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Mercy Over Judgment — How to Forgive, Heal, and Move Forward · Godly Hacks

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  Hey, we're gonna be fast and furious today. I want to welcome you. My name
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  is Lisa Hanson. We're going to talk to you about mercy, which is probably one
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  of the most important things in the Bible because your faith works by love.
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  So without love, your faith isn't going to work. Without faith, you can't get healed,
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  you can't get delivered, you can't get nothing. So join me today. Go grab
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  somebody, share and tag. This will be a really fast broadcast. I was talking to
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  my friend, she's like, you should just do your stuff shorter. So today we're going
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  to do something shorter, and, uh, I'm gonna let you watch this,
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  see the goodness that happened.
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  I gotta turn off the volume for a minute. So we have people baptized in
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  the Holy Ghost, saved, delivered, all kinds of stuff. It was good. It was really
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  a good, a good powerful day. People got filled, healed, all the stuff.
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  And so I want to thank you for being a part of what we're doing.
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  And, uh, I want to show you this. Here we go.
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  God isn't finished yet. Come on back,
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  conqueror. He's working for
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  your best. Keep it up, be encouraged.
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  There's a fire God placed in you.
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  You are worth it. You are valuable. You are God's chosen daughter.
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  Check out Get It Girl on Facebook to find the link to the brand team
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  section. Get it today.
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  I want to show you guys one more thing. Ready? Here we go.
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  Jesus said, go into the highways and the byways,
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  compel them to come. You are one
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  prayer away, one encounter away. Depression has
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  to go. Anxiety Jesus
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  said, come to me. My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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  He's gonna lift up the heavy things. You are one moment away from
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  a radical encounter with God.
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  From a breakthrough.
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  One moment, one prayer, one second in his presence
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  can change everything.
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  Breakthrough is coming.
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  Breakthrough is ready.
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  Breakthrough is coming to Michigan.
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  Will you be there? Your breakthrough.
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  Come on, we've, uh, we got a lot of tickets already gone,
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  close to 900 people. You're invited to Michigan Fest 2026.
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  It's October 9th through the 11th, 6 to 8 PM.
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  It will be at the open-air pavilion on Party Road. The address
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  is at the end, but you must register to come along. It's totally
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  free. There'll be prizes for your family, your friends. There'll be
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  bill pays. There's going to be gift giveaways, all kinds of
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  stuff, music. It's just a great night of fun for the family.
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  There won't be any alcohol. It will be safe for your family. So why don't
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  you come out? It's time for peace, joy, unity, happiness,
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  and some fun with your family. You must RSVP to
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  come. The link will be in the bio. And you can just
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  click the link. But Michigan Fest 2026, go to Eventbrite.
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  You can look for Michigan Fest and RSVP your spot. Limited spots today.
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  There's definitely limited spots. We're close to like 900 limited
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  spots. So, so please do share that with somebody.
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  If you know anybody that lives in Michigan, um, please let
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  them know for me. I would really appreciate, uh, that because,
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  well, I just would appreciate it. I'm going to, uh,
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  let me share this with just a couple people and then, uh,
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  I'll be ready to go. Amen. Love you guys. Thank you for sharing. If you
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  would take just a quick minute and share this, that would be very appreciated.
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  Uh, I see Hope on as always. Hope, maybe you can tag everybody else
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  and just help me to get the word out. Uh, if you're on Facebook,
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  just lots of comments and all that kind of stuff help, so please do comment
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  all the things. If you're on TikTok or YouTube or whatever,
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  I love you there too. Uh, oh good, praise the Lord.
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  Holly Fundus. So, um, I want to talk to you today about
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  something really important. Again, a couple things. Please be praying for me.
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  I still have some things to work out for Michigan Fest,
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  a lot of things really, and, uh, it's a little stressful.
