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Robert Jeffress - Although The Script's Been Written, You Can Still Improvise

January 6, 2025 | S25:E10

Robert Jeffress - Although The Script's Been Written, You Can Still Improvise
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Although The Script's Been Written, You Can Still Improvise | January 6, 2025
  • ♪ music ♪
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  • [announcer] from the pulpit
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  • Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • As christians, we believe
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  • That god is sovereign over everything.
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  • That means he is in control of everything.
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  • But sometimes people take that principle to an extreme
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  • And think it means that
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  • They're off the hook for their behavior.
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  • They say, "well, if god is in control,
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  • Then it really doesn't matter what i do, right?"
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  • Well, that's not quite how it works.
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  • In today's study, i want to show you the true relationship
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  • Between god's sovereignty and your choices.
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  • My message is titled,
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  • Although the script's been written,
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  • You can still improvise,
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • [announcer] we all make mistakes,
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  • Almost every hour of every day,
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  • But because of god's grace,
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  • Failure does not have to be fatal.
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  • Almost as soon as the "i dos" were over,
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  • Missy chadwick knew that her marriage to brad
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  • Had been a tremendous mistake.
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  • After two years of constant bickering
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  • And extramarital affairs by each partner,
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  • Missy decided to end the relationship
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  • And start a new life
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  • With her eight month old daughter, ashley.
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  • Several months after the divorce was finalized,
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  • Missy met steve miller at a single adult fellowship
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  • At her church.
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  • Three months later, missy and steve were married,
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  • And although they've experienced
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  • The normal marital ups and downs
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  • Over the last 13 years,
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  • These years have been some of the happiest of missy's life.
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  • One day, ashley, missy's now 13-year-old daughter,
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  • Asked her mom a question,
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  • "mom, was your marriage to my real dad a mistake?"
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  • Missy said, "well, it certainly was."
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  • Ashley said, "well, if it was a mistake,
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  • Does it mean i was a mistake,
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  • Since i wouldn't have happened
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  • If you and dad had not gotten together?"
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  • Missy was stunned.
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  • She didn't know how to answer her daughter's question
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  • Because in fact she didn't know
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  • The answer to the question herself.
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  • Missy's question raises some interesting questions
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  • About god's role in our failures.
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  • I mean, if god is all powerful and all knowing
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  • And he's planned every part of our life,
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  • Then did his eternal plan for you and me
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  • Include our mistakes, our sins, our bad choices?
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  • And if my failure was actually part of god's sovereign plan,
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  • Then how can god hold me responsible for my failures?
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  • And if god's script for my life
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  • Has already been written
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  • Down to the finest detail of my life,
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  • Then does it really matter what i do or don't do?
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  • Obviously, these questions
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  • Are more than mere theological speculation.
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  • They have profound implications
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  • To understanding how we can have
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  • A second chance and second act in life.
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  • Today we're going to talk about god's role
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  • In our past mistakes.
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  • And today i want to share with you five biblical principles
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  • About god's role in your mistakes,
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  • The biggest mistakes of your life,
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  • That, admittedly, you're going to find hard to swallow
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  • Individually,
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  • But when you put them together,
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  • I want you to see if indeed
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  • This is not what the scripture teaches.
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  • Today, we're continuing our series,
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  • "second chance, second act"
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  • By looking at the question,
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  • If the script's been written, can i still improvise?
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  • Let's look at these five biblical truths
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  • About god's role and our mistakes.
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  • Principle number one is this,
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  • God is in control of everything that happens.
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  • That's the most basic foundational truth.
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  • God is in control of everything that happens.
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  • Perhaps you've heard the term, the sovereignty of god.
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  • And you've wondered what does that mean,
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  • The sovereignty of god?
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  • That simply means that god is absolutely in charge
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  • Of everything that happens in his universe.
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  • God is absolutely in control of all that happens
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  • In his creation.
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  • Isaiah 45:6 says,
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  • "that men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun
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  • That there is no one besides me.
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  • I am the lord and there is no other."
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  • God has no competition in this universe.
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  • There's nobody he's trying to wrestle
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  • Control of this universe from.
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  • God is ultimately in control of everything that happens.
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  • Now many people accept that in theory,
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  • But they have a hard time accepting that truth.
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  • When it comes to specific situations.
