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Man, 40 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 5: it is so good to have you in church today. 41 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,559 Speaker 5: You may be seated praise God. You know, I find 42 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 5: it so interesting to hear people give the secret to 43 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 5: their success. You know, people will say there's that one 44 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 5: thing that I did, or you pick up a magazine 45 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 5: and you see what is the secrets to their success 46 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 5: and they'll list them. But you always want to know, 47 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 5: what's that first thing, what's that one thing? I always 48 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 5: like to just kind of learn from people. I like 49 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,679 Speaker 5: to know what they're doing. The Bible says iron sharpens 50 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 5: iron as one man sharpens another. The Apostle Paul, who 51 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 5: wrote three quarters of the New Testament, shared his secret. 52 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 5: He said, there's one thing that I do. You can 53 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 5: find it in Philippians three twelve. He says, the one 54 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 5: thing I do is forgetting the things that are behind 55 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 5: and pressing towards what is in front of me. See 56 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 5: the Apostle Paul knew when he was looking back he 57 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 5: couldn't press forward. He said, I let the things go 58 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 5: that are behind me. I don't look back. What he 59 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 5: was saying was, I don't go back to my old mistakes. 60 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,839 Speaker 5: I don't relive my failures. He said, the most important thing, 61 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 5: the thing that has helped me the very most, is 62 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 5: to not look back. Don't look back would be his 63 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 5: number one statement. Juel and I used to play racketball 64 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 5: all the time. We love that game so much. It's 65 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 5: a fast game, and many of you know the game 66 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 5: of racketball. The court it's like a room with four 67 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 5: walls around it and a ceiling it's a great game, 68 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 5: fast game. You play it with a shorter racket and 69 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 5: a really bouncy ball. But there's one safety rule to 70 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 5: this game that you must adhere to, and that is 71 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 5: don't look back at the ball. You cannot look back 72 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 5: at the ball because that ball comes with such furious 73 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 5: speed from the back wall that it can literally smack 74 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 5: you in the face and cause you injury. A player 75 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 5: was playing racketball and they look back and that ball 76 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 5: smacked them right in the eye and they lost their eyesight. 77 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 5: I was like freaked out, Like every time I got 78 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 5: in the court, give me some goggles. I remember thinking, Victoria, 79 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 5: look forward, don't look back. Play the ball that's in 80 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 5: front of you. If it goes behind you, don't worry. 81 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 5: You'll always get another chance to hit the ball. See, 82 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 5: racketball is a forward facing game. No matter where you 83 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 5: are on the court, you just keep looking forward. You 84 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 5: just keep playing the ball at hand. You See, life 85 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 5: is a little bit like a racketball game. You can't 86 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 5: look back at your past failures, your past mistakes. You 87 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 5: can't live And I wish I was. I wish it 88 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 5: could have been, because those past mistakes will hit you 89 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 5: in the face, just like that racketball can cause you 90 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 5: injury and damage. When you look back and live in 91 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 5: the past. Those past mistakes can cause damage. They can 92 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 5: ruin your relationships, They lower your self esteem. They knock 93 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 5: the confidence right out of you. They will smack you 94 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 5: in the face and cause you to have distress on 95 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 5: your job. That past will not help you move forward 96 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 5: in the future. See, I don't want my past backing 97 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 5: me in the face. See that sounds funny, but that's 98 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 5: the truth. You cannot move forward if you're looking backwards. 99 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 5: You cannot do anything about your past, no one can. 100 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 5: But we can do something about our future. We can 101 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 5: play the ball that's in front of us, but the 102 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 5: ball that's in back of us is not gonna help 103 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 5: us any So I want to encourage you with what 104 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 5: the apostle Paul said, don't look back. It's very simple. 105 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 5: We cannot look back because it's gonna gain us nothing. 106 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 5: The Bible says that God will turn your ashes into beauty. 107 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 5: He says that he will make up with the enemy 108 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 5: He meant for evil, and he'll turn it around and 109 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 5: use it to your advantage. God has a plan for 110 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 5: your past, but he can't work in your past. Because 111 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 5: God works in the now, He works right now. So 112 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,799 Speaker 5: I encourage each and every one of us to train 113 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 5: ourself in this game of life. Don't be taken out 114 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 5: by your past. Don't be taken out by the things 115 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 5: that are behind you. Don't allow them to cause you 116 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 5: injury and defeat. Don't look back at it who you 117 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 5: can blame why this happened to you, because that really 118 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 5: doesn't matter. There's a ball in front of you right now, 119 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 5: and if you'll hit it, and you'll swing at it, 120 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 5: you're gonna make it. You're gonna make it. I was 121 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 5: talking to a man the other day and he was telling. 122 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 6: Me his story. 123 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 5: That was a pretty sad story. It was his story, though. 124 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 5: He told me how he had a horrible upbringing. He 125 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 5: saw his own brother be murdered, his girlfriend at the 126 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 5: prime of her life, died. He said, I was a 127 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 5: young man that had faced so many things. I was bitter, 128 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 5: he said, I had suicidal tendencies. 129 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 4: He said. 130 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 5: I was in a bad place because I couldn't leave 131 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 5: what had happened to me. I couldn't get past the past. 132 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 5: I could not move forward, he said. But somehow one 133 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 5: day I woke up and I began to cry out 134 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 5: to Almighty God. I begin to say, God, help me 135 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 5: move past where I am right now. And he said 136 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 5: something on the inside of him just gave him this 137 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 5: desire to begin running. He began to run. So he 138 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 5: would get up, put on his tennis shoes, put on 139 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 5: his jogging clothes, and he would go out and he'd 140 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,559 Speaker 5: begin to run. And he said, when I would run, 141 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 5: I would imagine myself shutting the door to the past 142 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 5: and running towards my future. He said it was every day. 143 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 5: With every run, he said, I saw God in front 144 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 5: of me helping me. Now, that was his story, that 145 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 5: was his way. That's how he practiced closing the door 146 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 5: to his past, he said, as I would reach him 147 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 5: press he said, I was able to accomplish things in 148 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 5: my life that I never thought possible. Then he began 149 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 5: to tell me. I went back to school, he said, 150 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 5: I finished college. I went on to medical school. He says, 151 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 5: Now I practiced medicine, and through it all, I have 152 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 5: thirty five employees at my clinic. See, he was able 153 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 5: to press past his upbringing, the challenges that he faced. 154 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 5: But he called out to God, and you too can 155 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 5: press past anything that's trying to hold you captive, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness. 156 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 5: If there's anything that keeps causing you trouble, I want 157 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 5: to tell you today, figure out how you too can 158 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 5: get past it, because your dreams can come true. You 159 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 5: can't accomplish everything God's called you to accomplish, but you 160 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 5: got to call out to God and say, God, train me, 161 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 5: help me move past it. You know, maybe you just 162 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 5: need to quit talking about it. Maybe you need to 163 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 5: get away from a few people that keep bringing it up. 164 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 5: Maybe there is something that God can lead you to 165 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 5: do that have caused you to break through and shut 166 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 5: the door to that past. See today. I think that's 167 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 5: an incredible number one secret to any success and to 168 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 5: maintaining success. And that is what the Apostle Paul told 169 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 5: us in Philippians to don't look back, but press forward, 170 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 5: and you too can gain the victory. Amen. Hey man, 171 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 5: He's an awesome God. 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