Robert Jeffress - Begin Your Second Act Now (Part 1)

January 13, 2025 | S25:E22

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 - Begin Your Second Act Now (Part 1) | January 13, 2025
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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" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • In the aftermath of a moral failure
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  • Or a devastating loss,
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  • It can seem like your life is completely over,
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  • The curtain has dropped, the lights have gone out,
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  • And everyone around you has exited stage left.
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  • Well, while your mistakes may feel final,
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  • Nothing could be further from the truth.
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  • God wants to redeem your failures.
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  • So how do you know when the second chapter
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  • Is ready to begin?
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  • Well, today we're going to look at five important principles
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  • For when your story is about to resume.
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  • My message is titled "begin your second act now!"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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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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  • Tempus fugit.
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  • You remember that phrase.
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  • It's latin for time flies.
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  • Time flies except when you're standing
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  • In the wrong line at the bank,
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  • Or enduring an endless graduation ceremony,
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  • Or going through an intermission in your life story.
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  • Last time we talked about intermissions.
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  • That's the period of time
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  • Between your failure and your future.
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  • We're in a series called "second chance, second act:
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  • Turning your messes into successes."
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  • And we're looking at five biblical principles
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  • For taking your worst mistakes
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  • And using them as a stepping stone
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  • For your second act in life.
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  • So far we've talked about the first step.
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  • That is you've got to fess up to your mess up.
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  • Before you can move forward,
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  • You have to deal with your failure
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  • And allow christ to forgive you.
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  • Secondly, we said don't mess up for free.
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  • You know, proverbs says over and over again,
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  • Instead of repeating your mistakes,
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  • Why not learn from your mistakes?
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  • And then last time we talked about the importance
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  • Of enjoying your intermission.
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  • You know when you look throughout scripture,
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  • When god's people fail,
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  • He usually imposes a waiting time,
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  • An intermission time,
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  • But waiting time doesn't have to be wasted time.
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  • God uses the intermissions in our life to allow us
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  • To refresh ourselves, to reflect upon the past,
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  • And also to listen to god's redirection about the future.
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  • That's the concept of intermission.
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  • And, of course, intermission is followed by our second act,
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  • And that's what we're going to talk about today.
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  • How to know when to begin your second act.
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  • Now, you know in the world of the theater,
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  • You know when intermission is over.
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  • You know what the signal is.
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  • The lights start to flicker,
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  • The orchestra begins to tune up,
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  • The lights begin to dim finally,
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  • And you know the second half
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  • Of the show is about to be begin.
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  • Wouldn't it be nice if we knew
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  • When our waiting time was over in life,
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  • When we knew that new relationship was about to begin,
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  • Or that job offer would come,
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  • Or our balance sheet would turn from red to black?
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  • Usually, god doesn't give us a clear signal
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  • All the time when intermission is over
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  • And the second act is about to begin.
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  • However, today what i want us to do is look at
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  • What i believe are five biblical principles
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  • For knowing when god may be saying
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  • Intermission time is over
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  • And your second act is ready to begin.
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  • First and foundational,
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  • If you want to know when god is about ready
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  • To do something big in your future,
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  • You need to learn how to let go of past regrets.
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  • Letting go of past regrets.
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  • Author erwin mcmanus talks about the paralyzing effect
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  • Of living in the past.
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  • He talks about, "that one moment in the past
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  • That continues to haunt every moment of your life,
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  • A moment in your history that steals from you
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  • All the moments in the future.
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  • Is there a moment you keep reliving again and again?
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  • To relive the past is to relinquish the future.
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  • If you are willing to let go of the past,
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  • Then you are ready to step into the future.
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  • When you choose to remain stuck in a moment,
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  • You become incapable of seizing your divine moments."
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  • The writer of hebrews said it this way
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  • In hebrews 12:1.
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  • "let us also lay aside every encumbrance,
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  • And the sin what so easily entangles us,
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  • And let us run with endurance the race
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  • That is set before us..."
