{"id":493,"date":"2022-03-13T18:27:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T18:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/183-joni-mannell-the-past\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:09:58","slug":"183-joni-mannell-the-past","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/183-joni-mannell-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"183: Joni Mannell – The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to a class by Bro. Joni Mannell called “The Past” from a weekend series truly in the past, given in 2008 at the Swanwick Bible Weekend (UK). The link to the rest of the weekend’s talks by Bro. Joni & Bro Tim Morgan is right HERE<\/a> We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n

Thank you for listening, God bless, and talk to you next week.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to Good Burger selfie
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\nOn this podcast, we select one <\/p>\n

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\nnow let’s talk more about this
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\nWelcome to the good
\nchristadelphians talks podcast. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is brother Brian.
\nThis week’s talk is a Class by <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Johnny monell entitled.
\nThe past the class is part of a <\/p>\n

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\ntimeline series which was given
\nback in 2008 at the swannack <\/p>\n

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\nswanwick Bible weekend in the UK
\nand this is actually sent in by <\/p>\n

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\nrecommendation and will also
\nlink to the rest of the classes <\/p>\n

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\nin the description.
\nIf you wish to hear more from <\/p>\n

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\nthat weekend, So brother, Johnny
\ntakes us right into the heart of<\/p>\n

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\nthe complexities of how we deal.
\nWith our sense of time, slipping<\/p>\n

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\nby stuck with the pain of
\nregret. <\/p>\n

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\nGuilt, over former
\ntransgressions, missed <\/p>\n

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\nopportunities, just all the
\nthings that we can’t change from<\/p>\n

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\nour past, but yet we still carry
\nthem with us and we worry about <\/p>\n

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\nthe fact that they may have not
\njust on our present but on the <\/p>\n

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\nfuture as well.
\nSo what is the spiritual <\/p>\n

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\nprinciple?
\nWe can learn from this sense of <\/p>\n

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\ntime that our Lord has instilled
\nin US. <\/p>\n

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\nBrother Johnny breaks down to
\nseemingly, contrasting examples.<\/p>\n

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\nFirst in Paul, insisting, that
\nwe forget, what is behind and <\/p>\n

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\nonly press forward towards the
\nmark. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd then with Moses leading the
\nchildren of Israel in the <\/p>\n

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\nwilderness and insisting that
\nthey do look back to recall. <\/p>\n

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\nAll that Yahweh had brought them
\nthrough The connection that he <\/p>\n

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\nmakes bridging those two in the
\nmiddle is just pure magic. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd if you’re anything like me
\nand you struggle with carrying <\/p>\n

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\nthe past with you a bit too much
\nfor the Johnny’s, interpretation<\/p>\n

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\nwill give you the kind of peace
\nand clarity. but I believe our <\/p>\n

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\nLord wants us to have as we also
\ntraveled this Wilderness <\/p>\n

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\nourselves So as always, we do
\nhope this strengthens your faith<\/p>\n

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\nand brightens your day, brother,
\nJohnny monell, the past. <\/p>\n

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\nWe all have some.
\nSome have more than others. <\/p>\n

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\nEverybody wants more because the
\nalternative doesn’t bear <\/p>\n

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\nthinking about.
\nAnd one of the marvels of the <\/p>\n

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\nfactors Tim has been talking
\nabout that. <\/p>\n

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\nGod has set us in the bounds of
\ntime, the pendulum and the <\/p>\n

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\nRhythm of Life that he talked
\nabout and how God set the <\/p>\n

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\nboundaries of our existence for
\nthe purpose that we might seek. <\/p>\n

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\nAfter God means that God intends
\nus practically to look at the <\/p>\n

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\ntime that we have have before us
\nand have behind us and use it as<\/p>\n

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\nprofitable as we can.
\nNow, you might look at me and <\/p>\n

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\nsay, well, how on Earth?
\nCan we use the time? <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s behind us.
\nProfitably. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, the challenge of life, and
\nthe fact that life does move on <\/p>\n

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\nconstantly, the fact that the
\nclock is ticking, some of you <\/p>\n

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\nwill be watching it more focused
\nlive than others. <\/p>\n

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\nThis morning means that we’re
\nconstantly moving forward. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd what that means is, all of
\nus have something behind of us. <\/p>\n

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\nAll of us have been through
\nexperiences. <\/p>\n

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\nWe have minutes hours days
\nweeks, months years decades that<\/p>\n

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\nwe can look back and reflect on
\nand I imagine there are Things <\/p>\n

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\nin that big bag of stuff behind
\neach. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd every one of us that,
\nactually, perhaps we’d rather <\/p>\n

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\nnot was there.
\nBecause we haven’t spent all of <\/p>\n

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\nthe opportunity in the time that
\nTim has been talking about that.<\/p>\n

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\nGod gave to us always seeking
\nafter God have we and I’m pretty<\/p>\n

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\nconvinced there isn’t a person
\nin this room who doesn’t have <\/p>\n

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\nsomething in that big bag of the
\npast that just has a little <\/p>\n

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\ntwinge of regret.
\nIt may be something very small. <\/p>\n

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\nIt may be just a word ill spoken
\nat an ill time. <\/p>\n

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\nIt may be just a moment of Life
\nsquandered that with reflection <\/p>\n

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\nshouldn’t have been it.
\nMaybe just something that simple<\/p>\n

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\nand that easy and that’s fine.
\nBut but all I’m saying is every <\/p>\n

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\none of us has just something
\nsome things in the past whether <\/p>\n

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\nthey were brought about by our
\nown willfulness or just the <\/p>\n

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\ncircumstances of life into which
\nwe came. <\/p>\n

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\nSomewhere in the past.
\nThere are things that we don’t <\/p>\n

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\nfind terribly useful and yet
\nwhat I want to tell you in this <\/p>\n

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\nsession is not that, you’re
\ngoing to leave him miserable, in<\/p>\n

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\ncase you just got that
\nimpression in the opening <\/p>\n

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\nsentence or two who, but God
\nwants us to look back and <\/p>\n

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\nreflect on the past and use it
\nprofitably. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I just want us to explore
\nhow we can do that. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd to begin with, will you come
\nwith me to Paul’s letter to the <\/p>\n

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\nPhilippians and chapter 3?
\nBecause Paul has a really <\/p>\n

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\ninteresting piece of advice for
\nus about how to deal with the <\/p>\n

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\npast.
\nYou see sometimes when we <\/p>\n

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\nreflect and we look back, the
\npast can be a disability to <\/p>\n

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\nprogress.
\nWe can look back and it can <\/p>\n

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\nweigh us down.
\nIt can fill our mind with and <\/p>\n

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\nhelpful things.
\nAll kinds of restraints can be <\/p>\n

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\nplaced on the present and the
\nfuture simply by the way, in <\/p>\n

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\nwhich we look back and we
\nreflect on the past and this is <\/p>\n

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\nwhat the Apostle Paul had to say
\nabout that situation. <\/p>\n

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\nPhilippians chapter 3, you you
\nwill be familiar with the words.<\/p>\n

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\nLet’s just pick them up in verse
\n13. <\/p>\n

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\nBrethren.
\nHe says, I count not myself yet <\/p>\n

