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Safe To Come Home // Missing Peace (Part 4) // Tim Ross
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What if the place you’ve been running from is the very place you’re safe to come home to? In Week 4 of The Missing Peace, Pastor Tim Ross takes us to one of Jesus’ most powerful stories in Luke 15, the story of the prodigal son. After asking for his...
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See details@pennzoil.com claim welcome to Transformation Church Podcast where we represent God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe God will transform your life through today's message. The Gospel According to St. Luke, chapter number 15. Hallelujah God. The Gospel According to St. Luke, chapter Number 15. I'm reading from the Tree of Life version of the Bible. I want to read a few verses in your hearing from the greatest storyteller that has ever been on planet Earth. Gospel According to Luke, chapter number 15. The Holy Spirit told me before I got on the plane to leave Dallas that this was going to be a churchy day. Now sometimes we can hear something like that and it's people are trying to manipulate that, people are trying to instigate that. But I just felt like the Holy Spirit, there are some people that he's birthing into a Pentecostal anointing. He's birthing them into a Pentecostal expression. It's not for everybody, but when you've come out of deep sin, you gotta have a heavy anchor. I'm just saying I love the teaching crowd. I love the reform crowd. They're all accents of the same kingdom. But for me, I needed something that was gonna I needed anointing that was gonna pull me Out. I wasn't in a gang. Well, I was for seven days, but I was gang adjacent. And when you come out of a click in a hood where, where you was down for something and you know you was in somebody's face and you was representing your. Like, I needed to. God had to bring me into something. So I just, I just feel like there's some people that he's trying to unlock. You're still trying to like, be reserved and being like. And he's like, I need you to come all the way in. And that's. That doesn't mean a dance or a shout, but that means a commitment. And I'm telling you, when you commit with your mind, your body follows. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Oh, God. Jesus. Then Yeshua said a certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to the father, father, give me the share of the property that comes to me. So he divided his wealth between them. Not many days later, the young son gathered everything and traveled to a far country. And there he squandered his inheritance on wild living. As we continue to read, the brother is going to expose how wild his living was. Now, when he had spent everything, a severe famine came against that country and he began to be in need. So he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to fill up on the carrot pods the pigs were eating, but no one was giving him any. No one was giving him any. They was feeding the pigs, but they wouldn't feed him. But when he came to his senses, he said, how many of my father's hired workers have food overflowing? But here I am, dying of hunger. Get up and go to my father and I'll say to him, father, I have sinned against heaven. And in your presence, I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired workers. And he got up and he went to his own father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and felt compassion. He ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And then the son said to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and in your presence, I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his slaves, Quick, before this boy says something else crazy. Quick, before this boy thinks he's a slave. Quick. See, when you start making your way home, your father ain't gonna wait for you to get in the house. He's gonna run out to meet you. Quick. How fast can God deliver you out of your sins? Quick. How fast can he break an addiction? Quick. How fast can he sever a soul tie? Bring out the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hands and sandals on his feet. Bring the fatted calf and kill it. Let's celebrate with the feast. For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and is found. They began then they began to celebrate. Now his older brother, the father's oldest son, was out in the field. As he came near the house, he heard music and dancing and he called out to one of the servants and began to ask what these things could be. The servant said to him, your brother has come and your father has killed the fatted calf. Because he got home, he got him back safe and sound. The older brother was angry and didn't want to go in. So his father came outside and pleaded with him. But he answered and said to his father, look, so many years I've slaved away for you. Not once did I ignore your order. Yet you've never given me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came. Dang, he's so petty, he won't even call him his brother. When this son of yours came, the one who squandered your wealth with prostitutes, not only was he petty, he's a tea spiller. The text only indicated that he had squandered his money on wild living. Left it a little general. The brother was like he was spending money on hoes. He had holes. He had holes in different area co. Area co. In different area co. Area co. Those old. It's in the book. Just reading the book. Some people are uncomfortable with the book. The book said prostitutes, huh? That's what it said. Then the father said to him, son, you are always with me and