July 29, 2024 • 16 mins
Ever wonder why self-forgiveness is so crucial for spiritual growth? Today on Soul Fuel Podcast, we unravel the transformative power of letting go of past mistakes and embracing God's infinite forgiveness. You'll hear compelling insights about why it's essential to break free from the chains of self-blame and move towards a more purposeful life through Christ's teachings.
Join us as we explore the practical steps and spiritual insights needed to forgive ourselves fully and leave past grudges behind. Discover how accepting divine forgiveness can lead to greater accountability and spiritual liberation.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
what's going on everybody.
Welcome to another episode ofthe soul fuel podcast, where
this is your pit stop for yoursoul to be fueled for your
journey in life doing it withchrist.
I'm your host, will robbins,the third, aka Pastor, will,
listen, I hope that this messagefinds you in a great place and
(00:31):
I just want to keep it simpletoday.
I don't want to give youanything long, but I just want
to encourage you and to let youknow that, even though you have
been the reason for a lot ofyour issues, right, a lot of the
things that happen in your lifeum, I know I can say that about
(00:52):
me the reasons why certainthings I may not have, certain
places that I may not have been,um, I could possibly say even
you know the places that thejobs that I wanted to have
before may be because of me, onone in one person, from one
perspective, but also the thingsthat I've done wrong in the
(01:16):
past and that may be a reason asto why I could possibly be
reaping certain things in mylife.
Listen, that's fine.
Life is going to life.
One thing I want you tounderstand is that you have to
not beat yourself up.
(01:37):
Don't beat yourself up.
Don't beat yourself up over thepast.
If the Lord has forgiven youfor all of your wrongdoing, then
you need to forgive you of allof your wrongdoing.
Because guess what, if youcan't forgive yourself and the
Lord has forgiven you and youwanted the Lord to forgive you
how can he truly forgive you ifyou haven't forgiven yourself?
(01:59):
It's no difference in whenJesus says forgive your neighbor
, forgive others so that yourheavenly father can forgive you,
for if you do not forgiveothers, then how can the Lord
forgive you?
So, understand that you are nodifferent from others, right?
(02:23):
That you are no different fromothers, right?
Because it, just because we'recalled to love our neighbor as
ourselves, doesn't mean that youstop loving self or having love
for yourself.
I'm very careful with that,because I don't like this
self-care term that people throwout.
I believe in it, but I don'tlike how people talk about it,
because it becomes a littleselfish, right, but we want to
(02:46):
always be in a great place towhere we are doing.
Well, we are confident in whowe are because our identity is
in Christ, right?
But I really wanted to take thetime to tell you not to beat
yourself up, because there areso many people that can't get
over the decisions that they'vemade.
You can't get over.
(03:08):
You know, for some of thepeople that they slept with some
of the decisions that they madein terms of, like, leaving a
job, losing a job being thereason that you lost the job.
I can testify Right.
But you can't beat yourself up.
You know you had that momentwhen it first happened and,
(03:30):
quite naturally, I think it'shealthy when you have a certain
level of accountability, and Ithink that beating yourself up
right after you make a mistake,or beating yourself up after you
have fallen away or you've donewhatever ill thing that you've
done, I believe that beatingyourself up is a form of
(03:55):
accountability.
It's a form of accountabilityand in a lot of ways, I believe
that it is the Holy Spirit thatthat is working in you to bring
to your attention the possiblethings that were in the way to
bring you to that place of sin,that place of bad decisions,
(04:20):
that place of whatever it isthat you did right.
But you have to forget aboutthose things and press toward
the thing that is forward of youor before you, which is
pressing toward the mark right,because you can't afford to sit
(04:41):
and waddle in your past.
Again, if the Lord forgives you, let it go.
But I can't.
I'm just.
I just my my, it's what I did.
I'm just.
I don't understand how.
Listen, it's not your job to tryto understand how God could
love you through a bad decision.
He loved you before you gaveyour life to him, when we were
(05:16):
yet in sin.
He saved us, right, he saved us.
