1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:05,120 Hello, Illuminate Church. How's everybody doing out there? 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,600 I mean, it's an exciting time to be a part of Illuminate Church. 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,840 How many of you agree? Amen. 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:15,520 I mean, it's this is in a historical time. 5 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,240 This is something that God is doing. 6 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:19,360 Amazing. How many of you remember when 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,960 Israel came out of Egypt and they were going into the 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:23,640 Promised land? That was an exciting time. 9 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:25,120 We're still talking about it today. 10 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,240 Well, I just believe that people in the future going to be 11 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,640 talking about this time and Illuminate Church. 12 00:00:29,990 --> 00:00:32,229 They're to say, do you remember when we were in the high school 13 00:00:32,390 --> 00:00:34,830 and we moved from the high school to our new building? 14 00:00:35,110 --> 00:00:37,230 I'm going to even know that those conversations are going to 15 00:00:37,230 --> 00:00:38,390 take place. Amen. 16 00:00:39,750 --> 00:00:41,510 It's awesome to be here with you. 17 00:00:41,510 --> 00:00:45,270 I just want to give a shout out first and foremost it, you know, 18 00:00:45,630 --> 00:00:48,910 and Pastor Tim and Christina, they're just awesome. 19 00:00:48,910 --> 00:00:52,790 And I just, I really love friends like this and when we 20 00:00:52,790 --> 00:00:54,310 met in Israel. But it felt like I've been 21 00:00:54,310 --> 00:00:57,580 knowing them for years just because of the joy and the 22 00:00:57,580 --> 00:00:58,940 laughter. And how many of you know that 23 00:00:59,140 --> 00:01:00,980 Pastor Tim needs a sense of humor? 24 00:01:03,540 --> 00:01:04,700 He doesn't need a sense of humor. 25 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:08,380 He has a great sense of humor. And sometimes you think, is he 26 00:01:08,380 --> 00:01:11,900 serious or is he joking? But it's just great to have 27 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:14,740 great, great friends. I tell you it's somebody that I 28 00:01:14,740 --> 00:01:18,500 can be around and really enjoy myself and just be myself. 29 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:20,540 Amen. So it's good to be around people 30 00:01:20,540 --> 00:01:23,500 that you can be who you are. So I just want to thank you. 31 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:26,860 Thank you for inviting us today. Thank you for for all that 32 00:01:26,860 --> 00:01:28,220 you're doing. You, Christine, you're you're 33 00:01:28,220 --> 00:01:31,020 awesome and and it's a privilege and an honor to be here. 34 00:01:31,340 --> 00:01:33,540 I do want to introduce my wife, Carmen. 35 00:01:33,540 --> 00:01:38,140 We've been together for 29 years going on 30 years we that was 36 00:01:38,220 --> 00:01:43,340 when we met and we have a son that's 29 years old, but we 37 00:01:43,340 --> 00:01:47,620 didn't get married until 97. So we just celebrated our 26th 38 00:01:47,620 --> 00:01:51,100 year anniversary And so could you please stand? 39 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:52,900 I just would like for people to see you. 40 00:01:52,900 --> 00:01:55,220 It's. And this is my daughter, 41 00:01:55,220 --> 00:01:56,660 Valerie. Go ahead and stand up, Valerie. 42 00:01:56,740 --> 00:01:59,860 If I'm up here, you guys are going to be the oldest too. 43 00:02:00,660 --> 00:02:03,740 So you can be seen this. So we got four children. 44 00:02:03,740 --> 00:02:07,900 We got three older boys and my son, he's ministering for me at 45 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:10,580 our church. We have a 29 year old, a 26 year 46 00:02:10,580 --> 00:02:15,860 old and a 22 year old and we're just very, very grateful. 47 00:02:15,860 --> 00:02:17,180 Amen. And I do want to give a shout 48 00:02:17,180 --> 00:02:19,780 out to the media team. We've been watching you guys 49 00:02:19,780 --> 00:02:22,620 online, we've subscribed to your YouTube page and you guys are 50 00:02:22,620 --> 00:02:24,580 doing a phenomenal job. Can you give it up for your 51 00:02:24,580 --> 00:02:26,750 media team? I know a lot of times they're 52 00:02:26,750 --> 00:02:30,430 behind the scenes and we don't see them, but I just want you to 53 00:02:30,430 --> 00:02:34,150 know that Illuminate Church has an online church and there are 54 00:02:34,150 --> 00:02:36,110 people all over the world that are watching you. 55 00:02:36,110 --> 00:02:38,030 Amen. They're watching your worship 56 00:02:38,030 --> 00:02:41,350 team, they're watching people. So you're ministering already to 57 00:02:41,350 --> 00:02:44,270 the nations in and you may not, you may not know that, but I 58 00:02:44,270 --> 00:02:46,950 just want to give props to all of you guys because y'all are 59 00:02:46,950 --> 00:02:50,510 doing a phenomenal job here in Orlando, FL. 60 00:02:50,790 --> 00:02:53,270 It's great to be in the great state of Florida. 61 00:02:53,910 --> 00:02:56,230 State of Florida is leading the way in a lot of of things that 62 00:02:56,230 --> 00:02:58,910 are happening in our nation. So I'm just we're grateful to be 63 00:02:58,910 --> 00:03:01,510 here. We love we love Florida and we I 64 00:03:01,510 --> 00:03:05,070 don't know when the future we we may have to buy some real estate 65 00:03:05,070 --> 00:03:09,270 here. But anyways God is good and I I 66 00:03:09,270 --> 00:03:12,510 want to I want to continue on the series on the antidote. 67 00:03:12,510 --> 00:03:14,390 How many of you been joining the series. 68 00:03:15,430 --> 00:03:21,270 OK, so this is the big question. How many of you have it? 69 00:03:21,430 --> 00:03:23,430 Has it made changes in your life? 70 00:03:24,660 --> 00:03:28,020 OK, there's less hands. So we got to start using the 71 00:03:28,060 --> 00:03:33,020 antidote that God has given us. And you know, I was, I was 72 00:03:33,020 --> 00:03:36,700 praying about coming here and just really what the Lord would 73 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:40,860 put on my heart because I'm, I'm ministering on the verse, I 74 00:03:40,860 --> 00:03:45,300 believe 14 where it says bless those who persecute you, you 75 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:47,180 know, mourn with those and mourn, weep with those who weep 76 00:03:47,220 --> 00:03:50,420 and, you know, associate with the lowly and and, you know, and 77 00:03:50,420 --> 00:03:53,700 things like that. And I was just praying about 78 00:03:54,430 --> 00:03:56,070 what the Lord would have me bring to you today. 79 00:03:56,070 --> 00:04:02,870 And and it was really how to be a blessing, how to be a 80 00:04:02,870 --> 00:04:05,790 blessing. If you're going to bless those 81 00:04:05,790 --> 00:04:08,670 that have hurt us and persecute us, then we have to learn how to 82 00:04:08,670 --> 00:04:11,390 be that. Because as the church, we're 83 00:04:11,390 --> 00:04:13,710 supposed to be illuminating. Amen. 84 00:04:14,510 --> 00:04:17,350 Jesus says you're the light of the world, right? 85 00:04:17,620 --> 00:04:20,420 You're the salt of the earth. We're a city that is set on a 86 00:04:20,420 --> 00:04:22,060 hill. So everybody sees us. 87 00:04:22,060 --> 00:04:25,060 And when they come, they come hurt and then they come broken 88 00:04:25,060 --> 00:04:29,260 and and you know, I, I really want to give you a little bit of 89 00:04:29,460 --> 00:04:31,420 of who we are and where I came from. 90 00:04:31,420 --> 00:04:34,620 I didn't grow up in church. I didn't. 91 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:36,420 I didn't know. I didn't know the Lord. 92 00:04:36,420 --> 00:04:38,540 I didn't know Jesus. And you know, we were young. 93 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:41,140 And me and my wife met. She was 15. 94 00:04:41,660 --> 00:04:44,380 I was 16. You know, we had our first 95 00:04:44,380 --> 00:04:47,300 child. She had her first child at 16, 96 00:04:47,830 --> 00:04:50,110 and we just didn't, we didn't know the law. 97 00:04:50,110 --> 00:04:54,230 We were kids having kids. But I didn't, you know, both of 98 00:04:54,230 --> 00:04:57,950 my parents, they had a struggle with drugs. 99 00:04:57,950 --> 00:05:01,110 So you know, they were both hooked on heroin when I was 100 00:05:01,110 --> 00:05:03,750 growing up. And so there was a lot of moving 101 00:05:03,750 --> 00:05:05,430 in my life. We moved from place to place to 102 00:05:05,430 --> 00:05:08,990 place and all I wanted ever as a child was stability, you know. 103 00:05:08,990 --> 00:05:11,670 And so there was a lot of things that happened in my childhood 104 00:05:11,670 --> 00:05:15,900 and in my wife's childhood that really, if by the world 105 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:19,100 standards, we shouldn't even be doing what we're doing today. 