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  • The writer is saying life is like a foot race,
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  • But you know any runner who wants to win the race
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  • He's got to first of all,
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  • Take off any unnecessary weights
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  • That are slowing him down.
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  • Nothing will weigh you down in life
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  • Anymore than past regrets.
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  • And not only that, the runner always has
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  • To keep looking forward.
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  • He can't afford to look back over ground already covered.
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  • We've got to learn how to let go of regrets.
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  • How do you do that, pastor?
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  • That's a lot easier said than done.
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  • What if there is a giant failure in your past
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  • That you just can't get past?
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  • Let me suggest three important realities
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  • That will help you let go of your regrets.
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  • First of all, the impossibility of undoing your mistake.
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  • You know, in movies, you always have these stories
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  • About people who go back in time and change past history.
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  • That's only possible in movies.
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  • And yet many people engage
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  • In what i call mental time travel.
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  • They go back to their past, but they can't change it.
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  • They just keep reliving that pain over and over again.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen,
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  • That's a trip you can't afford to take,
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  • Going back to the past to relive those mistakes.
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  • But there's a second reality,
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  • The reality of god's forgiveness.
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  • When i talk about releasing your regrets,
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  • You'll never do it unless you deal with those regrets
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  • And experience christ forgiveness.
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  • And i don't care whether you're a politician,
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  • A pastor, or the pope.
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  • We all need god's forgiveness, don't we?
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  • We have to have that time in our life
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  • When we admit our sin and receive christ's forgiveness.
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  • But you know, colossians two says,
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  • When we ask for christ's forgiveness,
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  • He takes our mistakes.
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  • And what does he do with them?
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  • He nails them to the cross of jesus christ
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  • Where god stamps it paid in full.
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  • That's the reality of god's forgiveness.
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  • The bible says, "he cast our sins
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  • Into the depths of the sea,
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  • And he remembers our iniquities no more."
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  • And then thirdly, to release the regrets of the past,
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  • You have to be convinced of the possibility
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  • Of future change.
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  • No, we can't undo our past mistakes.
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  • Life has no rewind button on it,
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  • But we can make decisions that change our future.
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  • Many of you are aware of the nobel peace prizes
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  • That are offered for outstanding works
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  • That benefit humanity.
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  • What you may not know though,
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  • Is how those peace prizes were started.
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  • They're named after alfred nobel.
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  • Alfred nobel was the swedish chemist
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  • Who invented dynamite,
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  • And from that invention he made millions
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  • And millions of dollars selling dynamite
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  • To countries around the world
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  • That would use it to destroy armies and people
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  • By the millions.
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  • One day, alfred nobel's brother died,
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  • But the newspaper made a mistake.
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  • Instead of printing his brother's obituary,
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  • The paper made a mistake
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  • And printed alfred nobel's obituary.
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  • So he had the strange opportunity to open up the newspaper
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  • And read his own obituary,
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  • And when he read it, he realized the lead paragraph,
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  • What he would be most remembered for
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  • Is developing the instrument
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  • That would be used to kill tens of millions of people.
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  • And alfred nobel said right then and there,
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  • He did not want that to be
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  • What he has remembered for.
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  • So he took a large chunk of his assets,
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  • And with those assets he started the nobel peace prizes
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  • In order to award those who benefit humanity
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  • Through science, and literature, and the arts.
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  • You know, you can't undo your past,
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  • But right now you have the opportunity to make changes
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  • That will affect your today, your tomorrow,
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  • And your eternity.
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  • You have to release your regrets.
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  • Secondly, pay attention
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  • To seasonal changes in your life.
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  • You know, one practical result of letting go of your past
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  • Is you can be attuned to what's happening in the present
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  • And specifically to changes
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  • God may be bringing into your life
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  • That signal your second act's about to begin.
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  • Now, speaking of movies, has everybody seen "mary poppins"?
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  • You have children, you've seen "mary poppins."
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  • We watched it endlessly with our kids.
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  • Remember how the movie opens?
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  • There's a weather vein that suddenly does a 180,
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  • And it signals a new wind is blowing in.
