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Well, God bless you. It's a joy to 41 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 4: come into your homes and for ever in our area. 42 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 4: Please stop by and be a part of one of 43 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 4: our services. I promise you we'll make you feel right 44 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 4: at home. But thanks so much for tuning in, and 45 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 4: thank you again for coming out today. I like to 46 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 4: start with something funny and I heard about this lady 47 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 4: She's surprised a burglar in her kitchen late one night, 48 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 4: and she was home alone, didn't have any weapon, didn't 49 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 4: know what she'd do, and finally she thought, I'll just 50 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 4: say a scripture verse. She shouted out acts two thirty eight. 51 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 4: The burglar suddenly froze in his tracks, wouldn't move, and 52 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 4: soon the police arrived, and they were amazed that a 53 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 4: woman with no weapon could do this. They said to 54 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 4: the burglar, what was it about that scripture that had 55 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 4: such an effect on you? He said, scripture? What scripture? 56 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 4: I thought? She said, she had an axe in two 57 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,679 Speaker 4: thirty eights. Hold your bible up, say it like you 58 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 4: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 59 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 4: says I am. I have what it says I have. 60 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 4: I can do what it says I can do. Today 61 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 4: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 62 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 4: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 63 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 4: never be the same and she Jesus' name, God bless you. 64 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about drop it. 65 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 4: We all have had negative things happen to us. People 66 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 4: did us wrong, the company laid us off. A clerk 67 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 4: was rude to us. It's easy to go through life 68 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 4: offended in self pity, blaming others, blaming ourselves, even blaming God. 69 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 4: And because we're always looking back reliving the negative, we 70 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 4: end up carrying around all this baggage that weighs us down. 71 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 4: One of the best things we can learn to do 72 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 4: is drop it. Let it go, whether it happened twenty 73 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 4: years ago or twenty minutes ago. Don't carry negative baggage 74 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 4: from yesterday into today. You won't live a victorious life 75 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 4: if you're always reliving what didn't work out, who hurt you, 76 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 4: the mistakes you've made. The reason it's called the past 77 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 4: is because it's over, it's done, it's history. Now do 78 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 4: your part and let it go. Well, Joel, they betrayed me, 79 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 4: they walked away, broke my heart. That's why I'm bitter, 80 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 4: That's why I'm upset. Well, they hurt you once, don't 81 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 4: let them continue to hurt you by always thinking about it. 82 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 4: As long as you're dwelling on that, it's going to 83 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 4: keep you from the new things God wants to do. 84 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 4: God said he would give you beauty for those ashes. 85 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 4: He said he would pay you back for that injustice. 86 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 4: But you have to drop the hurt Quit dwelling on it, 87 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 4: quit reliving it. Move forward. There is a new beginning 88 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 4: in front of you, but God will not release new 89 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 4: opportunities as long as we're holding on to old hurts, 90 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 4: old failures. You may have a lot of negative things 91 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 4: in your past. You had a rough childhood, you lost 92 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 4: a loved one, your business didn't make it. You could 93 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 4: easily go around with a chip on your shoulder, not 94 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 4: trusting anybody, bitter, resentful. But everything you've gone through has 95 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 4: deposited something on the inside. You're not defined by your past. 96 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 4: You're prepared by your past. You may not realize it, 97 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 4: but you came out stronger, with more confidence, greater experience. 98 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 4: If that hadn't have happened, you wouldn't be prepared for 99 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 4: the new levels that are coming your way. Don't have 100 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 4: that poor O me, look what I've been through attitude. 101 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 4: I've heard it said. You can be pitiful or you 102 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 4: can be powerful, but you cannot be both. You may 103 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 4: have made a lot of mistakes. You have a lot 104 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 4: of regrets. You blew your marriage, didn't raise your children right. 