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[Music] [Applause]
[Applause]
the best entrepreneurial God I have ever read
best Plan of Salvation that we have ever discovered
discovered
in the gospel
chapter number 15.
I will use a very very extremely
familiar scripture
and only excerpt a portion of it because
it is so familiar that ninety percent of
the people of the room would almost be
able to quote it by heart
and yet indulge me if you will in the
luxury of extrapolating from this text
an additional thought
for the benefit of the hearer
as we discuss the Prodigal Son
and if we become fathers we do not
forfeit our sonship
for fatherhood
that duality of roles is of Paramount
importance because in the oldest man in
the room
for that matter in the oldest woman in
the room
there is still a little girl
and at different moments and times you
and this text
is what I'm going to use
to talk to
all of the many different versions of you
I told them yesterday I said there's so
many people sitting in your chair yeah
yeah
yeah there's so many versions of you the
happy you
the sad you the Restless you the stable you
the
the Curious you
and the you that is given to wisdom
all of them are wearing your clothes
Midway is the story we start in the 15th
verse of the 15th chapter of the Gospel
of Saint John
and it reads this wise out of the King
James version and he went and joined
himself to a citizen of that country
talking about the prodigal son left his
father's house and went and joined a
citizen of this far country who were not
Covenant keeping people
and when you join yourself to a
different kind of person
they send you to do things you said you
and he sent him into his fields
to feed swine
so the prince
has been sent into a field to feed swine
and he it looked good to him [Music]
[Music]
he would train have filled his belly
and maybe he's hungry because no man gave
gave
you cannot pour out what has not been
and when he came to himself [Laughter]
[Laughter]
at 66 I am still coming [Applause]
[Applause]
divesting myself of all the accruements
that other people placed on me
and finding out who I am outside of what
you want me to be is a process when he
came to himself he said how many hired
Servants of my fathers have read enough
with hunger
anybody hungry
I will arise and go to my father
and will say unto him father
I have sinned
nobody talks about Sin anymore
father I have sinned everybody has their
own opinion
but he said father I have sinned his
admission of his sin is what gives him
access back to the father if you confess
your sin he is faithful and just to
cleanse you from all unrighteousness
father I have sinned I have sinned
against heaven
and before thee
and I
I am no more worthy to be called thy son
I don't even deserve to be your son
make me as one of the hard servants
and he arose and came to his father but
when he was yet a great way off listen
to his father's his father saw him
I mean really see him when he was a
great way off not when he's doing what
you want him to do but when he's a great
way off there are a lot of young men who
his father saw him
and had compassion
not rules
not mouth
not criticism
there has to come a time that you shut up
and have compassion and real ran and
fell on his neck yes and he kissed his son
because there is nothing wrong
with being affectionate
with your son
and the son said unto him father I have
sinned against heaven and in thy sight
and I am no more worthy to because I
said see when when you don't feel worthy
even when you have an opportunity
you don't always activate because of
guilt and shame
this cataclysmic moment
was something the father waited a long
anybody waited a long time
the Lord told me to tell you this and
this is my subject
I want you to look at somebody and tell
father God in the name of Jesus as we
approach thy Throne we do it humbly and
submissively before you because Thou Art
God and beside you there is no other
release the kind of anointing that
impacts people in definite ways
that changes them eternally
that heals wounds that loosens abundance
to Captain free I thank you in advance
for what you're going to do have your
way great God that you are I trust you
for things I can't even discuss
manifest yourself in the midst of your
people today in Jesus name amen
this is a very interesting text it is
one of the few
stories Parables as it were
mentioned in the scriptures
that is void of the presence
of any woman
there is no female character
in this text
at all
if this texts were taught today
it would be greatly criticized
because now people quickly scan your
page to see
if they are represented properly in the text
you are not in the text
at all
this is a man's story
it is a story of three different men at
three different ages and stages in their life
life
all coalesce together to develop a truth
about a god
who is explaining his love
through a story
now this is not misogynistic by any
stretch of the imagination
let us be clear
from Eve forward the Bible is full of women
women
from Eve to Bathsheba
to Ruth the Bible is full of women from JL
JL
to Naomi the Bible is full
a woman
to marry the mother of Jesus
the Bible is full
of stories powerful life-changing stories
stories
about women
it's interesting to note in this
particular case
this father has son said he could not
have by himself
and Yet the woman is not mentioned in
the text at all
I must admit that
there is that the Bible is written in
the midst of misogynistic times
where women were not always valued
consequently many of the women who
Premiere in the texts
are often not even given names in the text
text
they are just referred to as the woman
at the well
the woman with the issue
there is no discussion about what their
names were
oftentimes men's names were mentioned
more readily than women
because in the times of the scriptures
the birth of a man-child was considered
to be more weighty
Than a Woman
I'm just teaching
I am not saying that men are more
