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#226 Running to The Lord: (Part 2) Freedom Through Forgiveness · The OneCry Podcast

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Speaker0: So, there are two weights that you were never designed to bear,
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Speaker0: and it's the unbearable weight of unresolved sin, and secondly,
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Speaker0: the unbearable weight of unresolved hurt.
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Speaker0: Welcome to the One Cry Podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual awakening.
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Speaker0: The goal, accelerating the movement of God through sharing revival truth, stories, and reports.
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Speaker1: Man, welcome to the One Cry podcast. I'm Kyle Reno.
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Speaker1: This is Bill Elif, and we are shocked that you give us time every week. Is that not right,
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Speaker0: Bill? I can't believe every time somebody will ask me to come back to a church,
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Speaker0: you know, I'd be like, are you kidding me?
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Speaker0: You really want to hear me? You know, you want me to do this again?
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Speaker0: And I'm, you know, you're honored by that. And we're honored that people would
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Speaker0: let us come into their home and their car and wherever they are to listen to these podcasts,
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Speaker0: but we're also, we understand the truths that we're representing are eternal
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Speaker0: and life-changing, and so it's exciting.
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Speaker1: Yeah, and I just agree with that. I mean, the spirit of what really started
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Speaker1: One Cry is the desire to see God raise up a people that are lifting up that
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Speaker1: similar cry for revival and awakening to see the next great move of God.
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Speaker1: And there's so many things that are happening in our nation right now and around
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Speaker1: the world that thrills our heart.
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Speaker1: You know, and I think the point of the podcast is to help position people as
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Speaker1: much as possible for when the wind comes and the rivers of living water are rolling,
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Speaker1: that we can be a part of it to the fullest measure possible.
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Speaker1: And man, I'm telling you what you shared last week was unbelievable to really
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Speaker1: help people get clarity around unresolved areas and aspects of life and sin
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Speaker1: and things that you just never spent time to deal with honestly before God and others.
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Speaker1: And so I want to say really on the front side again.
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Speaker1: That was a great conversation that I hope moved to some places of confession
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Speaker1: with the Lord and maybe even with others.
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Speaker1: But that's not a one-stop shop. I mean, you need to spend some time to really learn some more.
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Speaker1: And Bill has a great resource that's on the website, One Cry, that you could find.
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Speaker1: I know that'll be in the show notes here and the ability to find that.
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Speaker1: And so I would encourage you, if you didn't get one, get one and maybe even
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Speaker1: go through it with some other people.
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Speaker1: And you'll actually have another resource today in light of the second part
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Speaker1: of this message that's not just about the unresolved sin, but on the other side
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Speaker1: of that, which we'll see in Joseph,
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Speaker1: Bill, is the willingness to forgive, you know, and to forgive those that have harmed us.
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Speaker1: And, man, I just just not that you need my accreditation in this,
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Speaker1: but to say it, I know how God has used you to help people really do this,
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Speaker1: to come to a place that they forgive people from the past and pain that's happened in their life.
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Speaker1: So, man, take us into that truth today and give us next steps.
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Speaker0: Well, thanks, Kyle. And, you know, in years,
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Speaker0: decades now, believe it or not, of dealing with people in personal revival,
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Speaker0: how they come to personal revival and churches, how they come to revival and
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Speaker0: cities, how they can experience the presence of God in new ways.
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Speaker0: These two truths are at the core.
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Speaker0: They're at the foundation. If you don't know how to do this,
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Speaker0: you can't get there and you can't go farther.
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Speaker0: You say, well, I need revival in my family. Okay, we're going to start right here.
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Speaker0: If you can't deal with these two weights that are weighing on your marriage
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Speaker0: or that are weighing on your soul, these unbearable weights,
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Speaker0: as I talked about last week,
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Speaker0: then you can't go any farther.
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Speaker0: You can't say, well, we're going
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Speaker0: to build in our marriage, but we're just not going to deal with this.
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Speaker0: So there are two weights that you were never designed to bear,
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Speaker0: and it's the unbearable weight of unresolved sin, and secondly,
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Speaker0: the unbearable weight of unresolved hurt.
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Speaker0: Unresolved sin and unresolved hurt.
