Redemption (2025)

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Have lost their polity.

Their nation.

They have been scattered

throughout the world.

They were cut off for their part

Dispersed.

Their bones,

their hopes of ever coming back

together were very dry indeed.

And this promise that

the Lord would bring them back t

How precious that must have been

Because the Lord performed that,

has he not?

We have seen that, brother.

And how strength, how that stren

our faith

as we live in these special days

So we see here in this picture

that bones picture our hopes.

And you can understand and why J

the, may made his descendants

promise that after

his death and and and and,

he was embalmed

and, temporarily sent to rest in

but he wanted his bones,

his folks back in Israel.

That's where his hopes were.

So we see

bones are ultimately

the foundation for life.

Look what you did.

What you did to me.

What you did to her.

You best believe.

You're going to see what I do to

Oh, God.

Just do it.

Damnit!

Oh, God.

Okay.

Come on Luke. Get up.

Time for school.

No sir.

You to baby girl.

Peter.

Pete.

What the hell, man?

These trailers

aren't going to fix themselves.

Yeah.

You feeling okay?

No.

Im not.

Just feel like I'm

going through the motions right

Like its...

Nothing there.

Ever feels like it's

just too much.

Every damn day.

Do you ever ask why me?

Try not to think about that. But

Yeah.

Yeah,

I find myself asking a lot, actu

You know better men.

We're giving less of a chance ye

here I am, and

there they go.

I guess it's all a big joke, huh

The whole God thing.

man plans and God laughs.

Matt, I'm just so damn angry rig

I just feel like I wanna watch t

I know.

I know that feeling.

And what do you do about it

for that?

Nothing.

It's a fire consumes you.

You can fuel it.

You get nothing from it.

You think of to feel good, but j

All you're left with is regret.

And when you fight it.

It's not a fair fight.

Just when you think

you got the upper hand.

Calls out for help.

For you know what you're

outnumbered 100 to 1.

-And how is nothing supposed to

-If I knew the answer to that qu

Nothing is nothing, man.

You know, we, we coexist in our

nothing

Leaves me be, I leave it be.

Man the f*ck up, Peter.

What if I just let the anger tak

And I fear for every man,

woman or child in its wake.

-Oh, hell.

-Just take the day off,

Clear your head a little bit.

A little hard work. It never hur

What do you want?

Hey, Pete.

I need you to do something for m

You've got a lot of nerve.

What do you need?

Your uncle hasn't spoken

to anyone in the family for

over a month.

Since you live the closes to him

-I just thought...

-you need me to check up on him.

-if you, if you could.

Look, I'm not in town right now.

Please, son.

You do not deserve to call me th

Look, I'll swing by and I'll che

Uncle Robin.

Hey, uncle Robin, you here?

Where you at, you old fart?

Robin.

Robin.

Uncle Robin.

Well, damn.

You finally did it.

You old drunk.

You know.

I hate to say it.

Youre lucky.

I wonder if you found peace

in death.

You did something that I couldn'

He hurt her.

My ex-wife's boyfriend.

He hurt my little girl, Hannah.

He did things to her.

Her mom. She...

She called me a few days ago.

We called the cops, and...

They used those swabs.

To collect evidence.

Im gonna press charges.

But I couldn't stop him.

I didn't stop him.

That monster, he hurt my little

And I haven't done a damn thing

- You

always

were weak.

Says the man who drunk himself t

Death

is no weakness

it was resolution

A means to an end

Weakness ain't no physical trait

it is one that succumbs

in the heart

Did...

You get justice?

Where is it?

I bet you're tasting

that sweet nectar now.

The honeysuckle

hate

of betrayal.

You fail your daughter,

you failed your family

and your god.

I can't just k*ll someone.

What is this word?

Cant.

Whats stopping you boy?

Morals? God?

The Law?

None of these

are stronger

then a fathers duty.

Laws can be bent.

Religion

overlooked and more.

You wanna argue

the morality array?

He would have to be alone.

Well now, theres an idea.

He would recognize me.

Where does your anger lie?

