Within: Week 3 He Came to Himself | Pastor Bryan Jarrett | Northplace Church

Hello, my name is Brian Jarrett, and my wife Haley and I have had the privilege of pastoring North Place Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for almost 20 years. We're one church that meets in multiple locations, even on multiple continents, and today you are one of those locations. The church is not about buildings, it is about people, and we have the privilege today of sharing the hope of the gospel with you right where you are. There is no way I can know exactly what you're going through or dealing with right now, but for almost 30 years I have preached about a God who I know, I am confident, knows you, your struggles, knows the very hairs on your head and the thoughts that you think before you think them, and He is passionately in love with you. And our prayer today is that in our time together you feel our love for you and His presence, and we pray that this time together gives you hope. Thank you for joining us. We are so glad that you decided to join us today. We're going to do one thing today, and that's worship the King. We're going to lift Him up, Lord, we are grateful for you. What a good Father you are. So I throw up my hands, praise you again and again, because all that I have is a hallelujah. Hallelujah, I know it's so much, I have nothing else before Him, except for a heart singing I've got one more song, I've got just one love, with my arms stretched wide, I will worship you. So I throw up my hands, praise you again and again, because all that I have is a hallelujah. Hallelujah, I know it's so much, I have nothing else before Him, except for a heart singing I've got one more song, I've got just one love, with my arms stretched wide, I will worship you. So I throw up my hands, praise you again and again, because all that I have is a hallelujah. Come on my soul, oh don't you get shy on me, lift up your soul, cause you've got a light inside of those lungs, get up and praise the Lord. Come on my soul, oh don't you get shy on me, lift up your soul, cause you've got a light inside of those lungs, get up and praise the Lord. Come on my soul, oh don't you get shy on me, lift up your soul, cause you've got a light inside of those lungs, get up and praise the Lord. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ So, praise You again and again ♪

♪ Cause all that I have is a hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪ I know it's not much, but I'm nothing else fit for a king ♪ ♪ Except for a heart singing hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪♪♪ ♪ You give light, You are love, You bring light to the darkness ♪ ♪ You give hope, You restore every heart that is broken ♪ ♪ Great are You, Lord ♪ ♪ You give light, You are love, You bring light to the darkness ♪ ♪ You give hope, You restore every heart that is broken ♪ ♪ Great are You, Lord ♪ ♪ We give You praise, God ♪ ♪ Great are You, Lord ♪ ♪ It's Your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise, pour out our praise ♪ ♪ It's Your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise to You only, yeah ♪ ♪ Great are You, Lord ♪ ♪ You give light, You are love, You bring light to the darkness ♪ ♪ You give hope, You restore every heart that is broken ♪ ♪ Can we say, great are You, Lord ♪ ♪ All creation say, great are You, Lord ♪ ♪ It's Your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise, pour out our praise ♪ ♪ It's Your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise to You only ♪ ♪ It's Your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise, pour out our praise ♪ ♪ It's Your breath in our lungs, so we pour out our praise to You only ♪ ♪ And all the earth will shout Your praise ♪ ♪ Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing, great, come on ♪ ♪ Oh, we sing all the earth, and all the earth will shout Your praise ♪ ♪ Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing, great are You, Lord ♪ ♪ We sing all the earth, and all the earth will shout Your praise ♪ ♪ Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing, great are You, Lord ♪ ♪ All the earth, and all the earth will shout Your praise ♪

♪ Praise, our hearts will cry, these halls will say ♪ ♪ Praise, are you high ♪ ♪ It's your breath in our lungs ♪ ♪ So we pour out our praise, pour out our praise ♪ ♪ It's your breath in our lungs ♪ ♪ So we pour it out, it's your breath in our lungs ♪ ♪ So we pour out our praise, pour out our praise ♪ ♪ It's your breath in our lungs so we pour out our praise ♪ ♪ You hold me ♪ ♪ Great are you, Lord ♪ ♪ Great are you, Lord ♪ ♪ We love you, we love you ♪ ♪ Great are you, Lord ♪ ♪ We sing, great are you, Lord ♪ Families come together today, we just wanna say to everybody while we're together, happy Father's Day. And I wanna take this opportunity just to say thank you. You know, we're in the middle of running camps for foster kids all summer, well, at least June, part of July. We just finished camp five and we have six and seven coming up this week, which will be for teenagers. But I just, I went around as many of the guys that serve as I could because what we always, we could fill every camp, every spot we have available with girls because there's always so many ladies that are willing to be counselors.

