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Robert Jeffress - To Succeed More, Fail More (Part 1)

July 7, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - To Succeed More, Fail More (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - To Succeed More, Fail More (Part 1) | July 7, 2026
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  • Male announcer: ephesus, thessaloniki, the greek islands.
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  • The apostle paul didn't just write about these places, he
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  • Lived in them.
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  • And this may, so can you on the pathway to victory journeys of
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  • Paul cruise.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: i've read the book of acts my entire life,
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  • But there's nothing like standing in ephesus, walking
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  • Where paul walked, and feeling the weight
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  • Of what happened there.
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  • And there's an optional pre-cruise extension in athens.
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  • Jeffress: every port carries the fingerprints
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  • Of god's redemptive plan.
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  • Every ancient stone tells a story.
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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,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Many christians feel like they're standing on the platform
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  • Of a train station watching opportunities pass them by.
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  • Well, if that analogy describes you,
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  • Then it's time to jump onboard and enjoy the victory god wants
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  • You to experience.
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  • Today we're going to open to the book of proverbs for the first
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  • Of ten secrets to extraordinary success.
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  • And if you think good christians shouldn't be successful,
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  • Then let me show you what god's word really says.
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  • My message is titled "to succeed more, fail more"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: god wants you to experience his best in every
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  • Area of life, and the wisdom to get there is found in his word.
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  • In "the solomon's secrets," dr. robert jeffress draws on the
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  • Life of the wisest and most successful man who ever lived to
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  • Bring you ten life-changing principles from proverbs.
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  • You'll discover practical biblical wisdom for your
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  • Marriage, finances, your career, your purpose, and so much more.
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  • Jeffress: did you know god does want you to be
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  • Successful in life?
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  • And that's not a heresy, that is the truth.
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  • God wants you to be successful.
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  • Now, some people have twisted that truth to say that god wants
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  • Everybody--every christian to be rich and free from problems.
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  • That's not true.
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  • But god does want you to experience success in every part
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  • Of your life.
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  • We defined success last week as experiencing god's best for
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  • Every area of your life: your family,
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  • Your finances, your work, your relationship with god.
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  • God wants you to prosper, to be successful in those things if
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  • You define prosperous and success
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  • As experiencing his best.
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  • We saw that last time in both the old testament
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  • And in the new testament.
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  • Now, the key to experiencing god's best
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  • In your life is wisdom.
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  • Wisdom is the skill to live life according to god's plan.
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  • And when you apply god's wisdom to every part of your life,
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  • You're going to be more successful than if you ignore
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  • God's wisdom.
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  • That's what the truth of god's word says.
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  • We are looking at the book of proverbs and discovering ten
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  • Nuggets of wisdom that will guarantee success
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  • In every part of your life.
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  • Now, i call this pieces of uncommon sense.
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  • The wisdom we're going to look at in proverbs is uncommon sense
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  • Because it goes against our natural inclination.
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  • You see, god's wisdom is different from man's wisdom.
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  • God's wisdom says the way up is down,
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  • The way to rule is to serve, the way to live is to die.
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  • So if we're going to be successful,
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  • We've got to learn a new way of thinking that comes straight
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  • From god's word.
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  • And today we're going to look at the first of the solomon
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  • Secrets, and that is to succeed more, fail more.
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  • Don't look at me that way.
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  • If you want to know what i'm talking about,
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  • Turn in your bibles to proverbs chapter 10 as we look
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  • At the success secret to succeed more, fail more.
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  • Thomas edison once said, "most of life's failures are people
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  • Who didn't realize how close they were to success
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  • Before they gave up."
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  • And of course what thomas edison was talking about
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  • Was this quality of persistence.
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  • Did you know most people think the reason people--
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  • Some people are successful in life is because of family
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  • Connections, inherited wealth, talent, or good luck?
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  • But the bible says no, what really makes the difference
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  • Between successful and unsuccessful people
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  • In life is this quality called persistence.
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  • What is persistence?
