Yesterday ended is a podcast dedicated to the healing words of Jesus Christ and his story of redemption. Each podcast contains an original poem so that I can portray a confession of our faith of scripture in unique and succinct ways. Come with me on a journey to become a new creation and to declare old things dead and our life anew in Christ. What we meditate on will determine the direction and fruit of our lives. Let's live today speaking the words of life.
The victory we have in Christ can be felt in our everyday life. We can overcome depression. We can overcome fear. We can be confident. We can be free from worry. We can be free from anxiety. We can have emotional healing. We can have hope. We can be set free from our past. The Bible declares the goodness of God. The Bible is more than Christian psychology it is truth. The truth of God brings mental health, spiritual health and physical health. We can walk in peace. We can overcome the traumas of life.
Do you live with deep regret in your life? Do you let that regret control your life? Do you live with shame blame and condemnation? Most importantly, do you believe God has forgiven you? Welcome to yesterday ended, healing the traumas of life. It’s one thing to be disappointed. And it’s another thing to feel sorry about failure. But it’s a bad thing to let these challenges stop us from moving forward. I’m your host Dennis Dobbin, and I’m here to teach you how to live beyond regret. Give a listen.
Do you live with deep regret in your life? Do you let that regret control your life? Do you live with shame, blame, and condemnation? Most importantly, do you believe God has forgiven you? Welcome to yesterday ended healing the traumas of life. It's one thing to be disappointed, and it's another thing to feel sorry about failure, but it's a bad thing to let these challenges stop us from moving forward. I'm your host, Dennis Daubin, and I'm here to teach you how to live beyond regret. Give a listen. When I thought of doing this podcast not that long ago, I endeavored to check my heart as to what I have regret about. And honestly, and thankfully, I have to say I do not live with any major regret. Could you say I'm disappointed that I never got married and had kids? Absolutely. But I am also thankful to God for what I have been able to accomplish in my life with the freedom of being single. As with most things, how we view them, from what perspective we see the situation, will determine the status of our heart. Are we disappointed or are we distressed? There are many choices I have made in the past that I regret or am sorry to God for making. But I'm thankful to God for his forgiveness when I made wrong choices at times. How do we let the situations of our past affect us today? I moved to California in 1979 to go to school to study filmmaking. I wanted to write and direct movies. I went to the University of Southern California, which has an elite filmmaking school, but I never got into it. I studied writing, for which I am very thankful, but I never became a director or sold a screenplay I wrote. I still have a few of them in my closet. I came to realize I didn't have the mindset at the time that is required to gain access into that industry. I made a mindful decision to choose another path. And when I look at the quality of my life today, I have absolutely no regrets. My life is rich and full. Though I could say I'm slightly disappointed for not being a famous writer and director married with kids, but I do not cry myself to sleep at night. And as I think of that last statement, I realized I have cried in the past for having fallen short before my heavenly Father. But he loves me. My Savior Jesus loves me. They forgive me, they both embrace me and hold me close, so that I can live beyond regret. I had sinned and repented. So many times I was tormented. Father, you are stuck with sinful me, I lamented. No, his decree, you are graciously stuck with me. Often his love I felt I must earn, because falsely I thought he is stern, yet this son he has never spurned. You are mine, he declares, and I am yours. So many times I've let him down, always thinking he wears a frown. I regret so much of what I've done. He never regrets making me his son. Truth is he does not change, life for me he lovingly arranged, righteousness for sin he exchanged. I will never leave, he promised, nor forsake you. His love is ever faithful, his ways are somewhat playful, for which I am ever grateful. Abba Father, I cry, beloved son, his reply. Fully embracing the love that God has for us can bring deliverance to any sorrow, any disappointment, any distress, any remorse in our hearts. Romans eight thirty one through thirty four. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. God is for you, not against you. So when the bullies of shame, blame, and condemnation try to attack you, remember who's backing you up. And if you think God is condemning you, remember that he's the one who through the blood of Jesus justified you. Being justified means you've been legally made righteous. And Christ isn't condemning you either. He's the one who died for you and who is now speaking on your behalf to the Father, reminding him that by his blood he has made you righteous, redeemed you, justified you, and reconciled you to the Father. When we focus on these realities, on these spiritual truths, it leaves little room for regret. Colossians chapter one verses twenty through twenty two. And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself, by him I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven, and you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight. This is what the Father has accomplished for us through