Slaying The Giant of
Failure.
Intro
Story
President George Bush Senior.
The
number of times we fail as kids growing up
Don’t
worry about failures. Worry about the
times you fail to try.
II Cor 4.
16For which cause we faint
not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward
man is renewed day by day. 17For
our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us
a
far more exceeding and eternal weight
of glory; 18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at
the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are
not seen are eternal.
Face the
realty of Failure.
II cor 4
8We are
troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we
are perplexed, but not in despair; 9Persecuted, but not
forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10Always bearing about in
the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made
manifest in our body
Face the
reason for failure.
17For our light affliction,
which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18While
we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen:
for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal.
A. We fail now to succeed later
Present affliction means
future glory
B. We Fail in the incidental to succeed in the important
V.17. For our light affliction, which is but for a
moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and
eternal
weight of glory
C. We fail temporally to succeed eternally
V17. Which is but for a moment, worketh
for us a far more exceeding and eternal
D. We Fail outwardly to succeed inwardly
V. 16. but though our
outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day
Face the results of Failure.
Do not loose heart
16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day
How to slay
the Giant of Failure.
Acknowledge your failure.
Lu 15
18I will arise and
go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19And am no more
worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants
President
Truman.
Accept God’s
forgiveness for failure
Lu 15:
20And he arose, and
came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him,
and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him
Ps 103:
8The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger,
and plenteous in mercy. 9He will not always chide: neither will he
keep his anger for ever. 10He
hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our
iniquities
Apply failure
towards success.
The failures of
the Wright Brothers led to the Wright Flyer of 1903.
Arise from failure
and start again
20And he arose, and
came to his father ……
Failure is the
Highway to success
Failure is not a
person Failure is an event.
Jonah
Chapter
3
1And the word of
the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2Arise, go unto
120 thousands
got saved – The greatest revival of the Bible.
Peter.
Matt 26:
69Now Peter sat
without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with
Jesus of Galilee. 70But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. 71And
when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was
also with Jesus of Nazareth. 72And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the
man. 73And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth
thee. 74Then began he to curse and to
swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. 75And Peter
remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before
the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
He became the
greatest of all the apostles.
Forgetting
those things that are behind.
Phil 3:
13Brethren, I
count not myself to have apprehended: but this
one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus.