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If 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.080 you're ever in our area, please come by and be 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.280 a part of one of our services. I promise you 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.160 it will make you feel right at home. But thanks 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.960 for tuning in today. I like to get started each 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.520 week with something kind of funny and about this time 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.440 last year, Eustonians had a terrible time evacuating the city 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.680 because of Hurricane Rita. Somebody sent me the new improved 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.600 Houston area evacuation plan. So in case we have a hurricane, 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.440 here's what you got to remember Hispanics are to take 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.880 IEN west to San Antonio, Cajuns are to take I 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.720 ten east to Louisiana, Yankees are to take I forty 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.560 five north to Oklahoma, and Aggies are to take the six' ten. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:25.880 Loop all, right say it like you mean. It this 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.920 is My. BIBLE i am what it SAYS i. AM 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.200 i have what it SAYS i. HAVE i can do 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.000 what it SAYS i can. Do TODAY i will be 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:39.560 taught the word Of. GOD i boldly confess my mind is, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.799 alert my heart is. RECEPTIVE i will. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:43.320 Never be the. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.959 Same In jesus', Name god bless. YOU i want to 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:52.440 talk to you today about not living under. Condemnation too 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.120 many people go around feeling bad about, themselves and one 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.840 reason is they're always listening to the wrong. Voices the 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:05.240 enemy is called the accuser of The. Brethren there's nothing 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.760 he would love any more than for us to live 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.919 our lives guilty and, condemned and throughout life he will 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.160 bring accusations against, us telling us what we didn't do 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.040 or what we should have. Done he'll remind us of 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.640 all of our past mistakes and. Failures you lost your 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.800 temper last. Week you should have spent more time with your. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.040 Family you came to, church but you were. Late you, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.800 gave but you didn't give. Enough there's this accusing voice 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.000 that comes to us all many people just swallow, it 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:41.000 hook line and, sinker go around guilty and, condemned feeling 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.320 wrong about. Themselves just when they're about to get over, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.960 it another accusation comes to. Mind and if we make 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:52.360 the mistake of receiving these, accusations we'll go through the 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:57.640 day without the, joy without the, confidence not expecting anything. Good. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.680 NOW i know, people they've made made, mistakes they've gone through, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:06.280 Failures but instead of Receiving god's, mercy instead of letting 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.520 it go and pressing, forward that voice tells them you blew, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.320 it you messed. Up they live guilty and. Condemned i've 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.680 seen people that have faults and. Weaknesses we all, do 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.920 but they're so hard on. Themselves instead of believing that they're, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:26.240 growing instead of believing that they're, improving that voice tells, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.200 them you can't do anything. Right you'll never break this. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.120 Habit you're just a. Failure they end up living negative 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.640 and critical toward, themselves and it's because they receive all 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.479 the accusations that come to. Mind when they wake up 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.280 in the, morning a voice is telling them what they 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.680 did wrong yesterday and how they'll probably do something wrong. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.120 Today but if we're going to live in, victory we've 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:52.960 got to learn to put our foot down and, say, 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.240 No i'm not gonna dwell on that junk. ANYMORE i 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.240 may not be, perfect BUT i Know i'm. GROWING i 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.160 may have made, me BUT i KNOW i am. Forgiven 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.880 i've Received god's. Mercy and, sure there are things that 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.720 we all wish we wouldn't, do but we don't have 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.840 to beat ourselves up over. IT i may not have 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.120 a perfect, performance BUT i know, this my heart is, 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.200 right And god is a god of. Hearts as long 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.160 as you're doing your, best as long as you have 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.400 a desire to do what's, right you can be Assured 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.120 god is pleased with. You and the fact is we 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.280 all have. Weaknesses there are times we all do things 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.520 that we know in our hearts we shouldn't, do and 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.480 it's normal to want to get down on, ourselves live 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.480 a little. Defeated after, all we don't feel like we 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.760 deserve to be, happy and we have to prove that 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.960 we're really. Sorry but, no we've got to learn to 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.600 just Receive god's. Forgiveness we've better learn to receive his. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.280 Mercy don't allow those condemning voices to play over and 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.720 over in your. Mind all that's going to do is 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.880 keep you negative to words. Yourself if you have a 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.160 bad attitude towards, yourself it's going to hinder you in 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.640 every area of your. Life and some of you have 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.400 fallen into that trap today of believing all these negative 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:16.600 things towards, yourself receiving all these, accusations things like you're 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.640 not as spiritual as you should, be you didn't work 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.080 hard enough last, week Or god can't bless you because 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.800 of your. Past, now those are all. Lies that's the 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.920 accuser at work doing his. Best don't make the mistake 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.480 of dwelling on, that even in smaller. THINGS i know 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.160 sometimes WHEN i walk off this, platform the first thought 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.880 that comes to my mind Was, joel that just wasn't 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.720 any good. Today nobody got anything out of. That you 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.640 practically put them to. Sleep, Listen i've learned to shake 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.160 that junk. OFF i just turn it, around say, NO 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.120 i believe it was. GOOD i did my, best AND 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:58.440 i know, that AND i know that at least one 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.160 person really got something out of. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:00.560 IT i. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.720 DID i thought it was. Good, see as long as 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.279 we're doing our, best we don't have to live. Condemned 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.440 even when we make, mistakes even when we. Fail there's 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.520 a time to, repent but there's also a time to 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.280 shake it off and press. Forward don't live your life in. 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.240 Regrets don't go around, saying, WELL i should have done, 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.600 this should have gone back to, College. JOEL i should 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.560 have spent more time with my. FAMILY i should have 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.800 taken better care of. Myself no quick condemning. Yourself that 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.520 may be, true but it doesn't do you any good 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.160 to go around putting yourself. Down let the past be the. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.559 Past you cannot change any of, that but you can change. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.240 Today and if we make the mistake of living guilty 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.400 today because of something that happened, yesterday we're not going 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.360 to have the strength we need to live this day in. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.160 Victory so important to live in the. NOW i like 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.960 what the Apostle paul. Said he, said the THINGS i 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.160 KNOW i should do Don't the THINGS i KNOW i shouldn't, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.880 DO i end up. Doing he even struggled in this, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.200 area and here he wrote more than half of The 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.360 New testament that tells Me god is not displeased with 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.840 me just BECAUSE i don't perform perfectly one hundred percent 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.640 of the. TIME i WISH i. DID i don't do 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:24.200 wrong on, purpose but we all have. Weaknesses one THING 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.200 i have learned is to not beat myself up over. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.680 IT i don't live. CONDEMNED i don't listen to the accusing. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.199 VOICE i Know god is still working on. ME i 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.640 know That i'm, GROWING i know That i'm coming up, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.520 higher AND i have made up my Mind i'm not 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.640 going to live. Condemned in the, process that old accusing 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.319 voice will come to you and tell, you, hey, man 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.280 you lost your temper last week in. Traffic our attitude 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.439 should be that's, Okay i'm. Growing, well you said some 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.800 things yesterday you shouldn't. Have, yes that's. TRUE i WISH 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.160 i wouldn't, have BUT i. Repented NOW i Know i'm. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.360 Forgiving i'm gonna do better next. Time well what about 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.400 that failure you went through two years ago in your, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.160 relationship in your. Business, no that's in the. Past i've 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.360 Received god's. Mercy this is a new. Day i'm not looking. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.319 Back i'm looking. Forward when we have this kind of, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.520 attitude we take away all the power of the. Accuser 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.040 he can't control us when we don't believe his. Lies 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:27.559 some of you, today you need to shake off that 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.559 old guilty. Feeling you need to quit listening to the 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.839 voice that's telling You god's not pleased with. You, Man 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.280 you've got too many, Weaknesses you've made too many. Mistakes, 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.760 no as long as you're pressing, forward you can know 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.360 with Confidence god is pleased with. You when that old 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.240 accusing voice comes telling you that you've blown, it you 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.079 don't have much of a. Future god couldn't bless. You 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.400 you're so. Undisciplined don't you dare just sit back and 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.320 agree with. That don't you dare? Think, yeah that's, Right. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.800 Joel you don't know my, life you know What i've. Done, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.280 no you need to start talking back to the. Accuser 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.240 you need to rise up in your authority and, say, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.040 hey wait a. MINUTE i am the righteousness Of. God 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.920 god has made me. WORTHY i may have made, mistakes 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.000 BUT i KNOW i am. FORGIVEN i KNOW i am 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.080 the apple Of god's. EYE i Know god has great 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.240 things in store for. Me the scripture tells us to do. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.040 This it says In ephesians to put on the breastplate 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:31.280 Of god's. Approval that's one of the most important pieces 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.160 of our. Armor think about what the breastplate. Covers it 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.839 covers our. Heart in other, words the way we think about. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.520 Ourselves if you're going around with that old gnawing feeling 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.480 on the, inside, thinking, MAN i don't have much of a. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.319 Future i've blown it too many. Times god couldn't be 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.640 pleased with. ME i can tell you. This you're listening 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.319 to the wrong. Voice that's the. Accuser you need to 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.120 start getting up every morning and saying with. Confidence god 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.520 is pleased with. Me god approves. Me god accepts me 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.439 just the WAY i. Am see you are not a 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.920 surprise To. God god is not up Into heaven scratching 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.040 his head, thinking man, Alive what DID i get myself? 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.240 INTO i never dreamed they'd have that many. Problems never 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.040 dreamed he'd have that many. Weaknesses, No god made. Us 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.679 he knows everything about, you and he still approves. You 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.000 he is still pleased with. You you may have, faults 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.439 but you are still the apple Of god's. Eye you 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.920 may not be where you should, be but at least 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.520 you're not where you used to. Be quit condemning yourself 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.360 The scripture tells us In, philippians he that began a 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:44.560 good work in you will continue to perform it until 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.920 it's perfectly. Complete god is still working on. Us why 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.000 don't you take the pressure off. Yourself why don't you 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.120 give yourself the right to have some weaknesses and to 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.840 not perform perfectly one hundred percent of the time none 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.240 of us. Do we all make. Mistakes and when you, 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.840 do don't sit around guilty for two or three. Weeks 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.240 immediately go To god and Say, God i'm, SORRY i, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.720 Repent help me to do better next. Time and then 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.440 here's the, Key this is where we miss it most. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.520 Often then you have to Receive god's. Forgiveness you have 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.920 to receive his. MERCY i know people that Ask god 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.120 to forgive them every day for something they did three years. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.079 Ago they have asked for forgiveness five hundred times for 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.920 the same. Thing they don't Realize god forgave them the 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.720 very first time they. Ask the problem is they didn't 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:43.000 receive the, forgiveness they didn't Receive god's, mercy and they 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.439 just keep listening to the accusing. Voices you blew. It 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.120 god can't bless. You you know what you did back 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.240 in two thousand and. Three, no why don't you quit 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.640 receiving the accusations and start Receiving god's. Mercy why don't 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.520 you start Receiving god's? Goodness why don't you get up 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.720 every morning and, Say, father thank you that your mercy endures. Forever. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.800 NOW i may have made mistakes in the, past BUT 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.360 i know Nothing i've done is too much for your. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:13.439 MERCY i may have even made mistakes, yesterday BUT i know. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.120 This your mercy is fresh and new every single. Morning 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.199 SO i just receive it by faith. Today some of, 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.920 you if you would get a hold of this, truth 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.640 it would break bondages that have held you back for 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:32.440 years and. Years quit listening to the accusing. Voices quit 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.600 going around feeling wrong about. Yourself if you're living your life, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:41.240 condemned that's telling me you're not Receiving god's. MERCY a 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.160 lot of times we kind of, think, Well, JOEL i 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.280 don't feel LIKE i deserve. IT i don't feel Like i'm. 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:49.480 Worthy but, listen that's what grace is all. About none 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.520 of us deserve. It it's a free, gift and we're 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.760 not worthy in. Ourselves but the good news Is god 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.360 has made us. Worthy you may have made, mistakes you 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.400 may have, faults but you are not a weak worm 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.000 of the. Dust you are a child of the most High. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:09.000 God get back up, again put your shoulders, back make 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.199 up your. Mind you're not gonna listen to the accusing voice. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:16.560 Anymore you're not gonna live your life guilty and. Condemned, Well, 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.319 JOEL i got a lot of hang, ups got a 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.640 lot of, addictions a lot of things to. Overcome who. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.960 Doesn't we all have areas we need to improve. In 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.160 But god is not focused on what's wrong with. You 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.640 he's focused on what's right with. You he's not looking 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.680 at all your faults and. Weaknesses he's looking at how 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.800 far you've. Come he's looking at how much you're. Growing 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.720 some of you have fallen into this trap and believed 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.400 these lies for years and. Years but you need to 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.640 put your foot down today and, say you know. What that's. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.360 It i'm not living condemned. Anymore i'm not going through 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.400 life feeling guilty and. UNWORTHY i KNOW i am the 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.080 righteousness Of god and there is no Mistake i've made 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.640 that's too much for What christ did on the. Cross i've, 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.240 Repented i've asked for, Forgiveness Now i'm going to take 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.280 it one step further and start Receiving god's. Mercy if 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.840 you want to really be, bold start believing for more 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.640 Of god's favor in your. Life start believing that your 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.120 best days are not behind, you but that they are 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.560 in front of. YOU i think about as a, parent 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.160 we don't focus on what our children do. Wrong our 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.440 child can strike out a thousand times at The Little league, 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.320 field but we'll go around bragging about the one hit 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.840 they got all year. LONG i know even with our Son, 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.880 jonathan he's ten years. Old somebody asked me about. HIM 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.880 i immediately think about all the THINGS i love about. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.480 Him i'll tell you he's, smart he's, talented he's, funny 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.520 he's got a quick sense of. Wit the other DAY 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.280 i mentioned in my sermon that most people only use 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.960 ten percent of their. Mind he leaned over To victoria and, Said, 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:56.960 Mom i'm above. AVERAGE i use eleven. PERCENT i. Thought 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.760 he's got his dead sense of, humor his dad's, ability 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.840 his dad's good. Looks i'm still trying to figure out 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.800 what his mom has given. Him But jonathan's not. Perfect 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.800 he makes, mistakes but as a FATHER i help him. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.240 Overcome it's my, joy to teach, him to train, him 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.240 to help him come up. Higher that's the Way god 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.040 is with. Us why don't you quit being so down on. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.800 Yourself what If jonathan came in one day and, Said, 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.800 DADDY i just don't feel LIKE i deserve your blessings. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.200 ANYMORE i don't feel Like i'm. Worthy you, know back 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.200 WHEN i was three years, OLD i told that. Lie 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.280 back WHEN i was, FOUR i bit my baby. Sister 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.000 now if he said something like, THAT i would check his. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.800 Temperature that boy knows how to. Receive he knows he's, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.960 loved he knows we want to bless. Him i'll never. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.120 FORGET a couple of years, ago we bought him a, 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.520 guitar and we got home and got it all set, 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.560 up and a few minutes later he came over and 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.760 gave me a big. Hug he, Said, daddy thank us 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.520 so much for this new. Guitar and by the, way 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.360 when do you think we could get my new. KEYBOARD i, 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.639 mean he's not, shy but really it would do us 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.159 all good to have this same kind of. Boldness the 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.560 scripture tells us here In hebrews four, sixteen let us 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.359 come boldly to the throne of. Grace why to receive 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.040 mercy for our. Failures don't go To god like a 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.600 weak worm of the. Dust Oh, GOD i blew it, 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.680 again lost my, temper yelled at my. KIDS i KNOW 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.240 i don't deserve. Anything. Now if you want to receive From, 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.080 god you got to come to him with. Boldness you 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.200 got to get rid of the poor old me attitude 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.439 and go to him Like jonathan did. 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:37.679 Us. 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.600 GOD i know you love. Me, GOD i know you 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.359 want to bless. Me i've made. Mistakes i'm asking for, 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:47.600 forgiveness And i'm receiving your. Mercy and then go out 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.639 expecting good. Things go out Expecting god's blessings in. FAVOR 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.720 i don't know about, you But i'm bold enough to 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.480 believe That god is smiling down on me right. Now 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.200 i'm bold enough to believe THAT i Am i'm a 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.359 friend Of Almighty. God i've already accepted the fact THAT 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.119 i don't perform perfectly all the. Time BUT i know 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.000 my heart is. RIGHT i, believe to the best of my, 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:14.360 Ability i'm doing what Pleases. Him that MEANS i don't 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.840 have to listen to the. ACCUSER i don't have to 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.520 live my life condemned WHEN i make. Mistakes ALL i 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.359 have to do is go To, god ask for, forgiveness 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.040 then receive his mercy and keep pressing forward in. Life 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.280 AND i want you too to experience this. Freedom it 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.280 comes when we get rid of the. Accuser some of you, 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.720 today you're constantly beaten. DOWN a lot of it is 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.800 because of what you've been through in. Life sometimes it 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:46.119 wasn't even your. Fault somebody mistreated, you somebody rejected. You 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.400 but the enemy loves to turn that around and tell 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.919 you that there's something wrong with. You he loves to twist. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:58.000 It i've seen it with people that grew up. Mistreated 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.520 they weren't even old enough to know what was going. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.800 On but the enemy tells, them you brought this on, 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:08.520 yourself it's your. Fault or especially in relationships that don't work, 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.800 out he'll always tell you you're to. Blame you're not good, 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.320 enough you're not attractive, enough you didn't try hard. Enough, 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.919 no have you ever thought about that other person may 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:24.640 have had some. Problems quit receiving all the, accusations quite 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.520 allowing the condemning voices to take. Root keep your, guilty 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:30.800 keep you from your new. BEGINNING i, MEAN i know 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.760 people that are practically addicted to. Guilt they don't know 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.000 what it's like to feel good about, themselves to believe they're, 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.000 forgiven to believe that they have a bright future in. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.800 Store it's like they got all these skeletons in their. Closets, 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.280 joel you don't know What i've done in my. Past 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.040 you don't know What i've been. Through they internalize all the, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.560 guilt the, shame the. Blame but you need to understand 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.159 when you came To, christ when you received his, Forgiveness 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.359 god cleaned out all of your. Closets he doesn't remember your, 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:06.800 mistakes your, sins your. Failures my question, is why don't 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.440 you quit remembering? It why don't you quit listening to 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:13.000 the voice of the. ACCUSER i love the Story jesus 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.960 told about the prodigal. Son this young man made a 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.960 lot of. Mistakes he told his dad that he wanted 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:22.440 his share of the, inheritance his. Money he left tom 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.240 and went out and lived a wild, life partied all the, 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.000 time and eventually those poor choices caught up to. Him 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.920 the money ran. Out he didn't have anything to, eat 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.240 any place to, stay and he ended up working in 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:39.040 a hog pen feeding the. Hogs he got so, low so, 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.400 desperate he had to eat the hog food just to stay. 