For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
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… It's shouting at you, you can start again. Proverbs 24, verse 16, for though a righteous man falls seven times, he will rise again. Heaven is shouting at you. You fell. You made a mistake. You messed up. But guess what? Good news. You can start over. You can start again. I am the God of new beginnings. I am the God of second chances. Oh, I love this scripture right here. Lamentations chapter 3, verse 22, because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every, what's that word? That was seven people. what's that word every morning great is your faithfulness they're new every morning these kids have no idea how good they got it with their mama she shuts down the mall of course because that's how she rolls and early on sunday mornings i like to get up and i go to the same place and i study and i pray and i drink coffee and i go early on Sunday mornings, and when I got back to my house this morning, our van was gone. And I thought, oh, great. Our house, our car got stolen on Easter Sunday. …
… Put it on the screen, watch this. It says in Proverbs chapter 24, verse 16, for though the righteous falls seven times, they rise again. We're gonna rise again, and we're gonna get back up off the ground. I was down, I was defeated, I was discouraged, I was disoriented, wanted me to keep going, I was disobedient, I was all messed up. But I, by the grace of God, I got up, I brushed myself off, and I'm going to rise again. Come on, rise again. You went back and maybe you said, I'll never do it again, and you did it again. I'm never going to go there again. You went again. That's all right. Don't let shame bully you to stay there. Remember that old commercial, I've fallen and I can't get up? also a lot of trauma with that for some people 100 why is that an issue of pain in your life i want to say you've fallen and you can get up oh i love this but look at look at malachi chapter chapter seven or sorry micah chapter seven do not glow over me my enemies for though i fall I will rise again. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. I fell, and I messed up, and I had a character issue, and I compromised, and fill in the blank for whatever you've gone through. You guys know, and if you're here going like, is Pastor Chad perfect? I'm kidding. Nobody's ever asked that. It's so, so, so weird. I've been honest about my struggles. I've been vulnerable …
8. Those who argue thus, seem never to have considered that declaration of our Lord: (Matt. 11:11:) “Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: Notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” I fear, indeed, there are some who have imagined “the kingdom of heaven,” here, to mean the kingdom of glory; as if the Son of God had just discovered to us, that the least glorified saint in heaven is greater than any man upon earth! To mention this is sufficiently to refute it. There can, therefore, no doubt be made, but “the kingdom of heaven,” here, (as in the following verse, where it is said to be taken by force.) [Matt. 11:12] or, “the kingdom of God,” as St. Luke expresses it, — is that kingdom of God on earth whereunto all true believers in Christ, all real Christians, belong. In these words, then, our Lord declares two things: First, that before his coming in the flesh, among all the children of men there had not been one greater than John the Baptist; whence it evidently follows, that neither Abraham, David, nor any Jew was greater than John. Our Lord, Secondly, declares that he which is least in the kingdom of God (in that kingdom which he came to set up on earth, and which the violent now began to take by force) is greater than he: — Not a greater Prophet as some have interpreted the word; for this is palpably false in fact; but greater in the grace of God, and the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, we cannot measure the privileges of real Christians by those formerly given to the Jews. Their “ministration,” (or dispensation,) we allow “was glorious;” but ours “exceeds in glory.” [2 Cor. 3:7–9] So that whosoever would bring down the Christian dispensation to the Jewish standard, whosoever gleans up the examples of weakness, recorded in the Law and the Prophets, and thence infers that they who have “put on Christ” [Gal. 3:27] are endued with no greater strength, doth greatly err, neither “knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.” [Matt. 22:29] …