And our camps are usually disproportionately females, but there are men that keep stepping up every year because for every two guys that say, I'll counsel, we can have four more boys register for camp and we get to serve young men. And I just went around to every male counselor that I could, that adults that took off work, gave it themselves. I've been telling them, thank you, you don't realize how significant this is. And these guys have chosen to be fathers for a week to children that don't have one. And it's making eternal impact. And I want to say that to the guys today, specifically because it's Father's Day. Thank you for that, the influence that you're having, but to all the volunteers, an incredible team that have helped us serve these kids. I don't know what it is about it. I don't know if we're having more kids this year come from places where they have not been exposed to the gospel, but we're having more and more kids than ever this year, give their hearts to Jesus, like the light bulb going off in their head for the very first time. And they're surrendering their life to the Lord. It's just been incredible to watch it happen. And you as a church family, your heart, your generosity, the way you serve is making that happen. I just want to say to all of you,

thank you for your heart, especially on this Father's Day, to all of you guys that are present in the lives of these kids. It's just been a special summer. And we want to honor those of you that have stepped in. My life is impacted by men who weren't my biological father when mine wasn't there, stepped in and shaped the course of my life. And that is happening to hundreds of kids this summer because of the men of this church. And I just want to honor you that way today on this Father's Day. And I want to honor you as a church for your ongoing generosity, because it allows us to do the unique things like we're doing this summer and shape the heart of the orphan, work with them, help them get placed in families that love Jesus. It's just one of the great joys of our heart what we do as a church and you make those kinds of things happen. The ways to continue to invest and be generous towards these kinds of things, this kind of heart we have as a church. On your screen, if you brought a physical gift with you today, you can place them in the offering envelopes that are in the front of you in the seats there

and there are giving centers at the exits of all of our sanctuaries today. I just want to ask the Lord to just, we have a kind of a special moment we're wanting to create here for our hearts to respond to the Lord today. And I need his help to communicate the word today. And I want your heart. softened by that word. If you hadn't been able to tell, we've been fighting some technical difficulties, the storms kind of fried some of our equipment and our tech teams have been trying to patch it together for us to have church today, on a day when we need the tech more than ever. And so I just, I want you to pray that none of that stuff gets in the way of what God wants to do in people's hearts today. So Lord, we just commit this day to you. It's Father's Day. Every day is your day, but as we focus on earthly dads, this is a really good day for us to turn our hearts to you. And I pray that you'll open our heart to your word, that it will open our heart to you and that we'll be different, changed because of your incredible mercy and grace that has been bestowed upon our life. I pray it's evident in this room today. In Jesus' name, amen. I want to begin this Father's Day sermon

with a very honest admission, okay? We're in the middle of a series called Within, where we're looking at what God has to say about the priority of our inner lives. And I'm fully aware that a conversation about your inner life is not what a guy comes to church to hear on Father's Day. The other day, Haley and I were pulling out of our driveway for a long road trip, and she was really excited. And I said, what are you so excited about? I mean, she was giddy. And I said, what are you so excited about? She said, because we have several hours to have deep conversations about stuff. Where do you want to start? And I just dropped my head and said, it's going to be a long, long trip. And me telling guys on Father's Day that we're going to talk about the inner life is about the same as Haley telling me we're going to have several hours of deep combos. I get it, fellas. But here's what I know, okay? For some reason, most men work really hard to keep things at a surface level. When it comes to intimacy in our relationships or when it comes to our relationship with God, we feel awkward and uncomfortable with what we can't control or measure or fix. We spend most of our lives projecting,