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  • And bert the chimney sweep
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  • Notices the weather vein is moving.
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  • He says, "something big is going to happen,"
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  • And that something big, of course,
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  • Is the coming of mary poppins.
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  • At the end of the movie, the weather vein turns again,
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  • And mary poppins leaves never to be seen again
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  • Until disney brings her back in another dvd version.
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  • But she's gone.
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  • You know, that's what weather veins do.
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  • They signal a change that is about to take place.
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  • Wouldn't it be nice if we had weather veins
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  • That we could look to to tell us
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  • That something big's about to happen in our life?
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  • We could know when real
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  • And significant change was going to happen.
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  • Well, there are no such weather veins,
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  • And yet the bible says we ought
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  • To be attuned to circumstances around us
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  • And within us that may signal something big
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  • Is about to happen.
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  • Do you remember a group of men in the old testament
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  • Known as the sons of issachar?
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  • In one chronicles 12:32 it says,
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  • "and of the sons of issachar,
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  • Men who understood the times,
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  • With knowledge of what israel should do,
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  • Their chiefs were 200,
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  • And all their kinsmen were at their command."
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  • You know, just as a politician
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  • Knows when the time is right
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  • To challenge an incumbent in office,
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  • These sons of issachar we're very attuned
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  • To the political winds
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  • Of what was happening in the nation of israel.
  • 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.362
  • They sensed there was an unrest among the people.
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  • They sensed, since they were followers of king david,
  • 00:11:49.398 --> 00:11:52.968
  • That this might be the time for david to expand his rule
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  • To include the entire nation of israel and topple king saul.
  • 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:02.178
  • They were aware of what was happening around them.
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  • By the way, let me just add this.
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  • This is extra.
  • 00:12:08.083 --> 00:12:08.918
  • Doesn't anything extra.
  • 00:12:08.918 --> 00:12:11.053
  • But you know christians who say,
  • 00:12:11.053 --> 00:12:13.022
  • "oh, i don't pay attention to politics.
  • 00:12:13.022 --> 00:12:15.357
  • I don't pay attention to current events.
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  • I just read my bible and pray."
  • 00:12:17.393 --> 00:12:20.029
  • Ladies and gentlemen, that is no virtue.
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  • It's a vice.
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  • God doesn't place any premium on being ignorant
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  • Of what's happening around you.
  • 00:12:26.435 --> 00:12:28.704
  • The bible says, as god's people,
  • 00:12:28.704 --> 00:12:30.506
  • We need to be aware of what's happening around us.
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  • We need to be attuned to what is happening,
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  • Not so we can worry about it and argue about it.
  • 00:12:35.744 --> 00:12:38.180
  • So that as god's people,
  • 00:12:38.180 --> 00:12:39.682
  • We can know what we should be doing.
  • 00:12:39.682 --> 00:12:42.251
  • That was the sons of issachar.
  • 00:12:42.251 --> 00:12:44.053
  • They were able to discern the times.
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  • In the same way,
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  • We as christians need to be able
  • 00:12:48.157 --> 00:12:50.059
  • To discern the circumstances around us
  • 00:12:50.059 --> 00:12:52.995
  • And within us that may be signaling
  • 00:12:52.995 --> 00:12:55.598
  • That a future change is coming,
  • 00:12:55.598 --> 00:12:57.266
  • Our second act is about to begin.
  • 00:12:57.266 --> 00:12:59.168
  • Let me mention three changes that may signal
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  • You are ready to begin your second act.
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  • First of all, a change in your attitude.
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  • Have you quit blaming other people
  • 00:13:08.177 --> 00:13:09.945
  • For your first act failure?
  • 00:13:09.945 --> 00:13:11.580
  • Have you fessed up to your mess up?
  • 00:13:11.580 --> 00:13:14.283
  • Have you received god's forgiveness?
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  • Has your attitude changed?
  • 00:13:16.218 --> 00:13:17.786
  • Secondly, look for a change in your emotions.
