Stop Longing For What Once Enslaved You And Start Rejoicing In Where God Is Taking You, Don’t Look Back!

The Bible is a Book that moves forward, not backwards. It was first written in Aramaic, then Hebrew, then in Greek and put into Old Syriac, Old Latin, Old German and finally in Old English. God pulls us forward into the light, Satan lurks in the shadows behind us, looking back puts us in the ring with the Devil. Staying there too long and we become bruised and bloodied in the battle. Today my message is ‘Don’t Look Back!’, and it’s a call to putting our eyes on Jesus Christ as He moves us forward here in these last days.

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14 (KJB)

SUNDAY SERVICE STUDY NOTES: Don’t Look Back!

Don’t Look Back!

1). Looking Back Shows a Divided Heart

Main Text

 “Remember Lot’s wife.” Luke 17:32 (KJB)

Supporting Text

 “But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” Genesis 19:26 (KJB)

Truth

Lot’s wife left Sodom with her body, but her heart was still tied to what God was judging. Looking back revealed inward attachment to a condemned world.

Application

A Christian can be outwardly separated and yet inwardly longing for the old life. God wants not just our feet moving forward, but our heart moving forward as well.

2). Looking Back Is Dangerous When God Has Called You Out

Main Text

“And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.” Genesis 19:17 (KJB)

Truth

The command not to look back was connected to survival. Sodom was under judgment, and hesitation in a place of judgment was deadly.

Application

When God delivers you from sin, worldliness, false religion, or compromise, you are not to linger over what He has called you to leave behind.

3). Looking Back Makes You Unfit for Effective Service

Main Text

“And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62 (KJB)

Truth

A ploughman looking backward cannot plough a straight row. A backward glance in the Christian life destroys focus, direction, and usefulness.

Application

You cannot serve the Lord well while constantly longing for yesterday, revisiting old sins, old loves, old ambitions, or old defeats.

4). Looking Back Hinders Forward Growth

Main Text

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14 (KJB)

Truth

Paul teaches that spiritual progress requires forgetting the things behind and reaching toward the things ahead. The Christian life is a forward walk.

Application

Looking back at past failures can paralyze you. Looking back at past victories can puff you up. Either way, looking back keeps you from pressing toward the mark.

5). Looking Back Can Mean Longing for the Old Life of Bondage

Main Text

“And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Exodus 16:3 (KJB)

Supporting Text

“We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:” Numbers 11:5 (KJB)

Truth

Israel kept looking back to Egypt, forgetting the bondage and remembering only the pleasures. This is what the flesh does. It edits the memory and romanticizes what enslaved us.

Application

Many Christians do the same with the old life. They forget the chains and remember only the passing pleasures of sin.

6). Looking Back Reveals Unbelief in God’s Future Provision

Main Text

“And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.” Hebrews 11:15-16 (KJB)

Truth

The saints in Hebrews 11 did not keep their minds fixed on what they left. They looked for something better ahead. Faith looks forward.

Application

To keep looking back is often a sign that we doubt God has something better before us than what lies behind us.

7). Looking Back Can Pull You Back Into Defilement

Main Text

“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” 2 Peter 2:20-22 (KJB)

Truth

Looking back often leads to turning back. What begins with a glance can end in entanglement.

Application

The Christian must guard his mind, affections, and desires, because the backward look can become a backward step.

8). Looking Back Distracts Us From Christ

Main Text

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2 (KJB)

Truth

The Christian race is not run by looking backward, inward, or sideways, but by looking unto Jesus.

Application

When your eyes leave Christ and drift back toward the world, the flesh, regret, bitterness, or nostalgia, your race will suffer.

9). Looking Back Keeps Old Things Alive That God Has Put Away

Main Text

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJB)

Supporting Text

“I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:15-19 (KJB)

Truth

God has made the believer a new creature in Christ. Constant backward living keeps old things on life support that God says are passed away.

Application

Stop building memorials to what God has already buried.

10). Looking Back Is the Opposite of Hope

Main Text

“Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.” Proverbs 4:25 (KJB)

Supporting Text

“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” Colossians 3:1-2 (KJB)

Truth

The Christian life is built on hope, expectation, and forward vision. We are not camped in the ruins of the past. We are heading toward Jesus Christ, the judgment seat of Christ, and home.

Application

A backward Christian is usually a discouraged Christian. A forward-looking Christian is a hopeful Christian.

Practical Areas Where Christians Look Back

1. Past sins

The devil wants you chained to forgiven things.

2. Past wounds

Bitterness keeps your face turned toward old pain instead of future grace.

3. Past successes

Living on yesterday’s victories produces present-day barrenness.

4. Former worldly pleasures

The flesh loves to make Egypt look better than it was.

5. Old relationships and attachments

What God removed from your life does not need to be resurrected.

What Happens When We Stop Looking Back

1. We walk by faith

2 Corinthians 5:7 (KJB) “(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)”

2. We grow in maturity

Forward motion is the mark of spiritual health.

