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Grace Is A Gift By: Dr. Pete Norris

Harvest Fellowship Church

Sep 11, 2026 · 29 min3K

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“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV

The Kingdom of Heaven is not the place called heaven. There are things I can do as being saved but cannot inherit God’s promises. If salvation is a gift then there is no conditions. Gift only speaks of how much God loves me not how much I love him. A gift does not speak of my heart for Him, but His heart for me. Salvation is Grace plus nothing. The moment you add anything to it you are robbing God of His glory. Salvation is not our victory, but it is God’s victory.

“All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.” I Corinthians 6:12 NKJV

Helpful means “profitable” and any means “anything”.

“Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,” II Timothy 1:9 NKJV

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13 NKJV

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” I Corinthians 6:9-10 NKJV

Homosexual is the Catamites means “A boy kept for homosexual practices.” Sodomites means “A Male Homosexual”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,” Galatians 5:19-20 KJV

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.” Galatians 5:22-24 KJV

“For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” Galatians 6:8 NKJV

“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.” Romans 8:5-9 NKJV

“If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.” Colossians 3:1-2 NKJV

“For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Romans 14:17 NKJV

When you are talking about the kingdom. You are not talking about the place, you are talking about the extension of rule. My kingdom come my will be done on earth as it is in heaven. When John the Baptist began to preach and say repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. The kingdom was invading earth and again taking its place that Adam had lost.

“Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.” Matthew 6:10 NKJV

“From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”” Matthew 4:17 NKJV

While some believe that the Kingdom of God and Kingdom of Heaven are referring to different things, it is clear that both phrases are referring to the same thing. The phrase “Kingdom of God” occurs 68 times in 10 different New Testament books, while “Kingdom of Heaven” occurs only 32 times, and only in the Gospel of Matthew.

“Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”” John 3:3-8 NKJV

The prodigal son left home as a son and when he came back he was a son. His Sonship was not affected by his behavior. His lifestyle was affected by his behavior. His fellowship was affected by his behavior. He was out of fellowship with his father. Sin separates you from fellowship with the Father, but He is still your Father. Sonship is what pulled him back to the father. The son said, I will come back in a lesser role as a servant, because my behavior does not qualify to be a son.

“And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven.” John 12:10 NKJV

The sin of rejecting Him and refusing His offer of forgiveness and New Life in Christ Jesus.

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and out of that out of the spirit of that comes love joy, peace, meekness, temperson and all the fruit of the spirit They come from the Holy Spirit learning how to listen to that voice on the inside of us Listen, you said well pastor you just telling people they can go act any other way Let me tell you something once people realize they ain't lost and on the way to hell They can get out of a little bit of fear and then they can open theirself up and understand that You know what God's got mercy on me a little bit because the New York Lord knows the church at all Welcome to power in the word So often when someone gives us a gift we feel compelled to give something back to them Or somehow another we feel indebted because they gave us a gift Well today Dr. Narsh looks at the gift of salvation And how we try to pay God back for the gift that's totally free This message is powerful and it's encouraging stay with us. I want to talk to you about grace is a gift and You know, I've been like I said, I've been searching the scriptures over and over and over. I want truth. I Don't care what that cost me I want truth Regardless of what people think I you know, I'm 60 something now and you know, I'm out here trying to prove anything I'm out here trying to understand What's all this about? It's about what he did on that cross and his resurrection that free does So I want to go to Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8 and 9 and I want you I want to try to be as slow as I can tonight because I won't just to be understood I want it to be grabbed. I want it to be I want us to walk in a different level for by grace or you saved So so by grace you're saved through faith That is none of yourself It's a gift. It's the gift of God. It's the it's a gift of God. Look at verse 9 Not by works least any man should boast Now what am I saying? The only one that gets the boast over this is him Because you know what if you can boast about you've done it and I hear a lot of that It's not a gift And if it's a gift then there's no conditions to it

