following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church wanted to get into lesson number three is called the prodigal son god's forgiveness if you have your lesson everybody should have a a lesson and you can put in your in your notebook this is again our series movie on the past lesson three the prodigal son god's of you heard the story the prodigal son we're not going to take the time to read a kind of summarize of the most of her the story the prodigal son there may be some the don't but the concept is there's a father he has a lot of money he has a son and once that herenton surly he turns around and demands the father to give it to him by the way the father didn't have to give a toy the father chose to give it to and he takes inheritance spends it all loses everything he's in the pig pen he's a jewish boy and a pig then not a good place for a little  in the pig and realizes that he's made a big mistake comes to his senses he says i'll go back to my father as a slave the father's waiting for me is this sons walking up to the father father puts his arms around him loves on him and the father does so with things we talk about later on t show that he's been accepted and welcome back into the father's home so that's the story in a in a nutshell we're going to break down that story in the concept of how to walk in god's forgiveness and what it takes and about  how many know that we've talked about in the past that when you've experienced wounded in your life whether there is abuse going on you did then as others did these to you that you build grudges you build bitterness you have resentments you make you sin is that not true so say you've been sexually abused is it send to hate the person that abused you yes and no should you like the person that abuse you but when there is hate what normally comes with hate stuff that isn't so good they can come from hate and you make you make a vow i'll never trust a man on never trust a woman all never do this i'll never do that and then you judge others that aren't even part of what took place in your life and so then we have this this this this anger and this resentment all those things in us and all that is sin and you know as long as you have that in you you can't get healed how can you be healed if you have been in this india and so the concept of the prodigal son we're going to look at it and take the concept first off listen there was nothing wrong with the father was in the wrong with the father nothing wrong with the father so when we do the symbolism it only can go so far so just follow along here introduction there no sin so great that cannot be forgiven there's no wound too deep it cannot be healed there is no life so broken that it cannot be restored and made into something beautiful by the healing touch of the master's hand in christ there is always a sure hope of fresh new beginnings with the the forgiven as though it had never happened the story the prodigal son reveals the all encompassing love of the father his abiding concern for his way toward son and his great joy at the son's restoration this is the story of the love of the father towards the center each of us that accepted christ and life experience that love those of a not accepted christ have not experienced the fullness of god's love that is their form we're going to do is look at the story the prodigal son the perspective needing inner healing and then the perspective of us making wrong choices in sinning because a boon in events that occurred in our life so we're going to say we're like the prodigal in this sense something up takes place in our life we start having bitterness resentments we don't trust god we don't trust people and we can have kind of the same mindset as the prodigal son we can take that same journey understand that nothing the prodigal son story is says there was a problem the father or the hole in the son came from this much different than our own personal lives i mean a lot of people would have resentment and bitterness and woundings is because they came from bad homes the son didn't come from a bad home sold we're not saying that so roman number number one for taking passages from luke fifteen of the story the first one is luke fifteen twelve a says father give my share of this state this son says to his father says give me what belongs to me did it belong to him yes and was it his inheritance so did it belong to  not when it was supposed to come when his inheritance normally come when the father dies so he had a right for the inheritance is that he's demanding it earlier they want to should have been and out of it there's this this mindset this attitude you get you need to give it to me i deserve how many know that people who get wounded star get into a mindset they deserve something i deserve i deserve you to to love me no matter how i act if you knew what i went through and you should just accept that  all owe them something yeah good homes or bad homes is that mindset of all somebody owes you something and when you get wounded do not feel like you should be loved there's something you feel like there should be something there for you nothing wrong with that is what your attitude your mindset is so this look at the prodigal a the prodigal's problems began with his demand his father give him his rightful inheritance early he was no longer content with the knowledge that someday to have his father's estate he wanted it now he made the decision to man his inheritance and leave the lawin secure to his father's house and then venture outside the rolled on his own so he wanted what it was it was set for his now how many want peace of mind anybody want peace of mind but we have broken dreams disappointments resentments all those things and when you've been wounded it is normal to fill like society owes you something there's nothing wrong with that is your mindset how you handle  b we oftentimes do the same thing we consciously choose our own path in life and put in the father's will for us many times we do this because we don't fully trust god because of past events that have taken place in our life we blame god for our troubles good times operate out of wounding not out of wisdom and seeker own path is that true and how many times have people blame god it is an amazing he gets blamed for everything and so turns around how many people just the other day is talking to somebody again they says i can never trust god because he allowed my daughter to die so so it is that is that is that true but maybe they did maybe they were sold out christian and then their daughter dies as instantaneously just dies a continuous death of something or another it would be easy to say god where are you the problem is if you become like the prodigal that his father is the source of of what love comfort security any walks outside of the comfort of the father's secure the father and we get wounded many times we walk outside the will of god because of the wounding that took place in our life and where you think that's going to lead if you are been wounded you've already been damaged by events in life when you walk outside the will of god what's going to happen but that it leads to sin