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Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.800 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.319 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:40.880 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.880 We appreciate you and pray put God's very best in 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:48.080 your life. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.520 Well, God bless you. Thank you so much for tuning 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.160 in today. We love you. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.760 We know that God has good things in store for you, 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:04.560 and we come with good news. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.720 Is telling them earlier how God rewards. 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.360 People that seek after Him and I know that's you, 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.840 or you wouldn't even be tuned in today, So thanks 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.280 for stopping by, and I hope you fe're ever in 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.359 our area, you'll come be a part of one of 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.480 our services. We'll make you feel right at home. But 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.679 glad to have you with us today. And I like 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.600 to start each week with something kind of funny. So 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.560 somebody told me this one was this man. He was 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.520 a Southern Baptist man by the name of Bill. He 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.200 loved to sneak away to the horse tracks and bet. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.000 And one day, after losing almost all of his money, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.240 he noticed this priest stepped out onto the tracks and 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.399 blessed this horse. And he watched very curiously, and sure 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.480 enough that horse won first place. The next race, the 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.240 priest blessed another horse, and again he won. And so 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.520 Bill ran back to the ATM machine got all his 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.560 money out, and the next time, the priest not only 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:55.360 touched the horse's forehead, but he touched his eyes, his ears, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.880 and all of his hoofs. And Bill was so confident 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.160 he bet all of his money on that horse. But 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.440 in the middle of that race, that horse fell down dead. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.400 He could not believe it. He rushed over to that priest. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.840 He said, what in the world happened? The priest said, 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.480 this is the problem with you Protestants. You don't know 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:16.519 the difference between a blessing and the last rites. All right, 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.880 hold your vivals up, say it like him in it. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.280 Ready, this is my Bible. I am what it says 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.400 I am. I have what it says I have. I 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.160 can do what it says I can do. Today I 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.560 will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.800 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.760 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.680 We've been talking about how God is a god of restoration. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.080 He wants to restore everything that's been stolen. We all 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.240 go through disappointments. We all have unfair things that happen, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.480 and too often we just hold on to that hurt 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:58.080 and pain and we end up going around negative and sour. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.040 It may be something simple, like you didn't get a 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.760 promotion you were hoping for, or maybe somebody offended you 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.320 at work last week, or your spouse didn't treat you right. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.840 Sometimes it's our own fault. We lost our. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.480 Temper and we were short with our children, or we 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.520 didn't exercise enough last week, or we ate too much. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.880 It's easy to go around feeling bad about ourselves, guilty. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.720 And condemned, focused on our mistakes. 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:24.360 Now. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.680 I know a lot of people that are living in regrets. Well, 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.680 I wish I had finished school, I wish I had 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.560 chosen a different career. I wish I had been a 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:37.000 better parent. Too often we live life looking in that 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.320 rear view mirror. We have to understand we cannot do 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.880 anything about what's gone, but we can do something about 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.000 right now. Now. I want to challenge you today to 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.880 not let your past poison your future. You may have 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.360 made some poor choices in life, or maybe somebody did 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.359 you wrong and your dreams didn't work out, but you 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.159 need to know God still has a great plan in 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.479 store for your life. And when we get up in 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.920 the morning, one of the first things we should do 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:10.080 is shake off the disappointments of yesterday. Shake off discouragement. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.240 Shake off how somebody tweeted you. Shake off guilt, shake 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.400 off self pity. Friends, You gotta shake off the past. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.600 Our attitude should be this is a new day. I 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.440 may have made mistakes yesterday, my plans may have fallen through, 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.120 people may have disappointed me. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.400 But you know what what's done is done. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.400 I'm letting all that go, and I'm gonna start this 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.839 day afresh and anew. See every morning you need to 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.240 just wipe the slate totally clean. You need to say, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.799 I am forgiving the people that hurt me. I'm forgiving 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.719 my spouse. He was insensitive, but I'm not gonna let 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.000 it ruin this day. I'm forgiving my boss for being 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.839 rude to me last week. I'm forgiving that person for 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.479 cutting me off in traffic. That's over and done. Not 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.880 gonna think about it anymore. And when you make mistakes, 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:03.359 learn to risk receive God's mercy for yourself. Maybe last 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.200 week you said some things you shouldn't have, maybe you 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.480 spent too much money, maybe you blew your diet. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.400 Well, don't go around today guilty and condemned. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:17.039 The scripture says in lamitations that God's mercies are fresh 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.720 and new every single morning. When you wake up and 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.680 you're tempted to focus on all your faults and mistakes 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.120 of yesterday, or you need to just shake all that off, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.279 you need to say, Father, I'm sorry for the way 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.640 I acted yesterday, but I receive your mercy today. 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.360 I receive your forgiveness. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.279 See, don't start the day off guilty and condemned. Started 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.800 off in faith and expectancy. And when you go through disappointments, 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.680 when you suffer some setbacks, don't get up in the 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.760 morning all discouraged. Well, I should have known my plans 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.440 weren't going to work out. Nothing good ever happens to me. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.159 Now you've got to learn to shake off that self pity. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.479 And if your plans didn't work out, it's not because 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.000 God doesn't love you. It's not because God's trying to 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.040 punish you. Most of the time, is because God has 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.279 something better in store for you. And the scripture tells 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.480 us that God will take the unfair things, he'll take 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.760 the disappointments, and he'll turn them around and use them 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.800 to our advantage. But if that's gonna happen, you've got 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.120 to do your part and let go of yesterday. That's 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.520 what the apostle Paul is saying here in Philippians three thirteen. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.680 Forgetting what lies behind, I press forward to the good 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.440 things that are in store. And after all, what's done 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.400 is done. If somebody offended you last week, you cannot 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.360 undo that. You can either get angry and bitter and 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.440 try to pay him back, or you can just forgive 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.200 them and move on with your life. Or maybe you 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.960 didn't qualify for that new home that you really wanted. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:48.520 Well, don't get discouraged. 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.600 Know that God has promised that all things are going 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.760 to work together for your good friends. What I'm saying 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.960 today is you don't have to be a prisoner of 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.760 your past, whether it happened twenty years ago or twenty 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.760 minutes ago. Why don't you make a decision that you're 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.320 going to let it go and move on. Your past 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.200 does not have to poison your future. And I'm asking 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:14.160 you not to waste another minute being depressed, defeated, angry, bitter, 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:15.200 in sel pity. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:16.760 Don't let all that go. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.560 Our time here on this earth is so very short. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.640 Before you know it, we're all going to be gone. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.800 And what a shame to allow something that's happened in 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.360 the past to destroy this day, to destroy our future. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.679 And that's exactly what we do. Sometimes something can happen 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.200 early in the morning and we let. 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.080 It ruin our whole day. 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.439 You get caught in traffic, you get delayed, you can't find. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.320 Your car keys. Well, you can either. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.120 Let that frustrate you and sour the rest of your day, 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:44.200 or you can. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.040 Do what the scripture says and let the past be 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:46.560 the past. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.280 Just let it go and move on and enjoy that 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:54.120 day anyway. For instance, maybe somebody offends you at ten 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.240 o'clock in the morning, and now it's ten thirty, Well, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.360 our attitude should be I'm moving on whole on to 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:00.920 that offense. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.000 That's over and gone. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.800 Maybe at noon you found out you didn't get that 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.000 big account you've been working on. Now it's two o'clock, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.200 your attitude should be no big deal. I'm not gonna 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.160 let that ruin the rest of my week. Yes, I'm disappointed, 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.120 Yes I would have loved to have it, but I'm 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.400 gonna hold my head up high knowing that God is 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.960 still in control and He's got good things in store 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.480 for me. See, you got to learn to shake off 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:28.319 those disappointments, shake off that discouragement, shake off your mistakes 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:32.240 and failures. Don't live your life guilty and condemned. I 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.760 can tell you this, the enemy will do his very 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.600 best to try to get your days started off all 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.840 negative and sour. He will remind you of every mistake 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.280 you made last week. He'll give you a complete inventory 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.280 of every time you had a bad attitude, every time 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:51.000 you were undisciplined. Every time you blew it. His whole 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.160 gold is to get us to go through the day 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:57.240 with a heaviness, feeling bad carrying around all this baggage. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:58.120 Well, man, I. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.079 Should have read my Bible more yesterday, or I wanted 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:02.760 to clean the house, but I was lazy and I 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.760 just watched TV all day. I don't know what's wrong 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.000 with me? Why am I so undisciplined? No, don't you 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.240 dare start your day off like that. You get up 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.199 in the morning and say, Father, I thank you that 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.199 this is going to be a great day and I'm 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:15.160 gonna do what I. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.280 Need to do. You just declare it. Father, I thank 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:20.040 you that I have. 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.040 Discipline, I have self control, that I am focused and God, 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.079 I may not have done what I should have yesterday, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.040 but I'm letting go of that and I'm gonna do 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.559 better today. See, don't live your life guilty and condemned. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.760 Yesterday you may have blown your diet, but let it go. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.959 That day's over, Get up and do better today. If 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.440 you go through this day guilty and you start making excuses, 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.240 you know as well as I do, you'll go out 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.120 and eat fourteen gallons of ice cream today. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:47.439 Let it go. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.760 Last week you may have been short with some of 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.080 your employees. Let it go and do better this week. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.880 Last month, you may have spent too much money. You 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.840 weren't very wise and your finances will Let that go 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.000 and do better this month. The scripture tells us in 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.560 Ephesians four twenty three that every day, not every month, 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.720 not once a week, no, every day, we need to 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:14.160 put on a fresh new attitude, being constantly renewed in 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:15.120 the spirit. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:15.560 Of our minds. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.959 That means every morning we need to forgive the people 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:19.680 that have hurt us. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.439 Every morning we need to receive. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.560 God's mercy for our own mistakes. And every morning we 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.240 need to let go of the disappointments of yesterday. And 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:30.880 I know some of you have had a lot of 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.960 negative things happen in your life, and it's very easy 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.840 to stay focused on the pains of the past and 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.240 all the people that hurt you and all the times 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.840 things didn't work out. But please don't fall into that trap. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.520 One of the main ways we let go of the 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.640 past is simply don't think. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.360 About it and don't talk about it. 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.760 When those negative memories come up in your mind, do 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.960 not relive them. One of The best things you can 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.160 do is learn to change the channel. Just like you 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.400 do with that television in remote control. You see something 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.040 you don't want to watch, you flip on by. Well, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.480 you can do the same thing in your mind. You 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.800 can mentally change the channel, and when those painful memories 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.920 come up, don't stop there, flip on by. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.200 That's over and done. This is a new day. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.280 You've got to keep your mind going in the right direction, 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.320 keep your mind focused on good things in an attitude 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.199 of faith. I know sometimes when I'm watching TV at home, 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.280 I'll come across a medical program where they're doing some 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.160 kind of operation and they've got the person all opened up. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.680 You can see the skin pull back and the blood 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.080 and the organs. Well, do you know it doesn't take 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:40.120 me more than a half a second to flip on by. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.320 That stuff is not for me. I don't even have 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.080 to think twice. 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.520 And really that's the same way it should be when 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.640 it comes to the negative things of our past. The 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.760 enemy would love for you to continually relive every disappointment 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.240 and every painful thing that's happened to you. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:57.720 But don't make that mistake. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.800 Some people, when all that jump comes up on the 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.760 picture screen of their mind. Instead of flipping by it 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.800 quickly like they should, they pull up a chair and 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.880 get a bag of popcorn, like they're gonna watch a 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.040 good movie, and for half an hour they'll just replay 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.079 it and relive it over and over again. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.000 You know as well as I do. All that does. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.000 It gets you more upset, more depressed, more full of 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:19.559 self pity. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.520 Don't go there. Learn to change the channel. If you 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:23.520 make the mistake of. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.480 Dwelling on that junk I found, before long you'll be 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.000 talking about it. You'll be telling your friends, can you 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.080 believe what happened to me? 