The Father's Heart: Lost, Found, and Repentance

This is exactly what God does. He's the one who initiates. I'll go out on the porch. See, there's no real difference between a son who's in the pig slop and a son who's on the porch. No difference at all. You're either in the party or you're not. And the older brother, he's on the porch, and the father understands. Listen. I want you in the party. I don't want you on the porch because the porch is not the party. The pigs off is not the party. [01:08:38] (27 seconds)  #JoinTheParty

And you think that my father is supposed to treat humanity fairly. Well, that'd be the last thing you'd ever want. You don't want God to treat you fairly. You want him to treat you mercifully. Both of them needed God's mercy. You don't need fairness from God. You need mercy. You need grace. You need acceptance, Not fairness. [01:12:40] (26 seconds)  #MercyNotFairness

And if you're gonna sit there and try and logically figure out why God so loved the world, you're never gonna get there. Because there's no logical answer to what he did. It's because he so loved the world. Not logic, love. And God, his nature is such that all he's longing for you to do is to accept the invitation of Jesus Christ. To repent of your sins. [01:14:33] (26 seconds)  #LoveNotLogic

They both had such value that the one that was looking for ascribed so much value, the the seeker was willing to do whatever it had to do to find it. He would make him expose himself, He would clean house. He would light lights, whatever it takes, and then they become something. They become the status change. They become the found. [00:48:48] (23 seconds)  #ValuedAndFound

I I shudder when I say it, but I'm gonna say it anyway. He's extraordinarily irresponsible with his grace. I don't know what else to tell you. He operates in ways we would never conceive Because he's God and he knows what he's doing and and he gets to do what he wants to do. [01:14:13] (19 seconds)  #RadicalGrace

And sure, you're great, but hard work and terrible living puts you in the same place. No doubt about that. But here's the good news. God responds to both those people the same way. There aren't two ways to get to heaven for the pig slop people. You gotta do this. And for y'all that were really good at life, you gotta do that. No. No. I I don't think you understand the father. [01:10:15] (21 seconds)  #SameGraceForAll

As if you're gonna continue to get a little more worthy and a little more worthy, you're gonna get a little more. That is such listen, it's non biblical thinking. You might be saved, but you're completely inaccurate on the heart of God. The Bible says, he who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us, how will he not also give us all things through Christ Jesus the Lord? [01:00:26] (20 seconds)  #GraceNotMerit

And the reason I think it's dropped right where it is, and he teaches this when he does, is because while you can see in Luke's gospel, everything around him has changed. What he wanted everybody to know, that doesn't mean God has. The very attitude of God that sent Christ is still the attitude that God has regardless of how people treat Christ. [00:36:51] (23 seconds)  #GodsUnchangedLove

If you wanna understand the bible, okay, in very simple terms, the Old Testament is save the date, the New Testament is the invitation. God was projecting for four thousand years till the coming of Christ, the Christ was coming. And he so prophetically, we saw this so many times early in the gospel of Luke because it's ultimately written about fulfillment to produce confidence in the future coming of Christ. [00:38:51] (26 seconds)  #SaveTheDateInvitation

Do you really understand the nature of god that he literally will allow you to throw your life away if you want to? That if you wanna take all the possibility and potential that he's given you, the blessings and the prosperity that he has poured out on you, and live as though he doesn't exist, he's going to let you. But you have to understand the consequences of that when it comes to the great banquet. [00:51:54] (29 seconds)  #FreeWillHasConsequences

I serve the Lord. I'm doing it all for the Lord. And the Lord's like, no. You're doing it for you. Because if you think slaving is the same thing as serving, you don't know me. What did you think? Hard work was your way to get into heaven? Hard work is not how you accept the invitation. You gotta repent. [01:09:53] (22 seconds)  #ServeDontSlave

And if there's one thing that levels the playing field for all humanity, You're either dead or you're not. There aren't stages to death. And that's why I will tell you till Jesus comes back. He did not come to make bad people good. He came to make dead people alive. Was this guy bad? Of course, he was bad. But was that his problem? No. His problem was he was dead. And now through repentance and returning, changing his mind and changing his direction, he's now alive. [01:07:12] (28 seconds)  #FromDeadToAlive

And what's dangerous if you think about it is you can be really, really, really close to the house and really, really, really far from God's heart. And you can be really, really, really, really far from the house and actually have a better understanding of the father's heart. [01:10:36] (23 seconds)  #CloseButFarFromGod

If you wanna understand the bible, okay, in very simple terms, the Old Testament is save the date, the New Testament is the invitation. God was projecting for four thousand years till the coming of Christ, the Christ was coming. And he so prophetically, we saw this so many times early in the gospel of Luke because it's ultimately written about fulfillment to produce confidence in the future coming of Christ. [00:38:51] (26 seconds)  #ScripturePointsToChrist

And if you're gonna sit there and try and logically figure out why God so loved the world, you're never gonna get there. Because there's no logical answer to what he did. It's because he so loved the world. Not logic, love. And God, his nature is such that all he's longing for you to do is to accept the invitation of Jesus Christ. To repent of your sins. [01:14:33] (26 seconds)  #LoveDrivenSalvation

You can't be so bad that he won't receive you. You can't be so good that you don't need him. Every human being needs to come to the point where you gotta ask yourself, am I going to accept the invitation and be at the banquet or am I gonna end up on the front porch? Because the front porch ultimately leads to an eternity in hell. [01:14:59] (26 seconds)  #EveryoneNeedsGrace