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| Sheila Walsh: Grace That Sets You Free | 5 Minutes With Jesus | May 22, 2026
- There comes a point in time where
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- We have to let the past go and fix our eyes on jesus
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- On the cross, christ paid for our sins.
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- He said, it is finished.
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- It is done.
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- Bill paid in full.
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- He took our load upon himself.
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- We need to allow christ to cut our burdens from us.
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- We cannot be defined by our failures.
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- Rather, we need to be defined by the anointing hand of god
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- Who calls us to worship him and serve him
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- With humility.
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- I've shared before that part of my story is that
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- I spent a month in a psychiatric hospital
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- A few weeks after i was released.
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- A friend invited me to a three day conference.
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- She tried to warn me this wasn't
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- Let's all wear matching pajamas and sing happy songs.
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- Conference.
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- But honestly, i don't think i was listening.
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- I was still dealing with feelings of failure
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- And disappointment
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- With my diagnosis of clinical depression.
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- And honestly,
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- I just wanted to sit in the back row and take notes.
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- Well, it wasn't that kind of conference.
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- On the first day,
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- The leader told us that who we really are
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- Will show up over these three days
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- If we're willing to be vulnerable and honest and engage
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- Fully in all the exercises.
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- It was very intense, and i found it exhausting
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- As we were confronted by sinful attitudes and selfish motives.
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- But it was actually the final day of the conference
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- That had the greatest impact on me.
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- In one of the last exercises, the entire group was asked
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- To imagine that we were all on a sinking ship.
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- There are only two spots open left on the lifeboat.
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- While each one of us was handed a popsicle stick
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- And we were asked to give it to the one person we believed
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- Would make the greatest impact
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- With his or her life if they got on that boat.
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- So i gave mine to a man who told us he was determined to
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- Go home and be a better husband and father, and i believed him.
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- What i didn't expect
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- Was almost everyone else gave their sticks to me.
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- Under the seminar, leaders stood behind me
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- As the numbers grew and asked me, are you listening?
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- I was listening, but i didn't know
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- What to do with what i heard.
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- I shot back to a movie that had been a favorite of mine
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- For years called the mission.
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- I don't know if you've ever seen it in this
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- Film, robert de niro portrays a man
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- Whose actions had led to the death of his brother.
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- Consuming guilt and shame eats at him like a cancer.
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- Then he's given an opportunity to help some missionaries
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- Carry supplies to a new mission base on the top of a mountain.
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- But the claim is brutal and bloody.
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- But he insists on carrying all the supplies tied to his back.
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- Each time he stumbles and slips back down the unforgiving
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- Stone face.
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- Someone offers to step in and help him carry his burden,
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- But he always refuses
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- And continues to drag himself to the top of the mountain.
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- As he reaches the summit.
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- A man approaches and cuts his burden from him
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- As it rolls off his back.
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- The old man looks into de niro's face and begins to laugh.
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- The other two begins to laugh, and he laughs until he cries.
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- You know, there comes a point in time where
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- We have to let the past go and fix our eyes
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- On jesus on the cross.
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- Christ paid for our sins.
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- He said, it is finished.
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- It is done.
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- Bill paid in full.
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- He took our load upon himself.
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- We need to allow christ to cut our burdens from us.
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- We cannot be defined by our failures.
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- Rather, we need to be defined by the anointing hand of god,
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- Who calls us to worship him and serve him with humility.
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- I love reading hebrews chapter 12 from the message paraphrase.
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- This is what it says.
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- Keep your eyes on jesus who both began and finished this race.
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- We are in.
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- Study how he did it
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- Because he never lost sight of where he was headed.
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- That exhilarating finish in and with god,
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- He could put up with anything along the way.
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- Cross shame, whatever.
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- And now he's there in the place of honor, right alongside god.
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- Keep your eyes on jesus.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, thank
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- You that you invite us to bring our burdens to you.
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- What i think today of so many people who are listening
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- To the sound of my voice, and yet
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- They're dragging so much baggage through their life
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- For you.
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- You've told us that when we come to you in faith and confess
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- Our sins, you are faithful, and you cut those burdens away.
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- So, holy spirit, will you help us today in an act of faith,
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- To bring these burdens to you and to leave them there?
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- Understanding that jesus paid the price
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- When he said, it is finished
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- And it's in his name, we pray.
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- Amen.
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