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Speaker0: And we see these both in the life of Joseph.
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Speaker0: And I explained the life of Joseph and the travelogue of how Joseph went from
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Speaker0: a pit and then into prison and then into a palace where he became the second
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Speaker0: most important man in all the world during a time of famine.
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Speaker0: But along the way, his brothers, who had sinned against him greatly,
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Speaker0: they had this unresolved guilt, and it had weighed on their soul for 22 years.
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Speaker0: Now, some of you who are listening today, wherever you are, you've had sin,
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Speaker0: sins that have happened in the past that, you know, you've gone on in your life,
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Speaker0: but you've never dealt with these things in your life.
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Speaker0: And there's always this touchstone immediately when Joseph's brothers,
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Speaker0: this is 22 years after they sinned against him and threw him in a pit,
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Speaker0: and they never resolved that God's way.
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Speaker0: The first thing they said when they got in trouble with Joseph was, well, this is it.
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Speaker0: We're paying for it. Now the reckoning comes for the sin that we've done.
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Speaker0: And you realize they've been carrying this weight for 22 years.
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Speaker0: And it had ruined their lives when they could have dealt with it in a day in the presence of God.
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Speaker0: I won't go over the details of that. You can listen to the podcast,
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Speaker0: and I hope you do from last week.
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Speaker0: But also, we want to look at in this story of Joseph, how to deal with this
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Speaker0: unbearable weight of unresolved hurt.
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Speaker0: Now, I'm going to ask you a question, all right? Have you ever been hurt?
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Speaker0: It's kind of a silly question, isn't it? It could be a massive hurt.
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Speaker0: Somebody really stabbed you in the back. They really betrayed you.
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Speaker0: It could be family hurt. It could be personal hurt.
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Speaker0: It could be something that happened in school. It could be something that happened
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Speaker0: 20 years ago or 30 years ago.
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Speaker0: It could be something that happened five minutes ago.
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Speaker0: It could be big, huge things, or it could be a series of ongoing things that has just hurt you.
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Speaker0: Everybody gets hurt. And I tell people, if you haven't really been hurt,
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Speaker0: then just keep breathing, right? It's going to happen in your life.
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Speaker0: But the question is not having been hurt because we're going to be hurt.
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Speaker0: It's how have you dealt with that hurt? And have you dealt with it God's way?
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Speaker0: Because there is a way to overcome harbored hurt.
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Speaker0: Now, if you hold on to it, if you've been hurt and you've never done what we're
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Speaker0: going to talk about today, I promise you, I've dealt with too many people.
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Speaker0: I've dealt with my own soul.
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Speaker0: It will turn into what the Bible calls bitterness.
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Speaker0: And the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 12, that if you let a root of bitterness
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Speaker0: come into your life, which is nothing more than just harboring hurt for a long time.
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Speaker0: Maybe it has a face attached to it. It will always spring up.
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Speaker0: You can say, well, I'm just going to push this down. Nobody will ever.
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Speaker0: No, no, no. I promise you, it will always spring up. It will always cause problems.
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Speaker0: And it will always defile many. That's what Hebrews says.
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Speaker0: In other words, your hurt will hurt other people. Hurting people hurt other people.
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Speaker0: And it just may be the way you become because this lingering feeling of, man, I've been hurt.
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Speaker0: This is not fair. this is not right, is in your soul.
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Speaker0: And so it causes anxiety. It causes fear. It causes mistrust.
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Speaker0: You find you can't trust other people. And most importantly,
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Speaker0: you find that you can't trust God.
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Speaker0: And so all the things that you need in your life, you're just cutting yourself
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Speaker0: off from because you've been hurt, but not because you've been hurt,
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Speaker0: because you have not dealt with it God's way.
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Speaker0: Now, we have one of the greatest illustrations of somebody who was incredibly
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Speaker0: hurt, far worse than probably you will ever be hurt in your life,
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Speaker0: but he dealt with it God's way.
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Speaker0: And that man was a man named Joseph, and he was betrayed by his brothers.
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Speaker0: His brothers tried to kill him. They sold him into slavery. He was betrayed
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Speaker0: by a man that he worked for and falsely accused by a woman and thrown into prison
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Speaker0: falsely when he'd done nothing wrong, nothing.