projecting confidence, projecting strength, manhood. We wear the phrases like, I'm fine, I'm fine. Like, it's a badge of honor. Rarely do we find ourselves in relationships that are deep enough or places that are safe enough that we can be vulnerable and honest about what's going on in our inner lives. So we just avoid it and pretend that it doesn't exist. Usually, it takes something tragic or life-defining to get us to go there, to look within, to think about what's happening in our interior lives. And that's exactly what happened to a man in the most famous story Jesus ever told. His life went to shambles and it forced him to take an honest look inside. And when he did, he was disgusted at what he had become. But that look within brought him to a decision that inevitably led him to throw himself on the mercy of his father. And it was a single decision that changed everything in his life. Before I take you to that story, I have to show you what the Bible has to say about the interior of every single one of us, every human heart. I'm gonna read two specific verses from the Old Testament. The first verse is from Jeremiah and it reveals the problem, the ugly diagnosis of every human heart. The second verse from Ezekiel gives God's promise to our wayward hearts.

God says in Jeremiah 17, the human heart is the most deceitful of all things and desperately wicked. That's the diagnosis, the problem. But here's the promise from God. Ezekiel 36, I will give you a new heart and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. That is the hope of the gospel message in just two short verses. God wants to completely renovate your interior life. He wants to give you a new heart. And the story that Jesus tells in Luke 15 shows us how that can happen. Luke 15 opens with Jesus sitting with this crowd of questionable people on his one side. The Pharisees and religious leaders are sitting on the other side and the religious leaders are blasting Jesus. because he keeps being seen in public with these questionable people, tax collectors and sinners. And to correct the religious arrogance of the Pharisees, Jesus tells three stories in a row about lost things. And he's telling these stories to reveal to the Pharisees the heart of God for lost things, for wayward hearts. He tells the story of the lost sheep. He tells the story of the lost coin. And he tells the story of the lost son.

The third story, the lost son, goes like this. To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story. A man had two sons. The younger son told his father, I want my share of your estate now before you die. So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons. A few days later, the younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money and wild living. Now, this guy isn't just being financially reckless. He is making a statement. In that culture, to ask your father for your inheritance before he was dead was essentially the same thing as wishing him dead. It was one of the most shameful things a son could have done to a father in that era. He didn't want the father's money. Yes, he did, but more than anything, he wanted out. He wanted away from the father. In association with the father, he wanted life on his terms. And the father let him go. He divided his property, handed it over. He didn't try to control him, didn't threaten him. He opened his hand and let his son walk away. The son chose this, and he gets everything he thought he wanted. Distance, freedom, money, a life with no accountability, no restraints, and for a while, it's great. The text says wild living, one party after another, one woman after another, spending, taking, consuming,

anything that was different from the restrictions of the father's house. But the money eventually runs out, and about the time it does, a famine sweeps the land. People are starving, and it's not long until the wayward son is starving and desperate. And he persuades a local farmer to hire him to feed pigs. And he's so hungry, the Bible says that the slop that he was feeding the hogs looked desirable to him. Listen, living to satisfy your exterior life, the crowd will always eventually run out. For the original Jewish audience hearing this story, the image of feeding pigs was the lowest possible place a man could end up. Pigs were considered the most unclean animal. So this isn't just a place of poverty. This is describing defilement. This is as far from home, as far from his identity as a son of the father that this guy could possibly get. That was what was being communicated to Jesus's original audience. And the Bible says in Luke 15, verse 16, but no one gave him anything. And that detail is not accidental. When the resources were flowing, when the people were there, I mean, they were there to take his money, they were there to attend his parties, they craved his company, but now all those resources are gone, the people are gone.

