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Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny. And one Sunday morning,

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Speaker 4: this man walked in church wearing old blue jeans, an

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Speaker 4: old T shirt, beat up cowboy hat. Some of the

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Speaker 4: members were appalled. They sent notes to the pastor expressing

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Speaker 4: their concerns. Afterwards, the pastor told the man that he

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Speaker 4: needed to pray and ask God what he should wear

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Speaker 4: before he came back to his church. The next Sunday,

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Speaker 4: the man walked in dressed exactly the same. The pastor said,

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Speaker 4: I told you to ask God what to wear before

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Speaker 4: you came back to my church. The men said, I

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Speaker 4: did ask God, but he told me he didn't know

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Speaker 4: what to wear because he's never been here before. All right,

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Speaker 4: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 4: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 4: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 4: I can do. Today I will be talked the word

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Speaker 4: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 4: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 4: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 4: about when God doesn't listen. We know that God is omnipresent,

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Speaker 4: He's everywhere at the same time. He can see everything

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Speaker 4: and he can hear everything. But there's a difference between

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Speaker 4: hearing and listening. Hearing is unintentional. You can be asleep

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Speaker 4: and hear your alarm. You weren't listening, You are simply hearing.

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Speaker 4: Listening means you've tuned in, you've given your attention, you're interested.

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Speaker 4: A while back, I asked Victoria if she had gone

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Speaker 4: but Victoria is much more expressive than I am. She

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Speaker 4: likes to give the details. She told how she had

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Speaker 4: been doing, and how their cousins, next door neighbors, grandfather's

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Speaker 4: best friend had just had a baby. I wasn't looking

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Speaker 4: surprise you that even though God hears everything, he doesn't

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Speaker 4: Luke fifteen. There's a story of two sons. The younger

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Speaker 4: son asked his father for his inheritance early. He knew

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Speaker 4: He said, even the farm hands that work from my

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Speaker 4: going to go back home and see if my father

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Speaker 4: what he was going to say. Father, I have sinned

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Speaker 4: against you and against God. I am no longer worthy

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Speaker 4: You can imagine how nervous he was. He had practiced

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Speaker 4: I'm sure the son thought, oh great, he's so upset.

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Speaker 4: tell me how foolish I've been. But when the father

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Speaker 4: can see the father weeping tears of joy, so excited.

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Speaker 4: Now it was the son's big moment to give his speech.

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Speaker 4: He knew this would either make him or break him.

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Speaker 4: He started off, Father, I'm unworthy to be called your son.

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Speaker 4: He did it so passionately, so genuinely. But the scripture

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Speaker 4: heart telling how unworthy he was. The father was no

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Speaker 4: more paying attention. He looked over at his staff and said, quick,

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Speaker 4: My son was lost, but now he's found. I can

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Speaker 4: see the son thinking, Dad, I'm trying to tell you

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Speaker 4: how unworthy I feel, how sorry I am. But you're

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Speaker 4: not even listening. Are you telling God everything wrong with you,

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Speaker 4: how many mistakes you've made, how you don't deserve to

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Speaker 4: be blessed? God? I blew it again. I don't see

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Speaker 4: God is not listening. You are wasting your breath. This

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Speaker 4: You are not worthy because of what you did or

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Speaker 4: didn't do. You're worthy because of what Jesus did. You

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Speaker 4: don't have to go to God and try to convince

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Speaker 4: him to forgive you. Convince him that you know you're

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Speaker 4: not good enough. You're just a weak worm of the dust.

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Speaker 4: He tunes all that out. If you want God to

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Speaker 4: not only hear, but to listen, then go to him

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Speaker 4: with the language of faith. Father, thank you that your

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Speaker 4: mercy is bigger than my mistakes. Thank you that you're

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Speaker 4: not holding my past against me. Thank you that I'm forgiven,

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Speaker 4: that I'm redeemed. Don't go through life beating yourself up,

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Speaker 4: keep going back to God and saying, I'm sorry for

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Speaker 4: what I did. I'm just so undisciplined. I know I

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Speaker 4: telling God all the times you failed, how you don't

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Speaker 4: glad you finally feel unworthy. I'm glad you're finally down

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Speaker 4: expecting his favor. That's why the scripture says, come boldly

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Speaker 4: to the throne of Grace to obtain mercy when you

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Speaker 4: need mercy. Don't go to God guilty, condemn weak. Go boldly,

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Speaker 4: go with confidence, knowing that you're forgiving, knowing that God

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Speaker 4: is for you. And yes, you may have blown it,

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Speaker 4: feel guilty, but to love you well, Joel, shouldn't I

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Speaker 4: telling him what we don't deserve. The enemy would love

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Speaker 4: for you to live feeling condemned. He'll remind you of

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Speaker 4: all the times you haven't measured up. It may not

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Speaker 4: They believe the lies from the accuser more than they

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Speaker 4: you're redeemed, that you're made worthy. When you make a mistake,

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Speaker 4: Don't keep asking again and again bringing up the same failures.

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Speaker 4: First time you ask God to forgive you, he not

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Speaker 4: go back and ask God again and again, he says,

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Speaker 4: When God forgave you, he deleted your files. He doesn't

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Speaker 4: have a big server up in heaven where he's keeping

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Speaker 4: The scripture says, God has cleared a record. He has

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Speaker 4: no account of what you keep asking him for forgiveness

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Speaker 4: know who has forty seven backup copies. The enemy. He's

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Speaker 4: called the accuser of the Brethren. He'll remind you of

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Speaker 4: everything you've done wrong for the last thirty years. If

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Speaker 4: In this story of the Prodigal, the young man didn't

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Speaker 4: even ask for forgiveness. Just the fact that he turned

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Speaker 4: father to forgive him. You may not have done everything

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Speaker 4: a favor. Quit telling God all about that and go

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