Hijacked: What’s holding
you captive?
What to do When You Cannot
Undo the Done
Memory verse: Philippians 3:13 (NKJV) 13
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which
are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
Text: Matthew 26:30–35; 69-75
Introduction:
“For all sad words of tongue and pen.
The saddest are these; it might have been.”--John Greenleaf Whittier
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
“—Oscar Wilde
1.
Reasons for Regrets
Matthew 26:31–35 Matthew 26:74–75 Proverbs
14:12 Proverbs 16:25 Proverbs 11:21 Ecclesiastes 5:2 Proverbs 29:20; 1
Corinthians 10:12 John 16:8; 2 Corinthians 7:8–10
“A word is like an egg. Once it is broken you
cannot put it together again.” --African adage
2.
Remedy for Regrets
Philippians 3:13; Proverbs
28:13 Psalm 32:1–2 Psalm 32:5 Psalm 86:5
Colossians 2:13 Psalm 32:82 Corinthians
7:9–10, 1 John 1:8–9 John 16:20 Isaiah 61:3 Psalm 30:5; 1 Peter 5:7
“He who get stuck in the past, loses
the future”
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“True repentance has a
double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the
future with a watchful eye.”—Robert Smith
Conclusion: John 8:32, 36.