When you live for the exterior life, inevitably you're gonna end up broken and alone. But the most important moment of his life happens in verse 17. Here's the way it reads in the New King James Version. But when he came to himself, and that's a very important phrase, he said, how many of my father's hired servants have bread enough to spare and I perish with hunger. The phrase he came to himself marks one of the most pivotal moments in the entire Bible. Now, I would never bore you with these details if they weren't significant, but you have to see this. Watch, the phrase in the original Greek, for he came to himself is, eis houten de ethlon. It literally translates, he came into himself. We're talking about the interior life. That doesn't make sense to us, so it was translated where it was more readable in English, but literally it would read, he came into himself. He looked within, he turned to the interior life. His life had fallen apart, he's at the end of the rope, and for the first time, time ever, he had to stop and look into himself. And when he does, he finally realizes what he's become and how far that person is from what he was meant to be. Matthew Henry, the great Bible commentator, put it this way, when he came to himself,

it intimates that he had been beside himself. In other words, in his rebellion, in his far country living, he was not being himself. He was not living as a son of the father. He was not being who he was created to be. He had lost his identity. And he finally comes back to his senses. He comes to himself in the mud and the manure of a pig pen, and he says, this is not what I was made for. This is not who I am. And when he finally looked in, he describes what he saw. Verse 17, when he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, at home, even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger. I will go to my father and say, Father, I've sinned against both heaven and you, and when I'm no longer worthy of being called your son, please take me as a hired servant. It's amazing to me that when you finally look inside and you start getting honest with yourself about what really is going on, how it shifts. Notice, everything he was trying to get away from, he's now craving to get back to, because when things start getting righted in your interior life, it shifts the perspectives on the outside. When he finally sees his real self, his interior life, he didn't like what he saw.

He saw a man who had wasted everything, who had dishonored his father, who had chased a life that left him empty. But here's the truth about these moments of awareness. Sure, he felt shame, but this was more than a moment of shame. It was a moment of clarity, because for the first time in a long time, he saw himself accurately. Your inner life, when you finally face it, will tell you the truth. And even when the truth is hard, being honest about it is always the first step toward home. Here's what you have to understand. Of all the ways his selfishness had caused him to despise his father's house and his father's ways, it had not stolen the one thing he fundamentally knew in the depths of his soul. His father was merciful. In the ancient context, you have to understand this. A young man who returned home to his father after wishing his father dead, and after blowing his inheritance on parties and prostitutes, that young man would have been expected to have been stoned. That was Jewish law at that time, and that culture defined this young man's situation. You don't believe me? Read it in Deuteronomy 21, verse 18 to 21. It tells you what would happen to a young man like this,

and the law was stoning. So for him to get up and consider going back home as even an option, he has to weigh the law against the mercy of his father, and there's something inside of him that said, I know in the depths of who he is, my father is merciful, he's forgiving, and so I'm gonna go throw myself on that mercy. But the son, even with that reality, did not grasp how merciful the father was because in his mind, he had forfeited the right to even be a son, but he believed his father was merciful enough to take him in as a hired servant. He severely underestimated the depth of the father's mercy, and this is where the story turns. The parable that Jesus is telling, we've always referred to it as the parable of the prodigal son, it's his most famous parable, but it could probably be more appropriately titled the parable of the waiting father because that's really where this story is trying to get to. The story shines the light where it needs to be shined on a father's day like this where we can focus on the incredible patience and mercy and grace of our heavenly father. Everything in the story up to this point has been about the son, his choices, his failures, his interior reckoning, but ultimately, Jesus is telling this story for all the arrogant religious people in the original audience

that didn't understand God's merciful heart toward lost people, wayward hearts, and he's telling it for all of us so that we can fully grasp just. Just how forgiving and merciful the father really is. In verse 20, it says this, so he returned to his father, and while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. Now there are several key phrases in that verse that you can't miss. We're gonna focus on a couple of them, because they tell you something about the father's love and heart for you. For the father to see him coming while he was still a long ways off means that the father had to have been looking for him. His father had been watching that road every day, scanning the horizon, looking for a figure in the distance that just might be his son coming home. The father had not given up on him. He hadn't moved on. He hadn't turned the son's bedroom into a guest room. He was watching the road, and when his son saw him, he ran. We read that as modern Americans, and we don't understand the magnitude of how that would have landed