Boy

With the son of a b*tch

That robbed my daughter

of her innocence.

Oh, no.

No, no,

you say her name

Hannah.

-Say it again.

Hannah.

Who is the victim?

Hannah.

What is your purpose?

To protect her.

Say,

His name,

John Lipsey.

Now, what must you do?

I'm gonna k*ll him.

I'm gonna k*ll him.

-Hello

Luke

Look, I am so sorry.

Where are you at right now?

-At moms house.

All right. I'm on my way.

I'll be right there.

Nah, You know, you left both th

Do you know what each one called

I had to get someone to cover fo

You know, I have u-i-l after sch

You know, I have u-i-l after sch

and their father on his days

couldn't be bothered.

Pick up his f*cking kids.

Where were you?

No one could reach you.

I was here.

I had to check on my uncle.

Dianne, I don't know.

One moment.

It was the afternoon in the next

The next, it was now.

And now I'm the bad guy.

God, damn.

I know things happen,

and that is just life.

But those are your kids.

I know when it comes to my kids,

I didn't say that.

Was it my failure that brought

that monster into our little gir

You been drinking again,

Peter?

You can't just walk in there.

Luke, Hannah!

-Peter, get the f*ck out of my h

Your house? This is my f*cking h

I paid for the damn thing.

Luke!

Luke, stay in your room.

Look, you're going to leave

or I'm going to call the police.

I will take you to court, and I

and will get full custody of tho

You're not even going to let me

apologize to my own children?

I would have, but youre f*cking

You think it's my drinking

that caused all of this?

I, I know who you were

when you were an alcoholic.

And I know the man that you were

when you quit.

Right now, I don't know who

the f*ck you're trying to be.

Go...

Tell em I love em.

Can you do that?

Hey, you're lucky.

Kerosene. That's no joke.

They go up pretty fast.

Your telling me.

Hey, man. You,

need a place to

chill out

just for the night?

Yeah, I got that spare bedroom.

No, Im good thank you.

It's just a shed

you know?

You sure?

Betsy wouldn't mind.

Im sure.

Just a freak accident.

Yeah.

But have you eaten?

I can always eat.

I thought so.

Hey, I ever tell you about the,

the worst experience

I ever had in the job?

No, I can't say you have.

What's been about

15 years ago now.

We get this call.

It's a two story

house, engulfed in flames.

Not too strange.

Normal procedures. Really.

So we arrive on the scene, and,

we notice we noticed that the

the smoke, it's just it's billow

It's billowing

out of the second floor windows.

And so we assume, you know,

the fire must be isolated

to the upstairs.

So we,

but we we run right to the front

I we're just trying to see

if we can get anyone out of ther

We got inside, and,

Well, Jim went in first.

And we noticed, family.

They were already all downstairs

The father,

Well, he must have set the fire

And then.

Then come back down

and, off himself later.

But the family,

they had been dead there

for some time.

Their skin.

Dripping, off the bone.

It was haunting seeing them ther

like that.

I'll never forget the way they l

And they seemed happy.

I know that has to do with them.

Skin sagging and, melting.

But it seemed like they were.

Like they were smiling.

Smiling.

At Jim and I, when we went in.

No, you had never told me that s

Just my way of,

Of coping with it, I guess.

Why are you telling me this stor

Do you think that I started that

No. Just.

Conversation.

I don't think anything.

I was just telling you a story.

Who was the guy?

What guy?

The monster in your story.

Monster?

The man who k*lled his family.

A man named,

Adam Schaefer.

Ive never heard of him?

Doesnt surprise me.

He didn't do much for the commun

Just another deadbeat father.

Hey. You heading out?

Yeah.

It's getting late.

Look, Pete.

If there's ever anything

you need to share,

I'm all ears, man.

Just anything you need to get of

your chest.

I appreciate that.

And the food.

You know that guy?

In your story.

He was quite the monster.

The problem is, in all of my sto

Are full of monsters.

Bull, Bluey

Barey

Missy

Pretty.

Cotton Candy

rainbow sparkles

And... Lama Boy

Mama, mama!

