Trapped by Guilt? Here’s How God Set Rob Free

and I've never ever went back like that guilt and shame is extinct now I've forgiven myself that's the hardest person for most of us to forget I came out of that realm of death and I got transported into a new life in Christ and it's taken me years and I'm still learning who I am but I know it's a new life and that life doesn't exist for I'm thrilled to preach that everyone who believes is saved now I want you to say that with me everyone who believes is saved that's so key if you believe something I think you'll follow it to everyone who believes and if you really believe something you'll begin to follow it and let it transform your life you won't just set in a Pew and think wait till I get to heaven one day I don't know if you really believed it I'm just being honest I'm not being mean like if you believe something I believe that crack cocaine would get me high I chased after it all I had I sold everything I had lost everything I had I rode I told my wife this today my new wife now she just laugh I rode my 10-year-old daughter's little pink bike with the frillies on it and a Barbie Bell across town 15 miles to go get some crack one day like I did everything in my power to go get that I wasn't ashamed I should have been I did a whole lot of things from the enemy I rode that bike all across town now I hit it right before I got to my dealers house and walked like a half a block cuz I didn't want him to see it but everybody else I didn't care I've done some crazy anybody else done crazy stuff like that am I just the only one that wrode a pink bike maybe okay y'all got your own stories I'm sure I believed that would solve my problems I believe that shooting a needle in my arm would make me feel better like I believe those lies how dare I not believe the man that save my life and believe that his word Will Set Me Free like and so I believe it and I'll follow it I don't think a lot of people believe that I'm just going to use me okay so I was sitting in prison when I gave my life to Christ that very moment I became seated with him in Heavenly places I became the righteousness of God I didn't have to go through a bunch of stuff learn a bunch of stuff get a seminary degree and do all this stuff and become a pastor before I got seated and like in the moment that we really believe and we really surrender and give our life to him we become the righteousness of God that's hard to believe for somebody that's shooting needles in their arm and sitting in a prison cell wait a minute hold on I get to actually become a son and a new person and the right I get to be in right standing with the father Yes the big battle of faith that Paul talks about the Timothy is fight the good fight of Faith that's the good fight of Faith do you believe that you can go from siner to heaven in one moment I don't know hold on like isn't there's something I got to go through don't I got to follow all the rules don't I got to that stuff comes in later but in that moment you become the righteousness of God everybody agree on that we good with that I hope so do you believe it because if not I'm going to challenge you tonight to really pray about that and think about it verse n for he is the complete fullness of deity in human form and our completeness is now found in him we are completely filled with God come on like you got to get that as Christ's fullness overflows in us so what that tells me is my relationship with Christ is what fills me with the Lord my believing and following and going after Christ with this pursuit of nothing else matters but him he's first in everything Matthew 6:33 seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness all these things will follow so it's like my pursuit of the King Jesus fills me with the things of God like I love that and we can get I want to get full with God anybody else want full or you just good with barely getting some I don't know about y'all I never was good with just barely getting high what I'm saying just being friend one HED crack wasn't gonna do it I went all night long for three weeks like I'm just that way with Jesus I'm sorry people don't like that analogy but I think y'all can roll with it our own completeness is found in him we're completely filled with God's fullness overflows in us he is the head of every Kingdom and Authority in the universe through our Union with him we have experienced circumcision of the heart this is our language listen to the rest of this all of the guilt and power of sin has been cut away and it's now extinct because of what Christ did y'all understand what extinct means like do you see any more dinosaurs do you see them anywhere like it means it doesn't exist like do you realize there's a point if you believe ain't nothing I can do to lay hands on you ain't nothing I can pray for you if you believe enough and believe this word enough and get full enough of Christ with Christ of God through Christ you can get to a point where there is no more history there is no more old person there is no more it's extinct everything the power that the guilt cuz how many know guilt LED most of us back to a relapse how many in here guilt and shame is probably what led you back doing good for a while