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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | FINISH - You’re Not Done Until You’re Done | January 17, 2022
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- It's about tomorrow and the day after that.
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- The future God has planned for you
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- shouldn't be a haphazard approach to life.
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- You might feel stuck, but you don't have to be.
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- Perhaps you're discouraged.
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- It's time to deal with that.
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- And if you feel uncertain, you can find clarity.
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- You may not know what's next, but God does.
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- He's there waiting for you in your tomorrow.
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- So step into it and discover God's presence
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- and purpose in your life.
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- Starting today, starting now, it's time to move forward.
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- announcer: It's time we rise above our circumstances,
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- conquer our fears, face the future with faith,
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- prevail over the past,
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- aspire to accomplish greater things,
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- reclaim our birthright, proclaim his power,
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- and claim God's promises.
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- God has more for us.
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- It's not time to stop, it's time to move forward.
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- Today on "Turning Point," Dr. Jeremiah challenges us
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- to never stop starting and to do our best
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- to finish what God has called us to do.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: Are you ready for God to use you?
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- You may think, "Well, I finally got to the end.
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- Now I can--" no, if you're Christian,
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- you may discover that God will do the greatest things
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- in your life at the end
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- and all the things he's ever done
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- in your life up until that point.
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- announcer: That's coming up
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- on today's special Forward edition
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- of "Turning Point."
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- announcer: In just a moment, Dr. Jeremiah will challenge you
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- to never stop starting and do your best to finish
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- what you start in the Lord's will.
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- feel God's power, and accomplish God's plan
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- for your life.
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- In Dr. Jeremiah's book. "Forward:
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- Discovering God's Presence and Purpose in your Tomorrow,"
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- you'll learn the biblical strategy
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- about how to claim the future
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- And now here is Dr. Jeremiah with his message,
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- "Finish: You're Not Done Until You're Done."
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- Dr. Jeremiah: If you ever get into an unfortunate scrape,
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- you might hire Frank P. Luciano to represent you.
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- He's a razor-sharp attorney in Hackensack, New Jersey;
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- just across the Hudson from New York City.
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- You could spot Luciano in the courtroom daily
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- dressed in a dapper suit with a pocket square,
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- chopping his hands in the air defending people in trouble.
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- He does it with energy and effectiveness.
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- Luciano has been defending clients
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- for quite a while.
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- I mean, 45 years ago, a local newspaper
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- claimed he was the city's busiest criminal lawyer.
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- 22 years ago, the same paper
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- called him a consummate showman
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- and New Jersey's oldest active attorney.
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- Today, Luciano still waxes eloquent
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- before judges and juries at the age of 97.
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- Luciano doesn't rest on his laurels.
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- He said, "This is a very consuming profession,
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- and it's taken a lot out of my life."
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- He said, "I'm constantly involved
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- in preparing cases,
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- and it's a tremendous strain both mental and physical.
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- Physical because when you go to trial your whole being
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- is obsessed with trying to help the person you represent,
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- and it places your body and mind under tension."
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- When he was asked about his future,
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- Luciano said,
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- "I hope God lets me continue doing this.
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- I don't want to retire. I don't want to go to Florida.
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- I just want to do what I'm doing."
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- Personally, I kind of like going to Florida,
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- but otherwise I feel the same.
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- I hope God lets me continue doing what he's called me to do.
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- My name isn't Archippus, but I take the one verse
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- addressed to him in the Bible
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- just like it was written to me.
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- Here's what it says: "Tell Archippus,
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- 'See to it that you complete the ministry you have received
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- in the Lord.'"
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- Yes, your role may change, your assignments may evolve,
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- and your situation may alter.
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- You may have to make adjustments,
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- but even so one thing won't change.
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- As long as God leaves you on this earth,
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- he has ongoing work for you to do.
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- There's no expiration date to the principles
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- of this message.
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- You never retire from the Christian life.
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- You never drop out of God's will.
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- There are countless barriers, men and women,
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- to finishing well, and I'm going to talk to you
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- about five major ones today 'cause I want us
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- to learn how to finish well.
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- But rather than talk to them like barriers,
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- I want to share them with you as challenges.
