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82 - Why Saying “I Forgive You” Isn’t Enough · The One Gospel Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Clearly explained.
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  SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ready to take notes?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Jilon Tout, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: I started this series called Heart Matters, and I really want to recommend you to go back to the first episode and just watch it from the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you just tuned in, because man, we have been covering a lot of amazing stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've shared on the heart of the gospel in both ways.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what I mean with that is that first of all, I've showed from the Word of God the heart of the Father concerning us, you know, how He wanted to have relationship and intimacy with us, and that He re-restored everything between Himself and us in Christ Jesus, because Jesus is our peace.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_01: He made us, He made peace, He reconciled us unto God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so you can see the heart of the Father through the whole scriptures concerning us, you know, and how Jesus came to pass in the fullness of the times, and how it was all has been intended and have come to pass by the mercy and the goodness and the love of God, so that we could become restored unto Him again.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I shared also how, as children of the living God, we should act and walk according to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we should be like Jesus, we should be copies of Jesus, because Jesus was always moved with compassion and loving on people, and then we should do exactly the same.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I showed that we can do that now because we are born again.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so and then I came to another aspect of the heart of the gospel, which is believing, because believing also is a hard matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I've been sharing a lot of amazing stuff on it, but basically, you know, just to have like a quick review on it, is that you know, believing, you know, is is only uh valid if you act on what you say that you believe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, that is faith without works, and faith without works in itself is dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so God expects us to not only say the things that we believe, you know, proclaim and confess the things that we believe, which is very good to do, but you also have to believe it in your heart, because if you do not believe it in your heart, then you won't have what you say.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I ended up in the previous episode in the in the book of Mark from verse 22, where Jesus says, Have faith in God, for surely I say to you, whoever says this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes in his heart, brackets, uh, that those things he says will be done, then he will have whatever he says.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so you can only have what you say when you believe what you say.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you do not believe in your heart what you say, then you won't have what you say.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it's important that you believe it in your heart, because believing is a heart matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, it says in uh that everything is possible with God.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then it also says that everything is possible for those who believe in Mark 9, 23.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who believe what?
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  SPEAKER_01: That everything is possible with God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Faith now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Faith now is the substance of the things hoped for, not the faith of the past or the faith for the future, or the faith after you've seen it.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, the faith now is the substance of the things hoped for and an evidence of the things not seen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hebrews 11, verse 1.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I've been teaching on that, man, and it has been a blessing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I want to continue in this episode on this theme of believing is a hard matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Father God, thank you so much for this teaching.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for the prompting of your Holy Spirit, thank you for your anointing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I give you all the praise and all the glory in Jesus' mighty name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so the believing that Jesus is talking about is the word in the Greek is pisteo.
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  SPEAKER_01: It sounds a little bit like pistach.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, which really are very nice nuts, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, pisteo uh believes that you are trusting in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the word pisteo means trusting, and trusting in your heart that God is who he says that he is, and that he will do what he says that he can do or will do.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so if God says that all things are possible with God, and that is true, and you believe that in your heart, then all things will become possible for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is pistil.
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  SPEAKER_01: You believe it, you trust it, that you're trusting that all things are possible for God, and that all things are possible for who believe that all things are possible for with God, and therefore you can have everything that God says you can have, and you can do everything that God says that you can do because you believe now, you have faith now, and you are acting on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, it's really, really beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Believing in your heart is knowing for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand the impact of a sincere heart that truly believes on the things of God?
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, you can really achieve the impossible and the undoable for the kingdom of God in your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you truly, truly have a sincere heart, it's unprecedented.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everything that grace has established, you can see become manifest in your life if you have the right heart when it comes to believing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can you can really achieve anything, nothing is any more impossible for you when you truly believe in your heart, the things that God says.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's powerful.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's powerful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Look what it says in Matthew 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna use a lot of Bible verses.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 15, verse 18.
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  SPEAKER_01: There where it says that those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart and defile a man.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh, you know, we have this saying in Dutch.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if it's if it's also the same in uh English, but in Dutch we uh translated it will say, you know, where the heart is full of, the mouth runs over of it, from it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so whatever your heart is full of, there your mouth will run over from.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, um, you know, when people are talking a lot of stuff, you know that their heart is full of that, because their mouth is running over from it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so if you talk a lot about the gospel and the word of God and the kingdom of God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit, you know, and all that kind of stuff, then people know his heart is full with the things of God, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, where is your heart full of?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is truly living in your heart?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is truly taking space in your heart?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because your heart, my brother or my sister, it's not that beating organ that we all need to sustain the body, you know, pumping blood and all the kind of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm man, I'm I'm really taking care of my physical heart the same way that you know I'm taking care of, you know, my spiritual heart, because my heart is determining who I am and what I truly, truly believe.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the whole core of my whole being and my existence.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's where my soul and my spirit come together.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's where what I truly believe becomes manifest.
