1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jordan Victoria. 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast and thanks 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 2: for supporting the ministry. 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: We believe you're going to have an. 5 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 2: Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled. 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: God bless you today and enjoy the message. So God 7 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: bless you. 8 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 2: Said joy to come into your homes and we love you. 9 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 2: We come with good news each week. We know God 10 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 2: rewards the people that seek after him and that's you, 11 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 2: or you wouldn't have tuned in to day, or you 12 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 2: guys wouldn't have come out. 13 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: So we just bless you today. 14 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 2: If you're ever in our area, please come by and 15 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 2: be a part of one of our services. I promise 16 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: you it will make you feel right at home. But 17 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 2: thanks for tuning in today. I like to get started 18 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: each week with something kind of funny. In about this time. 19 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: Last year, Eustonians had a terrible time evacuating the city 20 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 2: because of Hurricane Rita. Somebody sent me the new and 21 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 2: improved Houston Area evacuation Plan. So in case we have 22 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 2: a hurricane, here's what you got to remember. Hispanics are 23 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 2: to take iten west to San Antonio. Agents are to 24 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 2: take I ten east to Louisiana. Yankees are to take 25 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 2: I forty five north to Oklahoma, and Aggies are to 26 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 2: take the six' ten. 27 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: Loop all, right say it like you mean. 28 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 2: It this is My. BIBLE i am what it SAYS i. 29 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 2: AM i have what it SAYS i. HAVE i can 30 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 2: do what it SAYS i can. Do TODAY i will 31 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: be taught the word Of. GOD i boldly confess my 32 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,199 Speaker 2: mind is, alert my heart is. RECEPTIVE i will never 33 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 2: be the. Same In jesus', Name god bless. YOU i 34 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: want to talk to you today about not living under. 35 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 2: Condemnation too many people go around feeling bad about, themselves 36 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 2: and one reason is they're always listening to the wrong. 37 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: Voices the enemy is called the accuser of The. Brethren 38 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 2: there's nothing he would love anymore than for us to 39 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: live our lives guilty and. Condemned he will bring accusations against, us. 40 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: Telling us what we didn't do or what we should have. 41 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 2: Done he'll remind us of all of our past mistakes and. 42 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 2: Failures you lost your temper last. 43 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: Week you should have spent more time with your. 44 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: Family you came to, church but you were. Late you, 45 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 2: gave but you didn't give. Enough there's this accusing voice 46 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: that comes to us all many people just swallow, it 47 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 2: hook line and, sinker go around guilty and, condemned feeling 48 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: wrong about. Themselves just when they're about to get over, 49 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: it another accusation comes to. Mind and if we make 50 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 2: the mistake of receiving these, accusations we'll go through the 51 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 2: day without the, joy without the, confidence not expecting anything. 52 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 2: Good AND i know people they've made, mistakes they've gone through. 53 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 2: Failures but instead of Receiving god's, mercy instead of letting 54 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 2: it go and pressing, forward that voice tells them you blew, 55 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 2: it you messed. Up they live guilty and. Condemned i've 56 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 2: seen people that have faults and. Weaknesses we all, do 57 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 2: but they're so hard on. Themselves instead of believing that they're, 58 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 2: growing instead of believing that they're, improving that voice tells, 59 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 2: them you can't do anything, right you'll. 60 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: Never break this, Habit you're just a. 61 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 2: Failure they end up living negative and critical toward. 62 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: Themselves and it's. 63 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 2: Because they receive all the accusations that come to. Mind 64 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 2: when they wake up in the, morning a voice is 65 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 2: telling them what they did wrong yesterday and how they'll 66 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 2: probably do something wrong. Today but if we're going to 67 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 2: live in, victory we've got to learn to put our 68 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: foot down and, say, No i'm not gonna dwell on 69 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 2: that junk. ANYMORE i may not be, perfect BUT i 70 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: Know i'm. GROWING i may have made, mistakes BUT i 71 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 2: KNOW i am. Forgiven i've Received god's. Mercy and sure 72 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 2: there are things that we all wish we wouldn't, do 73 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 2: but we don't have to beat ourselves over. IT i 74 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 2: may not have a perfect, performance BUT i know, this 