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  So if you follow me regularly, if you wouldn't mind praying for me
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  and my ministry, I would greatly appreciate it. We have 900 people coming and,
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  uh, whatever. And I've reached out for help for people to come and
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  take these souls, and as of yet I don't have a church that's willing to
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  partner to take these souls yet, which I don't understand that, but whatever.
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  So I'm gonna keep trying, um, and I'm not gonna leave
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  them hanging. I don't know what that means, but I'll figure it out. But,
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  uh, you know, we have 900 people registered, so you would think a
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  church in Michigan would say, yeah, I, I want to help these souls.
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  Nope. So please pray. I don't know why it's like
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  that, but it is, and it's frustrating to me. But God's faithful. He told
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  me to go. I know that he'll, uh, work it out. This eyelash is not
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  eyelashing. Um, so regarding Michigan Fest, I need prayer for favor
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  still that the Myers will come through and give us some gift cards.
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  That would be tremendously helpful. If you have not, uh, given towards Michigan
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  Fest and you would like to, please do so. It's vitally important. It'll help
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  me. There's a lot of things we still need to pull together.
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  It's coming up very quickly. Um, for those of you— I'll tell
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  you privately some of my prayer, uh, some of my prayer requests
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  for this event, but There's just a lot to figure out, y'all, and,
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  um, and I need help.
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  So if you would pray for me. All right, all right, let's get into the
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  message. Let me help you today. I want to talk to you about something really
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  important. The Bible says that faith works by what? Put it in the comments for
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  me if y'all know. Faith works by— starts with an L, rhymes with of.
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  So please put in the comments that faith works by love.
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  Paul said, if I can speak in tongues and angels but I don't have love,
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  I'm nothing. So your love is going to be challenged every single
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  day of your life. Your love, your ability to love people, your ability
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  to walk in love, your ability to have mercy. People will try you,
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  people will frustrate you, um, they'll talk about you, all this stuff.
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  And so what are you supposed to do? Well, you and me are supposed to
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  be like Jesus. And, uh, thanks, Steph. You're supposed to be like Jesus,
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  and, and that's not always easy. So today I want to talk to you about
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  mercy. Uh, hold on, I got to get this. Hold on one second.
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  Hold on, talk amongst yourselves. This is an important call, I think, for,
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  uh, a thing. So let me play this video again.
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  Don't move, guys.
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  You're invited to Michigan Fest 2026. It's October 9th
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  through the 11th, 6 to 8 PM. It will
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  be at the Open Air Pavilion on Party Road.
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  The address is at the end, but you must register to
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  come along. Totally free. There will be prizes for your family, your friends.
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  There will be bill pays. There's going to be gift giveaways,
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  all kinds of stuff, music. It's just
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  just a great night of fun for the family. There won't be any alcohol.
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  It will be safe for your family. So why don't you come out? It's time
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  for peace, joy, unity, happiness, and some fun with your
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  family. You must RSVP to come. The link will
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  be in the bio and you can just click the link. But Michigan Fest
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  2026, go to Eventbrite. You can look for Michigan Fest and RSVP
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  your spot. Limited spots available.
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  You're invited to live. All right,
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  sorry you guys, I have a, uh, we have a situation on our property
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  and so somebody's supposed to do something, so they might call me back and interrupt.
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  I'm so sorry I had to do that. All right, let me get into my
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  lesson. I might have to do it one more time, hopefully not, but here we
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  go. So let's talk about mercy. Mercy isn't just
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  saying that what was wrong is acceptable. Mercy is refusing to give punishment
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  that they might deserve.
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  Including me. So let's talk about mercy
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  for a minute on this. I'm gonna try to make my godly hacks quicker.
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  Um, he timed out. Okay. Jesus showed mercy to Peter
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  after Peter denied him. Peter promised that he would never— I will never
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  abandon, you know, I will never make— Lord, I will never
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  abandon you. I will never leave you. Never, never,
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  never, never, never, never, ever will I ever do. I will never, Lord, I love
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  I love you, Lord. I will never ever— and then the first chance Peter gets,
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  what's he do? I don't blankety-blank know him. You want to say hi to people?
