12 "Christian" Beliefs that can Drive you Crazy. #6
Leave the Past Behind.
1. What was Paul forgetting in Phillipians 3:7-9,13-14.?
2. Should "dark things" be covered up? Ephesians 5:11,13
3. Sins and hurts of the past can invade the present. We should not
allow this. Ephesians 4:26-27
4. To forgive is something we must learn to do. Ephesians
4:32
5. "Leaving the past behind" disregards the broken hearted. Psalms
34:18
6. God plainly is upset by those who have no compassion for the wounded.
Ezekiel 34:4,16
7. Grieve your losses- Grieving is not a bad thing to do. Ecclesiastes
7:2-4
8. Grieving opens the heart to let love in. Matthew 5:4
9. Break the chain of generational sin. 2 Chronicles 30:7-8, Ezekiel
18:20-22
10. Confess personal sin. 1 John 1:9, James 5:16
11. God is serious about how we treat one another. Matthew 5:23-26
12. One of the ways we feel God’s acceptance is through the love of
his people. 1 Peter 4:10
"It is blatantly wrong to teach that
we should just forget the past, for the simple reason that the past will
one day be our entire life. Past, present, and future are aspects of our
soul that need to be reconciled to God.
We cannot change our past. But we must change our internal
connections to those who have hurt us by forgiving them. We must release
our demand that they somehow make it up to us. We need to let go of lost
dreams and people.
We must take our living hurts from the past to those who
can heal them. We must bring to light patterns we have learned from our parents
and other adults, confess those destruction patterns, disagree with them,
and repent from them. If we have wronged people, we must confess our sin,
apologize to those we have hurt, and make amends."
Dr. Henry Cloud and
Dr. John Townsend 12 ‘Christian’ Beliefs
that can Drive You Crazy; Relief from False Assumptions.
P. 108