3. We become useful to God

A fixed eye makes a straight furrow.

4. We gain victory over the flesh

Forward focus weakens backward cravings.

5. We finish well

The Christian life is not about how you started, but how you finish.

“But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.” Acts 20:24 (KJB)

Closing Challenge

• Lot’s wife looked back and died in judgment.
• Israel looked back and wandered in defeat.
• Paul refused to look back and pressed toward the prize.

The lesson is plain: what God has called you out of is not worth turning around to admire. The world behind you is under judgment, but the glory ahead of you is in Jesus Christ. Keep your eyes forward.

“Remember Lot’s wife.” Luke 17:32 (KJB)

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While Trump Says The War Is Going Well, 12 American Troops Are Wounded In Saudi Arabia By Iran Strike As Middle East Burns Hotter Still

There is a very hard, very uncomfortable truth staring America in the face tonight, and no amount of White House spin can make it go away. If the war is “going well,” then why are American troops bleeding on a U.S. base in Saudi Arabia? On Friday, March 27, 2026, an Iranian strike on Prince Sultan Air Base wounded 12 U.S. service members, with 2 seriously injured, and also damaged American aircraft. That is not the picture of a war moving smoothly toward some neat and orderly conclusion. That is the picture of a widening conflict that is still very much alive and still very, very dangerous.

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Matthew 24:7,8 (KJB)

And this stands in stark opposition to the way President Trump has been talking about the war. Publicly, Trump has projected confidence, declaring Iran “obliterated,” while his administration has pushed the line that Tehran’s military capability has been badly crippled. At the same time, Trump has also said negotiations are “going very well,” presenting the conflict as though it is being steadily brought under control. But the missiles falling on American forces tell another story entirely.

Let’s say it plainly: you do not measure victory by press statements; you measure it by realities on the ground. And the reality on the ground is that Iran still has enough reach, enough hardware, and enough operational capability to strike a major American installation in Saudi Arabia and put U.S. troops in the hospital. The Washington Post reported that even after extensive U.S.-Israeli strikes, Iran still retains a potent arsenal of ballistic missiles and drones. That means the administration’s narrative of decisive control is colliding head-on with battlefield reality.

This was also not some isolated fluke. Prince Sultan Air Base had already been struck earlier in the conflict, including a March 1 attack that later resulted in the death of Army Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington. So what we are looking at is not a one-off embarrassment, but a pattern. The base remains vulnerable, and American personnel remain exposed. That matters, because every time officials suggest the threat is fading, another strike reminds everyone that the enemy still has teeth.

That is why the messaging coming out of Washington rings hollow. If Trump says the war is going well, and if administration officials say Iran has been neutralized, then how exactly do we explain more wounded Americans, damaged aircraft, expanding regional attacks, and now even broader instability involving actors like the Houthis? You cannot call it under control while the war keeps spilling into new theaters and fresh casualties keep piling up. We are being lied to on a daily basis, and it is time for the American people to rise up and demand accountability from our elected leaders before it’s too late.

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Trump’s Drive To Put His Name, Signature, And Image On The Machinery Of America Reveals A Dangerous Authoritarian Hunger For Personal Rule: Trump Uber Alles

There comes a point where honest people have to stop playing word games and simply tell the truth. What Donald Trump is doing right now is not ordinary politics, not harmless branding, and not just another round of Washington spectacle. It is the open and unapologetic elevation of one man above the institutions of the nation, and it bears all the marks of authoritarian power. Trump Uber Alles, Trump over everything. And if you think I’m joking or exaggerating, you won’t when this Podcast is through.

“I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” Daniel 7:8 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, buckle up, snowflake, and pay attention, your nation is being stolen from you while you standing cheering from the sidelines the very people who are doing it. Consider the following: in just 15 months, President Donald J. Trump has torn down the East Wing to create a massive 90,000 sq ft Trump Grand Ballroom. He is planning a massive National Arch that will also bear his name. He added his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in front of Kennedy. He renamed the US Institute of Peace after himself. He has ordered the Pentagon to start building new ‘Trump-class’ battleships named USS Defiant. He launched a savings account that targets children called Trump Accounts. He has unveiled new designs for National Park passes bearing his image. The Treasury’s advisory board announced a design for a 24-karat gold coin featuring a portrait of the president. Trump’s signature will appear on the front of all dollar bill denominations, something never seen before in America history. He launched a Trump Gold Card to sell to rich immigrants ranging between $1-$5 million dollars to purchase US citizenship. Proposals currently being considered included renaming the Commander’s new NFL stadium after himself, June 14th as ‘Trump’s birthday & Flag Day’, the Washington-area rapid transit system, known as the Metro, to be renamed the “Trump Train”, and rename Washington Dulles International Airport as Donald J. Trump International Airport. Do you see? America’s 250th celebration won’t be so much about America, it will be all about Trump, over everything. What does all this have to do with World War Trump in Iran? Plenty, and you won’t like a bit of it.

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