WEBVTT - Rick Warren - Oct 30 - 8:00 pm 0:00:02.380 --> 0:00:05.780 Hey friends, thanks for spending some time here at Pastor 0:00:05.820 --> 0:00:09.620 Rick's Daily Hope. And today we're continuing our series with 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:14.530 Rick Warren called Time to Dream, Trusting God to Open Doors. 0:00:14.900 --> 0:00:18.750 Maybe you've been waiting for a breakthrough, an opportunity, or 0:00:18.950 --> 0:00:22.930 just some clarity about what's next. If so, you're in 0:00:22.989 --> 0:00:26.150 the right place. Rick will turn to the Bible and 0:00:26.210 --> 0:00:29.510 you'll see how God opens doors when we trust Him 0:00:29.610 --> 0:00:32.370 with our futures. And let's get right to it with 0:00:32.470 --> 0:00:36.510 part one of a message called Living God's Dream Despite 0:00:36.690 --> 0:00:38.310 Past Poor Decisions. 0:00:38.850 --> 0:00:41.210 Now in the first message in this new series on 0:00:41.290 --> 0:00:44.170 time to dream and open doors in our campaign, last 0:00:44.229 --> 0:00:47.450 week I gave you a dozen reasons why you have 0:00:47.510 --> 0:00:50.010 to know God's dream for your life. If you missed 0:00:50.030 --> 0:00:53.170 that message, you really need to listen to it. A 0:00:53.290 --> 0:00:58.250 dozen reasons why you're not living, you're just existing. If 0:00:58.290 --> 0:01:03.640 you don't know God's dream, for your life. But one 0:01:03.660 --> 0:01:05.959 of the things that I said is that God's dream 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:10.560 for your life is always, always bigger than your dream 0:01:10.580 --> 0:01:13.740 for your life. And the Bible says God can do 0:01:14.060 --> 0:01:16.539 far more than you think or ask or imagine or 0:01:16.660 --> 0:01:20.700 even dream of. God's dream for your life is bigger 0:01:20.740 --> 0:01:22.900 than your dream for your life. That's why you need 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.130 to discover it. That's why you need to develop it. 0:01:26.020 --> 0:01:28.360 But I wanna pause before we go into the actual 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.650 steps of discovering God's dream for your life and talk 0:01:31.670 --> 0:01:35.450 to you this week about the biggest barrier that will 0:01:35.510 --> 0:01:37.280 keep you from God's dream. 0:01:38.940 --> 0:01:39.940 The number one. 0:01:39.860 --> 0:01:46.140 Barrier to your future is your past. It's your past. 0:01:46.780 --> 0:01:51.620 Because we tend to perpetrate the past. Now your past 0:01:51.690 --> 0:01:55.090 is past, it's over, it's done with. But a lot 0:01:55.110 --> 0:01:56.030 of people still try. 0:01:55.890 --> 0:01:58.669 To live in the past. You can't live in the past. 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:00.460 It's over, it's done with. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.380 But you can live in the present and you can 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.740 prepare and dream for the future. So this weekend, I 0:02:07.780 --> 0:02:13.740 want us to look at living God's dream despite poor 0:02:14.100 --> 0:02:19.120 past decisions. Because I meet people all the time and go, well, 0:02:19.500 --> 0:02:22.310 I think maybe I had my chance, but I've missed 0:02:22.370 --> 0:02:27.030 God's dream. I'm now on plan B or C or 0:02:27.090 --> 0:02:31.070 D or E. And I don't know, I don't deserve 0:02:31.090 --> 0:02:33.590 to have God's dream because I so messed up so 0:02:33.730 --> 0:02:36.910 much of my past. I don't even know if I 0:02:36.970 --> 0:02:41.519 should dream. Well, you're dead wrong. But I'm glad you 0:02:41.540 --> 0:02:44.359 came this weekend. Because we're going to look at how 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:50.160 to live God's dream despite past poor decisions. Now the 0:02:50.260 --> 0:02:52.270 one reason we know that God's word is God's word, 0:02:52.310 --> 0:02:54.169 that the Bible is God's word, is it always tells 0:02:54.230 --> 0:02:56.330 us the truth. Even when we don't like to hear it. 0:02:56.770 --> 0:02:59.649 It tells us the truth. And the first verse there 0:02:59.690 --> 0:03:03.450 on your outline, James chapter three, verse two says this. 0:03:03.850 --> 0:03:10.160 We all stumble in many ways. Everybody agree with that verse? Yeah, 0:03:10.410 --> 0:03:14.060 we're all in the same boat. Okay, we all, I 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.960 looked up that word all, it means all. Okay, we 0:03:18.340 --> 0:03:22.540 all stumble, we mess up, we screw up, we make mistakes, 0:03:22.580 --> 0:03:26.320 we sin, we have problems, we hurt other people, we 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:27.060 hurt ourselves. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.190 We all stumble. in many, many ways. 0:03:30.230 --> 0:03:33.010 This is one of the most obvious truths of the universe. 0:03:33.970 --> 0:03:36.490 I mean, I've never met anybody in all my years 0:03:36.770 --> 0:03:40.110 who's claimed to be perfect, that they've never stumbled. No, no, 0:03:40.150 --> 0:03:43.070 we've all messed up in many ways. Just a couple 0:03:43.090 --> 0:03:46.670 other verses on the screen, Ecclesiastes 7.20. There's not a 0:03:46.750 --> 0:03:52.060 single person in all the earth who's always good. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:53.920 And never sins. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.780 That includes me, it includes you, it includes the Pope, 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.130 it includes everybody. There's not a person on earth who 0:04:01.430 --> 0:04:05.730 always does what's right, always does what's good, and never 0:04:05.790 --> 0:04:09.570 does what's wrong. The Bible says it like this in 0:04:09.620 --> 0:04:13.290 Romans 3, 23. Yeah, all of us, all of us. Again, 0:04:13.340 --> 0:04:16.580 there's that word. All of us have sinned. Everyone falls 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.979 short of God's glorious ideal. Now, another way to say 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.280 that verse is all of us have sinned and all 0:04:23.300 --> 0:04:29.260 of us fall short of God's original dream for our lives. Okay, 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.440 we've all fallen short of God's original dream for our lives. 0:04:33.700 --> 0:04:36.590 Does that mean that that dream is now on hold? No, 0:04:36.630 --> 0:04:39.030 it does not. It does not. 0:04:39.690 --> 0:04:42.450 We all fall short of the glorious idea. We don't 0:04:42.850 --> 0:04:46.270 hit perfection. We don't get what God has dreamed for us. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.100 But this is why Jesus came to earth. He said 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.460 this on the screen, Luke 19 10. I came, Jesus said, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:05:02.570 to save and restore what What's lost when we make 0:05:02.630 --> 0:05:09.370 poor choices? We lose our vision. We lose our dignity. 0:05:10.490 --> 0:05:15.490 We can lose our identity. We can lose our confidence. 0:05:16.370 --> 0:05:21.230 We can lose our joy. We can lose our peace 0:05:21.270 --> 0:05:27.010 of mind. We can lose our plans and dreams and hopes. 0:05:28.060 --> 0:05:32.040 A lot of stuff's lost from our poor decisions. But 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.140 the whole reason Jesus came to earth is that I 0:05:34.220 --> 0:05:40.070 came to recover and to restore that which is lost. 0:05:40.350 --> 0:05:44.430 And part of what Jesus came to restore is God's 0:05:44.710 --> 0:05:48.710 original dream for you. He hadn't moved on to plan 0:05:48.750 --> 0:05:52.279 B in your life. He still has plan A in 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.669 your life. He still has his original dream for why 0:05:55.750 --> 0:05:58.690 he made you regardless of what's happened in your life, 0:05:58.890 --> 0:06:01.810 what other people have done to you or what other 0:06:01.830 --> 0:06:04.450 people have done against you or what you have done 0:06:04.470 --> 0:06:06.909 to yourself or all the poor decisions that other people 0:06:07.010 --> 0:06:12.339 you made. How do you live God's dream despite past 0:06:12.700 --> 0:06:16.740 poor decisions? Well, I want us this weekend to look 0:06:16.750 --> 0:06:19.859 at the steps because the Bible gives us a very 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:24.360 clear pathway on how to get back on track, to 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.060 how to get back to God's original dream. Even if 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.760 you haven't been there for 50 years, how do you 0:06:31.820 --> 0:06:35.080 get back? It's never too late to get back on 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.040 track with the original plan God had for your life. 0:06:38.260 --> 0:06:42.700 He hasn't shelved it. It's still in force in your life. 0:06:43.900 --> 0:06:48.960 So what are the steps? to recovering God's original dream 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.880 for my life, even though I may have not even 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:57.140 known about it until now. Well, there are six steps. 0:06:57.779 --> 0:06:59.940 I want you to write these down. Here's number one. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.279 The first step in recovering God's dream for my life 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:10.060 is to honestly accept responsibility for my poor choices. 0:07:11.180 --> 0:07:11.900 That's where we start. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.880 I just go, I own up and say I honestly 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.680 accept the responsibility for all the dumb choices I've made 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.670 in life. Nobody forced you to make the choices that 0:07:22.710 --> 0:07:25.810 you made. You chose to make them. And I've chosen 0:07:25.830 --> 0:07:27.890 to make them. And the Bible says we've all stumbled 0:07:27.930 --> 0:07:30.770 in many ways. We've all made poor choices. Now what 0:07:30.810 --> 0:07:36.120 this means when I don't accuse others and I don't 0:07:36.340 --> 0:07:39.570 excuse myself, which is what we typically do, We accuse 0:07:39.610 --> 0:07:43.160 and excuse. Since Adam and Eve, God's people and everybody 0:07:43.180 --> 0:07:43.900 has had this. 0:07:43.820 --> 0:07:44.880 Accusing, excusing. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.860 We excuse ourselves, well, well, well, and we accuse others. 0:07:48.900 --> 0:07:51.220 We blame others. You've heard me say many times, you 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:56.660 spell blame, be lame. Every time you blame, you are 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:02.050 being lame. So don't excuse and accuse it. Now, there 0:08:02.060 --> 0:08:04.770 are many, many examples I could give in scripture on 0:08:05.670 --> 0:08:07.070 why we make poor choices. 0:08:07.570 --> 0:08:08.470 Let me just give you one. 0:08:09.270 --> 0:08:13.810 It is the time when Peter betrayed Jesus Christ the 0:08:13.930 --> 0:08:19.120 night before he goes to the cross. And Jesus even predicted, said, Peter, 0:08:19.140 --> 0:08:21.320 you're going to deny me three times before tomorrow morning. 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.420 And in Peter's night. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.500 Before Jesus goes to the cross betrayal, where he betrays 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:33.280 Jesus three different times, he makes three really poor choices. 0:08:33.850 --> 0:08:37.679 But he does it for four very common reasons. So 0:08:37.700 --> 0:08:38.380 I want you to see these. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:38.940 They're all in. 0:08:39.700 --> 0:08:41.699 Mark chapter 14 if you want to read about it. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.180 Mark chapter 14 is Jesus being betrayed by Peter. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.120 And there are four common causes. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.450 The first cause that causes us to make poor choices, 0:08:50.490 --> 0:08:52.070 write this down, is pride. 0:08:53.230 --> 0:08:57.989 Pride. Arrogance. Ego. Egotism. 0:08:58.370 --> 0:09:03.689 The Bible says that pride causes us to make dumb decisions. 