Robert Jeffress - Enjoy Your Intermission (Part 1)

January 9, 2025 | S25:E16

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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
  • 00:10:43.499 --> 00:10:45.234
  • "and your oratorical ability."
  • 00:10:45.234 --> 00:10:47.737
  • But that wasn't god's plan.
  • 00:10:47.737 --> 00:10:49.105
  • Listen to this.
  • 00:10:49.105 --> 00:10:50.106
  • God didn't use moses' successes
  • 00:10:50.106 --> 00:10:54.143
  • To accomplish his purpose.
  • 00:10:54.143 --> 00:10:55.978
  • He would use moses' failure.
  • 00:10:55.978 --> 00:10:59.348
  • It was moses' failure
  • 00:10:59.348 --> 00:11:01.550
  • That would be the vehicle that god used
  • 00:11:01.550 --> 00:11:03.652
  • To bring about the exodus.
  • 00:11:03.652 --> 00:11:05.121
  • We find that failure recorded in acts 7,
  • 00:11:05.121 --> 00:11:08.357
  • Beginning with verse 23.
  • 00:11:08.357 --> 00:11:10.626
  • "and when moses was approaching the age of 40."
  • 00:11:10.626 --> 00:11:14.997
  • By the way, underline that in your bible.
  • 00:11:14.997 --> 00:11:17.032
  • We're going to get back to that in a minute.
  • 00:11:17.032 --> 00:11:18.968
  • "it was when he was approaching the age of 40
  • 00:11:18.968 --> 00:11:21.003
  • "that it entered moses' mind
  • 00:11:21.003 --> 00:11:22.872
  • "to visit his brethren, the sons of israel."
  • 00:11:22.872 --> 00:11:25.441
  • Remember, they were slaves.
  • 00:11:25.441 --> 00:11:27.076
  • Verse 24.
  • 00:11:27.076 --> 00:11:28.010
  • "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,
  • 00:11:40.890 --> 00:11:42.658
  • The bible says that, when nobody was looking,
  • 00:11:42.658 --> 00:11:46.529
  • Moses looked this way, he looked that way.
  • 00:11:46.529 --> 00:11:49.398
  • Unfortunately, he didn't look that way,
  • 00:11:49.398 --> 00:11:51.700
  • And he killed that egyptian in a fit of anger,
  • 00:11:52.668 --> 00:11:55.070
  • And he hid him in the sand.
  • 00:11:55.070 --> 00:11:57.973
  • 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
  • 00:13:04.506 --> 00:13:06.742
  • 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
  • 00:15:05.394 --> 00:15:08.230
  • From this period of intermission,
  • 00:15:08.230 --> 00:15:10.065
  • I want to give you three characteristics of intermission
  • 00:15:10.065 --> 00:15:12.835
  • That are crucial to understand.
  • 00:15:12.835 --> 00:15:14.937
  • 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
  • 00:15:55.978 --> 00:15:58.180
  • 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.
  • 00:16:24.873 --> 00:16:26.442
  • 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
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  • Of frozen precipitation
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  • That are harmless in and of themselves,
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  • But a storm comes through
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  • And starts blowing those frozen particles around
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  • Where you can't see anything in front of you.
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  • It's the same way in life.
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  • Many times we'll have a storm come into our life.
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  • It may be a heartbreaking death, a painful divorce,
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  • An unexpected termination.
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  • But something comes into our life, the storm,
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  • And it just starts blowing everything around.
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  • Even the smallest details of our life get blown around
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  • Where we can't see clearly to make wise decisions.
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  • Now, just as you would never try to drive in a blizzard
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  • But would stop until the storm passed through,
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  • So after a first act failure,
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  • We should never try to make an immediate decision.
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  • We need to wait until the storm passes
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  • And we can see clearly.
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  • Don't skip your intermission.
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  • 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.
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  • My old professor, dr. howard hendricks,
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  • Used to say, "sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do
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  • "is to take a nap."
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  • And he was right.
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  • He was right.
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  • Sometimes that's the best thing we can do.
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  • Elijah certainly discovered that the hard way.
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  • Remember his story, 1 kings chapter 18,
  • 00:22:54.029 --> 00:22:57.265
  • After his great, great victory on mount carmel
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  • 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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  • ♪ music ♪
  • 00:23:08.877 --> 00:23:13.215
  • 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,
  • 00:23:20.689 --> 00:23:23.758
  • 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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  • 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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  • And regret of your past mistakes,
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  • That prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
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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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  • 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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  • Here on pathway to victory.
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