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Overcoming Regret

Creflo Dollar

October 29, 2020

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by the partners and friendsof Creflo Dollar Ministries.
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announcer: Coming up nexton "Changing Your World."
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Creflo Dollar:Yes, we all--listen,
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there's nobody alivethat doesn't have failure,
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and Satan wants to getyour past failures
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and use it to putyou into regret,
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and I wanna encourage you.
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Yes, we have failed,
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but every failure waspaid for at the cross.
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Creflo: If youhave your Bibles,
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join me in the book ofRevelations chapter 12
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and verse 10, Revelationschapter 12 and verse 10
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as we endeavor to get into thistoday, and I pray that you
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will experience supernaturaldeliverance from regret.
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Let's start off this way sowe can be on the same page.
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How would you--howwould we define regret?
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And I know you know what it is,but we wanna just really just
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kinda sow this into yourspirit so you can look at this.
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Regret, it means to feelsorrow or remorse for an act,
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feel sorrow orremorse for a fault,
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to feel sorrow or remorse
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for disappointment,things like that.
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So, maybe you did somethingand you feel remorse for it,
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or maybe there was aparticular fault or act
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and you feel remorseor sorrow for it.
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That's what it is.
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When you deal with this word"regret," it is--it's to think
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of something witha sense of loss.
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You think of, "Oh, you know,look at the fault
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I did 20 years ago,and now as a result of it,
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I lost that relationship,"
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or, "Look at the decisionthat I failed to make,
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and as a result of it, I lostthat opportunity,"
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so it's to think of somethingwith a sense of loss.
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Now, these next two phrases,they really will hit home
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because they're strong.
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Regret is that senseof self-condemnation,
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and condemnation'salways--well, it wasn't enough,
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and condemningyou saying,
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"Well, you're no longer usefulbecause of what you did
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or what you made happen."
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But it's also self-disgust.
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Maybe something in the pastthat was just disgusting,
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and you were responsible for it.
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Maybe something thathappened in a relationship,
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or I don't know what it is,but it's self-disgust.
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And not only is it regret,
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but it's, "I'm disgusted atwhat I allowed happen,
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allowed to happen.
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I'm condemned as a result ofwhat happened in my past."
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So, one of the things I wantyou to understand as we begin
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to deal with this isthat most of us,
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most of us who are humanhave to deal with regret
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from time to time.
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I'm sure you canagree that most of us,
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as human beings, have to dealwith regret from time to time.
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Maybe regret because ofa poor decision we made.
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Maybe it's regret because of sinthat we committed in the past,
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or maybe even sin thatyou committed yesterday.
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Maybe it's the regret thatcomes from the people
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that we've hurt in our past.
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Maybe it's the regret from aparenting mistake that still
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haunts you today, a regretfrom something that you wish
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you would have done with yourchildren when they were smaller,
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a regret from a parentingmistake that still haunts you
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today, a regret orfeeling regret for,
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you know, things that I wishI had done differently
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in my life or in my ministry.
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Regret, things I wish I'd done.
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I used to walk in that regret ofthings I wish I would have done,
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decisions I wishI would have made,
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things that I wish I'd donedifferently in my ministry,
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things I wish, you know, I wouldnot have said or gotten involved
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in or--in my life and in myministry, regret that comes.
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And I want you to understandthat regret just only robs
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you of precious minutesand precious days,
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where you find yourselfmore--focusing more on your past
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than on what Jesus has done foryour today and for your future.
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Regret can occupy asubstantial amount
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of real estate in our minds.
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And though we all have donethings that we can regret,
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God doesn't want regret to robus of our joy that we have
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in Jesus Christ, nor doeshe want regret to cripple
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and affect us in ourpursuit of Jesus Christ,
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so notice some littlekey things there.
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Regret robs you of thejoy that you have in Jesus,
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but it also cripples, and itaffects us in our pursuit
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of Jesus Christ, so this is allabout distracting you
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from maturing and developing
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in a personal relationshipwith Jesus Christ.
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I absolute believe that regrettries to accomplish one major
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thing in the lifeof a Christian,
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and that is to spend so muchtime focusing in on the things
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you will regret, that you're notspending the time focusing
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in on the pursuit of JesusChrist and the pursuit
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of all that he has done.
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So, what I'd like to do thismorning is I'd like to talk
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about ways that we canpractically overcome regret,
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use the Scriptures to beginto outline some things
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that'll help you to deal withthe regret when it comes,
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because this thinghappens in your head.
