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My heart is heavy right now because there 
is somebody out there that is still holding 
on to things that they should have let go 
of a long time ago. Theres somebody out there 
that still doesnt know who Jesus is, because 
they still havent let go. Theres a story 
that Paul tells in Philippians 3... one of 
his letters about all the things that he 
accomplished and all the things he gained. 
He was a very successful guy, and he was 
a guy that had a lot of education, he had 
a lot of experiences, and he was a well respected 
person before he became a Christian. and 
he makes a statement, that if you can kind 
of grasp it, its a very profound and life 
changing statement. He says, but whatever 
is gained to me, whatever those things that 
were my accomplishments and my achievements 
and things that I have gathered in my life…. 
for the SAKE of Christ all those things I 
now consider them lost, I consider them nothing. 
Then he says Because of Christ I have suffered 
the loss of all things that I may gain Him 
and be found in Him. He says I consider them 
RUBBISH! and understand that when he says 
Because of Christ I have suffered the loss 
of all things, he’s not just saying that 
he gave up things but  he’s saying that when 
he gave them up I he had to suffer, Giving 
them up was hard, giving them up made him 
cry his eyes out...  it wasn’t just something 
easy like giving up sweets, or not going 
on Facebook for a day…. What he gave up was 
incredibly difficulty. Here’s an example. 
Lets say that your living room is full of 
furniture, and lets say that you have furniture 
in that living room that you’ve had for 10 
or 20 years, and lets say that that furniture 
has an incredible amount of sentimental value, 
lets say that that couch is the couch where 
you were sitting when you found out your 
girlfriend or boyfriend was in a car accident, 
lets say that that furniture was the first 
thing you were able to buy with your first 
big check at your new job, lets say that 
that rug was the rug you laid on looking 
up at the ceiling when you found out that 
you were going to be a father or a mother. 
or lets say that that love seat was the seat 
you sat in and cried your eyes our when your 
son or daughter just left your living room 
to go to their high school prom. And so the 
stuff has priceless sentimental value, and 
then someone gives you a check to specifically 
buy ALL new furniture for your living room, 
literally any new furniture that you want 
no matter how expensive it is. So you get 
to fill that living room with all new furniture…. 
Thats BEAUTIFUL…. BUT you’ve got a room already 
full of furniture that has sentimental value, 
and those chairs are old and beat down, but 
you love those chairs.  
YOU can’t get new 
furniture while the old furniture is still 
occupying the space. You can’t get new furniture 
why the old furniture is still occupying 
the space. You must go through the painful 
process of letting stuff go, even tho it 
may have value to you, even tho it may be 
important to you… IF you want to get whats 
new and whats better and improved, you’ve 
gotta let go of stuff you are trying to hold 
on to. You may have tape covering up splits 
and tears on the couch, but because it has 
so much sentimental value, you don’t want 
to let it go. Ask yourself right now, What 
are the people in your life, what are the 
things in your life, what are the strongholds 
and painful things you are holding on to 
that are occupying the space in your life 
where Jesus is supposed to reside. What are 
the things that you are still holding onto 
thats preventing you from getting this blank 
check that is written by Jesus on Calvary 
thats going to be able to fill your heart 
with ALL NEW THINGS and make you brand new. 
Whats the stuff that you need to suffer the 
loss of so you can gain new things. 
I want 
to give you a scripture that helped me get 
rid of the old things in my life that I was 
holding on to, that helped me break free 
of the drug addiction that I carried for 
YEARS> 
Isaiah 43:18-19
Do not remember the 
former things,
Nor consider the things of 
old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now 
it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know 
it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And 
rivers in the desert.