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Message podcast from st. 
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Now enjoy this message. 
Well we've been talking about 

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the love of God. 
Amen, the Royal law of love and 

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we actually read that from the 
scripture out of James chapter 

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2, right? 
And Verse 8, where is my 

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scripture? 
I'm not even seeing it. 

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Do we have it up on the screen 
from last week? 

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Joshua, not even seeing it in my
nose. 

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Same nose, here we go. 
If however, you are fulfilling 

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the Royal law and we talked 
about this, the Royal law 

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literally means Royal or Kingdom
law, when you look it up in the 

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Greek, according to scripture, 
you shall love your neighbor as 

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yourself and you will be doing 
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Well, amen. 
And we talked about the fact 

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that everything we do as 
Believers should be motivated. 

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And by the love of God, that's 
been now shed abroad in our 

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hearts, as children of God. 
Amen. 

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Hallelujah. 
That's another thing. 

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We ought to be thankful about 
that. 

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We have his love in our hearts 
and we don't have come on Cold, 

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Heart evil heart, a wicked 
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of love from him. 
Amen. 

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And we started talking about the
fact that everywhere you see in 

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Scripture that John or Earth 
through the Book of John and 

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other Scriptures. 
It talking about the love of 

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God, it was always in connection
with one another. 

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The love of God was not just 
meant for you, it was for meant 

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for others because you now are 
connected to a Fant the family 

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of God, right? 
And so what we do now is 

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impacting other people's lives 
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And so, it's very important that
we recognize that aspect of the 

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The love of God. 
It wasn't just about you. 

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It was about you getting into a 
place in his kingdom and then, 

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allowing what God does in you 
through his love to come and 

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operate and flow through you 
into other people's lives. 

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Amen. 
And it's so important that we 

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keep that in remembrance, and 
then last week, we talked about 

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the fact, well, how do we Apply 
biblical love to our everyday 

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life. 
Amen. 

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Biblical love, not the way. 
Your opinion on how you're going

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to love somebody in the body of 
Christ, but what does his 

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scripture actually say to us 
about loving others, right? 

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And so we looked at that last 
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appropriate the love of God and 
making sure that our motive is 

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pure. 
We are to also forgive, 

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remember, that walking and 
forgiving people, freely, and 

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having a heart ready to forgive.
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That should be our motive as 
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Now that we are in the kingdom 
of God, is that we actually, Ali

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are motivated to want to get 
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believers. 
In the body of Christ. 

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That we want to make sure that 
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And not allowing unforgiveness 
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I'm trying to find my notes. 
I feel like they've all 

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disappeared. 
Oh, here we go. 

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We weren't to take revenge 
ourselves, right? 

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But that we were to forgive now 
we ended on this scripture out 

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of Asians chapter 4 and verse 
22, through 32 and I read it out

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of the Amplified and recognizing
that just because God's love is 

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in, you doesn't mean that it is 
going to work. 

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He's not going to make it work. 
Who's, who's responsible to make

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love work in our life? 
We are. 

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We are we are the ones that make
a decision that I'm going to 

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activate this. 
Love that God put in my heart, 

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and I am actually going to apply
it and do what his scripture 

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says for me to do, and I am the 
one responsible for it, love his

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love, can lay dormant in your 
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It can lay there. 
Dormant not activated. 

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You've got the seed of love his 
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Now, in your heart and we are 
the ones that have to work. 

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The soil of our heart, to 
produce the fruit of love in our

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life, right? 
So we have to do it. 

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He can't make us love anyone. 
He can't make us do anything. 

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We have to make a decision to 
allow This. 

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Love that he's given us to 
produce in our life. 

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And the way that we do, Do that 
is, by doing the word or doing 

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the scripture that we hear him 
say to do which we read last 

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week. 
He says, love your bless your 

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enemies and what do good to them
that mistreat you that's the way

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he says that we are to love, 
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And so we are the ones that are 
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practice. 
In our life. 

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But out of Ephesians chapter 4 
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He said this I'm going to read 
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it says strip yourself of your 
former nature, put off and 

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disregard your old, renew 
unrenewed self, which 

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characterized your previous 
manner of life and becomes 

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corrupt through the lust and the
desires that spring from 

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delusion and Constantly renewed 
in the spirit of your mind, 

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having a fresh mental and 
spiritual attitude, and put on 

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the new nature. 
So who has to put on the new 

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nature? 
We do God's already done 

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everything for us but yet we 
still have to take the 

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responsibility to put it on in 
our life every day to walk it 

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out to walk by the spirit and 
not by this. 

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Leche, right? 
So he's letting us know. 

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Listen we've got to put it on, 
put on the new nature, the 

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regenerate itself created in 
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In true righteousness. 
Hallelujah. 

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And Holiness there for 
rejecting, all falsity, and be 

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done. 
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Let everyone expressed the truth
with his neighbor for we are all

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parts of one body and members of
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When angry do not sin, do not 
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Let your wrath your Yeah, that 
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Exasperation thank you. 
I just had to sit and think 

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about it. 
A minute, your Fury, our 

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indignation last until the sun 
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Why we don't want to leave room 
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Well, I thought the devil could 
mess with somebody that's born 

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again. 
I've heard that before but we 

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can give him my open door or a 
foothold still in our life, if 

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we don't make a decision to do 
what his word says to do. 

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Amen. 
So we have to make a decision to

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close every door, foothold or 
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him. 
He says This, let the thief 

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steal, no more. 
Quit letting him steal your joy.

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Quit letting him steal. 
Peace out of your home. 

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Quit letting all of these 
things, happen, when you don't 

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have to, but if you don't shut 
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shut the door on things that 
keep it open, you're going to 

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continue to have chaos in your 
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No, you're supposed to have 
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Right? 
And we talked about ways that we

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can still allow the flesh to 
dominate us, right with anger 

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responding and anger, 
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Rudely responding in all kinds 
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If we have to make a decision 
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those things to rule in our 
lives anymore, and understand 

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that. 
If we allow them to rule in our 

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lives, we're opening the door. 
Why? 

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Wide open back, open to the 
enemy to have full access again 

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to kill, steal, and destroy your
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Even though you're a child of 
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you see people still have 
chaotic lives at even though 

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they're born again because they 
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Flesh and it in responses of how
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But if we don't choose to 
respond by the spirit, then what

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are we doing? 
We're responding by the Flesh 

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and we're giving the devil 
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Hold back in our life. 
When the door should already be 

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shut. 
Shut the front door. 

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Come on. 
I get tired of seeing the people

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just give the enemy full access 
continually in their life when 

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they are above it. 
When he is supposed to be under 

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our feet, when we're supposed to
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Right. 
Hallelujah. 

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So he says quit. 
Let the thief still no more but 

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rather let him be industrious. 
Making an honest living with 

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his. 
On hand so that he may be able 

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to give to those in need. 
Let no foul or polluting 

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language evil word, unwholesome 
worthless talk ever come out of 

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your mouth say ever. 
So you don't have a right in the

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midst of your argument, with 
your spouse, to run him down and

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dog, him out or vice versa. 
Don't let it come out of your 

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mouth who's in charge of that? 
We are we are now the Holy Ghost

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will help you if you ask he'll 
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If you ask him when you get in a
situation I said this story 

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before my mouth got me in a lot 
of trouble, right? 

