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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Enjoy Your Intermission (Part 1) | January 9, 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'm robert jeffress,
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- And welcome again to pathway to victory.
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- If you're like me,
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- Then chances are you struggle with impatience.
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- Sometimes i get antsy
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- When my phone call gets dumped into voicemail
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- And i'm restless
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- When i'm waiting for an important email to arrive.
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- Well, today i'm going to show you
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- That, even though waiting is rarely fun,
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- Sometimes a pause is essential to our success.
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- My message is titled, enjoy your intermission,
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- On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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- In the sports world, it's known as halftime.
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- It's that period of time between the first half of the game
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- And the second half of the game
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- When the teams retreat to readjust their strategy
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- And the fans refresh their supply
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- Of cheese nachos and coca-cola.
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- But only the most fickle fan
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- Would ever leave a game after the first half during halftime
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- Because we all know games are not won or lost
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- During that first half of the game
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- But in the second half of the game.
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- Now, i could continue
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- This life-as-a-game analysis ad nauseum,
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- But i'm not going to do that
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- Because we're using a different metaphor in this series,
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- And that is life is a performance.
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- God places us on the earth stage for 70 or 80 years
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- To play the part he's assigned us.
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- And while we play our part,
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- Not only are we being watched by others on earth,
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- But there's a heavenly audience, the bible says,
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- God and the angels who are watching to see
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- How we perform our part.
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- But sometime at some point in our life story,
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- We're going to fail.
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- What happens then?
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- Does the divine director pull us off with the hook
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- And say, "your part is over now"?
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- Does the curtain come down permanently?
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- Or can there be a second act in our life after failure?
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- And that's what we're talking about in this series,
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- Second chance, second act,
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- How, after failure, you can turn your worst messes
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- Into incredible successes.
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- And we're looking at five biblical principles
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- For turning failure into success in life.
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- The first principle we looked at several times ago was,
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- You've got to fess up to your mess up.
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- Before you can ever move on,
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- You have to receive god's forgiveness for your mistakes.
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- Secondly, we looked at last time,
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- Refuse to mess up for free.
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- We're all going to fail.
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- We're going to pay a price for our failure.
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- We ought to use that price
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- To help us to keep from repeating that mistake
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- Over and over again.
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- The bible has a term for that.
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- It's called learning from the reproofs of life.
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- Well, today we're going to look at
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- The third important principle
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- For experiencing a great second act.
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- And it's this.
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- We have to learn how to enjoy our intermission.
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- Enjoy our intermission.
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- Now, you've never probably thought about this before,
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- But intermissions are very, very real.
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- I'm probably showing my age here when i say this,
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- But many of you remember
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- When those great epic movies like "ben-hur"
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- Or "the 10 commandments,"
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- They would be so long
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- That the director would put an intermission in the middle.
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- You'd hit some climactic scene
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- And then it would fade to black,
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- And the word intermission would appear on the screen.
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- You'd get up, you know, it's popcorn time, you know?
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- But you didn't leave during the intermission
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- Unless the movie was awful,
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- Because, if you did so,
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- You'd miss the second part of the story,
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- Which was sometimes crucial.
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- Remember "the sound of music"?
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- I mean, i don't know how many times
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- We have seen "the sound of music,"
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- But remember when it was in its original form,
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- "the sound of music,"
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- That story about the nun-turned-nanny,
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- Remember how she went to the captain's house
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- And then she started to fall in love with the captain
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- And she didn't feel good and right
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- About falling in love with the captain
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- So she decided she was going to have to leave?
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- It was a failure on her part,
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- And she had to leave.
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- And remember that climactic scene,
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- Julie andrews standing at the bottom of the staircase
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- With her suitcase in one hand
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- And her guitar case in the other hand,
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- And she looks around,
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- And she makes one final glance at the house,
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- And she goes out the door?
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- End of act i.
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- Intermission time.
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- She had failed.
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- Or so we thought.
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- But if you came back for the second half of the movie,
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- You saw a completely different turn.
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- Remember how after spending some time
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- On her favorite mountain
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- And then enduring that warbling rendition
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- By mother superior of "climb every mountain"?
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- Remember after that she goes back to the house,
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- She marries the captain,
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- They take their family,
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- And they climb over the alps to escape the nazis.