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\nto have apprehended.
\nHe means I have not yet. <\/p>\n

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\nGot hold of all the things that
\nGod has laid out for me. <\/p>\n

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\nBut he says this one thing I do,
\nForgetting those things which <\/p>\n

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\nare behind and reaching forward
\nto the things which are before I<\/p>\n

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\npress on, toward the mark, for
\nthe prize of the High Calling of<\/p>\n

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\nGod in Christ.
\nJesus isn’t that an absolutely <\/p>\n

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\ncategoric statement from the
\nApostle? <\/p>\n

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\nPaul, this one thing I do it
\nliterally in the Greek language <\/p>\n

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\nin which Paul was using.
\nIt means this thing Above All <\/p>\n

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\nElse.
\nThe absolutely most important <\/p>\n

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\nthing I can Tell you, he says,
\nin terms of making progress and <\/p>\n

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\nmoving forward is to forget the
\nthings which are behind and <\/p>\n

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\nadded to that to press on and
\nreach forward for the things <\/p>\n

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\nthat are in front of us.
\nNow, isn’t that a, I mean it’s <\/p>\n

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\nsuch a simple thing.
\nAnd yet, the Apostle Paul says, <\/p>\n

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\nthat one of the ways of dealing
\nprofitably with the past is to <\/p>\n

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\nforget it.
\nThis one thing. <\/p>\n

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\nForgetting those things which
\nare behind. <\/p>\n

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\nI press on.
\nAnd reach forward for the things<\/p>\n

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\nthat have been laid before me in
\nthe Lord. <\/p>\n

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\nJesus Christ is not a wonder how
\nsimple sometimes. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, we’re told the the
\nwork of Christian living up to <\/p>\n

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\nthe ears just forget it. now,
\none of the problems you may be <\/p>\n

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\nmulling over in your mind is
\nthat to categoric For Paul to <\/p>\n

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\nsay that this one thing is that
\nthe only way to deal with the <\/p>\n

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\npast, this one thing, forget it,
\nis it to categoric? <\/p>\n

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\nAre you just thinking that there
\nmust be other ways of managing <\/p>\n

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\nthe past?
\nYou see, the problem is it’s <\/p>\n

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\nvery difficult to forget, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n

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\nYou can’t will to forget
\nsomething very easily. <\/p>\n

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\nIn fact, the more you try and
\nthink about the thing that you <\/p>\n

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\nwant to forget, the more you
\nprobably end up thinking about <\/p>\n

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\nit.
\nYou know, if I ask you not to <\/p>\n

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\nthink about, Breakfast for
\nwhatever reason, I’m not going <\/p>\n

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\nto go into that.
\nIt’s very difficult not to have <\/p>\n

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\nan image in your mind of
\nbreakfast. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd remember all the things you
\nthought about it and felt about <\/p>\n

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\nit and how it tasted and the
\nmore you think about forgetting <\/p>\n

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\nit, the more well it lingers
\naround in your mind and it’s <\/p>\n

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\ndifficult isn’t it to just
\nforget just like that. <\/p>\n

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\nGone doesn’t work that way, does
\nit? <\/p>\n

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\nSo does what they have pull
\nApostle Paul said, need some <\/p>\n

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\nqualification.
\nAnd you will be saying to me. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, Johnny there are passages
\nin the Bible which seemed to <\/p>\n

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\nState the absolute opposite.
\nOf what the Apostle Paul said, <\/p>\n

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\nisn’t that right?
\nCan I take you to perhaps, <\/p>\n

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\nwhat’s for me?
\nThe finest example of a <\/p>\n

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\ncompletely opposite statement
\ncommitment to Deuteronomy <\/p>\n

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\nchapter 8, you see the Apostle
\nPaul said, this is how to deal <\/p>\n

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\nwith the past.
\nForget it, this one thing, this <\/p>\n

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\nis the only way says, Paul is to
\nforget it. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, There’s an entirely
\nopposite statement here in the <\/p>\n

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\nrecord of Deuteronomy.
\nDeuteronomy chapter 8. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd verse 2.
\nThis is what God Said, through <\/p>\n

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\nMoses to the men and women of
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n

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\nYou will remember all the way,
\nwhich the Lord your God has led <\/p>\n

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\nyou these forty years in the
\nwilderness to Humble you, into <\/p>\n

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\nprove you in to know, what was
\nin your heart, whether you would<\/p>\n

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\nkeep his Commandments or not.
\nThat’s interesting, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\nNow God is saying through Moses.
\nI want you to remember <\/p>\n

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\neverything.
\nAll right, how opposite could <\/p>\n

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\nyou get the Apostle?
\nPaul says I want you to forget <\/p>\n

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\neverything Moses says, I want
\nyou to remember everything and <\/p>\n

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\nyou got to remember the context
\nhere in Deuteronomy there, at <\/p>\n

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\nthe end of their 40-year Journey
\nThrough the Wilderness there On <\/p>\n

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\nThe Fringe of a new life and a
\nnew land, and Moses says the <\/p>\n

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\nbest way, the best way.
\nNow to make progress and to move<\/p>\n

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\nforward is to remember all the
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\njourneys of the past, isn’t that
\nfascinating? <\/p>\n

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\nWell, it’s confusing, isn’t it?
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\nHow do we deal with the past?
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\ntwo diametrically opposite ways
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\nwe might move forward into the
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\nAnd it seems to me that the
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\nthe things in our past determine
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\nparticular circumstances, there
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\nPaul, which just need to be
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\nI never something says Moses
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\nremembered and the challenge
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\nsisters in your life is to
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\nHistory, which method to apply
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\nYou see your experience of God,
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\nThat’s all it can do in our
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\nWe’re not like God outside of
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\nwe’re just right here in the
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\nthere in the past.
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\ninvolves the past and one of the
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\npast, that’s one of the sad and
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\nIsn’t it?
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\nit slightly.
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\nNow that has a double-edged
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\nThere are things that we’d love
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\nperhaps, and I hope there are
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\nworld.
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\nGod, and why he allows us to go
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\nexperience his guiding hand and
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\nJust turn over the page, just
\ndown to the seven. <\/p>\n

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\nSame chapter in Deuteronomy 8,
\nyou see these men and women did <\/p>\n

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\nknow something of the future
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\nit was penned for them by Moses.
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\nDeuteronomy 8 verse 7, the Lord,
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\nland, a land of Brooks of water
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\na land of Wheat, and barley, and<\/p>\n

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\nyou will eat bread.
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\nnot like anything in it.
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\nand out of whose Hills, you made
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\nIsn’t that an extraordinary
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\nwhere you’re going that was
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\nIt was in the promises that have
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\nyou’re going, this is where
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\nThat was their only experience
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\nthat have been passed down to
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\nBut the problem was the bit in
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\nand where they were going to
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\nfor every one of us, isn’t it?
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\nsomething of the future, we
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\nappreciate that, there is
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\nThere is an extraordinary future
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\nexperience.
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\nthat’s what the word of God is
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\nsame promise, that Moses passed
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\nThe challenge is that unknown
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\nIsn’t it what will lie for you?
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\nand where and when we finally
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\nyour experience of the past.
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\nthese men and women to think
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\nbefore you.
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\nWell measure the unknown way
\nbefore you buy the last 40 Years<\/p>\n