valuable than women
I am saying that was the attitude of the times
times
and so we must put the text in context
to understand the complexity of the text itself
itself
the interesting thing also to note is
that one of the things that I love about scripture
scripture
this particular verse starts out saying
a certain man
that is not accidental
we will see that all throughout the scriptures
scriptures
a certain man
had two sons
a certain man like Adam
had two sons
Cain and Abel
and when Abel was slaughtered
Seth was born and still a certain man head
head
two sons
this Faire is and Zara
is half time
and Phineas A Certain man had
two sons
who has the first man Adam and the last
what I love about the word of God it
does not
show us just the grandiose ideologies of
successful families that have no
turbulence but from the very first family
family
he warns us that families will be complicated
complicated conflicted
conflicted dysfunctional
dysfunctional
if the first family
the Apple couldn't fall too far from the tree
as soon as God put the man in the garden
and pulled out of him the woman and they
started the first family murder hit the
is a clue that there is going to be
turbulence the rest of the book with families
families
the law of first mentioned the first
family that's mentioned is dysfunctional
and all the way throughout the rest of
the book we see turbulence we see rape
we see molestation we see drunken
fathers we see ungrateful Sons we see
the impediments of people who dress
themselves up like prostitutes and slept
with their father-in-law to get pregnant
to produce children this if the Bible
were to be cinematic it would at least
[Applause]
at least rated R because God is honest
and Vivid about the fact that life is messy
it's complicated
that's why you ought not to covet your neighbor
neighbor
because you're standing on the outside
and on the outside every family looks
good and stable and solid and sane and
part of your pain comes from your comparison
comparison
because you wish that your family were
more like them but if you went inside
the house you would find out that they
are not everything that you thought that
and maybe you better deal with the devil
you know [Music]
[Music] [Applause]
I would rather build a church any day
than build a family
I would rather build a business any day
than build a family I would rather lay block
than build a family because black don't
have an opinion
block don't talk back it stays where you
put it
come on somebody but raising a family
see every block got a mouth
and every mouth has an opinion and every
opinion has to be expressed and it is
your job to hold together all of these
different opinions and personalities and
attitudes and dispositions
and mood swings
and midlife crisis and menopause
and Adolescence you gotta hold it
together for a long long time
long time
there is no retiring from your family
there is no resigning from your family
you will always be attached to them
[Applause]
just cause you signed the release
because the first time trouble Rises the
first time they have a car wreck the
first time they get sick the first time
they get in trouble they're gonna call
you and it's going to affect you I know
you said you don't care and it don't
bother you but you're gonna have
flashbacks because you got a brain and
you are having how to where the real
people at are y'all sitting in the
section over here flashing have you ever
had a flashback you broke up but you
still got a flashback and you're a
little worried but you can't call and
you tell yourself you don't care but you
do and you're walking around in the
middle of night with that little sick
feeling in the bottom of your stomach
because your stomach won't listen at
your head and disconnect from the fact
that you are still connected though you
are free on paper you are still Bound by
experience and found it is our messy business
business [Applause]
we live in a time now that
I'm going to talk about some stuff you
don't know about because you grew up on
but I remember when grits were an instant
instant
so what you call good grits I just call gritty
gritty
because real grits are slow cooked
Come on talk to me somebody
real grits are slow cook take a long
time to get the Grits right but that's
stuff y'all going in the microwave that
you call grits is not really grits
because if you want something to have
real flavor you got to slow cook it you
got to put it on a smoker you got to
give it some time you can't cook collard
greens in 15 minutes it takes time to
cook green you you got to put the meat
in and let it boil down and let it
thicken up and let it get a little
flavor in it come on somebody you gotta
cut your greens and wash your green and
add them in at the right time and then
cover them up and let it cook down let
all the juices cook down to you can't
tell the greens from the broth and see
we want instant sons and instant fathers
and instant marriages listen it takes 30
but it may take 30 years to have a marriage
and most of us if we don't get what we
need when we need it like we need it in
the style that we need it in our love language
language [Applause]
[Applause]
we're out of there
and all of these Love Languages sound
how am I supposed to know what your love
language is I'm still trying to figure
out what my love language is and when
your love language and my love language
and then the kids love language gets in
there it sounds like the day of Pentecost
Pentecost [Applause]
[Applause]
no give me space days acknowledge me no
don't make me stand up in front of
[Applause]
God knew he had to slow cook it because
it was going to take a long time to get
that right
he did he didn't even bring up the
church to the New Testament but he
started the family way back in the Book
of Genesis because he said this is slow grits
grits [Applause]
[Applause]
because the brothers are going to get jealous
and they're going to murder
and they're going to kill