and you going to get more wounded because you're walking outside of the covering so the sun is walking outside the cover and at times we walk outside the covering number two look fifteen forty says after you spin everything he began to be a need is that true if you spin then heritance what happens it's god and then we have to deal with nothing so he had less than what he had before he got the inheritance a for a while the prodigal son enjoyed himself in the fullness whatever you want it was at his disposal and soon he waste his tire while wealth on wild days became so bad for him that he even dreamed of eating what the pigs eat he's a jewish the jews hang with pigs no  but he was look at this looks really good right now bad off he was he had left home a rich cocky young man now is reduced to a starving pinless iron hand with nothing to his name he's working for a pink pig farmer and has nothing and he was getting too much money because if you're looking at one of the with the pigs money you must know it wasn't getting too much money see the pleasure city last for season but if we continue to sin all to me will catch up with us like the prodigal we will fire selves in dire it again what happens for people who get wounded in scarred at times they make bad choices and those bad choices along the way cause more consequences there's more scarring there's more wounding that takes place because of the choices that people make and instead of running to god god i need healing god i need your help the rebel against god because they blame god they're angry at god god why did you give me the parents that you gave me that abuse me god why did you give me that spouse that abused me god why did you  to happen to me i was innocent i was walking down the street and somebody attacked me in stab me is it normal to question those things it is absolutely normal but it's what we do with them and i'll give you an example of the right way of doing it and we had a gentleman that we knew and this is probably fifteen twenty years ago and twenty years ago we had the aids breaking out in h i v and all that stuff he is dying of you know i got aids somebody stabbed him at is liquor store and when he got a blood transfusion he got the hiv virus so he's going to die of aids because somebody stabbed him how would you  and along with that is because nobody knew all about aids it was assumption anybody had aids had to be homosexual nobody looked at the blood transfusion or the l something totally innocent living the right lifestyle and they turn around and he's dying of aids could he be bitter could it be resentful could even blame god god why did you allow me to get robbed and if you could get robbed why would you allow me to get robbed and then get a blood transfusion the virus you know his attitude was i was doing a supposed  dawn i don't have anybody to blame except the person who knifed me in the hospital that had the taint of blood and nothing i can do about it now the rest of my life i'm going to serve god and with a god for the life that he has given me how do you know that takes a lot of work and takes a close relationship with god he could have been very bitter burying their ceases the pleasure to last for a season you see i get angry because somebody has done something so i make a vow isay i'll never trust another man because my father was abusive and it may make you feel good for a while you have power but i mean no sooner or later you get into a relationship and how do you think that affects the relationship if you have that attitude if you think you're getting away with it you're protecting yourself on never let somebody get close to me again what do you lose you lose relationships with people that could love you through whatever you're going through where there's somebody to help and get you through what you're going through but you don't trust them because you made some vals di we may do things their own way and at times it worked for a while but invariably if we're trying to find peace hilly and joy outside of the will of god there always is consequences we will sacrifice everything trying to run from the pain of the past anybody been that person you had pain in the past and you ran from it whatever it is alcohol drugs gambling workaholic whatever it is trying to get everybody's approval whatever it may be and we run away from the pain and what do we create more pain because we won't face the pain if we're going to move beyond the past we have to face the pain but more than that we have to do it this prodigal son is going to do because the prodigal son does what anybody though the press of the story what does he do he's in dire straits and what's the next thing he does he goes back and before he goes back into the bible says he came to a census if you want healing in your life in the past you have to come to your senses yet take ownership for your part so look fifteen eighteen this son says i will set out and go back to my father but i think it would be like now we can see by the end of the story is father is a loving father so we know he's as a loving father he had to know he had a loving father but did he see his father as a loving father when he's father so this is just as that product that made the decision to leave his father he now purposed to return to his father it was a conscious choice just as rigid the decision to leave had been so just as much as he made the decision to leave his father the decision to come back to his father and again he says maybe i can just be a slave or you think you know that a slave wasn't a good thing at that time but he said a slave is better the way i'm living he was humble enough think about that even if i have to be a slave i'll humble myself before my father maybe we need to humble ourselves before our heavenly father how marcel's your heavenly father say you know father i've sinned and what we're going to see here what he says is just amazing they always have the choice returned their father when we have walked away from him and we're talking about father god but like the prodigal we must determine to return and take the necessary steps toward restoration see if you ever want to live victorious life and was make the still had a distorted perspective in regards to his father so we had times with their heavenly father so we can we all say yeah we know god's loving the son knew his father was a loving father he gave him his inheritance early ok but did the son question the love of the father yes he's not coming back as a son he's come back he's going to be a slave we know god's a loving heaven father but do we always see him that way so we know that but do we see him if he's a heavenly father can i go to god and confess everything i've ever done and what he loves me can i can go to god and complain about everything that was done to me god handle that he can handle that yes yeah yeah in any anyway so honestly in this we have to be careful why do we go back to god i would argue we go back to god because we know he's a loving heavenly father and we want to get things right with god not because things are bad how many know if you're just going because they are bad sometimes you go back and