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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 35 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 36 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 37 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray put God's very best in 38 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 5: your life. 39 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 3: Well, God bless you. Thank you so much for tuning 40 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 3: in today. We love you. 41 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 5: We know that God has good things in store for you, 42 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 5: and we come with good news. 43 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 3: Is telling them earlier how God rewards. 44 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 5: People that seek after Him and I know that's you, 45 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 5: or you wouldn't even be tuned in today, So thanks 46 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 5: for stopping by, and I hope you fe're ever in 47 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 5: our area, you'll come be a part of one of 48 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 5: our services. We'll make you feel right at home. But 49 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 5: glad to have you with us today. And I like 50 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 5: to start each week with something kind of funny. So 51 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 5: somebody told me this one was this man. He was 52 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 5: a Southern Baptist man by the name of Bill. He 53 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 5: loved to sneak away to the horse tracks and bet. 54 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 5: And one day, after losing almost all of his money, 55 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 5: he noticed this priest stepped out onto the tracks and 56 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,399 Speaker 5: blessed this horse. And he watched very curiously, and sure 57 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 5: enough that horse won first place. The next race, the 58 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 5: priest blessed another horse, and again he won. And so 59 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 5: Bill ran back to the ATM machine got all his 60 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 5: money out, and the next time, the priest not only 61 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 5: touched the horse's forehead, but he touched his eyes, his ears, 62 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 5: and all of his hoofs. And Bill was so confident 63 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 5: he bet all of his money on that horse. But 64 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 5: in the middle of that race, that horse fell down dead. 65 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 5: He could not believe it. He rushed over to that priest. 66 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 5: He said, what in the world happened? The priest said, 67 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 5: this is the problem with you Protestants. You don't know 68 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 5: the difference between a blessing and the last rites. All right, 69 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 5: hold your vivals up, say it like him in it. 70 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 7: Ready, this is my Bible. I am what it says 71 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 7: I am. I have what it says I have. I 72 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 7: can do what it says I can do. Today I 73 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 7: will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess. 74 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 7: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 75 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 7: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 76 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 5: We've been talking about how God is a god of restoration. 77 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 5: He wants to restore everything that's been stolen. We all 78 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 5: go through disappointments. We all have unfair things that happen, 79 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 5: and too often we just hold on to that hurt 80 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 5: and pain and we end up going around negative and sour. 81 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 5: It may be something simple, like you didn't get a 82 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 5: promotion you were hoping for, or maybe somebody offended you 83 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 5: at work last week, or your spouse didn't treat you right. 84 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 3: Sometimes it's our own fault. We lost our. 85 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 5: Temper and we were short with our children, or we 86 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 5: didn't exercise enough last week, or we ate too much. 87 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 5: It's easy to go around feeling bad about ourselves, guilty. 88 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 3: And condemned, focused on our mistakes. 89 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 8: Now. 90 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 5: I know a lot of people that are living in regrets. Well, 91 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 5: I wish I had finished school, I wish I had 92 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 5: chosen a different career. I wish I had been a 93 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 5: better parent. Too often we live life looking in that 94 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 5: rear view mirror. We have to understand we cannot do 95 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 5: anything about what's gone, but we can do something about 96 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 5: right now. Now. I want to challenge you today to 97 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 5: not let your past poison your future. You may have 98 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 5: made some poor choices in life, or maybe somebody did 99 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 5: you wrong and your dreams didn't work out, but you 100 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 5: need to know God still has a great plan in 101 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 5: store for your life. And when we get up in 102 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 5: the morning, one of the first things we should do 103 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 5: is shake off the disappointments of yesterday. Shake off discouragement. 