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  SPEAKER_01: What I truly believe, you know, uh what my true faith system is, it's find place there in the center of where my heart is shaped by the spirit and by my soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so you really gotta take care of that heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: You really got to search your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, even David was praying in Psalms 139, and he says, Lord, you know, search my heart and see if there is any wicked way, if there's any wrong way, and then lead me on the right path or on the right way.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, if there is anything in my heart that is not in line with your word of God, if there's anything in my heart that can, you know, that can block, you know, your divine flow in my life, then show me.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I can repent from it, I can do it away, I can pluck it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just by the root, gone, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's really important.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is truly living in your heart?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because if your heart is pure and sincere, then you can walk in all the things, you know, of above.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if your heart is not pure and sincere, it really truly will block this divine flow of God in your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: He wants to bless you, and you are already blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are blessed with the blessing of Abraham, and you are the you are highly favored and endued with grace of God, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if you do not truly have this pure, sincere heart that truly believes on it, acts on it, and is full with the things of above, full with the things of God, then you know you are blocking the that divine flow of all those blessings and all those things come to pass in your life because you have an unstable heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: An impure, unstable heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, I don't say that to judge or to condemn, because I had had a lot of times an unstable heart or an impure heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, I had had bitterness in my heart.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: Man, thank you, Holy Spirit.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when I uh was in prison, I wasn't in prison just because of my own stupidity.
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  SPEAKER_01: My stupidity maybe was trusting people that you can't trust, but I had people that I worked with, I had people that I have been really, man, I have always been a giver and I've given people a lot of chances and I've given a lot away of what I had, like all my money.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was always giving away a lot of what I had, with the wrong motivations for them to like me, not because I just love I was just loving people, but you know, I was always a giver, and you know, and I have helped so many people, and I have really, you know, took people with me, you know, and we I I've trusted people so easy, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was such a fool, you know, believing that everybody would be the same like I was, you know, and I was just trusting people and trusting people, you know, and helping people and all that kind of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: And my heart had been broken over and over and over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I became harder and harder and harder.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, when I ended up in business, uh my crime business, you know, uh drug manufacturing and all that kind of stuff, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I worked with a lot of people, I didn't trust anybody anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I wasn't I was my heart was completely stone concrete, you know, like fortified concrete, you know, you can't get through it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I wasn't trusting anybody, and then a few of those people betrayed me, which led eventually to my arrest, and eventually to a conviction of 18 years imprisonment, which they've which they combined and make it into 15, and I spent 10 years in prison, so in the end I've spent 10 years in prison, but 10 years in prison because people betrayed me and snitched on me, you know, gave me away.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had 10 years in prison away from everybody that I love.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't a Christian, so please don't judge me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the first years I was pondering day in, day out, I was pondering and pondering and pondering and pondering how I'm gonna deal with them when I get out.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I had done so many things to them in so many ways that you cannot even imagine.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I was filled with hate and bitterness and unforgiveness in my heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was really, really, really, you know, impure in my heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: If it comes to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then Jesus came into my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus forgave me of everything, every single thing that I ever had done wrong in my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: The things that I shouldn't have done, but I did, and the things that I should have done, but I didn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: He forgave me each and every single mistake that I've made in my life.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't even forgive myself the way that God had forgiven me.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: That took a while for me to even forgive myself, let alone forgive others of what they had done to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: My heart was unstable and impure, and therefore, you know, even though I had this born-again uh experience in my prison cell, this supernatural encounter with Jesus, and I knew that I was good enough for him, you know, and I and I knew that my life would never be the same again, and I had a way more joy, way, way more light, and I felt way more better and all this kind of stuff, you know.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: I had these frequent moments of this bitterness and this pain that I felt of the people that betrayed me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just felt it over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was relivering it over and over again, you know, and therefore I still had a lot of issues and a little struggles, you know, while I was in the beginning of my you know walk with the Lord when I was in prison, you know, and I had still many years to go.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, and I was living completely in the past and I couldn't let it go.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then one day Jesus told me, He says, the same way that I have forgiven you with all the love and all the compassion that you can imagine.