what do you do you go back to the father and then when they are going good what do you do you go back to the mess again how many people do that because they and again this is a distorted view of how many know when you get wounded when you get scarred we have seen your life you start to have a distorted view of life because was his father a loving father he was absolutely a loving father but he's questioning if he is but you know what i'll go to my father and be with him instead of with the pigs he'll be a little bit better know when you go to the heavenly father is not a little bit better as the bast when you go to him with all your stuff all your  all your baggage all the choices you made because you and scars and you go you have a father he's the best you could possibly go to so here's what happens he bows to his father and he goes to his father roman him afore father i have sinned against heaven and against you l fifteen eighteen was he do he says father i've sinned against to you and have in case and i've sinned against god and i've sinned against you father how me know if there is going to be true change your life you have to have true repentance so a that protocol accepted total responsibility for the distance between his father himself was there anything the father did the distance the beef between him and the father what did the father do to distance himself from his son nothing in the story says a father wrote a letter saying don't ever show up never see that this got tell us never show up no he welcomes us the prodigal except a total spaz for the distance him his and his father himself he did not try to blame others for his problem or to sugarcoat the seriousness of the situation notice his choice of words i have sinned not that i made a mistake you know there's a difference trippin tis isn't well i just made a bad choice a little mistake no i've sinned against god i've sinned against others maybe i've sinned even against myself be he fully admitted where he had failed and knew that he was not even worthy to be to call himself a son anymore he was a broken man and he knew it if you want to heal in your life you have to get broken i mean know that because when you get broken who do you go to you go to god until you get broken where do you go every place else people places teaches that because what they teach you've been wounded you've been scarred and so we need to pray for you we can lay hands on you pray for god to heal you we should do that would have a person has made bad choices for twenty years based upon the wounds they have how many pray for them to be healed those wounds but they'll repeat the sent over again because it's become a part of them so for example if you live the victim badge i'm a victim so as you go i'm a victim was me you on this in can god healed them absolutely but part of the healing asked us to take place is you know what i'm a negative person about life because if you don't confess your negative person about life because of the things that happened to you what will happen when god h you you still be negative so are you fully healed so not fully healed until you get the victory in so out of it you have to confess those things that are there that need to be healed up d the truth is that many times be a boon to scars because what others have done to us they are to blame not us you see the son had nobody to blame did he now can we blame others for days of happened to us yesterday that people have done that are evil that are wicked that have happened to us we blame them how many were scarred before they ever knew christ a majority and then what happens is then it had to go to a level of dig he can't be a loving having father if he's a loving heavenly father why did he allow this to happen that's normal be the messenger of the love of god we're supposed to reach out to those who have been wounded two of those who've been scarred we're supposed to reach out and love them so they can get an example of the love of god and how we know when you love them people have been wounded sometimes they things work together for good for those who love god or call according to his purpose so ok and whatever happens to be turned out for good absolutely ok we're going to finish up on this here so wounds and scars we want to receive in healing to live in overcoming life must confess that we have coped with their wounds in an unhealthy manner he must admit that we have sinned against ourselves others in god we must come to a place of sorrow for ascend that leads to repentan understand their heavenly father wants to come back to us to come back to i'm not as worthless saves but as what were the children forgiven children god wants us to understand we have value and we have wor how many know that what about when everything in use told you that you have no value no worth how you know when you go through abuse you feel like you have no value you have no worth but what you have to come to have to come to a place that knowledge that god is not as you a slave that your this it is begun for him to bring healing into your life has begun for him to forgive you that is that you seem as a loving heavenly father as his arms open so next week we're going to talk about the loving heavenly father in the example that we see in the story week sessions some of the sessions will be covering what is healing past hurts who needs healing the prodigal son god's forgiveness face to face encounter with god the power of the cross forgiveness and inner healing valid bitterroot judgments closing open doors breaking every curse breaking every d section be filled with the holy spirit i can promise you that it will not take going through all  material to be able to move beyond your past but if you keep track with all that we share you will certainly live a victorious overcoming life and i want to let you know that you can live the victorious overcoming life in your deserts can be turned into will have the curriculum there we will have the videotape of each session so you'll be able to follow right along with us even if you're not at our church service yes you can move beyond the past yes you can live a victorious life yes your desert places can turn into glorious gardens for others to be able to see the force of victory for their own life's because with god's done in your life this is best to reject do you need to know jesus christ your lord savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in robust and thirteen's as were ever called upon the name of the lord will be saved john one seven says you must our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v guide or that there is hope t v die or and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity we let you know step by step  accept jesus christ your lord and savior encourage you to go to there's hope t v dot or that is there is hope t v dot org also on it you know if you would like to talk to me person you can always give me a call toll free anytime one eight six six one g you have been listening to there is so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle's open door church located in theory and 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