how human of people to remind us of our failures but how Divine of God to remind us of our forgiveness there will always be hecklers in the crowd to remind you of your past failures but not God because what God loves to do is to remind us of his grace toward us and his mercy and his forgiveness Isaiah 43:25 God says I even I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake and remembers your sins no more and God is not finished with you he takes broken people and restores them for his
glory and Psalm 30:5 says weeping may endure for the night but joy comes in the morning because that's what God does by restoring broken people and then using him still for his glory god is the god of chances God is the god of multiple chances some of you need to hear that you desperately need to know that God is a god of Grace that he forgives you and loves you no matter how many times you may have denied him or sinned against him he will always take you back you know that when things get hard
when we fail in small ways or big ways our tendency as humans is to give up we have an enemy Satan the thief the accuser it says in Scripture that he prows around like a lion looking for someone to devour and so I think it looks like this he watches us at a distance following Jesus waiting for us to fall short and then the moment we fail he hustles up next to us and says see you've ruined it look at the mess you've made how could you ever think that God could use you you're a
failure and the reason he does this is because he wants us to buy the lie that our failure is bigger than our God cuz if he can get us to buy that lie then he knows we'll Retreat back to a former way of living a life that God called us out of and we'll never actually step into who God has called us to be and that's what he wants I think in our moments of failure our tendency as humans is to retreat back to what we know no matter what you've said no matter how deep
you believe your failure to be God is not done with you I don't know what the worst thing is you've done some of you are sitting in the pain of something that you won't even talk about because it's too dark it's too painful it's too deep of failure and you have assumed that God is done with you that his response to you is that he turns his back on you when in reality he wants to come close God in our failure pursues us in your M moment of failure Church you need to know that Jesus
is not done with you the deal is not off he's still wants to be in relationship with you the devil wants you to think you are the only person who struggles like that nobody else thinks like that nobody else did that last weekend the devil is not only the tempter but then he's the accuser he tempts you to sin and then if you fall he kicks you while you're down these are the dirty games of the devil and he's trying to lock you up in this mental prison as though you're the only one who thinks
that way as you as though you're the only one who struggles with this and this is not the reality it's I I I kept thinking about King Solomon in Ecclesiastes where he goes there's nothing new Under The Sun It's all been done all the mistakes have been made already Paul goes you're not the the last one that's you're not the first one and you're not the last one that's dealt with this no temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man these are things that people deal with and the lie that keeps us
locked up is that you're the only one and if I just said something everybody would turn their backs on me if they only nobody else thinks like that and you begin to think that way and it locks you up in this prison and that lie puts you right where the devil wants you but Jesus came to put a new label on us Jesus came so you don't have to have the labels that people have tried to put on you you don't have to wear a label that says whatever it is that people have put on
you David had an affair and you know what God said about David the man who had an affair and murdered someone God said this man is the apple of my eye now if God could see David that way I think God could see you a different way and I think you sitting in church today you can you can know this for sure this is the good news about God God never gives up on you God never will quit on you God will always keep coming after you he will never quit he will never give up
he will never look at you and say I'm finished with you here's the thing that I know that in their failure we look at it and we judge them while they're in their failure God looks at people in their failure and he sees them the way they'll be when they're out of their failure God sees you out of your failure God sees you in Victory not in defeat come on your biggest sin failure whatever word you want to put in there it's not too big for God's grace don't let guilt drive you into the ground
let guilt drive you to God that's it I'll say it again don't let guilt drive you into the ground let guilt drive you to God and get your help from him you are not what you have done you are who God says you are God has given us the victory it is his battle it is not ours The Battle Belongs to the Lord somebody said it this way if God brought you to it he'll take you through it something God showed me a long time ago he said whatever you are under I'm over I don't
care what you're going through I'm bigger than that whatever you are under God is over God's not finished with you God's not finished with you I don't care what the doctor said God's not finished with you God's not finished with you I don't care who walked out on you God's not finished with you God's not finished with you I don't care how how many times you fallen God's not finished with you he said I'll never leave you and I'll never forsake you he's a god of restoration amen he's not finished with us so you're going
