1. Dealing With Our Past
Hebrews 6:4-12

2. a BAD past can hinder us
Your Sins & Errors
2 Cor 2:7

3. a BAD past can hinder us Others’ Sins Against You Your Sins & Errors
2 Cor 2:7-8; 1 Pet 4:7-9; Rom 12:17-21

4. a BAD past can hinder us We can lose our souls Your Hardships
focusing on a bad past
Your Sins & Errors
Others’ Sins Against You
Your Hardships
James 1:2-8

5. a GOOD past can hinder us
Complacent (self satisfied) with our good life
1 Pet 1:5-11

6. a GOOD past can hinder us
Complacent (self satisfied)
Overconfident because of our good experiences
Peter, John Mark, Demas

7. a GOOD past can hinder us
Complacent (self satisfied)
Overconfident
Discouraged because the present is not as good as the past
Ecc 7:10; 2 Kgs 19:11-18; Ezra 3:2; Ph 3:13-14

8. a GOOD past can hinder us
Complacent (self satisfied)
Overconfident
Discouraged
Weary in well doing (doing good) because we can’t see the benefit
Gal 6:9; Heb 10:35-36

9. Keep a proper view of the past
“I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God - But by the grace of God I am what I am”
(1 Cor 15:9-10)

10. Keep a proper view of the past
Let us “go on to perfection” (Heb 6:1).
“Forgetting those things which are behind & reaching forward to those things which are ahead …press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil 3:13-14).