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.080 Life is so unfair. The more you talk about it, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:34.240 the more you think about. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.720 It, the more stirred up it's gonna stay. It's just 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.640 like a wound that's trying to heal, like a scab. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.280 Every time you talk about it, you're picking that wound. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.360 It's never gonna get better. Quit rehearsing it, Quit reliving it. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.199 Learn to change the channel. If you're gonna go forward, 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.679 you got to quit looking backwards. I know, a couple 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.240 of years after my father died, I was over at 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.040 my parents' house one night, all alone, and I hadn't 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.199 been there by myself in quite some time. As I 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.599 was walking through the family room, I immediately began to 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.520 think about the night that my father died. I don't 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.800 know why. It just came up in my thinking. And 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.240 I could see my father lying there on the floor. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.480 Daddy had a heart attack and died right there in 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.120 the family room. I could see the paramedics working on 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.320 him frantically. I could see his face, and I begin 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.760 to feel those same emotions sorrow, sadness, despair. This went 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.720 on for maybe fifteen to twenty thirty seconds, and I 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:27.840 finally caught myself. 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.240 I thought, what am I doing? Where is my mind 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:31.440 going now? 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.720 I had to make a decision that I was not 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.320 going to relive that night. I knew it was not 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.480 going to do me any good, and so instead I 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.760 started on purpose thinking about all the good. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.200 Memories I had in that room. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.800 I mean, that's where my father and I used to 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.120 watch Wheel of Fortune together. He used to think he 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.400 could beat me, but he never could. That's where Daddy 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.320 used to play with my children. Sometimes I'd come over 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:57.960 to see my father and he'd be sitting there in 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.200 his favorite chair. He's smiling, I say, Joe, tell me all, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.000 you know, it'll just take a second. 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.520 He thought. He was real funny. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:08.600 I thought if he could only see me now, it'd 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.720 take me more than a second. But I had to 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.400 on purpose not allow my mind to go back to 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.400 those painful memories. It was a decision I had to make. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.040 You've got to do the same thing. Quit reliving all 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.080 the negative things that have. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:22.600 Happened to you. 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.760 I heard somebody say, we have two main files in 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.920 our memory system. One is a file of all the 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.840 good things that have happened to us, all of our victories, 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.440 all of our accomplishments, all of the things that have 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.960 brought us joy and happiness. That's file number one. The 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.480 second file is filled with all of the negative things 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.840 of our past, all of our hurts and pains, all 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.720 of our failures and disappointments, anything that's caused us sorrow 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.720 and sadness and throughout life. We can choose which file 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.000 we're going to go back to. And some people, unfortunately, 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.680 they're constantly going back to file number two, thinking about 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.480 all all the times they were hurt, all the times 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:05.720 they were mistreated, all the times their plans didn't work out. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.680 I mean, they just wear out foul number two. They 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.400 are so preoccupied with the pains of the past they 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.480 never get around to look at in foule number one. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.000 They never even think about the good things God has 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.440 done in their life. Friends, I'm challenging you today, if 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.400 you're going to live in victory, you got to throw 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.280 away the key to pound number two. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:26.040 Don't go back there anymore. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.600 If you go back for anything, go back to phule 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.600 number one and remember the great things God has done 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.120 in your life. The scripture tells us we got to 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.760 think on things that are of a good report, things 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.960 that build us up and not tear us down. And 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.520 this is where so many people are missing it today. 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.440 This is why so many people are not happy. It's 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.000 just like they're constantly dragging around all this baggage from 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.320 the past. They got this big old suitcase out. Somebody 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.640 offended them. They put that bitterness and resentment in there. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.440 They pack it away. They didn't get that promotion we 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.600 talked about, so they got that self pity. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:00.960 Packed in there. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.040 Growing up, they were mistreated, they had some unfair things happen. Man, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.280 they got a whole suitcase for all that jump lugging 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.359 it around with them. Ten years ago, a loved one died. 