104 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 5: Shake off how somebody tweeted you. Shake off guilt, shake 105 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 5: off self pity. Friends, You gotta shake off the past. 106 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 5: Our attitude should be this is a new day. I 107 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 5: may have made mistakes yesterday, my plans may have fallen through, 108 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 5: people may have disappointed me. 109 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 3: But you know what what's done is done. 110 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 5: I'm letting all that go, and I'm gonna start this 111 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 5: day afresh and anew. See every morning you need to 112 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 5: just wipe the slate totally clean. You need to say, 113 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,799 Speaker 5: I am forgiving the people that hurt me. I'm forgiving 114 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 5: my spouse. He was insensitive, but I'm not gonna let 115 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 5: it ruin this day. I'm forgiving my boss for being 116 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 5: rude to me last week. I'm forgiving that person for 117 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 5: cutting me off in traffic. That's over and done. Not 118 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 5: gonna think about it anymore. And when you make mistakes, 119 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 5: learn to risk receive God's mercy for yourself. Maybe last 120 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 5: week you said some things you shouldn't have, maybe you 121 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 5: spent too much money, maybe you blew your diet. 122 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 3: Well, don't go around today guilty and condemned. 123 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 5: The scripture says in lamitations that God's mercies are fresh 124 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 5: and new every single morning. When you wake up and 125 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 5: you're tempted to focus on all your faults and mistakes 126 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 5: of yesterday, or you need to just shake all that off, 127 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 5: you need to say, Father, I'm sorry for the way 128 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 5: I acted yesterday, but I receive your mercy today. 129 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 3: I receive your forgiveness. 130 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 5: See, don't start the day off guilty and condemned. Started 131 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 5: off in faith and expectancy. And when you go through disappointments, 132 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 5: when you suffer some setbacks, don't get up in the 133 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 5: morning all discouraged. Well, I should have known my plans 134 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 5: weren't going to work out. Nothing good ever happens to me. 135 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 5: Now you've got to learn to shake off that self pity. 136 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 5: And if your plans didn't work out, it's not because 137 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 5: God doesn't love you. It's not because God's trying to 138 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 5: punish you. Most of the time, is because God has 139 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 5: something better in store for you. And the scripture tells 140 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 5: us that God will take the unfair things, he'll take 141 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 5: the disappointments, and he'll turn them around and use them 142 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 5: to our advantage. But if that's gonna happen, you've got 143 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 5: to do your part and let go of yesterday. That's 144 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 5: what the apostle Paul is saying here in Philippians three thirteen. 145 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 5: Forgetting what lies behind, I press forward to the good 146 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 5: things that are in store. And after all, what's done 147 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 5: is done. If somebody offended you last week, you cannot 148 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 5: undo that. You can either get angry and bitter and 149 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 5: try to pay him back, or you can just forgive 150 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 5: them and move on with your life. Or maybe you 151 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 5: didn't qualify for that new home that you really wanted. 152 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 3: Well, don't get discouraged. 153 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 5: Know that God has promised that all things are going 154 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 5: to work together for your good friends. What I'm saying 155 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 5: today is you don't have to be a prisoner of 156 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 5: your past, whether it happened twenty years ago or twenty 157 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 5: minutes ago. Why don't you make a decision that you're 158 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 5: going to let it go and move on. Your past 159 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 5: does not have to poison your future. And I'm asking 160 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 5: you not to waste another minute being depressed, defeated, angry, bitter, 161 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 5: in sel pity. 162 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 3: Don't let all that go. 163 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 5: Our time here on this earth is so very short. 164 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 5: Before you know it, we're all going to be gone. 165 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 5: And what a shame to allow something that's happened in 166 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 5: the past to destroy this day, to destroy our future. 167 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 5: And that's exactly what we do. Sometimes something can happen 168 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 5: early in the morning and we let. 169 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 3: It ruin our whole day. 170 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 5: You get caught in traffic, you get delayed, you can't find. 171 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 3: Your car keys. Well, you can either. 172 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 5: Let that frustrate you and sour the rest of your day, 173 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 5: or you can. 174 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 3: Do what the scripture says and let the past be 175 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 3: the past. 176 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 5: Just let it go and move on and enjoy that 177 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 5: day anyway. For instance, maybe somebody offends you at ten 178 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 5: o'clock in the morning, and now it's ten thirty, Well, 179 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 5: our attitude should be I'm moving on whole on to 180 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 5: that offense. 