Series: Restored: When Broken People Meet the Restoring Christ Week 1 Message: Jacob: When Your Past Chases You Have you ever stopped and looked at your own life and wondered, "How did I become this person?" Not because you intended to. Very few people wake up one morning planning to become dishonest, bitter, controlling, distant, or someone they no longer recognize. More often, it happens slowly. One compromise becomes a habit. One lie requires another. One selfish decision becomes a pattern. Before long, what we once excused has quietly become part of who we believe we are. The greatest tragedy is not simply that we have sinned. Is that our sin begins to define us. We start believing that our worst decisions are our identity. We assume our past has already written our future, and that the person we've become is the person we'll always be. But the Bible tells a different story. Throughout Scripture, God meets people whose pasts seem impossible to escape. He doesn...