Tonight on Praise, Matt and Laurie welcome Dr. Robert Jeffress for an uplifting conversation on moving forward after life’s biggest mistakes. Dr. Jeffress reminds us that failure doesn’t have to define our future; and through God’s forgiveness, we can release shame, take responsibility, and trust His grace to lead us into a fresh start. This message of hope and redemption encourages us to embrace new beginnings, knowing that our God specializes in restoration and renewal. Don’t miss this powerful episode filled with encouragement for anyone seeking a second chance!
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Praise | Robert Jeffress: Finding Hope and Redemption | Praise | February 10, 2025
- Coming up tonight on praise...
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- It's amazing that some christians who have been
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- Forgiven of so much refuse to forgive so little.
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- Remember the grace of god and remember that it's
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- Your sin that led jesus to the cross and his
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- Attitude about you is i love you, you're my child
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- And you'll be my child forever.
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- ♪♪
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- Tonight on praise, from dallas, senior pastor of
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- First baptist church of dallas and host of
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- Pathway to victory, dr. robert jeffress.
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- ♪♪
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- And now your host matt and laurie crouch.
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- Pastor robert, it's a beautiful day here
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- In dallas, texas and recently you were dealing
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- With a really tough situation and it was
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- Certainly big news here in dallas, texas with the
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- Old historic portion of dallas first
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- Assembly here--
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- First baptist, maybe it was supposed
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- To be assembly.
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- Kidding.
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- I was actually dedicated to the lord in an
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- Assembly of god church here in dallas, lakewood
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- Church brother-- and when i was two years old.
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- So you weren't too far off.
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- That i remember that.
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- You've actually told us that before and so you're
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- A little bit of a bapti-costal kind of thing
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- Going on.
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- It's schizophrenic theologian.
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- There you go.
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- I love it.
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- What do you want to say about that
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- What had to be at the moment, a tragic event
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- That god-- romans 8:28 is real.
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- So give us your 2025 report on kind of a weird
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- Thing that happened in 2024.
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- Well, it was a devastating fire and
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- Really the whole world watched it.
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- We've been contacted from everybody.
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- It was a four alarm fire, 130 firefighters involved
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- In it, and that sanctuary had been in downtown
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- Dallas for 130 years.
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- Oh my goodness.
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- Had hosted presidents like woodrow wilson and
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- George bush and others had been there. the
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- President of the southern baptist convention called
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- It the notre dame of the evangelical world.
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- There really was, and one afternoon in january or
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- July of 2024, just after 2,500 kids had left from
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- Being in there for vacation bible school,
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- The place erupted in flames and completely
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- Destroyed it.
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- It's a huge tragedy for us at the time, but god
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- Has a way of making beauty come out of the ashes.
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- We've said 2024 will always be the year
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- Of the fire.
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- We'll always remember it, but this is the year of
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- New beginnings in 2025.
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- We've got great plans for the rebuilding.
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- The debris is gone and we're ready to build
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- Something to the glory of god, not just for dallas,
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- But for the world.
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- That romans scripture is hard to see while the
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- Flames are present, the smoke has to clear.
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- You got to get a few months away from usually
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- Something like that before you can see it.
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- But realistically, you can build something now
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- That you would've never been able to build under
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- Any other circumstance.
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- It was a historic building.
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- You would've never torn it down.
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- You would've never done the--
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- Historical committee, wouldn't have ever let us
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- In texas tear it down,
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- But we can say that now because no lives were lost.
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- No firefighters were injured. at the time,
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- It's hard to see it, but you know that verse, god
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- Causes all things to work together for good.
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- It doesn't say all things are
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- Good. in our lives,
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- There can be horrible things that happen, but
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- God is powerful enough to take those horrible
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- Things and use them for good and we're seeing
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- That happen at our church.
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- Beautiful.
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- It sounds like probably a lot of people are saying,
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- Boy, i had a personal fire in '23.
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- Could i tell you a story because it relates to tbn
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- And relates to this?
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- We have a group of women in a prison in indiana,
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- The largest female prison in indiana, and they've
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- Started watching pathway to victory on tbn at
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- Eight o'clock eastern time, monday through friday.
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- They've started using our materials.
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- Women were coming to faith in christ when they
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- Heard about the fire on their own, they took up a
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- Collection and sent it to the church and they're
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- Continuing to give for the rebuilding of the
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- New sanctuary.
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- And one woman, susan, who had a life sentence for
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- Murder, she had come to faith in christ.
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- She said, i have a dollar and 12 cents in
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- My bank account.
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- I want to give a dollar toward the rebuilding of
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- The history of the sanctuary.
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- I believe god can take my dollars and turn it into
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- $27 million.
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- And that's just the reach of not only pathway to
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- Victory, but tbn in places you would never
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- Even expect.
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- Wow.
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- Well, at the time we were out of the country and we
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- Were watching.
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- You all texted me, you were so nice.
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- It was a global story and interesting that i think
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- Notre dame was rededicated and there was
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- A lot of news about, and there will be the
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- Christian version of notre dame and we'll have
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- Another time, but i just want to catch up with you
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- A little bit and also say that for those that are
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- Watching, pastor jeffress is just one of the pillars
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- Of content here at tbn and thank you for
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- What you do.
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- There was a time when a very unusual circumstance
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- Where some programming came available.
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- Oddly enough, it was due to kind of an issue that
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- Was playing out in the headlines.
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- Our subject matter of this program today is
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- Look, it's officially called finding hope and
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- Redemption, finding hope and redemption.
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- But what you're really dealing with is how do
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- You want to frame our discussion for the next
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- 45 minutes or so?
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- Well, it's not only new churches or churches that
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- Have new beginnings, it's individuals
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- In those churches.
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- We all long for a new beginning and i'd say one
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- Of the questions i'm asked most often as
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- Pastor is this, i've had a major mistake in my life.
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- Do i have to spend the rest of my life paying
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- For that mistake or can i start over again?
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- And usually if this is a christian asking that
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- Question, they're not asking, am i going to
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- Hell because of this mistake i've made?
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- They know they're going to heaven, but they're
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- Wondering if their life on earth is going to be a
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- Living hell until they go home to be with jesus or
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- Can they start over?
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- And i think we're starting talking to
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- People right now in this program as they begin
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- A new year.
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- Maybe you've gone through a bankruptcy, maybe
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- You've gone through a divorce, maybe a
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- Termination from your job and you wonder, is this
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- All there is or is there a possibility for
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- A new start?
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- Well, if that's you, i've got some good news and
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- Some bad news.
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- The bad news is life has no rewind button on it.
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- You can't start over.
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- You can't erase the past.
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- But here's the good news, you can start over again.
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- Your failure doesn't have to be the final chapter
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- In your life story and we're talking about today
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- About how to have that new beginning in your
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- Life and talking about the four steps that can
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- Lead you to the new beginning
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- God wants you to have starting this year and
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- Every year afterwards.
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- Our new beginning includes experiencing
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- God's forgiveness.
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- We must receive god's forgiveness.
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- Now, this is key to understanding.
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- In the bible there are two kinds of forgiveness
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- And a lot of christians get this confused.
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- First of all, there's god's
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- Judicial forgiveness.
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- Judicial forgiveness happens when i trust in
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- Jesus as my savior.
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- The moment you trust in christ as your savior,
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- God declares you not guilty because god has
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- Paid for not just some of your sins, but all of
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- Your sins, past, present, and future have been
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- Covered by the blood of jesus christ.
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- That's what happens when you become a christian.
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- In romans 5:1, paul said, therefore, having
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- Been justified through faith, we have peace with
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- God through our lord jesus christ.
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- Let's call it a sermon.
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- I think we're going to break it down into
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- Four parts.
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- You sound you like you're preaching mode.
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- That's good.
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- I like it.
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- Be ready to take the offering at any moment.
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- So finding hope and redemption is what we're
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- Talking about.
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- There's this four part kind of thing, but this
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- Is really comes from a book that you wrote,
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- What, 15 years ago or more called second chance
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- Or something like that.
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- Second chance, second act.
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- Okay, and so you dusted this off a couple of
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- Weeks ago at your own church and preached this
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- In first baptist here in dallas.
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- You swung over here and let us have it.
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- Let's go.
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- Welcome to 2025 and a new way to think.
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- If we say you were sure that i was relating this
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- To some present things that are going on in the
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- Headlines right now, and i said, it never even
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- Crossed my mind, but it sounds so relevant
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- Because this is a common experience everybody has
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- In every age, the problem of making mistakes and
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- Recovering from those mistakes.
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- But if you want a new beginning, if you've
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- Said, that's me pastor, i've had a big blunder.
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- I'm not talking about a slip up, i'm not talking
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- About a mess up.
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- I'm talking about a huge life altering blow up in
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- My life.
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- How do i have a new beginning?
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- It all starts with admitting our mistakes.
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- We have to admit our mistakes before we can
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- Move beyond those mistakes.
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- Every parent out there is familiar with sesame
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- Street and the character big bird.
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- My girls grew up watching big bird and big bird had
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- This signature line.
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- He would say, everybody makes mistakes.
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- One time my daughter julia, who was five years
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- Old at the time, she had done something, i forget
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- What it was, but it was deserving of a spanking
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- And i was getting ready to administer a wallop
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- When all of a sudden julia turned around and
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- Said, dad, everybody makes mistakes.
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- And i started laughing so hard.
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- You can't laugh and spank at this same time.
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- It's impossible to do, but big bird's right?
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- He's a great theologian.
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- We all make mistakes and yet we have a hard time
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- Admitting that sometimes it's because of pride.
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- We want to say, that's not me.
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- I don't ever do anything wrong.
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- Look paul said in romans 3:23, all of us
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- Have sinned.
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- All of us fall short.
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- In fact, that's what the word sin means, hamartia.