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And so when we first got 
married, I would just say what I

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thought all the time and 
whatever came out of my mouth, 

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came out of my mouth until the 
Holy Ghost. 

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Day rebuked me for it and said, 
you need to shut your mouth. 

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Shut your mouth. 
I'm washing dishes, minding my 

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own business. you know, and he 
said something and I said 

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something back, you know, 
because we know what to say, we 

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know those buttons to push Come 
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And and so, I heard him say, I 
heard the Holy Ghost on the 

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inside. 
Say, shut your mouth. 

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Shut your mouth. 
So when he said that I have now 

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a decision to make, right? 
Am I going to allow the Holy 

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Ghost to help me in this 
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Learn how to control my tongue? 
Or am I just going to ignore 

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that suggestion? 
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So you know what I chose to do? 
I said, okay, well, holy ghost. 

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You help me. 
Keep my mouth shut. 

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So what do you hear the term? 
Bite your tongue. 

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So I'm going to sit there and 
learn how to bite my tongue. 

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And as you begin to yield to 
that, you become more proficient

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in it. 
If you choose not to then you're

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just going to have the continual
cycle, right? 

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Because the goal is that you 
become a practicer of what 

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you're hearing through 
scripture, where we know, We 

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ought to be respecting our 
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Right? 
That he's the lead of the home, 

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right? 
Well, I was never taught that 

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growing up. 
And I had issues right there was

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some issues there, but I had to 
learn how to yield to the Holy 

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Ghost and ask him to help me 
bite my tongue. 

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The next time, it was to happen.
Amen. 

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And so then you become 
proficient in practicing what 

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you're hearing and doing what 
you heard the Holy Ghost to do 

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until you realize. 
Yeah. 

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Okay. 
This really won't go so bad if I

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just Just keep my mouth shut or 
if I learn how to communicate in

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a proper way. 
Right? 

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When you learn how to be able to
communicate properly instead of 

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most communication is in defense
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Instead of listening. 
Learning evaluating being, what 

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quick to hear, slow to speak and
slow to write. 

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So we have to learn these 
things, right? 

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So he says, don't let it come 
out of your mouth but only such 

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speech as is good and beneficial
to the spiritual progress of 

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others. 
So how is what I'm getting ready

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to say? 
Say going to help someone else 

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spiritually progress. 
Actually. 

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In whatever it is that they're 
dealing with. 

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We've got to think about that, 
right? 

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Because if our heart is pure of 
love and we are only there to 

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see the best in others and help 
bring out the best in others 

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than we are going to learn how 
to communicate in a way that 

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would help their spiritual 
progress as much as it's going 

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to help your spiritual progress.
Right? 

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Because that's the goal of 
someone that is truly a person 

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as a Believer. 
That's loving others. 

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We're talking about God's love 
Agape. 

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How is this going to help you 
and how is this going to help 

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me? 
Spiritually progress in our 

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relationship. 
See that because remember it 

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wasn't just all about us. 
So this is really not where I'm 

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wanting to go but I'm just 
breaking down these things as we

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come along. 
It says this as it is fitting to

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the need and the occasion that 
it may be a blessing and give 

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Grace God's favor. 
To those who hear it, do not 

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grieve the holy spirit of God. 
Do not offend or vac source. 

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Sadden him. 
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we're going to offend the Holy 
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Holy Spirit to rule our hearts 
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He's trying to help us and we're
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unction. 
Oh I don't receive that whatever

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it may be. 
We can offending, we can Satin 

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him by whom you were sealed, 
Mark and branded as God's Own 

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secured for the day of 
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through Christ from Evil and the
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This is where I really want to 
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Okay, let all bitterness and 
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rage, bad temper and resentment 
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quarreling brawling. 
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evil-speaking abusive and 
blastmon. 

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From its language be banished 
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ill will or baseness of any kind
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and kind to one another 
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understanding loving hearted 
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is where we ended last week. 
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and freely as God in Christ. 
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you blown it? 
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forgive you, and Aren't you 
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he's ready, come on. 
He's ready to forgive you 

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immediately freely. 
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relationships with one another 
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and wives, brothers and sisters 
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daughter-in-laws, are we with 
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purely wanting to see the best 
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encounter with one another? 
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ready to forgive come on and 
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of one. 
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because he lets us know. 
We must forgive and I'm going to

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we don't forgive it will turn 
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this is what I want to talk 
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that door or that foothold in 
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owns you, even though God is 
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have you Bound by bitterness and
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If you choose not to have a pure
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always like my father ready and 
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Forgive if there's repentance 
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to do, whatever it can be to 
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This is the heart of the father,
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Right, when we start doing that,
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forgiveness in areas and say, 
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to let it go, but we need to get
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There needs to be change. 
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I mean, you know, you can't 
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That's why it's so important. 
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on a regular basis, because 
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on love. 
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from another angle and that was 
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that was missing. 
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important that you're 
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and sitting up underneath the 
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things, so many spectrums of 
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you just can't cover it all in 
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and all situations just can't do
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So we have to be people that 
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have the heart of the father and
forgive then, it's going to be a

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danger to us. 
It's going to be a danger to us.

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Okay, let's go and Matthew. 
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verses 14 through 15, it says 
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And if you forgive others for 
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your heavenly father will also 
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Haven't we? 
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others for their transgressions,
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forgive you. 
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was already forgiven of 
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What did we talk about? 
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others and he's saying, listen, 
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that, forgiveness is not going 
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That's done us wrong. 
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offenses. 
Come on, we still have anger 

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issues all kinds of things. 
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fullness in our life when you 
come to church and you see and 

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hear all the things that God 
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all the promises that he has for
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fully in your life. 
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of of the heart. 
Go back to the motive of love 

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which is the foundation of the 
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What's your love walk? 
Look like and it's not just what

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you think it is. 
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with what he said. 
Love looks like, love is bless 

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your enemies. 
Love is do to others as you 

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would have them do to you. 
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Like, I Christ have loved you. 
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Forgiveness to other people and 
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And we go in circles wondering 
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happen in our life because your 
faith is not working because it 

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will only work by Okay, so you 
can speak to those mountains all

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day long, but you've got 
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those mountains are not going to
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around them for 40 years. 
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So we have the responsibility to
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heavenly father will forgive 
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Actually, I want to go to John 
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It reads this, if you forgive 
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been forgiven them, but if you 
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have been retained. 
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sin that you choose, not to 
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you. 
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very thing that you hated that 
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you begin to do it. 
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readily to forgive. 
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do not want to have sins that 
have happened in the past things

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that have taken place in our 
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victims. 
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You say out of one side of your 
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hold on. 
And the very thing that you hate

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you will produce, you will 
become that, bitterness will 

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turn that bit it. 
We're going to read it the 

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Bitterroot A Bitter Root will 
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A Bitter Root. 
This is what needs to be on my 

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quote, a Bitter Root will 
produce can only produce bitter 

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fruit. 
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recognize that we do not want to
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We don't want to hold on to 
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We want to be people that freely
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Because the actually, when you 
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it will take hold of you 
possession of you actually, when

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you read it in the Greek, It 
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possess you so to speak. 
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you know, you're not possessed 
by a devil know, you're 

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possessed by a root of 
bitterness that you've chosen to

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keep within and not release and 
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It took hold of you took hold of
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That's what that word retain 
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So it's very important. 
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Stephen and Jesus, because they 
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They represent how they said 
forgive them. 