and they're going to be envious some
vocally some silently
but it takes a long time to have a family
and we're in trouble our communities are
in trouble
our nation is in trouble and our world
is in trouble but all of it is only
because our families are in trouble
how can you have a strong community and
you must understand that the community
it is in your family that you learn
Authority that you learn order that you
have protocol that you have used to
anyway I'm sorry you said I'm old folky
used to have discipline that's where you
learn your art your skill your talent
your rules your regulation what time to
go to bed it's nine o'clock go to bed go
to bed clean your room wash your draws
clean yourself up in case you have a wreck
wreck [Applause]
I'll never be able to understand what a
wreck had to do with clean draws he dead
but he has [Applause]
[Music]
mama I died but my drawers was clean
they cut both my legs off but my drawers
were Sparkling White [Applause]
this is messy This is complicated this
it is tough because the star of the story
story
is seemingly the the Sun
the biggest fool in the text has the
the most selfish
suffering grandized aloof individual in
the father is supporting cast
to be the supporting cast
cast
they always feature about the Sun
they sing songs about the song
they do sermons and poetry on the sun
nobody says anything about the father
and the father is the one who held
does not mean
thank you [Applause]
this is how I look when I'm getting
this is how I look when I'm scared [Applause]
[Applause]
and some of our homes are busting up
because you expect my face to radiate my
emotions like yours does when in reality
the purpose
when they bring me bad news I take it
when they bring me good news I take it
and just because the father didn't cry
ly we live in a society that gives
empathy and compassion to that that is visible
so the more invisible you become with
how you feel the less compassion you receive
because they start saying that's just
how he is
you Built For This
you can do it
you can handle it
and I took it like this
the father doesn't get the lead role
because he's not given enough drama now
but drama dries up with age foreign
foreign [Applause]
[Applause]
just dries up and shrinks down and calms down
the younger son said to his father give
me the portion of goods that falleth
unto me
who says anything Falls to you
what entitlement that you think just
because you're my son that something is
supposed to fall to you that I owe you
Glory that's your inheritance you breathe
he comes to his father with a spirit of
entitlement inspect expecting his father
to give him his inheritance wait a
minute inheritance is what you get when
I die
so you mean you're in such a hurry to
get what I got that you can't wait on me
to die you you want me to get out the
way because you would rather have the
gift than the giver
you'd rather have the seed than the sower
sower
you'd rather have the healing than the
Healer that's what you believe every
time you pray in the emergency room to a
god that you don't serve you want him to
heal you
but you don't want to have a
relationship with the Healer don't act
like you don't understand the prodigal
son because it's a whole lot of prodigal
sons and daughters in this room who only
come to God when they get in trouble and
as soon as the trouble is over we don't
you pray prayers like Lord if you just
can I go deeper [Applause]
[Applause]
portion of goods that followeth unto me
and and and and then it says something
that is the most telling
he divided unto them
his living
see see whatever he had accumulated he
had spent his life
so when he gave it to his sons
it wasn't that he was giving him money
he was giving them his life
he divided unto them his living I have
given you my life
while you picked through it and tell me
how it should have been wrapped and how
it should have been handled and what
should have been done with it it was my
I could have had it without you
I could have went to Paris and I could
have went to France but I sent you to school
school [Applause]
[Applause]
I could have went to Venice I could have
been in Italy I could have been in Rome
I could have went to Afghanistan I could
have taken trips to Dubai but I paid
your tuition
with my life [Applause]
[Applause]
and he divided unto them
his living
and that's okay
because if you're really a father you
should love
stay with me I'm going somewhere
yeah because if I'm going to give my
lights to anybody I should give it to my seed
seed
if I were going to die right now and I
had to pick out who I was going to give
my my my my life to I would give it to
my seed first
the problem is he divided unto them his
living not their living his living and
the prodigal son took his living and
went a horn
and Tramps and parties
and fake friends
he's spinning in strip clubs
and hookah bars
and Heaven parties and
dropping it like it's hot and making it
rain up in here
he made it rain he made it
rained it rained with his father's life [Applause]
is Father's Day
it's Father's Day
and I had to sit here and watch you waste
waste
waste my living knowing I would not get
another one knowing this is my last run
knowing that I'm running out of time
knowing that I won't get a do-over again
and I had to watch you blowing and
listen at you tell me what I should have done
[Applause]
because even though even though you
haven't done
seem to know how to do it [Applause]
if another childless person tells me how
to be a father I'll scream [Applause]
[Applause]
I know this is going to get me on Tick
Tock for sure but here I go
if another woman tells me how to be a
father I will open my mouth and flat out
scream I you can no more tell me how to
be a father then I can tell you how to
birth a baby I don't know nothing about
birthing a baby I don't know nothing
about nursing a child you have to know
what you don't know
shut up being the teacher and just be
how do you know how to be a father