181 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 3: That's over and gone. 182 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 5: Maybe at noon you found out you didn't get that 183 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 5: big account you've been working on. Now it's two o'clock, 184 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 5: your attitude should be no big deal. I'm not gonna 185 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 5: let that ruin the rest of my week. Yes, I'm disappointed, 186 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 5: Yes I would have loved to have it, but I'm 187 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 5: gonna hold my head up high knowing that God is 188 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 5: still in control and He's got good things in store 189 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 5: for me. See, you got to learn to shake off 190 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 5: those disappointments, shake off that discouragement, shake off your mistakes 191 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 5: and failures. Don't live your life guilty and condemned. I 192 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 5: can tell you this, the enemy will do his very 193 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 5: best to try to get your days started off all 194 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 5: negative and sour. He will remind you of every mistake 195 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 5: you made last week. He'll give you a complete inventory 196 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 5: of every time you had a bad attitude, every time 197 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 5: you were undisciplined. Every time you blew it. His whole 198 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 5: gold is to get us to go through the day 199 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 5: with a heaviness, feeling bad carrying around all this baggage. 200 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 3: Well, man, I. 201 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,079 Speaker 5: Should have read my Bible more yesterday, or I wanted 202 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 5: to clean the house, but I was lazy and I 203 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 5: just watched TV all day. I don't know what's wrong 204 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 5: with me? Why am I so undisciplined? No, don't you 205 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 5: dare start your day off like that. You get up 206 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 5: in the morning and say, Father, I thank you that 207 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 5: this is going to be a great day and I'm 208 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 5: gonna do what I. 209 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 3: Need to do. You just declare it. Father, I thank 210 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 3: you that I have. 211 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 5: Discipline, I have self control, that I am focused and God, 212 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 5: I may not have done what I should have yesterday, 213 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 5: but I'm letting go of that and I'm gonna do 214 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 5: better today. See, don't live your life guilty and condemned. 215 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 5: Yesterday you may have blown your diet, but let it go. 216 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 5: That day's over, Get up and do better today. If 217 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 5: you go through this day guilty and you start making excuses, 218 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 5: you know as well as I do, you'll go out 219 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 5: and eat fourteen gallons of ice cream today. 220 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 3: Let it go. 221 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 5: Last week you may have been short with some of 222 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 5: your employees. Let it go and do better this week. 223 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 5: Last month, you may have spent too much money. You 224 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 5: weren't very wise and your finances will Let that go 225 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 5: and do better this month. The scripture tells us in 226 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 5: Ephesians four twenty three that every day, not every month, 227 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 5: not once a week, no, every day, we need to 228 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 5: put on a fresh new attitude, being constantly renewed in 229 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 5: the spirit. 230 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 3: Of our minds. 231 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 5: That means every morning we need to forgive the people 232 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 5: that have hurt us. 233 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,439 Speaker 3: Every morning we need to receive. 234 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 5: God's mercy for our own mistakes. And every morning we 235 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 5: need to let go of the disappointments of yesterday. And 236 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 5: I know some of you have had a lot of 237 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 5: negative things happen in your life, and it's very easy 238 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 5: to stay focused on the pains of the past and 239 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 5: all the people that hurt you and all the times 240 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 5: things didn't work out. But please don't fall into that trap. 241 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 5: One of the main ways we let go of the 242 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 5: past is simply don't think. 