That's not to say like you'resaved before you actually get
saved, but no salvation isavailable for you, and I want
you to understand that you havebeen forgiven.
So you must forgive yourselfand you must move forward.
You got to move forward.
It's time to move forward.
I want you to leave a commentin this episode.
(05:41):
On this episode, I want you toleave a comment and say that I
am forgiven.
I really want you to really, uh, push that message to yourself.
Know that you are forgiven, notfirstly from the Lord you're
forgiven Then secondly, yourself, right, because if he forgave
you, then you have to forgiveyou, and when you forgive you,
(06:04):
you know you're not holding whatother people have done.
See, then it moves out, itstretches out.
Now you're not blaming others,you're being responsible, you're
holding yourself accountableBecause, again, it's the reason
why you place the blame onyourself, because you know
you're better than that.
You know you're better thanyour decisions.
(06:27):
You know you're better thanyour.
We don't call sin a mistake.
I don't call sin a mistakebecause sin is a choice right In
every decision that we havemade.
We did it because we wanted to.
We did it because we felt likeit.
So I'm just just again for thethird time I this episode wasn't
designed to be long, I justwanted to get on here and speak
(06:51):
to that person that keeps onthinking about the past.
That keeps on.
We just left Houston and, as Iprayed for a couple of people
that were there without goinginto detail and who I prayed for
and what I said, one of thethings that I can say is that
(07:13):
there was a common threadamongst a lot of people that
were holding on to things andthat the Holy Spirit was
revealing it to me, not exactlywhat they were holding on to,
but that, but the fact that theywere holding on to things, and
I guess we could say that thatit is a broad word of knowledge
to say that many people areholding on to things because
(07:33):
they are Right, but it becomesmore pressing and more strong
when you are under the power,when you are under the influence
of the power of the holy ghostthat is using to you to pray for
people, because sometimes Ididn't know a lot of the times
that I was praying for people,and when I pray for people and I
don't know them, so I don'tknow what to say, sometimes I
(07:54):
don't and I let again, let thespirit lead.
But it's not about that.
I just want I brought that upto let you know that there are a
lot of people that are notletting things go, and some of
the things that they're notletting go is the fact that
they've made some bad decisionsand they feel that those bad
(08:16):
decisions are going to hauntthem and and that they feel that
some of those decisions arehaunting them today and that
they feel that some of thosedecisions are haunting them
today.
But here's what I say.
I say what Bible says.
I say what scripture says youhave to continue to keep your
faith and your trust in the Lord.
You have to continue to lovehim through it, because he's
(08:37):
loving you through it.
He loved you enough to havegrace and mercy and to keep you
alive.
You're still alive.
That shows enough that he, thatshould show you right there
that he loves you, that as longas you return that love by
living for him, you have nothingto worry about, and all the
(09:01):
things that the people couldpossibly say.
The people that you've been with, the people that you have
stepped with, the people thatyou moved with at one point, the
people that you were in, youwere in relationship with the
people that you really youthought you gelled with, really
(09:26):
you thought you gelled with.
Listen, some of those peopleyou have to let go, never be,
never keep yourself around thecompany of people that always
want to remind you of who youused to be.
That's what's going.
Those are the words of peoplethat water the negative seeds
that are not leaving your mindbecause you're choosing to
coddle them.
(09:46):
You know and it's not so muchthat you love playing the victim
, but playing the victim kind offeels good because you're used
to that.
But what it is is you trying tocome out of it, you're trying
to fight it as much as possible,but it seems that it keeps on
(10:07):
winning because the distractionand the focus comes off Jesus.
The distraction and the focuscomes off Jesus.
The woman that was caught inidol idolatry, well, adult
adultery, right.
(10:27):
They bring her before jesus.
Now I'm sure that she's feelingashamed.
I'm sure she's feelingeverything bad in the book that
we could think of she'sembarrassed.
Let's not even think about thefact that they're not even.
They didn't even bring the manbecause according to old
(10:49):
testament, the man was supposedto be both of these.