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- I want you to think about the rest of this message like we're
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- in the locker room and we're getting a pep talk
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- delivered to all of us
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- before we head out of the tunnel for the second half
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- of the game.
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- So here are those five things.
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- Number one, to finish well, you have to stay focused
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- till you're finished.
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- One of the great finishers of the Bible was Solomon,
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- King David's son.
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- In fact, I discovered when I was researching this
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- that the word finish is connected with Solomon
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- a dozen times, especially with his building
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- of the temple.
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- So I went through with a yellow pad and I made a list
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- of all the references associated with Solomon
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- finishing assignment to build God's house,
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- and I noticed something that escaped me
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- in all the many times I've read the story.
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- It's interesting how just one little word
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- can escape you and it can mean everything.
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- Solomon was not only a finisher;
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- he was a total complete absolute finisher,
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- and I want you to notice this
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- as I run through these Scriptures together.
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- Number one, 1 King 6:22, "He finished all the temple."
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- 6:38, "The house was finished in all of its details
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- according to all its plans."
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- 7:51, "So all the work that Solomon had done
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- for the house of the Lord was finished."
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- 2 Chronicles 5:1, "So all the work
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- that Solomon had done for the house of the Lord
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- was finished."
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- 2 Chronicles 7:11, "Solomon successfully accomplished
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- all that came into his heart to make in the house
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- of the Lord."
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- When it came to building God's temple in Jerusalem,
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- Solomon finished it all.
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- He left nothing undone and that's because, I believe,
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- his father prayed him into this environment.
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- Listen to David's prayer and his challenge
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- to Solomon before David
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- walked off the scene and Solomon took over.
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- 1 Chronicles 28:20, here's what he said:
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- "Be strong," Solomon, "and of a good courage,
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- and do it.
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- Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, my God,
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- he will be with you.
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- He will not leave you nor forsake you
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- until you have finished all the work for the service
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- of the house of the Lord."
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- We have to finish it all.
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- We don't get to stop part of the way.
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- Most of the way doesn't work.
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- Almost all the way isn't enough. God wants us to finish it all.
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- Don't say, "Well, I'm almost there,"
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- and then you walk away and you leave it
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- not quite done.
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- There's not anything more discouraging to you
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- than to spend all of your time
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- and all of your energy to get almost all the way
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- and then walk away before you get done.
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- Here's the second thing about finishing life.
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- Stay resilient about retirement.
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- I don't think anything's more controversial
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- in the lives of people like me than retirement.
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- I hear it all the time. Somebody always brings it up.
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- And I'm going to tell you that the second key
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- to finishing well is to approach the topic
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- of retirement with resilience
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- and with some sanctified resistance.
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- I remember reading about a wife who said to her retired husband,
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- "What are you going to do today?"
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- He said, "Nothing."
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- She said, "But you did that yesterday."
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- He said, "I know, but I'm not finished yet."
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- Someone said that a husband's retirement
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- can become a wife's full-time job.
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- Many people you see have followed
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- the general expectation in America
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- and the western world, that when we reach a certain age
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- we retire.
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- It's just what we do.
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- Retirement has become the final rotation
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- in the cycle of life.
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- Just like we ask children, "What do you want to be
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- when you grow up?"
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- We ask adults, "What do you plan to do when you retire?"
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- And seldom do we hear the value of retirement plans questioned
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- and certainly not the value of retirement itself.
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- But what does the Bible say about this?
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- Interestingly enough, the Bible has only one example
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- of retirement.
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- I'll tell you where it is.
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- It's in Numbers chapter 8, verses 24 through 26.
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- Here's what it says: "This is what pertains to the Levites:
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- From 25 years old and above one may enter to perform service
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- in the work of the tabernacle of meeting;
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- and at the age of 50 years, they must cease
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- performing this work and shall work no more.
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- They may minister with their brethren in the tabernacle
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- of meeting to attend the needs, but they themselves
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- shall do no work."
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- While the Levite tabernacle workers
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- were instructed to retire at age 50,
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- they weren't put out to pasture, to spend
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- the rest of their lives twiddling their thumbs
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- and gazing at the sundial.
