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He said, in fact, for 53 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 4: our twenty fifth wedding anniversary, I took her to Beijing, China. 54 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 4: Everyone politely applauded. Someone said, what'd you do for your 55 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 4: fiftieth wedding anniversary? He said, I went back and picked 56 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 4: her up. Say it like you mean it. This is 57 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 4: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 58 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 4: have what it says I have. I can do what 59 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 4: it says I can do. Today I will be taught 60 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 4: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 61 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 4: my heart is recet. I will never be the same. 62 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 4: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 63 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 4: to you today about don't be defined by your mistakes. 64 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 4: We can all look back and see times where we 65 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 4: gave in to temptation, we let our guard down and compromised. 66 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 4: We were sloppy and didn't handle the situation the way 67 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 4: we should. It's easy to be defined by one moment 68 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 4: in life, by divorce, by business. It didn't make it 69 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 4: by how we raised our children. The enemy is called 70 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 4: the accuser. He would love to convince you to let 71 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 4: that one mistake, that one season, to cause you to 72 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 4: live down on yourself, not be passionate about your dreams. 73 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 4: But that mistake didn't stop God's plan. You may have failed, 74 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 4: but you are not a failure. That was a moment 75 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 4: in your life. That was one season. It doesn't determine 76 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 4: your future. Don't let that mistake define who you are. 77 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 4: If you go around wearing negative labels divorced, addicted, failled, compromised, 78 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 4: it will keep you from the fullness of what God 79 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 4: has in store. If you're a baseball fan, you may 80 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 4: remember the name Bill Buckner. He was a star player 81 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 4: for the Boston Red Sox for many years. He had 82 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 4: more hits than Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams. One season 83 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 4: he won the batting title had the highest batting average 84 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 4: in all of baseball. He was a great teammate, a 85 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 4: leader in the clubhouse, but in nineteen eighty six during 86 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 4: the World Series, he went to field a slow rolling 87 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 4: ground ball and missed it. It went right between his legs, 88 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 4: and the other team scored and tied the game. That 89 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 4: opponent went on to win the World Series. The fans 90 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 4: were so upset, so disgruntled, they never let him live 91 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 4: it down. He became known as the player that missed 92 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 4: the groundball. Despite his illustrious career, despite all of his hits, 93 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 4: all the runs he scored, they didn't remember any of that. 94 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 4: All they remembered was that one bad play, that one mistake. 95 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 4: Bill Buckner passed away earlier this year, thirty three years 96 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 4: after that game. The first line in the National Associated 97 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 4: Press article was Bill Buckner, a star hitter who became 98 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 4: known for making one of the most infamous plays in baseball. 99 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 4: People will try to define you by your mistakes. They'll 100 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 4: try to stick labels on you. Reminds you of all 101 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 4: the times you failed, the times you compromised, the times 102 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 4: you didn't measure up. Sadly, some people will choose to 103 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 4: remember your failures more than your victories, like with Bill Buckner. 104 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 4: Despite all the good you do, despite the time you 105 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,720 Speaker 4: make sacrifices to help others, you're honoring God. But when 106 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 4: you make one mistake, when you go through one bad season, 107 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 4: don't be surprised if people don't try to convince you 108 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 4: to live condemned like you're washed up. Well, God's not 109 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 4: gonna bless you. You missed the ground ball he went through, 110 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 4: the divorce you gave into temptation. Just sit on the sidelines. No, 111 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 4: don't let people label you. They don't determine your destiny. 112 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 4: They cannot stop what God has ordained for your life. 113 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 4: The only one that can stop you is you. If 114 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 4: you let your mistakes define you, if you wear labels 115 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 4: that people stick on you, if you believe the lies 116 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 4: from the accuser, that will keep you from your destiny. 