Anybody caught in the act ofadultery, according to leviticus
, right was supposed to be likekilled.
But no, they just pulled thewoman out and they used her as a
trap for jesus.
But, not realizing who he is, hewrites something in the sand
(11:10):
and I was thinking about thisand there are a couple of
theories out there about whatdid jesus write in the sand,
because it doesn't say what hewrote wrote in the sand, but I,
I believe, like other peoplebelieve, that he wrote the Ten
Commandments in the sand.
Maybe he wrote the firstcommandment, the second
(11:32):
commandment, the thirdcommandment, right.
Maybe he wrote something aboutadultery.
Maybe he wrote something aboutneighbors, right.
Maybe he wrote about he wrote,but he just, we could, just say
that we could.
I believe it's safe to say thathe wrote the word because he
(11:55):
was the word.
He wrote the law because hecame for it to fulfill it, and
so the reason why I bring up thewoman caught in adultery is
because they expected her to becondemned when he forgave her
and he told her to not do itagain.
So, listen, that's what I'mtelling you.
I'm telling you what Jesus saidGo in peace and sin no more.
(12:17):
Don't go back to doing thething that you're beating
yourself up over.
So I'm telling you today, I'mtelling you to wipe your face.
Blow your snotty nose, get theboogies out, dry your eyes.
(12:39):
If you wear makeup, put yourmakeup on.
Girl Brother, wipe your face,brother.
Wipe your face.
Lace up your J's, your Tim's,your.
Whatever you wear, your forces,whatever you wear your slides,
lace them up.
Get over it.
(13:01):
You've been forgiven.
Stop beating up on yourself,stop abusing yourself, because
you can't get over the thoughtof what you did.
Just get over it.
Get over yourself.
Oh, that's so good.
Get over yourself.
You are better.
(13:23):
You are better.
The past is over.
It cannot hold you.
It can't hold you down.
Listen, if your past holds youdown, I want you to think of it
like this it's like your pastholds you down.
Like you know, you're gonnahold me down while I'm, you know
, hold me down like if I go in,if I go do a bid, you're gonna
(13:46):
hold me down.
Think of it like you sayingwhile I'm trying to be free, hey
past, you're gonna hold me down.
Think of it like you saying whyI'm trying to be free, a pass,
you're gonna hold me down.
Yo, I need you to hold me down,I need you to hold me down.
You're worried, saying it's,saying that it's, it's building
a relationship, an affectionaterelationship with the past, like
your thoughts, like you'remarried to your thoughts and you
(14:07):
have to cancel it out.
You have to tear it down.
You have to tear it down.
And I'm speaking to your soultoday, tonight morning, whenever
you're listening to this,because I want you to know that
jehovah loves you, yahweh lovesyou, jesus loves you, yahweh
(14:33):
loves you, jesus loves you.
How do we know?
The song says for the Bibletells me so, all right.
So stop beating yourself up.
It's over, it's over.
I don't care if you have tolisten to this message like a
thousand times.
Listen to this episode athousand times.
Listen to it then, because I'mgoing to say the same thing,
because it's a replay.
(14:53):
Okay, smile, today is going tobe a good day.
You're not a failure.
You made some bad decisions.
We all have made some baddecisions, but guess what?
We're not our bad decisionswhen we decide to live out the
good ones as we follow ChristJesus.
(15:14):
Listen, this has been anotherone of the Soul Fuel podcast.
Again, this is the pit stop foryour soul to get fueled up for
your journey in life, doing itwith Christ.
Again, I am your host, willRobbins III, aka Pastor Will.
I love you so much and, as Ialways say, there's nothing you
(15:37):
can do about it.
Listen, merch is coming soon.
I'm not going to tell y'all whatit's going to say, I'm going to
just be wearing it and thenyou're going to ask where you
get that from and I'm going totell you exactly how to go get
it.
Until then, listen, details arealso going to come in how you
can support the pod, how you cansupport the podcast.
I want to hear from you.
Drop a line, leave a review,talk to me on the YouTube
(16:02):
channel.