75 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 2: my heart is, right And god is a god of. 76 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 2: Hearts as long as you're doing your, best as long 77 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: as you have a desire to do what's, right you 78 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 2: can be Assured god is pleased with. You and the 79 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 2: fact is we all have. Weaknesses there are times we 80 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 2: all do things that we know in our hearts we shouldn't, 81 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 2: do and it's normal to want to get down on, 82 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 2: ourselves live a little. Defeated after, all we don't feel 83 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 2: like we deserve to be, happy and we have to 84 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 2: prove that we're really. Sorry but, no we've got to 85 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 2: learn to just Receive god's. Forgiveness we've better learn to 86 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 2: receive his. Mercy don't allow those condemning voices to play 87 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 2: over and over in your. Mind all that's going to 88 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 2: do is keep your negative towards. Yourself and if you 89 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 2: have a bad attitude towards, yourself it's. 90 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: Going to hinder you in every area of your. 91 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 2: Life and some of you have fallen into that trap 92 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 2: today of believing all the the negative things towards, yourself 93 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 2: receiving all these, accusations things like you're not as spiritual 94 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 2: as you should, be you didn't work hard enough last, 95 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 2: week Or god can't bless you because of your. 96 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: Past, now those are all. Lies that's the. 97 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 2: Accuser at work doing his. Best don't make the mistake 98 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 2: of dwelling on, that even in smaller. THINGS i know 99 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 2: sometimes WHEN i walk off this, platform the first thought 100 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 2: that comes to my mind Was, joel that just wasn't 101 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 2: any good. Today nobody got anything out of. That you 102 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 2: practically put them to. Sleep, Listen i've learned to shake 103 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 2: that junk. OFF i just turn it, around say, NO 104 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 2: i believe it was. GOOD i did my, best AND 105 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 2: i know, that AND i know that at least one 106 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 2: person really got something out of. 107 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: IT i. DID i thought it was. 108 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 2: Good, see as long as we're doing our, best we 109 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 2: don't have to live. Condemned even when we make, mistakes 110 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 2: even when we found there's a time to, repent but 111 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 2: there's also a time to shake it off and press. 112 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 2: Forward don't live your life in. Regrets don't go around, saying, 113 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 2: WELL i should have done, this should have gone back to, College, 114 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 2: JOEL i should have spent more time with my. FAMILY 115 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 2: i should have taken better care of. Myself no quick condemning. 116 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 2: Yourself that may be, true but it doesn't do you 117 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 2: any good to go around putting yourself. Down let the 118 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 2: past be the. Past you cannot change any of, that 119 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 2: but you can change. Today and if we make the 120 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 2: mistake of living guilty today because of something that happened, 121 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 2: yesterday we're not going to have the strength we need 122 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 2: to live this day in. 123 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: Victory so important to live in the. NOW i like 124 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 1: what the Apostle paul. 125 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 2: Said he, said the THINGS i KNOW i should, DO i, 126 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 2: don't and the THINGS i KNOW i shouldn't, DO i 127 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 2: end up. 128 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: Doing he even struggled in this. 129 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 2: Area and here he wrote more than half of The 130 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 2: New testament that tells Me god is not displeased with 131 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 2: me just BECAUSE i don't perform. 132 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: Perfectly one hundred percent of the TIME i WISH i. 133 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 2: DID i don't do wrong on, purpose but we all have. 134 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 2: Weaknesses one THING i have learned is to not beat 135 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 2: myself up over. 136 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: IT i don't live. 137 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 2: CONDEMNED i don't listen to the accusing. VOICE i Know 138 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 2: god is still working on. ME i know That i'm, 139 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 2: GROWING i know That i'm coming up, higher AND i 140 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 2: have made up my Mind i'm not gonna live. Condemned 141 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 2: in the, process that old accusing voice will come to 142 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 2: you and tell, you hey, man you lost your temper 143 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 2: last week in. Traffic our attitude should be that's, Okay i'm. 144 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: Growing, well you said some things yesterday you shouldn't. Have, 145 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: yes that's. 146 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 2: TRUE i WISH i wouldn't, have BUT i. Repented NOW 147 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 2: i Know i'm. Forgiving i'm gonna do better next. 148 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: Time, well what. 149 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 2: About that failure you went through two years ago in your, 150 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 2: relationship in your. 151 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: Business, no that's in the. 152 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 2: Past i've Received god's. Mercy this is a new. Day 153 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 2: i'm not looking. Back i'm looking. Forward when we have 154 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 2: this kind of, attitude we take away all the. 155 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: Power of the. 156 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 2: Accuser he can't control us when we don't believe his. 157 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 2: Lies some of you, today you need to shake off 158 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 2: that old guilty. Feeling you need to quit listening to 159 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 2: the voice that's telling You god's not pleased with. You, 160 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 2: man you've got too many, Weaknesses you've made too many. Mistakes, 161 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 2: no as long as you're pressing, forward you can know 162 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 2: with Confidence god is pleased with. You when that old 163 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 2: accusing voice comes telling you that you've blown, it you 164 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 2: don't have much of a. 165 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: Future god couldn't bless. You you're so. Undisciplined don't you 166 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: dare just sit back and agree with. That don't You dare? Think, 167 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: yeah that's, Right. Joel you don't know my. 168 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 2: Life you don't know What i've. Done, no you need 169 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 2: to start talking back to the. 170 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: Accuser you need to. 171 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 2: Rise up in your authority and, say, hey wait a, 172 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 2: MINUTE i am the righteousness Of god has made me. 173 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 2: WORTHY i may have made, mistakes BUT i KNOW i am. 174 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 2: FORGIVEN i KNOW i am the apple Of god's. EYE 175 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 2: i Know god has. 176 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: Great things in store for. Me the scripture tells us 177 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: to do. 178 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 2: This it says In ephesians to put on the breastplate 179 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 2: Of god's. Approval that's one of the most important pieces 180 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 2: of our. Armor think about what the breastplate. Covers it 181 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: covers our. Heart in other, words the way we think about. 182 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 2: Ourselves if you're going around with that old gnawing feeling 183 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 2: on the, inside, thinking, MAN i don't have much of a. 184 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: Future i've blown it too many. Times god couldn't be 185 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: pleased with. ME i can tell you. This you're listening 186 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: to the wrong. Voice that's the. 187 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 2: Accuser you need to start getting up every morning and 188 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 2: saying with. Confidence god is pleased with. Me god approves. 189 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:55,959 Speaker 1: Me god accepts me just the WAY i. Am. See 190 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: you are not a surprise To. 191 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 2: God god is not up in the heaven scratch in 192 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 2: his head, thinking, man, Alive what DID i get myself. 193 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 2: INTO i never dreamed they'd have that many. Problems never 194 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 2: dreamed he'd have that many. Weaknesses, No god made. Us 195 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 2: he knows everything about, you and he still approves. 196 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: You he is still pleased with. You you may have. 197 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 2: Faults but you are still the apple Of god's. Eye 198 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 2: you may not be where you should, be but at 199 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 2: least you're not where you used to. 200 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:24,199 Speaker 1: Be quit condemning. 201 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: Yourself the scripture tells us In, philippians he that began 202 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 2: a good work in you will continue to perform it 203 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 2: until it's perfectly. Complete god is still working on. Us 204 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 2: why don't you take the pressure off. Yourself why don't 205 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 2: you give yourself the right to have some weaknesses and 206 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 2: to not perform perfectly one hundred percent of the time 207 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 2: none of us. 208 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: Do we all make. 209 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 2: Mistakes and when you, do don't sit around guilty for 210 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 2: two or three. Weeks immediately go To god and, Say, 211 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 2: God i'm, SORRY i, Repent help me to do better next. 212 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: Time and, then here's the. 213 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 2: Key this is where we miss it most. Often then 214 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 2: you have to Receive god's. Forgiveness you have to receive his. 215 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 2: MERCY i know people that Ask god to forgive them 216 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 2: every day for something they did three years. 217 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: Ago they have asked for forgiveness five hundred times for 218 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: the same. 219 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 2: Thing they don't Realize god forgave them the very first 220 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 2: time they. Ask the problem is they didn't receive the, 221 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 2: forgiveness they didn't Receive god's, mercy and they just keep 222 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 2: listening to the accusing. Voices you blew. It god can't bless. 