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- No.
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- They were charged to minister to the younger Levites
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- who took over their jobs.
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- They became mentors and advisors.
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- Today, we would probably call them consultants.
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- So no, I'm not saying you shouldn't take advantage
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- of your Social Security income or pension benefits,
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- but you might want to avoid the word retirement.
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- You don't have to continue in your profession
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- until you're in the 90s, but if you do leave your job,
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- remember retirement is simply God's way
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- of freeing you up for further service.
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- Here's the third thing I learned.
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- Stay connected to your calling.
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- Romans 11:29 says this:
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- "The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."
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- That means you can't undo them.
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- If God calls you, he's not going to uncall you.
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- The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
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- Os Guinness had something to say about this.
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- He said, "I think it's important to realize that we can retire
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- from our jobs, but we can never retire from our calling."
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- Calling gives us our sense of task or responsibility right
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- up to the last day we spend on earth
- 00:12:20.656 --> 00:12:23.359
- when we go to meet the caller.
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- I think that gives life incredible value,
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- and therefore the prosperity of finishing well
- 00:12:28.397 --> 00:12:31.233
- is that we continue to have a sense of responsibility
- 00:12:31.233 --> 00:12:34.703
- and engagement that makes every day we live
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- enormously important.
- 00:12:37.673 --> 00:12:40.342
- So to finish well, consider maintaining
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- a connection between what you did before you retired
- 00:12:42.978 --> 00:12:46.115
- and what you do after you retire.
- 00:12:46.115 --> 00:12:48.017
- Someone has said your career is what you're paid to do,
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- your calling is what you're made to do.
- 00:12:52.788 --> 00:12:56.292
- Now, you may not have a career that's transferable
- 00:12:56.292 --> 00:12:58.928
- into your post-retirement life,
- 00:12:58.928 --> 00:13:01.030
- but if you're a follower of Christ, you have a calling.
- 00:13:01.030 --> 00:13:04.366
- You have a gift God has given you,
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- an ability for service.
- 00:13:06.168 --> 00:13:08.103
- So just keep using it for the Lord.
- 00:13:08.103 --> 00:13:10.239
- Use it in a different context, in a different environment,
- 00:13:10.239 --> 00:13:13.576
- but don't stop doing what God has called you to do.
- 00:13:13.576 --> 00:13:17.746
- When Jesus had finished his work on earth
- 00:13:17.746 --> 00:13:20.482
- and was about to be crucified, resurrected,
- 00:13:20.482 --> 00:13:23.285
- and return to heaven, he prayed this prayer
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- about his life.
- 00:13:26.555 --> 00:13:27.990
- John 17:4, he said, "God, I have glorified you
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- on the earth.
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- I have finished the work which you have given me to do."
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- Read that verse carefully.
- 00:13:39.768 --> 00:13:41.503
- Jesus didn't finish all the work there was to do; he finished
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- the work that he was given to do,
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- and that should be our prayer.
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- "Lord, help me to finish the work you have given me
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- to do."
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- If you do that, you're going to live a full and exciting life.
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- Here's number four.
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- Stay vigilant after your victories.
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- Finishing well, going all the way to the end,
- 00:14:04.026 --> 00:14:07.096
- staying in God's will and in his plan
- 00:14:07.096 --> 00:14:10.532
- and in his purpose and in his blessing
- 00:14:10.532 --> 00:14:12.635
- all the way to the end demands vigilance.
- 00:14:12.635 --> 00:14:15.371
- We can't let our guard down, especially after new adventures
- 00:14:15.371 --> 00:14:20.042
- or fresh victories.
- 00:14:20.042 --> 00:14:22.211
- I think that's what got King David into trouble.
- 00:14:22.211 --> 00:14:25.614
- He got into trouble with Bathsheba because
- 00:14:25.614 --> 00:14:28.217
- he had achieved great success, he had won every battle
- 00:14:28.217 --> 00:14:31.320
- against all of his enemies.
- 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:32.755
- The Bible says his world was at peace
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- because of him.
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- He had created great peace in Israel.