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Father, forgive them, right? 
Stephen was being stoned. 

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And right before he looked up, 
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happened? 
He said, forgive them. 

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Don't hold their sins against 
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Right? 
Jesus standing on the cross, 

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forgive them. 
Father, for they know what, 

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what, what not they do, right? 
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I'm not going to read those 
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But you know what? 
I am reference of two accounts 

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that we see that. 
They let it go, right? 

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Let it go right? 
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bitterness Colossians 3:12 
through 15. 

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So as those who have become or 
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and beloved put on a heart of 
compassion. 

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Kindness humility gentleness and
patience bearing with one 

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another and what forgiving each 
other Whoever has a complaint 

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against anyone. 
Wow just up complaint, just 

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forgive them. 
I mean there's people plenty of 

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people that complain about me, I
just forgive them. 

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I don't care because I love them
and I'm going to choose not to 

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come on, allow? 
Wow, that to affect my life 

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because I've learned that I can 
love from God's heart and still 

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love them. 
It's not that. 

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I don't I don't care about that 
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I just don't care about the 
complaint. 

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I'm going to choose to forgive 
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I'm going to choose to let it go
and love them anyway, right? 

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And he tells us that we should 
do that. 

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Just as the Lord forgave you 
again in recognition that if you

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want him to forgive you you need
to forgive others just like he 

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forgave you, right? 
And it says this beyond all 

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things put on love which is the 
perfect Bond. 

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Of unity. 
You want to know why you have 

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Discord in your house? 
Because there is not love. 

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Being practiced the way, he said
it should be practiced because 

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if his love Agape is actually 
being applied in your marriage 

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and in your life, there will be 
a bond of unity, not discourse, 

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not Strife, come on, not always 
fighting, not anger, not 

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anything happening. 
But seeing a god, Is love 

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filtering through and processing
through your marriage and your 

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life because you are allowing 
love to be the bond of unity. 

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You put a place in your heart to
allow him to say, what's gonna 

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help the spiritual progress of 
the other individual come on or 

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vice versa, so that we can move 
this thing forward in God's love

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so that we can have unity and it
will be bonded together. 

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There is a binding that will 
happen because love is in 

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operation in your life. 
Hallelujah. 

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His love is the only thing that 
will truly unify. 

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And that's why we still have 
division in the world because 

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not everybody has God's love in 
their heart, but then those that

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do have God's love in their 
heart supposably. 

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They've got to apply it to see 
all of it. 

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Come to the fullness, right? 
So we have a responsibility to 

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be a person that's going to A 
bond of Unity by walking in the 

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god kind of love in whatever 
situation and scenario that we 

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encounter First Corinthians 13 
in the love scripture. 

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You know, First Corinthians 13. 
1 through 8 is talking about the

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love of God but in five and six,
he says, this love does not take

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in account a suffered wrong 
suffered. 

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It don't take into an account of
a wrong suffered. 

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What does that mean? 
I'm going to choose to not allow

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this. 
To be held over a person's head 

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as an account or that as a 
account, that owes, oh 

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something, because then it's Tit
for Tat. 

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No, I'm going to be a person 
that actually is, like my father

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who said, when I asked him to 
forgive me, he cast my sin, into

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the depths of the sea or the one
translation, says the sea of 

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forgetfulness. 
He doesn't hold an account. 

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So who are we holding account? 
He don't hold an account. 

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He says, he doesn't remember him
from the East, he dispersed from

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the East to the West. 
Doesn't even remember our sins, 

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but yet we hold on and remember,
come on and have an account. 

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That Boeing account of people 
that have heard us or taken 

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advantage of us, you know, 
actually, in Matthew from the 

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very beginning. 
The first scripture that I read,

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In Matthew 6:14. 
Where it says, for if you 

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forgive others for their 
transgressions, your heavenly 

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father will also forgive you. 
Some of you have heard this 

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story but some of you may have 
not and it Bears repeating. 

453
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:11,700
You know, before I even really 
was serving the lord or go into 

454
00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:18,000
church back when I was still 16,
17, 18 years old in between that

455
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,200
time frame after I had gotten 
pregnant with my first son. 

456
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:29,700
And, you know, I had was making 
a decision that, you know, I 

457
00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:33,600
was, I need to go to church, I 
need to get my life together, 

458
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,100
you know, I had Born again, at 
eight years old, but my parents 

459
00:35:37,100 --> 00:35:39,300
didn't raise me in church. 
We didn't go back. 

460
00:35:39,300 --> 00:35:41,300
I was at a vacation bible 
school. 

461
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:45,600
So I had the seed in me, right? 
I was water. 

462
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:50,400
Baptized I had the seed in me so
this whole time, you know, 

463
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,400
there's a struggle because I 
know there's something in me, 

464
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,400
but I don't know what to do with
it because I was never taught 

465
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:02,800
what to do with it. 
But I knew he was drawing me 

466
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,500
after, you know, this scenario 
of get pregnant and all these 

467
00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:12,700
things and married and all and 
so 17, 16 17, I decided I'm 

468
00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:15,800
going to go to church. 
Right? 

469
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,600
Because something, still on the 
inside was draw with me and 

470
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:24,800
didn't know what it was? 
Well I had started going to a 

471
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:29,000
church didn't even really know 
what church to go to but it 

472
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:34,500
ended up being a Church of God 
and they spoke in tongues Well, 

473
00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:37,200
I started going to this church 
and some of the mothers of the 

474
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,600
church took me under their wing.
You know, and I was trying to do

475
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,400
what was right and trying to go 
to church, but, you know, the 

476
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,900
other half didn't want anything 
to do with it. 

477
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,300
And so there was still a 
struggle, so I was just kind of 

478
00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:54,900
in and out, but I remember 
during that time I sat down and 

479
00:36:54,900 --> 00:36:59,300
I started reading the scripture 
and this is the very first 

480
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:02,100
scripture. 
I really came to and Matthew. 

481
00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:07,700
It is the first book. 
So I'm sitting there by myself 

482
00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:11,900
as a, you know, I want to say 
maybe I was 17 18, I don't 

483
00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:18,800
really recall the age and I was 
reading this and I heard on the 

484
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,400
inside, this is the first time I
had ever really heard the voice 

485
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,700
of the Lord, I didn't even know 
what it was. 

486
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,500
I just thought the Bible was 
talking to me. 

487
00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:33,600
And I heard the very first thing
you have hatred in your heart 

488
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:40,100
towards your dad. 
Very first thing, he said to me,

489
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,000
he didn't say I love you. 
Come on. 

