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Robert Jeffress - The Curtain Doesn't Come Down When You Mess Up!

January 1, 2025 | S25:E2

Robert Jeffress - The Curtain Doesn't Come Down When You Mess Up!
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 - The Curtain Doesn't Come Down When You Mess Up! | January 1, 2025
  • ♪ music ♪
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  • [announcer] from the pulpit
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  • Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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  • Well, aside from jesus,
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  • No man or woman has ever lived a perfect life.
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  • Sometimes, to our embarrassment,
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  • All of us make mistakes.
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  • But because of god's grace,
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  • Our failures don't have to be final.
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  • Today, we're beginning a series
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  • Titled "second chance, second act",
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  • And over the course of this study,
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  • We'll discover the life-changing principles
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  • To enjoying the second act god wants for you to experience.
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  • My message is titled
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  • "the curtain doesn't come down when you mess up"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory".
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • [announcer] we all make mistakes
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  • Almost every hour of every day.
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  • But because of god's grace,
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  • Failure does not have to be fatal.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress has written a book
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  • Called "second chance, second act"
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  • Featuring biblical insights, trustworthy wisdom,
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  • And practical strategies
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  • For turning your messes into successes.
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  • Discover how god can transform your biggest mistake
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  • Into a new beginning.
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  • Request the bestselling book "second chance, second act"
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  • When you give a generous gift
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  • To support the ministry of "pathway to victory".
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • One saturday, i was at the airport,
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  • Waiting anxiously for my flight to be called
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  • So i could get back home.
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  • And so, i decided to make one final stop at the restroom.
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  • And while i was washing my hands,
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  • I looked over and saw a woman suddenly enter the restroom.
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  • She looked at me,
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  • I looked at her,
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  • And she just froze, i mean in embarrassment.
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  • She started to apologize profusely
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  • For being in the wrong restroom.
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  • And i said, "that's okay, don't worry about it.
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  • It happens to me all of the time."
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  • So, she quickly darted out of there.
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  • I continued drying my hands, straightening my tie.
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  • I left the restroom, and for some reason,
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  • I just happened to look back.
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  • And on the wall next to the entrance,
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  • There was this little stick figure,
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  • A feminine stick figure
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • And the words "women" written underneath it.
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  • I'd been the one in the wrong restroom the whole time.
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  • But at least i made her feel better.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • You know, mistakes, we all make them, don't we,
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  • All the time.
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  • But i would just imagine the reason
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  • Some of you are interested in this new series,
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  • "second chance, second act",
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  • Is not because of some minor mishap in your life,
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  • Like going to the wrong restroom.
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  • I imagine that for most of you here today
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  • Or watching on television or listening by radio,
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  • There is a major blunder you can point to in your past.
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  • It may be an innocent friendship
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  • That turned into an immoral affair.
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  • It may be a poor financial decision
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  • That threatens your future security.
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  • It may be an opportunity you squandered
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  • For no other reason than sheer laziness.
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  • It may have been a choice
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  • To invest more time in your career than in your family.
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  • It may have been the decision to leave a relationship
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  • You now know you should have stayed in,
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  • Or it may have been the decision
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  • To stay in a relationship you should have ended.
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  • All of your mistakes, whatever they are,
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  • Probably have a list of questions
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  • That accompany those mistakes.
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  • Like, "can my mistake ever be forgiven by god?"
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  • Or, "even if god does forgive me of my mistakes,
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  • Do i have to spend the rest of my life
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  • Suffering the consequences for my mistake?
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  • Or the question,
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  • "if god is really in control and sovereign,
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  • Did his plan for my life include this tremendous mistake?"
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  • And most importantly,
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  • "can i ever hope to recover from my mistake?"
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  • Well, today i have, as the old joke begins,
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  • Some bad news and some good news for you.
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  • Let me give you the bad news first.
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  • You can't rewrite history.
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  • Life has no rewind button on it.
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  • Have you discovered that?
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  • That's the bad news, but here's the good news.
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  • God has the ability to take your worst mistakes
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  • And turn them into stepping stones
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  • For even greater success in life.
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  • The novelist f. scott fitzgerald once said,
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  • "there are no second acts in american history."
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  • Fitzgerald was absolutely wrong.
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  • The bible says there can be a second act,
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  • A second chance in your life
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  • If you follow the biblical principles
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  • We're going to discover in this series.
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  • Today, in this beginning message
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  • In our series "second chance, second act",
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  • We're going to talk about why the curtain
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  • Doesn't come down when we mess up.