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\nof trackless desert and The God
\nWho led once. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, he lead again.
\nJust going to Joshua chapter 3. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen they begin that journey
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\nriver, Jordan and onwards
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\nJoshua chapter 3 and and verse
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\ninstructions as to how they
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\nAnd they were to send the Ark of
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\nthere should be a space between
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\ncubits by measure, come not near
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\nway by which you must go for.
\nYou have not passed this way <\/p>\n

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\nbefore.
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\nJoshua says, I want you to know
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\nleave a space as you cross the
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\nbecause you’ve not been this way
\nbefore this is Uncharted <\/p>\n

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\nTerritory.
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\nis going to go before you Isn’t
\nthat lovely? <\/p>\n

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\nHe’d been before them for the
\nlast 40 years. <\/p>\n

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\nIn fact, they only ever moved if
\nyou remember when God did <\/p>\n

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\ndemonstrated by the movement of
\nthe cloud day or night that they<\/p>\n

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\nwere ready to go and got a beam
\nbefore them and and sought out a<\/p>\n

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\nplace for them to camp.
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\npromised land, it was going to <\/p>\n

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\nbe no different, the art was to
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\nfollow God you’ve not been this
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\nIt’s unknown and just leave a
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\nSo that God can show you the
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\nlittle extra injection of
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\nAnd yet at the same time, what’s<\/p>\n

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\nCan I achieve it?
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\nor whatever it might be and
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\nWill I be able to do it?
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\nin the ability to know that God
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\ntomorrow, the Lord will do <\/p>\n

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\nWhat Joshua is saying is today,
\nis yours tomorrow, is the <\/p>\n

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\nbefore you. <\/p>\n

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\nSo prepare yourselves, you know,
\nSanctified Common Sense, tells <\/p>\n

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\nus that if we are going to
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\ngoing to go in and do it, then
\nyou’re going to be prepared as <\/p>\n

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\nIf you’re going to give him for <\/p>\n

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\nwe’ll unless your very self <\/p>\n

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\nSanctified. <\/p>\n

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\nsanctify yourselves.
\nSo get ready to see what God can<\/p>\n

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\nBecause tomorrow is a mystery <\/p>\n

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\nToday is yours and your
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\nWell, Moses says, remember all
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\nhas led you these 40 years, past
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\n00:21:24,500 –> 00:21:27,800
\nand remember all the way that
\nthe Lord, your God has led you <\/p>\n

330
\n00:21:28,500 –> 00:21:31,900
\nhowever far, and, however, long
\nin your life and in your <\/p>\n

331
\n00:21:31,900 –> 00:21:34,700
\nexperience.
\nAnd now, you can look back and <\/p>\n

332
\n00:21:34,700 –> 00:21:37,700
\nremember it, and carry it with
\nyou and never forget it. <\/p>\n

333
\n00:21:38,400 –> 00:21:40,500
\nYou see, that’s why the Apostle
\nPaul’s statement needed <\/p>\n

334
\n00:21:40,500 –> 00:21:42,900
\nqualification, never forget
\nthose things. <\/p>\n

335
\n00:21:43,200 –> 00:21:45,000
\nDon’t let it be said that
\nJonathan L stood here this <\/p>\n

336
\n00:21:45,000 –> 00:21:48,400
\nmorning and told you to forget
\neverything about the past. <\/p>\n

337
\n00:21:48,400 –> 00:21:52,400
\nNever let anyone rob you of
\nCertainties of God’s guiding <\/p>\n

338
\n00:21:52,400 –> 00:21:54,900
\ncare and hand in the days that
\nhave gone before. <\/p>\n

339
\n00:21:56,200 –> 00:21:59,600
\nSo that you may carry it with
\nyou into the future confident <\/p>\n

340
\n00:21:59,600 –> 00:22:02,500
\nthat God who did it once will do
\nit again. <\/p>\n

341
\n00:22:03,800 –> 00:22:05,600
\nWill you come with me to Psalm
\n42? <\/p>\n

342
\n00:22:06,100 –> 00:22:09,500
\nBecause there is a lovely
\nexample of this in David’s life.<\/p>\n

343
\n00:22:23,800 –> 00:22:27,300
\nDavid experienced, this very
\nproblem. <\/p>\n

344
\n00:22:33,000 –> 00:22:35,800
\nAnd the problem came when his
\nfaith was assaulted and <\/p>\n

345
\n00:22:35,800 –> 00:22:39,000
\nchallenged by those who were his
\nenemies. <\/p>\n

346
\n00:22:40,300 –> 00:22:45,000
\nVerse 3 of Psalm 42.
\nMy tears have been my meat day <\/p>\n

347
\n00:22:45,000 –> 00:22:47,500
\nand night, they continually say
\nto me. <\/p>\n

348
\n00:22:47,700 –> 00:22:51,300
\nWhere is your god?
\nThat’s what they came to David <\/p>\n

349
\n00:22:51,300 –> 00:22:53,400
\nand said, in your current
\nexperience. <\/p>\n

350
\n00:22:53,400 –> 00:22:54,700
\nDavid.
\nWhere is he? <\/p>\n

351
\n00:22:55,000 –> 00:22:57,800
\nWhere is he now?
\nWhat good easy to you. <\/p>\n

352
\n00:22:57,800 –> 00:23:00,500
\nNow, that’s what they were
\nsaying to David. <\/p>\n

353
\n00:23:01,700 –> 00:23:04,100
\nAnd David was challenged by that
\nas well. <\/p>\n

354
\n00:23:04,100 –> 00:23:06,900
\nYou might be when you find
\nyourselves in those <\/p>\n

355
\n00:23:06,900 –> 00:23:09,800
\ncircumstances, where more than
\nanything you need to look back <\/p>\n

356
\n00:23:09,800 –> 00:23:13,600
\nto the past and remember all the
\nway that God has led, you and <\/p>\n

357
\n00:23:13,600 –> 00:23:16,300
\nDavid found himself in
\ncircumstances and situations <\/p>\n

358
\n00:23:16,300 –> 00:23:18,900
\nwere all of a sudden.
\nThey were doubts in his mind. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:23:18,900 –> 00:23:21,300
\nWhere is now your God?
\nWhere is he? <\/p>\n

360
\n00:23:21,600 –> 00:23:26,700
\nWhat good is he now, is he there
\nand Willie help you and even if <\/p>\n

361
\n00:23:26,700 –> 00:23:33,200
\nhe could, he won’t And David was
\nassaulted by this question and <\/p>\n

362
\n00:23:33,200 –> 00:23:34,400
\nthat’s what happens to you and
\nme. <\/p>\n

363
\n00:23:34,400 –> 00:23:37,200
\nIt’s not necessarily somebody
\nwho comes to you and says, where<\/p>\n

364
\n00:23:37,200 –> 00:23:39,400
\nis your god?
\nIt’s the question that arises in<\/p>\n

365
\n00:23:39,400 –> 00:23:43,400
\nyour own mind when you’re in the
\nflurry of of darkness and and <\/p>\n