490
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:51,500
Well, I'm pleased with you. 
I'm so excited. 

491
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:54,600
You're finally deciding to come 
to church. 

492
00:37:55,500 --> 00:38:00,300
Come on. 
There was a root of bitterness 

493
00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:05,500
in me. 
From my father divorcing, my 

494
00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:08,700
mother at 3 years old. 
Come on. 

495
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:13,000
And filling rejection and all 
these things. 

496
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:21,300
Had hatred in my heart. 
But then God has all Dasa T to 

497
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:25,900
tell me I had to go ask for 
forgiveness to my dad. 

498
00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:32,700
I said, are you serious? 
What did I do to deserve this? 

499
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:38,500
Shouldn't he be coming to me? 
And asking me to forgive him for

500
00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:42,300
being a terrible death. 
Come on, that's real. 

501
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,700
You know what? 
Me, not knowing anything. 

502
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,900
I knew I had to obey what I 
heard. 

503
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,800
Ain't nobody holding my hand. 
Nobody mentoring me. 

504
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,000
I've said this no mother in the 
church said. 

505
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000
Yeah, darling. 
That's what you got to do, 

506
00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:13,500
nothing nothing. 
No one leading me to do what was

507
00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:18,500
right when I could have been a 
victim and chose to say, no by 

508
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:22,700
God, he did this to my life and 
if he wants anything from me, 

509
00:39:22,700 --> 00:39:27,300
he's going have to come to me. 
Don't think those thoughts 

510
00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:30,400
didn't run through my mind cuz I
told you what I was like then. 

511
00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:36,300
Right. 
I wanted to say all those 

512
00:39:36,300 --> 00:39:40,700
things. 
But something on the inside, I 

513
00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:43,500
didn't even know it was called 
the Holy Ghost. 

514
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,500
Come on. 
I didn't have a clue what it 

515
00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:52,300
was. 
But I knew I had to obey what 

516
00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:58,300
the scripture said, and that's 
where my journey began glory to 

517
00:39:58,300 --> 00:39:59,900
God. 
I obeyed it. 

518
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:05,800
Now, I went to him and I asked 
him to forgive me because I have

519
00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:12,400
I hate you, right? 
And I heard, I was reading my 

520
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,800
Bible and he told me that I 
needed to forgive you if he was 

521
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:21,200
going to forgive me. 
I obeyed he stood there and 

522
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,600
stared at me. 
He didn't say a word. well, I 

523
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:32,200
left and I said, well, What what
what's that about? 

524
00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:35,500
At least he could have said you 
know I love you. 

525
00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:38,700
I'm sorry. 
Yes I was a horrible dad I 

526
00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:44,500
destroyed her life. 
Nothing Right cricket. 

527
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,200
About like it isn't here 
sometimes. 

528
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:55,700
Well, don't shout me down now. 
Come on. 

529
00:40:55,900 --> 00:41:03,100
So that's where my journey began
by just simply reading the word 

530
00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:07,900
and heard what the word had to 
say and chose to actually do it.

531
00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:12,200
And what did that do that 
released him? 

532
00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:16,400
From that sin and it had no 
more. 

533
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:25,000
Hold On Me. 
Then him watching my life from 

534
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,600
there, I get a phone call, you 
know, 20 years later. 

535
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:36,000
I want what you have, will you 
leave me to Christ over the 

536
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,800
phone? 
I let him to Christ over the 

537
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:44,400
phone. 
Hung up the phone and heard the 

538
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,300
Holy Ghost because I knew those 
Voice by. 

539
00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:50,200
Then heard the Holy Ghost. 
Tell me if you never would have 

540
00:41:50,200 --> 00:42:01,900
obeyed me 20 years earlier. 
Simple obedience to what the 

541
00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:10,800
word says and responding to it. 
Come on now he's here in the 

542
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,000
church. 
Born again. 

543
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:21,600
Come on, we baptized him. 
Never would have happened. 

544
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,900
And I 18 years old, not having a
clue with what you know in this 

545
00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:33,100
house. 
I simply obeyed the word and 

546
00:42:33,100 --> 00:42:39,300
life was able to begin. 
And God knew the very root that 

547
00:42:39,300 --> 00:42:42,600
would have kept me down. 
He went straight to the very one

548
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:46,300
thing, the very root, he knew it
all along. 

549
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:52,300
He knew it all along and it was 
the very first thing. 

550
00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:56,900
He dealt with me about because 
he knew if I didn't deal with 

551
00:42:56,900 --> 00:43:00,400
this, it would destroy my the 
rest of my life. 

552
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,200
Amen. 
Because bitter Roots will take 

553
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,400
hold. 
So, moving back. 

554
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:14,800
We must be people that forgive 
as he said, we are to forgive 

555
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,200
Hebrews 12 14 through 15 says 
this. 

556
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:24,000
Make every effort to live in 
peace with all men and to be 

557
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,500
holy without Holiness, no one 
will see the Lord. 

558
00:43:28,900 --> 00:43:31,000
See to it. 
That no one. 

559
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:35,500
One, misses the grace of God. 
Well I could talk a lot here but

560
00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:44,800
I won't No one, misses the grace
of God and that no Bitter. 

561
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:51,700
Root grows up to cause trouble. 
Remember what I said, it's 

562
00:43:51,700 --> 00:43:54,700
nothing but trouble and it will 
destroy you. 

563
00:43:54,700 --> 00:43:59,200
And can you will continue to 
have trouble in your life if you

564
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:02,200
don't deal with issues in your 
life. 

565
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,300
You'll still have trouble. 
Come on. 

566
00:44:07,900 --> 00:44:12,500
See to it that This Bitter Root 
grows up to to not defile, what 

567
00:44:12,500 --> 00:44:15,500
does it do it? 
Defiles many and he's talking 

568
00:44:15,500 --> 00:44:23,900
about Believers it defiles many.
How many can say I've seen some 

569
00:44:23,900 --> 00:44:26,900
bitter? 
Christians. 

570
00:44:29,100 --> 00:44:32,600
And their life's a mess still 
and you're wondering why right 

571
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,300
here, there's an issue that's 
never. 

572
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:40,100
There is a route that has never 
been uprooted by the spirit of 

573
00:44:40,100 --> 00:44:48,500
God and the word of God, come on
and yielded to So it's sprung up

574
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:54,500
and it will cause trouble and it
will defile many again. 

575
00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:58,200
Bitterroot will only produce 
bitter fruit. 

576
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:03,400
Look at Acts chapter 8, 21 
through 24. 

577
00:45:03,700 --> 00:45:07,200
You have no part or portion in 
this matter for your heart is 

578
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,500
not right before God. 
Therefore repent of your 

579
00:45:09,500 --> 00:45:14,300
wickedness of yours and pray. 
The Lord that if possible the 

580
00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:19,000
intentions of your Heart may be 
forgiven, you for, I see that 

581
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:25,200
you have in our in the gall of 
bitterness and in bondage of 

582
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,700
iniquity. 
So a gall of bitterness will 

583
00:45:28,700 --> 00:45:34,800
keep you in bondage to that sin 
that iniquity. 

