 439 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 3: know you're not condemned, you know God's not holding your 440 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 3: mistakes against you. When you realize God is saying, I 441 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 3: want to come to your house. I want to be 442 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 3: your friend. Other people may have written you off, but 443 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 3: I don't write you off. I know what you have 444 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 3: to offer, I know how amazing you are. That's when 445 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 3: you'll have the power to really change. You may have 446 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 3: made mistakes, You're not where you want to be. Those 447 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 3: accusing voices, they'll remind you of all your shortcomings, everything 448 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 3: that you've done wrong. But by my faith, you've got 449 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 3: to hear God saying to you, I don't condemn you. 450 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,919 Speaker 3: I'm not holding anything against you. I'm not keeping a 451 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 3: record of your mistakes. Friends, Grace is coming to you today. 452 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 3: I'm asking will you receive it? Will you shake off 453 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 3: the guilt and condemnation. Will you put your shoulders back, 454 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 3: hold your head up high. Nothing you've done has canceled 455 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 3: your destiny. Some of you are kind of down on yourself, 456 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 3: focused on all the ways that you don't measure up. 457 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 3: Just like Jesus said, I must go through Samaria to 458 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 3: meet that woman that's been beaten down by life. God 459 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 3: is saying I must get to you and let you 460 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 3: know my mercy is bigger than any mistake. I'm not 461 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,159 Speaker 3: interested in your past. I'm interested in your future. I 462 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 3: must let you know that you are forgiven, you are redeemed. 463 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 3: It's not the end. I have a new beginning. Your 464 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 3: best days are still out in front of you. 465 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: Now. 466 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 3: You may not deserve this. You may be the least likely. 467 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 3: That's what grace is all about. It's promiscuous, it's unrestrained, 468 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 3: it goes to anyone. If you'll receive this grace, God 469 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 3: will do for you what he did for Paul. He 470 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 3: will bless you in spite of your mistakes. He will 471 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 3: still make something great out of your life, in spite 472 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 3: of your past. Like Jonah, even when you bring the 473 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 3: trouble on yourself, God will be there to help you 474 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 3: get out, Like with a young man with addictions. God 475 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 3: is going to track down your loved ones. He's going 476 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 3: to search out your relatives that are off course, set 477 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 3: them free, cause them to fulfill their destinies. I believe 478 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 3: and declare grace is coming our way. If you receive it. 479 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 3: Can you say amen? Today? We never like to close 480 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 3: our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus 481 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 3: the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 482 00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 3: Just say Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come 483 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 3: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 484 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 3: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 485 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 3: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 486 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 3: God first place. He's going to take your places that 487 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 3: you've never dreamed of. 488 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,479 Speaker 7: Thank you for listening to the Joelustine podcast. Help us 489 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 7: continue to share the message of hope with those all 490 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 7: over the world. 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