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  • And specifically, today,
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  • We're going to talk about mistakes
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  • And we're going to discover three real and biblical truths
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  • About the mistakes that we all make.
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  • I want you to jot down these principles from god's word.
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  • Principle number one is this,
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  • Mistakes are inevitable.
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  • Speaking of my oldest daughter, julia,
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  • When she was three,
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  • Her favorite program on television was "sesame street",
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  • And it was amy's and my favorite program as well
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  • Because it kept her entertained.
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  • We loved "sesame street".
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  • And if you remember "sesame street" or still watch it,
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  • You know one of the signature characters
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  • On "sesame street" is big bird.
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  • And big bird used to have this saying.
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  • He used to go around saying,
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  • "everybody makes mistakes.
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  • Everybody makes mistakes."
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  • One day, i was confronting julia when she was about three
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  • About a minor transgression she had committed.
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  • And i was about to wallop her for it,
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  • Give her the deserved spanking.
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  • As i was about to spank her,
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  • She looked back and said,
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  • "well, dad, everybody makes mistakes."
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • I started laughing so hard
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  • I couldn't carry through the spanking.
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  • But you know, big bird was right.
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  • The fact is, we all make mistakes in life.
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  • I mean, think about some of those
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  • Who made some of the biggest mistakes in history.
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  • Think about, for example,
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  • The executive who introduced a product called new coke
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  • Into the world in the 1980s.
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  • Remember new coke and how quickly that faded?
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  • Or think about the creative geniuses at decca records
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  • Who decided they didn't want to sign a brand-new singing group
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  • Called the beatles to a recording contract.
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  • Did you know movie studios were almost unanimous
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  • In rejecting a script for a new movie
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  • Everybody knew would be a box office flop?
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  • It was called "star wars".
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  • Or think about the automobile company
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  • That produced an automobile called the edsel.
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  • Anybody old enough to remember the edsel?
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  • Author stephen pile produced a book
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  • About some of history's most notable failures.
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  • He called it "the incomplete book of failures".
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  • Ironically enough, when the book was finally published,
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  • The publishers had accidentally omitted
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  • The first two made pages of the book.
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  • Isn't that funny?
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  • Even books about mistakes had mistakes in them.
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  • We all make mistakes,
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  • And as we talk about mistakes in life,
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  • I think it's important to note
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  • That not all mistakes are the same.
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  • Mistakes come in a variety of different shapes and sizes.
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  • And so, today, we're going to talk about
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  • Three kinds of mistakes.
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  • I call them slip-ups,
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  • Secondly, there are mess-ups,
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  • And ultimately, there are screw-ups, okay?
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  • Now, let's talk first of all about slip-ups.
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  • Slip-ups are minor mistakes we make
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  • That have few consequences whatsoever.
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  • Recently, we were having a dinner with a pastor.
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  • This lady raised her hand, a guest, and said,
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  • "pastor, what is the most embarrassing experience
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  • You've ever had preaching?"
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  • Well, i paused for a long time,
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  • Not because i couldn't think of one,
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  • But because i thought,
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  • "is it really proper for me
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  • To share this with the audience or not?"
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  • And i decided, well, since it was a matter of public record,
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  • I could go ahead and share
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  • My most embarrassing moment preaching.
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  • It happened in my last church.
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  • It was the sunday before christmas.
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  • Then, i was trying to make the point about how ironic it was
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  • That the son of god would be born
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  • In such an insignificant place.
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  • And so, i was talking about the city of bethlehem,
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  • And with great gusto,
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  • I said, "it was the tiniest city in all judea!"
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  • But instead of saying "city,"
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  • I slipped and used a rhyming word.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • You know where i'm going with this.
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  • It wasn't any place good.
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  • I just kept right on preaching,
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  • Never acknowledged the mistake.
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  • Well, amy happened to be home that day, sick,
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  • And she was watching on live television
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  • And she watched me say that.
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  • And she thought,
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  • "did robert just say what i thought he said?"
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  • And then she thought,
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  • "no, that couldn't be, 'cause he never changed expression."
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  • But she said, suddenly,
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  • She saw the choir behind me start to convulse,
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Trying to suppress the laughter.
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  • And then, finally, it was all over in the service
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  • Once they started laughing.
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  • Now, that was a slip-up,
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  • But it had few consequences,
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  • Except being replayed at the staff christmas party
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  • Every year for years to come.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • But we all have slip-ups like that.
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  • That's not what we're talking about in this series.
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  • There's a second kind of mistake we make.
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  • I call them mess-ups.
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  • Now, mess-ups are mistakes
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  • That usually carry more painful consequences with them.