584
00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:40,000
Even though you're born again. 
Okay. 

585
00:45:40,500 --> 00:45:44,800
And we have the responsibility 
to choose that we are going to 

586
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,800
forgive we're going to let this 
go. 

587
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,100
We're going to walk in 
forgiveness, the way that God 

588
00:45:52,300 --> 00:45:58,300
says that we must forgive and 
deal with anything that could be

589
00:45:58,300 --> 00:46:01,800
defiling our life still as a 
believer. 

590
00:46:04,100 --> 00:46:14,400
Here's those crickets. 
Mark 11. 25 through 26. 

591
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,900
This is right after Mark 11:23 
and 24. 

592
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,900
And I use this, you know, we 
need to start going to the next 

593
00:46:23,900 --> 00:46:28,600
two scriptures after Mark, 11:23
and 24 because everybody wants 

594
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,000
to, you know, have faith and 
speak to the mountain and do all

595
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,200
these things, and cast it into 
the sea. 

596
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,400
And not doubt in our heart, will
have those things whatever we 

597
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,900
believe when we pray, but yet 
they're still a problem here. 

598
00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:50,200
And he lets us know, here in 
what, whenever you stand 

599
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:55,800
praying, forgive lots of 
people's prayers, are not being 

600
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,300
answered because of this one 
thing, they're still 

601
00:46:59,300 --> 00:47:03,000
unforgiveness. 
They have truly not forgiving 

602
00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:08,200
and let things go. 
They're sand and praying. 

603
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaking to those mountains, 
want this, that work in their 

604
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,000
marriage. 
Why don't you start applying 

605
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,200
God's love? 
And stop taking an account of 

606
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,100
suffered wrong. 
Stop being angry. 

607
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,800
Come on, stop being 
disappointed. 

608
00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:28,400
Just get yourself together, 
right? 

609
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:33,800
And you start just doing you and
saying, you know what, right? 

610
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,500
It says, if we forgive, if it 
says, whenever you stand 

611
00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:41,700
praying, forgive, if you have 
anything against anyone, 

612
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,200
Anything against anyone kids may
have things against their 

613
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:52,100
parents, right? 
We need to forgive I'm not 

614
00:47:52,100 --> 00:47:56,600
saying ignore the situation, I'm
saying go to them. 

615
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:02,000
I had to go to them. 
Not everybody has to go to every

616
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,800
single thing. 
But there are situations and, 

617
00:48:04,900 --> 00:48:08,300
and things taken place that you 
just need to go to them and get 

618
00:48:08,300 --> 00:48:10,600
things, right? 
That is proper. 

619
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:19,000
That is proper right to go 
communicate and deal with it, 

620
00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:22,700
and then let it go, and you can 
be done and no matter what their

621
00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:26,400
response is. 
You've come on, you have a 

622
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:30,200
release in your heart, you've 
actually Actually applied the 

623
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,700
word. 
And you can let it go, and 

624
00:48:33,700 --> 00:48:36,100
whatever happens then is on 
them. 

625
00:48:38,300 --> 00:48:42,700
But you are responsible for you.
So if you have anything against 

626
00:48:42,700 --> 00:48:47,400
anyone so that your father who 
is in heaven will also forgive 

627
00:48:47,500 --> 00:48:51,500
you, your transgressions second 
scripture, we see that, he lets,

628
00:48:51,500 --> 00:48:56,500
you know, that your forgiveness 
can be also based upon you for 

629
00:48:56,900 --> 00:48:59,500
your own. 
Forgiveness can be based upon if

630
00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:05,900
you are choosing to forgive but 
if you don't forgive neither 

631
00:49:05,900 --> 00:49:07,900
will, your father who is in 
heaven? 

632
00:49:07,900 --> 00:49:11,500
Forgive your transgression 
regressions? 

633
00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:16,600
But I thought I was already 
forgiven See everybody lives up 

634
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:21,900
underneath that. 
Salvation is continual until the

635
00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:30,000
day you die or trumpet, sounds. 
There's continual things that we

636
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,000
have to keep our heart in a 
position that we're not going to

637
00:49:33,008 --> 00:49:38,600
allow any Sin from day-to-day. 
Take root take hold, come on, 

638
00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:43,100
keep us back from what God wants
to do in our life, we have to 

639
00:49:43,100 --> 00:49:49,400
choose to apply it so that our 
father will freely forgive us. 

640
00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:53,000
When we have a situation and we 
need to ask for forgiveness, 

641
00:49:53,900 --> 00:49:59,200
amen. 
Matthew 18:21 through 35, says 

642
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:03,400
this. it says, then Peter came 
to him and said to him, Lord, 

643
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:07,800
how often shall my brother sin 
against me and I forgive him 

644
00:50:09,900 --> 00:50:13,200
Hmm. 
Up to seven times. 

645
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,700
Jesus said to him, I do not say 
to you up to seven times but up 

646
00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:24,100
to Seventy Times Seven. 
For this reason, the Kingdom of 

647
00:50:24,100 --> 00:50:27,800
Heaven may be compared to a King
who risk to settle accounts with

648
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,700
his slaves. 
And when he had begun to settle 

649
00:50:30,700 --> 00:50:35,300
them, the one who owed him, what
10,000 talents was brought to 

650
00:50:35,300 --> 00:50:37,700
him. 
But since he did not have, the 

651
00:50:37,700 --> 00:50:41,300
means to repay his Lord 
commanded him to be. 

652
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,800
Sold along with his wife and 
children and all that he had as 

653
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,700
repayment to be made. 
So, the slave fell to the ground

654
00:50:48,700 --> 00:50:51,500
prostate at this is an example 
of us. 

655
00:50:51,500 --> 00:50:54,100
Choosing to forgive, or not to 
forgive. 

656
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:59,400
Prostate had before himself 
before him saying have patience 

657
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,600
with me. 
So here, he's asking for 

658
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:05,300
patients yet, we're going to 
see, he didn't apply it back. 

659
00:51:08,700 --> 00:51:12,900
Have patience with me and I will
repay everything and the lord of

660
00:51:12,900 --> 00:51:16,800
the slave felt compassion and 
released him. 

661
00:51:17,100 --> 00:51:21,100
There's that release and what 
forgave him the debt. 

662
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:26,400
But that slave went out and 
found one of his fellow slaves 

663
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,800
who owed him a hundred denarian 
and he seized him and began to 

664
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,500
choke him saying, pay me back 
what you owe me? 

665
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,600
So his fellow slave fell to the 
ground just like he was just 

666
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,300
doing and began to plead with 
him saying have patience with me

667
00:51:41,300 --> 00:51:45,400
and I will repay you but he was 
unwilling. 

668
00:51:49,500 --> 00:51:53,000
He was unwilling. 
To release him. 

669
00:51:54,300 --> 00:51:58,800
And forgive him even though he 
had just received it from the 

670
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:02,200
law from his Lord. 
Right? 

671
00:52:02,300 --> 00:52:07,900
He was on willing and went and 
threw him in prison until he 

672
00:52:07,900 --> 00:52:10,400
should pay him back what was 
owed. 

673
00:52:10,900 --> 00:52:15,400
So when his fellow slaves saw 
what had happened, they were 

674
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,500
deeply grieved and came and 
reported to their lord. 

675
00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:23,200
All that had happened, then 
summing him summoning him. 

676
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,900
His lord said to him, you Wicked
slave. 

677
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:31,100
I forgave you of all the debt 
because you pleaded with me, 

678
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:36,700
Should you not also have had 
mercy on your fellow slave and 

679
00:52:36,700 --> 00:52:39,200
the same way that I had mercy on
you. 

680
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,300
Wow, we need to think about 
this. 

681
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,800
We're crying Mercy out for God's
Mercy. 

682
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,100
Mercy Mercy but yet we're 
withholding it from others. 

683
00:52:54,700 --> 00:52:59,500
And his Lord moved with anger 
handed him over to the torturers

684
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:03,100
until he should repay. 
All that was owed him. 

685
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:11,900
My heavenly father My heavenly 
father is he yours? 

686
00:53:11,900 --> 00:53:17,200
Heavenly Father. 
Will also do the same to you. 

687
00:53:18,300 --> 00:53:24,200
If each of you does not forgive 
his brother from what from is 

688
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:34,700
heart. 
Not with your words. but from 

689
00:53:34,700 --> 00:53:39,300
your heart, the pure motive of 
your heart. 

690
00:53:39,500 --> 00:53:43,700
So you can say it all day long, 
but your actions and your 

691
00:53:43,700 --> 00:53:49,200
attitude and the atmosphere is 
still there because you really 

692
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:56,400
did it forgive from a pure heart
of I want this, right? 

693
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:08,500
And if I keep asking God to 
forgive me, who am I to withhold

694
00:54:08,500 --> 00:54:13,900
it from my brother, or my 
sister, or my wife, or my 

695
00:54:13,900 --> 00:54:19,600
husband, or my father or my 
mother or my daughter-in-law or 

696
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:29,300
my son, come on, who are we? 
How arrogant prideful selfish 

697
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:36,200
fleshly carnal? 
We when we sit here and act like

698
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,500
we're going to come sing A 
Hallelujah. 

699
00:54:40,300 --> 00:54:47,500
And yet still have bitterness 
unforgiveness resentfulness 

700
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:54,000
anger towards others. 
Amen. 

701
00:54:54,000 --> 00:55:01,000
This is serious business. 
A root of bitterness is serious 

702
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:07,400
business and if you don't we 
know that it says it will spring

703
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,300
up. 
Well we know what happens, you 

704
00:55:09,300 --> 00:55:13,800
know, this is Springtime and 
what's happening growth is 

705
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:17,400
happening. 
Things are what spring enough. 

706
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,000
Well in the beginning, what do 
we know? 

707
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:26,800
It's just little bitty. 
But then what happens like you 

708
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:30,300
can see a little tomato plant 
spring up or a watermelon plant 

709
00:55:30,300 --> 00:55:32,900
spring up. 
But boy, once it starts growing 

710
00:55:32,900 --> 00:55:35,500
it takes over what? 
Everything? 

711
00:55:36,300 --> 00:55:38,600
Everything specially 
watermelons. 

712
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,800
Squash cucumbers. 
They they take over everything 

713
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:48,200
right? 
Everything around it and can 

714
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:52,000
either in even can smother other
plants out. 

715
00:55:55,000 --> 00:56:00,200
So some good things maybe trying
to want to spring up in your 

716
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:05,800
life, but it's being smothered 
out by all the bad root of 

717
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:10,500
bitterness, come on that's been 
allowed to grow and take over. 

718
00:56:10,500 --> 00:56:13,900
So it's smothering out. 
Anything good, that God would 

719
00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:23,700
want to do Amen. 
So it's important that at the 

720
00:56:23,700 --> 00:56:29,100
very beginning, you go ahead and
dig that little bad boy up. 

721
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:35,700
Get it out of the garden, get it
out of the soil of your heart so

722
00:56:35,700 --> 00:56:40,200
that it cannot grow, come on, 
and it can't take over and it 

723
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:44,300
can't smother out. 
What God wants to do. 

724
00:56:44,300 --> 00:56:48,300
In your life, your purpose, the 
plans, the things that God has 

725
00:56:48,300 --> 00:56:53,100
in store for your life, to walk.
In heaven on Earth to to see the

726
00:56:53,100 --> 00:56:55,700
fullness of all his promises in 
your life. 

727
00:56:55,700 --> 00:57:00,100
They'll be smothered out by this
route that you didn't deal with.

728
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:07,000
And you'll go through your life,
smothered choked out. 

729
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:11,600
Come on those forms. 
Those by they'll choke you out. 

730
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,500
They'll choke the life out of 
you. 

731
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:17,400
And that's why some people look 
like The Walking Dead even in 

732
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:26,600
church. 
They're being choked out by 

733
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:30,200
issues. 
Buy things that they still 

734
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,700
haven't let go and let God, we 
all at once. 

735
00:57:33,700 --> 00:57:39,300
You let go, let God boy. 
We can preach it, we can talk it

736
00:57:39,700 --> 00:57:42,700
but when it comes down to route 
now, nobody wants to root 

737
00:57:42,700 --> 00:57:44,600
around. 
The lot of people don't like 

738
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,000
weeding. 
I've noticed that especially 

739
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:52,100
everybody in my house. 
Nobody likes the weed. 

740
00:57:52,100 --> 00:57:55,700
I enjoy it because every time I 
pull a weed, I think this is a, 

741
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:59,900
this is a weed that's been 
Fucked up out of my life that 

742
00:57:59,900 --> 00:58:02,100
can never have hold of me ever 
again. 

743
00:58:03,100 --> 00:58:08,900
So reminder God's Garden. 
Every, you know, God's Garden. 

744
00:58:10,700 --> 00:58:15,200
Hallelujah. 
So we got to make sure that we 

745
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:20,000
are allowing forgiveness to flow
freely in our life so that we're

746
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:24,200
not bound and retain the very 
things that we hated happen to 

747
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:29,000
our lives. 
Hallelujah. 

748
00:58:29,500 --> 00:58:34,500
Proverbs 17:9 he who covers and 
forgives an offense seeks love. 

749
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:41,200
He who covers and forgives. 
We talked about love covering 

750
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:45,700
last time, but this is in 
connection with forgives an 

751
00:58:45,700 --> 00:58:51,300
offense seeks love. 
When you choose. 

752
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:56,000
To forgive an offense. 
You're seeking God's love in 

753
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:00,600
that situation. 
Amen. 

754
00:59:01,500 --> 00:59:05,600
But one who repeats or harps on 
a matter separates, even close 

755
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:11,900
friends. 
Which goes back to what I was 

756
00:59:11,900 --> 00:59:15,800
talking about last week that we 
shouldn't be slandering and 

757
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,400
talking about people and tearing
people down because God's love 

758
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:23,800
would not do that. 
Amen, we should be trying to 

759
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:29,900
cover and protect people's lives
as much as possible unless it 

760
00:59:29,900 --> 00:59:32,900
comes to the point that, you 
know, they've done something 

761
00:59:32,900 --> 00:59:36,700
where the scripture says bring 
them before the church, then it 

762
00:59:36,700 --> 00:59:41,800
can be dealt with in public. 
Last week when I was talking 

763
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:46,000
about, you know, don't ever, you
know, that should be the 

764
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:50,000
majority of our heart that we're
not going to talk about people. 