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- It means to miss the bulls eye.
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- We all miss the bulls eye in god's perfect plan.
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- And the reason is romans 5:12 tells us we've
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- All been infected with this virus called sin.
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- We have a defective operating system,
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- If you will.
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- Every time god says yes, our first inclination is
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- To say no.
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- When god says no, our first impulse is to say yes.
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- Even as a pastor,
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- Especially as a pastor. i don't have to convince my
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- Congregation that i have fallen short.
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- They know that we all do, but pride keeps us from
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- Admitting that sometimes it's just the opposite.
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- One reason, you may not want to admit your
- 00:12:20.291 --> 00:12:22.193
- Failures, you're afraid of the consequences.
- 00:12:22.193 --> 00:12:24.428
- Remember when adam and eve sin, their first
- 00:12:24.428 --> 00:12:26.430
- Instinct was to go hide from god.
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- We're afraid that if we admit to that addiction,
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- We'll lose our reputation.
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- If we admit that mistake we made at work, we'll
- 00:12:35.573 --> 00:12:37.908
- Lose our job.
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- If we admit to that affair, we'll lose
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- Our marriage.
- 00:12:41.011 --> 00:12:42.813
- And so we spend a lot of energy trying to hide
- 00:12:42.813 --> 00:12:45.516
- Things and cover up.
- 00:12:45.516 --> 00:12:47.618
- The big saying in washington is it's never
- 00:12:47.618 --> 00:12:50.187
- The crime that gets a politician, it's the coverup.
- 00:12:50.187 --> 00:12:52.690
- It's the same for us.
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- And whether we're successful or not in
- 00:12:55.192 --> 00:12:57.661
- Covering up our mistake, god sees it all things.
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- Hebrews forces are laid open before his eyes.
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- You're not going to keep anything from god.
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- And when you admit your mistake, you're not going
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- To give god any new information.
- 00:13:09.273 --> 00:13:11.475
- He already knows about your failure.
- 00:13:11.475 --> 00:13:13.377
- So we need to admit our failure.
- 00:13:13.377 --> 00:13:15.646
- Admitting failure is important because first
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- Of all, it allows you to receive
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- God's forgiveness.
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- We're going to talk about that later.
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- But st. augustine said god gives to those whose
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- Hands are empty.
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- Only when we empty our hands of our excuses and
- 00:13:28.993 --> 00:13:32.162
- Our rationalizations can we receive forgiveness,
- 00:13:32.162 --> 00:13:35.633
- But admitting our mistake also allows us to
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- Experience a refreshment emotionally
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- And physically.
- 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:44.875
- Remember king david?
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- He sinned with bathsheba.
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- He spent anywhere from six months to a year
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- Trying to cover over his mistake.
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- He even had bathsheba's husband uriah put on the
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- Front line and killed.
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- And in psalm 32, he wrote about that period in his
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- Life, he said, for day and night, your heavy
- 00:14:00.991 --> 00:14:05.329
- Hand was upon me.
- 00:14:05.329 --> 00:14:07.064
- Oh god, i felt the fever heat of the summer.
- 00:14:07.064 --> 00:14:09.066
- Failing to admit our mistakes trying to cover
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- Over them, it just leads to emotional and physical
- 00:14:12.436 --> 00:14:16.140
- Drain in our lives.
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- But when we admit our mistakes to god, it gives
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- Us that spiritual refreshment and admitting
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- From our mistakes, and this is so key.
- 00:14:26.083 --> 00:14:28.218
- It's key to learning from our mistakes.
- 00:14:28.218 --> 00:14:31.655
- How blessed is the one whose transgression is
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- Forgiven, whose sin is covered.
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- How blessed is the man to whom the lord does not
- 00:14:39.163 --> 00:14:42.333
- Impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is
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- No deceit.
- 00:14:46.537 --> 00:14:48.072
- Well, you notice three key words that describe
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- Our judicial forgiveness.
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- First of all, forgiven.
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- How blessed is the person who is forgiven?
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- That word forgiven means to separate.
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- We have a hard time separating people from
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- Their failures.
- 00:15:04.888 --> 00:15:06.790
- If somebody's had a big massive failure, every
- 00:15:06.790 --> 00:15:09.760
- Time we see that person or even hear their name,
- 00:15:09.760 --> 00:15:12.129
- We think of their failure.
- 00:15:12.129 --> 00:15:14.331
- I could go through history and give you name
- 00:15:14.331 --> 00:15:16.333
- After name and you would name a failure that
- 00:15:16.333 --> 00:15:18.369
- Person who committed.
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- But the great thing about god is when god forgives
- 00:15:20.637 --> 00:15:23.807
- Us, he separates us from our failure.
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- He doesn't think about our mess up.
- 00:15:26.477 --> 00:15:29.279
- He separates us from our failure.
- 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:31.915
- That's what it means to be forgiven.
- 00:15:31.915 --> 00:15:34.118
- A great illustration of this occurred in the old
- 00:15:34.118 --> 00:15:36.353
- Testament on the day of atonement, yom kippur.
- 00:15:36.353 --> 00:15:39.857
- We all know that the high priest went into the holy
- 00:15:39.857 --> 00:15:42.659
- Of holies to make atonement, but before he
- 00:15:42.659 --> 00:15:45.429
- Did that, before he went into the holy of holies,
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- He had a goat brought to him and the high priest
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- Would take his hands and place over the head of
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- That goat and would confess the sins of
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- The israelites.
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- And then once he had finished the confession
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- Of sins, that goat was sent off into the
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- Wilderness never to be seen again.
- 00:16:03.414 --> 00:16:05.916
- That goat was called the scapegoat.
- 00:16:05.916 --> 00:16:09.620
- That's where we get our term scapegoat.
- 00:16:09.620 --> 00:16:11.388
- Somebody else who takes the blame.
- 00:16:11.388 --> 00:16:14.925
- The scapegoat went never to be seen again.
- 00:16:14.925 --> 00:16:17.327
- It's a picture of the way god forgives us in psalm
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- 103, verse 12, the psalmist said, as far as the
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- East is from the west, so far god has removed our
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- Transgressions from us.
- 00:16:30.340 --> 00:16:33.444
- I don't know about you, but i love proverbs.
- 00:16:33.444 --> 00:16:35.913
- In fact, i read one chapter every day to
- 00:16:35.913 --> 00:16:38.248
- Correspond with the day of the month that it is.
- 00:16:38.248 --> 00:16:41.051
- The biggest contrast in proverbs is not between
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- The wealthy person and the poor person or the
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- Wise person and the foolish person.
- 00:16:47.424 --> 00:16:51.028
- It's between the wise person and foolishness in
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- Enacting and a failure to acknowledge reproofs.
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- The bible talks about reproof.
- 00:17:00.737 --> 00:17:03.607
- A reproof is a painful consequence
- 00:17:03.607 --> 00:17:06.577
- We experience because of a mistake, and the wise
- 00:17:06.577 --> 00:17:09.480
- Person learns from his mistakes.
- 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:13.317
- The foolish person repeats his mistake.
- 00:17:13.317 --> 00:17:16.553
- I think of reproofs, whether those reproofs
- 00:17:16.553 --> 00:17:19.389
- Be losing our job, losing our marriage,
- 00:17:19.389 --> 00:17:22.426
- Losing our health,
- 00:17:22.426 --> 00:17:23.894
- Reproofs are like tuition.
- 00:17:23.894 --> 00:17:26.330
- You have to pay to get a degree from the school of
- 00:17:26.330 --> 00:17:29.500
- Hard knocks.
- 00:17:29.500 --> 00:17:31.401
- The only thing worse than paying that tuition once
- 00:17:31.401 --> 00:17:34.304
- Is having to pay it again and again and take the
- 00:17:34.304 --> 00:17:37.007
- Course over until you pass it.
- 00:17:37.007 --> 00:17:39.743
- If we admit our mistakes, we're open to learning
- 00:17:39.743 --> 00:17:42.246
- From our mistakes.
- 00:17:42.246 --> 00:17:44.481
- So i would just say the first step in having that
- 00:17:44.481 --> 00:17:47.784
- New beginning is to admit that mistake.
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- To come to that point in your life when you say,
- 00:17:50.754 --> 00:17:53.257
- God, i'm tired of arguing with you.
- 00:17:53.257 --> 00:17:55.526
- You are right and i'm wrong.
- 00:17:55.526 --> 00:17:58.128
- The moment we come to that point, we're open to
- 00:17:58.128 --> 00:18:01.165
- The first step of a new beginning in life.
- 00:18:01.165 --> 00:18:04.468
- I think so many people admitting that and the
- 00:18:04.468 --> 00:18:09.039
- Fear of losing reputation, the fear of
- 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:16.213
- Embarrassment, the fear of so much comes to it.
- 00:18:16.213 --> 00:18:20.684
- But i think in some of that there's so much
- 00:18:20.684 --> 00:18:25.189
- Forgiveness as well.
- 00:18:25.189 --> 00:18:27.524
- There's so much compassion that god has
- 00:18:27.524 --> 00:18:30.294
- For us if we tell him our faults because he knows
- 00:18:30.294 --> 00:18:35.165
- 'em anyway.
- 00:18:35.165 --> 00:18:37.701
- I think those people that feel like they have
- 00:18:37.701 --> 00:18:40.304
- Sinned, much know god's compassion and his
- 00:18:40.304 --> 00:18:44.174
- Forgiveness at a level then that some don't,
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- That we forgive.
- 00:18:46.710 --> 00:18:48.812
- Yeah.
- 00:18:48.812 --> 00:18:50.581
- And the bible draws a relationship between our
- 00:18:50.581 --> 00:18:54.318
- Willingness to forgive others and our
- 00:18:54.318 --> 00:18:56.687
- Willingness to be forgiven by god.