223 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 2: You you know what you did back in two thousand and. Three, 224 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 2: no why don't you quit receiving the accusations and start 225 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 2: Receiving god's. 226 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: Mercy why don't you start Receiving god's? Goodness why don't 227 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: you get. 228 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 2: Up every morning and, Say, father thank you that your 229 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: mercy endures. Forever, NOW i may have made mistakes in the, 230 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 2: past BUT i know Nothing i've done is too much 231 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 2: for your. Mercy May i've even made mistakes, yesterday BUT 232 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 2: i know, This your mercy is fresh and new every single. 233 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 2: Morning SO i just receive it by faith. Today some of, 234 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 2: you if you would get a hold of this, truth 235 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 2: it would break bondages that have held you back for 236 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 2: years and. Years quit listening to the accusing. Voices quit 237 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,839 Speaker 2: going around feeling wrong about. Yourself if you're living your life, 238 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,319 Speaker 2: condemned that's telling me you're. 239 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: Not Receiving god's. 240 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 2: MERCY a lot of times we kind of, think, Well, 241 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 2: JOEL i don't feel LIKE i deserve. IT i don't 242 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 2: feel Like i'm. Worthy but, listen that's what grace is all. 243 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 2: About none of us deserve. 244 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: It it's a free. 245 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 2: Gift and we're not worthy in. Ourselves but the good 246 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 2: news Is god has made us. 247 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 1: Worthy you may have made. 248 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 2: Mistakes you may have, faults but you are not a 249 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 2: weak worm of the. Dust you are a child of 250 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: The Most High, God get back up, again put your shoulders, 251 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 2: back make up your. Mind you're not gonna lie listen 252 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 2: to the accusing voice. Anymore you're not going to live 253 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 2: your life guilty and. Condemned, Well, JOEL i got a 254 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 2: lot of hang, ups got a lot of, addictions a lot. 255 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 1: Of things to. Overcome who. 256 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 2: Doesn't we all have areas we need to improve. In 257 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 2: But god is not focused on what's wrong with. You 258 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 2: he's focused on what's right with. You he's not looking 259 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 2: at all your faults and. Weaknesses he's looking at how 260 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 2: far you've. Come he's looking at how much you're. Growing 261 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,959 Speaker 2: some of you have fallen into this trap and believed 262 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 2: these lies for years and. Years but you need to 263 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 2: put your foot down today and, say you know, what that's. 264 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 2: It i'm not living condemned. Anymore i'm not going through 265 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 2: life feeling guilty and. UNWORTHY i KNOW i am the 266 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:46,319 Speaker 2: righteousness Of god and there is no Mistake i've made 267 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 2: that's too much for What christ did on the. Cross i've, 268 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 2: Repented i've asked for. Forgiveness Now i'm going to take 269 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 2: it one step further and start Receiving god's. 270 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: Mercy if you want to really be. Bold start believing 271 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: for more Of god's favor in your. 272 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 2: Life start believing that your best days are not behind, 273 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 2: you but that they. 274 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: Are in front of. 275 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 2: YOU i think about as a, parent we don't focus 276 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 2: on what our children do. Wrong our child can strike 277 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,560 Speaker 2: out a thousand times at The Little league, field but 278 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:18,959 Speaker 2: we'll go around bragging about the one hit they got 279 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 2: all year. LONG i know even with our Son, jonathan 280 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 2: he's ten years. 281 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: Old somebody asked me about. 282 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 2: HIM i immediately think about all the THINGS i love about. 283 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 2: Him i'll tell you he's, smart he's, talented he's, funny 284 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 2: he's got a quick sense of. Wit the other, DAY 285 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 2: i mentioned in my sermon that most people only use 286 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 2: ten percent of their. Mind he leaned over To victoria and, Said, 287 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 2: Mom i'm above. 288 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: AVERAGE i use eleven. PERCENT i. 289 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 2: Thought he's got his dead sense of, humor his dad's athletic, 290 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 2: ability his dad's good. Looks i'm still trying to figure 291 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: out what his mom has given. Him But. 292 00:14:58,800 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: Jonathan's not. 293 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 2: Perfect he makes. Mistakes but as a, FATHER i help him. 294 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 2: Overcome it's my joy to teach, him to train, him 295 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 2: to help him come up. Higher that's the Way god 296 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 2: is with. Us why don't you quit being so down on. 297 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 2: Yourself what If jonathan came in one day and, Said, 298 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 2: DADDY i just don't feel LIKE i deserve your blessings. 