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You can be walking alongor doing something in life
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and have a thought of yourpast, and it just seems,
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"Why is Satan so intenton trying to continue
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to bring me back to my past?
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And why he--seems like he'sthe only one concerned
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about getting meback to my past?"
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Well, we're gonnalook at some things,
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and we'll begin here
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in Revelations chapter12 and verse 10.
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And Revelations chapter12 and verse 10 says,
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"And I heard a loudvoice saying in heaven,
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Now is come salvation,and strength,
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and the kingdom ofGod--of our God,
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and the power of his Christ:
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for the accuserof our brethren,"
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which is Satan,"is cast down."
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Now, here's one of the firstthings I want you to begin
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to implement in your life inorder to overcome regret.
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Number one, defeat Satan,who is the accuser
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of the brethren and the sister.
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Defeat Satan through thepower of the blood of Jesus.
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You can defeat Satan throughthe power of the blood of Jesus,
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and the Bible says that heaccuses us before our God,
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and he's doing it dayand night, day and night.
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Now, notice the Scripture herein verse 10 refers to Satan
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as the accuser of the brethren,who accuses us day and night.
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Well, what does it meanto accuse somebody?
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It means to chargethem with a fault.
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Satan's always saying,"It's your fault.
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Oh, look at whereyou are right now.
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That's your fault.
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Remember what you did ordidn't do in your past.
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Look at what's happening here.
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That's your fault.
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Remember what you did ordidn't do in your past."
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He loves to charge you.
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To accuse someoneis to charge them
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with a fault or toplace the blame.
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When regret comes upfrom doing something,
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Satan wants to accuse youor place the blame on you.
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He wants to condemn youand blame you and saying,
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"Look at what you did.
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This is your fault.
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We place the blame on you."
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It also means--to accusemeans to impute.
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It means to chargeyou with something.
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It means to charge youwith the sin you did,
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and Satan loves to say,"Well, the reason why
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that didn't happen isbecause of the sin you did,
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and the reason why that didn'thappen is because you--
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the way you didthat, or did that.
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And if you'd did thisa little bit better,
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then that would'vehappened a little better,
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but you didn't do it."
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And they charge thesin on your account.
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I wanna establishthis first thing:
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that all of that accusationcomes from Satan and not God.
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Look at the book ofRomans chapter 4, verse 8.
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All of that accusation, whenSatan imputes sin upon you,
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or he charges the fault to you,or he charges and places
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the blame to you,or he condemns you,
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that comes from Satan.
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That is so important.
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That was just an eye-opener,when I began to realize
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that it all--it comes from him.
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It comes from him.
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He's the accuserof the brethren,
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but it's not God.
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Look at verse 8.
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He says, "Blessed is theman to whom the Lord
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will not impute sin."
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So, God's not charging sin toyour account, but Satan is.
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God's not charging the faultto your account, but Satan is.
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God's not the one blamingyou for where you are
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or where you shouldbe, but Satan is.
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He is actively doing thisday and night and as Christian
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people, we've gotto be careful not
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to join the army of accusers.
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We got to be carefulnot to participate
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in the accusationof one another.
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And so, we have an enemywho loves to remind us
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of our sins and our failures.
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He loves to remind you ofyour--some of you get up
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every day, and you're remindedof your sins and your failures.
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That's the enemy.That enemy is Satan.
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He is the accuserof the brethren,
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and so by accusing us hecan get us to focus more
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on our failures andless on our Savior.
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That's the purpose.
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"I wanna accuse you so you canfocus more on your failures."
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Think about that.
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Think about there are peoplethat spend more time focusing
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on their failure thanthose who spend time
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focusing on their Savior.
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He would have usdwell on our sins.
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He would have us towallow in self-pity,
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rather than to serve others.
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And we're so self-centered,wallowing in our self-pity,
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that we forget thatthere are other people
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that need to be served.
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Well, how can we movefrom our own feelings
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of regret to a place wherewe overcome regret?
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Well, the Scripture tellsus in the very next verse,
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Revelations 12:11.
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How can we move fromour own feelings of regret
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to a place of overcoming regret?
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Verse 11 says, "And theyovercame him by the blood
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of the Lamb, and by theword of their testimony."
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What does that mean?
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He says they overcame themby the blood of the Lamb,
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and they gave testimonyabout what the blood
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of the Lamb has accomplished.
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It's not overcoming him by theblood of the Lamb and giving
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your testimony about peanutbutter-and-jelly sandwiches.