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Speaker0: He was completely innocent and served prison time, completely innocent.
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Speaker0: And yet along the way, Joseph had chosen the path. We know it because of what
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Speaker0: we see in his life, the fruit we see in his life.
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Speaker0: He had chosen the path of forgiveness, of forgiveness.
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Speaker0: Now, I want to read this, just these verses to you, because the Bible is powerful.
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Speaker0: And just the reading of the word is powerful to let it soak into our soul. So listen to this verse.
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Speaker0: It's kind of lengthy, but Genesis 45, beginning in verse one.
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Speaker0: When Joseph's brothers were brought before him, they didn't recognize him,
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Speaker0: but he recognized them. They'd come to get grain from Egypt,
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Speaker0: and Joseph was in charge of it because of the prosperity of God upon his life.
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Speaker0: Joseph saw his brothers, and it says Joseph couldn't control himself.
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Speaker0: And so he said to all the Egyptian people there, have everyone go out of the
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Speaker0: room. And so they all left.
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Speaker0: And Joseph wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of
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Speaker0: Pharaoh heard it. And Joseph said to his brothers, I'm Joseph.
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Speaker0: I am Joseph. They couldn't believe it. Is my father still alive?
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Speaker0: But his brothers couldn't answer him.
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Speaker0: Or they were dismayed at his presence. This is the guy they tried to kill.
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Speaker0: Suddenly they're standing before
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Speaker0: him and he's the most powerful man in the world, other than Pharaoh.
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Speaker0: So Joseph said to his brothers, please come closer. I'm sure they're thinking, are you going to kill us?
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Speaker0: But he said, please come closer. And they came closer.
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Speaker0: And he said, I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
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Speaker0: Now he said, and here's the fruit of a forgiving man.
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Speaker0: Don't be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here for God sent
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Speaker0: me before you to preserve life.
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Speaker0: For the famine has been in the land these two years or still five years left
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Speaker0: with neither plowing or harvesting.
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Speaker0: God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth and to keep
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Speaker0: you alive by great deliverance.
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Speaker0: Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here.
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Speaker0: I mean, if you were you and me, we say, you guys sent me here.
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Speaker0: You guys put me here. You guys threw me in the pit.
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Speaker0: Joseph said, Lord, I've come to see over time. You didn't send me here, but God.
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Speaker0: And he has made me a father to Pharaoh and Lord of all his household and rule
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Speaker0: over all the land of Egypt, hurry up and go to my father and say to him,
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Speaker0: thus says your son Joseph, God has made me the Lord of all Egypt.
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Speaker0: And then come back down to me. Don't delay. You'll live in the land of Goshen,
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Speaker0: which was the best, most fertile part of the land there in Egypt.
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Speaker0: And you shall be near to me and your children and your children's children and your flocks and herds.
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Speaker0: And I will provide for you. Not only have I forgiven you.
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Speaker0: Not only do I see this in a whole new way, but I'm going to provide for you
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Speaker0: because there's still five years left of famine and your households and all
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Speaker0: of your people will not be impoverished.
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Speaker0: Behold, your eyes see in the eyes of my brother, Benjamin, see that it's me talking to you.
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Speaker0: So go tell my father. And he fell on Benjamin, his younger son's neck,
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Speaker0: and he wept and Benjamin wept on his And then he went around and he kissed all
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Speaker0: of his brothers, the guys that had betrayed him 22 years before,
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Speaker0: and talked with them.
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Speaker0: Now, you may say, Bill,
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Speaker0: when you started this a minute ago, I immediately thought of how I've been hurt
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Speaker0: in my life and of the people who hurt me, but I can't forgive them.
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Speaker0: Now, that's a misconception. Okay.
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Speaker0: You can do anything that God asks you to do. And God says to forgive.
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Speaker0: I want you to forgive others.
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Speaker0: I don't care who it is. I don't care what they've done. I want you to forgive others.
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Speaker0: Even as I have forgiven you, you say, well, I can't.
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Speaker0: Well, you can, because God can't ask you to do something that you can't do.
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Speaker0: Now you may not know how to do it.
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Speaker0: You may not even really want to do it, but you see, God is fair.
