An Expected End

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The pastor said, sir, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.680 what would you do if you inherited ten million dollars? Men, 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.239 said Pastor, the first thing I do is give half 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.079 of it to the church. At that point, the pastor 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:43.840 fell over dead. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.560 Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.639 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.400 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:54.360 what it says. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:54.639 I can do. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.840 Today I will be taught the word of God. I 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.960 boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.960 I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.440 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.840 an expected end. I was with a well known actor 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.920 a few years ago, and he not only stars in 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.000 major movies, he writes them. We walked into this room 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.640 that had a large glass wall overlooking his property. There 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.120 were all these five y seven index cards stuck up 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.160 on the wall, probably one hundred. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:31.600 And fifty of them. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.240 He explained how he was writing a movie, and those 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.760 were all the different scenes. He studies them, moves things around, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.520 adds a scene here, takes away a scene there. He told, 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.720 to have a good movie, you need ups and downs, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:51.200 conflicts and victories, good characters and bad, twists and turns. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.880 And while it was very fascinating, it was very confusing. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.680 It looks so complicated. I said to him, how do 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.120 you even know where to start. He said, ah, that's 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.800 the easy part. You always start with your final scene. 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.880 You have to decide how you want the movie to end. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.240 Once you establish the ending, then you work backwards and 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.520 fill in all the details, he said. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.000 In fact, in a lot. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:24.280 Of movies, you don't shoot insequential orders. Sometimes you shoot 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.760 the final scene first and then you shoot the rest 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.159 of the movie. This is what God has done for 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.880 each one of us. The scripture says, God. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.120 Declares the end from the beginning. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.680 When God planned out your life, he started with your 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:42.960 final scene. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.640 He started with where he wants you to end up. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:47.320 Then he worked backwards. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:52.840 Jeremiah said, God's plans for you are for good and 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:58.680 not harm, to give you an expected end. Your end 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:03.680 has already been established. Your final scene has already been 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.560 shot the good news. You don't end in defeat, end 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.479 in failure, end in disappointment. You end in victory. You 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.360 end is more than a conquer You end fulfilling your purpose. 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:20.600 When you understand your end has been established. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.440 You won't go through life discourage because of a disappointment, 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.919 bitter because of a loss, frustrated because a. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.360 Dream hasn't come to pass. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.560 You'll stay in peace knowing that in the end it's 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.040 all going to work out to your advantage. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:37.360 But here's the key. 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.560 Like any good movie, there will be twist in turns. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.880 You think, I know I'm supposed to be going this way. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.360 Why am I going the opposite direction? 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.200 My goal is over here? 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.479 Why am I headed the wrong way? There will be 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:57.040 scenes that on their own don't make sense. If you 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.760 stop right there, the divorce, the sickness, the loss would 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.560 look like didn't work for your good looks like it 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:05.359 got the best of you. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.599 What you don't realize is that is not your final scene. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.080 As long as you're breathing, your movie is still going. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.520 You may be in a difficult scene right now, something 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:23.800 you don't understand. Negative medical report, set back in your finances. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.200 You have to remind yourself. That is not how your 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.680 story ends. You have an expected end. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:36.200 The creator of the universe, the most High God, has 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:40.000 planned your days for good, not harm. If you'll keep 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.200 moving forward, at some point you'll come into another twist, 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.159 but this time a good break, a promotion, a healing. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.479 God knows how to weave it all together. Your end 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:57.000 has already been established. We see this principle in the 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:01.880 life of Joseph. God destined him to become a great leader, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.680 to rule a nation, to help the Israelites during a 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.039 time of famine. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:08.240 That was his end. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:13.080 It had already been established. And Joseph started off well. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.520 It's a young man. He was his father's favorite child, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.320 went around wearing that coat of many colors, the coat 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:25.360 that represented favor. But at seventeen years of age, Joseph's 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.280 life had an unusual twist. 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:29.600 His brothers were jealous. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.920 They sold him into slavery. He could have become discouraged 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.080 and thought, must not have heard God write he showed 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.000 me a dream that I'd rule a nation, But it 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.920 sure didn't happen. Now Joseph understood this principle. He knew 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.600 that was just one sin. He knew his end had 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:52.000 already been established, so he kept being his best. He 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.840 was lied about, falsely accused. They put him in prison, 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.840 another unusual twist. It looked like he. 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.840 Was moving away from his destiny. This is the real 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:04.960 test of life. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.520 Will you stay in faith when you're doing the right 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.360 thing but the wrong thing is happening. Will you continue 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.280 being your best even when you're not getting the credit. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.360 Will you stay passionate even though the door closed, you 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.760 didn't get the promotion, you think you're moving the wrong way. 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:28.400 This is where Joseph excelled in prison. He didn't fall apart. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.840 He kept doing the right thing. Thirteen years after he 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.240 was sold into slavery, he interpreted a dream for the pharaoh. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.960 Pharaoh was so impressed that he brought him out of 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.800 prison and put him in charge of the whole nation. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.360 He saw his dream come to pass, He saw the 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.960 expected end. If Joseph were standing here today, he would 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.840 tell you, don't get discouraged by the detours, by the 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.679 twist of life, by the things you don't understand. They 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:05.120 are all necessary scenes in your movie. By themselves, they 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.640 may not make sense, but when God brings it all together, 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.920 you two will come out fulfilling. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.360 Your purpose seeing what God has promised. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:18.640 But this is where many people get frustrated lose their passion, Joel. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.440 If God was good, why did I have the bad break? 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.760 Why did I go through the loss? Why didn't my 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:28.040 relationship make it? We may never understand why, but I 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:32.240 can tell you this. God wouldn't have allowed it if 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.840 it wasn't going to somehow work for your good. Nothing 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.199 that's happened to you can keep you from your destiny. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.920 The only thing that can stop you is you. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.640 If you get negative, bitter, lose your passion, that can 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.640 keep you from God's best. And you may have had 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.840 unfair things happen, but I've learned the depth of your 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:59.840 pain is an indication of the height of your future. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.600 When construction workers are going to build a tall building, 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:08.400 they have to dig down many stories first for the foundation. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.280 Taller the building, the deeper the foundation. When you go 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.120 through things that you don't understand, difficult situations, you may 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.040 not like it, it may be uncomfortable, but God is 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:25.520 getting you prepared to take you higher than you ever imagine. 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.840 You may think it's there to defeat you, but God's 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:29.880 going to use it. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.400 To promote you. No bad break can stop you. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.079 All the forces of darkness cannot hold you back. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:38.680 God has an. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:43.559 Expected end for you. He's already established it. But again 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.280 along the way, everything is not going to make sense. 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.640 This is what faith is all about. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.720 You have to trust that even in the twist of life, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.760 in the things you don't understand, that God still knows 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.360 what he's doing. That even when, like Joseph, you know 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.079 God promised you one thing, but you're. 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.160 Seeing just the opposite, defeat, betrayal. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.840 That's when you have to dig your heels in and say, God, 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.319 I don't understand it, but I trust you. I believe 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.800 your plans for me are for good, that you've already 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.000 shot my final sein You've already established my end. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:23.760 So Lord, I want to thank you. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.600 That I will fulfill my purpose, that I will become 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.600 everything You've created me to be. I've heard it said 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:35.040 God always ends in all is well, So if all 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:39.720 is not well, that simply means it's not the end. Well, 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.440 Joel is not well in my finances. I lost a 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:43.640 big client last week. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.160 I'm discouraged. No, stay in peace. It's not the end. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:52.400 That's just one scene. Favor is coming, promotion. Good breaks 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.160 are headed your way. If it's not well in your health, 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.839 don't settle there, think well, this is the way it's always. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.880 Going to be. No another scene is coming. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.280 God promises the number of your days he will fulfill. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.360 If it's not your time to go, you're not going 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:09.719 to go. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.319 Maybe it's not well in a relationship, you went through 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.760 a breakup, You lonely, you don't think you'll ever meet 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:22.280 the right person. That's not the end, that one disappointment, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.640 that one person that left. They can't change your ending. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.600 They can't rewrite your movie. God has already established it. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.040 They don't have that much power. God is already lined 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.440 up the person of your dreams, somebody better than you 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.040 can imagine. They're just a couple of scenes away, just 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.840 a matter of time before they show up. Isaiah said, 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:47.880 what God has purposed? 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.920 Who can annall? This means God has a purpose for 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.920 your life. He's planned out. 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:58.120 Your days, lined up your scenes, and established your ending. 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.240 Then it asked, who can sty God is saying, I 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.839 flung stars into space, I spoke worlds into existence. I'm 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.800 the all powerful creator of the universe. Now, who can 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.800 stop my plan for your life? Who can change your ending? 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.960 People can't unfair situations can't. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.599 Tragedy can't. God has the final say. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.120 When you're on one of those detours, something that doesn't 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.080 make sense, you don't understand it, don't get upset. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.920 It's just one scene when it all comes together. Like Joseph, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.160 it's going to work for your good. See. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.400 If Joseph hadn't have been betrayed by his brothers, he 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.040 hadn't been sold into slavery, if he hadn't have been 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.960 put into prison, he would have never made it to 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:49.440 his throne. Those were all necessary scenes on the way 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.320 to his established end. What am I saying, what you 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.080 may think is a setback, is really a set up 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.000 for God to get you to the fullness of your destiny. 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.720 Now, we could either go through. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:08.360 Life fighting everything we don't like, upset, bitter, offended, or 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.840 we can stay in peace, knowing that God is directing 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.240 our steps, and even the twist, the things we don't understand, 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.520 in the end, they will work to our advantage. Sometimes 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.120 when I'm traveling and not able to watch a ballgame 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.840 at home, I'll record it. A few weeks back, there 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.760 was an important basketball game on that I missed, and 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.240 I sat down the next week to watch it. 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.240 And I already knew the outcome. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.840 I mean, I'd seen all the highlights, read the news reports. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.560 The team I was pulling for had won. But during the. 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:44.120 First quarter we played really badly, could hardly make a shot, 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:48.040 fell behind. I didn't get the least bit worried. I 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:52.080 sat there, calmly, enjoying the game. The next quarter, the 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.080 star player got in foul trouble, had to sit the bench. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.840 We fell further behind. I didn't get up tight, came out. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.600 The second half started off just as badly, couldn't do 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.840 anything right. Normally I would have been on edge, uptight, anxious, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.600 wondering what's gonna happen. But since I knew the outcome, 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:15.720 it totally changed my perspective. In fact, the further behind 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.160 we fell, the more I thought, Wow, this is gonna 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.960 be some kind of comeback. I can't wait to see 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:27.400 what's gonna happen. All the worry, the anxiety was taken 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.880 away because of the expected end. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:31.200 I knew we had won. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.800 There are times in life when it looks like our opponents, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.960 the depression, the sickness, the legal situation is getting the 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:40.560 best of us. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.680 We're falling behind. It's easy to get discouraged. 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.400 Joel, I can't accomplish my dreams. The odds are against me. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.120 I'll never get well. The medical reports too bad. Just 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.640 like this ballgame that was recorded. You have to remind 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.960 yourself that the end has already been set. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:03.000 And when you feel like you're falling by, you're outclassed, outsized, outnumbered. 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:08.200 Instead of being discouraged, had this new perspective that means 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.840 you're about to see a major comeback. Any moment, things 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.240 are gonna shift in your favor. A good break, a promotion, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:20.080 a healing. God says he always causes you to triumph. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.720 Not part of the time, not most of the time. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.600 God's already lined up your victory parade. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:30.680 He's already established your ending. Back in the nineteen seventies, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.640 a teenage girl in Iowa became pregnant with the son. 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.440 She was white, the father was black. Her parents told her, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:40.800 you can't have this baby. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.160 It's a mistake. It's never going to amount to anything. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.120 You're not only gonna ruin your life, you're gonna ruin 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:48.040 the child's life. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.280 They gave her an ultimatum either abort the baby or 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:53.240 move out of the house. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:55.840 She wanted to have her child. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.880 So she left home alone, headed for California, no money, 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:02.479 no future. 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:02.640 To speak of. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:07.320 She ended up on drugs, struggling to survive. One day, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.159 at seventeen years old, standing on a street corner, a 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.560 lady came up and handed her a bible, talked to 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.320 her about having peace with God. Right there, she gave 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.000 her life to Christ. She opened her Bible. The first 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.400 word she saw was Israel. She said, that's what I'm 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.679 going to name my baby, Israel. This little boy was 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.480 born with all the odds against him. 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.600 He couldn't do anything great. He didn't have any kind 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:36.160 of future. 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.600 But when God breathed his life into you, he established 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.200 your end. First, he gave you a purpose, He set 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:49.040 your assignment. Then he put in you everything you need 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:50.720 to fulfill your destiny. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.240 He's given you the gifts, the talents, the confidence. 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:59.119 How you start is not important. Don't let what you 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.119 think is a limit a disadvantage. If I was a 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.520 different nationality, Joel, I come from the wrong side of 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:07.280 the neighborhood. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.199 There's dysfunction in my family. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.600 That's how you started, That's not how you're going to finish. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.719 The beginning does not determine your destiny. 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:23.280 That's just one scene. What matters is the expected end. 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.760 The creator of the universe has already destined you. 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:29.840 To leave your mark on this generation. 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:35.080 He's already put seeds of greatness in you. God loves 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.480 to take people who start off with all the odds 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:43.120 against them and shine down his favor, promote them, give 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.840 them good breaks to where they rise up and do 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:50.680 extraordinary things. This is what happened with my father. He 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.159 was raised in a very poor family. They had no money, 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.639 He had no education, no future. That's where he started, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.240 but that's not where he feinnled his expected end. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.800 His final scene. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.600 Was pastoring a great church, having a ministry that touched 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:11.679 the world. Don't let how you were raised, what you 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.600 didn't get, what you think is a disadvantage cause you 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:20.119 to settle where you are. The established end is not 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:21.480 dependent on the beginning. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.040 This young boy Israel could have grown up with. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:30.400 A defeated mindset, inferior chip on his shoulder, thinking why 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.000 was I born into this family? Why don't I have 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.240 a dad? Why my half white half black? What can 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.720 I become today? You can become the president of the 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:45.120 United States. It's not how you shark, it's how you finish. 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:49.520 If you will keep honoring God being your best, you 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.720 are moving toward the destiny He has designed for you. 