anybody relapse more than once just me and Luke no I relapsed a lot man I made it 6 months 10 months one year one time none of it with Christ all of it I'm not against secular programs I'm just saying Jesus did it for me it's the only thing I know that does it is that was the only thing that did it for me and I've never ever went back like that guilt and shame is extinct now I've forgiven myself that's the hardest person for most of us to forgive it's easier sometimes not real easy but it's easier to forgive the person or done something to you or something like that but when it comes to letting go of how I treated my kids or how I ran my family to ground or how I did that there's power in that guilt and shame and the enemy knows that and this is what it says like it's it's been cut away and is now extinct because of what Jesus did the anointed one verse 12 for we were buried with him into his death our baptism into death also means we were raised to him when we believe God's resurrection power the power that raised him from the realm of death this realm of death describes the former State when we were held in sin's grassp but now we've been resurrected out of the realm of death never to return who wants Justin said it Earth who wants to go back to your grave man like you got to believe it tonight either the dude's dead or he's not and if you still think you got one more run in you good luck I'm just blunt I thought that a lot I got one more in me that day I gave my life to Jesus in prison I knew that if I went back out I was dead I wasn't going to make it that desperation cry is what saved my life and got me where I'm at now if you think you when I can probably maybe I can just drink maybe I can man get rid of that's the enemy Whispering lies in you to drag you right back down to the same thing that always happens kill steel destroy that's all he does it's it's pretty simple make a choice you want kill steel destroy or Abundant Life it's really boils down to choices in that area so we are hold on we've been buried in his death the this realm of death describes our former State when we were held in sin's grassp we resurrected out of that never to return turn for We Are Forever alive and forgiven of all of our sins now listen to verse 14 in the passion some of y'all really going to like anybody been in prison or jail in here s me now I got some hands but nobody want to admit they've relapsed more than once but everybody's been to jail or prison we can talk about that Hallelujah come on well you'll love this verse if you've never read it in the passion he cancelled out every legal violation we had on our record and the old arrest warrant that stood to indict us he erased it all our sins our stained Soul he deleted it and they cannot be retrieved I'm going to challenge you tonight to listen to that scripture read it I don't care what version you use it's not going to be that descriptive with jail and prison record or nothing like that but it's still going to say the same thing but I'm going to challenge you if you don't believe that it can be erased and never Revisited listen I've adopted two kids I got 17 felonies on my record I'm not legally supposed to be able to do that I'm standing here telling you this not to brag to tell you that I don't believe I still have old rest warrants on me that person died I'm a new creation and God made a way for a judge to sign the papers for me to adopt two different kids from birth and I'm a registered foster parent in the state of West Virginia that's not supposed to happen they can look that up on live and try to say somebody did something wrong it doesn't matter like I live in a Kingdom Minded mindset right now that I know who I am here and that's who's living down here I'm not from here I don't belong here I still have to abide by the rules while I'm here but I'm not of this world I'm of that world with a new dad and a new life and I love it and that life I get to adopt kids but if I would have never believed these things I would have never tried I had the people when they came over they said well they called me Hey cuz we knew the people it was family we you want to adopt him she's pregnant do you absolutely we want him gave him my paperwork and they said we're going to do a background check I was like well legally when you look up the background check it's going to look really bad I spent four and a half years in prison they like oh I'm like that was a long time ago I've been done I'm a pastor I'm an evangelist I love Jesus now I've got my kids back in my life I've rebuilt my life Jesus is amazing and they didn't call me for three months I said well Lord if you want us to have him we'll have him they called me two days before he was born and said hey can we come over you still want him I'm like absolutely so they came over and they said we want to apologize we stuck yours at the bottom of the pile I said okay we went through six or seven people none of them worked out okay handed it to the judge and when I ran Freedom House which is recovery home the judge that got that paper was the judge that I worked with and prayed for his dad in his Chambers one day and he remembered me and he said I'm not worried about his record see that's a kingdom monset what now I don't know whether he was supposed to do that or whatever but he's a judge he can sign it what so that's what I'm saying like you got to like I came out of that realm of death and I got transported into a new life in Christ and it's taken me years and I'm still learning who I am but I know it's a new life and that life doesn't exist and if you don't grab that mindset the enemy is going to whisper or some well-crafted preacher that doesn't believe it's going to whisper and it's going to sound really good and you're going to stay in his place of just being okay to say a prayer and make it to Heaven one day and never walk in new abundance life and there's going to be this up and down thing James says a double-minded man is unstable and all he does toss back and forth how many people all know Christians is tossed back and forth all the time I know a bunch of them they really don't believe the gospel pray for me I'm not saying don't pray for him I'm saying really you just really need to believe the truth and you wouldn't be tossed back and forth there's things that we don't need to pray about this the truth but we got to believe it and grab it and if you don't challenge your mindset to transform it to what this says you'll never ever believe that you got to believe everything can be erased your sins and your old record and everything and I love what it says he deleted it all can't be retrieved everything we once were in Adam so our old life has been placed on the cross nailed permanently as a public display of cancellation then it said I love this Jesus is just the boss man Jesus is the boss okay now people might not church people might not like that but Jesus is a boss he said Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of Darkness stripping away from them every weapon and all their Spiritual Authority and power to accuse us it's important we don't have to listen to The Voice and he is the accuser of the Brethren right that's what he does but there's no more power in anymore because Jesus defeated death hell in the grave and resurrected from it so when he defeated that lost all of its power man Jesus proved that no you can kill me but you can't kill me like you can kill me but there's new life and I made a way and if they just follow it they'll get it too and your voice has no effect on them anymore like you have to grab that guilt shame and condemnation can't mess with me you can't talk about my past I'll tell you look I've done been there done that forgave that left that and I died to that a long time ago you can't hurt me with it I put it out there now when I mess up I'll say it from the pulpit I don't mind you can't hurt me with anything going on see like he throws scripture at me in the middle of talking I'm like oh Lord I'm supposed to Romans 8 I think it says nothing can separate you from the loving of God right no hell no power of Hell demon death life all that stuff and then it says something and it leaves something out Dam older preached one day and said that and I'm like what do he leave out so you can't change the word of God you can't add to it right but God didn't put it there he says present and future but what did he not say what's the third part of that group of words H I believe nothing can separate us like we can't do anything wrong that he won't love us but we can live in the past and separate ourselves from us we can live and believe the past and never believe that we got new life and stay in this old life and we stay separated because we stay over in this old Adam life that's constantly in guilt shame and condemnation we never receive the righteousness of Christ and walk in New Life we keep ourselves separate he didn't put that in there it's is it in there deos does it say past no God didn't just forget it a like he said oh I did a typo like he didn't put it in there for a reason I never caught that till I heard that man say that I'm like oh that's good like there's a reason and this is the stuff why cuz we got to believe that we're dead to that right it's Paul saying this new life in the Gospel of Jesus Christ don't let anyone distract you're righteous you're holy the old life is gone completely filled with God and everything's been cut away there's a new life in Christ and a Godly life but focusing on the rules will never get you the new life that's the old Covenant excuse me think about the things of Heaven not the things of Earth for you died to this life and your real life is hidden with Christ and God and when Christ who is your life is revealed to the whole world you'll share in all his glory so put to death now see I said it's not about the rules but then watch he's not contradicting himself so it's not look at the rules it's hold on because I have a new life because I'm thinking of the Heavenly things because I'm focused on that and I'm not thinking about the things of the world my music and this and that or dressing I'm not even looking at that I'm looking at him and I'm thinking where Christ is seated and I'm thinking about Heavenly realm stuff which means I got a prayer life which means I'm full of the spirit which means I'm in the word which means I'm communing with God which means I'm doing all these things right so my mind is focused