299 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 2: ANYMORE i don't feel Like i'm. Worthy you, know back 300 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 2: WHEN i was three years, OLD i told that. Lie 301 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 2: back WHEN i was, FOUR i bit my baby. 302 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: Sister now if he said something like, THAT i would 303 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: check his. 304 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 2: Temperature that boy knows how to. Receive he knows he's, 305 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 2: loved he knows we want to bless. 306 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: Him i'll never. 307 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 2: FORGET a couple of years, ago we bought him a, 308 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 2: guitar and we got home and got it all set, 309 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 2: up and a few minutes later he came over and. 310 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: Gave me a big. 311 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 2: Hug he, Said, daddy thank you so much for this new. 312 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 2: Guitar and by the, way when do you think we 313 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 2: could get my new. 314 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: KEYBOARD i, mean he's not, shy but, really it would 315 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: do us all good to have this same kind of. 316 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 2: Boldness the scripture tells us here In hebrews four, sixteen 317 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 2: let us come boldly to the throne of. Grace why 318 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 2: to receive mercy for our. Failures don't go To god 319 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 2: like a weak worm of the. Dust Oh, GOD i 320 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 2: blew it, again lost my, temper yelled at my. KIDS 321 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 2: i KNOW i don't deserve. Anything, now if you want 322 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 2: to receive. 323 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: From, god you got to come to him with. 324 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 2: Boldness you got to get rid of the poor old 325 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 2: me attitude and go to him Like jonathan did. 326 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 3: Us. 327 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: GOD i know you love, Me, GOD i know you 328 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: want to bless. Me i've made. 329 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 2: Mistakes i'm asking for, forgiveness And i'm receiving your. Mercy 330 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,479 Speaker 2: and then go out expecting good. Things go out Expecting 331 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 2: god's blessings in. 332 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: FAVOR i don't know about, you But. 333 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 2: I'm bold enough to believe That god is smiling down 334 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 2: on me right. Now i'm bold enough to believe THAT 335 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 2: i am a friend Of Almighty. God i've already accepted 336 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 2: the fact THAT i don't perform perfectly all the, time 337 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 2: BUT i know my heart is. RIGHT i, believe to 338 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 2: the best of my, Ability i'm. 339 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: Doing what Pleases. 340 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 2: Him that MEANS i don't have to listen to the. 341 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 2: ACCUSER i don't have to live my life condemned WHEN 342 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 2: i make. 343 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: Mistakes ALL i have. 344 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 2: To do is go To, god ask for, forgiveness then 345 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 2: receive his mercy and keep pressing forward in. Life AND 346 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 2: i want you too to experience this. Freedom it comes 347 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 2: when we get rid of the. Accuser some of you, 348 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 2: today you're constantly beaten. 349 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 1: DOWN a lot of. 350 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 2: It is because of what you've been through in. Life 351 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 2: sometimes it wasn't even your. Fault somebody mistreated, you somebody rejected. 352 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 2: You but the enemy loves to turn that around and 353 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 2: tell you that there's something wrong with. 354 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: You he loves to twist. It i've seen it with 355 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: people that grew up. 356 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 2: Mistreated they weren't even old enough to know what was going. 357 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: On but the enemy tells, them you brought this on, 358 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: yourself it's your. 359 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 2: Fault or especially in relationships that don't work, out he'll 360 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 2: always tell you you're to. Blame you're not good, enough you're 361 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: not attractive, enough you didn't try hard. Enough, no have 362 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 2: you ever thought about that other person may have had some. 363 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 2: Problems quit receiving all the, accusations quite allowing the condemning 364 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 2: voices to take. Root keep your, guilty keep you from 365 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 2: your new. BEGINNING i, MEAN i know people that are 366 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 2: practically addicted to. 367 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: Guilt they don't know what it's like to feel good about. 368 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 2: Themselves to believe they're, forgiven to believe that they have 369 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 2: a bright future in. Store it's like they got all 370 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 2: these skeletons in their. Closets, joel you don't know What 371 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 2: i've done in my. Past you don't know What i've been. 372 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 2: Through they internalize all the, guilt the, shame the. Blame 373 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 2: but you need to understand when you came To, christ 374 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 2: when you received his, Forgiveness. 