  • 00:13:17.786 --> 00:13:21.490
  • Do you still feel emotionally
  • 00:13:21.490 --> 00:13:23.359
  • And physically drained from your failure?
  • 00:13:23.359 --> 00:13:26.295
  • Or are you starting to feel refreshed
  • 00:13:26.295 --> 00:13:28.697
  • And looking forward to the future?
  • 00:13:28.697 --> 00:13:30.766
  • And finally look for changes in your circumstances
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  • That may signal god's about to bring a change in your life.
  • 00:13:34.837 --> 00:13:38.407
  • Maybe you get a job offer out of nowhere
  • 00:13:38.407 --> 00:13:40.442
  • You want to achieve.
  • 00:13:40.442 --> 00:13:41.343
  • Where did that come from?
  • 00:13:41.343 --> 00:13:43.178
  • Or an invitation to dinner with somebody
  • 00:13:43.178 --> 00:13:45.014
  • That you're interested in.
  • 00:13:45.014 --> 00:13:47.249
  • Or maybe you see that your children are leaving home,
  • 00:13:47.249 --> 00:13:50.719
  • And you're getting ready
  • 00:13:50.719 --> 00:13:51.954
  • To enter into a new era of your life.
  • 00:13:51.954 --> 00:13:54.723
  • Did you know god can even signal
  • 00:13:54.723 --> 00:13:56.992
  • Your change is about to happen
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  • Through a negative circumstance in your life?
  • 00:13:58.861 --> 00:14:02.898
  • I think about the old testament character jacob.
  • 00:14:02.898 --> 00:14:06.101
  • Remember jacob worked for his uncle, laban for 20 years.
  • 00:14:06.101 --> 00:14:11.373
  • And although they had a volatile relationship at first,
  • 00:14:12.441 --> 00:14:13.909
  • Eventually they grew comfortable with one another
  • 00:14:13.909 --> 00:14:16.946
  • And jacob assumed that he would spend the rest
  • 00:14:16.946 --> 00:14:19.515
  • Of his life working for uncle laban,
  • 00:14:19.515 --> 00:14:22.251
  • Far removed from the land of israel, the promised land.
  • 00:14:22.251 --> 00:14:26.889
  • But that wasn't god's plan.
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  • God had a second act for jacob
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  • That included uprooting him
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  • From where he was,
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  • Sending him back to the promised land
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  • Where he could reconcile with his brother esau,
  • 00:14:38.667 --> 00:14:41.337
  • And he could renew his commitment to god.
  • 00:14:41.337 --> 00:14:44.406
  • The only question is how do you move jacob,
  • 00:14:44.406 --> 00:14:47.076
  • Getting him to move
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  • When he's so comfortable where he is?
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  • God often uses negative circumstances in our life
  • 00:14:50.779 --> 00:14:55.284
  • To move us to where he wants us to go,
  • 00:14:55.284 --> 00:14:57.119
  • And that's what he did with jacob.
  • 00:14:57.119 --> 00:14:58.754
  • In genesis 31:2, it says,
  • 00:14:58.754 --> 00:15:00.422
  • "and jacob saw the attitude of laban,
  • 00:15:00.422 --> 00:15:04.293
  • And behold, it was not friendly toward him as formerly."
  • 00:15:04.293 --> 00:15:11.367
  • His uncle's attitude, for no explanation,
  • 00:15:12.267 --> 00:15:14.803
  • Changed toward him.
  • 00:15:14.803 --> 00:15:16.071
  • He used to be friendly, but now he was hostile.
  • 00:15:16.071 --> 00:15:19.808
  • Maybe you have a boss whose attitude
  • 00:15:19.808 --> 00:15:21.844
  • Has suddenly become hostile toward you.
  • 00:15:21.844 --> 00:15:24.413
  • Maybe somebody in a relationship that matters to you,
  • 00:15:24.413 --> 00:15:27.850
  • Suddenly they're changing their attitude toward you.
  • 00:15:27.850 --> 00:15:29.885
  • They've become cold.