Let me know what you think.
Did this help you?
Was this for you?
Did I say this for you?
Did the Lord give me this foryou?
Was this for you?
Did I say this for you.
Did the Lord give me this foryou?
Let me know.
All right, until next time.
Peace.
what's going on everybody.
Welcome to another episode ofthe soul fuel podcast, where
this is your pit stop for yoursoul to be fueled for your
journey in life doing it withchrist.
I'm your host, will robbins,the third, aka Pastor, will,
listen, I hope that this messagefinds you in a great place and
(00:31):
I just want to keep it simpletoday.
I don't want to give youanything long, but I just want
to encourage you and to let youknow that, even though you have
been the reason for a lot ofyour issues, right, a lot of the
things that happen in your lifeum, I know I can say that about
(00:52):
me the reasons why certainthings I may not have, certain
places that I may not have been,um, I could possibly say even
you know the places that thejobs that I wanted to have
before may be because of me, onone in one person, from one
perspective, but also the thingsthat I've done wrong in the
(01:16):
past and that may be a reason asto why I could possibly be
reaping certain things in mylife.
Listen, that's fine.
Life is going to life.
One thing I want you tounderstand is that you have to
not beat yourself up.
(01:37):
Don't beat yourself up.
Don't beat yourself up over thepast.
If the Lord has forgiven youfor all of your wrongdoing, then
you need to forgive you of allof your wrongdoing.
Because guess what, if youcan't forgive yourself and the
Lord has forgiven you and youwanted the Lord to forgive you
how can he truly forgive you ifyou haven't forgiven yourself?
(01:59):
It's no difference in whenJesus says forgive your neighbor
, forgive others so that yourheavenly father can forgive you,
for if you do not forgiveothers, then how can the Lord
forgive you?
So, understand that you are nodifferent from others, right?
(02:23):
That you are no different fromothers, right?
Because it, just because we'recalled to love our neighbor as
ourselves, doesn't mean that youstop loving self or having love
for yourself.
I'm very careful with that,because I don't like this
self-care term that people throwout.
I believe in it, but I don'tlike how people talk about it,
because it becomes a littleselfish, right, but we want to
(02:46):
always be in a great place towhere we are doing.
Well, we are confident in whowe are because our identity is
in Christ, right?
But I really wanted to take thetime to tell you not to beat
yourself up, because there areso many people that can't get
over the decisions that they'vemade.
You can't get over.
(03:08):
You know, for some of thepeople that they slept with some
of the decisions that they madein terms of, like, leaving a
job, losing a job being thereason that you lost the job.
I can testify Right.
But you can't beat yourself up.
You know you had that momentwhen it first happened and,
(03:30):
quite naturally, I think it'shealthy when you have a certain
level of accountability, and Ithink that beating yourself up
right after you make a mistake,or beating yourself up after you
have fallen away or you've donewhatever ill thing that you've
done, I believe that beatingyourself up is a form of
(03:55):
accountability.
It's a form of accountabilityand in a lot of ways, I believe
that it is the Holy Spirit thatthat is working in you to bring
to your attention the possiblethings that were in the way to
bring you to that place of sin,that place of bad decisions,
(04:20):
that place of whatever it isthat you did right.
But you have to forget aboutthose things and press toward
the thing that is forward of youor before you, which is
pressing toward the mark right,because you can't afford to sit
(04:41):
and waddle in your past.
Again, if the Lord forgives you, let it go.
But I can't.
I'm just.
I just my my, it's what I did.
I'm just.
I don't understand how.
Listen, it's not your job to tryto understand how God could
love you through a bad decision.
He loved you before you gaveyour life to him, when we were
(05:16):
yet in sin.
He saved us, right, he saved us.
That's not to say like you'resaved before you actually get
saved, but no salvation isavailable for you, and I want
you to understand that you havebeen forgiven.
So you must forgive yourselfand you must move forward.
You got to move forward.
It's time to move forward.
I want you to leave a commentin this episode.
