Summary: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/westside-christian-fellowship/id386117063">If you want to stay up on the latest audio messages from Westside Christian Fellowship, don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/3_12_2017_No_Regrets.mp3%20</a"><br><br> </a><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/3_12_2017_No_Regrets.mp3%20</a"></a><br><br> Complete Sermon Notes<br> No Regrets – God Can Use Your Past<br> I used to deal with a lot of regret (especially when living w/ the consequences).<br> <br> <br> Made fun of – construction background and couldn’t write well.<br> <br> <br> High School was a disaster – Dyslexia [advantage to homeschooling] – embarrassed so i cheated my way through.<br> <br> <br> This led to the party scene and a failed marriage<br> <br> <br> <br> The 1st point – STOP Blaming God! We are an “excuse driven people.” Excuses kept me in a defeat cycle.<br> The 2nd point – Position Yourself to Receive from God (catch the ball) … 1 Cor. 1:27 paraphrased – Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many of you were influential in your community; not many were born into privilege. God chose the foolish things to shame the wise; God chose the weak things to shame the strong.<br> <br> <br> God says, “Once you see that you are nothing without Me – I can use you.”<br> <br> <br> Might, Power, and Success don’t get the credit – God does!<br> <br> <br> Rom. 8:28 – all things will work together for good for those who love Him and want to do His will.<br> <br> <br> He used my PAST – many different environments that are instrumental when pastoring.<br> <br> <br> DETOUR – What Seminary Did You Attend?<br> <br> <br> The school of experience.<br> <br> <br> The school of Christian history.<br> <br> <br> The school of Christian experience (biographies).<br> <br> <br> The school of Theology – 17 years now in school.<br> <br> <br> Grudem to Giesler – MacArthur to Hayford – Augustine and Pelagian – Luther to Erasmus.<br> The Reformation to Revivals – Systematic theology to topical indexes. Tozer to Spurgeon.<br> Shepherds conference to prayer and worship conferences – time alone.<br> <br> <br> Pneumatology – Eschatology – Soteriology – Ecclesiology: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY<br> <br> <br> The 3rd point – Use regret – don’t live in regret (this is my most continue in addiction)<br> <br> <br> BAD DECISIONS made in the past are not the unpardonable sins – stop living as if they were.<br> <br> <br> <br> Phil. 3:12-13, “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 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.”<br> <br> ACTS 9 Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.<br> <br> <br> Saul was angry and murderous – SAUL [this is what you asked for]. PAUL [small or humble].<br> <br> <br> Religious people don’t like Christians when you challenge their religiosity.<br> <br> <br> <br> 3 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.