  • 00:15:29.885 --> 00:15:31.220
  • Instead of being focused on what that person
  • 00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:34.490
  • Is doing to you or not doing for you,
  • 00:15:34.490 --> 00:15:37.593
  • Realize that god is bigger than that person in your life,
  • 00:15:37.593 --> 00:15:41.463
  • And he could actually be using their negative attitude
  • 00:15:41.463 --> 00:15:44.600
  • And actions toward you to move you where he wants you to be
  • 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:48.437
  • So you can enjoy a great second act.
  • 00:15:48.437 --> 00:15:51.540
  • Pay attention to negative circumstances.
  • 00:15:51.540 --> 00:15:55.344
  • Now, that leads to the third step
  • 00:15:55.344 --> 00:15:58.414
  • For knowing when intermission is over,
  • 00:15:58.414 --> 00:16:00.149
  • And that is develop your second act script.
  • 00:16:00.149 --> 00:16:04.887
  • You know, careful planning was the secret
  • 00:16:04.887 --> 00:16:07.556
  • To benjamin franklin's greatness.
  • 00:16:07.556 --> 00:16:09.558
  • Franklin once observed,
  • 00:16:09.558 --> 00:16:10.993
  • "i have always thought that one man
  • 00:16:10.993 --> 00:16:13.662
  • Of tolerable abilities may work great changes
  • 00:16:13.662 --> 00:16:17.199
  • And accomplish great affairs among mankind
  • 00:16:17.199 --> 00:16:20.536
  • If he first forms a good plan
  • 00:16:20.536 --> 00:16:24.673
  • And cutting off all amusements
  • 00:16:24.673 --> 00:16:26.742
  • Or other employments that would divert his attention,
  • 00:16:26.742 --> 00:16:29.678
  • Make the execution of that plan
  • 00:16:29.678 --> 00:16:32.681
  • His soul study and business."
  • 00:16:32.681 --> 00:16:36.985
  • No wonder benjamin franklin had a great second act in life.
  • 00:16:36.985 --> 00:16:40.689
  • Think of all of his accomplishments
  • 00:16:40.689 --> 00:16:42.891
  • In the second half of his life.
  • 00:16:42.891 --> 00:16:45.294
  • I mean the invention of bifocal glasses.
  • 00:16:45.294 --> 00:16:48.130
  • He did that at age 78.
  • 00:16:48.130 --> 00:16:50.165
  • Or negotiating peace with britain
  • 00:16:50.165 --> 00:16:52.367
  • After the revolutionary war.
  • 00:16:52.367 --> 00:16:53.969
  • He did that at age 77.
  • 00:16:53.969 --> 00:16:55.704
  • Or formulating our constitution.
  • 00:16:55.704 --> 00:16:57.673
  • He did that at age 81.
  • 00:16:57.673 --> 00:16:59.875
  • He understood the importance of formulating a plan
  • 00:16:59.875 --> 00:17:03.812
  • And then executing that plan.
  • 00:17:03.812 --> 00:17:06.281
  • Now, you know, only a foolish person
  • 00:17:06.281 --> 00:17:08.517
  • Refuses to make plans.
  • 00:17:08.517 --> 00:17:10.219
  • Over and over again, the bible extols the value
  • 00:17:10.219 --> 00:17:13.589
  • Of careful planning in every area of your life.
  • 00:17:13.589 --> 00:17:17.226
  • Listen to proverbs 16:3 or jot it down.
  • 00:17:17.226 --> 00:17:20.062
  • "commit your works to the lord,
  • 00:17:20.062 --> 00:17:22.231
  • And your plans will be established."
  • 00:17:22.231 --> 00:17:25.367
  • Proverbs 20:18.
  • 00:17:25.367 --> 00:17:27.169
  • "prepare plans by consultation,
  • 00:17:27.169 --> 00:17:30.906
  • And make war by wise guidance."
  • 00:17:30.906 --> 00:17:33.408
  • Or proverbs 21:5.
  • 00:17:33.408 --> 00:17:35.544
  • "the plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage,
  • 00:17:35.544 --> 00:17:39.948
  • But everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty."