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None there's no continue you put any conditions to a gift. It's no longer a gift There are things that I can do is being saved, but I'm not in here the promises of God Listen, you can do any I told you a few months ago. You can do anything you want to do And you still won't go to heaven But you're not going to reap his best on the earth So so I'm going there tonight If salvation is a gift and there's absolutely no conditions with it Gift only speaks of how much God loves you not how much you love him when men the need of God man. I gave her a ring That didn't have nothing to do with her how much she loved me it had to do with how much I loved her That was a gift. She can do anything. She can take it off right now and sell it It's a gift There wasn't no conditions meant by that. It was just simply a gift So a gift doesn't speak of my heart for him. It's for his heart for me That's how much he loved me. He loved me so much that he gave me that gift of grace With no conditions to it. Pete you ain't got that right. You ain't got to do right. It's a simple gift I'm serious. It's a simple gift And so if salvation is a gift salvation plus nothing it's a disgrace completely grace The moment you had anything to it you're robbing God of his glory Salvation is not our victory is his victory. He gets the boast about what he did Guys we got to understand that it's a gift. There's no conditions to it All this to all this preaching that's talking about you got to act right you got to do right you got to be right you got to believe right You got to do let's just adding something to the message of grace And you said pastor whoa now whoa well, let's go to 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verse 12 Paul said all things are lawful for me But all things are helpful the word helpful there in the actual Greek means profitable Paul said I do anything I want to but they ain't gonna be helpful for me. Listen. I'm gonna go there I can go out and sleep with somebody, but it's not gonna be helpful And it's very much not gonna be profitable It's gonna be death not from God

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From this wonderful young lady over here on the left So I can go out and do that, but it's not profitable All things are lawful for me But I will not be brought under the power of any of them the word any means anything in other words They say things I can do, but they're not profitable to me And so what if you heard in the church all your life don't do this and don't do this and don't do this and don't You need that you found the flesh you're not following the spirit That may be true They're still gonna meet you in heaven according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began so his grace was already there that gift was already available before Adam ever fell in the garden guys it's not about us it's about him listen that's what that's what's got the church in such a frustration or pastor you just open it up for them to do anything you can do anything you just if you realize that you're born again you're not going more to do anything because you want the best for you because the kingdom of God flows through us and God come down to earth and brought heaven down so we can live in that heavenly realm it's all about a kingdom now watch this go me to first John chapter 1 verse 12 and 13 but as many as received him he to them he gave the right to become children of God to those who believe in his name look at verse 13 who were born not of blood not of the will of the flesh nor the will of man but born of God you're born of God he has nothing to do with your behavior you're standing with God is not based on one thing but his grace it's not based on any conditions that you want to put on it in your standing that's what's wrong with the body of Christ around the world because I'm walking up more holier than you are and if you're not walking like me then me and you're over here we don't understand grace Galatians chapter 3 verse 26 for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus now what made you sons of God you're all Galatians 3 26 you're all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus what what made you son grace his grace and your faith of accepting his

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grace is what made you a son of God that's all it's about guys that's all it's about it's about his gift of grace it's not any working you find performance Paul said I'm doing anything I want to but it ain't profitable it didn't mean it changed his standing with God are you with me and I know where someone you're going so I'm gonna go ahead and go there let's go to first Corinthians chapter 6 I'm gonna really shake this I'm gonna shake I'm gonna shake the world right now do you not know that unrighteous when I inherit the kingdom of God that doesn't say that they won't inherit heaven it says they won't inherit the kingdom of God what's he talking about unrighteous people won't do not be deceived it says unrighteous people won't unrighteous people won't see he's talking to two different kinds of people here guys you got to get this now he said you do not know that the unrighteous run in here to kingdom and do not be deceived neither will fornicators neither will idolaters people that have idols neither will their daughters neither will homosexuals let me have you know what the word homosexual there means in the actual Greek it means a Canaanite which means a boy that's kept for homosexual practices read your book and sodomize what's the sodomize it's a male homosexual if you want to get tore up read Genesis 19 when the two angels came to Abraham's house and man you can really get perverted right there but think about it he said these people are not going to inherit the kingdom of God some of you looking at me funny verse 10 no thieves no covenants no drunkards so ain't gonna be no drunkards there ain't gonna be no boys been practicing homosexuality there not gonna be no revolves there it's not gonna be extortioners there ain't gonna be no thieves there ain't gonna be nobody there will inherit the kingdom of God so he says they will not in it if you do these things you're not going to inherit the kingdom of God he didn't say you ain't going to heaven it was gracious gonna get you to heaven the kingdom of God is where in us guys we're not gonna walk in the best of the kingdom of God he's talking to two different kinds of people to unrighteous people who's unrighteous those who have not accept that grace and then the people that have