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  • For example, every time there's a national disaster
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  • Or an international disaster,
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  • Whether it's an earthquake or a tsunami,
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  • Or anytime there's a mass shooting at a school, or a church,
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  • I always get called from the media and asked this question,
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  • "where was god when this tragedy happened?"
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  • And i always the same way,
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  • "god is still in control,
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  • And he's ultimately accountable
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  • For everything that happens."
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  • Of course, there's howls of protest.
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  • What about the laws of nature?
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  • What about man's free will?
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  • And on and on and on it goes.
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  • Listen to this, although god is not directly responsible
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  • For bad things that happen,
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  • He's ultimately responsible for everything that happens.
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  • Think about this.
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  • His sovereignty, his rule over creation
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  • Includes his control of satan,
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  • Who led the heavenly revolt against god.
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  • As martin luther said, "the devil is god's devil."
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  • His sovereignty includes
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  • Control over adam and eve,
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  • Whose disobedience alienated mankind from god.
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  • It includes the nation of israel
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  • That rebelled continuously against god's law.
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  • His sovereignty, his control even extends
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  • To the jewish and roman leaders
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  • Who nailed the son of god to a cross.
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  • None of these individuals choice
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  • To rebel against god
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  • Diminished god's control one iota.
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  • Now, if god is in control of everything
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  • That happens in the universe,
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  • That means he's in control of everything that happens
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  • In your life as well.
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  • That means your divorce, your affair,
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  • Your lapse of judgment, your squandered opportunities,
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  • Your bankruptcy, do not loosen god's grip
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  • On the direction of your life at all.
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  • Listen to this, your failure is no match
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  • For god's sovereignty.
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  • God is in control of everything that happens.
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  • And that leads to a second truth.
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  • God has a plan for your life.
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  • I'm amazed at the number of christians
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  • Who want to argue about this.
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  • They rebel at the thought that god
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  • Has a detailed plan for every part of our life.
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  • I mean, when you look at the intricate design
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  • Of this universe,
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  • Do you have a hard time believing there's a specific plan
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  • For all of god's creation, including you and me?
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  • God's plan for the universe extends
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  • To include every aspect of your life.
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  • Isn't that what david said in psalm 139:16,
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  • "thine eyes have seen by unformed substance,
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  • And in thy book they were all written.
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  • The days that were ordained for me,
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  • When as yet there was not one of them."
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  • Every part of your life is a part of god's plan.
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  • Let's talk about that for a moment.
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  • What things are actually a part of god's plan for my life?
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  • What are the ingredients of that plan?
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  • Well, first of all, your external circumstances
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  • Are a part of god's plans.
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  • The things on the outside that have some impact on your life
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  • Are a part of god's plan.
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  • Think about, for example,
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  • The decision of governmental leaders.
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  • Proverbs 21:1 says, "the king's heart
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  • Is like channels of water in the hand of the lord.
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  • He turns it wherever he wishes."
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  • The ruler's heart is in god's hand.
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  • It doesn't matter whether that ruler's a christian
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  • Or a non-christian.
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  • God's bigger than every leader.
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  • And he can work his purpose through that leader.
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  • Secondly, the outcome of the rolled dice in las vegas,
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  • Or the lottery number that you buy at the 7-eleven.
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  • Well, i know you don't do that.
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  • But if you do, did you know the bible says,
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  • Those things are under god's control as well.
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  • Now, where do you find that, pastor?
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  • Proverbs 16:33,
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  • "the lot is cast into the lap,
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  • But it's every decision is from the lord."
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  • Thirdly, the change of seasons,
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  • And the change of governmental leaders
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  • Are all in the hands of the lord, part of his plan.
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  • Daniel 2:21 says, "and it is he who changes the times
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  • And the epochs,
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  • He removes kings and he establishes kings."
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  • The seasons are under control and so are these elections.
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  • And everybody's getting so worked up about and,
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  • "oh, i don't know what's going to happen" and so forth.
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  • It's all under god's plan.
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  • He's the one who controls what happens.
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  • All of those circumstances are part of god's plan
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  • For your life.
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  • Not only does he control your external circumstances,
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  • Secondly, your physical and emotional makeup,
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  • Were all part of god's plan for your life.
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  • When we talk about everything being a part of god's plan,
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  • Everything includes,
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  • The color of your eyes,
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  • The number of hairs on your head,
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  • Or not on your head.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Your emotional makeup even.
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  • Do you realize all of those things were determined by god.