366
\n00:23:43,400 –> 00:23:45,600
\nyou know, you’re not sure quite
\nwhat’s going on and what you’re <\/p>\n

367
\n00:23:45,600 –> 00:23:48,700
\ngoing to do, when the question
\nis, where is now my God? <\/p>\n

368
\n00:23:49,600 –> 00:23:51,400
\nAnd that was that was, David’s
\nproblem. <\/p>\n

369
\n00:23:51,400 –> 00:23:56,800
\nWhere is he now?
\nAnd what did David do verse 6? <\/p>\n

370
\n00:23:57,900 –> 00:24:00,900
\nOh my God!
\nHe said my soul is cast down <\/p>\n

371
\n00:24:00,900 –> 00:24:06,400
\nWithin Me. therefore, will I
\nremember thee from the land of <\/p>\n

372
\n00:24:06,400 –> 00:24:13,800
\nJordan And of the herma Nights
\nfrom the hill Miser deep calls <\/p>\n

373
\n00:24:13,800 –> 00:24:16,000
\nunto deep at the noise of your
\nwater. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:24:16,300 –> 00:24:19,800
\nAll your waves and your Billows
\nare gone over me yet. <\/p>\n

375
\n00:24:19,800 –> 00:24:23,100
\nThe Lord will command his
\nloving-kindness in the daytime. <\/p>\n

376
\n00:24:23,700 –> 00:24:27,800
\nAnd in the night his song shall
\nbe with me and my prayer and to <\/p>\n

377
\n00:24:27,800 –> 00:24:31,600
\nthe god of my life.
\nIs another lovely thing for <\/p>\n

378
\n00:24:31,600 –> 00:24:35,600
\nDavid to say what David did was
\nhe went and sat down in his room<\/p>\n

379
\n00:24:35,600 –> 00:24:38,700
\nand he, he just had a talk with
\nhimself. <\/p>\n

380
\n00:24:40,700 –> 00:24:44,000
\nAnd he just went through it all
\nagain just you know talking to <\/p>\n

381
\n00:24:44,000 –> 00:24:47,300
\nhimself sometimes an audience of
\none is the best audience. <\/p>\n

382
\n00:24:47,800 –> 00:24:51,800
\nDon’t take that the wrong way.
\nBut you know what I mean? <\/p>\n

383
\n00:24:53,000 –> 00:24:56,200
\nAnd David said, I’m being
\nassaulted by this question, <\/p>\n

384
\n00:24:56,200 –> 00:24:59,500
\nwhere is my guard?
\nAnd he went and had an audience <\/p>\n

385
\n00:24:59,500 –> 00:25:02,200
\nof one?
\nAnd he went and sat down and <\/p>\n

386
\n00:25:02,200 –> 00:25:05,700
\nwent through at all.
\nMy God, my soul is cast down <\/p>\n

387
\n00:25:05,700 –> 00:25:08,600
\nwithin me.
\nI will remember the, I remember <\/p>\n

388
\n00:25:08,600 –> 00:25:09,800
\nnow.
\nYes, that’s right. <\/p>\n

389
\n00:25:09,800 –> 00:25:13,100
\nIf I just stop for a moment.
\nI remember when you were there <\/p>\n

390
\n00:25:13,100 –> 00:25:16,000
\nwith me at Jordan, I would that
\nI remember when you were there <\/p>\n

391
\n00:25:16,000 –> 00:25:20,600
\nwith me from the Mount Hermon
\nand from the hill, mizar, you <\/p>\n

392
\n00:25:20,600 –> 00:25:21,900
\nknow, brand sisters and young
\npeople. <\/p>\n

393
\n00:25:21,900 –> 00:25:25,400
\nThis is a lovely prophecy, in
\nfact of the Lord Jesus Christ, <\/p>\n

394
\n00:25:25,700 –> 00:25:27,600
\nthese three things that David
\nlooked back. <\/p>\n

395
\n00:25:27,600 –> 00:25:30,800
\nAnd remember the Jordan, the
\nHerman Mount her. <\/p>\n

396
\n00:25:31,000 –> 00:25:34,600
\nIn the hill, mizar?
\nAlthough, they were very <\/p>\n

397
\n00:25:34,600 –> 00:25:37,000
\npertinent to David.
\nThey were also very pertinent to<\/p>\n

398
\n00:25:37,000 –> 00:25:40,600
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.
\nI think you may challenge me if <\/p>\n

399
\n00:25:40,600 –> 00:25:43,400
\nI’m wrong, but the Jordan.
\nWhat would the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n

400
\n00:25:43,400 –> 00:25:47,000
\nRemember about the Jordan.
\nIt was his baptism, wasn’t it? <\/p>\n

401
\n00:25:47,000 –> 00:25:48,800
\nWhen he committed his life to
\nGod? <\/p>\n

402
\n00:25:49,000 –> 00:25:50,800
\nWhat would he remember about
\nMount, Hermon? <\/p>\n

403
\n00:25:51,800 –> 00:25:56,300
\nThe Transfiguration maybe.
\nAnd what about the hill mizar? <\/p>\n

404
\n00:25:56,800 –> 00:26:01,800
\nMizar means the little Hill.
\nIt’s Calvary. <\/p>\n

405
\n00:26:02,800 –> 00:26:05,700
\nIt’s the place where they took
\nhim outside, the city to be <\/p>\n

406
\n00:26:05,700 –> 00:26:08,600
\ncrucified.
\nAnd you can imagine when the <\/p>\n

407
\n00:26:08,600 –> 00:26:11,500
\nLord Jesus had, all these things
\nrunning through his mind, where <\/p>\n

408
\n00:26:11,500 –> 00:26:16,200
\nis now your God?
\nOr I will remember, I will look <\/p>\n

409
\n00:26:16,200 –> 00:26:18,100
\nback and remember the voice I
\nheard. <\/p>\n

410
\n00:26:18,100 –> 00:26:22,400
\nWhen I came out of the Waters of
\nbaptism, you are my beloved Son.<\/p>\n

411
\n00:26:22,400 –> 00:26:23,100
\nIn whom.
\nI am. <\/p>\n

412
\n00:26:23,100 –> 00:26:25,900
\nWell pleased.
\nI’ll remember the voice that I <\/p>\n

413
\n00:26:25,900 –> 00:26:28,300
\nheard at Mount Hermon at the
\nTransfiguration. <\/p>\n

414
\n00:26:28,500 –> 00:26:31,800
\nThis is my beloved Son.
\nHear ye him. <\/p>\n

415
\n00:26:32,900 –> 00:26:36,600
\nI will remember.
\nThe Lord will command his <\/p>\n

416
\n00:26:36,600 –> 00:26:40,600
\nloving-kindness in the daytime.
\nAnd in the night, his song shall<\/p>\n

417
\n00:26:40,600 –> 00:26:43,400
\nbe with me and my prayer and to
\nthe god of my life. <\/p>\n

418
\n00:26:43,900 –> 00:26:45,400
\nDo you know?
\nBrian says, it’s only God who <\/p>\n

419
\n00:26:45,400 –> 00:26:50,100
\ncan give us a song to sing in
\nthe night when you’re you can’t <\/p>\n

