following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church through and will be able to give all those things that we've been wounded by to him in jesus name roman numeral number two in your lesson but before they do that i said something last week and i want to bring a little bit of clarification is i don't know if anybody remember last week one of the things  said last week was that if a mother has a miscarriage that she can blame god and say god that you took my baby from you she can say god doesn't understand so when i said that god understands what a miscarriage is because he did what his son he lost right he lost his son he lost his son did he do anything wrong to god doing the wrong did the mother doing the wrong she lost her child no passed down the fact that there's death and all that what i want to make a disclaimer to no way am i less than a mother having a miscarriage and anybody know that symbolism doesn't go all the way because it is god's fault that jesus died because god sent his son on earth to die for our sins so in that sense god is is it's totally god's fault that jesus was miscarried that he lost his son because intended to much different than the mother so i want to clarify that so it says in roman number two jesus suffering is expressed as love and commitment to and for all mankind regardless of race gender nationality social economic status or the type of abuse a person has experienced do you believe that no matter what how much money you have is jesus there suffering for you you're rich or poor so there's jesus suffer for the rich vocally declares his great love every human being they would ever live on this planet he created yes even loves those who may have harmed you and wants to see the redemption also all know that may be very hard for you to receive don't get consumed with that th because the concept of forgiving others at a later time because how many know if you've been wounded you've been heart hurt that it is hard at times to believe that god wants the even redeemed that person that hurts you right and cannot be something that can be very challenged is somebody did think of that concept miss pressure that person never apologize never made amends and i want to clarify something in the midst of the study if you notice that most of the time when we're talking number five you know as we talk very little the abuser we're talking about moving beyond the past but we talk very little about the abuse or any reason why no the reason why is because you have no control over the news or if you want to move beyond the past and you're going to try to have control over what the views are does or doesn't do will you be able to move beyond the past so the concept is moving on the past we can't control what the views are does but we can control what we do about the buse the  the scar and that's happened in our life and so in the midst of it may seem like well why is it that we keep talking about you need to repent of how you handle situations and why we're going to talk later about inner val's and and bitter root judgments and why we're going to talk about you need to forgive and all those things because in order to be set free you can't focus on the abuser and the proof of that is how many people that have gone through abuse that say i'll never be able to have another good day in my life because of you so who's causing them to be miserable they are not the person that scarred the moon and them harmed them because that person could be dead and long gone but the person is still living with the fact of what the person's done to them so please understand when we share these things and we talk about the things that we need to do is not that less than what the other person has done but we have no control over what the other person has done and so we look here that we say one of the things is that jesus is all soul died the cross to redeem the person that person or persons dead of harms you what about to say that if you're african american and you've experienced racism and you wants redeem everyone it's harder to believe that and accept that when you're going through what you're going through that's why you got to go to the cross and so letter b is look upon jesus who bore your sins upon the cross the sins of hate anger bitterness revenge judgment enter val's false guilt condemnation they're all sin he can take all that sin of your life out of your life you can take all that sin out of your life so i've got a question for you why did we put hate anger b principle scriptures a different story but how many people knew they could don't know the word of god don't know that the concept of the cross in the forgiveness of god in the us how many do you think when they've been harm abused hurt by somebody even yesterday how many know it's very hard for them to let that go i mean if you have the word it's hard to let it go because there's a piercing that it's sometimes feels your heart has been pierced there's that reminder of somebody does something remind you the past is that a reason why we need to get healed of the past because for him of the past when something does a something reminds of the past and we get healed we can say this feels like the past but it's not the is not the past it's the present ok and so out of it is that whatever anybody has done to us we have to understand it's our choice of what we do and they get in sins of hate anger business revenge judgment inner val's and what about fal how many people that have been wounded blame themselves if i had not walked down that alley if i hadn't married that person if i want to just dump my dad said all the different things that we use as a reason if i had not been born in this place wasn't your fault that you were born but people will get that guilt and i mean no that abusers will put that guilt on people to control them and condemnation i'm no good because sexual abuse is a big one many ties of individual have been sexually abused and they're dirty feel that they're filthy they feel condemnation and have you know that even little kids that have been abused when they were two years old three years old can feel that and grow up with their belief system and i mean a lot