243 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 3: About it and don't talk about it. 244 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 5: When those negative memories come up in your mind, do 245 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 5: not relive them. One of The best things you can 246 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 5: do is learn to change the channel. Just like you 247 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 5: do with that television in remote control. You see something 248 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 5: you don't want to watch, you flip on by. Well, 249 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 5: you can do the same thing in your mind. You 250 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 5: can mentally change the channel, and when those painful memories 251 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 5: come up, don't stop there, flip on by. 252 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 3: That's over and done. This is a new day. 253 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 5: You've got to keep your mind going in the right direction, 254 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 5: keep your mind focused on good things in an attitude 255 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 5: of faith. I know sometimes when I'm watching TV at home, 256 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 5: I'll come across a medical program where they're doing some 257 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 5: kind of operation and they've got the person all opened up. 258 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 5: You can see the skin pull back and the blood 259 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 5: and the organs. Well, do you know it doesn't take 260 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 5: me more than a half a second to flip on by. 261 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 3: That stuff is not for me. I don't even have 262 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 3: to think twice. 263 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 5: And really that's the same way it should be when 264 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 5: it comes to the negative things of our past. The 265 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 5: enemy would love for you to continually relive every disappointment 266 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 5: and every painful thing that's happened to you. 267 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 3: But don't make that mistake. 268 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 5: Some people, when all that jump comes up on the 269 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 5: picture screen of their mind. Instead of flipping by it 270 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 5: quickly like they should, they pull up a chair and 271 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 5: get a bag of popcorn, like they're gonna watch a 272 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 5: good movie, and for half an hour they'll just replay 273 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 5: it and relive it over and over again. 274 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 3: You know as well as I do. All that does. 275 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 5: It gets you more upset, more depressed, more full of 276 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:19,559 Speaker 5: self pity. 277 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 3: Don't go there. Learn to change the channel. If you 278 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 3: make the mistake of. 279 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 5: Dwelling on that junk I found, before long you'll be 280 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 5: talking about it. You'll be telling your friends, can you 281 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 5: believe what happened to me? 282 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 3: Life is so unfair. The more you talk about it, 283 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 3: the more you think about. 284 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 5: It, the more stirred up it's gonna stay. It's just 285 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 5: like a wound that's trying to heal, like a scab. 286 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 5: Every time you talk about it, you're picking that wound. 287 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 5: It's never gonna get better. Quit rehearsing it, Quit reliving it. 288 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 5: Learn to change the channel. If you're gonna go forward, 289 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 5: you got to quit looking backwards. I know, a couple 290 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 5: of years after my father died, I was over at 291 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 5: my parents' house one night, all alone, and I hadn't 292 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,199 Speaker 5: been there by myself in quite some time. As I 293 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,599 Speaker 5: was walking through the family room, I immediately began to 294 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 5: think about the night that my father died. I don't 295 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 5: know why. It just came up in my thinking. And 296 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 5: I could see my father lying there on the floor. 297 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 5: Daddy had a heart attack and died right there in 298 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 5: the family room. I could see the paramedics working on 299 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 5: him frantically. I could see his face, and I begin 300 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 5: to feel those same emotions sorrow, sadness, despair. This went 301 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 5: on for maybe fifteen to twenty thirty seconds, and I 302 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 5: finally caught myself. 303 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 3: I thought, what am I doing? Where is my mind 304 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 3: going now? 305 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 5: I had to make a decision that I was not 306 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 5: going to relive that night. I knew it was not 307 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 5: going to do me any good, and so instead I 308 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 5: started on purpose thinking about all the good. 309 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 3: Memories I had in that room. 310 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 5: I mean, that's where my father and I used to 311 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 5: watch Wheel of Fortune together. He used to think he 312 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 5: could beat me, but he never could. That's where Daddy 313 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 5: used to play with my children. Sometimes I'd come over 314 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 5: to see my father and he'd be sitting there in 315 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 5: his favorite chair. He's smiling, I say, Joe, tell me all, 316 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 5: you know, it'll just take a second. 317 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 3: He thought. He was real funny. 