not only are you not a father most of
you didn't even have a father and yet
you're an expert on how to be [Applause]
but that's all right I'm not gonna
bother you because you're not in the
text it's all right I'm sorry I got off
the chase let me get back to the text
I'm not gonna bother you today and all
your ideas and all the stuff you read in
essence and women's today and all the
things you heard at the beauty shop
about what a man ought to be I'm not
gonna bother it today because you're an
expert on something you have never done
I know I'ma leave you alone I'm not
gonna try to argue with you because you
talk faster to me go ahead
but just because you have taught me
doesn't mean you changed my mind [Applause]
that's why I looked at you like this
[Applause]
and there you are
I want you to feel what the father felt
when the sun walked out the door with
it increased it and invested it and grew
from it and multiplied it and did
something with it he took everything I
told him and everything I taught him and
everything I gave him and everything I
oh
and to all of that the father said nothing
he said absolutely nothing because he
he had to wait
when it looked like it wasn't going to
pay off I know that's right
he had to wait
when it looked like he was a failure he
had to wait when it looked like it
didn't work he had to wait when it
looked like it didn't matter he had to
wait while they went on without him he
had to sit there and wait
that's what she says he had to wait
while he was running out of time he's
running out of time the boy has more
time than the father it is not the
oldest son it is the youngest son he has
the most time and the least since and
the old man with the least time and the
most sense has to sit back details
details [Music]
and just wait waiting is so hard that
the Bible said they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength that
means you expend energy just waiting I'm
just waiting I'm just waiting I'm tired
from waiting I'm weak from waiting I
need Revival just to wait [Applause]
and
because good grits [Applause]
[Applause]
he waited
while he spent his money at payday loans
he waited
while he made dumb decisions he waited
while he got tied up with people that
never met him no good he waited while
the young man valued his friends more
than his father he waited
while his fake friends who were only
with him for the money and the
opportunity that he got because he had a
father who helped him to be who he was
he had to wait while the son picked his
and he didn't say
they can't see it
they can't know it
till they know it
they can't be it till they be it they
can't see it just like you couldn't see
it when you were their age they can't
see it either and you have to the Bible
says in Paces you possess your soul you
possess your mind you keep yourself from
a nervous breakdown when you develop
patience you have to know that you
should bring forth fruit in your own
season and your least shall not wither
and whatever you do shall prosper but
it's not the boy's season [Applause]
yeah
you gotta wait on that girl to grow up
yes she's gonna act a fool yes she's
gonna do stupid things yes she might
come home pregnant yes she might get on
drugs yes your heart is broken yes you
feel like you're a disappointment yes
you feel like a failure at your most
vulnerable age you feel like I feel I
put everything I had in you and looked
I don't know who I'm preaching to but I
feel like I'm preaching I'm preaching to
somebody today
see we have lost our ability to wait
if the marriage don't work out in the
first three years we're out of there if
we're not happy in the first five years
we're out of there you don't understand
how long it takes for two different
people from two different worlds and two
different family backgrounds to mess
together and figure out how to make this
work you ain't gonna be happy every day
I can't make you happy I'm trying to
make me happy I don't even know what I
want how do you expect me to know what
you want I don't know what you want and
I can't make you happy [Applause]
[Applause] [Music]
[Music] [Applause]
the old man waited
this
Jewish boy
has gotten tied up with some gentile people
wait a minute
you couldn't stay with me and I loved you
to a citizen of that country
and I had to wait while you gave them honor
but you attach yourself to the Gentiles
who sent you out there to feed what I
would never feed you
for a Jew to eat swine was a curse and
the moment they got his attention they
sent him to the hall bin
not to eat the swine to feed the swine
and the boy is so low in his vision and
his self-esteem that now he's craving
stuff that he's never been exposed to at home
home [Music]
[Music] [Applause]
[Applause]
and it's not that he was about to have a
y'all are City people you don't know
nothing about a heart pen
a hope in stinks
is full of slop
and his son at his lowest estate
you can tell he's at his loss to State
because when you get down to your lowest
stuff that never looked good to you
starts looking good to you
stuff that you weren't attracted to you
start being attracted to things you said
you'd never do now you start doing him
and now he would feign have filled his
belly with that which the swine did eat
because he was hungry
I'm not blaming him he was hungry
but while he was hungry there was food
if a man gets hungry enough you'll eat
anything you'll do anything I understand
that I know what it is to be desperate I
want to talk to some desperate young men
in this place right now when you get
desperate stop telling people What You
Won't Do stop telling people where you
won't go stop telling people what you
won't smoke stop telling people what you
won't drink stop telling people who you
won't sleep with that's cause you're not
oh you got to sit there and act like you
don't know what I'm talking about you
gotta you gotta there with your church
face on and act like you haven't done
anything that you thought you would