0:09:04.610 --> 0:09:06.569 Now, We see this in the upper room. 0:09:06.790 --> 0:09:09.350 Jesus is in the upper room with his closest disciples, 0:09:09.370 --> 0:09:13.690 the original 12. They're taking the Lord's Supper together. Jesus says, 0:09:13.710 --> 0:09:16.339 at that moment, one of you is going to betray me. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.340 One guy pipes up saying, no way, Jose, that isn't 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:20.860 going to happen. 0:09:21.020 --> 0:09:21.960 Who is it? It's Peter. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.339 And in Mark chapter 14, verse 29, Peter in the 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:29.439 upper room says this, everybody else may stumble in their faith, 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:34.900 but I won't. He's being set up by the devil 0:09:34.940 --> 0:09:39.780 right here. Big, big target on his back. Nobody else 0:09:39.860 --> 0:09:42.600 makes this boast of the 12 guys, but Peter of 0:09:42.780 --> 0:09:45.780 all the guys goes, Lord, all these losers over here, 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.490 they may deny you. They may back out. They may 0:09:49.610 --> 0:09:52.069 wimp out on you. I know what you're about to 0:09:52.130 --> 0:09:54.790 go through. You're getting ready to be arrested and tortured 0:09:54.830 --> 0:09:57.290 and go to the cross, but no way am I 0:09:57.330 --> 0:10:00.540 going to back out. I'd die for you. He's setting 0:10:00.580 --> 0:10:03.100 himself up with pride. The Bible says, if any man 0:10:04.740 --> 0:10:07.100 thinks he's not going to fall, take heed because he 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.780 probably will. And the people who brag about their confidence 0:10:10.830 --> 0:10:12.689 the most are the ones who are going to most 0:10:12.750 --> 0:10:13.890 likely stumble. 0:10:14.690 --> 0:10:17.209 He says, everybody may stumble, but I won't. It's his pride. 0:10:17.590 --> 0:10:20.340 Proverbs 11 verse two on the screen says, pride leads 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:25.520 to disgrace, but humility leads to wisdom. Anytime I start 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.640 thinking I'm a hot shot, I'm dead in the water already. 0:10:29.540 --> 0:10:33.590 Anytime I start thinking I'm invincible, this can't happen to me, 0:10:34.270 --> 0:10:34.850 I'm already dead. 0:10:35.110 --> 0:10:38.730 Given the right situation, you and. 0:10:38.790 --> 0:10:43.579 I are capable of any sin, given the right situation. 0:10:44.260 --> 0:10:47.900 If you don't believe that, you're already in trouble. Because 0:10:47.950 --> 0:10:50.449 the Bible says the heart's deceitful. You lie to yourself, 0:10:50.750 --> 0:10:52.530 and I lie to myself more than we lie to 0:10:52.550 --> 0:10:56.870 anybody else. Pride causes us to make dumb decisions. Have 0:10:56.910 --> 0:11:00.250 you ever made a dumb decision out of pride? Don't 0:11:00.490 --> 0:11:02.449 give me your illustration, but I know you can think 0:11:02.470 --> 0:11:08.050 of one. Number two, second cause of poor decisions in life, fatigue. 0:11:09.670 --> 0:11:10.209 Fatigue. 0:11:10.610 --> 0:11:13.910 When you get tired, when you get worn out, when 0:11:13.950 --> 0:11:17.609 your resources are low, when you're stressed to the limit, 0:11:17.890 --> 0:11:21.290 when you're hanging on and you're about to go under, 0:11:22.210 --> 0:11:25.410 you're at the end of your rope, when you're fatigued, 0:11:26.210 --> 0:11:29.010 Vince Lombardi, the great coach said, fatigue makes cowards of 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:29.470 all of us. 0:11:30.700 --> 0:11:31.150 And it does. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.660 The more fatigued you are, the more fearful you will 0:11:34.700 --> 0:11:37.720 tend to become and the more controlling you will tend 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:42.170 to be. Now, Jesus, before he is arrested, He goes 0:11:42.250 --> 0:11:44.010 to this place, his favorite place to pray is called 0:11:44.030 --> 0:11:46.500 the Garden of Gethsemane. And while he's there, he takes 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.400 the 12 guys with him. And then he takes three 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.340 of them, Peter, James, and John, and goes, you guys 0:11:50.380 --> 0:11:52.100 come along with me. I just need you to be 0:11:52.140 --> 0:11:53.880 here with me while I pray. I don't need you 0:11:53.900 --> 0:11:55.780 to pray for me. I just need you to be 0:11:55.860 --> 0:11:59.080 with me. A ministry of presence. While I'm praying through 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.340 what I'm going to face tomorrow, being crucified and tortured. 0:12:04.020 --> 0:12:06.520 So Jesus is there praying his heart out. And the 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.750 three guys, Peter, James, and John, all fall asleep. And 0:12:10.780 --> 0:12:14.670 in Mark chapter 14, verse 37, Jesus wakes him up 0:12:14.750 --> 0:12:18.410 and goes, guys, could you not stay awake with me 0:12:18.670 --> 0:12:20.110 for just one hour? 0:12:21.740 --> 0:12:23.800 Just one hour. I'm just asking you to stay awake 0:12:23.820 --> 0:12:26.140 with me for one hour. What's happened? They're fatigued. 0:12:26.540 --> 0:12:29.500 When you get fatigued, you're going to make poor choices 0:12:29.540 --> 0:12:32.250 in your life. Never make a major decision when you're 0:12:32.290 --> 0:12:36.709 tired or depressed. Never make a major decision when you're 0:12:36.730 --> 0:12:40.230 tired or depressed, okay? Here's a third reason people make 0:12:40.309 --> 0:12:44.790 bad decisions. Fear of disapproval. When you start worrying about 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.800 what other people think, what will other people think if 0:12:47.940 --> 0:12:50.680 I make this decision? What will other people think if 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.320 I stand up for God? If I represent Christ at 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.459 my business site, at my job site, at my school? 0:12:58.020 --> 0:12:59.210 What will other people think? 0:13:00.150 --> 0:13:02.550 That's going to cause you to make a poor decision, 0:13:02.590 --> 0:13:06.640 the fear of of disapproval. After Jesus is arrested that night, 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.960 the Bible says this, Mark 14, verse 54, that Peter 0:13:11.100 --> 0:13:16.360 followed Jesus, how? At a distance, circle that, at a distance. 0:13:16.940 --> 0:13:20.430 He's following Jesus at a distance. Anytime you follow Jesus 0:13:20.510 --> 0:13:24.170 at a distance, you're gonna make dumb decisions. You gotta 0:13:24.210 --> 0:13:26.050 get as close to God as you can. You gotta 0:13:26.090 --> 0:13:28.670 get as close to Jesus as you can. Peter, who's 0:13:28.710 --> 0:13:30.770 been right by his side for three and a half years, 0:13:31.290 --> 0:13:33.510 Now he's scared to death and he's following Jesus. 0:13:33.530 --> 0:13:36.430 He's just following him from a distance. Are you doing that? 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:43.640 Are you following Jesus from a distance? Oh, yeah, I'm saved. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.800 I'm in the family of God. I'm a believer. I'm 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:51.980 a Christian. But you're following God as a distance. You're 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:52.480 going to make. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.420 Dumb decisions if you follow at a distance. Why do 0:13:55.450 --> 0:13:57.390 you follow at a distance? Why was Peter following. 0:13:57.230 --> 0:13:57.490 At a distance? 0:13:57.710 --> 0:13:59.849 Because he's afraid if I get too close to Jesus, 0:13:59.870 --> 0:14:04.530 they might crucify me too. They might torture me too. 0:14:04.590 --> 0:14:07.949 They might arrest me too. And he's concerned for his 0:14:08.110 --> 0:14:10.740 own safety. He's following at a distance because he's worried 0:14:10.750 --> 0:14:13.620 about what other people think. When you worry about what 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.880 other people think, you're always going to make the wrong decision. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.020 Here's the fourth reason we make poor decisions. 0:14:21.740 --> 0:14:29.330 Short-term pleasure. Short-term pleasure. Short-term pleasure. You know, you're getting 0:14:29.350 --> 0:14:30.530 ready to go to bed at night. 0:14:31.390 --> 0:14:34.570 And you know, really, probably eating a banana split isn't 0:14:34.610 --> 0:14:38.960 the best thing for me. But it would be so 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:40.220 good while I'm eating it. 0:14:41.980 --> 0:14:43.460 And so we go for. 0:14:43.380 --> 0:14:49.220 Short-term pleasure instead of long-term health. And this happens in 0:14:49.260 --> 0:14:53.990 a thousand different ways. When people overspend on their credit card, 0:14:54.660 --> 0:14:56.690 And they get deeper and deeper and deeper into debt. 0:14:56.710 --> 0:14:58.390 Why? They're doing short-term pleasure. 0:14:58.790 --> 0:15:00.630 I gotta have it. I gotta have it now. I 0:15:00.650 --> 0:15:02.740 gotta have it now even if I can't afford it. 0:15:03.630 --> 0:15:07.940 They're exchanging short-term pleasure for long-term pain. Now here's what 0:15:07.980 --> 0:15:11.540 you need to understand in life. Put up with pain now, 0:15:11.660 --> 0:15:15.840 you'll have pleasure later on in life. Enjoy pleasure now, 0:15:15.900 --> 0:15:18.000 you're gonna have pain later on in life to pay 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:18.700 back for all the. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.810 Things you paid for. It's one or the other. 0:15:22.290 --> 0:15:25.010 If you put up with discipline, and put up with 0:15:25.050 --> 0:15:29.320 some inconvenience now, and you save your money, you'll have 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.800 a lot more pleasure later on in life. But if 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.560 you spend it all now, short term pleasure, then you're 0:15:35.580 --> 0:15:37.360 gonna have the pain there. You're gonna have it one 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:42.210 way or the other. You get to choose. Short term pleasure. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.350 Mark 14 verse 54, it says, so then Peter sat 0:15:46.370 --> 0:15:49.390 down with the guards and warned himself at the fire. 0:15:50.430 --> 0:15:54.600 I imagine they were making s'mores. Anybody got a hot 0:15:54.660 --> 0:15:57.690 dog stick? Well, there's some weenies and have a hot dog, 0:15:57.750 --> 0:16:02.370 make s'mores. This is fun. Jesus is being arrested and tortured, 0:16:02.670 --> 0:16:06.630 and what's he doing? He's sitting with the enemy around 0:16:06.670 --> 0:16:07.210 the campfire. 0:16:07.250 --> 0:16:09.470 Why? It's convenient. It's comfortable. 0:16:10.110 --> 0:16:15.080 Anytime I place comfort before character, I'm gonna make poor decisions. 0:16:15.750 --> 0:16:22.640 Anytime I put short-term gain over long-term gain, I'm going 0:16:22.950 --> 0:16:24.190 to make poor decisions. 0:16:24.490 --> 0:16:27.609 Now, those are four common causes. There are a lot more. 0:16:27.830 --> 0:16:30.450 But we all make poor choices out of pride, out 0:16:30.490 --> 0:16:33.070 of fatigue, out of fear of disapproval, and out of 0:16:33.090 --> 0:16:33.850 short-term pleasure. 0:16:34.030 --> 0:16:35.360 Now, here's an interesting point. 0:16:37.300 --> 0:16:40.280 These four things that caused Peter to make dumb decisions, 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.240 Jesus wasn't surprised by any of them. In fact, Jesus 0:16:45.470 --> 0:16:48.190 told Peter in advance, this is what's going to happen. 0:16:49.690 --> 0:16:53.229 Jesus knew that Peter was gonna betray him before Peter did, 0:16:53.950 --> 0:16:54.600 because he's God. 0:16:55.740 --> 0:16:57.920 And he even tells him, and he says, Peter. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.860 Before the rooster crows three times tomorrow morning, you're gonna 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.900 deny me three times. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.510 And here's what he says. Look at the next verse. 