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  Speaker 1: What do you do when you fail? Do you hide?
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  Speaker 1: Do you drown in guilt, letting it bury you alive?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you run back to the only one who
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  Speaker 1: can restore you. Peter and Judas two men who walked
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus, two men who failed him at his most
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  Speaker 1: critical moment, Two men who felt the crushing weight of
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  Speaker 1: their own actions. But only one was redeemed, only one
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  Speaker 1: was restored. Because failure isn't what destroys you. What you
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  Speaker 1: do after failure is what determines your future. Judas was
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  Speaker 1: filled with regret, but regret without repentance leads to destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Peter was broken, but he ran back to Jesus, and
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  Speaker 1: that one decision changed everything. And now the real question
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  Speaker 1: is which one are you. Maybe you've asked God for forgiveness,
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  Speaker 1: but deep down you're still carrying the guilt. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: believe God can redeem others, but you're not sure he
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  Speaker 1: can redeem you. By the time you finish this video,
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  Speaker 1: you will see your failures in a completely new way,
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  Speaker 1: because what you do next matters more than what you've
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  Speaker 1: done before. And if you know someone who is trapped
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  Speaker 1: in guilt and shame, send them this message. This could
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  Speaker 1: be what saves them. Before we continue, take a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever struggled to forgive yourself even after asking
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  Speaker 1: God for forgiveness? Drop a comment below, Let's talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: and don't forget to like and share this deep Bible
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  Speaker 1: Story's video because the truth you're about to hear could
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  Speaker 1: change someone's life forever. Maybe you've been there before the
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  Speaker 1: moment you realize you can't take it back. The words
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  Speaker 1: are already spoken, the damage is already done. You can
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  Speaker 1: feel the regret settling into your bones, and no matter
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  Speaker 1: how much you wish you could undo it, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: Judas knew that feeling. He walked with Jesus. He saw
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  Speaker 1: miracles unfold before his very eyes, the blind seeing the
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  Speaker 1: dead being raised, the storms obeying a single word. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just a follower. He was one of the twelve,
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  Speaker 1: hand picked by Jesus himself, a man with purpose, calling,
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  Speaker 1: and access to the presence of God. And yet for
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  Speaker 1: thirty pieces of silver he threw it all away. Why
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  Speaker 1: people think Judas betrayed Jesus because he was just evil,
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  Speaker 1: But that's too simple. It was deeper than that. Judas
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  Speaker 1: had a heart problem long before he ever kissed Jesus
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  Speaker 1: on the cheek in the garden. In John twelve six,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us that Judas was in charge of
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  Speaker 1: the money bag, but he was a thief. He had
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  Speaker 1: been stealing from the ministry the entire time. Think about that.
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  Speaker 1: He was walking next to Jesus, listening to the teachings,
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  Speaker 1: witnessing miracles, sitting at the table with the Son of God,
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  Speaker 1: but his heart was divided. It didn't happen over night.
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  Speaker 1: At some point he justified taking a little here and there.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he thought, I deserve this. I work hard, no
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  Speaker 1: one will notice. But that's the thing about compromise. It
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  Speaker 1: starts small, a little dishonesty, a little selfishness. Before long
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  Speaker 1: you're in so deep you don't even recognize yourself any more.
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  Speaker 1: Judas didn't wake up one morning and decide, I think
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  Speaker 1: I'll betray the Son of God to day number. It
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  Speaker 1: started with a small, unchecked sin that grew into something
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  Speaker 1: that consumed him, and the moment he agreed to sell
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  Speaker 1: out Jesus, it was already too late. Maybe you've seen
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  Speaker 1: this play out in real life. A husband who flirts
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  Speaker 1: a little too much with a co worker until one
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  Speaker 1: day it becomes more than just words. A business man
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  Speaker 1: who manipulates numbers on a report, just once until suddenly
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  Speaker 1: he's caught in a full blown scandal. A friend who
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  Speaker 1: tells a small lie to cover up a mistake until
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  Speaker 1: the lies spiral out of control. That's how sin works.
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  Speaker 1: It never stays small. And Judas, after years of hidden compromise,
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  Speaker 1: made one final fatal mistake. Thirty pieces of silver. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he traded Jesus for in today's money, that's
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  Speaker 1: about four months. Wages a cheap price to sell your soul.
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  Speaker 1: But here's where the story takes a turn. The moment
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was arrested, Judas realized what he had done. The
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  Speaker 1: regret hit him like a tidal wave. Matthew twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: three says when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned
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  Speaker 1: the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.
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  Speaker 1: Seized with remorse, Judas felt guilt, shame, disgusted. He tried
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  Speaker 1: to undo it. He ran back to the people who
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  Speaker 1: paid him off, desperately trying to return the money. I
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  Speaker 1: have sinned he confessed for I have betrayed innocent blood Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven four. But here's the thing. Remorse is not
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  Speaker 1: the same as repentance. Regret feels bad about sin. Repentance
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  Speaker 1: turns away from sin. Judas felt bad, but instead of
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  Speaker 1: running to Jesus, he ran to the wrong people. And
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  Speaker 1: they didn't care. What is that to us? They said,
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  Speaker 1: that's your responsibility, Matthew, twenty seven four. That's what the
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  Speaker 1: world does. It tempts you, it lures you in, It
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  Speaker 1: makes you think you're getting ahead, but the moment you fall,
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  Speaker 1: it abandons you. Judas, overcome with guilt, lost all hope.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't believe forgiveness was possible. He didn't believe Jesus
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  Speaker 1: would have taken him back. So he made the worst
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  Speaker 1: decision of his life. He ended it. He let guilt
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  Speaker 1: consume him. He believed the lie that his failure was final.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the terrifying truth. Udas could have been forgiven
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  Speaker 1: if he had just gone back to Jesus. Think about Peter.
