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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Prepare For The Grand Finale | January 15, 2025
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- [narrator] from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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- Of dallas, texas,
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- This is "pathway to victory with dr. robert jefferss".
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- Hi, i am robert jefferss.
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- Welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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- Anyone who wants a comfortable retirement
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- Appreciates the wisdom of an aggressive savings plan.
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- We sock away money in 401ks,
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- Mutual funds and stocks in an effort to prepare
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- For our sunset years.
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- Well, the fact is our future extends much further
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- Than our time here on earth.
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- So what should we be doing right now
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- To prepare for eternity?
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- My message is titled, prepare for the grand finale
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory".
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- ♪ music ♪
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- [narrator] we all make mistakes
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- Almost every hour of every day,
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- But because of god's grace,
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- Failure does not have to be fatal.
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- Dr. robert jefferss has written a book called,
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- "second chance, second act"
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- Featuring biblical insights, trustworthy wisdom,
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- And practical strategies
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- For turning your messes into successes.
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- Discover how god can transform your biggest mistake
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- Into a new beginning.
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- ♪ music ♪
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- ♪ music ♪
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- "once upon a time, there was a poor old man
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- Who owned a beautiful white horse
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- That was the envy of everyone in the small village
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- Where the man lived.
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- One day, the old man discovered
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- That the horse was gone from the stable.
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- The townspeople said to him, 'you're a stupid old man.
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- We told you someone would steal your horse.
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- You have been cursed.'
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- The old man replied, 'you have judged too quickly.
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- Don't say that my horse has been stolen
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- And that i have been cursed.
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- Instead, simply say that the horse is gone.
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- That is all you can say, the rest is a judgment.'
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- 'you make us out to be fools', the people protested.
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- 'it is obvious to everyone that your horse has been stolen
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- And that you are cursed.'
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- After two weeks, the horse returned.
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- He had run away and now he came back
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- With a dozen wild horses with him.
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- The village people gathered in front of his house
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- And said, 'forgive us, old man, we were wrong.
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- Obviously, you're not cursed,
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- You are blessed because you have 13 beautiful white horses.'
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- The old man replied once again,
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- 'you have made a judgment you're not prepared to make.
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- All you can say is that the horse returned with 12 others.
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- Whether this is a blessing or a curse, only god knows.'
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- The old man had one son
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- Who worked at taming the wild horses.
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- One day, he fell from one of the horses
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- And broke both his legs.
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- The townspeople once again offered their insight.
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- 'you were right and we were wrong.
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- We thought the horses were a blessing,
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- But we judged too quickly.
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- Obviously, they were a curse
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- Since your only son has broken both his legs
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- And now there is no one to help you in your old age.'
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- The old man could not believe what he was hearing.
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- 'why are you so intent on judging?
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- All you can say with certainty
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- Is that my son broke both his legs.
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- Who knows whether it is a blessing or a curse.'
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- A few weeks later, war broke out in the adjacent country.
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- All of the young men were drafted into service,
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- But the old man's son was exempted because of his injury.
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- The people in the village once again
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- Came to visit the old man.
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- 'you were right and we were wrong.
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- Our sons are going into battle to be slaughtered,
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- But your son's accident turned out to be a blessing.'
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- The old man sighed, 'when will you ever learn?
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- All you can say with certainty
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- Is that your son went to battle and my son stayed home.
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- Whether it is a blessing or a curse, only god knows.'"
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- You know, we live in a culture that celebrates the ability
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- To make snap judgements.
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- Commentators on television want to instantly decide
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- Whether a candidate has won or lost a political debate.
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- News anchors are very quick wanting to be first
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- Rather than be right when a natural disaster occurs.
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- Even bestselling business books like "blink"
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- Tells us that really effective executives
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- Know how to size up a situation in just a few minutes,
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- But our propensity to make quick judgements
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- Can lead to the wrong conclusion,
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- Especially when it comes to judging the failures
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- In our life.
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- To allow one lapse of judgment, one wrong choice,
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- One squandered opportunity
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- To become the defining event in our life,
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- Well, it's just as shortsighted
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- As the townspeople in the parable i just read.
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- As the old man said, "life is so vast,
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- Yet you judge all of life with one page or one word.
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- All you really have is a fragment."
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- Throughout this series, second chance, second act,
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- We've been comparing our life to a performance.
