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Speaker 4: Jesus Christ. And so we thank you for tuning in.

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Speaker 4: tuning in today. I like to start with something funny

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Speaker 4: each week, and I'll tell you one of my favorite ones.

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Speaker 4: This man called up the church office and he asked

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Speaker 4: the church secretary. He said, I want to speak to

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Speaker 4: the head hog at the Trough, and the church secretary

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Speaker 4: she was kind of offended. She said, if you mean

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Speaker 4: but you may not call him the head hog at

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Speaker 4: the Trough. He said, well, okay, I was just going

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Speaker 4: to make a ten thousand dollars donation to your church.

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Speaker 4: She said, hold on, Porky just walked in. All right,

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Speaker 4: come on, hold up your bibles and say it like

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Speaker 4: you mean it. Are you ready? This is my Bible?

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Speaker 4: I am what is he says? I am? I have

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Speaker 4: am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever living seed

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Speaker 4: of the Word of God. I'll never be the same, never, never, never,

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Speaker 4: I'll never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 4: You sound great as usual. I want to talk to

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Speaker 4: God has in store. And really, God has already done

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Speaker 4: everything he's going to do. He paid the ultimate price

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Speaker 4: Colossians that God has made us worthy. Our sins have

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Speaker 4: instead of receiving God's mercy and receiving forgiveness and moving on,

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Speaker 4: when I first started ministering, before I would come out

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Speaker 4: I don't have to pray about that. I don't have

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Speaker 4: No doubt, she started saying, thank your Father for your mercy,

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Speaker 4: They're living all guilty and condemned. They're always praying, Please God,

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Speaker 4: just so sorry. Practically every day they are begging God

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Speaker 4: receiving his forgiveness. If you don't, you'll go through life

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Speaker 4: don't feel like they deserve to be blessed. They've made

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Speaker 4: you need to know that God has already made you worthy.

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Speaker 4: And the scripture says you've got to put on your

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Speaker 4: of God's approval. Notice it's something we have to do.

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Speaker 4: I've been made worthy. The picture I want you to

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Speaker 4: You are the apple of God's eye. God is not

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Speaker 4: out to get you. God is not gonna try to

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Speaker 4: pay you back for all of your mistakes. His mercy

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Speaker 4: is from everlasting to everlasting. Why don't you start receiving it?

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Speaker 4: Why don't you start receiving God's forgiveness? Too many people

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Speaker 4: pleased maybe with everything you do, but you need to

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Speaker 4: know God is pleased with you. You do not have

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Speaker 4: I don't mean this to sound wrong, but many times

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Speaker 4: this goes against everything that religion has taught us. Religion,

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Speaker 4: Don't ever get God mixed up with religion. God is

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Speaker 4: He's a god of second chances. My prayer today is

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Speaker 4: you'll get rid of any feelings of guilt and condemnation unworthiness. Really,

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Speaker 4: And sure we all make mistakes, we all do certain

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Speaker 4: It's because of what Jesus did. He shed his blood

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Speaker 4: that we might live an abundant life. And really, it

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Speaker 4: to go to God boldly is to know that you're righteous.

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Speaker 4: Notice God is not gonna bless the people that have

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Speaker 4: God is looking at our hearts, my children, even though

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Speaker 4: they make mistakes even though they're not perfect. They know

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Speaker 4: and they know how to come boldly to their father

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Speaker 4: When they come home from school. They don't even ask.

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Speaker 4: They know that's a part of their privilege. They're a

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Speaker 4: part of the family, and some of you. It would

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Speaker 4: bring God great joy today if you just start acting

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Speaker 4: like you're the apple of his eye, if you just

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Speaker 4: go boldly to him and start acting like he's really

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Speaker 4: pleased with you. See, I want you to get rid

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Speaker 4: of all these rags of guilt, condemnation, unworthiness, and start

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Speaker 4: putting on your robe of righteousness. Learn to receive the

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Speaker 4: good things God has in store. It's funny. I've said

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Speaker 4: to my children many times, let's go up to the

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Speaker 4: toy store today. I just want to buy you something special.

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Speaker 4: And do you know, never once have they said, no, Daddy,

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Speaker 4: I just don't deserve it. I made a mistake last week,

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Speaker 4: I gotta pay for it. I've got to earn it,

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Speaker 4: let me work for it. But no, you've got to

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Speaker 4: us on this resurrection morning, here's my mercy, receive it.

