1 00:00:02,280 --> 00:00:06,760 Are you just warming up tonight? Oh, I'm just warming up. 2 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,560 Don't wait around. Don't wait around for me to 3 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,440 change. That's right. 4 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:20,600 You're going to be waiting a long time, but I'm just warming 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,520 up. Amen is good to be in the House 6 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:31,040 of the Lord today man, it has been great spirit of the Lord in 7 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:37,240 this place. It's what happens when we decide 8 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,760 to be obedient. Just allow him to move. 9 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,640 I've said it many, many a times, either to the students or just 10 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,760 in in leadership aspect for services. 11 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:53,800 Just just let him do what he needs to do, what he wants to 12 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,960 do. We, we get, we get in the habit 13 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,520 of things need to go a certain way and it, it, it's, you know, 14 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,400 we, we like order. There's nothing wrong with that. 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:09,800 But but when we get when we get so, so hardened to the order, 16 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,920 some things sometimes things just need to switch up a little 17 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:18,600 bit and blessed by that. And I say that from someone that 18 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,440 gets exhausted from all of that being on the being on the drums 19 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,560 and and praise team praise team says Hallelujah on that. 20 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,840 But God is good. God is good all the time, all 21 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,080 the time. He is good. 22 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,360 Man. Turn with your Bibles with me to 23 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:48,560 John 14 verse 16 if you will. Blessed to to be here and and to 24 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,400 minister to you and do not take it lightly. 25 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,920 Appreciate pastor and his wife. Love and appreciate them and 26 00:01:54,920 --> 00:02:00,400 their leadership and everything that they do that may not even 27 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,240 be noticed. But I pray we make sure that it 28 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:10,039 doesn't go unnoticed. Amen and thank you thankful for 29 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:13,080 Bishop and his wife. What wasn't it was just nice to 30 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:19,520 have sister McGee singing is just love that so much and how 31 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:23,760 about how about Bishop the past a couple couple weeks ago with 32 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:28,320 according to the code both both parts blessed blessed by that 33 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:36,760 word Amen and then and then Dr. Mason love and appreciate him. 34 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,120 I'm so excited he's he was talking a little bit about what 35 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,280 he's planning on doing at at music conference. 36 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,800 I'm so excited about that so glad that he he is preaching 37 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,080 there. I'm just looking forward to 38 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,280 that. If you have the opportunity, I 39 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,560 highly encourage you to go both both days highly encourage you 40 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,800 to go. It is always a very just a very 41 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,160 sweet presence. You know you think how how much 42 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,680 can I get out of a a worship experience on Saturday. 43 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,040 I'm telling you what, there's some there's some good moves 44 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,880 that just happened just just from having some anointed men 45 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,720 and women of God singing and playing unto the Lord. 46 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,400 You will be blessed even if, even if you're not a musician, 47 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:24,720 go, not a singer, go. You know the, the joke Brother 48 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,440 Zach always makes he say, I, I make a joyful noise. 49 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,560 And so if you make a joyful noise, that's still a good place 50 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,120 for you to be too. Amen. 51 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:37,360 And I, I, I will not forget my lovely wife. 52 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:42,960 We just celebrated 4 year anniversary being married. 53 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:48,200 Love and appreciate her. We're, we're coming up just just 54 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,960 dating each other because you always should be dating, right? 55 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,920 Just coming up on 10 years in October, which is just wild to 56 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:01,120 me, but it's very, very awesome. I love and appreciate you so 57 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,720 much. If you're there, say a man we 58 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,800 are. John 1416 states that I will 59 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,800 pray the Father, and He shall give you another comforter, that 60 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,519 He may abide with you forever. Even the spirit of truth, whom 61 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:19,839 the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, 62 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,880 neither knoweth Him, but ye know Him, for He dwelleth with you 63 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:28,440 and shall be in you. I will not leave you 64 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,840 comfortless. I will come to you. 65 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,800 We read it from there's other versions. 