318 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 5: I thought if he could only see me now, it'd 319 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 5: take me more than a second. But I had to 320 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 5: on purpose not allow my mind to go back to 321 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 5: those painful memories. It was a decision I had to make. 322 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 5: You've got to do the same thing. Quit reliving all 323 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 5: the negative things that have. 324 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 3: Happened to you. 325 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 5: I heard somebody say, we have two main files in 326 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 5: our memory system. One is a file of all the 327 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 5: good things that have happened to us, all of our victories, 328 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 5: all of our accomplishments, all of the things that have 329 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 5: brought us joy and happiness. That's file number one. The 330 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 5: second file is filled with all of the negative things 331 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 5: of our past, all of our hurts and pains, all 332 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 5: of our failures and disappointments, anything that's caused us sorrow 333 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 5: and sadness and throughout life. We can choose which file 334 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 5: we're going to go back to. And some people, unfortunately, 335 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 5: they're constantly going back to file number two, thinking about 336 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 5: all all the times they were hurt, all the times 337 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 5: they were mistreated, all the times their plans didn't work out. 338 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 5: I mean, they just wear out foul number two. They 339 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 5: are so preoccupied with the pains of the past they 340 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 5: never get around to look at in foule number one. 341 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 5: They never even think about the good things God has 342 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 5: done in their life. Friends, I'm challenging you today, if 343 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 5: you're going to live in victory, you got to throw 344 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 5: away the key to pound number two. 345 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 3: Don't go back there anymore. 346 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 5: If you go back for anything, go back to phule 347 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 5: number one and remember the great things God has done 348 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 5: in your life. The scripture tells us we got to 349 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 5: think on things that are of a good report, things 350 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 5: that build us up and not tear us down. And 351 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 5: this is where so many people are missing it today. 352 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 5: This is why so many people are not happy. It's 353 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 5: just like they're constantly dragging around all this baggage from 354 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 5: the past. They got this big old suitcase out. Somebody 355 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 5: offended them. They put that bitterness and resentment in there. 356 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 5: They pack it away. They didn't get that promotion we 357 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 5: talked about, so they got that self pity. 358 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 3: Packed in there. 359 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 5: Growing up, they were mistreated, they had some unfair things happen. Man, 360 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 5: they got a whole suitcase for all that jump lugging 361 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 5: it around with them. Ten years ago, a loved one died. 362 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 5: They sure don't understand that they got that packed away, 363 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 5: And everywhere they go they are so weighted down, carrying 364 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 5: all this baggage self pity, bitterness, resentment, And if that's 365 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 5: not bad enough, every once in a while they'll stop 366 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,679 Speaker 5: and open up a bag, take something out and. 367 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 3: Look at it. 368 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 4: Real good. 369 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 5: We live all the negative some of you even today, 370 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 5: you do not realize how weighted down you are. You've 371 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 5: been carrying around junk year after year after year. Somebody 372 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 5: hurts you, somebody disappointed you. Your plans didn't work out, thisten. 373 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 3: God wants you to be free. 374 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 5: You gotta let go of that jump. Well, you said, Joe, 375 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 5: you don't understand what I've been through. It was so unfair. 376 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 5: They hurt me so badly. Now I don't doubt any 377 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 5: of that. I realize life is not always fair, But 378 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 5: don't let that continue to poison you by holding on 379 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 5: to it. If you will give it to God and 380 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 5: quit thinking about it and quit reliving it, God will 381 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 5: make your wrongs right. God is a god of justice. 382 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 5: He'll pay you back. But as long as you're. 383 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 3: Holding on to it, it's just gonna make. 384 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 5: Matters worse it's gonna keep you bitter and negative when 385 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 5: you give it to God, though he'll make sure that 386 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:17,919 Speaker 5: you not only get what you deserve, he'll pay you 387 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 5: back with much much more. I know a couple of 388 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 5: years ago, we were trying to buy some property to 389 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 5: build a new church sanctuary on it. And we searched 390 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 5: and searched for probably six months time, and we finally 391 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 5: found this one hundred acre tract. 392 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 3: Of land and we loved it. We thought it was perfect. 393 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:36,679 Speaker 5: It was over by the other location and not too 394 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 5: far off the freeway, and so we signed a non 395 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 5: binding letter of intent to buy that property. And for 396 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 5: the next several months, we did all kinds of studies. 