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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Moving From Bitterness To Forgiveness | May 28, 2022
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- [ANNOUNCER] FROM THE PULPIT
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- OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DALLAS, TEXAS,
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- THIS IS PATHWAY TO VICTORY WITH DR. ROBERT JEFFRESS.
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- HI, I'M ROBERT JEFFRESS,
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- AND WELCOME AGAIN TO "PATHWAY TO VICTORY."
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- WHEN SOMEONE OFFENDS US, ANGER IS A NATURAL RESPONSE,
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- BUT WHEN WE ALLOW THAT ANGER TO SIMMER,
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- THE REAL PROBLEMS BEGIN.
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- UNRESOLVED ANGER FESTERS INTO BITTERNESS,
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- AND BITTERNESS IS LIKE A DEADLY POISON.
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- TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW
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- TO OVERCOME RESENTMENT BEFORE IT COMPLETELY DESTROYS
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- THE BLESSED LIFE GOD HAS PLANNED FOR US.
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- MY MESSAGE IS TITLED, "MOVING FROM BITTERNESS
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- TO FORGIVENESS," AS WE CONTINUE OUR SERIES "INVINCIBLE"
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- ON TODAY'S EDITION OF "PATHWAY TO VICTORY."
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- ♪ MUSIC ♪
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- ♪ LORD, I WILL LIFT MY EYES TO THE HILLS ♪
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- ♪ KNOWING MY HELP IS COMING FROM YOU ♪
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- ♪ YOUR PEACE YOU GIVE ME IN TIME OF THE STORM ♪
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- ♪ YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF MY STRENGTH ♪
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- ♪ YOU ARE THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE ♪
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- ♪ I LIFT MY HANDS IN TOTAL PRAISE TO YOU ♪
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- ♪ AMEN ♪
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- (APPLAUSE)
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- THE SAME PERSECUTION THAT OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST
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- AROUND THE WORLD ARE EXPERIENCING, IS COMING TO OUR
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- SHORES. IN FACT, MANY BELIEVE IT'S ALREADY HERE. IN HIS BRAND
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- NEW MESSAGE "WHEN PERSECUTION COMES", DR. ROBERT JEFFRESS
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- HELPS YOU PREPARE FOR THE COMING PERSECUTION OF
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- CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA. WHEN YOU REQUEST THIS MESSAGE ON CD AND
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- DVD, YOU'LL ALSO RECEIVE DR. JEFFRESS'S BESTSELLING BOOK,
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- INVINCIBLE. REQUEST THESE TWO EMPOWERING RESOURCES WHEN YOU
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- GIVE A GENEROUS GIFT TO PATHWAY TO VICTORY.
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- ♪ MUSIC ♪
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- IT'S AN OLD STORY, BUT IT'S STILL ONE OF MY FAVORITES.
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- THE STORY ABOUT THE MAN WHO WAS BITTEN BY A DOG
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- THAT WAS LATER DISCOVERED TO HAVE RABIES.
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- THEY RUSHED THE MAN TO THE HOSPITAL AND DID TESTS
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- AND DISCOVERED THAT HE, TOO,
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- HAD CONTRACTED THE DREADED DISEASE.
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- THIS WAS IN THE DAY BEFORE THERE WAS ANY CURE FOR RABIES,
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- SO THE DOCTOR HAD THE CHOICE OF INFORMING HIS PATIENT
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- THAT HIS CASE WAS BOTH TERMINAL AND INCURABLE.
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- "WE'LL TRY TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN," THE DOCTOR SAID,
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- "TO MAKE YOU COMFORTABLE, BUT I STRONGLY URGE YOU
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- TO GET YOUR AFFAIRS TOGETHER AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE."
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- WELL, THE PATIENT WAS STUNNED, HE COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
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- FINALLY, HE SUMMONED THE STRENGTH TO ASK FOR SOME PAPER
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- AND A PEN, AND HE BEGAN TO WRITE AS FAST AS HE COULD.
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- NOT AN HOUR LATER, THE DOCTOR CAME BY TO CHECK UP
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- ON HIS PATIENT AND HE SAW THAT THE MAN WAS STILL WRITING.
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- THE DOCTOR SAID, "WELL, I'M GLAD
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- TO SEE YOU'RE GETTING YOUR WILL TOGETHER."
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- THE MAN LOOKED UP AND SAID, "DOC, THIS AIN'T NO WILL.
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- IT'S A LIST OF ALL THE PEOPLE I'M GOING TO BITE
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- -BEFORE I DIE." -(CONGREGATION LAUGHS)
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- YOU KNOW, WE ALL CARRY AROUND A LIST LIKE THAT
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- IN OUR MINDS, DON'T WE?
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- PEOPLE WE WANT TO BITE OR AT LEAST GET EVEN WITH
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- BEFORE WE DIE.
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- YOUR LIST MIGHT INCLUDE AN EMPLOYER WHO HAS MISTREATED YOU,
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- MAYBE A FRIEND WHO BETRAYED YOU,
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- MAYBE A MATE WHO ABANDONED YOU,
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- POSSIBLY EVEN A RELATIVE WHO ABUSED YOU.
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- HAVE YOU DISCOVERED THAT YOU CANNOT CONTROL
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- WHAT OTHER PEOPLE DO TO YOU?
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- AS HARD AS YOU TRY, YOU CANNOT CONTROL
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- WHAT PEOPLE DO TO YOU.
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- BUT YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR RESPONSE TO THOSE HURTS
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- THAT COME INTO YOUR LIFE.