66 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,600 I did the NASB you read it from this it says I will not leave 67 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:44,360 you as orphans. I will come to you. 68 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:53,960 I have a simple thought tonight is where's my father, where's my 69 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,320 father. If you could set your Bibles 70 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,440 down and help me pray tonight, Lord, I ask you just to move in 71 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,040 this this place, Lord, you are already here, Lord. 72 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,560 We're just here to entertain, Lord, and here to to welcome 73 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,720 you. Lord, entertain your presence 74 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,000 tonight. Ask you just to prepare, Lord, a 75 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,280 planting ground for your word. Hearts and minds, Lord would be 76 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,120 changed. Lord, that we would take the 77 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,680 word with us. It would not just be here, but 78 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,520 it would go abroad. Minister Lord through the Lord, 79 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,720 through my lips of clay, Lord, not my word, but your word be 80 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,840 done in this place tonight. But we're not going to fail to 81 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:32,960 thank you and to praise you in the mighty name of Jesus. 82 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,600 I pray and everyone said Amen, Amen. 83 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,760 You may be seated tonight. Look at your neighbor and say, 84 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:49,820 where's my father? Amen. 85 00:05:50,220 --> 00:05:56,220 And as my wife so lovingly put the, the, the alternate title to 86 00:05:56,220 --> 00:05:57,980 this, she said, you're not going to name it. 87 00:05:57,980 --> 00:06:02,480 Who's your daddy? So I told her that I was going 88 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,080 to do that and I don't know if she believed me, but I was like, 89 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:12,920 I'm saying that will not leave you as orphans when we come upon 90 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:18,680 this spot of John chapter 14. If if you know, and you may 91 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,320 already know, we are knee deep in the account, John's account 92 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:27,520 of the Last Supper here, John's account is, is happening in 93 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:32,760 verses in chapters 13 and 14 and Jesus has just washed their 94 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,560 feet. He has predicted who will 95 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,040 betray. Well, not who. 96 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:38,880 They're not going to know that till later. 97 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,040 But he, he, he said that there will be a betrayal. 98 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:47,280 And then he also told Peter that he would deny him the disciples, 99 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,600 rightfully so. We've talked about it before 100 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,760 that they are shaking. They are in disarray. 101 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,800 They, they, they, they know something is about to happen. 102 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,520 They don't know. They're not putting all the 103 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,880 pieces together, but they know whatever it is, they're probably 104 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,280 not going to like it. Whatever it is that there's 105 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:05,720 something doesn't feel right. Jesus, hold on here, time out. 106 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:12,840 Jesus knowing their disarray and they're shaking this he he is he 107 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:14,760 knows that he is leaving them soon. 108 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,120 He comforts them at the beginning of chapter 14. 109 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,000 Even he says let not your heart be troubled. 110 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,600 They start saying things like show us the Father and it will 111 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,280 be enough for us. They start panicking, right, 112 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:35,120 because they don't know how life will look without Jesus walking 113 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,680 by their side. They have, they have had this 114 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,960 time that they have been blessed with to be able to have Jesus 115 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,080 walking alongside them physically. 116 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,360 He is here when, when all of these things, Jesus, what are 117 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,200 you saying? All of these different things 118 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:52,600 and they're just like, show us the Father. 119 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,240 Then that'll be sufficient to us. 120 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,240 That'll, that'll, that'll, that'll ease our minds, so to 121 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,320 speak. And it is in this moment of fear 122 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,520 and uncertainty that Jesus makes the promise of our main text is 123 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:09,320 I will not leave you comfortless or in the other translations, I 124 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,840 will not leave you orphans, I will come to you. 125 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,720 When Jesus said this, he was speaking not only to the 126 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:21,600 disciples who were afraid of living life without him, but he 127 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,240 is speaking to even us today, speaking to our soul, speaking 128 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,960 to that fear of being left alone, being unprotected, 129 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:35,480 unloved. So I, I want to take you down 130 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:40,799 imagination lane, if you will tonight, if you will indulge me 131 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:44,560 and walk with me and, and just listen if you need to, if it 132 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:46,840 helps, you can close your eyes as as I do it. 133 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,760 But I'm going to talk here for a minute. 134 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,000 Let's say you are five years old. 135 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,320 One of your parents took you to a store. 