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  Speaker 1: He failed too. He denied Jesus, not once, not twice,
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  Speaker 1: but three times. He swore he didn't even know him.
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  Speaker 1: That should have been unforgivable. But Peter, instead of running
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  Speaker 1: away from Jesus, ran toward him, and because of that
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  Speaker 1: he was restored. But Judas he lets shame become his prison.
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  Speaker 1: How many people do the same thing to day, Maybe
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  Speaker 1: not in such a dramatic way, but how many people
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  Speaker 1: let one mistake define them forever? How many people, after
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  Speaker 1: failing say, there's no way God will take me back. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way I can recover from this. I might
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  Speaker 1: as well give up. It happens all the time. A
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  Speaker 1: man falls back into an old addiction and instead of fighting,
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  Speaker 1: he lets guilt drag him deeper. A woman messes up
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  Speaker 1: in her marriage and instead of seeking help, she believes
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  Speaker 1: she's too far gone. A teenager makes a wrong decision
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  Speaker 1: and instead of asking for grace, they think they've ruined
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  Speaker 1: their future. That's the trap of guilt, that's the lie
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  Speaker 1: of the enemy. Judas didn't have to end his story
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  Speaker 1: this way. He could have been forgiven, he could have
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  Speaker 1: been restored, but he let his sin convince him that
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  Speaker 1: grace was no longer available. And that's the difference between
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  Speaker 1: remorse and repentance. Judas felt bad, but he didn't turn
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  Speaker 1: back to Jesus. Peter failed too, but he ran back
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  Speaker 1: to the only one who could restore him. And that's
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  Speaker 1: where this message gets personal, Because maybe you've made some
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  Speaker 1: bad choices, Maybe you've failed in ways you don't even
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about. Maybe you feel so much guilt,
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  Speaker 1: so much regret, that you don't even know how to
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  Speaker 1: move forward. But listen to me. Your failure is not
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  Speaker 1: the end of your story. You have two choices. You
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  Speaker 1: can let guilt bury you like Judas, or you can
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  Speaker 1: run back to Jesus like Peter. God is not done
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  Speaker 1: with you. The same Jesus who forgave Peter is waiting
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  Speaker 1: to restore you too. The only question is will you
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  Speaker 1: let him. Judas let his failure define him. He let
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  Speaker 1: guilt whisper lies until he believed there was no way back.
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  Speaker 1: But what if he had done what Peter did? Because
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  Speaker 1: Peter failed too, not in secret, not in the shadows,
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  Speaker 1: Peter failed in public, in the worst possible moment, when
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  Speaker 1: Jesus needed him most. If any one should have been
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  Speaker 1: beyond redemption, it was him. And yet Peter's story didn't
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  Speaker 1: end in shame. It ended in restoration. But before we
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  Speaker 1: get there, we have to understand just how deep His
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  Speaker 1: failure was Peter wasn't just any disciple. He was the
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  Speaker 1: bold one, the loud one, the one who swore he
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  Speaker 1: would never leave Jesus no matter what. When Jesus warned
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  Speaker 1: the disciples that they would all fall away, Peter was
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  Speaker 1: the first to protest, even if all fall away, on
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  Speaker 1: account of you, I never will Matthew, twenty six thirty three.
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  Speaker 1: Peter didn't just follow Jesus. He wanted to prove himself.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to be the one who stood firm when
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  Speaker 1: everyone else fell apart. But Jesus saw through the bravado. Truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, Jesus replied this very night, before the
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  Speaker 1: rooster crows. You will disown me three times Matthew, twenty
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  Speaker 1: six thirty four. Peter refused to believe it him, deny
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  Speaker 1: Jesus never, And yet just hours later, that's exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 1: It started with a small moment of fear, a servant
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  Speaker 1: girl pointing him out in the courtyard. You also were
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus of Galilee, she said, And just like that,
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  Speaker 1: Peter panicked. I don't know what you're talking about, he muttered,
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  Speaker 1: shaking his head, stepping away. Then another person recognized him.
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  Speaker 1: This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth. This time Peter
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  Speaker 1: swore an oath. I don't know the man. The pressure
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  Speaker 1: was mounting. His heart was racing. The same Peter who
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  Speaker 1: once walked on water was drowning in fear. And then
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  Speaker 1: it happened a third time. Some one else saw him
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  Speaker 1: and called him out. Surely you are one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Your accent gives you away. This time Peter cuss swore
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  Speaker 1: and called down curses on himself, anything to prove that
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  Speaker 1: he had nothing to do with Jesus. And at that
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  Speaker 1: moment the rooster crowed. Scripture says that when Peter heard it,
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  Speaker 1: he remembered jesus words, he realized what he had done,
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  Speaker 1: And when Jesus turned and looked at him just a
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  Speaker 1: single glance, Peter broke. He ran out of the courtyard
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  Speaker 1: and wept bitterly. Luke twenty two sixty one to sixty two.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine what that moment felt like. Peter, the
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  Speaker 1: one who swore loyalty to Jesus, had just done the
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  Speaker 1: very thing he swore he'd never do. And he didn't
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  Speaker 1: just deny Jesus once, he did it three times. Judas
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  Speaker 1: betrayed Jesus in one moment, but Peter denied him three times.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't that have been unforgivable? If anyone had a reason
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  Speaker 1: to believe they were too far gone, it was Peter.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you know that feeling. Maybe you made a mistake
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  Speaker 1: that you swore you'd never make. Maybe you promise God
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  Speaker 1: you'd never go back to that sin, but you did.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you said you'd never walk away from your faith,
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  Speaker 1: but then life got hard and you distanced yourself from him.