106 00:05:19,420 --> 00:05:23,020 But by the grace of God, we are where we are and we, you know, 107 00:05:23,020 --> 00:05:27,460 we are who God made us to be. So I'm just I'm up here today to 108 00:05:27,460 --> 00:05:31,780 tell you that it it doesn't matter what is happening and how 109 00:05:31,780 --> 00:05:35,260 you started because with the enemy meant for evil. 110 00:05:36,380 --> 00:05:38,340 Come on, somebody can it. I'm, I'm going to preach a 111 00:05:38,340 --> 00:05:39,580 little bit. I'm going to teach a little bit 112 00:05:39,580 --> 00:05:43,480 with the enemy meant for evil. God will turn it around and use 113 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,960 it for good. How many of you can testify to 114 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:50,920 that already And so you know I'm just Long story short I'm not 115 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,400 going to give you the whole, I'm going to give you the the short 116 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,160 version. But at the age of at the age of 117 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,000 17 I was I I got incarcerated for attempted murder. 118 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,360 I used grew up in in gangs and doing things like that. 119 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:08,200 So at the age of 17, I was incarcerated and my wife was 120 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,030 pregnant. We were basically a a statistic, 121 00:06:11,150 --> 00:06:14,710 you know, she getting pregnant, me going to prison and then her 122 00:06:14,710 --> 00:06:16,830 having the baby at a young age, single mom. 123 00:06:17,310 --> 00:06:22,510 But in all of that, I know that God had a purpose because it was 124 00:06:22,510 --> 00:06:27,590 there that I got saved. I got, I got led to the Lord by 125 00:06:27,590 --> 00:06:29,710 my celly. If you don't know what a celly 126 00:06:29,710 --> 00:06:32,510 is, a celly is the person that bunks under you or on top of 127 00:06:32,510 --> 00:06:35,110 you. But he's he, he had 99 years. 128 00:06:35,110 --> 00:06:39,380 He led me to the Lord. He led me to the Lord in in 129 00:06:39,380 --> 00:06:44,140 September of 1993. So I'm at the age of 17. 130 00:06:44,460 --> 00:06:48,140 I weighed 117 pounds. And I was 17 years old and I was 131 00:06:48,140 --> 00:06:52,700 in the Harris County Jail and it was there that I met Jesus. 132 00:06:53,260 --> 00:06:55,820 It was there that I met Jesus. It was there that. 133 00:06:56,060 --> 00:06:58,980 See, let me just tell you that it doesn't matter where you go, 134 00:06:59,140 --> 00:07:02,260 how dark the place is. God will go with you. 135 00:07:03,150 --> 00:07:04,950 I said God will go with you wherever you go. 136 00:07:04,950 --> 00:07:07,270 It doesn't matter how dark. It doesn't mean, look, if you 137 00:07:07,270 --> 00:07:10,070 have a protocol that has left and you're like, oh Lord, I 138 00:07:10,070 --> 00:07:13,150 don't know what Jesus is going with them wherever they go. 139 00:07:13,590 --> 00:07:16,710 And he's not going to stop until they come back, train up a child 140 00:07:16,710 --> 00:07:18,870 on the way that they should go. And when they are older, they 141 00:07:18,870 --> 00:07:21,550 will not depart from it. I had my middle son and he was a 142 00:07:21,590 --> 00:07:23,470 protocol. He went out, but thank God he 143 00:07:23,470 --> 00:07:24,750 came back in. Amen. 144 00:07:25,110 --> 00:07:28,950 So I mean, you know it's it's one of those things that you 145 00:07:28,950 --> 00:07:31,550 know people like that. And I was telling Pastor Tim 146 00:07:31,550 --> 00:07:36,150 that yesterday we met with a couple there were that we met at 147 00:07:36,350 --> 00:07:39,750 at Lakewood Church and and they were a big part of our 148 00:07:39,750 --> 00:07:41,910 testimony. They they were mentors for us. 149 00:07:41,910 --> 00:07:49,990 And you know I went to Lakewood in 98 when me and my wife when I 150 00:07:49,990 --> 00:07:52,390 came out, we, you know, I try to do the right thing. 151 00:07:52,750 --> 00:07:56,070 I came out in 97, I mean, I'm sorry, 95. 152 00:07:56,190 --> 00:07:58,550 And then in 1998, my mother had an overdose. 153 00:07:59,430 --> 00:08:02,390 And I remember we went to the government hospital that was 154 00:08:02,510 --> 00:08:04,710 nearby. And I remember the ambulance 155 00:08:04,710 --> 00:08:07,870 took her in and we were all there and and we were waiting 156 00:08:07,870 --> 00:08:09,550 and we were crying and we were worried. 157 00:08:09,550 --> 00:08:11,950 And I remember my father telling me, look, I know where to go. 158 00:08:12,630 --> 00:08:14,870 Let's there's a church down the street and we went to Lakewood 159 00:08:14,870 --> 00:08:18,510 Church in the old building. And I remember that day I had 160 00:08:18,870 --> 00:08:20,870 flip flops on. I had my shorts on. 161 00:08:20,870 --> 00:08:22,350 I was acting like I was in Florida. 162 00:08:22,350 --> 00:08:25,940 I had a muscle shirt on and I have like, you know, you know, I 163 00:08:25,940 --> 00:08:29,060 have tattoos and stuff because you know my the way I grew up. 164 00:08:29,060 --> 00:08:32,620 And I remember it was a Wednesday night, we went to 165 00:08:32,620 --> 00:08:35,700 Lakewood Church and it was during their service. 166 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:38,380 And I remember we were too embarrassed to say that my 167 00:08:38,380 --> 00:08:40,620 mother had an overdose. So we just told the lady at the 168 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:44,780 information booth that she had a seizure and we needed prayer. 169 00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:48,580 And when we went in there, she took us right to the front. 170 00:08:49,060 --> 00:08:51,580 And that's when Pastor John Osteen Do y'all do some of y'all 171 00:08:51,580 --> 00:08:53,460 know who Pastor John Osteen was before Joe? 172 00:08:53,820 --> 00:08:55,020 Pastor John and Miss Dodi Osteen. 173 00:08:55,020 --> 00:08:57,500 They were right in the front. But I remember when I went into 174 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:00,540 that church, the love of God hit me. 175 00:09:01,620 --> 00:09:04,740 It hit me in a way that I never felt before, ever in my life. 176 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:06,940 And they took us right to the front. 177 00:09:06,980 --> 00:09:09,500 And I remember this little old lady was such love and 178 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:12,340 compassion. She just embraced us and loved 179 00:09:12,340 --> 00:09:14,020 us. And I wept like I never wept 180 00:09:14,020 --> 00:09:16,820 before. And it did something to me. 181 00:09:17,260 --> 00:09:20,180 And there was something on the inside of me that says you need 182 00:09:20,180 --> 00:09:23,940 to have your family here every week from that day forward. 183 00:09:24,060 --> 00:09:28,660 My family was in church every single week. 184 00:09:29,020 --> 00:09:32,340 I'm talking to you today about being a blessing. 185 00:09:32,820 --> 00:09:35,660 And there are so many people in my life that have been a 186 00:09:35,660 --> 00:09:38,580 blessing to me because I didn't get here on my own. 187 00:09:39,540 --> 00:09:41,100 I said I didn't get here on my own. 188 00:09:41,660 --> 00:09:46,180 And wherever God has led you, wherever He is, He showed you 189 00:09:46,180 --> 00:09:48,060 what you're going to do. There's going to be people along 190 00:09:48,060 --> 00:09:52,890 the way that that God put there strategically to speak into your 191 00:09:52,890 --> 00:09:56,130 life, to pour into your life to love you back to health. 192 00:09:56,930 --> 00:09:58,170 Because I'm going to tell you something. 193 00:09:58,170 --> 00:09:59,890 I needed a lot of love in my life. 194 00:10:00,290 --> 00:10:03,530 I mean, we we we were broken. We were broken. 195 00:10:03,530 --> 00:10:07,090 There was a, you know that's there's a lot of different parts 196 00:10:07,090 --> 00:10:09,050 of our our life. But that's what I I want to I 197 00:10:09,050 --> 00:10:12,090 want to bring to you today. I want to, I want to bring to 198 00:10:12,090 --> 00:10:14,650 you how to be a blessing. You know, because when we're 199 00:10:15,210 --> 00:10:18,420 when people are persecuting us or when they're hurting us, it 200 00:10:18,420 --> 00:10:21,620 doesn't help for us to become a part of the problem. 201 00:10:22,740 --> 00:10:25,260 Amen. We got to be a part of the 202 00:10:25,260 --> 00:10:29,020 solution. We have to be able to bless 203 00:10:29,180 --> 00:10:32,460 instead of curse. We have to be able to heal 204 00:10:32,660 --> 00:10:35,700 instead of causing more pain. How many of you agree today? 205 00:10:36,180 --> 00:10:37,780 Come on. Eliminate church in the house 206 00:10:37,780 --> 00:10:39,580 this morning. Amen. 207 00:10:39,820 --> 00:10:44,020 So I, I, I want to, I want to read this to you. 208 00:10:44,020 --> 00:10:47,400 But I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to read this. 209 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:48,960 I'm going to, I want to read this. 210 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,880 I want to go back to Romans 12, but I want to read it to you in 211 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,080 the message translation. And I'm going to start at verse 212 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,720 9 and I just want to lay this out. 213 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:02,080 So Romans chapter 12, verses 9 through 21, it says I love this 214 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,000 and it just it's a message and it's ministers to me and I just, 215 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,560 I want to I didn't have this apart, but I said I need to, I 216 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:10,400 need to speak this. But it says love from the center 217 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:12,960 of who you are. Don't fake it. 218 00:11:13,490 --> 00:11:15,690 How many of you heard people say fake it till you make it? 219 00:11:16,610 --> 00:11:17,970 Well, the worst tells us don't fake it. 220 00:11:18,410 --> 00:11:19,850 Love from the center of who you are. 221 00:11:20,050 --> 00:11:22,610 You see, Because when we learn to love, we don't have to fake 222 00:11:22,610 --> 00:11:24,570 it. We can be genuine. 