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- God has given us 70 or 80 years here on lifes stage,
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- The world stage to live out the role
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- That he's assigned to us
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- And during our performance, during our life,
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- Occasionally we may misalign, we may blow a cue,
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- But fortunately the divine director
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- Doesn't bring the curtain down.
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- There is possibility a for a second act in our life
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- If we follow the five biblical principles
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- We've been looking at.
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- How do you turn incredible messes
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- Into great successes in your life?
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- Remember what those principles are,
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- We said, first of all, you've got to fess up
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- To your mess up.
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- That is you have to confess your mistake
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- Before you can be forgiven of it.
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- Secondly, we said, don't mess up for free.
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- Yes, failure is inevitable
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- And we're going to pay a price for that failure,
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- But we need to learn from our failure
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- Instead of repeating those failures.
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- And then thirdly, we said, enjoy your intermission.
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- When we slip up, mess up or screw up,
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- Many times, god is going to say, you know what?
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- There needs to be a pause, an intermission,
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- A time between your past failure and the future
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- God has for you.
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- But those waiting times don't have to be wasted times.
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- And then we saw last time, eventually god says,
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- It's time to begin your second act now.
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- And we need to be careful to know how to discern
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- When god is telling us it is time to begin our second act.
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- And now today, we're ready to look at the fifth principle.
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- It's on your outline there, it's in your bulletin.
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- I encourage you to follow along with us
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- As we talk about preparing for the grand finale.
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- Preparing for the grand finale.
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- Now, you know this whole idea,
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- This metaphor of our life being a performance
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- Is not something original with me.
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- The first person i know that came up with it actually
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- Was the apostle, paul.
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- And 1 corinthians 4:9,
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- Listen to what paul says about some of the difficulties
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- He and the other apostles had endured for their faith.
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- He said, "for i think god has exhibited us apostles
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- Last of all as men condemned to death
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- Because we have become a spectacle",
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- Underline that word, "a spectacle to the world,
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- Both to angels and to men."
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- That word spectacle is the greek word
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- (speaking in foreign language).
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- What does that word sound like to you?
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- It's the word theater.
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- Our lives have become a theater to the world,
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- Both to angels and to men.
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- Eugene peterson and his paraphrase the message
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- Captures the meaning of the word
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- When he paraphrases this verse,
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- "god has put us who bear his message
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- On stage in a theater
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- In which no one wants to buy a ticket."
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- We are all in a theater,
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- We are on life's stage.
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- And what i'm saying to you is ladies and gentlemen,
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- You will never be able to understand the whole of your life,
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- Including your failures until you understand
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- That your life story is part of a larger epic drama
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- That has been going on since the beginning of time.
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- This is a drama that actually began in heaven
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- Many, many years ago
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- When lucifer rebelled against god
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- And this epic drama of what you and i are simply apart,
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- This epic drama is going to answer three major questions.
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- Number one, who will ultimately prevail in the battle
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- Between the kingdom of god and the kingdom of satan?
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- Secondly, who is the most worthy ruler of the universe?
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- Is it god or is it satan?
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- And number three, will satan be successful
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- In turning god's creatures like you and me
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- Against their creator?
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- You say, well, who's watching this drama?
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- What's being played out on a number of different levels?
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- First of all, there is a visible audience right now
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- Who's watching how you play out the role
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- That god has assigned to you.
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- But that's not the only audience.
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- There's an invisible audience also watching
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- This drama on earth.
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- God in heaven and his angels,
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- But not only them, also on earth, satan and his demons,
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- And even those under the earth,
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- Those demons who have been temporarily confined.
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- Everyone is watching this epic drama
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- And the part we are playing.
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- The fact is you'll never be able to evaluate
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- Your life and your failures correctly
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- Until you and i understand this drama
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- That god has placed us in.
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- And there are three aspects of this drama
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- We're going to talk about today.
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- First of all, the duration of this drama.
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- Secondly, your role in this drama,
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- And finally, the reward,
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- The payoff for playing your part well.
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- Let's look first of all,
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- At the duration of this drama you and i are in.
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- It's longer than you suppose.
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- Now you know investment advisors
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- Talk about somebody's time horizon.
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- They say if you're in your 20s,
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- You can afford to make risky investments
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- Because if they turn out badly,
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- Well you've got time to recover.
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- But if you're in your 60s
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- And make that kind of investment,
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- Or you're close to retirement,
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- Well it can spell real trouble.