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  Speaker 1: And now, like Peter, you feel the weight of your
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  Speaker 1: failure pressing down on you. But here's what makes Peter's
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  Speaker 1: story so powerful. He didn't let his failure keep him
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  Speaker 1: from Jesus. After the resurrection. When Peter heard that the
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  Speaker 1: tomb was empty, he ran to it. He didn't hide,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't disappear. He ran toward the place where Jesus
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  Speaker 1: might be, and then, in one of the most beautiful
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  Speaker 1: moments in scripture, Jesus restored him. It happened on the
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  Speaker 1: shore over breakfast. Jesus looked at Peter, the man who
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  Speaker 1: had denied him, the man who had run away, and
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  Speaker 1: instead of condemning him, instead of listing out his failures,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus simply asked Peter, do you love me? Three times,
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  Speaker 1: one question for each denial, and with every answer, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: didn't just forgive Peter. He recommissioned him. Feed my lambs,
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  Speaker 1: take care of my sheep, Feed my sheep. Jesus wasn't
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  Speaker 1: done with Peter. Peter's failure wasn't final, and neither is yours,
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  Speaker 1: because the difference between Peter and Judas wasn't the size
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  Speaker 1: of their sin, it was what they did afterward. Judas
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  Speaker 1: ran away from Jesus, Peter ran back to him, and
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  Speaker 1: when he did, he was restored. Peter went from denying
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  Speaker 1: Jesus in fear to preaching Jesus with boldness. The same
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  Speaker 1: man who cowered in front of a servant girl stood
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  Speaker 1: before thousands on the day of Pentecost and declared the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel with power. The man who once swore he didn't
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  Speaker 1: know Jesus was now willing to die for him. And
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  Speaker 1: when the time came, Peter faced death for Jesus without hesitation.
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  Speaker 1: He was no longer the man who ran away in fear,
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  Speaker 1: Because when Jesus restores you, he doesn't just erase your past.
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  Speaker 1: He makes you stronger than before. And that's what he
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  Speaker 1: wants to do for you. Maybe you've been feeling like
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  Speaker 1: Peter before the resurrection, ashamed, broken, convinced that your failure
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  Speaker 1: has disqualified you. But Jesus is standing on the shore
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  Speaker 1: calling you back. He's not done with you. Your purpose
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  Speaker 1: isn't canceled. Peter's greatest failure became the foundation for his
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  Speaker 1: greatest calling, and the same God who restored Peter is
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  Speaker 1: ready to restore you. So the real question is will
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  Speaker 1: you let him. Peter and Judas both failed. Both felt
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  Speaker 1: the crushing weight of their mistakes, but one was restored
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  Speaker 1: and one was destroyed. Not because one sin was greater
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  Speaker 1: than the other, but because one ran toward Jesus and
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  Speaker 1: the other ran away. And that's the difference between remorse
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  Speaker 1: and repentance. One leads to freedom, the other leads to destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Remorse feels bad about sin. It replays the mistake over
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  Speaker 1: and over, sinking deeper into shame, self hatred, and regret.
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  Speaker 1: It convinces you that you're beyond redemption, that you've gone
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  Speaker 1: too far, that the damage is permanent. Remorse traps you
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  Speaker 1: in the past, but repentance. Repentance doesn't just feel bad.
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  Speaker 1: It turns around. It doesn't sit in guilt. It runs
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  Speaker 1: back to God. It acknowledges the failure, but refuses to
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  Speaker 1: let it have the final word. Repentance moves you forward.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Peter lived and Judas died. But this isn't
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  Speaker 1: just a new Testament lesson. We see it throughout the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: the difference between those who stayed in guilt and those
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  Speaker 1: who ran to God for restoration. Take Cain and David.
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  Speaker 1: Both of them messed up in huge ways. Cain killed
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  Speaker 1: his brother out of jealousy. When God confronted him, did
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  Speaker 1: he fall on his knees and repent? Did he cry
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  Speaker 1: out for mercy? Number he complained, my punishment is too
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  Speaker 1: great to bear jealousies four thirteen. He felt bad, but
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  Speaker 1: not because he sinned, because he got caught, and because
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  Speaker 1: he never repented, his life spiral downward. David, on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, David sinned in one of the worst ways possible.
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  Speaker 1: He took another man's wife and had her husband been
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  Speaker 1: murdered to cover it up, and for a while he
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  Speaker 1: tried to hide it. But when the prophet Nathan exposed him,
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  Speaker 1: David had a choice remorse or repentance, and David fell
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  Speaker 1: to his knees and repented against you, And you alone
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  Speaker 1: have I sinned? He cried out to God Psalm fifty
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  Speaker 1: one four. He didn't shift the blame, he didn't make excuses,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't run away, and because he repented, God restored him.
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  Speaker 1: One man let his guilt define him and lived in exile.
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  Speaker 1: The other turned back to God and was made whole again.