136 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:01,600 Let's say they went to Walmart. It is a busy Saturday afternoon, 137 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,920 maybe it's the week that everybody got their paychecks 138 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:09,800 and they are just going at it. And the hustle and bustle noise 139 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,360 of shopping carts beeping, cash registers, voices filling the 140 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,240 air. There's just so much going on. 141 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,360 A lot for a 5 year old to take in. 142 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:23,920 But all is good because you are holding on to your parents hand. 143 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:30,160 You feel safe, you feel protected, but then something on 144 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:35,560 the shelf catches your eye. Whatever it is, toy candy. 145 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,320 I, I, I can't, I can't begin to name off all the different 146 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,520 things that probably look shiny to a 5 year old. 147 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,800 It could literally be some, it could, it could be the scanner 148 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,400 at the, at the cash register. And they'd be like, oh, look, 149 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:51,200 that's for me. But something catches your eye. 150 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,200 It draws your attention and you stop for a moment. 151 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,400 Your, your hand slips free and you take a look at that thing. 152 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:03,360 And when you turn back around, for whatever reason, mom and dad 153 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:06,320 are gone. For whatever reason, maybe they 154 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,880 just didn't notice that, that, that you let go, but they are no 155 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:14,920 longer there. So at first, what would a 5 year 156 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,760 old do? Maybe they wouldn't start to 157 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,840 panic right away. You know, maybe you're not 158 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:22,560 panic. You think, well they must be 159 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:24,920 over here. And so you check, check, glance 160 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:26,760 down 1 aisle. Not there. 161 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,480 You glance down the next aisle, and with each aisle becoming 162 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:38,120 more and more nervous, the heart starting to race, there's a knot 163 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,720 in your stomach because everything around you now seems 164 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:45,040 more intimidating to you. It wasn't intimidating before. 165 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,520 Shelves feel taller, the noise feels louder. 166 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:53,920 And where you once felt safe, in that same exact place you felt 167 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:59,640 peace, now you feel fear. And so with that knot in your 168 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:03,920 stomach, you are afraid. Your heart is racing, tears may 169 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:08,400 be welling up in your eyes, and the only thing you can get in 170 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,920 your mind isn't the toy anymore. It isn't the candy that once 171 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,560 seemed all important that you had to stop and look at it. 172 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:21,440 But the only thing on your mind is where is my dad? 173 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:26,760 Where is my mom? The thing is, is that you are 174 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,400 surrounded by people. It's not that you are alone. 175 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,080 They they, those people may even be friendly. 176 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,680 They may even look at you and smile. 177 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:40,160 They may not be mean. But no matter to that five year 178 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:44,920 old, those strangers, the toy, the candy, nothing is going to 179 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:50,360 take that fear away because there is only one thing that 180 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,800 will settle your heart and that knot in your stomach as the five 181 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,680 year old. It is the sound of the parents 182 00:11:56,680 --> 00:12:01,440 voice or seeing their face, That comfort you feel and the peace 183 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,960 comes back to you whenever you are taken back with them. 184 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:12,120 That same way the five year old reached for a toy and lost their 185 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,280 parents hand. That's what people are doing 186 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:21,240 every day. We maybe not even us, but let's 187 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:25,560 just even talk about people that have never entered into a church 188 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:29,560 building of, of of doctrinal approach that we teach here. 189 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,920 They reach for things. They, we reach, they reach for 190 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,080 money, they reach for success, relationships, addictions, 191 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,000 alcohol, so many different things. 192 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,160 And they, they turn back around in their soul and they are 193 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,520 feeling lost after seeing getting that thing. 194 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:54,000 There's so many things we they trying to grasp, trying to grab 195 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,720 hold of because this is going to be the thing that fixes me. 196 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:06,200 But they still feel lost because they are just like that five 197 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:07,880 year old. I'm not calling everyone that's 198 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:09,200 not in the church or five year old. 199 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:15,280 What I am saying is their soul is without their parent or if in 200 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,600 the context of the message they do not have the comfort of their 201 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:24,080 father. While the KJV states it, I will 202 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,120 not leave you comfortless. I love the way these other 203 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:33,200 ESVNAT the NASB all says I will not leave you orphans. 