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- You know that same idea applies to mistakes
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- We all make in life.
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- It's one thing to make a mistake in your 20s
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- About a relationship or about a wrong career choice
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- Or a financial decision.
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- You've got time to recover.
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- But when you get into your 60s
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- And you make a tremendous mistake in your life,
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- It seems like there is no time to recover,
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- Or at least it seems that way.
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- Well today, if you've made a mistake in your life,
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- I want to share with you the most liberating truth
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- I've ever discovered about failure.
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- I've waited until this last message to share it with you.
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- Your time horizon for recovering from your mistake
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- Is not 10 years or 20 years,
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- It is eternity.
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- God has given us an eternal time horizon.
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- In john 10:28, jesus said, "i give eternal life to them
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- And they shall never perish."
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- Know my friend bruce wilkinson uses this illustration
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- I put on your chart about the dot and the line.
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- He encourages people to take a pen
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- And put a dot right in the middle of the piece of paper
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- And then draw a line all the way to the end of the page.
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- He says, "that dot represents the 70 or 80 years
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- God has given us here on earth.
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- The line represents our existence after we die,
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- That goes on and on and on and on."
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- He said, "most christians make the mistake
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- Of only living for those 70 or 80 years, the dot,
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- Rather than thinking about eternity."
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- You say, well, how does that apply to my failure?
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- Here's how it applies.
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- Let's say like moses,
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- You make a big mistake when you're 40 years old.
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- Maybe up to that time, you've made some pretty good choices,
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- But you make a horrible choice
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- That really you think is going to be the defining event
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- In your life and you wonder,
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- Do i have time to recover from that?
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- Maybe it happens when you're 50 or maybe when you're 60.
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- What i want you to understand is the timeline,
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- The time horizon for your second act is not 10 years,
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- 20 years or 30 years, it is eternity.
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- It goes on forever and ever and ever.
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- You see the duration of our role
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- Is much longer than we suppose.
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- Secondly, we need to understand not only the duration
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- Of the drama, but our role in the drama.
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- It's different than you think it is.
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- The role god has assigned you and me to play
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- In this epic drama is much different
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- Than we think it is.
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- Kenneth ulmer tells a story about being in college
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- And taking a criminology class.
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- He said he cut that class every which way but loose,
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- Never attended once,
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- But then he got word from a friend attending the class
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- That the professor had assigned a final research paper.
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- And so ken decide thought this was my time to redeem myself.
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- So i would write the best paper i could
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- And hope it would make up for my absences.
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- And so he worked and worked and worked on that paper.
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- He was so proud of it, he handed it in.
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- A few days later, he got it back from the professor.
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- The professor had written the words,
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- "good paper, great content, great research",
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- And then he put a big f on it
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- And circled it with this word of explanation,
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- "but this wasn't the assignment i gave the class."
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- Ken elmer says that day he learned
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- A very important life lesson.
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- It does not matter how well you do what you do
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- If you do not do what you're supposed to do.
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- Now that's profound.
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- It doesn't matter how well you do what you do,
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- If you do not do what you're supposed to do.
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- You know that comes to the assignment god has given us.
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- Many people don't understand
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- What god has placed us here to do.
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- The executive who attains the title of ceo,
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- The worker who accumulates several million dollars
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- In his retirement plan,
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- The pastor who builds a thriving successful church
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- May be surprised when he gets to heaven and hears god say,
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- That's very good, but that wasn't the assignment i gave you.
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- What is the assignment that god has given us?
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- It's found in john 17:4.
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- This is the prayer jesus prayed before he was crucified.
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- He said, "i glorified thee on the earth
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- Having accomplished the work which thou has given me to do."
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- Jesus said, my role here on earth
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- Was to glorify you, father,
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- And that's what i did.
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- And that's the same assignment, ladies and gentlemen,
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- God has given each one of us, to glorify god.
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- What does that mean?
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- That word glorify simply means to make god look bitter,
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- Bigger and better to the world around us.
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- That's why we're here, to point people toward god.
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- One way you could paraphrase john 17:4 would be,
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- God, i played the part you assigned me to play.
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- I made you look good while i was here on earth.
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- You may say, well, what does all of this have to do
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- With failing in life?
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- Oh it has everything to do with it.
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- You know, our mistakes provide
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- Some of the best opportunities to glorify god.