everything that is mine is yours. But it was right to celebrate and rejoice because this brother of yours was dead but has come back to life. He was lost, but it's found. If you're taking notes on this message, I won't be prepared. Before you long, I want to preach from a subject. Safe to come home. When you get the peace of God on the inside, it becomes safe to come home. Tell at least three people before you take your seats. It's safe to come home. It's safe to come home. It's safe to come home. It is safe. It's safe to come home. It's safe to come home. Jesus being the master storyteller that he is decides to share a parable that is so compelling, so gripping, it trumps many of the movies Hollywood attempts to produce. Every year, Yeshua begins to tell a story about a very wealthy man who had two sons. And the two sons are in their father's house, but they're both having different experiences with their father. Parents. You can raise your children the same way, and they will all have a different experience in the way that you raise them. I taught all of my kids the word. I don't understand why this one came out like that. They were having a different experience than the other two. You did the same thing, the same way, but that doesn't mean they were having the same experience. These are different human beings, different interactions, different perspectives, different filters. And the younger son, for whatever reason, looks his father in the face and says, you know, the inheritance I'm supposed to have when you die, I'd like that. Now, I just want you to know this is offensive. If my sons were to come to me today and say, hey, dad, you know that insurance policy that you have on your life that if you die, kicks in to mom and us, is there a way we can get that? Now, basically you're saying inside, could you please die so I can get my money? The father who, for whatever reason has so much peace that he's able to shake off offense. Can I just pause and say, when you truly have the peace of God, stuff that usually offends you, don't offend you no more, stuff that used to get you riled up, when you truly get the peace of God, that passes all understanding, that stuff just bounces off of you like child, I'm not even playing that game with you. I know you just told me to drop dead to my face, but if you want the money, I'll give you the money. I'm not gonna even hold you. So he gives the young son the money, and the son runs straight out the house, packs all his stuff and runs to a faraway country and spends it on wild living. He starts paying for sex workers. He's gambling his money away. He's drinking his money away. Whatever he's doing, he is living wild. Scripture said it was what Wild living. And he has this wild living, and the wild living takes everything from him. Isn't this crazy? He gave to the lifestyle he wanted, but the lifestyle he wanted did not give back. Anybody beside me in this room ever gave to something that you really wanted to do. But the return on the investment was not what you thought it was going to be. You gave everything to the relationship. You gave everything to the city. You gave everything to the lifestyle. And the only thing the lifestyle gave you back was heartbreak, disappointment, betrayal, disease. He was messing with some hoes. Now, I don't know if there was a safe way to practice sex back then. You was gambling with your life. He had spent all his money, and when all his money is gone, his entire inheritance was consumed by the life that he thought he wanted to live. And at the end of it, when he had nothing, he had to run to some of the citizens of the town that he was not a part of. Thank you, Holy Ghost. Let me calm down. He went to a faraway country where the culture and the customs and the climate was completely different than the culture and the customs and the climate of his father's house. And he didn't know how to live in that. He thought he would like it till he got there. Anybody beside me ever got something that you thought you wanted, but as soon as you got it, you realize you don't want what you got any. Anybody beside me made plans to go do a thing. And after you did the thing, you was like, why did I even do this thing? So he goes over and he's like, hey, listen, I ain't got no more money. I need to make some money. What can I do? And one of the citizens clearly was a farmer, and he said, you can feed my pigs. What does your schedule look like? Long shifts, changing hours. Post university offers flexible online nursing programs. Keep moving forward with post university. Become a post person at Post Edu. Let's be the people. Yeah, we enough to build again from the broken trust. Show up for your community with be the people. We connect community organizations with the millions of Americans ready to roll up their sleeves and do their part. Tap to learn more. So he goes to feed the pigs. When he goes to feed the pigs, he realizes that he's not just envious of the people that are living in this town during the time of this famine. They seem to still have enough means to support themselves, but he has spent all his money. Then a famine breaks out. He's in the middle of the famine now. He has a job feeding pigs. And he's now jealous of the pigs he's feeding. He's feeding these pigs, and he's like, man, they eating better than me. I would. I would like to have what the pigs are having. And then the workers that were helping him and overseeing him while he was feeding the pigs wouldn't let him have what the pigs had, that's gangster. We'll let the pigs have it, but you can't have it. But please continue to pick up behind them. And then scripture said he came to himself. I just want to thank God because I don't even know how it happens. It doesn't say that the conviction of the Holy Spirit hit him. It does not say that he remembered the words of his father. But somehow, some way, he came to himself. And I just want to say that's what a pig pen will do. A pig pen will make you come to yourself. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom and stay there so long that you start asking yourself, do I really want to be in this situation anymore? Sometimes you have to be so broke so long that you finally say to yourself, do I really want to be in this situation? Somehow sometimes the people that you love the most have to disassociate themselves when with you so you can feel their absence enough to say, do I really want to be in this situation? And scripture says he came to himself, he's down there with the pigs. And it finally dawns on him, the slaves in my father's house eat better than me right now. Now this is the year of our Lord 2026. So I just want to want everybody to know. When you hear the word slavery, you don't have to be like, we ain't talking about American slavery. We're not talking about chattel slavery. We're talking about a master who owned slaves and treated those slaves with decency and respect. His son knew that the slaves in his father's house was eaten better than he was eaten when Right now. So he came to himself and, and I got to say that, that when you come to yourself, then you can have the journey of getting peace. For peace to really be inhabited by a believer, you must first have a safe enough mind. You cannot experience peace in your life until your mind is safe enough to heal. Your mind has to change your mind. You have to be renewed in your mind and your thinking. You have to have your inner narrative change from the inside out if you are ever going to be who God has called you to be and receive the promises that God wants you to have. You can't still have a pig sty mentality and be a brother or a sister, a son and a daughter in the kingdom of God. When he came to himself, this level of self awareness gave him the indication that I cannot heal amongst hogs, I can't heal with these hogs. I came to myself around these hogs. But I can't heal amongst these hogs. If I'm going to get healed, I'm going to have to change my environment. I can come to my senses around you crazy people, but I can't heal around you crazy people. I'm going to have to change my environment. I'm going to have to get out of this house. I might have to move out of this city. I might have to leave the entire state. I don't know who I'm preaching to today, but God is breaking some of y' all up with the people that you thought you were going to be with the rest of your life. Only because you cannot heal amongst some hogs. Please don't call your friends hogs. I don't want nobody to run out of here after listening to the sermons. Be like, I'mma have to leave you cuz you a hog dog. Need a getaway. Hotels.com has the expert hookup on last minute deals. Score an impromptu trip that's big on vibes but light on the wallet. Members save 20% or more on select stays. Get extra savings on last minute hotels. Forget the stress of planning months ahead. 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And he gave me the money and I spent it all. And dang, he is not gonna let me back in the house like I used to be. But I gotta apologize. So I'm gonna be like, dad, I have sinned before heaven and in your presence and I am not worthy to be your son. Make me like, make me as one of your slaves. Yeah, just let me Be one of your slaves. I'll be just happy to be back in the house. I don't even have to have my previous status. See, when you desperate to come home, you'll take anything to get back in that house. When you're desperate to come home, you're like, daddy, I don't know if it's going to be the same. But when I come back in, I don't even have to sleep in the bed. You can just put me in the cot on the floor. You can put me in the garage. As long as I'm in your house, I'm safe. Daddy, I have sinned before heaven and in your presence. And I am not even worthy to be your son and make me as one of your slaves. Yeah, Daddy, I have sinned before heaven and in your presence. I am not worthy to be your son. Make me as one of your slaves. Started feeling good to him as he was walking home. I'm going to repent real good. Daddy, I have sinned before heaven and in your presence. I'm not worthy to be your son. You ain't going to even. You don't even have to call me your son no more. Make me as one of your slaves. Maybe not. I sound too excited. Daddy, I have sinned. I've sinned before heaven and in your presence. I'm not worthy to be your son. Just made me want to know that ugly cry when you cannot get. Just let me. Just let me be a slave. Yeah, that. That's the one right there. I'm gonna use that one. I'm gonna have a good ugly cry when I see him. And he was walking down the street and he started to get close to his father's house. And what he didn't know, he couldn't see his father, but his father could see him. And when his father saw him, his father beat his son to the punch. The father Scripture says he saw his son afar off because he had been looking for him. Hear me. The father had been looking for the son, but he never left his house. Because the Father has a boundary. I don't know who I'm preaching to right now, but you gotta have some boundaries. Oh, oh, oh. I want you. I want to have relationship with you again. But I'm not gonna go hunt for where you went with my money. I. I want to restore the relationship we had previously. But there's no way I'm going out there to where