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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joeln Victoria. Thanks for listening to our

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Speaker 1: podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you enjoy

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Speaker 1: today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share

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Speaker 1: it with a friend. Reappreciate you and pray for God's

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Speaker 1: very best in your life. Will God bless you. It's

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Speaker 1: a joy to come into your homes. And if you're

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Speaker 1: ever in our area, please stop buying. Be a part

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Speaker 1: of one of our services. I'll promise you we'll make

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Speaker 1: you feel right at home. I like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny, and I heard about this elderly couple that

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Speaker 1: had been married for over sixty years, never had an argument,

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Speaker 1: never had a crossword. They were at a church function.

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Speaker 1: Someone asked them the secret of their success. The man

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Speaker 1: told how he always treated his wife with respect, and

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Speaker 1: how he took her on trips around the world. He said,

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Speaker 1: in fact, for our twenty fifth wedding anniversary, I took

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Speaker 1: her to Beijing, China. Everyone politely applauded. Someone said, what'd

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Speaker 1: you do for your fiftieth wedding anniversary? He said, I

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Speaker 1: went back and picked her up. Say it like you

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Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says.

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Speaker 1: I am. I have what it says I have. I

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Speaker 1: can do what it says I can do. Today I

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Speaker 1: will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about don't be

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Speaker 1: defined by your mistakes. We can all look back and

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Speaker 1: see times where we gave in to temptation. We let

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Speaker 1: our guard down and compromised. We were sloppy and didn't

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Speaker 1: handle the situation the way we should. It's easy to

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Speaker 1: be defined by one moment in life, by divorce, by business.

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Speaker 1: It didn't make it by how we raised our children.

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Speaker 1: The enemy is called the accuser. He would love to

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Speaker 1: convince you to let that one mistake, that one season,

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Speaker 1: to cause you to live down on yourself, not be

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Speaker 1: passionate about your dreams. But that mistake didn't stop God's plan.

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Speaker 1: You may have failed, but you are not a failure.

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Speaker 1: That was a moment in your life, that was one season.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't determine your future. Don't let that mistake define

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Speaker 1: who you are. If you go around wearing negative labels divorced, addicted, failed, compromised.

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Speaker 1: It will keep you from the fullness of what God

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Speaker 1: has in store. If you're a baseball fan, you may

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Speaker 1: remember the name Bill Buckner. He was a star player

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Speaker 1: for the Boston Red Sox for many years. He had

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Speaker 1: more hits than Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams. One season

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Speaker 1: in all of baseball. He was a great teammate, a

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Speaker 1: and the other team scored and tied the game. That

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Speaker 1: opponent went on to win the World Series. The fans

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Speaker 1: it down. He became known as the player that missed

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Speaker 1: the ground ball. Despite his illustrious career, despite all of

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Speaker 1: thirty three years after that game. The first line in

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Speaker 1: hitter who became known for making one of the most

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Speaker 1: by your mistakes. They'll try to stick labels on you.

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Speaker 1: Reminds you of all the times you failed, the times

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Speaker 1: people will choose to remember your failures more than your victories,

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Speaker 1: like with Bill Buckner. Despite all the good you do,

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Speaker 1: honoring God. But when you make one mistake, when you

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Speaker 1: go through one bad season, don't be surprised if people

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Speaker 1: don't try to convince you to live condemned like you're

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Speaker 1: washed up. Well, God's not gonna bless you. You missed

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Speaker 1: the ground ball he went through, the divorce, you gave

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Speaker 1: people label you. They don't determine your destiny. They cannot

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Speaker 1: stop what God has ordained for your life. The only

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Speaker 1: that will keep you from your destiny. And when someone

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Speaker 1: working for the accuser. The enemy uses people. You can't

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Speaker 1: take them right off. I am not defined by my mistakes.

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Speaker 1: My failures are in my yesterday, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm not bringing them into today. God's mercy is new

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Speaker 1: every morning. Receive that mercy and move forward. What about

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Speaker 1: times I've blown it? That's over and done. Life is

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Speaker 1: too short to let what happened in the past to

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Speaker 1: After Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead, he

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Speaker 1: excited to know that they had seen the Lord. Thomas

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Speaker 1: his hands, I'm not going to believe. Eight days later,

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Speaker 1: that one time. But he's become known as doubting Thomas.

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Speaker 1: People have stuck their labels on him. You would think

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Speaker 1: always questioning his faith. But this was just eight days

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Speaker 1: of his life. It's easy to judge people by one mistake.

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Speaker 1: If Thomas would have worn that label doubter failure, he

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Speaker 1: It's believed that he took the message of Christ further

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Speaker 1: than any disciple I've been to India many times with

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Speaker 1: my father. It seems like every other believer is named Thomas.

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Speaker 1: He made a great impact with his life. We call

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Speaker 1: him doubting Thomas. You know what God calls him, believing Thomas.

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Speaker 1: Forgiven Thomas, anointed Thomas, favored Thomas. In the same way,

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Speaker 1: God is not judging you by one mistake, by one

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Speaker 1: you wearing labels that people have stuck on you? Why

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Speaker 1: haven't missed your chance. If you'll remove the labels that

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Speaker 1: have to stop you. The enemy would love for you

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Speaker 1: Do yourself a favor. Take off those labels and put

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Speaker 1: on what God says about you, forgiven, redeem, blessed, qualified, victorious.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we make mistakes with good intentions. Bill Buckner wasn't

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Speaker 1: You may have done your best, but the relationship didn't

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Speaker 1: make it. You gave it your all, but the business

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Speaker 1: didn't succeed. Like Thomas, your heart is right, you love God,

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Speaker 1: now it sets you back. This is what happened to

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Speaker 1: Moses as a young man. God gave him the dream

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Speaker 1: He saw a Hebrew slave being mistreated by an Egyptian supervisor.

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Speaker 1: wasn't being defiant. He just made a bad choice. He

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Speaker 1: life is irrevocable. He doesn't change his mind. Moses had

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Speaker 1: nearly passed out. God, are you sure you mean after

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Speaker 1: scripture says Moses became the most humble man in all

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Speaker 1: you'll keep the right attitude, God will use your failures

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Speaker 1: best days. No, get ready, Your time is coming. God

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Speaker 1: is about to do a new thing. That relationship that

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Speaker 1: has someone else coming, someone better than you've imagined. That

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Speaker 1: That is a season, not a lifetime. Don't let it

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Speaker 1: become permanent. Take off that label that says addicted. Put

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Speaker 1: on some new labels, free, whole, restored. My father was

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Speaker 1: work out. He had to resign from his church. Denominational

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Speaker 1: leaders told him that he had never pastor again. He

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Speaker 1: didn't know any better. He put their labels on him failure,

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Speaker 1: sometimes life doesn't turn out the way we thought. That's

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Speaker 1: when the enemy goes to work over time trying to

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Speaker 1: convince you to let that mistake define who you are.

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Speaker 1: My father took the bait. He lived condemned, ashamed, embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: So he got out of the ministry and started selling insurance.

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Speaker 1: One day he learned what I'm telling you, that our

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Speaker 1: failures don't cancel God's plan. God has already taken into

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Speaker 1: account every mistake we would ever make. My father took

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