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accept the grace may walk in some of these things right here it doesn't mean they're not going to heaven it means they're just not gonna have the best on earth if you drink long enough it's gonna cause you problems if you commit adultery it's gonna cause you problems if you if someone sexualities okay with people in the world and that's really who they are then why they're the highest rate of of suicide in the world does it mean they can't go to heaven absolutely they can go to heaven you mean if they're practicing on a daily basis it says that you're not going to inherit the kingdom didn't say you're not going to You're not one here at the kingdom. tell you something here in Galatians chapter 5 verse 19 now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornification and cleaveness let's see this verse 20 idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulation wrath strife sedition and heresy 21 think about it all these things are works of the flesh that doesn't mean you're gonna go to hell for doing them their works of the flesh these things are gonna keep you in the past envy and murder drunkenness really such things for which I've told you before as I have told you in the past that does we do these things shall not inherit the kingdom of God what's he saying to us guys he said you're not gonna walk in the best of the kingdom of God doesn't mean you're not going to heaven what's gonna get you to heaven is his grace his grace that's the gift of eternal life his grace grace has no conditions with it now watch this let's go to let's go to let's go down to 22 and then all of a sudden he goes from the works of the flesh and then he tells you what the fruit of the spirit is the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long suffering gentleness goodness faith 23 litmus tempers are such there is no law he said 24 and they that are in Christ have crucified the flesh with the affections and the loss he's given you what the works of the flesh aren't he tells you what the works of the spirit are and he said if you do these things of the works of the spirit of the flesh you're not going to hack the kingdom of God that's not mean you're not going to be in the kingdom of God it means you're not going to flow function in the kingdom of God on earth all God don't

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extend his ruling reign when he come down to earth that's all he done he's the government's going to be his funny shoulders what did he do he increased his ruling reign now let's go to Galatians chapter 6 he who sows to the flesh will reap the flesh now why did he why did he say the scripture why do you always put the two if this unbelievers ain't gonna be reading this he who sows to his flesh reap corruption but he who sows to the spirit will of the spirit reap everlasting life so he's talking about a the person that flows in the spirit he's not the person that flows in the spirit and in the flesh he's not talking about two separate times of people you can have a person that's absolutely born to get and walk in the flesh every day of their life because they don't understand the kingdom they don't understand how peace and joy and meetness and tempers he who sows to the flesh listen listen to me how do you believe in God's grace okay I'll ask you something I want to ask you something if if if a young man 20 years all goes out and he gets somebody pregnant which used to be the worst thing in the world to the church seriously now we just it's nothing he gets born again six months later that ain't his child no more right he don't have a responsibility to keep that child up anymore sure he does that was a he sewed that in the flesh so he has a responsibility to keep that up even though God's forgiven him he still has a responsibility there's still judgments if I go out and kill somebody in grace has got me I'm still going to prison so what I'm trying to tell you is that those works of the flesh are gonna lead to things that's gonna not give you a good life it doesn't mean you're not born again and so what we've done we've preached this message to the church for so long that you know what that's gonna send us to hell well listen brother I'm even laying in the bed and not crying about going to hell knowing I was born again what if I forgot one of those things I didn't do what if I what if it slipped my mind and then I've been again to reading up again to find out you know I've been lied to Romans chapter eight verse five I just been lied to and lied not only lied to I lied to for those who live according to the flesh and set their minds on the things of the flesh but those who live according to the

