00:01you know sometimes we can make life harder on ourselves because we think one bad decision means everything is ruined
00:09it does not
00:12you can make a mistake without becoming a mistake peter is an excellent example of that he loved jesus he
00:21meant what he said he really believed he would stand by him no matter what happened
00:28then jesus was arrested the pressure changed everything peter got scared and when people started asking if he was one
00:40of jesus's followers he denied knowing him three times now that had to hurt not just because he failed but
00:50because he had failed at the exact thing he was sure he would never do maybe you know what that
00:57feels like
00:58you tell yourself you're done with something then you go back to it you promise yourself you'll handle something differently
01:07then you do the same thing again you think you're stronger than a situation and then you find out you're
01:15not
01:16that kind of failure can get in your head i mean it can and then you start thinking maybe this
01:24is just who you are maybe you will never change maybe you've ruined your chance but that is not where
01:32jesus left peter
01:34after the resurrection jesus met him again on the beach of all places and he did not humiliate him he
01:44did not keep throwing his failure back in his face
01:47he restored him he gave peter something to do he moved him forward and that's the part i want you
01:57to remember
01:59peter peter failed but he was not finished and neither are you you may have something in your life you
02:07wish you could go back and change
02:09i completely understand that i have a few of those as well but you cannot go backward you can only
02:18decide what to do next
02:20you can learn from it you can own your part you can ask god to forgive you
02:26you can make things right where you can and then then my friend you can get back up
02:35getting back up does not mean acting like nothing happened it means you stop letting what happened control
02:43everything that happens next now peter could have spent the rest of his life thinking about the night he denied
02:52jesus christ instead he let jesus restore him later that same peter stood in public and preached about christ
03:04think about that for one second the man who once said i do not know him became a man who
03:14openly told people
03:16who jesus was that's what grace can do my friend it does not erase the past it changes what the
03:26past gets to mean
03:28and sometimes failure teaches you something success never could it shows you where you were too confident
03:38it shows you where you were depending too much on yourself it shows you what still needs work
03:45and if you're willing to face that honestly god can use it so if you're beating yourself up over
03:54something right now i want you to ask yourself whether you have already learned the lesson but are still
04:01carrying the punishment those are not the same thing you see jesus did not tell peter to stay ashamed
04:09forever he told him to move forward and maybe you need to do the same thing you're not required to
04:18stay in the worst mode of your worst moment of your life just because it happened you can get back
04:25up
04:26you can try again you can rebuild you can become wiser because of what happened without letting it make
04:35you bitter and you can let jesus shape you through it that is really what faith looks like sometimes
04:44not pretending you will never fail not pretending you will never get scared not pretending you will always
04:52get it right sometimes faith is simply trusting that god can still work with you after you got it wrong
05:02peter found that out maybe you need to hear it too because my friend your story is not over
05:11you are still here and jesus well jesus is still working on you so learn what you need to learn
05:21leave behind what you need to leave behind and get back up
05:31my name is douglas vandergraaf and i believe in jesus christ god bless every single one of you
05:40every single one and everyone you love
05:48bye
05:51bye
05:51bye
05:51You
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