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  • Listen to psalm 139 verses 13 and 14.
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  • "for thou that's formed my inward parts,
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  • Thou that's weaved me in my mother's womb,
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  • I will give thanks to thee,
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  • For i'm wonderfully and fearfully made.
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  • Wonderful are thy works and my soul knows it very well."
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  • Thirdly, even our choices
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  • Are part of god's plan for our life.
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  • You know, we want to think that we're the ones
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  • Who determine every decision that we make.
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  • We want to think that we're free to eat what we want to eat
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  • And buy what we want to buy,
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  • And take whatever route to work we want to take.
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  • We want to thank all of those are purely under our control.
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  • In god's book, he wrote every day that you would live,
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  • Meaning the day of your birth and the day of your death
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  • Are written in indelible ink in god's book.
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  • Nobody comes into this world or leaves this world
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  • One second before or after god's plan.
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  • Our lifespan is a part of god's plan.
  • 00:11:41.857 --> 00:11:44.493
  • But now think about this.
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  • Your lifespan is determined
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  • By choices you make every day, aren't they?
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  • I mean, we think we choose what to eat and what to eat,
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  • Whether to get up and exercise or not,
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  • Whether to go to the doctor if we feel a pain,
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  • Or which doctor to go to, or no doctor.
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  • And yet all of those things
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  • Contribute to how many days we live on this earth, right?
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  • My point is, things i thought were my choices,
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  • Really weren't my choices.
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  • They were a part of god's plan for my life.
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  • God has a plan for your life as well.
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  • Not only does his sovereignty extend
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  • And his plan over our choices,
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  • But they also include our failures as well.
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  • As somebody said god, god not only directs our steps,
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  • But he directs our missteps and our stumbles as well.
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  • God is sovereign overall.
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  • Now, since the psalmist uses birth as an example
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  • Of god's intricate plan for our life,
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  • Let's go back to that analogy for a moment.
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  • Just suppose that your conception, your birth,
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  • Was the result of two hormonally charged teenagers
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  • Engaging in premarital sex.
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  • Suppose that your conception was the result
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  • Of two people having extramarital affairs.
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  • What if your conception was the result of rape,
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  • Or even incest?
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  • That doesn't diminish god's plan for your life?
  • 00:13:10.813 --> 00:13:14.350
  • He was able to use the moral failures of others
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  • To accomplish his ultimate purpose for you
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  • And his kingdom, wasn't he?
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  • And if god can use the failures of other people,
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  • He can use your failure as well.
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  • Again, your failure is no match for the sovereignty of god.
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  • God is sovereign over our failures.
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  • Now, you may not have any problem,
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  • At least theoretically,
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  • Of agreeing with those two truths.
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  • God is in control of everything that happens.
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  • God has a plan for my life.
  • 00:13:47.182 --> 00:13:49.285
  • But some of you are screaming, at least inside,
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  • And asking this question,
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  • "well, what if i make a wrong choice though?
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  • Doesn't my sin alter god's plan for my life in some way?"
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  • That leads to a third truth.
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  • God has the power to accomplish his purpose for your life.
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  • You know, i've heard this so many times.
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  • I bet you have too.
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  • People who say, "well, god has a perfect will,
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  • But he also has a permissive will."
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  • That is god has a plan a,
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  • But he also has plan b if things don't work out.
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  • And when you ask people for examples of god's perfect will,
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  • They say, "well, that's what god
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  • Really would like to happen,
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  • But his permissive will is what actually happens."
  • 00:14:31.393 --> 00:14:35.331
  • And earthquakes and tsunamis and mass shootings,
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  • Or moral failures, all of those
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  • Are part of god's permissive will, but not his perfect will.
  • 00:14:40.202 --> 00:14:44.173
  • So his permissive will is kind of plan b.
  • 00:14:44.173 --> 00:14:48.444
  • But does scripture really teach that?
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  • The scripture teach that god has two wills?
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  • Listen to the words of ephesians 1:11
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  • That we read just a moment ago.
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  • Paul writes,
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  • "also, we have obtained an inheritance
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  • Having been predestined according to his purpose,
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  • Who works all things after the council of his..." what?
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  • "will," singular, not wills, plural.
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  • Singular.
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  • God has one perfect plan for his universe.
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  • One secret plan.
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  • We can't know what that is.
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  • But it is a secret plan that governs everything
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  • That happens in his universe.