223 00:11:24,770 --> 00:11:26,570 We can be real. We don't have to smile. 224 00:11:26,570 --> 00:11:27,850 Hey, brother. God bless you. 225 00:11:27,850 --> 00:11:29,290 How you doing, sister? Hallelujah. 226 00:11:29,290 --> 00:11:32,290 We don't have to do all that. It could be from the heart. 227 00:11:32,810 --> 00:11:35,010 Amen. We can do that from the heart. 228 00:11:35,130 --> 00:11:36,890 So it says love from the center of who you are. 229 00:11:37,250 --> 00:11:39,490 Don't fake it. Run for dear life from evil. 230 00:11:39,490 --> 00:11:44,600 Hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply. 231 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,760 Practice playing second fiddle. Don't burn out. 232 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:49,680 Keep yourselves feud in the flame. 233 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:53,320 Be alert servants of the master. Cheerfully expected. 234 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:56,520 Don't quit in hard times. Hey, hey, come on, somebody. 235 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,480 Don't quit in the hard times. Some people are probably 236 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:00,920 thinking about throwing in the towel. 237 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:02,080 I don't know about this church stuff. 238 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:03,200 I don't know. I've been serving the Lord. 239 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,240 It says don't quit in hard times. 240 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,160 Play all the harder. Pray all the harder. 241 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,100 Help needy Christians. We all got them. 242 00:12:11,820 --> 00:12:14,780 Be inventive in hospitality. Here we go. 243 00:12:14,780 --> 00:12:17,540 Bless your enemies. No cursing under your breath. 244 00:12:17,940 --> 00:12:20,420 Laugh with your happy friends. That's Tim. 245 00:12:20,780 --> 00:12:24,580 He's my happy friend. Laugh with your happy friends. 246 00:12:24,580 --> 00:12:26,340 When they're happy. Share tears. 247 00:12:26,340 --> 00:12:28,140 When they're down, get along with each other. 248 00:12:28,140 --> 00:12:29,940 Don't be stuck up. Come on. 249 00:12:29,940 --> 00:12:31,660 How many? There's There's too many 250 00:12:31,660 --> 00:12:33,100 Christians there. They're stuck up. 251 00:12:33,620 --> 00:12:35,260 We don't need to be stuck up, Christians. 252 00:12:35,780 --> 00:12:37,020 We need to. Here we go. 253 00:12:37,020 --> 00:12:40,670 We need to make friends with the nobodies and don't be the great 254 00:12:41,030 --> 00:12:49,070 somebody, don't hit back, discover beauty and everyone, he 255 00:12:49,070 --> 00:12:51,350 says. If if you've got it in you, I 256 00:12:51,350 --> 00:12:53,110 love this. If you've got it in you, get 257 00:12:53,110 --> 00:12:55,550 along with everybody. Now they're going to be some 258 00:12:55,550 --> 00:12:57,550 people you're not going to be able to please or going to be 259 00:12:57,550 --> 00:13:00,270 able to make happy. But if you got it in you, you 260 00:13:00,270 --> 00:13:02,110 get along. Amen. 261 00:13:02,710 --> 00:13:05,710 The great thing about it, when some when we're hurt we can work 262 00:13:05,710 --> 00:13:07,070 on us. We can't work on them, but we 263 00:13:07,070 --> 00:13:11,390 can work on our our response. And so don't insist on getting 264 00:13:11,390 --> 00:13:12,550 even. That's not for you. 265 00:13:12,630 --> 00:13:15,510 I'll do the judging, says God. I'll take care of it. 266 00:13:15,990 --> 00:13:18,630 Our scripture tells us that if you see your enemy hungry, go 267 00:13:18,630 --> 00:13:21,110 buy them some lunch. Or if he's thirsty, get them a 268 00:13:21,110 --> 00:13:23,350 drink. Your generosity will surprise 269 00:13:23,350 --> 00:13:26,150 them with goodness. Don't let evil get the best of 270 00:13:26,150 --> 00:13:29,510 you, but get the best of evil by doing good. 271 00:13:29,790 --> 00:13:31,870 The antidote. Amen. 272 00:13:31,950 --> 00:13:34,950 The antidote. So, you know, like I said, I've 273 00:13:34,950 --> 00:13:38,730 been meditating on this and I've been reading it and one of the 274 00:13:38,730 --> 00:13:43,130 things that I really feel in my heart is to is to talk about 275 00:13:43,130 --> 00:13:45,090 forgiveness. Okay. 276 00:13:45,090 --> 00:13:46,770 Now you may be here. So, like, I don't have nobody I 277 00:13:46,770 --> 00:13:48,650 need to forgive. Well, you just let the Holy 278 00:13:48,650 --> 00:13:53,250 Spirit work on you because I tell you, sometimes, sometimes 279 00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:55,650 the church needs it more than they preach it. 280 00:13:56,610 --> 00:14:02,730 Hey, man, sometimes we we, we know a lot, but we just 281 00:14:02,730 --> 00:14:05,780 sometimes don't walk it out. And I'm sure nobody here needs 282 00:14:05,780 --> 00:14:07,740 this message. It's all for the people that are 283 00:14:07,740 --> 00:14:11,700 not here, right. So I just want you to listen 284 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:14,580 with an open heart and just allow Holy Spirit to speak to 285 00:14:14,580 --> 00:14:17,060 you and just ask the Lord Lord show me. 286 00:14:17,220 --> 00:14:20,980 But I'm going to tell you I went through some persecution, you 287 00:14:20,980 --> 00:14:23,300 know, with, you know, in our church. 288 00:14:23,340 --> 00:14:26,380 And you know, I've had some people to talk about me and try 289 00:14:26,380 --> 00:14:29,780 to turn people against me and hurt me and and so I was trying 290 00:14:29,780 --> 00:14:31,620 to do the right things. I was trying to do the right 291 00:14:31,620 --> 00:14:33,740 things. I said, you know, let me just 292 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,860 let me call a meeting and let me just tell them, hey, you know, I 293 00:14:37,860 --> 00:14:38,900 love you. I'm sorry. 294 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:41,500 And so I, you know, I did the meeting because I'm trying to do 295 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:43,620 the right thing, right? I'm trying to do the right 296 00:14:43,620 --> 00:14:45,980 thing. And and after the meeting, I 297 00:14:45,980 --> 00:14:48,980 didn't feel better. I felt worse, you know? 298 00:14:49,100 --> 00:14:53,620 And I tried to write a letter. I said, Lord, I'm just, I'm in 299 00:14:53,620 --> 00:14:55,180 my prayer time. I'm, I'm going to write a 300 00:14:55,180 --> 00:14:56,940 letter. And I told my wife, tell me what 301 00:14:56,940 --> 00:15:00,980 you think about that letter. She said it doesn't really sound 302 00:15:00,980 --> 00:15:03,580 genuine. I said, OK, so, you know, 303 00:15:03,860 --> 00:15:06,580 everything I was trying to do, I was trying to do it from an 304 00:15:06,580 --> 00:15:08,460 external point, not an internal point. 305 00:15:09,860 --> 00:15:12,140 You know, have you ever just tried to do the right thing, but 306 00:15:12,140 --> 00:15:13,580 you really didn't feel it in your heart? 307 00:15:13,820 --> 00:15:17,220 And that's why I go back to that scripture that says love from 308 00:15:17,220 --> 00:15:19,620 the center of your heart, don't fake it. 309 00:15:20,260 --> 00:15:23,860 And so I just begin to do things differently and I begin to pray. 310 00:15:23,860 --> 00:15:26,740 And these are some of the antidotes that I'm going to get 311 00:15:26,740 --> 00:15:29,780 to later in the message. But I want to give you some 312 00:15:29,780 --> 00:15:36,840 reasons why we need to forgive. Because, you know, that's what I 313 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:38,960 I've realized that even though I was trying to do the right 314 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,280 thing, I really hadn't forgive them in my heart. 315 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:43,200 Have you ever been there? Church. 316 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,240 Have you ever been there? But the one of the main things 317 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:47,920 is that we want, we need to get rid of bitterness. 318 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,440 Because unforgiveness turns into bitterness. 319 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:56,760 It turns in to bitterness. I heard a story about a little 320 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:01,070 village in Africa that all the people were getting sick and 321 00:16:01,070 --> 00:16:02,630 they didn't understand why people are getting sick. 322 00:16:02,630 --> 00:16:06,030 And some of them were dying. And they've called some 323 00:16:06,030 --> 00:16:08,910 researchers in from the main city and they came in and they 324 00:16:08,910 --> 00:16:10,830 came, came and did the inspection. 325 00:16:10,830 --> 00:16:13,310 There was a river running right by the village, and they begin 326 00:16:13,310 --> 00:16:15,990 to take samples of the river and they found out that the water 327 00:16:16,270 --> 00:16:18,830 and the river was bad. And so they searched, and they 328 00:16:18,830 --> 00:16:21,670 searched, and they looked, and they looked and they went to the 329 00:16:21,670 --> 00:16:25,150 very beginning of the source of where it started, and everything 330 00:16:25,150 --> 00:16:29,720 on the surface looked good. But then they sent divers down 331 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,800 and they found a mother pig, and her piglets had went down there 332 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,000 and they got wedged and they had drowned. 333 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,600 So everything that flowed from the river flowed right through 334 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,520 their dead carcasses, and it was contaminating the rest of the 335 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:47,160 river. And I begin to think how so many 336 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,720 times when we hold on to bitterness, when we can't 337 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:55,960 forgive, everything runs through that bitterness to everything 338 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,140 else. And this is what happens. 339 00:16:59,580 --> 00:17:04,180 The ones that we love the most, they end up getting the 340 00:17:04,180 --> 00:17:08,060 byproduct of that. So my wife knows if I'm dealing 341 00:17:08,060 --> 00:17:12,740 with something, I get a little snappy, I get a little touchy, 342 00:17:12,740 --> 00:17:16,660 and I get impatient. I know, I know that doesn't 343 00:17:16,660 --> 00:17:21,900 happen to anybody here, just me. But you can tell and and the 344 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:25,140 people around you that you love the most, you know, my daughter, 345 00:17:25,140 --> 00:17:27,060 your children. And so that's why it's very 346 00:17:27,060 --> 00:17:30,340 important that we get rid of the unforgivable. 347 00:17:30,340 --> 00:17:33,780 So we get rid of the bitterness because it hurts our 348 00:17:33,780 --> 00:17:38,500 relationships, especially those closest to you also. 349 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:41,940 It's an open door. You know, it's a it's an open 350 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:46,510 door to the enemy. And the enemy is looking for 351 00:17:46,670 --> 00:17:49,990 any, looking for a place in Ephesians that says give no 352 00:17:49,990 --> 00:17:52,790 place to the devil, give no place. 353 00:17:53,190 --> 00:17:54,750 And when? When? 354 00:17:55,230 --> 00:18:01,110 When we When We refuse to allow God to do what he wants to do, 355 00:18:01,110 --> 00:18:03,910 or to speak what he wants to speak or to say what he wants to 356 00:18:03,910 --> 00:18:05,710 say. If God says bless them, bless 357 00:18:05,710 --> 00:18:07,590 them, send them a gift, send them this. 358 00:18:07,950 --> 00:18:10,590 Or maybe the Lord is just telling you, you need to pray. 359 00:18:10,990 --> 00:18:14,880 You need to you need to ask God. You need to ask. 360 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:17,040 You need to ask the guy what What's in my heart that I need 361 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,520 to release. So and this is the thing I want 362 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,520 to tell you because like Pastor Tim mentioned, just like you 363 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,600 guys, we we're about to cross over into our promised land. 364 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,680 Amen. We we we were supposed to close 365 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:32,800 before we we came. But we'll be closing when we get 366 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:34,640 back. And you know we bought a 367 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,000 building and it's 3 1/2 acres and it's our promised land 368 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,200 because we've been 12 years and we've been renting a building. 369 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,740 But the Lord just begin to show me that were crossing over into 370 00:18:44,740 --> 00:18:46,060 the promised land and over there. 371 00:18:46,060 --> 00:18:51,580 In Exodus chapter 15 it talks about how when Moses was leading 372 00:18:51,580 --> 00:18:54,700 the children of Israel and right after they crossed over into the 373 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:56,820 Red Sea. Crossed crossed through the Red 374 00:18:56,820 --> 00:19:00,620 Sea not over but through it. That the Bible says that they 375 00:19:00,620 --> 00:19:05,860 were needing water and they came to the streams of Mara. 376 00:19:06,420 --> 00:19:08,140 Does anybody know what Mara means? 377 00:19:09,020 --> 00:19:15,820 It means bitter waters, and it's amazing that before they were to 378 00:19:15,820 --> 00:19:20,100 go into the promised land, they had to pass through Mara. 379 00:19:21,620 --> 00:19:24,140 Amen. And I just began to look at our 380 00:19:24,140 --> 00:19:27,540 church and I began to think we need to crossover with cleans 381 00:19:27,540 --> 00:19:30,120 hands and a pure heart. Amen. 382 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,520 We don't need to go over murmuring and complaining. 383 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:37,360 We, you know, God brought them by there and and this is this is 384 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:40,240 what's the this was the solution when when the waters were bitter 385 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,200 and when they drunk he told God, pray. 386 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,840 I mean Moses prayed to God and God says there's a tree throw it 387 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,760 in there. What does the tree represent the 388 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,760 cross. What happened at the cross? 389 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,960 Me. And you were forgiven me. 390 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,990 And you were forgiven. If God did it for us. 391 00:20:02,310 --> 00:20:05,270 Amen. Then we should be able to do it 392 00:20:05,910 --> 00:20:08,950 for others. That's where your healing comes 393 00:20:08,950 --> 00:20:11,150 from. We have to turn to the cross. 394 00:20:11,150 --> 00:20:14,230 And we got to look at what Jesus did. 395 00:20:14,770 --> 00:20:17,930 On our behalf And that's this is, it was just so significant 396 00:20:17,930 --> 00:20:21,050 for me that because I just declare that that illuminate 397 00:20:21,050 --> 00:20:24,650 church is going to this new land and you're going to be ready to 398 00:20:24,650 --> 00:20:27,250 love from the center of your heart. 399 00:20:27,450 --> 00:20:29,970 You're going to be ready to love with open arms. 400 00:20:30,210 --> 00:20:33,090 You're not going to look at the people of what they did, where 401 00:20:33,090 --> 00:20:35,210 they came from. You're going to love them 402 00:20:35,210 --> 00:20:37,970 because of the love of God that was poured out on you and poured 403 00:20:37,970 --> 00:20:38,810 out on me. Amen. 404 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,840 And I'm telling you, the city of Orlando is going to be 405 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:44,920 transformed. And you know where they're going 406 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,040 to come. They're going to come where it's 407 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:48,160 illuminated. Amen. 408 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,280 Where the light of God is. So and the last thing I want to 409 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,720 tell you, the reason why we need to do it is because Jesus tells 410 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,760 us to do it. Amen. 411 00:20:55,760 --> 00:21:02,160 It's like, you know, it's it's, it's sometimes we think that 412 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,920 it's hard, but God told us to do it. 413 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,320 And we know, like I knew God was telling me to do it, to forgive. 414 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,960 But, you know, sometimes we think it's hard. 415 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,000 How can we do it if you don't know what happened to me? 416 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,720 You know, not to get into a lot of details, but me and my wife, 417 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,400 we were both abused when we were children, you know, and we had 418 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,160 to forgive. And these are people that you 419 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,680 still see, but it comes out of it. 420 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,360 It doesn't. Let me just tell you this. 421 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:32,440 You're anointed. You're anointed for heart. 422 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:36,040 You're anointed for heart. Did you know you were anointed 423 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,080 for heart? How many of you been filled with 424 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,190 the Holy Ghost? So what is the Holy Spirit 425 00:21:41,190 --> 00:21:42,670 called? He's called a helper. 426 00:21:43,430 --> 00:21:47,390 So you only need help if something is hard, right? 427 00:21:48,310 --> 00:21:51,070 You only need help if something is hard. 428 00:21:51,270 --> 00:21:55,390 If you're if you're hurt and you and you need a helper. 429 00:21:55,430 --> 00:21:58,550 He he's a comforter. If you need direction, he's a 430 00:21:58,550 --> 00:22:01,830 counselor. If you need to forgive, he's 431 00:22:01,830 --> 00:22:04,830 there to help you. You're anointed for Come on, 432 00:22:04,830 --> 00:22:06,630 look at your neighbor and say you're anointed for hard. 433 00:22:07,750 --> 00:22:10,560 Amen. So these are some of the 434 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,800 benefits that we know that God, that God gives us. 435 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,360 Some of the benefits is that he tells us in this scripture we 436 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:20,480 just read that when you forgive, when you let go, when you 437 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,040 release it, God says I'll fight your battles. 438 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:27,880 Amen. Now I've tried to fight my own 439 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,680 battles and it didn't come out too good. 440 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,800 But when I've learned to let God fight my battles, he did a lot 441 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:40,530 better job than than I did. I mean, I have. 442 00:22:42,490 --> 00:22:44,610 I have a testimony. There was a person that was 443 00:22:44,610 --> 00:22:47,410 talking about me and stuff like that and and you know, I was at 444 00:22:47,410 --> 00:22:51,450 the church and I remember I was praying and they were speaking 445 00:22:51,450 --> 00:22:53,370 to this person. He's like, yeah, he said this 446 00:22:53,370 --> 00:22:55,090 about you. He said that about you, which 447 00:22:55,090 --> 00:22:57,610 none of this stuff was true. But I didn't. 448 00:22:57,650 --> 00:22:59,770 I wasn't trying to going to defend myself. 449 00:23:00,330 --> 00:23:03,850 And I never forget they were talking to another pastor and 450 00:23:04,410 --> 00:23:05,570 this pastor calls me out of blue. 451 00:23:05,570 --> 00:23:07,050 He goes, hey, what's up with so and so? 452 00:23:07,570 --> 00:23:08,570 And I was like, what do you mean? 453 00:23:08,890 --> 00:23:10,210 He's like, he said this and this. 454 00:23:10,210 --> 00:23:12,650 And then I told him, he said this pastor just sensed that. 455 00:23:12,650 --> 00:23:15,690 He says you're wrong for that. He told this other guy, he said 456 00:23:15,690 --> 00:23:18,330 you're wrong for that. And everything that he was 457 00:23:18,330 --> 00:23:20,090 trying to do just blew up in his face. 458 00:23:20,250 --> 00:23:25,970 But I didn't have to do a thing. Hey man, when people talk bad 459 00:23:25,970 --> 00:23:29,530 about you, when they make it their aim to make you look bad. 460 00:23:29,890 --> 00:23:33,490 God says if you just let me fight the battle for you, I'll 461 00:23:33,490 --> 00:23:36,570 take care of it and you come out with not even the smell of 462 00:23:36,570 --> 00:23:40,290 smoke. Hey man, when we learn to say 463 00:23:40,290 --> 00:23:43,410 God, I'm doing your will, I'm going to stay with you. 464 00:23:43,650 --> 00:23:46,850 I release whatever is in my heart and you just walk with 465 00:23:46,850 --> 00:23:47,890 God. God is going to fight your 466 00:23:47,890 --> 00:23:49,490 battles. And let me just tell you 467 00:23:49,490 --> 00:23:50,930 something, It's not just stuff in the church. 468 00:23:51,130 --> 00:23:52,490 It's stuff that you grew up with. 469 00:23:53,850 --> 00:23:57,650 These are things that we went through as children, that we had 470 00:23:57,650 --> 00:24:02,570 to learn how to release folks. Because as you know as well as I 471 00:24:02,570 --> 00:24:06,490 do, when you forgive, it's not for them, it's for you. 472 00:24:07,990 --> 00:24:09,470 Do you? Do you, do you agree? 473 00:24:10,030 --> 00:24:12,270 Now, I know that we've talked about forgiveness before in 474 00:24:12,270 --> 00:24:16,390 church, but I don't think that a lot of times we do a self 475 00:24:16,390 --> 00:24:17,950 evaluation. We think we're good. 476 00:24:19,030 --> 00:24:21,710 But it's something that we have to ask the Lord, Lord, show me 477 00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:24,230 in my heart the people that I need to forgive. 478 00:24:24,430 --> 00:24:28,830 So, you know, a little test is. A little test is, is. 479 00:24:30,030 --> 00:24:33,350 If you hear somebody talking good about somebody that hurts 480 00:24:33,350 --> 00:24:36,780 you and then you're tempted to say, well, let me tell you a 481 00:24:36,780 --> 00:24:39,820 little something you don't know about that person, then that's a 482 00:24:39,820 --> 00:24:42,620 little that's a clear indication something's wrong in here. 483 00:24:43,020 --> 00:24:47,220 Hey, man. So another benefit is that 484 00:24:47,620 --> 00:24:51,180 you'll keep your peace and you walk in freedom. 485 00:24:52,740 --> 00:24:56,780 If you do anything, if you minister to anybody, if you're 486 00:24:56,780 --> 00:25:00,500 there to give counsel, if you're there, then you need your peace. 487 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,600 You know, I don't have a luxury to hold grudges. 488 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,840 I don't have the luxury to go hide for two or three weeks. 489 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,520 I get up and I and I administer to people every week. 490 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,200 So I need my heart, right? I need my peace. 491 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,440 And you know, it's torment. It's torment to hold on to 492 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,960 things that have happened yesterday or a year ago or 10 493 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,240 years ago. I'm free. 494 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,240 Whom the sunsets. Free is what? 495 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:28,880 Free indeed. Boom. 496 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,880 The sunset's free. It's free indeed. 497 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,960 So if the if Jesus set me free, then I should walk in total 498 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,480 freedom with the spirit of the Lord is there is what? 499 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,160 There's freedom. So as believers you know the 500 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:47,080 benefit of of you walking and and and forgiveness is that 501 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,080 you're going to have peace. The peace that surpasses all 502 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:54,400 understanding. And this is the one thing that I 503 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,360 love and we talked about it. Don't fake it, but you'll truly 504 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:03,220 love without hypocrisy. I mean, again, you won't be 505 00:26:03,220 --> 00:26:05,500 having a smile on your face but hating your heart. 506 00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:08,380 Amen. When you say I love you, 507 00:26:08,380 --> 00:26:12,180 brother, you can really mean it. You're like, yeah, I love him, 508 00:26:12,180 --> 00:26:14,140 but I don't want to talk to him or I'm gonna love him from a 509 00:26:14,140 --> 00:26:17,860 distance or yeah, you know, or I'm not going to hang out with 510 00:26:17,860 --> 00:26:20,580 whatever it is Or if somebody you can hear somebody's name and 511 00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:25,020 it just ruins your day. Come on, somebody you can truly 512 00:26:25,020 --> 00:26:28,490 love without hypocrisy because how many of you know that if 513 00:26:28,490 --> 00:26:31,010 there's any real people, it should be the people in the 514 00:26:31,010 --> 00:26:33,090 church. Amen. 515 00:26:34,010 --> 00:26:37,610 We should be the people that reflect God's love. 516 00:26:37,650 --> 00:26:40,970 And and just to be totally transparent, totally honest, we 517 00:26:40,970 --> 00:26:43,730 know that there's a lot of times not all churches, but some 518 00:26:43,730 --> 00:26:45,810 churches, they don't reflect the love of God. 519 00:26:46,930 --> 00:26:49,810 They don't reflect the acceptance or the forgiveness. 520 00:26:50,290 --> 00:26:53,730 And so we need to be that church to love that loves without 521 00:26:53,810 --> 00:26:54,810 hypocrisy. Amen. 522 00:26:55,450 --> 00:27:00,650 And again, you're blessed. You're blessed. 523 00:27:01,050 --> 00:27:05,450 When you forgive, you're blessed, the Bible says in 524 00:27:05,450 --> 00:27:09,890 Matthew 511 through 13. It says, blessed are you when 525 00:27:09,890 --> 00:27:16,330 they revile and persecute you and and say all kinds of evil 526 00:27:16,370 --> 00:27:19,720 against you falsely. For my sake, he says, rejoice 527 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,480 and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. 528 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,080 For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. 529 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,360 How many of you know when you're in good company, when they 530 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:31,240 persecute you for being a blessing? 531 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,320 Come on, somebody. Hey, man, When we were in Israel 532 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,600 we had a terrific guide. Her name was Sonia and she did a 533 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,040 whole study on the Beatitudes and she was talking about in the 534 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,000 Hebrew language, that word in the Beatitudes, when it says you 535 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,640 know you're blessed, blessed all the plore, blessed all the meek, 536 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:52,000 blessed all those, he said. She said that word means you are 537 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,400 extremely blessed when you mourn with those who mourn. 