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We really have no right to judge anybody because when you judge, you set yourself up as God in someone's life and only God has the right to judge. We don't.

We can judge sin, but we can't judge a person's heart.

I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

Well thank you for joining us on enjoying everyday life.

Today I'm doing the second part of a teaching

that I started yesterday called six ways

to detect unforgiveness.

And it's about the story, the prodigal son

and the elder brother, but to be honest, it's going to be more about

the Elder Brother than it is the Prodigal Son. I think we miss sometimes the, some of the

really important things about that story. times the familiar with it. Two sons, the younger son told his father, I want my part of

the inheritance. I don't want to wait. That was very rude. That was like saying,

Dad, I wish you were dead I want my money so the father

divided the inheritance between the two sons the younger son gathered up all

his stuff left home wasted all of his money on just loose living, got to the point where he was working for a pig farmer,

was hungry, there was a famine in the land, he said he would have gladly eaten the same thing

the pigs were eating so it says he came to himself he got back in his right mind.

You know, sometimes we kind of get so far out in our thinking that we just do stupid things and make a mess out of our life.

He came to himself and he said, well my father's hired

servants are better off than I am. I'm going to go back to my father and say I

don't deserve to be your son but I would just like to have a job as a hired

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