Life-Giving Lessons from Failures: Embracing Truth & Moving Forward
Discover how facing challenges head-on, learning from past mistakes, and embracing truth can lead to growth and a better life. Through reflection on family history and biblical teachings, find inspiration to overcome obstacles and strive for success.
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Tell someone about something good in your life that resulted from something not-so-good.
Life-Giving Lessons from Life-Taking Failures
DEUTERONOMY 9 1. You come from sinful, broken and dysfunctional forefathers. 2. You can learn from their failures as well as their successes and have a better life if you will. 3. If you don t learn, you will probably repeat the same sins, suffer for them and miss some of the blessing of God.
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 1. Face reality about the challenges.
Deuteronomy 9 Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,2a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?
Malachi 3:2But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. Revelation 6:15-17 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16calling to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,17for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 1. Face reality about A. the challenges in our life. B. our God in life s challenges.
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 1. Face reality about A. the challenges in our life. B. our God in life s challenges. 2. Embrace truth about yourself & God.
Deuteronomy 9:4 Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land, whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 2. Embrace truth about yourself & God. A. It s not by my goodness that I m in God s family & good graces. (vs. 4)
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 2. Embrace truth about yourself & God. A. It s not by my goodness that I m in God s family & good graces. (vs. 4) 5Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land .
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 2. Embrace truth about yourself & God. A. It s not by my goodness that I m in God s family & good graces. (vs. 4) B. God is utterly gracious to me apart from my sinful performance in life (vs. 5)
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 2. Embrace truth about yourself & God. A. It s not by my goodness that I m in God s family & good graces. (vs. 4) B. God is utterly gracious to me apart from my sinful performance in life (vs. 5) C. I m not as evil as I could be. (vs. 5b) but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 2. Embrace truth about yourself & God. d. My heart apart from God is stubbornly rebellious against God. (vs. 6) 7 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9 6 Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. 7Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9the need to address the sin patterns of our family and past. Face our failings honestly.
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 3. Call our sinful family patterns what they are: a rejection of God himself (Deut. 9:6-24) A. Sin is always a rejection of God
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 3. Call our sinful family patterns what they are: a rejection of God himself (Deut. 9:6-24) A. Sin is always a rejection of God B. Rebellion, disbelief and failure to obey God s voice (vs. 23)provokes God and that s a good thing.
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 3. Call our sinful family patterns what they are: a rejection of God himself (Deut. 9:6-24) A. Sin is always a rejection of God B. Rebellion, disbelief and failure to obey God s voice (vs. 23) provokes God and that s a good thing. C. God s presence is the antidote to our sin- patterns.
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 4. God always provides the needed advocates in our times of failure.
Life-giving lessons from life-taking failures: 4. God always provides the needed advocates in our times of failure. Don t despise them for telling you the truth; esteem them. Don t try and make excuses for the idols of sin God is calling you on; ask for their help in destroying them. Look to and listen to them when God has you retake the exam through additional tests and trials.
Life-Giving Lessons from Life-Taking Failures