538 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,280 You're extremely blessed when they persecute you, she says. 539 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,760 She talked about that this being a divine reversal, which meaning 540 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,600 that it goes against what the culture does. 541 00:28:08,430 --> 00:28:10,190 How many of you know that Jesus was countercultural? 542 00:28:11,350 --> 00:28:14,030 How many You know that we got to be countercultural, that we 543 00:28:14,030 --> 00:28:16,510 can't repay evil for evil, but we can. 544 00:28:16,670 --> 00:28:19,950 We can do good where there is evil and we can get rid of evil. 545 00:28:19,950 --> 00:28:22,070 Amen. So that's what she was talking 546 00:28:22,070 --> 00:28:26,590 about when Jesus spoke this on on that amount of of of 547 00:28:26,590 --> 00:28:30,510 beatitudes that he was saying don't do what the world does, do 548 00:28:30,510 --> 00:28:33,760 what I do. We also talked about not the 549 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,080 external, but he said the internal. 550 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,160 He says you have been told eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. 551 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,800 But I tell you the truth that when you when you hate your 552 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,920 brother you murder him in your heart because the Pharisees 553 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:46,920 thought they had to figure it out. 554 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,400 They thought they were all square cut and they thought they 555 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,080 didn't have any issues. But he says you do things out 556 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,560 the external, but I'm telling you to do it from the heart. 557 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,530 Amen. And they said, oh, you know, we 558 00:28:59,530 --> 00:29:00,490 don't commit adultery. No. 559 00:29:00,490 --> 00:29:02,690 When you look at a woman with lust, you've already committed 560 00:29:02,690 --> 00:29:05,050 adultery in your heart. Amen. 561 00:29:05,770 --> 00:29:10,770 And so it's it's just Jesus was always telling us to do 562 00:29:10,770 --> 00:29:14,010 something on on the inside versus the outside. 563 00:29:14,250 --> 00:29:17,650 So, you know, again, I just love that scripture, Romans 12/9. 564 00:29:17,650 --> 00:29:21,330 It says love from the center of who you are, don't fake it. 565 00:29:21,850 --> 00:29:24,950 Amen. So you might be hitting here and 566 00:29:24,950 --> 00:29:26,830 just like okay pastor, how do you do it? 567 00:29:27,070 --> 00:29:30,630 How, how do we get rid of all of these things? 568 00:29:30,630 --> 00:29:33,230 I've tried to forgive, but I still feel the same way. 569 00:29:34,550 --> 00:29:37,350 Well, first of all, you just, again, like you rely on the Holy 570 00:29:37,350 --> 00:29:39,110 Spirit. You ask the Holy Spirit to help 571 00:29:39,110 --> 00:29:43,990 you because you know you can't forgive on your own. 572 00:29:44,070 --> 00:29:48,910 You need Holy Spirit to be able to move on your life and to help 573 00:29:48,910 --> 00:29:51,110 you and to show you things and to remember. 574 00:29:51,110 --> 00:29:53,510 But I there's three little things that I want to I want to 575 00:29:53,510 --> 00:29:54,990 give to you. But first I just want to tell 576 00:29:54,990 --> 00:29:59,110 you that in Proverbs 423 it says guard your heart above all else 577 00:30:00,150 --> 00:30:06,610 for out of it for what? The issues of life guard your 578 00:30:06,610 --> 00:30:10,970 heart above all else, because out of it flow the issues of 579 00:30:10,970 --> 00:30:13,970 life. So we have to learn to to guard 580 00:30:13,970 --> 00:30:17,450 and govern our heart because the heart regulates our actions. 581 00:30:19,010 --> 00:30:22,250 Amen. So the first thing that I had to 582 00:30:22,250 --> 00:30:24,890 do in my life when I was going to, that is the first thing I 583 00:30:24,890 --> 00:30:26,290 had to do. I have to pray. 584 00:30:26,290 --> 00:30:29,450 I have to pray for this person. Amen. 585 00:30:29,450 --> 00:30:32,050 I have to pray for those that I have to pray for them. 586 00:30:32,050 --> 00:30:38,270 I mean really taking the time to pray, to speak a word, a good 587 00:30:38,270 --> 00:30:40,310 word. Lord, bless them, Lord, Lord, 588 00:30:41,110 --> 00:30:44,390 show them things. Lord, show them all the things 589 00:30:44,390 --> 00:30:45,830 that that you have in store for them. 590 00:30:46,070 --> 00:30:48,790 Lord, I pray good things. I pray that you would bless them 591 00:30:48,790 --> 00:30:51,310 and not curse them, and that that that you would overflow 592 00:30:51,310 --> 00:30:53,190 them in all of these areas of their life. 593 00:30:53,430 --> 00:30:56,710 I just be getting to pray for them, you see, because when when 594 00:30:56,790 --> 00:30:59,350 if you can't pray for somebody, you probably can't forgive them. 595 00:31:00,910 --> 00:31:04,060 So we got to learn to pray. We got to learn to bless. 596 00:31:04,060 --> 00:31:06,500 We got to learn to speak that the Bible says that power of 597 00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:10,300 life and death is where and your tongue and those that love it 598 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:13,780 will eat the fruit thereof. So when we learn to bless, when 599 00:31:13,780 --> 00:31:17,980 we learn to speak a blessing over them, then you know that's 600 00:31:17,980 --> 00:31:21,020 just kind of the first step that I be have I I've learned to do 601 00:31:21,020 --> 00:31:24,260 things internally when somebody has come against me. 602 00:31:24,420 --> 00:31:26,900 The other thing that I do if that if I'm praying and praying 603 00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:29,460 that don't work, man, I just take a day of fast for them. 604 00:31:30,030 --> 00:31:32,190 What are you fasting for? I'm, I'm fasting for this, 605 00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:33,710 brother. I'm fasting for this, sister. 606 00:31:33,710 --> 00:31:36,750 I'm fasting because I'm just believing God, for a 607 00:31:36,750 --> 00:31:39,790 breakthrough in their life. You're like, wow, they're 608 00:31:39,790 --> 00:31:44,030 they're not worth the whole day. They're not worth me. 609 00:31:44,790 --> 00:31:47,790 Losing, not, not eating. You know, the Old Testament 610 00:31:47,790 --> 00:31:51,950 talks about the Old Testament talks about when you fast, you 611 00:31:51,950 --> 00:31:55,470 afflict your soul. Did you know that? 612 00:31:56,190 --> 00:32:00,260 So what is your soul? Your mind, your will and your 613 00:32:00,260 --> 00:32:02,660 emotions. You don't want to do it in your 614 00:32:02,660 --> 00:32:05,020 mind. You don't want to fast. 615 00:32:05,020 --> 00:32:06,900 You don't want that. You don't want to do it. 616 00:32:06,900 --> 00:32:09,180 That's part of your will and your emotions, right? 617 00:32:09,460 --> 00:32:11,380 Is this. I don't like them. 618 00:32:12,020 --> 00:32:14,300 Why would I fast for them? But these are just some things. 619 00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:17,940 These are principles in the word of God that God gives us to to 620 00:32:18,060 --> 00:32:19,740 to get it out of our system. Amen. 621 00:32:19,940 --> 00:32:21,980 So then you're going to, you're going to want to bless them. 622 00:32:21,980 --> 00:32:23,700 You're going to want to see them, You're going to want to be 623 00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:25,660 able to speak over them. Now, I want to just tell you 624 00:32:25,660 --> 00:32:29,260 this because I know that some of us have come come out of very 625 00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:32,940 hurtful relationships or situations. 626 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:39,230 When you bless those that persecute you, it does not mean 627 00:32:39,230 --> 00:32:41,710 that you have to go back into an abusive relationship. 628 00:32:44,110 --> 00:32:47,550 Amen. You just want to get it out of 629 00:32:47,550 --> 00:32:50,430 your heart. You just want to be able to 630 00:32:50,430 --> 00:32:55,550 laugh again, learn to love again, learn to enjoy life, not 631 00:32:55,990 --> 00:32:58,670 not treat everybody the same. Because again, like that filter, 632 00:32:58,670 --> 00:33:01,630 that, that contamination, there's been people that have 633 00:33:01,630 --> 00:33:04,670 got hurt in church and now they they're church by, they're hurt 634 00:33:04,670 --> 00:33:07,400 by every church. Or maybe a Christian has hurt 635 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,640 them and they filter that. Or maybe a woman has been 636 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,800 mistreated by men and she treats every man that she meets or vice 637 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,800 versa. We just want to get it out of 638 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,160 our heart. I'm not taking it lightly from 639 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,280 what you've been through because I've been through some some 640 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,280 things in my life when I couldn't defend myself as a 641 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,640 child, but I've released it and I've forgiven them. 642 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,600 It doesn't mean that I go back into that. 643 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,320 I don't have to go back into that. 644 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,960 Heard a pastor counseling the lady and he had she had a lot of 645 00:33:34,460 --> 00:33:37,940 bitterness and unforgiveness and and he told her, he said you got 646 00:33:37,940 --> 00:33:39,620 to forgive. And she began to weep. 647 00:33:39,620 --> 00:33:42,660 She began to cry and then she stopped crying. 