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Speaker0: And he provides the means and the grace to do what he's asking you because he
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Speaker0: loves you and he loves others.
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Speaker0: So I'm going to tell you three truths that will help set you free.
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Speaker0: First of all, let's give a definition.
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Speaker0: Forgiveness is a choice of my will by faith and by the grace of God to release
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Speaker0: a debt for the glory of God. Let me say that again.
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Speaker0: Forgiveness is a choice of my will. This is one of the greatest.
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Speaker0: When I was hurt as deeply as I have ever been hurt in my life, and it was a deep hurt.
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Speaker0: Um, I thought I couldn't, I had to feel like forgiving, but you don't have to
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Speaker0: feel like forgiving. It's a choice that you make.
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Speaker0: If you owed me a hundred dollars, I can forgive you that debt.
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Speaker0: I can release that debt, whether I feel like it or not. It's a choice.
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Speaker0: If somebody has hurt you and you feel like you written it down on the ledger
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Speaker0: book of your heart and you feel like, man, they're going to have to do something.
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Speaker0: I'm going to make them pay, you know.
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Speaker0: Well, you can choose to say, I'm going to release them. They don't owe me anything.
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Speaker0: I'm going to release them that debt by the grace of God and to show the glory of God.
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Speaker0: It's a choice of my will. It's made by faith and the grace of God,
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Speaker0: the power of the grace of God to release a debt for the glory of God.
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Speaker0: Now, what forgiveness is not is not completely forgetting. You say,
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Speaker0: well, I can't forget it. That's okay.
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Speaker0: I mean, we don't just lose our mind when we forgive somebody.
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Speaker0: We still can remember things, but the sting is gone and the revenge is gone
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Speaker0: when we forgive God's way.
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Speaker0: It's not letting people off the hook.
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Speaker0: If I just forgive them, it's just going to let them off the hook.
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Speaker0: No, it's not. It's letting them off your hook and and letting them be on God's hook. OK.
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Speaker0: That's why that's why Paul says in Romans chapter 12, never take your own revenge.
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Speaker0: You say, what do you say? Occasionally take your own revenge.
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Speaker0: No, it says never take your own revenge.
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Speaker0: But listen to the rest of the verse.
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Speaker0: Leave room for the wrath of God.
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Speaker0: Vengeance is mine, the Father says. I'll repay. So if your enemy is thirsty,
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Speaker0: give him something to drink.
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Speaker0: If he's hungry, give him something to eat.
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Speaker0: Now, you see, when somebody hurts you, you write it on your ledger book because
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Speaker0: you're going to make them pay.
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Speaker0: You can withdraw from them, you can criticize them, you can slander them,
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Speaker0: you can never see them again.
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Speaker0: You have all these ways that you think are going to hurt them like they've hurt you.
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Speaker0: But forgiveness is for a bigger purpose, is transferring this from my courtroom
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Speaker0: where I'm judge, jury, and executioner to the courtroom of heaven.
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Speaker0: Vengeance is mine. And I'm big enough to take care of them.
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Speaker0: So I transfer it to God, and I say, God, if anything needs to be done with him,
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Speaker0: you're totally able to do that.
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Speaker0: Now, that doesn't mean that we don't have to deal with some things,
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Speaker0: but you can't deal with anything properly until you forgive,
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Speaker0: because your motive is always going to be revenge.
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Speaker0: It's a choice of your will to release that debt that you're holding them hostage.
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Speaker0: You're saying, I'm going to get revenge. You're going to hurt like I hurt.
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Speaker0: I'm going to make you pay, and I'm transferring that by faith into the courtroom of heaven.
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Speaker0: And by the power of the grace of God, he can enable you to forgive anybody,
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Speaker0: and you do it for the glory of God.
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Speaker0: Secondly, forgiveness looks past my temporary pain to God's eternal purposes.
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Speaker0: Don't you know that Joseph had thought about this a billion times?
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Speaker0: And we don't know where it happened. We don't know if it happened right after
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Speaker0: he was sold into slavery or it happened down at Potiphar's house.
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Speaker0: But we see in Joseph's life and God's hand of prosperity upon him that Joseph had forgiven.