420
\n00:26:50,100 –> 00:26:52,900
\nsleep, and you’re lying awake
\nand the issues of the life or <\/p>\n

421
\n00:26:52,908 –> 00:26:56,200
\njust going around and around in
\nyour mind, I tell you the only <\/p>\n

422
\n00:26:56,200 –> 00:27:00,300
\nperson who can give you a song
\nto sing his guard, I will <\/p>\n

423
\n00:27:00,300 –> 00:27:04,100
\nremember I will look back and
\nremember all the way that the <\/p>\n

424
\n00:27:04,100 –> 00:27:07,300
\nLord my God has.
\nLet me just come down to the end<\/p>\n

425
\n00:27:07,300 –> 00:27:09,900
\nof this.
\nLovely song, verse 11, why now <\/p>\n

426
\n00:27:09,900 –> 00:27:13,400
\nare you cast down O my soul?
\nAnd why are you disquieted <\/p>\n

427
\n00:27:13,400 –> 00:27:16,300
\nwithin me?
\nHope thou in God for, I shall <\/p>\n

428
\n00:27:16,300 –> 00:27:17,300
\nyet.
\nPraise him. <\/p>\n

429
\n00:27:17,300 –> 00:27:19,100
\nWho is the health of my
\ncountenance? <\/p>\n

430
\n00:27:19,300 –> 00:27:21,600
\nAnd my God.
\nIsn’t that lovely? <\/p>\n

431
\n00:27:21,600 –> 00:27:25,300
\nThat’s the result of remembering
\nall the way, which the Lord your<\/p>\n

432
\n00:27:25,300 –> 00:27:28,100
\nGod has led you these forty
\nyears in the wilderness. <\/p>\n

433
\n00:27:28,100 –> 00:27:31,700
\nIsn’t that lovely?
\nIsn’t that a Beacon of Hope and <\/p>\n

434
\n00:27:31,900 –> 00:27:34,900
\nand have confidence that we can
\ncarry forward with us into the <\/p>\n

435
\n00:27:34,900 –> 00:27:39,200
\nunknown land?
\nAll of our experience of God in <\/p>\n

436
\n00:27:39,200 –> 00:27:43,300
\nthe past, what a way to use the
\npast and to make it profitable? <\/p>\n

437
\n00:27:43,700 –> 00:27:48,900
\nHey, remember the way, remember
\nall the way will you come back <\/p>\n

438
\n00:27:48,900 –> 00:27:54,500
\nwith me to Philippians 3?
\nBecause having gone, through all<\/p>\n

439
\n00:27:54,500 –> 00:27:56,500
\nof that, we just need to
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n

440
\n00:27:56,500 –> 00:27:59,700
\nFinally, what an earth, the
\nApostle Paul meant then when he <\/p>\n

441
\n00:27:59,700 –> 00:28:04,100
\nsaid, This one thing, forget the
\npast. <\/p>\n

442
\n00:28:04,900 –> 00:28:13,500
\nWhat did the Apostle Paul mean?
\nLet’s just read it again in <\/p>\n

443
\n00:28:13,500 –> 00:28:19,000
\nPhilippians 3.
\nVerse 13 Brethren. <\/p>\n

444
\n00:28:19,000 –> 00:28:24,100
\nI count myself, not yet to have
\napprehended, but this one thing <\/p>\n

445
\n00:28:24,100 –> 00:28:28,900
\nI do forgetting those things
\nwhich are behind and reaching <\/p>\n

446
\n00:28:28,900 –> 00:28:33,000
\nforward to the things which are
\nbefore I press on toward the <\/p>\n

447
\n00:28:33,008 –> 00:28:36,900
\ngoal of the prize of the High
\nCalling of God in Christ Jesus. <\/p>\n

448
\n00:28:37,600 –> 00:28:40,600
\nSo you see the motion of
\ndirection is the same for both <\/p>\n

449
\n00:28:40,600 –> 00:28:44,200
\nMoses, and the Apostle Paul.
\nBoth of them are moving <\/p>\n

450
\n00:28:44,200 –> 00:28:46,700
\nforwards.
\nMoses says, when you go forward <\/p>\n

451
\n00:28:46,700 –> 00:28:50,100
\ninto the unknown land, as you
\nmake your journey in life, then <\/p>\n

452
\n00:28:50,100 –> 00:28:53,000
\nremember all the things that God
\nhas done for you and the Apostle<\/p>\n

453
\n00:28:53,000 –> 00:28:55,900
\nPaul’s on the same Journey.
\nHe says, I’m Reaching Forward. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:28:55,900 –> 00:28:58,700
\nI’m pressing forward for the
\nthings that I know are coming in<\/p>\n

455
\n00:28:58,700 –> 00:29:01,400
\nthe future.
\nI’m one of the ways I make <\/p>\n

456
\n00:29:01,400 –> 00:29:06,700
\nprogress is to forget the past.
\nWell, just finally, before we <\/p>\n

457
\n00:29:06,700 –> 00:29:11,200
\nfinish, I want to give you three
\nreasons why we need to forget <\/p>\n

458
\n00:29:11,200 –> 00:29:15,500
\nthe past three situations, three
\ncircumstances that you may need <\/p>\n

459
\n00:29:15,500 –> 00:29:19,100
\nto use when applying the
\nApostle, Paul’s advice to forget<\/p>\n

460
\n00:29:19,100 –> 00:29:23,300
\nthe past.
\nAnd the first one is this. <\/p>\n

461
\n00:29:24,700 –> 00:29:28,300
\nAnd it’s regrets over what
\ncannot be changed. <\/p>\n

462
\n00:29:29,600 –> 00:29:31,500
\nThat’s why you need to forget
\nthe past. <\/p>\n

463
\n00:29:32,600 –> 00:29:35,100
\nThere are some things that can
\nnever be erased from our memory.<\/p>\n

464
\n00:29:36,100 –> 00:29:38,600
\nBut if we’re not careful, they
\ncan become the agony of our <\/p>\n

465
\n00:29:38,600 –> 00:29:41,900
\nlife.
\nAnd the Apostle Paul would not <\/p>\n

466
\n00:29:41,900 –> 00:29:45,500
\nhave us in that situation.
\nAnd he gives us his own <\/p>\n

467
\n00:29:45,500 –> 00:29:47,700
\nexperience.
\nJust look back at verse 5 of <\/p>\n

468
\n00:29:47,700 –> 00:29:50,500
\nthis.
\nSame chapter You want to know <\/p>\n

469
\n00:29:50,500 –> 00:29:53,600
\nwhat’s in my past, says, the
\nApostle Paul will listen to <\/p>\n

470
\n00:29:53,600 –> 00:29:56,400
\nthis.
\nI was circumcised The Eighth Day<\/p>\n

471
\n00:29:56,600 –> 00:29:59,700
\nof the stock of Israel of The
\nTribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of <\/p>\n

472
\n00:29:59,700 –> 00:30:04,200
\nthe Hebrews as touching the law,
\na Pharisee concerning zeal, <\/p>\n

473
\n00:30:05,900 –> 00:30:10,300
\nPersecuting the church.
\nYou want to know what it means <\/p>\n