- 00:18:56.687 --> 00:18:59.523
- It's amazing that some christians who have been
- 00:18:59.523 --> 00:19:02.125
- Forgiven of so much refuse to forgive
- 00:19:02.125 --> 00:19:04.695
- So little.
- 00:19:04.695 --> 00:19:06.163
- Jesus talked about that in matthew 18 about the
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- Slave who owed his master thousands of talents,
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- 10,000 talents of gold.
- 00:19:12.169 --> 00:19:15.439
- I figured a talent was 80 pounds of gold.
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- So 10,000 ballots.
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- I figured it up one time it would be $16 billion. lord.
- 00:19:20.477 --> 00:19:24.181
- And the king forgave him.
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- He realized that slave could never repay him, so
- 00:19:25.649 --> 00:19:27.784
- He let go of the debt.
- 00:19:27.784 --> 00:19:30.354
- That slave went out and found a fellow slave who
- 00:19:30.354 --> 00:19:31.989
- Owed him a hundred denari.
- 00:19:31.989 --> 00:19:33.924
- That would be about $16.
- 00:19:33.924 --> 00:19:36.226
- And the slave said, no, i'm not going to forgive
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- You of a $16 debt.
- 00:19:38.629 --> 00:19:40.564
- And when the king heard it, he was infuriated and
- 00:19:40.564 --> 00:19:42.833
- Said, how could you who have been forgiven so much
- 00:19:42.833 --> 00:19:46.003
- Forgive so little?
- 00:19:46.003 --> 00:19:47.671
- And he had him thrown into prison and jesus
- 00:19:47.671 --> 00:19:50.941
- Said, so shall my heavenly father due to each of
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- You if you don't forgive your brother from your
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- Heart. jesus isn't saying we're not hurt and
- 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:59.816
- Wronged by others, but he said, keep that hurt in
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- Perspective because the difference between how
- 00:20:03.253 --> 00:20:05.956
- Much somebody has wronged you and how much you have
- 00:20:05.956 --> 00:20:09.159
- Wronged god is the difference between $16
- 00:20:09.159 --> 00:20:12.496
- And 16 billion.
- 00:20:12.496 --> 00:20:14.698
- My goodness. the first john 1:9 says, if
- 00:20:14.698 --> 00:20:17.901
- We confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous
- 00:20:17.901 --> 00:20:20.871
- To forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all
- 00:20:20.871 --> 00:20:23.840
- Unrighteousness.
- 00:20:23.840 --> 00:20:25.676
- That's not a verse for non-christians.
- 00:20:25.676 --> 00:20:28.278
- John is writing to little children. believers.
- 00:20:28.278 --> 00:20:31.348
- He said, if we say we don't sin, we're a liar.
- 00:20:31.348 --> 00:20:34.017
- We still sin after we become a christian.
- 00:20:34.017 --> 00:20:37.154
- And while we don't have to worry about hell as a
- 00:20:37.154 --> 00:20:39.589
- Result of that sin, it still makes a barrier
- 00:20:39.589 --> 00:20:43.860
- Between god and us.
- 00:20:43.860 --> 00:20:45.595
- Isaiah 59:2 says, your sin has become a barrier
- 00:20:45.595 --> 00:20:48.665
- Between you and god, and there is only one way to
- 00:20:48.665 --> 00:20:52.869
- Remove that barrier that our sin causes with our
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- Heavenly father.
- 00:20:56.006 --> 00:20:57.841
- And that is confession.
- 00:20:57.841 --> 00:21:00.077
- I mean those of you who are parents, if your
- 00:21:00.077 --> 00:21:02.512
- Child rebels against you, you don't kick them out
- 00:21:02.512 --> 00:21:05.749
- Of your family, you don't disown them, they're
- 00:21:05.749 --> 00:21:07.851
- Still your child.
- 00:21:07.851 --> 00:21:09.986
- But until they repent of that rebellion,
- 00:21:09.986 --> 00:21:13.056
- Acknowledge their mistake, there's going to
- 00:21:13.056 --> 00:21:15.392
- Be a barrier between you and your child.
- 00:21:15.392 --> 00:21:17.894
- And so it is in our relationship with god.
- 00:21:17.894 --> 00:21:20.564
- How do we remove that barrier?
- 00:21:20.564 --> 00:21:23.333
- It's by confession, admitting to god our sin.
- 00:21:23.333 --> 00:21:27.637
- Laurie and i just completely
- 00:21:27.637 --> 00:21:29.773
- Coincidentally, we're listening to dudley hall
- 00:21:29.773 --> 00:21:34.378
- This morning and his whole kind of monthly
- 00:21:34.378 --> 00:21:39.516
- Sermon this month was concerning forgiveness.
- 00:21:39.516 --> 00:21:44.354
- And he said, your willingness to forgive is
- 00:21:44.354 --> 00:21:49.459
- Directly correlated to how much you understand
- 00:21:49.459 --> 00:21:53.096
- About his forgiveness for you.
- 00:21:53.096 --> 00:21:55.198
- That's right.
- 00:21:55.198 --> 00:21:57.234
- And so there are some people that struggle with
- 00:21:57.234 --> 00:21:59.503
- This, but let's realize 2025, there are a lot of
- 00:21:59.503 --> 00:22:04.641
- People, pastor that are saying, yes, it feels
- 00:22:04.641 --> 00:22:08.645
- Like i need this second act.
- 00:22:08.645 --> 00:22:12.682
- I need to hear a word concerning this.
- 00:22:12.682 --> 00:22:15.752
- So point one, let's get right into it.
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- Point one is exactly what?
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- Admitting.
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- Admitting
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- Our mistakes.
- 00:22:23.260 --> 00:22:25.429
- And that prepares us for point two, step two, and that
- 00:22:24.227 --> 00:22:27.664
- Is to actually receive god's experience,
- 00:22:27.664 --> 00:22:30.467
- Forgiveness, got it.
- 00:22:30.467 --> 00:22:31.635
- To experience god's forgiveness. in the bible,
- 00:22:31.635 --> 00:22:35.238
- And a lot of christians get this mixed up, there
- 00:22:35.238 --> 00:22:38.842
- Are two kinds of forgiveness.
- 00:22:38.842 --> 00:22:40.710
- There is what we call judicial forgiveness.
- 00:22:40.710 --> 00:22:44.181
- That's when we trust in christ as our savior and
- 00:22:44.181 --> 00:22:47.050
- God declares us not guilty.
- 00:22:47.050 --> 00:22:50.020
- He doesn't forgive us of just some of our sins,
- 00:22:50.020 --> 00:22:52.155
- Our past sins.
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- He forgives us of all our transgressions.
- 00:22:53.857 --> 00:22:55.959
- Colossians says, past, present and future.
- 00:22:55.959 --> 00:22:59.463
- And so it's important to understand judicial
- 00:22:59.463 --> 00:23:02.432
- Forgiveness and it's god's forgiveness, his
- 00:23:02.432 --> 00:23:08.104
- Complete forgiveness.
- 00:23:08.104 --> 00:23:10.106
- And the bible says in psalm 103:12, as far as
- 00:23:10.106 --> 00:23:15.479
- The east is from the west, so far god has
- 00:23:15.479 --> 00:23:19.483
- Forgiven us our transgressions.
- 00:23:19.483 --> 00:23:21.818
- Psalm 32 says, how blessed, this is david
- 00:23:21.818 --> 00:23:25.455
- Talking, how blessed is the person who sin is
- 00:23:25.455 --> 00:23:28.792
- Forgiven, whose transgression is covered,
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- Whom the lord does not impute iniquity.
- 00:23:31.194 --> 00:23:34.898
- Let's unpack this because this is going to be
- 00:23:34.898 --> 00:23:37.200
- Encouraging to our audience watching today.
- 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:39.769
- David says, when god forgives, he forgives
- 00:23:39.769 --> 00:23:44.741
- That word forgives.
- 00:23:44.741 --> 00:23:47.511
- Forgive means to separate.
- 00:23:47.511 --> 00:23:49.946
- When god forgives us, he separates us from our sin.
- 00:23:49.946 --> 00:23:53.850
- We have a hard time doing that with people.
- 00:23:53.850 --> 00:23:56.453
- Whenever we think of somebody who sinned big
- 00:23:56.453 --> 00:23:59.189
- Time and made the headlines, we always
- 00:23:59.189 --> 00:24:01.358
- Associate that person with their sin.
- 00:24:01.358 --> 00:24:03.660
- Wow, god separates us from our sin.
- 00:24:03.660 --> 00:24:07.030
- My goodness, he no longer thinks of our failure
- 00:24:07.030 --> 00:24:09.833
- When he thinks of us.
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- Thank you lord.
- 00:24:11.067 --> 00:24:12.502
- He forgives us of our transgressions.
- 00:24:12.502 --> 00:24:14.538
- And again, psalm 103 verse 12 says, as far as
- 00:24:14.538 --> 00:24:17.474
- The east is from the west, so far has he forgiven
- 00:24:17.474 --> 00:24:22.846
- Our transgression.
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- Did you know i never understood that
- 00:24:24.714 --> 00:24:26.616
- Until recently.
- 00:24:26.616 --> 00:24:27.984
- Why does he say east from the west and not the
- 00:24:27.984 --> 00:24:30.520
- North from the south?
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- I don't know.
- 00:24:32.155 --> 00:24:33.256
- Now think about this.
- 00:24:33.256 --> 00:24:35.091
- There is a limit to how far the north is
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- From the south.
- 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:39.195
- If you start driving-- we're here in dallas,
- 00:24:39.195 --> 00:24:41.731
- Texas today, you start driving north,
- 00:24:41.731 --> 00:24:43.500
- Eventually you're going to reach the north pole
- 00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:46.970
- Where santa claus is.