397 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 3: And we did the soil samples. 398 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 5: We had our architects lay out where the buildings would 399 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 5: go and how the parking lots would flow, and we 400 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 5: spent thousands and thousands of dollars zoon all this research 401 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 5: to really make sure the property would work for us. 402 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 5: We find came down to closing, and I'll never forget. 403 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 5: It was early on a Thursday morning, and we showed 404 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 5: up about fifteen minutes before our appointment, and this secretary 405 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 5: walked out and she said, I hate to tell you 406 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 5: guys this, but we sold that property last night to 407 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 5: another buyer man. We could not believe it here, We'd 408 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 5: spent all this time and effort and energy. We were 409 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 5: so disappointed. I was tempted to go home and have 410 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 5: a pity party. I was tempted to say, God, that 411 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 5: is not fair, God, why didn't you do something? 412 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 3: How come you didn't stop from God, your God? 413 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 5: But no, I had to do just when I'm telling 414 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 5: you today, I just said, God, it is not fair 415 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 5: and I don't understand it, but I'm not gonna hold 416 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 5: on to it. I'm just gonna give it to you, 417 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 5: and I'm gonna trust it You're gonna make it up 418 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,439 Speaker 5: to us. And for the next several weeks, when I 419 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,719 Speaker 5: got up in the morning, I had to change the channel. 420 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 3: Those negative, discouraging. 421 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 5: Thoughts kept coming to my mind, and I'd have to say, no, 422 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 5: I'm not gonna go there. I'm not gonna dwell on that, 423 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 5: and I'm not gonna go around telling everybody what happened. 424 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 5: I just stayed in an attitude of faith. Month after 425 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 5: month went by. We didn't see any new doors open up. 426 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 5: But see, that was a time of testing. When you 427 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 5: don't get your way, you're being mistreated, or somebody did 428 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:13,199 Speaker 5: something unfair to you. God is closely watching you to 429 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 5: see how you're going to respond. Are you going to 430 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 5: hold on to it and get negative and better and 431 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 5: go around complaining all the time, or are you just 432 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 5: going to let it go and keep a smile on 433 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 5: your face anyway and stay in that attitude of faith, trusting. 434 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 3: God to make it up to you. We just turned 435 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 3: it over to God, and it was. 436 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,399 Speaker 5: About six months after that that we got a call 437 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 5: that this place was becoming available, and we knew right 438 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 5: then and there that God had supernaturally closed those doors 439 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 5: so he could do something even far greater than we 440 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 5: had even imagined it. And sometimes what may look like 441 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 5: a great disappointment in your own life is really only 442 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 5: God keeping you from making a mistake. You got to 443 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 5: learn to trust him. God always has your best interest 444 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 5: at heart. And when your plans don't work out and 445 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 5: you don't get your way, don't sit around all depressed 446 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 5: and sour. You've got to learn to shake off that 447 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 5: discouragement and keep. 448 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 3: Moving forward with your life. 449 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 5: Too many people today they will not let go of 450 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 5: the baggage. I know this lady that went through a 451 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 5: felled marriage. She was married to a very well to 452 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 5: do man, and for some reason he left her and 453 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 5: married somebody else, and she could just not seem. 454 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 3: To get over this. 455 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,719 Speaker 5: She was so bitter about it, and I told her 456 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 5: what I'm telling you today, that you've got to let 457 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 5: that go, keep a good attitude, and trust God to 458 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 5: make it up to you. Year after year, we prayed 459 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 5: time and time again at the old Sanctuary that God 460 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 5: would bring somebody. 461 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 3: New into her life. 462 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 5: And sure enough, one day that door opened up and 463 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 5: she met this man, a fine man, a godly man, 464 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 5: very successful as well. But do you know she made 465 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 5: the mistake of carrying all that old baggage into this 466 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 5: new relationship. She was constantly talking about how badly she 467 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 5: had been hurt and all she had gone through, and 468 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 5: how just totally dreamed it she was. 469 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 3: And this man told me privately. 