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- What a great ending to the story.
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- But it all happened in the second half of the story.
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- What is an intermission?
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- Well, by definition in the theatrical world,
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- An intermission is that period of time
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- Between the first and second half of the production.
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- But in life, and i want you to write this down,
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- Intermission is that period of time
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- Between our failure and our future.
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- It's that period of time between our failure and our future.
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- We're all going to fail in life,
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- And many times we feel like the curtain has come down
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- And that our life story is over.
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- But, no, it's not over.
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- It is simply an intermission time.
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- And to help you understand this principle further,
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- Let me be very specific.
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- An intermission is that period of time between your divorce
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- And the beginning of another relationship
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- Or that period of time, that pause,
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- Between termination from one job
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- And the beginning of a new job.
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- It's that period of time
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- Between a bankruptcy and financial solvency.
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- It's that period of time
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- Between the revelation of your immorality
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- And the restoration of your reputation.
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- Now, again, in the theatrical world,
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- Intermissions can be refreshing.
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- They can be pleasant.
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- But in life they usually aren't.
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- Many people in their intermission
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- Are plagued by guilt over their failure
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- Or apprehension about what may or may not be ahead of them.
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- Most of us would choose just to move on with our life
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- Instead of going through an intermission time.
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- But as you look through scripture,
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- God's plan for his people
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- Always includes an intermission after their failure.
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- For example, think about the nation of israel.
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- They rebelled against god,
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- And because of that,
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- God took them captive by the babylonians.
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- They spent 70 years in babylonian captivity.
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- That was their intermission
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- Before god allowed them to return to the land.
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- Or thinking about the apostle peter.
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- His intermission occurred after he failed.
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- He failed miserably.
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- He denied christ three times in the courtyard of caiaphas.
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- He had an intermission of seven weeks
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- Between that time that he denied christ
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- And the time he would take his stand
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- On the southern steps of the temple
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- And preach the greatest sermon ever preached at pentecost
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- With thousands of people being saved.
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- For the apostle paul,
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- His intermission occurred in the desert for three years
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- Where god would teach him personally
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- The great doctrinal truths
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- He would spend the rest of his life proclaiming.
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- That's what an intermission is.
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- But in the bible,
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- Perhaps the greatest illustration of an intermission
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- Is the story of moses.
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- Now, when i say moses,
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- What comes to your mind besides charlton heston?
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- When we think about moses, we think about what?
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- The parting of the red sea
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- Or the receiving of the 10 commandments at mount sinai
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- Or the great, inspirational speech moses made
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- Before the children of israel entered the promised land.
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- We think of those great moments in moses' life.
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- Do you realize all of those events
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- Occurred after age 80 for moses?
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- They occurred in his second half of life.
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- You know, it's interesting,
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- When you look at moses' life,
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- The first 40 years of his life
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- Were compressed into 10 brief verses
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- In exodus 10, verses 1 to 10.
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- Remember how god miraculously preserved moses
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- From the edict of pharaoh to slaughter all the hebrew males?
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- And remember how god miraculously moved moses
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- Into pharaoh's court
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- While the children of israel still were in slavery?
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- We find moses' story in acts 2.
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- It's recounted in the new testament in acts chapter 7.
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- Luke gives us the reader's digest version
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- Of the life of moses.
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- Look at verses 21 to 22.
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- "and after moses had been exposed,
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- "pharaoh's daughter took him away
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- "and nurtured him as her own son.
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- "and moses was educated
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- "in all the learning of the egyptians,
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- "and he was a man of power in words and deeds."
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- Now, think about this.
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- God had ordained that moses
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- Was going to lead his people out of ******* into freedom.
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- And now it looks like we know how god's going to do it.
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- He's doing it by putting moses in pharaoh's household.
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- And maybe it would be the fact
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- That moses was now related to pharaoh.
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- Pharaoh was his adopted grandpa.
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- And maybe god's plan would be
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- That one day moses would come into his new grandpa
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- And say, "granddaddy, how about letting the israelites go?"
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- Maybe god would use that connection moses had.
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- Or maybe it would be the fact
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- That pharaoh would be so dazzled
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- By moses' power and words and deeds
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- And his scholastic ability
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- That pharaoh would just simply say, "yes, moses,
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- "whatever you want.
