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| Sheila Walsh: Your Past Doesn't Define You | 5 Minutes with Jesus | May 27, 2026
- Christ literally cancels out our sin,
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- Leaving no evidence behind.
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- So if you feel your heart condemns you,
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- Or if the enemy tries to remind you of past failures,
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- Just point to the cross.
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- Christ removed any evidence
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- Against you.
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- Do you ever struggle with things from your past?
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- You know, perhaps you made a choice
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- That you knew was wrong, but you did it anyway.
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- And even though you know god's word says that confessed
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- Sin is forgiven, it's still haunts you.
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- I was talking to a woman
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- At the end of a conference, and she said, i know i'm forgiven,
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- But now i'll always be living in god's second best.
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- I've talked with so many people who, even though they believe
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- In god's forgiveness, still feel as if they wear
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- Some kind of scarlet letter that has marked them.
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- I read something
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- Recently on instagram that i think is so powerful.
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- I knew the passage of scripture that they were referring to,
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- But understanding what it meant at the time to those
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- Who were involved was revolutionary.
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- It involved the night when jesus was betrayed.
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- Do you remember this incident?
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- Christ had been praying
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- And preparing himself in the garden of gethsemane,
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- For he knew what was ahead was no surprise to jesus
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- When the soldiers appeared in the garden.
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- In fact, jesus stepped forward to meet them.
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- In john's gospel, chapter 18.
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- We read the leading priests and pharisees had given judas
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- A contingent of roman soldiers and temple guards
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- To accompany him.
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- Now with blazing torches,
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- Lanterns, and weapons, they arrived at the olive grove.
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- Jesus fully realized all that
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- Was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet them.
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- Who are you looking for? he asked.
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- Jesus the nazarene.
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- They replied, i am he.
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- Jesus said,
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- I can imagine what that must have been like
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- To be faced by an angry crowd with lanterns and weapons.
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- When peter saw what was happening,
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- We read this in verses ten and 11.
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- Then simon peter drew his sword and slashed off
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- The right ear of malchus, the high priest slave.
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- But jesus said to peter, put your sword back into its sheath.
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- Shall i not
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- Drink from the cup of suffering the father has given me?
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- I've read that passage hundreds of times,
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- But i didn't understand what that could have meant for peter
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- That night.
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- Physically assaulting a servant
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- As a high priest was a capital crime.
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- Peter could have been executed, but
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- Jesus intervened for peter that night.
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- And for you and for me eternally.
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- Now, in luke's gospel, luke the doctor included a detail
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- That john didn't mention, but it's huge for you and for me,
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- Just as it was for peter.
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- That night in chapter 22, in luke's gospel, he writes,
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- And one of them struck at the high priest's
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- Slave, slashing off his right ear.
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- But jesus said, no more of this.
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- And he touched the man's ear and healed him.
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- In effect, what jesus did
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- Was remove any evidence of a crime.
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- If the religious authorities had tried to accuse peter,
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- The evidence was gone and this was no patch up job.
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- If christ healed the man's ear, it would have been perfect.
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- Christ cleared peter's record that night,
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- Just as he does for you and for me.
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- Had a crime been committed? yes.
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- But was there evidence of it remaining? no.
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- I think sometimes we don't understand
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- The depth of what salvation means on the cross.
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- Christ literally cancels out our sin,
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- Leaving no evidence behind.
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- So if you feel your heart condemns you,
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- Or if the enemy tries to remind you of past failures,
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- Just point to the cross.
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- Christ removed any evidence against you.
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- Did it mean that you and i
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- Have not committed crimes against the holiness of god? no.
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- Simply means there is no remaining
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- Evidence of it ever having taken place.
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- We did in psalm 103, verse 11,
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- For his unfailing love toward those who fear him.
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- Is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.
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- He has removed our sins
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- As far from us as the east is from the west.
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- The writer to hebrews added this in chapter eight, verse 12.
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- And i will forgive their wickedness,
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- And i will never again remember their sins
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- That that is real freedom.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, i don't think we'll ever be able to fully comprehend
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- On this earth what our salvation actually means.
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- What you did for us on the cross.
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- But just as you covered peter's decision that night,
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- You covered our sin by your own blood.
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- When we place our trust in you,
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- Lord, i pray for anyone who feels
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- As if they're still dragging the past along with them.
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- Lord, help us by your holy spirit
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- To leave that burden at your feet.
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- You say, come unto me, all who are weary and heavy
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- Laden, and i will give you rest.
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- Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me,
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- Because my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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- We do that in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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