FAILURE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE FINAL (11 OF 70)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: John 18:12-27
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Failure Doesn't Have to be Final (11 of 70)
And The Word Became Flesh
John 18:12-27
Pastor Jeff Schreve
If you have your Bible, turn to John chapter 18. I want to just speak to you on this subject: Failure Doesn't Have To Be Final.
I ran across a story today about the movie - I have not seen it - it's an Oscar-winning film called The Bird Man with Michael Keaton. Some of you may have seen that movie. I'm not promoting it by any means, but I like the storyline. It's the story of a washed-out actor, and he's trying to revive his life and his career. He was a very successful actor early in life, and he had a character that he played called The Bird Man. It was a superhero, The Bird Man. But now he's been haunted by a string of failed roles, and he's trying to reinvent himself. And he has the voice inside of the Bird Man telling him, "You're a failure, you're a failure, you're a failure, you're a failure." And the continuing question in the movie is this: will this main character listen to the voice of failure, or will he dare to believe that his life and his career can flourish again?
I think all of us are familiar with the voice of failure. And everyone in this room, and everyone under the sound of my voice can relate to failure. And we can relate to big failure because there are failures in your life, failures in my life that we would say, "That was my greatest failure. That was, man, I blew it in this area to the greatest extent."
Well, in our study of the gospel of John, we run across Peter's greatest failure. It's recorded in all four gospels. You know, it's kind of interesting that we know about Peter's failure. He denies three times that he knows the Lord. But we don't attach that failure to him for the rest of his life. We tend to do that with Thomas, don't we? How do people know Thomas, doubting Thomas? I mean, you get to heaven, and you're like, "Lord, introduce me to some people. Where's doubting Thomas?" It's like, man, I can never shak ...
And The Word Became Flesh
John 18:12-27
Pastor Jeff Schreve
If you have your Bible, turn to John chapter 18. I want to just speak to you on this subject: Failure Doesn't Have To Be Final.
I ran across a story today about the movie - I have not seen it - it's an Oscar-winning film called The Bird Man with Michael Keaton. Some of you may have seen that movie. I'm not promoting it by any means, but I like the storyline. It's the story of a washed-out actor, and he's trying to revive his life and his career. He was a very successful actor early in life, and he had a character that he played called The Bird Man. It was a superhero, The Bird Man. But now he's been haunted by a string of failed roles, and he's trying to reinvent himself. And he has the voice inside of the Bird Man telling him, "You're a failure, you're a failure, you're a failure, you're a failure." And the continuing question in the movie is this: will this main character listen to the voice of failure, or will he dare to believe that his life and his career can flourish again?
I think all of us are familiar with the voice of failure. And everyone in this room, and everyone under the sound of my voice can relate to failure. And we can relate to big failure because there are failures in your life, failures in my life that we would say, "That was my greatest failure. That was, man, I blew it in this area to the greatest extent."
Well, in our study of the gospel of John, we run across Peter's greatest failure. It's recorded in all four gospels. You know, it's kind of interesting that we know about Peter's failure. He denies three times that he knows the Lord. But we don't attach that failure to him for the rest of his life. We tend to do that with Thomas, don't we? How do people know Thomas, doubting Thomas? I mean, you get to heaven, and you're like, "Lord, introduce me to some people. Where's doubting Thomas?" It's like, man, I can never shak ...
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