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  • A few years ago, a couple came to see me
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  • And they told me about the mess-up they had made.
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  • One sunday afternoon,
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  • They were driving around in a new neighborhood
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  • And they drove past this home that was for sale.
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  • And it was a beautiful home, and they said,
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  • "this is our dream house.
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  • We want to have this house."
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  • And so, they went to the real estate agent,
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  • They said, "could we purchase this home?"
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  • And he said, "you better purchase it,
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  • But you better do it very quickly,
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  • 'cause the market's really hot right now
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  • And it won't stay on the market long."
  • 00:10:51.741 --> 00:10:53.309
  • They said, "well, we have an existing home right now."
  • 00:10:53.309 --> 00:10:55.878
  • He said, "don't worry about it.
  • 00:10:55.878 --> 00:10:57.213
  • The market's hot.
  • 00:10:57.213 --> 00:10:58.481
  • You'll be able to unload that house soon.
  • 00:10:58.481 --> 00:11:00.216
  • You better put your offer in."
  • 00:11:00.216 --> 00:11:02.518
  • Well, six months later,
  • 00:11:02.518 --> 00:11:04.386
  • They were still the proud owners
  • 00:11:04.386 --> 00:11:05.888
  • Of two homes and two mortgages.
  • 00:11:05.888 --> 00:11:08.424
  • Now, eventually this couple over the,
  • 00:11:08.424 --> 00:11:10.226
  • Though they went through months of financial pain,
  • 00:11:10.226 --> 00:11:12.928
  • They eventually sold their former home
  • 00:11:12.928 --> 00:11:14.830
  • And now they don't experience the consequences any longer.
  • 00:11:14.830 --> 00:11:18.134
  • The consequences were real, but they weren't long-lasting.
  • 00:11:18.134 --> 00:11:22.805
  • But the third category of mistakes
  • 00:11:22.805 --> 00:11:24.807
  • Are the ones we're talking about in this series.
  • 00:11:24.807 --> 00:11:27.777
  • I call them screw-ups.
  • 00:11:27.777 --> 00:11:30.379
  • They are monumental mistakes
  • 00:11:30.379 --> 00:11:33.382
  • That seem to have unending consequences.
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  • While on a brief business trip,
  • 00:11:38.354 --> 00:11:41.023
  • Jerry met sarah at an industry trade show,
  • 00:11:41.023 --> 00:11:44.627
  • And i bet you can write the rest of the story.
  • 00:11:44.627 --> 00:11:47.496
  • Their one-night affair
  • 00:11:47.496 --> 00:11:49.999
  • Turned into a three-year prolonged relationship,
  • 00:11:49.999 --> 00:11:53.402
  • And it would've continued if jerry's wife
  • 00:11:53.402 --> 00:11:55.504
  • Had not found a hotel receipt in his coat pocket.
  • 00:11:55.504 --> 00:11:59.608
  • When she confronted jerry about the affair, he admitted it.
  • 00:11:59.608 --> 00:12:03.045
  • He asked her forgiveness, he asked god's forgiveness.
  • 00:12:03.045 --> 00:12:06.549
  • But when he came to see me, he had a question.
  • 00:12:06.549 --> 00:12:08.784
  • He said, "pastor, why am i still having
  • 00:12:08.784 --> 00:12:11.153
  • To pay for this mistake?"
  • 00:12:11.153 --> 00:12:12.955
  • He went on to say that his wife
  • 00:12:12.955 --> 00:12:15.024
  • Continued to hold this mistake over his head,
  • 00:12:15.024 --> 00:12:17.827
  • Wouldn't let him forget it.
  • 00:12:17.827 --> 00:12:19.395
  • Not only that, he confessed their sex life
  • 00:12:19.395 --> 00:12:21.697
  • Was sporadic and unsatisfactory.
  • 00:12:21.697 --> 00:12:24.834
  • And he said, in addition to all of that,
  • 00:12:24.834 --> 00:12:26.669
  • He felt like there was still a barrier
  • 00:12:26.669 --> 00:12:29.305
  • Between himself and god.
  • 00:12:29.305 --> 00:12:32.408
  • That's the kind of mistake i'm talking about.
  • 00:12:32.408 --> 00:12:34.543
  • I imagine somewhere in your past is a mistake like that.
  • 00:12:34.543 --> 00:12:38.881
  • It may or may not be a mistake of morality.
  • 00:12:38.881 --> 00:12:42.484
  • Perhaps you accepted a job offer to another city,
  • 00:12:42.484 --> 00:12:47.356
  • And even though you felt like it was god's will at the time,
  • 00:12:47.356 --> 00:12:52.194
  • The move proved to be disastrous for your children.