on Jesus's original audience. It's remarkable, because in the culture of Jesus's day, a man of dignity and standing did not run. Running meant you had to hitch up your robe, show your legs, look undignified. Servants ran, children ran, men of standing did not run, but this father runs toward his son. He threw social etiquette out, because embracing his son mattered more than anything else, and he didn't even let his son finish his prepared speech. He didn't stand at a distance with his arm crossed and say, I'm so disappointed in you. He ran, he embraced, he kissed him before a single word of an apology could ever be spoken. After reading this part of the story that Jesus tells Henry now and wrote this, he said, here is the God I wanna believe in, a father who from the beginning of creation has stretched out his arms in merciful blessing, never forcing himself on anyone, but always waiting, never letting his arms drop down in despair, but always hoping that his children will return so that he can speak words of love to them and let his tired arms rest on their shoulders. His only desire is to bless, not punish, not shame, not make you earn your way back. His desire is to bless. And then the father in Jesus's story does something that everybody in the first century audience would have understood.

He said, but his father said to his servants, quick, bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him, get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet and kill the calf we have been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found. So the party began, a robe, a ring and sandals. In that culture, a robe was a sign of honor. And remember, this son was returning straight from a pig pen. He got up out of the pig pen and said, I'm going home. His hair would have been matted. His tattered clothes would have been stained with the mud and manure of pigs. And yet the father embraces him and then covers the boy's filth with his own honor. A family signet ring was a sign of authority and belonging. He was saying to his son, he was restoring him to his identity, what he was created to be. You're not a servant, you're a son. He did the same thing with the sandals. Servants went barefoot, son wore sandals. The father was making a declaration. You're still my son. The father didn't give him what he deserved. He gave the son what he could have never earned. And that's the message of the gospel. This is what is waiting for every person

under the sound of my voice, whose heart has wandered from the father. If shame is keeping you away from the father, you're not returning for a lecture or a probationary period or a list of requirements that you have to come back from, a robe, a ring, a feast is waiting on you, a father running down the road to get to you before you can even say, I'm sorry. Maybe you've been gone for a while. Choices you've made, patterns you've been stuck in, all of it creating distance between you and him. But somewhere inside you, If in today, there is a spiritual hunger to come back home. I hope you, if your heart is away, I hope you feel that today. I've been praying for that. We've been praying for that. On this Father's Day, your heart would be drawn to the heart of the Father. Some of you have been gone a long time, so long you don't even remember what the Father's love feels like. Over time, through a thousand small choices, somewhere along the way, God became something from your past instead of a present reality. The far country became your normal. You stopped looking toward home because you stopped believing there was a Father waiting on your return.

Let me make you this promise. He's still watching the road. I don't care where you are this Father's Day, what you've done, or who you are, if you're a man, a woman, a boy, a girl, eight, 18, 80, you're not too far gone. The road back home is not as long as you think it is because the Father is already running in your direction, shortening the distance. And to help make this clear for you and as plain as possible as we can today, I've asked our creative teams and worship team and video teams through song and video to help us understand what it might look like if Jesus had told this story in 2026. If the parable of the prodigal son, or maybe better said, the parable of the waiting father was told today for the first time, it might look and sound something like this. Let me make you this promise. He's still watching the road. I don't care where you are this Father's Day, what you've done, or who you are, if you're a man, a woman, a boy, a girl, eight, 18, 80, you're not too far gone. The road back home is not as long as you think it is because the Father is already running in your direction, shortening the distance. ♪ When I was young ♪ ♪ Wanted the world so I spent it all ♪