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Speaker 4: Here's my forgiveness, receive it. Here are my blessings, We

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Speaker 4: receive them. We say, wait a minute, Joe, I think

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Speaker 4: it's a free gift. It's a part of being in

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Speaker 4: the family. You got to learn to let God be

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Speaker 4: good to you. The other day, we took our little son,

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Speaker 4: Jonathan up to the store to buy a guitar. He'd

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Speaker 4: decided to just surprise him, and we went up there

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Speaker 4: gave me a great big hug. He said, Daddy, I

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Speaker 4: love you so much. Thank you so much for my guitar.

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Speaker 4: Then he said, by the way, Daddy, when can we

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Speaker 4: go back and get that new keyboard. See, Jonathan knows

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Speaker 4: how to come boldly. He's not shy. He knows how

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Speaker 4: much I love him. He knows I delight in doing

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Speaker 4: good things for him, And as a father, it makes

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Speaker 4: me happy when I can do things to make him happy.

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Speaker 4: And parents, you can imagine how you would feel if

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Speaker 4: your kids went around all the time thinking, you know what,

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Speaker 4: I don't deserve anything. I make so many mistakes, nobody's

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Speaker 4: pleased with me and break your heart. But that's exactly

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Speaker 4: what we do to God when we allow the enemy

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Speaker 4: to heap all this guilt and condom on us, and

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Speaker 4: we go around feeling wrong on the inside about ourselves.

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Speaker 4: Some of you been living under that heavy load way

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Speaker 4: too long. It's time for you to get free today.

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Speaker 4: The price has been paid in full. Why don't you

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Speaker 4: start really receiving God's mercy. I think of the story

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Speaker 4: of the prodigal son. He made so many bad choices.

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Speaker 4: He was eating the food that he had been feeding

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Speaker 4: to the hogs there in the hog pen. Finally he

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Speaker 4: decided he's just going to go back home. He thought,

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Speaker 4: even the servants in my father's house are living better

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Speaker 4: than I am today. Maybe Daddy'll just hire me back

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Speaker 4: as one of those servants. You know the story. He

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Speaker 4: went back when he got close to the house. His

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Speaker 4: father saw him a long way off. He took off running.

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Speaker 4: He went and gave his son a great big hug.

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Speaker 4: He's so excited to see him. But then the son

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Speaker 4: started to explain, Daddy, I've really blown it. I've wasted

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Speaker 4: all my money. Now. I know I don't deserve any

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Speaker 4: of this, but maybe you can just take me back

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Speaker 4: as one of your servants. His father said, no way.

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Speaker 4: You are not my servant. You are my son. You

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Speaker 4: will always be my son. No matter what you ever do,

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Speaker 4: you will always be a part of this family. The

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Speaker 4: father said to the servants, go kill the fatted calf.

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Speaker 4: My sons come home. We're gonna have a celebration. He said.

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Speaker 4: Somebody go put the best robe on his back, get

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Speaker 4: the family ring and put it on his finger. See

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Speaker 4: that's the message of Easter. There is forgiveness for any sin.

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Speaker 4: There is mercy for any mistake. No matter what you've done,

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Speaker 4: God still accepts you and approves you. You have been

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Speaker 4: made worthy. You remember the time when Jesus had just

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Speaker 4: been baptized and he was coming up out of the waters,

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Speaker 4: and a loud voice boomed out of the heavens, and

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Speaker 4: God said, this is my beloved son in whom I

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Speaker 4: am well pleased. Now I believe that's what God is

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Speaker 4: saying to each one of you today. You may have

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Speaker 4: made some mistakes, they have made poor choices, like the

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Speaker 4: prodigal son. But listen to these words. Let them sink

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Speaker 4: deep down into your spirit. Man, God is saying, you

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Speaker 4: are my beloved son. You are my beloved daughter in

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Speaker 4: whom I am well pleased. Let me challenge you. Start

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Speaker 4: putting on your robe of righteousness. Get up every morning

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Speaker 4: and say it to yourself. God is pleased with me.

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Speaker 4: God approves me. I am forgiven, I am worthy. Remember

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Speaker 4: you do not have to beg God for something that

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Speaker 4: He's already done. Simply learn to receive it like a

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Speaker 4: little child. Friends, God has a great life of victory

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Speaker 4: in store for every one of you. No matter what

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Speaker 4: be a time of new beginnings in your life. Don't

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Speaker 4: go around with that old, weak, worm of the dust mentality.

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Speaker 4: You are a child of the most high God. Hold

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Speaker 4: you do that, you will be free from guilt and condemnation.

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Speaker 4: I know God will begin to pour out his blessings.

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Speaker 4: You'll rise higher and you'll experience the victories that He

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