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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 2: You know, as long as we live, we're going to

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Speaker 2: have to guard our hearts from taking in offense. You know,

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Speaker 2: all through our life, people are gonna hurt us. Unfair

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Speaker 2: things are gonna happen. We'll be disappointed, people may say

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Speaker 2: something that's not true.

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Speaker 3: See, these are all the types.

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Speaker 2: Of offense that we can't allow to take residency in

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Speaker 2: our heart. See, we can't allow those things to become

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Speaker 2: part of our lives. I have seen people who have

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Speaker 2: gone through a difficult divorce. They have been hurt. I've

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Speaker 2: seen people who have been cheated and it was real.

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Speaker 2: But the difference is those people never let that situation go.

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Speaker 2: They always brought that situation back into their life. And

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Speaker 2: you know, these types of offenses, they don't do us

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Speaker 2: any good, you see, they only bring heartache, resentment, bitterness, unforgiveness.

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Speaker 2: See that's what offense does when it gets into our heart,

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Speaker 2: it produces in our life.

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Speaker 3: That's why we have to make.

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Speaker 2: Sure that we don't allow what happens to us to

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Speaker 2: get in us. You see, I believe that God wants

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Speaker 2: us to understand that we are secure in him. You know,

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Speaker 2: we talk about identity. We talk about what we identify with.

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Speaker 2: You see, if you identify with your job and your

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Speaker 2: job goes away, then your identity has gone away. If

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Speaker 2: you identify with a person and they make you important,

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Speaker 2: if that person happens to leave, or that person happens

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Speaker 2: to disappoint you or say something to hurt you, guess

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Speaker 2: what your identity has been crushed. You see, we are

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Speaker 2: to identify with Jesus Christ. We are to find our

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Speaker 2: security in him.

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Speaker 3: We have to know that.

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Speaker 2: He is for us and he's not against us. He's

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Speaker 2: the one that's gonna take care of us. When we

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Speaker 2: identify with the wrong thing and the wrong thing happens

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Speaker 2: to us, then guess what.

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Speaker 3: We feel wrong. That's an offense. That's an offense. And

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Speaker 3: I want to encourage us all.

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Speaker 2: If you've ever been hurt, if you've ever been left,

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Speaker 2: if you've ever been cheated, if you've ever been lied on,

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Speaker 2: they're real and it hurts. But can I encourage every

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Speaker 2: one of us today let it go, Let it go,

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Speaker 2: don't get stuck in that offense. Don't hold on to it,

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Speaker 2: don't let it be a part of your identity. Listen,

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Speaker 2: people can't define your life unless you allow them to.

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Speaker 2: You See, when you hold on to those situations and

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Speaker 2: those offense, you know what you're doing. You're allowing those situations,

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Speaker 2: those unfair things to continue.

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Speaker 3: To hurt you.

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Speaker 2: You might not be able to change the situation. It

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Speaker 2: happened the person what they said, Yep, they said it.

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Speaker 3: But you know what, if you hold on to it,

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Speaker 3: then the hurt continues. Let it go. Get good at

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Speaker 2: In fact, what I want to say to us today

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Speaker 2: covering their offenses. All right, their offenses. See, let's look

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Speaker 2: at it this way today. The offense is not yours

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Speaker 2: unless you take it. The offense originated from them. So

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Speaker 2: you can either take that offense or you can drop

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Speaker 2: that offense, and you can say, no, forgive them. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna cover this offense. Listen to what it says in

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Speaker 2: Proverbs seventeen nine. It says he who covers and forgives.

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Speaker 2: An offense seeks love. You see, it's an offense. Didn't

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Speaker 2: say it wasn't gonna come. It is an offense.

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Speaker 3: What are you gonna do with it? The choice is ours.

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Speaker 2: We can seek to go after love and say, Ah,

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Speaker 2: forgiveness is powerful and God's love is more than enough

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Speaker 2: even when I don't feel like I can love, God

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Speaker 3: More love than I could ever use up. Or we

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Speaker 3: can seek the offense.