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  Who's knocking at the door? Okay,
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  hold on, you guys. Come in here and talk to the people.
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  All right, I guess I'm doing broadcast now.
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  I know I'm not probably who you were expecting.
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  Um, forgive me because I just like ran around trying to put my
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  puppies in as soon as possible.
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  So let's see, what are we talking about here?
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  Uh, Jesus showed mercy to Peter. Anyone want to catch
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  me up on what we've been talking about? Let's see.
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  All right, uh, Peter promised that he would never abandon Jesus
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  but then denied him 3 times. What, what is the title
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  of this message?
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  Oh, give the mercy you needed. Okay,
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  so, so even though Peter denied Jesus,
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  Jesus still had mercy on him, obviously.
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  And in Luke 22:61,
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  and the Lord turned and looked upon Peter, and then Peter
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  went out and wept bitterly.
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  After resurrection Jesus did not humiliate Peter
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  or throw him away. He restored him. He had mercy on him.
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  John 21:17, he saith unto him
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  the 3rd time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?
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  Jesus saith unto him, feed my sheep. So even
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  though Peter denied him in front of everybody, Jesus still had compassion
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  on him. He still had mercy on him. He knew he was going to do
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  that. He knew that Peter would do that. But he still had mercy on him
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  anyways, which is really cool.
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  Okay, when— so, godly hack: when someone truly repents,
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  do not keep punishing them for what Jesus is trying to restore.
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  Something— that's something too that I have to work on.
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  And I feel like everybody has at least that one person in their
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  life that's done something to them that they have
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  said they've forgiven them for, and maybe they have, but maybe
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  every time you think about them— here's how you know you've truly forgiven
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  someone is every time you work— Marissa
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  said he needed a Snickers.
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  Okay, girls, you're distracting me, but it's hilarious
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  to keep going. When every time you think of the certain person,
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  if you immediately think of the thing that they did,
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  or every time you think of them you get a thought like, well, I don't
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  really like them anymore, or whatever, you haven't truly forgiven them.
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  So everyone has that one person in their life that they haven't—
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  I feel like they, they still have a problem
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  with them, they just don't know it. So if that's you, that's okay.
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  Just ask God for forgiveness. And also ask God,
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  because like, I didn't know either if I was still
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  struggling with this person or not. And so I asked God, I said, can you
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  help me to help me forgive this person for
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  what they did, or help me forgive them for something that happened in the past?
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  And he did. So you may not always know that you haven't forgiven someone,
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  and it will take you a little while to realize it. And if you haven't,
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  that's okay. Just ask God for forgiveness.
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  So don't keep punishing them when Jesus is trying to restore them,
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  because people are going to hurt you. It's part of the world. It's part of
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  human nature. But we have to, um,
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  love like Christ and have forgiveness like him too. All right,
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  number 2. Jesus showed mercy to the disciples who could
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  not stay awake. Jesus was in tremendous
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  agony in Gethsemane, and he asked his closest disciples to
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  watch and pray with him, but they repeatedly fell asleep.
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  You don't think that he was upset by that?
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  She has just proved— thank
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  you, thank you, Holly, I appreciate
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  that. I've had to learn to work really fast. Oh my gosh,
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  that was the wind, by the way. It scared me.
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  Okay, yeah, so Mom's done stuff like this to me in church before, asked me
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  to pray or whatever, so I've had to work quickly. But anyways, you don't think
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  that Jesus was upset by that? That he was in his, his worst
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  moment, he knew what he was about to do was the worst thing a human
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  could possibly go through, and all he asked was that his disciples would pray with
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  him? And they kept falling asleep. That hurt Jesus
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  a lot, and I think that it hurt him a lot more than
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  we think, because if it didn't, he wouldn't have included that in the scriptures.