  • 00:17:39.948 --> 00:17:44.586
  • Now, obviously any plans we make in our lives
  • 00:17:44.586 --> 00:17:48.323
  • Are to the sovereignty of god.
  • 00:17:48.323 --> 00:17:51.827
  • God has the final word about any plans we make,
  • 00:17:51.827 --> 00:17:55.230
  • But that doesn't mean we should avoid making plans.
  • 00:17:55.230 --> 00:17:59.034
  • Perhaps i'm speaking to some of you here,
  • 00:17:59.034 --> 00:18:00.736
  • Some of you watching on pathway to victory.
  • 00:18:00.736 --> 00:18:02.938
  • You're in that intermission and life.
  • 00:18:02.938 --> 00:18:05.641
  • Maybe after a divorce or after a termination
  • 00:18:05.641 --> 00:18:08.977
  • From a job or some other failure,
  • 00:18:08.977 --> 00:18:12.514
  • And you're wondering, okay,
  • 00:18:12.514 --> 00:18:13.782
  • What should i be doing during this time?
  • 00:18:13.782 --> 00:18:15.484
  • One thing you ought to be doing
  • 00:18:15.484 --> 00:18:17.052
  • Is developing your second act script
  • 00:18:17.052 --> 00:18:20.756
  • So that when god does raise the curtain
  • 00:18:20.756 --> 00:18:23.358
  • And says, the intermission is over,
  • 00:18:23.358 --> 00:18:25.360
  • You know what you're supposed to do.
  • 00:18:25.360 --> 00:18:26.795
  • When that happens,
  • 00:18:26.795 --> 00:18:28.197
  • We all need a second act script,
  • 00:18:28.197 --> 00:18:30.899
  • A plan for our future.
  • 00:18:30.899 --> 00:18:34.403
  • I would suggest,
  • 00:18:34.403 --> 00:18:35.904
  • If you're interested in developing that kind of plan
  • 00:18:35.904 --> 00:18:38.373
  • That the bible says we all ought to have,
  • 00:18:38.373 --> 00:18:40.776
  • I want to suggest that you take a couple of hours
  • 00:18:40.776 --> 00:18:43.879
  • And write out your plan.
  • 00:18:43.879 --> 00:18:45.681
  • I've done this on several key occasions in my life
  • 00:18:45.681 --> 00:18:50.419
  • When i was at a significant crossroads.
  • 00:18:50.419 --> 00:18:53.255
  • Take out a legal pad,
  • 00:18:53.255 --> 00:18:54.990
  • And here are four important components
  • 00:18:54.990 --> 00:18:57.025
  • Of developing your plan or what i call a second act script.
  • 00:18:57.025 --> 00:19:01.330
  • Number one, clarification of the problem.
  • 00:19:01.330 --> 00:19:05.367
  • Clarification of the problem.
  • 00:19:05.367 --> 00:19:06.802
  • Summarize in a word or a phrase,
  • 00:19:06.802 --> 00:19:09.404
  • The problem you are trying
  • 00:19:09.404 --> 00:19:10.806
  • To remedy in your life.
  • 00:19:10.806 --> 00:19:11.840
  • It might be divorce,
  • 00:19:11.840 --> 00:19:14.076
  • Or financial insolvency,
  • 00:19:14.076 --> 00:19:16.345
  • Wrong career choice,
  • 00:19:16.345 --> 00:19:18.180
  • Termination from a job,
  • 00:19:18.180 --> 00:19:19.881
  • But write down in a word or a phrase
  • 00:19:19.881 --> 00:19:22.217
  • What the problem is.
  • 00:19:22.217 --> 00:19:23.952
  • Secondly, visualization of the goal.
  • 00:19:23.952 --> 00:19:28.423
  • In a sentence, write out
  • 00:19:28.423 --> 00:19:30.592
  • What your desired optimal situation would be
  • 00:19:30.592 --> 00:19:34.429
  • For this particular problem you're facing
  • 00:19:34.429 --> 00:19:36.999
  • Or dilemma that you're in.