117 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 4: And when someone keeps bringing up your past mistakes, trying 118 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 4: to get you to live condemned. They may not realize it, 119 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 4: but there for the accuser. The enemy uses people. You 120 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 4: can't stop them from putting labels on you, but you 121 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 4: can take them right off. I am not defined by 122 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 4: my mistakes. I'm defined by what God says about me. 123 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 4: I'm forgiven, I'm redeemed. My past is over, my mistakes 124 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 4: are behind me, my failures are in my yesterday. And 125 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 4: you know what I'm not bringing them into today. God's 126 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 4: mercy is new every morning. Receive that mercy and move forward. 127 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 4: What about the failures in the past. What about the mistake, 128 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 4: It's covered by mercy. What about the divorce, the compromise, 129 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 4: the times I've blown it. That's over and done. Life 130 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 4: is too short to let what happened in the past 131 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 4: to keep you from the great things God has in 132 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 4: your future. After Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead, 133 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 4: he appeared to some of the disciples as they were 134 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 4: meeting in a room. Thomas wasn't there that day. They 135 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 4: went out afterwards and found him. They thought Thomas would 136 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 4: be excited to know that they had seen the Lord. 137 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 4: Thomas wasn't buying it. He said, unless I see him 138 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 4: with my own eyes, unless I feel the nail prints 139 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 4: in his hands, I'm not going to believe. Eight days later, 140 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 4: all the disciples were in a room. Jesus came walking 141 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,679 Speaker 4: through the door. He went right up to Thomas, held 142 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,079 Speaker 4: out his hands and said, see the nail Prince, feel 143 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 4: the scars in my side. Thomas fell on his knees 144 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 4: and said, Lord, I believe. What's interesting is Thomas doubted 145 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 4: that one time, but he's become known as doubting Thomas. 146 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 4: People have stuck their labels on him. You would think 147 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 4: that he had doubted his whole life, that he was 148 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 4: always questioning his faith. But this was just eight days 149 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 4: of his life. It's easy to judge people by one mistake. 150 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 4: It's easy to let one failure define who you are. 151 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 4: If Thomas would have worn that label doubter failure, he 152 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 4: would have missed his purpose. And we hear a lot 153 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 4: about doubting Thomas. What we don't hear much about is 154 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 4: Thomas is the one that took the gospel to India. 155 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 4: It's believed that he took the message of Christ further 156 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 4: than any disciple. I've been to India many times with 157 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 4: my father. It seems like every other believer is named Thomas. 158 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 4: He made a great impact with his life. We call 159 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 4: him doubting Thomas. You know what God calls him, believing Thomas, forgiven, Thomas, 160 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 4: anointed Thomas, favored Thomas in the same way. God is 161 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 4: not judging you by one mistake, by one bad season. 162 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 4: Why are you beating yourself up? Why are you wearing 163 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 4: labels that people have stuck on you? Why have you settled. 164 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 4: Where you are, there is an incredible future awaiting you. 165 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 4: You haven't made too many mistakes. You haven't missed your chance. 166 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 4: If you'll remove the labels that are telling you everything 167 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 4: you're not how you've blown it. You doubted, you failed, 168 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 4: that's in the past. That doesn't have to stop you. 169 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 4: The enemy would love for you to go through life 170 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 4: living condemned, wearing negative labels doubter, failure, divorce, unworthy. Do 171 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 4: yourself a favor. Take off those labels and put on 172 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 4: what God says about you forgiven, redeemed, blessed, qualified, victorious. 173 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 4: Sometimes we make mistakes with good intentions. Bill Buckner wasn't 174 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 4: trying to miss the ground ball. He wasn't being undisciplined 175 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 4: slacking off. He was being his best and still missed it. 176 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 4: You may have done your best, but the relationship didn't 177 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 4: make it. You gave it your all, but the business 178 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 4: didn't succeed. Like Thomas, your heart is right, you love God, 179 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 4: but you didn't handle the situation the proper way, and 180 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 4: now it sets you back. This is what happened to 181 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 4: Moses as a young man. God gave him the dream 182 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 4: that he would deliver the Israelites out of slavery. He 183 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 4: knew he was supposed to do it, but he got 184 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 4: in a hurry and did it out of God's timing. 185 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 4: He saw a Hebrew slave being mistreated by an Egyptian supervisor. 186 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 4: He didn't think anyone was watching, and he killed the supervisor. 