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  • I want you to write this down on your outline.
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  • Persistence is the courage to continue pursuing your dream in
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  • Spite of unexpected setbacks, undeserved criticism,
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  • And unrelenting hard work.
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  • Let me say it again.
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  • Persistence is the courage to continue pursuing your dream in
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  • Spite of unexpected setbacks, undeserved criticism,
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  • And unrelenting hard work.
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  • Some of my favorite words about persistence comes
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  • From president calvin coolidge.
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  • Listen to what coolidge said.
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  • "press on.
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  • Nothing in the world can take place of persistence.
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  • Talent will not.
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  • Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
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  • Genius will not.
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  • Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
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  • Education will not.
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  • The world is full of educated derelicts.
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  • Persistence and determination alone
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  • Are overwhelmingly powerful."
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  • Let me give you three examples in the bible of persistence.
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  • First of all, consider in joshua chapter 6 the story of joshua.
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  • Remember we said that god had given joshua a promise,
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  • A dream, and that is inheriting the promised land.
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  • He said, "joshua, i'm going to give you and the israelites this
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  • Land, but you are going to have to fight
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  • For every square inch of it."
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  • Now, the biggest obstacle between joshua
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  • And his dream was this fortified city called jericho,
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  • 9-acre city.
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  • It had a big wall around it.
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  • That was the obstacle that joshua had to overcome.
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  • And so god said to joshua,
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  • "now, joshua, this is what i want you to do.
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  • I want you to take your men out and you're going to march around
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  • The city once a day for 6 days, and then on the seventh day
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  • You're to march around the city seven times,
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  • And on the seventh time blow the trumpet,
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  • Shout and the walls will come down."
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  • So joshua and his man went out day after day after day.
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  • I'm sure they got tired of howling that armor around
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  • In the hot palestinian sun.
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  • They got tired the residents of jericho standing on the wall
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  • Making fun of them yet they did it day after day.
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  • Now suppose on the final day, suppose on the seventh day after
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  • About five times the israelites have said,
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  • "we've had enough of this.
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  • There's not even a hairline fracture in the wall.
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  • We've got to come up with plan b."
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  • Had they not gone around that wall the seventh time they would
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  • Not have experienced god's success in their life.
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  • Remember edison's comment?
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  • "most of life's failures are people who didn't realize how
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  • Close they were to success before they gave up."
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  • Persistence.
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  • Or think about the story in 2 kings chapter 5 of naaman.
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  • Remember naaman?
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  • He was the captain of the syrian army
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  • Who was infected with leprosy.
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  • He wanted to be healed, so god sent his prophet elisha
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  • To give naaman this message.
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  • And elisha said, "if you want to be healed,
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  • Naaman, you've got to go down to the jordan river and you've got
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  • To dip yourself not once, twice but seven times in that river
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  • And after the seventh time your skin will be healed."
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  • Now, that took a lot of humility for naaman,
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  • A mighty man, to go down to that jordan river--
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  • Muddy jordan river and dip himself.
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  • But he did it because he was desperate for healing.
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  • Until you really understand your need for healing you won't be
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  • Willing to humble yourself and say,
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  • "god, i need christ as my savior."
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  • Naaman was desperate for healing,
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  • And so he went down to that muddy jordan.
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  • He went down once and twice and three times.
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  • Imagine after the sixth time he had looked at his skin and said,
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  • "i'm getting nothing but waterlogged.
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  • I'm giving up."
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  • He would have missed god's healing.
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  • But 2 kings 5, verse 14 says after the seventh time when he
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  • Came up out of the water his skin looked like that of a baby,
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  • The bible says.
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  • Persistence, continuing forward in spite of setbacks,
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  • Criticism, and hard work.
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  • Thirdly, consider the words of solomon himself.
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  • Remember solomon was the wisest,
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  • The wealthiest man who ever lived?
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  • Listen to what the book of proverbs says about persistence.
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  • I could give you dozens of verses.
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  • We only have a time to look at a few.
