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But thanks 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.280 so much for tuning in today, and thank you again 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.920 for coming out. I like to start with something funny, 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.160 and I heard about this man named Bubba. He lived 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.720 way out in the country and had this stray dog 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:21.799 that kept showing. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:22.320 Up at his house. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.400 His wife said, Bubba, you got to put him in 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.480 the truck and take him down to the woods and 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:27.120 drop him off. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.040 That's where he lives. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.320 So Bubba took him a mile down the road, dropped 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.639 him off. When he came back home, the dog was 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.480 walking up the driveway practically beat him back. He did 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.320 it again, same thing. Dog came right back. So I said, Bubba, 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.400 you got to take him way out, drive him around 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.640 in circles, get him all mixed up. Bubba put him 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.640 in the truck, drove him an hour away. Chris crossed 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.520 these country roads that he had never seen before. Two 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.560 hours later, Bubba called from the truck ask his wife. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.080 Did the dog happen to show back up? She said, yep, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.280 he's walking up the driveway. He said, do me a favor. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:02:59.960 Put him on the line. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:01.200 I need directions. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.480 Hold up your bible, say it like you mean it. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.320 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.880 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.480 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.200 taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess. My mind 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.400 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:25.200 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.960 to talk to you today about one more time. When 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.880 God laid out the plan for your life, it wasn't 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.920 dependent on you never making a mistake. He didn't say, 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:40.160 here's my best plan. Now. If you perform perfectly, if 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.440 you never make a wrong turn, never lose your temper, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.360 never give into temptation, then I'll bless you. I'll guide you, 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.320 I'll protect you. No, God knew every wrong turn that 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.240 you would make. Jesus told Peter, you'll deny me three 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.440 times before the rooster crows tonight. He already knew that 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.280 Peter wouldn't be there when he needed him the most. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.800 Nothing you've done is a surprise to God. The good 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:11.400 news is God has already lined up mercy for every mistake. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:17.480 Romans five says, where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:23.080 In other words, God's mercy will always supersede any mistake. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:28.120 If sin abounds at a level five, mercy will show 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.640 up at level fifty. If sin abounds at level fifty, 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.200 mercy will show up at level five hundred. Looking at 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:36.920 some of you, I better take it one more step. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.480 If sin abounds at level five hundred, mercy shows up 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.040 at five thousand. Well, Joel, I've made a lot of mistakes. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.440 I got away from God, started running with the wrong crowd. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.320 I was unfaithful in a relationship. I wasn't honest in 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:52.640 some business dealings. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.960 I blew it big time. Let me help you out. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:01.720 God has bigger time mercy. It's supersedes every failure, every weakness, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.680 every mistake. I was talking to a man last week. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.640 He was so down on himself, telling me all the 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.200 things that he had done wrong, on and on. He 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.760 ended by saying, I blew God's plan for my life. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.960 I'll tell you what I told him. You're not that powerful. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.159 You think your mistake can stop what the creator of 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.040 the universe has destined you to do. You think your weaknesses, 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:30.240 your shortcomings, your failures, can undo what the Most High 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.880 God ordained for you before you were formed in your 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:38.400 mother's womb. The scripture says God's calling on your life 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:45.520 is irrevocable. That means God never disqualifies us. If that mistake, 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.880 that weakness, was going to keep you from your destiny, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.640 God would have never permitted it. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:52.800 It may have taken you a. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.160 Different route than you expected, but God knows what he's doing. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.599 He can still get you to your final destination. Psalm 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.880 thirty seven says the steps of a good man are 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.719 ordered by the Lord. Though he falls, he will not 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:13.200 be destroyed, for the Lord upholds him with his hand. Notice, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.680 even though God is directing our steps, there will be. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:17.920 Times that we fall. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.800 We don't perform perfectly, we lose our temper, we make 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.720 a poor choice. God promises that is not the end. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.599 That failure is not the end. The addiction is not 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.320 the end. The divorce is not the end. Why God 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.960 is holding you in the palm of his hand. He's 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.480 not going to let you go now if you fall down. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:44.200 The key is don't stay down, don't walla around in guilt. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.839 Don't go through life feeling wrong on the inside, thinking 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.880 that you've got to pay God back for your mistakes. No, 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.400 the price has already been paid two thousand years ago. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.520 Learn to receive God's mercy. Start believing that He's going 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.440 to be good to you one more time. Second Chronicles, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.279 chapter thirty three. There was a king named Manassa. He 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:12.440 was the most wicked king that ever ruled Israel. He 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:17.040 rebuilt the pagan shrines that his father Hezekiah had torn 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.520 down in the temple that Solomon built, where David said, 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.640 only Jehovah will be worshiped. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.480 Here, he made statues. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.720 Of the God bel put it up, and they all 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.120 bowed down and worshiped. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.840 For fifty five years, he did all kinds of evil. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:39.080 One day the Syrian army overtook the city. They captured 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.560 King Manassa. He was headed to Babylon, the most powerful 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.840 empire of that day. Looked like his life was over looked, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.320 like he was getting what he deserved. After fifty five 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.880 years of not honoring God, fifty five years of doing 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:55.560 nothing but. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.160 Wrong, what did he do? 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:02.480 Verse twelve says, while he was in great distress, he 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.840 called out humbly to the Lord, his God, the God 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:12.240 of his ancestors. Surely God would say, Manassah, you fair 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.920 weathered friend. You don't even acknowledge me for fifty five years, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.559 and now you want my help. You've been the most 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:23.200 wicked ruler. You're in the Guinness Book of World Wreckers. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.520 I don't think so. It's payback time. You're on your own. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:27.040 No. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:31.680 The next verse says when he prayed, God heard him 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.360 and was moved by his request. 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:35.959 It goes on to. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:40.280 Tell how God delivered him from the Babylonians. He returned 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.280 to his land to rule his people a changed man. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.920 From then on he only worshiped Jehovah. That's the mercy 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.360 of our God. We think I haven't lived the right 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.240 kind of life. God's not going to help me. I've 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.000 got this addiction. I blew a relationship, I didn't raise 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.640 my children right. No, you're not any worse than Manassa. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.560 You're not listed in the scripture as the most wicked person. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.360 Why don't you be bold and say God, I've made 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.880 a mess of things. I haven't performed perfectly. But God, 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.640 I know where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.040 I know you're full of mercy. God. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.120 I'm asking you to help me. But Joel, God's not 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.760 ever gonna help me, not gonna listen to me. He 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:30.280 listened to Manassa fifty five years of doing nothing but wrong, 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.960 and he was bold enough to ask God turned it 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.840 around and brought him. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.760 Out of the mess that he made. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.719 Have you ever asked God to bring you out of 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.360 the problem that you brought on yourself? Do you have 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.200 the boldness to ask God to bless you in spite 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.840 of your mistakes, to show you favor in spite of 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:57.160 your failings. Every voice will tell you you don't deserve it, 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.400 it's not right. God's not gonna listen to you. When 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.760 you start shaking off guilt and condemnation, the enemy goes 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:05.760 into overtime. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:07.800 He's called the accuser. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:12.720 He'll remind you of every mistake, every weakness. He wants 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.680 you to go around feeling unworthy, carrying a heavy load 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:22.120 of guilt, thinking about how undeserving you are. Hebrews four 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:23.840 sixteen says just the opposite. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.440 Come boldly to the throne of grace. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:31.440 Why to receive mercy and find grace to help in 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.120 time of need. If you're going to reach your highest potential, 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.760 you gott to shake off the guilt, shake off the 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:43.880 accusing voices, and come boldly to the throne. Dare to say, God, 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.839 I'm asking for your blessing, your goodness, your mercy in 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:53.280 spite of my mistakes. This is what Sampson did. An 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.199 angel appeared to his mother and told her she was 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:57.240 going to have a baby. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:58.760 He would be a deliverer. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.760 The plan for Sampson's life had already been laid out. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.480 He grew up and had this supernatural strength. At one point, 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.520 these thousands of Philistines had surrounded him. He had no armor, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.880 no weapons. All he had was the jawbone of a donkey. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.240 He picked it up and defeated those thousands of men. 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:24.720 Another place, he was trapped inside this city. The walls 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.080 were high, the gates were locked. Looked like he would 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.600 be caught. But in the middle of the night he 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.400 went to the city gates, these big iron structures, and 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.040 he ripped them out of the ground, put them on 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.920 his shoulders, and carried them to the top of a hill. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:45.280 He was uncontainable. But Sampson started running with the wrong crowd. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.760 He started compromising, making poor choices, doing things that he 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.560 knew he shouldn't do. He let his guard down, and 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.480 he told the Philistines the secret of his strength. They 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.600 cut his hair. He lost all of his power. They 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.120 not only captured him, but they gouged out his eyes, 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.119 bound him in chains. He ended up in prison, grinding 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:14.080 at the mill. Here, this once powerful man, destined to 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:19.840 do great things, had God's blessings in favor, is now blind, chained, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.920 living like an animal. The fact is it was his 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:28.400 own fault. He brought the trouble on himself. Seemed like 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.960 he was done, like God was finished with him. But 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.520 one day the Philistines were having a big celebration, a 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.000 big party, and there were several thousand people assembled in. 