Pack The House - The Gift I Didn't Know I Needed

LUKE 15:11-32THE GIFT OF ROCK BOTTOM21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator,ROMANS 1:21,24-25Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.JAMES 1:15THE GIFT OF UNEARNED GRACE31 And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. LUKE 15:31THE GIFT OF A FATHER63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.85% of all children who show behavior disorders come from fatherless homes. 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes85% of all youths in prison come from fatherless homesIf a child is the first person in the family to accept Christ and join the church, the rest of the family will do the same only 3.5% of the time. If the mother is the first, that percentage goes to 17%. But if the father is the first to accept Christ and join the church, the rest of his family will follow 93% of the time.For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.JOHN 3:16-17HE LOVES 18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.EPHESIANS 3:18-19For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son,HE GIVESFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.JOHN 3:16-17HE RESTORES 9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own,[b] and his own people[c] did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.JOHN 1:9-13