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00:00Hello everyone, it's a blessing to be here with you all.
00:03It is a windy day. I hope y'all can still hear me.
00:06I'll try to talk as loud as I can through all the wind.
00:10Today, if I had a title for today's message, I would call it,
00:12Don't Let Resentment Rule Your House.
00:17Every home eventually decides what spirit will rule it.
00:21What do I mean?
00:23You will either let bitterness rule your house,
00:26or you will let mercy rule your house.
00:28You will either let keeping the score rule your house,
00:33or you will let grace rule your house.
00:37You will either let division rule your house,
00:40or restoration rule your house.
00:45In today's text, we see the example of a father
00:48who refuses to let resentment become the culture of his household.
00:53I refuse, I refuse, I refuse.
00:56I refuse. We're in the story of the prodigal son.
00:59And let me just briefly give a little background on that story.
01:02Very popular story.
01:03The younger son comes to the father and says,
01:06Give me all of my inheritance early.
01:07I don't want to wait for you to die.
01:09Give me my inheritance now so I can do my own thing.
01:13So the father gives it to him and he goes to a faraway country and spends it all,
01:19wastes all of what the father gave him in wild living in a short period of time.
01:25So then a famine comes and the prodigal son is poor.
01:29He's looking at pigs and saying,
01:31I wish I had what they were eating.
01:33And then he comes to himself and remembers,
01:35it was better in the father's house than it is with me now.
01:38I'm going to return to the father.
01:41Well, as he returns to the father,
01:44he comes back repentant and broken.
01:46And the father says,
01:48Let's throw a celebration for the son.
01:52But there was an older brother looking and he was upset at this and said,
01:57Father, how could you?
01:58You ain't never did this for me.
02:00How can you do this to this failure of a son that comes back to you?
02:03I've been with you all this time.
02:05So the son,
02:06so the father is trying to bring the relationship together.
02:10Oh,
02:11I got one son that's returning to me and one son that's resentful.
02:15And I got to bring these things together.
02:17He is bringing,
02:18he is choosing reconciliation of his household.
02:21Oh,
02:22let's look at this today.
02:23So the father talks to the older son and says this unto them.
02:27And he said unto him,
02:28Son,
02:29thou art ever with me and all that I have is thine.
02:33It was meet that we should make merry and be glad for this.
02:37Thy brother was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found.
02:43So the father talks to the older son.
02:46That's upset.
02:48And the father says this restoration right here is worth celebrating.
02:54It was me that we should make merry and be glad.
02:58It's fitting that we should throw this celebration,
03:01son.
03:02This father,
03:03uh,
03:04he valued a restored relationship.
03:06A restored relationship was more valuable to this father than winning an argument.
03:14Oh,
03:15the relationship is being restored.
03:17It should be celebrated.
03:19The elder brother seeing his younger brothers return through the eyes of offense.
03:25But the father saw it through the lens of recovery.
03:28Sometimes people only look at you through failure.
03:31But the father saw it through reconciliation.
03:34Uh,
03:35the father viewed the son's return as the resurrection of a relationship.
03:39The father is saying,
03:41I'm not going to let his failures define him for the rest of my life.
03:44I'm not going to let him be frozen in his failures.
03:47Mmm.
03:48Some people will try to freeze you in your failures.
03:50But the father said,
03:51I'm not,
03:51uh,
03:52no,
03:52no,
03:52no,
03:52no,
03:52no,
03:52no,
03:52no.
03:53I'm not going to let bitterness have the final word.
03:55I'm going to let reconciliation and joy have the final word.
03:59This is a restored son.
04:01Mmm.
04:02I'm not going to ignore the relationship once was dead.
04:06I'm going to recognize that it once was dead,
04:07but I'm going to celebrate that it is alive.
04:11This father chose celebration over condemnation because restored fellowship matter more than keeping the score of past wrongs.
04:21I value restored relationship older son more than I value keeping his past alive.
04:30I'm so glad he's back with me.
04:32Uh,
04:33this is love at its finest.
04:35This is mercy and grace at its finest.
04:37Don't let resentment rule your home.
04:40Choose reconciliation over bitterness,
04:43over jealousy,
04:44over resentment.
04:45Help us today.
04:46Many of us have homes that are divided.
04:49This part of the home is not talking to that part of the home.
04:52That part of the family is not talking to that part of the family because of bitterness,
04:56jealousy,
04:56and resentment.
04:57People value,
04:58uh,
04:59their hurt pride over reconciliation and restoration.
05:03Have mercy.
05:04This is a common thing.
05:06Uh,
05:07uh,
05:07the father refused to let the atmosphere in his house become cold and resentful.
05:12I don't want no atmosphere cold and resentful.
05:15I insist on having joy in my house because reconciliation did take place.