0:17:08.050 --> 0:17:12.899 Jesus isn't surprised by our failures in life. Luke 22, 0:17:12.890 --> 0:17:13.889 verse 31, 32. 0:17:13.890 --> 0:17:18.629 Jesus said, Simon Peter, Satan has asked to test you. 0:17:19.869 --> 0:17:21.929 but I have prayed for you. 0:17:23.490 --> 0:17:26.340 Satan has asked to test you, but I have prayed 0:17:26.380 --> 0:17:27.560 for you, that your. 0:17:27.500 --> 0:17:29.700 Faith will not fail. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:34.620 So, when you have repented and recovered, this is after 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:39.210 you've denied me, I want you to strengthen the other disciples. 0:17:39.890 --> 0:17:42.490 Now this is a very powerful verse that teaches us 0:17:42.530 --> 0:17:45.869 a lot about your failures, okay? First, I want you 0:17:45.910 --> 0:17:49.660 to notice that Jesus knows every failure in your life 0:17:49.900 --> 0:17:55.330 before it happens. He's not going to be surprised. You're 0:17:55.350 --> 0:17:58.649 going to have failures this next year. You're going to 0:17:58.670 --> 0:18:01.149 make some bad decisions in the future. 0:18:01.450 --> 0:18:02.290 He already knows them. 0:18:03.170 --> 0:18:05.600 God knows past, present, future all at the same time. 0:18:05.619 --> 0:18:07.580 So it's not like, oh man, didn't see that one coming. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.720 Didn't know you were going to make that one. Before 0:18:10.780 --> 0:18:13.560 you were born, he knew every dumb decision you'd make 0:18:13.700 --> 0:18:17.689 and I would make. Jesus knows every failure before it happens. 0:18:18.050 --> 0:18:21.750 Then notice next, Jesus prays for you before it happens. 0:18:23.510 --> 0:18:26.100 The things that you're going to fail at this next week, 0:18:26.150 --> 0:18:28.780 this next month, this next year, the next 10 years, 0:18:29.220 --> 0:18:31.740 Jesus has already prayed for you. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:33.760 That's what he says. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.920 He's already prayed for the dumb mistakes you're going to make, 0:18:38.220 --> 0:18:40.770 the bad decisions you're going to choose. 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:43.990 He says, I know what's going to happen. 0:18:44.430 --> 0:18:47.310 And not only that, I've already prayed for you. I've 0:18:47.369 --> 0:18:51.760 already prayed for you. And then notice he says, when 0:18:51.820 --> 0:18:56.080 you have repented and recovered, he didn't say if. Jesus 0:18:56.340 --> 0:19:02.520 knows you're gonna recover. Jesus already knows you're going to 0:19:02.580 --> 0:19:07.880 recover from the sins and the mistakes and the bad 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:09.950 decisions that you're gonna make in the future. 0:19:10.130 --> 0:19:10.730 He already knows. 0:19:11.530 --> 0:19:13.570 He knows what they are, but he also knows, he's 0:19:13.609 --> 0:19:16.620 prayed for you, And so he knows you're going to recover. 0:19:16.700 --> 0:19:20.340 He says, when you have recovered and repented. And then 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.420 he says, I want you to strengthen the other disciples. 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.340 Here's the fourth thing. Jesus wants you to help others 0:19:26.260 --> 0:19:27.760 with what you learn from your mistakes. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.609 Whoa. Now we're getting somewhere. We're in this series. 0:19:33.650 --> 0:19:36.030 We're going to take six weeks to talk about God's 0:19:36.450 --> 0:19:39.090 dream for your life. Part of God's dream for your 0:19:39.170 --> 0:19:42.389 life is to take the lessons of your mistakes and. 0:19:43.990 --> 0:19:45.070 And help somebody else. 0:19:47.820 --> 0:19:50.860 The same four things he said to Peter he says 0:19:50.900 --> 0:19:53.180 to you, I know every mistake you're gonna make in life. 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:56.960 I've already prayed for every mistake you're gonna make in life. 0:19:58.020 --> 0:20:00.419 I know you're gonna come back to me after that 0:20:00.460 --> 0:20:03.760 mistake in life. And I want you to help other 0:20:03.820 --> 0:20:05.040 people when you've come back. 