470 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,479 Speaker 5: Later that she was so focused on her past and 471 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 5: so caught up in what she had been through, he 472 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 5: couldn't handle it anymore. 473 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 3: He just moved on. And that's exactly what happens. 474 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 5: When we hold on to the hurts and pains of 475 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 5: the past, it's gonna poison us wherever we go. And 476 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 5: you may think other people are the problem and that's 477 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 5: why you can't have healthy relationships. 478 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 3: But I would encourage you. 479 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 5: To examine your own heart and make sure that you're 480 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 5: not the problem. We cannot expect to have good relationships 481 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 5: if we're dragging all. 482 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 3: This baggage around with us. 483 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 5: Some of you today you need to draw that line 484 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 5: into sand and say, you know what, I've had enough. 485 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 3: I'm gonna get rid of all my baggage, and I'm gonna. 486 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 5: Stop focusing on my disappointments and on who hurt me 487 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 5: and what didn't work out, and I'm gonna start dwelling 488 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 5: on the bright future God has in store for me. 489 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 5: I'm gonna start moving forward with my life. And when 490 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 5: you do that, God can give you a new beginning. 491 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 5: That's when things can begin to change. And I understand 492 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 5: that when we go through disappointments and unfair things happen, 493 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 5: it's normal to feel. 494 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 3: A little down and discouraged. 495 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 5: Of course, if you lose a loved one, it's natural 496 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 5: to grieve and mourn over that. But I would encourage 497 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 5: you today to not let a season of mourning turn 498 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 5: into a lifetime of mourning. It's interesting in the Old Testament, 499 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 5: when somebody died, they had a certain amount of time 500 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 5: they could mourn. A lot of times it was thirty days, 501 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 5: and after that they didn't have a choice. 502 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 3: They had to get up and get going. 503 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 5: And I'm not saying today that we should have no 504 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 5: feelings toward the past and we just need to be 505 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 5: made out of steal and let everything bounce off of us. 506 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 5: That I am saying. We cannot while around in self pity. 507 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 5: And if something is over and done in your life, 508 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,439 Speaker 5: you've got to be big enough to just accept it 509 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 5: and move on. If you have a loved one that 510 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 5: was sick and you prayed and prayed, but they didn't 511 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 5: get healed, they didn't get well, they died anyway, well. 512 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 3: God is still in control. 513 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 5: Don't get bitter, Be grateful for the time that you 514 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 5: have here with that person, like I did with my dad. 515 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 5: Focus on your good memories, and then keep moving forward 516 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 5: with your life. And I don't know if there's any 517 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 5: certain amount of time set today, but if you're one 518 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 5: year past a disappointment or a year past a setback 519 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 5: and you're still talking about it and thinking about it 520 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 5: and grieving over it, friends, that's way too long. 521 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 3: You got to get up and get going. 522 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 5: Quit mourning over something that you cannot change. Quit carrying 523 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 5: around all that baggage. God wants to give you a 524 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 5: new beginning. Well, you say, Joe, here's my problem. I 525 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 5: just don't understand why this has happened to me. But 526 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 5: here's one of the best phrases you could ever hear. 527 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 5: Don't ever put a question mark where God has put 528 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 5: a period. There are a lot of things in our 529 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 5: lives that we're never gonna understand. 530 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:48,640 Speaker 3: We deal with people that have. 531 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 5: Lost loved ones in an accident so unfair, people that 532 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 5: have been laid off of a job after twenty years, 533 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 5: people that have been raised in such a pitiful environment. 534 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 5: We're never gonna understand all that. But what I'm saying 535 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,719 Speaker 5: today is what's done is done. We cannot do anything 536 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 5: about the past, but we can do something about right now. 537 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 5: You need to dig your heels in and make the 538 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 5: most of this moment. You may have lost a lot, 539 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 5: but you've got to make the most with what you've 540 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 5: got left over. 541 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 3: Don't let the pass poison your future. 