WEBVTT - When I’m Sorry Isn’t Enough, Part 2 0:00:00.140 --> 0:00:04.970 We make excuses for ourselves. And Jesus died for our sins, 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.989 not for our excuses. Because remember now what we're talking about, 0:00:08.990 --> 0:00:12.410 not how you feel about what you did to them. 0:00:12.410 --> 0:00:15.470 How do they feel about what you did to them? 0:00:21.739 --> 0:00:24.680 You're listening to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.680 Ford Jr, senior pastor of the Christ Bible Church in Chicago. 0:00:27.710 --> 0:00:29.630 I'm Steve Hillard. Glad you're with us. As today we 0:00:29.660 --> 0:00:33.980 continue a message entitled When I'm Sorry Isn't Enough. And pastor, 0:00:33.979 --> 0:00:35.780 I can think of times in my life maybe you 0:00:35.810 --> 0:00:39.080 can as well, where I have wronged someone. And I 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:43.400 thought it was a very minor slight. And I've gone. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:48.589 I've apologized and it wasn't over because apparently what I 0:00:48.590 --> 0:00:51.529 thought was a slight was actually a much deeper wound. 0:00:51.530 --> 0:00:54.050 And so you bring up a great point. We need 0:00:54.050 --> 0:00:56.810 to be sensitive to the person that we have wronged. 0:00:56.810 --> 0:01:00.050 That's right. Because even as you stated already, Steve, we 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:05.399 don't know how that impacted them. Yeah, very minimal impact 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:10.229 on me. I said it, I did it or didn't do. 0:01:10.230 --> 0:01:12.869 But what was the impact on the person. And that's 0:01:12.870 --> 0:01:18.869 what we're trying to do. Reconciliation. Bring back the relationship, 0:01:18.870 --> 0:01:23.940 restore this relationship that we've had that's been violated. And 0:01:23.970 --> 0:01:27.180 of course, you know, what we're doing now is a 0:01:27.209 --> 0:01:30.150 couple of months ago, we did look at forgiveness from 0:01:30.150 --> 0:01:33.630 the standpoint of Joseph. And so we were talking about 0:01:33.630 --> 0:01:39.090 how do you give forgiveness, which is sometimes tougher than 0:01:39.090 --> 0:01:42.720 needing to have to ask for forgiveness. So now we're 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.380 looking at from the standpoint of the brothers, you know, 0:01:46.410 --> 0:01:50.850 how do you ask for forgiveness. And so it's very 0:01:50.850 --> 0:01:54.900 significant because I would say in the body of Christ, 0:01:55.140 --> 0:01:59.490 this is the I'll call it the sine qua non. 0:01:59.490 --> 0:02:01.090 What do you what do you mean by that? The 0:02:01.090 --> 0:02:07.420 lowest common denominator of why we have separations, why individuals 0:02:07.420 --> 0:02:10.660 leave our church and things of that nature because we 0:02:10.660 --> 0:02:15.280 haven't mastered what Jesus says about forgiveness. 0:02:15.310 --> 0:02:19.240 Now you bring up Joseph and his brothers, and obviously 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.989 they had wronged Joseph in a very major way. But 0:02:22.990 --> 0:02:25.899 Joseph did come to the point where he did forgive them, 0:02:25.900 --> 0:02:28.150 and he totally let it go. He saw God's hand 0:02:28.150 --> 0:02:31.480 in that, but he also put his brothers through a 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:35.080 test before he revealed who he was. If we are 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.770 going to grant forgiveness of someone, do we need to 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.870 see a change in them? 0:02:41.380 --> 0:02:43.630 Well, you know, we're going to talk about that in, 0:02:43.630 --> 0:02:47.350 in this series of messages. Yeah. So you just jumped 0:02:47.350 --> 0:02:50.050 ahead a little bit. All right. But what we'll talk 0:02:50.050 --> 0:02:53.830 about is the fact that he didn't do it to 0:02:53.860 --> 0:02:58.840 test them as to the validity of their need for forgiveness. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.560 He did it to test them because even though he 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:07.150 had already forgiven them. Genesis 45. He wanted to make 0:03:07.180 --> 0:03:11.110 sure that he could now trust them. Yeah. So we're 0:03:11.110 --> 0:03:14.860 talking about two different issues forgiveness and trust. Because when 0:03:14.860 --> 0:03:18.160 you reestablish a relationship, because remember, some people say, well, 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.670 what they did to me, I'll never, ever be in 0:03:21.669 --> 0:03:24.760 the same kind of relationship with them again. Well, it 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:29.500 is a process for the re-establishment of the relationship. We're 0:03:29.500 --> 0:03:30.850 talking apples and oranges. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.120 Okay. Well, don't mean to jump ahead, so let's just 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.090 get right into it. We're in Genesis 50. A message 0:03:37.090 --> 0:03:41.620 called When I'm sorry isn't enough. Here is Pastor Ford. 0:03:42.580 --> 0:03:46.990 Here's the catalyst for acknowledging. So what's the first step? 0:03:47.020 --> 0:03:51.820 Acknowledge that you wronged a person. Acknowledge that you wronged 0:03:51.820 --> 0:03:55.540 the person. Now. Now, what's the catalyst for acknowledge the 0:03:55.540 --> 0:03:58.600 the person. Why is it some people won't ask for forgiveness? 0:03:58.630 --> 0:04:03.890 Now remember. Think about this. The first step in acknowledgment 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:08.000 took them. How many years? Anybody remember? Holler it out. Right. 0:04:08.030 --> 0:04:11.540 17 years. So then they put him in the pit 0:04:11.540 --> 0:04:17.240 at 17, and then he's 34, sitting in power second 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:22.279 in Pharaoh's court, which, of course, Egypt was a world power, 0:04:22.310 --> 0:04:26.120 which means he's the second, not just in Egypt, in 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:32.089 all the world. Look at that. Just let me throw 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.609 that out to some of you who've been dogged out 0:04:34.610 --> 0:04:40.910 and hated. Maybe God will use their hateration for your elevation. 0:04:40.940 --> 0:04:43.490 That's what he did for Joseph. And so here. Now 0:04:43.490 --> 0:04:47.150 what happened? 17 years to admit to each other. Write 0:04:47.150 --> 0:04:49.010 it down. I don't have time to go through it. 0:04:49.010 --> 0:04:55.700 Genesis 4213 through 24. And in verse 21, after, after 0:04:55.700 --> 0:04:58.670 Joseph begins to try to test them, to see if 0:04:58.670 --> 0:05:03.089 the relationship can be restored because remember, it only takes 0:05:03.089 --> 0:05:06.780 one to forgive, but it takes two to restore the relationship. 0:05:06.779 --> 0:05:09.900 Let me say it again. It only takes one to forgive. 0:05:09.930 --> 0:05:12.539 It takes two to restore the relationship. What do you 0:05:12.540 --> 0:05:16.349 mean by that, Pastor Ford? Once you've been forgiven, people say, well, 0:05:16.350 --> 0:05:18.060 you know, we ain't going to never be the same. Well, 0:05:18.060 --> 0:05:20.820 that's not true. Biblical forgiveness. Can I get an amen? 0:05:20.850 --> 0:05:24.270 Deacon Thomas, am I right about it? True biblical forgiveness 0:05:24.300 --> 0:05:26.970 is what God did for us. He didn't say, okay, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.560 now Imma forgive your sin, but I ain't going to 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.300 have nothing to do with you no more. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:31.650 Thank God. 0:05:32.250 --> 0:05:35.729 No, he got more to do with us after he 0:05:35.730 --> 0:05:38.849 forgives us of our sin than he did before he 0:05:38.850 --> 0:05:42.720 forgave us of our sins. And so, no, I don't 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.930 want to hear that. And even preachers say it, you know. Well, 0:05:45.930 --> 0:05:47.700 it doesn't mean you're going to be restored. Your relationship. 0:05:47.700 --> 0:05:52.679 I want to hear that. That ain't biblical. Restoration is 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.800 always the goal. And so then what do you what 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.070 do you mean, Pastor Ford? That is, if if you 0:05:59.070 --> 0:06:04.299 forgive me. And unlike Joseph's brothers, I don't do what 0:06:04.300 --> 0:06:08.739 I'm supposed to do to get forgiveness. You're straight and 0:06:08.740 --> 0:06:12.400 I'm not. And there will be no restoration of the 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:19.690 relationship until I have the biblical response to the act 0:06:19.690 --> 0:06:24.550 of forgiveness. Everybody's been forgiven their sin. Amen. Then did 0:06:24.550 --> 0:06:27.040 Jesus die for everybody? Then how come everybody ain't saved? 