  • 00:19:36.999 --> 00:19:39.101
  • Now, for the purpose of this exercise,
  • 00:19:39.101 --> 00:19:40.869
  • Let's say it's financial stress.
  • 00:19:40.869 --> 00:19:44.039
  • So maybe you would say,
  • 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:45.641
  • I would like to have enough money
  • 00:19:45.641 --> 00:19:48.877
  • So i don't have to worry about finances in the future.
  • 00:19:48.877 --> 00:19:52.781
  • So let's say that is your goal to have just enough.
  • 00:19:52.781 --> 00:19:55.651
  • That leads to the third part of your second act script,
  • 00:19:55.651 --> 00:19:58.620
  • Identification of the obstacles.
  • 00:19:58.620 --> 00:20:01.556
  • What is it that is keeping you from your optimal situation,
  • 00:20:01.556 --> 00:20:05.360
  • Whatever it is that you've written down.
  • 00:20:05.360 --> 00:20:07.596
  • Again, let's talk about financial stress.
  • 00:20:07.596 --> 00:20:10.932
  • What's keeping you from
  • 00:20:10.932 --> 00:20:12.200
  • That financial security you'd like to have?
  • 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:14.836
  • That leads to the fourth step of your second act script,
  • 00:20:14.836 --> 00:20:17.739
  • The specification of steps of action.
  • 00:20:17.739 --> 00:20:21.043
  • Now, you know what the barriers are
  • 00:20:21.043 --> 00:20:22.911
  • That are keeping you from your present to your future.
  • 00:20:22.911 --> 00:20:26.581
  • Write down specific steps of action that become your plan,
  • 00:20:26.581 --> 00:20:30.452
  • Your next step of what you do to move you toward your goal.
  • 00:20:30.452 --> 00:20:34.790
  • We all need a plan.
  • 00:20:34.790 --> 00:20:36.992
  • We all need a second act script.
  • 00:20:36.992 --> 00:20:40.696
  • And that leads to step number four,
  • 00:20:40.696 --> 00:20:43.765
  • And that is we have to learn how to travel in a fog.
  • 00:20:43.765 --> 00:20:48.403
  • We need to learn how to travel in a fog.
  • 00:20:48.403 --> 00:20:50.605
  • Wouldn't it be great if we had 100% visibility in our lives?
  • 00:20:50.605 --> 00:20:54.676
  • We could see clearly everything
  • 00:20:54.676 --> 00:20:56.211
  • Between now and heaven that was awaiting us.
  • 00:20:56.211 --> 00:20:59.348
  • God doesn't allow us to have that kind of vision.
  • 00:20:59.348 --> 00:21:01.416
  • Usually, we have to travel with some uncertainty,
  • 00:21:01.416 --> 00:21:04.686
  • Not knowing what is in front of us.
  • 00:21:04.686 --> 00:21:07.689
  • We have to learn how to travel,
  • 00:21:07.689 --> 00:21:09.658
  • Move in our life with uncertainty ahead of us
  • 00:21:09.658 --> 00:21:13.929
  • Now to learn to travel in the fog,
  • 00:21:13.929 --> 00:21:16.965
  • In order to take that next step
  • 00:21:16.965 --> 00:21:18.800
  • Toward your second act in life,
  • 00:21:18.800 --> 00:21:20.569
  • There are three requirements for traveling in life
  • 00:21:20.569 --> 00:21:23.772
  • With limited visibility.
  • 00:21:23.772 --> 00:21:25.607
  • First of all, you have to have a need.
  • 00:21:25.607 --> 00:21:28.577
  • You know, to move forward in life
  • 00:21:28.577 --> 00:21:30.412
  • With limited visibility,
  • 00:21:30.412 --> 00:21:32.080
  • We have to develop a case of what i call holy discontent.
  • 00:21:32.080 --> 00:21:37.352
  • We have to be so discontent
  • 00:21:37.953 --> 00:21:40.222
  • With our present situation that we say, you know what?