375 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: God cleaned out all of your. 376 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 2: Clausets he doesn't remember your, mistakes your, sins your. Failures 377 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,439 Speaker 2: my question, is why don't you quit remembering? It why 378 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 2: don't you quit listening to the voice of the. ACCUSER 379 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 2: i loved the Story jesus told about the prodigal. Son 380 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 2: this young man made a lot of. Mistakes he told 381 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 2: his dad that he wanted his share of the, inheritance his. 382 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 2: Money he left home and went out and lived a wild, 383 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:17,400 Speaker 2: life partied all the, time and eventually those poor choices 384 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 2: caught up to. 385 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: Him the money ran. 386 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 2: Out he didn't have anything to, eat any place to, 387 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 2: stay and he ended up working in a hog pen 388 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 2: feeding the. Hogs he got so, low so, desperate he 389 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 2: had to eat the hog food just to stay. 390 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: ALIVE i mean he had hit rock. 391 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 2: Bottom but one, day sitting in that filth and, shame 392 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 2: he said to, HIMSELF i will arise and go back 393 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 2: to my father's best decision that he ever. Made when 394 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 2: you make, mistakes when you go through failures and, disappointments 395 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 2: don't sit around in self. Pity don't go month after 396 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 2: month condemning, yourself rejecting. Yourself the first step to victory 397 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 2: is to get back up again and go back to your. 398 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 1: Fathers this young man headed. 399 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 2: Home i'm sure in the back of his mind he, 400 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 2: Thought i'm just wasting my. Time my father's never gonna 401 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 2: receive me. Back he's gonna be so put out with. 402 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 2: Me i've made so many terrible. CHOICES i can imagine 403 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 2: he tried to talk himself out of it three or 404 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 2: four times along the, way telling, Himself i'm such a. 405 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 2: Failure my father will never forgive. Me but the scripture 406 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 2: says when the father saw him a long way, off 407 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 2: that tells me the father must have been looking for. 408 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 2: Him the father must have gotten up early every morning 409 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 2: and said to, himself maybe today will be. 410 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 1: The day my son comes back home, morning, noon and. 411 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,199 Speaker 2: Night the father was on the lookout when he saw his. 412 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 2: Son he took off running toward, him couldn't wait to see. 413 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: Him this is the only picture Of god running in The. 414 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 2: Bible What's god running to one of the, disciples one 415 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 2: of the. Apostles god's not running to, you a famous religious. 416 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,360 Speaker 2: Leader he's running to a young man that needs. Mercy 417 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 2: he's running to a person that's made, mistakes a person that. 418 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 2: Fell when the father got, there he embraced his, Son 419 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 2: he hugged. HIM i can imagine he spun him around 420 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 2: a couple of. 421 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,640 Speaker 1: Times he was so happy to see. 422 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 2: Him but the, son he just hung his head in. 423 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 2: Shame the accuser was working overtime on. Him he, Said, 424 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 2: Dad i've really blown, it made some terrible, decisions AND 425 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,719 Speaker 2: i KNOW i don't deserve any of, this but maybe 426 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 2: you can just take me back as one of your hired. 427 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 2: Servants i'll work out in the fields for. You the 428 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 2: father would have nothing to do with, That he, said 429 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 2: what are you talking? 430 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: About are you? 431 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 2: Kidding you're my, son and some of you today you 432 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 2: think That god could never forgive. You you've made too many, 433 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 2: mistakes blown it too many. 434 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: Times but let me assure you nothing that. 435 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 2: You've done is too much for the mercy Of. God 436 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 2: And god is not looking to condemn. You he's not 437 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,959 Speaker 2: looking to chew you out like this young. Man he 438 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 2: stands before you with his arms held. Open, Wife he's 439 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 2: looking way down the, road and the moment you take 440 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 2: one step toward, Him god will come running towards. 441 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: You why don't you come back home? 442 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 2: Today some of you have been away for a long, 443 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 2: time living guilty and, condemned feeling Like god could never 444 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 2: make anything out of your, life feeling like he could 445 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 2: never use. 446 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: You but, no today can be a new. 447 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 2: Beginning god has mercy for any mistake that we've ever. 448 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: Made The father said to one of his, servants. 