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  Matthew 26, verse 40: And he cometh unto the disciples and find—
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  found them asleep, and said unto Peter, why could
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  you not watch? What could ye not watch with me one
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  hour? Mom needs to change this version. That's KJV,
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  by the way. Yeah, so why could they not just
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  pray with him for 1 hour? And that hurt Jesus a lot.
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  But he— Jesus corrected them,
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  but he also recognized their weakness.
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  So that hurt him a lot, and he didn't shame them after
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  that. He was upset with them, but he didn't keep shaming them. He moved on
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  and forgave them. Even when he was in his worst moment, he just needed someone
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  to pray with him. He still forgave them anyways.
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  Matthew 26:41: Watch and pray that
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  you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed
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  is willing, but the flesh is weak. We know a
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  lot about that. Our flesh is
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  lazy, our flesh is exhausting, our flesh does not want to
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  do things that are hard, and the spirit is always
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  willing. The spirit is always
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  willing to go after God, but sometimes it's our flesh that holds us
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  back. My mom has talked a lot about this before, putting your flesh down,
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  because if you let your flesh control you and not your spirit, you're going to
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  end up in a place that you don't want to be. So put it down,
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  just put it down. Um, they failed Jesus
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  at one of the most painful moments of his life,
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  yet he still went to the cross for them.
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  And, and that was right before he went to the cross. It wasn't like they
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  did this a week before, a month before, a couple days before
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  where he had to forgive him. No, he— they did this right before he went
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  to the cross, but he still forgave him anyways. So the hack is mercy
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  remembers that people can love you sincerely and
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  still fail you terribly.
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  And, and like I said earlier, that's human nature. There's always going to be somebody
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  who hurts you, but it's your job, it's your decision to decide that
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  you want to forgive this person. You don't want to be like that anymore.
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  You want to forgive them and, and move on with your life and,
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  and say, you know what, they hurt me really bad, but I've
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  asked for forgiveness and I've forgiven them and I'm
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  gonna move on and I'm not gonna keep remembering the same thing anymore.
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  Because I've done that a lot with people and unfortunately
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  I still have But it's
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  okay. I just need to remember that I can
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  move on and I don't have to think about it anymore, because it doesn't make
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  you feel any better to remember what somebody did to you that's bad. So just
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  move on. Have mercy on them.
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  Okay, number 3: Jesus showed mercy to the woman caught
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  in adultery. This was a huge thing back
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  in the Bible times. This wasn't like a little sin. They were ready to— to
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  this girl, I can't say it because we're on stream, but they're ready to literally
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  do this to this girl with rocks. And because it's
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  just such a horrible thing, and Jesus had mercy
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  on her for, for doing such a horrible thing.
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  Religious leaders brought this woman to Jesus and demanded judgment.
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  They exposed her sin publicly, but Jesus responded with mercy.
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  When Jesus had lifted himself up— this is John 8,
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  verse 10— when Jesus had lifted himself up and saw none
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  but the woman, he said unto her, woman, where are those 9 accusers?
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  Or where are those accusers? Has no man condemned you?
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  She said, no man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, neither do
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  I condemn you. Go and sin no more.
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  So Jesus didn't— Jesus didn't say, well, I don't condemn
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  you either, and then just sent her away. He, he said,
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  go and don't do this anymore. Because you can ask for forgiveness after
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  sin, but if you keep doing it, what's the point of asking for forgiveness if
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  you're just going to keep doing it? But Jesus had mercy on her for doing
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  this. Jesus had mercy on her for doing one of the worst things.
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  Yeah, Marissa said go. Oh, you're talking to somebody else. Go ahead.
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  Sorry, I thought you were talking to me.
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  So move on. And, and Jesus told her to not sin anymore.
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  Jesus told her to go. Jesus did not call her sin acceptable.
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  He saved her from condemnation and then called
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  her into a changed life. Goodness,
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  my reading today. And then called her into a changed life. He didn't
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  say, well, it's, you know, your sin wasn't that bad.
