Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Say Goodbye To Regrets About Regrets

September 5, 2025 | S25 E3606 | 29:0

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Say Goodbye To Regrets About Regrets | September 5, 2025

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist
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Church of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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Living with regret is futile and exhausting.
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Regret drains us of energy and steals
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Our hope at the same time.
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Well, god has a much better plan, one that involves
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Redeeming the future rather than lamenting the past.
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Today, i'm going to describe how you can make your regrets work
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For you, not against you.
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My message is titled: "say goodbye to regrets about
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Regrets" on today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪♪♪
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Announcer: god doesn't want you to carry around the weight of
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Sins he's already forgiven.
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In his bestselling book, "say goodbye to regret," dr. robert
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Jeffress helps you live beyond the would-haves, could-haves,
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And should-haves to embrace the future god has planned for you.
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You can't undo the past, but there's plenty you can do to
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Reshape tomorrow and eternity.
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Discover the biblical secrets for regret-free living when you
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Request the book "say goodbye to regret."
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Jeffress: today, we've come to the final message in our
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Series "say goodbye to regrets," and over these last weeks, we've
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Seen that regrets in life over mistakes, they can't be erased.
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You get no do-overs in life. have you discovered that?
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However, you can allow your regrets to help you avoid future
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Regrets in every area of life.
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But throughout the series, you may have been wondering, well
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What do i actually do about those regrets that have
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Accumulated from my marriage or from my finances or my career?
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What do i do with those regrets?
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One of my daughters said, "do you just say goodbye to them?
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There has to be something more to it."
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Well, there is, and that's why i saved today's message
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For the very last one.
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Today we're going to discover what the bible says about how to
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Say goodbye to regrets about regrets.
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If you're going to make your regrets work for you instead of
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Against you, if you want them to be your slaves rather than your
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Master that paralyzes your life, there're four biblical insights
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About regrets that i wanna leave you with this morning, and i
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Want you to write them down and remember them.
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First of all, regrets are inevitable.
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They are inevitable.
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Just accept the fact that somewhere along the line, you're
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Going to make a colossal mistake that will forever change your
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Children or your marriage or your career or your health or
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Your finances, or some other important area of life.
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Regrets are inevitable.
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You know why you are prone to make mistakes?
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It's very simple. you are one giant clod.
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Did you know that? that's what the bible says.
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Well, uses a different phrase: you're one giant lump of clay.
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That's what the bible refers to us as.
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In genesis 2:7 in the account of the formation of the first man
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And woman, moses writes, "then the lord god formed man from the
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Dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
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Life, and man became a human being."
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That word "formed" in hebrew refers to a potter that takes a
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Wet lump of clay, places it on a spinning wheel, and forms it,
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Shapes it into what he wants.
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That's what you and i are. we're clay.
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We're a collection of dust and chemicals.
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To be more specific, you are 58 pounds of oxygen, 50 quarts of
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Water, 3 pounds of calcium, 2 ounces of salt, and 6 pounds of
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Oreo cookies all formed together to make you who you are.
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Now of course, you're a lot more than that.
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You're a lot more than that, but you're still encased, your
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Spirit is still encased in a body that is dust.
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Now, somebody says, "well, that doesn't do a lot for my
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Self-image, to think of myself as a clod, as a lump of clay."
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Well, the purpose of the bible isn't to make you feel better
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About yourself necessarily.
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It's to teach us how we really are.
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But here's the good thing: now only should we not be surprised
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By our mistakes, because we are that lump of dust or clay.
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The good news is, god's not surprised
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Either by your mistakes.
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I love psalm 103:14: "for he himself knows our frame;
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He is mindful that we are but dust."
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Doesn't that give you comfort, to know that god understands
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Us as we are?
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We are but dust.
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Dr. bob pitman was here a few weeks ago to speak to our prayer
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Partners and their spouses, and he said, "you know, we all have
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Dust in our homes and we're trying to clean it all up."
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He said, "do you know where most of that dust comes from?
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Dead skin cells that come from you,
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That's the source of the dust."
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So, the next time you get out your lemon pledge to wipe up the
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Dust, just remember what you're wiping up is yourself.
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You might wanna let the dust accumulate
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On that coffee table for six months.
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You could be havin' a conversation with
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Yourself in six months.
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Now, that's a little bit extreme, i know,
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But don't miss the point.