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  Speaker 1: Or look at Saul and Paul. Saul, the first king
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, had every opportunity to be great, but over
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  Speaker 1: time his pride, disobedience, and insecurities led him away from God.
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  Speaker 1: When he was confronted, instead of repenting, he defended himself,
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  Speaker 1: made excuses, and hardened his heart, and because of that
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  Speaker 1: God rejected him. But Paul, Paul was just as bad, worse.
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  Speaker 1: Even he persecuted Christians, he approved of executions. He was
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  Speaker 1: literally hunting down the followers of Jesus. But the difference
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  Speaker 1: when Paul encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't make excuses, he didn't resist, he surrendered, and God
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  Speaker 1: didn't just forgive Paul, he transformed him. The same man
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  Speaker 1: who once killed Christians became the greatest preacher of the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel because repentance leads to restoration. But here's where it
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  Speaker 1: gets personal. We see this in real life all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Two people can make the same mistake, but what happens
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  Speaker 1: next depends on their response. One person gets caught up
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  Speaker 1: in an affair. They feel guilty, they regret it, but
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  Speaker 1: instead of repenting, they wallow in shame, or blame their spouse,
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  Speaker 1: or convince themselves they're too far gone to be given.
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  Speaker 1: Another person falls into the same sin, but instead of
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  Speaker 1: staying in guilt, they confess, They seek God, they repent,
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  Speaker 1: and they begin the process of healing and restoration. Which
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  Speaker 1: one do you think finds freedom or maybe it's addiction.
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  Speaker 1: One person struggles with substance abuse. They feel guilt, they
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  Speaker 1: know it's wrong, but instead of repenting, they sink deeper
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  Speaker 1: into self hatred, convincing themselves they're too broken to change.
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  Speaker 1: But another person in the same struggle finally hits rock
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  Speaker 1: bottom and cries out to God. They own their mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: they ask for help, They step into accountability, and because
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  Speaker 1: they repent, instead of just feeling bad, they are set free.
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  Speaker 1: That's the difference. One person stays trapped in the past,
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  Speaker 1: the other moves into a new future. So the real
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  Speaker 1: question is which one are used. Are you living in rooms,
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  Speaker 1: stuck in guilt, running in circles, convinced that you're beyond redemption,
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  Speaker 1: or are you choosing repentance, acknowledging your failure but running
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  Speaker 1: back to the God who is waiting to restore you.
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  Speaker 1: Because here's the truth. God does not turn away from
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  Speaker 1: broken people. He turns away from people who refuse to
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  Speaker 1: return to him. Judas could have been forgiven, Cain could
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  Speaker 1: have been redeemed, Saul could have been restored, but they
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  Speaker 1: chose to stay in their guilt instead of running back
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  Speaker 1: to God. Peter, David, and Paul they ran to God
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  Speaker 1: and they were not only forgiven, they were given new purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And you have that same choice. Your failure does not
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  Speaker 1: have to define you. Your past does not have to
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  Speaker 1: be your future. But the question is will you stay
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  Speaker 1: stuck in guilt or will you run back to the
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  Speaker 1: only one who can restore you. The difference between remorse
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  Speaker 1: and repentance is the difference between staying stuck in your
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  Speaker 1: past or stepping into the future God still has for you.
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  Speaker 1: But what kind of person does God truly accept? What
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  Speaker 1: kind of heart does he love? If failure itself isn't
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  Speaker 1: what disqualifies us, then what does. This is where Peter's
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  Speaker 1: story stands out. Because Jesus didn't choose perfect people. He
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  Speaker 1: chose people who were willing to repent. That's why he
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  Speaker 1: restored Peter and not Judas. That's why he called David
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  Speaker 1: a man after my own heart, even after his worst failures.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Paul, who once killed Christians, was the one
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  Speaker 1: chosen to spread the Gospel to the world, because God
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  Speaker 1: is more drawn to a broken person who repents than
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  Speaker 1: a righteous person who hides sin. Think about the kind
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  Speaker 1: of people Jesus spent his time with tax collectors, prostitutes, outcasts,
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  Speaker 1: fishermen with bad tempers. He wasn't drawn to the religious elite,
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  Speaker 1: the Pharisees, who knew all the scriptures but had no humility. No,
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  Speaker 1: he was drawn to the ones who knew they needed mercy.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly why he loved Peter's heart. More. Peter
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  Speaker 1: messed up a lot. He was impulsive, He spoke before thinking,
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  Speaker 1: He doubted while standing on water, he swung a sword
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  Speaker 1: and cut off a man's ear in the garden of
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  Speaker 1: Gethsemone he denied Jesus three times, but every time he fell,
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  Speaker 1: he got back up. And that's the kind of person
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  Speaker 1: Jesus can use. Because God is not looking for people
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  Speaker 1: who never fail. He's looking for people who keep coming
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  Speaker 1: back to him. The Church to day needs more Peter's
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  Speaker 1: more people who are real, raw and honest about their struggles.
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  Speaker 1: People who don't pretend to be perfect, but who know
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  Speaker 1: how to fall on their knees and repent. Because here's
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  Speaker 1: the truth, Hiding your sin is more dangerous than struggling
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  Speaker 1: with sin. The Pharisees thought they were righteous, they followed
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  Speaker 1: the law, They looked holy, they prayed in public for
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  Speaker 1: everyone to see. But Jesus called them hypocrites, blind guides,
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  Speaker 1: whitewashed tombs, beautiful on the outside but full of death
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  Speaker 1: on the inside Matthew twenty three, twenty seven. Why because
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  Speaker 1: they hid their sin instead of repenting for it. They
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  Speaker 1: were no different than Judas. Judas walked with Jesus just
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  Speaker 1: like Peter did. But Judas wore a mask of righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: He pretended to be devoted while stealing from the money bag.
