JESUS: WHAT A RESTORING SAVIOR! (8 OF 8)
Scripture: John 21:1-19
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Jesus: What a Restoring Savior! (8 of 8)
Series: Jesus
Dr. Ernest L. Easley
John 21.1-19
As you’re turning to John 21, I want to ask you a personal question: have you ever experienced failure? Let’s take a quick survey and see how much failure we have here today. By a show of hands, now you be honest ...
*How many of you have ever failed a test? It could have been a test in school, a driver’s test, a college entrance test, a physical exam test or some other academic test?
*How many of you have ever failed a grade or a course? You may be like my father who told me how his 7th grade teacher liked him so much, she wanted him in her class another year.
During my freshman year at Baylor University, I took a sociology statistic class I had no business taking. Throughout the semester, I had failed every test and when it came time for the Final Exam, I could have scored a 100 and still failed the course. I never showed up for the Final.
*How many of you have had a business fail. You started out in a blaze of glory but ended in a blaze of fire? Your failure cost you money and your employees their jobs.
*How many of you have ever had a financial failure? Perhaps that ‘‘sure thing’’ wasn’t so ‘‘sure’’ after all.
I know a man who invested in a bank and was so sure of its success, he borrowed $500,000 to add to his 1 million dollars and in six months, the bank shut down and he lost it all. I thought he was going to have a heart attack! There he was having lost 1 million dollars and trying to figure out how he was going to make payments on the $500,000 he borrowed and lost.
Any failure can be devastating emotionally, psychologically, physically and spiritually whether it’s a failed test, a failed grade, a failed investment, a failed marriage or some other failure. If I’ve learned anything over these last 64 years, it’s this: failure is going to happen to everyone! There’s no avoiding it! We all have failure in our past and if we live long enough, ...
Series: Jesus
Dr. Ernest L. Easley
John 21.1-19
As you’re turning to John 21, I want to ask you a personal question: have you ever experienced failure? Let’s take a quick survey and see how much failure we have here today. By a show of hands, now you be honest ...
*How many of you have ever failed a test? It could have been a test in school, a driver’s test, a college entrance test, a physical exam test or some other academic test?
*How many of you have ever failed a grade or a course? You may be like my father who told me how his 7th grade teacher liked him so much, she wanted him in her class another year.
During my freshman year at Baylor University, I took a sociology statistic class I had no business taking. Throughout the semester, I had failed every test and when it came time for the Final Exam, I could have scored a 100 and still failed the course. I never showed up for the Final.
*How many of you have had a business fail. You started out in a blaze of glory but ended in a blaze of fire? Your failure cost you money and your employees their jobs.
*How many of you have ever had a financial failure? Perhaps that ‘‘sure thing’’ wasn’t so ‘‘sure’’ after all.
I know a man who invested in a bank and was so sure of its success, he borrowed $500,000 to add to his 1 million dollars and in six months, the bank shut down and he lost it all. I thought he was going to have a heart attack! There he was having lost 1 million dollars and trying to figure out how he was going to make payments on the $500,000 he borrowed and lost.
Any failure can be devastating emotionally, psychologically, physically and spiritually whether it’s a failed test, a failed grade, a failed investment, a failed marriage or some other failure. If I’ve learned anything over these last 64 years, it’s this: failure is going to happen to everyone! There’s no avoiding it! We all have failure in our past and if we live long enough, ...
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