This is a message from Dr. Michael Yousef, Bible teacher, on leading the way.

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Turn with me to Philippians chapter 3, and I want to look at verses 13 and 14.

I'm going to translate it like a home-spun translation.

It's a, I always tell you, it's a use of translation, so I promise you it is accurate.

Here's what the Apostle Paul is saying, and I'm going to put it in context

in a minute. Brethren, I count not myself to have made it. I haven't made it yet. I haven't

reached it yet. But one thing that I do is obviously the one thing that occupies his mind, the one thing that

are constantly impacting every aspect of his life.

The one thing I do is that I forget those things that are in my past, and I strain forward,

I mean strenuously, hard, I strain forward to the future.

I press hard toward the goal or the finishing line, the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus.

Listen carefully.

Here's what he's saying. Rather than dwelling in the past,

whether it is failure or success, makes no difference. By all means, learn from the past and don't

live in it. By all means, let the past propel you forward, not pull you back.

By all means, gleaned lessons from the past, but don't bask in it. In fact, the Apostle Paul's

lesson to all of us, and your pastor is included, forgetting or letting go of the past,

and striving forward with every energy, with every ounce of energy that I have toward the future,

should not be one of many things that we do, but should be the one thing that impacts everything that we do. An old-time preacher used to say,

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