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- YOU CAN EITHER RELEASE THEM, LET THEM GO,
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- OR YOU CAN HOLD ONTO THEM AND TURN THEM OVER
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- AND OVER AGAIN IN YOUR HEART UNTIL THEY METASTASIZE
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- INTO A TUMOR OF BITTERNESS.
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- THAT'S WHY THE WRITER OF HEBREWS SAID IN HEBREWS 12:15,
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- "SEE TO IT THAT NO ONE OF YOU COME SHORT OF THE GRACE
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- OF GOD, THAT NO ROOT OF BITTERNESS SPRINGING UP
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- CAUSES TROUBLE, AND BY IT MANY BE DEFILED."
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- BITTERNESS IS A DEADLY ACID THAT NOT ONLY DESTROYS
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- THE CONTAINER IN WHICH IT'S KEPT, THE HEART,
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- BUT WHEN IT SEEPS OUT, IT DESTROYS EVERYONE
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- AND EVERYTHING IT COMES INTO CONTACT WITH.
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- AND TODAY WE'RE GOING TO DISCOVER HOW TO CONQUER,
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- HOW TO SCALE THE MOUNTAIN OF BITTERNESS
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- BY MOVING FROM BITTERNESS TO FORGIVENESS.
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- I CAN SAY WITHOUT ANY HESITANCY THAT NO DECISION YOU MAKE
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- AFFECTS YOUR PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, OR SPIRITUAL HEALTH
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- ANYMORE THAN THE ISSUE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY,
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- MOVING FROM BITTERNESS TO FORGIVENESS.
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- IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES, TURN TO EPHESIANS CHAPTER FOUR.
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- EPHESIANS CHAPTER FOUR, FIRST OF ALL,
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- WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF BITTERNESS?
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- TWO WORDS, UNRESOLVED ANGER.
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- IN FACT, ON YOUR OUTLINE I PUT A LITTLE A FORMULA
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- THAT WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND BITTERNESS AND ITS CAUSE.
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- UNRESOLVED ANGER PLUS TIME EQUALS BITTERNESS.
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- NOW, WHAT IS ANGER?
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- ANGER IS THE NATURAL PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL REACTION
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- TO PERCEIVED INJUSTICE.
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- IT IS A NATURAL PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL REACTION
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- TO A PERCEIVED INJUSTICE.
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- AND THE BIBLE SAYS IF YOU CONTAIN MALICE IN YOUR HEART
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- FOR A LONG ENOUGH PERIOD OF TIME THAT TURNS INTO
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- BITTERNESS. MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, ANGER SUPPRESSED IS
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- JUST AS DEADLY IN YOUR HEART AS ANGER EXPRESSED. AND THAT'S
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- WHY, AGAIN, HEBREWS 12:15 SAYS, "SEE TO IT THAT NONE OF YOU
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- COME SHORT WITH THE GRACE OF GOD, THAT NO ROOT
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- OF BITTERNESS SPRINGS UP AND DEFILES MANY."
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- WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF LONG-TERM
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- UNRESOLVED ANGER OF BITTERNESS?
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- FIRST OF ALL, THERE ARE REAL PHYSICAL CONSEQUENCES
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- TO BITTERNESS.
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- THE LATE CHRISTIAN PSYCHIATRIST DR. FRANK MINIRTH NOTED
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- THAT ANGER DECREASES THE LYMPHOCYTES IN OUR BODIES
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- AND RESULT IN DEPRESSED ANTIBODIES NECESSARY
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- TO FIGHT INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
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- IN FACT, DR. MINIRTH MADE THIS COMMENT.
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- HE SAID, "PENT UP ANGER IS PROBABLY THE LEADING CAUSE
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- OF DEATH IN AMERICA."
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- ISN'T THAT AMAZING?
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- A DOCTOR, A PSYCHIATRIST SAYING THE LEADING CAUSE
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- OF DEATH IN AMERICA IS UNRESOLVED ANGER.
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- SECONDLY, BEYOND PHYSICAL CONSEQUENCES,
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- THERE ARE EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES.
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- IT GNAWS AT YOUR VERY SOUL.
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- BUT THE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES
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- OF BITTERNESS PALE IN COMPARISON
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- TO THE SPIRITUAL CONSEQUENCES OF BITTERNESS.
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- WHAT HAPPENS SPIRITUALLY WHEN YOU REFUSE TO FORGIVE ANOTHER?
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- REMEMBER THE PARABLE TOLD IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 18 BY JESUS?
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- THERE WAS A SLAVE WHO OWED THE KING 10.000 TALENTS OF GOLD.
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- THE TALENT WAS ABOUT 70 OR 80 POUNDS OF GOLD.
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- AND HERE WAS A SLAVE WHO OWED THE KING 10.000 TALENTS.
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- I DID A CALCULATION, THAT WOULD BE ABOUT $16 BILLION
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- IN TODAY'S DOLLARS.
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- THIS SLAVE OWED HIM, AND THE KING SAID,
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- "I WANT MY MONEY AND I WANT IT NOW."
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- AND THE SLAVE SAID, "KING, PLEASE BE PATIENT
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- AND I WILL REPAY YOU EVERYTHING."
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- I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY HOW HE PLANNED TO REPAY $16 BILLION,
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- BUT HE BEGGED FOR MERCY.
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- AND THAT HARDENED KING SEEING THAT SLAVE BOW DOWN
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- AND BEG FOR HIS LIFE, SOMETHING WAS MOVED INSIDE OF
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- THAT HARDENED KING, HE HAD MERCY ON HIM.
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- AND JESUS SAID HE FORGAVE HIM.
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- HE RELEASED THE SLAVE OF WHAT WAS OWED.