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.760 It's bigger than you can imagine. It's more rewarding than 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:03.520 you've ever dreamed. Child, this boy Israel discovered that he 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.880 had a gift and ability to play instruments, to write songs, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.840 to write music, to sing. Now, this child that some 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.119 people didn't want born, this little boy that some people 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.080 thought would be a mistake, has become one of the 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.240 great worship leaders of our time, our own Israel Holten 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:22.240 right here. 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:25.960 He's won many Grammys. 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:30.840 All kinds of awards, goes all over the world cheering his. 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:31.960 Gifts with others. 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.879 Israel, you better be thankful of your mother's first words 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:41.680 she saw wasn't never kanezar? Instead, Israel? How about never kanezar? 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:46.800 In New Breed, Here's what I'm saying. Get rid of 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.239 the excuses. You may have had a rough start, but 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:53.119 you're not gonna have a rough finish. Somebody may have 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.720 put you at a disadvantage, but they did. 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:57.760 Not change your expected end. 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.600 Paul said in Philippians, God will bring us to a 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:06.400 flourishing finish, not a defeated finish, a mediocre finish, a 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.000 lonely finish, a bankrupt finish. You'll come into a victorious 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:14.160 finish and a flourishing finish when thoughts tell you otherwise. 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:15.800 You'll hear things like. 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.520 You have too many disadvantages, you're too far behind, or 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.680 you've made too many mistakes. Let those lies go in 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.560 one ear and out the other. God is saying, I'm 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:28.520 gonna take you further than you can imagine. I have 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:33.119 explosive blessings that can catapult you ahead. I have favor 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.080 that can thrust you into your destiny. I'm gonna bring 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:40.399 out those seeds of greatness that I put on the inside. 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:44.520 God has established your end. You can be certain he 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.600 knows how to get you there. Now our part all 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:49.480 through the day, Lord, thank. 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:51.879 You that your plans for me are for good. 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.320 You're not limited by where I am Right now, You've 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:59.320 already shot my final scene. I may not understand everything 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:02.280 along the way, but God, I trust you. I believe 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:06.280 I'm coming to a flourishing finish. This is what Job 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:10.360 had to do. He had some unusual twist and turns 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:15.480 in life. Some scenes didn't make sense. Everything started off great, 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:19.040 life was good, but then the bottom fell out. Job 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:22.760 lost his health, lost his business, lost his family. He 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:26.280 could have gotten discouraged and given up. His wife told 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:28.359 him Job, just curse God and die. 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:32.040 You're done. Nothing like having an encouraging spouse. 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:37.560 But in the middle of that discouragement, when everything had 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.600 come against him, when a lot of people would have 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:45.520 been bitter, angry, complaining, Job looked up to the heavens 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:49.840 and said, I know my redeemer lives. He was saying, 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:53.320 in effect, I know God's still on the throne. I 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:56.080 know he's already shot my final scene. 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:58.399 And if this is my time to go, I'm not 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:00.960 gonna go bitter, go upset. 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:05.000 Though he slay me, yet, will I trust him? When 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:08.040 you can keep a good attitude when the bottom falls out, 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:11.639 when you can give God praise in the twist of life, 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:14.680 in the things that don't make sense, that's when God 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:15.360 will take. 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:17.240 You to a new level of your destiny. 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.800 We hear a lot about Job's loss, Job's trials, Job's suffering, 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.920 and yes, he went through a difficult season, But here's 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:30.440 the key. He didn't stay there. That was one scene. 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:32.160 In the end, he came. 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:33.880 Out with twice what he had before. 0:23:34.280 --> 0:23:37.520 God paid him back with double He had twice the cattle, 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:38.359 twice the sheep. 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:41.200 God his health back, his joy back, his peace back. 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:43.200 The scripture puts it this way. 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:48.239 After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:53.399 saw his grandsons down to four generations. Notice, after the loss, 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:57.960 after the disappointment, after the bottom fell out, he didn't 0:23:58.119 --> 0:23:59.920 end on a soured, defeated nose. 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:01.840 His life was not over. 