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spirit the things of the spirit listen to me guys wherever your mind goes is where your life's gonna go for six for to be currently minded is gonna bring you death to be spiritually minded is gonna bring you life and it's gonna bring you peace and what does the world need they need a life in peace the world's looking peace man they can't find it why because they can't find it without Jesus Jesus brought us grace and then he brought us a kingdom that we gonna flow in on the earth and out of that out of the spirit of that comes love joy peace meekness temperson and all the fruit of the spirit they come from the Holy Spirit learning how to listen to that voice on the inside of us listen you say well pastor you just telling people didn't go act any other way let me tell you something once people realize they ain't lost and on the way to hell they can get out of a little bit of fear and then they can open herself up and understand that you know what God's got mercy on me a little bit because the new Lord knows the church at all the church I grew up in didn't have a lick of mercy till you did it their way look at verse 7 because the carnal mind is against God the carnal mind how many of you know we're a spirit we possess the soul when we live in a body my spirit is absolutely perfect how many of you believe that I it's your spirits absolutely perfect now how many of you know that I can get around you sometimes when you when you ain't in when you ain't in that spirit ram and you hit your finger with a hammer or whatever what's going on Now, let's back up, though, what is sin? See, I think our idea of sin and God's idea of sin are two different sins. Because you can go to France, and they cuss like a sailor, and there's nothing wrong with it. You hear me shoot out one, you're going to be tore up. But you're expecting it from you. But Lord knows you ain't supposed to come out of my mouth. Look what He said, "For it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be."

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Look at verse 8. "So then those who are in the flesh--" See, here's where we get it. See, it didn't say God's disappointed. He's turned me loose, and I'm on the way to hell. It said, "I cannot please Him." But then look at verse 9. Here we go. Hallelujah. I could shout right now. "For you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If indeed the spirit of God dwells in you now, if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, He is not He is." Listen to me, just because how you acting in your flesh, that is not who you are. And that's what we've told the church over and over and over. You got to kill this flesh. You got to bring it under subjection. You got to stop acting like that. What we need to discover is who we are in the spirit. And if we discover who we are in the spirit, we'll start acting like we will think spiritual things. We'll act spiritual things. You won't have to preach against everything ever 36 days. You just notice by God's marvelous grace, and there's no conditions on it because I'm a spirit being and not a flesh being. Matter of fact, what you see up here to not this flesh, it ain't going to heaven anyway.

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Go to Colossians chapter three. "And then you were raised with Christ. Seek those things which are above where Christ is, seeding at the right hand of God." He said, "Seek those things at the right hand of God." Look at verse two. "Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth." Now, how many of you grew up in church? Every Sunday, you heard what you ought not to do. And they preached grace, but grace won't keep you after that Sunday. It ain't about our performance, guys. It's about his marvelous grace. Go to Romans chapter 14, verse 17, and here's your answer. Now, he said he will not inherit the kingdom of God. Why? Because the kingdom of God is not what you eat, or what you drink, but the kingdom of God is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Now, that's what the kingdom of God ought to be functioning in your life. So most people is living in the carnal realm, because we don't see the righteous in peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Why? Because what did he say? He said that he that walks in the Spirit's going to have life and peace. But he that walks in the flesh is going to have what? Death.

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Carnal mind is going to bring him death. But in the kingdom of God, there's going to be righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. See, that's what grace has done for us, guys. It's give us righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Let me tell you something. Right in the middle of your biggest struggle, when you've just failed miserably, God looks down and sees the righteousness of God just like it was before you ever did it. When you're talking about the kingdom, we're not talking about a place. You're talking about the extension of God's rule. When God left heaven, he came down to earth. The Bible said the government would be upon his shoulders. He's going to come down to earth, and he's going to rule and reign. Are you with me? So what did he do? He brought heaven down here. My kingdom come by will be done on earth as it is in heaven, Matthew 6 and 10. My kingdom come. My kingdom come. My will be done. The Bible said that smoking, drinking, doing drugs, and homosexuality, and all those things are not going to inherit the kingdom. In other words, they're not going to walk in the blessings on the earth.

