2nd Half Comeback
Pastor Erickson preaches from Joshua 24 and Philippians 3 at the halfway point of 2020, teaching that a second half comeback comes from good halftime adjustments, as seen in Paul, Rahab, Jacob and Peter. He calls people to stop living in past failures, choose to serve the Lord with their house, fail forward and keep pressing toward the mark.
The message in 6 points
Victory comes from halftime adjustments
He reads Joshua 24 and Philippians 3:13-14 and says your victory tomorrow is the result of your adjustments today. At the halfway point of the year, he says, the difference between a good team and a great team is its halftime adjustments, and a failed first half can be fixed at halftime.
58:35Leave the first half behind
Pastor Erickson admits his own poor first half performances. The enemy keeps replaying the game film of our mistakes to condemn us, so he points to Philippians 4:8-9 and tells people to think on what is true, pure and lovely and move on.
1:12:16Comeback kings and queens
From Romans 7 he shows Paul wrestling with his past, then meeting Jesus and becoming a great missionary. Rahab, Jacob and Peter all had messed up first halves, but each made a halftime change and came back in the second half.
1:16:20Mistakes coaches make at halftime
Using an article on coaching, he says yelling at a team that already knows it failed does not help, and neither does empty talk with no real plan. People do not need to be screamed at or flattered from the pulpit, but lifted up with truth that changes lives.
1:26:16Coach Joshua gives a choice
Joshua walks into the locker room and lays out the choice: the traditions of the fathers, the ways of the world around them, or the Lord. God's Word decides what is right and wrong, and Joshua declares that he and his house will serve the Lord.
1:39:19Fail forward and press toward the mark
He says we must be big enough to admit mistakes, smart enough to learn from them and strong enough to correct them. When we fall we get back up and fall forward, and like Paul in Philippians 3 we forget what is behind and press toward the mark.
1:46:59
In his words
“If you make some adjustments today I promise you it will affect your tomorrow and victory will be in your future.”
“It is not man's ideas or man's philosophies but it is up to the Word of God to state what is right and what is wrong.”
“Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake and move forward in the right direction.”
Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.
Scripture
He reads
Philippians 3:13-14
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.
King James Version.
Philippians 4:8-9
8Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
King James Version.
Romans 7:18-25
18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
King James Version.
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