- 00:24:46.970 --> 00:24:48.805
- But if you keep on that road going to the north
- 00:24:48.805 --> 00:24:52.042
- Pole and stay on that road, there's a point at
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- Which at the north pole going north turns
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- Into going south.
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- The north becomes the south.
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- But if you start in dallas traveling east and
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- Go to tyler and to alabama and to florida
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- And across the atlantic ocean and london, you
- 00:25:08.925 --> 00:25:12.295
- Keep going east, you can keep going east and east
- 00:25:12.295 --> 00:25:16.833
- Will never turn into west.
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- East will always be east.
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- There is no way to measure
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- The distance from the east is from the west.
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- That's how far god has removed our
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- Transgressions from us.
- 00:25:28.078 --> 00:25:29.980
- He has forgiven us.
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- He has covered our sin.
- 00:25:31.014 --> 00:25:32.649
- I don't know if you've had this experience.
- 00:25:32.649 --> 00:25:36.519
- Actually this is a new suit i got just in time
- 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:38.755
- For this broadcast.
- 00:25:38.755 --> 00:25:40.590
- Perfect.
- 00:25:40.590 --> 00:25:42.092
- But i noticed a stain on it when i got it.
- 00:25:42.092 --> 00:25:43.827
- I don't know how it happened.
- 00:25:43.827 --> 00:25:45.662
- And so i took some water and tried to rub it and
- 00:25:45.662 --> 00:25:48.098
- It disappeared for about 30 seconds and then it
- 00:25:48.098 --> 00:25:50.367
- Comes back and i try it again.
- 00:25:50.367 --> 00:25:52.669
- Nothing.
- 00:25:52.669 --> 00:25:53.770
- It just keeps coming back.
- 00:25:53.770 --> 00:25:55.238
- I had to send it to the dry cleaner.
- 00:25:55.238 --> 00:25:58.375
- He had a special detergent that removed
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- That stain forever.
- 00:26:00.644 --> 00:26:02.946
- God has a special sin removal detergent.
- 00:26:02.946 --> 00:26:06.282
- It's called the blood of christ.
- 00:26:06.282 --> 00:26:08.351
- And when we trust in christ, he covers us
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- With his blood.
- 00:26:10.654 --> 00:26:12.022
- He removes the stain of our sin.
- 00:26:12.022 --> 00:26:14.357
- And psalm 32 says, not only are we forgiven, not
- 00:26:14.357 --> 00:26:16.726
- Only is our sin staying removed, but god no
- 00:26:16.726 --> 00:26:19.963
- Longer imputes iniquity.
- 00:26:19.963 --> 00:26:22.632
- That means he never charges to our account,
- 00:26:22.632 --> 00:26:25.268
- Our sin.
- 00:26:25.268 --> 00:26:27.570
- Just imagine you have a bank account or a charge
- 00:26:27.570 --> 00:26:30.840
- Card, you keep using your debit card and that
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- Balance keeps getting lower and lower and lower.
- 00:26:33.543 --> 00:26:35.979
- And just imagine not only do you keep having a
- 00:26:35.979 --> 00:26:39.883
- Lower balance, but you have no money to deposit
- 00:26:39.883 --> 00:26:42.886
- To offset those debits.
- 00:26:42.886 --> 00:26:45.321
- God says, we all have a spiritual bank account.
- 00:26:45.321 --> 00:26:48.425
- Every time we sin, every time we have a wrong
- 00:26:48.425 --> 00:26:51.361
- Thought or wrong action or wrong attitude, it
- 00:26:51.361 --> 00:26:53.463
- Subtracts from our account.
- 00:26:53.463 --> 00:26:56.032
- We're in a negative position always with god.
- 00:26:56.032 --> 00:26:58.868
- And the worst thing is there's nothing we can do
- 00:26:58.868 --> 00:27:00.937
- To offset it.
- 00:27:00.937 --> 00:27:02.972
- Isaiah 64:6 says, our righteousness, the best
- 00:27:02.972 --> 00:27:05.475
- We can do is like a filthy rag.
- 00:27:05.475 --> 00:27:07.877
- It's counterfeit.
- 00:27:07.877 --> 00:27:09.713
- So that's a terrible predicament to be in.
- 00:27:09.713 --> 00:27:12.082
- But when jesus forgave us of our sins, he deposited
- 00:27:12.082 --> 00:27:16.119
- His righteousness into our account so that our
- 00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:20.390
- Account is always full and overrunning with
- 00:27:20.390 --> 00:27:22.826
- Righteousness.
- 00:27:22.826 --> 00:27:24.094
- Two corinthians 5:21 says it this way, god made him
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- Jesus who knew no sin to become sin for us, that
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- We might become the righteousness of
- 00:27:31.267 --> 00:27:33.436
- God in him.
- 00:27:33.436 --> 00:27:35.305
- That's what being a christian means, god no
- 00:27:35.305 --> 00:27:37.874
- Longer counts our sin against us.
- 00:27:37.874 --> 00:27:40.477
- Jesus paid the debt, so that's
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- Judicial forgiveness.
- 00:27:42.746 --> 00:27:45.281
- Now, some people out there say, well, i
- 00:27:45.281 --> 00:27:47.350
- Already received that when i was five years old
- 00:27:47.350 --> 00:27:49.586
- Or a young adult.
- 00:27:49.586 --> 00:27:51.154
- Do i need to be forgiven by god?
- 00:27:51.154 --> 00:27:53.256
- There's another kind of forgiveness.
- 00:27:53.256 --> 00:27:55.391
- It's called parental forgiveness.
- 00:27:55.391 --> 00:27:58.161
- When we mess up big time, when we're ready for a
- 00:27:58.161 --> 00:28:01.431
- New beginning, we need to confess our sins to god,
- 00:28:01.431 --> 00:28:04.968
- Not to be forgiven, not to go to heaven that's
- 00:28:04.968 --> 00:28:07.570
- Already taken care of, but to restore
- 00:28:07.570 --> 00:28:10.874
- Broken relationship.
- 00:28:10.874 --> 00:28:12.609
- I don't know about you all, but i have kids that
- 00:28:12.609 --> 00:28:15.478
- Mess up occasionally and when they do, i don't
- 00:28:15.478 --> 00:28:20.450
- Say, okay, because you made this mistake, you're
- 00:28:20.450 --> 00:28:23.453
- No longer my son.
- 00:28:23.453 --> 00:28:26.055
- You're no longer my daughter.
- 00:28:26.055 --> 00:28:27.624
- I don't kick them out of the family.
- 00:28:27.624 --> 00:28:29.759
- They're always my children regardless of
- 00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:31.427
- What they do.
- 00:28:31.427 --> 00:28:33.196
- But if they continue in a state of rebellion,
- 00:28:33.196 --> 00:28:35.665
- There's a wall that separates our fellowship,
- 00:28:35.665 --> 00:28:38.868
- Our relationship, and until they admit their
- 00:28:38.868 --> 00:28:41.838
- Mistake, admit their rebellion, we're not
- 00:28:41.838 --> 00:28:44.841
- Going to be able to enjoys one another's
- 00:28:44.841 --> 00:28:46.976
- Fellowship in a practical way.
- 00:28:46.976 --> 00:28:49.579
- It's the same way in our relationship with god as
- 00:28:49.579 --> 00:28:52.448
- Christians. as believers,
- 00:28:52.448 --> 00:28:54.450
- When we keep sinning, we destroy that
- 00:28:54.450 --> 00:28:56.820
- Parental relationship.
- 00:28:56.820 --> 00:28:58.922
- And that was the children of israel.
- 00:28:58.922 --> 00:29:01.791
- Isaiah 59:2, god said, your sin has become a
- 00:29:01.791 --> 00:29:05.261
- Barrier between you and your god.
- 00:29:05.261 --> 00:29:07.864
- These were believing israelites, but they
- 00:29:07.864 --> 00:29:10.400
- Needed to tear down that wall, that barrier.
- 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:13.870
- John says one, john one, if we confess our sins,
- 00:29:13.870 --> 00:29:17.607
- He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
- 00:29:17.607 --> 00:29:20.577
- To forgive us of all unrighteousness.
- 00:29:20.577 --> 00:29:23.680
- John was writing that not to non-christians,
- 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:26.716
- But to christians.
- 00:29:26.716 --> 00:29:28.218
- And i would just say to some watching this
- 00:29:28.218 --> 00:29:30.687
- Program right now, if you're ready for a new
- 00:29:30.687 --> 00:29:33.590
- Beginning, admit to god you made the mistake and
- 00:29:33.590 --> 00:29:36.593
- Then receive his forgiveness.
- 00:29:36.593 --> 00:29:38.962
- He's willing to forgive you of your rebellion if
- 00:29:38.962 --> 00:29:42.265
- You're willing to ask. when we have a new
- 00:29:42.265 --> 00:29:44.734
- Beginning, we need to experience god's judicial
- 00:29:44.734 --> 00:29:47.804
- Forgiveness for sure, but also his
- 00:29:47.804 --> 00:29:50.273
- Parental forgiveness.
- 00:29:50.273 --> 00:29:52.108
- Alan j. redpath, the bible scholar said, it is a
- 00:29:52.108 --> 00:29:55.278
- Tremendous moment in a christian's life when he
- 00:29:55.278 --> 00:29:58.314
- Can honestly look up into the face of god and say,
- 00:29:58.314 --> 00:30:01.517
- Yes lord, you're right and i'm wrong.
- 00:30:01.517 --> 00:30:06.623
- Yes, lord, i got what i deserved in
- 00:30:06.623 --> 00:30:09.192
- This situation.
- 00:30:09.192 --> 00:30:11.194
- Yes lord, you are right and i'm wrong.
- 00:30:11.194 --> 00:30:14.097
- This is the thing for which god has been
- 00:30:14.097 --> 00:30:17.734
- Working in your life and in mine from the moment
- 00:30:17.734 --> 00:30:21.571
- Of our salvation.
