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Speaker 5: And I'd like to start with something funny, and I

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Speaker 5: heard about this college professor. He was going to prove

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Speaker 5: to his class that there is no God. He said, God,

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Speaker 5: if you're real, then knock me off this platform.

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Speaker 6: I'm giving you fifteen minutes to do it. Every minute that.

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Speaker 5: Went by, he taunted God, I'm still here, God, I'm

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Speaker 6: Three hundred pound football.

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Speaker 5: Player walking down the hallway overheard him. Came running toward

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Speaker 5: him full force, put his shoulder down, knocked the professor, sent.

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Speaker 6: Him flying off the platform. Professor got up in the day,

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Speaker 6: said what in the world do you do that for?

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Speaker 5: The football player replied, God said he was busy, so

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Speaker 5: he sent me. Old your Bible up, say it like

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Speaker 6: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am.

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Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about moving forward.

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Speaker 6: It's easy to go through life.

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Speaker 5: Looking in the rear view mirror, focused on what didn't work.

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Speaker 5: If only I would have finished college, If only I

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Speaker 6: That's just not right.

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Speaker 5: But as long as you're living in regrets, focused on

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Speaker 6: You've got to let go of what didn't work out.

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Speaker 5: Let go oh of the hurts and pains, Let go

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Speaker 5: of your disappointments, your failures. You can't do anything about

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Speaker 5: If you keep bringing negative baggage from yesterday into the day,

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Speaker 5: Don't let a bad break, a divorce, a betrayal, a

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Speaker 5: best days are still up ahead. In your automobile, there's

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Speaker 5: because what's happened in your past is not nearly as

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Speaker 5: important as what's in your future. Where you're going is

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Speaker 5: And this is the reason a lot of people don't

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Speaker 5: have no enthusiasm for life. They're dragging around all this

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Speaker 5: They've got that in their guilt and condemnation bag. Ten

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Speaker 5: the things they wish they would have done differently. They've

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Speaker 5: got their divorce in a specific bag. Been mad at

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Speaker 5: life is too short to live that way. Learn to

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Speaker 5: travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive

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Speaker 5: Let go of the disappointments the setbacks from yesterday. Start

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Speaker 5: every morning afresh and anew God did not create you

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Speaker 5: to carry around all that baggage.

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Speaker 6: Some of you have been holding on to it for years.

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Speaker 6: It's not going to change unless you do something about it.

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Speaker 5: You got to put your foot down and say that's it.

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Speaker 5: I'm not living in regrets anymore. I'm not focusing on

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Speaker 6: What's done is done.

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Speaker 5: If somebody offended you, mistreated you, disappointed you, you can't

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Speaker 5: undo that. You can either get bitter, pack it in

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Speaker 6: You can forgive them and go on.

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Speaker 5: If you didn't get that promotion, you can get sour,

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Speaker 5: If you will learn to let it go and move forward.

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Speaker 6: Then your past.

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Speaker 6: She had a victim mentality.

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Speaker 6: Past, it will poison you everywhere you go.

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Speaker 5: You cannot drag around the baggage from yesterday and expect

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Speaker 5: to have good relationships today. You've got to let it go.

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Speaker 5: Quit living life looking in that rear view mirror, start

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Speaker 5: looking out the great big windshield. You may have had

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Speaker 6: For your life.

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Speaker 5: He still has something amazing in front of you. When

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Speaker 5: Don't sit around self pity talking about what you've lost.

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Speaker 5: Your life is not over because you lost a loved one,

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Speaker 6: How do you let it go?

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Speaker 5: Quit thinking about it, Quit talking about it. Quit reliving

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Speaker 5: all the negative things that have happened to you. When

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Speaker 5: those pictures come up on the movie screen of your mind,

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Speaker 5: change the channel. You have the remote control. You don't

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Speaker 5: have to watch everything that comes up. If you keep

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Speaker 5: reliving negative memories, thinking about how unfair it was, how

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Speaker 5: Every time you think about it, you're reopening it.

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Speaker 6: The mind is very powerful.

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Speaker 5: When you replay negative experiences, you will feel the same

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Speaker 5: depressed better. I know people when that picture comes up

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Speaker 5: on the movie screen of their mind, the negative memories

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Speaker 5: a chair, so to speak, get a bag of popcorn,

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Speaker 5: watch it for the next fifteen minutes. The scripture says,

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Speaker 5: think on things that are pure, things that are wholesome,

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Speaker 5: things that are of a good report. If you're going

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Speaker 5: to keep moving forward, you've got to be disciplined in

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Speaker 5: would simply start changing the channel. Quit replaying the disappointments,

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Speaker 6: Every time you watch that you think.