never do you got to sit there and look
at me on this Father's Day and act like
you ain't got no mess no secrets no
stuff you don't want nobody to know
about like you have never been to the
hall being you such a phony that's why
I'm full with church folks I want to
talk to some real people who have done
some nasty stuff some stinking stuff
some wretched stuff some stuff you had
to blindfold yourself to do I want to
talk to some people that looked at
calling us and thought it was sexy [Applause]
[Applause] [Music]
[Music] [Applause]
and all the wildest boy
has broken his own values and his own
rules and his own integrity and
everything I put in him and everything I
put on him
where my parenting is tested
my parenting is not tested when you're
in my house
my parenting is tested when you leave
my parenting is not tested at nine
o'clock in the evening my parenting is
tested at three o'clock in the morning
my parenting is not tested when I'm
driving you to the prom my parenting is
tested when you got your own car and
you're over somebody else's house you
shouldn't be over my parenting is tested
when you fell in love with that married
man my parenting is tested when that boy
got ready to kill you over a girl who
was just using you for your money [Applause]
[Applause]
you don't have to be a father to
understand this pain
because there's a whole lot of women in
this room who have been raising children
and you know what it is to walk the
floor at three o'clock in the morning
and you can't fix it and you can't stop
it and they won't talk to you and they
won't take your calls and they won't
listen to you and all you can do is wait
you tried fussing and it didn't work you
tried cussing and it didn't work you
tried praying and it didn't work you
spoke in tongues and it got worse they
went to jail they got in trouble and
even on this day some of you are hurting
because the people you love are locked up
up [Applause]
and he would feign have filled his belly
and all while he was about
have you ever waited on somebody you love
have you ever waited on them to call you
have you ever picked up your phone and
[Applause]
have you ever waited on somebody to miss you
he waited
not knowing if he would ever see him
alive again
not knowing if the ambulance had just
passed by was carrying my son
my child my wife my future whatever it
is you're waiting on I'm I'm wondering
if it's going to get back is it ever
going to get back is it ever gonna come
home it's not just waiting it's worrying
it's worrying and waiting and worrying
and waiting see the worry is the torment
that the devil leaves with the waiter so
that you can't get comfortable in the
waiting that's why you have to wait on
the Lord and have your strength renewed
so you can fight off the worry all the
images that come to your mind all the
could of Woulda Shoulda all that this
might happen that might happen this
might die that might die that that this
might happen and there he is where his
father can help him where his father
can't reach him where his father can't
touch him and he's already spent
everything that his father put in him
and now he's down to nothing and that's
when we find out what you're really made
of when you're down to nothing when all
hell has broken loose in your life and
it looks like you'll never get back up
again that's when we find out are you a
man I don't know you're a man why you
got money I know you're a man when
you're broke I know you're a man when
you're backed in a quarter and you're
shoved to the wall and if you don't
fight your way out you won't get out
that's when I find out what you're
really made of [Applause]
and I don't know what the father did
wrong every father does something wrong
some stupid some crazy
and all while you're waiting you have
nothing to think about but
maybe if I'd have took him to the movies
maybe if I'd have been at the football
game maybe if I'd have been at the dance
maybe you wouldn't be in the Hop here
maybe it's my fault maybe it's I'm
talking about guilt
I'm talking about guilt
I'm talking to the men but I'm really
talking to everybody because this is
genderless these feelings are genderless
they don't have nothing really to do
with gender I'm talking about guilt
maybe I should have said something maybe
if I'd have fixed a sandwich before they
died if maybe if I'd have went to the
hospital that night maybe if I'd have
went got him out of jail maybe maybe if
I'd have drove down to the crack house
maybe maybe if I'd have fought a little
harder maybe if I had to argue one more
time maybe if I'd have pleaded maybe if
I would have started crying maybe if I'd
sat down in the floor maybe maybe these
are the thoughts of the waiter
while you wait
maybe if I'd have been a better wife he
wouldn't have left me maybe if I'd have
been a better husband she wouldn't have
cheated on maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe
it's the thoughts that run through the
who are waiting
and maybe the waiting isn't worth it
all of this Jesus teaches to tell you
see see you think I'm talking about
Father's day but I'm not all of this
Jesus is teaching is to illustrate to
you what God goes through with you
while you spin everything he gave you in
riotous living and being irresponsible
and going in your own way what you don't
realize is that God is waiting on you
he's he's looking at the watch he's
watching it I gave you a chance I gave
you another chance I gave you another
chance I gave you another chance I'm
waiting on you I'm waiting on you to
come back home I still love you I still
want you I'll take you back even though
your friends have dropped you your
girlfriends have dropped you the harlots
have dropped you the money is gone I'll
take you broke I'll take you stinking
I'll take you dirty I'll take you
smelling like feces I'll take you any
kind of way I can get you back I so love
you that I'm willing to do whatever I
gotta do to get back this is not just
about the love of a father everybody