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  Speaker 1: He put on a holy appearance while selling Jesus for silver,
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  Speaker 1: and when his mask fell apart, he didn't know how
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  Speaker 1: to run to Jesus because he had never truly known him.
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  Speaker 1: But Peter was never fake. He was messy, he was reckless,
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  Speaker 1: but he was real. And when he failed, he knew
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  Speaker 1: where to go. That's why Jesus restored him. That's why
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  Speaker 1: Peter became one of the greatest leaders of the early Church.
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  Speaker 1: Because Peter wasn't perfect, but he was willing to repent.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus told a story that captures this heart perfectly, the
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  Speaker 1: story of the prodigal son. A son who had everything,
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  Speaker 1: walked away from his father, wasted his inheritance, ruined his life,
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  Speaker 1: and found himself starving in a pig sty. And when
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  Speaker 1: he hit rock bottom, he didn't stay there. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: let guilt keep him away. He didn't believe the lie
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  Speaker 1: that he had gone too far. He got up, he
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  Speaker 1: ran home, and the moment his father saw him in
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  Speaker 1: the distance, he didn't wait. He ran to him. He
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  Speaker 1: threw his arms around him, He put a robe on
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  Speaker 1: his back and a ring on his finger, and said,
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  Speaker 1: my son was dead, but now he is alive again.
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't rejoice in perfection, he rejoices in return. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what Peter understood. He knew that, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: badly he failed, the only right response was to run
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  Speaker 1: back to Jesus. So now the question is what about you.
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  Speaker 1: Are you trying to hide your sin like the Pharisees,
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  Speaker 1: Are you letting guilt keep you away like Judas? Or
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  Speaker 1: will you run back to the Father like Peter and
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  Speaker 1: the prodigal son? Because the truth is, Jesus loves a
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  Speaker 1: repentant heart more than a religious one. He's not looking
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  Speaker 1: for people who look holy. He's looking for people who
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  Speaker 1: know they need him and the good news. If you're
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  Speaker 1: still breathing, it's not too late to turn round. Peter's
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  Speaker 1: story proves that failure isn't final. Jesus isn't looking for perfection.
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  Speaker 1: He's looking for people who will come back to him
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  Speaker 1: no matter how many times they fall. But there's one
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  Speaker 1: thing that keeps so many people from ever making that return, guilt.
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  Speaker 1: Guilt is one of the enemy's greatest weapons, and Judas
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  Speaker 1: was his perfect target. Judas didn't just wake up one
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  Speaker 1: day and decide to betray Jesus. The enemy had been
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  Speaker 1: working on him for a long time. The Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us in Luke twenty two three that Satan entered Judas
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  Speaker 1: before he made his deal with the religious leaders. Think
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  Speaker 1: about that. Judas walked with Jesus, saw the miracles, heard
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  Speaker 1: the teachings, yet he still let Satan into his heart.
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  Speaker 1: And once the enemy got in, he started whispering lies,
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  Speaker 1: you're just taking a little money, it's not a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus isn't the messiah you thought he was. Look at him,
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  Speaker 1: he's not even trying to fight back. You can profit
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  Speaker 1: from this. You deserve more than what you're getting. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest lie of all, it's too late now. You
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  Speaker 1: can't go back. That's what guilt does. It doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: remind you of what you did. It convinces you that
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  Speaker 1: you can never be free from it. And when Judas
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  Speaker 1: saw Jesus condemned, when he felt the crushing weight of
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  Speaker 1: what he had done, the whispers didn't stop. Look what
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  Speaker 1: you did. There's no way he will forgive you. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You're a traitor, you're a disgrace. You don't deserve to live.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the moment Judas made his final mistake. He
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  Speaker 1: believed the lie. He believed that his failure was greater
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  Speaker 1: than God's mercy, that his sin was too big to
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  Speaker 1: be forgiven that his only way out was to end
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  Speaker 1: his own life, and that's exactly where the enemy wanted him.
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  Speaker 1: Because if Satan can't stop your calling, he will try
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  Speaker 1: to bury you in guilt so you never walk in it.
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  Speaker 1: And he's still using the same trap to day. How
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  Speaker 1: many people have you seen walk away from church because
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  Speaker 1: of guilt? How many people have you known who say,
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  Speaker 1: I can't go back, I've messed up too much. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's you. Maybe you've let guilt keep you from prayer,
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  Speaker 1: from worship, from stepping back into faith, because every time
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  Speaker 1: you try, the enemy whispers. You really think God wants
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  Speaker 1: to hear from you? After what you did, every one
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  Speaker 1: will judge you. If you go back, You're too far gone.
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  Speaker 1: You don't belong here any more. And just like that,
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  Speaker 1: guilt becomes a prison. But here's the truth. The enemy
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want you to know. God never turned away from you.
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  Speaker 1: The door has always been open, the invitation has always
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  Speaker 1: been there. The blood of Jesus is still enough to
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  Speaker 1: cover every sin, every mistake, every failure. The only thing
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  Speaker 1: keeping you from returning is the lie you keep believing.