765
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,600
We're not going to slander 
pastors. 

766
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:56,600
Or not going to tear down people
in public, but that's not 

767
00:59:56,600 --> 01:00:00,600
meaning that we don't go to them
as the scripture says in 

768
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:04,600
private, and what is the goal to
restore? 

769
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:11,000
To bring reconciliation to bring
a bond of unity, right? 

770
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,600
But if they refuse 
reconciliation and they refuse 

771
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:18,900
to be dealt with. 
And they if you refuse 

772
01:00:18,900 --> 01:00:22,600
accountability and it still 
destroying someone's life. 

773
01:00:22,700 --> 01:00:27,000
Then it says bring them before 
the church, then you can bring 

774
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,800
them before the public. 
But that's usually in the church

775
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,400
house. 
I'm not talking about inquiring 

776
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:38,500
minds or The Enquirer or 
Facebook or Instagram, listen. 

777
01:00:38,500 --> 01:00:45,100
That is not private. 
It's not private, right? 

778
01:00:46,500 --> 01:00:50,200
So there are occasions that you 
do as I said, you can't cover 

779
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:57,900
everything in one message. 
So Jude one, this is our last 

780
01:00:57,900 --> 01:01:02,900
scripture will close Jew chapter
1 verses 17 through 25. 

781
01:01:02,900 --> 01:01:06,900
It says, but you beloved 
Remember The Words which were 

782
01:01:06,900 --> 01:01:10,500
spoken before the Apostles of 
the Lord Jesus Christ. 

783
01:01:10,500 --> 01:01:14,900
How they were told you that 
there would be mockers in the 

784
01:01:14,900 --> 01:01:18,800
last day who would walk 
according to their own ungodly 

785
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,600
lust. 
These are sensual persons who 

786
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:29,900
cause Ian's, not having the 
spirit but you beloved building.

787
01:01:31,100 --> 01:01:35,900
Yourselves up on your Most, Holy
Faith, praying in the spirit, 

788
01:01:35,900 --> 01:01:40,000
very first lesson. 
We talked about is that if we 

789
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:43,200
are going to walk, according to 
the Royal law of love, we can 

790
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:49,000
only do it by being a person of 
the word and the Holy Spirit 

791
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:52,800
guiding our life outside of the 
Holy Spirit. 

792
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:58,100
Empowering you, you won't be 
able to walk in fully the god 

793
01:01:58,100 --> 01:02:03,200
kind of love, right? 
But You won't be yielding but he

794
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:05,900
says this building yourself up 
on your Most. 

795
01:02:05,900 --> 01:02:08,200
Holy Faith. 
Praying in the spirit. 

796
01:02:08,700 --> 01:02:14,400
Keep your selves keep 
yourselves. 

797
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:18,300
In the love of God. 
Who's responsible to keep 

798
01:02:18,300 --> 01:02:22,100
ourselves in the love of God, we
are. 

799
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:25,200
God is not going to keep his 
love. 

800
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:31,700
For you. 
He's giving you his love, he 

801
01:02:31,700 --> 01:02:36,000
shed it abroad in your heart, he
poured it out in your heart. 

802
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:39,900
Now you're the one responsible 
to keep this. 

803
01:02:39,900 --> 01:02:45,500
Love guarded to make sure that's
what that means to keep to guard

804
01:02:45,500 --> 01:02:49,000
to protect the love of God. 
That's been put in your heart. 

805
01:02:49,500 --> 01:02:53,400
And are we seeing any importance
in this? 

806
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:58,000
We are to guard it. 
We are to keep it. 

807
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:03,600
We are to make sure that our 
heart is motivated in everything

808
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:09,100
that we do every situation, we 
encounter every circumstance 

809
01:03:09,100 --> 01:03:14,200
that comes before us. 
That our motive is his love and 

810
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:20,800
how we respond and we have the 
responsibility to guard this. 

811
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:24,900
Love to keep this love to allow 
this. 

812
01:03:24,900 --> 01:03:31,100
I love to grow more and more to 
allow this love to grow fruit. 

813
01:03:31,100 --> 01:03:37,000
That produces debts, wits, 
links, Heights, that there is no

814
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:41,400
end to the love of God growing 
in our life because it is a, the

815
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:43,800
fruit of the spirit, it can 
grow. 

816
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:47,600
It's a fruit, it starts small, 
but then what it's supposed to 

817
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:54,800
grow grow, grow, and produce his
love in such a way that you can 

818
01:03:54,900 --> 01:04:00,000
walk through life in every 
encounter that you encounter 

819
01:04:00,100 --> 01:04:04,600
that the love of God is going to
be the first thing in the first 

820
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:08,600
thought that comes to your mind,
come on, and how you're going to

821
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:13,300
respond in this situation. 
According to what the scripture 

822
01:04:13,300 --> 01:04:20,700
says, how we are to respond in 
the pure love of God in the 

823
01:04:20,700 --> 01:04:23,500
situation. 
So we are to keep ourselves in 

824
01:04:23,500 --> 01:04:27,800
the love of God in the The love 
of God, looking for the mercy of

825
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:31,400
our Lord, Jesus Christ until 
eternal life. 

826
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:36,500
Mercy again, the guy was crying 
out for help for Mercy but there

827
01:04:36,500 --> 01:04:41,900
was none being shown. 
So if we want to continue to 

828
01:04:41,900 --> 01:04:46,500
receive the mercy of God in our 
lives, when we don't deserve, 

829
01:04:46,500 --> 01:04:47,800
come on. 
That's what that means. 

830
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:54,900
We didn't deserve it. 
We don't deserve the things that

831
01:04:54,900 --> 01:04:57,800
he will forgive us up but we 
still kit. 

832
01:04:57,900 --> 01:05:03,300
Come on we still get to ask of 
it and if we want it you need to

833
01:05:03,300 --> 01:05:05,800
release it. 
Because what what do we know 

834
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:10,300
whatsoever? 
Things you soweth you're going 

835
01:05:10,300 --> 01:05:12,700
to reap. 
So if you don't. 

836
01:05:12,700 --> 01:05:14,300
So forgiveness. 
Guess what? 

837
01:05:14,300 --> 01:05:17,100
You're not going to reap it if 
you don't. 

838
01:05:17,100 --> 01:05:18,700
So Mercy. 
Guess what? 

839
01:05:18,700 --> 01:05:21,700
You're not going to receive it. 
If you don't. 

840
01:05:21,700 --> 01:05:29,100
So come on love then guess what 
you know what the very thing you

841
01:05:29,100 --> 01:05:33,200
so desire from whoever it is 
that you may want all this love 

842
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:35,700
from but if you still got walls 
up, guess what? 

843
01:05:35,700 --> 01:05:37,700
You're not going to get the 
love. 