  • 00:12:52.194 --> 00:12:56.365
  • When i think about people
  • 00:12:56.932 --> 00:12:58.167
  • Who had major mistakes in their life,
  • 00:12:58.167 --> 00:12:59.702
  • I think about the apostle peter.
  • 00:12:59.702 --> 00:13:01.937
  • Peter's name means rock, the rock,
  • 00:13:01.937 --> 00:13:05.641
  • And yet, peter could have been
  • 00:13:05.641 --> 00:13:07.009
  • Just as shifting as the sand many different times.
  • 00:13:07.009 --> 00:13:10.312
  • Think about all the mistakes peter made.
  • 00:13:10.312 --> 00:13:12.414
  • There was the time he was trying to walk on the water,
  • 00:13:12.414 --> 00:13:15.284
  • But because he took his eyes off jesus, he began to sink.
  • 00:13:15.284 --> 00:13:19.054
  • Or think about the time he was in the garden with the lord
  • 00:13:19.054 --> 00:13:21.790
  • And he impulsively cut off the roman soldier's ear.
  • 00:13:21.790 --> 00:13:27.363
  • Or think about the fact that peter kept not believing
  • 00:13:27.363 --> 00:13:30.232
  • That god could save gentiles just as much as he could jews.
  • 00:13:30.232 --> 00:13:34.637
  • But the failure for which peter will always be remembered
  • 00:13:34.637 --> 00:13:38.073
  • Is the one that happened
  • 00:13:38.073 --> 00:13:39.842
  • That night and early morning before jesus was crucified.
  • 00:13:39.842 --> 00:13:44.146
  • We find that mistake recorded in matthew 26.
  • 00:13:44.146 --> 00:13:47.483
  • Peter failed and he failed miserably.
  • 00:13:47.483 --> 00:13:51.553
  • But you know what?
  • 00:13:51.553 --> 00:13:53.455
  • Jesus was willing to forgive him.
  • 00:13:54.189 --> 00:13:56.158
  • Isn't it interesting that three days later
  • 00:13:57.059 --> 00:14:00.195
  • When jesus was raised from the dead,
  • 00:14:00.195 --> 00:14:03.332
  • The very first apostle he returned to and appeared to,
  • 00:14:03.332 --> 00:14:07.836
  • According to 1 corinthians 15:5, was peter.
  • 00:14:07.836 --> 00:14:11.640
  • It was god's way of saying, "i forgive you."
  • 00:14:11.640 --> 00:14:14.543
  • And not only that, a mere six weeks later,
  • 00:14:14.543 --> 00:14:17.746
  • Peter, who had disappointed the lord,
  • 00:14:17.746 --> 00:14:19.615
  • Found himself standing before thousands
  • 00:14:19.615 --> 00:14:22.051
  • On the southern steps of the temple in jerusalem,
  • 00:14:22.051 --> 00:14:25.154
  • Preaching perhaps the greatest sermon
  • 00:14:25.154 --> 00:14:27.356
  • That has ever been preached
  • 00:14:27.356 --> 00:14:28.724
  • About the resurrection of jesus christ,
  • 00:14:28.724 --> 00:14:30.859
  • And thousands that day came to faith in christ.
  • 00:14:30.859 --> 00:14:34.763
  • Ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:14:34.763 --> 00:14:36.165
  • I don't care what failure you have experienced.
  • 00:14:36.165 --> 00:14:39.835
  • Your failure, your sin
  • 00:14:39.835 --> 00:14:41.470
  • Doesn't have to be the final word about your life story.
  • 00:14:41.470 --> 00:14:45.207
  • God is not only willing to forgive,
  • 00:14:45.207 --> 00:14:47.476
  • He's also willing to use you again.
  • 00:14:47.476 --> 00:14:50.045
  • That's what happened to peter.
  • 00:14:50.045 --> 00:14:52.081
  • Sometimes the biggest screw-ups in our life
  • 00:14:52.081 --> 00:14:54.984
  • Are things we do,
  • 00:14:54.984 --> 00:14:56.852
  • But sometimes, the big mistakes we make is not what we do,
  • 00:14:56.852 --> 00:15:00.289
  • It's what we fail to do.
  • 00:15:00.289 --> 00:15:03.459
  • A few years ago i was on a program
  • 00:15:03.459 --> 00:15:04.760
  • With motivational speaker les brown,
  • 00:15:04.760 --> 00:15:06.829
  • And les said something i wrote down on an index card.