648 00:33:42,660 --> 00:33:44,860 She goes, you mean to have to go back into that relationship? 649 00:33:44,860 --> 00:33:47,620 He says no, you just got to let it go. 650 00:33:48,820 --> 00:33:50,780 Amen. Just got to let it go because 651 00:33:51,220 --> 00:33:53,340 God wants you free. Amen. 652 00:33:53,660 --> 00:33:56,380 So we pray, we fast. And this is the thing This is 653 00:33:56,380 --> 00:33:59,260 the point I want to get to is that we remember. 654 00:34:00,780 --> 00:34:05,310 We remember how much God loves you and how much he forgave you. 655 00:34:06,270 --> 00:34:12,350 Amen. So the antidote to that 656 00:34:12,350 --> 00:34:18,469 forgiveness, to being able to forgive, is to remember how much 657 00:34:19,270 --> 00:34:21,310 we were forgiven. And I want to take you to this 658 00:34:21,310 --> 00:34:23,550 word. This word has always blessed me, 659 00:34:23,790 --> 00:34:28,150 but it's a Luke. Chapter 7, verse 36 through 48. 660 00:34:28,949 --> 00:34:34,750 But it was really about this woman that when Jesus was in the 661 00:34:34,750 --> 00:34:39,510 House of Simon this Pharisee, and he went in there and he went 662 00:34:39,510 --> 00:34:41,790 in there to die and he went there to sit. 663 00:34:42,110 --> 00:34:47,830 And this woman with an alabaster box, she comes in, she sneaks in 664 00:34:47,830 --> 00:34:49,630 and everybody starts talking about her. 665 00:34:49,630 --> 00:34:53,750 And they even said if he really was a prophet, he wouldn't know 666 00:34:53,750 --> 00:34:55,510 what type of woman is touching him. 667 00:34:56,190 --> 00:34:59,350 And here he was, he was reclining and she's she comes in 668 00:34:59,790 --> 00:35:04,080 and Jesus hears them or he knows what they're saying under their 669 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:09,040 breath. And so he says in verse 40 let's 670 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,760 going to go to we're going to go to Luke 7. 671 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,040 Verse 40. So in Jesus answered him and 672 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,080 said to him, he said, Simon, I have something to say to you? 673 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,360 He said, see? He said say it. 674 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,320 Teacher. He said there was a certain 675 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,360 creditor who had two debtors, 1 owed him 500 Denari and the 676 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,320 other 50 and when they had nothing with which to repay, he 677 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,520 freely forgave them both. He said, tell me therefore which 678 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:37,720 one of them love him more? And Simon answered and said, I 679 00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:41,360 suppose from the one he forgave more. 680 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,560 And he said to him, you have rightly judged. 681 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:47,240 And then he turned to the woman, and I just love this. 682 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:48,880 I want you to just sit right there in that room. 683 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,040 I want you to picture this because man, Jesus is putting 684 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,320 that fairy on the spot and everybody else that was judging 685 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,960 that day, he said to him, he says he turned to the woman. 686 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,320 He says, You see that woman over there? 687 00:36:01,950 --> 00:36:05,910 He says I entered your house. He says you gave me the water 688 00:36:05,910 --> 00:36:08,950 for my feet, but she has washed my feet with her tears and wiped 689 00:36:08,950 --> 00:36:11,430 them with her head. He says you gave me no kiss, but 690 00:36:11,430 --> 00:36:14,630 this woman has not ceased to kiss my feet since the time I 691 00:36:14,630 --> 00:36:16,670 came in. He says you did not anoint my 692 00:36:16,670 --> 00:36:19,590 head with oil, but this woman has anointed my feet with 693 00:36:19,590 --> 00:36:21,790 fragrant oil. Therefore I say to you, her 694 00:36:21,790 --> 00:36:29,680 sins, which are many, are forgiven for she loved much, but 695 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:34,600 to whom little is forgiven the same loves little. 696 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,680 And then he said to her, your sins are forgiven. 697 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:44,560 Let me ask you this today church how much has he forgiven you? 698 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:52,680 For how much? When he saw you and he loved you 699 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,280 and he said, how much have we been given? 700 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:59,620 Because the Bible says when you've been forgiven much, you 701 00:36:59,620 --> 00:37:02,500 love much. But to him it was forgiven 702 00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:08,500 little Love's little. Now regardless of the way, if 703 00:37:08,500 --> 00:37:12,060 you think you've been forgiven little, we've all been forgiven 704 00:37:12,060 --> 00:37:14,420 a lot. Hey man, let me just tell you 705 00:37:14,420 --> 00:37:18,780 church, if we don't know, we were all on our way to hell but 706 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:22,940 Jesus, come on. But Jesus, he left the Kingdom 707 00:37:22,940 --> 00:37:30,090 of God to come down to earth to give his life as a ransom for 708 00:37:30,090 --> 00:37:34,770 you and for me. And if if everybody would have 709 00:37:34,770 --> 00:37:39,610 been able to see what this woman saw and the way that she loved, 710 00:37:40,410 --> 00:37:44,410 they would have been different. But forgiven people Let me this 711 00:37:44,410 --> 00:37:48,610 is my point that I want to make that forgiven People they know 712 00:37:49,570 --> 00:37:54,450 how to love. Forgiven people know how to 713 00:37:54,450 --> 00:37:59,400 forgive, and forgiven people know how to bless those that 714 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,240 persecute them. Amen. 715 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:08,240 So in closing, I just want to say this, that unforgiveness can 716 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:10,880 steal your voice, ruin your ministry, hurt your 717 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,800 relationships, and even damage your health. 718 00:38:15,950 --> 00:38:17,750 I love what Paul said in Acts 2024. 719 00:38:18,190 --> 00:38:20,790 He said none of these things move me, nor do I count my life 720 00:38:20,790 --> 00:38:26,430 dear to myself, except that I may finish my race with joy and 721 00:38:26,430 --> 00:38:28,950 accomplish the ministry that the Lord Jesus has given me. 722 00:38:29,830 --> 00:38:31,390 He says none of these things move me. 723 00:38:31,510 --> 00:38:34,030 I'm going to tell you today, church, when you get in that 724 00:38:34,030 --> 00:38:36,590 place with God, none of these things will move you either. 725 00:38:36,870 --> 00:38:38,630 Paul was a man just like you and me. 726 00:38:38,630 --> 00:38:41,710 He was a human just like you and me and and the things that he 727 00:38:41,710 --> 00:38:45,240 went through, the things that he did in his life, he called 728 00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:49,840 himself the least of all the Apostle soul reminding, 729 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,680 reminding ourselves of God's love removes the contamination 730 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:58,320 from our lives. What would we look like? 731 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:04,840 What would we feel like? What would we act like if we 732 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:09,080 were to just let it go? How would we look at, Let me 733 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,480 tell you something. When people when y'all move into 734 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,000 that new building and you're going to be there, you know what 735 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,440 people, people are going to come. 736 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,840 They're going to be looking for the father, not the older 737 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,440 brother. Amen. 738 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,200 How many of you know the prodigal story, the prodigal son 739 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,440 story? O K5 people. 