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  It was obviously bad, but he didn't keep condemning her after that.
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  Mercy does not say keep sinning. Mercy says
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  you do not have to remain the person you are. I've got— girl,
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  I'm so proud of you! What else is I gonna do? No, that's good.
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  Where were you at? Look at my kid, what a good job. You go back
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  up. I love you. Good job, honey. That's where you are. Where were you at?
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  Uh, that part. Well, good. All right, well, I'll just take over where you left
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  off. Thank you so much. All right, did she do a good job? Come on,
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  good job, honey. I love you guys. Thank you.
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  We had some work done and these men were coming.
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  Come on, I'm glad you guys— the Bible talk. Okay.
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  Who— sorry, I'm sorry, I just
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  saw this person's comment. Please stop wearing things that cause people to
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  stumble. Good Lord,
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  can I just say, are you a man? I think you're a man. I'm not—
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  I normally don't comment, but I gotta say something right here. And I know you,
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  you keep saying— is that Michael? Michael, if some
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  man looks at me and he's stumbling, you got a whole lot bigger
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  problems than— I mean, if this causes you to stumble, you've got a mental issue.
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  Nothing. What? What?
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  Michael,
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  that's almost as funny as Donald Trump trying to,
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  trying to rename french fries American fry.
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  Oh Lord, help me! That's funny. I needed that laugh. Thank you so much.
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  Oh, that's funny. Oh Lord have mercy.
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  Look, this is not the Muslim Central here. We don't cover up our
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  heads and our eyeballs. And if that causes a man to fall,
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  then, then men have lust issues. They don't have— that's
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  your problem, not my problem. None of my bits are hanging out. It's all
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  covered up. Hey Lonnie! Everything's covered, so just you,
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  you'll be all right. All right, back to my message. Didn't she do good?
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  Come on, Matilda did good. All right, so anyway, we had guys,
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  they chopped down stuff and they left some stuff down, so I had to go
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  handle it, but it's okay now. All right, Jesus showed— where was she at?
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  She did— Jesus showed mercy to the woman in adultery.
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  That's right, like the woman was guilty, guilty, guilty,
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  guilty, guilty, and he still forgave her. So you and I do stuff sometimes,
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  but God forgives us. This was supposed to be a short broadcast, but I interrupted
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  it 10 times. Jesus showed mercy to the dying thief.
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  The thief could not undo his, his crimes. He didn't come down off
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  the cross and build an impressive record, you know. He didn't— he didn't
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  have time to come down and say, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have done it,
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  uh, I'll fix this, I'll fix— there was no time to fix.
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  He just looked at Jesus and he said, remember me. That's it. And that worked.
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  Jesus said, verily I say to you, today you'll be with me in paradise.
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  Jesus is so merciful. He's so kind.
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  He's so forgiving. And so let me tell you something.
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  You and me, if we do something wrong, we want Christ to be
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  merciful to us. So if somebody
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  does something wrong to us, we have to be merciful back.
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  And that can be challenging. But the same mercy we want
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  from Jesus, we have to give out to others. And then your faith will work.
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  Jesus showed mercy to people crucifying him.
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  Okay, well, you don't know what they did to me. Well, you don't know what
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  they've said. Well, you don't know how bad they are. Well, you don't know.
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  And then you— and then you see Jesus.
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  I mean, were you crucified? You weren't.
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  Oh, happy time, whatever that— okay. Jesus said, Father,
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  forgive them, they don't know what they're doing. Jesus did not wait for an apology
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  before refusing to become bitter. He released them to the Father.
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  So forgiveness doesn't always require renewed access,
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  but it requires just releasing your right. This is what true forgiveness
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  is. It doesn't mean that they didn't hurt you.
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  It doesn't mean you're not offended. It doesn't mean any of that stuff, but you're
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  letting go of you punishing
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  them. You understand? You're letting
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  go of, I'm gonna make them pay, I'm gonna
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  show them a thing or two. That's not mercy.
