When the Past Still Hurts

Been There, Series

Week 5

TIM BYCROFT, LEAD PASTOR 

THE POINT EXISTS TO WELCOME THE UNCHURCHED TO BECOME FULLY DEVOTED FOLLOWERS OF JESUS.

• Over 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men in the US have experienced rape, violence, and/or stalking.
• Almost 50% of adults in the US have experienced psychological aggression. 
• 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys are sexually assaulted by age 18. 

Matthew 27:26-31, “He (Pontius Pilate) ordered Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip, then turned him over to the Roman soldiers to be crucified.”

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. 

Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.

"After they mocked Him, they took off the robe and put His own clothes on Him, then they let Him away to crucify Him " 

NOT ALL ABUSE IS CRIMINAL, ALL ABUSE IS SINFUL.

WITH THE PRESENCE OF GOD, AND WITH GODLY COUNSEL, AND WITH SAFE COMMUNITY…HEALING IS POSSIBLE.

ABUSING NEVER MAKES YOU STRONG. ABUSING SHOWS YOU'RE WEAK. 

YOU CAN'T HEAL AND HATE AT THE SAME TIME. 

"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they're doing." 

FORGIVENESS IS NOT AN OPTION WHEN IT COMES TO FOLLOWING JESUS.

YOUR PRAYER FOR OTHERS MAY OR MAY NOT CHANGE THEM, BUT IT ALWAYS CHANGES YOU. 

Ephesians 4:32, "forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has Forgiven you." 

AFTER THE RESURRECTION, JESUS STILL HAD SCARS.