to make mistakes but God's is always greater than our mistakes I'm living proof of it I've made many mistakes in my life and all and there's a lot of times I feel like man why don't you just quit hang it up just give up but I'm inspired by the words of of the of God's word number one but number two there's a a part of a speech that it was I think Theodore Roosevelt gave in 1910 long time ago but a part of it has been entitled part of that speech has been entitled The Man
in the arena and I remember that that you know when I every time I hear it it inspires me because it's not the person that talks about the fact that it's not the critic that really counts but the person who is in the arena who's got mud and blood and sweat and they're the ones who's actually doing it it's not the critic a lot of times we're afraid to do things because we're afraid of the critic stop fearing the critic you know who the who who Who's The Authority or the the uh the origin of
the the critic comes from comes from the Devil he's the accuser of the Brethren don't listen to him don't listen to the critic follow Christ amen God is for you and if Christ is for you who can be against you amen you know divorces you you know the voices you hear sometimes when you facing failure you'll never recover from this man you're too guard you're too far down now but what I do know is that we serve a God that gives us the ability to get up every single time and sometimes getting up is the
hardest thing you could do and sometimes getting up may seem like it's impossible but what God just want for your life today that you just take one little small step just get up let your past failure lead to Future Victory so here's a better way instead of removing it let God redeem it okay so you failed but you're not a failure a failure is an event not a person that's not who you are in the name of Jesus you're forgiven you you take that back to Jesus and you're washed clean so so you have some
regrets will let God redeem the regrets instead of trying to remove it failure is an event never a person failure is an event never a person see listen guys you have a bunch of events where you failed in your life at different things people remind you sometimes about them remember when you did this remember when you did that you have to get to the point where you look at some of the failures you had and you look at him as that's not me it's not me personally it's an event that happened in my life but
I'm not a failure you need to start saying I am a child of God not I am a failure I am a child of God and you need to tag this on it I am forgiven I am a child of God I am forgiven I've been made new I am an overcomer not I'm a failure amen no I am a child of God I am forgiven I am who God says I am I can do what God says I can do I possess What God Says I possess in other words I start saying what God
says about me not what people say about me so stop beating yourself up over your past failures and and you know how the mercy of God sees every person in this room beautiful beautiful that's how Mercy sees you the mercies of God are renewed every morning God gives you a blank sheet every day for a new start and every one of us is a scarred vessel but we're in the hands of a master Potter who can transform all of our imperfections into matchless Beauty and unlimited potential Anointed with power to terrify every demon in hell
it's time for your comeback see your life can be an exciting Victorious triumphant life in jesus' name see when life becomes a battlefield choose to fight until the victory comes don't cower fight don't whimper fight the Bible says fight the good fight of Faith you can either be the Victor or the victim and the choice is yours you can't change your past but Jesus Christ can change your future so one day you're going to look back and say man I heard a message that said I was forgiven and I'm not a failure and because God
sees me a different way I'm not going to live this way I'm not going to live living in my past I have a great future ahead of me man there's some things in our past on purpose we need to just forget them you need to just let them go if God forgives you you just need to forgive yourself if God forgives you you just need to let it go your past is I know you might think it's the worst in the world and I get it I have the same kind of past but God's power
has proven bigger than my past cuz our human tendency is the highlight real look at how good my life is but there's a lot that can be learned from the failure reel as well and just knowing my God is faithful and there's nothing I'm going to face that is I'm not alone in any of this are you ready for this God will either get you out of it or he'll get you through it but either way you will see the end of it he will deliver you it won't be too much God won't allow it
to be too heavy for you so again the the failure re is not about projecting more Nega negativity into our world it's about putting more reality into our relationships are you thankful that God includes the tough things in scripture you are not too far you cannot outs sin God's grace you go well you don't know what what what I did that's okay I don't have to know I know what Jesus did and it's enough to pay for your sin and he loves you and his arms are open come on the prodigal that's run away come
back he's inviting you back the person that's addicted he loves you listen he doesn't love you once you break your addiction he loves you in the addiction but he loves you too much to let you stay addicted he's calling you out of that he's compassionate toward us I love what the scripture says Lamentations chapter 3 and through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed because his compassions failed not they are new how many mornings every morning great is your faithfulness oh Lord amen thank God for his compassions they fail not they're new every morning