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- Think about this,
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- A spotlight can only shine in one direction at a time.
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- Now when we're succeeding and doing well,
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- The spotlight's on us
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- And people say, oh, isn't she gifted?
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- Isn't he shrewd?
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- Aren't they a wonderful couple?
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- In our successes, the spotlight is on us,
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- But when we fail, there's an opportunity
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- To shine the spotlight on god and say,
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- Look at god's ability to forgive that person.
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- Look at god's power to restore that person
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- To a new beginning, and that's what our purpose in life is.
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- It's to make god look better
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- And our failures provide some
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- Of the best opportunities to do that.
- 00:17:05.013 --> 00:17:07.082
- Isn't that what paul said to the corinthians
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- In 2 corinthians 12?
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- Remember he talked about it's not in our strength
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- But in our weaknesses that the power of god is displayed.
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- "and he said to me, 'my grace is sufficient for you,
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- For power is perfected in weaknesses.
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- Most gladly therefore, i will rather boast
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- About my weaknesses that the power
- 00:17:29.505 --> 00:17:31.974
- Of christ may dwell in me.
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- Therefore, i am well content with weaknesses
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- And with insults, with distresses, with persecutions,
- 00:17:37.246 --> 00:17:40.215
- With difficulties for christ's sake, for when i am weak,
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- Then i am strong.'"
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- Whatever mistake you've made in your life, a divorce,
- 00:17:46.989 --> 00:17:51.627
- A bankruptcy, a lapse in judgment,
- 00:17:51.627 --> 00:17:55.297
- A moral transgression,
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- God can actually use that to bring glory to himself
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- If you allow him to do so.
- 00:18:01.670 --> 00:18:03.539
- What i'm saying to you is god can use your failure
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- To help you execute the real role you've been assigned.
- 00:18:06.909 --> 00:18:10.512
- Not to be the star of the drama yourself,
- 00:18:10.512 --> 00:18:12.981
- But to point people to god.
- 00:18:12.981 --> 00:18:15.717
- Now some people would say, well, you know,
- 00:18:15.717 --> 00:18:17.119
- I'm not sure i like that role.
- 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:18.921
- I want to be the star of the production.
- 00:18:18.921 --> 00:18:21.290
- I don't want to be a bit player
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- Who simply turns people to god.
- 00:18:22.958 --> 00:18:24.560
- Well, before you reject that role that god has given to you,
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- You need to understand, third,
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- Your reward for playing your part well.
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- It is greater than you could ever imagine.
- 00:18:33.168 --> 00:18:37.039
- Now something i want to clear up here,
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- Please don't misunderstand,
- 00:18:38.473 --> 00:18:40.075
- God doesn't reward us for making mistakes, okay?
- 00:18:40.075 --> 00:18:44.413
- We don't get to heaven one day
- 00:18:44.413 --> 00:18:45.881
- And god says to us,
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- Oh, you lost all your money investing in silver futures.
- 00:18:47.683 --> 00:18:50.519
- Wonderful, i'm going to put you in charge of eternal riches.
- 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:54.022
- (congregation laughs)
- 00:18:54.022 --> 00:18:55.357
- But what i'm saying is when your heart attitude
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- Is to take even your failures
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- And connect them to the glory of god
- 00:19:01.196 --> 00:19:03.065
- And point people to god,
- 00:19:03.065 --> 00:19:05.000
- God does reward that attitude.
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- And he did with his own son, jesus christ.
- 00:19:08.403 --> 00:19:11.306
- Now, jesus never made any mistakes,
- 00:19:11.306 --> 00:19:13.475
- But listen to the reward he received
- 00:19:13.475 --> 00:19:15.477
- For wanting to glorify god.
- 00:19:15.477 --> 00:19:17.246
- In philippians 2:9, paul says,
- 00:19:17.246 --> 00:19:18.914
- "therefore because christ humbled himself
- 00:19:18.914 --> 00:19:21.483
- And made himself obedient to the point of death,
- 00:19:21.483 --> 00:19:23.652
- Even death on the cross,
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- Therefore also god highly exalted him
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- And bestowed upon him the name which is above every name."
- 00:19:27.889 --> 00:19:33.128
- And god will do the same for us.
- 00:19:33.762 --> 00:19:34.730
- In 2 timothy 2:12, paul says,
- 00:19:34.730 --> 00:19:36.898
- "if we endure, we also shall reign with him.