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  • The synonym in the bible for persistence is diligence.
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  • Look at proverbs 10, verses 4 and 5.
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  • Solomon says, "poor is he who works with a negligent hand,
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  • But the hand of the diligent," the persistent, "makes rich."
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  • Or, "he who gathers in summer is a son who acts wisely,
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  • But he who sleeps in harvest is a son who acts shamefully."
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  • You know what foolish people think?
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  • Foolish people think that opportunities in life
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  • Are like trains.
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  • There'll be another one along in a few minutes.
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  • "no reason to get excited when an opportunity comes.
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  • There'll be another one."
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  • No.
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  • The wise person, the diligent person takes advantage
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  • Of opportunities while he still can.
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  • Proverbs 12, verse 24 says, "the hand of the diligent,"
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  • That is the persistent, "will rule, but the slack hand
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  • Will be put to forced labor."
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  • Proverbs 20, verse 4, "the sluggard," that is the lazy
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  • Person, "he doesn't plow after the autumn,
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  • So he begs during the harvest and has nothing."
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  • One more.
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  • Proverbs 21, jot this down, verses 25 and 26,
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  • "the desire of the sluggard puts him to death,
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  • For his hands refuse to work.
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  • All day long he is craving, while the righteous gives and
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  • Does not hold back."
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  • "all right, robert," you might be thinking,
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  • "i understand that persistence is a biblical quality,
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  • I understand that it may be the key to success,
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  • But how do i develop persistence in my life?"
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  • Man, i'm so glad you asked that question.
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  • You did ask it, didn't you?
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  • It doesn't matter 'cause i'm going to tell you
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  • How you develop persistence in your life.
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  • Do you desire to be successful in your business?
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  • Do you desire to be successful in your family life?
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  • Do you want to have greater financial stability
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  • In your life?
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  • Do you want to improve the most important relationship of all,
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  • Your relationship with god?
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  • The key is persistence, and here's how to develop
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  • Persistence in your life.
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  • Six keys to developing persistence,
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  • Write them down.
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  • First of all, understand the value of persistence,
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  • Understand the value of persistence.
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  • Most people--most of you watching on television right
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  • Now, you really don't understand the value of persistence.
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  • You think, like most people, that the reason some people are
  • 00:12:05.680 --> 00:12:09.617
  • Successful is because of family connections,
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  • Wealth, giftedness, just plain luck.
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  • No, will you notice in these words
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  • We just looked at from solomon,
  • 00:12:18.893 --> 00:12:20.795
  • The contrast that solomon draws is not between the gifted and
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  • The ungifted, the lucky and the unlucky,
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  • The beautiful and the ugly, the rich and the poor.
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  • The contrast is between the persistent person,
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  • The diligent person and the lazy person.
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  • That's the difference.
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  • The persistent person is the one who is successful.
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  • Napoleon hill was the original positive-thinking guru and early
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  • In the 20th century he wrote about a study he had performed
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  • Over a long period of time of the two most successful people
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  • In his day.
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  • Do you know who the most successful people in america
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  • Were in the earlier-- early 20th century?
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  • They would have been thomas edison and henry ford.
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  • They would have been like the bill gates and the late steve
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  • Jobs today.
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  • Napoleon hill had a chance to study the lives of edison and
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  • Henry ford and he came to this conclusion about
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  • The reason for their success.
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  • Listen to this carefully.
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  • "i had the happy privilege of analyzing both mr. edison and
  • 00:13:24.259 --> 00:13:28.263
  • Mr. ford year by year over a long period of years and
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  • Therefore the opportunity to study them at close range.
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  • So i speak from actual knowledge when i say that i found no
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  • Quality except persistence in either one of them that even
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  • Remotely suggested the major source
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  • Of their stupendous achievements."
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  • Will you let those words sink in for just a moment?
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  • What is it that made these men successful?
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  • Napoleon hill say it wasn't their giftedness,
  • 00:14:00.962 --> 00:14:02.897
  • Wasn't their luck.