you went. See, see, see. I think a lot of times when we as believers get caught up in the. The the romanticism of the Savior. And. And that he's a good shepherd and that he'll leave the 99 and go after the 1. Yeah, and. And we got good songs about it. You. Oh, the overwhelming, never ending, reckless love of God. Oh, it chases me down, fights till I'm found. Leaves the 99 and I couldn't earn it. The song is dope. And it's the truth for sheep that are lost. You taking notes? You about to get a good note right here. It is the truth that a good shepherd will leave the 99 to go after the sheep that is lost. But the shepherd is not chasing the sheep that left. I hope I can help somebody in this room. I want you to know that your God has a boundary. When you leave the house willingly and knowingly, you need to understand, God is not chasing a rebellious son. God is not chasing a rebellious daughter. We not talking to somebody who innocently was like, oh my God, the amusement park is so big. Mom, dad, Buzz. No, no, no. We're talking about somebody that was like, I know what you want me to do. And I know how you want me to do it. No. Give me my money. Give me my money. I'm leaving. I want no parts of this anymore. Yes, his reckless love will go after who is lost. But your God has too much of a boundary to go after who left? You know where I live. You left my house. When you come to your senses, you know how to get back to my house. You know what road you went down to leave my house. When you come to yourself and you don't want to smell like no hogs no more. Bring your tail right back to the house that you left. Leave the light on for you. Not chasing you. You had all the peace you needed in this house before you left. You left the house and lost your peace. You didn't lose your peace in this house. You lost that peace when you walked out of my house. I don't know who I'm preaching to. I need to tell at least 100 parents in here, let that child go. Let that child go. You ain't dealing with no 11 year old child no more. That girl is 22 years old. Pray the prayer of protection over that joker. Let them. I'm trying to tell you that's mean. Oh my God, no. That's just so mean. You can't control no grown child. God's not messing with your free will. If this is what you want to do, go out there and do you boo boo. See how good it feels to do you you think my boundaries and my restrictions are uncomfortable for you, then go out there and spend your money on them hoes and after six months, come and tell me how it felt. Just trying to help somebody find some peace. That's all I'm trying to. That's all I'm really trying to do. There's nothing like the American Express Platinum Card. Find out your welcome offer after you apply, which could be as high as 175,000 points. Learn more and find out your offer@americanexpress.com Explore Platinum terms apply with the American Express Platinum Card, you can access over $3,500 in annual value with benefits and eligible purchases across travel, entertainment and more. There's nothing like Platinum. Learn more@american express.com Explore-platinum enrollment requirements monthly and other limits in Terms. Apply Scripture says Scripture says the father saw his son afar off because he had been looking for him and he had been waiting for him. But he wasn't going to leave his boundary to find him. And the father, unbeknownst to the son, takes off running down the street. When he gets up to the son, he just bum rushes them with a hug. Hear me. No words. Presence Body. Before I tell you how much I love you, I want you to feel it in the hug that I'm about to give you. Before you hear any word that comes out of my mouth. I want you to see the openness of my body enveloping you. To let you know that before you get back in my home it was always safe enough for you to come back home because I've been waiting for you. He hugs him, he kisses him on the neck, he start weeping and crying and the son goes into his speech, I have sinned against heaven. I didn't even know you were going to run out here and see me. And I sinned against heaven. I sinned against your presence. I did it in front of the other family members, in front of the slaves and everything. And I'm not even worthy to be your son. Now I remember there was one more thing the son wanted to say that he was rehearsing make me as one of your slaves. His father didn't even let him get to that point. The son was rehearsing a narrative that his father could have never fulfilled the request of make me as one of your slaves. I don't deserve to be a son anymore. I smell like pigs. I smell like what I've been through. I look like what I've been through. I got soul ties I never wanted. I got memories I never needed. Everything you have protected me from. I voluntarily went out there and found out the hard way. This doesn't bring me peace. I thought I knew better than the boundary that you wrote for my life. I don't deserve to be your son. I don't even know if he got to the point of saying me. Make me one of your slaves. I don't even know if he got to form his mouth before he could get to that one line that his father couldn't have fulfilled anyway. Because once you're a son, you're always a son. Once you're a daughter, you're always a daughter. I'm talking to at least 10 backsliders in the room that think that what you're doing now disqualifies you from the father's love. You are still the son and the daughter of the most high God, you just acting real extra right now. And the father is waiting on you to come to your senses in your mind so you can get your body back safe and come back home. Before he could try to say make me one of your slaves, his father said, quick. Before this boy says something stupid. Quick hear this. Before he can take a shower. Quick before he can clean himself up. Quick before he can get back in the house and get familiar and re acclimated. Quick get a robe, get a ring, get some shoes. But daddy, I haven't even cleaned myself up yet. Do you think I need you to be cleaned up before I clothe you? Do you honestly think I need you to take a shower before I cover you? No. The king of the universe is saying come home now. Smelling like weed. Come home now. Still got a hangover from last night. Come home now. Still got three bodies from the last weekend. Come home right now. Still with bitterness. Come home now. Still angry. Come home now. Still under the duress of threat. Come home quick. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. Now I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited Premium Wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills. But it turns out that's very illegal. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a try@mintmobile.com Switch upfront payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months or $180 for a 12 month plan. Required $15 per month equivalent taxes and fees. Extra initial plan term only greater than 50 gigabytes. Me slow when network is busy. See terms. You did it. You wrote the book. But now what if you're struggling to figure out how to get your manuscript published, Christian Faith Publishing is here to help. They are an author friendly publisher that works with writers just like you people with a message, a story and a purpose. They will guide you through the entire process. Editing, cover design, page layout, printing, distribution. Your book can be available in bookstores and online. Everywhere readers are looking. And the best part? They review your manuscript for free. Stop wondering what to do next and start moving forward. Visit Christianfaithpublishing.com today to get your free publishing guide Quick. They changed him faster than NASCAR engineers do the tires when they come in for a pit stop. They had put them clothes on him so fast. He was, he had to be disoriented. Like I thought it was going. I thought I was going to have to go through growth track for four weeks before I got my restoration. I thought it was going to take six months of me reading the Bible and going through devotionals again to get this type of restoration. This restoration came too quick. But I came to tell at least 500 people in the room the transformation that God wants to do in your life. He wants to do it that quick. He's not waiting on you to get it right. He's not waiting on you to have it all together. He is not waiting on you to have the right thing to say. He wants to do it. Quick. He came home, they threw a party. Pump up the jam, pump it up while your feet are knocking basin drop it pop up the jam pop it up. Pump up the pump up the pump up the pump up the pump pump pump pump pump. Because when heaven throws a party for you, everybody is going to hear it. When heaven throws a party for you, hell is going to hear it. When heaven decides to throw a party for you. The bass was knocking so hard. The older brother was outside and heard the music. The subwoofers were vibrating so loudly. The brother was outside. And he walked over to one of the servants. He said what's going who, what what they doing in there? He the service was hyped. Your brother came home yo. Your brother came home. Your daddy thought he was dead. He's alive yo it's turned up in there. Your brother got on a robe, fam got a ring, he's it's lit. And instead of the brother celebrating, he hated. The brother never left the house. But he did leave his love. The younger brother went to a faraway place. The older brother was in a close enough place and he was still outside of the father's love not because anything the father did, but because of the older brother's perspective. The older brother is mad at the younger brother and his daddy for throwing a party for him. Because there's always somebody mad when you come home. There's always somebody that thinks you should pay the price they have for you. Only God is the righteous judge. But there's always somebody that wants to know, you need to do more, then you'll be forgiven. So the father that ran after the young son outside has to now go find the other son outside because neither one of them was in the house until the father came and got him. He went outside, he said, son, why don't you just come in and why don't you come in and be a part of the party? That son of yours with his trifling self, Daddy, he spent all your money on prostitutes. Y' all in there pumping up the jam, got them woofers. And I heard you slaughtered a calf for that clown. I can't believe you did that. I ain't ever left you. I've done everything you've ever told me to do. He wasn't acting like a son. He was acting like a slave. He had sonship with a slave mentality. He thought what he was doing for his father, he was doing out of duty instead of doing it out of love. So he was only checking the boxes in his daddy's house because even though he was a son, he treated himself like a slave. I've checked all the boxes, and not one time have you ever slaughtered a goat and had a party for me and my friends. Now, you know, the daddy had to be like child. I went through this with the younger one, and you mean to tell me you've been up under my nose and your perspective is off, too? He said, son, everything I have, remember, as the oldest son, when Daddy actually dies, everything goes to him anyway. So everything the father literally had belonged to the oldest son. But because he had a slave