(05:41):
On this episode, I want you toleave a comment and say that I
am forgiven.
I really want you to really, uh, push that message to yourself.
Know that you are forgiven, notfirstly from the Lord you're
forgiven Then secondly, yourself, right, because if he forgave
you, then you have to forgiveyou, and when you forgive you,
(06:04):
you know you're not holding whatother people have done.
See, then it moves out, itstretches out.
Now you're not blaming others,you're being responsible, you're
holding yourself accountableBecause, again, it's the reason
why you place the blame onyourself, because you know
you're better than that.
You know you're better thanyour decisions.
(06:27):
You know you're better thanyour.
We don't call sin a mistake.
I don't call sin a mistakebecause sin is a choice right In
every decision that we havemade.
We did it because we wanted to.
We did it because we felt likeit.
So I'm just just again for thethird time I this episode wasn't
designed to be long, I justwanted to get on here and speak
(06:51):
to that person that keeps onthinking about the past.
That keeps on.
We just left Houston and, as Iprayed for a couple of people
that were there without goinginto detail and who I prayed for
and what I said, one of thethings that I can say is that
(07:13):
there was a common threadamongst a lot of people that
were holding on to things andthat the Holy Spirit was
revealing it to me, not exactlywhat they were holding on to,
but that, but the fact that theywere holding on to things, and
I guess we could say that thatit is a broad word of knowledge
to say that many people areholding on to things because
(07:33):
they are Right, but it becomesmore pressing and more strong
when you are under the power,when you are under the influence
of the power of the holy ghostthat is using to you to pray for
people, because sometimes Ididn't know a lot of the times
that I was praying for people,and when I pray for people and I
don't know them, so I don'tknow what to say, sometimes I
(07:54):
don't and I let again, let thespirit lead.
But it's not about that.
I just want I brought that upto let you know that there are a
lot of people that are notletting things go, and some of
the things that they're notletting go is the fact that
they've made some bad decisionsand they feel that those bad
(08:16):
decisions are going to hauntthem and and that they feel that
some of those decisions arehaunting them today and that
they feel that some of thosedecisions are haunting them
today.
But here's what I say.
I say what Bible says.
I say what scripture says youhave to continue to keep your
faith and your trust in the Lord.
You have to continue to lovehim through it, because he's
(08:37):
loving you through it.
He loved you enough to havegrace and mercy and to keep you
alive.
You're still alive.
That shows enough that he, thatshould show you right there
that he loves you, that as longas you return that love by
living for him, you have nothingto worry about, and all the
(09:01):
things that the people couldpossibly say.
The people that you've been with, the people that you have
stepped with, the people thatyou moved with at one point, the
people that you were in, youwere in relationship with the
people that you really youthought you gelled with, really
(09:26):
you thought you gelled with.
Listen, some of those peopleyou have to let go, never be,
never keep yourself around thecompany of people that always
want to remind you of who youused to be.
That's what's going.
Those are the words of peoplethat water the negative seeds
that are not leaving your mindbecause you're choosing to
coddle them.
(09:46):
You know and it's not so muchthat you love playing the victim
, but playing the victim kind offeels good because you're used
to that.
But what it is is you trying tocome out of it, you're trying
to fight it as much as possible,but it seems that it keeps on
(10:07):
winning because the distractionand the focus comes off Jesus.
The distraction and the focuscomes off Jesus.
The woman that was caught inidol idolatry, well, adult
adultery, right.
(10:27):
They bring her before jesus.
Now I'm sure that she's feelingashamed.
I'm sure she's feelingeverything bad in the book that
we could think of she'sembarrassed.
Let's not even think about thefact that they're not even.
They didn't even bring the manbecause according to old
(10:49):
testament, the man was supposedto be both of these.
Anybody caught in the act ofadultery, according to leviticus
, right was supposed to be likekilled.
But no, they just pulled thewoman out and they used her as a
trap for jesus.