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  How— why is it that you and me have to show mercy? Jesus said—
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  you ready? Matthew 5:7: Blessed are the merciful,
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  for they shall obtain mercy. What you say,
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  Lord? What? You see, here's the thing.
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  You never know when you might be jacked up.
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  Jacked up. You never know when you might do something
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  stupid, when you might be jacked up. You never know
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  when you might falter, when you might make a mistake, when you might
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  disappoint God. Well, you can never disappoint God. Yes, you can. Oh yes,
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  you can. He's a father. You know, you never
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  know. You got kicked off of YouTube. Who kicked you off of
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  YouTube? You never know when somebody could like do that, and you— so you
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  never know when you're gonna need mercy. And the Bible says,
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  blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
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  If you're always cutting on people and you're always like, you, you should
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  have known better than that, how come you didn't this and that? And,
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  and can I just say, guilty. We're all guilty. We've all done it.
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  We've all done it. We've all done it. We've We've
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  all done it. So blessed are the merciful, for they shall
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  obtain mercy. This is the main reason we want to be merciful. We have
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  to be merciful, okay? James gives us,
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  gives us this warning: for he shall have judgment without mercy,
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  that he shows no mercy and would rejoice against judgment. You don't
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  want to do that. We should all be merciful because we need mercy ourselves.
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  Mercy breaks the cycle of revenge.
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  Mercy protects restoration.
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  Mercy shows people what Jesus is like. And the measure
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  we give will be measured back to us. That's a big deal.
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  Mercy is not the same as permission. It doesn't require you
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  to remain in an unsafe, abusive situation.
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  You can forgive somebody and still establish boundaries. You can release
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  bitterness without restoring trust. Forgiveness can be given,
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  trust has to be rebuilt. So who's failed you
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  the way that Peter failed Jesus? Who's disappointed
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  you when you needed the most like the disciples did
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  in Gethsemane? I'm sure I've disappointed people before.
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  I'm sure people were like— I mean, I've heard you guys, man, I don't think
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  that, you know, somebody should do this and somebody should do that.
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  And to
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  the person obsessed with modesty, you know what would be better for you right now,
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  my friend? Just to listen. You got 2 ears and
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  1 mouth, so the mouth You should be quiet and you should
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  be listening and you'd get something instead of being obsessed over something that doesn't matter.
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  Who has failed you the way Peter failed Jesus? Who disappointed you when
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  you needed it most like the disciples in Gethsemane? Who made a terrible mistake
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  and now they need an opportunity to change? So give
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  them the very mercy that you need. Come on, you needed
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  to say, God, I forgive them. They didn't mean to do that. I'm going to
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  be merciful. I'm going to love them. I'm going to release bitterness.
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  I'm gonna let go of revenge. I'm gonna let go of anything
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  that hurt me or disappointed me. You have to have healthy boundaries.
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  That's true. But you have to have mercy. This thing about mercy,
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  just so y'all know, this isn't geared at anyone in particular.
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  This is just a basic principle in the scriptures that every single
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  one of us need. I need it. I need to remember that Jesus— for—
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  because it's— because here's what can happen. I'm just going to tell y'all what happens
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  when you serve God and you think you're doing great stuff and you're feeling good
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  because you're not sinning and you're acting right and all the stuff. You can forget
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  where you came from. You can forget that maybe there were struggles.
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  Maybe you had a hard day. Maybe you didn't act right too. Maybe you didn't
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  do the right choices. And then you can just get ticked off and be like,
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  they should know better, and how come they— and what— and that's not mercy.
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  And so we all need to be challenged to be merciful and kind
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  and loving and all this stuff. We have to be, uh,
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  merciful.
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  Like with old help, whatever. I'm being merciful right now by not talking to them.
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  So, you know,
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  don't Don't y'all think it's fun on YouTube?