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.720 They sure don't understand that they got that packed away, 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:17.240 And everywhere they go they are so weighted down, carrying 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:22.400 all this baggage self pity, bitterness, resentment, And if that's 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.280 not bad enough, every once in a while they'll stop 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.679 and open up a bag, take something out and. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:27.119 Look at it. 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:27.560 Real good. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.879 We live all the negative some of you even today, 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.160 you do not realize how weighted down you are. You've 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.440 been carrying around junk year after year after year. Somebody 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.680 hurts you, somebody disappointed you. Your plans didn't work out, thisten. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:42.960 God wants you to be free. 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.720 You gotta let go of that jump. Well, you said, Joe, 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.000 you don't understand what I've been through. It was so unfair. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.880 They hurt me so badly. Now I don't doubt any 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.320 of that. I realize life is not always fair, But 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.280 don't let that continue to poison you by holding on 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.639 to it. If you will give it to God and 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.520 quit thinking about it and quit reliving it, God will 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.240 make your wrongs right. God is a god of justice. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.720 He'll pay you back. But as long as you're. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.359 Holding on to it, it's just gonna make. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.520 Matters worse it's gonna keep you bitter and negative when 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.800 you give it to God, though he'll make sure that 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:17.919 you not only get what you deserve, he'll pay you 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.639 back with much much more. I know a couple of 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.680 years ago, we were trying to buy some property to 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.560 build a new church sanctuary on it. And we searched 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.800 and searched for probably six months time, and we finally 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:31.960 found this one hundred acre tract. 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.520 Of land and we loved it. We thought it was perfect. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.679 It was over by the other location and not too 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.760 far off the freeway, and so we signed a non 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.560 binding letter of intent to buy that property. And for 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.000 the next several months, we did all kinds of studies. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.000 And we did the soil samples. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.760 We had our architects lay out where the buildings would 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.320 go and how the parking lots would flow, and we 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.520 spent thousands and thousands of dollars zoon all this research 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.080 to really make sure the property would work for us. 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.440 We find came down to closing, and I'll never forget. 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.160 It was early on a Thursday morning, and we showed 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.560 up about fifteen minutes before our appointment, and this secretary 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.880 walked out and she said, I hate to tell you 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.240 guys this, but we sold that property last night to 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.760 another buyer man. We could not believe it here, We'd 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.760 spent all this time and effort and energy. We were 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.520 so disappointed. I was tempted to go home and have 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.919 a pity party. I was tempted to say, God, that 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.680 is not fair, God, why didn't you do something? 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.520 How come you didn't stop from God, your God? 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.119 But no, I had to do just when I'm telling 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.800 you today, I just said, God, it is not fair 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:37.760 and I don't understand it, but I'm not gonna hold 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.600 on to it. I'm just gonna give it to you, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:41.639 and I'm gonna trust it You're gonna make it up 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.439 to us. And for the next several weeks, when I 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.719 got up in the morning, I had to change the channel. 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.320 Those negative, discouraging. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.359 Thoughts kept coming to my mind, and I'd have to say, no, 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.560 I'm not gonna go there. I'm not gonna dwell on that, 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.399 and I'm not gonna go around telling everybody what happened. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.640 I just stayed in an attitude of faith. Month after 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.280 month went by. We didn't see any new doors open up. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.800 But see, that was a time of testing. When you 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.320 don't get your way, you're being mistreated, or somebody did 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:13.199 something unfair to you. God is closely watching you to 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:15.760 see how you're going to respond. Are you going to 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.359 hold on to it and get negative and better and 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.119 go around complaining all the time, or are you just 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.359 going to let it go and keep a smile on 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:27.200 your face anyway and stay in that attitude of faith, trusting. 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.040 God to make it up to you. We just turned 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:30.560 it over to God, and it was. 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.399 About six months after that that we got a call 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.000 that this place was becoming available, and we knew right 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.760 then and there that God had supernaturally closed those doors 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.760 so he could do something even far greater than we 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:50.159 had even imagined it. And sometimes what may look like 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.639 a great disappointment in your own life is really only 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.520 God keeping you from making a mistake. You got to 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.159 learn to trust him. God always has your best interest 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.560 at heart. And when your plans don't work out and 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.840 you don't get your way, don't sit around all depressed 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:08.320 and sour. You've got to learn to shake off that 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:09.960 discouragement and keep. 