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- If we deny him, he will also deny us."
- 00:19:41.637 --> 00:19:46.441
- There is no prize for failing
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- But when we ask god not only to forgive us,
- 00:19:48.644 --> 00:19:51.413
- But to use our mistake for his eternal purpose,
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- The reward is unimaginable and unending.
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- In the final book in the series,
- 00:20:01.156 --> 00:20:02.958
- "the chronicles of narnia",
- 00:20:02.958 --> 00:20:04.993
- Cs lewis illustrates how this life is really just a prelude
- 00:20:04.993 --> 00:20:10.332
- To a second act that goes on and on and on.
- 00:20:11.233 --> 00:20:14.236
- You'll remember that earlier in the book,
- 00:20:14.236 --> 00:20:15.904
- The children were involved in a train wreck
- 00:20:15.904 --> 00:20:19.474
- That dispatches them to the magical world of narnia,
- 00:20:19.474 --> 00:20:22.878
- Which is a picture of heaven.
- 00:20:22.878 --> 00:20:25.847
- When their adventure is over, the children are fearful
- 00:20:25.847 --> 00:20:29.017
- That they're going to be sent back to earth.
- 00:20:29.017 --> 00:20:31.820
- But the great lion, aslan, who is a type of jesus christ,
- 00:20:31.820 --> 00:20:35.891
- Shares with them the good news about their future.
- 00:20:35.891 --> 00:20:39.628
- He says, "'there was a real railroad accident.
- 00:20:40.529 --> 00:20:43.432
- Your father and mother and all of you are
- 00:20:43.432 --> 00:20:46.101
- As you to call it in the shadow lands, dead.
- 00:20:46.101 --> 00:20:50.405
- The term is over.
- 00:20:50.405 --> 00:20:52.107
- The holidays have begun.
- 00:20:52.107 --> 00:20:54.543
- The dream has ended.
- 00:20:54.543 --> 00:20:56.078
- This is the morning.'
- 00:20:56.078 --> 00:20:58.280
- And as aslan spoke, he no longer looked to them like a lion.
- 00:20:58.280 --> 00:21:02.117
- But the things that begin to happen after that
- 00:21:02.117 --> 00:21:04.619
- Were so great and so beautiful, that i cannot write them.
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- And for us, this is the end of all the stories
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- And we can say most truly
- 00:21:13.028 --> 00:21:14.629
- That they lived happily ever after.
- 00:21:14.629 --> 00:21:17.766
- But for them, it was only the beginning of the real story.
- 00:21:17.766 --> 00:21:23.038
- All their life in this world
- 00:21:23.638 --> 00:21:24.973
- And all their adventures had only been the cover
- 00:21:24.973 --> 00:21:27.676
- And the title page.
- 00:21:27.676 --> 00:21:29.644
- Now at last, they were beginning chapter one
- 00:21:29.644 --> 00:21:32.948
- Of the great story, which no one on earth has read.
- 00:21:32.948 --> 00:21:36.785
- A story which goes on forever
- 00:21:36.785 --> 00:21:39.621
- In which every chapter is better than the one before."
- 00:21:39.621 --> 00:21:45.327
- Jesus said, "i give eternal life to them.
- 00:21:46.228 --> 00:21:50.932
- I give eternal life to you,
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- And you shall never perish."
- 00:21:53.402 --> 00:21:56.238
- Your failure no matter how terrible it was
- 00:21:56.238 --> 00:21:59.674
- Doesn't have to be the grand finale of your life story.
- 00:21:59.674 --> 00:22:03.311
- Even your physical death doesn't bring down the curtain
- 00:22:03.311 --> 00:22:06.948
- Of your existence.
- 00:22:06.948 --> 00:22:08.750
- Everything you've experienced in your life so far,
- 00:22:08.750 --> 00:22:12.053
- Including your failures,
- 00:22:12.053 --> 00:22:14.556
- Is only a prelude to a second act
- 00:22:14.556 --> 00:22:18.760
- That can begin right now
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- And go on forever and ever and ever.
- 00:22:20.962 --> 00:22:25.600
- Hallelujah.
- 00:22:25.600 --> 00:22:27.002
- Isn't that a great, great truth?
- 00:22:27.002 --> 00:22:28.970
- God, be praised.
