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Speaker 1: Hope you're having a great summer.

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Speaker 2: Know that we're praying for you, and we know God

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Speaker 2: has awesome things in store.

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Speaker 1: So great having you with us. Enjoy the message today.

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Speaker 3: You know, as long as we live, we're going to

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Speaker 3: have to guard our hearts from taking in offense. You know,

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Speaker 3: all through our life, people are going to hurt us.

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Speaker 3: Unfair things are going to happen. We'll be disappointed, people

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Speaker 3: may say something that's not true. See, these are all

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Speaker 3: the types of offense that we can't allow to take

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Speaker 3: residency in our heart. See, we can't allow those things

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Speaker 3: to become part of our lives. I have seen people

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Speaker 3: who have gone through a difficult divorce. They have been hurt.

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Speaker 3: I've seen people who have been cheated and it was real.

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Speaker 3: But the difference is those people never let that situation go.

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Speaker 3: They always brought that situation back into their life. And

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Speaker 3: you know, these types of offenses, they don't do us

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Speaker 3: any good, you see, they only bring heartache, resentment, bitterness, unforgiveness.

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Speaker 3: See that's what offense does. When it gets into our heart,

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Speaker 3: it produces in our life.

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Speaker 1: That's why we have to make.

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Speaker 3: Sure that we don't allow what happens to us to

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Speaker 3: get in us.

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Speaker 1: You see.

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Speaker 3: I believe that God wants us to understand that we

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Speaker 3: are secure in him. You know, we talk about identity.

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Speaker 3: We talk about what we identify with. You see, if

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Speaker 3: you identify with your job and your job goes away,

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Speaker 3: then your identity has gone away. If you identify with

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Speaker 3: a person and they make you important, if that person

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Speaker 3: happens to leave, or that person happens to disappoint you

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Speaker 3: or say something to hurt you, guess what your identity

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Speaker 3: has been crushed. You see, we are to identify with

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Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. We are to find our security in him.

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Speaker 1: We have to know that he is for us and he's.

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Speaker 3: Not against us. He's the one that's gonna take care

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Speaker 3: of us. When we identify with the wrong thing and

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Speaker 3: the wrong thing happens to us, then guess what we

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Speaker 3: feel wrong.

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Speaker 1: That's an offense. That's an offense. And I want to

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Speaker 1: encourage us all.

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Speaker 3: If you've ever been hurt, if you've ever been left,

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Speaker 3: if you've ever been cheated, if you've ever been lied on,

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Speaker 3: they're real and it hurts. But can I encourage every

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Speaker 3: one of us today, Let it go, Let it go,

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Speaker 3: don't get.

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Speaker 1: Stuck in that offense.

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Speaker 3: Don't hold onto it, don't let it be a part

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Speaker 3: of your identity. Listen, people can't define your life unless

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Speaker 3: you allow them to. You See, when you hold on

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Speaker 3: to those situations and those offense, you know what you're doing.

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Speaker 3: You're allowing those situations, those unfair things to continue.

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Speaker 1: To hurt you.

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Speaker 3: You might not be able to change the situation. It

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Speaker 3: happened the person what they said, Yep, they said it.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, if you hold on to it,

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Speaker 1: then the hurt continues.

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Speaker 3: Let it go. Get good at letting it go. In fact,

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Speaker 3: what I want to say to us today is we're

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Speaker 3: gonna have to get good at forgiving and covering their offenses.

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Speaker 3: All right, their offenses. See, let's look at it this

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Speaker 3: way today. The offense is not yours unless you take it.

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Speaker 3: The offense originated from them. So you can either take

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Speaker 3: can say, no, I'm going to forgive them. I'm going

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Speaker 3: to cover this offense. Listen to what it says in

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Speaker 3: Proverbs seventeen nine.

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Speaker 1: It says he who.

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Speaker 3: Covers and forgives an offense seeks love. You see, it's

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Speaker 3: an offense. Didn't say it wasn't gonna come. It is

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Speaker 1: What are you gonna do with it? The choice is ours.

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Speaker 3: We can seek to go after love and say, Ah,

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Speaker 3: forgiveness is powerful.

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Speaker 1: And God's love is more than enough.

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Speaker 3: Even when I don't feel like I can love, God

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Speaker 1: More love than I could ever use up. Or we

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Speaker 3: We can talk about it, tell our friends about it,

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Speaker 1: It, snuggle it. This is my offense, you see. That's

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Speaker 3: That's how you make it become a part of who

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Speaker 3: you are and your identity.

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Speaker 1: But what we have to do is we have to

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Speaker 3: We have to push that offense away from us.