105 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 4: She can't do anything about yesterday. Living guilty and condemned 106 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 4: doesn't make it any better. You have to drop it. 107 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 4: If you'll get rid of that negative baggage, you'll not 108 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 4: only feel that heaviness release off of you, but then 109 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 4: you'll step in to the new things that God has 110 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 4: in store. The scripture says where the spirit of the 111 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 4: Lord is, there is freedom, not where the spirit of 112 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 4: the Lord was. If you're always thinking about yesterday, last month, 113 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 4: last year, there's no freedom there. That's where the spirit 114 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 4: of the Lord was. This is a new day. There 115 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 4: are new victories, new opportunities, new relationships. Quit living in 116 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 4: what was and come over into what is. Right now, 117 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 4: there is freedom for you. Right now, there are new beginnings, joy, peace, victory, 118 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 4: and crying over what happened yesterday doesn't bring freedom. Living 119 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 4: in regrets of what you could have been, what you 120 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 4: should have done, doesn't do anything productive. Being offended, angry, 121 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 4: upset over what didn't work out will only keep you 122 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 4: in mediocrity. It's time to drop it and move forward. 123 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 4: You may be a product of your past, but you 124 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 4: don't have to be a prisoner of your past. Nothing 125 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 4: that's happened to you is a surprise to God. Before 126 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 4: he laid out the plan for your life, he already 127 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 4: knew every person who would hurt you, every mistake you 128 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 4: would make, every loss you would go through. And the 129 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 4: good news is for every setback, God has already arranged 130 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 4: to come back for every disappointment, a new beginning for 131 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 4: every failure, restoration for all the ashes He has beauty. 132 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,239 Speaker 4: You have to put your foot down and say that's it. 133 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 4: I may have gone through some disappointments, i may have 134 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 4: made some mistakes, but I'm not going to waste the 135 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 4: time I have left worried about what I could have 136 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 4: done better, bitter over who hurt me, upset over what 137 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 4: didn't work out. I'm stepping out of the walls and 138 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 4: I'm coming over into the is, dropping the offense, dropping 139 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 4: the guilt, dropping the failure, dropping the hurt. I'm not 140 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 4: living my life with any more baggage. I'm gonna live 141 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 4: my life free. Here's the key. If somebody hurts you, 142 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 4: if you'll give it to God, He'll be your vindicator. 143 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 4: Or if you've made mistakes and we all have quit 144 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 4: beating yourself up and receive God's mercy. It's new every morning. 145 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 4: If there are some things you don't understand. You worked 146 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 4: hard but you didn't get the promotion, or you did 147 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 4: your best, but your marriage didn't make it. Instead of 148 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 4: carrying around that baggage, you have to be mature enough 149 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 4: to say, God, I don't understand it, but I trust you. 150 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 4: Not gonna live bitter. I'm not gonna go through life 151 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 4: looking in my rear view mirror. I'm gonna keep moving 152 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 4: forward knowing that my best days are still up ahead. 153 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 4: Ecclesiastes says, better is the end than the beginning. You 154 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 4: may have had a rough stary, but you don't have 155 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 4: to have a rough finish. Better is the end. Maybe 156 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 4: you went through a disappointment, somebody broke your heart, the 157 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 4: medical report wasn't good. Don't get stuck on what happened yesterday. 158 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,839 Speaker 4: God is saying something better is coming. There may be 159 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 4: some rough places in the middle, but don't stay focused 160 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 4: on the betrayal. Better is coming. The loan didn't go through. 161 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 4: Don't go around in self pity. Better is coming. You 162 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 4: prayed and believed, but the medical report wasn't good. That's 163 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 4: one report, But God has another report. He says something 164 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,719 Speaker 4: better is coming now. Don't cancel out the better by 165 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:46,439 Speaker 4: living in yesterday. Relive in your hurts, your failures, the disappointments. 166 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 4: If your mind is always in yesterday. You're going to 167 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 4: move in that direction. You can't go forward looking backwards. 168 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 4: If you're always thinking about who hurt you, what didn't 169 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 4: work out, living your failures, calling people telling them how 170 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 4: bad the medical report is, you're going to get stuck. 171 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 4: Receive this into your spirit. Better is coming, joy is coming, 172 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 4: healing is coming, breakthroughs are coming, Victory is coming. Paul 173 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 4: said it this way in Philippians. I focus all of 174 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:26,439 Speaker 4: my energies on this one thing, forgetting what lies behind 175 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 4: and reaching forward to what lies ahead. Here's a man 176 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 4: who wrote almost half of the New Testament. He could 177 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 4: have said, I focus all of my energies on being 178 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 4: a better writer, on developing my leadership skills, on impacting 179 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 4: the culture in a greater way. He said, in effect, 180 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 4: what's more important than all of that is forgetting what 181 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 4: lies behind. He knew if we went through life carrying 182 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 4: negative baggage, we would miss our destiny. Paul had a 183 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 4: lot of adversities. He was falsely accused and put in prison. 