- 00:22:28.970 --> 00:22:31.440
- (congregation applauds)
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- ♪ music ♪
- 00:22:33.475 --> 00:22:38.513
- Left to our own thoughts,
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- We tend to beat ourselves up
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- Over the mistakes that we've made
- 00:22:41.950 --> 00:22:44.252
- And yet our heavenly father provides forgiveness, mercy,
- 00:22:44.252 --> 00:22:48.156
- And a path to recovery through jesus christ.
- 00:22:48.156 --> 00:22:52.093
- In closing today, let me leave you with an encouraging story
- 00:22:52.093 --> 00:22:55.197
- From one of our viewers.
- 00:22:55.197 --> 00:22:56.898
- Catherine writes, "i'm grateful god doesn't throw in
- 00:22:56.898 --> 00:23:00.135
- The towel on us when we mess up big.
- 00:23:00.135 --> 00:23:02.871
- I've messed up many times
- 00:23:02.871 --> 00:23:04.840
- And the enemy kept me feeling pressed down
- 00:23:04.840 --> 00:23:07.409
- With disappointment.
- 00:23:07.409 --> 00:23:08.977
- I look forward to how god will use my life in the future."
- 00:23:08.977 --> 00:23:13.014
- Then she added, "pastor, your faithful messages
- 00:23:13.014 --> 00:23:16.251
- Reach the lost and hurting
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- Who feel the weight of our mess ups
- 00:23:18.353 --> 00:23:20.555
- And need to be reminded that god is the god
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- Of second chances."
- 00:23:23.258 --> 00:23:25.160
- Well, thank you catherine for that encouragement
- 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:27.863
- And let me say a profound thank you
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- To anyone who supports "pathway to victory",
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- And especially our pathway partners
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- Who give a gift every month.
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- You made catherine's story possible.
- 00:23:37.339 --> 00:23:39.975
- Truly, god is using your generous gifts
- 00:23:39.975 --> 00:23:42.878
- To pierce the darkness with the light of his word.
- 00:23:42.878 --> 00:23:46.381
- Now please stay right there.
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- I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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- In just a moment.
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- ♪ music ♪
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- [narrator] all of us carry some measure
- 00:23:53.955 --> 00:23:55.457
- Of regret about the past.
- 00:23:55.457 --> 00:23:57.192
- Thankfully, no mistake is too big for god to forgive.
- 00:23:57.192 --> 00:24:00.729
- In his bestselling book, "second chance, second act",
- 00:24:00.729 --> 00:24:03.698
- Dr. robert jefferss shares
- 00:24:03.698 --> 00:24:05.133
- How god can turn your biggest mess
- 00:24:05.133 --> 00:24:07.536
- Into your greatest success.
- 00:24:07.536 --> 00:24:09.571
- In my book, "second chance, second act",
- 00:24:09.571 --> 00:24:12.107
- You'll discover five biblical strategies
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- For turning your messes into successes.
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- You'll learn to overcome the guilt, suffering,
- 00:24:18.513 --> 00:24:20.982
- 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, i don't care what failure
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- You have experienced.
- 00:24:53.548 --> 00:24:55.383
- Your failure, your sin doesn't have to be the final word
- 00:24:55.383 --> 00:24:59.120
- About your life story.
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- That's what redemption is all about.
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- [narrator] together through the ministry
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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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- We can't change the events of the past,
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- But god has promised us an unimaginably wonderful future.
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- Your second act starts now
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- And the timeline is not 10 years or 20 years
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- Or even 30 years, it extends throughout eternity.
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- Well, suffering in life is guaranteed,
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- And while many christians let their problems
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- Destroy their relationship with god,
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- Others let their problems deepen
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- Their relationship with god.
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- So what's the secret to strengthening your faith
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- During seasons of pain and suffering?
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- That's the focus of my series called spiritual fitness.
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- Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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- On "pathway to victory".
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- Faith is the necessary ingredient
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- That allows us to survive and even thrive in problems
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- Rather than be shattered by them.
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- [narrator] set your dvr and join us next time
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- For the message, the necessary ingredient,
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- Here on "pathway to victory".
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- If you could go back in time
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- And walk with the apostle paul
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- On one of his journeys, would you do it?
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- This may, let's go together on the life changing
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- Walk with me and other believers in the very places
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- Join us as we study his word together.
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- We will seek our creator in his creation.
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