474
\n00:30:10,300 –> 00:30:12,400
\nto forget the past says the
\nApostle Paul. <\/p>\n

475
\n00:30:13,400 –> 00:30:15,300
\nI’ll tell you what.
\nIt means to look back and have <\/p>\n

476
\n00:30:15,300 –> 00:30:17,700
\nthings.
\nI’m not proud of and to have <\/p>\n

477
\n00:30:17,700 –> 00:30:22,500
\nthings, I regret You want to
\nknow about my past? <\/p>\n

478
\n00:30:22,500 –> 00:30:27,700
\nI persecuted the church.
\nI put faithful men and women to <\/p>\n

479
\n00:30:27,700 –> 00:30:33,300
\ndeath and I took pride in it.
\nAnd you know, how I deal with <\/p>\n

480
\n00:30:33,300 –> 00:30:36,800
\nthat says the Apostle Paul.
\nI forget it. <\/p>\n

481
\n00:30:38,800 –> 00:30:43,100
\nI put all those things behind me
\nand I stretch forward and reach <\/p>\n

482
\n00:30:43,100 –> 00:30:45,800
\nforward for the prize of the
\nhigh calling in the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n

483
\n00:30:45,800 –> 00:30:47,200
\nChrist.
\nIsn’t that a wonder? <\/p>\n

484
\n00:30:48,200 –> 00:30:50,700
\nAnd if you were just sitting
\nthere thinking that that’s not <\/p>\n

485
\n00:30:50,700 –> 00:30:55,400
\npossible to do, you just listen
\nto the categoric statement of a <\/p>\n

486
\n00:30:55,400 –> 00:30:59,800
\nman like the Apostle Paul?
\nI reach forward and I press on. <\/p>\n

487
\n00:31:01,700 –> 00:31:05,400
\nYou see we cannot will to forget
\nwe’ve said that already you <\/p>\n

488
\n00:31:05,400 –> 00:31:09,900
\ncannot just magically somehow we
\nraise it from your memory but to<\/p>\n

489
\n00:31:09,900 –> 00:31:12,700
\nthink of it and go over it in
\nyour mind mournfully and <\/p>\n

490
\n00:31:12,700 –> 00:31:16,400
\nwoefully well is just not
\nhelpful. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:31:18,500 –> 00:31:20,900
\nI’m not suggesting we should
\nmake light of sin and things <\/p>\n

492
\n00:31:20,900 –> 00:31:23,600
\nthat we regret but to brood over
\nit is even worse. <\/p>\n

493
\n00:31:23,800 –> 00:31:26,500
\nAnd all you’re doing is the very
\nthing which God permits you to <\/p>\n

494
\n00:31:26,500 –> 00:31:30,000
\ndo.
\nI forget those things which are <\/p>\n

495
\n00:31:30,000 –> 00:31:33,900
\nbehind and I leave them behind
\ntheir unhelpful, to my progress,<\/p>\n

496
\n00:31:33,900 –> 00:31:38,100
\ninto my journey and God has
\nallowed me to move on and to <\/p>\n

497
\n00:31:38,100 –> 00:31:40,800
\npress on and, you know, the
\nWonder of God young people and <\/p>\n

498
\n00:31:40,808 –> 00:31:43,400
\nbring the sisters is, you know,
\nI kind of grew up thinking that,<\/p>\n

499
\n00:31:43,700 –> 00:31:46,800
\nyou know, the past to God was
\nsomething like this. <\/p>\n

500
\n00:31:46,800 –> 00:31:50,200
\nWell, we’d better just say no
\nmore about it. <\/p>\n

501
\n00:31:51,600 –> 00:31:55,600
\nYou know, it’s a sad thing, but
\nthere we are. <\/p>\n

502
\n00:31:55,700 –> 00:31:58,500
\nWhat’s done is done.
\nLet’s just move on. <\/p>\n

503
\n00:31:59,900 –> 00:32:04,100
\nIt’s not like that, with God, he
\ncasts all those things behind <\/p>\n

504
\n00:32:04,100 –> 00:32:09,600
\nhis back and, and it raises
\ntheir and he permits us to do <\/p>\n

505
\n00:32:09,600 –> 00:32:11,300
\nthat.
\nBrendan sisters and young people<\/p>\n

506
\n00:32:11,500 –> 00:32:14,100
\nfor things that will hinder.
\nOur progress, the past is <\/p>\n

507
\n00:32:14,100 –> 00:32:16,200
\nirreparable, and it cannot be
\nchanged. <\/p>\n

508
\n00:32:16,300 –> 00:32:19,900
\nAnd God can stand between you
\nand your past, and allow you to <\/p>\n

509
\n00:32:19,900 –> 00:32:23,200
\nmove on.
\nHe stands in the way through the<\/p>\n

510
\n00:32:23,200 –> 00:32:26,000
\npower of the Lord Jesus Christ
\nand can heal the worst diseases <\/p>\n

511
\n00:32:26,000 –> 00:32:31,000
\nof the Soul, any malady of the
\nmind and any wounds of History. <\/p>\n

512
\n00:32:31,800 –> 00:32:35,400
\nSo that’s the first thing, one
\ngreat reason to forget the past <\/p>\n

513
\n00:32:36,100 –> 00:32:39,100
\nregrets over what cannot be
\nchanged. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:32:41,100 –> 00:32:44,800
\nThe second reason is this, if
\nyou don’t forget the past, it <\/p>\n

515
\n00:32:44,800 –> 00:32:48,600
\nmay get in front of you.
\nLet me qualify what I mean. <\/p>\n

516
\n00:32:48,700 –> 00:32:51,500
\nAre there things that you
\nthought you’d left behind <\/p>\n

517
\n00:32:52,500 –> 00:32:55,000
\nbridges that you burned for the
\nsake of the Lord? <\/p>\n

518
\n00:32:55,000 –> 00:32:57,900
\nJesus Christ things that you
\nwere happy to lose. <\/p>\n

519
\n00:32:58,100 –> 00:33:01,200
\nIn fact that’s what the Apostle
\nPaul says In This Very chapter, <\/p>\n

520
\n00:33:01,200 –> 00:33:04,700
\nisn’t it?
\nVerse 8 I count all things but <\/p>\n

521
\n00:33:04,700 –> 00:33:08,200
\nloss for the Excellency of the
\nknowledge of Christ, Jesus, my <\/p>\n

522
\n00:33:08,200 –> 00:33:11,200
\nLord, for whom I have suffered
\nthe loss of all things and do <\/p>\n

523
\n00:33:11,200 –> 00:33:14,300
\ncount them.
\nBut dung that I may win Christ. <\/p>\n

524
\n00:33:14,500 –> 00:33:17,500
\nThere was a time in the Apostle
\nPaul’s life when he was Way to <\/p>\n

525
\n00:33:17,500 –> 00:33:22,000
\nlose everything that previously
\nhad thought was great for the <\/p>\n

526
\n00:33:22,000 –> 00:33:26,500
\nsake of gaining Christ.
\nAre there things that you want <\/p>\n

527
\n00:33:26,500 –> 00:33:29,100
\nleft behind?
\nBridges. <\/p>\n

528
\n00:33:29,100 –> 00:33:33,100
\nThat you burned things that you
\nwere happy to lose that somehow <\/p>\n