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We inhabit bodies that are weak, and because we have bodies that
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Are weak and have been infected with sin, that translates into
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Poor choices, frequent mistakes, and inevitable regrets.
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Regrets are inevitable. you're going to have them.
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Just mark that down and remember it.
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But secondly, regrets are also forgivable.
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I don't want you to misunderstand what
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I just said about the inevitability of regrets.
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You can't get away with god by saying, "oh, i'm only human.
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I can't do any better than that."
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No, sin, which is another way of saying mistakes,
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Sins have to be dealt with.
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God is a holy god.
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He cannot allow sin to go unpunished.
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God is a god of justice. he has to deal with sin.
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Nahum in the old testament, chapter 1, verse 3, says god
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Cannot simply overlook our transgressions.
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He has to deal with them.
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But in the same passage that deals with god's kindness toward
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Us is the way that god deals with us.
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Look at psalm 103, verses 10 to 12: "for god has not dealt with
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Us according to our sins.
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Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
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For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is
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God's loving kindness toward those who fear him."
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You see, a holy god has to deal with sin.
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Our sin is deserving of the wrath of god, but when you trust
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In jesus as your savior, it's not that god forgets about your
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Sins or plays like they never happened.
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He has to deal with your sin. so what does he do?
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He separates you and me from our sin and he takes our sin and,
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Praise god, colossians 2:14 says,
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"he nails our sin to the cross of jesus christ, and he declares
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That it is paid in full."
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That's how god deals with us.
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He separates our sin from us and nails it to the cross of christ.
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That means that we are forgiven of our sins.
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Today when we think of people, we can't separate
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People from their sins.
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If there is somebody who's wronged you, every time you
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See that person, that's what you think about is how
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They have wronged you.
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If you think about famous characters in history, i won't
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Name them, but if they'd had a major public sin, that's what
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You remember about them.
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We can't separate people from their sins.
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But thank god, he separates us from our sins.
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He takes our sins, separates us from them, and nails it to the
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Cross of jesus christ.
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And i love this verse in verse 12: how far has god separated
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Us from our sin?
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"as far as the east is from the west.
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So far has he removed our transgressions from us."
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Do you remember in our series "invincible," i explained
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There's a reason god doesn't say "as far as the north is from the
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South, so far has he removed our sins."
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You know why he doesn't use that?
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Because there are poles associated with
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The north and the south.
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There is a limited distance between north and south.
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Let me illustrate that for you.
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If you get in your car this afternoon and start driving
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North, you'll go through oklahoma, you'll go through
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Minnesota, you'll go through canada, you keep going north and
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North and north until you meet santa claus at the north pole.
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And an interesting thing happens.
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When you hit the north pole, you're still going in the same
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Direction, but now you're going south.
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North has become south because of the north and south poles.
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But, if you're traveling from east to west, there's an
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Infinite distance you go without ever changing directions.
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If you start traveling west from dallas, you'll go to el paso,
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You'll go to arizona, you'll go to california, you're still
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Going west, you'll go to hawaii, you'll go to japan, you'll go to
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China, you'd keep going west and west and west.
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It doesn't matter how long you go, there is never a moment when
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You start going east again.
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You go from west on and on and on and on.
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How far has god removed that terrible mistake
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We're so embarrassed about?
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He hasn't moved it just from the north to the south.
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He has moved it from the east to the west, and he remembers our
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Sin no longer.
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Praise god for a god who does that with our sin.
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That is why i say yes, regrets are inevitable,
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But they are forgivable.
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He has not dealt with us according to our sins.
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There's a third truth about regrets.
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Not only are they inevitable, not only are they forgivable,
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But thirdly, regrets can be instructional.
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They can be instructional.
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Authors arthur freeman and rose dewolf had painted a vivid word
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Picture to describe the potential benefits of results.
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Listen to this: "somewhere inside of all of us, there is a
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Hall of memories where we keep the people, places, and events
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Of our past.
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These memories may be bittersweet.
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These memories may be instructive.
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These memories may be painful.
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You come away from visiting the hall of memories refreshed,
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Warmed, and warned, ready to deal again with the future.
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Maybe even able to warn others not to repeat your mistakes.
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The key to progress in life is returning to the present.
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The hall of memories becomes a fascinating place to visit, no
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Longer a place in which to live or even to linger."
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These memories, these bad memories of mistakes from the
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Past need to be remembered but not dwelt upon.