204 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,440 See in in the original Greek, and you might have heard this 205 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,720 before, but in the original Greek it is translated 206 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:42,840 comfortless as in the KJV and orphans in the other versions 207 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,080 the Greek word is orphanos. I might not be saying that 208 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,480 right. I'm not Greek, which means 209 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:55,080 fatherless, without protection, without identity. 210 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,960 What does that tell you? Well, it tells me a few things. 211 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:05,000 First of all, Jesus isn't promising a stand in, but he is 212 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,560 promising that he was not going to leave them without the 213 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:11,920 Father. And he stated that he was going 214 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,040 to come to them. So as a byproduct, if he says 215 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:17,200 I'm not going to leave you, I'm going to send the Father, I'm 216 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,000 coming, then that would mean that He is the Father. 217 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:25,360 Hold up a second, right? If he's saying to them that He 218 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,400 won't leave them as orphans and He would come to them, then that 219 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,880 would mean He is the Father. He even stated earlier in that 220 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,680 chapter, verses 8 and 9, he said, Philip saith unto him, 221 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,920 Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 222 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,040 And Jesus saith unto him, Have I not? 223 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,840 Have I been so long time with you? 224 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,120 And yet hast thou not known me, Philip? 225 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,160 He's hath seen me, hath seen the Father. 226 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,840 And how sayest thou then show us the Father. 227 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,560 So. So Jesus is being pretty clear 228 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,520 here that He is the Father. Ladies and gentlemen, we have to 229 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,960 stand on the word of God and study and conviction. 230 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,560 This is a sidebar, but with understanding that the Holy 231 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:14,160 Ghost is not another person, but it is the Father himself 232 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:19,320 dwelling within us, Jesus Christ dwelling within us. 233 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,360 If it was, if it was another person that was sent and not the 234 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,200 Father, then we would still be living this life fatherless. 235 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:34,360 But I'm glad that I have a Heavenly Father that not only 236 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,760 saw to fit to robe himself in flesh as Jesus Christ, where all 237 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,360 the fullness of the God had dwelt bodily and He gave His 238 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,560 life that we may be redeemed, but He also saw fit to come 239 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:50,760 again, not moving forward, but He's all fit to come 240 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,240 spiritually. But when he came, He decided, 241 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,680 you know what? My Spirit has dwelt in the ark, 242 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,320 in the ark of the covenant and in the Tabernacle. 243 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:05,480 My spirit has dwelt in perfected flesh without spot or blemish. 244 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:11,560 But now I have offered myself a as a perfect spotless lamb slain 245 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:12,880 from the foundation of the earth. 246 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:18,000 That was a sufficient sacrifice. I am now going to dwell within 247 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:24,680 some common flesh. God's Spirit has dwelt in things 248 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:29,160 that we don't think nor could we ever measure up to. 249 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:36,160 But when that veil was torn, he said, I have, if you will, He 250 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,320 said, I have a new temple to dwell in. 251 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,200 I have some orphans to give a home to. 252 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,720 Justin, stop and think for a moment with that five year old 253 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,240 kid how they would have felt when their parent was nowhere to 254 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,080 be found. Now imagine if you will, if God 255 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,720 had never decided to come and dwell with us, never dwell 256 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,000 within us, How would how would we feel today? 257 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,160 Our spirit would feel just like that lost child. 258 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,960 We would feel alone. Everything that we face in life 259 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,760 would probably feel bigger to us, just like the five year old. 260 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,839 The the shelves, the things, the noises, everything. 261 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:22,359 And we can only imagine our heart saying, where is my 262 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,640 father? But that's not what happened. 263 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:30,400 We have the blessing that Jesus said, don't you worry, I'm going 264 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,080 to come to you and you will not be an orphan no more. 265 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:39,040 Your adoption day is coming, he said. 266 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,200 It is time the adoption day is coming. 267 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,200 Paul even said in Romans 815 said, For ye have not received 268 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,600 the spirit of bondage against the fear, but you have received 269 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:55,200 the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry ABBA Father, the Spirit 270 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,880 itself, bearing witness with our spirit that we are the children 271 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:05,080 of God. You didn't receive the spirit of 272 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:09,240 fear, but of adoption. You can cry ABBA, father, but 273 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,680 think about those who do not have that right now. 274 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,040 They may look like they have it all together. 