mentality, he could not see it. So the father has to remind him, everything that I have is yours. What is mine is absolutely, unequivocally yours. Your brother. Even though the son, the son tries to say your son, the father pushes it back and says, your brother, I'm not turning down this music because of your feelings you offended. I'm having a party for your little brother. You're gonna have to stay outside and pout before I turn this music down. I'll turn it up before I stop celebrating. Somebody I thought was dead and now is alive. I will turn it from a 7 to an 11 in your face. Because he was lost. Now he's found he was dead. He's come back to life. It was safe enough for him to come home. And I came to tell somebody today that it's safe enough for you to come home. I don't care how long you have been in the situation you've been in. I don't care how long the circumstances have been against you. I don't care how much you smell like the hell that you have been through. You do not have to shower. You do not have to shave. You can come home stinking. You can come home disheveled. You can come home with mud on your face. You can come home with. With. With. With feces between your feet. Because the God of heaven understands that as soon as you get in my presence, what is unrighteous becomes righteous. What is dead becomes alive. What has been lost becomes found. Do I got anybody in here that's ever been safe enough to come home? I just want to encourage you that there is no situation, there is no distance between you and God the Father that is going to keep you from his love. And if you just turn around and stop, start walking back home, he will come meet you on the road. He will not wait for you to get in the house. He will run out to meet you in the middle of the road and bring you home. Now, I know I did not plan this. This is just the way my mind works. I didn't know nothing about no homecoming party in September. I don't even know what it's about. I don't even know what y' all gonna be doing, but we about to have one right now. I want to have a party for some people that are down to come home. You know how sometimes we do altar calls? And, and we, we, we, we. We. We. We tone it down because we want to. We just want to. We just want to make. Make it be something that people are like, okay, I think I want, right? I don't want that kind of homecoming party right now. I gave my life to Jesus on January 14th of 1996. There was no sermon. And there the Holy Spirit convicted me to give my life to him. I had been living my own way. I had been out there doing all the stuff. I was promiscuous. I was probably more promiscuous than this dude. And I mean, when I tell you I was hoeing, I was hoeing, okay? I was out there bad. You hear me? And, and. And given my money, I mean, it was. It Was terrible. And on January 14th of 1996, I was sitting on the back row of the church, and praise and worship had just ended. No, no. Sunday school had just ended. Praise and worship had just started. They're in the second song of praise and worship. And the Holy Spirit convicts me of my sins. I came to myself and I was like, I. I can't. I can't do this no more. I had a porn stash in between my mattress. This is night. This is the 90s. It wasn't on your phone, the window phones. We had a full magazine at a porn stash in between my mattress. I was sleeping around and I was thinking to myself, I need to go home. I need to get rid of that porn stache in between my mattress, and I need to, like, break up with these girls, and then I can give my life to Jesus. And the Holy Spirit said, if you don't walk out of here with me today, you're not gonna do none of that. And I was like, well, I feel dirty to give my life to you when I still got all this unresolved stuff. And he was like, you don't understand. I'll take you now with the smell on you now, with the stench of sin on you right now, with the mindset you have right now. I will take you right now. Because what I like to do is quick. So, so. So my dad just decided to open up for testimony service. That's why I love a Pentecostal church. This would have never happened in a Baptist church. This would have never happened in another type of church. I. I stood up during testimony service, and I couldn't wait for them because I couldn't wait to come home. Please pick me, pick me, pick me. My dad was gone and I was on the back row. He went from front to back and he finally said, I think Tim got something to say. This is like a small church, 47 people. So they were like, you know, small churches are nosy. What Tim got to say. And my dad said, what's going on? And I said, I give up. Those are my first three words. I give up. Then the church really turned around. Give up what? I said, I need to give my life to Jesus right now. And my Pentecostal mama let out the biggest, blackest in scene credit rolling of a Tyler Perry movie Hallelujah. You have ever heard in your entire life. As soon as I said, I need to give my life to Jesus right now, she said, hallelujah, Jesus. Jesus. And from that back row, I started walking to the front of the church in the same way. This young son was walking home and the father met me before I even got to the front of the church. And he took me like I was never to keep me like who I was. And that was 30 years ago. And I'm here to invite somebody else that knows for a fact. You need to come home. You've already done it. You've already tried it. It is not working. And you don't even like it. I want to have a homecoming party for somebody that's like, that's me. I'm coming home right now because I need this right now. If that's you, I just want you to meet me down here and