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:46.080 ALIVE i, mean he had hit rock. Bottom but one, 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:49.560 day sitting in that filth and, shame he said to, 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.960 HIMSELF i will arise and go back to my father's 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.119 best decision that he ever. Made when you make, mistakes 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.160 when you go through failures and, disappointments don't sit around 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:07.119 in self. Pity don't go month after month condemning, yourself rejecting. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.640 Yourself the first step to victory is to get back 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.240 up again and go back to your. Father's this young 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.280 man headed. Home i'm sure in the back of his 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:21.360 mind he, Thought i'm just wasting my. Time my father's 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.080 never gonna receive me. Back he's gonna be so put 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.399 out with. Me i've made so many terrible. CHOICES i 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:29.680 can imagine he tried to talk himself out of it 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:33.040 three or four times along the, way telling, Himself i'm 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:36.520 such a. Failure my father will never forgive. Me but 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:40.840 the scripture says when the father saw him a long way. 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.840 Off that tells me the father must have been looking for. 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.119 Him the father must have gotten up early every morning 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:52.000 and said to, himself maybe today will be the, day 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:55.840 my son comes back, home, morning, noon and. Night the 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:58.280 father was on the. Lookout when he saw his, son 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.080 he took off running toward, him couldn't wait to see. 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:05.040 Him this is the only picture Of god running in The. 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.800 Bible What's god running to one of the, disciples one 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.880 of the. Apostles god's not running to a famous religious. 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.080 Leader he's running to a young man that needs. Mercy 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:18.720 he's running to a person that's made, mistakes a person that's. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:23.160 Fell when the father got, there he embraced his, Son 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:26.119 he hugged. HIM i can imagine he spun him around 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:28.400 a couple of. Times he was so happy to see. 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.639 Him but the, son he just hung his head in. 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:35.520 Shame the accuser was working overtime on. Him he, Said, 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.080 Dad i've really blown, it made some terrible, decisions AND 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.200 i KNOW i don't deserve any of, this but maybe 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:45.160 you can just take me back as one of your hired. 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:48.000 Servants i'll work out in the fields for. You the 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:50.680 father would have nothing to do with. That he, said 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:53.240 what are you talking? About are you? Kidding you're my, 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:56.840 son and some of you today you think That god 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.760 could never forgive. You you've made too many. Mistakes blown 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:04.600 it too many. Times but let me assure, you nothing 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.359 that you've done is too much for the mercy Of. 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:11.120 God And god is not looking to condemn. You he's 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:14.040 not looking to chew you out like this young. Man 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.280 he stands before you with his arms held. Open. Wife 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:21.000 he's looking way down the, road and the moment you 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:24.560 take one step toward, Him god will come running towards. 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:27.840 You why don't you come back home? Today some of 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:31.119 you have been away for a long, time living guilty and, 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.719 condemned feeling Like god could never make anything out of your, 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.080 life feeling like he could never use. You but, no 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:42.000 today can be a new. Beginning god has mercy for 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:45.520 any mistake that we've ever. Made The father said to 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:48.520 one of his, servants go get the best robe and 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:52.560 put it on my. Son one translation, says put the 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.800 robe of honor on. Him and if you could just 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:59.960 receive that. Today you may have made, mistakes gone through. 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:03.680 Setbacks But god doesn't just want to restore. You he 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:06.399 doesn't just want to give you a new. Beginning he 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:08.960 wants to put the robe of honor on. You that's 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:11.960 just the way Our god. Is in other, words even 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:15.280 when we make, mistakes even when we bring the trouble on, 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:19.600 Ourselves god is so good he will not hold that against. 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:23.240 Us he will still receive us back and make something 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:26.040 great out of our. Lives the only way this is 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:28.200 going to, happen, though is if we have the right. 