  • 00:15:06.829 --> 00:15:09.999
  • I thought it was so rich.
  • 00:15:09.999 --> 00:15:11.967
  • He said: the richest ground on planet earth
  • 00:15:11.967 --> 00:15:15.337
  • Is not found in the diamond fields of south africa
  • 00:15:15.337 --> 00:15:18.874
  • Or in the oil fields of west texas.
  • 00:15:18.874 --> 00:15:21.243
  • The richest ground on earth is the cemetery,
  • 00:15:21.243 --> 00:15:25.514
  • For in the cemetery we find bodies
  • 00:15:25.514 --> 00:15:28.217
  • Containing speeches that were never given,
  • 00:15:28.217 --> 00:15:31.353
  • Books that were never written,
  • 00:15:31.353 --> 00:15:33.655
  • Songs that were never sung,
  • 00:15:33.655 --> 00:15:35.924
  • And dreams that were never fulfilled.
  • 00:15:35.924 --> 00:15:39.228
  • We can't turn the clock backward.
  • 00:15:39.962 --> 00:15:42.064
  • We can't regain opportunities we've squandered.
  • 00:15:43.065 --> 00:15:46.301
  • We can't remake decisions we regret.
  • 00:15:46.301 --> 00:15:48.637
  • We can't redo parts of our life
  • 00:15:48.637 --> 00:15:50.839
  • That are so embarrassing to us.
  • 00:15:50.839 --> 00:15:53.275
  • But here's some good news.
  • 00:15:53.275 --> 00:15:55.344
  • Even though mistakes are inevitable,
  • 00:15:55.344 --> 00:15:58.047
  • The second truth i want you to write down is,
  • 00:15:58.047 --> 00:16:00.349
  • Our mistakes are forgivable.
  • 00:16:00.349 --> 00:16:03.619
  • Have you ever wondered,
  • 00:16:03.619 --> 00:16:04.887
  • Why is it that we consistently slip up,
  • 00:16:04.887 --> 00:16:07.189
  • Mess up, and screw up in life?
  • 00:16:07.189 --> 00:16:09.091
  • There's a simple answer, it's a one-word answer.
  • 00:16:09.091 --> 00:16:11.660
  • It's called sin, s-i-n.
  • 00:16:11.660 --> 00:16:15.264
  • The greek word sin literally means to miss the mark.
  • 00:16:15.264 --> 00:16:22.571
  • To sin, in god's eyes, is to miss the mark,
  • 00:16:22.571 --> 00:16:27.476
  • That is, to miss the bullseye,
  • 00:16:27.476 --> 00:16:30.712
  • God's perfect plan for your life.
  • 00:16:30.712 --> 00:16:33.348
  • When paul says, "we all sin
  • 00:16:33.348 --> 00:16:35.484
  • And fall short of the glory of god,"
  • 00:16:35.484 --> 00:16:36.985
  • What he's saying is
  • 00:16:36.985 --> 00:16:38.454
  • We fail to hit the bullseye 100% of the time,
  • 00:16:38.454 --> 00:16:41.623
  • Or even most of the time.
  • 00:16:41.623 --> 00:16:44.126
  • In god's plan for our marriages, for our careers,
  • 00:16:44.126 --> 00:16:48.263
  • For our finances, for our parenting,
  • 00:16:48.263 --> 00:16:51.066
  • For every area of the life,
  • 00:16:51.066 --> 00:16:53.469
  • We all fall short of god's ideal.
  • 00:16:53.469 --> 00:16:57.906
  • Sin, that's what it is, falling short.
  • 00:16:58.740 --> 00:17:01.810
  • Well, how did we get that inclination to always fall short?
  • 00:17:01.810 --> 00:17:04.613
  • What is it that makes us always fall short?
  • 00:17:04.613 --> 00:17:06.615
  • We've looked at this in the last few weeks.
  • 00:17:06.615 --> 00:17:08.717
  • Romans 5:12 says,
  • 00:17:08.717 --> 00:17:10.185
  • "therefore, just as through one man
  • 00:17:10.185 --> 00:17:12.421
  • Sin entered into the world,
  • 00:17:12.421 --> 00:17:13.956
  • And death through sin,
  • 00:17:13.956 --> 00:17:15.324
  • And so death spread to all men because all sinned."
  • 00:17:15.324 --> 00:17:19.795
  • I don't understand exactly how that happened,
  • 00:17:19.795 --> 00:17:21.864
  • But here's what i know.
  • 00:17:21.864 --> 00:17:22.698
  • Because of adam's sin,
  • 00:17:22.698 --> 00:17:24.166
  • We have bodies that are now contaminated with sin.