449 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 2: Go get the best robe and put it on my. 450 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 2: Son one translation, says put the robe of honor on. 451 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 1: Him and if you could just. 452 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 2: Receive that, today you may have made, mistakes gone through. 453 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,959 Speaker 2: Setbacks But god doesn't just want to restore. You he 454 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 2: doesn't just want to give you a new. Beginning he 455 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 2: wants to put the robe of honor on. You that's 456 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,160 Speaker 2: just the way Our god. Is in other, words even 457 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 2: when we make, mistakes even when we bring the trouble on, 458 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 2: Ourselves god is so good he will not hold that against, 459 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 2: Us he will still receive us back and make something 460 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 2: great out of our. 461 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: Lives the only. 462 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 2: Way this is gonna, happen, though is if we have 463 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 2: the right. Attitude we cannot go around, weak, defeated feeling unworthy. 464 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:23,959 Speaker 1: And expect to Have god's. 465 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 2: Best and you may not be where you should be in, 466 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,400 Speaker 2: life but don't sit around in self, pity don't sit 467 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 2: around guilty and. 468 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: Condemned you've got. 469 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 2: To do like this young man and, say you know, 470 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,679 Speaker 2: What i'm gonna arise and go back to my. Father 471 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 2: in other, Words i'm done with living. Guilty i'm done 472 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 2: with living. Condemned i'm gonna get up out of this 473 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,439 Speaker 2: and start Receiving god's. Mercy and let me tell, you 474 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: this will take, faith because everything in you will, say hey, 475 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 2: man you're just a. Hypocrite you know what you've, done 476 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 2: you know the mistakes you've. Made you really Think god's 477 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 2: gonna bless? You you need to shake that junk, off 478 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 2: put your shoulders back and. 479 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: SAY i don't think. SO i. Know SO i Know 480 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: god is a Good. 481 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 2: GOD i know his mercy is bigger than any Mistake i've. 482 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: Made So i'm gonna start receiving his. Mercy and expecting 483 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 2: good things in my. LIFE i want you to have 484 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,479 Speaker 2: this new, attitude free from, guilt free from, condemnation and 485 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 2: most of, all free from the accusing. Voice how long 486 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 2: has it been lying to you telling you that you're washed? 487 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,159 Speaker 1: Up you've made too many. Mistakes those are all. Lies 488 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: god still has a great plan for your. 489 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 2: Life you may have Missed PLAN, a but the good 490 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 2: news Is god has a. 491 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: PLAN, b a PLAN, C A PLAN. 492 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 2: D why don't you've come back To him? Today why 493 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 2: don't you shake off the condemnation. 494 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: And start living like a child of The Most High. 495 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 2: God my parents told how when my Brother paul was 496 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 2: just a small, boy before any of us other kids were, 497 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 2: around they would Put paul in bed at, night and 498 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 2: then they'd go get in their own, bed and their 499 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 2: room was just a few feet down the, hall real close, 500 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 2: there and my parents every night would say good Night, 501 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 2: paul And paul would say good night, mother good Night. 502 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 1: Daddy but one, night for some, Reason paul was a little. 503 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 2: Bit, afraid and after they had said their good, nights 504 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 2: a few minutes, Later paul, Said, daddy are you still in? 505 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: There and my father, says, Yes, Paul i'm still in. 506 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 2: Here Then paul, Said, daddy is your face turned toward? 507 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 2: Me somehow that Made paul feel more, secure made him 508 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 2: feel better knowing that my father's face was turned toward. 509 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 1: Him AND i want to tell you, Today god's face 510 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: is turned towards. You and the good news Is god's 511 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: face will always be turned towards. 512 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 2: You doesn't matter what you've, done doesn't matter how many 513 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 2: mistakes you've. Made some of you used to be excited 514 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 2: about your, life used to Serve god with your whole, 515 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 2: heart helping others come into. Church but along the way 516 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,400 Speaker 2: you went through, failures, disappointment, setbacks and now that old 517 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 2: accusing voice has been keeping you, down, discouraged, guilty. Condemned 518 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 2: you need to know today That god is running towards. 519 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: You he is not a, mean Condemning. 