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The five minute Bible study-Dusting our feet off · Spending time with Dr. Christina

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  Hello and welcome back to my podcast spent in
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  time with dr. Christina. We are in season 7 Episode
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  7 and we're talking about dusting off our feet
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  now When I talk about this topic tonight, it
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  doesn't literally mean dusting off your feet,
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  but in that Biblical sense, what God calls us
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  to do, when we have walked in forgiveness with
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  others, when we have done all we could do to
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  get them to a place of repentance when needed,
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  when we have done all that God has asked us to
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  do in relationships with other Christians, we
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  then must dust our feet off and keep going. See,
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  when we dust our feet off, we've done not only
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  all that God has asked us to do in relationship
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  with others, in particular Christians, but we
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  have also gone the extra mile, released the matter
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  to God, and say, Now I turn this over to you
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  to do what you will in that relationship. Something
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  common that often happens in relationships with
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  other Christians are misunderstandings. And if
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  you've tried to explain things and if you've
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  tried to make things right, everything that God
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  has told us to do, forgive 70 times 7 and own
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  our own part when things have gone wrong, then
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  you have no choice but really to release it to
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  God. And we should find a great peace in that
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  matter, knowing that God is always in control.
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  He helps us with everything, even in personal
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  relationships, friend to friend, friend to girlfriend,
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  girlfriend to boyfriend, husband to wife, pastor
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  to congregant, no matter what the relationship
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  is, employer to employee. God will always help
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  us when we put him in the middle of the situation
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  when we do things his way and we don't take things
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  Matters rather into our own hands So we're going
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  to spend some time talking about that tonight
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  Because i've also had a lot of questions in what
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  to do when you're in conflict with others Now
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  let's talk about a few different scriptures briefly.
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  The first one that comes to mind is Proverbs
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  26 -4. Answer not a fool according to his folly.
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  This means that we're not going to go deeper
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  into conflict. You know a lot of times when conflict
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  happens we want to argue back, we want to win
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  an argument, somebody always wants to be right.
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  But this is not the way for Christians. Which
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  brings to mind the next scripture, Matthew 5
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  -9. Blessed are the peacemakers. We should always
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  have it in our mind in our hearts to make peace
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  with others the best to our ability This should
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  be our goal and not to live strife and confusion
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  in every evil work, which the enemy loves to
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  do that is scripture Let it enter into situations
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  that it's going to snowball into something far
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  worse. So We can't control other people, but
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  we can do our best to do right in the sight of
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  the Lord. And hey, this is a lesson that some
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  of us get early and some of us get later. But
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  when we do get the lesson, we should just apply
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  it to do things God's way. When we're working
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  with other people and conflict is in the center,
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  we should do our best to walk in love and forgiveness
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  and to be quick to forgive, which is also scripture.
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  So let's go to another passage, If it be possible
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  as much as life in you live peaceably with all
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  men This should be our goal to live at peace
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  with everyone as much as we can You know, it's
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  not always the case. But when we can we should
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  make that our goal It's not about being right
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  or wrong again. It's about living at peace with
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  others Now in a final passage, Matthew 10 -14,
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  Jesus instructed his disciples to shake the dust
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  from their feet when people would not receive
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  them. This is critical. This is so important
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  and the heart of our message. When we can't get
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  through to people. When we are in a place where
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  it seems like no one is listening. It's not being
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  received. Whatever you're trying to share with
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  them. Maybe you're trying to share correction
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  with another Christian brother or sister. Or
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  maybe you're trying to just take accountability
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  for something you did wrong. Whatever the case
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  may be. When we humble ourselves and we approach
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  another brother and sister and we do what God
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  asks us to do and walk in forgiveness and to
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  repent and to take ownership of our own wrongs
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  if we're doing all of this and it's still not
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  received then we have to shake the dust off our
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  feet and keep moving because it's something that
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  only the good Lord can handle if he sees fit
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  to rebuild that relation to restore that relationship
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  whatever it may be we have to now leave it to
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  God because we done our parts so we shake the
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  dust off and we keep pursuing the things of the
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  Lord. So I hope this message and its conclusion
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  is a blessing to you and those you know. So many
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  have a broken countenance because of a relationship
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  that has failed or will not be restored. Leave
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  it to God. Know that the Lord is the author and
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  finisher of our faith. He sets up one and he
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  brings down another. He's in total control of
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  our lives. So with that being said again this
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  is the end of this week's message and until the
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  next time I wish you all a good week.