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  • And god's master plan for the universe was big enough
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  • To include the fall of lucifer from heaven.
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  • It was big enough to include adam and eve's sin
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  • In the garden.
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  • It was big enough to include israel's rebellion against god.
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  • God's perfect plan even included
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  • The torture and the murder of his own son, jesus christ.
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  • Principle number four, and that is,
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  • God's power does not exempt you from your responsibility.
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  • God's power does not exempt you from responsibility.
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  • We are ultimately responsible for the actions
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  • And the choices we make.
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  • Write down these two statements,
  • 00:16:07.723 --> 00:16:09.491
  • That cast further insight on that.
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  • Number one,
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  • We must still make wise choices.
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  • Scripture says, we must make wise choices.
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  • Listen to proverbs 28:26,
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  • "he who trusts in his own heart is a fool,
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  • But he who walks wisely will be delivered."
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  • We must make wise choices.
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  • Number two, we must still suffer the natural consequences
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  • Of our choices.
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  • The fact is, even though god is sovereign,
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  • We still have to make choices
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  • And we will experience the consequences of bad choices.
  • 00:16:44.093 --> 00:16:47.830
  • A great illustration of that is found in acts 4.
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  • Turn over to acts 4, verses 27 and 28.
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  • This is peter talking about the crucifixion of christ
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  • That had just occurred weeks earlier in jerusalem.
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  • Was the death of christ part of god's plan?
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  • Of course it was.
  • 00:17:05.681 --> 00:17:07.015
  • It was part of god's eternal plan.
  • 00:17:07.015 --> 00:17:09.852
  • And yet to accomplish that plan,
  • 00:17:09.852 --> 00:17:12.121
  • God had to use the failure, the sin of other people,
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  • To accomplish it.
  • 00:17:16.692 --> 00:17:17.926
  • And peter strikes the perfect balance
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  • Between sovereignty and responsibility here.
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  • He says in verse 27,
  • 00:17:23.499 --> 00:17:25.000
  • "in fact, this..." talking about the crucifixion of jesus,
  • 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.803
  • "happened here in this very city!
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  • For herod antipas, pontius pilate, the governor,
  • 00:17:30.506 --> 00:17:34.176
  • The gentiles, and the people of israel
  • 00:17:34.176 --> 00:17:36.478
  • Were all united against jesus, your holy servant,
  • 00:17:36.478 --> 00:17:39.815
  • Whom you anointed.
  • 00:17:39.815 --> 00:17:41.183
  • But everything they did was determined beforehand
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  • According to your will."
  • 00:17:45.587 --> 00:17:48.157
  • Herod, antipas, pontius pilate, the jews, the gentiles,
  • 00:17:48.157 --> 00:17:52.461
  • They made the decision to reject christ and crucify him,
  • 00:17:52.461 --> 00:17:55.497
  • And they will pay eternally for that mistake.
  • 00:17:55.497 --> 00:17:57.866
  • And yet it was all part of god's sovereign plan.
  • 00:17:57.866 --> 00:18:02.704
  • We are ultimately responsible.
  • 00:18:02.704 --> 00:18:06.041
  • In the same way every day,
  • 00:18:06.041 --> 00:18:08.744
  • We experience the consequences of wrong choices,
  • 00:18:08.744 --> 00:18:11.180
  • Divorces, terminations from jobs, bad health reports.
  • 00:18:11.180 --> 00:18:14.316
  • Those are all consequences
  • 00:18:14.316 --> 00:18:16.652
  • We experience many times for wrong choices.
  • 00:18:16.652 --> 00:18:19.755
  • And yet god is still sovereign.
  • 00:18:19.755 --> 00:18:23.091
  • You may wonder, it still doesn't make sense to me.
  • 00:18:23.091 --> 00:18:26.094
  • How can god be in charge of everything
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  • And yet i make choices for which i'm responsible?
  • 00:18:28.497 --> 00:18:32.568
  • Ultimately, there's no way for finite minds like ours
  • 00:18:32.568 --> 00:18:36.838
  • To understand how god can be sovereign
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  • And we can be responsible.
  • 00:18:39.841 --> 00:18:41.910
  • Somebody once said, "try to explain predestination
  • 00:18:41.910 --> 00:18:46.682
  • And you'll lose your mind.
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  • Try to explain it away and you may lose your soul."