275 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:19,000 You work with them, you sit by them at lunch and you go 276 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:23,280 throughout your day, but their soul is crying, Where's my 277 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:31,320 father? Can you imagine how hopeless 278 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:36,600 they may feel? And here we are with the answer 279 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:41,680 to their orphan problem. They are still a lost child in 280 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,560 the store. They are looking for dad. 281 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:50,400 But not only, not only are those that have never heard and their 282 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,440 soul is trying to find their father, but there are those that 283 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:57,400 have been adopted and then rejected the one who adopted 284 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:02,440 them. Very familiar passage of 285 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:07,040 Scripture in Luke 1511. And a certain man had two sons. 286 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,800 And the this is Jesus speaking a parable here. 287 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,680 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the 288 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:17,480 portion of goods that falleth to the ME, and divided him to his 289 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,080 living. And not many days after the 290 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:21,640 younger son gathered all together. 291 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,480 He took his journey to a far country, and there wasted his 292 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,640 substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there 293 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,160 arose a mighty famine in that land, and he began to be in 294 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,600 want. He went and joined himself to a 295 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,920 citizen of the country, and he sent him to his fields to feed 296 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:45,640 swine, and and he would fain have filled his belly with the 297 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:50,120 husks that the swine did eat, and no man gave unto him. 298 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:55,360 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of 299 00:19:55,360 --> 00:20:01,680 my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with 300 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:06,040 hunger? You see, the prodigal son left 301 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,800 his father's house by choice, but he ended up living like an 302 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,680 orphan. He was starving, he was empty, 303 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:17,080 he was abandoned. But the turning point came when 304 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,520 he remembered his father's house. 305 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:24,640 See, for those prodigals that have been adopted by the father 306 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:29,160 but then rejected and turn away, they, they look the part as 307 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,280 everyone else in the world does. They, they are trying to search 308 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:36,560 and find something to fill that void, the hole that is left by 309 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,800 not having the father. But the difference is of the 310 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,920 prodigal experience is because no matter how much they may try 311 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,920 to find something to fill that hole, they rejected the father. 312 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,960 And the issue is the prodigal knows where the father is. 313 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,960 The prodigal knows where home is. 314 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,720 He left, he left it exactly where it is. 315 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:07,120 He knows where the father is, but he was trying to make it and 316 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:12,400 find a way to fill the void of not being at the father's house. 317 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:17,800 So for those the prodigal, the question isn't where is my 318 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,440 father, but hoping that they could get to a place like the 319 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,880 prodigal son did. The question of why am I not 320 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:30,320 with my father? It was so much better when I was 321 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,560 in my Even the servants have even to spare. 322 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:40,680 Why am I not with my father? And we look at that story, and 323 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,560 then what happens in verse 20s. He arose and came to his father. 324 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:48,760 And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had 325 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,680 compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 326 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,400 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against 327 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:01,800 heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy 328 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,000 son. But the Father said to his 329 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,280 servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put 330 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:12,080 a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet, and bring hit her the 331 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,560 fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and be merry. 332 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:21,600 For this my son was dead and is alive again, was lost in the and 333 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:28,800 found he they began to be merry. Ladies and gentlemen, the 334 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:34,160 prodigal is just needing to turn around and remember what the 335 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,200 father's house was like. The father is waiting. 