- 00:30:21.571 --> 00:30:23.907
- Admitting your mistakes is essential for
- 00:30:23.907 --> 00:30:30.280
- Receiving god's forgiveness.
- 00:30:30.280 --> 00:30:33.149
- I think in life we all have intermissions those
- 00:30:33.149 --> 00:30:37.453
- Times that you can feel pushed aside or you can
- 00:30:37.453 --> 00:30:40.156
- Feel like you're in waiting for something.
- 00:30:40.156 --> 00:30:42.725
- Desert season.
- 00:30:42.725 --> 00:30:44.560
- But how i think those are so good for us in
- 00:30:44.560 --> 00:30:46.229
- So many ways.
- 00:30:46.229 --> 00:30:48.031
- Well, that's really the third step in having a
- 00:30:48.031 --> 00:30:50.166
- New beginning is wait on god's timing.
- 00:30:50.166 --> 00:30:53.069
- And you're right, laurie, many times when we have a
- 00:30:53.069 --> 00:30:56.439
- Major blow up in our life regarding a career or a
- 00:30:56.439 --> 00:31:00.777
- Relationship or a moral issue, god calls the time
- 00:31:00.777 --> 00:31:05.048
- Out, not because he hates us or he's mad at us, but
- 00:31:05.048 --> 00:31:08.851
- To teach us what we need to learn.
- 00:31:08.851 --> 00:31:11.888
- I call it an intermission in enlighten.
- 00:31:11.888 --> 00:31:14.390
- An intermission is that period of time between
- 00:31:14.390 --> 00:31:17.126
- Your failure and your future.
- 00:31:17.126 --> 00:31:19.228
- It's that time between your last relationship
- 00:31:19.228 --> 00:31:21.698
- And your next relationship, your last
- 00:31:21.698 --> 00:31:25.234
- Job and your next job.
- 00:31:25.234 --> 00:31:27.303
- It's that time between financial bankruptcy and
- 00:31:27.303 --> 00:31:29.238
- Financial solvency.
- 00:31:29.238 --> 00:31:32.141
- And i've seen this as a pastor.
- 00:31:32.141 --> 00:31:34.043
- People want to race.
- 00:31:34.043 --> 00:31:35.578
- They want to hurry from one relationship to the
- 00:31:35.578 --> 00:31:37.647
- Next one, from one career to the next one.
- 00:31:37.647 --> 00:31:39.983
- And god says, wait for a moment.
- 00:31:39.983 --> 00:31:42.018
- You're in time out, not because i hate you, but
- 00:31:42.018 --> 00:31:44.520
- There's some things you need to learn.
- 00:31:44.520 --> 00:31:46.456
- You see that throughout the bible.
- 00:31:46.456 --> 00:31:48.324
- By the way, judah spent 70 years in their
- 00:31:48.324 --> 00:31:50.893
- Intermission when they were taken captive by the
- 00:31:50.893 --> 00:31:53.830
- Babylonians until they returned to the
- 00:31:53.830 --> 00:31:55.631
- Promised land.
- 00:31:55.631 --> 00:31:57.900
- I think about peter, he had a seven week
- 00:31:57.900 --> 00:31:59.769
- Intermission between his denial of christ in
- 00:31:59.769 --> 00:32:02.638
- Caiaphas courtyard and is preaching the great
- 00:32:02.638 --> 00:32:05.041
- Sermon on pentecost.
- 00:32:05.041 --> 00:32:07.176
- Moses had a 40 year intermission.
- 00:32:07.176 --> 00:32:10.413
- Remember his time?
- 00:32:10.413 --> 00:32:11.981
- He made a mistake.
- 00:32:11.981 --> 00:32:14.117
- He got angry killed that egyptian soldier thought
- 00:32:14.117 --> 00:32:16.285
- He could lead the exodus himself.
- 00:32:16.285 --> 00:32:18.421
- God said time out.
- 00:32:18.421 --> 00:32:20.123
- He spent the time from 40 to age 80 in intermission
- 00:32:20.123 --> 00:32:24.293
- Learning things that god wanted to teach him.
- 00:32:24.293 --> 00:32:27.230
- We don't like intermissions, but i
- 00:32:27.230 --> 00:32:29.065
- Would say to you, if you're in an intermission
- 00:32:29.065 --> 00:32:31.000
- Right now, remember waiting time doesn't have
- 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:33.803
- To be wasted time.
- 00:32:33.803 --> 00:32:36.172
- God has some things he wants to teach you.
- 00:32:36.172 --> 00:32:38.775
- And i would just say, if you're going through that
- 00:32:38.775 --> 00:32:40.910
- Intermission right now, remember it's a time,
- 00:32:40.910 --> 00:32:44.013
- First of all to reflect on your failure.
- 00:32:44.013 --> 00:32:46.783
- Take some time and say, was this really a failure
- 00:32:46.783 --> 00:32:50.253
- Or was it i just fell short of
- 00:32:50.253 --> 00:32:52.255
- Unrealistic expectations?
- 00:32:52.255 --> 00:32:54.891
- Is there something in my life displeasing to god
- 00:32:54.891 --> 00:32:56.659
- That would've caused this failure?
- 00:32:56.659 --> 00:32:59.562
- Do i know other people who've suffered similar
- 00:32:59.562 --> 00:33:02.131
- Failures i could get encouragement from?
- 00:33:02.131 --> 00:33:05.034
- It's a time to reflect on your past but also a time
- 00:33:05.034 --> 00:33:07.904
- To focus on your future.
- 00:33:07.904 --> 00:33:10.606
- If you're in an intermission, i encourage
- 00:33:10.606 --> 00:33:12.675
- You to ask some key questions.
- 00:33:12.675 --> 00:33:15.144
- Questions like, what are three things i would like
- 00:33:15.144 --> 00:33:18.114
- To do before i die?
- 00:33:18.114 --> 00:33:20.716
- If you've got some time to think that through,
- 00:33:20.716 --> 00:33:23.319
- That has a way of focusing your life.
- 00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:25.521
- When you say, what three things would god like me
- 00:33:25.521 --> 00:33:27.490
- To accomplish before i die?
- 00:33:27.490 --> 00:33:29.725
- Maybe ask yourself, what is my real passion in life?
- 00:33:29.725 --> 00:33:33.196
- What is it that i really want to do?
- 00:33:33.196 --> 00:33:36.232
- What need do i see that i think god wants to use me
- 00:33:36.232 --> 00:33:38.568
- To meet?
- 00:33:38.568 --> 00:33:40.503
- And then ask yourself, what am i gifted at doing?
- 00:33:40.503 --> 00:33:43.840
- Philippians two 13 says, examining your desires
- 00:33:43.840 --> 00:33:47.543
- And your giftedness are the way to know god's
- 00:33:47.543 --> 00:33:50.880
- Will for your life.
- 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:52.748
- Paul said, for god, is it work within you giving
- 00:33:52.748 --> 00:33:55.651
- You the desire and the power to do his will?
- 00:33:55.651 --> 00:33:59.589
- Those are some things to think about during an
- 00:33:59.589 --> 00:34:02.058
- Intermission time.
- 00:34:02.058 --> 00:34:04.193
- There could be some people that are saying
- 00:34:04.193 --> 00:34:07.530
- That we're sitting here talking directly
- 00:34:07.530 --> 00:34:11.400
- To headlines.
- 00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:12.969
- And by the way, headlines happen all the time,
- 00:34:12.969 --> 00:34:14.670
- Anywhere, every day, all day long.
- 00:34:14.670 --> 00:34:17.273
- And what we're really doing is unpacking a
- 00:34:17.273 --> 00:34:25.214
- Truth that needs to be unpacked and it needs to
- 00:34:25.214 --> 00:34:28.351
- Be out there.
- 00:34:28.351 --> 00:34:30.253
- And it's a beautiful thing.
- 00:34:30.253 --> 00:34:31.787
- In fact, it's called finding hope and
- 00:34:31.787 --> 00:34:33.422
- Redemption is what it's called.
- 00:34:33.422 --> 00:34:35.691
- So lemme just ask you this.
- 00:34:35.691 --> 00:34:37.393
- First of all, you're older than i am, right?
- 00:34:37.393 --> 00:34:40.663
- Do you think?
- 00:34:40.663 --> 00:34:41.931
- Of course you are.
- 00:34:41.931 --> 00:34:43.232
- You seem you're older, right?
- 00:34:43.232 --> 00:34:45.568
- You seem older.
- 00:34:45.568 --> 00:34:46.836
- What?
- 00:34:46.836 --> 00:34:47.870
- You got to be older than me this day.
- 00:34:47.870 --> 00:34:49.438
- You're older than me, right?
- 00:34:49.438 --> 00:34:50.239
- I think i am.
- 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:51.107
- Okay, well,
- 00:34:51.107 --> 00:34:51.974
- How old are you?
- 00:34:51.974 --> 00:34:53.042
- Well, i'm pretty sure you're older than me.
- 00:34:53.042 --> 00:34:54.410
- Which decade of life you in?
- 00:34:54.410 --> 00:34:58.347
- I just wanted to ask you.
- 00:34:58.347 --> 00:35:00.049
- Look, it feels like you're older than me just
- 00:35:00.049 --> 00:35:02.185
- Because i'm kind of silly and you're not.
- 00:35:02.185 --> 00:35:05.388
- So maybe it's more mature.
- 00:35:05.388 --> 00:35:08.724
- Yeah, that's what it was.
- 00:35:08.724 --> 00:35:11.160
- You're more mature than i am. thanks for saying it that way.
- 00:35:11.160 --> 00:35:15.631
- So what i wanting to ask, give you a moment
- 00:35:15.631 --> 00:35:20.603
- In this intermission kind of moment, i want to ask
- 00:35:20.603 --> 00:35:22.205
- You a question.
