LIVING WITHOUT REGRETS

  The blessing of the Lord makes rich,

and he adds no sorrow with it.

“LIVING WITHOUT REGRETS”

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

Kennedy

Kennedy

Kennedy

In his autobiography, Just as I Am, Billy Graham tells about a conversation he had with John F. Kennedy shortly after his election:

On the way back to the Kennedy house, the president-elect stopped the car and turned to me.

“Do you believe in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ?’ he asked.

“I most certainly do.”

“Well, does my church believe it?”

“They have it in their creeds.”

“They don’t preach it,” he said. “They don’t tell us much about it. I’d like to know what you think.”

“I explained what the Bible said about Christ coming the first time, dying on the Cross, rising from the dead, and then promising that he would come back again. ‘Only then,’ I said, ‘are we going to have permanent world peace.’”

“Very interesting,” he said, looking away. “We’ll have to talk more about that someday.” And he drove on.”

Several years later, the two met again, at the 1963 National Prayer Breakfast. “I had the flu,” Graham remembers. “After I gave my short talk, and he gave his, we walked out of the hotel to his car together, as was always our custom. At the curb, he turned to me.”

“Billy, could you ride back to the White House with me? I’d like to see you for a minute.”

“Mr. President, I’ve got a fever,” I protested. “Not only am I weak, but I don’t want to give you this thing. Couldn’t we wait and talk some other time?”

It was a cold, snowy day, and I was freezing as I stood there without my overcoat.

“Of course,’ he said graciously.”

But the two would never meet again. Later that year, Kennedy was shot dead. Graham comments, “His hesitation at the car door, and his request, haunt me still. What was on his mind? Should I have gone with him? It was an irrecoverable moment.”

Billy Graham, Just As I Am

what Billy Graham learned from this situation REGRETABLY.... is THAT HE HAD MISSED THE MOMENT! And I believe it fueled his fire to never miss such a moment ever again

PROPOSITIONAL STATEMENT

ALL OF US KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO LIVE WITH REGRETS CAUSED BY SOMETHING ....

WE DID

SOMEONE ELSE DID

GOD DID

OR A LIFE CHANGING EVENT

QUALIFYING THE ARGUMENT

BEFORE I GIVE YOU DEFINITIONS LET ME QUALIFY THE ARGUMENT (because you may be wondering)?

how did we arrive at this juncture

how did we extricate or pull this out of the passage?

WHEN YOU VIEW THIS PASSAGE IN VARIOUS TRANSLATIONS THE PREDOMINATE WORD USED IS SORROW. NLT,ESV, BSB, NKJV, KJV

THE WORD SORROW IN THE HEBREW CONNOTES REGRET

DEFINING REGRET

re·gret verb feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over (something that has happened or been done, especially a loss or missed opportunity).

as a verb its a form of compassion or sympathy that you have for someone else and or yourself

its enacting  each of you not looking out for ⌊your own interests⌋, but also each of you for ⌊the interests⌋ of others.

4 each of you not looking out for ⌊your own interests⌋, but also each of you for ⌊the interests⌋ of others.

ALLOWING YOURSELF TO BECOME EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED IN SOMEONE ELSES AFFAIRS TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU GO BEYOND JUST WORDS

ITS LIKE STIGMATA

ITS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEEING ME IN A BURNING BUILDING AND STANDING ON THE OUTSIDE SAYING I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU

AND COMING IN TO HELP ME AND GETTING A GLIMPS OF WHAT I FEEL

SO ONE WOULD SAY I REGRET TO HEAR OF YOU LOSS AND REALLY MEAN IT

noun a feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment over something that has happened or been done.

noun a feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment over something that has happened or been done.

AS A NOUN ITS A FORM OF DEPRESSION (DESPONDENCY)

ITS INTERNALIZING FAILURE ASSOCIATED WITH DISSATISFACTION OR DISAPPROVAL WITH WHAT YOU DID OR SOMEONE ELSE DID

you missed the mark

you missed the monent

you failed

you blew it

they betrayed you

GOD SAYS WHENEVER I BLESS YOU,... YOU DON’T EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE BLESSING THAT I BLESSED YOU WITH TURNING AROUND AND DEPRESSING YOU or causing you to regret

because if i open a door imma make sure you ready to walk through it

if i bless you with something or someone it will never cease to be a joy and a blessing to your life

thats why we gotta be mindful of our conversation because not here, but some of us are guilty of word cursing our GOD”S blessings in our life

let me veer off a minute to help compliment the message

note: when you read Proverbs chapter 10 in its entirety the predominate theme is... the danger in what we let come out of our mouth. 32 verses almost all of them deal with what we say out our mouth.... and the detriment

vs 19 stuck out to me, look what it says

this one stuck out to me ...