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:11.040 Moving forward with your life. 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.679 Too many people today they will not let go of 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.560 the baggage. I know this lady that went through a 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.720 felled marriage. She was married to a very well to 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:21.840 do man, and for some reason he left her and 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:25.240 married somebody else, and she could just not seem. 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:25.800 To get over this. 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.719 She was so bitter about it, and I told her 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:30.840 what I'm telling you today, that you've got to let 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.760 that go, keep a good attitude, and trust God to 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.840 make it up to you. Year after year, we prayed 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.440 time and time again at the old Sanctuary that God 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:40.880 would bring somebody. 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:41.560 New into her life. 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:45.000 And sure enough, one day that door opened up and 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:47.800 she met this man, a fine man, a godly man, 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:51.240 very successful as well. But do you know she made 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:54.439 the mistake of carrying all that old baggage into this 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:58.639 new relationship. She was constantly talking about how badly she 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:00.840 had been hurt and all she had gone through, and 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.280 how just totally dreamed it she was. 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:05.960 And this man told me privately. 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:08.479 Later that she was so focused on her past and 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:10.680 so caught up in what she had been through, he 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:11.840 couldn't handle it anymore. 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:14.720 He just moved on. And that's exactly what happens. 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:17.399 When we hold on to the hurts and pains of 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.840 the past, it's gonna poison us wherever we go. And 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:22.800 you may think other people are the problem and that's 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:24.760 why you can't have healthy relationships. 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:26.440 But I would encourage you. 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:29.400 To examine your own heart and make sure that you're 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:33.880 not the problem. We cannot expect to have good relationships 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:35.240 if we're dragging all. 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:36.760 This baggage around with us. 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:39.160 Some of you today you need to draw that line 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:40.840 into sand and say, you know what, I've had enough. 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:43.160 I'm gonna get rid of all my baggage, and I'm gonna. 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.919 Stop focusing on my disappointments and on who hurt me 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:49.000 and what didn't work out, and I'm gonna start dwelling 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.159 on the bright future God has in store for me. 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:53.960 I'm gonna start moving forward with my life. And when 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:56.240 you do that, God can give you a new beginning. 0:22:56.600 --> 0:22:59.960 That's when things can begin to change. And I understand 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.560 that when we go through disappointments and unfair things happen, 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:05.320 it's normal to feel. 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:06.640 A little down and discouraged. 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:09.639 Of course, if you lose a loved one, it's natural 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:13.280 to grieve and mourn over that. But I would encourage 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:17.160 you today to not let a season of mourning turn 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:21.200 into a lifetime of mourning. It's interesting in the Old Testament, 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.440 when somebody died, they had a certain amount of time 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:26.600 they could mourn. A lot of times it was thirty days, 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:28.399 and after that they didn't have a choice. 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:29.960 They had to get up and get going. 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:32.639 And I'm not saying today that we should have no 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:35.359 feelings toward the past and we just need to be 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:37.720 made out of steal and let everything bounce off of us. 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:41.720 That I am saying. We cannot while around in self pity. 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:44.919 And if something is over and done in your life, 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.439 you've got to be big enough to just accept it 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:50.520 and move on. If you have a loved one that 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:52.760 was sick and you prayed and prayed, but they didn't 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:55.760 get healed, they didn't get well, they died anyway, well. 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:57.040 God is still in control. 0:23:57.119 --> 0:23:59.800 Don't get bitter, Be grateful for the time that you 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:02.440 have here with that person, like I did with my dad. 0:24:02.880 --> 0:24:05.760 Focus on your good memories, and then keep moving forward 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:08.280 with your life. And I don't know if there's any 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:11.600 certain amount of time set today, but if you're one 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:14.679 year past a disappointment or a year past a setback 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:17.359 and you're still talking about it and thinking about it 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:20.040 and grieving over it, friends, that's way too long. 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:21.800 You got to get up and get going. 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:25.480 Quit mourning over something that you cannot change. Quit carrying 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.080 around all that baggage. God wants to give you a 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:31.119 new beginning. Well, you say, Joe, here's my problem. I 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:34.359 just don't understand why this has happened to me. But 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:36.440 here's one of the best phrases you could ever hear. 