- 00:14:36.125 --> 00:14:38.160
- And then after all those victories,
- 00:14:38.160 --> 00:14:39.828
- he got careless.
- 00:14:39.828 --> 00:14:41.563
- Listen carefully to the words that describe what he did.
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- 2 Samuel 11:1, "And it happened in the spring of the year,
- 00:14:45.768 --> 00:14:50.973
- at the time when kings go out to battle,
- 00:14:50.973 --> 00:14:54.777
- that David sent Joab and his servants with him
- 00:14:54.777 --> 00:14:57.680
- and all Israel,
- 00:14:57.680 --> 00:14:59.581
- but David remained in Jerusalem."
- 00:14:59.581 --> 00:15:03.052
- King David should have been leading
- 00:15:03.052 --> 00:15:04.687
- his people, serving as the head
- 00:15:04.687 --> 00:15:06.722
- of his army, but instead he stayed home.
- 00:15:06.722 --> 00:15:09.391
- He felt he was at the point in life
- 00:15:09.391 --> 00:15:11.160
- where he could relax some
- 00:15:11.160 --> 00:15:12.661
- and let others bear the burden of war.
- 00:15:12.661 --> 00:15:14.263
- He'd paid his price.
- 00:15:14.263 --> 00:15:16.098
- He wasn't where he should have been
- 00:15:16.098 --> 00:15:18.367
- and he wasn't doing what he should have been doing;
- 00:15:18.367 --> 00:15:20.502
- and he was celebrating his victories
- 00:15:20.502 --> 00:15:22.204
- without vigilance, and the rest is history.
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- His sin with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband Uriah
- 00:15:24.740 --> 00:15:28.277
- is a stain on David's life.
- 00:15:28.277 --> 00:15:31.280
- And while God forgave David and restored him,
- 00:15:31.280 --> 00:15:34.550
- that one moment of carelessness, that one moment
- 00:15:34.550 --> 00:15:37.519
- when he lacked vigilance, that one moment
- 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:40.556
- became part of David's biography.
- 00:15:40.556 --> 00:15:43.058
- I don't know if you've ever read this verse before.
- 00:15:43.058 --> 00:15:45.661
- I remember reading it and kind of being astonished
- 00:15:45.661 --> 00:15:48.364
- by its wording.
- 00:15:48.364 --> 00:15:50.032
- 1 Kings 15:5, here's what it says:
- 00:15:50.032 --> 00:15:52.968
- "David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord,
- 00:15:52.968 --> 00:15:56.572
- and had not turned aside from anything
- 00:15:56.572 --> 00:15:58.807
- that he commanded him all the days of his life
- 00:15:58.807 --> 00:16:02.611
- except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite."
- 00:16:02.611 --> 00:16:07.282
- You see, what happens is when we get to the top and we experience
- 00:16:07.282 --> 00:16:10.486
- the greatness of God, if we're not careful
- 00:16:10.486 --> 00:16:12.721
- we let down our guard,
- 00:16:12.721 --> 00:16:14.223
- we relax, and we allow the enemy
- 00:16:14.223 --> 00:16:16.625
- to move in in the most unlikely time.
- 00:16:16.625 --> 00:16:20.896
- And I know that's happened over and over again
- 00:16:20.896 --> 00:16:23.899
- to so many people I've talked to.
- 00:16:23.899 --> 00:16:26.502
- I believe there's two verses in the Bible
- 00:16:26.502 --> 00:16:28.370
- that we should all memorize and always keep
- 00:16:28.370 --> 00:16:30.906
- before us.
- 00:16:30.906 --> 00:16:32.374
- They tell us what to do in order not to fall,
- 00:16:32.374 --> 00:16:34.977
- and they captured this vigilance-after-victory warning.
- 00:16:34.977 --> 00:16:39.314
- Proverbs 16:18, "Pride goes before destruction,
- 00:16:39.314 --> 00:16:43.986
- and a haughty spirit before a fall."
- 00:16:43.986 --> 00:16:47.456
- 1 Corinthians 10:12, "Therefore let him who thinks he stands
- 00:16:47.456 --> 00:16:52.828
- take heed lest he fall."
