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Because God forgives and forgets, we can do the same because the Lord says there's sins and

iniquities while I remember no more. Now this does not mean that God is having a lapse in memory.

What God is saying is, I'll no longer hold your sin against you.

Pastor Greg Lawry's is believers have been forgiven of their sin and when we focus forward,

we can actually forgive ourselves. We break the power of the past by living for the future.

Author Max Lakado has pointed out that a car's windshield is a lot bigger than the rear-view mirror

because we need to focus on where we're going, not where we've been.

Too many of us want to drag our past failures right into our present. Today on the new beginning,

Pastor Greg Lawry helps us break from the sins of our past and focus on finishing our lives well.

It's among the most requested messages from this past year.

Glad you're joining us for one of our top 10 listener favorites.

You know, the Christian life is really a long distance run. We're all in this race.

We need to run this race to win. We've got to play by the rules. But what principles do we learn

here about running the race of life? Very familiar words in verse 12 of Philippians 3.

Paul says, not that I've already attained or I'm already perfected, but I press on that

in me. Lay hold of that for which Christ is laid hold of me. Brothers, I do not come myself to

have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind,

and reaching forward to the things that are ahead, I pressed toward the goal for the prize of

the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, let us, as many of us are mature, have this mind,

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