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- THE BIBLE SAYS THE SLAVE GOT UP,
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- THANKED THE KING AND OFF HE WENT.
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- AND HIS FIRST STOP WAS TO A FRIEND OF HIS,
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- A FELLOW SLAVE WHO OWED HIM 100 DENARII.
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- A DENARIUS WAS 16 CENTS, 100 DENARII WOULD BE $16.
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- AND HE GRABBED THAT FELLOW SLAVE BY THE NAPE OF THE NECK
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- AND BEGAN TO CHOKE HIM AND SAY, "REPAY ME WHAT YOU OWE ME!"
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- AND THAT SECOND SLAVE SAID, "BE PATIENT WITH ME
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- AND I WILL REPAY YOU EVERYTHING."
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- BUT UNLIKE THE KING,
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- THIS FIRST SLAVE WAS UNWILLING TO FORGIVE.
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- AND WHEN THE KING HEARD ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED,
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- HE HAD THAT FIRST SLAVE DRAGGED INTO THE PALACE,
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- AND SEETHING WITH ANGER, THE KING SAID,
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- "HOW IS IT THAT YOU WHO HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN SO MUCH
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- COULD REFUSE TO FORGIVE SO LITTLE?"
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- AND THEN THE KING ORDERED THAT THE SLAVE BE TURNED OVER
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- TO THE TORTURERS IN PRISON UNTIL HE SHOULD REPAY EVERYTHING.
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- AND THEN JESUS ADDED THIS TO HIS AUDIENCE, MATTHEW 18:35.
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- "SO SHALL MY HEAVENLY FATHER DO THE SAME TO YOU
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- IF EACH OF YOU DOES NOT FORGIVE YOUR BROTHER
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- FROM YOUR HEART."
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- DON'T TRY TO EXPLAIN AWAY WHAT JESUS SAID.
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- HE WAS VERY CLEAR.
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- IF YOU DON'T FORGIVE OTHERS, GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU.
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- FORGIVENESS IS THE OBLIGATION OF THOSE
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- WHO HAVE BEEN TRULY FORGIVEN.
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- HOW DO WE MOVE FROM BITTERNESS TO FORGIVENESS?
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- THE BIBLE GIVES US FOUR IMPORTANT STEPS
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- ON THAT ROAD TO FORGIVENESS.
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- NUMBER ONE, YOU HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE, FIRST OF ALL,
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- THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WRONGED.
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- YOU HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOU HAVE BEEN WRONGED.
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- SOME PEOPLE TRY TO BE MORE SPIRITUAL THAN GOD IS,
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- AND THEY WANT TO JUST SAY, "FORGIVENESS MEANS
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- I'LL JUST PLAY LIKE THIS NEVER HAPPENED.
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- I'LL DO THIS MIND GAME AND JUST ERASE THIS FROM MY MEMORY."
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- NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT FORGIVENESS IS.
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- YOU CANNOT FORGIVE SOMEBODY YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO BLAME.
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- FORGIVENESS IS A DEBT.
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- WHEN SOMEBODY WRONGS YOU, THEY OWE YOU A VERY REAL DEBT.
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- AND UNTIL YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THE WRONG AND THE DEBT,
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- YOU CAN NEVER RELEASE SOMEBODY FROM IT.
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- I THINK ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, THE STORY OF JOSEPH.
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- WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE STORY OF JOSEPH THIS SUMMER,
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- BUT REMEMBER HIS STORY, WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER,
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- HE WAS SOLD INTO SLAVERY BY HIS BROTHERS?
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- AND THROUGH A SERIES OF MIRACULOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
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- HE ENDED UP BEING THE SECOND IN COMMAND TO PHARAOH IN EGYPT.
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- DECADES AFTER HIS BROTHERS WRONGED HIM AND LEFT HIM
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- FOR DEAD, THEY WERE REUNITED WITH JOSEPH.
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- AND REMEMBER WHAT JOSEPH SAID TO THEM IN GENESIS 50:20?
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- HE DIDN'T SAY, "GUYS, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
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- LET'S JUST LET BYGONES BE BYGONES.
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- MAYBE YOU ALL WERE HAVING A BAD DAY
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- AND THAT'S WHY YOU DID WHAT YOU DID,
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- BUT LET'S JUST FORGET ABOUT IT," DID HE SAY THAT?
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- NO, IN GENESIS 50:20 JOSEPH SAID TO HIS BROTHERS,
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- "AND AS FOR YOU, YOU MEANT IT FOR EVIL."
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- HE'S VERY CLEAR, WHAT THEY DID WAS WRONG.
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- AND UNTIL YOU'RE WILLING TO ACKNOWLEDGE
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- WHAT WAS DONE TO YOU WAS WRONG,
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- YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO FORGIVE.
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- AGAIN, YOU CANNOT FORGIVE THOSE
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- YOU'RE NOT FIRST WILLING TO BLAME.
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- ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WRONGED.
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- SECONDLY, TRUST IN THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD.
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- JOSEPH DIDN'T STOP THERE.
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- HE SAID, "YOU MEANT IT FOR EVIL, BUT GOD USED IT FOR GOOD
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- TO BRING ABOUT THIS PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCE
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- AND TO PRESERVE MANY PEOPLE ALIVE."
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- YOU REMEMBER THE STORY, BECAUSE JOSEPH ENDED UP IN EGYPT
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- AND BECAME PHARAOH'S RIGHT-HAND MAN HE WAS ABLE
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- TO PROVIDE FOOD WHEN THERE WAS A WORLDWIDE FAMINE.