  • 00:17:24.166 --> 00:17:28.237
  • And because of that,
  • 00:17:28.237 --> 00:17:29.505
  • We are habitually drawn to mess-ups in life.
  • 00:17:29.505 --> 00:17:33.442
  • We continually fall short of god's plan
  • 00:17:33.442 --> 00:17:36.345
  • Because sin has contaminated our lives.
  • 00:17:36.345 --> 00:17:39.381
  • But you know what, god has made an offer to us.
  • 00:17:39.381 --> 00:17:41.416
  • He said, "you know,
  • 00:17:41.416 --> 00:17:43.285
  • Even though i'm not responsible for your sin,
  • 00:17:43.285 --> 00:17:46.321
  • I'm going to pay the cost of your sin."
  • 00:17:46.321 --> 00:17:48.323
  • And that's why he sent jesus to die for us.
  • 00:17:48.323 --> 00:17:51.260
  • Jesus not only paid the penalty
  • 00:17:51.260 --> 00:17:53.395
  • For forgiving us of our sins,
  • 00:17:53.395 --> 00:17:55.764
  • But he offers to make us brand-new people
  • 00:17:55.764 --> 00:17:58.400
  • From the inside out.
  • 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.169
  • He offers us a brand-new beginning
  • 00:18:00.169 --> 00:18:02.471
  • If we're willing to accept his payment.
  • 00:18:02.471 --> 00:18:05.440
  • It may seem unfair that we would have to suffer
  • 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:07.843
  • The consequences for adam's sin,
  • 00:18:07.843 --> 00:18:09.878
  • But what is even more unfair
  • 00:18:09.878 --> 00:18:11.446
  • Is that jesus would suffer the consequences for our sin.
  • 00:18:11.446 --> 00:18:15.684
  • But that's something he was willing to do.
  • 00:18:15.684 --> 00:18:17.452
  • Listen to how paul said it in romans 5:15-16
  • 00:18:17.452 --> 00:18:21.023
  • From the new living bible:
  • 00:18:21.023 --> 00:18:22.558
  • But there is one great difference
  • 00:18:22.558 --> 00:18:24.660
  • Between adam's sin and god's gracious gift.
  • 00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:28.330
  • For the sin of this one man,
  • 00:18:28.330 --> 00:18:29.831
  • Adam brought death to many.
  • 00:18:29.831 --> 00:18:32.000
  • But even greater is god's wonderful grace
  • 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.803
  • And his gift of forgiveness to many
  • 00:18:34.803 --> 00:18:37.105
  • Through this other man, jesus christ.
  • 00:18:37.105 --> 00:18:39.341
  • And the result of god's gracious gift
  • 00:18:39.341 --> 00:18:42.044
  • Is very different from the result of that one man's sin.
  • 00:18:42.044 --> 00:18:46.248
  • For adam's sin led to condemnation,
  • 00:18:46.248 --> 00:18:49.051
  • But god's free gift
  • 00:18:49.051 --> 00:18:51.520
  • Leads to our being made right with god,
  • 00:18:51.520 --> 00:18:54.323
  • Even though we are guilty of many sins.
  • 00:18:54.323 --> 00:18:57.993
  • You know why he offers to forgive us our sins
  • 00:18:57.993 --> 00:19:00.896
  • And give us a brand new being and a fresh start?
  • 00:19:00.896 --> 00:19:05.167
  • One word, grace.
  • 00:19:05.167 --> 00:19:08.570
  • Grace.
  • 00:19:08.570 --> 00:19:09.938
  • I love this definition of grace.
  • 00:19:09.938 --> 00:19:11.506
  • Grace is god's burst of undeserved generosity.
  • 00:19:11.506 --> 00:19:16.979
  • A burst of undeserved generosity.
  • 00:19:17.746 --> 00:19:20.415
  • "for by grace you have been saved through faith."
  • 00:19:20.415 --> 00:19:25.287
  • I remember i was told one time about a teenage girl
  • 00:19:25.287 --> 00:19:27.923
  • Who had been sent to an eating disorder clinic.
  • 00:19:27.923 --> 00:19:32.828
  • Her situation was very dire.
  • 00:19:32.828 --> 00:19:35.097
  • She was facing death.
  • 00:19:35.097 --> 00:19:36.298
  • She had become withdrawn from her family,
  • 00:19:36.298 --> 00:19:38.233
  • And her family asked me if i would write her
  • 00:19:38.233 --> 00:19:40.936
  • A letter of encouragement.