336 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,880 He is watching, even running to meet the son. 337 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,600 The prodigal went from powerless in a pig bin to restored back 338 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:52,160 into his father's embrace. And although that is just, that 339 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,280 is the prodigal story, sometimes it is us. 340 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,440 We we don't have we, We don't have to leave the father's house 341 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,080 to live like an orphan. Sometimes we we all need to live 342 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:10,120 like sons and daughters. Not rejecting the father's 343 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:13,440 embrace, but welcoming it. Sometimes we can. 344 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,640 We can live like a prodigal while sitting in a Pew. 345 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,960 We live like orphans, scared, insecure, and powerless. 346 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:26,280 We have to stop living like we don't know where our father is. 347 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,560 We were never meant to live passively as children of God. 348 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:36,920 The Father isn't just there to adopt us, but he is there to 349 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:43,040 empower us people. We we talk about it that, that 350 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,760 the, the plan of salvation is not a punch ticket. 351 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:50,440 It is not You got your ticket to the train and we'll see you when 352 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:55,040 we leave. We get we get this mentality, so 353 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,200 to speak of, of going through the checklist. 354 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,320 But then once we're done with the checklist, I will be here 355 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:08,400 present, but maybe not involved. I'm not focused. 356 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,320 I are I'm saved. I'm not focusing on discipling 357 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,000 anybody else. I'm not focused on anything. 358 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,720 I, Jesus came that I would be comforted that I wouldn't be 359 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,440 Father. I have a father and that I have 360 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,200 the father now. So I'm, I'm good. 361 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,200 But Jesus stated in Acts one and eight, ye shall receive power 362 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,440 after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and ye shall be 363 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,560 witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and all Judea and all 364 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:41,040 in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 365 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:44,320 You know what that says to me. And that should say to you that 366 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,800 he's rattling off in Judea and Jerusalem and Samaria. 367 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,720 But when he gets to the uttermost, that's that's 368 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,720 including us, right? It's it's not just enough 369 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,600 because if he said Jerusalem, Judea and all Samaria, Oh well, 370 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,760 we got we got off we got by you know, but now he's saying into 371 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:06,400 the uttermost and that includes when Peter's preaching in 372 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,400 Pentecost and he says Even so much the Lord our God shall call 373 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:18,600 however many that includes us having a living part of this 374 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,320 Romans 811 even said stated the same spirit that raised Jesus 375 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:28,600 from the dead lives inside you. That is nothing to take lightly 376 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:33,200 or to have be passive him dwelling within you. 377 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:38,000 You have authority to walk in victory and to find other 378 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:44,120 orphans that need to know where the father is and the prodigals 379 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:47,160 that need to be woke up and they're missing and they 380 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,760 rejected the father and say, look, do you remember how good 381 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:56,840 the father's house was? Acts one and eight just doesn't 382 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,040 stop at power. It says you witnesses. 383 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,640 That's what we're called to once. 384 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,760 Once you've been adopted, once you have been ingrained into the 385 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:09,400 body, then our next thing is not to just stay here, but it is to 386 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,880 turn around and go find other orphans. 387 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,800 You aren't just filled with comfort and power for yourself, 388 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,760 you are filled so you can find those other lost children that 389 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:29,240 are in the aisles of life. Those five year olds that are 390 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,800 wandering and they don't know where their father is. 391 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,040 They try to find different things to fill their life and 392 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,640 they are desperate for being complete. 393 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:48,480 And you have the answer. You have the antidote because 394 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:56,120 you know where the father is. Maybe, maybe we'll end up 395 00:26:56,120 --> 00:27:00,920 looking and finding people in in a pig pen like the prodigal and 396 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,560 and you say, hey, you don't belong here. 397 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:10,920 The Father's been waiting for you. 2nd Corinthians 1 and three 398 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,720 says blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 399 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,680 the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforted us in 400 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:24,200 our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are 401 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,280 in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are 402 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,720 comforted of God. You weren't comforted just to 403 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,920 say stay comfortable. You were. 404 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,000 Your soul was comforted because it it lacked. 