Ep 64: Keep Your Shoes On!

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Well, good morning, I'm Daniel
Dowd and this is for your Sunday

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Let's go ahead and get the show
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This is episode 64.
Keep your shoes on.

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Let's go to church.
Are we there yet?

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Have you ever uttered the
phrase, I'll leave a light on

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for you?
Well, if you have, then you know

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the intention behind it.
Maybe it's leaving a porch light

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on so someone can find their way
home.

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Or maybe it's you waiting up
late into the night next to a

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lamp, just waiting for your
child or your spouse to come

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home after a long day of work or
a night out.

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But regardless of the reason, it
still carries the weight of

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saying that I love you, that I
care about you, and I want to

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welcome you back home, no matter
how long you've been gone or

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what you've gone through.
I want to start this episode off

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with a question.
Have we turned off the lights as

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Christians?
Have we forgotten how to leave a

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light on?
Or more likely, have we become

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really good at giving up?
You know, I don't think I'm good

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at a lot of things, but one
thing I can do and I try to do

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and I think I'm good at is
leaving a light on.

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I refuse.
I refuse to turn a light off on

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someone.
Let me explain, friends.

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My heart hurts as I'm recording
this episode for so many of my

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friends and those that I love
that have walked away from God,

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that have wandered away from the
church that Jesus died for, that

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have surrendered their hope,
their glory, and their crown for

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a life of of folly.
And knowing what Jesus has done

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for me, knowing the Luke 1511
through 32 parable of the

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prodigal son and knowing that
Jesus is the light that is left

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on for me.
How dare I give up on my

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brothers or my sisters that have
walked away.

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You see, my fear is that we as
Christians have become more

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apartment, more comfortable,
more prone to giving up than we

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are to continue to hope and what
the gospel can do to transform

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lives.
Jeremiah 32 verse 27 says,

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behold, I am the Lord, the God
of all flesh is anything too

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difficult for me?
Do you believe that?

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Do you believe that there is
nothing too difficult for God

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That applies to those that have
left their hearts can still

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change.
You know, I, I've seen in the

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past where sometimes Christians
will use the instruction that

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Jesus gave when he sends out the
12 apostles in Matthew chapter

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10 to justify giving up on those
who've walked away or who have

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rejected the word of God.
Matthew 1014.

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Jesus tells them whoever does
not receive you nor heeds your

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words as you go out of that
house or that city, shake the

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dust off of your feet.
Well, when this happened back in

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those times, it was a symbol of
judgement and of rejection and

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people would take off their
sandals and and kind of clap

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them together to remove the
dust.

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Friends, using this to
symbolically justify us for

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getting or giving up on brethren
that have fallen away.

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To me, it poses several issues,
but I believe this is Jesus

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speaking to a very specific
audience with a very specific

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mission.
And if we're going to follow

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that logic, we also have to hold
to Jesus's message in verse 5

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about not preaching to Gentiles
or Samaritans.

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No, friends, I think we need to
learn how to leave our shoes on

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and how to not worry about the
dust.

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You see, my encouragement for
you today is don't give up.

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Never ever, ever give up because
you don't know what God can do

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through his word.
Never, never, never give up on

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your friends and your family
that might have walked away.

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Christian, you leave a light on
James chapter 519 through 20 My

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brethren, if any among you
strays from the truth and one

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turns him back, let him know
that he who turns a Sinner from

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the error of his way will save
his soul from death and cover a

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multitude of sins.
It's possible.

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And if we give up, if we shake
off our shoes, if we turn off

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the lights, how's it going to
happen?

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Who's going to do it?
Love your brothers and sisters

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enough to not give up.
And if this episode should find

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its way into the ears of a
friend or a stranger that has

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wandered away from the light of
the Lord, I'm not giving up on

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you.
Reach out if you need help

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finding the way because my shoes
are on, my feet are dusty, and I

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left the light on for you.
Well, those are my thoughts for

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your Sunday morning drive.
Now it's time to hear yours.

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And don't forget you can always
share those

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thoughtsoryourcomments@foryoursundaymorningdrive.com.
Our discussion questions for

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this week are who is someone on
your heart that has turned away

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from God?
Have you given up on them?

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What can you do this week to
actively leave that light on?

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And if you have walked away,
isn't it time you come home?