844
01:05:37,700 --> 01:05:41,600
That really you want? 
Because you got too many walls. 

845
01:05:42,900 --> 01:05:51,400
And you're not sewing, the love.
Come on. say, so the love so the

846
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:57,800
love So the love we're going to 
sew the love of God. 

847
01:05:58,900 --> 01:06:03,700
And we're going to reap what the
love of God in our lives. 

848
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:08,500
Hallelujah. 
So we need to be those that keep

849
01:06:08,500 --> 01:06:13,200
ourselves in the loving of God 
verse 22. 

850
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:16,400
I want to finish reading this. 
It says and on some have 

851
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:22,200
compassion making a distinction 
but others save with fear, full,

852
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:24,900
pulling them out of the fire 
hating. 

853
01:06:24,900 --> 01:06:27,500
Even the garment defiled by the 
flesh. 

854
01:06:27,700 --> 01:06:31,900
Now to him Um, who is able to 
keep you from stumbling and to 

855
01:06:31,900 --> 01:06:35,700
present you faultless before the
presence of his glory and 

856
01:06:35,700 --> 01:06:42,200
exceeding Joy To Our God savior 
who alone as wise Glory Majesty,

857
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:45,800
dominion and power both now and 
forevermore. 

858
01:06:46,100 --> 01:06:48,100
He's the only one that can do 
it. 

859
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:55,300
For and through US, amen. 
So let's be people that choose 

860
01:06:55,300 --> 01:06:59,700
to have a pure heart of God's 
love Agape, is love and do 

861
01:06:59,700 --> 01:07:05,300
whatever we can. 
To apply it everyday. 

862
01:07:05,700 --> 01:07:11,600
Don't be a wishy-washy person 
one day you're forgiven and let 

863
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:15,400
things go and a week. 
You know what that tells me you 

864
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,300
still have an account of 
suffered wrong. 

865
01:07:20,100 --> 01:07:24,800
I'm not saying it's not a 
process and working through, but

866
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:27,600
every day you ought to be I 
forgive them. 

867
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:29,300
I'm going to walk this thing 
through. 

868
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:31,500
I'm not going to hold an account
of suffered wrong. 

869
01:07:31,900 --> 01:07:36,300
I'm going to choose come on. 
To make sure. 

870
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:45,600
I am readily and freely. 
Freely means there's no strings 

871
01:07:45,700 --> 01:07:53,600
attached. 
No strings attached, amen? 

872
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:58,000
No strings attached. 
Amen. 

873
01:07:58,100 --> 01:07:59,700
Tyler lujah. 
Well let's pray. 

874
01:07:59,700 --> 01:08:02,200
Father, we just thank you so 
much for your word. 

875
01:08:02,500 --> 01:08:04,800
We thank you, Father for the 
love of God. 

876
01:08:05,700 --> 01:08:09,600
We're so thankful father that we
got to be partakers of this 

877
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:15,300
Divine love in our life. 
And father let us not squander 

878
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:17,800
the love that's been shed 
abroad. 

879
01:08:19,399 --> 01:08:24,300
But let us allow this fruit in 
our life to grow and produce the

880
01:08:24,300 --> 01:08:31,200
fullness. 
The fullness of what you see in 

881
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:34,000
our lives. 
Let us be a person. 

882
01:08:35,100 --> 01:08:43,000
That chooses to just let things 
go to forgive to forget to not. 

883
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:48,399
Hold on to an account, a 
suffered wrong, but to love like

884
01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:52,300
you, we thank you. 
I want to read this because this

885
01:08:52,300 --> 01:08:57,800
is my last message. 
If I can find it, I pulled this 

886
01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:04,700
up because I was reminded of the
best expanded translations. 

887
01:09:04,899 --> 01:09:09,800
Of 1st Corinthians 13 and I just
think we read this a lot in 

888
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,800
Weddings, But I just want to end
on this. 

889
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:17,800
I want you to think about it. 
This is Rick, renters expanded 

890
01:09:17,899 --> 01:09:22,600
translation on First Corinthians
13. 

891
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:32,200
Was it four through? 
Eight says this love Patiently. 

892
01:09:32,899 --> 01:09:36,300
I now out, when I read this, I 
want you to think about 

893
01:09:36,300 --> 01:09:39,000
yourself. 
Not anybody sitting beside you. 

894
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:45,700
Does this look like you? 
That's what you should be asking

895
01:09:45,700 --> 01:09:50,600
yourself. 
Love patiently and passionately 

896
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:54,300
bears with others. 
For as long as patients is 

897
01:09:54,300 --> 01:09:58,600
needed. 
Love does not demand others to 

898
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:02,100
be like itself. 
Rather, it is so focused on the 

899
01:10:02,100 --> 01:10:06,000
needs of others. 
That it bends over backwards, I 

900
01:10:06,008 --> 01:10:09,400
can't do a back bend or whatever
that's called. 

901
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:13,800
Is that what that's called a 
back bend so that one kind of 

902
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:19,400
gets me there benzo. 
Over backwards to become what 

903
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:25,100
others needs it to be. 
Love is not ambitious, 

904
01:10:25,100 --> 01:10:29,000
self-centered or so consumed 
with itself that it never thinks

905
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:34,400
of the needs or desires. 
That others possess love doesn't

906
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:38,900
go around talking about itself 
all the time constantly 

907
01:10:38,900 --> 01:10:44,200
exaggerating and embellishing 
the facts to make it look more 

908
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,800
important. 
In the sight of others, love 

909
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:53,200
does not behave in a prideful. 
Arrogant haughty Superior snood.

910
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:59,900
A snobbish or clannish manner 
love is not rude and is not 

911
01:10:59,900 --> 01:11:05,700
discourteous it is not careless 
or thoughtless nor does it carry

912
01:11:05,700 --> 01:11:09,200
on in a fashion that would be 
considered insensitive to 

913
01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:12,300
others. 
Love does not manipulate 

914
01:11:12,300 --> 01:11:17,600
situations or scheme and divides
methods that will twist 

915
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:22,700
situations to its own Advantage.
Love does not deliberately keep 

916
01:11:22,700 --> 01:11:25,800
records of Of wrongs or past 
mistakes. 

917
01:11:26,100 --> 01:11:30,000
Love does not feel Overjoyed 
when it sees an injustice done 

918
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:37,400
to someone and someone else but 
is elated thrilled is static and

919
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:43,300
Overjoyed with the truth. 
Love protects Shields, guards 

920
01:11:43,300 --> 01:11:47,800
covers, conceals and safeguards 
people from exposure. 

921
01:11:48,900 --> 01:11:53,200
Love always expects and 
anticipates the best in others 

922
01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:57,900
and the best for others. 
Love, never quits. 

923
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:02,500
Never surrenders, never gives up
love never disappoints. 

924
01:12:02,700 --> 01:12:07,900
Never fails and never lets 
anyone down. 

925
01:12:08,900 --> 01:12:11,300
Hey man. 
Hallelujah 

926
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:24,800
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927
01:12:24,800 --> 01:12:28,200
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01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:37,400
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