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Speaker0: But somewhere along the way, Joseph had realized God has big purposes in this,
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Speaker0: that he allowed this pain to
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Speaker0: happen to me to get me in a position where he could bless the whole world.
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Speaker0: And that's why he said, look, you think you sent me here.
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Speaker0: But I'm going to look past my temporary pain and realize God has an eternal purpose.
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Speaker0: He's about to provide and keep his whole family and heritage from dying.
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Speaker0: And literally, Joseph was used to save the entire world because he looked past
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Speaker0: his temporary inconvenience and his temporary pain to God's eternal purpose.
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Speaker0: Now it had become all clear to Joseph at this time.
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Speaker0: In God's unfolding plan, he saw that while all of these things,
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Speaker0: hard, terrible things that happened,
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Speaker0: how God had orchestrated all of those, he was bigger than all of those,
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Speaker0: for phenomenal, eternal purposes to save others.
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Speaker0: And that's why he could say, you didn't send me here.
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Speaker0: God is bigger than that, and he brought me here to preserve many people alive. This is unbelievable.
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Speaker0: And I want to promise you, if you will deal with your hurt God's way,
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Speaker0: he's got bigger purposes.
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Speaker0: He will use what's happened and turn it around for good.
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Speaker0: He made a promise to do that. I'm convinced, Paul said in Romans 8,
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Speaker0: 28, that God can work all things.
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Speaker0: Well, not this. No, no, no. All things. Well, now, maybe something.
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Speaker0: No, all things together for good to those who are loving God and following God
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Speaker0: and called according to his great purposes.
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Speaker0: The more we learn to trust what God is doing in our life and to really believe
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Speaker0: that there is a greater plan and that everything can be worked together for good,
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Speaker0: the more we know the joy and the freedom and began to find the purposes of God in our temporary life.
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Speaker0: And we want to get to the point where we can forgive even before we see the end result.
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Speaker0: And the truth of the matter is, you may never see God's end result until you forgive.
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Speaker0: So forgiveness looks past temporary pain to eternal purposes.
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Speaker0: And finally, forgiveness opens the way to incredible freedom, purpose, and joy. Now,
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Speaker0: Joseph, his brothers had thrown him into the pit 22 years before.
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Speaker0: For 22 years, they live in the bondage of guilt.
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Speaker0: And we see this. We talked about this last week. They were enslaved because
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Speaker0: they didn't resolve their sin God's way. They could have, but they didn't.
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Speaker0: But you know what? Joseph was free.
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Speaker0: He was free. There was joy, there was usefulness, there was purpose.
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Speaker0: And if he had not forgiven them, he would have sat around whining,
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Speaker0: moping, nursing that hurt, plotting his revenge, doing whatever he could.
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Speaker0: He would be in bondage. I have dealt with so many people who have lived for
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Speaker0: years and years and decades under the bondage of bitterness.
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Speaker0: And they have a bitter spirit.
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Speaker0: It hurts them. They can't seem to go past it.
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Speaker0: And it hurts everybody around them because hurting people always hurt people.
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Speaker0: Bitter people always hurt other people.
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Speaker0: And they have this sourness about their life that has enslaved them.
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Speaker0: But forgiveness, if you just choose, or I don't know why it all happened. I don't know.
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Speaker0: You know, I don't understand everything about it. But I'm going to choose to
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Speaker0: release the debt by faith and the grace of God.
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Speaker0: And for the glory of God, I'm going to take them out of my ledger book and transfer
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Speaker0: that to the courtroom of heaven.
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Speaker0: So, Lord, you can deal with them. I don't have to do that anymore.
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Speaker0: And that weight goes off your shoulders and you're free.
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Speaker0: Don't you want that? But, you know, all of us watched in the in the last week.
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Speaker0: The end of September, we saw this unbelievable assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker0: But what was most profound about that man who was really killed for his faith,
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Speaker0: I believe, he had his job as political activism, right?
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Speaker0: But he could have been a plumber. He could have been a sheet metal worker.
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Speaker0: What was profound about Charlie Kirk was that first and foremost,
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Speaker0: above everything, he loved Jesus. He walked with Jesus.
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Speaker0: He told people to give their lives to Jesus.