- 00:35:22.205 --> 00:35:24.240
- What you're saying is you're teaching something
- 00:35:24.240 --> 00:35:28.811
- In a very matter of fact way.
- 00:35:28.811 --> 00:35:31.614
- If you've messed up, confess it to god,
- 00:35:31.614 --> 00:35:34.483
- There's always, god doesn't, you forget your
- 00:35:34.483 --> 00:35:37.787
- Sin from the east to the west and all this really
- 00:35:37.787 --> 00:35:40.423
- Great stuff, finding hope and redemption, but
- 00:35:40.423 --> 00:35:42.558
- Nobody wants to be labeled as the person,
- 00:35:42.558 --> 00:35:51.667
- And we've gotten the pr on that so wrong, that why
- 00:35:51.667 --> 00:35:55.238
- Is it a shock when a pastor or a leader fails,
- 00:35:55.238 --> 00:36:03.613
- Why is that a shock after all these years and the
- 00:36:03.613 --> 00:36:06.382
- Way the bible's written in, it's almost like the
- 00:36:06.382 --> 00:36:09.051
- Pr department for the church screwed up
- 00:36:09.051 --> 00:36:13.155
- Somewhere and church is about all these perfect
- 00:36:13.155 --> 00:36:16.892
- Holier than thou, people that are looking down
- 00:36:16.892 --> 00:36:20.663
- Their spiritual noses at the rest of the folk.
- 00:36:20.663 --> 00:36:25.935
- And it feels like we've got it wrong and that
- 00:36:25.935 --> 00:36:29.572
- This should be a normal subject talked about in a
- 00:36:29.572 --> 00:36:33.309
- Normal way, which i feel like we're doing.
- 00:36:33.309 --> 00:36:36.012
- But why does it feel like we're oddly doing
- 00:36:36.012 --> 00:36:39.548
- Something unique?
- 00:36:39.548 --> 00:36:41.751
- Well, i think we used to learn in journalism
- 00:36:41.751 --> 00:36:44.086
- Class, dog bites
- 00:36:44.086 --> 00:36:46.989
- Man is not a story.
- 00:36:46.989 --> 00:36:48.891
- Man bites dog is the story.
- 00:36:48.891 --> 00:36:50.293
- These stories we have about politicians or
- 00:36:50.293 --> 00:36:55.931
- Pastors or leaders falling into sin,
- 00:36:55.931 --> 00:36:59.335
- That's nothing new.
- 00:36:59.335 --> 00:37:00.870
- It happens all of the time because of what we
- 00:37:00.870 --> 00:37:03.506
- Talked about at the of the program.
- 00:37:03.506 --> 00:37:05.574
- We are all inclined to rebel against god and we
- 00:37:05.574 --> 00:37:10.112
- All do it, both christians and
- 00:37:10.112 --> 00:37:12.148
- Non-christians alike.
- 00:37:12.148 --> 00:37:14.383
- And it does disturb me that we tend to want to
- 00:37:14.383 --> 00:37:17.720
- Sensationalize these stories and use them to
- 00:37:17.720 --> 00:37:20.589
- Say, i may be bad, but at least i never did that.
- 00:37:20.589 --> 00:37:22.725
- My grandmother used to have a saying, i just
- 00:37:22.725 --> 00:37:25.795
- Thought of it.
- 00:37:25.795 --> 00:37:27.630
- She said, we atone for the sins we're inclined
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- To by damning those we have no mind to.
- 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:33.736
- And i think actually a lot of times we damn the
- 00:37:33.736 --> 00:37:39.308
- People and the sins we are inclined to and we're
- 00:37:39.308 --> 00:37:43.379
- Projecting a lot of times we're preaching
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- To ourselves
- 00:37:45.381 --> 00:37:46.916
- Protest it too much.
- 00:37:46.916 --> 00:37:48.117
- Yes.
- 00:37:48.117 --> 00:37:49.418
- Look, i think we all need to understand we're
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- Sinners saved by grace.
- 00:37:51.520 --> 00:37:53.522
- We need to give people an opportunity for a
- 00:37:53.522 --> 00:37:55.524
- New beginning.
- 00:37:55.524 --> 00:37:57.426
- I'm not saying there aren't consequences.
- 00:37:57.426 --> 00:37:59.662
- In fact, one of the things people ask me
- 00:37:59.662 --> 00:38:01.864
- About this new beginning is if i have been
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- Forgiven, why do i keep paying for my sin?
- 00:38:03.799 --> 00:38:06.535
- Well, forgiven people have to deal with stds.
- 00:38:06.535 --> 00:38:09.572
- They have to deal with divorce,
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- With termination.
- 00:38:12.341 --> 00:38:14.210
- God erases the eternal consequences of our sin,
- 00:38:14.210 --> 00:38:18.280
- But not necessarily the temporary consequences.
- 00:38:18.280 --> 00:38:21.550
- And in fact, if you're a christian who's been
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- Forgiven, but you're wondering, why do i keep
- 00:38:24.253 --> 00:38:26.822
- Paying for my sin,
- 00:38:26.822 --> 00:38:29.692
- I want you to see these things you're having to
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- Endure as really a gift from god.
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- Wow.
- 00:38:34.630 --> 00:38:36.132
- Psalm 119 verse 67, david said, before i was
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- Afflicted, i went astray, but now i obey your word.
- 00:38:40.035 --> 00:38:44.707
- My goodness.
- 00:38:44.707 --> 00:38:46.008
- Even after david found that forgiveness he wrote
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- About in psalm 32, he still had to deal with a
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- Dead child.
- 00:38:51.580 --> 00:38:53.749
- His in bathsheba's first child died.
- 00:38:53.749 --> 00:38:56.485
- He had to deal with a disloyal son, the
- 00:38:56.485 --> 00:38:59.054
- Rebellion of absalom, and he had to deal with a
- 00:38:59.054 --> 00:39:01.223
- Divided nation.
- 00:39:01.223 --> 00:39:03.159
- But david said, i'm grateful for those things
- 00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:05.361
- Because every time i'm tempted to look over at
- 00:39:05.361 --> 00:39:08.297
- The balcony to see who's bathing tonight, i
- 00:39:08.297 --> 00:39:11.333
- Remember the pain of my sin and it keeps me on
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- The narrow way.
- 00:39:15.004 --> 00:39:16.872
- Obedience again, being forgiven doesn't erase
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- The temporary consequences, but praise
- 00:39:20.276 --> 00:39:22.845
- God, it erases the eternal cons.
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- Thank you, jesus.
- 00:39:25.614 --> 00:39:28.184
- Once your in remission is over, it's time finally
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- For starting over with your new beginning.
- 00:39:29.285 --> 00:39:32.388
- Now, when you start over with your new beginning,
- 00:39:32.388 --> 00:39:35.157
- Hopefully you'll have a lot of questions
- 00:39:35.157 --> 00:39:36.926
- Answered, but you need what i call a second act
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- Script that details what you're going to do in the
- 00:39:41.931 --> 00:39:45.401
- Second act of your life. while you're in
- 00:39:45.401 --> 00:39:49.371
- Your intermission
- 00:39:49.371 --> 00:39:50.873
- Time is a great time to develop that
- 00:39:50.873 --> 00:39:53.008
- Second act script.
- 00:39:53.008 --> 00:39:55.144
- A lot of christians think it's unspiritual, pastor,
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- To be planning.
- 00:39:57.613 --> 00:39:59.348
- We ought to just leave it up to god.
- 00:39:59.348 --> 00:40:02.117
- No, the bible extols the virtues of planning.
- 00:40:02.117 --> 00:40:05.321
- In proverbs 16:3, solomon said, commit your
- 00:40:05.321 --> 00:40:08.491
- Works to the lord and your plans will
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- Be established.
- 00:40:12.094 --> 00:40:13.996
- Proverbs 20:18, prepare plans by consultation.
- 00:40:13.996 --> 00:40:17.933
- Proverbs 21:5,
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- The plans of the diligent surely lead to
- 00:40:19.935 --> 00:40:22.805
- An advantage.
- 00:40:22.805 --> 00:40:24.440
- Now, obviously all of our plans are subject to the
- 00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:27.543
- Sovereignty of god, but that doesn't keep us from
- 00:40:27.543 --> 00:40:31.580
- Making plans.
- 00:40:31.580 --> 00:40:33.148
- And i think the shame that people deal with is
- 00:40:33.148 --> 00:40:35.718
- Just heartbreaking.
- 00:40:35.718 --> 00:40:39.755
- But that's one of the reasons why jesus died.
- 00:40:39.755 --> 00:40:46.495
- His blood took away the shame and the iniquity
- 00:40:46.495 --> 00:40:49.031
- Of our sin
- 00:40:49.031 --> 00:40:50.699
- Like you were saying. how do people get over
- 00:40:50.699 --> 00:40:54.570
- The shame?
- 00:40:54.570 --> 00:40:58.574
- It's hard and honestly, it's hard in churches
- 00:40:58.574 --> 00:41:02.945
- Filled with pharisees, and sometimes a new
- 00:41:02.945 --> 00:41:06.482
- Beginning might involve a new location,
- 00:41:06.482 --> 00:41:08.884
- A new place.
- 00:41:08.884 --> 00:41:11.186
- But i would just again, encourage people who are
- 00:41:11.186 --> 00:41:14.189
- Dealing with shame just to remember the
- 00:41:14.189 --> 00:41:16.992
- Grace of god.
- 00:41:16.992 --> 00:41:20.996
- And remember that it's your sin that led jesus
- 00:41:20.996 --> 00:41:23.899
- To the cross and his attitude about you is
- 00:41:23.899 --> 00:41:26.835
- What's most important and god's attitude toward you.
