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    Lost and Found Study Guide
    Lost and Found Study Guide
    Lost and Found Study Guide
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    Lost and Found Study Guide

    By Robert Morris

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    GOD WILL PURSUE YOU UNTIL YOU'RE FOUND.

    Through the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 16, Robert Morris examines how God passionately desires a relationship with us. Even when we wander, He never gives up. This book is a companion to the DVD series. It is designed for group study or individual reflection and will help you:

    Identify the battle between your soul, spirit, and body
    Learn to be honest about your struggles
    Gain victory over sin and shame
    See yourself as God sees you
    Discover how to have a successful quiet time

    No matter where you've been or what you've done, the Father is waiting to welcome you home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 12, 2019
    ISBN9781949399752
    Lost and Found Study Guide
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    Robert Morris

    ROBERT MORRIS is the founding senior pastor of Gateway Church, a multicampus church in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. He is featured on the weekly television program The Blessed Life and is the bestselling author of twelve books, including The Blessed Life, From Dream to Destiny, The God I Never Knew, and The Blessed Church. Robert and his wife, Debbie, have been married thirty-five years and are blessed with one married daughter, two married sons, and six grandchildren. Follow Robert on Twitter @PsRobertMorris.  

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      Notes

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      THE BELIEVER’S BATTLE

      Every believer experiences a battle between their spirit, which is already saved, and their soul, which is being saved.

      ENGAGE

      Describe a time when you got lost (e.g., as a child in a store or as an adult in a new city).

      WATCH

      Watch The Believer’s Battle.

      Look for the difference between the finished work of grace in your spirit and the progressive work of grace in your soul.

      Think about what it means to follow Jesus and pick up your cross daily.

      (If you are not able to watch this teaching on video, read the following. Otherwise, skip to the Talk section after viewing.)

      Read

      The story of the prodigal son is one of the most well-known parables in the Bible.

      "A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living" (Luke 15:11–13).

      The Greek word translated prodigal means dissolutely. A dissolute person, according to Webster’s dictionary, is lacking in restraint; marked by indulgence in things (such as drink or promiscuous sex). ¹ If we’re being honest, there is probably at least one area (if not more) in our lives in which we lack restraint, even if just for a short time. In that area we tend to be prodigal.

      Why do we have such prodigal tendencies? We are made up of three parts: spirit, soul, and body. All three parts are mentioned in Genesis 2:7:

      The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (KJV, emphasis added).

      The breath of life refers to your spirit, which God created to relate to Himself. Dust refers to your body, which God created to relate to His creation. The soul includes your mind, will, and emotions, and God created it to relate both to Him and to His creation.

      God did not design humans to relate to Him with just their souls. However, when Adam and Eve sinned, their spirits died, and people have been born with dead spirits ever since. Your spirit comes alive when you accept Christ, but until then, you relate to God only through your soul. You relate to Him through what you understand, how you feel about situations, and what you desire to do. In other words, you make all your decisions based on your thoughts, feelings, and desires. Your soul likes being in charge, even though God never intended it to be that way.

      Here are some important things we need to understand about the soul:

      THE SOUL IS SELFISH

      The soul’s motto is protect number one (yourself). It tells you to do what you think, reason, or feel is right for you. The mind is part of the soul, and it records everything you have ever heard, seen, or experienced. This information is stored in your subconscious. In a millisecond, your mind can assess a situation and ask, Have I ever seen, heard, or experienced anything like this before? Then it will compare that situation with all the other past experiences in your subconscious. This is why you can be in a conversation and suddenly get very angry but not know why. It’s because your subconscious remembers a previous conversation that didn’t go so well, and it tells your mind, Be more forceful this time! The same process is true for situations in which you suddenly feel insecure or afraid. Your spirit may say, Lay your life down and turn the other cheek, but your soul says, Protect number one.

      This is also why you can immediately dislike a person after just meeting them. Your mind asks, Have I ever met anyone like this before? and your subconscious answers, Yes, you’ve met four people almost exactly like this person, and one of them pulled your shorts down in Physical Education in seventh grade. You may have only known a person for a few minutes, but your mind says, I know exactly what

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