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  SPEAKER_01: The same way where I gave my life for you so that you could receive the remission of your sins and forgiveness from the Father by my blood.
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  SPEAKER_01: The same way I'll need you to forgive all those people that you hold a grudge again against, those people that you are now hating because of what they have done, because they don't know what they are doing, they are also in darkness, they are also blind, they are just they were they are just as lost as you were before I you had your encounter with me, and they don't know better.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: They they are just the product of society and their families and where they came from, the choices, the bad choices they made, because they are in a fallen nature.
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  SPEAKER_01: You need to forgive them the same way.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: And man, that was a struggle for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't understand how he could ask that from me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But when I started to realize how much he had forgiven me, and when I started to realize that it would be unfair for me to not forgive others the way that he had forgiven me, and then you have that story in the Bible where this guy had a debt and he went to this man, you know, this this um let's say this boss, and say, Listen, uh master, you know, I'm sorry, I don't have the money, but and he wanted to throw me in prison and sell his family and everything, and he was falling on his knees and said, Please have mercy on me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will pay you everything if you give me some time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then the guy had compassion and just cleared his whole debt and didn't let him pay anything, not even a dime.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: He went outside and then he found a fellow servant, and he was owing him just like a fraction of what he just was being, you know, uh dismissed of.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, and that guy said, Hey, give me the money that you owe me.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: And that guy fell on his knees and he said, Hey man, have mercy on me, man.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have it now.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, please, I'm begging you, can you please give me some more time?
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: I will pay you, but I don't have it now.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: And he didn't want to know nothing from it.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: And he just said, No, take him and put him into prison and let him stay there until they paid me everything back.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: And then this boss, this master, heard of that, and then he called him back in and he said, You evil bad servant, I didn't I just forgive you all of that, you know, and now shouldn't you have done exactly the same to the others?
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: To the other guy, you know, and then he put him in prison and let him stay there and sold his wife in jail.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, you know, it was like really bad for the guy.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: It was really not good for the guy, you know.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: Man, this is the example.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, Jesus says, Yo, and you need to forgive them.
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  SPEAKER_01: You really need to forgive them, otherwise, you know, you're not pleasing to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I started to say, Ah, okay, I forgive them, I forgive them, I've forgiven you, I've forgiven you, I've forgiven you, I've forgiven you, but I didn't mean whatsoever in my heart, it was still bitter, you know.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: I was saying it, but I really need didn't really do it, you know, until you know I had one night, I was just sitting on my bed, and I was just overwhelmed with this love for those people because they need to know Jesus the same way that I need that I met Jesus and know Jesus because they are lost the same way that I was lost, and I felt compassion for them, and I felt love for them, and I felt grace for them, and I just could forgive them from the bottom of my heart, and I asked for forgiveness, you know, to them, not physically calling them and anything.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: I just said their name and I said, Can you forgive me for hating you so much?
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: Can you forgive me for cursing you so much?
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I bless you, I forgive you, I love you, and I want the best for you.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: And I pray that you're gonna have an encounter with Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't hold any crutch against you whatsoever.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I really pray that you're gonna have an amazing, blessed life where you can know the Lord and walk in your destiny and you and your family and your kids and everything, you know, and and it just came from my heart because now my heart was right, my heart was pure, my heart was the heart of God in where he had poured out his spirit and his love.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: It was the heart of my true nature who I now am in Christ Jesus, and then from that heart I can just forgive them from the bottom of, and I never ever felt any more pain thinking about them or thinking about those things.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even think about it anymore.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: It just it just was it was plucked out of my system, and it no longer was attacking me in what way soever, and it was no longer blocking me in what way soever to walk in the joy and the goodness and the love of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see, because my heart now became right, because believing is a hard matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's really, really beautiful, you know.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: And if you are impure and unstable and you're not really sincere and honest in your heart, you know, the Bible calls that double-minded.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and when you are double-minded, you cannot receive from God, you know, you cannot say one thing and then really believe the other thing or doing the other thing, you know, and so uh a double-minded, you know, in Dutch it says double-hearted.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you got two, you got two hearts, double-minded, but you have two hearts.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: One heart wants to do what God says, and then the other heart wants to do what you say, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just it's yes and no, in and out, up and down, high and low, you know.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so it's like this yo-yo effect.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's you know, uh, how you say that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jekyll and Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hyde syndrome, you know, because you know, it's just like this double heart.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so you say that you believe God that everything has been finished, you know, now it has been finished.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: You say that you believe God, but then in the same time you try to do it all in your own strength.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: So you say, I believe God that it has been finished, but now I'm also gonna do it in my own strength because I don't really believe that it's all finished, and I also need to add something to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's double-minded.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, you can I can do a lot of examples, you know, on you know, what double-mindedness is, you know, that's saying, you know, I know that I am healed by the stripes of Jesus, but then I am so scared and worried whether I'm not gonna die of that thing that the doctor says I have.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's double-minded.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Because you say that you believe that you're healed by his stripes, but now the doctor says that you're gonna live for another week and you are just calling everybody and sending emails and already are ordering your own coffin.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: So you believe the doctrine, you believe God.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: Now what is it?