Peter.

You piece of sh*t.

Filing a restraining

order in the morning.

Here you go.

Oh, this too.

What can I get for you today?

Just have a cup of coffee.

Coffee? Okay.

I'll go get that.

-John,

-it will make life easier for yo

-A stupid accusation.

-John Lipsey, a child molester,

-They don't just go away.

-I know things like this

don't just go away.

-But find a small town somewhere

-you can get out of all this dra

-Start over.

Start over.

You can't just start over, okay?

This isnt the 80s.

Everybody and their grandma

has a cell phone

You know, I saw and 8 year old

the other day, with a smart phon

Everybody's just

everybodys connected.

-I'm just trying to help.

yeah, I know.

I know.

You know, helping is not

really helping right now

Just need all this to blow over,

the trial. Everything

Can we just stop talking about t

You know, it's all a f*cking lie

She fabricated a story.

That of the f*cking

girl that I was dating.

Got all weird.

Because.

She got weird because I wanted t

a little bit

more experimental in the bedroom

She freaked out.

And she made up this story.

And now we're here.

You know that I'm accused

before I'm even accused.

-I thought you said you don't

want to talk about it?

You're right.

I don't let's just.

Let's just drop,

-Okay.

What do you wanna eat?

-I don't know.

-I'm not really all that hungry.

Well, I'm going to order the pan

-All right, well.

-If she comes by.

-Give me eggs, overeasy and toas

Really?

I thought you said you weren't

all that hungry.

-Changed my mind.

-I'm gonna use the restroom.

Okay.

Can I help you?

Oh! What the f*ck?

Somebody sitting there.

Do you know who I am?

No. Should I?

Name is Simon.

Okay.

Well, Simon,

my sister's

about to come back from the bath

She's sitting there.

So you're going to have to leave

Are you sure

you've never seen my face before

Bud this is getting kind of weir

No, I've never seen your face be

You keep this up.

You and I are going to have a pr

Yeah?

Yeah. I.

We are.

You reek . . .

of failure.

Its pungent.

That aroma suits you well.

You were right.

I did nothing.

Of course you didn't.

If you were a man of conviction

You wouldn't be in this position

A man

with pride, morals or virtue.

Theres your failing Trinity.

Knock three times

and you got nothing to answer ba

I looked right into his eyes.

And I felt nothing but a seethin

hatred and anger.

And I froze.

You froze ...

the fear.

Fear of worldly conviction in al

This mortal flesh is damned.

And you wont parade with it for

You're pathetic.

What is a father's calling

But to protect his offspring.

His life ceases

importance as the childs takes

But not for you.

No no, no.

Your selfish ways command those

to wrought away in a condemnatio

of fatherless scraps.

You are a fallacy

of man.

Look, I get it!

You don't get sh*t.

No, I do get it!

Im a f*cking failure.

I know who I am.

I know what I am.

And I know what I've done.

Problems

always have

solutions.

What's going on?

Why are you here?

I just wanted to see you.

I wanted to talk to you

before anything happens.

What's gonna happen?

Luke.

You're going to hear things abou

From people . . .

probably your mother.

And I just want you to know

that it's not true.

Are you leaving?

Never.

Did your mom say something to yo

She

She said you've been drinking ag

She's lying.

Why would you say that?

Because of what I'm about to do.

What are you about to do?

Luke

My job in this life

is to be your protector,

to be your provider.

To be your father.

There's some days

that job requires me to be one

more than the others.

I know one day that youll under

but I just want you

to know that everything I do . .

I'm doing it for you.

Whatever it is,

you don't have to do it.

It's not that easy.

It's not that easy.

Actually it is.

You don't understand.

Stop saying that.

Stop saying that

Ill only understand

whenever I become this or grow t

I understand things perfectly.

Maybe it's your understanding

that's wrong.

Maybe there is another way.

I'm not just some little kid any

I don't know what you're going t

right now

or whatever it is you can't avoi

But please . . .

just stop.

I gotta get back to class.

-Runs through us.