  • 00:19:40.936 --> 00:19:43.972
  • And as i was writing her a note of encouragement
  • 00:19:43.972 --> 00:19:46.775
  • To remind her that god loved her,
  • 00:19:46.775 --> 00:19:50.145
  • I remembered some words from max lucado
  • 00:19:50.145 --> 00:19:52.948
  • That i included in my letter to her.
  • 00:19:52.948 --> 00:19:55.250
  • Max wrote:
  • 00:19:55.250 --> 00:19:56.785
  • There are many reasons god saves you,
  • 00:19:56.785 --> 00:20:00.322
  • To bring glory to himself,
  • 00:20:00.322 --> 00:20:02.090
  • To appease his justice,
  • 00:20:02.090 --> 00:20:03.659
  • To demonstrate his sovereignty.
  • 00:20:03.659 --> 00:20:05.961
  • But one of the sweetest reasons god saved you
  • 00:20:05.961 --> 00:20:09.298
  • Is because he's fond of you.
  • 00:20:09.298 --> 00:20:11.667
  • He likes having you around.
  • 00:20:11.667 --> 00:20:13.735
  • He thinks you are the best thing
  • 00:20:13.735 --> 00:20:15.137
  • To come down the pike in quite a while.
  • 00:20:15.137 --> 00:20:17.773
  • If god had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
  • 00:20:17.773 --> 00:20:21.176
  • If god had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
  • 00:20:22.177 --> 00:20:25.147
  • He sends you flowers every spring and sunrise every morning.
  • 00:20:25.147 --> 00:20:29.484
  • Whenever you want to talk, he'll listen.
  • 00:20:29.484 --> 00:20:32.421
  • He can live anywhere in the universe
  • 00:20:32.421 --> 00:20:34.990
  • And he chose your heart.
  • 00:20:34.990 --> 00:20:36.958
  • Face it, friend.
  • 00:20:36.958 --> 00:20:38.794
  • He's crazy about you.
  • 00:20:38.794 --> 00:20:41.463
  • Isn't that great?
  • 00:20:41.897 --> 00:20:43.198
  • That's the kind of god we serve.
  • 00:20:43.198 --> 00:20:45.367
  • One who loves us,
  • 00:20:45.367 --> 00:20:46.968
  • One who understands our mistakes are inevitable,
  • 00:20:46.968 --> 00:20:49.171
  • But he also says they are forgivable.
  • 00:20:49.171 --> 00:20:52.607
  • Remember what he said through the prophet isaiah,
  • 00:20:52.607 --> 00:20:54.776
  • Isaiah 1:18.
  • 00:20:54.776 --> 00:20:56.311
  • "'come now and let us reason together,' says the lord.
  • 00:20:56.311 --> 00:20:59.581
  • 'though your sins are as scarlet,
  • 00:20:59.581 --> 00:21:02.551
  • They will be white as snow.'"
  • 00:21:02.551 --> 00:21:05.687
  • Our mistakes are inevitable, they're forgivable.
  • 00:21:06.688 --> 00:21:10.158
  • That should be enough, but there's even greater news.
  • 00:21:10.158 --> 00:21:12.861
  • Our mistakes, thirdly, are redeemable.
  • 00:21:12.861 --> 00:21:16.498
  • Now, think about it.
  • 00:21:16.498 --> 00:21:18.200
  • If god's grace, his undeserved generosity
  • 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:21.403
  • Simply means we don't go to hell when we die,
  • 00:21:21.403 --> 00:21:24.206
  • That'd be a pretty good deal, wouldn't it?
  • 00:21:24.206 --> 00:21:26.508
  • I mean, think about it.
  • 00:21:26.508 --> 00:21:28.143
  • Even if your affair cost you your marriage,
  • 00:21:28.143 --> 00:21:31.847
  • Even if your bad financial decision resulted in bankruptcy,
  • 00:21:32.981 --> 00:21:36.985
  • Even if the crime you committed meant life imprisonment,
  • 00:21:36.985 --> 00:21:40.789
  • But you knew that, because of god's forgiveness,
  • 00:21:40.789 --> 00:21:44.326
  • You'd be in heaven rather than hell,
  • 00:21:44.326 --> 00:21:45.894
  • Wouldn't you thank god for that?
  • 00:21:45.894 --> 00:21:48.029
  • But god doesn't stop just with his forgiveness.
  • 00:21:49.030 --> 00:21:51.833
  • God actually offers to redeem your mistakes.