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  Speaker 1: Look at Peter. His failure was public, humiliating, unforgettable. But
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  Speaker 1: when he realized what he had done, he didn't run
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  Speaker 1: away from Jesus. He ran toward him, and because of
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  Speaker 1: that he was restored. Now, imagine if Peter had believed
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  Speaker 1: the same lie Judas did. Imagine if he had let
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  Speaker 1: guilt keep him away, if he had let shame tell
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  Speaker 1: him he wasn't worthy. Imagine if he had disappeared, convinced
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  Speaker 1: that his sin was too big to be forgiven. There
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  Speaker 1: would be no book of Acts, no Pentecost sermon where
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  Speaker 1: Peter preached and three thousand people got saved, no powerful
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  Speaker 1: movement of the early Church led by a man who
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  Speaker 1: once denied his savior. The enemy wanted to destroy Peter
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  Speaker 1: with guilt, but he failed, and he will fail with
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  Speaker 1: you too, but only if you refuse to believe his lies.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you fight back? How do you break
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  Speaker 1: free from guilt when it feels like it's wrapped around
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  Speaker 1: you like chains? First, you stop running from God. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter how long it's been, it doesn't matter how
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  Speaker 1: bad you think your failure is. You go back right now,
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  Speaker 1: this moment. You stop listening to the whispers that say
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  Speaker 1: you're not worthy, because you were never worthy to begin
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  Speaker 1: with That's why Jesus died for you. Second, you confess
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  Speaker 1: and let it go, not half way, not in vague,
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  Speaker 1: safe prayers. You bring it all to him, lay it
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  Speaker 1: at his feet, and refuse to pick it back up.
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  Speaker 1: Because if God says I remember your sins no more
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews eight twelve, then why do you keep remembering them? Third,
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  Speaker 1: you remind yourself who you are in Christ. Guilt will
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  Speaker 1: tell you who you were. God will remind you who
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  Speaker 1: you are. You are forgiven first John one nine, you
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  Speaker 1: are redeemed Ephesians one seven, You are a new creation.
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  Speaker 1: Second Corinthians five seventeen. Guilt is a liar, and once
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  Speaker 1: you see it for what it is, it loses its
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  Speaker 1: power over you. So now you have a choice. You
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  Speaker 1: can listen to the enemy like Judas did and believe
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  Speaker 1: the lie that says you're too far gone, or you
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  Speaker 1: can do what Peter did. You can run back to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: because no matter how far you've gone, Jesus is still
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  Speaker 1: waiting for you on the shore, ready to restore you,
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  Speaker 1: ready to remind you that you still have a purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And when you finally break free from guilt, when you
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  Speaker 1: stop letting the enemy hold you back, you'll realize something powerful.
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  Speaker 1: The very thing the enemy tried to use to destroy you,
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  Speaker 1: God will use it for your greatest testimony. The enemy's
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  Speaker 1: greatest lie is that you have to stay in your guilt,
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  Speaker 1: that your failure is final, that your sin is too big,
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  Speaker 1: that you can't come back from this. But if that
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  Speaker 1: were true, Peter's story would have ended in shame. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: his greatest failure became the foundation for his greatest calling.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you move from remorse to repentance? How
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  Speaker 1: do you stop drowning in guilt and step into the
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  Speaker 1: restoration God has been waiting to give you. It starts
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  Speaker 1: with making the choice to stop replaying your failure, Because
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  Speaker 1: let's be real, how many times have you laid awake
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  Speaker 1: at night replaying your mistakes over and over, wishing you
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  Speaker 1: had said something different, done something different, gone back in
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  Speaker 1: time and fixed what now seems unfixable. But reliving your
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  Speaker 1: past doesn't change it. It only keeps you stuck in
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  Speaker 1: the shame of it. Judas kept replaying what he had done,
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  Speaker 1: but instead of running to Jesus, he let his failure
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  Speaker 1: consume him. Peter felt the same regret, the same crushing sorrow,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't let it define him. He ran back
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus. And that's the first thing you need to do.
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  Speaker 1: Stop rehearsing your failure and start running back to God immediately.
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  Speaker 1: The longer you stay in guilt, the more power it
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  Speaker 1: has over you. But the second you turn back to God,
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  Speaker 1: the chains start breaking. But here's where so many people
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  Speaker 1: get stuck. They try to cover instead of confess. That's
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  Speaker 1: the second step. Confess, don't cover. Adam and Eve were
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  Speaker 1: the first ones to try hiding their sin. The moment
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  Speaker 1: they fell. They didn't run to God for mercy. They
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  Speaker 1: ran away in shame. They tried to cover themselves with
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  Speaker 1: fig leaves, pretending they could fix their sin on their own.
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  Speaker 1: And people are still doing the same thing to day.
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  Speaker 1: A man who struggles with addiction hides it instead of
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  Speaker 1: admitting he needs help. A woman who messed up pretends
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  Speaker 1: everything is fine instead of bringing it to God. A
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  Speaker 1: leader who falls into sin puts on a good image
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  Speaker 1: while dying inside. But what you cover in secret will
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  Speaker 1: eventually destroy you. That's why confession is so powerful, because
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  Speaker 1: the moment you bring it into the light, the enemy
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  Speaker 1: loses his grip on You. Think about David when he
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  Speaker 1: tried to cover his sin with Bathsheba, it only got worse.
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  Speaker 1: One sin led to another, until he had fallen so
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  Speaker 1: deep that he was unrecognizable. But when he finally confessed,
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  Speaker 1: when he finally said, God, I have sinned against you
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  Speaker 1: Psalm fifty one, verse four, that's when his healing began.