♪ Searching for something I didn't know ♪ ♪ Was under the roof of my father's home ♪ ♪ But he's never broke a promise ♪ ♪ Listen, cause he's calling ♪ ♪ Jesus says he wants you, he's a forgiving God ♪ ♪ He's a forgiving God, he's a forgiving God, he's a forgiving God ♪ ♪ Yeah, I've sinned against him more ways than one, yeah ♪ ♪ Didn't deserve to be called his son ♪ ♪ No greater love have I ever known ♪ ♪ My father ran to me, said, welcome home ♪ ♪ Cause he's never broke a promise ♪ ♪ Listen, cause he's calling ♪ ♪ Jesus says he wants you, he's a forgiving God ♪ ♪ He's a forgiving God ♪ ♪ No longer have to wonder, call him sons and daughters ♪ ♪ After all, he is the father, he's a forgiving God ♪ ♪ He's a forgiving God ♪ Please leave a message after the tone. Hey Dad it's me. I uh, I wasn't sure if he'd pick up, I was kind of hoping he wouldn't, but I get it. I probably wouldn't pick up for me either. It's been, I don't even know. I don't even know how long now, too long. I've been to a lot of places since I left. Most of them I wouldn't tell you about. I've done a lot of things, too, and I regret all of it, Dad, I really do. I know how bad I hurt you. I know what I said when I left,

and I know I'm the one who stopped calling. That was me. That was all of me. That was all me. But I miss you. I miss the way we'd drive out on those back roads with the windows down and just talk about nothing, about everything. I miss the way the house smelled on Sunday mornings. I miss, I just miss you. So here's the thing, this is kind of a shot in the dark, I know it is, but I'm driving home today, and I'll be coming up the road right by the house. I know I can't just show up at the door like I used to. I lost that right a long time ago. So here's what I'm asking. If you want to see me, if you still want me in your life, hang a white sheet on the porch rail. Just one, that's all. And if the sheet's not there when I drive by, I'll understand. I'll keep going, and I won't, I won't bother you anymore. I promise. All right. I love you, Dad. I love you, celebrated. I love you, Happy Birthday. I love you, Cassy. You won't stop? But I'm sorry that you're so far away from me.

You're far away from me and you're keeping me all to yourself. And you are, you're so far away from me and you're so far away from me. I'm so sorry that you're far away from me. It's okay. Here you are, Cassy. Happy Birthday. I did that to entertain. She loves you, Cassy. She does. Come on, man! Come on, would you stand? If you're not, stand with me across this room today. Look, I'm not gonna belabor the moment today. Father's day is about the men in the room, but ultimately it's about us coming to the Father's heart. The sheet is out, he's watching the road. Does it matter today if you're female or male, if you're eight, 80? I think the Spirit of God is calling somebody home today. I don't care how long you've been gone. If you've been in this church for 10 years every Sunday and your heart's been somewhere else, it's time to come home. If today's the first day you ever showed up in church, the Spirit of God is beckoning you, it's time to come home. This is what I know, when a young man came to his self,

he came to his senses, he took action and he walked the long road home. I could pray a prayer today, ask you to do it in your heart, but I just felt in my heart that you need to start walking to him because he's already running towards you. I'm gonna pray for you in this room and then when I say amen, every one of you, and if it's just one, I'm gonna wait here like a patient father and I wanna pray with you. The Spirit of God is calling your heart home today and I'm gonna wait on you to start the long walk home. He's gonna run and meet you and I want you to meet me right up here. The sheets are out, he's watching the road. Run to Jesus today. Father, right now, somebody's gonna make, I remember this moment in my life, it changed everything. I came to myself. I pray that you would soften stony hearts and give them a heart of flesh. They know who they are. You're talking to them right now, they feel that there's something about this story and this moment that fits right where they're living and they feel the beckoning, the call in their heart, your love, your grace, pulling them home. Nobody can respond to that but them. I pray today, Lord, we encourage them, we pray for them,

we make the space available. I pray that you do what only you can do in their hearts and they respond to your patience and your grace. When I say amen, if you need to be at this altar, come just stand here with me and I'm gonna pray for you in a minute. One, two, three, amen. Come on, if you need to be here, come, come on. You've been out on your own, now it's time to come home. Come on, if you're a guest, I promise you, we're not, we just wanna pray for you. If you've been here every Sunday and your heart is wondered, come home. Just run to Jesus. Come on, would you, come on, that's it, encourage them. He's already running your way. He's already running your way, come on. You've been out on your own, now it's time to come home. Just run to Jesus. Just run to Jesus. Run to him, he's waiting. Just run to Jesus. Just run to Jesus. Just run to Jesus. Just run to Jesus. Just run to Jesus. He's waiting. Just run to Jesus. He's a forgiving God. You've been out on your own, now it's time to come home.