- 00:41:26.835 --> 00:41:30.105
- I love you.
- 00:41:30.105 --> 00:41:31.473
- You're my child and you'll be my
- 00:41:31.473 --> 00:41:32.808
- Child forever.
- 00:41:32.808 --> 00:41:34.710
- You just think about all the people that wrote the
- 00:41:34.710 --> 00:41:35.978
- Bible, paul.
- 00:41:35.978 --> 00:41:38.414
- Oh yeah,
- 00:41:38.414 --> 00:41:39.315
- I'm the greatest sinner of 'em all.
- 00:41:39.315 --> 00:41:41.216
- I'm exhibit a,
- 00:41:41.216 --> 00:41:42.284
- He said at first timothy one. god can forgive me.
- 00:41:42.284 --> 00:41:45.688
- He can forgive everyone.
- 00:41:45.688 --> 00:41:47.122
- People watching tonight, you may be filled with
- 00:41:47.122 --> 00:41:49.291
- Shame, but i doubt you've persecuted christians put
- 00:41:49.291 --> 00:41:53.729
- To death believers in the lord jesus christ.
- 00:41:53.729 --> 00:41:56.865
- I doubt you've done that.
- 00:41:56.865 --> 00:41:59.168
- And yet paul said, i did it and god forgave me.
- 00:41:59.168 --> 00:42:02.571
- There's these stories in the bible for a reason.
- 00:42:02.571 --> 00:42:06.408
- The one that comes to mind is think of peter
- 00:42:06.408 --> 00:42:10.546
- Being who he was.
- 00:42:10.546 --> 00:42:13.949
- He was always the first to speak.
- 00:42:13.949 --> 00:42:15.918
- He always, and he was the first to deny and think
- 00:42:15.918 --> 00:42:21.090
- Of the shame of what that would've been.
- 00:42:21.090 --> 00:42:24.460
- And the filmmaker inside of me always sees him
- 00:42:24.460 --> 00:42:32.701
- Denying jesus and jesus catching his eye somehow
- 00:42:32.701 --> 00:42:38.874
- That moment, as he's being led away, he looks
- 00:42:38.874 --> 00:42:42.745
- Over and he's heard the third betrayal of peter
- 00:42:42.745 --> 00:42:47.783
- And they catch eyes and he slumps.
- 00:42:47.783 --> 00:42:52.354
- And how would you ever come back from that?
- 00:42:52.354 --> 00:42:56.592
- And the story of the gospel and peter becoming
- 00:42:56.592 --> 00:43:02.231
- The leader of the church has to be the greatest
- 00:43:02.231 --> 00:43:06.368
- Comeback story in church history.
- 00:43:06.368 --> 00:43:10.539
- Save the cross and resurrection.
- 00:43:10.539 --> 00:43:13.008
- And so jesus put himself in the most
- 00:43:13.008 --> 00:43:17.079
- Vulnerable position.
- 00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:19.448
- He was in essence the biggest loser.
- 00:43:19.448 --> 00:43:21.750
- He died.
- 00:43:21.750 --> 00:43:23.318
- He gave his life for us and then resurrected, and
- 00:43:23.318 --> 00:43:25.788
- Changed everything forever.
- 00:43:25.788 --> 00:43:27.823
- So there's never a time when you can't come back
- 00:43:27.823 --> 00:43:30.325
- From it.
- 00:43:30.325 --> 00:43:31.427
- That's right.
- 00:43:31.427 --> 00:43:33.162
- And just think about god entrusted his reputation,
- 00:43:33.162 --> 00:43:36.131
- His message to sinful people like peter and you
- 00:43:36.131 --> 00:43:39.468
- And robert jeffress especially.
- 00:43:39.468 --> 00:43:43.272
- It's an amazing thing that god would do that.
- 00:43:43.272 --> 00:43:45.974
- And jesus, he predicted peter's failure, but he
- 00:43:45.974 --> 00:43:48.410
- Also predicted his turnaround that would come.
- 00:43:48.410 --> 00:43:51.280
- He's going to actually admit to some sin right
- 00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:53.916
- Here on this broadcast.
- 00:43:53.916 --> 00:43:56.418
- He actually ran in class one time, and chewed gum
- 00:43:56.418 --> 00:43:58.654
- In the hallway.
- 00:43:58.654 --> 00:44:00.556
- So it was terrible what you did.
- 00:44:00.556 --> 00:44:03.726
- Okay, there were few others we won't get into.
- 00:44:03.726 --> 00:44:05.661
- We're not going to get into everything.
- 00:44:05.661 --> 00:44:07.362
- Okay?
- 00:44:07.362 --> 00:44:08.197
- Point four, land this plane.
- 00:44:08.197 --> 00:44:09.364
- Well, after you've admitted your failure
- 00:44:09.364 --> 00:44:12.201
- Experience, god's forgiveness, you've
- 00:44:12.201 --> 00:44:15.671
- Waited in time out, you're waiting on
- 00:44:15.671 --> 00:44:17.806
- God's timing.
- 00:44:17.806 --> 00:44:19.508
- There's a time when god says it's time to start
- 00:44:19.508 --> 00:44:21.744
- Your new beginning.
- 00:44:21.744 --> 00:44:23.145
- Thank you, lord.
- 00:44:23.145 --> 00:44:24.413
- I don't know if you all have done this as
- 00:44:24.413 --> 00:44:26.115
- Grandparents, but i've watched mary poppins with
- 00:44:26.115 --> 00:44:29.518
- My grandkids about 300 times.
- 00:44:29.518 --> 00:44:30.686
- I know every frame of that movie.
- 00:44:30.686 --> 00:44:31.720
- But remember at the beginning that weather
- 00:44:31.720 --> 00:44:34.056
- Vane turns in a special direction signaling mary
- 00:44:34.056 --> 00:44:37.259
- Poppins is about to appear.
- 00:44:37.259 --> 00:44:39.762
- She comes.
- 00:44:39.762 --> 00:44:41.096
- She's there for the two hour movie, and then when
- 00:44:41.096 --> 00:44:43.265
- It's time for her to leave, the weather vane
- 00:44:43.265 --> 00:44:45.701
- Moves again and off she goes until the sequel and
- 00:44:45.701 --> 00:44:48.804
- We all have weather veins that we need to look at
- 00:44:48.804 --> 00:44:51.974
- That signals some kind of change is coming.
- 00:44:51.974 --> 00:44:54.710
- How do you know if it's time for your
- 00:44:54.710 --> 00:44:57.446
- New beginning?
- 00:44:57.446 --> 00:44:58.947
- Well look for a change in your attitude.
- 00:44:58.947 --> 00:45:02.518
- Maybe you've quit blaming other people and you're
- 00:45:02.518 --> 00:45:04.653
- Willing to accept responsibility.
- 00:45:04.653 --> 00:45:07.122
- Maybe a change in your emotions.
- 00:45:07.122 --> 00:45:09.091
- You're no longer physically and
- 00:45:09.091 --> 00:45:11.326
- Emotionally drained, but you're starting to
- 00:45:11.326 --> 00:45:13.061
- Be refreshed.
- 00:45:13.061 --> 00:45:14.563
- Maybe a change in your circumstances.
- 00:45:14.563 --> 00:45:16.431
- Out of nowhere, you get a call from a headhunter
- 00:45:16.431 --> 00:45:18.767
- Who's looking for a new person to hire, or maybe
- 00:45:18.767 --> 00:45:22.404
- You get a dinner invitation to somebody
- 00:45:22.404 --> 00:45:24.606
- From somebody you're interested in having a
- 00:45:24.606 --> 00:45:26.675
- Relationship with.
- 00:45:26.675 --> 00:45:28.210
- Look for those changes in circumstances.
- 00:45:28.210 --> 00:45:30.345
- That's what the children of israel did for
- 00:45:30.345 --> 00:45:32.314
- 400 years.
- 00:45:32.314 --> 00:45:33.649
- They'd been in captivity in egypt.
- 00:45:33.649 --> 00:45:35.450
- Moses went to pharaoh, said, let my people go.
- 00:45:35.450 --> 00:45:38.487
- Pharaoh said, no way, jose, until the 10th
- 00:45:38.487 --> 00:45:42.124
- Plague when he said, go scram, get out of here.
- 00:45:42.124 --> 00:45:47.496
- And they knew it was time to move.
- 00:45:47.496 --> 00:45:49.798
- And remember the children of israel left and they
- 00:45:49.798 --> 00:45:52.534
- Got to the red sea, and all of a sudden they
- 00:45:52.534 --> 00:45:56.004
- Begin to wonder, what are we going to do?
- 00:45:56.004 --> 00:45:59.308
- We can go backwards and be slaughtered by the
- 00:45:59.308 --> 00:46:01.543
- Egyptians pursuing us, or we can go forward
- 00:46:01.543 --> 00:46:03.879
- And be drowned.
- 00:46:03.879 --> 00:46:05.480
- What a choice.
- 00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:06.715
- And then what did god do?
- 00:46:06.715 --> 00:46:09.484
- We've all seen the movie.
- 00:46:09.484 --> 00:46:11.253
- He parted the red sea and he said, move forward.
- 00:46:11.253 --> 00:46:14.923
- You know the hero in that story?
- 00:46:14.923 --> 00:46:17.793
- It's not moses.
- 00:46:17.793 --> 00:46:20.295
- Moses wasn't the real hero in that story.
- 00:46:20.295 --> 00:46:23.198
- He was off to the side with his arms raised in
- 00:46:23.198 --> 00:46:25.601
- His best charlton heston pose.
- 00:46:25.601 --> 00:46:27.936
- He was doing that.
- 00:46:27.936 --> 00:46:29.605
- The most heroic person in that story was that
- 00:46:29.605 --> 00:46:32.307
- Unnamed first hebrew who walked onto that land
- 00:46:32.307 --> 00:46:36.545
- That had been the bottom of the red sea.