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- "you have swayed me with your words
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- "and your oratorical ability."
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- But that wasn't god's plan.
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- Listen to this.
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- God didn't use moses' successes
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- To accomplish his purpose.
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- He would use moses' failure.
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- It was moses' failure
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- That would be the vehicle that god used
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- To bring about the exodus.
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- We find that failure recorded in acts 7,
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- Beginning with verse 23.
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- "and when moses was approaching the age of 40."
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- By the way, underline that in your bible.
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- We're going to get back to that in a minute.
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- "it was when he was approaching the age of 40
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- "that it entered moses' mind
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- "to visit his brethren, the sons of israel."
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- Remember, they were slaves.
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- Verse 24.
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- "so he goes out to look at them,
- 00:11:28.010 --> 00:11:29.779
- "and when he saw one of them being treated unjustly,
- 00:11:29.779 --> 00:11:33.482
- "he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed
- 00:11:33.482 --> 00:11:36.452
- "by striking down the egyptian."
- 00:11:36.452 --> 00:11:40.389
- In the exodus version,
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- The bible says that, when nobody was looking,
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- Moses looked this way, he looked that way.
- 00:11:46.529 --> 00:11:49.398
- Unfortunately, he didn't look that way,
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- And he killed that egyptian in a fit of anger,
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- And he hid him in the sand.
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- Verse 25.
- 00:11:57.973 --> 00:11:59.275
- "and moses thought that his brethren understood
- 00:11:59.275 --> 00:12:02.278
- "that god was granting them deliverance through him,
- 00:12:02.278 --> 00:12:05.381
- "but they did not understand."
- 00:12:05.381 --> 00:12:08.617
- During these first 40 years of moses' life,
- 00:12:09.552 --> 00:12:11.520
- God had protected him from death.
- 00:12:11.520 --> 00:12:14.056
- God had placed him in pharaoh's household.
- 00:12:14.056 --> 00:12:16.258
- And yet in an instant, in one uncontrolled moment of anger,
- 00:12:16.258 --> 00:12:20.462
- It looked like his life story was over.
- 00:12:20.462 --> 00:12:24.099
- You know, moses hid that egyptian in the sand.
- 00:12:24.099 --> 00:12:27.036
- Then the bible says the next day moses went out,
- 00:12:27.036 --> 00:12:30.739
- Thinking nobody knew of his sin,
- 00:12:30.739 --> 00:12:32.441
- And he saw two israelites fighting,
- 00:12:32.441 --> 00:12:34.543
- And he tried to mediate the dispute.
- 00:12:34.543 --> 00:12:36.979
- And they looked at him,
- 00:12:36.979 --> 00:12:37.913
- Acts 7, verses 27 and 28 saying,
- 00:12:37.913 --> 00:12:39.882
- "are you going to kill us
- 00:12:39.882 --> 00:12:41.283
- "just like you killed that egyptian yesterday?"
- 00:12:41.283 --> 00:12:45.054
- Moses thought, "uh-oh, the jig is up.
- 00:12:45.054 --> 00:12:48.324
- "i'm in trouble."
- 00:12:48.324 --> 00:12:49.992
- Exodus 2:15 says,
- 00:12:49.992 --> 00:12:51.360
- "when pharaoh heard of this matter,
- 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.329
- "he tried to kill moses,
- 00:12:53.329 --> 00:12:55.397
- "but moses fled from the presence of pharaoh
- 00:12:55.397 --> 00:12:58.234
- "and settled in the land of midian
- 00:12:58.234 --> 00:13:00.035
- "and he sat down by a well."
- 00:13:00.035 --> 00:13:01.871
- Just think about it.
- 00:13:01.871 --> 00:13:03.072
- In an instant,
- 00:13:03.072 --> 00:13:04.506
- Moses went from pharaoh's penthouse
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- To the desert's outhouse.
- 00:13:06.742 --> 00:13:09.545
- I mean, in an instant his whole future was changed.
- 00:13:09.545 --> 00:13:14.083
- He's on the run, he's in the desert.
- 00:13:14.083 --> 00:13:17.019
- He sits down by a well, and he begins to think.