187 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 4: Moses wasn't trying to make a mistake, He wasn't being defiant. 188 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 4: He just made a bad choice. He had to flee 189 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 4: for his life. He spent forty years on the backside 190 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 4: of the desert in hiding. It looked like that one 191 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 4: mistake stopped his destiny, that that one bad choice disqualified him. 192 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 4: I'm sure. In the desert, thoughts told him, Moses, you're 193 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 4: a failure. What were you thinking? Why are you so impatient? 194 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 4: You blew it. He was wearing all these negative labels. 195 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 4: He thought that mistake would define him. The good news 196 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 4: is God doesn't judge us by one mistake, or by 197 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 4: two mistakes, or for some of us, by ten thousand mistakes. 198 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 4: God's calling on your life is irrevocable. He doesn't change 199 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 4: his mind. Moses had given up, He had accepted that 200 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 4: he would never accomplish his dream. But God doesn't give up. 201 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 4: You may have counted yourself out. God has already counted 202 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 4: you in. He chose you before you could choose him. 203 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 4: That mistake is not who you are, it's what you did. 204 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 4: It didn't cancel your destiny. That one bad season doesn't 205 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 4: determine the rest of your life. Forty years later, when 206 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 4: Moses was eighty years old, God came to him and said, now, Moses, 207 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 4: it's time go deliver my people. I can imagine Moses 208 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 4: nearly passed out. God, are you sure you mean after 209 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 4: I failed, after I blew it, after I was impatient, 210 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 4: You're still going to use me. Here's the key. God 211 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,199 Speaker 4: doesn't define us by our mistakes. He refines us by 212 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 4: our mistakes. He will take those failures and those wrong 213 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,319 Speaker 4: turns and use it to do a work in us. 214 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 4: The scripture says Moses became the most humble man in 215 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 4: all the earth out in the desert. He learned to 216 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 4: be patient. He learned to trust God in a new way. 217 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 4: If you'll keep the right attitude, God will use your 218 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 4: failures to get you prepared for where he's taking you. 219 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 3: In. 220 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 4: Like Moses, you may have blown it. You feel like 221 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 4: you're out in the desert, convinced that you've seen your 222 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 4: best days. No, get ready, your time is coming. God 223 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 4: is about to do a new thing. That relationship that 224 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 4: didn't work out, that's not how your story ends. God 225 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 4: has someone else coming, someone better than you've imagined. That 226 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 4: addiction that you're struggling with, it is not your destiny. 227 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 4: That is a season, not a lifetime. Don't let it 228 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 4: become permanent. Take off that label that says addicted. Put 229 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 4: on some new labels, free, whole, restored. My father was 230 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 4: married at an early age, and unfortunately the marriage didn't 231 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 4: work out. He had to resign from his church. Denominational 232 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 4: leaders told him that he had never pastor again. He 233 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 4: didn't know any better. He put their labels on him failure, 234 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 4: washed up, unqualified. He didn't get into the marriage thinking 235 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 4: it was going to fail. He had good intentions, but 236 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 4: sometimes life doesn't turn out the way we thought. That's 237 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 4: when the enemy goes to work over time trying to 238 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 4: convince you to let that mistake define who you are. 239 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 4: My father took the bait. He lived condemned, ashamed, embarrassed. 240 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 4: He thought that mistake would define the rest of his life. 241 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 4: So he got out of the ministry and started selling 242 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 4: insurance one day he learned what I'm telling you, that 243 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 4: our failures don't cancel God's plan. God has already taken 244 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 4: into account every mistake we would ever make. My father 245 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 4: took off the negative labels. He stopped seeing himself as 246 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 4: washed up and started seeing himself as forgiven, as redeemed 247 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 4: as a child of the most high. His passion back 248 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 4: and got back in the ministry, started pastoring a church, 249 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 4: eventually met my mother. They fell in love and were 250 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 4: married for almost fifty years. Daddy pastored Lakewood for forty years. 