Delete
Sermon • Submitted
0 ratings
· 197 viewsDelete the old stuff in your life that's holding you back
Notes
Transcript
Sermon Tone Analysis
A
D
F
J
S
Emotion
A
C
T
Language
O
C
E
A
E
Social
Delete
Delete
Our computers, phones, tablets, and the like require us to delete things from their memory from time to time. Why?
to get rid of the old
to get rid of the uneccesary
to make room for the new
Deleting of things regularly contributes to normal, expected performance. Available resources are free to be devoted to new things and keeping whatever device it is to run smoothly. If things aren’t regularly deleted, whatever device it is, gets bogged down. It takes too long to start, too long to finish, or it doesn’t finish at all! If you don’t stay on top of it, the device will tell you, by way of suggestion, to delete old, unused files to free up space and improve performance. At some point there is a threshold that is approached where the device says “After too long, I won’t work right because I’m loaded down with so much stuff.” The more loaded down they get, the harder they have to work to do basic stuff like…turn on and then good luck keeping them on.
The same rules apply to us! there is a threshold that we cross where we become so bogged down mentally, spiritually, and emotionally where we can no longer function normally. You can’t take in the new because your bogged down with the old and your still trying to sort through it and make sense of it. That’s what we do when we reclaim old sin or reclaim old hurt, things we may have said that we’re over but we’re truly not. That’s an entirely different conversation, but you feel the weight of all those different burdens that you really shouldn’t be carrying. If you’re knee deep in your business, you can’t effectively get about God’s business.
We can boil down old stuff we hang on to into three types of files:
photos- what we’ve seen; a living snapshot
videos- what we’ve done; a replay
messages- what has been said to us/about us; on refrain
These files clog our hearts, minds, and spirits and prevent us from being as God wants us to be. We can’t start, we can’t finish, we can’t continue, we can’t even TRY after a certain point. And the crazy part about it is— ALL OF IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED and the book has been written. Holding on to it, doesn’t change it. The glory in it though is that it HAS NOTHING NEW TO TELL YOU and that is the accuser’s main weapon- to tell you what you DID is why you can’t DO. To tell you can’t be here, because of what you did there, you can’t do this, because of that and all of sudden your trapped in maelstrom with no way out. Don’t get rooted in what you did, but get rooted in what God can do! especially for you, because He said it in His Word and He is trustworthy.
You have to get out of the old to get to new, because God can’t do a new thing in an old you!
Brothers and sisters, 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,
Brothers and sisters, 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 3:13-14
Philippians 3:14
Philippians 3:13-14
philippians 3:13
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
philippians 3:13
Brothers and sisters, 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,
Brothers and sisters, 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, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Brothers and sisters, 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, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Like Lot’s wife was commanded to not look back (). She looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt ()…probably why we’re salty when we look back on the past with no clear future). If you look back, you’ll go back. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but how long does it take? We cry to God sometimes about our situations, but He says, it’s time for you to move on, move forward (Exodus 14:15). The Bible is the standard of whether we are moving forward or backward. What do you need to reach forward? Your eyes to see, your hand to reach, and your feet to pursue. So if you SEE God, REACH out your hand, and MOVE your feet! reconcile with people if you have to, get therapy, be okay with an apology you’ll never get and move forward! Take all the energy you have put into standing still and move forward. SEE Him, REACH for Him, MOVE to Him.
“Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
In this scripture, forget the former and do not dwell on the past. The former things this scripture are the destruction of Sennacherib in after boasting against the Lord and threatening Hezekiah. The past are things like the deliverance from Egypt and entry into Canaan. Instead, you should focus on God’s power of redemption making a way where there is no way and making a river in the desert not just for the quench of your physical thirst, but your spiritual thirst…the living water ().
Sometimes we want God to fix our broken past instead of receiving a new future. A new future sounds great, but it’s uncomfortable. We want the past even though all it gives is discomfort. I’d rather be uncomfortable for a bit, while I’m getting used to the goodness of God and thanking Him, versus keeping my discomfortable past and being salty about it....like Lot’s wife. She’s still stuck looking at it to this day.
2 corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!