520 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 2: God he is a, loving, merciful Forgiving god still got 521 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 2: a great plan for your. 522 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: Life and you know. 523 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 2: What god can restore anything that's been. Stolen you may 524 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 2: have failed a thousand, times but the good news Is 525 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:40,360 Speaker 2: god has still. 526 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: Not run out of. 527 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 2: Mercy why don't you receive it? Today it all starts. 528 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:45,479 Speaker 1: By changing your. 529 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 2: Attitude you got to quit being negative towards. Yourself quit 530 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 2: receiving all the accusations and start Receiving god's. Mercy don't 531 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 2: go around feeling wrong about. Yourself freedom comes when you 532 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 2: get rid of the. Accuser And i'm asked you today 533 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 2: to stop dwelling on the lives about your past and 534 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 2: on the lives about what you're. Not if you'll quit 535 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 2: listening to these condemning voices and instead start putting on 536 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 2: the breastplate Of god's, approval knowing That god is pleased with, 537 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 2: you knowing that you're, forgiven knowing That he's got a 538 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 2: bright future in. 539 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: Store when you do, that. 540 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 2: You take away all the power of the, accuser and 541 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 2: you too will experience a new sense of. FREEDOM i 542 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,199 Speaker 2: believe you'll live the life of Victory god has in. 543 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 1: Store, amen if you receive? It can you say? Amen? 544 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:35,439 Speaker 2: Today, well we never like to close our broadcast without 545 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 2: giving you an opportunity to Make jesus the lord of your. 546 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 2: Life would you pray with? Me just Say, Lord, JESUS 547 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 2: i repent of my. Sins come into my. 548 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: HEART i make you My lord and. 549 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 2: Savior, friends if you prayed that simple, prayer we believe 550 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 2: you got born. Again get in a Good bible based, 551 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 2: church Keep god first. 552 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: Place he's going to take your places that you've. 553 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 4: Never sometimes the circumstances of life can be overwhelmingly. Negative 554 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 4: what should we do when we experience these kinds of 555 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 4: negative reports and. 556 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 2: Realities our life is like a. Container it can only 557 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 2: hold so. Much when we allow negative things, in like, worry, 558 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 2: guilt and. Unforgiveness that's taking up space for the good 559 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 2: things that belong to. You that's WHY i wrote my, 560 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 2: Book Empty out The. Negative i'll show you how to 561 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 2: get rid of what's limiting you so you can live a, 562 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,120 Speaker 2: victorious fulfilled. 563 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 5: Life when you make room for, joy peace and, Faith 564 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 5: god will feel you afresh and. 565 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 4: Anews as our way of saying thank you for your 566 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 4: gift of any amount to the, ministry this, Month joel 567 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 4: And victoria would like to send you this powerful, Book 568 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,239 Speaker 4: empty out the, Negative empty out, fear and replace it with. 569 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 2: Faith my, doctor he, SAID i went in there. 570 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: And there is no cancer or in your. 571 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 4: Body empty out a hurt filled, childhood and replace it with. 572 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 4: Confidence SO i. 573 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 5: Took What joel said AND i physically replace them WITH 574 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 5: i am, STRONG i am. 575 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,959 Speaker 1: WORTHY i started saying those over and over and. 576 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 4: Over empty out broken relationships and find renewed love in. 577 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 3: A world that's just so full of so much noise 578 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 3: and negativity and, hatred and just to come and have 579 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 3: so much encouragement filled into. You you, know it's Something 580 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 3: i've never had in my whole. 581 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 2: Life are you holding onto things that are weighing you? 582 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 2: Down it's time to empty that out so you can 583 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 2: live a, positive faith filled. 584 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 5: Line joel AND i pray for you every. Day we're 585 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 5: believing For god's very best for you and your. Family 586 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 5: you know we appreciate your prayers and your. Support your 587 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 5: generosity is impacting so many. 588 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 2: Lives remember you can watch the services online Every sunday, 589 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 2: morning download our daily, podcast listen On Serious, exam watch 590 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 2: the New Joel Ostein network streaming on. Television but until 591 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 2: we see you next, week by The, lord bless you 592 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 2: and keep. 593 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 4: You be sure to request your copy Of Empty out 594 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 4: The negative. Today Visit joelostein dot com or call eight 595 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 4: eight eight five six Seven joel