405 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,040 That's why you were comforted. But then you were sent off to 406 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,920 comfort others. You were adopted so you could 407 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:53,800 help others be adopted. Imagine, if you will, you were 408 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,880 the that person, maybe an adult now on the on the opposite side. 409 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,040 And you were walking through the store and you saw the child 410 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,920 wandering alone. Maybe there are tears in their 411 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,880 eyes and you probably stop, right? 412 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,000 You probably try to help. You would do everything in your 413 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,000 power that you could to get that child back to their father. 414 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,760 Now, what if I told you that though there are people all 415 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,960 around you in your life whose spirit with them themselves is 416 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,240 in the aisle and they are just begging it. 417 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,160 Their soul is begging for someone to find them and say I 418 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:35,760 know where the Father is, follow me, I know where the Father is. 419 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:42,080 I can show you their souls just crying, where is my Father? 420 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:48,720 And we have the answer. You're sitting there with the 421 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:49,840 answer. You're sitting there with the 422 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,960 solution. And we don't make effort to 423 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:58,240 guide the fatherless home. We don't make effort to bring 424 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:04,520 people to Him because that we have to He. 425 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,720 If He is dwelling within us, then that means we have to still 426 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:12,240 because the surrender is a first time is A1 it. 427 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,600 All it takes is one time of surrender for the the Holy Ghost 428 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,400 to come upon and dwell. But going and walking in the 429 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,640 Spirit takes consistent surrender. 430 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,400 And by doing that, then he can guide us to where we need to go, 431 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,080 the people we need to talk to, the people that we need to be 432 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,720 able to to minister to. And I'm not talking about you 433 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,920 walk up to them and saying, well, if you don't get saved, 434 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,280 you're going to hell. That's not what I'm saying. 435 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,800 But what I am saying is there are people that they are, their 436 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,240 soul is begging. And all it would take is an 437 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,120 unction of the Holy Ghost for you to walk up and say, how are 438 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,600 you doing? You may not know them from Adam, 439 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,040 but you walk up to them and say, how are you doing? 440 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:57,640 They may break down in tears and start to start to tell you their 441 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,000 life story. And you find out that they are 442 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,480 at the cusp of a change in their life. 443 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,800 And you say, you know what? Let's go to my father's house. 444 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:13,240 Let's go to my father's house because there is comfort. 445 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,840 But not only that, once we, once you, we get you comforted. 446 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,360 Once we get you there, let's go find others. 447 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,120 Let's go find others. That allowing of of dwelling in 448 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,560 us to guide us. It takes a continuous surrender. 449 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,600 And and when we do that, when we start to do that, that is when 450 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:36,160 we see with spiritual eyes. Before we were just looking 451 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:42,160 through natural eyes and we look and just say we just, you know, 452 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:47,360 we see people like, but there may be something there that we 453 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,960 need to allow him to prick our hearts a little bit. 454 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,560 We're all not perfect. There are plenty of times we 455 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,640 have walked, we have walked on by. 456 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,440 But what if in the hustle and bustle, God is trying to get you 457 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:08,000 to slow down, trying to get you to see with spiritual eyes? 458 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,200 God will guide you to those people that are wandering the 459 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:16,040 aisles ready for someone to help guide them to their Father. 460 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,840 Even the Great Commission in Matthew, Matthew 2819, it says 461 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,680 go the year 4 and teach all nations again, including all of 462 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,000 us, baptizing in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the 463 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,480 Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever. 464 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,480 I have commanded you and lo, I am with you all way even to the 465 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:40,400 end of the world, a man. When Jesus gave that Great 466 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,240 Commission, it wasn't an option of discipleship. 467 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,560 It was a command of discipleship. 468 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,720 It wasn't an assignment. It was it was an assignment that 469 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:55,040 we were empowered to do when the Holy Ghost came. 470 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,560 You are the answer to someone's orphan problem. 471 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:06,040 You have directions to the Father. 472 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,880 You don't know how to word it. You don't know how to word it 473 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,160 Well then you know what? Why don't you just pick it up? 474 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,080 Pick up the word and start there. 