on heaven when Christ who is your life is revealed to the whole word of sharing his glory put to death the Earthly things lurking within you have nothing to do with sexual immorality impurity lust evil desires see check the desires part not just the symptoms the desires don't be greedy for a greedy person is an idolatry worshiping the things of the world because these sins the anger of God is coming you used to do these things when your life was still a part of the world but now it's time to get rid of anger rage malice behavior slander and dirty language it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from he chose you to be holy and he loves you he cloth so clothe yourselves with tenderhearted Mercy kindness humility gentleness and patience those are all characteristics that Christ embodied that he walked out as a man that's the things we got to put on you want to show people that you've changed start acting like that when and listen how many of y'all's been sober for like three or four maybe five months or a couple weeks and you've changed but nobody else realized it and they're like oh God it's going to end soon and they just treat you like crap anyway and you're like well screw this I'm just going to go get hot nobody believes me anyway I why am I even trying it takes a while to show people that we've changed my kids what like I love him to death but I know that g well Joe's gonna beat up on Caleb because he's a little older what and if he comes says Caleb hit me I'm like come on man be real you've picking on what you do to cause it what like so think about it like this like we're going to have to show people for a while that we've changed it's took me years I've got both my daughters back in my life now I get to see my grandbabies which is amazing they're six months old but it took a lot of years because of all the stuff that I did for her to see the ACT ual change and I still have family members 13 years later that are still going I know cuz I hear from other family members it's all fake it's all inact he ain't really he's up there cuz I'm an hour and something away from Martinsburg he ain't going to church he whatever he it's all fake he's just doing that for money sooner or later he's probably getting high behind the scenes and nobody knows like that's what they still say 13 years later I'm like you think I held this up for 13 years and nobody's noticed like I ain't that good y'all I couldn't keep it hidden for 3 weeks what y'all think I've kept the 13 years y'all nuts I'd have done lost to everything I wouldn't have a diamed on my name and I'd be sitting in a prison cell but you have to believe that it says make allowances for each other's faults -oh forgive anyone who offends you remember the Lord forgave you so you must forgive others did it say you can think about it or try to forgive others guilt and shame and condemnation draws you back to believing that you never could be this person but if you'll just believe that there's actual new life and like I said I know that's like simple but I don't know how much we really believe it like how much do you believe bro I'm going to pick on you because I love you Aaron right I knew I get it right I love you man I seen a picture there night of you getting hands laid on you and I've been praying nonstop for you for weeks man because I really just believe that there's so something so special about you man but I just believe deep down you really don't believe you're worthy man and that he loved you and he died for you and that he can do everything that he did for me and above and beyond for you and I'm telling you there's a brand new life that you don't think you'll fit into because it's scary what would look like if I'm over there I can't stop being this Aaron because this aon's cool one some days when he's not getting high doing that and so you want to kind but I'm telling you like I'm not a really good construction person y'all have noticed that right I'm not good at but I love seeing something broken nasty and stuff turned into something new and when I look at you like that's all I see man I just see the enemy trying so hard to convince you that you could never be like and if you stepped over there you wouldn't like it because it's boring dude it is not boring on this side of the kingdom it is amazing I've had so much fun me and Justin's gotten to have fun for 10 years now it's his fault that I get up and preach now CU I preached first at a Teen Challenge Chapel service up on the mountain when I didn't want to cuz he made me because he probably the same way I'm looking at you seen something in me that I didn't even see and said no man you need to get up there what so there's like something in you not counting anybody else out but I just really feel like this message I just hope that you was listening because there's a brand new life that's tangible available fully accessible really easily for you if you'll just believe what this book says about you and you'll follow after him no matter whether it feels like you want to do it your flesh is going to fight that thing all the way through I don't want to do that I don't want to be one of them people but you don't have to be them people you be who God made you to be in Christ