- 00:13:17.019 --> 00:13:20.055
- Can you imagine the thousand if onlys
- 00:13:20.055 --> 00:13:23.592
- That must have flooded his mind?
- 00:13:23.592 --> 00:13:25.828
- I'm sure as he sat there, he thought to himself,
- 00:13:25.828 --> 00:13:27.997
- "you know, if only i had slept in that morning
- 00:13:27.997 --> 00:13:30.799
- "instead of going in to visit the construction site.
- 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.370
- "if only i had refused
- 00:13:34.370 --> 00:13:35.938
- "that double shot of espresso in my coffee latte
- 00:13:35.938 --> 00:13:38.807
- "that left me so agitated.
- 00:13:38.807 --> 00:13:41.310
- "if only i had enrolled in that anger management class
- 00:13:41.310 --> 00:13:44.246
- "that mrs. moses was trying to get me to go to."
- 00:13:44.246 --> 00:13:47.483
- If only, if only, if only.
- 00:13:47.483 --> 00:13:50.719
- Moses had the dream of being a great leader.
- 00:13:50.719 --> 00:13:54.056
- But now he was just leading a few scraggly sheep
- 00:13:54.056 --> 00:13:56.859
- Out in the middle of nowheresville.
- 00:13:56.859 --> 00:13:59.194
- He thought his life was over.
- 00:13:59.194 --> 00:14:01.497
- And yet what he doesn't realize at this point is,
- 00:14:01.497 --> 00:14:04.566
- God is just preparing him for his second act.
- 00:14:04.566 --> 00:14:08.103
- Look at verses 30 to 33 of acts 7.
- 00:14:08.103 --> 00:14:10.306
- "and after 40 years had passed,
- 00:14:10.306 --> 00:14:14.109
- "an angel appeared to moses in the wilderness of mount sinai
- 00:14:14.109 --> 00:14:17.746
- "in the flame of a burning thorn bush.
- 00:14:17.746 --> 00:14:20.382
- "and when moses saw it,
- 00:14:20.382 --> 00:14:21.483
- "he began to marvel at the site.
- 00:14:21.483 --> 00:14:23.585
- "and he approached to look more closely,
- 00:14:23.585 --> 00:14:26.255
- "and there came the voice of the lord.
- 00:14:26.255 --> 00:14:28.457
- "'i am the god of your fathers,
- 00:14:28.457 --> 00:14:30.592
- "'the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.'
- 00:14:30.592 --> 00:14:33.295
- "and moses shook with fear and would not venture to look.
- 00:14:33.295 --> 00:14:36.899
- "but the lord said to him,
- 00:14:36.899 --> 00:14:38.534
- "'take off your sandals, your feet,
- 00:14:38.534 --> 00:14:42.237
- "'for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.'"
- 00:14:42.237 --> 00:14:47.242
- I want you to do the math for just a moment.
- 00:14:48.143 --> 00:14:49.578
- Moses was 40 when he failed.
- 00:14:49.578 --> 00:14:52.681
- He spent the next 40 years in the wilderness
- 00:14:52.681 --> 00:14:55.884
- In his intermission.
- 00:14:55.884 --> 00:14:57.186
- It was at age 80 that god appears to moses
- 00:14:57.186 --> 00:15:01.523
- And says, "it's time now for your second act."
- 00:15:01.523 --> 00:15:05.394
- Now, before we look at how we can profit
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- From this period of intermission,
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- I want to give you three characteristics of intermission
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- That are crucial to understand.
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- First of all, remember,
- 00:15:14.937 --> 00:15:16.171
- Intermissions are imposed, not chosen.
- 00:15:16.171 --> 00:15:22.745
- Most of us would never choose an intermission.
- 00:15:20.743 --> 00:15:24.747
- I mean, after moses made his big mistake
- 00:15:24.747 --> 00:15:27.082
- And killed that egyptian,
- 00:15:27.082 --> 00:15:28.484
- Did he say to himself, "whoa, just a moment here,
- 00:15:28.484 --> 00:15:31.320
- "i've got some anger issues i need to deal with"?
- 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:34.656
- "i think i'll go spend 40 years
- 00:15:34.656 --> 00:15:36.225
- "on a sabbatical in the desert until i can get over this."