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  • It was their persistence.
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  • I want you to understand that god
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  • Has given you every tool you need already.
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  • God has endowed you with every gift you need
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  • To be successful in life.
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  • All you have to apply is this invaluable quality
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  • Of persistence.
  • 00:14:24.552 --> 00:14:26.387
  • Persistent people, first of all,
  • 00:14:26.387 --> 00:14:27.956
  • Understand the value of persistence.
  • 00:14:27.956 --> 00:14:29.757
  • Secondly, if you're going to be persistent,
  • 00:14:29.757 --> 00:14:32.260
  • You have to learn to let go of the past.
  • 00:14:32.260 --> 00:14:35.663
  • Persistence means letting go of the past.
  • 00:14:35.663 --> 00:14:39.133
  • At 83 years of age, the great architect,
  • 00:14:39.133 --> 00:14:41.903
  • Frank lloyd wright, was asked a question by a reporter.
  • 00:14:41.903 --> 00:14:44.672
  • The reporter said, "mr. wright,
  • 00:14:44.672 --> 00:14:46.574
  • What is your greatest architectural achievement?"
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  • Wright responded, "the next one."
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  • That's what persistent people do.
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  • They refuse to look backwards.
  • 00:14:56.784 --> 00:14:59.387
  • They are always looking forward.
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  • You know, the writer of hebrews said the same thing.
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  • In hebrews chapter 12, listen to what the writer of hebrews said.
  • 00:15:04.392 --> 00:15:08.329
  • "therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses
  • 00:15:08.329 --> 00:15:11.632
  • Surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance
  • 00:15:11.632 --> 00:15:15.837
  • And the sin which so easily entangles us,
  • 00:15:15.837 --> 00:15:18.373
  • And let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
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  • Fixing our eyes on jesus,
  • 00:15:22.176 --> 00:15:24.879
  • The author and the perfecter of our faith."
  • 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.082
  • The bible compares living the christian life to a foot race.
  • 00:15:28.082 --> 00:15:32.954
  • The goal was to win the approval of christ.
  • 00:15:32.954 --> 00:15:36.491
  • But if we're going to run this race successfully,
  • 00:15:36.491 --> 00:15:39.727
  • We have to keep our eyes fixed on jesus.
  • 00:15:39.727 --> 00:15:41.963
  • We have to keep looking forward instead of looking backward,
  • 00:15:41.963 --> 00:15:46.501
  • And he says to be a successful runner you have to lay aside the
  • 00:15:46.501 --> 00:15:50.705
  • Sin and the encumbrances that so easily entangles us.
  • 00:15:50.705 --> 00:15:55.843
  • You know, a successful runner understands if you're going to
  • 00:15:55.843 --> 00:15:58.913
  • Run successfully you have to run as light as possible.
  • 00:15:58.913 --> 00:16:03.017
  • It might be 33 degrees outside, but you don't wear an overcoat
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  • If you're a runner in order to win the race.
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  • You want to go as lightly as possible.
  • 00:16:08.956 --> 00:16:10.792
  • And so the runner--the writer here is saying if you're going
  • 00:16:10.792 --> 00:16:13.428
  • To live life successfully according to god's standard you
  • 00:16:13.428 --> 00:16:16.898
  • Have to lay aside anything that would weigh you down or hold you
  • 00:16:16.898 --> 00:16:20.234
  • Back, and he mentions two things here that will weigh you down.
  • 00:16:20.234 --> 00:16:24.439
  • One is sin.
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  • Sin will weigh you down.
  • 00:16:26.641 --> 00:16:28.342
  • We know what he means by sin, don't we?
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  • Some of you are experts in sin.
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  • You know what we're talking about here.
  • 00:16:32.447 --> 00:16:34.315
  • You lay that aside.
  • 00:16:34.315 --> 00:16:36.384
  • But then he says beyond sin we have to lay aside encumbrances.
  • 00:16:36.384 --> 00:16:42.123
  • Now, an encumbrance is anything other than a sin in our life.