184 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 4: He was beaten with these rods, shipwrecked, gone without food 185 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 4: and shelter, on and on. If he had not learned 186 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 4: this principle, he would have become bitter, angry, God, why 187 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 4: is this happening to me? It's not fair? He felt 188 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,079 Speaker 4: it so strongly. One translation of that verse I quoted 189 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 4: he said, I have not attained it all yet, but 190 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 4: this one thing I do forgetting what lies behind. He 191 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 4: was saying, I'm not all I should be, but one 192 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 4: thing I have down, one thing I'm good at. I 193 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 4: know how to let go of the past. He was 194 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 4: an expert at dropping it. But sometimes we spend more 195 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 4: energy holding onto the negative than we do letting it go. 196 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 4: What if we were to do like Paul and start 197 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 4: focusing our energies on moving forward, dropping the offense, dropping 198 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 4: the guilt, dropping the hurt. How do you drop it? 199 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 4: Stop thinking about it and stop talking about it. Don't 200 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 4: relive the negative things that have happened to you. The 201 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 4: reason some people never see the better is because they're 202 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 4: always opening up old wounds. Every week they call their friend. 203 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 4: Can you believe what they did to me that happened 204 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 4: twenty seven years ago? They're still dragging it up like 205 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 4: it happened yesterday. If you're going to get free, you 206 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 4: need to not only drop it, you need to bury it. 207 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 4: Have a funeral, for it, put it away once and 208 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 4: for all. Make it a decision. You're not gonna talk 209 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 4: about it another time. When you're tempted to just zip 210 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 4: it up. That betrayal, that failure, that disappointment is dead. 211 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 4: You buried it, you had a funeral. It's over, it's done. 212 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 4: It's in the past. Now. If you go dig it up, 213 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 4: it's going to stink. It's not only going to make 214 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 4: your life sour, but nobody's going to want to be 215 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 4: around you when you carry around stinky stuff. You may 216 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:08,319 Speaker 4: not realize it, but that makes you unpleasant. When you're bitter, 217 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 4: you push people away. When you're offended, angry, living guilty, 218 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 4: it pushes opportunities away. You have to get the stink 219 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 4: out of your life. Leave the baggage. A couple of 220 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 4: months ago, I was coming home from a night of hope, 221 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 4: and we leave on Thursdays and come home Friday night 222 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 4: after the event. I had forgotten to pack an extra 223 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 4: pair of socks, so I put my socks on Thursday 224 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 4: morning and we traveled to that city and did a 225 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 4: book signing that night, had a lot of activity, got 226 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 4: up the next morning, didn't have time to go to 227 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 4: the store, so I put my same socks back on, 228 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 4: and that afternoon I worked out and perspired, and on 229 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 4: that night did the three hour Night of Hope, shook 230 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 4: hundreds of hands. Afterwards, when I got on the plane 231 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 4: to come back home that Friday night, I was so tired, 232 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 4: and I took my shoes off just so I could 233 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 4: rest a little bit and put my head back. And 234 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 4: about ten fifteen minutes later, Victoria came back to where 235 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 4: I was sitting. She said, what in the world does 236 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 4: that smell? Steek's so bad? Back here she saw I 237 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:16,439 Speaker 4: had my shoes off. She said, Joel, put your shoes 238 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 4: back on. It steaks really bad. I said, oh, my 239 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 4: feet don't steak. I couldn't smell anything. I'd been back 240 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 4: there ten or fifteen minutes. But here's my point. Sometimes 241 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 4: when we stink, we don't know it. When we carry 242 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 4: around bitterness, unforgiveness, guilty, angry at our neighbor. You may 243 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 4: not realize it, but that's stinking up your life. That's 244 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 4: pushing people and opportunities away. Why don't you get the 245 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 4: stinky stuff out. There's an amazing future in front of you. 246 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 4: There's beauty for ashes, joy for morning, dancing for heaveness. 247 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 4: But you gotta move forward. Maybe you need to bury 248 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 4: a miss mistake that you've made. You've lived guilty, condemned 249 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 4: down on yourself long enough, have a funeral for it, 250 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 4: and put it behind you. No more talking about it. 251 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 4: No more letting the accuser convince you that you're just 252 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 4: a failure. You don't deserve to be blessed, You're unworthy. 