251 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 4: It would have never happened if he had let that 252 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 4: mistake define who he was. If he would have gone 253 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 4: around wearing negative labels down on himself, he would have 254 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 4: missed his purpose. You may have made mistakes, but you 255 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 4: have to learn to forgive yourself. Quit beating yourself up 256 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 4: over what didn't work out. Sometimes we can forgive others 257 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 4: easier than we can forgive ourselves. People tell me, Joel, 258 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 4: I didn't raise my children right, I blew my marriage, 259 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 4: wasted years of my life on drugs. That's in the past. 260 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 4: You can't change what's behind you, but you can do 261 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 4: something about what's in front of you. God's mercy is 262 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 4: bigger than any mistake that you've made. He can still 263 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 4: get you to where you're supposed to be, but you 264 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 4: have to do something important. Forgive yourself. Quit dwelling on 265 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,959 Speaker 4: everything you've done wrong, how you should have been more discipline, 266 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 4: how you didn't control your temper the moment you asked 267 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 4: God to forgive you, He forgave you. Not only that, 268 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 4: he doesn't remember your mistakes. Why don't you quit remembering 269 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 4: what God has forgotten. Quit replaying your failures, Quit reliving 270 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 4: your mistakes, thinking of the times that you didn't measure up. 271 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 4: That's just making you more guilty, more condemned. When Jesus 272 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 4: was about to be crucified, he told Peter that he 273 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 4: would deny him three times before the rooster crowed that night, 274 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 4: Peter said, not me, Lord, I'm your main disciple. I'll 275 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 4: never let you down. Later that evening, Peter did exactly 276 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 4: what Jesus said. What's interesting is Jesus already knew that 277 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 4: Peter was going to fail. He already knew he was 278 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 4: going to blow it, but he chose them as his disciple. Anyway, 279 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 4: you would think God would choose people more disciplined, more faithful, 280 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 4: more committed. But God knows we're not perfect. He knows 281 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 4: we're going to make mistakes. Peter was so down on himself, 282 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 4: so ashamed. The scripture says he went out and wept 283 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 4: bitter tears. Was it long after that that Jesus was crucified. 284 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 4: Peter never had the chance to tell him that he 285 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,440 Speaker 4: was sorry. He had to live with this guilt, this heaviness. 286 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 4: Two ladies went to the tomb to check on Jesus's body. 287 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 4: An angel appeared to don't be afraid. Jesus has risen. 288 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 4: Now go tell his disciples and Peter that he is alive. 289 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 4: Of all the people God could have been at that 290 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 4: critical time, the only one he specifically pointed out was Peter. 291 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 4: God was showing us I don't define you by your mistakes. 292 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 4: I don't cancel your destiny because you failed. Fifty days later, 293 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 4: the church was about to be birthed. They needed someone 294 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 4: to give the inaugural address, someone to speak at this 295 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 4: historic event. I can imagine the disciples talking, Matthew, you 296 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,399 Speaker 4: should do it. You're a great speaker. You would be good. John, 297 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 4: you should do it. You're very powerful. Then someone spoke 298 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 4: up and said no, Peter it's supposed to be you. 299 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,479 Speaker 4: I remember Jesus said you are Peter, and upon this 300 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 4: rock I will build my church. All the disciples chimed in. Yes, Peter, 301 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 4: you're definitely the one. He said, there's no way. Fifty 302 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 4: days ago I denied him. I blew it. I failed. 303 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,719 Speaker 4: I'm ashamed. It was my worst moment. He was wearing 304 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 4: all these labels telling him that he had missed his destiny. 305 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 4: Just as he is about to walk away, condemned, guilty, 306 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 4: something rose up on the inside. He said, Hey, wait 307 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 4: a minute. I'm not defined by my mistakes. One bad 308 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 4: night doesn't cancel what God has ordained for me. He 309 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 4: stood up and spoke to the crowd. Three thousand people 310 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 4: came to know the Lord. Maybe you two have failed. 311 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 4: The good news is God already knew it was going 312 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 4: to happen. It didn't stop your destiny. You're still going 313 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 4: to accomplish your dream. You're still going to have a 314 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 4: happy family, You're still going to meet the right person. 315 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 4: Now do your part. Take off the negative labels. Quit 316 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 4: dwelling on what you don't deserve. How many times you've 317 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 4: blown it. God is saying, get back in the game. 318 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 4: If Peter can stand up fifty days after he denied 319 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 4: Christ and start the church, then you too can still 320 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 4: become all you were created to be. Matthew three. Jesus 321 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 4: was baptized in the Jordan River. When he came up 322 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 4: out of the water, this voice boomed out announcing that 323 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 4: he was the son of God. It was a significant moment. 