0:06:27.070 --> 0:06:33.520 Because everybody doesn't accept it. That's why. So a pardon 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.310 is not a pardon unless you accept it. And if 0:06:36.310 --> 0:06:38.800 I accept it, it means there are elements of things 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.930 I must do. Well, when he forgives you, is it 0:06:40.930 --> 0:06:43.600 a work? No. The Bible tells me. For by grace 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.250 you have been saved through faith. And that is a 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.320 gift of God, not a result of works, lest any 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.390 man should boast. In other words, now what I have 0:06:49.390 --> 0:06:53.290 to do put faith in the forgiveness that's based on 0:06:53.290 --> 0:06:56.950 the finished work of Jesus Christ on Calvary. Preach, Pastor Ford, 0:06:56.950 --> 0:06:58.360 I'm doing the best I can. 0:06:59.510 --> 0:07:01.310 Amen. Amen. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.789 And so it took them 17 years to admit it 0:07:04.790 --> 0:07:07.910 to each other. So there, there in Genesis 42 and 0:07:07.910 --> 0:07:11.510 things ain't looking right. And the brothers say, you know what? 0:07:11.510 --> 0:07:14.360 Maybe this is because of what we did to Joseph 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:20.390 17 years ago. See that? Don't think that everybody doesn't 0:07:20.390 --> 0:07:23.690 care about what they did to you. For some people, 0:07:23.690 --> 0:07:29.240 it's riding them to. I would say based on that, 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.170 when everything in the last 17 years, everything that bad 0:07:33.170 --> 0:07:35.239 happened to them, they thought, could this be because of 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.480 what we did? Could this be because of what we did? 0:07:38.510 --> 0:07:44.660 Could this be because of what we did? Huh? Now, 0:07:44.660 --> 0:07:49.580 where are we now? Another 17 years. And so what 0:07:49.580 --> 0:07:53.270 do we find? It took them 17 years to admit 0:07:53.270 --> 0:07:57.320 it to each other. It took them 34 years to 0:07:57.350 --> 0:08:05.460 admit it to Joseph. 34 years. Reminds me of when 0:08:05.460 --> 0:08:09.900 I used to watch Happy Days. And so back in 0:08:09.900 --> 0:08:14.040 the day. Remember Fonzie man and Happy Days. What could 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:22.560 he never say? Yeah, he said I was raw, raw, raw. 0:08:22.590 --> 0:08:24.840 You know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.760 trying to say. And you know what? There are people 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:31.320 like that, man. Why don't you just admit. Yes, I 0:08:31.350 --> 0:08:39.150 sinned against you. Man. Acknowledge the sin. Now notice the 0:08:39.150 --> 0:08:44.670 catalyst for acknowledgement. What's the catalyst there? Daddy died. What 0:08:44.670 --> 0:08:49.200 does that mean? It means there was a buffer between 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:54.450 them and doing what God want them to do to forgive. Now, remember, 0:08:54.450 --> 0:08:58.560 this is the first time the word forgiveness is mentioned 0:08:58.590 --> 0:09:01.620 in the Bible, which means it's to serve as an 0:09:01.620 --> 0:09:06.120 example of forgiveness throughout the rest of the Bible. So 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.939 the first thing is to acknowledge it. And so they 0:09:08.940 --> 0:09:11.970 acknowledged it, like I said. And so the dad's dead. 0:09:11.970 --> 0:09:14.429 Now there's no buffer between us. Now, now, let me 0:09:14.429 --> 0:09:19.740 make the application. What is it that's between you that 0:09:19.740 --> 0:09:28.470 stops you from acknowledging that you wronged somebody? I wrote 0:09:28.470 --> 0:09:33.180 some things down. Let's walk through them. Number one, uh, 0:09:33.210 --> 0:09:38.429 maybe it's because, very truthfully, we didn't even know we 0:09:38.429 --> 0:09:42.510 wronged the person. I remember Sister God. She's in heaven now. 0:09:42.510 --> 0:09:44.309 And we used to be in the old sanctuary. We 0:09:44.309 --> 0:09:47.069 had three services. I used to sweat like crazy, I 0:09:47.070 --> 0:09:50.130 still do. I run and get changed and. And then 0:09:50.130 --> 0:09:52.380 get ready for the next service. I try to greet 0:09:52.380 --> 0:09:55.140 some people. I had a little few minutes in between. 