253 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 4: Those lives will stink up your life. Don't let the 254 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 4: defeat play in your mind. When the failure, the mistake, 255 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 4: the guilt, the disappointment comes back up on the movie 256 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 4: screen in your mind. Do yourself a favor. Change the channels. 257 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 4: Have the attitude. I'm not going backwards. I'm not living 258 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 4: in regrets. I'm not rehearsing my failures. I'm moving forward. 259 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 4: I may have made some mistakes, but I've got a promise. 260 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 4: Better is the end. If you'll get your mind going forward, 261 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 4: your life will go forward. How much time and energy 262 00:15:54,960 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 4: are you giving to the negative things of your past? Hurts, wounds, failures, disappointments. 263 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 4: You only have so much emotional energy each day. When 264 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 4: you're spending that energy on negative things, calling a friend 265 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 4: talking about how bad somebody treated you, reliving your failures 266 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 4: down on yourself. That's energy you should be using to 267 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 4: move forward. You have to come out of what was 268 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 4: and come into what is. Don't say another word about 269 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 4: that breakup, that disappointment you went through. Don't tell another 270 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 4: person about the mistake you made. That's over and done. 271 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 4: You buried it, you had a funeral. Now don't talk 272 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 4: about it anymore. You can't have your mind in yesterday 273 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 4: and expect to go forward. The truth is every person 274 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 4: has baggage. We all have things that could cause us 275 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 4: to be bitter and live with a heaviness. The difference 276 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 4: between the people who are positive, happy, expect acting good 277 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 4: things and people that are bitter, discouraged, negative is that 278 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 4: second group. They hold on to all the baggage. The 279 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 4: first group have learned this principle to drop it to 280 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 4: let it go. Mark Chapter eleven. Jesus was talking about 281 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 4: what we should do when somebody does us wrong. Verse 282 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 4: twenty five. He said, in the amplified version, forgive them 283 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 4: and let it drop, leave it and let it go. 284 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 4: Notice the principle, drop it, leave it, and let it go. 285 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 4: Maybe somebody's talking about you, trying to make you look bad. 286 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 4: You could easily be upset offended, try to pay them back. 287 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 4: Why don't you try a different approach? Drop it, leave it, 288 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 4: and let it go. God will fight your battles. Well, 289 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 4: they betrayed me, they walked away. Don't waste another minute 290 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 4: being bitter. Drop it, leave it, let it go. You 291 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 4: took a step of faith, but it didn't work out. 292 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 4: The business didn't make it. You could easily be soured. No, 293 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 4: three simple things. Drop it, leave it, let it go. 294 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 4: The reason it says leave it is because you'll be 295 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 4: tempted to go pick it back up. You may drop 296 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 4: it at first, and that's good, that's the right thing. 297 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 4: But tomorrow morning, when you think about what they said, 298 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 4: how rude they were, you'll want to pick up the hurt, 299 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 4: pick up the bitterness. I know people that have been 300 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 4: picking up the same offense for forty seven years. It's 301 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 4: no longer a bag. It's attached to them. It's a 302 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 4: part of who they are. You have to leave it. 303 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 4: It may not have been fair, but God saw what happened. 304 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 4: He is a god of justice. He's promised that he 305 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 4: will make your wrongs right. When you leave it, that 306 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 4: doesn't mean that you're weak. You're giving up. You don't 307 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 4: care what they did to you. No, you're saying, God, 308 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 4: I trust you to be my vindicator. I trust you 309 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 4: to open the right doors. I trust you to get 310 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 4: me to where I'm supposed to be. Maybe at ten 311 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 4: o'clock in the morning, a coworker is rude to you. 312 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 4: You drop it, leave it, and let it go. But 313 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 4: when you see them at noon again, you're going to 314 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 4: want to be tempted to pick it back up. Just 315 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 4: say no, thanks, I'm leaving that offense where I dropped it. 316 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 4: I'm not carrying any negative baggage. But so many people 317 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 4: are just the opposite. Somebody cuts them off in traffic 318 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 4: at eight in the morning. At noon, they're still upset. 