324 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,719 Speaker 4: Jesus ministry was about to begin. You would think Jesus 325 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 4: would go back to Galilee where all the people were 326 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 4: start teaching and healing. But right after this first public endorsement, 327 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 4: right after this sign of God's favor, the scripture says 328 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:49,199 Speaker 4: Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert to 329 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 4: be tempted for forty days. If you would have seen 330 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 4: Jesus out in the desert, you could have thought, I 331 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 4: just saw him come out of this glorious moment, has 332 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,679 Speaker 4: heard the voice saying he was the son of God. 333 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 4: What's he doing out here? This is a mistake, He's 334 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 4: off course, Sometimes what we think is a mistake is 335 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 4: really the hand of God. It doesn't say the enemy 336 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 4: led him into the desert. It says the Spirit led 337 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 4: him into the desert. There will be times God takes 338 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 4: you into things you don't understand. Feels like a failure. 339 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 4: The door closed, the person walked away, the contract didn't 340 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 4: go through. You could be down on yourself, thinking, God, 341 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 4: I was being my best. What did I do wrong? 342 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 4: How do you know that wasn't the spirit leading you 343 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:47,719 Speaker 4: out there. Some doors are supposed to close, Some people 344 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 4: are supposed to walk away. Some opportunities are not supposed 345 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 4: to last. On the way to our destiny life with Jesus, 346 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 4: God will lead us into a desert experience, into something 347 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 4: that doesn't make sense. And if we let what seems 348 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 4: like a failure define us, then we will miss what 349 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 4: God really had in mind. As soon as Jesus passed 350 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 4: the test, after those forty days, he came out of 351 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 4: the desert and started his ministry. What looked like a failure, 352 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,399 Speaker 4: what looked like he was off course, was really leading 353 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 4: him to a new level of his destiny. Quit being 354 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 4: discouraged over what didn't work out. You did your best, 355 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 4: but the business didn't make It feels like a failure. 356 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 4: Now that's not how your story ends. God led you 357 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 4: into the desert because he has something much bigger in 358 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 4: your future. He had to close that door to get 359 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 4: you to the fullness of what He has in store. 360 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 4: Every silent season is not the enemy. Every desert experience 361 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 4: is not a bad thing. You don't know what God 362 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 4: is up to. When we go through what seemed like 363 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 4: a failure, it's easy to think, Joe, I don't have 364 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 4: God's favor now, nothing's working out. No, stay in faith. 365 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,439 Speaker 4: You're on the verge of a new level. God's about 366 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 4: to take you where you've never been. Now, keep passing 367 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 4: these tests. Other people may judge you by where you are. 368 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 4: Look down on you. Think you're finished. Man, you're in 369 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 4: the desert. You're way off course. Don't pay any attention. 370 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 4: God has the final say. They may discount you now, 371 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 4: but your time is coming. They will see you promoted, 372 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,919 Speaker 4: honored in a position of greater favor. A friend of 373 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 4: mine pastor to church for thirty years, very successful. He 374 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 4: poured his heart and soul into it, and he saw 375 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,919 Speaker 4: God's blessings and favor. But a few years back things 376 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,119 Speaker 4: begin to go downhill. So he started working harder than ever. 377 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 4: He would meet with members in their home at night, 378 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 4: start at a six am prayer meeting, did everything he 379 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 4: could to keep it going, but instead of increasing it 380 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 4: kept decreasing. Eventually, he saw the writing on the wall 381 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 4: and had to turn it over to another group. They 382 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,479 Speaker 4: came and brought their own members and started afresh and anew. 383 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 4: After thirty years, he left there feeling like a failure. 384 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 4: They didn't give him a going away party, Nobody said 385 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 4: thank you. Some of his peers looked down on him, 386 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 4: saw him as a quitter. Why didn't you stick with it? 387 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 4: Why didn't you push through it? He felt shame and embarrassment. 