Peace on Earth – Week 4 – Peace with Your Past
Pastor Mo Huggins
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV
God wants you to make
with your
.
1. Be in
.
“But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 7:23-25a NLT
2. Let Christ
you.
Your past will continue to be in your
until you let
change you.
‘And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.’
Ezekiel 36:26-27 ESV
God
you be the new person he wants you to be.
‘For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.’
Philippians 2:13 NLT
3.
that Christ has
you.
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing”
Isaiah 43:18 ESV
If I
, I am
.
‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.’
1 John 1:9 ESV
Peace with your past requires you to
to what God has let go of.
‘Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!’
Micah 7:19 ESV
You belong to Christ and God has forgiven you, the next step is to
.
‘So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.’
Romans 8:1 NLT
4. Focus on
for you.
When you let go of the
you make room for the
.
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins would both be lost. New wine calls for new wineskins.”
Mark 2:22 NLT
God can make new whatever is
to him.
‘To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair. In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks that the Lord has planted for his own glory.’
Isaiah 61:3 NLT
God’s plan for your future is
than the mistakes of the past.
‘For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord . “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’
Jeremiah 29:11 NLT