529
\n00:33:33,100 –> 00:33:38,500
\nin between have been secretly
\nrebuilt and reinstated. <\/p>\n

530
\n00:33:39,700 –> 00:33:43,600
\nAs it happens, doesn’t it what
\nyou may go away today you may go<\/p>\n

531
\n00:33:43,600 –> 00:33:46,300
\naway tomorrow.
\nBack home thinking you know what<\/p>\n

532
\n00:33:46,300 –> 00:33:49,700
\nthere are some things in my life
\nthat need to be laid aside. <\/p>\n

533
\n00:33:50,300 –> 00:33:53,300
\nThere are some bridges in my
\nlife that need to be burned. <\/p>\n

534
\n00:33:54,800 –> 00:33:56,600
\nThe challenge is how will you
\nburn them? <\/p>\n

535
\n00:33:57,600 –> 00:34:00,500
\nAnd whether just over time they
\njust don’t start getting <\/p>\n

536
\n00:34:00,500 –> 00:34:05,900
\nrebuilds and you see if we don’t
\nforget them, totally fully then <\/p>\n

537
\n00:34:05,900 –> 00:34:08,300
\nwe may find that before long.
\nThey’re back in front of us <\/p>\n

538
\n00:34:08,300 –> 00:34:12,000
\nagain.
\nAnd the Apostle Paul says, I <\/p>\n

539
\n00:34:12,000 –> 00:34:14,100
\nforget those things which are
\nbehind. <\/p>\n

540
\n00:34:14,100 –> 00:34:16,300
\nI forget those bridges that I
\nwouldn’t had. <\/p>\n

541
\n00:34:16,500 –> 00:34:17,800
\nYou want to know about Burning
\nBridges. <\/p>\n

542
\n00:34:17,800 –> 00:34:20,300
\nSo the Apostle Paul you should
\nhave seen the people I used to <\/p>\n

543
\n00:34:20,300 –> 00:34:24,000
\nhang out with the friends.
\nI had the places I used to go, <\/p>\n

544
\n00:34:24,000 –> 00:34:29,199
\nthe shoulders are used to rub.
\nand I forget those things which <\/p>\n

545
\n00:34:29,199 –> 00:34:35,199
\nare behind, totally Not
\nhalf-heartedly completely and I <\/p>\n

546
\n00:34:35,199 –> 00:34:40,400
\npress on and I reach forward for
\nthe things that God has <\/p>\n

547
\n00:34:40,400 –> 00:34:44,600
\npromised.
\nLast one because time is nearly <\/p>\n

548
\n00:34:44,600 –> 00:34:47,500
\ngone and this is perhaps for the
\nolder ones. <\/p>\n

549
\n00:34:48,900 –> 00:34:51,800
\nAnd the younger people can just
\nearwig if you wish. <\/p>\n

550
\n00:34:53,000 –> 00:34:56,800
\nIt will only take me a moment.
\nOne reason to forget the past <\/p>\n

551
\n00:34:56,800 –> 00:35:01,100
\nbrothers and sisters is looking
\nback to the good old days. <\/p>\n

552
\n00:35:03,700 –> 00:35:05,600
\nAnd even if the young people
\nare, are we getting? <\/p>\n

553
\n00:35:05,600 –> 00:35:09,400
\nYou will know what I mean?
\nBecause you’ve heard it many <\/p>\n

554
\n00:35:09,400 –> 00:35:12,900
\ntimes, the good old days.
\nWhen there were no marriage <\/p>\n

555
\n00:35:12,900 –> 00:35:17,200
\nproblems, we didn’t have to talk
\nabout sex and drug abuse. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:35:17,600 –> 00:35:19,300
\nThere was only one
\ninterpretation of the <\/p>\n

557
\n00:35:19,300 –> 00:35:26,700
\nApocalypse, you know, the good
\nold days And I suspect brothers <\/p>\n

558
\n00:35:26,700 –> 00:35:30,200
\nand sisters what we find is and
\nI know in my own life that when <\/p>\n

559
\n00:35:30,200 –> 00:35:34,100
\nwe look back at the past,
\nsometimes it’s with a slightly <\/p>\n

560
\n00:35:34,100 –> 00:35:37,800
\nRosy color.
\nThat isn’t quite true. <\/p>\n

561
\n00:35:39,100 –> 00:35:40,700
\nAnd although there were good
\nthings. <\/p>\n

562
\n00:35:40,700 –> 00:35:43,300
\nThere were some good times in
\nthe good old days. <\/p>\n

563
\n00:35:43,600 –> 00:35:48,600
\nThere were some bad things too.
\nLet’s not have a selective <\/p>\n

564
\n00:35:48,600 –> 00:35:52,900
\nmemory and when I say, you know,
\nI’m not asking you not to <\/p>\n

565
\n00:35:52,900 –> 00:35:54,800
\nremember the good old days.
\nI’m just saying. <\/p>\n

566
\n00:35:54,800 –> 00:35:58,300
\nDon’t let your memory of them
\nimpede, your progress in the <\/p>\n

567
\n00:35:58,300 –> 00:36:02,800
\npresent and into the future.
\nYou see, I’m an optimist. <\/p>\n

568
\n00:36:03,100 –> 00:36:05,900
\nYou may not agree.
\nI like to think of myself as an <\/p>\n

569
\n00:36:05,900 –> 00:36:13,800
\noptimist and real goodness is
\nborn out of adversity. and so if<\/p>\n

570
\n00:36:13,800 –> 00:36:17,400
\nyou think that these are not the
\ngood old days anymore then let’s<\/p>\n

571
\n00:36:17,400 –> 00:36:21,100
\npress on and realize that the
\nsoldier is proved not in college<\/p>\n

572
\n00:36:21,400 –> 00:36:25,700
\nbut on the battlefield Remember
\nthem, if you wish, but never let<\/p>\n

573
\n00:36:25,700 –> 00:36:28,400
\nyour remembrance spoil, the
\npresent and the future. <\/p>\n

574
\n00:36:28,600 –> 00:36:31,500
\nIt’s a bit like trying to go up
\nan escalator the wrong way, <\/p>\n

575
\n00:36:31,600 –> 00:36:34,300
\nisn’t it trying to go back into
\nthe past? <\/p>\n

576
\n00:36:34,700 –> 00:36:37,400
\nYou know, I remember doing that
\nwith my mother when she used to <\/p>\n

577
\n00:36:37,408 –> 00:36:38,900
\ntake me shopping.
\nI don’t know how she copes <\/p>\n

578
\n00:36:38,900 –> 00:36:41,000
\nactually.
\nAnd If Ever, I Saw an escalator <\/p>\n

579
\n00:36:41,300 –> 00:36:44,700
\nwherever we were, I just had an
\nImpulse turbine compulsion, as <\/p>\n

580
\n00:36:44,700 –> 00:36:49,700
\nsome kind of potion to to
\nattempt to Traverse it the wrong<\/p>\n

581
\n00:36:49,700 –> 00:36:52,200
\ndirection.
\nBecause it would seem like the <\/p>\n