388 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 4: All those years of work, had nothing really to show 389 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 4: for it. He thought his legacy would continue, But this 390 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 4: new group came in, changed the name of the church, 391 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 4: basically just bought the building. He couldn't understand it. After 392 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 4: such a long season of favor, How could it come 393 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 4: to an end so abruptly. He was certain that was 394 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 4: the enemy closing the door. Is it was the spirit 395 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 4: leading him into the desert. It was God taking him 396 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 4: through a silent season, not to leave him there, but 397 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 4: to increase him, to take him somewhere that he had 398 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 4: never been. A couple of years later, he had the 399 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 4: opportunity to work with another ministry. Today, he's impacting more 400 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 4: people in a week than he would in a whole 401 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,160 Speaker 4: year at his church. He and his wife never dreamed 402 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 4: that see this much influence in favor. Some of the 403 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 4: same peers that look down on him made fun of him. 404 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 4: Now they want him to come and help their church. 405 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 4: They're celebrating what he's doing. Maybe what you think is 406 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 4: a failure is really just a desert experience. It's all 407 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 4: a part of God's plan to get you to where 408 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 4: you've never dreamed. You think you've missed it. Why did 409 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 4: this door closed? Why did these people walk away? What 410 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 4: did I do wrong? Nothing? It's God leading you on 411 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 4: the other side of that silent season is a new level. 412 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,360 Speaker 4: Don't judge your future by where you are in the desert. 413 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 4: You can't let what you don't understand, what doesn't make 414 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 4: sense cause you to get better sour give up on 415 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 4: your dreams. No, keep doing the right thing, keep being 416 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 4: good to people, keep honoring God, and like my friend, 417 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 4: you're going to come into something more than you've imagined. 418 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 4: When you look back, you will realize it wasn't the 419 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,640 Speaker 4: enemy stopping me. It was the spirit leading me. It 420 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 4: was God taking me through a silent season so he 421 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 4: could launch me further than I call it possible. My 422 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 4: challenge today, don't let what you've been through tain't the 423 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,880 Speaker 4: rest of your life. God wouldn't have allowed it if 424 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 4: it was going to keep you from your purpose, whether 425 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 4: you brought the trouble on yourself or whether the led 426 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 4: you into the desert. One thing I can assure you, 427 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 4: God is not finished with you. Your mistakes did not 428 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 4: cancel your destiny. You wouldn't be alive if there wasn't 429 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 4: something awesome in your future. Now, why don't you take 430 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 4: off all the negative labels and put on some new 431 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 4: labels forgiven, redeemed child of the Most High God. If 432 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:29,199 Speaker 4: you'll do this, I believe and declare despite your mistakes, 433 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 4: despite your failures, despite your doubts, you are still going 434 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 4: to leave your mark and become who you were created 435 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 4: to be. Right now, Guilt is leaving, discouragement is leaving. 436 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 4: Favor is coming, promotion is coming, breakthroughs are coming, healing 437 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 4: is coming. The fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, 438 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 4: and if you receive it, can you say amen? Today? 439 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 4: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesusus 440 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 4: the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 441 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 4: Just say it? Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. 442 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 4: Come into my heart. I'll make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 443 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 4: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 444 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 4: born again. Get in a good Bible based church, Keep 445 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 4: God first place. 446 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 5: Thank you for listening to the Joel Oustine podcast. Help 447 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 5: us continue to share the message of hope with those 448 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 5: all over the world. Visit joelostin dot com slash give 449 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:34,959 Speaker 5: Hope to give a gift today. 450 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 4: Thanks so much for listening to today's message. I hope 451 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 4: you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest podcast to 452 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 4: keep you inspired all through the week. We're praying for you. 453 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 4: I know God's best is still ahead. We'll see you 454 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 4: next time.