watch how we act. Watch how we act. If you. If you dare to come down here and say I'm coming home right now. I want you to see how it's going to be when you get somebody who knows what it's like to have been in a situation. You better understand if you think we waiting for a hundred people to come down. All of heaven rejoices when what. I would love for the whole party just to be for you but if you come in too, get in on the party if you come in too get in on the party oh, come on, Zion. It's a homecoming party It's a homecoming party they don't smell like smoke they don't smell like what they've been through they came to themselves they came out the grave they came out the hall pit they're not going home this morning same way they came Give them a praise. It's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming it's homecoming Sons are coming home, Daughters are coming home is homecoming. I was never supposed to live my life around hogs. I was always supposed to live my life in my father's house. I'm coming. If you're watching online, just put the home in the chat. Put the home emoji in the chat because we got some people coming home online too. If you think God needs you to come out of where you are right now. If you watching in your car, you can come home in your car. If you watching in your apartment. Apartment, you can come home in that apartment. If you rent not a room in your grandmama's house, you can come Home in your grandmama'. Here's what the Holy Spirit told me. The Holy Spirit told me that you don't need a lot of words when you come home. Because here's what the Father was really saying to the Son. I don't need your words. I just saw your walk. I don't need your words. I just saw your walk. You ain't gotta say nothing to me. I saw what you meant when you walked up here. I heard what you was trying to say when you walked up here. I don't need you to say nothing. Come on. Come on. Come on. Somebody else is coming. Somebody else is coming home. Somebody else is coming home. I rebuke the enemy right now in the name of Jesus. Somebody's coming home. In Jesus name God. God, we thank you for homecomings. God, we thank you for sons. God, we thank you for daughters. Come home. We usually do a sinner's prayer, a prayer of salvation. Here's what the Holy Spirit just told me. Your walk was enough. Your walk was enough. Your walk was enough. Your walk was enough. When you walked down here, I heard what your feet was saying. Because you started coming back in the direction of the One. This ain't no game. This ain't no trick. There's a real God with a real anointing to destroy real yokes. Generational curses are being broken right now in the name of Jesus. Soul ties are being broken right now in the name of Jesus. Old habitual sins are being broken right now. Come on. They still coming. They still coming. They still coming. They still coming. Somebody else is coming home. Somebody else is coming home. Somebody else is coming home. Somebody else is coming home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. It. A bunch of leaders just came home. Bunch of world shakers just came home. A bunch of generational curse breakers just came home. Yeah, the enemy wanted you to stay out there because the Enemy wanted you to be convinced that you were supposed to live like a hog. But the devil is a lie. The devil is a lie. The devil knew he had a problem on his hands. That's why he tried to keep you out there. Filled with lies. Filled with a narrative that doesn't belong to you. He's trying to keep you out there. Can't tell you how many times I contemplated suicide. Too scared to do it. So just always praying, God, just don't wake me up in the morning. I can't do this. Had my daddy's revolver to my head after my brother Died. Devil don't want you to come home cuz he knows as soon as you come home. Can I just act out what I see in the spirit? Let me tell you what happened when you just came home, all the hell went. Not her, not her. Anybody but her. How you let her back in the house? Do you know what's gonna happen to the family now that she's back in the house? Do you know what's gonna happen with the generational bloodline now that she's back in the house? Who let her back in? Who let them hog. Homecoming party? Supposed to be a party. Yeah. Like, I'm down with the tears. I'm down with like, the. Like, you know, I get that. But I want you to see how quickly the father turned the son's tears. Yeah, yeah. Into praise. He was like, I get it. You crying. I understand. You went out there, you. You. You tricked off all my money. Understood. But you're gonna have to clear that up quick because I got a party planned for you. I know you sad about what you did and what you hid and what you slid. But I need you to know through all them tears, you're gonna have to push them back. Because I'm down to have a party before you change your clothes. We having a party before you throw away the bag. We having a party before you get rid of the burner. We having a party before you call them up and tell them you ain't coming back. We having a party right now. And I don't want to be the brother that's in the house outside mad cause my brothers and sisters came home. So I just feel like we should turn up. Thank you for joining us today. If you said that prayer and accepted Jesus into your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make. We want to celebrate with you and we have some tools to help you on your journey. Text saved to 828282 and to find out more about saved TC text connect to 828282. Be sure to subscribe and share this podcast with your friends. Thanks for listening. Now go out and live a transformed life.