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Guys, we've got to understand that the things that you do in the flesh are the things that's going to cause you to problem in the natural realm. They're going to come back to deal with you. They're going to come back to deal with you. It doesn't change your standing within heaven. When John the Baptist began to preach and say repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. In other words, he said the kingdom of God is drawing near. You can find that in Matthew 4 verse 17. From that time, Jesus began to preach and to say repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. It was drawing near. Who was the kingdom, guys? Who was the kingdom? Jesus. So when he came and fulfilled his purpose, Luke 17, 21 said, low here, low there for the kingdom of God is on the inside of us. But she was trying to say he won't inherit the kingdom. Listen to me. Listen to me very carefully. What are we talking about when we say inherit the kingdom? If I inherit something, my daddy, I get it later, right? That means there's principles that the kingdom of God functions by. And if I don't operate that kingdom principle, then the kingdom is not going to operate. In other words, sowing and reaping is not a mandatory thing you have to do to go to heaven.

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But sowing and reaping is going to prosper you on the earth. So whatever you sow in your flesh is what you're going to reap Are you with me? But if you operate in the spirit, then you'll begin to receive the things of the spirit and you'll start seeing love, joy, peace, jones, meeting, temperatures, and all those things operating through your life. And then you begin to walk in and righteous because we need to understand who we are and then peace and joy in the Holy Spirit will show up because there's a Holy Spirit that's leading us now. Still, rules is leading a lot of folks, but it ain't that what you do it's about what he did. If you're talking about you, the gift of grace is gone. You can't preach the gift of grace and put conditions on it. You can't do it. And you say, Pastor, you're just getting way too liberal. Well, I'm sorry, but this is how it is. When some believe that the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven are referring to different things, how many of you go, I've run all these scriptures. The kingdom of heaven is in the Bible 32 times and it's only in one book, Matthew. The kingdom of God is in the thing 68 times and it's in 11 different books and it's 68 and 32 is how many, a hundred. Jesus simultaneously talked about him being interchangeable throughout the Bible. So the kingdom of God is God way, I'm going to make it simple, God's way of doing things on the earth in a heavenly matter. That's what they're not going to inherit because they're not going to operate the kingdom principles on the earth because they're so full of flesh that they can't hear the spirit. And when we don't hear the spirit, we make bad decisions based upon our flesh instead of based upon our spirit because if you learn to listen to the little man on the inside of you and the little voice, you won't make some of those bad decisions. But if you follow this flesh and carnality all the time and don't put no word in you,

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then you're going to make carnal decisions. It doesn't have anything would you go into heaven or not because if you lose it, it ain't a gift. Think about it. If you can lose it, it ain't a gift. So it's clear that both phases are referring to the same thing, but I want to show you something. And when I read this, I'm going to go there. I want to go to Luke 15 and I'm going to tell you, this thing lit me up this morning about four o'clock and I was lit up. I want to read you something. And God said, I'm going to give you a perfect example of grace. I said, Lord, you need to. I've shown you your perfect example of grace, but I'm going to show it to you in the scripture. Let me help you know anything about the prodigal son. I want to show you a little son. Prodigal son come to his daddy, come to his father, he said, and he said, Father, I want to get half of my belongings and I want to go. I want to do my thing. And we said, and what the father do? He let him go. The prodigal son left home as a son and he came back. He was a son, but here's what he said. He went off and done all this living and sleeping around and spending all of his money and doing all that. It never changed his sonship. His behavior didn't change his sonship. Now he come to the grips and here's what he said. He said, you know, he got real low in life. He got real low in life and he said, but if I'll go back to my father's house, the servants have plenty to eat, so I'm going to go back to the father's house and I'm going to tell