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And if we remember them in the right way, though they can never
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Be erased, they can be instructional for the future.
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That's the potential benefit of a regret.
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It can't change our past, but it can change our future.
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I don't know how better to illustrate the potential benefit
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Of mistakes from the past than from a personal illustration
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From my own life.
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When i was pastoring my last church, over those 15 years
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There came different opportunities to go to other
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Churches, larger churches, in one case to become a president
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Of a seminary, and i remember one of those times i was dealing
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With a potential move and change, and our girls were
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Little at the time and julia was nine years old, and i remember
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One night after she had gone to bed, i noticed that a light in
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Her closet was still on.
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So i walked into that closet to turn the light out, and i
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Noticed at the back of the closet andy had made
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A collage of julia's first nine years of living,
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A picture from each year.
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And i looked down at 1989 when she was a year old and i thought
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About the year 1989.
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I remembered when that picture was taken, but i thought,
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"what else do i remember from 1989?"
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And i could think of one or maybe two things that happened
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Out of those 365 days, and i thought,
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"what happened to that year?"
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I looked at 1991.
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Where did that go? 1994.
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And suddenly i was filled with regrets over times i had missed
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Spending with my two daughters in order to take care of real
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Or imaginary responsibilities i had.
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And feeling that pain, i thought to myself, "now, if i say yes to
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This opportunity, what are the chances that one day in the
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Future i'll be looking at the collage saying,
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"what happened to 1999?
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What happened to 2002 or 2004?"
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And i allowed that pain that i was feeling from the past to
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Lead me to the conclusion to say no to this opportunity.
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That's the value of regrets.
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You can't erase them, but you can avoid future mistakes.
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The writer of proverbs says it this way
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In proverbs 15:31 through 32,
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"he whose ear listens to the life-giving reproof will dwell
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Among the wise.
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But he who neglects discipline despises himself.
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But he who listens to reproof acquires understanding."
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Remember in proverbs, the word "reproof" and
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"discipline"--these mean negative circumstances we
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Experience because of wrong choices we've made.
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A reproof or discipline is something negative that happens
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To us when we make a wrong choice, and what the writer of
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Proverbs is saying, we need to learn from those wrong choices
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So we don't repeat them.
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Somebody once said, "the worst thing about the school of hard
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Knocks is that the tuition is very high.
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And the only thing worse than paying that tuition bill once is
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Having to pay it again and again and again."
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Only the fool refuses to learn from his past mistakes.
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Regrets are inevitable.
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They are forgivable. they can be instructional.
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And finally, regrets are providential.
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They are providential.
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In my book, "the road most traveled,"
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I give this definition of contentment:
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Contentment means being at peace with the unchangeable choices,
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Circumstances, and mistakes of my life.
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The only way you can be at peace with these mistakes you've made
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Is when you understand and trust in the sovereignty of god.
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What does the sovereignty of god mean?
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It means god is in control.
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He is in control of everything that happens in this universe,
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And everything that happens in your life and my life.
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Somebody said it this way when it comes to mistakes: god not
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Only watches over our steps, he watches over our missteps
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And our stumbles.
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Now, god never wills for us to sin.
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That's not what i'm saying. god is not the author of sin.
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When i say, "trusting in the sovereignty of god over our
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Mistakes," what i'm saying is god is so powerful, he's so
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Good, he's so loving, that he can take the worst mistakes we
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Make, the worst sins we commit, and he can use them for our good
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And for his glory.
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God can cause all things to work together for good to those who
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Love him and those who are called according to his purpose.
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You know, the best example to me in scripture of that is the
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Story of moses.
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Remember, moses spent the first 40 years
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Of his life in pharaoh's palace.
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He was the son--in many ways of pharaoh, and when he was
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40 years of age, he made one momentary bad choice that
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Forever changed his life.
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In the heat of anger, he killed that egyptian soldier, and
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Immediately he became a fugitive.
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He started running from pharaoh, and because of that one mistake,
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He spent the next 40 years on the backside of the desert.
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Can you imagine the number of times he must have kicked
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Himself saying, "if only i hadn't killed that soldier.
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If only i hadn't allowed by anger to get the best of me, i'd
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Be back in the palace instead of out here in nowheresville.
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But god used those 40 years in the desert to prepare moses,
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To teach him invaluable lessons he never would've learned
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In pharaoh's court.
