Summary
2024 is almost behind us and 2025 is around the corner! Perhaps 2024 has not gone to plan for you. Maybe sin has crept in. Christ can wipe the slate clean and make all things new.
Or perhaps you've had a great year! It's equally important not to let success go to your head and allow pride to creep in.
We need to leave 2024 behind and approach 2025 with a new mindset. This sermon, based on Philippians 3:13-14, is the first in a mini two-part series to rollover the New Year 2024 to 2025. The message challenges believers to let go of the past and press forward toward their God-given purpose. Paul reminds us not to be complacent on our walk with Christ and to put all things behind us ensuring we focus on the heavenly prize that awaits!
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Scriptures
Philippians 3:13-14 NKJV
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:20-21 NKJV
20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
1 Peter 1:3-4 NKJV
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
Philippians 1:1-2 NKJV
1 Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:1 NKJV
1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
John 4:34 NKJV
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.”
Philippians 2:12-13 NKJV
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
2 Corinthians 5:9-10 NKJV
9 Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Revelation 3:16 NKJV
16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
Luke 18:14 NKJV
14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
James 4:17 NKJV
17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
2 Corinthians 7:10 NKJV
10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
Proverbs 28:13 NKJV
13 He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
Romans 6:23 NKJV
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ephesians 4:22-24 NKJV
22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
John 5:14 NKJV
14 "Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, 'See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.'”
Luke 9:62 NKJV
62 But Jesus said to him, 'No one, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.’
2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV
17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new."
Lamentations 3:22-23 NKJV
22 Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
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