319 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 4: Instead of dropping it and leaving it, they keep picking 320 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,640 Speaker 4: it back up again and again. Put it in their bag, 321 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 4: take it wherever they go. Friends, life is too short 322 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 4: to carry around negative baggage. Your destiny is too important. 323 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 4: Your time is too valuable to go through the day 324 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 4: weighted down by offense, by guilt, by disappointments, by hurts. 325 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 4: You have to make this decision to not only drop it, 326 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 4: but to leave it. Don't give in to the temptation 327 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 4: to pick it back up. There was a man in 328 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 4: the scripture by the name of a Hiataphel. He was 329 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 4: one of King David's right hand men for over twenty 330 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 4: five years. He served as an advisor and close counselor 331 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 4: to David. But when David's son Absalom made an attempt 332 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 4: to take the throne, a Hiatafel was one of the 333 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 4: first ones to desert David and go with his son. 334 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 4: He started advising Absalom, telling him what he should do 335 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 4: to overthrow his father. Well, this revolt wasn't successful. Eventually, 336 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,640 Speaker 4: Absalom was killed, and the scripture says that a Hiatafel 337 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 4: was so distraught that he went out and hung himself. 338 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 4: But why would a trusted adviser of King David for 339 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 4: so many years suddenly turn on him. A Hiatafel was 340 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 4: the grandfather of a lady named Bashion. She was the 341 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 4: woman that David had an affair with and had her 342 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 4: husband Uriah killed, then David took her as his wife. 343 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 4: Could it be that a hiata Fell turned on David 344 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 4: so quickly because he never got over what David did 345 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 4: to Bathsheba and to Uriah. Instead of forgiving David dropping it, 346 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:30,120 Speaker 4: leaving it, letting it go. All those years that poisoning 347 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 4: was simmering on the inside. On the outside he looked fine, 348 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 4: everything looked like it's okay. He was advising King David, 349 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 4: but on the inside something wasn't right. Tragically, he ended 350 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 4: up taking his own life. And of course what David 351 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 4: did was wrong. A hiata Fell in the natural at 352 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,439 Speaker 4: least had a reason to be bitter, angry, upset. But 353 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 4: when you carry around negative baggage year after year, not 354 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 4: harming the other person, it's contaminating your own life. You 355 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 4: won't have the creativity, the blessing, the favor that you should. 356 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 4: And like a hiata Fel, what they did to you 357 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 4: may have been wrong, it may not be easy, but 358 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 4: for your sake, not theirs, you need to drop it, 359 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 4: leave it, let it go. When you do, God will 360 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 4: heal your hurts. God will restore your broken places. God 361 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 4: will pay you back for the injustice. But when you 362 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 4: hold on to bitterness, unforgiveness, guilt, actually you're not holding it, 363 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 4: but it's holding you that poison will lead you down 364 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 4: the wrong path. A Hiatafel had everything going for him, 365 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 4: a successful career, working for the king, respected, but because 366 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 4: he wouldn't deal with his negative baggage. He missed his destiny. 367 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 4: It cost him his life. Don't let that be You 368 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 4: don't play games with negative baggage, bitterness, unforgiveness, guilt, drop 369 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 4: it and let it go. Well, Joel, I don't understand 370 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 4: why this happened to me. Why did these people do 371 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 4: me wrong? Why did I come down with this illness? 372 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 4: People ask me why did your mother get healed and 373 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 4: my mother didn't. We're never going to understand everything. Don't 374 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 4: get caught up in the whys of life. The scripture says, 375 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:29,360 Speaker 4: we see in part now like looking through a glass dimly, 376 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 4: but one day we will see in full. One day 377 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,199 Speaker 4: it will be clear. But if you're always trying to 378 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 4: figure out why everything happens, you're going to end up bitter, frustrated. 379 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 4: The best thing you can do is just leave it alone. 380 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 4: If God wants you to understand why he's God, he'll 381 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 4: tell you why. But if he's not revealing that to you, 382 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 4: you need to be smart enough to let it go. 383 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 4: Some things God doesn't want us to know. The scripture 384 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 4: says it is God's privilege to conceal things. If you're 385 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 4: going to trust God, you have to accept that there 386 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 4: are going to be unanswered questions. We have to be 387 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,360 Speaker 4: big enough to say, God, I don't understand why this happened. 