- 00:46:36.545 --> 00:46:39.414
- Think of the faith that took to realize that any
- 00:46:39.414 --> 00:46:42.351
- Moment that those water walls could come crashing
- 00:46:42.351 --> 00:46:46.054
- Down upon you, but god had said go, and that
- 00:46:46.054 --> 00:46:49.157
- Unnamed hebrew believed that the same god who had
- 00:46:49.157 --> 00:46:52.828
- Delivered him from pharaoh would take care
- 00:46:52.828 --> 00:46:55.297
- Of him in the future.
- 00:46:55.297 --> 00:46:57.900
- And i would say for those of you right now who are
- 00:46:57.900 --> 00:47:00.202
- In that intermission time, the time between
- 00:47:00.202 --> 00:47:04.006
- Your past failure and your future success,
- 00:47:04.006 --> 00:47:07.276
- Remember the same god who has delivered you safely
- 00:47:07.276 --> 00:47:12.047
- To this point
- 00:47:12.047 --> 00:47:13.849
- Will also deliver you to the other side.
- 00:47:13.849 --> 00:47:17.252
- Thank you, lord, to
- 00:47:17.252 --> 00:47:18.820
- Your new beginning.
- 00:47:18.820 --> 00:47:20.322
- You can count on god to take care of you.
- 00:47:20.322 --> 00:47:22.958
- So i would encourage everybody watching this
- 00:47:22.958 --> 00:47:24.960
- Program, if you're ready for a new beginning, go
- 00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:28.096
- Ahead and admit that mistake to god tonight.
- 00:47:28.096 --> 00:47:30.999
- You're not telling him anything new that he
- 00:47:30.999 --> 00:47:33.168
- Doesn't already know.
- 00:47:33.168 --> 00:47:34.770
- Experience his wonderful forgiveness as a loving
- 00:47:34.770 --> 00:47:38.607
- Father, not as an accuser, but somebody who
- 00:47:38.607 --> 00:47:41.843
- Loves you so much he gave his life for you.
- 00:47:41.843 --> 00:47:45.547
- If you're in time out, wait for that.
- 00:47:45.547 --> 00:47:48.250
- Enjoy that time.
- 00:47:48.250 --> 00:47:50.786
- Use that time to map out what you think god may
- 00:47:50.786 --> 00:47:53.722
- Want you to do in the future.
- 00:47:53.722 --> 00:47:56.625
- But finally, when god says, go move forward in
- 00:47:56.625 --> 00:47:59.861
- Faith. pray for the folks that feel like
- 00:47:59.861 --> 00:48:05.400
- They're somewhere on that journey.
- 00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:07.602
- They're in part one, part two, part three or
- 00:48:07.602 --> 00:48:09.004
- Part four.
- 00:48:09.004 --> 00:48:10.739
- And just kind of wrap this up somewhere in that
- 00:48:10.739 --> 00:48:16.111
- Story and pray for the folks if you would,
- 00:48:16.111 --> 00:48:17.879
- Pastor. you bet.
- 00:48:17.879 --> 00:48:19.348
- I realize i'm talking to two different groups.
- 00:48:19.348 --> 00:48:20.816
- Maybe somebody who's never experienced god's
- 00:48:20.816 --> 00:48:23.051
- Forgiveness and you think god could never accept me.
- 00:48:23.051 --> 00:48:26.521
- Look, the reason god sent christ was to pay for
- 00:48:26.521 --> 00:48:29.958
- That sin, that horrible sin, that sin you hope
- 00:48:29.958 --> 00:48:32.761
- Nobody ever finds out about.
- 00:48:32.761 --> 00:48:35.397
- He forgives you of all of your transgressions.
- 00:48:35.397 --> 00:48:38.133
- But if you're already a christian and you have
- 00:48:38.133 --> 00:48:40.869
- Messed up in the past, remember you cannot outsin
- 00:48:40.869 --> 00:48:44.873
- The grace of god.
- 00:48:44.873 --> 00:48:47.909
- His grace is always greater than your sin,
- 00:48:47.909 --> 00:48:50.545
- Regardless of your status right now, before god, i
- 00:48:50.545 --> 00:48:55.217
- Want you to bow your head if you're able to,
- 00:48:55.217 --> 00:48:57.552
- Wherever you are, and just pray this
- 00:48:57.552 --> 00:49:00.022
- Prayer with me.
- 00:49:00.022 --> 00:49:01.490
- Dear god, thank you for loving me.
- 00:49:01.490 --> 00:49:03.959
- I know i have failed you in many ways, and i'm
- 00:49:03.959 --> 00:49:07.963
- Truly sorry for the sins in my life, but i believe
- 00:49:07.963 --> 00:49:12.334
- You sent jesus, your son to die for me.
- 00:49:12.334 --> 00:49:16.538
- And i'm trusting in what he did on the cross
- 00:49:16.538 --> 00:49:19.341
- To save me.
- 00:49:19.341 --> 00:49:21.276
- So forgive me of all of my sins.
- 00:49:21.276 --> 00:49:23.945
- And father, i pray from this point forward,
- 00:49:23.945 --> 00:49:27.082
- Regardless of my past, i would live my present and
- 00:49:27.082 --> 00:49:30.786
- My future dedicated to following you.
- 00:49:30.786 --> 00:49:34.289
- And i pray this in jesus' name.
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- Amen.
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- I remember as a young girl, this group of a
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- Singing group, a big singing group from one of
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- The denominations came to our church to sing as a
- 00:49:48.937 --> 00:49:51.506
- Big choir.
- 00:49:51.506 --> 00:49:53.742
- And the next morning they all wanted to meet
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- With my dad.
- 00:49:56.478 --> 00:49:58.313
- And i remember all of them sitting at the front
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- Of the church and my dad talking to him and just
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- Talking to him about the grace of god.
- 00:50:04.419 --> 00:50:06.488
- And it makes me want to cry even today, because
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- He was talking about your relationship with jesus
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- And all these kids we're always told that
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- Spirituality and being saved is like
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- Climbing a ladder.
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- And you could get up so hard, but then you would
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- Sin, you'd make a mistake,
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- Go right back down.
- 00:50:27.976 --> 00:50:29.678
- And they were taught that they would drop and fall
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- To the bottom of the ladder and then have to
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- Start back up again.
- 00:50:35.417 --> 00:50:37.853
- And there was so much bondage in that when my
- 00:50:37.853 --> 00:50:39.988
- Dad started telling him the truth of what god's
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- Word says, that his grace is sufficient for you.
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- That i do separate you from the east and the
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- West, from your sin and just god's grace on your
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- Life, that we can come before him and just talk
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- With him and tell him where our struggles are.
- 00:51:00.008 --> 00:51:03.245
- He knows it anyway, but that fellowship with god
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- And that you can get right back up where you
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- Were and you just keep on going with god.
- 00:51:08.583 --> 00:51:10.685
- And these kids were so set free from that
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- Bondage of just thinking, i can't do this every day.
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- There's something that just holds me back.
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- But god's grace in your life, just keep going.
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- Just keep stepping forward.
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- God loves you.
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- Jesus loves you, and we're here for you night
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- And day right here at tbn, praying, adding our
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- Faith with yours and want you to have a beautiful
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- New beginning, a beautiful new start with
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- God no matter where you are.
- 00:51:43.652 --> 00:51:46.688
- And i just encourage everybody.
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- Don't ever believe anything that you read,
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- Ever good or bad, just do not believe it.
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- That's one thing that being on both sides of
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- That, it's just you can't trust that.
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- Just learn to forgive.
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- I have a friend that when i was going through
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- Something and i was really having a hard time
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- Making sure that i had forgiven somebody,
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- Because i think sometimes we think, boy, i don't
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- Want any forgiveness.
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- Have i really forgiven?
- 00:52:18.520 --> 00:52:19.721
- And i remember my sweet friend said, you have to
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- Separate the sin from the person just like
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- God does.
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- And she said, just separate them away.
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- Take their sin in your heart and in your mind
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- You said, and go to the altar with it and lay it
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- Down, but separate.
- 00:52:38.473 --> 00:52:40.008
- And that's how jesus said, father, forgive
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- Them for they know not what they do.
- 00:52:42.544 --> 00:52:44.779
- I know you all know this, but the jewish people had
- 00:52:44.779 --> 00:52:48.950
- A way of symbolizing that on the day of atonement,
- 00:52:48.950 --> 00:52:52.487
- Before the high priest would go in and make an
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- Atonement for the sins of the people,
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- They would bring a goat to the high priest.
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- He would lay his hands on that goat and confess the
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- Sins of the people, and then that goat would be
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- Sent out into the wilderness.
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- He was called the scapegoat
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- And never to be seen again.
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- And it's a perfect picture of what you're
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- Talking about.
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- Yeah.
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- It's beautiful.
- 00:53:15.010 --> 00:53:16.311
- When the revelation of god's forgiveness and
- 00:53:16.311 --> 00:53:18.313
- Love and the good news of what happened 2000 years
- 00:53:18.313 --> 00:53:21.283
- Ago hits you, it makes you think less about
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- Yourself and more about what god's asked you to do.
- 00:53:24.519 --> 00:53:27.656
- You just get up and you get after it, and you go
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- And do it.
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- Yeah.
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- Final word is yours, pastor.
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- Yeah.
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- I think it was john newton who wrote that
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- Great song, amazing grace in last days of living.
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- He had lost his eyesight.
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- He was losing his memory.
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- But he said, i remember two things.
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- I'm a great singer and god's a great savior.
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- Those are two great
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- Things to keep in mind.
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- Good words for 2025.
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- Thank you, pastor.
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- We'll see you next time.
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- Love you, pastor.
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- ♪♪
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