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I mean, it's cool to talkto people about that,
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but in this context he says theyovercame him by the blood
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of the Lamb and testifyingabout what the blood
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of the Lamb have done.
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By the blood of Jesus, I've beenmade the righteousness of God.
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By the blood of Jesus, I havebeen forgiven of all of my sins:
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past, present, and future.
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By the blood of Jesus,I have the wisdom of God.
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By the blood of Jesus,I am holy.
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By the blood of Jesus,you overcome him,
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and then you testify of whatthat blood has done.
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He said so we overcome himby the blood of the Lamb
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and by the word of ourtestimony about the--
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what the blood has accomplished.
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"And they loved nottheir lives unto death."
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So, the blood of Jesushas washed us clean
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of all of our sins.
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Think about that.
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The blood of Jesus--youremind yourself.
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When regret comes,remind yourself,
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"Hey, man, the blood ofJesus has cleansed me
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of all of my sins."
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And here's the devil tryingto impute sins and the guilt
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and the condemnationon your life.
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Look what it sayshere in the book
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of 1 John chapter1 and verse 7.
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The blood of Jesus has washedus of our sins and cleansed us.
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He says in verse 7, "But if wewalk in the light--"
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Walking in the lightis walking in Jesus.
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"If we walk in the light,as he is in the light,
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we have fellowshipone with another,
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and the blood ofJesus Christ his Son
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cleanses us from all sins."
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That's what you need to remindyourself of when the enemy
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comes and brings accusation.
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"Wait a minute, devil.
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Hey, hey, I don't knowif you forgot or what,
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but the blood ofJesus Christ his Son has--
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cleanses me fromall of my sins."
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Jesus paid for every failure.
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Now, listen to this.
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Jesus paid for everyfailure in your life
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before and afteryou believed in him.
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Yeah, he paid for everyfailure in your life
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before and afteryou believed in him.
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Now, I know.I know what you're thinking.
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"Well, I know that hepaid for every failure
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after I believed in him.
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Are you telling me thathe paid for my failure
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even before I believed, evenbefore I became a Christian?"
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Oh, yes, absolutely.
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Let me show you two--
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let me show it to youin your Scripture.
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1 John 2:2, and thenSaint John 1:29.
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See, Jesus paid anddealt with your sins
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before you believed him, amen?
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Before you believed him.
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Now, watch this.
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Verse 2, "And he,"Jesus, "is the propitiation--"
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That means he's the paymentor the compensation.
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That he, Jesus, is the payment,the compensation.
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He, Jesus, is the peaceoffering for our sins.
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And not for ours only, but alsofor the sins of the whole world.
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Check it out.
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How many of you know you werepart of the world at one time,
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and Jesus said, "I am gonnago ahead and pay for the sins.
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I'm gonna be the compensationand the payment
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and the peaceoffering for the sins,
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not only for those ofyou who believe in me
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but those who don't believeand those who are in the world,
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their sins are paid for."
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So, if you go to hell, you goto hell because of your sin.
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You go to hell with yoursins being paid for.
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See, people don't goto hell for sinning.
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They go to hell for rejectingthe payment and the compensation
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and the gift thatJesus has given us
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when he paid forall of our sins.
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Look what he says inSaint John chapter 1:29.
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Saint John 1:29, "The next dayJohn seeth Jesus coming
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unto him, and saith,Behold the Lamb of God,
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which taketh awaythe sins of the world,"
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which taketh awaythe sins of the world.
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Jesus paid forevery failure
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both before and afterwe believed in him.
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You see, we silence Satan'saccusations by turning
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to Christ everytime he accuses us.
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Every time he accuses you, everytime he wants to bring regret,
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we silence him byturning to Christ,
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by remembering whatJesus has already done.
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You know, we have so many peoplethat are constantly preaching
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how God's gonna get ya.
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"Oh, brother,God's gonna get ya.
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Oh, you did that.God's gonna get you.
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Aw, you messed up.God's gonna get you."
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And I constantly thinkabout this picture
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of a two-year-old childlearning how to walk.
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And, you know, when thattwo-year-old learns how to walk,
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he starts off with,you know, standing up,
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and we rejoicewhen he stands up.
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And before he takesa step he stands up,
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and then he falls down.
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Well, you know, will the parentget 'em because they fell down
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and didn't continue to stand?
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And in the process of timehe finally takes a step,
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and then he takes anotherstep, but he falls down.
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Does the parent get him andpunish him and condemn him
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to hell because they'reworking the process?
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And then, they get up,
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and they begin to walk,and walk again.
