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We just wrapped up our latest sermon series at New Anthem called, “Getting Past Your Past,” and the premise behind that 4 week study was that your destiny is greater than your history.

Unfortunately, many people let insecurities and past failures creep in to their minds, and all too often those people allow their history to rob them of their destiny. It doesn’t have to be that way! It shouldn’t be that way! God has a better way!!

Now if you missed any of those messages, you can check them out online here, but if you are currently battling the pain associated with things you’ve done, or things that have been to you, I wanted to share 5 thoughts with you:

#1 – As we talked about in the last message of the series we cannot change our past, but God can change our future. (II Corinthians 5:17)

#2 – Only Jesus can take the pain of our past and turn it into something meaningful in our lives (Romans 8:28).

#3 – Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good, He came to make dead people live (Ezekiel 37:1-14; Ephesians 2:1-6)

#4 – God never uses perfect people. Moses was a murderer, Noah was a drunk, Rahab was a hooker, Peter cussed and Mike Tyson’d people’s ears, John the Baptist doubted, David committed adultery and murder, and Paul partook in genocide…and God used all of them to do greater things that they could have ever imagined. His grace really is greater than our sin! (II Corinthians 12:9-10)

#5 – Jesus knew every foolish and sinful decision we were ever going to make, and yet He still created us on purpose (Psalm 139:13-16), with a purpose (Ephesians 2:10) and for a purpose (2 Corinthians 5:11-21).

These are not simply nice things for us to read. They are truths we can stake our lives on!

They are true about you, they are true about me. NO MATTER WHAT we have ever done in our past, in Christ we CAN move forward together!