of times abusers will again say that and so out of it there has to come a place where we give that condemnation to jesus and we put it to the take it to the cross that shame that guilt we take it to the cross that sin we take to the cross and he can take all of it out of our life can god sit you free from being bitter being angry being resentful having judgments absolutely how through jesus christ by what he did on the cross see it's time to radically reenacts and turn away from all no one sin in your life if you want to walk in freedom from the past  to do is think about something the past again and what will you do or you go right back to it in so that as to be a radical renouncing and a radical turn away from the sin in your life if you want to walk in freedom from the past so any sin that is built upon any choice of is built upon the views that you have you're going to have to some place some day some time if you want to get free you have to renounce that and it is you can't you can't say well i'm going to forgive dad because a woody did when dad says he now is that ok that's a start right but how many know if you say because it's christmas time i am i try to forgive dad a little bit him in his christmas time if you have that mindset you see dead a christmas dad i'll give him a little bit of grace doesn't work it has to be absolutely completely renounced and getting it all let it all go and what you have to do is receive the god the forgiveness god has for you forgiv what god received the forgiveness of god has for you we're going to talk next week about all kinds of things about forgiveness but right now what we're talking about is your sin is ask god to forgive you of your sin because you're responsible for your actions come about that comprise pride stop you from coming to god so that you get free from the past think about that for a moment so there's some people are not getting free from the past why because their pride stops them going to the god who can yourself it send the hate yourself because god loves you and you're saying that you know more than god you deserve to be hated even though god don't hate you and he's holy that's a sin and out of it that if you hate yourself what will be choices that you make in life with the choices that in life that a make it be beneficial to you that is favorable for you to be fruitful and successful in your life or will you make choices that are bad choices that cause damage to your life if you can't forgive yourself so you cleanse your heart have you not cleanse your heart do you have a part then so what if eyes it is some people they want to be healed they want to be set free from the past but they won't let god do the work he wants to do that set them free they don't cooperate with him and one of ways you cooperate with them is take care of your side of the fence ok you can point out your neighbor's grass very tall as your turn around and you can even find your lot more in your yard or right  right you can find a lot more in your yard but you complain about the neighbor's yard can i tell you that when you walk it in re billion and stubbornness because of the things that happen to you you cannot see the grass in your own yard you can't even see in front of you you can't see all the we that's growing in the graphics and how many people they get that mindset of you know what i deserve to have weeds in my life because of what i've done because the other side of this is some people need to be healed and their of their past and they have to move beyond the past not because others have done to them but what they have done because i know there is there are there are people who grew up in good healthy families that make bad choices they can't point to somebody did something to dim big make them be the way they are it was their own choices of making decisions and so out of that part of moving beyond the past as for those who have turned around and are beating themselves up and hate themselves because of all the bad choices they made along the way in life and the only one they can point to is themselves does god forgive those people does god heal those people absolutely his goal is to heal leave those things at the crossed don't carry a burden that is not yours to carry and let the bible verse in a moment but it says the what the devil remind you of the pain you've experienced the wounds you up ok and then well you how you made bad choices to deal with that ok and so out of it you have to take those things to the cross but you take those in the cross you give the jesus you give the sins of others and the sins of yourself you give them the jesus and you leave him at the cross so when his altar time there's an altar call and you go up and you take whatever it is that you take the altar and you leave it there you're going to the altar symbolically to to represent what is going on within your heart when you get up from the altar what should be easily leave in which to be leaving at the altar all of it how much of it own all of it and that when you get ups that walk up with all of a sudden you know reach out and grab i be at our church that we used to be at we had a garbage can it's a sin on it we had it at the altar and every week we had an altar call and people would take their sand and put it in that bucket whether it was literally their crack pipe or their part nagar fee or their whatever it may be the horse scopes they were following whatever it is they put  in there and some people write some stuff down ok and they put it in there if you did that symbolically you do that you can't get up walk up and say hello i'm free and as you're walking up the way from the altar you walk back and you look inside to pick up what you just left in there you know what the danger is you may pick up a few extra things then what you're left with somebody turns around we had a lady who around and put a ring in and she put the ring in because the that and it was a nice ring she put it in there because it represented a lifestyle that she was living and she put it in there now somebody else says well that looks like a nice up pick that up do you know there's a such a thing as spirits can you pick up that ring can it just be