0:09:55.140 --> 0:09:57.180 I was standing there one time. She walked up to 0:09:57.179 --> 0:10:00.339 me and she said, I forgive you. And I said, 0:10:00.340 --> 0:10:04.540 you forgive me. You forgive me? Uh, what do you mean, 0:10:04.540 --> 0:10:08.260 you forgive me? Yeah. It's under the blood. And I'm saying, okay, well, 0:10:08.260 --> 0:10:12.310 what's under the blood? She said, well, last week I 0:10:12.309 --> 0:10:16.420 tried to say something to you, and you totally ignored me. 0:10:16.990 --> 0:10:20.979 And I said, oh, last week, where was I? She said, 0:10:20.980 --> 0:10:23.109 you were right where you are now. I said it 0:10:23.110 --> 0:10:26.589 was a service being dismissed. Yeah. And was I shaking 0:10:26.590 --> 0:10:29.500 hands with people and saying, thank you for coming and, 0:10:29.530 --> 0:10:33.100 you know, hope you enjoy the worship service? Yes. And 0:10:33.100 --> 0:10:37.060 you wanted to do what? I needed some advice about something. 0:10:37.780 --> 0:10:41.830 I said, you know what? I never even knew that 0:10:41.830 --> 0:10:46.600 I offended you. That's the first thing. And she said, 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.750 I know you didn't know. And I said, well, I 0:10:49.750 --> 0:10:53.680 felt you should leave that under the blood where you 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.410 said it was. You didn't even have to come and 0:10:56.410 --> 0:10:59.800 tell me that because there's so many things happening, blah, blah, blah, 0:10:59.830 --> 0:11:02.210 you know, and you know all of that. I don't 0:11:02.210 --> 0:11:06.260 even know it. But you know what I did? I 0:11:06.290 --> 0:11:08.569 waited till everybody was gone. I went over to the side. 0:11:08.570 --> 0:11:11.030 I said, now, do you still need to talk to me? Well, no, 0:11:11.059 --> 0:11:13.550 it's God done dealt with it. Now I'm thinking to myself, 0:11:13.550 --> 0:11:15.709 that's who you should have dealt with in the first place. 0:11:17.300 --> 0:11:21.980 And then I said, forgive me. She said, well, you 0:11:21.980 --> 0:11:24.980 didn't even know. I said, forgive me because whether it 0:11:24.980 --> 0:11:28.970 was intentional or unintentional, I offended you. And that's not 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.270 what I want to do. I need you to forgive 0:11:32.270 --> 0:11:34.610 me for that. Can I give you a suggestion? Yes. 0:11:34.610 --> 0:11:38.270 Next time you got something really important, please don't try 0:11:38.270 --> 0:11:40.189 to tell it to me in a public place. Call 0:11:40.190 --> 0:11:43.550 the office and make an appointment. Because you know what 0:11:43.580 --> 0:11:45.620 some people would do to me, bro? They won't make 0:11:45.620 --> 0:11:48.260 an appointment. They'll grab me on Sunday. When I got 0:11:48.260 --> 0:11:50.720 my mind on my message and my message on my mind, 0:11:50.750 --> 0:11:52.489 or they'll wait till afterward. I need to talk to 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.160 you instead of making an appointment. See, you know, and 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.500 then I just give a little grace to some folk, 0:11:57.530 --> 0:11:59.870 you know? But then they get too long. I say, okay, 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:01.770 now we got to stop this because I done preached 0:12:01.770 --> 0:12:04.949 three times. I'm ready to go home. I'm tired. Now, 0:12:04.950 --> 0:12:06.780 if you want to, I'll tell you what we can do. 0:12:07.110 --> 0:12:11.820 You can take me to Red lobster, and, uh, we 0:12:11.820 --> 0:12:19.470 can have a conversation over a meal. Oh, yeah. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.030 While you're listening to Treasure Truth with Pastor Ford. And 0:12:24.030 --> 0:12:26.730 I hope you're not hungry as you're listening to this broadcast. 