- 00:15:36.225 --> 00:15:39.461
- No, and none of us would ever choose an intermission,
- 00:15:39.461 --> 00:15:42.097
- But god chooses them for us.
- 00:15:42.097 --> 00:15:45.267
- Intermissions are times of waiting.
- 00:15:45.267 --> 00:15:47.269
- That's why we hate it so much.
- 00:15:47.269 --> 00:15:49.238
- Waiting and waiting and waiting,
- 00:15:49.238 --> 00:15:51.940
- Waiting for god to change some attitudes in us,
- 00:15:51.940 --> 00:15:55.978
- Waiting for god to choose
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- And change the hearts of other people whom we've hurt,
- 00:15:58.180 --> 00:16:01.950
- Waiting for god to change the circumstances
- 00:16:01.950 --> 00:16:05.220
- That are necessary for us to have a second act.
- 00:16:05.220 --> 00:16:08.090
- But if there's one thought
- 00:16:08.090 --> 00:16:09.391
- I want you to leave with today, it's this.
- 00:16:09.391 --> 00:16:11.693
- Waiting time doesn't have to be wasted time.
- 00:16:11.693 --> 00:16:16.632
- While we're waiting, god is working,
- 00:16:16.632 --> 00:16:19.868
- Often in ways we can't possibly understand.
- 00:16:19.868 --> 00:16:22.771
- That was true for moses as well.
- 00:16:22.771 --> 00:16:24.873
- Principle number two.
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- Intermissions come at various times in our life.
- 00:16:26.442 --> 00:16:33.649
- In a church we used to serve out in west texas,
- 00:16:30.479 --> 00:16:37.052
- In the little town,
- 00:16:37.052 --> 00:16:38.353
- They had a phrase they used to describe people
- 00:16:38.353 --> 00:16:40.722
- Who had kind of gone off their rail
- 00:16:40.722 --> 00:16:42.591
- Or gone off the rails in their life.
- 00:16:42.591 --> 00:16:44.493
- They would say, "oh, he's just suffering
- 00:16:44.493 --> 00:16:46.562
- "from the middle-aged crazies."
- 00:16:46.562 --> 00:16:49.198
- Have you ever heard that term?
- 00:16:49.832 --> 00:16:50.899
- They meant midlife crisis,
- 00:16:50.899 --> 00:16:52.534
- But they changed it to the middle-aged crazies.
- 00:16:52.534 --> 00:16:55.571
- Well, we know what the middle-aged crazies are, don't we?
- 00:16:55.571 --> 00:16:58.073
- It's that period of time, mainly for men, not always,
- 00:16:58.073 --> 00:17:02.311
- But mainly for men between the ages of 38 and 50
- 00:17:02.311 --> 00:17:05.647
- When people decide, "you know what?
- 00:17:05.647 --> 00:17:07.483
- "i've got as many years behind me as i do in front of me,
- 00:17:07.483 --> 00:17:11.420
- "and i don't like the way my life is going,
- 00:17:11.420 --> 00:17:13.255
- "so i'm going to make some drastic changes."
- 00:17:13.255 --> 00:17:16.725
- And those changes can be anything
- 00:17:16.725 --> 00:17:18.627
- From trading in the family suv for a sports car
- 00:17:18.627 --> 00:17:23.966
- To trading in your mate for a younger, more energetic,
- 00:17:25.067 --> 00:17:28.103
- And usually more synthetic version of what you had.
- 00:17:28.103 --> 00:17:32.508
- (congregation laughs)
- 00:17:32.508 --> 00:17:34.543
- But they're almost always disastrous decisions
- 00:17:34.543 --> 00:17:37.713
- Because they are made from panic
- 00:17:37.713 --> 00:17:39.948
- Rather than from godly planning.
- 00:17:39.948 --> 00:17:41.817
- Well, you know, for moses,
- 00:17:41.817 --> 00:17:44.953
- His middle-aged crazies came at age 40.
- 00:17:44.953 --> 00:17:47.489
- I don't think it's any accident
- 00:17:47.489 --> 00:17:48.957
- That the bible says
- 00:17:48.957 --> 00:17:50.225
- When moses was approaching the age of 40,
- 00:17:50.225 --> 00:17:53.061
- He made this mistake.