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my father and say, look, I'll be a servant. I don't have to be a son. I'll be a servant because I've sinned and I've fallen short and the father was looking out the door waiting for him to come down the road. He saw him coming down the road. He saw him coming down the road. See, it was sonship that pulled him back to his daddy, but he said, I'll come back and come back to his daddy and I'm going to paraphrase. He come back to his daddy and his daddy made him half way and he said, daddy, I've sinned against you. I just want to be one of the servants. What does daddy say? But see, here's why he wanted to be a servant because he didn't think he qualified for being a son anymore. So he would take a lesser standing just to get back. Now you got to understand something. When he left for those ever how long it was, he had broken fellowship with his father, but he hadn't broken sonship with his father. It was still the same. So when his daddy, his father, I like to use that word father, when his father saw him come and he run out there and he said, you know, my son was dead, but now he's alive. Now, some people want to take that word, that Greek word down and say, well, he had back slid and got lost again. That's not what it means. The translation of that word said he had broken fellowship with his father. In other words, their intimacy was no longer there, had nothing to do with his sonship. Are you with me? Now hold on. So his sonship was not affected by his behavior. His lifestyle was affected by his behavior.

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His fellowship was affected by his behavior. fellowship with the father, but he's still your father. Glory be to God. Now, think about it. When you do something wrong, the first thing you want to do is run away from God. What did Adam do? But he didn't change anything with the father. That's why I got his thing. I got this thing now. That's why he told Adam in the book of Genesis, he said, look, brother, he said, where are you at? No, where are you located? Where are you at with me? Because I ain't seen nothing wrong because I still you're still a son because I chose you in me before the foundation world. But once Adam realized he was lost and separated from the father, he had a shared conscious. And then he had a God conscious that he was lost and a sin conscious. God said, I got to do something, restore it. Now, watch this, stay with me. Hold on. So the son ship is what pulled him back to his father. In other words, sin separates you from fellowship with the father, but he's still your father. Now, watch this. Now, I'm going to go there. I got a son. He can do whatever he wants to. It's not going to change me being his son. Do you understand that God can't change and not be your father? God knows. It's no way. John Thomas can have a blood transfusion. He still, he's still my son. He can go off and do all kinds of stuff. And I can deny he's my son. He's still my son. There's nothing you can do to get him not be your father. Because Jesus died, you're no longer a servant. That's why I wouldn't let him come back and be a servant. He said, no, you still qualify for son. And then he met him on the road. And he said, I want you to go get the ring, put it on his finger, put the robe on him. And then you know what? Let me have you know, the ring was a signant ring of the authority of the family. In other words, it meant sonship and inheritance. So when you put the ring on him, put the robe on him, put the saddle on his feet. He said, to your frantic calf, because he, my son is back home. He didn't even ask him how I'd been acting because he didn't care. What Jesus was telling

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listen, guys, I'm not concerned about what. Listen, listen, you can't get bad enough that I ain't delivered you. Now, we want to preach that in the Baptist Church. We want to preach that everybody. But I'm telling you, he loves us so much. You can't get away. You can't get, I can't say this in English. You can't get away from him being your father. Because the spirit and his death and resurrection made him your father. You can't set enough. Now, some of you going to walk out of here and say, the pastor said, Pastor said, I can go out there and do anything I want to do. That's what he told me. That's not what I told you. I told you if you do that, you're not going to fulfill your divine purpose for being here. God's got a good plan for you. He's got a good purpose for you. And it's all by his spirit and through his marvelous grace. Amen? Father, in the name of Jesus, I just thank you tonight for revelation and knowledge. I thank you for truth. I thank you for wisdom. I thank you for insight. And Father, I pray that you just open our eyes that we'll be enlightened with a greater level of truth. In Jesus' name, and everybody said, Amen. Thank you for joining us today at Power and the Word. All of us here at Harvest Fellowship Church want you to know that God is not mad with you, but he loves you so very much. And he has a plan for your life. Please feel free to contact us here at Harvest Fellowship Church at our website, harvestfellowshippedchurch.net. So until next week, please remember, there's power in the Word. (music) [BLANK_AUDIO]

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