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  • We have to lay aside anything that is going to hold us back,
  • 00:16:46.894 --> 00:16:51.032
  • And nothing will weigh you down in your life any more than being
  • 00:16:51.032 --> 00:16:55.470
  • Focused on the past rather than focused on the future.
  • 00:16:55.470 --> 00:16:59.340
  • Think about a runner who's running.
  • 00:16:59.340 --> 00:17:01.209
  • Nothing will slow that runner down any more than if he starts
  • 00:17:01.209 --> 00:17:03.978
  • Looking over his back over ground
  • 00:17:03.978 --> 00:17:05.847
  • That's already been covered.
  • 00:17:05.847 --> 00:17:07.582
  • A runner needs to look forward.
  • 00:17:07.582 --> 00:17:10.084
  • Gene roddenberry, the creator of the "star trek" series,
  • 00:17:10.084 --> 00:17:12.420
  • Said, "we travel in the direction
  • 00:17:12.420 --> 00:17:15.089
  • In which we are looking."
  • 00:17:15.089 --> 00:17:18.192
  • Persistent people learn how to refuse to look at the past.
  • 00:17:18.192 --> 00:17:23.431
  • What do i mean looking at the past?
  • 00:17:23.431 --> 00:17:24.932
  • First of all, it means refusing to look at past failures.
  • 00:17:24.932 --> 00:17:29.737
  • If you're going to persist and be successful in life,
  • 00:17:29.737 --> 00:17:32.406
  • You've got to let go of past failures in your life.
  • 00:17:32.406 --> 00:17:36.978
  • One of my favorite stories about thomas edison
  • 00:17:36.978 --> 00:17:38.746
  • Was written by his son.
  • 00:17:38.746 --> 00:17:41.115
  • His son said that his dad had been working for 10 years on
  • 00:17:41.115 --> 00:17:44.519
  • Developing the nickel alkaline iron battery.
  • 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:47.889
  • He'd invested everything he had in the development
  • 00:17:47.889 --> 00:17:49.991
  • Of this battery.
  • 00:17:49.991 --> 00:17:51.726
  • On one freezing night in december of 1914,
  • 00:17:51.726 --> 00:17:55.329
  • Edison's plant erupted into flames.
  • 00:17:55.329 --> 00:17:58.332
  • It was such a large fire that fire trucks from eight
  • 00:17:58.332 --> 00:18:01.169
  • Surrounding cities were called to put out the blaze,
  • 00:18:01.169 --> 00:18:03.704
  • But they were unsuccessful.
  • 00:18:03.704 --> 00:18:05.540
  • The fire destroyed everything.
  • 00:18:05.540 --> 00:18:08.776
  • Thomas edison's son says, "i remember that night watching
  • 00:18:08.776 --> 00:18:11.479
  • My father's work go up in flames.
  • 00:18:11.479 --> 00:18:13.881
  • I wondered, first of all, if he was still alive,
  • 00:18:13.881 --> 00:18:16.617
  • And then i wondered even if he survives the fire will this just
  • 00:18:16.617 --> 00:18:20.021
  • Break him emotionally where he can never work again."
  • 00:18:20.021 --> 00:18:24.192
  • And he said, "as i was sitting there watching these flames
  • 00:18:24.192 --> 00:18:27.195
  • And wondering about the fate of my father,
  • 00:18:27.195 --> 00:18:28.930
  • I looked on the horizon and i saw my father running toward me
  • 00:18:28.930 --> 00:18:32.733
  • And yelling, 'son, go get your mother.
  • 00:18:32.733 --> 00:18:36.304
  • Tell her to bring her friends with her.
  • 00:18:36.304 --> 00:18:38.372
  • They'll never see a fire like this again.'"
  • 00:18:38.372 --> 00:18:45.379
  • "the next morning," the son said--
  • 00:18:45.379 --> 00:18:48.683
  • The next morning thomas edison
  • 00:18:48.683 --> 00:18:50.418
  • Called all of his workers together.