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  Speaker 1: Because God doesn't reject the broken, He restores them. But
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  Speaker 1: there's still one more step. You have to accept forgiveness.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where so many people struggle. They've confessed,
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  Speaker 1: they've repented, but they still feel guilty because deep down
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  Speaker 1: they don't think they deserve forgiveness. And here's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: They're right. None of us deserve it. That's why it's grace,
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  Speaker 1: that's why it's mercy. If forgiveness was something we could earn,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus wouldn't have needed to die for us, but he
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  Speaker 1: did because God knew we could never clean ourselves up
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  Speaker 1: enough to be worthy. And yet so many people hold
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  Speaker 1: on to guilt, refusing to forgive themselves even after God
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  Speaker 1: has already forgiven them. But think about this. If God
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  Speaker 1: has declared you forgiven, who are you to argue with him?
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus restored Peter, he didn't make him sy in shame.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't say, Peter, let's talk about how badly you
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  Speaker 1: failed number. He simply asked, do you love me? And
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  Speaker 1: with each answer, Peter was not just forgiven. He was commissioned.
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  Speaker 1: Feed my sheep, take care of my lambs, feed my sheep.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't just bring Peter back, He gave him a mission.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what God wants to do for you.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't just want to forgive you. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: use you. But if you keep holding on to guilt,
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  Speaker 1: if you keep believing the lie that says I'm too
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  Speaker 1: messed up for God to use me, you will never
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  Speaker 1: step into the future he has for you. So here's
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  Speaker 1: the real question. If Peter could be restored, why not you.
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  Speaker 1: If God can take a man who denied Jesus in
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  Speaker 1: his most critical moment and turn him into a leader
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  Speaker 1: of the Early Church, what can he do with you?
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  Speaker 1: If he can take a murderer like Paul and make
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  Speaker 1: him the greatest preacher of the gospel. What makes you
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  Speaker 1: think your failure is too big? The enemy wants you
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  Speaker 1: to believe your past disqualifies you. But God is saying,
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  Speaker 1: if you would just let go of the guilt. I
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  Speaker 1: will use your story for my glory. So stop replaying
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  Speaker 1: your mistakes. Run back to God immediately. Stop covering your failures,
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  Speaker 1: confess them and be free. Stop holding on to guilt.
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  Speaker 1: If God forgives you, it's time to forgive yourself. Because
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  Speaker 1: what the enemy meant to destroy you, God will use
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  Speaker 1: to build you. Peter's failure wasn't the end of his story.
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  Speaker 1: It was the beginning of his calling, and the same
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  Speaker 1: can be true for you if you let it. Peter's
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  Speaker 1: failure wasn't the end of his story, it was the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of his calling, and that same truth applies to you.
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  Speaker 1: Your past does not disqualify you. Your worst mistake does
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  Speaker 1: not define you. But the real question is will you
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  Speaker 1: let God God restore you. Because you have two choices.
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  Speaker 1: You can fall like Judas, or you can return like Peter.
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  Speaker 1: Judas let guilt consume him. He believed the lie that
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  Speaker 1: he was too far gone. He let shame silence him,
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  Speaker 1: push him deeper into despair until he felt like he
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  Speaker 1: had no way out. And the saddest part, he never
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  Speaker 1: gave Jesus the chance to restore him. He never even asked.
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  Speaker 1: But Peter Peter ran back to Jesus. He didn't let
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  Speaker 1: his failure keep him away. He didn't let shame have
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  Speaker 1: the final word. And because of that, he was not
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  Speaker 1: only forgiven, he was given a new purpose. So now
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  Speaker 1: the choice is yours. Maybe you've been running from God
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  Speaker 1: because you're convinced he won't take you back. Maybe you've
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  Speaker 1: let guilt weigh you down for so long that you
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  Speaker 1: don't even know how to move forward any more. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you've convinced yourself that you've disappointed God too many times.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, you are never too far gone for Jesus
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  Speaker 1: to restore you. Never, not after one mistake, not after
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  Speaker 1: ten mistakes, not after a thousand. If God could restore Peter,
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  Speaker 1: he can restore you. If he could transform Paul, he
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  Speaker 1: can transform you. If Jesus ran to embrace the prodigal
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  Speaker 1: son after everything he had done, he will run to
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  Speaker 1: embrace you too. But you have to come home. You
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  Speaker 1: have to stop believing the lie that says God is
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  Speaker 1: done with me. You have to stop sitting in shame
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  Speaker 1: thinking there's no way back from this, because the truth
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  Speaker 1: is Jesus is waiting. He has always been waiting, the
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  Speaker 1: only thing standing between you and restoration is your willingness
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  Speaker 1: to receive it. So take a moment right now, be
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  Speaker 1: honest with yourself. Have you been struggling to forgive yourself?
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Have you been running from God, convinced that you've messed
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  Speaker 1: up too much to come back? Drop a comment below.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about it, Let's pray about it. Because you
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  Speaker 1: are not alone in this. And if this message spoke
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  Speaker 1: to you, if you know someone who is drowning in guilt,
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  Speaker 1: someone who needs to hear that God isn't done with them,
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  Speaker 1: send this to them. Because Jesus doesn't love the ones
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  Speaker 1: who never mess up. He loves the ones who keep
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  Speaker 1: coming back. Jesus doesn't love the ones who never mess up.
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  Speaker 1: He loves the ones who keep coming back. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we've seen in Peter's story in the Prodigal Son, in
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  Speaker 1: every broken person who turned back and found that God
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  Speaker 1: was never waiting with anger, He was waiting with open arms.
