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EQUIPPING CLASS
Dealing BiblicallyWith The Past
FALL 2014
Slide2RESOURCE FOR CHANGE
Slide3TWO EXTREMES TO AVOIDThe Past is Everything
The Past is Nothing
Slide4THE PAST: ONE OF YOUR WORST ENEMIESUnanswered Questions
“Too many people have grown up believing it is wrong to ask questions. They think such activity is disrespectful, immature, or unfaithful…But posing questions to God in the right way can actually be an act of reverence and worship because it demonstrates that you want to use the trial of your faith to grow in your understanding of him.”
Slide5THE PAST: ONE OF YOUR WORST ENEMIESUnanswered Questions
Habakkuk 1:2-4 O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save
? Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
Slide6THE PAST: ONE OF YOUR WORST ENEMIESUnanswered Questions
Unaddressed Hurts
Psalm 42:3-5 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?" These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.
Why
are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my
salvation and my God.
Slide7THE PAST: ONE OF YOUR WORST ENEMIESUnanswered Questions
Unaddressed Hurts
Unresolved ProblemsHebrews 12:14-15
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord
.
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become
defiled.
Slide8THE PAST: ONE OF YOUR WORST ENEMIESUnwise Choices
1 Corinthians 6:15-17 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh." But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
Slide9THE PAST: ONE OF YOUR WORST ENEMIESUnwise Choices
Unconfessed SinGenesis
3:12-13 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate
.”
Proverbs 28:13
Whoever
conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Slide10THE PAST: ONE OF YOUR WORST ENEMIESUnwise Choices
Unconfessed Sin
Unlearned LessonsProverbs 26:11
Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
Slide11SO HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THE PAST?Listen to the past
Proverbs 18:13 If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame
.
Slide12SO HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THE PAST?Listen to the past
Address the heart
Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Slide13PERSONAL REFLECTIONShould emotional authenticity or transparency about past hurts be a goal for a body of believers?
Describe what this would look like in our church fellowship.