388 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 4: But I'm okay with not understanding why. I don't have 389 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 4: to have all the answers your God, and I'm not. 390 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 4: I trust that your plans for me are for good, 391 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 4: that you know what you're doing. Good friends of mine 392 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 4: passed through a church in another city and one night, 393 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 4: their teenage son was tragically killed in an automobile accident. 394 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 4: As you can imagine, they were so heartbroken, devastated. Overnight 395 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 4: their world came crashing down. They're great people, strong believers, 396 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 4: but I didn't know how they would respond. A lot 397 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 4: of people get bitter, angry, blame God, let it ruin 398 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 4: the rest of their life. It wasn't easy. They went 399 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 4: through a dark time, but they came through it. And 400 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 4: I asked them how they did it without becoming bitter. 401 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 4: They said, we made a decision that we weren't going 402 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 4: to exchange what we do know for what we don't know. 403 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 4: What we do know is God is good, that he's 404 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 4: for us, that he's loving, that he's merciful. We weren't 405 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 4: going to let that one situation that we didn't understand. 406 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 4: Cancel all that out. Maybe you've gone through some things 407 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 4: that don't make sense. It's bothering you, causing you to 408 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 4: be bitter, discouraged, upset. You need to do what they did, 409 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 4: Quit trying to figure it all out, and go back 410 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 4: to what you do know. You do know God has 411 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 4: you in the palm of his hand. You do know 412 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 4: God wouldn't have allowed it if somehow, some way he 413 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 4: wasn't going to bring good out of it. The truth 414 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 4: is everything is not going to fit perfectly into our theology. 415 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,360 Speaker 4: We all need to have a file in our thinking 416 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 4: called an I don't understand it file. When something comes 417 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 4: up that doesn't make sense you can't find an answer to. 418 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 4: Instead of getting bitter frustrated, just put it in your 419 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 4: I don't understand it file and keep moving forward. If 420 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 4: you make the mistake of going through life trying to 421 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 4: figure out why everything happened, why did I get sick? 422 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 4: Why'd my loved one not make it, that's going to 423 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 4: poison your future. Eighteen eighty one, James Garfield was elected 424 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 4: the twentieth President of the United States. Six months later, 425 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 4: he was shot in the back the doctors were able 426 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 4: to save his life, but they couldn't find the bullet. 427 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 4: He was recovering just fine, but back in those days, 428 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 4: they thought if they didn't remove the bullet, it would 429 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 4: cause them problems later on, so they did more surgeries 430 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 4: probing all around. Still couldn't find it. Alexandro Graham Bell 431 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 4: developed an electrical device hoping to locate it that wasn't successful. 432 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 4: Two months later, President Garfield died not from the original 433 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 4: gunshot wound, but from the infection that came from all 434 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 4: the probing around. Sometimes it's better to leave things alone. 435 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 4: If you're always probing around your hurts, your wounds, your failures, 436 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 4: because you're keeping it so stirred up, you're never going 437 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 4: to get well. You have to turn it over to God. 438 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 4: Say God, I don't understand it, but I'm not going 439 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 4: to keep probing all around. God. I trust you. My 440 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 4: life is in your hands. I'm asking you to quit 441 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 4: looking back. God wants to do something new, but you 442 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 4: have to let go of the old. Don't be like 443 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 4: a hire to fail and hold on to things that 444 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 4: are going to poison your future. Do like the Apostle Paul, 445 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 4: focus your energies on forgetting what lies behind. There's something 446 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 4: you need to drop, and a fence, a hurt, a failure. 447 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 4: There's no better time than now. Today can be a 448 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 4: turning point. Make this decision with me. You're going to 449 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 4: get rid of your negative baggage. You're not only going 450 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 4: to drop it, but you're going to leave it. If 451 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,120 Speaker 4: you'll do this, I believe and declare, God is going 452 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 4: to give you beauty for ashes. He's going to heal 453 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 4: your hurts. Like Ecclesiastes says, something better is coming. Joy 454 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 4: is coming, Favor is coming, the fullness of your destiny 455 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 4: in Jesus' name, And if you receive it, can you 456 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 4: say him in today? We never like to close our 457 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,239 Speaker 4: broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the 458 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 4: lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 459 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 4: I repent of my sins. 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