doesn't have a father who loves him like
that this is the love of our father Our
God who so loved the world that he gave
his only begotten son his living that
whosoever believeth on him shall not
perish but have everlasting life and you
are making him [Applause]
[Applause]
that there was this moment
there was this moment in his life
oh my God
Lord have mercy there was this moment in
his life this epiphany
this Divine Awakening
this illumination
this this
apocalyptic unveiling of truth that he
came to himself and he wasn't in church
and he wasn't in prayer meeting he
wasn't in Bible class you don't have to
be in a special place to come to
yourself sometimes you can wake up in
your own bed sometimes you can come to
yourself in a nightclub sometimes you
can come to yourself in the street
sometimes you can be half drunk and have
an epiphany and say wait a minute I'm
better than this I know better than this
I come from better stuff than this I'm
meant for more than this surely my
destiny doesn't in here surely my life
nothing in here surely I was made for
better than this surely surely surely no
choir no praise team no preachers no
singers no dancers he came to himself [Applause]
[Applause] and I'm wondering if there's anybody in
and I'm wondering if there's anybody in here that's having a moment
here that's having a moment [Music]
where you come to yourself
to yourself I came to myself wait that's a strange
I came to myself wait that's a strange statement I came to church this morning
statement I came to church this morning I came to The Potter's House that's
I came to The Potter's House that's travel that's distance that's time
travel that's distance that's time that's motion that's movement that's
that's motion that's movement that's Logistics I came to myself
Logistics I came to myself you mean I have to travel to get to me
you mean I have to travel to get to me you mean I have to get on the road and
you mean I have to get on the road and start the car to find who I really am
start the car to find who I really am yes it takes a long time to come to
yes it takes a long time to come to yourself to come to yourself where you
yourself to come to yourself where you really know who you are he came to
really know who you are he came to himself without moving his body
himself without moving his body he's still in the whole pen
he's still in the whole pen they're still snorting they're still
they're still snorting they're still stinking it's still dirty it's still a
stinking it's still dirty it's still a mess but nothing that hell sins against
mess but nothing that hell sins against you can stop you from coming to yourself
you can stop you from coming to yourself I don't care what you're surrounded by I
I don't care what you're surrounded by I don't care who's around you I don't care
don't care who's around you I don't care what it looks like I don't care what you
what it looks like I don't care what you did and who you did it with when you get
did and who you did it with when you get ready to come to yourself you can come
ready to come to yourself you can come to yourself I wish I had a witness is
to yourself I wish I had a witness is there anybody in here that ever came to
there anybody in here that ever came to yourself Holla At Your Boy
foreign [Applause]
[Applause] he came to himself
he came to himself and said to himself
and said to himself how you talk to yourself determines
how you talk to yourself determines where you go
where you go [Applause]
[Applause] he talked himself into trouble now he
he talked himself into trouble now he has to talk himself out he says I will
has to talk himself out he says I will arise
arise and go to my father's house
and go to my father's house glory to God but he knows who he is now
glory to God but he knows who he is now this is me Daddy I'm dirty but it's me
this is me Daddy I'm dirty but it's me I'm stinking but it's me I'm broke but
I'm stinking but it's me I'm broke but it's me I messed up but it's me I'm
it's me I messed up but it's me I'm hurting but it's me I'm hungry but it's
hurting but it's me I'm hungry but it's me I've been a fool but it's me I
me I've been a fool but it's me I finally figured out who I am I spent all
finally figured out who I am I spent all your money I messed up all your stuff I
your money I messed up all your stuff I spent your time in your life and your
spent your time in your life and your energy but I came to myself and listen
energy but I came to myself and listen watch this young man listen good
watch this young man listen good he is so afraid of being rejected
he is so afraid of being rejected that he is rehearsing
that he is rehearsing [Applause]
I will say to my father he ain't even there yet isn't it but
he ain't even there yet isn't it but he's practiced it this time I said I'm
he's practiced it this time I said I'm saying I'm no more worthy to be called
saying I'm no more worthy to be called that's uh make me one of your heart sir
that's uh make me one of your heart sir and he's driving down the road trying to
and he's driving down the road trying to get his speech together because
he don't even know that his father's been waiting on him
been waiting on him he is preparing to convince
he is preparing to convince his father
his father to take him back
to take him back and his father is sitting at home
and his father is sitting at home [Applause]
[Applause] sometimes
sometimes your fear is lying to you
[Applause] your fear
your fear is telling you
is telling you that I'm mad about the money
that I'm mad about the time I wasted that I'm mad about how you spent my
that I'm mad about how you spent my stuff
stuff and your fear and your guilt makes you
and your fear and your guilt makes you think you gotta rehearse
think you gotta rehearse it ain't what you're gonna say to me
it ain't what you're gonna say to me it's what I'm gonna say to you
and he's rehearsal I would say to my father I'm no more worthy to be called