740 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:34,720 All right, OKI just want to give you that little the prodigal 741 00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:36,280 son. Think I want you to think about 742 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:42,200 this. The prodigal son came home and 743 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:47,240 he was he needed mercy, he he needed forgiveness, he needed 744 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:48,520 grace. He needed all that. 745 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:50,520 And the father was waiting for him. 746 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,800 And when he saw him, he ran out to him. 747 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,240 But when they begin to party and kill the fatty calf, the word, 748 00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,520 the noise got around to the older brother and the older 749 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,240 brother refused to go in. You don't know what he did. 750 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,680 How can he have done that and just come back home like that? 751 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,600 How? How is it that the father? 752 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:13,680 He told the father. How can you even kill the fatty 753 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:14,240 calf? He says. 754 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,720 I've been here, I've been good. I've done everything right. 755 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:18,520 You haven't even killed a skinny goat for me. 756 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:22,520 This is what the father told him. 757 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,920 The father did not please the older brother, he said, Son, I 758 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,960 love you. I love you just like I love your 759 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,200 brother. He said we should be rejoicing 760 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:38,520 because that brother of yours, he was lost and now he's found 761 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:44,960 he was dead and now he's alive. He said we should re rejoice 762 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:46,720 him. This is what happened and we 763 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:48,360 don't see this. We don't read a new story. 764 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,960 The father and everybody, they still went to the party. 765 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,320 The party didn't stop because somebody was judging. 766 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,760 Come on, somebody. The the party didn't stop 767 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,400 because he couldn't let go. The party didn't stop. 768 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,630 The party went on. When we don't let go, the 769 00:41:05,630 --> 00:41:09,070 party's still going on. When we don't let go, that that 770 00:41:09,070 --> 00:41:12,870 person still enjoying life. You didn't. 771 00:41:12,950 --> 00:41:14,710 We didn't. We don't stop nothing by holding 772 00:41:14,710 --> 00:41:23,030 on to it. He blessed us to be a blessing. 773 00:41:24,990 --> 00:41:29,750 Amen. You know, if we learned it. 774 00:41:30,270 --> 00:41:32,110 I tell this to our men's ministry. 775 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,400 I always tell them if you can do it at home, you could do it 776 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,520 anywhere. Hey, man, there's times when me 777 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,240 and my wife used to get in our little tiffs. 778 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:43,760 Come on, Have you got into the little tiff, little spats? 779 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,440 And you know, we're laying in bed and I'm just laying on the 780 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:53,480 edge of the bed and not wanting to touch her because I'm mad And 781 00:41:53,480 --> 00:42:00,160 she falls asleep warm and cozy. Didn't do me no good. 782 00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:04,350 So I wake her up. Hey, we need to talk. 783 00:42:06,270 --> 00:42:07,590 No, but you know, it doesn't do any good. 784 00:42:07,590 --> 00:42:10,510 We've learned over the years. Thank God we started at the age 785 00:42:10,510 --> 00:42:11,950 of 16. Come on with somebody. 786 00:42:12,590 --> 00:42:17,230 We got a lot of practice in, so we've learned to be quick to 787 00:42:17,230 --> 00:42:19,310 forgive. Amen. 788 00:42:19,990 --> 00:42:25,150 When we do that church, you know our life will be full of peace. 789 00:42:25,430 --> 00:42:30,070 None of us deserve an innocent man dying for our sins, but he 790 00:42:30,070 --> 00:42:35,810 did it anyway. What would illuminate Church 791 00:42:35,810 --> 00:42:42,050 look like to be so bright, to be so loving, to be so much joy? 792 00:42:42,090 --> 00:42:44,970 I'm telling you, it's going to be, it's going to be amazing. 793 00:42:44,970 --> 00:42:46,890 And I'm not saying that you guys are not doing. 794 00:42:46,890 --> 00:42:49,850 I know y'all are doing it now. But I know that God did not give 795 00:42:49,850 --> 00:42:52,010 me this message for everybody that's not here. 796 00:42:53,490 --> 00:42:57,850 I know that there's some some of you here today that you may feel 797 00:42:57,850 --> 00:43:00,530 like there is some things you know. 798 00:43:01,260 --> 00:43:02,740 First Corinth. I'll close with the scripture. 799 00:43:02,740 --> 00:43:04,580 1st Corinthians 15, nine through 10. 800 00:43:04,780 --> 00:43:07,420 This is what Paul says is I'm the least of all the apostles. 801 00:43:08,740 --> 00:43:14,860 In fact, I caused so much trouble for God's church that I 802 00:43:14,860 --> 00:43:17,060 don't even deserve to be called an apostle. 803 00:43:18,420 --> 00:43:20,540 But God treated me with undeserved grace. 804 00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:24,420 He made me what I am and his grace wasn't wasted. 805 00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:28,300 I work much harder than all the other apostles, although it was 806 00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:31,050 really God's grace at work in me. 807 00:43:32,850 --> 00:43:34,250 How many of you can say that today? 808 00:43:35,250 --> 00:43:37,130 Amen. I want you to stand to your feet 809 00:43:37,130 --> 00:43:40,090 with me for a moment, and I just want to pray with you. 810 00:43:42,330 --> 00:43:44,770 I just want to pray with you. I'm not going to call you out. 811 00:43:44,770 --> 00:43:45,770 I'm not going to singing you out. 812 00:43:45,770 --> 00:43:49,930 But I just want this to be a time of you and the Holy Spirit 813 00:43:51,290 --> 00:43:55,810 just allowing the Lord to to minister to your heart with 814 00:43:55,810 --> 00:43:57,570 every head bound, every eye closed. 815 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,960 I want you to ask the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, examine my 816 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:08,440 heart and see if there's any wicked way in me, anything that 817 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,920 I'm holding on to. Lord, that if there's people 818 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,760 here that you know that you need to release and just allow the 819 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,680 Lord to do a work. And I'm telling you, July 23rd 820 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:21,560 will be a day that you can be free. 821 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,400 Maybe if you're here today and you feel like I don't have 822 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:30,270 anybody, that it's coming up, well, why don't you pray for the 823 00:44:30,270 --> 00:44:33,750 family member that you know that they're not talking. 824 00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:36,190 Maybe it's something that split the family. 825 00:44:36,190 --> 00:44:38,430 Maybe it's something that they had a disagreement about. 826 00:44:38,430 --> 00:44:41,870 Whatever it was. Pray for them right now. 827 00:44:43,790 --> 00:44:45,510 Stand in their behalf, stand in the gap. 828 00:44:48,030 --> 00:44:49,710 But if you're here today and you say, you know what, I want to 829 00:44:49,710 --> 00:44:53,590 get right with you, Lord, I want you to repeat this prayer after 830 00:44:53,590 --> 00:44:56,790 me. Say, Lord Jesus, I ask you today 831 00:44:58,750 --> 00:45:03,750 to show me the things that I need to release. 832 00:45:04,910 --> 00:45:09,150 Lord, I forgive those that have hurt me. 833 00:45:10,030 --> 00:45:13,470 I release them. Lord, I release them. 834 00:45:14,230 --> 00:45:18,790 I no longer hold on to the past. I know I'll no longer hold on to 835 00:45:18,790 --> 00:45:23,670 what is done. And Father, I pray today that 836 00:45:23,670 --> 00:45:27,900 you will replace the hurt with love. 837 00:45:28,860 --> 00:45:34,940 I thank you, Jesus, for forgiving me of all my sense and 838 00:45:34,940 --> 00:45:37,540 loving me just the way that I am. 839 00:45:39,460 --> 00:45:43,260 And I pray that I will be able to do the same for others. 840 00:45:44,660 --> 00:45:49,420 In Jesus name. Amen And Amen. 841 00:45:49,780 --> 00:45:51,660 Hallelujah. Will God bless you. 842 00:45:52,260 --> 00:45:55,100 I hope that today that that minister to your heart. 843 00:45:55,100 --> 00:45:58,150 Thanks a lot, Tim. No.