The David Spoon Experience 11-2-22 Part 2

1) The Blast from the Past. A movie title. So how does this impact Christians? From an essential faith point of view, we repent and surrender our lives to Jesus. To come to an end of ourselves and we find this principle of a new life in Jesus Christ. This thinking is at the core of our faith. But for this to have its intended impact, we must think in this vein. Like when we get baptized, we openly proclaim an end to our old self and the beginning of the new. 2) From the perspective of God and His excellent Jesus glasses, we operate from what is ahead. But from the enemy’s perspective, there is a different approach. He uses our past to warp our future. This is a tactic that will not disappear too soon. The hurt from yesterday has too much power on the walk for today. So, here is what you and I can do about the past. NOTHING. 3) Since we can do nothing about the past, how should we handle it? We shouldn’t. Because we can’t do anything about it, we should remember that we cannot live in the painful past. The great things of the past our to be remembered and cherished. The painful, bitter, and distracting things should be crumpled up like a piece of trash and thrown away. Why should we carry around a bag of garbage on our shoulders? We shouldn’t. WE SHOULD DUMP THE TRASH!