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Faithworks Christian Church, November 24, 2013 preaching series
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GETTING PASTYOUR
PERSONALFAILURES
My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too
heavy to bear.Psalm 38:4
MOVINGPAST A FAILURE
YOURYOURBIGGEST SINSBIGGEST SINSARE NOTARE NOTTOO BIG FORTOO BIG FORGOD’S GOD’S GRACEGRACE1
If we confess our sins, (God) is faithful
and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from
all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their
sins no more.
Jeremiah 31:34
YOU ARE NOTYOU ARE NOTWHAT YOU HAVE DONE,WHAT YOU HAVE DONE,BUT WHAT GOD HASBUT WHAT GOD HASDONE FOR YOUDONE FOR YOU2
…anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT
YOU CAN’TCHANGE YOUR PASTBUT CHRISTCAN CHANGEYOUR FUTURE!3
I don't mean to say that I have already achieved
these things or that I have already reached
perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first
possessed me.
Philippians 3:12-15 NLT
No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I
focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and
looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the
end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is
calling us.
Philippians 3:12-15 NLT
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble,
whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy--think about such things. Whatever you have
learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me--put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.(NIV)
Philippians 4:8-9
The term “forget” as Paul used it means to “not regard the past as having any
bearing or influence on your present
spiritual outlook or behavior”
It is not an issue of the memory
functions of the brain, it is an issue of the motivation to
go beyond our history and not get
stuck in it.
God’s Spirit gives us the strength and power to move on no matter the failures of our past. His
love brings healing for past pains; His love grants total forgiveness from past sins,
we are allowed the emotional freedom to begin again, fresh and whole – as
though we had never sinned before!
PRESENT POSITION
PERFORMANCE1
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I
press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Philippians 3:12
PROGRESS IS A
PROCESS!
PURSUIT2
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I
press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Philippians 3:12
“I PRESS ON”The word means literally
to“CHASE AND CAPTURE.”
The only thing to do with past failures is
to ask God for forgiveness and then accept that forgiveness and move forward!
PERSONAL PLAN
PARTICIPANT 1
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is
behind and straining toward what is ahead
Philippians 3:13
God provides the way, God provides the strength, God
provides His Spirit, but we provide the
will and the submission to His
ways!
POINTED2
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do: Forgetting what is
behind and straining toward what is ahead
Philippians 3:13
Essentially this is what God does with our past when we present our failures to Him – He forgives and forgets it in the same sense of forget
here, God still knows everything, but He forgets
it in terms of not remembering it against us
anymore, as though it never happened – this is called
GRACE!
PURSUING THE PRIZE
I press on toward the goal to win the prize
for which God has called me
heavenward in Christ Jesus.Philippians 3:14
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble,
whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy--think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in
me--put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with
you.Philippians 4:8-9
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble,
whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy--think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in
me--put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with
you.Philippians 4:8-9
PRESSING1
PRIZE2
The prize Paul is referring to is yet
future – the resurrection body and
eternal life!
…for though a righteous man falls
seven times, he rises again.
Prov 24:16
Everyone has past failures in their lives. If you dwell on the past you can get stuck
there! We are to learn from the past, not live in the past! Paul’s call to “forget what is behind” means to not allow the past to
influence your present and future behavior, let the prize at the end of life influence your
present and future behavior. Keep focus and run! When you’re running a race it
makes a difference where you’re looking, look straight ahead to the goal line
CONCLUSION