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- NOT ONLY FOR EGYPT, BUT FOR HIS BROTHERS AND FATHER
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- WHO WERE THE NUCLEUS OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
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- I MEAN, THINK ABOUT IT.
- 00:14:21.750 --> 00:14:23.218
- HAD THERE NOT BEEN A JOSEPH IN EGYPT,
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- THIS NUCLEUS OF THE ISRAELITE NATION, THE 12 SONS AND JACOB,
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- THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN OBLITERATED.
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- THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO ISRAEL.
- 00:14:34.730 --> 00:14:36.198
- THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO JESUS, THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD,
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- WHO CAME FROM THE LINE OF DAVID.
- 00:14:39.435 --> 00:14:40.903
- NONE OF THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF JOSEPH HAD NOT ENDED UP
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- IN EGYPT, AND JOSEPH WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN IN EGYPT
- 00:14:44.506 --> 00:14:46.909
- IF HIS BROTHERS HAD NOT SOLD HIM INTO SLAVERY.
- 00:14:46.909 --> 00:14:50.446
- YOU MEANT IT FOR EVIL, BUT GOD USED IT FOR GOOD.
- 00:14:50.446 --> 00:14:53.515
- YOU KNOW WHAT JOSEPH WAS SAYING TO HIS BROTHERS?
- 00:14:53.515 --> 00:14:55.250
- HE SAID, "WHAT YOU DID WAS WRONG,
- 00:14:55.250 --> 00:14:57.586
- BUT THANK GOD I SERVE A GOD WHO'S BIGGER THAN YOU ARE,
- 00:14:57.586 --> 00:15:01.323
- A GOD WHO HAS THE POWER TO TAKE THE WORST THINGS YOU DID
- 00:15:01.323 --> 00:15:04.526
- TO ME AND STILL USE THEM FOR GOOD."
- 00:15:04.526 --> 00:15:09.031
- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET ME JUST SAY THIS.
- 00:15:09.031 --> 00:15:10.766
- YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TRULY FORGIVE UNTIL YOU TRUST
- 00:15:10.766 --> 00:15:16.071
- IN THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD.
- 00:15:16.071 --> 00:15:18.007
- I WANT TO BE VERY CAREFUL HERE
- 00:15:18.007 --> 00:15:21.510
- BECAUSE I KNOW THIS IS A SENSITIVE TOPIC.
- 00:15:21.510 --> 00:15:25.080
- THERE ARE SOME OF YOU WHO ARE STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW
- 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:28.751
- WITH FORGIVING SOMEBODY WHO MAY HAVE ABUSED YOU,
- 00:15:28.751 --> 00:15:31.620
- EVEN AS A CHILD.
- 00:15:31.620 --> 00:15:34.723
- I'VE TALKED TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT HORROR
- 00:15:34.723 --> 00:15:36.925
- AND THEY SAID, "PASTOR, I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IN A GOD
- 00:15:36.925 --> 00:15:41.630
- WHO WOULD HAVE THE POWER TO HAVE PREVENTED THAT ABUSE
- 00:15:41.630 --> 00:15:45.034
- OR HAVE STOPPED THAT ABUSE AND YET CHOSE NOT TO STOP IT.
- 00:15:45.034 --> 00:15:48.837
- I CAN'T BELIEVE IN A GOD LIKE THAT."
- 00:15:48.837 --> 00:15:52.141
- AND I UNDERSTAND THAT.
- 00:15:52.141 --> 00:15:53.942
- I UNDERSTAND THAT SENTIMENT.
- 00:15:53.942 --> 00:15:56.879
- BUT I ALWAYS TRY TO GENTLY SAY TO THEM,
- 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.149
- "DO YOU FIND MORE COMFORT IN BELIEVING IN A GOD
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- WHO WASN'T ABLE TO STOP THE ABUSE,
- 00:16:05.220 --> 00:16:08.190
- A GOD WHO DOESN'T HAVE THE POWER
- 00:16:08.190 --> 00:16:09.925
- TO CONTROL THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR LIFE?
- 00:16:09.925 --> 00:16:14.263
- DO YOU REALLY WANT TO SERVE A GOD THAT MAKES YOU NOTHING
- 00:16:14.263 --> 00:16:16.331
- BUT A VICTIM OF RANDOM CIRCUMSTANCES AND RANDOM PEOPLE
- 00:16:16.331 --> 00:16:20.469
- AND PEOPLE ARE FREE TO HURT YOU HOWEVER THEY WANT TO
- 00:16:20.469 --> 00:16:23.272
- WITHOUT ANY PURPOSE AT ALL?"
- 00:16:23.272 --> 00:16:26.775
- NO, THE COMFORT COMES FROM BELIEVING
- 00:16:26.775 --> 00:16:29.778
- IN THE GOD OF THE BIBLE.
- 00:16:29.778 --> 00:16:32.481
- THE GOD WHO WORKS IN WAYS WE DON'T UNDERSTAND,
- 00:16:32.481 --> 00:16:34.416
- A GOD WHO WOULD NEVER CONDONE EVIL OR CREATE EVIL,
- 00:16:34.416 --> 00:16:37.653
- BUT IS ABLE TO USE EVIL TO ACHIEVE HIS PURPOSE IN YOUR LIFE
- 00:16:37.653 --> 00:16:43.392
- AND FOR HIS GLORY.
