are you struggling with guilt from your past and do you truly believe that God
has forgiven you for that so we're going to talk about today what's up everybody
welcome back to the beat and today I want to give you for things that I
believe that God would say to somebody who is struggling with the guilt from
their past and so today our story come from Luke chapter 22 where Peter sales
Jesus in an area that he never imagined that he would peter is normally the most
outspoken out of all twelve disciples and yet here he has this opportunity to
take a stand for Jesus and he denied that he even knows Jesus and the
scripture goes on to say that at the very moment when Peter realizes this I
lost what Jesus was and he went away and wept bitterly the first thing that I
believe that God would say to a person who is struggling with the guilt from
their past is that God specializes in using people who have failed ok so let's
think about some of the people in the Bible that experienced major fail years
and yet God use them to do some amazing things and spite of their failures ok so
first you have Abraham who was a liar and yet God used him to be the father of
the nation of people who would later on become God's chosen people then you have
Moses who was a murderer and yet God used him to set 2 million Jews Prix from
Egyptian slavery then you have a rehab was a prostitute who yet later was in
the lineage of people who gave birth to Jesus Christ then you have King David
who was an adulterer and a murderer and yet he was considered the greatest king
that Israel ever had and don't mention his son Solomon who had 700 wise yet God
used him to erect the Persian Jewish temple
and then if you pass for the New Testament Paul who is guilty of killing
Christians and yet God used him to write more than half of the New Testament
let's not forget about Peter who denied that he ever even knew Jesus three times
so my question is if God can use adulterers and murderers and polygamist
and prostitute and liars and coward like peter then what could you have possibly
done that was so bad that you have disqualified yourself from receiving
God's forgiveness God's grace and your life and so the second point of
encouragement that God already knows your failures before you do notice here
that Jesus actually predicts that peter is gonna deny him three times in the
same way for us God knows every single mistake that we're going to make it even
some of the ones in the future that we don't even know we're gonna make and yet
in spite of knowing all of those things he still chose to save us anyway so no
matter what you do you can never catch God off guard which is the reason why
you can't just pleased but never disappoint him and so the third thing
that God would encourage you to do if you're struggling with accepting his
forgiveness and wrestling with the guilt of your path is to turn towards him
noticed that Jesus says Peter after you've repented I want you to turn
towards me I don't know about you but I can't speak for me when I feel like I
have just fallen flat on my face my tendency is to turn away from God but
here we see that God is inviting Peter to turn towards him to turn towards him
in prayer and Bible study or journaling or fasting or worship or maybe getting
together with a small group of community of believers that wanna love you and
care for you and pray for you and fight for you which leads me to my fourth and
final point which is that God can
use your failures as the fuel that ignites your purpose notice here in
verse 32 Jesus says Peter I want you to strengthen your brother is he what the
enemy wants to do is he wants to influence you to fail and then he wants
you to be so ashamed of your failures that you don't share them with anybody
else and as a result no one can benefit from your failures sometimes the place
of our greatest failures could actually end up being the place of our greatest
ministries I want to encourage today to truly embrace God's gift of forgiveness
and to always remember that you did nothing to earn it and so as a result
there's nothing that you can do to lose it if his videos been an encouragement
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