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:33.520 Attitude we cannot go around, weak, defeated feeling unworthy and 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:36.600 expect to Have god's. Best and you may not be 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:39.520 where you should be in, life but don't sit around 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:43.120 in self. Pity don't sit around guilty and. Condemned you've 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:45.480 got to do like this young man and, say you know, 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:48.400 What i'm gonna arise and go back to my. Father 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:52.360 in other, Words i'm done with living. Guilty i'm done 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:54.399 with living. Condemned i'm going to get up out of 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:58.080 this and start Receiving god's. Mercy and let me tell, 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:02.760 you this will take, faith because everything in you will, say, hey, 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:05.760 man you're just a. Hypocrite you know what you've, done 0:25:05.840 --> 0:25:08.560 you know the mistakes you've. Made you really Think god's 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:11.480 gonna bless? You you need to shake that junk, off 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:14.040 put your shoulders back and, SAY i don't think, SO 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:17.160 i know. SO i Know god is a Good. GOD 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:21.920 i know his mercy is bigger than any Mistake i've. 0:25:22.000 --> 0:25:25.560 Made So i'm gonna start Receiving his mercy and expecting 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:28.119 good things in my. LIFE i want you to have 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:32.200 this new, attitude free from, guilt free from, condemnation and 0:25:32.359 --> 0:25:36.760 most of, all free from the accusing. Voice how long 0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:40.080 has it been lying to you telling you that you're washed? 0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:43.919 Up you've made too many. Mistakes those are all. Lies 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:47.920 god still has a great plan for your. Life you 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:50.520 may have Missed PLAN, a but the good news Is 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:53.800 god has a PLAN, b A PLAN, c A PLAN. 0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:57.040 D why don't you've come back To him. Today why 0:25:57.080 --> 0:26:00.480 don't you shake off the condemnation and start living like 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:04.640 a child of The Most High. God my parents told 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:07.800 how when my Brother paul was just a small, boy 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:10.960 before any of us other kids were, around they would 0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:13.080 Put paul in bed at, night and then they'd go 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:15.520 get in their own, bed and their room was just 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:18.080 a few feet down the, hall real close. There my 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:20.800 parents every night would say good Night, paul And paul 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:23.600 would say good night, mother good Night. Daddy but one, 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:26.040 night for some, Reason paul was a little bit, afraid 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:29.119 and after they had said their good, nights a few minutes, 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:32.800 Later paul Said, daddy are you still in? There and 0:26:32.920 --> 0:26:36.720 my father, said, Yes, Paul i'm still in. Here Then paul, Said, 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:41.520 daddy is your face turned toward? Me somehow that Made 0:26:41.560 --> 0:26:46.119 paul feel more, secure made him feel better knowing that 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:50.400 my father's face was turned toward. Him AND i want 0:26:50.400 --> 0:26:54.159 to tell you, Today god's face is turned towards. You 0:26:55.080 --> 0:27:01.520 and the good news Is god's face will always be 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:05.960 turned towards, you doesn't matter what you've, done doesn't matter 0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:08.920 how many mistakes you've. Made some of you used to 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:11.960 be excited about your. Life you used to Serve god 0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:15.639 with your whole, heart helping others come into. Church but 0:27:15.760 --> 0:27:20.560 along the way you went through, failures, disappointment, setbacks and 0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:25.880 now that old accusing voice has been keeping you, down, discouraged, guilty. 0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:30.360 Condemned you need to know today That god is running towards. 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:34.919 You he is not a, mean Condemning. God he is a, loving, 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:39.679 merciful Forgiving god still got a great plan for your. 0:27:39.760 --> 0:27:41.480 Life and you know. 0:27:41.560 --> 0:27:46.679 What god can restore anything that's been. Stolen you may 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:49.600 have failed a thousand, times but the good news Is 0:27:50.160 --> 0:27:52.640 god has still not run out of. Mercy why don't 0:27:52.680 --> 0:27:56.280 you receive it? Today it all starts by changing your. 0:27:56.320 --> 0:28:00.360 Attitude you've got to quit being negative towards, yourself quit 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:05.200 receiving all the, accusations and start Receiving god's. Mercy don't 0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:08.520 go around feeling wrong about. Yourself freedom comes when you 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:11.399 get rid of the. Accuser And i'm asking you today 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:14.520 to stop dwelling on the lives about your past and 0:28:14.640 --> 0:28:17.760 on the lives about what you're. Not if you'll quit 0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:21.560 listening to these condemning voices and instead start putting on 0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:25.800 the breastplate Of god's, approval knowing That god is pleased with, 0:28:25.920 --> 0:28:28.119 you knowing that you're, forgiven knowing That he's got a 0:28:28.200 --> 0:28:31.120 bright future in. 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