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One of the greatest barriers to our future is often our past.
Even Christians who genuinely believe that their past is gone still tend to deal with thoughts, feelings, emotions, reactions & behaviors that are rooted in the past.
Worse yet,
Many of us have never really stepped into what is possible now because of what we have experienced before.
Today I want to help us all to launch into the greatness that is ahead.
Every & any sin separates us from relationship with God.
We all have a past!
Did you notice what kind of a person falls down & makes mistakes?
It’s not just a bad person, an immoral person, a horrible person who falls.
Everyone falls, but we need to know how to get up and move forward when we do.
Learning to Forget:
This verse of scripture was written by Paul who wrote about 2/3 of the New Testament, was a powerful apostle, and boy did he have a past!
Forgetting: (G1950) to lose out of mind; by implication to neglect
A 2016 Study performed by Dr. Jeremy Manning, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire found 2 ways of helping oneself to forget the past:
One strategy is to clear one's mind and deliberately try to think of nothing, and the other involves trying fill one's mind with thoughts about something very different than whatever a person is trying to forget.
When our past runs into the cross, we have the Divine Ability to forget it.
We should let our past actually die & rest in peace instead of burying it alive and digging it back up for special occasions.
Stop talking about how cool you were
Stop talking about how bad you were
Stop recounting all the things you did
Quit exhuming the past that you say you’re not proud of.
Stop Glamorizing the past
-It’s Like putting lipstick on a pig.
Stop re-reading the last chapter.
This is all reinforcing the memory of your past, not helping you to forget it and move forward.
Talk about who you are becoming, talk about where you are going, talk about all the things you will do.
Jesus has a future for us that is separate from, and does not depend on, the past.
God can radically change what’s ahead of us if we will simply forget the things behind us.
Just One Thing:
Let’s do what Paul did: Forget the things that are behind and stretch ourself toward those things that are ahead.
Discussion Questions:
What’s your best story of you or someone else trying to be sneaky and failing miserably?
What are some of the major things from your past that hold you back from stepping into your future?
Please read Proverbs 24:16 and share how it impacts you knowing what kind of person falls repeatedly.
How well have you done at forgetting your past?
What did you learn, from this sermon that you can use to help you forget the past and launch into your future?
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