How to Handle Emotional Baggage

About this sermon

What Is Emotional Baggage? In this sermon, Pastor Ed Young helps us examine the baggage we carry, and he teaches us what it takes to unload the luggage and instead allow God to transform and change us so we can experience true and lasting freedom. Every time we take a trip, we pack our bags and load up our luggage. When we arrive back home, we empty the bags and put them away. But how often in life do we refuse to put the ‘baggage’ away? The fact is, too often, we carry baggage from our past that weighs us down and keeps us from experiencing the freedom God wants us to have. What Is Emotional Baggage? We're carrying around a lot of emotional baggage in our lives. Yet most of us are unaware that we even have baggage. We're used to it. We think it's normal. We may even think it's healthy. Yet, if we stop and look, we see the carnage and destruction the baggage is causing. If we keep on driving the way we've been driving, if we keep on forgetting about the baggage, we'll keep on destroying stuff, messing stuff up, and it'll be very, very expensive. Life is too short to go through each day like that. Examples of Emotional Baggage? - Perfectionism - Guilt - Control - Egotism - Criticism - Forgiveness (Or lack thereof) - Deception - Anxiety - Anger - Sexual promiscuity Remember, God is sympathetic to your emotional baggage. Psalm 103:13, “He is like a father to us, tender and sympathetic.” God can change your problem. As Luke 18:27 says, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” Are you going to keep on driving the way you've been driving—clueless about your baggage? Clueless about the destruction? Continuing to just pay and pay and pay? Jesus paid it all. He took your destruction and mine. And if we'll just confess who we are to him, he'll come in and begin to change our lives. Isn’t that good news? Everyone has emotional baggage in their lives for one reason or another. The first thing you can do is acknowledge that you’re carrying emotional baggage. Then, take some time to consider what types of emotional baggage you may be carrying. Once you take this step, it’s time to bring it to God. Remember that God is sympathetic and wants to help. Finally, take some time to share your feelings with a trusted friend; we all need encouragement along our path toward healing. Baggage | Adult Children | Sermon by Pastor Ed Young #fellowshipchurch #emotionalbaggage #dysfunctionalfamily ------ Pastor Ed Young is the senior pastor of Fellowship Church based in the DFW Metroplex, he is also an, author, and conference speaker noted for for his creative communication style. Make sure to subscribe to the channel for more inspirational content from Pastor Ed Young. Follow #EdYoung​ on social Ed Young Facebook: http://bit.ly/EdYoungFB Ed Young Instagram: http://bit.ly/EdYoungIG Ed Young Twitter: http://bit.ly/EdYoungTW