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  Aren't y'all think it's fun on YouTube? You got people talking about my eyelashes,
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  my makeup, my hair, my— I don't— what's not modest?
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  What, what's not modest? What, I got shoulders out? I don't, I don't fully understand.
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  What are they— are they seeing something I'm not seeing? I don't know. What's not
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  modest about the way I'm dressed today? I don't get it.
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  Who is this? Help Matt, help, help Matt, help! You need
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  some help. Help Matt, help! You, you desperately need help.
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  I just think— I don't get it. You forgive me? Well, there's nothing for
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  you to forgive me for. I never did anything wrong. You're just kind of goofy.
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  Really goofy, actually. So anyway,
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  who's gonna have mercy? I am. You are. We all are.
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  Amen. God wants us to have mercy. Oh, you were talking
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  about my daughter.
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  Now I am going to have to have mercy
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  on you. You shouldn't be talking about
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  my daughter. Never talking
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  about my daughter.
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  First of all, my daughter came up here and helped me in a
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  pinch because I had to talk to 2 grown men at my door.
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  Secondly, my daughter's a child, so you
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  should just zip it, your lip, Michael,
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  about a child.
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  Yeah, be silent. Okay, enough attention.
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  Okay, anyway, back to the mercy. You need to have mercy and
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  kindness and all the stuff, even when people act like crazy fools.
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  And we all at one point have acted like crazy fools, and we just want
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  mercy. And the Bible says faith works by love, and we're all trying to get
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  somewhere to do something. We're all, um, we're all trying to do something.
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  We are trying to walk closer to God. We're trying to have faith in miracles.
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  We're trying to believe God for lives to be changed. Let me tell you something,
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  you know, um when we had the Sunday service and stuff, like, I knew
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  that, that I was gonna have to— like,
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  I just knew I was gonna have to be filled with power. And, and God
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  helped me. He was merciful on me. And people got saved and healed. And 4
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  people, 4 people, y'all, began to speak in other tongues. And that has
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  never happened before. Well, we've had it like that before, but not
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  that many at once. And it was wonderful. And so we just have to show
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  mercy. God loves us. God's on our side. God's doing good things.
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  The Lord wants to bless us. Amen. And I know that he loves you.
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  And he wants to help you, and, uh, he wants to bless you today.
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  So what are we gonna do? We're gonna walk in mercy
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  and love and kindness. If somebody is not nice to us, we're gonna
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  forgive them. We're gonna walk in the same love that God wants us to have.
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  Amen. The same— the love of God that passes understanding,
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  we are going to have that for other people because God really loves
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  us and God's hand is on our side. Amen.
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  So I hope that this blessed you today. I'm so thankful for my beautiful daughter
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  for teaching while I had bug out for a few minutes. Um, I know she
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  did a great job. Matilda is anointed by the Lord and she's doing a great
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  job, and I'm just glad she was on here. I'm so glad to always see
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  you girls. It makes me smile every time I see you. Y'all are so sweet
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  and so precious, and may God multiply the time you spend with me. Amen.
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  And then if you are watching, maybe you're watching for the very first time and,
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  and you're a Christian, and maybe you've been like, you know, I want to do
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  something to help God. Well, you could sow financially in a Michigan
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  Fest. Why don't you do that? You can go to preachatlisa.com the ways
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  to give are there. You know, maybe you just happen to be scrolling past this
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  and you're a business owner and you make a lot of money and you're like,
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  I want to contribute, I want to give $1,000, I want to give $5,000,
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  I want to help. You could do that and then we could bless more people
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  in the community and all the things. So if that's you watching and you've never
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  watched me before and you want to do something with your money to help the
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  kingdom, you can help me with Michigan Fest. For those of you watching, please pray
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  for Muslims to come and And really, Muslims are no
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  different than anybody else. They just need Jesus. Just pray for
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  the lost souls that they'll come. All right, I love you guys so very much,
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  and I'm believing God that he— that this message helped you. And we all need
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  it. Look, I need this message all the time because guaranteed this week someone's going
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  to do something to me and I'm going to want to hit them.