-And he wants to do more and par

the way that he does.

-That is he helps us to open up

-and open up to others and see m

-that need to be on

those ba*ls over there. But.

-We need to be into

-him so we can be sponsored.

-And a lot of times we have our

-And my husband, as I very much

-he almost always put his head u

God?

I mean . . .

Dear God?

I'm sorry.

I'm rusty at this.

It's been a long time.

But you already know that.

Lord, I need your help.

I need your help to . . .

fix myself.

And I'm not asking for me.

I'm asking

so I can be the man that I need

for my family.

-But what about my soul?

Just give that negative emotion

off to a higher power.

Allow him to cleanse you of that

All of this anger you feel

can be burning your soul.

Just . . .

Give it to God.

When we give our problems to God

weight lifts from our shoulders.

You can physically feel it.

How?

Excuse me?

How?

-I'm sorry

-I don't fully understand your q

I don't think that I was stutter

I'm asking you how?

You're telling these people

to give their anger

and their woe over to God.

And I'm asking you, how?

How is that done?

Through faith and prayer.

Does that not seem like a cop ou

Sorry that answer is not to your

That answer is not to anyone's l

You can explain to me how to mor

or spiritually give over somethi

so personal to

some thing that may or may not e

These people are here

for guidance, not because they

refuse to believe in God.

These people are here because th

That's enough.

You're going to have to leave.

Why?

Because I called you weak?

The only one who's weak is the o

showing aggression in the house

Okay,

then show me how to forgive me.

-I'm not falling for this trap.

-Please leave the church.

Okay? Okay. Look. I...

Think we got off on the wrong fo

Sit down. Sit!

All of you.

Okay.

Forgive me.

For what I'm doing right now.

Show me, forgiveness.

Please

Show me!

-Show me.

Please.

Look . . .

If you can't tell me how to do i

then just expl--

show me how to forgive.

Show me.

Please.

How very disappointing.

Coming all this way to see me?

You haven't done something like

since. . . .

Never.

I've never come to see you, Ma.

Yeah . . .

never.

Some kind of special

I got.

Family means everything

A bunch of bullshit.

Why did you do the things that y

Do what?

The neglect . .

the abuse.

Abuse!

I was the mother of four

ungrateful children

-with a husband whose

-job sent him away for weeks on

And I was left with you shithead

-Manage on my own.

I think I did pretty good with t

I was handed.

You didn't raise us.

You lived your life in a bottle.

There's no excuses.

Did you come all this way

just to accuse me

of being some kind of bad parent

I don't need that in my house.

I came

here because I needed to talk to

Dianne and I, we um . . .

We separated.

We got a divorce.

I lost my house.

I only have half custody of my k

I lost my job.

Been working with a buddy of min

fixing trailers.

Not even enough to get by.

Dianne. She um . . .

She started seeing this guy.

A few months back he uh . . .

He got caught doing some things

to my little girl . . .

To Hannah.

She's okay, but . . .

The damage is done.

Children, they're.

They're blessed with innocence a

Once it's taken away,

you can't ever get it back.

Its irreversible.

My little girl, she

She needed me to be there for he

And I wasn't.

I gotta find some way to live wi

Because I couldn't be there for

Is he in jail?

No.

He's out on bail right now.

My heart is full of anger right

I can feel the hatred

pulsing through my veins.

And I can't control it.

And I'm afraid that

I'm afraid of what I'm gonna do.

These walls.

There's always been anger.

Majority of it by you.

Even as a kid,

you'd be getting into fights

and picking on animals.

Neighbor's dog was a big target

My thinking was that if

Maybe I could somehow

figure this out.

By thinking as if I could someho

maybe forgive you.

Forgive me?

I don't need your forgiveness.

I did what I had to do,

If I had to wake up

and be a monster that day.

I did it

If I had to be

somebody I never thought I could

I did it,

I did it for my family.

I did it for

the greater good of our well-bei

Because outside of this family u

-meant nothing to me.

Anybody who says anything

different is full of sh*t.

What is it that

you're telling me to do?