542 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 5: You may remember the story in the news a couple 543 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 5: of years ago about a young mountain climber. He was 544 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 5: in a remote section of Utah, all by himself, and 545 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 5: as he was hiking through the canyon, all of a sudden, 546 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 5: this eight hundred pound boulder shifted in his arm became trapped, 547 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 5: and he tried for five days everything he possibly could 548 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 5: to free himself. Had a little pocket knife an hour 549 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 5: after hour, he chipped away and chipped away, but to 550 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 5: no avail. When that didn't work, he tried to use 551 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 5: his climbing gear to somehow shift the rock, but again 552 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 5: he could not budget. 553 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 3: After three days, his food. 554 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 5: And water supply ran out, and by this time his 555 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 5: arm was already dead. It had had no blood flowing 556 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 5: through it, and he told how it was hard and 557 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 5: cold and stiff. He had no feeling in it, and 558 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 5: it looked like he was going to die with that 559 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 5: dead arm. 560 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 3: Didn't look like there was any way out. 561 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 5: But on the fifth day he made a decision to 562 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 5: do the unthinkable. He knew that if he was going 563 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 5: to survive, he was going to have to cut that 564 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 5: arm off. 565 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 3: So he could go and find help and get rescued. 566 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 5: And believe it or not, he put a tourniquet on 567 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 5: up here and somehow, some way he amputated his own arm. 568 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 5: He then walked two miles before somebody saw him and 569 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 5: rescued him. Miraculously, he was saved. And in a sense, 570 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 5: we all come to places like that in life, not physically, 571 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 5: of course, but where something is over and done. 572 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,239 Speaker 3: There's nothing that we can do about it. 573 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,160 Speaker 5: We may not understand it, it may not have been fair, 574 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 5: but that does not change the fact that it is 575 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 5: no longer alive. And we can either hold on to 576 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 5: it and allow it to drag us down and defeat 577 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 5: us with it, or like that young man, as difficult 578 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 5: as it may seem, we can choose to break away 579 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 5: from it and move forward with our life, so we 580 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,439 Speaker 5: too can receive our new beginning. And I would challenge 581 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 5: you today, if something is dead in your life, don't 582 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 5: die with it. If something is over and done, don't 583 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 5: hold on to it, let it go, give it to God. 584 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 5: Just say God, these people hurt me. It wasn't fair. 585 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,679 Speaker 5: But I'm not going to go around reliving it, thinking 586 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 5: about it, talking about it. 587 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 3: I'm gonna cut it off and move on. 588 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 5: Or maybe a dream has died, your plans didn't work out, 589 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 5: but don't die with it. 590 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 3: If you'll keep moving forward. God will give you another dream. 591 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 5: Friends, your future starts today, and no matter what you've 592 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 5: been through, no matter how unfair it was, God has 593 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 5: great things in store for you. And my prayer is 594 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 5: that you'll go out of here free from the past, 595 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 5: free from guilt, free from bitterness, free from self pity. 596 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 5: Why don't you get rid of all that baggage, as 597 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 5: I said, whether it happened to ten years ago or 598 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,719 Speaker 5: ten minutes ago, make a decision that you're gonna let 599 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,400 Speaker 5: it go and move on with your life, and get 600 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,360 Speaker 5: in a habit of doing this on a daily basis. 601 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 5: Every morning, forgive the people that have hurt you, Every morning, 602 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 5: receive God's mercy for your mistakes, and every morning let 603 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 5: go of the disappointments of yesterday. If you will do that, 604 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 5: I can promise you this, God will give you a 605 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 5: daily new beginning and you'll live your life refreshed and restored, 606 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 5: and you'll experience the good things that God has in 607 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 5: store for you. Heymen, how many of you receive it today? 608 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 609 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 610 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say Lord Jesus, I 611 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 5: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 612 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 5: you my Lord and save you. Friends, if you prayed 613 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 5: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 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