- 00:17:53.562 --> 00:17:54.663
- I mean, it was easy to see why.
- 00:17:54.663 --> 00:17:56.665
- God had said to him,
- 00:17:56.665 --> 00:17:57.599
- "you're going to be the leader!
- 00:17:57.599 --> 00:17:58.901
- "you're going to lead my people out of egypt."
- 00:17:58.901 --> 00:18:01.503
- 40 years passed, nothing had happened.
- 00:18:01.503 --> 00:18:04.273
- So moses began to think of himself,
- 00:18:04.273 --> 00:18:06.175
- "if this revolution is going to happen,
- 00:18:06.175 --> 00:18:07.709
- "maybe i have to be the one to start it."
- 00:18:07.709 --> 00:18:10.212
- Maybe he read robert schuller's book.
- 00:18:10.212 --> 00:18:11.780
- "if it's going to be, it's up to me," you know?
- 00:18:11.780 --> 00:18:14.283
- And he thought, "i'm going to get this thing going myself."
- 00:18:14.283 --> 00:18:17.686
- And so he kills this egyptian out of anger,
- 00:18:17.686 --> 00:18:19.721
- But he thought, "this is the spark.
- 00:18:19.721 --> 00:18:21.089
- "everybody's going to follow me
- 00:18:21.089 --> 00:18:22.824
- "in rebelling against the egyptians."
- 00:18:22.824 --> 00:18:24.493
- But nobody followed moses.
- 00:18:24.493 --> 00:18:27.829
- Now, it happened for him when it was age 40,
- 00:18:27.829 --> 00:18:30.232
- But i've seen these middle-aged crazies,
- 00:18:30.232 --> 00:18:32.901
- These wrong decisions happen at every age.
- 00:18:32.901 --> 00:18:35.270
- In fact, i'll have to tell you honestly, as a pastor,
- 00:18:35.270 --> 00:18:38.040
- I've seen as many people in their senior adult life
- 00:18:38.040 --> 00:18:43.378
- And senior adult years make disastrous choices
- 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:45.948
- As i have those in their young adult lives.
- 00:18:45.948 --> 00:18:48.951
- We can fail at any time.
- 00:18:48.951 --> 00:18:50.385
- That's why we have to be on guard all the time.
- 00:18:50.385 --> 00:18:52.955
- But because we can fail at any time in life,
- 00:18:52.955 --> 00:18:54.890
- Our intermission can occur at any time in life as well.
- 00:18:54.890 --> 00:18:58.760
- Number three, intermissions are varying lengths.
- 00:18:58.760 --> 00:19:02.898
- Intermissions are of varying lengths.
- 00:19:02.898 --> 00:19:05.934
- You know, for moses it was 40 years,
- 00:19:05.934 --> 00:19:08.270
- But it's not always 40 years.
- 00:19:08.270 --> 00:19:10.239
- For the israelites, it was 70 years in babylon.
- 00:19:10.239 --> 00:19:13.141
- For peter, it was seven weeks
- 00:19:13.141 --> 00:19:15.310
- Between his failure and his preaching at pentecost.
- 00:19:15.310 --> 00:19:18.080
- For paul, it was three years in the desert.
- 00:19:18.080 --> 00:19:20.215
- For jonah, it was three days in the belly of a great fish
- 00:19:20.215 --> 00:19:23.819
- While he reassessed his calling.
- 00:19:23.819 --> 00:19:26.388
- Intermissions are of various lengths.
- 00:19:26.388 --> 00:19:28.223
- And, you know, the thing is,
- 00:19:28.223 --> 00:19:29.958
- In a theatrical program, if you open up the program,
- 00:19:29.958 --> 00:19:33.495
- You often see the intermission is scheduled.
- 00:19:33.495 --> 00:19:37.633
- It says, "there will be an intermission of 20 minutes,"
- 00:19:37.633 --> 00:19:41.336
- So you know exactly how long it is until the second act.
- 00:19:41.336 --> 00:19:44.673
- And in case you don't have a watch,
- 00:19:44.673 --> 00:19:46.008
- They begin flickering the lights
- 00:19:46.008 --> 00:19:47.409
- When it's time for the second act to begin.
- 00:19:47.409 --> 00:19:50.145
- You don't find the same phenomenon in life.