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Speaker 6: Had a small pocket knife. Hour after hour he chipped

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Speaker 6: away at that boulder to no avail.

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Speaker 5: When that didn't work, he tried to use some of

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Speaker 5: no longer alive. He had no feeling in it, had

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Speaker 5: no blood going to it. For days, it was cold, hard, stiff.

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Speaker 5: Didn't seem like there was any way out. But on

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Speaker 6: He knew he had to cut off his arm if

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Speaker 5: Somehow, some way, he amputated his own arm. He then

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Speaker 5: walked for two miles. Somebody ran into him. Miraculously, his

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Speaker 5: life was saved. And in a sense, we all come

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Speaker 5: to places like this in life, where something is over

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Speaker 6: There's nothing more we can do about it.

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Speaker 5: We may not understand it, it may not have been fair,

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Speaker 5: but none of that changes the fact that it's no

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Speaker 5: let it drag us down and defeat us with it, or,

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Speaker 5: like this young man, as difficult as it may be,

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Speaker 5: we can choose to break free move forward.

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Speaker 6: So we can experience a new beginning.

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Speaker 5: If something is dead in your life, don't die with it.

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Speaker 6: If something is over and done, don't hold on to it,

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Speaker 6: let it go. Say God, they hurt me, it wasn't right.

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Speaker 6: But I'm not going to dwell on it. I'm not

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Speaker 6: going to relive that memory. I'm gonna cut it off

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Speaker 6: and move forward.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes you have to take bold measures to keep making progress.

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Speaker 6: If a dream died, don't die with it.

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Speaker 5: Cut off the broken dream, cut off the relationship that

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Speaker 5: didn't work out, cut off the self pity, the unforgiveness,

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Speaker 5: the negative attitude. Where you're unwilling to walk away is

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Speaker 5: where you're going to become stuck. In the scripture, Job

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Speaker 5: went through a nine month period where everything that could

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Speaker 6: He lost his health, his business, his.

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Speaker 5: Family, and at one point, it says, he sat down

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Speaker 5: among the ashes. He was so overwhelmed, so distraught. He thought,

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Speaker 5: this is it. I'll never be happy again. When you

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Speaker 5: go through a loss, a disappointment, there's nothing the enemy

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Speaker 5: would love to see you do any more than to

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Speaker 5: sit down among the ashes, get bitter, hold on to

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Speaker 5: something that's dead, lose your enthusiasm for life. That's what

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Speaker 5: Job did for a period of time. He sat down.

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Speaker 5: But here's the whole catch. Job didn't stay down. He

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Speaker 5: got his fireback, got his passion back. He rose up

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Speaker 5: out of those ashes. He said, this may be difficult,

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Speaker 5: but I know my Redeemer lives. I know my God

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Speaker 5: is still on the throne.

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Speaker 6: I know I.

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Speaker 5: Wouldn't be alive unless there was something greater in my future.

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Speaker 5: The scripture says Job came out with twice what he

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Speaker 5: had before. Some of you today life hasn't turned out

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Speaker 5: the way you had hoped, gone through some unfair situations. Now,

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Speaker 5: like Job, you're sitting in the ashes, holding on to

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Speaker 5: something that didn't work out, bitter discouraged.

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Speaker 6: God is saying, if.

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Speaker 5: You'll let go of the ashes, if you'll put on

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Speaker 5: a new attitude, I'll do for you what I did

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Speaker 5: for Job. I'll not only bring you out, but I'll

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Speaker 5: bring you out with twice what you had before. Isaiah said,

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Speaker 5: because you've got a double dose of trouble, your inheritance

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Speaker 5: in the land will be double and your joy will

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Speaker 5: go on forever. Friends, your future starts today. Don't you

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Speaker 5: dare go through life looking in that rear view mirror,

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Speaker 5: look out the great big windshield in front of you.

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Speaker 5: Your life is filled with possibility. There are incredible opportunities

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Speaker 5: in of you. You may have had some bad breaks,

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Speaker 5: but always remember God has.

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Speaker 6: Promised beauty for those ashes. Now do your part. Let

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Speaker 6: go of the ashes. Quit reliving negative memories.

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Speaker 5: Don't let us season of mourning turn into a lifetime

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Speaker 5: of morning. Be bold to cut off whatever didn't work out,

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Speaker 5: whether it was thirty minutes ago, thirty years ago.

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Speaker 6: Let it go and move forward.

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Speaker 5: If you'll do this, you will feel a heaviness lift

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Speaker 5: I believe and declare the rest of your life will

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Speaker 5: meant for harm and use it to your advantage. You

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Speaker 5: God's created you to be.

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