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:07.440 That's good news. 0:20:08.820 --> 0:20:12.850 Because it means ultimately I can't destroy my own life 0:20:13.890 --> 0:20:14.369 if I've. 0:20:14.230 --> 0:20:17.990 Given it to God. Because he is going to work 0:20:18.050 --> 0:20:19.010 it all out. 0:20:19.650 --> 0:20:23.030 So the first step in recovering God's original dream is 0:20:23.050 --> 0:20:27.750 just to humbly or honestly accept responsibility for my poor choices. 0:20:28.170 --> 0:20:29.570 Yeah, that was a dumb one and that was a 0:20:29.609 --> 0:20:30.889 dumb one and that was a dumb one and that 0:20:30.930 --> 0:20:33.460 was a very hurtful one. And that was an evil 0:20:33.540 --> 0:20:34.320 choice that I made. 0:20:34.340 --> 0:20:37.080 And I made it out of pride and I made 0:20:37.100 --> 0:20:38.460 it out of fatigue and I may have made it 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.800 out of Fear of what other people think. I made 0:20:41.820 --> 0:20:48.380 it out of choosing short-term pleasure over long-term character. Here's 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:54.370 the second step. I humbly ask for God's mercy and forgiveness. Now, 0:20:54.450 --> 0:20:56.109 I don't have to explain this a whole lot because 0:20:56.390 --> 0:21:00.190 it just means humbly ask. If you don't know what 0:21:00.210 --> 0:21:05.290 to pray, I would highly recommend you learn and read 0:21:05.310 --> 0:21:05.770 Psalm 51. 0:21:05.770 --> 0:21:08.030 Psalm 51. 0:21:08.030 --> 0:21:12.409 Psalm 51 is David's prayer of confession after he'd had 0:21:12.430 --> 0:21:14.570 a guy murdered so he could steal his wife. 0:21:16.470 --> 0:21:17.990 Pretty significant sin. 0:21:18.850 --> 0:21:22.530 Psalm 51, verses one to three, verse six and verse 10. 0:21:22.530 --> 0:21:27.659 David said, have mercy on me, O God, because of 0:21:27.700 --> 0:21:33.760 your unfailing love and your great compassion, please wipe out 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:35.260 the stain of all my wrongdoings. 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:41.449 Wash away all my guilt. Cleanse me from my sins. 0:21:42.790 --> 0:21:46.910 For I am haunted by my failures and I can't 0:21:47.030 --> 0:21:52.189 forget the evil things I've done. I know you love 0:21:52.270 --> 0:21:56.850 complete honesty from my heart. Help me to see what's 0:21:56.869 --> 0:22:03.280 deep inside me. Then, God, create a new pure heart 0:22:04.150 --> 0:22:09.610 in me. And renew my spirit with the right desires. 0:22:09.830 --> 0:22:11.300 I want to do the right thing. I want to 0:22:11.340 --> 0:22:19.000 do what's right. And restore the joy of your salvation. Then, 0:22:19.100 --> 0:22:25.530 he says, I'll help bring others back to you too. 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:33.280 What a great message from Pastor Rick today. There's something 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:36.780 I always take away from his message. Here's Rick to 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:39.460 tell you how you can help support this ministry. 0:22:39.900 --> 0:22:42.760 Jesus told his disciples that they should live their lives 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:46.040 according to five specific purposes. He said, you've got to 0:22:46.140 --> 0:22:48.639 love God with all your heart. That's worship. 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:51.940 And love your neighbor as yourself. That's ministry. 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:54.940 That's called the great commandment. And then Jesus said, go 0:22:54.980 --> 0:22:58.650 make disciples. That's evangelism. Baptize them into the family of God. 0:22:58.690 --> 0:23:01.929 That's fellowship. sign of fellowship. And then he said, teach them, 0:23:01.950 --> 0:23:06.150 obey everything I've taught you. That's discipleship. And we call 0:23:06.190 --> 0:23:10.470 that the great commission. We believe at Daily Hope that 0:23:10.510 --> 0:23:13.950 a great commitment to the great commandment and the great 0:23:13.990 --> 0:23:18.500