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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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- Called "second chance, second act"
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- And practical strategies
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- For turning your messes into successes.
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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.
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- They sensed there was an unrest among the people.
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- They sensed, since they were followers of king david,
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Doesn't anything extra.
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- But you know christians who say,
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- "oh, i don't pay attention to politics.
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- I don't pay attention to current events.
- 00:12:15.357 --> 00:12:17.393
- 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.
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- The bible says, as god's people,
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- 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.
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- So that as god's people,
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- We can know what we should be doing.
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- That was the sons of issachar.
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- 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
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- To discern the circumstances around us
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- And within us that may be signaling
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- That a future change is coming,
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- 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
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- For your first act failure?
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- Have you fessed up to your mess up?
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- Have you received god's forgiveness?
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- Has your attitude changed?
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- Secondly, look for a change in your emotions.
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- Do you still feel emotionally
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- And physically drained from your failure?
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- Or are you starting to feel refreshed
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- 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.
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- Maybe you get a job offer out of nowhere
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- You want to achieve.
- 00:13:40.442 --> 00:13:41.343
- Where did that come from?
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- Or an invitation to dinner with somebody
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- That you're interested in.
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- Or maybe you see that your children are leaving home,
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- And you're getting ready
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- To enter into a new era of your life.
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- Did you know god can even signal
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- 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.
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- And although they had a volatile relationship at first,
- 00:14:12.441 --> 00:14:13.909
- Eventually they grew comfortable with one another
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- And jacob assumed that he would spend the rest
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- Of his life working for uncle laban,
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- Getting him to move
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- When he's so comfortable where he is?
- 00:14:48.210 --> 00:14:50.779
- God often uses negative circumstances in our life
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- To move us to where he wants us to go,
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- And that's what he did with jacob.
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- In genesis 31:2, it says,
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- "and jacob saw the attitude of laban,
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- And behold, it was not friendly toward him as formerly."
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- His uncle's attitude, for no explanation,
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- Changed toward him.
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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
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- For knowing when intermission is over,
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- 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,
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- "i have always thought that one man
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- Of tolerable abilities may work great changes
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- And accomplish great affairs among mankind
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- If he first forms a good plan
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- And cutting off all amusements
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- Or other employments that would divert his attention,
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- Make the execution of that plan
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- I want to suggest that you take a couple of hours
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- 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
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- Of developing your plan or what i call a second act script.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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,
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- 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
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- 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.
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- We are not given a detailed outline
- 00:23:01.403 --> 00:23:03.405
- 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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- ♪ music ♪
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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.
- 00:23:19.054 --> 00:23:22.791
- 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.
- 00:23:27.762 --> 00:23:30.365
- Let me conclude today by giving a profound word of thanks
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- To those of you who give generously
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- To support the ministry of "pathway to victory."
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- Your gifts are truly making a difference.
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- We receive daily evidence through phone calls and emails
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- Through "pathway to victory."
- 00:23:48.884 --> 00:23:50.619
- So please keep up the good work.
- 00:23:50.619 --> 00:23:53.255
- God is using you
- 00:23:53.255 --> 00:23:54.656
- And your generous gifts to pierce the darkness
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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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- In just a moment.
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- In my book, "second chance, second act,"
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- You'll discover five biblical strategies
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- For turning your messes into successes.
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- You'll learn to overcome the guilt, suffering,
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- And regret of your past mistakes,
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- And you'll read stories from scripture
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- That prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
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- That god is in the business of second chances.
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- [announcer] a copy of the book,
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- "second chance, second act" is yours today
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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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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- We are sharing the timeless wisdom
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- And truth of god's word with the world in need,
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- And your support makes it possible.
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- Thank you for partnering with us to share the gospel
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- And change lives through the bold proclamation of scripture.
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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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- Of what's coming up next on "pathway to victory."
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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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- I saw a sign one time on a businessman's office.
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- I've remembered it for years.
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- It said 20 years from now
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- What will you regret that you didn't do today?
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- [announcer] set your dvr
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- "begin your second act now!"
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