  • 00:21:41.323 --> 00:21:43.692
  • It's time for me to start moving.
  • 00:21:43.692 --> 00:21:46.528
  • I can't stand being in this dead end job any longer.
  • 00:21:47.596 --> 00:21:52.401
  • I can't stand living alone any longer.
  • 00:21:52.401 --> 00:21:56.304
  • I can't stand having a mediocre relationship with god.
  • 00:21:56.304 --> 00:22:00.542
  • That's all i can stands,
  • 00:22:00.542 --> 00:22:02.377
  • And i can't stand no more.
  • 00:22:02.377 --> 00:22:04.246
  • It's that need that propels us forward,
  • 00:22:04.246 --> 00:22:06.915
  • And that leads to the second step for traveling in the fog,
  • 00:22:06.915 --> 00:22:10.185
  • And that means movement.
  • 00:22:10.185 --> 00:22:12.020
  • We need to start moving.
  • 00:22:12.020 --> 00:22:13.422
  • We just don't sit and stew over our discontent.
  • 00:22:13.422 --> 00:22:15.957
  • We need to start moving,
  • 00:22:15.957 --> 00:22:17.959
  • And if we can't see clearly ahead of us,
  • 00:22:17.959 --> 00:22:19.895
  • It means just taking that first step,
  • 00:22:19.895 --> 00:22:21.963
  • Moving slowly but moving.
  • 00:22:21.963 --> 00:22:25.434
  • You know, one writer observes
  • 00:22:25.434 --> 00:22:26.935
  • That when you look at the early church,
  • 00:22:26.935 --> 00:22:28.503
  • You look at the apostles,
  • 00:22:28.503 --> 00:22:30.138
  • Often they didn't do everything correctly.
  • 00:22:30.138 --> 00:22:32.808
  • They didn't have 100% visibility,
  • 00:22:32.808 --> 00:22:35.510
  • But they were move to action anyway.
  • 00:22:35.510 --> 00:22:38.213
  • Jesus had said, go, go into all the world
  • 00:22:38.213 --> 00:22:42.217
  • And make disciples.
  • 00:22:42.217 --> 00:22:43.819
  • One writer says it this way.
  • 00:22:43.819 --> 00:22:45.754
  • "the early church didn't get everything right.
  • 00:22:45.754 --> 00:22:48.757
  • The early communities were far from perfect.
  • 00:22:48.757 --> 00:22:51.726
  • No one, not even the apostles had a perfect understanding.
  • 00:22:51.726 --> 00:22:55.831
  • Many of us want a map,
  • 00:22:55.831 --> 00:22:57.566
  • But instead god gives us a compass.
  • 00:22:57.566 --> 00:23:01.403
  • We are not given a detailed outline
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  • Of how we should live each day.
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  • We are given a due north,
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  • A direction we should be moving toward.
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  • God appointed this moment.
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  • Do you believe that?
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  • You are watching this program right now for a reason.
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  • As a minister of god's word,
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  • Let me urge you to respond to his call right now,
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  • Whatever that might be.
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  • So please keep up the good work.
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  • God is using you
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  • With the light of his word.
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  • Now, stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • [announcer] all of us carry some measure of regret
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  • I don't care what failure you have experienced.
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  • Your failure, your sin doesn't have
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  • To be the final word about your life story.
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  • That's what redemption is all about.
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  • [announcer] together through the ministry
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  • Of "pathway to victory,"
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  • If you take away one truth from today's program,
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  • I hope it's this one.
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  • While your regrettable mistakes feel final,
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  • Nothing could be further from the truth.
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  • God has not dropped the curtain on your life.
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  • As you follow god's lead, the curtain is lifted
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  • And your second act is just beginning.
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  • Well, today we spent most of our time
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  • Learning how to identify when the intermission is over
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  • And the second act is about to begin.
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  • And next time, i'm going to help you develop
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  • The four essential components of your life script.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • God has not given us any guarantee of tomorrow,
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  • Not in this life anyway.
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  • The only thing he has promised is today.
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  • What will you regret that you didn't do today?
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