father I'm no more worthy to be called my son and I'm not even going to ask him
my son and I'm not even going to ask him to get my bedroom back or anything like
to get my bedroom back or anything like that and I'm not gonna ask him for a
that and I'm not gonna ask him for a robe or ring or anything like that
robe or ring or anything like that because I know I messed up and I'm not
because I know I messed up and I'm not worthy to be his son but if he just make
worthy to be his son but if he just make me a hard servant I'm gonna tell him I'm
me a hard servant I'm gonna tell him I'm gonna come all the way down I'm gonna
gonna come all the way down I'm gonna humble down and when I talk to him I'm
humble down and when I talk to him I'm just gonna say you know I'm not I'm not
just gonna say you know I'm not I'm not expecting you to give him back the
expecting you to give him back the Privileges that are blue I'm not
Privileges that are blue I'm not expecting you to love me like you love
expecting you to love me like you love me before I messed up I'm not expecting
me before I messed up I'm not expecting you to take me back the way you took me
you to take me back the way you took me before but if if I could just work in
before but if if I could just work in the house if I could clean the floor if
the house if I could clean the floor if I could mop the floor if I could cut the
I could mop the floor if I could cut the grass if I could do something in the
grass if I could do something in the yard I just make me one of your hearts
yard I just make me one of your hearts or this is what he's practicing to go
or this is what he's practicing to go back and what he's saying to himself
back and what he's saying to himself contradicts what the father is waiting
contradicts what the father is waiting on because y'all don't hear what I'm
on because y'all don't hear what I'm saying because he's saying stuff that
saying because he's saying stuff that the father's not feeling the father
the father's not feeling the father doesn't feel like you're no more worthy
doesn't feel like you're no more worthy to be my son I disown you I don't want
to be my son I disown you I don't want you I don't love you I don't need you
you I don't love you I don't need you the father wants his son to come home
the father wants his son to come home not a servant he wants his son to come
not a servant he wants his son to come home he wants his son to come back
home he wants his son to come back before he dies he wants his son to come
before he dies he wants his son to come back while he can see him so the man
back while he can see him so the man you're getting ready to talk to is not
you're getting ready to talk to is not the man that's waiting it's the man you
the man that's waiting it's the man you imagine
imagine he's
he's dead
dead [Applause]
you came to yourself you know who you are but you don't know who I am
are but you don't know who I am [Music]
[Music] you don't know
you don't know how fast I would run
how fast I would run [Applause]
[Applause] who I can't look at you and do this let
who I can't look at you and do this let me go somewhere else you don't know how
me go somewhere else you don't know how fast I would run
fast I would run to get you
to get you you don't know that I would break my
you don't know that I would break my back to get you back
[Applause] and the Bible says
and the Bible says while he was yet a great ways off
while he was yet a great ways off yeah
it would not be got the choir and join the Deacon board and cleaned up his act
the Deacon board and cleaned up his act and stopped smoking stop drinking stop
and stopped smoking stop drinking stop smelling like dope no no while he was
smelling like dope no no while he was yet a great ways off while he was still
yet a great ways off while he was still smelling like a pot Factory while he was
smelling like a pot Factory while he was still eyes was glazed over while he was
still eyes was glazed over while he was still snorting cocaine while while he
still snorting cocaine while while he was yet a great ways off the father
was yet a great ways off the father saw him
Jesus is teaching us about God the father so that we can get some
father so that we can get some indication about how to be a father
the father don't run down there you be all my money you everything and you've
all my money you everything and you've been out there with them Tramps and them
been out there with them Tramps and them and now we're down to nothing and
and now we're down to nothing and here you come back here and you think
here you come back here and you think you gonna move back in your house and
you gonna move back in your house and come back in here the Devil is a Lie you
come back in here the Devil is a Lie you must be out there now
oh the Bible says that the father was moved
the Bible says that the father was moved with compassion
with compassion man stop being so hard that you lose
man stop being so hard that you lose compassion
compassion foreign
foreign was wrong
was wrong so what it was taken so what he was with
so what it was taken so what he was with the swine he still your child
the swine he still your child [Applause]
some of you act like you love your rules more than you love your son
more than you love your son [Applause]
this old man has no rules this old
this old man
man This Old Man
you don't run over everything it has to be something really serious
it has to be something really serious for you to run over it I might walk over
for you to run over it I might walk over I might take a scoot over but if I come
I might take a scoot over but if I come running
running you either need to open your arms a duck
God said if if you
if you not even close to right
not even close to right and I see you coming
if I see you trying to be clean if I see you trying to get yourself
if I see you trying to get yourself together if I see you trying to stand up