  • 00:18:50.418 --> 00:18:53.221
  • As they sat on the ash heap of their ruined lives,
  • 00:18:53.221 --> 00:18:57.158
  • Edison started making assignments.
  • 00:18:57.158 --> 00:18:59.360
  • He said, "now, bill, i want you to go out and try to lease up
  • 00:18:59.360 --> 00:19:01.829
  • Any equipment you can find."
  • 00:19:01.829 --> 00:19:03.998
  • And he said, "now, john, i want you to go out and i want you to
  • 00:19:03.998 --> 00:19:06.400
  • See if there's any plants that we can rent
  • 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.203
  • And start the project over again."
  • 00:19:09.203 --> 00:19:11.505
  • And on and on and on he went making the assignments
  • 00:19:11.505 --> 00:19:13.874
  • And almost as an afterthought he said,
  • 00:19:13.874 --> 00:19:16.410
  • "oh, and by the way, does anybody know where we can get
  • 00:19:16.410 --> 00:19:18.879
  • Some money around here?"
  • 00:19:18.879 --> 00:19:22.950
  • He refused to be paralyzed by his past failure.
  • 00:19:22.950 --> 00:19:26.921
  • There are some of you right now, some of you watching this
  • 00:19:26.921 --> 00:19:29.490
  • Service, you are paralyzed by some failure in your past.
  • 00:19:29.490 --> 00:19:33.961
  • It may have been an unwanted divorce,
  • 00:19:33.961 --> 00:19:37.131
  • An undeserved termination, an unfair lawsuit.
  • 00:19:37.131 --> 00:19:42.637
  • If you're going to be successful in experiencing god's best for
  • 00:19:42.637 --> 00:19:46.207
  • Your life, you have to let go of those things.
  • 00:19:46.207 --> 00:19:49.744
  • I saw a plaque one time that read,
  • 00:19:49.744 --> 00:19:52.146
  • "yesterday ended last night."
  • 00:19:52.146 --> 00:19:56.217
  • A successful person, a persistent person
  • 00:19:56.217 --> 00:19:58.586
  • Lets go of past failures.
  • 00:19:58.586 --> 00:20:01.889
  • We have to let go of past failures.
  • 00:20:01.889 --> 00:20:03.591
  • Sometimes we have to learn
  • 00:20:03.591 --> 00:20:04.992
  • To let go of past successes as well.
  • 00:20:04.992 --> 00:20:08.496
  • Moving forward and not looking back means not only not looking
  • 00:20:08.496 --> 00:20:11.932
  • Back at failure, sometimes it means let--
  • 00:20:11.932 --> 00:20:13.834
  • Not looking back at past successes
  • 00:20:13.834 --> 00:20:15.670
  • And being paralyzed by them.
  • 00:20:15.670 --> 00:20:18.072
  • There was a very famous painter here in texas whose first
  • 00:20:18.072 --> 00:20:20.975
  • Painting was a painting of an oak tree.
  • 00:20:20.975 --> 00:20:23.577
  • It was a magnificent picture.
  • 00:20:23.577 --> 00:20:25.179
  • It won all kind of awards and accolades.
  • 00:20:25.179 --> 00:20:28.382
  • But the painter was so overcome by what these people said about
  • 00:20:28.382 --> 00:20:32.753
  • His painting of an oak tree every other painting he painted
  • 00:20:32.753 --> 00:20:36.791
  • From that time on had an oak tree in it somewhere.
  • 00:20:36.791 --> 00:20:40.394
  • He couldn't let go of his past success in order to move
  • 00:20:40.394 --> 00:20:43.898
  • Forward, and that's true for you.
  • 00:20:43.898 --> 00:20:47.201
  • There ought to be a time, if you've accomplished a big
  • 00:20:47.201 --> 00:20:49.403
  • Project, that you ought to rest and you ought to celebrate
  • 00:20:49.403 --> 00:20:52.807
  • What you've done.