05:22Yes,
05:22the son did wrong,
05:23but I'm not focused on what he did wrong.
05:26I'm going to focus on what he did right.
05:28He came back home unto me.
05:30And for that,
05:31we going to celebrate.
05:32Oh,
05:32Lord,
05:33help me.
05:34He said,
05:34I'm choosing mercy over bitterness.
05:37Mmm,
05:37Lord,
05:38have mercy.
05:39Our God specializes in restoring what's what seemed hopeless.
05:44God can restore relationships in your family and with your friends.
05:49The son had just left.
05:50But,
05:51and it looked dead.
05:52He said it was dead,
05:53but now it is alive.
05:56It looked dead,
05:57but,
05:58uh,
05:59because the son was gone relationally.
06:01The son was gone spiritually.
06:02The son was gone,
06:03gone emotionally.
06:04But now it is breathing again because of repentance and reconciliation.
06:10If we repent and have reconciliation with one another,
06:13what was once dead can come back alive.
06:15That is great hope.
06:17Lord,
06:17we should be pursuing and running after repentance and reconciliation.
06:21Uh,
06:22Lord,
06:23so that once what was once dead is alive.
06:25You'll either pursue bitterness or reconciliation.
06:28What do I mean by that?
06:29You can either pray for your enemies and those that hurt you to keep your heart solved and not rehearse
06:35that their pain and their betrayal over and over again.
06:38Cut the tape off.
06:39When you see yourself ruminating over it and thinking about it again,
06:42cut that tape off.
06:44Uh,
06:44so one,
06:44one time you'll do it for five minutes.
06:46Next time you might do it for three.
06:47Then you'll get better and better at cutting the tape off.
06:50I'm not going to let that.
06:51I've given that unto God.
06:53I'm not going to keep focusing,
06:54fixating on it.
06:55That is God.
06:57Uh,
06:58that's keeping your heart solved and that's pursuing after restoration.
07:02Or you can keep on playing that hurt and bitterness until it grows and grows in you.
07:06And so every time you see them,
07:07all you see is pain and hurt and what they did because you rehearsed it and rehearsed it and rehearsed
07:11it.
07:12You kept it alive.
07:13What are you pursuing in your life?
07:14Bitterness and resentment or reconciliation?
07:17What are you pursuing?
07:19Help us today.
07:20Have mercy.
07:21The father restored brotherhood instead of division.
07:25The father refused to allow offense to destroy relationships in his home.
07:30He was in between two sons.
07:32He pursued the son that he got bitter towards the young son.
07:36And he was also pursuing the young son who had just returned home.
07:40I'm pursuing you both.
07:41I am a peacemaker.
07:43I want to bring things together in my house.
07:46The elder brother said in the chapter earlier that I didn't read.
07:49He says,
07:50This is thy son.
07:51But the father later on said,
07:53This is thy brother.
07:55See,
07:56Bitterness tries to erase relationships.
07:58That's your son.
07:59That ain't my brother.
08:00And the father said,
08:01No, no, no, no.
08:02That's my son.
08:02Yes.
08:03But that's also your brother.
08:05Quit talking in bitterness.
08:08Bitterness destroys relationships.
08:11It tries to erase them.
08:12But love reconsiles and restores relationships.
08:16And so the father has to remind me.
08:18That's my son.
08:19But that's also your brother.
08:22The father would rather heal the family than preserve his wounded pride.
08:27Yes, the son ran away.
08:29But my pride ain't worth nothing.
08:31And not as much as restoring this family.
08:35Help us, Lord, have a spirit like this.
08:37Help us to be peacemakers.
08:39To men and women of God of reconciliation.
08:43That's the father's heart.
08:44This story is talking about the heart of God.
08:47And if we are his children,
08:48we should value reconciliation over bitterness.
08:52Help us today.
08:54The father refused to let his house become divided into two sides.
08:58Like I said earlier,
08:59our houses are divided up in many different sides.
09:02So-and-so ain't speaking to so-and-so.
09:04He and she ain't speaking to he and she.
09:06But the father said,
09:08I don't want a house divided into sides.
09:10I don't want winners and losers in my house.
09:12No, no, no.
09:13I want reconciliation.
09:15So he was pursuing with both of his sons.
09:18I'm going after both of y'all.
09:19I'm going after both of y'all with a heart of unity.
09:22I'm going after both of y'all with a heart of reconciliation.
09:25I'm going after both of y'all with a heart of healing.
09:28Instead of ongoing separation.
09:33We're either pursuing ongoing separation or we're pursuing unity.
09:39Don't let resentment rule your house.
09:42Don't let resentment rule your life.
09:45Help us today not to do that, oh God.
09:47In Jesus' name I pray and say, amen.
09:49All right.