the blood of the cross of Christ. By the sacrifice of Jesus, God has reconciled all things unto himself, and that includes you. You are reconciled to God. God made peace with you through the sacrifice of Jesus. He made peace with you. He's not trying to pick fight with you, he's not trying to condemn you. He worked in all this to bring you back to him. You were at one time alienated from God and an enemy of God in your mind by wicked works. Yet now He has reconciled you through the body, the sacrifice of Jesus, to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight. That's what he thinks of when he looks at you. He sees you holy, he sees you unblamable, he sees you unreprovable. You are now holy by the blood of Jesus. You are pure before your heavenly Father. You are also unblamable. The word for unblameable in the Greek is the same word used for without spot or blemish, spoken of a sacrificial lamb and spoken of Jesus. You are not stained by your former sin. The Father does not see your past faults because they've been wiped away by the blood of Jesus. And that last quality, the one about being unreprovable? To bring an indictment against someone in a court of law, you must have some sort of evidence to present to the judge for him to grant an arrest warrant. So when our accuser comes before the Father and wants to accuse us of sin, our advocate Jesus steps up and reminds the Father of his sacrifice in his blood that has cleansed us. Our accuser can only slither away in defeat because there's no evidence of any wrongdoing on our part. There is, after all, victory in the blood. Romans chapter 8, verse 6. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. We can live and think according to the flesh, or we can live and think according to the Spirit of God. The last phrase in Romans 14, 23 is, that which is not of faith is sin. To doubt and to worry is to be carnally minded. It's not healthy. It can kill us. It definitely kills our fruit. So continuing to live with regret in our lives that things didn't turn out the way we wanted is unhealthy, to say the least. Living with regret is living in the past. Psalms 103 verse 12. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. This is an amazing illustration. If you start at the North Pole and travel south to Antarctica, and if you continue moving up the globe, you'll be traveling north until you get to the Arctic and then south if you continue and then north and then south. But if you start at one point on the equator and start traveling west, when you get back to your starting point, you'll still be going west. West and east never meet. The Lord has removed our transgressions from us in like manner. The blood of Jesus has cleansed us and removed our sins from us. Unfortunately, there is a religious statement that people use at times. They say, I'm covered by the blood. It's like your sin was put in a trash can and the lid was placed on top. That is your sins being covered, not cleansed. Your sins are still there in that case, and that's so Old Testament. But Jesus came along, took the top off the trash can, and cleansed the can of your sins. They no longer exist. To top it off, Jesus threw the trash can away. There's no storage for our past sins. They are gone, and with our sins gone, there's nothing to regret. Romans chapter 5, verses 8 through 10. But God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. This reminds me of John 3.16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. We really need to realize how much God loves us. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. And then there is the next three words that are used over and over again in chapter 5 of Romans. Much more then. God didn't stop there. It's like the game show host revealing yet another prize to the contestant. But wait, there's more. You're not only getting a free car, but you're getting a trip around the world. We got free salvation and a more abundant life now. Romans chapter 5, verse 9. Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. We are justified by the blood of Christ and saved from wrath. We have already been judged in Christ and have been found righteous. There is no evidence of any sin against us, therefore there is no wrath. Verse 10 For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. It's one thing to disobey somebody. It's another thing to be an enemy of that person and fight against them. When we were enemies, God reconciled us to himself by the death, the sacrifice of his son. And much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. We're saved from wrath and we're saved from perishing. We've been given eternal life, a life that is filled by his love, a life of his presence, a life that can be lived without regret. I had sinned and repented, so many times I was tormented. Father, you are stuck with sinful me, I lamented. No, his decree, you are graciously stuck with me. Often I felt I must earn, because falsely I thought he is stern, yet this son he has never spurned. You are mine, he declares, and I am yours. So many times I've let him down, always thinking he wears a frown. I regret so much of what I've done, he never regrets making me his son. Truth is he does not change. Life for me he lovingly arranged, righteousness for sin he exchanged. I will never leave, he promised, nor forsake you. His love is ever faithful, his ways are somewhat playful, for which I am ever grateful. Abba Father, I cry, beloved son, his reply. Take some time and come into the presence of the Father today, and curl up in his arms as a little child beloved of him, in whom he is well pleased. Bask in his love for you. Take a long time to be held by him. You won't regret it.