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Speaker 1: We have to say no, it's not my offense to take.

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Speaker 3: I've got the power in my life through the spirit

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Speaker 3: of God to forgive. And I can do that because

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Speaker 3: you know what, I know who I am in Christ,

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Speaker 3: and I know that God's going to help me do this.

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Speaker 3: Ever since I can remember, my family's been in the

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Speaker 3: jelry business, and I've always learned about precious metals and

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Speaker 3: gemstones where they came from.

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Speaker 1: But the story of the pearl is very fascinating.

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Speaker 3: Most of you know that a pearl comes from an oyster,

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Speaker 3: and you see that oyster goes through a tremendous process

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Speaker 3: to create and form that pearl. Funny thing is is

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Speaker 3: that oyster is not trained to create a pearl. What

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Speaker 3: that oyster is doing is trying to protect itself from

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Speaker 3: the irritants, the particles, these splinter like things that tries

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Speaker 3: get into its shell and try to embed itself in

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Speaker 3: the tiny mollusk of the oyster. So the oyster has

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Speaker 3: something called nacre. It's a substance that comes naturally to

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Speaker 3: the oyster when an invader comes in that it secretes

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Speaker 3: and it pushes that irritant away from it. So it

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Speaker 3: pushes and works to secrete the nacre to keep distance

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Speaker 3: between what's trying to harm it. And as a result

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Speaker 3: of it working and secreting and covering it with nacre,

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Speaker 3: it forms a precious and beautiful pearl. You know, offenses

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Speaker 3: in our life are a lot like that irritant in

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Speaker 3: the life of an oyster. Words come, actions come their irritants.

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Speaker 3: They can become offenses. See we have got to push

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Speaker 3: those out of our heart and into the hands of God. See,

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Speaker 3: God has given us a way to insulate ourself, to

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Speaker 3: put distance between what wants to harm us. And it's

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Speaker 3: the fact that we can decide what we do with it.

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Speaker 3: We can either push it and release the hurts, release

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Speaker 3: the wrongs, or we can bring them into our life.

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Speaker 3: And I just want to encourage every one of us

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Speaker 3: to get good at pushing out, pushing out what would

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Speaker 3: try to harm us.

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Speaker 1: Now, the Bible says this.

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Speaker 3: It says that we are to forgive those who have

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Speaker 3: wronged us.

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Speaker 1: We are to forgive.

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Speaker 3: Those who persecute us. We are to forgive and pray

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Speaker 3: for those people.

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Speaker 1: You see, one way to do it is to pray.

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Speaker 3: One way to insulate yourself from that irritant, that offense

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Speaker 1: Your heart is to pray.

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Speaker 3: And every time you pray and you declare, God, I

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Speaker 3: forgive that person in the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: You know what you're doing.

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Speaker 3: You're secreting thencre of God's love around that offense. Every

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Speaker 3: time you release that wrong into God's hands, You're secreting

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Speaker 3: more of the macre of love around that offense. You see,

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Speaker 3: we've got to keep that distance between that offense and

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Speaker 3: our heart.

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Speaker 1: We cannot hold on to a fence.

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Speaker 3: Because God wants to get all these good things to us.

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Speaker 3: And if we're holding on to the wrong, we can't

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Speaker 3: make room for the right.

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Speaker 1: We can't make room for what God wants to do

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Speaker 3: So we must choose love. We must choose what we're

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Speaker 3: going to do with that offense.

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Speaker 1: Listen to what it says in Luke six'.

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Speaker 3: Four it says a good man brings forth good things

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Speaker 3: out of it's a good treasure stored.

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Speaker 1: Up in his.

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Speaker 3: Heart, see that is saying That god wants you to

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Speaker 3: store up the good treasure in your. Heart he's, saying

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Speaker 3: don't give offense valuable space because it's, bitterness its, resentment it's.

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Speaker 3: Pollutants it is things that will pollute your. Life and

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Speaker 3: nobody wants those. Things because the truth is what is

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Speaker 3: in our heart will come out into our, life and

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Speaker 3: many times the things that we have started in our heart.

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Speaker 3: Burst so we've got to guard our. Heart that is

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Speaker 3: What i'm saying, today especially in these times when people

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Speaker 3: can say what they want whenever they want about what

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Speaker 3: they want and it doesn't even have to be.

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Speaker 1: True what makes it true is, this if it has

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Speaker 1: power over.

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Speaker 3: You you, see it doesn't have to be, true but

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Speaker 3: if you give that power over, you it.

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Speaker 3: be aware of what's trying to get itself in your.

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