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Speaker0: That was his message, and that was really the reason he was killed, I believe.
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Speaker0: But the most profound thing that happened after his death, just a few days,
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Speaker0: eight days after his death,
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Speaker0: and many of us saw it on television, was at his memorial service,
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Speaker0: his wife, who had lost her husband that she loved deeply,
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Speaker0: and the founder of this ministry, who's suddenly gone.
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Speaker0: And you can imagine all the feelings that would come.
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Speaker0: But we watched Erica Kirk stand up and say three words that shook the world
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Speaker0: to the man who killed her husband.
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Speaker0: I forgive you.
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Speaker0: I forgive him. When I saw it, I was watching that. My wife and I were watching that.
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Speaker0: I couldn't believe it. I thought, my stars, how?
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Speaker0: It's unbelievable that this quickly and in this platform that was going to tens
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Speaker0: of millions of people, she would choose, but she could do it by the grace of God,
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Speaker0: by faith in God's power to take care of things because she saw the greater purpose.
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Speaker0: She just said, I choose forgiveness. I'm not going to let what that man did
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Speaker0: hold me hostage the rest of my life.
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Speaker0: Some of you may know that following that, this wave of revival began to happen.
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Speaker0: And one of the evidences of that was a famous actor here in America, Tim Allen.
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Speaker0: Most people know him. He's been on television and in movies, so many.
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Speaker0: Tim Allen comes out on social media and says this.
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Speaker0: He said, because of what Erica Kirk did, I am going to choose to forgive the
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Speaker0: drunk driver who killed my dad 60 years ago. For 60 years, I've carried this.
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Speaker0: I'm going to choose to forgive. And he said, I'm saying this out loud as I write. I choose to forgive you.
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Speaker0: Well, wouldn't it be wonderful if your forgiveness led to other people's forgiveness,
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Speaker0: that your liberation led to other people's liberation? And I want to tell you something.
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Speaker0: It will, because you're never more like Jesus than when you forgive.
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Speaker0: Now, let me just ask you, have you been hurt? Have you been hurt?
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Speaker0: Here's a second question. Have you dealt with it God's way and been liberated
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Speaker0: from the unbearable load of unforgiveness?
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Speaker0: I pray that you will, and I'm going to pray for you right now that that would happen.
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Speaker0: And then don't leave because I want you to hear about a resource we have for
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Speaker0: you. Father, I pray that people would open their hands right now wherever they
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Speaker0: are, and they would take that hurt.
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Speaker0: Maybe many hurts that they've been holding in their hands. And I pray,
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Speaker0: Father, that they would literally choose forgiveness by the grace of God.
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Speaker0: And Lord, they would transfer that from their courtroom to the courtroom of
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Speaker0: heaven, and they would let it go by your grace.
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Speaker0: Liberate them wherever they are today and set the captives free.
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Speaker0: You're good at that, Lord. You're the king at that. And we pray it would happen
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Speaker0: many, many places all across the world today.
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Speaker0: In Jesus' name, amen.
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Speaker0: Now, I've talked about this for so many years, and it came out of a story of
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Speaker0: hurt in my own life that I finally wrote it down in a little booklet that I give to people often.
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Speaker0: It's called Forgiveness, Healing the Harbored Hurts of Your Heart.
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Speaker0: This is in our OneCry bookstore, and you can go on to OneCry.com.
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Speaker0: You can find this booklet and get it, and it just tells a story.
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Speaker0: It's a very easy read. It's about 40 pages, and maybe you need this.
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Speaker0: Maybe somebody you know really needs this, and there's a companion book to that
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Speaker0: that we talked about last week, And that's Lifting Life's Greatest Load,
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Speaker0: How to Deal with Clearing Your Gaining and Maintaining a Clear Conscience.
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Speaker0: This book is about how to be liberated from the weight of unresolved sin.
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Speaker0: This book is talking about how to be liberated from the weight of unresolved hurt.
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Speaker0: And they're just great resources for you. Well, thanks for joining us.
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Speaker0: And as always, we're so honored that you would listen, and we pray that you'll
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Speaker0: join us next week as we continue to cry out for revival and awakening in our day, in our lives,
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Speaker0: the lives we love and all around the world. In Jesus' name.