- 00:16:52.828 --> 00:16:56.098
- So here are these challenges as we prepare to go out
- 00:16:56.098 --> 00:16:59.234
- for the second half of life:
- 00:16:59.234 --> 00:17:01.236
- stay focused till you're finished,
- 00:17:01.236 --> 00:17:03.372
- stay resilient about retirement, stay connected to your calling,
- 00:17:03.372 --> 00:17:07.443
- stay vigilant after your victories,
- 00:17:07.443 --> 00:17:09.278
- and finally stay ready for redeployment.
- 00:17:09.278 --> 00:17:13.182
- Make sure that you're ready for God to redeploy you
- 00:17:13.182 --> 00:17:16.785
- in any way that he chooses.
- 00:17:16.785 --> 00:17:19.221
- Always be looking forward to what the Lord has next
- 00:17:19.221 --> 00:17:21.690
- for you.
- 00:17:21.690 --> 00:17:23.225
- So don't give up on yourself too early.
- 00:17:23.225 --> 00:17:25.861
- Don't deprive yourself of the many blessings
- 00:17:25.861 --> 00:17:28.197
- God wants to bestow upon you
- 00:17:28.197 --> 00:17:30.165
- in your post-retirement years.
- 00:17:30.165 --> 00:17:32.468
- Change what you do if you have to,
- 00:17:32.468 --> 00:17:34.369
- but don't stop serving the Lord
- 00:17:34.369 --> 00:17:37.439
- because I believe one of the greatest
- 00:17:37.439 --> 00:17:40.909
- unused talent pools in our churches
- 00:17:40.909 --> 00:17:43.579
- are people who've come to a certain age
- 00:17:43.579 --> 00:17:46.381
- and they have this mentality
- 00:17:46.381 --> 00:17:48.083
- that's been forced upon them by the culture that says,
- 00:17:48.083 --> 00:17:50.486
- "When you get to a certain place,
- 00:17:50.486 --> 00:17:51.820
- you have to quit.
- 00:17:51.820 --> 00:17:53.155
- You have to stop."
- 00:17:53.155 --> 00:17:54.490
- But then they lose their sense of importance,
- 00:17:54.490 --> 00:17:56.758
- their sense of value, and they lose
- 00:17:56.758 --> 00:17:58.827
- the joy of their life.
- 00:17:58.827 --> 00:18:00.496
- God gives us as many years as we're allowed on this earth,
- 00:18:00.496 --> 00:18:03.832
- and we should try to make every one of them count
- 00:18:03.832 --> 00:18:06.268
- for the kingdom.
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- Here's a couple of verses to encourage you.
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- They sure have kept me on board.
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- They were given to us by our gracious Father
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- to keep us faithful throughout our lives.
- 00:18:14.843 --> 00:18:17.446
- Don't forget what we learned earlier.
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- If you're not dead, you're not done.
- 00:18:19.414 --> 00:18:22.851
- Psalm 92 says this:
- 00:18:22.851 --> 00:18:25.320
- "The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree.
- 00:18:25.320 --> 00:18:28.457
- He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- 00:18:28.457 --> 00:18:31.226
- Those who are planted in the house of the Lord
- 00:18:31.226 --> 00:18:33.228
- will flourish in the courts of our God.
- 00:18:33.228 --> 00:18:36.431
- They shall still bear fruit in old age.
- 00:18:36.431 --> 00:18:39.801
- They shall be fresh and flourishing."
- 00:18:39.801 --> 00:18:43.372
- Isaiah 46, verse 4, "Even to your old age,
- 00:18:43.372 --> 00:18:46.508
- I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you.
- 00:18:46.508 --> 00:18:50.646
- I have made, and I will bear you;
- 00:18:50.646 --> 00:18:52.848
- even I will carry you and deliver you."
- 00:18:52.848 --> 00:18:55.784
- And here's the special prayer that I have claimed for my life.