  • 00:21:51.833 --> 00:21:56.138
  • By that, i mean god is willing
  • 00:21:56.138 --> 00:21:58.607
  • To take the worst things you have done,
  • 00:21:58.607 --> 00:22:00.942
  • The worst mistakes you have made,
  • 00:22:00.942 --> 00:22:02.711
  • And still use them in some inexplicable way
  • 00:22:02.711 --> 00:22:05.514
  • For your good and his glory.
  • 00:22:05.514 --> 00:22:08.150
  • Isaiah 61:3 says,
  • 00:22:08.150 --> 00:22:09.885
  • "god will give a crown of beauty for ashes,
  • 00:22:09.885 --> 00:22:14.156
  • A joyous blessing instead of mourning,
  • 00:22:14.156 --> 00:22:17.325
  • Festive praise instead of despair."
  • 00:22:17.325 --> 00:22:21.663
  • You have a hard time believing that?
  • 00:22:22.431 --> 00:22:24.499
  • God is willing not only to forgive you of your mistake,
  • 00:22:24.499 --> 00:22:27.903
  • But also redeem your mistake
  • 00:22:27.903 --> 00:22:30.439
  • To use it for your good and for his glory.
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  • That's what redemption is all about.
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  • I want you to do something for me in closing.
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  • I want everybody to raise your right hand, okay?
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  • Got it?
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  • Take your right hand and place it over your heart.
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  • Hopefully, you feel a heartbeat.
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  • You know what that heartbeat signifies?
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  • God's grace.
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  • The fact that he didn't strike you dead
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  • The moment you committed that mistake
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  • Is a sign of his grace,
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  • That he's given you time
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  • Not only to receive his forgiveness,
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  • But he's actually given you the time you need
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  • To recover from that mistake.
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  • Your pulse is your greatest plus, as somebody once said,
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  • And that's what we're going to be talking about.
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  • Over the next few weeks.
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  • We're going to discover the five biblical principles
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  • For turning your biggest messes
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  • Into incredible successes.
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  • All of us need a spiritual scapegoat.
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  • This is god's provision for sinners,
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  • And when we confess our failures and blunders to god,
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  • He actually separates us from our sin.
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  • I'll say more about this process
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  • Next time on "pathway to victory",
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  • But right now, lots of our friends
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  • Have been asking about the outcome
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  • Of the light the darkness matching challenge.
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  • Early indicators suggest a successful conclusion,
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  • But our staff is still busy tallying the results.
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  • All to say, if you gave generously
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  • Before the deadline yesterday,
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  • We are deeply grateful,
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  • And you can expect to receive an email update
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  • With the final result very soon.
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  • Well, as we begin a new year together,
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  • I'm inviting you to link arms with "pathway to victory"
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  • As one of our pathway partners.
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  • A pathway partner is somebody who agrees
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  • To give a generous gift
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  • In the amount of your choosing every month.
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  • As a pathway partner,
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  • You'll be part of an exclusive circle of friends
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  • Who maximizes our impact.
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  • Thank you for partnering with "pathway to victory"
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  • As we pierce the darkness with the light of god's word
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  • Through television, radio, podcasting,
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  • And digital streaming.
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  • Now, stay right there
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  • And i'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • [announcer] all of us carry some measure
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  • Of regret about the past.
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  • Thankfully, no mistake is too big for god to forgive.
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  • In his bestselling book "second chance, second act",
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  • Dr. robert jeffress shares
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  • How god can turn your biggest mess
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  • Into your greatest success.
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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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  • Ladies and gentlemen,
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  • I don't care what failure you have experienced.
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  • Your failure, your sin
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  • Doesn't have 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're sharing the timeless wisdom and truth of god's word
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  • With a world in need,
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  • And your support makes it possible.
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  • And change lives through the bold proclamation of scripture.
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  • Whenever we make a major blunder,
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  • We tend to beat ourselves up,
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  • And we carry around our heavy guilt for months,
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  • Or even years.
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  • But if you know jesus christ as your savior,
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  • God has already forgiven you and lifted the burden of guilt.
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  • Next time, we'll learn that god's forgiveness
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  • Also means that we can experience
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  • A radical transformation of our lives.
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  • In fact, god can take our worst failures
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  • And use them for our good and his glory.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview
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  • Of what's coming up next in our series
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  • "second chance, second act".
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  • We can rationalize, we can excuse,
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  • We can engage in a coverup.
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  • It is impossible to cover the stain of our sin.
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  • The good news is, god can cover it for us.
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  • He covers it with the blood of his son,
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  • The lord jesus christ.
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  • [announcer] set your dvr and join us next time
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  • For the message "meet the divine director",
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  • Here on "pathway to victory".
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