I'm just saying that

as Hannah grows,

she's going to be haunted

by this darkness right outside h

It's not actually there,

but it is somewhere out there

in the world.

Her own demon

living free.

You could fix that.

-You know the way out.

What's going on, partner?

Just let me know if you need any

Can I help you with something?

Yeah, I,

does John work here?

John, uh...

No

No, John.

Why do you ask?

Thanks.

I don't know, but it's weird.

Yeah. I just came in looking for

Some tall cat.

I don't know, actually.

You know what?

Hey, thats him over there John.

Hey, hun, what can I get you to

Let me just get a coffee for now

All right? I'll be right back wi

And if you start to be hungry at

let me know.

Excuse.

You don't know me.

And, I don't know you.

I, This may sound

a little bit weird, but my husba

and I, we've been stuck in the h

across the street for a few days

We're actually on our way home

from visiting relatives.

We had an amazing time.

But that's neither here nor ther

We came to this little town in.

We've been stuck here.

I don't know

if you believe in God or anythin

there's been this

whole overwhelming presence

telling me I couldn't leave.

There was a purpose for me being

So we've come to this little res

two days now.

It wasn't until this very moment

seeing you that I.

I had this swarm of feelings and

I guess information to give.

And again,

I don't know, you.

I've never met you.

But I have to tell you.

Don't do it.

Whatever it is

that you are going to go through

don't.

There's a better way.

There's something more inside of

And those feelings that you're f

They will pass.

It may not seem like it.

But it will.

Love heals all wounds.

Love heals all pain.

Now, I just have to thank you.

now, me and my husband.

We can finally go home.

What are you doing?

-Hey, man relax!

oh my God, get out of here.

-No! f*cking move!

This man's been following me.

What is it?

You guys trying to get your reve

You want to k*ll me?

I saw the g*n in your truck.

You thought it was going to go d

without a fight?

I see you around here again.

I won't be this nice

Hey, hey!

Hold up! Hey!

I'm sorry.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

I shouldn't threaten you.

I'm sorry.

But, you know, I could have k*ll

I didn't.

I let you live.

Hannah

Yeah. You son of a b*tch.

I'm sorry.

Okay.

I'm a sick son of a b*tch.

Her name is Hannah.

Yeah, I know, I know.

You know,

just f*cking do it.

Just do it.

I'm tired of dealing with all th

I did it, okay?

I did it all.

I'm the sick son of a b*tch.

You did it all.

Is that what you want to hear?

I enjoyed every second of it.

And so did she.

Is that what you need?

Just do it, you son of a b*tch!

No.

What do you mean, no?

This is it.

This is what you wanted.

You did all of this

just to give up.

What I've learned

over this past year that.

Anger is a punishment

that we do to ourselves

because of somebody else's actio

I can't say that

I have fully found forgiveness

because I haven't.

But I did find another way

another way that didn't

feel so weak to me.

And that way was love.

It all comes down to a choice,

because I made the choice that I

I get to be a father to my child

I get to watch them grow up.

I get to teach them the

the values and principles

that I'm talking to you about to

If I'd made that other choice.

I saw that route.

I look through the eyes

of my own personal demons.

And I didn't like what I saw.

What I know is why I chose that

I wouldn't be standing here

before you today.

It would have been a bleak

and dark future that

I know I didn't want any part of

Forgiveness is not always easy

and I can't tell you how to do i

It is unique

for each and every one of us.

That's what we're all doing here

There's nothing we can do about

but we can all better our future

It's taken a little over a year

to build the Jesus Company

into what it is today,

and I want to thank each

and every one of you.

And to the people that are a par

membership, people that voluntee

I want you all

to feel free to come up

and share your stories of

grace,

mercy, redemption,

forgiveness.

There's only been one

perfect person in the history of

and it is none of you.

And I promise you,

it is definitely not me.

We're here

to love our neighbors

as we love ourselves.

We're here to listen,

to reach out an open hand, to he

That's what we're doing here.

You're all free to speak.

There's a no judgment zone.

And I want to thank you all.

Thank you very much.