- 00:16:43.392 --> 00:16:45.294
- A GOD THAT PAUL DESCRIBED IN ROMANS 8:28,
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- A GOD WHO CAUSES ALL THINGS TO WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD
- 00:16:48.163 --> 00:16:52.935
- TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM AND THOSE
- 00:16:52.935 --> 00:16:55.404
- WHO ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
- 00:16:55.404 --> 00:16:58.307
- SOMETIMES, LIKE JOSEPH, WE GET TO SEE SOME GOOD
- 00:16:58.307 --> 00:17:01.944
- THAT COMES OUT OF THE HURT WE EXPERIENCED.
- 00:17:01.944 --> 00:17:04.546
- AS AN OLD MAN, HE WAS ABLE TO LOOK BACK
- 00:17:04.546 --> 00:17:06.415
- AND SAY TO HIS BROTHERS, "YOU MEANT IT FOR EVIL,
- 00:17:06.415 --> 00:17:08.684
- GOD USED IT FOR GOOD."
- 00:17:08.684 --> 00:17:10.052
- MANY TIMES WE LIVE AND DIE
- 00:17:10.052 --> 00:17:11.420
- WITHOUT EVER SEEING THE ULTIMATE PLAN OF GOD.
- 00:17:11.420 --> 00:17:13.989
- IT WON'T BE TILL HEAVEN THAT WE GET TO SEE WHAT
- 00:17:13.989 --> 00:17:16.458
- THAT ULTIMATE PLAN WAS.
- 00:17:16.458 --> 00:17:18.894
- BUT WHETHER WE SEE IT OR NOT, OUR HEALING COMES
- 00:17:18.894 --> 00:17:22.764
- FROM BELIEVING IN THAT KIND OF SOVEREIGN GOD
- 00:17:22.764 --> 00:17:26.335
- WHO CAUSES ALL THINGS TO WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD.
- 00:17:26.335 --> 00:17:30.105
- THIRD, HOW DO YOU MOVE FROM BITTERNESS TO FORGIVENESS?
- 00:17:30.105 --> 00:17:33.775
- ADMIT YOUR OWN FAILURES AND RECEIVE GOD'S FORGIVENESS.
- 00:17:33.775 --> 00:17:40.149
- YOU CANNOT GIVE AWAY SOMETHING YOU DON'T HAVE YOURSELF.
- 00:17:40.149 --> 00:17:42.384
- IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TRULY FORGIVE OTHERS
- 00:17:42.384 --> 00:17:45.154
- IF YOU'VE NOT BEEN FORGIVEN BY GOD.
- 00:17:45.154 --> 00:17:48.223
- IN THE BIBLE, THERE'S AN INSEPARABLE LINK
- 00:17:48.223 --> 00:17:50.392
- BETWEEN RECEIVING GOD'S FORGIVENESS
- 00:17:50.392 --> 00:17:52.761
- AND EXTENDING THAT FORGIVENESS TO OTHERS.
- 00:17:52.761 --> 00:17:56.165
- I THINK ABOUT IT AS AN EMOTIONAL SEESAW.
- 00:17:56.165 --> 00:18:00.469
- DO YOU REMEMBER PLAYING ON SEESAWS WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE?
- 00:18:00.469 --> 00:18:03.906
- YOU KNOW HOW IT WORKS, YOU GET ON ONE END
- 00:18:03.906 --> 00:18:06.408
- AND THEN HOPEFULLY SOMEBODY OF EQUAL WEIGHT GETS
- 00:18:06.408 --> 00:18:09.978
- ON THE OTHER END, AND AS LONG AS YOU ARE BALANCED,
- 00:18:09.978 --> 00:18:14.049
- THE SEESAW REMAINS IN EQUILIBRIUM.
- 00:18:14.049 --> 00:18:17.419
- OR REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED, THAT JERK YOU WERE PLAYING WITH
- 00:18:17.419 --> 00:18:19.855
- WOULD GET OFF FIRST AND LET YOU COME CRASHING
- 00:18:19.855 --> 00:18:22.357
- DOWN THE OTHER SIDE, REMEMBER THAT?
- 00:18:22.357 --> 00:18:25.294
- NO, TO MAINTAIN EQUILIBRIUM,
- 00:18:25.294 --> 00:18:27.529
- YOU HAD TO MAINTAIN THE WEIGHT ON BOTH ENDS OF THE SEESAW.
- 00:18:27.529 --> 00:18:31.133
- NOW, THINK ABOUT THAT PICTURE.
- 00:18:31.133 --> 00:18:32.601
- EACH ONE OF US CARRIES AN EMOTIONAL SEESAW IN OUR MINDS.
- 00:18:32.601 --> 00:18:35.871
- ON ONE END IS GUILT THAT WE FEEL
- 00:18:35.871 --> 00:18:38.674
- FOR THINGS WE'VE DONE WRONG.
- 00:18:38.674 --> 00:18:41.043
- AND THE ONLY WAY WE CAN KEEP FROM CRASHING DOWN IS
- 00:18:41.043 --> 00:18:44.279
- IF WE BALANCE OUR GUILT WITH BLAME TOWARD OTHER PEOPLE
- 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.683
- WHO HAVE WRONGED US.
- 00:18:47.683 --> 00:18:49.184
- AS LONG AS WE HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF GUILT AND BLAME,
- 00:18:49.184 --> 00:18:52.554
- WE'RE ABLE TO RATIONALIZE THINGS.
- 00:18:52.554 --> 00:18:55.624
- BUT WHENEVER YOU ASK SOMEBODY TO FORGIVE ANOTHER PERSON,
- 00:18:55.624 --> 00:18:59.027
- IT'S LIKE ASKING THAT PERSON ON THE BLAME END
- 00:18:59.027 --> 00:19:01.597
- TO GET OFF THE SEESAW AND ALL YOU'RE LEFT WITH IS YOUR GUILT
- 00:19:01.597 --> 00:19:05.734
- OVER WHAT YOU'VE DONE AND YOU COME CRASHING DOWN.