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And when they fall down,the parents encourage them,
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say, "Come on, keep doing it,keep doing it."
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And see, we gotta changeour thinking about that.
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You become aborn-again Christian,
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you're like that two-year-oldtrying to learn how to walk,
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and God is not condemning you,and God is not beating you up,
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and God is not punishing youbecause you fall in the process
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of learning how to walkand learning how to mature.
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But what God does ishe encourages you,
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and he says, "Come on,get on up.
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Come on, come on,come on, get on up.
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Let's do it again, come on.Let's get on up and do it."
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But there are someChristians who say,
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"Oh, you fell, andGod's mad at you,
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and he's gonna get you,he's gonna--" that's not God.
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God's just like the parentof the two-year-old.
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He continues to encourage you,
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"Come on,keep coming, baby.
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Oh, yeah, I know youfell, but come on.
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Come on.Oh, yeah.
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Ooh, you failed, andyou bumped your head.
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Oh, that's nasty, but get on up.Keep coming."
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That's the kind ofGod that we have,
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and we gotta quit condemningpeople to hell
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because they fell, becauseGod's encouraging them
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to get up and keep walking.
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"Because I'm preparing youfor a place of maturity
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that's gonna be ablessing in life."
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And so, yes, we failed,but every failure
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was paid for infull at the cross.
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Yes, yes, we failed.
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Yes, we all--listen, there'snobody alive that doesn't
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have failure, and Satan wantsto get your past failures
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and use it to putyou into regret.
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And I wanna encourageyou, yes, we have failed,
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but every failure waspaid for at the cross.
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It was paid for in full atthe cross of Jesus Christ, amen?
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Let's look at the secondway of overcoming regret,
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the second way ofovercoming regret found
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in Romans chapter 8, verse 1.
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Number two, remember--and this is an act
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of pulling it up in your mind.
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Remember that there is nocondemnation in Christ.
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Satan loves to condemn.
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And you've gotta remember whenyou're sitting there thinking
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about something thathappened in the past,
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allowing regret to come in,that's when you need to respond
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and say, "Wait a minute.
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There is no condemnationin Christ."
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Every time regret shows up,you need to say that out loud,
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"There's no condemnationin Christ."
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Look at verse 1, Romans 8.
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He says, "There is therefore nowno condemnation to them
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which are in Christ Jesus,who walk not after the flesh,
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but according to the Spirit."
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No, I believe there is thereforenow no condemnation to them
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that are in Christ Jesus,period.
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Whether you walkaccording to the flesh
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or walk according to the Spirit.
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If you study that out,the rest of that Scripture
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was in italicize, whichmeans it was added.
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Here's what it says: "There istherefore now no condemnation
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to those who arein Christ Jesus," period.
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And every time regret comes upyou need to open your mouth,
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and you need to say out loud,"There is now no condemnation
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for those who arein Christ Jesus."
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The more you thankGod for this truth,
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the less you willfeel condemned.
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I believe that.
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Overcoming regret requiresremembering that there
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is no condemnation for us.
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You overcome regret.
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And every time that regretcomes up, you remind yourself,
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"I'm in Christ Jesus.
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There is no condemnationin Christ Jesus."
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That's what Satan wants to do.He wants to condemn you.
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Condemnation is all aboutnot being enough,
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not being enough,not being enough,
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and then he reminds you,
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"See, look at what youdid in your past.
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See, you're not enough.You're not enough."
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There is no condemnation tothem who are in Christ Jesus.
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Thank God for that.Praise God for that.
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Number three, here's the thirdway to overcome condemnation:
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leave the past and move forward.
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Leave the past and move forward.
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It seems like Satan is the onlyone concerned about the past.
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You're gonna have to putthat where it belongs.
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You know, we all have a past,but we don't need--
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we don't need to livethere anymore.
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We don't live in our past.
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We all have a past,and we got recent pasts,
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but we don't live there anymore.
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You've got to learn how tostep away from your past.
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Yeah, there are thingsthat happened,
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but you know what?
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It's happened, it's in the past.It's been done.
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Why are you occupying andwasting time for something
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that it's alreadydone back there?
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Leave the past and come on up.
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It's a part of thetwo-year-old process,
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is what happened in the past waswhat I did to learn how to walk.
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I can walk now real well,but there was a time
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where I'd take a step, and I'dfall, and I'd take a step
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and I'd hit the coffee table,and I'd take a step.
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That's in the past.
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I'm not consideringthat anymore.
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I'm walking now.Glory be to God.
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