Just run to Jesus. Just run to Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Just run to Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. You've been out on your own, now it's time to come home. I just wanna pause for just a few more seconds. If you're trying, I know it's early on a Father's Day, but this is a God moment for somebody in this room. And I don't wanna miss this. If you, we created space for there to be time for this, for you to hear the heart of your fathers. Just come to yourself, be who God created you to be. Come back to the Father. I'm gonna wait five, 10 more seconds, and I'll pray with those that are here. But if you need to be here, come, run to Jesus. Father, may they feel your love in your heart like they've never felt it before. You're pursuing grace. Come to Jesus. Just run to Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Just run to Jesus. I want to pray with those of you that are here, just borrow some form of my words. I'm going to, I've pinned them. They'll be on your screens. If you're kneeling, just, you can pray your own. Just let me help today.

Gracious, patient, waiting. Father, I'm coming home. At times I've been just a little ways down the road. At other times I've been a long ways off, but today I'm coming home to you. I know the sheets are out. I know you've been watching the road. You never stopped. Today I've come to myself. I've come to my senses. I've stopped pretending that my way is working. I get up from this mess of my own making and throw myself on your mercy. I don't become because I deserve it. I don't, I come because I know you're a forgiving God. I don't come because I'm good enough. I come because you're the one who covers my sin with your righteousness. Do what only you can do in me, put the robe on me, put the ring on me, put sandals on me, call me son or daughter, not because I earned it. Because your grace offers a new heart, Lord. That's what Ezekiel said you would give me. I'm asking for the renovation of my heart. Take out what's been hard and stubborn and far from you put something tender in its place. Something that lives surrendered to you. Let it be Christ in me, the hope of glory. Jesus on this Father's Day, I'm back, I'm home. Father, would you seal this in the hearts of people who feel

the tender tug of the Holy Spirit to be home at the Father's house? Would you let this day, Father's Day 2026, be a pivotal and transformational moment in every life at the front of this building? We ask this in Jesus name. Listen to me, we have prayer team members already positioned to help if you're here at the front, you want to pray with somebody, our team is going to make themselves available to serve you. If you need prayer, you're in the room, you need prayer for anything, the prayer team will be available here to serve you today. If you're here at the front of the room and you want a next step for your faith, go to next steps out in the lobby, we have a gift we want to put in your hands. Just to say, here's what's next, here's how you can act on this moment and grow so that you don't waste what God is doing in your heart right now. Just go to next step and say, hey, I went forward today. Can you help me? They're ready for you. Lord, thank you for the tenderness of the spirit. The Father's Day, Lord, for me on an earthly level, it's difficult because my earthly father didn't represent you. But I've been able to turn my heart toward you and I pray that you would heal the hearts in this room today as we make Father's Day about you, not just our earthly fathers. And would you do something deep and profound in the lives of these people here and in all of us?

I ask you to bless them, your people, keep them, make your face shine down upon them and be gracious to them. Lord, turn your countenance their way and give them peace. In Jesus name, amen. God bless you guys. Happy Father's Day. Hey friends, I just want to say a few words. I just wanted to spend a second with you at the end of this message today and just encourage you if in some way you've made a spiritual decision, maybe you've given your life to Christ today, you've recently given your life to Christ, you want to talk to somebody about giving your life to Christ, our team would love to help you. We're on the Pando app and have several ministries into various prisons because God has called us to you. We have a heart for forgotten people and forgotten places. And that means we serve widows and we serve orphans and we serve special needs kids. And God has given us a heart for men and women in the prison system because I believe Jesus died for you. He has a plan and a purpose for your life. And we want to help you know that and discover that there is. address on the screen that you can communicate with us. We have a team of people that would love to hear from you, especially if you've made a decision to follow Jesus so that we can resource you and point you to tools that can help you grow. Just know that we're praying over you and we're genuinely honored that you've taken time to watch our channel and these messages from North Place Church.