582
\n00:36:52,200 –> 00:36:56,700
\ngreatest Of human history.
\nIf I could get to the bottom or <\/p>\n

583
\n00:36:56,700 –> 00:36:59,500
\nthe top while it was determined
\nto make me go the other way. <\/p>\n

584
\n00:37:01,100 –> 00:37:02,900
\nAnd the past is a little like
\nthat. <\/p>\n

585
\n00:37:05,300 –> 00:37:07,500
\nLet’s move on brothers and
\nsisters in young, people <\/p>\n

586
\n00:37:07,500 –> 00:37:11,100
\nremembering all the way that the
\nLord Our God has led us. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:37:11,100 –> 00:37:14,700
\nAnd forget those things which
\nare behind the things, which <\/p>\n

588
\n00:37:14,900 –> 00:37:19,500
\nimpede our progress and make us
\nHalt and falter and fail in our <\/p>\n

589
\n00:37:19,500 –> 00:37:22,700
\njourney onwards and forwards to
\nthe Future. <\/p>\n

590
\n00:37:24,800 –> 00:37:29,800
\nAnd so in conclusion, then, as
\nyou face tomorrow, let no one <\/p>\n

591
\n00:37:29,800 –> 00:37:32,300
\ntake away from you.
\nThe certainties of yesterday, <\/p>\n

592
\n00:37:33,000 –> 00:37:35,900
\nwhen they say to you, where is
\nnow your God? <\/p>\n

593
\n00:37:36,900 –> 00:37:40,900
\nSit down have an audience of one
\nand go through the past. <\/p>\n

594
\n00:37:40,900 –> 00:37:46,100
\nAnd remember, Jordan, and Herman
\nand mizar. <\/p>\n

595
\n00:37:46,200 –> 00:37:49,600
\nRemember the Waters of the Red
\nSea, remember the manner raining<\/p>\n

596
\n00:37:49,600 –> 00:37:53,000
\ndown from heaven and that’s why
\nGod allows us to experience the <\/p>\n

597
\n00:37:53,000 –> 00:37:55,600
\npast.
\nAnd, to remember it, So that we <\/p>\n

598
\n00:37:55,600 –> 00:37:59,600
\ncan look back and remember all
\nthe way that the Lord Our God <\/p>\n

599
\n00:37:59,600 –> 00:38:01,200
\nhas led us.
\nAnd for those of you who don’t <\/p>\n

600
\n00:38:01,200 –> 00:38:03,900
\nfeel, you have much of that
\nexperience in your history, <\/p>\n

601
\n00:38:04,200 –> 00:38:06,800
\nstart building it because it
\nhappens right now. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:38:06,800 –> 00:38:10,700
\nToday just in five minutes time.
\nWhat I’ve said will be in the <\/p>\n

603
\n00:38:10,700 –> 00:38:13,400
\npast that’s how quickly it gets
\nbuilt. <\/p>\n

604
\n00:38:14,400 –> 00:38:16,400
\nAnd it’s never too late to
\nstart. <\/p>\n

605
\n00:38:17,200 –> 00:38:20,100
\nThey will try and confuse you
\nabout the problems of next year.<\/p>\n

606
\n00:38:20,400 –> 00:38:23,100
\nYou know, the world we live in
\nis a scary place and there’s all<\/p>\n

607
\n00:38:23,100 –> 00:38:25,800
\nkinds of things going on and
\nthey will try to baffle you. <\/p>\n

608
\n00:38:25,800 –> 00:38:28,900
\nPeople will try to baffle you
\nwith the uncertainties in the <\/p>\n

609
\n00:38:28,908 –> 00:38:31,700
\ncomplexities of what lays around
\nthe corner, you know, in the <\/p>\n

610
\n00:38:31,707 –> 00:38:35,100
\nnext year and that maybe allow
\nthem to do that. <\/p>\n

611
\n00:38:35,100 –> 00:38:38,600
\nBut never let them take away
\nfrom you, your certainties of <\/p>\n

612
\n00:38:38,600 –> 00:38:42,400
\nthe past and remember how you
\nsang a song on the safe side of <\/p>\n

613
\n00:38:42,408 –> 00:38:46,700
\nthe Red Sea?
\nNever doubt your own experience <\/p>\n

614
\n00:38:46,700 –> 00:38:49,100
\nof God.
\nAnd remember when you came to <\/p>\n

615
\n00:38:49,100 –> 00:38:52,600
\nelim and the water was sweet.
\nDo you remember that in the <\/p>\n

616
\n00:38:52,600 –> 00:38:54,900
\nJourney of Israel?
\nThey arrived in the wilderness <\/p>\n

617
\n00:38:54,900 –> 00:38:58,200
\nand there was nothing but bitter
\nwater and they had nothing to <\/p>\n

618
\n00:38:58,200 –> 00:38:59,600
\ndrink.
\nAnd what they discovered was the<\/p>\n

619
\n00:38:59,600 –> 00:39:03,500
\nnext day as they went around the
\ncorner, they came to the biggest<\/p>\n

620
\n00:39:03,500 –> 00:39:09,100
\nlargest supply of Sweetwater
\nthey’d ever known And I know <\/p>\n

621
\n00:39:09,100 –> 00:39:11,900
\nthere are some people in this
\nroom today who came to the <\/p>\n

622
\n00:39:11,900 –> 00:39:15,500
\nWaters of bitterness and it
\nnearly broke them. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:39:17,300 –> 00:39:20,200
\nAnd yes, around the corner with
\na Waters of Elin. <\/p>\n

624
\n00:39:21,400 –> 00:39:25,000
\nAnd never let God take away your
\nremembrance of the past. <\/p>\n

625
\n00:39:25,000 –> 00:39:28,300
\nAnd finally the great challenge
\nthat you and I carry with us <\/p>\n

626
\n00:39:28,300 –> 00:39:31,300
\ntoday, the challenge of the
\npresent is to make sure you <\/p>\n

627
\n00:39:31,308 –> 00:39:33,900
\ndon’t regret it.
\nWhen it does become the past. <\/p>\n

628
\n00:39:34,400 –> 00:39:37,800
\nIf you can measure every day by
\nthat little standard to make <\/p>\n

629
\n00:39:37,800 –> 00:39:40,900
\nsure that tomorrow when it is
\nthe past, it’s not something we <\/p>\n

630
\n00:39:40,900 –> 00:39:44,000
\nregret.
\nLet that temper your presence so<\/p>\n

631
\n00:39:44,000 –> 00:39:47,100
\nthat you can carry it Forward
\ninto the future. <\/p>\n

632
\n00:39:48,700 –> 00:39:51,200
\nSo, I’ll take away from this
\nsession is there are some things<\/p>\n

633
\n00:39:51,200 –> 00:39:56,100
\nyou absolutely must forget.
\nBut there are lots and lots of <\/p>\n

634
\n00:39:56,100 –> 00:39:59,900
\nthings that we absolutely must.
\nRemember, let us apply them in <\/p>\n

635
\n00:39:59,900 –> 00:40:03,200
\nthe right measure and in the
\nright circumstances to the <\/p>\n

636
\n00:40:03,200 –> 00:40:19,800
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183: Joni Mannell – The Past<\/a><\/blockquote>