But, not realizing who he is, hewrites something in the sand
(11:10):
and I was thinking about thisand there are a couple of
theories out there about whatdid jesus write in the sand,
because it doesn't say what hewrote wrote in the sand, but I,
I believe, like other peoplebelieve, that he wrote the Ten
Commandments in the sand.
Maybe he wrote the firstcommandment, the second
(11:32):
commandment, the thirdcommandment, right.
Maybe he wrote something aboutadultery.
Maybe he wrote something aboutneighbors, right.
Maybe he wrote about he wrote,but he just, we could, just say
that we could.
I believe it's safe to say thathe wrote the word because he
(11:55):
was the word.
He wrote the law because hecame for it to fulfill it, and
so the reason why I bring up thewoman caught in adultery is
because they expected her to becondemned when he forgave her
and he told her to not do itagain.
So, listen, that's what I'mtelling you.
I'm telling you what Jesus saidGo in peace and sin no more.
(12:17):
Don't go back to doing thething that you're beating
yourself up over.
So I'm telling you today, I'mtelling you to wipe your face.
Blow your snotty nose, get theboogies out, dry your eyes.
(12:39):
If you wear makeup, put yourmakeup on.
Girl Brother, wipe your face,brother.
Wipe your face.
Lace up your J's, your Tim's,your.
Whatever you wear, your forces,whatever you wear your slides,
lace them up.
Get over it.
(13:01):
You've been forgiven.
Stop beating up on yourself,stop abusing yourself, because
you can't get over the thoughtof what you did.
Just get over it.
Get over yourself.
Oh, that's so good.
Get over yourself.
You are better.
(13:23):
You are better.
The past is over.
It cannot hold you.
It can't hold you down.
Listen, if your past holds youdown, I want you to think of it
like this it's like your pastholds you down.
Like you know, you're gonnahold me down while I'm, you know
, hold me down like if I go in,if I go do a bid, you're gonna
(13:46):
hold me down.
Think of it like you sayingwhile I'm trying to be free, hey
past, you're gonna hold me down.
Think of it like you saying whyI'm trying to be free, a pass,
you're gonna hold me down.
Yo, I need you to hold me down,I need you to hold me down.
You're worried, saying it's,saying that it's, it's building
a relationship, an affectionaterelationship with the past, like
your thoughts, like you'remarried to your thoughts and you
(14:07):
have to cancel it out.
You have to tear it down.
You have to tear it down.
And I'm speaking to your soultoday, tonight morning, whenever
you're listening to this,because I want you to know that
jehovah loves you, yahweh lovesyou, jesus loves you, yahweh
(14:33):
loves you, jesus loves you.
How do we know?
The song says for the Bibletells me so, all right.
So stop beating yourself up.
It's over, it's over.
I don't care if you have tolisten to this message like a
thousand times.
Listen to this episode athousand times.
Listen to it then, because I'mgoing to say the same thing,
because it's a replay.
(14:53):
Okay, smile, today is going tobe a good day.
You're not a failure.
You made some bad decisions.
We all have made some baddecisions, but guess what?
We're not our bad decisionswhen we decide to live out the
good ones as we follow ChristJesus.
(15:14):
Listen, this has been anotherone of the Soul Fuel podcast.
Again, this is the pit stop foryour soul to get fueled up for
your journey in life, doing itwith Christ.
Again, I am your host, willRobbins III, aka Pastor Will.
I love you so much and, as Ialways say, there's nothing you
(15:37):
can do about it.
Listen, merch is coming soon.
I'm not going to tell y'all whatit's going to say, I'm going to
just be wearing it and thenyou're going to ask where you
get that from and I'm going totell you exactly how to go get
it.
Until then, listen, details arealso going to come in how you
can support the pod, how you cansupport the podcast.
I want to hear from you.
Drop a line, leave a review,talk to me on the YouTube
(16:02):
channel.
Let me know what you think.
Did this help you?
Was this for you?
Did I say this for you?
Did the Lord give me this foryou?
Was this for you?
Did I say this for you.
Did the Lord give me this foryou?
Let me know.
All right, until next time.
Peace.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.