- 00:19:05.734 --> 00:19:09.071
- NO, THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP AN EQUILIBRIUM IS,
- 00:19:09.071 --> 00:19:12.641
- BEFORE YOU FORGIVE SOMEBODY ELSE FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE
- 00:19:12.641 --> 00:19:15.344
- AND GET RID OF THE BLAME, YOU HAVE TO GET RID OF YOUR GUILT.
- 00:19:15.344 --> 00:19:19.748
- AND THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF YOUR GUILT IS
- 00:19:19.748 --> 00:19:22.117
- THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:19:22.117 --> 00:19:24.553
- THE MOMENT YOU TRUST IN GOD FOR THE FORGIVENESS
- 00:19:24.553 --> 00:19:27.522
- OF YOUR SINS, IT REMOVES THE GUILT THAT YOU HAVE,
- 00:19:27.522 --> 00:19:31.426
- AND ONLY THEN CAN YOU QUIT BLAMING OTHER PEOPLE
- 00:19:31.426 --> 00:19:34.796
- FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE.
- 00:19:34.796 --> 00:19:36.298
- AND THAT'S WHY EPHESIANS 4:32 SAYS,
- 00:19:36.298 --> 00:19:39.034
- "BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER, TENDERHEARTED,
- 00:19:39.034 --> 00:19:42.070
- FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER, JUST AS GOD
- 00:19:42.070 --> 00:19:47.943
- IN CHRIST HAS FORGIVEN YOU."
- 00:19:47.943 --> 00:19:49.077
- DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
- 00:19:49.077 --> 00:19:50.178
- YOU CANNOT GIVE TO OTHERS
- 00:19:50.178 --> 00:19:52.447
- WHAT YOU HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED YOURSELF.
- 00:19:52.447 --> 00:19:55.917
- AND THEN FINALLY, AND MOST CRITICALLY,
- 00:19:55.917 --> 00:19:58.720
- MOVING FROM BITTERNESS TO FORGIVENESS,
- 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:00.989
- THERE HAS TO COME THAT TIME WHEN YOU CHOOSE
- 00:20:00.989 --> 00:20:03.158
- TO FORGIVE YOUR OFFENDER.
- 00:20:03.158 --> 00:20:05.060
- JUST AS THERE IS A MOMENT IN TIME YOU CHOOSE
- 00:20:05.060 --> 00:20:07.462
- TO RECEIVE FORGIVENESS WHEN YOU TRUST IN CHRIST
- 00:20:07.462 --> 00:20:10.465
- AS YOUR SAVIOR, THERE HAS TO BE AN ACTUAL TIME
- 00:20:10.465 --> 00:20:13.802
- WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO RELEASE YOUR OFFENDER OF
- 00:20:13.802 --> 00:20:16.638
- WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO YOU.
- 00:20:16.638 --> 00:20:17.873
- NOW, REMEMBER, WHEN YOU'RE FORGIVING,
- 00:20:17.873 --> 00:20:19.675
- YOU'RE NOT DENYING THE REALITY OF THE HURT.
- 00:20:19.675 --> 00:20:22.577
- YOU'RE NOT DIMINISHING IT IN ANY WAY.
- 00:20:22.577 --> 00:20:25.781
- YOU'RE NOT EVEN LETTING GO OF YOUR DESIRE TO SEE
- 00:20:25.781 --> 00:20:28.517
- THAT OTHER PERSON EXPERIENCE JUSTICE
- 00:20:28.517 --> 00:20:31.186
- FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO YOU.
- 00:20:31.186 --> 00:20:33.388
- WHEN YOU FORGIVE, WHAT YOU'RE GIVING UP IS
- 00:20:33.388 --> 00:20:35.357
- YOUR RIGHT FOR VENGEANCE,
- 00:20:35.357 --> 00:20:37.025
- YOUR RIGHT TO HURT SOMEBODY ELSE FOR HURTING YOU.
- 00:20:37.025 --> 00:20:41.530
- WHEN YOU FORGIVE SOMEBODY, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS,
- 00:20:41.530 --> 00:20:44.399
- GOD, WHAT THIS PERSON DID TO ME WAS TERRIBLE, IT'S WRONG.
- 00:20:44.399 --> 00:20:48.003
- THEY DESERVE TO SUFFER FOR IT.
- 00:20:48.003 --> 00:20:50.205
- BUT I'M GOING TO LET YOU SETTLE THE SCORE.
- 00:20:50.205 --> 00:20:52.874
- TODAY I'M SURRENDERING THIS OFFENSE TO YOU
- 00:20:52.874 --> 00:20:56.211
- SO THAT I CAN BE FREE TO GET ON WITH MY LIFE.
- 00:20:56.211 --> 00:21:00.015
- AND BY THE WAY, YOU CAN DO THAT REGARDLESS OF
- 00:21:00.015 --> 00:21:03.518
- WHAT THE OTHER PERSON DOES OR DOESN'T DO.
- 00:21:03.518 --> 00:21:06.588
- REMEMBER IN MARK 11:25, JESUS SAID,
- 00:21:06.588 --> 00:21:10.359
- "WHENEVER YOU STAND PRAYING, FORGIVE,
- 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:13.895
- IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST ANYONE
- 00:21:13.895 --> 00:21:16.231
- SO THAT YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN
- 00:21:16.231 --> 00:21:18.734
- WILL ALSO FORGIVE YOU OF YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS."
