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I hope you 30 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 5: enjoy this message. 31 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 2: Listen. 32 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 5: I want to remind us to spend our time investing 33 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 5: in our future, don't invest in the past. 34 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: Investing in the past is when. 35 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 5: You relive your hurts, your pains, your disappointments. See it's 36 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 5: easy to focus on who hurts you, what didn't work out, 37 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 5: what mistake you've made. But you know what that is 38 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 5: is a big waste of time and energy. We can't 39 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 5: do anything about what happened in our past. It's done, 40 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 5: it's over with, it's finished. But we can do something 41 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 5: about today. And when you begin to focus on what 42 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 5: you can change and not what you can't change, that 43 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 5: is a good investment in the future. You know, we 44 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 5: weren't designed to carry around a lot of unnecessary negative baggage, 45 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 5: and sometimes we fill our bags with bitterness, resentment, heartache. 46 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 5: But can I tell you that you've got to get 47 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 5: up every day and let that stuff go. Forgive the 48 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 5: people who offended you, release them forgive yourself. You see, 49 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 5: when you are waged down with all of this junk, 50 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 5: it's hard to see where you're going. 51 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 2: It's hard to even be ready to get there. 52 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 5: One time, Joel and I we had scheduled back to 53 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 5: back work trips. We really don't ever do this, but 54 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 5: this just happened to be an instance that we did this. 55 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 5: We had come home from a week out and we 56 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 5: came back in and we only had like two hours 57 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 5: to be at home, and then we'd have to turn 58 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 5: around head back to the airport. Well, on the way home, 59 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 5: all I could think about was those dirty clothes in 60 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 5: my suitcase. There was a week's worth of dirty clothes 61 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 5: in my suitcase. When I got home, I dumped all 62 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 5: those dirty clothes and I began to refresh my suitcase. 63 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 2: Something amazing happened. 64 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 5: Where I was tired and anxious on my way home 65 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 5: just thinking about all that in my suitcase, I became refreshed, 66 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 5: and you know what, I was prepared to go on 67 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 5: my next trip because I had exchanged that dirty clothes 68 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 5: with fresh new clothes. And do you know a lot 69 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 5: of times we get so weighed down with this emotional 70 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 5: baggage of clutter, that's full of pain and heartache, that 71 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 5: we lose our passion and excitement for living. 72 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 2: In fact, we're not even prepared where God wants us 73 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 2: to go. We're just too way down and anxious. 74 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 5: Can I tell you that you need to refresh your 75 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 5: emotional baggage every single day. You need to learn to 76 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 5: travel light because I can tell you this, where you're 77 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 5: going it's far more important than where you've been. But 78 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 5: you can't be way down from the past. You know, 79 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 5: too often people don't even enjoy what they're doing today. 80 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 5: They can't enjoy the opportunities that they're living in today 81 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 5: because they're too focused on yesterday. There was a woman 82 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 5: who had been divorced for a couple of years, and 83 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 5: one day she met this man. 84 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 2: And he was a very nice man. 85 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 5: He seemed to be very happy, he was successful, he 86 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 5: went to church. She was excited about the possibilities. But 87 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 5: she made a mistake when she went into that relationship. 88 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 5: She began to constantly talk about her hurts and pains 89 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 5: of the past. She would describe why she acted certain 90 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 5: ways or why she said certain things. It was because 91 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 5: she was so hurt by her first husband. You know, 92 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 5: after a while that man told one of her friends. 93 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 5: He said, you know, she's so focused on what happened 94 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 5: to her, she can't move forward. We're not making any 95 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 5: kind of connection here, and I really don't feel like 96 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 5: the relationship is right. So he decided that he was 97 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 5: just going to quit seeing her because she made the 98 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 5: mistake of living in the past. She failed at an 99 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 5: opportunity that she had for her future. See, when you 100 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 5: carry negative baggage into your relationships, you can ruin many relationships. 