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John Chung - Walking with God: Practical Ways to Maintain a Vibrant Connection with Christ

John Chung

David Did Not Use Sling or Stone

God’s Ecstasy, His Sorrow

Eyes Wide Open But Not Seeing

The title is, Walking with God, Practical Ways to Maintain a Vibrant Connection with Christ.

And This will be the second session, God's Ecstasy and His Sorrow.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this weekend where you have fed us with so much spiritual food.

Help us to digest them well and Let it become strength to our souls.

I pray that you be with us this afternoon with your Holy Spirit.

This morning I spoke a little bit about about the Word of God, the importance of studying God's Word and kind of tied that in with what it means by name of the Lord.

Anyway, if you don't, if you haven't, if you weren't here this morning, then you can, I guess, hear it at the audio-verse?

Actually, this is kind of reversed because I was going to do the third seminar this time, but I'm going to just go by the order.

This afternoon, I want to kind of talk about what makes God extremely happy and what makes Him sad.

The parable of lost sheep, and the lost coin, and the prodigal son.

My son, Evan, several years several years ago, when he was maybe about 7 years old he came to our room where my wife and I were about to sleep and he said, Daddy can I sleep with you, you and Mommy?

And he said, no, you need to go sleep in your room.

About an hour later, my wife went to check on him.

And when she went there, he wasn't in his bed and so she said you know maybe he went to his sister's room, so at the sister's room he wasn't there, so at another room she went over there, wasn't there either and so she started searching the house and she came to me and said, I cannot find Evan.

Now at that time we were living in a small home in Rocky Face, Georgia.

And right Next to our house, there was a lake.

The bad thing about it is, beside the lake, there was a construction going on.

Now, the construction site, every night, we hear some bad things going on.

We knew there were people doing drugs and maybe doing other not so kosher behavior.

And we could actually hear some music and things like that.

And so I knew, you know, that was not a safe spot.

It was right next to our house, the building.

So that, you know, so first thing I did was I went to check the front door to see if the door was locked.

And then I started looking, searching the house for my son.

Every single room, every single closet, garage, I mean everywhere.

I was so desperate that I started opening up, I mean lifting up the bed and the box spring and mattress like this, you know?

And we've been searching for about, I don't know, maybe an hour and a half.

And you know, there was a picture of my son on the door of our refrigerator.

And my wife was going to the area and she started crying.

I mean I've never seen her cry wailing, just crying and wailing and here I am I was stunned, I was just kind of going, I can't believe it, I was sure that he was kidnapped, you know what I mean?

And he was about 7, and so we searched the house, he's not there, I mean nowhere and it was about midnight now and so I can call the police and the police said you know in case possible kidnapping we take it very seriously.

We're going to have 2 police go over there so okay we also called our brother-in-law and so he brought his car and this million candlelight flashlight and he was flashing that, I mean, this is after midnight now, you know and he was going all around the neighborhood shouting his name Evan, Evan, you know, I'm sure he woke up all the neighbors up.

And, and just thinking that I would never see him again, just made me really, really just, I mean, upset and sad and just, I just cannot describe to you that feeling.

And we're just waiting for the police to come because we searched everywhere.

I mean, he was not in the bed, under the bed, or between the bed.

And so, as I was downstairs thinking about my son, I heard the most wonderful words my brother-in-law said I found him I found him he said praise the Lord I ran up the upstairs where he was he was sleeping at the floor at the bottom foot of the bed of my daughter's room.

And I remember opening that up and I seen seen blankets but he was actually under the blanket okay and under the under the blankets and my brother-in-law had sense enough to take all the blanket out and he was under there and I saw him and he was just sweating I mean was so hot you know and I took him to his room and he he went to sleep I mean he was, he continued to sleep and in the morning I asked him Evan do you know what happened last night?

He said no You don't know what happened last night.

And all that time, he had no idea we're looking for him.

And if you look at the parables of Luke chapter 15.

You'll see what makes God ecstatic, joyous.

So glad, you know, I don't have to feed 1 anymore.

Or did I say when my son was lost, this is great, you know, Linda, talking, you know, I don't want to make it so loud, but we're really happy that he's gone, because we only have to feed 2 now.

And we're going to save on his clothes, food, car, college, I mean, did I say that?

Even if He had a million sheep, if He had lost 1, He would have gone after that, right?

And what happens after that is, if you look at verse 7, what does it say?

I say unto you that likewise, what shall be in heaven?

Did you know, Alan Wise says, when sinner returns to Christ, God sings.

Can you imagine hearing the choir of angels?

I mean, I can't imagine how beautiful that is.

You know, 1 of the music that I like to hear is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

But now, not the choir of angels, but the voice, the singing of God Himself.

He sings every time a sinner returns to Christ.

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