  • 00:20:52.807 --> 00:20:54.342
  • And by the way, those of you who lead a company,
  • 00:20:54.342 --> 00:20:56.944
  • You lead a team at your business,
  • 00:20:56.944 --> 00:20:58.879
  • Boy, this piece of advice is invaluable.
  • 00:20:58.879 --> 00:21:02.049
  • If your company has achieved a great success,
  • 00:21:02.049 --> 00:21:05.753
  • Make sure you take time to celebrate that.
  • 00:21:05.753 --> 00:21:08.489
  • Celebration is a key to rejuvenation,
  • 00:21:08.489 --> 00:21:11.759
  • But i'll tell you something else celebration does.
  • 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:14.161
  • It brings closure to that past success so that you and your
  • 00:21:14.161 --> 00:21:18.265
  • Team can move forward.
  • 00:21:18.265 --> 00:21:20.234
  • Nehemiah illustrates that principle in nehemiah 12.
  • 00:21:20.234 --> 00:21:22.703
  • Remember he rallied the people to rebuild the wall around
  • 00:21:22.703 --> 00:21:26.240
  • Jerusalem, and in nehemiah chapter 12 after they had
  • 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:29.510
  • Finished that great project nehemiah said,
  • 00:21:29.510 --> 00:21:31.445
  • "now we're going to stop
  • 00:21:31.445 --> 00:21:32.780
  • And we're going to have a gigantic party.
  • 00:21:32.780 --> 00:21:34.949
  • We're going to party hardy for a long time."
  • 00:21:34.949 --> 00:21:37.918
  • Now, it wasn't because everything had been finished.
  • 00:21:37.918 --> 00:21:39.787
  • There was still more work to do in jerusalem,
  • 00:21:39.787 --> 00:21:42.323
  • But nehemiah understood the importance of celebration.
  • 00:21:42.323 --> 00:21:46.627
  • Take time to celebrate.
  • 00:21:46.627 --> 00:21:48.329
  • Take time to acknowledge you and your team's success.
  • 00:21:48.329 --> 00:21:51.132
  • Thank god for it, but then get ready to move on
  • 00:21:51.132 --> 00:21:54.268
  • To the next chapter.
  • 00:21:54.268 --> 00:21:56.170
  • You know, this idea of refusing to look at both past successes
  • 00:21:56.170 --> 00:22:00.241
  • And failures is found in paul's words in philippians chapter 3,
  • 00:22:00.241 --> 00:22:04.478
  • Verses 13 and 14.
  • 00:22:04.478 --> 00:22:05.813
  • Remember what paul wrote?
  • 00:22:05.813 --> 00:22:07.314
  • He said, "brethren, i do not regard myself as having laid
  • 00:22:07.314 --> 00:22:10.184
  • Hold of it yet; but one thing i do: forgetting what lies behind
  • 00:22:10.184 --> 00:22:15.689
  • And pressing on to what lies ahead.
  • 00:22:15.689 --> 00:22:18.359
  • I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of
  • 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.196
  • God in christ jesus."
  • 00:22:22.196 --> 00:22:24.532
  • Forgetting what's behind and reaching forward
  • 00:22:24.532 --> 00:22:27.735
  • To what lies ahead.
  • 00:22:27.735 --> 00:22:29.670
  • Think about paul.
  • 00:22:29.670 --> 00:22:31.338
  • He had a lot of failures in his life, didn't he?
  • 00:22:31.338 --> 00:22:34.708
  • He was a blasphemer, a persecutor,
  • 00:22:34.708 --> 00:22:37.244
  • A killer of christians.
  • 00:22:37.244 --> 00:22:39.113
  • He could have been paralyzed by that guilt of what he had done
  • 00:22:39.113 --> 00:22:42.116
  • In the past, but he said in 1 timothy 1,
  • 00:22:42.116 --> 00:22:44.452
  • "i found forgiveness through jesus christ.
  • 00:22:44.452 --> 00:22:47.054
  • I am example a of god's forgiveness."