101 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 2: See, we've got to decide that it's time to let 102 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 2: it go. It's time to put it in the past, 103 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 2: to shut the door to it. 104 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 5: One time, Joel and I were going to this like 105 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 5: highly secure government building, and so there was two so 106 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 5: of double doors. So we stood in front of the 107 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 5: first set of doors and it opened up and we 108 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 5: began to walk past those doors to go through the 109 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 5: second set. But we noticed the second set would not 110 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 5: open until the first set closed. And do you know, 111 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 5: in life, you're not going to be able to walk 112 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 5: through open doors until you close the doors that are 113 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 5: behind you. 114 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 2: When you're holding on to bitterness, regret the mistakes you've made, 115 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: it'd gets you stuck. It's like a trap you can't 116 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 2: get out of. 117 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 5: Years ago that the way hunters used to trap monkeys 118 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 5: was they would take a big barrel and they would 119 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 5: fill it full of bananas, and at the end of 120 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 5: that barrel they would cut a very small hole, just 121 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 5: big enough for the monkey to get its hand and 122 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 5: arm through. 123 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 2: Now, the monkey, unaware. 124 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 5: That this was a trap, would stick his hand in 125 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 5: there and grab a fistful of bananas. But the problem was, 126 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 5: as long as he was holding on to those bananas, 127 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 5: he couldn't get his hand out of the barrel. You see, 128 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:16,679 Speaker 5: he could have just simply let the bananas go, taken 129 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 5: his hand out of the barrel, and gone on his way. 130 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,679 Speaker 5: But see, because he was holding on to the barrel, 131 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 5: he was trapped and he couldn't get away. See, we 132 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 5: can't let yesterday trap us. We cannot be trapped in 133 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 5: the past when God has a bright future. Unfair things 134 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 5: happen to all of us. We experience loss, we all 135 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 5: make mistakes, People hurt us, we become offended. But we 136 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 5: have to make a decision that we're not going to 137 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 5: invest in those things. You see, we'll have negative seasons. 138 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 5: The Bible says that trouble will come we will have 139 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 5: seasons of disappointment, reasons that we don't always care for. 140 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 5: But we can't allow that season to define our life. 141 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 5: We can't wear the labels of that season. You see, 142 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 5: We've got to put our foot down and say no more. 143 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 5: God wants to give you beauty for ashes, the scripture says, 144 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 5: but you cannot receive the beauty if you don't give 145 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 5: God your ashes. The best way is to give God 146 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 5: your hurts, your pains, and then open up wide so 147 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 5: that you can receive the beauty that He has in 148 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 5: store for you. The scripture says, this, think on these things, 149 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 5: things that are good, things that are pure, things that 150 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 5: are trustworthy of a good report. See, these are the 151 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,959 Speaker 5: things we are supposed to set our mind on. When 152 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 5: we set our mind on the good things that God 153 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 5: has for us, when we begin to set our mind 154 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 5: on what God says about us, we begin to count 155 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 5: our blessings. That is investing in our future. That is 156 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,079 Speaker 5: the best investment that we can make. I want to 157 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 5: say it one more time, let it. 158 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 2: Go, Just let it go. 159 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 5: If there's anything holding you back today, it's too high 160 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 5: of a price to pay. Let it go, because God's 161 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 5: got bigger and greater things in your future. And where 162 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 5: you're going is way more important than where you've been. 163 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 2: Amen. 164 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,839 Speaker 5: I just want to take an opportunity right now for 165 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 5: every one of us to let go of the ashes, 166 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 5: to release them to God. You know, we can hear 167 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 5: a sermon and we can say we're going to do it, 168 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 5: but I just want to take this time right now 169 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 5: because how important it is for us to just give 170 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 5: God these hurts and pains, to release them so we 171 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 5: can receive our bright future. So right now, through your 172 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 5: eyes of faith, let's just pray. 173 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 2: Father, I thank you. Right now we've heard this message. 174 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 2: We know it to be true. God, we've experienced this 175 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 2: phenomenon of. 176 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 5: Living in our past and how it holds us back, 177 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 5: and Father, we don't want that anymore. 178 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 2: We want to close the. 179 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,959 Speaker 5: Door to our past, so Father, you can open the 180 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 5: door to fresh new opportunity. God, you said that your 181 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 5: mercies are fresh and new every single day, So Father, 182 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 5: we want to pick up those fresh new mercies. We 183 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,199 Speaker 5: want to unload that emotional baggage, those things that didn't 184 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 5: work out, and God, we want to refresh our mental 185 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 5: aspect in our mental life. 186 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 2: Father, we want to know that you are for us 187 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 2: and not against us. 188 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 5: So we declare right now Father, as we let go 189 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,599 Speaker 5: of the ashes, we are receiving your beauty. Thank you 190 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 5: Father for good opportunity. 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