Robert Jeffress - Prepare For The Grand Finale

January 15, 2025 | S25:E26

Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - 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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  • Into a new beginning.
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  • Of "pathway to victory".
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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?
  • 00:12:36.345 --> 00:12:38.514
  • 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.
  • 00:12:54.997 --> 00:12:58.567
  • 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.
  • 00:13:05.507 --> 00:13:09.044
  • 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.
  • 00:14:07.403 --> 00:14:09.872
  • 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?
  • 00:15:53.709 --> 00:15:55.144
  • 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.
  • 00:16:00.349 --> 00:16:04.586
  • One way you could paraphrase john 17:4 would be,
  • 00:16:04.586 --> 00:16:07.523
  • 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
  • 00:16:21.003 --> 00:16:22.738
  • 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,
  • 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:34.416
  • The spotlight's on us
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  • And people say, oh, isn't she gifted?
  • 00:16:36.185 --> 00:16:39.021
  • 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,
  • 00:16:42.024 --> 00:16:45.561
  • 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
  • 00:17:00.909 --> 00:17:03.378
  • 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?
  • 00:17:09.184 --> 00:17:11.720
  • 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.
  • 00:17:14.123 --> 00:17:18.060
  • "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
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Not to be the star of the drama yourself,
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  • 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.
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  • I want to be the star of the production.
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  • 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,
  • 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:38.473
  • 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
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  • And point people to god,
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • 00:19:46.441 --> 00:19:48.644
  • 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,
  • 00:19:51.413 --> 00:19:54.650
  • The reward is unimaginable and unending.
  • 00:19:54.650 --> 00:20:00.522
  • 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.
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  • Your father and mother and all of you are
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  • As you to call it in the shadow lands, dead.
  • 00:20:46.101 --> 00:20:50.405
  • The term is over.
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  • The holidays have begun.
  • 00:20:52.107 --> 00:20:54.543
  • The dream has ended.
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  • 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.
  • 00:21:04.619 --> 00:21:09.291
  • And for us, this is the end of all the stories
  • 00:21:09.291 --> 00:21:13.028
  • 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
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  • 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,
  • 00:21:50.932 --> 00:21:53.402
  • 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
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  • 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
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  • That can begin right now
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  • And go on forever and ever and ever.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Isn't that a great, great truth?
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  • God, be praised.
  • 00:22:28.970 --> 00:22:31.440
  • (congregation applauds)
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Left to our own thoughts,
  • 00:22:39.080 --> 00:22:40.415
  • We tend to beat ourselves up
  • 00:22:40.415 --> 00:22:41.950
  • 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.
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  • Catherine writes, "i'm grateful god doesn't throw in
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  • The towel on us when we mess up big.
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  • I've messed up many times
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  • And the enemy kept me feeling pressed down
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  • 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
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  • 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."
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  • Well, thank you catherine for that encouragement
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  • And let me say a profound thank you
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  • To anyone who supports "pathway to victory",
  • 00:23:29.631 --> 00:23:32.501
  • 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.
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  • Truly, god is using your generous gifts
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  • To pierce the darkness with the light of his word.
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  • Now please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
  • 00:23:47.682 --> 00:23:50.018
  • In just a moment.
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  • ♪ music ♪
  • 00:23:52.220 --> 00:23:53.955
  • [narrator] all of us carry some measure
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  • Of regret about the past.
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  • Thankfully, no mistake is too big for god to forgive.
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  • In his bestselling book, "second chance, second act",
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  • Dr. robert jefferss shares
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  • How god can turn your biggest mess
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  • In my book, "second chance, second act",
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  • And regret of your past mistakes,
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  • And you'll read stories from scripture
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  • That prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
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  • That's what redemption is all about.
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  • [narrator] together through the ministry
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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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