arranged can there be something that becomes connected with that something attached to it so when you leave it at the cross you leave it the cross does look at matthew eleven twenty eight to thirty come to me all who are weary and heavy laden i will give you rest take my yoke upon you in learn from me for i am gentle and humble in hear and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light if we come to jesus and we give him whatever it is that we give him should we feel better should we feel like the weight is lifted off of us if we're not feeling better maybe we didn't give all that to him and we're still trying to carry it and so he says that his yoke is easy so my argument is life rough at times is life hard at times ok it absolutely is but with jesus can he give you this strange in the power to live above the rough parts of life the hard parts of life can he give you a peace that passes understanding so what if i was to tell you that maybe gardasil what's happened to you not to lessen what's happened to you could have been horrific but if you give it to god it will be easier to walk in life as you give that to god now can it be still be hard yes use that to keep letting go y righteousness if we say we have sinned we make him a liar his word is not an us that's some pretty strong words there there's a great promise in there though too isn't there if we say have no sin we are deceiving yourself the truth is not in us i have no part and what somebody did to me that is true do you know that you have no part of it so he did to you because there's no just because someone does to you i made my dad angry any with me and beat me until i was scarred what w the devil tell you you deserved it it's your fault is it it's not because never is you at fault for somebody do something that isn't a you and went about that next week ok and yet how many of us grew up that we were taught it's our fault by our parents all the time now is it your fault if you do something wrong to get a discipline nothing wrong with discipline but what about punishment punishment is to make you suffer has to make you pay the consequences so how many know all that there are multitudes of people dead have been verbal abuse sexually abused emotionally abused spiritually abused and they are blaming themselves in saying it must be my fault the other side is is that the same time is there things that we do that there are consequences and so you see the difference there can be confusing there are consequences for certain behavior but when there is somebody is is abusing us somebody is intentionally harming us it's not our fault for that now don't take that if you go to prison because you robbed and say well the guilty parties is the is the prison guard that make sure i don't mix kape don't mess up the concept but if we confess our sin isn't that what it says he says is faithful righteous to forgive us or says in the cleanse us from all unrighteousness if we cleanse all unrighteousness from us what does that make us sinless righteous  many people this is why i believe these classes important is how many people are taught you accept jesus christ everything is forgiven everything's taken care of everything's all right and we just move forward and we end our cover by the blood of jesus and many believe that i believe that but here's the reality how many christians are walking in a prison still even though they have been forgiven of their sense but they don't really receive their forgiveness what about that i say that god heals your mind has your heart all those things but if you don't learn how to let go of the past to move beyond the past then you're walking in a prison you may get to heaven be good to heaven living in a prison on earth is that god's will absolutely not be asked god to give you the help you need to be able to forgive matthew six fourteen fifteen for if you forgive others for their transgressions your heavenly father will also forgive you but if you do not forgive others then your father will not forgive your transgressions those are very strong words you know to believe means to trust to depend to a lie upon a believer is it all i believe that you know if you believe that your life will show it be it will be a radical belief it will be i believe it with all my heart so spirit within me i absolutely believe that they can about this is if we don't forgive are not forgiven so that means that god has to give us the build to forgive right is that true if god says that we must for a good of annie's a a a righteous holy just god does not have to give us the ability to forgive or else the saying is to do something we can't human possibly do i don't know we can't do it on our own anyways ever try to forgive in your own heart as hard as that and yet when he gives us the ability to there's a difference so this this prayer with move beyond the past are you having a hard time to forgive others to forgive yourself or maybe even to forgive gun will see an open door church as a series that we're doing called moving beyond the past the will be videotaping each week the sessions here some of the sessions will be covering what is healing past hurts who needs healing the prodigal son god's forgiveness face to face encounter with god the power of the cross forgiveness an inner healing in are values and bitterroot judgments closing open doors breaking every curse breaking every d section and being filled with the holy spirit i can promise you that it will not take going through all of the material to be able to move beyond your past but if you keep track with all that we share you will certainly live  victorious overcoming life and i want to let you know that you can live the victorious overcoming life in your deserts can be turned into glorious gardens if you want to learn more go to our website a will you accept jesus christ as your lord or savior today you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is oak t v god or there's there is hope t v guide or and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity we let you know step by step and accept jesus christ your lord and savior encourage you to go to there is hope 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