- 00:18:55.784 --> 00:18:59.454
- Psalm 71:18, "Now also when I am old and gray, O God,
- 00:18:59.454 --> 00:19:06.028
- do not forsake me until I declare your strength
- 00:19:06.028 --> 00:19:09.231
- to this generation and your power to everyone
- 00:19:09.231 --> 00:19:12.768
- who is to come."
- 00:19:12.768 --> 00:19:15.003
- Yes, God uses us all the way through
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- if we just make ourselves useful.
- 00:19:18.307 --> 00:19:22.010
- As I bring this message to a close,
- 00:19:22.010 --> 00:19:24.446
- I want to tell you about one of the men
- 00:19:24.446 --> 00:19:26.815
- in our congregation at Shadow Mountain.
- 00:19:26.815 --> 00:19:29.718
- More than anyone I know,
- 00:19:29.718 --> 00:19:31.253
- he has captured the concept of finishing well.
- 00:19:31.253 --> 00:19:36.258
- Tom Heyer taught math at Helix High School
- 00:19:36.258 --> 00:19:40.529
- for 40 years.
- 00:19:40.529 --> 00:19:42.364
- He had received Christ as Savior
- 00:19:42.364 --> 00:19:44.032
- as a junior at San Diego State
- 00:19:44.032 --> 00:19:46.034
- and immediately began to teach.
- 00:19:46.034 --> 00:19:48.470
- He loved his job.
- 00:19:48.470 --> 00:19:50.105
- I remember meeting him at his school
- 00:19:50.105 --> 00:19:51.773
- many years ago.
- 00:19:51.773 --> 00:19:53.141
- I had gone to Helix to meet with a coach
- 00:19:53.141 --> 00:19:55.110
- who was trying to help my son get a scholarship
- 00:19:55.110 --> 00:19:57.179
- in football and he said to me,
- 00:19:57.179 --> 00:20:00.182
- "You have a teacher that works here
- 00:20:00.182 --> 00:20:01.984
- from your church."
- 00:20:01.984 --> 00:20:03.585
- And he introduced me to Tom Heyer.
- 00:20:03.585 --> 00:20:05.220
- That was the first time I met him.
- 00:20:05.220 --> 00:20:07.456
- He loved his students. I could tell that for sure.
- 00:20:07.456 --> 00:20:09.591
- He wasn't just putting in his time.
- 00:20:09.591 --> 00:20:11.760
- He helped start a Christian club on that campus
- 00:20:11.760 --> 00:20:13.962
- that impacted many lives.
- 00:20:13.962 --> 00:20:16.098
- He was a well-loved teacher, and he was really good
- 00:20:16.098 --> 00:20:18.700
- at what he did.
- 00:20:18.700 --> 00:20:20.569
- But in the summer of 2002, Tom Heyer was looking forward
- 00:20:20.569 --> 00:20:24.573
- to beginning his 40th year of teaching.
- 00:20:24.573 --> 00:20:27.776
- One morning during the summer as he and his wife Pam
- 00:20:27.776 --> 00:20:31.680
- took their regular prayer walk together,
- 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:34.583
- God spoke to Tom and turned his life upside down.
- 00:20:34.583 --> 00:20:39.087
- Here is how Tom put it.
- 00:20:39.087 --> 00:20:41.156
- He said, "That morning God spoke directly to me.
- 00:20:41.156 --> 00:20:43.759
- He told me it was time to set aside teaching
- 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:46.128
- because he had something else for me to do."
- 00:20:46.128 --> 00:20:50.532
- Since teaching had been his whole life, Tom had no idea
- 00:20:50.532 --> 00:20:53.101
- what God was up to, but he was about to find out.
- 00:20:53.101 --> 00:20:56.605
- After counseling with one of our pastors,
- 00:20:56.605 --> 00:20:58.940
- Tom accepted the challenge
- 00:20:58.940 --> 00:21:00.842
- to start a weekly men's Bible study.
- 00:21:00.842 --> 00:21:03.545
- That Bible study called itself Fellows,
- 00:21:03.545 --> 00:21:06.882
- and it's been going now for 18 years.