- 00:19:50.145 --> 00:19:53.115
- Intermissions are of varying lengths.
- 00:19:53.115 --> 00:19:55.250
- But whatever length your intermission is,
- 00:19:55.250 --> 00:19:57.653
- It is important that you learn and profit from it.
- 00:19:57.653 --> 00:20:01.556
- How can you profit from your intermission?
- 00:20:01.556 --> 00:20:03.625
- Many of you who are here today,
- 00:20:03.625 --> 00:20:05.494
- Are watching or listening to this broadcast,
- 00:20:05.494 --> 00:20:08.063
- You feel like you're in an intermission.
- 00:20:08.063 --> 00:20:09.564
- You're waiting and waiting and waiting.
- 00:20:09.564 --> 00:20:12.134
- Remember, waiting time doesn't have to be wasted time.
- 00:20:12.134 --> 00:20:16.838
- Five principles.
- 00:20:16.838 --> 00:20:18.340
- Number one, resist the urge to skip your intermission.
- 00:20:18.340 --> 00:20:22.377
- Resist the urge to skip your intermission.
- 00:20:22.377 --> 00:20:24.546
- You know, so many times after we have failed,
- 00:20:24.546 --> 00:20:26.982
- We want to move immediately into our second act.
- 00:20:26.982 --> 00:20:31.186
- I see this all the time.
- 00:20:31.186 --> 00:20:33.088
- People get apprehensive during an intermission.
- 00:20:33.088 --> 00:20:35.324
- They think because they've been out of work for six months,
- 00:20:35.324 --> 00:20:38.226
- That they're going to be unemployed the rest of their lives.
- 00:20:38.226 --> 00:20:40.362
- So they begin to panic and make some wrong choices.
- 00:20:40.362 --> 00:20:43.565
- Or maybe they've lost their mate
- 00:20:43.565 --> 00:20:47.502
- And they hate the idea of being alone.
- 00:20:48.337 --> 00:20:49.871
- And because they've been alone for a year,
- 00:20:49.871 --> 00:20:51.340
- They think they're going to spend
- 00:20:51.340 --> 00:20:52.607
- The rest of their lives alone as well,
- 00:20:52.607 --> 00:20:54.676
- And they make a wrong decision.
- 00:20:54.676 --> 00:20:56.545
- I've seen this so many times as a pastor.
- 00:20:56.545 --> 00:20:58.947
- Somebody loses their mate either through death
- 00:20:58.947 --> 00:21:02.150
- Or through divorce,
- 00:21:02.150 --> 00:21:03.518
- And they are terrified at the prospect
- 00:21:03.518 --> 00:21:05.420
- Of living the rest of their lives alone.
- 00:21:05.420 --> 00:21:07.055
- So they go out and they make a disastrous choice
- 00:21:07.055 --> 00:21:09.691
- For a next mate,
- 00:21:09.691 --> 00:21:11.126
- And they just compound the heartache
- 00:21:11.126 --> 00:21:12.894
- They've already experienced.
- 00:21:12.894 --> 00:21:15.030
- You see, people who skip intermissions
- 00:21:15.030 --> 00:21:18.233
- Become victims of what a friend of mine
- 00:21:18.233 --> 00:21:20.335
- Calls the blizzard effect.
- 00:21:20.335 --> 00:21:23.872
- Now, you know what a blizzard is?
- 00:21:23.872 --> 00:21:25.574
- Think about it.
- 00:21:25.574 --> 00:21:27.042
- A blizzard occurs when you have very small particles
- 00:21:27.042 --> 00:21:30.078
- Of frozen precipitation
- 00:21:30.078 --> 00:21:32.914
- That are harmless in and of themselves,
- 00:21:32.914 --> 00:21:34.883
- But a storm comes through
- 00:21:34.883 --> 00:21:36.318
- And starts blowing those frozen particles around
- 00:21:36.318 --> 00:21:39.354
- Where you can't see anything in front of you.
- 00:21:39.354 --> 00:21:42.357
- It's the same way in life.
- 00:21:42.357 --> 00:21:43.992
- Many times we'll have a storm come into our life.
- 00:21:43.992 --> 00:21:46.161
- It may be a heartbreaking death, a painful divorce,
- 00:21:46.161 --> 00:21:50.198
- An unexpected termination.
- 00:21:50.198 --> 00:21:52.300
- But something comes into our life, the storm,
- 00:21:52.300 --> 00:21:54.403
- And it just starts blowing everything around.
- 00:21:54.403 --> 00:21:57.005
- Even the smallest details of our life get blown around
- 00:21:57.005 --> 00:21:59.775
- Where we can't see clearly to make wise decisions.
- 00:21:59.775 --> 00:22:03.412
- Now, just as you would never try to drive in a blizzard
- 00:22:03.412 --> 00:22:06.748
- But would stop until the storm passed through,
- 00:22:06.748 --> 00:22:10.719
- So after a first act failure,
- 00:22:10.719 --> 00:22:13.522
- We should never try to make an immediate decision.
- 00:22:13.522 --> 00:22:16.158
- We need to wait until the storm passes
- 00:22:16.158 --> 00:22:18.693
- And we can see clearly.
- 00:22:18.693 --> 00:22:20.929
- Don't skip your intermission.
- 00:22:21.563 --> 00:22:24.065
- Number two, during your intermission,
- 00:22:24.065 --> 00:22:26.968
- Refresh your physical and emotional batteries.
- 00:22:26.968 --> 00:22:31.740
- Refresh your physical and your emotional batteries.
- 00:22:31.740 --> 00:22:36.077
- My old professor, dr. howard hendricks,
- 00:22:36.077 --> 00:22:38.313
- Used to say, "sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do
- 00:22:38.313 --> 00:22:43.585
- "is to take a nap."
- 00:22:44.052 --> 00:22:45.854
- And he was right.
- 00:22:46.288 --> 00:22:48.023
- He was right.
- 00:22:48.023 --> 00:22:49.357
- Sometimes that's the best thing we can do.
- 00:22:49.357 --> 00:22:50.992
- Elijah certainly discovered that the hard way.
- 00:22:50.992 --> 00:22:54.029
- Remember his story, 1 kings chapter 18,
- 00:22:54.029 --> 00:22:57.265
- After his great, great victory on mount carmel
- 00:22:57.265 --> 00:23:01.236
- Where he proved jehovah not baal was the true god,
- 00:23:01.236 --> 00:23:04.239
- And he decimated all of the prophets of baal.
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- He acted out of faith.
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- Just like moses,
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- We often find ourselves in unwanted waiting periods
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- After our own failures.
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- But even when we feel stuck in an intermission,
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- God is working behind the scenes
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- Preparing us for our second act.
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- I want to close today's program
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- By thanking all of our faithful supporters
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- Of pathway to victory.
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- This ministry wouldn't be possible without friends like you.
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- And if you haven't already,
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- Let me encourage you to take the next step
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- In your support of pathway to victory
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- By becoming one of our valued pathway partners.
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- A pathway partner
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- Is someone who financially supports
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- Pathway to victory each month.
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- As a pathway partner,
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- You receive exclusive benefits as well.
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- But the best part is this.
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- God will use your monthly giving to help pierce the darkness
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- With the light of god's word.
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- Now, stay right there.
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- I'll be back with more pathway to victory in just a moment.
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- [announcer] all of us carry
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- Some measure 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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- In my book, "second chance, second act,"
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- You'll discover five biblical strategies
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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 doesn't have to be
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- 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 and truth of god's word
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- 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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- Life's intermissions aren't just empty waiting rooms.
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- They're powerful spaces where god can reshape our story
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- And prepare us for an even more meaningful second act.
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- Whether you're between jobs, relationships,
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- Or recovering from some other setback,
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- Your intermission can become the pivotal moment
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- In your comeback story.
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- And next time, i'm going to share five practical ways
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- To make the most of life's intermissions.
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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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- You will think that,
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- Because of a heartbreaking end of a relationship,
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- A divorce, a bankruptcy, a termination,
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- That your life story is over.
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- But your failure doesn't have to be final.
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- Your pause doesn't have to be permanent.
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- But instead it can be a prelude
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- To a great second act in your life.
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- [announcer] set your dvr
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- And join us next time for part two of the message,
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- Enjoy your intermission,
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- Here on pathway to victory.
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