0:12:26.730 --> 0:12:28.199 If you're like me, maybe you just got a little 0:12:28.230 --> 0:12:31.050 bit more hungry right there. But our message is called 0:12:31.050 --> 0:12:33.809 When I'm Sorry Isn't Enough. It's a look at Genesis 0:12:33.809 --> 0:12:36.030 chapter 50. And we're going to get back to this 0:12:36.030 --> 0:12:38.790 teaching in just a moment. You know, if you did 0:12:38.790 --> 0:12:41.310 go out to lunch with Pastor Ford, you may ask 0:12:41.309 --> 0:12:43.170 him a bunch of questions about the Bible or the 0:12:43.170 --> 0:12:45.450 Christian life and why we may not be able to 0:12:45.450 --> 0:12:48.300 take him out to Red lobster. You still can ask 0:12:48.300 --> 0:12:51.630 your questions of Pastor Ford. Simply come to our website. 0:12:51.630 --> 0:12:55.800 It's Treasure Truth radio.org. Click on the contact link and 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.950 go ahead and ask that question. Who knows, we might 0:12:58.950 --> 0:13:02.020 just answer that on a future broadcast. Again, our website 0:13:02.020 --> 0:13:06.099 address is Treasure Truth radio.org and click on contact. Well, 0:13:06.100 --> 0:13:09.100 if you are just joining us our message is called 0:13:09.100 --> 0:13:11.620 When I'm Sorry Isn't enough. It's a look at Genesis 0:13:11.620 --> 0:13:15.610 chapter 50. So grab a Bible. Join us there as 0:13:15.610 --> 0:13:19.030 we get back to the teaching again. Here is Pastor Ford. 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.940 Yeah. And so we don't even know. Uh, secondly, we 0:13:21.940 --> 0:13:25.000 didn't mean to offend the person. And so there's a 0:13:25.030 --> 0:13:28.270 lot of things that are offensive to us, uh, as 0:13:28.270 --> 0:13:31.420 we interact with people and we find out, hey, that's 0:13:31.420 --> 0:13:35.439 a touchy subject with so and so. We didn't mean 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.320 to do it, man. I'll tell you. You know, it's like, uh, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.300 there was a brother at the health club before they 0:13:40.300 --> 0:13:43.000 closed down, uh, Bally's in River Oaks. That's where I 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.920 used to go. I know you could tell I don't. 0:13:44.950 --> 0:13:47.920 I don't work out much anymore. Amen. But that's alright. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.980 But anyway, uh, he was he was away for a while, 0:13:50.980 --> 0:13:53.260 and he, he did this thing and and I think 0:13:53.260 --> 0:13:55.780 it was that guy. What's his name, Richard Simmons thing 0:13:55.780 --> 0:13:58.300 he did that with, with him and boom boom boom boom. 0:13:58.300 --> 0:14:03.140 He lost £130 in one year. Then he came back 0:14:03.140 --> 0:14:05.390 to the club. He did all cardio and he came 0:14:05.390 --> 0:14:08.510 back to the club to tighten everything up. He walked 0:14:08.510 --> 0:14:10.219 in the back and we were all, you know, back 0:14:10.220 --> 0:14:12.650 there working out. He walked in, I looked and saw him. 0:14:12.650 --> 0:14:16.190 Everybody said, oh man, look at so-and-so. And I said, man, 0:14:16.190 --> 0:14:20.900 look at you. You lost a whole man. His face dropped. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.640 I call myself giving a compliment. And so when I 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.970 saw his face drop, I said, oh man, I done 0:14:28.970 --> 0:14:31.850 blew it. I know I done blew it. I waited 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.590 till he was getting ready to leave and so I 0:14:33.620 --> 0:14:36.170 caught up with him. I said, hey, man, uh, you 0:14:36.170 --> 0:14:40.820 know what? When I said that, your face dropped, man. Uh, man, 0:14:40.850 --> 0:14:44.330 please forgive me for that. Uh, I was just ignorant, man. 0:14:44.330 --> 0:14:47.060 I was just excited to see it. I'm too sarcastic. 