Baggage – Chad Dingess – 4/19/2024

Matthew 11: 28 (CEV)
If you are tired from carrying heavy burdens, come to me and I will give you rest. (MULTILINE)

Hebrews 12: 15 (NIV)
Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many. (MULTILINE)

Psalm 72: 2 (The Message)
I found myself in trouble and went looking for my Lord; my life was an open wound that wouldn’t heal.(MULTILINE)

Matthew 10: 39 (NKJV)
He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. (MULTILINE)

Matthew 10: 39 (The Message)
If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself.  But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and me.(MULTILINE)

Proverbs 13: 12 (The Message Translation)
Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick.  One translation says that hope deferred makes the heart sick. (MULTILINE)

I John 1: 6 (NLT)
We are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth.(MULTILINE)

Hebrews 12: 1 (CEV)
We must get rid of everything that slows us down, especially the sin that just won’t let go.  And we must be determined to run the race that is ahead of us. (MULTILINE)

Romans 7: 15-24
In fact, I don’t understand why I act the way I do. I don’t do what I know is right. I do the things I hate. ¹⁶ Although I don’t do what I know is right, I agree that the Law is good. ¹⁷ So I am not the one doing these evil things. The sin that lives in me is what does them. ¹⁸ I know that my selfish desires won’t let me do anything that is good. Even when I want to do right, I cannot. ¹⁹ Instead of doing what I know is right, I do wrong. ²⁰ And so, if I don’t do what I know is right, I am no longer the one doing these evil things. The sin that lives in me is what does them. ²¹ The Law has shown me that something in me keeps me from doing what I know is right. ²² With my whole heart I agree with the Law of God. ²³ But in every part of me I discover something fighting against my mind, and it makes me a prisoner of sin that controls everything I do. ²⁴ What a miserable person I am. Who will rescue me from this body that is doomed to die?(MULTILINE)

Ephesians 4: 26-27 (The Message)
Don’t stay angry.  Don’t go to bed angry.  Don’t give the devil that kind of foothold in your life. (MULTILINE)

I Corinthians 6: 12 (NCV
I will not let anything make me its slave.(MULTILINE)

I Corinthians 9: 27 (NLT)
I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should.  Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified. (MULTILINE)

Romans 6: 12-14 (NIV)
Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires…but rather offer yourselves to God… For sin shall not be your master…(MULTILINE)

I Corinthians 6: 9-11 (NLT)
Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.  Some of you were once like that.  But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.(MULTILINE)

2 Corinthians 5: 16-17 (CEV)
We are careful not to judge people by what they seem to be…Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person.  The past is forgotten, and everything is new.(MULTILINE)

Romans 7: 24-25
who will rescue me?  Thank God, Jesus Christ will rescue me!(MULTILINE)