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:40.160 This large room. 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.320 They decided to bring Samson out to show him off, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.800 sort of like their trophy. As he stood there on display, 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.840 people would go by and laugh, mock ridicule him. You 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:57.480 would think that Samson would feel condemned, washed up, thinking hey, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.760 I'm getting what I deserve. I made some really bad 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:05.320 sh choices. No, Sampson understood this principle. While they were 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:10.880 mocking him, Under his breath, he said, Sovereign God, please 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:16.040 strengthen me one more time. Imagine the nerve that took 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:21.200 the boldness. After all the mistakes he made, he had 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.400 the audacity to believe number one that God would hear him, 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.920 and number two that God would give him the strength 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.679 the favor, the blessing that he had before he had 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:33.720 made those mistakes. 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:35.240 God could have. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.080 Said, Sampson, you had your chance. You blew it again 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.520 and again and again. No, when you come to the 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:46.040 throne with boldness and you not only receive God's mercy, 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.800 but you take it one step further and ask God 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:54.080 to bless you in spite of your mistakes. Ask God 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.480 to help you clean up a mess that you made. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.040 Ask him to show you favor. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.319 Even though you don't just irvid, God doesn't say too bad, No, 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.920 I'm not gonna do it. The scripture says, supernatural strength 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.680 came on Samson one more time. While those people were 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.040 making fun of him, he asked a young boy to 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.559 place his hands on the columns that he was chained to. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:20.760 Just so happened that these. 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.360 Two big pillars were holding up the building. He felt 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.440 that supernatural strength surge into him one more time. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.600 He pushed those columns. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:34.240 The building came tumbling down. He defeated more enemies in 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:38.560 his death than he did his entire lifetime. What if 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.400 he hadn't had the boldness to say, God strengthened me 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.920 one more time, the story wouldn't have ended like it did. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.200 Maybe you've made mistakes, you're not where you want to 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.800 be in life. And you could say, like Samson, Hey, 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.680 a lot of it's my own fault. I was undisciplined, 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.400 ran with the wrong crowd, did things that I knew 0:14:58.440 --> 0:14:59.400 I wasn't supposed to do. 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.240 That's here's my question. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.280 Will you have the boldness to shake off the guilt 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:10.000 and shake off the accusing voices and say, God, bless 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.480 me one more time. God restore me one more time. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.480 God show me favor one more time. God deliver me 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:22.160 one more time. Here's the beauty about our God. If 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.160 you'll have the boldness to ask, God will do it 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.520 one more time. Then he'll do it one more time. 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.160 Then he'll do it one more time. God never runs 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:37.080 out of the one more times. But too often we 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.800 believe God forgives us. We know he's merciful, but we 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.840 don't think that God will bless us, not after what 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.960 we've done. He'll forgive me, but he won't restore my marriage. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.240 He'll be merciful to me, but he won't still give 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:52.000 me that promotion. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.040 That's what he did for Samson. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.880 He not only showed him mercy, but he strengthened him 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:02.360 one more time. Some of you are sitting on the sidelines, 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:07.640 focused on your mistakes, living guilty, letting the accuser keep 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.440 telling you that you're all washed up. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:10.520 No, God is. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.920 Saying I've got a one more time for you, and 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.840 if you will go boldly to the throne, not condemned, 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.040 not thinking, oh, I've blown it so many times. No, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.880 go to God and say God, I don't feel worthy, 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.520 but I come to you with boldness, not because of 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.560 how good I am, but because of how good you are. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:32.360 God. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:36.080 You said were sin abounds, grace does much more abound. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.600 So God, I'm asking you to bless me one more time, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.920 strengthened me one more time. God, bring me out one 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.720 more time. God did it for Sampson, He'll do it 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.920 for you. But when we make mistakes, the last thing 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:52.520 we want to do is go to God. 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:53.520 Joel. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.040 God is not going to help me. He saw me 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.400 make the poor choice. I knew I wasn't supposed to 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.600 be running with this crowd. I did it anyway. Now 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.280 here's the key. God doesn't judge you by one mistake. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.679 He doesn't judge you by your last mistakes. God is 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:15.520 not holding your faults against you. Think about Thomas. He 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.960 was one of the disciples. There were reports that Jesus 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.240 had risen from the dead, but Thomas didn't believe. The 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.439 other disciples tried to convince him, but Thomas said, no, guys, 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.560 I'm not gonna believe unless I see the nail prince 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.040 in Jesus' hands with my own eyes. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:34.600 He was still filled with doubt. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.359 Later, the disciples were in a room together and Jesus appeared. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.280 He came walking through the door. They were all amazed 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:44.200 and taken back. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:49.200 What's interesting is Jesus headed straight toward Thomas. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.840 He didn't go to the other believers. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.960 Jesus bypassed all the people with faith, and he went 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.920 to the one man that had doubt. He reached out 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.240 his arms and said, us, feel the nail prints in 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:06.919 my hands, look at the scars on my feet. Thomas said, Lord, 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:11.480 I believe Jesus could have thought Thomas, fine, I told 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.760 you I'm all rise from the dead. If you don't believe, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.440 that's your own problem. No, God doesn't judge you by 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:22.480 one mistake, by one weakness, by one bad season, by 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.640 one felled marriage, by one addiction. God is not holding 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.480 your faults against you. That voice that's always telling you 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.520 what you're not, making you condemned, trying to get you 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.600 to live guilty, saying God wouldn't have anything. 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.800 To do with you. That's the accuser. 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.439 You know why. He wants you to feel condemned, go 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.679 around feeling bad about yourself, so that you won't go 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:51.080 boldly to the throne. He knows God always has a 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.160 one more time. He knows God will help you out 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.800 of a mess that you may What am I saying? 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:01.359 As long as you believe, there's always one more time 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.919 for you. Fifty five years Manassa lived off course, but 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.679 God had a one more time. God didn't hold that 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.959 against him. Thomas traveled with Jesus. In other words, he 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.879 was in church every Sunday. He still blew it. But 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.840 God had a one more time for Thomas. We call 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.359 him doubting Thomas. We put labels on people. 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:23.080 You know what. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:28.000 God calls him believing Thomas the enemy. He will try 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:34.840 to label you with everything that you've done wrong, doubter, filled, divorced, addicted, 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:41.400 poor choices. God labels you forgiven, redeemed, restored, overcomer, more 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.720 than a conqueror, victorious. 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.560 When you make mistakes in life. 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.840 When you fall, when you have moments of doubt, don't 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.399 let the accuser keep you from going to your father 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:59.480 for mercy. God is not judging you, he's not holding 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:03.960 a grub, he's not finding fault with you. Your job 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.280 is to go boldly to the throne and say, God, 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.040 I need your mercy. I'm here knowing that you're a 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.120 good God. I'm here believing that You've got a one 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.960 more time for me. Jesus talked about how we have 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:22.159 to have faith as a little child. When children make mistakes, 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.560 Have you noticed they don't sit around guilty for six months. 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.679 They don't go around condemned thinking that they've missed their destiny. 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:34.119 They let it go and move forward just like them. 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.840 Don't go around dwelling on your mistakes and all the 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.359 times that you've failed. Let it go and move forward 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:45.200 with your life. You're not a failure unless you quit. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:46.600 You're a learner. 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.720 When our children are learning to walk, if they take 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.960 two or three steps together in a row, we clap 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.760 and cheer. We'll call our family. He's walking. He's walking. 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.439 What we don't tell them is the seven thousand times 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:06.160 he's fallen before in the same way, God is not 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.600 focused on all the times that you've fallen. As long 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:13.040 as you get back up and keep moving forward, God 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:17.399 is pleased with you. You don't have to have a 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:22.160 perfect performance. If your heart is perfect toward God, if 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.359 you've got a desire to please him, your performance will 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.520 catch up. Don't go around beating yourself up over past mistakes. 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:31.600 Learn to receive God's mercy. 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.320 When our children were small, I love taking them to 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:38.320 the toy store. When I tell Jonathan, four or five 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:40.960 years old, let's go to the store, do you know 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.920 he never once said, no, Dad, I don't think I'm worthy. 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.199 I don't think I deserve it. I made fun of 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:53.200 my sister yesterday. No children know how to receive. As adults, 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:59.960 we start accumulating all this negative baggage, mistakes, failures, missed opportunity. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.399 These we live under a heavy load of guilt regrets. 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.040 The accuser keeps saying, you had your chance, you blew it. 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:10.480 Just settle where you are now. You gotta shake that off. 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:13.560 God is saying I've got a one more time for you, 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:16.600 one more time. I'm gonna bless you one more time. 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.200 I'm gonna restore you one more time. I'm gonna show 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:23.920 you my favor. Now, will you receive this mercy? Will 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.760 you shake off the guilt and get a new vision 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:34.760 for your life? God is saying, your heavenly Father is saying, let's. 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:35.399 Go to the store. 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:38.880 I want to be good to you. I have mercy, 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:42.640 I have forgiveness, I have new beginnings, I have restoration. 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:46.120 Now are you gonna be like a child and say, God, 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:49.520