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well we’re always trying new things out
here on our YouTube channel and this is
something a little bit different it’s a
little bit of a bonus message I just
preached kingdom clout part two it’s a
message about the father saw and there
was this whole section of the sermon
that I only got to when I preached it on
Saturday night that wasn’t the message
that went online so I thought what we do
is take that that section of the sermon
that part of the message from that
Saturday night sermon and share it with
you here today on YouTube so I hope it
blesses you gives a little bit more
context for the message that we’re
preaching but even if you didn’t see the
original message
I think this stands alone join me in
Luke chapter 15 if you’re new here don’t
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enjoy this message when you think about
our need for validation it’s important
to understand that if you don’t get it
from within you will always require it
from without that will keep you unstable
that will keep you always you know
dependent on the whims of people and
whether or not they had a good day or
whether or not their Cheerios were stale
as to whether or not they’re nice to you
and so it has to be a practice or a
habit from the inside of receiving from
God what you need because usually if you
are bad at celebrating yourself you will
not be able to celebrate others do me a
favor if you are like me in this way if
you have a hard time celebrating your
own success
stand up
well there’s the whole church well y’all
sit out and you’ll need the rest of this
message more than I thought
really cuz like even we went for a hike
yesterday to Crowder’s Mountain and I
was I was uh I was way ahead of Holly
just so you know just so far ahead of
her we had air pods in and we lost the
connection I was so far ahead of her and
uh I was like key fob come on you know
and this is the difference between me
and Holly okay this is it all in one
little anecdote she goes she goes the
view is getting good who cares about the
view I’m trying to get to the top and
that’s been why she’s been so good for
me along the journey of starting this
church you know I’m I’m 17 steps ahead
but she’s pointing out you know like hey
this is pretty cool you might want to
look at it before you just keep charging
up there there’s there’s no reward for
you beating your record time and then
you know not only can I not stop and
appreciate the view because I’m so
focused on the destination that’ll
preach
but also sometimes I I’m scared to
celebrate I’m scared to celebrate it’s
scary to me because then I think that I
might get complacent when when you get
in that space like the enemy can only
distract you or discourage you and when
you do it to be seen by people you are
always now especially in our world just
one click or one view away from somebody
who’s doing it so much better now you
can’t think about celebration in the
Bible really without coming across this
classic scripture and you can’t think
about the kingdom of God without
thinking about this parable if this were
a Led Zeppelin anthology this would be
the stairway to heaven of the parables
that Jesus told the greatest hit of all
the parables that he told to show what
the kingdom was like see you can’t see
the kingdom of God you can see the
kingdoms of this world you can’t see the
kingdom of God you can see what I wear
on the outside you can’t see what I wear
as my attitude on the inside you can see
whether or not you know I achieved a
certain status you can see that but you
can’t see whether or not I’m secure and
Who I am
so Jesus had this habit of taking a
visible example and then he would
illustrate an invisible reality through
a parable and what he was showing us is
that the invisible is often more real
than the visible okay that sometimes the
stuff that we collect that we say is
real is less real than the stuff that we
neglect because we can’t see it and let
me slow down for a moment I’m talking
about your state of mind I’m talking
about your relationships with others I’m
talking about
the way that you process disappointment
those things the way that you treat
people who can’t do anything for you
those things and what he’s saying
through the parables is look give this
visible kingdom world but there is an
invisible kingdom within you that is
more important than the kingdom around
you it’s a different kind of kingdom
much different than the Jewish people
who he came to deliver had expected
often in his parables he would set up a
construct but it was really a head-fake
because right when they thought they
knew who the good guy was in the story
he would reverse it the show that the
one that you hated is the one that the
Kingdom welcomes even in Luke’s Gospel
it is called the outsider accounts
because there are so many examples of
people who were outside the kingdoms of
men but were brought into the kingdom of
God and if you have felt invisible and
insignificant this kingdom is for you
his most retold and misunderstood
parable concerns someone whose name we
don’t know but we just call him the
prodigal son he was wasteful with his
father’s money and in Luke 15 the Bible
says that one day he went to his father
and said I want my share of the
inheritance now the younger brother this
brother would get a third the older
brother would get two thirds the Bible
says something interesting in Luke 15 I
believe this verse 11 is that the first
verse I gave you there was a man who had
two sons and the younger one said to his
father give me my share of the estate so
he divided his property between them I
only needed to show you that verse 4 the
last word in it them them they both got
their share and I want to show you this
but I want to go slow enough that it
doesn’t just go you know you are already
thinking about kyuseok focus on the
sermon
it goes it goes right over our head that
it says them they both got their share
but the younger one who got less than
the older one by birthright took his and
the Bible describes his plight and I’ve
heard many sermons on this young man is
often used to speak to those who have
run away from God in a visible way that
they’ve they’ve got a drug addiction or
maybe sex that’s like taking over their
life or or there’s something controlling
them like they’ve made some bad
decisions and they’ve dropped out and
they’ve really blown it and will preach
about this this son who went away with
his one-third of the inheritance and
here’s a recap just in case you forgot
what he did with with his money verse 13
please not long after that the younger
son got together all he had settle for a
distant country and there squandered his
wealth in wild living we can only
imagine how wild he was but what we do
know about his decision to leave his
father’s house and to chase something
else that seemed better than where he
was is where it ended up verse 14 after
he has spent everything now see people
will be good to you as long as you are
good for them but after he had spent
everything and he was no longer picking
up the check and he was no longer buying
the appetizers and he was no longer
giving the rides but needing one there
was a severe famine in that old country
and he began to be in need verse 15 so
he went and hired himself out to be a
citizen of that country who sent him to
his fields to feed pigs and he longed to
fill his stomach with the pods that the