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:07.040 Job went on to live a full, happy, blessed one 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:12.240 hundred and forty more years, enjoying his grandchildren, accomplishing his dreams, 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:13.520 fulfilling his purpose. 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:14.960 What am I saying? 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:19.600 Just because you have some twist turns things you don't understand, 0:24:20.200 --> 0:24:24.040 that doesn't mean your life is over. God has an 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:27.639 after this coming when thoughts whisper. 0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:30.520 You've seen your best days. You've been through too much. 0:24:30.720 --> 0:24:33.439 This is as good as it gets. God is saying 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.560 to you what he said to Job after the cancer, 0:24:37.200 --> 0:24:42.200 after the divorce, after the betrayal, There's still a full life. 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:43.160 Ahead of you. 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:46.560 You haven't dreamed your best dream, you haven't danced your 0:24:46.560 --> 0:24:47.800 best dance, you. 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:49.760 Haven't laughed your best laugh. 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:53.160 Shake off the disappointment, get your passion back. 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:55.720 God, hasn't after this come in your way. 0:24:56.960 --> 0:24:59.520 He's not only gonna bring you out, but he's gonna 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:00.840 pay you back for that trouble. 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:04.880 You're gonna come out stronger, increase. 0:25:04.520 --> 0:25:06.840 Promoted, better than you were before. 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:10.280 When it was all over, Job said, I'm. 0:25:10.119 --> 0:25:15.600 Convinced nothing and no one can upset God's plans. He 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:20.120 was saying, nothing can change the expected end. God already 0:25:20.240 --> 0:25:25.320 established it. Friends, the enemy cannot keep you from your destiny. 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:29.560 Satan had to ask God permission to even test Job. 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:32.800 That tells me God is not only in control of 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:35.480 your life, he's in control of your enemies. 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:37.600 You have nothing to worry about it. 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:41.160 There is a headge of protection around you that cannot 0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:45.960 be penetrated. When Jesus was about to be crucified, he 0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:49.679 told people, if you destroy this temple in three days, 0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:53.080 God will raise it up. They thought he was talking 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:57.639 about the building. He was talking about himself. Jesus, of course, 0:25:57.880 --> 0:26:02.320 understood this principle that his end had already been established. 0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:06.400 He knew his final scene had already been shot. It 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:10.159 wasn't him hanging on the cross in great pain. It 0:26:10.240 --> 0:26:13.200 wasn't him in a tomb buried in grave clothes. 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:14.280 He knew. 0:26:14.280 --> 0:26:17.680 His final scene was him seated at the right hand 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:20.520 of the Father with all power, with the keys of 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:25.480 death and hell. That's why it says he endured the 0:26:25.520 --> 0:26:29.320 pain of the cross looking forward to the joy that 0:26:29.440 --> 0:26:33.119 was set before him. The way you stay encouraged in 0:26:33.200 --> 0:26:36.639 the tough times is you keep looking ahead, knowing that 0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:39.280 your end has been set, knowing that you're coming to 0:26:39.320 --> 0:26:44.200 a flourishing finish, knowing that God always causes you to triumph. 0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:47.760 The scripture talks about how Jesus was buried in a 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:51.240 borrowed tomb. He had no place to be buried of 0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:54.919 his own. A disciple came and got his body and 0:26:54.960 --> 0:26:57.960 buried him in a tomb that they owned. Now I 0:26:57.960 --> 0:27:02.320 can imagine Jesus before he was rucified, asking that disciple, 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:07.080 can I borrow your tune? He was saying, I don't 0:27:07.119 --> 0:27:10.439 need to buy it. This is not how my story ends. 0:27:11.200 --> 0:27:14.840 This is only temporary. I'll just be here a few days. 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:19.399 I have an established end set by my father, and 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:22.959 no enemy can change it. They can put me in 0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:25.480 the grave, but they can't keep me in the grave. 0:27:26.800 --> 0:27:31.639 Our attitude, like Jesus in difficult times, this is temporary. 0:27:31.760 --> 0:27:34.399 This addiction is not how my story ends. 0:27:35.000 --> 0:27:39.360 This defeat, this sickness, this betrayal is just one scene. 0:27:39.440 --> 0:27:42.320 I know another scene is coming, a scene of victory, 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:45.920 a scene of favor, a scene of new beginnings. Friends, 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:49.840 your final scene has already been shot. Now, don't let 0:27:49.880 --> 0:27:53.400 the twist, the turns, the things you don't understand cause 0:27:53.480 --> 0:27:54.560 you to get discouraged. 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:56.280 Keep moving forward. 0:27:56.520 --> 0:27:59.920 In the end, it's all going to work to your advantage. 0:28:00.440 --> 0:28:03.920 Like the ballgame I recorded, we know the final outcome. 0:28:04.400 --> 0:28:07.280 We don't have to live worried and upset. God has 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:11.000 established your end if you'll stay in faith and. 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:12.040 Keep honoring God. 0:28:12.440 --> 0:28:16.440 I believe and declare, like Job, God's going to pay 0:28:16.480 --> 0:28:19.359 you back for the trouble, Like Joseph, God's gonna get 0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:21.280 you to your throne like Israel. 0:28:21.400 --> 0:28:23.560 No matter how you start, you're gonna. 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:26.720 Come out with a flourishing finish, accomplish in your dreams, 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:30.520 becoming all God created you to be. In Jesus's name, 0:28:31.160 --> 0:28:32.760 If you receive it, can you say it? 0:28:32.800 --> 0:28:32.960 Men? 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:33.280 Today? 0:28:35.760 --> 0:28:38.600 You never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:38.640 --> 0:28:41.440 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:42.000 --> 0:28:46.720 Would you pray with me? 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