- 00:21:18.734 --> 00:21:23.305
- YOU CAN BE SITTING HERE IN THE PEWS OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH,
- 00:21:23.305 --> 00:21:25.974
- DALLAS, YOU CAN BE SITTING WATCHING ON YOUR LAPTOP
- 00:21:25.974 --> 00:21:28.477
- OR TELEVISION, IT MAY BE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN YOUR OFFENDER
- 00:21:28.477 --> 00:21:31.380
- IN YEARS, AND MAYBE THEY'RE EVEN DEAD,
- 00:21:31.380 --> 00:21:34.416
- BUT YOU AND YOU ALONE HAVE THE POWER TO FORGIVE.
- 00:21:34.416 --> 00:21:37.719
- YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THAT PERSON ASKS
- 00:21:37.719 --> 00:21:39.955
- FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS.
- 00:21:39.955 --> 00:21:41.456
- YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THEY REPENT.
- 00:21:41.456 --> 00:21:43.425
- YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THEY MAKE SOME CHANGE.
- 00:21:43.425 --> 00:21:45.494
- WHEN YOU PUT CONDITIONS ON YOUR FORGIVENESS,
- 00:21:45.494 --> 00:21:47.896
- YOU'RE MAKING YOURSELF AN EMOTIONAL SLAVE
- 00:21:47.896 --> 00:21:50.065
- TO THAT OTHER PERSON.
- 00:21:50.065 --> 00:21:51.867
- BUT WHEN YOU FORGIVE, YOU'RE LETTING GO
- 00:21:51.867 --> 00:21:54.603
- SO THAT YOU CAN BE FREE TO EXPERIENCE THE ABUNDANT LIFE
- 00:21:54.603 --> 00:21:58.974
- THAT GOD HAS FOR YOU.
- 00:21:58.974 --> 00:22:02.144
- AND HERE'S THE BEST PART.
- 00:22:02.144 --> 00:22:04.513
- AS LEWIS SMEDES SAYS, WHEN YOU FORGIVE,
- 00:22:04.513 --> 00:22:09.651
- YOU SET THE PRISONER FREE.
- 00:22:09.651 --> 00:22:12.687
- AND THE PRISONER YOU SET FREE IS YOU.
- 00:22:12.687 --> 00:22:17.893
- ♪ MUSIC ♪
- 00:22:17.893 --> 00:22:22.464
- PERHAPS YOU'RE LISTENING RIGHT NOW AND THINKING
- 00:22:22.464 --> 00:22:24.699
- ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP IN YOUR LIFE THAT'S IN DISREPAIR
- 00:22:24.699 --> 00:22:28.570
- AND YOU'VE BEEN UNCERTAIN WHAT TO DO,
- 00:22:28.570 --> 00:22:30.806
- WHAT TO SAY OR HOW TO GET EVEN
- 00:22:30.806 --> 00:22:33.508
- IF THERE'S ONE TRUTH I WANT YOU TO TAKE AWAY
- 00:22:33.508 --> 00:22:35.911
- FROM TODAY'S PROGRAM, IT'S THIS,
- 00:22:35.911 --> 00:22:38.513
- FORGIVENESS IS A CHOICE YOU MAKE TO LET GO OF YOUR RIGHT
- 00:22:38.513 --> 00:22:42.818
- TO HURT SOMEONE ELSE WHO HAS HURT YOU.
- 00:22:42.818 --> 00:22:46.555
- NOW, IN CLOSING TODAY, I WANT TO THANK
- 00:22:46.555 --> 00:22:48.323
- THOSE OF YOU WHO FAITHFULLY SUPPORT "PATHWAY TO VICTORY."
- 00:22:48.323 --> 00:22:51.927
- YOUR GENEROSITY ALLOWS ME TO TEACH THE BIBLE
- 00:22:51.927 --> 00:22:54.830
- WITH BOLDNESS ON RELEVANT TOPICS LIKE THIS ONE,
- 00:22:54.830 --> 00:22:58.700
- AND YOUR GIFTS TRULY MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
- 00:22:58.700 --> 00:23:02.037
- NOT LONG AGO, I HEARD FROM A LISTENER IN PENNSYLVANIA
- 00:23:02.037 --> 00:23:04.840
- WHO WROTE,
- 00:23:04.840 --> 00:23:21.289
- ISN'T THAT A WONDERFUL OUTCOME?
- 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:27.162
- AND WHEN YOU GIVE GENEROUSLY TO "PATHWAY TO VICTORY,"
- 00:23:27.162 --> 00:23:29.698
- YOU PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE
- 00:23:29.698 --> 00:23:31.533
- IN MOVING MOUNTAINS LIKE THIS ONE.
- 00:23:31.533 --> 00:23:34.736
- GOD USES YOUR GENEROSITY TO DELIVER HOPE AND FORGIVENESS
- 00:23:34.736 --> 00:23:39.207
- THROUGH "PATHWAY TO VICTORY."
- 00:23:39.207 --> 00:23:41.276
- THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP IN THIS MINISTRY.
- 00:23:41.276 --> 00:23:45.146
- NOW, STAY RIGHT THERE, I'LL BE BACK
- 00:23:45.146 --> 00:23:46.982
- WITH MORE "PATHWAY TO VICTORY" IN JUST A MOMENT.
