The subject I’ll address here is the matter of handling the past biblically—or putting your past in its place.
Why is this subject so important? I think there are at least three answers to that question.
The World’s Emphasis
The world is placing major emphasis on the subject of the power of an individual’s past. It’s amazing how soon after a person does something that society would deem to be bad, people are asking, “Well, how were they abused?” “What is it that happened in their past that drove them to do what they did today?”
For example, remember the Menendez case from the Los Angeles area. Two young men who were raised in the lap of luxury, as young adult men went into the home of their elderly parents with semi-automatic weapons and literally blew their parents away, reloaded and did it again.
The plea at their trial was “not guilty,” on the basis of what? They said that they were acting in self-defense. They claimed that they could not be held guilty for that crime because they were practicing self-defense. When? Was the argument that they went to visit their elderly parents,
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