  • 00:22:47.054 --> 00:22:49.623
  • Some of you right now are saying,
  • 00:22:49.623 --> 00:22:50.958
  • "god could never forgive me.
  • 00:22:50.958 --> 00:22:52.526
  • Pastor, you don't know what i've done."
  • 00:22:52.526 --> 00:22:54.228
  • No, i don't know what you've done,
  • 00:22:54.228 --> 00:22:56.530
  • But you haven't done nearly as much sin as paul committed.
  • 00:22:56.530 --> 00:23:01.735
  • You're not nearly as good of a sinner as paul was.
  • 00:23:01.735 --> 00:23:04.071
  • He was an expert in sinning and yet god said,
  • 00:23:04.071 --> 00:23:07.041
  • "i'm going to forgive you
  • 00:23:07.041 --> 00:23:08.375
  • Because of your faith in christ."
  • 00:23:08.375 --> 00:23:09.777
  • And paul said to his readers, he said,
  • 00:23:09.777 --> 00:23:12.613
  • "if god can forgive me, he can forgive anyone."
  • 00:23:12.613 --> 00:23:15.516
  • He let go of his past failures.
  • 00:23:15.516 --> 00:23:17.585
  • He also let go of his past successes.
  • 00:23:17.585 --> 00:23:20.120
  • He goes on to say earlier in that chapter that he was a
  • 00:23:20.120 --> 00:23:22.590
  • Hebrew of the hebrews, he was a pharisee of the pharisees,
  • 00:23:22.590 --> 00:23:25.860
  • He had sat under the feet of galiel--gamaliel the great
  • 00:23:25.860 --> 00:23:29.330
  • Teacher, but none of that mattered compared to the
  • 00:23:29.330 --> 00:23:33.000
  • Knowledge of having a relationship with jesus christ.
  • 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:37.571
  • Jeffress: the book of proverbs is filled with wisdom
  • 00:23:41.675 --> 00:23:44.278
  • For our times, and there's much more to discover next time when
  • 00:23:44.278 --> 00:23:48.582
  • We continue examining solomon secret number one,
  • 00:23:48.582 --> 00:23:52.419
  • "to succeed more, fail more."
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  • Announcer: all around us, people are struggling in their
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  • Finances, their marriages, and their careers,
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  • Not because they don't want to live well, but because no one
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  • Has given them the wisdom to do it.
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  • That wisdom is found in god's word, and it's exactly what
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  • Dr. robert jeffress unpacks in his best selling book,
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  • "the solomon secrets."
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  • In this practical biblical guide, you'll discover
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  • Ten principles from the book of proverbs for success in every
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  • Area of your life.
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  • Jeffress: solomon had more wealth and opportunity than
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  • Anyone of his era.
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  • And he discovered that real success only comes when you
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  • Build your life on the wisdom god provides.
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  • In my book, "the solomon secrets," i'll show you how to
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  • Apply that wisdom to your marriage, your parenting,
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  • Your career, your finances, and so much more.
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  • Jeffress: god wants you and me to be prosperous, successful.
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  • The key is defining what god means when he uses the word
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  • Prosperous and success.
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  • Together, we're piercing the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word.
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  • Jeffress: god wants his children to be successful
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  • In life.
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  • And while that doesn't mean you're going to be rich and
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  • Worry-free, it does mean god wants you to experience the best
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  • For every area of your life, including your family,
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  • Your finances, your work, and your relationship with god.
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  • Solomon's book of proverbs is filled with practical wisdom for
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  • Successful living, and i hope you'll make plans to join us
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  • Again next time when we discover the remainder of these six keys
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  • To developing persistence.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next on
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: make god central.
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  • Make god central in your life in the days of your youth before
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  • The days of trouble come.
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  • Remember this.
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  • No amount of success can fill that hole of an empty life.
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  • Only god can fill that hole.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part two
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  • Of the message "to succeed more, fail more"
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  • Here on "pathway to victory."
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