- 00:21:06.882 --> 00:21:09.885
- Because of his leadership in that Bible study,
- 00:21:09.885 --> 00:21:11.953
- he was asked if he'd be willing
- 00:21:11.953 --> 00:21:13.488
- to take over the prison ministry at our church,
- 00:21:13.488 --> 00:21:15.857
- Shadow Mountain Community Church.
- 00:21:15.857 --> 00:21:18.093
- At that time, we had about 12 people
- 00:21:18.093 --> 00:21:19.895
- who were involved in ministering to the prisoners
- 00:21:19.895 --> 00:21:21.930
- of San Diego County.
- 00:21:21.930 --> 00:21:24.533
- Once again Tom prayed
- 00:21:24.533 --> 00:21:25.967
- that he accepted the challenge,
- 00:21:25.967 --> 00:21:27.402
- and what has happened since is truly remarkable.
- 00:21:27.402 --> 00:21:30.939
- Today as he closes in on the 17th year
- 00:21:30.939 --> 00:21:34.076
- of his leadership in this ministry,
- 00:21:34.076 --> 00:21:36.178
- God has opened doors for ministry
- 00:21:36.178 --> 00:21:38.046
- to everyone impacted by incarceration.
- 00:21:38.046 --> 00:21:41.149
- He ministers to inmates, parolees, ex-offenders,
- 00:21:41.149 --> 00:21:44.419
- spouses, children, other family members,
- 00:21:44.419 --> 00:21:46.922
- even correctional officers and prison staff.
- 00:21:46.922 --> 00:21:50.459
- According to Tom, the P in prison
- 00:21:50.459 --> 00:21:52.527
- doesn't stand for prison,
- 00:21:52.527 --> 00:21:54.396
- but it stands for people; people who God loves
- 00:21:54.396 --> 00:21:57.966
- with an everlasting unconditional love.
- 00:21:57.966 --> 00:22:01.069
- Each week now at Shadow Mountain,
- 00:22:01.069 --> 00:22:03.939
- 40 different team members go into eight different prisons,
- 00:22:03.939 --> 00:22:07.776
- holding roughly 30 meetings a month
- 00:22:07.776 --> 00:22:10.912
- with an average of over 600 inmates,
- 00:22:10.912 --> 00:22:13.415
- men, women, and youth in attendance.
- 00:22:13.415 --> 00:22:16.618
- At Christmas, a huge party is hosted for the children
- 00:22:16.618 --> 00:22:20.188
- of incarcerated parents.
- 00:22:20.188 --> 00:22:22.391
- Hundreds of children mostly with their mothers
- 00:22:22.391 --> 00:22:24.860
- attend this party on our church campus.
- 00:22:24.860 --> 00:22:27.529
- On the Saturday before Christmas,
- 00:22:27.529 --> 00:22:29.398
- our event center is filled with families
- 00:22:29.398 --> 00:22:31.566
- that would be forgotten were it not
- 00:22:31.566 --> 00:22:33.435
- for this incredible ministry.
- 00:22:33.435 --> 00:22:36.505
- Several years ago, a young man
- 00:22:36.505 --> 00:22:38.206
- in our church who'd been incarcerated
- 00:22:38.206 --> 00:22:39.908
- was released, and he came to Tom Heyer
- 00:22:39.908 --> 00:22:42.677
- and he told Tom how Christmas
- 00:22:42.677 --> 00:22:44.613
- was such a hard time for prisoners.
- 00:22:44.613 --> 00:22:47.416
- It was the lowest time, the loneliest time,
- 00:22:47.416 --> 00:22:49.384
- the time when they felt so rejected and forgotten.
- 00:22:49.384 --> 00:22:53.088
- And he asked Tom if he thought there was anything
- 00:22:53.088 --> 00:22:55.290
- we could do to make a difference in their lives
- 00:22:55.290 --> 00:22:58.160
- during this season,
- 00:22:58.160 --> 00:22:59.594
- and the result of that conversation
- 00:22:59.594 --> 00:23:01.596
- was the great Christmas card mail-out.