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna believe the one or you're gonna believe the other, but you cannot believe both.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's like you cannot serve the mammon and God.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot serve two lords, you cannot serve money and God.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: Whether you're gonna, or you're gonna serve God, or you're gonna serve money.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: But if you say you're gonna serve them both, that's double-minded.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, God, it's just like leaping in these two thoughts, you know, and and it's just that heart is not sincere and upright, you know, it's not good in this faith system.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: And that faith, that kind of heart, it's not that faith, it's that kind of heart that becomes a stumble block for God.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I'm saying something, you know, that I know that some people really maybe got get up get offended by it or anything, you know.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: But if you are double-minded, your heart is a stumble block for God to let his divine flow flow through you and let come all those things come to pass that he says in his word that you have and you can do.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, look what it says in James 4.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_01: James 4.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: Here in verse 8, it says Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you know that you are in right standing with God.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Because of the grace of Jesus, because of the grace that you have put your trust in, you have put your faith in.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: If you know that you are free of condemnation, if you know that you are free of shame and if you're free of guilt, then you can come with an upright, pure, and sincere heart to the throne of God.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: You can come to Him, that's what He says, you know, purify your heart, you're double-minded.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: Just put your faith either in me or put your faith in your circumstances, but you cannot put them in both.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: So purify your heart.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: Just get all that stuff out that is not in line with my word.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: And just make sure that your heart is in right standing, that it's upright, and it's and it's without conviction or condemnation or anything like that.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: So you can focus on me, and then you will have, you know, I will draw to you, you know, and you will have what you believe in your heart that you will have.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: You know, then there is no more obstacle for you to walk in the fullness of God.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: You know, not really believing God in his word and what he says, and that belief in your heart is a stumble block for God.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's really a stumble block for God.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know, um, when Jesus, you know, had this, he revealed, it was revealed by Peter that he was the Son of God, you know, and um and Jesus said to him, you know, um, this is not from you what you just say that I am the Son of God, the Christ.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: You have received that from my Father who is in heaven.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: This was a spiritual revelation, it was a spiritual thought that he spoke.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: And then in the same chapter, he says, you know, when Jesus says he's gonna be delivered unto the man, you know, and they're gonna they're gonna crucify him, they're gonna die, you know, and all this kind of stuff.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, Peter says, No, no, no, that's not gonna happen, you know, because you know, I'm I'm gonna make sure that that's not gonna happen.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: And then Jesus says to him, you know, uh, go behind me, Satan, for you do not think on the things of God.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: You are thinking, you are a stumble block for me, for you do not think on the things of God, but on the things of man.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: And you see, when you look in the natural and you have put your faith in the natural and your own strength, and you're gonna make sure that it's gonna happen based on your performance and your intentions and your talents and your goodness and all this kind of stuff, you know, and you do not think on the things of above, the spiritual things, and put your faith in that and have your heart focused on that, then that becomes a stumble block for God.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's some strong stuff, you know.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: But it's really important for you that you'd kind of decide where I am gonna put my faith in.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: Is it in the things of God or if it if it is it in the things of the world?
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: And if it's in the things of God, then I should act on it.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: I should have works of faith.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: I should act on it, walk uh like it.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I say that I believe, I need to do it, you know.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so you gotta get rid of all the uncertainty and doubt in your life, and you gotta get rid of all that natural thinking, you know, in your heart, and you need to start to think in your heart, you know, the things of above, the things of the kingdom.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: You are now hidden with Christ in God, therefore think on the things that are above and not on the things that are below the things on this earth.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I feel that I've lacked you to share the depth of this.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna try to, you know, um bring you there in the next episode.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: But I really pray that this has blessed you.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to see you in the next episode.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: My time is up now.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: God bless you, and uh, until next time.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: Bye-bye.
• 25:36
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