Failing Forward - WK 4 - Focus Failure - Audio
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- Hey, welcome, I'm Tom and Lead Pastor here at Coast. We are super glad you were with us. And we are continuing a series that we've been working on for a few weeks. It's called "Failing Forward, the Life of Moses." And one of the things that you find when you read the scriptures front to back is that God is not surprised when we mess up. In fact, God is sort of kind of expects it. He knows that we're human. But because he's with us, because he's for us, he doesn't let us fall in such a way that we are left, you know, in misery. Instead, he pushes us forward in the middle of what goes wrong. And so today we get to talk about one of my favorite things in the world. And that, of course, is complaining. I love to complain. What I've found over the years is that it's best if I don't tell other people what I'm thinking. Because if I do, it seems to, it seems to like there seems to be problems. But I can tell you that I am definitely the person who is always thinking on the inside, like, "Ah, what about this, and what about that?" And I want this, I want that. And it's definitely an issue of focus for me, and I think for us. And so before we get started, I just want to throw a couple of questions for you to be holding as we work through this text. There's a fair bit of text in order to get through the story. I want a couple things sitting in our back of our minds. And so the first thing is, what do you complain about? Everybody complains. That is not something that anybody here is excused from. What you might be excused from. You might not be an out loud complainer, okay? So there's really only two types of human beings. There's out loud complainers, and I keep it to myself complainers. But everybody complains. And I do want to emphasize this. I don't think that complaining by itself is a bad thing. If it were, then you would have to open up your Bible and turn to the book of Psalms, and you'd have to tear out about a third of that book. Because there's 60 to 65,
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Coast Bible Church, PastorTom Bennett, San Juan Capistrano, CA, www.coastbible.org