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  And then God's going to go, oh no you don't, Lisa. No you didn't,
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  because— no you didn't, Lisa, because I remember when you
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  were not all, and I had mercy on you. Oh no, you didn't,
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  Lisa. That's what the Lord's saying. So we all have to have mercy.
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  I do, you do, we all do. And, uh, mercy is a good thing.
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  Mercy is a godly quality. And just remember, the minute
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  you're about to like go out there at somebody, just remember the Lord's like,
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  no, you didn't do that, because I remember what you used to be like.
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  And you show them mercy. Amen. God really loves you, and so
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  he wants to show his love to other people, and he
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  wants you to be the vessel that he does it through. And you can't
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  do it if you're mad and angry and teed off all the time. The only
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  way that, that you can show mercy to people is if you are merciful.
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  And I know we can do it because the one who is mercy,
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  is mercy, is mercy on
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  the inside. Amen. The merciful one lives on
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  the inside, right? You know that.
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  All right, who's ready to pray with me? Every single
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  one of you are ready to pray with me. Let's pray. If you don't know
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  Jesus Christ, today is your day. Come on, today you can be saved. Maybe you're
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  scrolling past this and you just happen to come to this part of the video.
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  Jesus loves you. You gotta ask him into your heart.
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  You've got to repent, my brother and sister. You've done something wrong
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  to say, oh, I'm sorry. There's nothing wrong with saying sorry. That's a
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  good thing. I'm sorry. When Matilda was a little girl, she,
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  she'd get mad at me. She'd go, say you're sorry.
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  That's what she used to yell at me. You say you're sorry. On that
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  video. And that's all it is. Say you're sorry to God. I'm sorry, I shouldn't
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  have done that. All right, so if you're watching me and you need to say
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  sorry to God, say sorry. Father, I'm sorry.
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  Forgive me. I've made mistakes. I'm a sinner.
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  Jesus, I believe you died on a cross for me.
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  I believe you were buried and raised again. Jesus, come into my heart.
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  Be the Lord of my life. You said that simple prayer, my friend, you just
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  got pulled right up out of darkness just like that. Now I'm
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  gonna pray for you guys who you know that I know and I love.
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  Lord, bless my friends. Bless these women.
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  Bless the men watching. Bless all the crazy men that watch.
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  God, I pray that you would anoint their hands. Look, hold up your hands while
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  you're talking to me. Wow, hold up your hands, then, then flip them around.
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  Say, these are the hands of a very rich person. Say, these are
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  blessed hands. These are anointed hands. These are gifted hands.
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  My hands lay hands on the sick and they get healed. My hands
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  do the work of the Lord and they are very successful. Look at your
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  hands again. Say, these are very successful hands. Come on,
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  prophesy to your hand. These are successful hands.
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  Say, everything I touch turns to gold.
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  Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Come on, you need money to do stuff.
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  The gospel free, but my hotels aren't free, the vans aren't free, the toys aren't
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  free, the gift cards aren't free, the venue's not free. You need
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  money to preach the gospel, my friend. So I love you so much. I'm believing
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  God that he's doing something great in your life today. I want
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  to thank you. You know how you can help me get the gospel out is
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  by sharing this with your friends and whoever else you know. Thank you so much
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  for being here today. Uh, God loves you. I love
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  you. Jesus is Lord, and his hand of
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  The favor and power is on you today. Amen.
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  Come on, let's, let's pray our
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  way out, praise our way out.
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  Come on, we're gonna preach it. Come on,
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  pray for someone today. Bless them. God loves you.
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  You're, you're anointed.
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  You got faith, you got power, you got joy.
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  Love lifts you. Love! I love you, I love you, I love you,
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  I love you, I love you, I love you. He loves you more.
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  See you later.