475 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:17,960 You don't know how to word it well. 476 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,840 It you know spirit will give intercession and I also believe 477 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,400 that spirit will also help you in your time. 478 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,600 There have been plenty of times it happens during preaching, but 479 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,280 it also has it happens in conversation where I don't know 480 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,040 necessarily. I wouldn't know necessarily what 481 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,240 to say or even what verse to just go off cuff and say Oh, 482 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,440 this. But but when, when the spirit 483 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,600 gets a hold of you in that moment, you start to it's things 484 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,000 start to come the recollection and you can bring the people 485 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,200 home just by walking in the spirit. 486 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,120 When you're the answer to someone's orphan problem, we 487 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:55,240 have to walk differently. We have to walk differently. 488 00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:02,720 Music can start to come, some of you here or listening maybe, 489 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,240 maybe there are still spiritual orphans. 490 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,880 You have not received, you have not yet received the Holy Ghost. 491 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,680 You you've never had the comforter come and dwell inside 492 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,960 of you. I'm telling you that today could 493 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:21,840 be your adoption day. Some here listening or listening 494 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,200 could could be prodigals, if you will. 495 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:29,160 And and and they they once knew the embrace of the father, but 496 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:34,280 but but have drifted. But just like in Luke 15, the 497 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:40,320 Father is waiting, arms open wide, ready to run and meet you. 498 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,400 He is not here to shame you. No one's here to shame you. 499 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,800 He is here to restore you back to His embrace. 500 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,960 And there may be some of us that have the Holy Ghost, but maybe 501 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,000 we have been living like orphans, just sitting on the 502 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,040 Pew. We haven't been taking the Great 503 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,640 Commission, the heart. We haven't been taking it to to 504 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,199 heart for the for discipleship and going unto the uttermost. 505 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,800 Maybe maybe we're still scared and insecure and we feel 506 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,320 powerless within ourselves. But I'm telling you, God wants 507 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:21,560 you to wants you to step back into your identity as a child of 508 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,520 God walking in his power and authority. 509 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:31,280 We stand tonight. This altar is open and wherever, 510 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:36,400 wherever you find yourself in tonight you need if you need 511 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,920 adopting tonight, if you need restoration tonight, if if you 512 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:47,400 need to step back into identity as a a walk walking believer, 513 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:52,360 then I'm telling you, come and I have the answer to your question 514 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,360 of where is my father is he is right here. 515 00:34:56,159 --> 00:35:00,360 He is right here. He is calling your name and once 516 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,440 he comforts you, he sends you. Once he comforts you. 517 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,840 It's not just about power. It's not it's not just about 518 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,040 just what you get, but it is about witness. 519 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:15,360 You again, are the answer to someone's orphan problem. 520 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:20,560 You may be the one God wants to use another child to come home, 521 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:27,840 but it starts in His embrace. It starts from the Holy Ghost. 522 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:32,920 It starts from the indwelling and no longer having having the 523 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,560 option of the idea of where's my father? 524 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:40,320 No, I know where my father is. I'm no longer an orphan. 525 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:47,320 I'm no longer an orphan. God. 526 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:56,200 We could bring him home. So many people are lost, so many 527 00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:03,800 people need disciples, need need witness to God. 528 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:09,120 Help me to see with your eyes that I could find those five 529 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,200 year olds, those spiritual 5 year olds that are just looking 530 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,840 for dad. Help me to get as many as I can 531 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,920 and take them to the Father's house. 532 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,440 Say, I know where, I know where your dad is. 533 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,200 I know where you can find. I know where you can fill that 534 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,840 hole. I know where you can fill it. 535 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:34,680 I know, I know where how dimty you may have felt. 536 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,640 I felt that before. But I'm telling you, once you 537 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:43,000 get in the embrace of the Father, everything changes. 538 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:50,000 Everything changes. Oh, God, give us a heart, Lord. 539 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,520 That would be for souls. Give us a heart, Lord, that we 540 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:58,600 would seek, Lord, to find more children to be adopted. 541 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:06,320 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Jesus.