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  • It is an important truth that we have to leave
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  • In the mind of god.
  • 00:18:56.725 --> 00:18:57.993
  • And that leads to a final truth.
  • 00:18:57.993 --> 00:19:00.095
  • And that is god's sovereignty
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  • Offers me peace from my past.
  • 00:19:02.664 --> 00:19:05.867
  • My responsibility offers me hope for my future.
  • 00:19:05.867 --> 00:19:10.205
  • You know what god's sovereignty really means,
  • 00:19:10.205 --> 00:19:12.374
  • Especially when it comes to my mistakes?
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  • God's sovereignty means
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  • That my screw ups won't mess up his plan for my life.
  • 00:19:16.912 --> 00:19:23.285
  • Isn't that a comforting truth?
  • 00:19:23.285 --> 00:19:25.053
  • My screw ups are not going to mess up
  • 00:19:25.053 --> 00:19:28.156
  • His eternal plan for my life.
  • 00:19:28.156 --> 00:19:30.425
  • Now, chuck swindoll said it much more eloquently than that.
  • 00:19:30.425 --> 00:19:34.696
  • Chuck says,
  • 00:19:35.030 --> 00:19:36.565
  • "when a man or woman of god fails nothing of god fails.
  • 00:19:36.565 --> 00:19:41.770
  • When a man or woman of god changes, nothing, of god changes.
  • 00:19:41.770 --> 00:19:45.841
  • When someone dies, nothing of god dies.
  • 00:19:45.841 --> 00:19:49.311
  • When our lives are altered by the unexpected,
  • 00:19:49.311 --> 00:19:52.247
  • Nothing of god is altered or unexpected."
  • 00:19:52.247 --> 00:19:56.618
  • That's the comfort that comes from god's sovereignty.
  • 00:19:56.618 --> 00:19:59.688
  • But did you know the truth of my responsibility
  • 00:19:59.688 --> 00:20:02.357
  • Also offers hope.
  • 00:20:02.357 --> 00:20:05.193
  • The fact that i'm responsible for the choices i make
  • 00:20:05.193 --> 00:20:08.163
  • Means that in spite of my past mistakes,
  • 00:20:08.163 --> 00:20:10.899
  • I can make a change right now.
  • 00:20:10.899 --> 00:20:13.035
  • I can make decisions right now
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  • That will alter the course of my life and my eternity.
  • 00:20:14.936 --> 00:20:19.641
  • That's a great hope.
  • 00:20:19.641 --> 00:20:21.443
  • We can determine the course of our life
  • 00:20:21.443 --> 00:20:25.614
  • And the course of our eternity.
  • 00:20:25.614 --> 00:20:28.016
  • You know, when i think about that truth,
  • 00:20:28.884 --> 00:20:30.218
  • I think about the story of j.c. penney.
  • 00:20:30.218 --> 00:20:33.755
  • Do you know the story of j.c. penney?
  • 00:20:33.755 --> 00:20:36.058
  • It's a fascinating story.
  • 00:20:36.058 --> 00:20:38.026
  • He experienced his share of failures and mistakes.
  • 00:20:38.026 --> 00:20:42.197
  • In 1898, j.c. penney founded the golden rule store,
  • 00:20:42.197 --> 00:20:46.868
  • Featuring low prices.
  • 00:20:46.868 --> 00:20:48.937
  • Associates described him as a bundle of energy
  • 00:20:48.937 --> 00:20:52.074
  • And a person in perpetual motion.
  • 00:20:52.074 --> 00:20:54.643
  • His life was guided by the highest of business ethics.
  • 00:20:54.643 --> 00:20:58.947
  • However, in 1910, penny's wife died,
  • 00:20:58.947 --> 00:21:02.184
  • And he felt abandoned by god.
  • 00:21:02.184 --> 00:21:04.152
  • In 1919, he married again,
  • 00:21:04.152 --> 00:21:06.488
  • But four years later, his second wife died.
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  • Penny married a third time, poured his life into his work,
  • 00:21:09.424 --> 00:21:13.061
  • And by 1929, j.c. penney had accumulated a net worth
  • 00:21:13.061 --> 00:21:17.632
  • Of $40 million.
  • 00:21:17.632 --> 00:21:19.735
  • That was a lot of money in 1920.
  • 00:21:19.735 --> 00:21:21.803
  • It's a lot of money now,
  • 00:21:21.803 --> 00:21:23.105
  • But it was really a lot of money in 1929.