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  Speaker 1: And now it's your turn. If you've been carrying guilt,
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  Speaker 1: if you've been believing the lie that you're too far gone,
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  Speaker 1: if you've been running from God instead of running to him,
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  Speaker 1: this is the moment to break free. Because guilt is heavy.
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  Speaker 1: It clings to you like a weight you weren't meant
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  Speaker 1: to carry. It steals your joy, keeps you stuck, whispers
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  Speaker 1: that you'll never be good enough. But that voice is
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  Speaker 1: not God's voice. That voice is not your shepherd. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is not standing over you, shaking his head in disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: He is standing on the shore calling you back home.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to let go. You have to surrender
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  Speaker 1: the shames. Stop trying to fix yourself, Stop thinking you
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  Speaker 1: need to be better before you return, because you're not
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  Speaker 1: the one who makes yourself clean. Jesus is. So let's pray,
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  Speaker 1: not just to say words, but to step into freedom,
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  Speaker 1: to leave guilt behind and walk in the mercy that
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  Speaker 1: has been waiting for you all along. Father, we come
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  Speaker 1: before you with open hands and weary hearts. We are
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  Speaker 1: tired of carrying the weight of our mistakes. We are
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  Speaker 1: exhausted from running, from trying to prove ourselves, from replaying
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  Speaker 1: our failures over and over in our minds. We've listened
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  Speaker 1: to the enemy's lies for too long, the lies that
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  Speaker 1: told us we are too far gone, too broken, too
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  Speaker 1: messed up to ever be restored. But today we choose
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  Speaker 1: to listen to you, to day, we stop running. Today,
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  Speaker 1: we turn around. Today we come back home. Lord. We
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  Speaker 1: need your mercy. We need the kind of grace that
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  Speaker 1: washes away every stain, every regret, every wrong decision, The
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  Speaker 1: kind of love that doesn't hesitate, doesn't hold back, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make us prove our worth because we never could. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: you saw Peter in his lowest moment. You saw him
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  Speaker 1: when he denied you, and yet you still chose him,
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  Speaker 1: You still loved him, you still restored him. And today
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  Speaker 1: we asked for that same restoration. Some of us have
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  Speaker 1: denied you with our words. Some of us have denied
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  Speaker 1: you with our actions. Some of us have denied you
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  Speaker 1: by walking away, by pretending we don't hear you calling
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  Speaker 1: us back. But today we confess it all. Forgive us, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: forgive us for doubting your love. Forgive us for believing
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  Speaker 1: our mistakes were bigger than your grace. Forgive us for
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  Speaker 1: staying in shame when you were always offering restoration. We
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  Speaker 1: surrender it all to you now, every burden, every regret,
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  Speaker 1: every past failure that we keep holding on to. We
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  Speaker 1: refuse to let guilt keep us from your presence any longer,
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  Speaker 1: because we know now shame does not come from you.
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  Speaker 1: Your word says there is now no condemnation for those
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  Speaker 1: who are in Christ Jesus Romans eight, colon one. So
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  Speaker 1: why have we been condemning ourselves? Why have we been
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  Speaker 1: carrying what Jesus already nailed to the cross. Today we
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  Speaker 1: lay it all down. We lay down the guilt, we
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  Speaker 1: lay down the regret, We lay down the feeling that
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  Speaker 1: we have to fix ourselves before we come back. And
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  Speaker 1: in its place we receive your mercy. We receive your love.
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  Speaker 1: We receive your promise that you are not done with
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  Speaker 1: us yet. Father, give us a heart like Peter, a
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  Speaker 1: heart that always comes back no matter how many times
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  Speaker 1: we fail. A heart that runs toward you, not away,
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  Speaker 1: A heart that trusts in your grace more than its
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  Speaker 1: own guilt. A heart that believes you when you say
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  Speaker 1: you are forgiven. Because we know the enemy is not
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  Speaker 1: done lying to us, He will still whisper you don't
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  Speaker 1: deserve another chance. He will still say God is disappointed
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  Speaker 1: in you. He will still try to pull us back
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  Speaker 1: into shame. But to day we declare that we will
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  Speaker 1: not believe his lies any more. We know who you are. God.
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  Speaker 1: You are the God who left the ninety nine for
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  Speaker 1: the One, the God who ran to the prodigal son
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  Speaker 1: while he was still far off, the God who restored
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  Speaker 1: Peter when he thought he was beyond redemption. And you
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  Speaker 1: are the same God to day. So we choose to
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  Speaker 1: walk in freedom. We choose to step into restoration. We
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  Speaker 1: choose to believe that our best days are not behind us,
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  Speaker 1: they are still ahead. Thank you, Jesus for never giving
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  Speaker 1: up on us. Thank you for loving us when we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even love ourselves. Thank you for calling us back
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  Speaker 1: when we thought we had gone too far. We are
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  Speaker 1: Yours Lord, fully forgiven, fully loved, fully restored in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Mighty name. Amen. If you prayed that prayer, if you're
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  Speaker 1: letting go of guilt to day, comment below. I choose restoration.
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  Speaker 1: Let's declare it together. Let's step into this freedom together.
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  Speaker 1: And if you know someone who needs this, someone who
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  Speaker 1: has been trapped in shame believing that God won't take
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  Speaker 1: them back, send this to them, because no one is
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  Speaker 1: too far gone for the love of Jesus. And to day,
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  Speaker 1: we choose to believe that stay blessed,