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:39.800 Don't ever put a question mark where God has put 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:42.359 a period. There are a lot of things in our 0:24:42.400 --> 0:24:44.320 lives that we're never gonna understand. 0:24:46.960 --> 0:24:48.640 We deal with people that have. 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:52.280 Lost loved ones in an accident so unfair, people that 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:55.040 have been laid off of a job after twenty years, 0:24:55.160 --> 0:24:57.879 people that have been raised in such a pitiful environment. 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:01.040 We're never gonna understand all that. But what I'm saying 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:04.719 today is what's done is done. We cannot do anything 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.800 about the past, but we can do something about right now. 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:10.520 You need to dig your heels in and make the 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:13.520 most of this moment. You may have lost a lot, 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:15.640 but you've got to make the most with what you've 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:16.440 got left over. 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:18.760 Don't let the pass poison your future. 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:21.720 You may remember the story in the news a couple 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:24.879 of years ago about a young mountain climber. He was 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:28.199 in a remote section of Utah, all by himself, and 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:30.800 as he was hiking through the canyon, all of a sudden, 0:25:31.080 --> 0:25:35.080 this eight hundred pound boulder shifted in his arm became trapped, 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:38.680 and he tried for five days everything he possibly could 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:42.000 to free himself. Had a little pocket knife an hour 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:44.520 after hour, he chipped away and chipped away, but to 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:47.359 no avail. When that didn't work, he tried to use 0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:50.480 his climbing gear to somehow shift the rock, but again 0:25:50.640 --> 0:25:51.560 he could not budget. 0:25:52.119 --> 0:25:54.200 After three days, his food. 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:57.320 And water supply ran out, and by this time his 0:25:57.560 --> 0:26:01.080 arm was already dead. It had had no blood flowing 0:26:01.119 --> 0:26:03.399 through it, and he told how it was hard and 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:06.359 cold and stiff. He had no feeling in it, and 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:08.520 it looked like he was going to die with that 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:09.080 dead arm. 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:10.800 Didn't look like there was any way out. 0:26:11.480 --> 0:26:14.560 But on the fifth day he made a decision to 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:17.840 do the unthinkable. He knew that if he was going 0:26:17.880 --> 0:26:20.080 to survive, he was going to have to cut that 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:21.080 arm off. 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:23.639 So he could go and find help and get rescued. 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:25.840 And believe it or not, he put a tourniquet on 0:26:25.960 --> 0:26:29.520 up here and somehow, some way he amputated his own arm. 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:32.879 He then walked two miles before somebody saw him and 0:26:32.960 --> 0:26:36.760 rescued him. Miraculously, he was saved. And in a sense, 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:40.480 we all come to places like that in life, not physically, 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:43.480 of course, but where something is over and done. 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:45.239 There's nothing that we can do about it. 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:48.160 We may not understand it, it may not have been fair, 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:50.439 but that does not change the fact that it is 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:53.800 no longer alive. And we can either hold on to 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:56.679 it and allow it to drag us down and defeat 0:26:56.800 --> 0:27:00.879 us with it, or like that young man, as difficult 0:27:00.960 --> 0:27:03.639 as it may seem, we can choose to break away 0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:06.480 from it and move forward with our life, so we 0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:09.439 too can receive our new beginning. And I would challenge 0:27:09.480 --> 0:27:12.720 you today, if something is dead in your life, don't 0:27:12.760 --> 0:27:15.800 die with it. If something is over and done, don't 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:18.840 hold on to it, let it go, give it to God. 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:22.399 Just say God, these people hurt me. It wasn't fair. 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:25.679 But I'm not going to go around reliving it, thinking 0:27:25.680 --> 0:27:26.800 about it, talking about it. 0:27:26.840 --> 0:27:28.280 I'm gonna cut it off and move on. 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:32.760 Or maybe a dream has died, your plans didn't work out, 0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:34.320 but don't die with it. 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:37.760 If you'll keep moving forward. God will give you another dream. 0:27:38.560 --> 0:27:42.040 Friends, your future starts today, and no matter what you've 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:45.600 been through, no matter how unfair it was, God has 0:27:45.720 --> 0:27:48.800 great things in store for you. And my prayer is 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:50.879 that you'll go out of here free from the past, 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:54.800 free from guilt, free from bitterness, free from self pity. 0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:58.240 Why don't you get rid of all that baggage, as 0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:01.040 I said, whether it happened to ten years ago or 0:28:01.040 --> 0:28:03.719 ten minutes ago, make a decision that you're gonna let 0:28:03.720 --> 0:28:06.400 it go and move on with your life, and get 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:09.360 in a habit of doing this on a daily basis. 0:28:09.560 --> 0:28:13.240 Every morning, forgive the people that have hurt you, Every morning, 0:28:13.320 --> 0:28:17.560 receive God's mercy for your mistakes, and every morning let 0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:21.440 go of the disappointments of yesterday. If you will do that, 0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:24.119 I can promise you this, God will give you a 0:28:24.280 --> 0:28:28.280 daily new beginning and you'll live your life refreshed and restored, 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:31.159 and you'll experience the good things that God has in 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:34.280 store for you. Heymen, how many of you receive it today? 0:28:35.800 --> 0:28:38.600 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:38.640 --> 0:28:41.480 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:45.440 Would you pray with me? Just say Lord Jesus, I 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:50.320 repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 0:28:50.360 --> 0:28:53.680 you my Lord and save you. Friends, if you prayed 0:28:53.680 --> 0:28:56.640 that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 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