  • 00:21:23.105 --> 00:21:26.007
  • And then came the great depression,
  • 00:21:26.007 --> 00:21:28.076
  • And he lost all of his wealth.
  • 00:21:28.076 --> 00:21:30.812
  • In fact, he was so devastated,
  • 00:21:30.812 --> 00:21:33.382
  • Emotionally and physically,
  • 00:21:33.382 --> 00:21:35.117
  • That j.c. penney entered a sanitarium
  • 00:21:35.117 --> 00:21:37.552
  • In battle creek, michigan.
  • 00:21:37.552 --> 00:21:39.621
  • The doctors said he wouldn't live.
  • 00:21:39.621 --> 00:21:42.758
  • But as he lay in that bed one day, he heard a hymn.
  • 00:21:42.758 --> 00:21:46.395
  • A familiar hymn coming from the chapel.
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  • And he cried out to god for help.
  • 00:21:49.498 --> 00:21:51.933
  • And the lord answered his request.
  • 00:21:51.933 --> 00:21:54.236
  • And he said, as a result of that,
  • 00:21:54.236 --> 00:21:55.804
  • His depression lifted immediately,
  • 00:21:55.804 --> 00:21:57.906
  • And soon he left the sanitarium.
  • 00:21:57.906 --> 00:22:00.375
  • Once again, he rebuilt his great company and his fortune
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  • Into the company we know today as jcpenney.
  • 00:22:03.912 --> 00:22:07.249
  • Over the next years, he made millions of dollars
  • 00:22:07.249 --> 00:22:10.118
  • And he gave away millions of dollars to christian causes.
  • 00:22:10.118 --> 00:22:13.688
  • He would tell everybody who would listen
  • 00:22:13.688 --> 00:22:15.991
  • About the power of god to redeem a life.
  • 00:22:15.991 --> 00:22:19.394
  • And at age 90, j.c. penney was still enjoying
  • 00:22:19.394 --> 00:22:22.998
  • A great second act in his life.
  • 00:22:22.998 --> 00:22:26.468
  • Why?
  • 00:22:26.468 --> 00:22:28.236
  • Because j.c. penney made the decision
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  • That his greatest failure
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  • Would not be his finale in life.
  • 00:22:33.041 --> 00:22:35.644
  • He believed in the power of god to change his life
  • 00:22:35.644 --> 00:22:39.214
  • And his eternity.
  • 00:22:39.214 --> 00:22:40.715
  • And you know god can do that for you as well.
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  • It doesn't matter at all what you've done in the past,
  • 00:22:43.185 --> 00:22:46.087
  • How much you have rebelled against god.
  • 00:22:46.087 --> 00:22:48.657
  • God has a plan for your life.
  • 00:22:48.657 --> 00:22:51.159
  • Isn't that what he said through the prophet jeremiah?
  • 00:22:51.159 --> 00:22:53.829
  • In jeremiah 29:11,
  • 00:22:53.829 --> 00:22:56.364
  • "for i know the plans that i have for you,"
  • 00:22:56.364 --> 00:22:59.167
  • Declares the lord, "plans for welfare and not for calamity.
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  • A plan to give you a future and a hope."
  • 00:23:03.972 --> 00:23:08.143
  • Your failure can be transformed
  • 00:23:08.143 --> 00:23:11.379
  • For your good and for god's glory.
  • 00:23:11.379 --> 00:23:13.849
  • But listen, that transformation
  • 00:23:13.849 --> 00:23:15.851
  • Doesn't happen automatically.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Transformation rarely occurs quickly.
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  • It takes time.
  • 00:23:26.995 --> 00:23:28.864
  • And god will be with you every step of the way.
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  • He's the master at turning our messes into successes.
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  • In closing today, let me thank you
  • 00:23:38.273 --> 00:23:39.975
  • For boldly stepping forward with your generous gift.
  • 00:23:39.975 --> 00:23:42.978
  • I can assure you that your partnership
  • 00:23:42.978 --> 00:23:45.580
  • Has never been more critical.
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  • As we walk through the season of global uncertainty,
  • 00:23:47.649 --> 00:23:51.653
  • Men and women around the world
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  • As you listen to my message today,
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  • Remember, your failure doesn't have to be final.
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  • Let god show you how you can have that second chance,
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