Hello, and thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. This is the Bible teaching

ministry of Rick Warren, and today we are continuing in a series called The Miracle of Mercy.

Rick will show us how God's mercy can lift your guilt, heal your wounds, and transform the way

you live. Let's lean in for part

one of a message called God's mercy and my failures. Because we are an imperfect people and

we live in an imperfect world, we all experience failures in life. And the night that Jesus Christ was arrested and before he went to the

cross, two of his best friends had massive failures. Massive failures. Judas had the failure

of betrayal and Peter had the failure of denial. Now they're actually the exact same sin.

They both denied Christ,

but they are just different expressions of it.

And Judas rejected the mercy of God

and later went out and killed himself, took his life.

Peter accepted the mercy of God

and later went out and became the leader of the church. What I want

us to do this weekend is look at God's mercy and your failures. And I want us to learn some lessons

from the life of Peter in this massive failure that he had. And I want us to ask three questions.

First, what causes personal failure in your life?

And we're going to look and actually see that three things that Peter had in his life

are the three most common causes of failure in your life.

Financial failure, business failure, marriage failure, relational failure, and all the other areas of failure are caused

primarily by three things.

There are many other ones, but these are the three biggest ones.

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