pigs were eating but no one gave him
anything no one gave him have you come
to the point in your life where people
stopped giving you the validation that
you needed
it might be that God is trying to point
you back to himself for what you never
should have depended on people for to
begin with breach verdict
we gotta validate yourself and when he
got to that low point he came to a
census you know he said this is crazy
I’m scrolling clicking posting deleting
scrolling clicking posting believe it
and everybody else on this stream is as
thirsty as I am
going back to my father I’m going back
where there’s bread I’m going back with
us warmth was expected he was like my
father servants have it better than me
out here I’m starving to death I will
set out and go back to my father and say
to him father I have sinned against
heaven and against you I’m no longer
worthy to be called your son you see how
this insecurity gets us to a place where
we now we now connect our worth to our
behavior so when you put yourself worth
in status when you lose status you lose
your sense of worth he’s like I’m gonna
go back I’m gonna make a speech and
maybe dad will hire me to be a servant I
don’t know it’s the only thing I got I
don’t really have any other options
I search the whole world I’m not hungry
and this is what touched me that made me
want to get up here and preach the
sermon he got up and went to his father
verse 20 but while he was still a long
way off his father saw
the father saw the father saw he saw
passed his mistakes he saw passed his
decisions
he saw passed his immaturity he saw
passed his foolishness
he saw passed his stench he saw that he
saw passed his torn clothes he saw
passed his tired eyes and he saw a son
for all of the unseen I want you to
notice that the father saw the son
before the son said a word to the father
[Applause]
his father saw him and was filled with
compassion he didn’t see a slave he saw
a son and he ran to him and threw his
arms around him and kissed him which was
not only unexpected but undignified yet
the heart of this message is that I came
to tell somebody the father saw when you
understand that the father saw then it
doesn’t matter what people see and they
might have called you this or that or
have defined you by one decision in your
life and you may even have defined
herself by that but the father saw
beneath the surface the father saw he
always sees your father who sees what is
done in secret the father saw he didn’t
see what was on the boy he saw what was
in the boy and he called him back like
God is doing with you today under the
power and the influence of the preached
Word of God is that he sees you he sent
me to tell you I see you I see you
other people see what you’re showing
them I see what you hide and I want you
I see you I know you I want you when you
have this revelation that the father saw
what people couldn’t see you are no
longer limited to their opinions or even
defined by their decrees the father did
not need to ask permission of all of the
people who worked at the house to see
whether his son could get a robe he did
not need to ask for a vote to see if he
should be allowed back on the island the
father did not need to consult
with the committee to see whether or not
he could cook a hamburger for his son in
fact the first thing he said was quick
bring the best robe remind him who he is
remind her who she is remind them who
they were before they let life label
them and put a lid on them remind them
what is beneath the surface of their
skin that is eternal but not remind them
of what is greater than status remind
them of what is significant remind them
of what people look past remind them of
their soul their spirit their calling
their gift their chosenness remind them
that I see them he said cover the boy
with a rope put a ring on his finger and
sandals on his feet but you know what
the whole passage was not about the
younger brother it was about the older
brother it was about the brother who was
unable to celebrate what he already had
the Bible says that not only did the
father see his younger son and put a
robe on him but the older brother heard
the party when it started and I don’t
know what they were bumping but it was
so loud that the older brother heard it
in the field and the scripture says in
verse 25 that when he came near the
house he heard music and dancing
give me more so he called one of the
servants and asked him what’s going on
with this music and this dancing and the
servant told him your brother has come
and your father has killed the fattened
calf because he has him back safe and
sound and the older brother became angry
and refused to go in and celebrate he
could not celebrate someone else because
he could not celebrate himself he missed
the whole party he missed the whole
point he missed the whole thing because
he did not know how to celebrate and we
see something in his State of Mind in
verse 29
the answer his father he said look all
these years I’ve been slaving for you
you see how he saw himself he didn’t see
himself as a son he saw himself as a
slave he didn’t see himself as loved he
saw himself as tasked he didn’t see
himself as worthy he saw himself as
earning something that wasn’t yet his
and he’s mad and he’s miserable even
though he has more than his younger
brother and he is unable to celebrate
what he has because he does not see
himself as his father does all these
years I’ve been slaving for you never
disobey your orders I made my bed I
cleaned my room I charged my iphone
downstairs didn’t take it up with me
these are our rules at the house I’m
just and yet you never gave me you see
that phrase you never gave me even a
young goat so I could celebrate with my
friends but when this son of yours I’m
not even gonna call him my brother who
squandered your property but prostitutes
comes home you kill the fattened calf
for him and verse 31 is what the father
wants to say to us today my son the
father said you are always with me and
everything I have is yours
but we had to celebrate we had to
celebrate we had to party cuz this
brother of yours was dead and he’s alive
again he’s lost and he’s found we had to
celebrate and all that I have is yours
so if you want to go go get one I heard
the Lord tells somebody get your own
goat why are you waiting on somebody
else to give you what God already made
available to you and as long as we run
around waiting to be given what is
already ours we’re gonna starve to death
in our father’s house but when you know
your father sees you when you know he
has your back when you sense this pride
and affirmation what’s this I am NOT
waiting for it
I am living in it I am a celebrated
child of the Most High God
get your own go get your own joy through
your own party
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celebrate your blessings
because if you don’t get it from god
you’re gonna go for for the thing that
only God can give from other people and
we need this message because we have
forgotten that our Father sees you think
you’re in this whole thing alone
you’re crazy he’s watching you be
careful little eyes what you see know be
encouraged little Lindsay be encouraged
your father sees he saw that boy in the
distance he saw that boy even though he
wasn’t dressed like he belonged to
somebody who was significant and he
always sees beneath the outward
appearance your father sees the heart
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