 In many words, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent

19 In many words, transgression is not lacking,

you’ve talked yourself into some stuff

and you’ve talked yourself out of some stuff

THAT’S A REGRET RIGHT THERE!!!!

but he who restrains his lips is prudent

who needs that?…IN MANY WORDS SIN IS NOT LACKING BUT IF I CAN JUST SHUT MY MOUTH.......LORD SAVE MY MOUTH.... MY MOUTH KEEPS GETTING ME IN TROUBLE

I DONE TAPED IN

LET ME TELL YOU WHY THAT SHOULD BLESS YOU

BECAUSE YOU CAN’T CURSE WHAT GOD HAS BLESSED

BUT THAT WORKS BOTH WAYS

NO WEAPON THAT IS FORGED AGAINST YOU SHALL PROSPER AND EVERY TOUNGE

what are yall thinking? cause on one hand we call stuff a blessing and then we curse what we call a blessing(floor open) pause.........

When things go contrary to what we planned then we speak ill of the very thing we once called a blessing

car

job

kids

marriage

BUT ALL THE WHILE GOD SAYS WHEN I BLESS YOU, YOU WON’T HAVE THESE TYPES OF REGRETS!

LETS LOOK AT SOME CORRELATING PASSAGES FOR GODS BLESSING

Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow

GOD SAYS WHATEVER I BLESS YOU WITH IT WILL NEVER CEASE TO BE GOOD TO YOU OR GOOD FOR YOU. DEPENDING ON WHAT SEASON YOU IN, YOU MIGHT BE IN YOUR YOU FEELINGS OR YOU FLESH BUT THAT HAS NO BEARINGS ON THE GOODNESS OF MY BLESSING. you may not agree with the blessing , but it’s still a blessing how do i know, because the B clause of the passage says it never changes.

IV’E PERFECTED BLESSING YOU

HERE’S THE SHOUT … GOD DOESN’T GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT BUT HE GIVES YOU WHAT YOU NEED!

KITA..

When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the Lord blessed him.   WHEN GOD BLESSES YOU, GOD BLESSES YOU!

 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless

11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;

the Lord bestows favor and honor;

NO LIMITS OR BOUNDARIES ON HIS BLESSING IF HE BLESSED YOU IN ONE AREA HE CAN DO IT IN OTHERS

where are the people that say , if i could just get this right

no good thing does he withhold

CORRELATING PASSAGES FOR REGRETS

- ISREAL ASK FOR MEAT

-MOSES SMITES THE ROCK GOD says they out of control but you must maintain control

 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“If you repent, I will restore you

that you may serve me;

if you utter worthy, not worthless, words,

you will be my spokesman.

Let this people turn to you,

but you must not turn to them.

3. - SAMSON MARRIES A PHILISTINE

THE PROBLEM WITH THE SPIRIT OF REGRET (PSALM 139:16)

HOW TO HANDLE REGRETS

HURT - FORGIVENESS ()

MISSED OPPORTUNITIES - ( / )

FAILURES - GOD OF ANOTHER CHANCE ( / )

HAPPINESS - ()

HEALTH - ()

MONEY - ()

ANGER - ()

TIME SPENT WITH LOVED ONES - (MATHEW 15:1-6)

we make time for what we want to do and make excuses for what we need to do.

from those whose walk is blameless

9. TIME SPENT WITH GOD - (MATHEW 6:33 / PHILIPPIANS 3:10)

Yahweh gives grace and honor.

He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly

Harris, W. H., III, Ritzema, E., Brannan, R., Mangum, D., Dunham, J., Reimer, J. A., & Wierenga, M. (Eds.). (2012). The Lexham English Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

Harris, W. H., III, Ritzema, E., Brannan, R., Mangum, D., Dunham, J., Reimer, J. A., & Wierenga, M. (Eds.). (2012). The Lexham English Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

some commentators suggest that the term

“ads no sorrow” not only means no regret, but also

means pain and suffering caused from toil and labor for the blessing now this is a real snapshot of grace

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 it is not from works, so that no one can boast.