- 00:23:01.596 --> 00:23:04.733
- Last Christmas, hundreds of volunteers,
- 00:23:04.733 --> 00:23:07.602
- some of them from our church
- 00:23:07.602 --> 00:23:09.204
- but many of them just from San Diego,
- 00:23:09.204 --> 00:23:11.406
- under the direction of Tom Heyer's
- 00:23:11.406 --> 00:23:13.608
- Shadow Mountain prison ministry,
- 00:23:13.608 --> 00:23:15.477
- got together during the holiday season
- 00:23:15.477 --> 00:23:18.079
- and sent out over 15.000 Christmas cards
- 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:22.784
- to prison inmates.
- 00:23:22.784 --> 00:23:25.220
- When God spoke to Tom Heyer on that morning walk in 2002,
- 00:23:25.220 --> 00:23:29.825
- he ignited a movement that will live on long
- 00:23:29.825 --> 00:23:31.860
- after Tom and I are gone.
- 00:23:31.860 --> 00:23:34.095
- Today, the Shadow Mountain prison ministry
- 00:23:34.095 --> 00:23:36.231
- is one of the largest
- 00:23:36.231 --> 00:23:38.033
- church-sponsored prison ministries in America,
- 00:23:38.033 --> 00:23:41.336
- and it all started in the life of one man who was retiring.
- 00:23:41.336 --> 00:23:45.874
- And Tom Heyer was ready to be redeployed.
- 00:23:45.874 --> 00:23:49.778
- Are you?
- 00:23:49.778 --> 00:23:51.146
- Are you ready for God to use you?
- 00:23:51.146 --> 00:23:52.614
- You may think, "Well, I finally got to the end.
- 00:23:52.614 --> 00:23:54.349
- Now I can--" no, if you're Christian,
- 00:23:54.349 --> 00:23:56.685
- God has a right to your life.
- 00:23:56.685 --> 00:23:59.955
- And if you will give him the opportunity
- 00:23:59.955 --> 00:24:02.090
- to use you even in the days after you have finished
- 00:24:02.090 --> 00:24:05.560
- your full vocational experience, you may discover
- 00:24:05.560 --> 00:24:09.998
- that God will do the greatest things in your life
- 00:24:09.998 --> 00:24:12.434
- at the end and all the things
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- he's ever done in your life up until that point.
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- How many of you know, sometimes, God saves the best till last?
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- He wants to do that for you. He wants to do it for me.
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- Let's commit ourselves to the fact
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- that we're going to stay faithful
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- until we're finished.
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- Amen? Amen.
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- announcer: Dr. Jeremiah will return in a moment
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- with one more inspirational word to close today's program
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- right after this.
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- announcer: Thank you for watching today.
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- Did you know that this program is just one part of the ministry
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- of "Turning Point," which is committed
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- to delivering the unchanging Word of God
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- to an ever-changing world?
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- announcer: And now with one last word
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- for today's program, here is Dr. Jeremiah.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: No matter what season of life
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- in which you find yourself, your brightest day can be
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- just around the corner.
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- Take hold of it, let go of the past,
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- and get out of your rut.
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- Choose to run forward toward everything
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- God has planned for the next phase of your life,
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- but remember this forward journey
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- is not one we do alone.
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- We need Jesus Christ to take even one step.
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- So I hope you know Jesus Christ well; but if you don't,
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- I'd like to introduce him to you today.
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- I would like to send you two resources
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- to start your journey with Christ.
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- The first is a booklet called "Your Greatest Turning Point,"
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- and the second
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- is our monthly devotional magazine,
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- "Turning Points."
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- These resources are yours completely free
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- when you contact "Turning Point" today.
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- announcer: Next time on "Turning Point."
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- Dr. Jeremiah: If your heart is right with God
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- and you are a Christian and you die
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- and you go to heaven, the Bible says
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- you will meet Jesus personally face to face.
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- This is your ultimate goal.
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- This will be
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- your single most phenomenal moment
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- of your entire life.
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- This is what you're living for, what you're waiting for,
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- and what you're anticipating with all your heart.
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- This is celebration with a capital C.
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- announcer: Thank you for being with us today.
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- Join us next time as Dr. Jeremiah
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- directs you how to celebrate your life and faith today
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- as you look forward to your future in eternity
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- here on "Turning Point."
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