LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE (1 OF 3)
Scripture: Luke 15:1-10
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Looking Out for Number One (1 of 3)
Series: Who's Your One?
James Merritt
Luke 15:1-10
2/6/22
Introduction
1. If you are a parent you probably know this story. If you are not a parent when you become one you probably will. Teresa and I were shopping at a mall and our son, James, was two-years old. I decided to stop at a store and try on a pair of pants and he was sitting in a stroller and Teresa had put her purse and diaper bag on the handles. She was waiting on me to come out of the dressing room to see if the pants fit. When I walked out I looked at her and I said, ''Where is James?''
2. She turned around and James, the stroller, her purse, and diaper bag were gone. We began to look for him everywhere literally running all over the store, shouting his name as loud as we could, not caring what kind of a scene we made. We saw a salesperson and asked her if she had seen a little boy and a stroller. She said, ''Yes! He just pushed the stroller out the door about a minute ago!'' I was furious. I said, ''Why didn't you stop him?'' She said, ''He wasn't my kid.'' Now, at full-confession at that point I did commit murder in my heart.
3. We ran out into the mall looked both ways and we still couldn't find him. We just for some reason turned to the right, walked up two stores and there was a toy store. We looked into the window and there were two sales people with smiles on their faces and just pointed. There was James sitting in a little toy car with the stroller right beside him, waving at us through the window. I almost started balling my eyes out and I think Teresa did weep, but we were so relieved, so happy and so joyful. I don't think we had ever hugged him as hard and kissed him as much since that moment.
4. You know, looking back on it I wasn't a bit embarrassed about the way I acted in that store. I didn't care what anybody thought or what anybody said. I wasn't concerned about what type of scene I was causing, because at that point only one t ...
Series: Who's Your One?
James Merritt
Luke 15:1-10
2/6/22
Introduction
1. If you are a parent you probably know this story. If you are not a parent when you become one you probably will. Teresa and I were shopping at a mall and our son, James, was two-years old. I decided to stop at a store and try on a pair of pants and he was sitting in a stroller and Teresa had put her purse and diaper bag on the handles. She was waiting on me to come out of the dressing room to see if the pants fit. When I walked out I looked at her and I said, ''Where is James?''
2. She turned around and James, the stroller, her purse, and diaper bag were gone. We began to look for him everywhere literally running all over the store, shouting his name as loud as we could, not caring what kind of a scene we made. We saw a salesperson and asked her if she had seen a little boy and a stroller. She said, ''Yes! He just pushed the stroller out the door about a minute ago!'' I was furious. I said, ''Why didn't you stop him?'' She said, ''He wasn't my kid.'' Now, at full-confession at that point I did commit murder in my heart.
3. We ran out into the mall looked both ways and we still couldn't find him. We just for some reason turned to the right, walked up two stores and there was a toy store. We looked into the window and there were two sales people with smiles on their faces and just pointed. There was James sitting in a little toy car with the stroller right beside him, waving at us through the window. I almost started balling my eyes out and I think Teresa did weep, but we were so relieved, so happy and so joyful. I don't think we had ever hugged him as hard and kissed him as much since that moment.
4. You know, looking back on it I wasn't a bit embarrassed about the way I acted in that store. I didn't care what anybody thought or what anybody said. I wasn't concerned about what type of scene I was causing, because at that point only one t ...
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