together if I see you trying to stand up if I see you trying to be responsible I
if I see you trying to be responsible I will run out to meet you you ain't even
will run out to meet you you ain't even got to come all the way back I don't
got to come all the way back I don't need your speech I just need to see you
need your speech I just need to see you coming if I see you coming I run out
coming if I see you coming I run out there to get you
touch seven people and tell them God Is On The Run
On The Run guys on the Run he's on the Run he's on
guys on the Run he's on the Run he's on the Run he's on the run this morning
the Run he's on the run this morning he's on the Run he's on the run this
he's on the Run he's on the run this morning he's on the Run he's on the Run
morning he's on the Run he's on the Run he's on the run I don't know who he's
he's on the run I don't know who he's after this morning but he's on the Run
after this morning but he's on the Run he's on the Run he's on the Run God Is
he's on the Run he's on the Run God Is On The Run God Is On The Run God is on
On The Run God Is On The Run God is on the run this morning God Is On The Run
the run this morning God Is On The Run God Is On The Run he's chasing you he's
God Is On The Run he's chasing you he's longing for you he's looking for you
longing for you he's looking for you he's turning over stuff trying to find
he's turning over stuff trying to find God wants you back I don't care what you
God wants you back I don't care what you did I don't care who you did it with God
did I don't care who you did it with God Is On The Run God is chasing you down
Is On The Run God is chasing you down God wants you back
[Applause] what made the father run
what made the father run he said the boy was worth the wait
watch this you still don't get it the one who's coming back saying I'm not
the one who's coming back saying I'm not worth it
worth it [Music]
[Music] I'm not worth it
I'm not worth it it's the one that the father thinks he's
it's the one that the father thinks he's worth the wait
worth the wait [Applause]
and it's worth the run I don't care if you're 70 or 17.
you're 70 or 17. this word is for you
I don't care if you're a woman in the balcony
balcony or a little boy in the back
I don't care who you've attached yourself to yeah
yourself to yeah yeah and made a fake family out of them
yeah and made a fake family out of them and you're more loyal to them
then you are those who put the most in you
and I may be the only one in the whole story
you're worth it you don't get it you don't even believe
you don't get it you don't even believe it
and in that moment while the sun is talking out of his
while the sun is talking out of his shame
you know what the father's talking about bring me the robe
bring me the robe kill the fatted calf
kill the fatted calf bring the ring and put it on his finger
bring the ring and put it on his finger this my son who was dead is alive again
this my son who was dead is alive again I'm gonna throw a party for failure and
I'm gonna throw a party for failure and a reject
I so love you it's not just I love you
it's not just I love you [Music]
I can't even help it okay stop it
I loved it when you took the money I loved you when you spent the money
I loved you when you spent the money I loved you when you didn't come home
I loved you when you didn't come home I love you when you ignore me and acted
I love you when you ignore me and acted like them other people were more
like them other people were more valuable than me I Loved You Then I so
valuable than me I Loved You Then I so love you
love you I'll take you back muddy
I'll take you back muddy I'll take you back with your flies and
I'll take you back with your flies and your gnats all around you I'll take you
your gnats all around you I'll take you back stinky
back stinky I'll put my robe over your dirtiest
I'll put my robe over your dirtiest secret and I will cover you up
secret and I will cover you up because I sold
you ain't live till you love like that you ain't live till you love like that
you ain't live till you love like that if only people you love is nice neat
if only people you love is nice neat cool people who got it together and they
cool people who got it together and they find and they educate it and they smell
find and they educate it and they smell good and they look good you don't know
good and they look good you don't know nothing about love get out of here
love will make you turn somebody over and clean them up
and clean them up foreign
foreign [Applause]
[Applause] I don't know if I have done
I don't know if I have done well enough at this
well enough at this to accomplish what God wanted me to
to accomplish what God wanted me to accomplish
and if you would just try to come
if if you just if if you just start to do better
start to do better the old man
the old man run out to me
you're looking for love in all them other places he
he thought I was worth saving I thought of
he thought I was [Applause]
[Applause] he thought it I was worth buying for
he thought it I was worth buying for he thought I was worth shooting his
he thought I was worth shooting his blood to get back
blood to get back and even when I thought I was a bad deal
and even when I thought I was a bad deal I totally myself I told him I said Lord
I totally myself I told him I said Lord why would you want me
why would you want me you ain't getting nothing
you ain't getting nothing I said this is a bad deal
we started arguing when I was 17. I started preaching when I was 19.
I can't believe I'm 66 and still doing it
it foreign
stuff about me that I didn't think about myself
and I had evidence not to think highly of myself
not to think highly of myself but my his evidence was stronger than
but my his evidence was stronger than mine
mine [Applause]
[Applause] his evidence was a cross
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