- 00:23:46.982 --> 00:23:52.587
- JESUS TOLD US THAT IF WE HAVE FAITH AS TINY AS A MUSTARD
- 00:23:52.587 --> 00:23:55.724
- SEED, WE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS. BUT WHAT DOES THAT PROMISE
- 00:23:55.724 --> 00:23:59.561
- REALLY MEAN? IN HIS BRAND NEW BOOK, INVINCIBLE, DR. ROBERT
- 00:23:59.561 --> 00:24:03.698
- JEFFRESS HELPS YOU CONQUER THE MOUNTAINS THAT SEPARATE YOU
- 00:24:03.698 --> 00:24:06.368
- FROM THE BLESSED LIFE. ALL OF US ARE GOING TO FACE MOUNTAINS
- 00:24:06.368 --> 00:24:09.538
- IN LIFE, BUT THOSE OBSTACLES DON'T HAVE TO STOP US IN OUR
- 00:24:09.538 --> 00:24:13.108
- TRACKS, BECAUSE WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE, WE ARE INVINCIBLE. IN THE
- 00:24:13.108 --> 00:24:18.179
- PAGES OF INVINCIBLE. YOU'LL DISCOVER HOW TO MOVE FROM DOUBT
- 00:24:18.179 --> 00:24:21.383
- TO FAITH, FROM ANXIETY TO PEACE, AND MUCH MORE. YOU'RE
- 00:24:21.383 --> 00:24:24.686
- INVITED TO REQUEST A COPY OF INVINCIBLE, WHEN YOU GIVE A
- 00:24:24.686 --> 00:24:27.689
- GENEROUS GIFT TO PATHWAY TO VICTORY, PLUS WE'LL ALSO SEND
- 00:24:27.689 --> 00:24:31.092
- YOU THE BRAND NEW CD AND DVD MESSAGE CALLED, "WHEN
- 00:24:31.092 --> 00:24:34.029
- PERSECUTION COMES." THE SAME PERSECUTION THAT OUR BROTHERS
- 00:24:34.029 --> 00:24:37.432
- AND SISTERS IN CHRIST AROUND THE WORLD ARE EXPERIENCING IS
- 00:24:37.432 --> 00:24:40.802
- COMING TO OUR SHORES. THIS NEVER BEFORE SEEN MESSAGE BY
- 00:24:40.802 --> 00:24:44.072
- DR. JEFFRESS WILL HELP YOU PREPARE FOR THE COMING
- 00:24:44.072 --> 00:24:46.541
- PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA. AND WHEN YOUR GIFT IS
- 00:24:46.541 --> 00:24:50.445
- $75 OR MORE, WE'LL ALSO SEND YOU THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF
- 00:24:50.445 --> 00:24:54.082
- AUDIO AND VIDEO DISCS FOR THE INVINCIBLE TEACHING SERIES.
- 00:24:54.082 --> 00:24:57.352
- ALONG WITH THE PERSONAL AND GROUP STUDY GUIDE. WE'VE GOT
- 00:24:57.352 --> 00:25:00.388
- THIS SECRET FEAR THAT I OUR DOUBTS ARE BIGGER THAN GOD'S
- 00:25:00.388 --> 00:25:03.858
- ANSWERS. DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. GOD IS BIG ENOUGH TO
- 00:25:03.858 --> 00:25:07.429
- HANDLE YOUR QUESTIONS. YOUR GENEROSITY TODAY WILL HELP US
- 00:25:07.429 --> 00:25:11.366
- SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF VICTORY AND HOPE. THANK YOU FOR GIVING
- 00:25:11.366 --> 00:25:14.369
- GENEROUSLY TO HELP US SHINE THE LIGHT OF CHRIST INTO THE DARK
- 00:25:14.369 --> 00:25:17.505
- CORNERS OF OUR COUNTRY AND WORLD.
- 00:25:17.505 --> 00:25:20.241
- ♪ MUSIC ♪
- 00:25:20.241 --> 00:25:23.645
- PERHAPS YOU'VE BEEN BETRAYED BY
- 00:25:23.645 --> 00:25:25.413
- SOMEONE YOU ONCE TRUSTED OR HURT
- 00:25:25.413 --> 00:25:27.282
- BY A COLLEAGUE WHO LIED TO YOU.
- 00:25:27.282 --> 00:25:30.418
- LET ME ASSURE YOU THAT GOD WANTS TO MOVE MOUNTAINS FOR YOU.
- 00:25:30.418 --> 00:25:34.422
- AND HE KNOWS HOW YOU FEEL RIGHT NOW.
- 00:25:34.422 --> 00:25:37.192
- REMEMBER, JESUS HIMSELF ENDURED BETRAYAL BY HIS FRIENDS,
- 00:25:37.192 --> 00:25:41.262
- HATRED FROM HIS ADVERSARIES AND EVEN HUMILIATION
- 00:25:41.262 --> 00:25:44.566
- FROM THOSE WHO NAILED HIM TO THE CROSS.
- 00:25:44.566 --> 00:25:47.702
- EVEN SO, HE GRACIOUSLY EXTENDS FORGIVENESS
- 00:25:47.702 --> 00:25:50.538
- TO ANYONE WHO'S READY TO RECEIVE IT.
- 00:25:50.538 --> 00:25:54.676
- STAY TUNED FOR A PREVIEW OF WHAT'S COMING UP NEXT
- 00:25:54.676 --> 00:25:57.712
- ON "PATHWAY TO VICTORY."
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- THERE ARE NOT THOUSANDS OF RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD,
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- THERE ARE ONLY TWO. ALL THE OTHER RELIGIONS
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- OF THE WORLD ARE ALL SPELLED, "DO".
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- DO THIS OR DO THAT AND YOU CAN HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
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- THEY ARE ALL EXACTLY THE SAME IN THAT THEY SAY,
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- DO THIS OR DO THAT AND YOU CAN HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
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- ONLY CHRISTIANITY IS SPELLED, "DONE"
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