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Lessons that prepared him at age 80 to be called by god to lead
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The children of israel out of egypt.
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You will never be at peace with the regrets from your past until
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You believe in a god who can do the same thing for you.
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He can take the worst mistakes you've made and use them for
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Your good and for his glory.
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I want to encourage you right now to visualize your biggest
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Regret you have in your life.
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The biggest mistake you've made in your life.
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And i encourage you to see that mistake, that sin,
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As god sees it.
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It's nothing that can be erased, but it's a regret that can
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Be forgiven, and thank god, never has to be repeated.
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Many of you remember perhaps the name of the humorist irma
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Bombeck, who, decades ago, had a column that appeared in hundreds
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Of newspapers several times a week.
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Millions of people read the humorous columns
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Of irma bombeck.
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She died when she was 69 years of age of kidney cancer,
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And shortly before she died, she made one of her last columns a
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List of things she would do over if she had her
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Life to live over again.
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This is what she said, "i would have talked less
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And listened more.
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I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose
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Before it melted in my garage.
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I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not
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Worried about grass stains.
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I would have eaten popcorn in the good living room and worried
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Less about dirt when somebody wanted to light the fireplace.
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I would have cried and laughed less while watching tv
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And more while watching life.
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There would have been more 'i love yous,' more 'i'm sorrys.'
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But mostly, given another shot at life,
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I would seize every minute, look at it and really see it,
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Live it, and never give it back."
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Instead of letting these regrets paralyze you, let them be
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Instructional and prepare you for the future.
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The roman statesman cicero said, "let us not go over the same
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Ground again, but let us prepare for what is yet to come."
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I love what the apostle paul says even more in philippians 3.
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Remember his words?
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"this one thing i do, forgetting what lies behind and reaching
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Forward to what lies ahead.
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I press on toward the goal of the prize of the upward call of
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God in christ jesus."
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Great words to remember for those who are intent on saying
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Goodbye to regrets.
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Jeffress: life is far too short to live with regrets.
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And i'm hoping and praying this teaching series inspires
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You to forget what lies behind and to reach forward
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To what lies ahead.
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Now, in the time remaining today, i wanna share a note
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I received from beth.
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She wrote, "last year i discovered "pathway to victory."
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Since then, i have learned a lot about how to walk closer with
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Jesus, to trust in him, and to live the way the bible says to.
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Right now, my family and i are going through a difficult time.
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I routinely turn to "pathway to victory" for reminders that god
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Knows the trials we are facing.
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He is in control, and he has a purpose.
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Thank you for all that you do!"
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Well, beth, i'm so glad that "pathway to victory" is a
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Blessing to you during this difficult time.
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And to those of you who support "pathway to victory," beth's
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Thank you note really belongs to you.
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We couldn't reach beth and others
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Like her without your help.
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Now, stay right there.
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I'll be back with one final word in just a moment.
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In his best selling book, "say goodbye to regret," dr. robert
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Jeffress shares biblical principles for dealing with
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Regrets from your past and preventing regrets in
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The future.
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Jeffress: regret is one of life's most painful and
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Unnecessary emotions, and in my best selling book, "say goodbye
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To regret," i'll help you turn those if-onlys into successful
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Lessons in living.
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Jeffress: one of the heaviest weights, other than sin,
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Is regret.
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Regrets are not the problem in and of themselves, they are an
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Indicator of a problem that needs to be dealt with.
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Jeffress: lugging around the emotional baggage caused by
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Regret is exhausting.
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Isn't it time to let go and allow god to redeem
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Your mistakes?
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Yes, regrets are inevitable, but they're also forgivable,
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Instructional, and even providential.
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Well, christians often ask me how they can know god's will for
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Their life, but it doesn't have to be a guessing game.
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Next time, we're going to begin our next series called,
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"how to make wise decisions."
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In this study, i'll show you and help you understand how to act
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Upon god's plan for your life.
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Stay tuned for a preview of this new series,
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"how to make wise decisions."
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Jeffress: it was the late joe bailey who wrote,
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"if there is a serious concern among christians today,
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It is for guidance.
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Holiness may have been the passion of another generation of
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Christian young men and women, or soul-winning,
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Or evangelizing the world in their generation,
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But not today.
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Today, the theme is getting to know the will of god."
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Robert Jeffress - Say Goodbye To Regrets About Regrets

September 5, 2025 | S25 E3606 | 29:0

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