0:14:47.210 --> 0:14:49.940 That's that's my problem. You know, somebody told me one time, 0:14:50.090 --> 0:14:52.760 you know, pastor, uh, you joke too much and you 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.040 play too much, and especially in the pulpit is what 0:14:55.070 --> 0:14:58.220 I say, man. Look, you ought to see what I 0:14:58.220 --> 0:15:03.229 take out of my message. Now you think it's you. 0:15:03.230 --> 0:15:06.350 You should see what I take out. I have to 0:15:06.350 --> 0:15:11.090 take stuff out because you wouldn't anyway. Anyway. I take 0:15:11.090 --> 0:15:13.670 stuff out, man. And so you know you didn't mean 0:15:13.670 --> 0:15:16.700 to offend. Number three, we feel we need to give 0:15:16.700 --> 0:15:21.110 it time for things to settle down a bit. And, 0:15:21.110 --> 0:15:23.060 you know, they'll get over it. Just give it time. 0:15:23.060 --> 0:15:26.510 No they won't. What will happen is they will become 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.380 bitter about it. And then bitter turns to anger. And 0:15:30.380 --> 0:15:36.170 then anger turns to hatred, and hatred turns to murder. 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.720 Now they may not shoot you with a gun, but 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:45.770 let somebody bring your name up, huh? Number four, we 0:15:45.770 --> 0:15:51.200 make excuses for ourselves. And Jesus died for our sins, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:56.690 not for our excuses. Excuses are like noses. Everybody got one. 0:15:58.190 --> 0:16:01.650 Because remember now what we're talking about, not how you 0:16:01.650 --> 0:16:04.950 feel about what you did to them. How do they 0:16:04.950 --> 0:16:08.340 feel about what you did to them? Now, when you're 0:16:08.340 --> 0:16:15.210 talking about relationships, that becomes significantly important because this is 0:16:15.210 --> 0:16:18.030 the person that you're with all the time, or this 0:16:18.030 --> 0:16:21.120 is the person you work with every day, or this 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.580 is the person you see them every day when you 0:16:23.580 --> 0:16:28.050 go to the gym. This is the person you waking 0:16:28.050 --> 0:16:32.610 up in the morning looking at them. What do you 0:16:32.610 --> 0:16:38.460 think about when you see him? Number five we may 0:16:38.460 --> 0:16:42.870 have offended them before. I done offended them before. I'm 0:16:42.900 --> 0:16:47.100 tired of going to them asking for forgiveness. How often 0:16:47.130 --> 0:16:49.920 do you ask for forgiveness? Guess what Jesus said. He 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.820 told Peter, come on. How much was it? Seven times 70. 0:16:53.850 --> 0:16:57.870 Where's my mathematician who got an A in arithmetic? And 0:16:57.870 --> 0:16:59.520 you know, that gets me, too. Because they say you 0:16:59.530 --> 0:17:03.640 gotta learn the three R's reading, writing, arithmetic, arithmetic starts 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:10.540 with a three R's. So what is it? That's what, 0:17:10.690 --> 0:17:18.400 490 times. How many times? Come on everybody. 490. In 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:24.580 how many days? One. Can you imagine somebody doing something 0:17:24.580 --> 0:17:28.389 against you? 490 times in one day? I don't know 0:17:28.390 --> 0:17:31.210 about you. I can't imagine them doing it two times 0:17:31.210 --> 0:17:38.470 to me. How about you? Because the humanity in us say. Oh, no. 0:17:41.350 --> 0:17:43.330 No no no no, that ain't going to happen to 0:17:43.330 --> 0:17:47.350 me again because I ain't even speaking to him no more. 0:17:47.380 --> 0:17:53.260 All I did was ask a question number six. The 0:17:53.260 --> 0:17:57.280 person may have wronged you and never cleared it up. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.129 So you feel justified in your offense against them. Know 0:18:01.130 --> 0:18:03.139 what my mama used to tell me? Say, what did 0:18:03.140 --> 0:18:07.430 your mama used to tell you? Two wrongs don't make 0:18:07.460 --> 0:18:12.470 a right. That's what my mama said. My mama had 0:18:12.470 --> 0:18:15.649 mother wit. She only had a third grade education. But 0:18:15.650 --> 0:18:18.619 she was smart when it came to things of the 0:18:18.619 --> 0:18:22.670 world and relationships. And here's the seventh reason why we 0:18:22.700 --> 0:18:34.189 want pride. Stinking pride. Too proud. Why? Because please forgive me. Necessitates, 0:18:34.190 --> 0:18:41.239 first and foremost, humility and subjection. Did you hear what 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:47.600 I said? Please forgive me. Necessitates two things humility and subjection. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:52.070 You have now put yourself at the behest of that person, 0:18:52.880 --> 0:19:01.440 and nobody wants that. Mm. So they acknowledge it. Now 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.990 watch this. Watch this. Watch this. Watch this. Not just 0:19:03.990 --> 0:19:09.990 the catalyst for their acknowledgement. Notice the comprehensiveness of their acknowledgement. 0:19:09.990 --> 0:19:15.240 They use three words. They said we trespass against him. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.350 We sinned against him. The evil that we done. They 0:19:19.350 --> 0:19:26.820 use three different words for doing somebody wrong. Trespass. Stepping 0:19:26.820 --> 0:19:32.970 across boundaries that I shouldn't have crossed sins. That's omission, 0:19:32.970 --> 0:19:36.690 commission and disposition. And then evil. If it were New Testament, 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.440 guess what word it would be? Say what word? Pain. Ross. 0:19:40.470 --> 0:19:43.950 Say pain. Ross what word is that for evil of 0:19:43.950 --> 0:19:47.550 the words in the New Testament for evil, Poneros means 0:19:47.550 --> 0:19:49.919 pernicious evil. No, no, no. What do you mean? What 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.310 do you mean evil is evil? I'm content to just 0:19:53.310 --> 0:20:00.100 do myself. But Poneros evil is evil that infects somebody else. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.959 And so they're saying, we know that the evil we 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:13.030 did for him affected him and infected us. And remember, 0:20:13.030 --> 0:20:16.090 we saw he he acknowledged it. You meant it for evil. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.740 You meant it for pervasive evil. But God meant it 0:20:20.740 --> 0:20:25.210 for good. I like what Peter Marshall said. Peter Marshall said, Lord, 0:20:25.210 --> 0:20:27.370 when I'm wrong, help me to admit it. When I'm right, 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:31.060 make me easy to live with. Ain't that a good quote? 0:20:31.090 --> 0:20:35.409 That's a good quote. Notice he says. He says all 0:20:35.410 --> 0:20:39.250 the evil we did. The word did is Gamal. And 0:20:39.250 --> 0:20:43.720 guess what Gamal means. Succession. Now get this. Here's what 0:20:43.750 --> 0:20:47.380 Gamal using the word Gamal. They could have used another word. 0:20:47.380 --> 0:20:49.390 Why are you so excited about that word? Because here's 0:20:49.390 --> 0:20:54.280 what they're saying. All the evil we did. Come on. 0:20:54.310 --> 0:21:00.189 Guess what it means that they understood the implication of 0:21:00.190 --> 0:21:03.790 the consequences of putting him in the pit, that if 0:21:03.790 --> 0:21:07.210 we hadn't put him in the pit, he never would 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.750 have went and been a slave in Potiphar's. In other words, all. 0:21:10.750 --> 0:21:12.879 And remember, it was no picnic. Okay, let me let 0:21:12.910 --> 0:21:14.740 me just show you. Let me just show you. I 0:21:14.740 --> 0:21:16.149 know I gave you the scripture, but I want to 0:21:16.150 --> 0:21:18.280 read it. I didn't read it. I just last time 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.169 I just gave you the scripture, but I want to 0:21:20.170 --> 0:21:22.900 read it. I want to show you what the Bible says, 0:21:22.900 --> 0:21:25.330 that it wasn't no picnic. We always read it and 0:21:25.330 --> 0:21:27.699 I say it ad infinitum, ad nauseam. He went to 0:21:27.730 --> 0:21:29.470 the pit. He went to the Potiphar's. He went to 0:21:29.500 --> 0:21:31.960 the prison. Then he went to the palace. But they're saying, 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.659 you know, all this stuff that happened to him that 0:21:34.660 --> 0:21:38.950 was evil. That's because of what we did. Now, you 0:21:38.950 --> 0:21:41.800 need to understand that there are some people that we 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:45.129 have violated that we need to go and say, Will 0:21:45.130 --> 0:21:51.280 you forgive me, please? Because they are suffering consequences from 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:53.980 what we did. There are people who have been abused 0:21:53.980 --> 0:21:57.880 and misused and confused as children that are suffering for 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:01.070 it as adults because of what some adult did. 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