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Speaker 2: We can talk about it, tell our friends about it,

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Speaker 2: dwell on it, get frustrated, lose sleep, coddle it, snuggle it.

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Speaker 2: This is my offense, you see. That's how you draw

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Speaker 2: that in. That's how you make it become a part

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Speaker 2: of who you are and your identity. But what we

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Speaker 2: have to do is we have to do this. We

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Speaker 2: have to push that offense away from us. We have

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Speaker 2: to say, no, it's not my offense to take. I'm

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Speaker 2: God's I've got the power in my life through the

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Speaker 2: spirit of God to forgive.

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Speaker 3: And I can do that because you know what, I

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Speaker 3: know who I am in Christ, and I know that

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Speaker 3: God's going to help me do this.

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Speaker 2: Ever since I can remember, my family's been in the

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Speaker 2: jewelry business, and I've always learned about precious metals and

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Speaker 2: gemstones where they came from. But the story of the

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Speaker 2: pearl is very fascinating. Most of you know that a

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Speaker 2: pearl comes from an oyster, and you see that oyster

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Speaker 2: goes through a tremendous process to create and form that pearl.

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Speaker 2: Funny thing is is that oyster is trying to create

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Speaker 2: a pearl. What that oyster is doing is trying to

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Speaker 2: protect itself from the irritants, the particles, the splinter like

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Speaker 2: things that tries to make its way into its shell

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Speaker 2: from the ocean waters get into its shell and try

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Speaker 2: to embed itself in the tiny mollusk of the oyster.

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Speaker 2: So the oyster has something called nacre. It's a substance

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Speaker 2: that comes naturally to the oyster when an invader comes

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Speaker 2: in that it secretes and it pushes that irritant away

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Speaker 2: from it. So it pushes and works to secrete, thencre

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Speaker 2: to keep distance between what's trying to harm it. And

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Speaker 2: as a result of it working and secreting and covering

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Speaker 2: it with nacre, it forms a precious and beautiful pearl.

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Speaker 2: You know, offenses in our life are a lot like

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Speaker 2: that irritant in the life of an oyster. Words come, actions,

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Speaker 2: come their irritants. They can become offenses. See, we have

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Speaker 2: got to push those out of our heart and into

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Speaker 2: the hands of God.

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Speaker 2: God has given us a way to insulate ourself, to

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Speaker 2: put distance between what wants to harm us. And it's

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Speaker 2: the fact that we can decide what we do with it.

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Speaker 2: We can either push it and release the hurts, release

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Speaker 2: the wrongs, or we can bring them into our life.

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Speaker 2: And I just want to encourage every one of us

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Speaker 2: to get good at pushing out, pushing out what would

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Speaker 2: try to harm us. Now, the Bible says this. It

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Speaker 2: says that we are to forgive those who have wronged us.

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Speaker 2: We are to forgive those who persecute us. We are

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Speaker 2: to forgive and pray for those people.

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Speaker 3: You see, one way to do it is to pray.

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Speaker 2: One way to insulate yourself from that irritant, that offense

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Speaker 2: that's trying to embed itself in.

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Speaker 3: Your heart is to pray.

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Speaker 2: And every time you pray and you declare, God, I

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Speaker 2: forgive that person in the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 3: You know what you're doing. You're secreting the nacre of

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Speaker 3: God's love around that offense. Every time you release that wrong.

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Speaker 2: Into God's hands, you're secreting more of the macre of

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Speaker 2: love around that offense. You See, we've got to keep

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Speaker 2: that distance between that offense and our heart. We cannot

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Speaker 2: hold on to a fence because God wants to get

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Speaker 2: all these good things to us. And if we're holding

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Speaker 2: on to the wrong, we can't make room for the right.

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Speaker 3: We can't make room for what God wants to do

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Speaker 2: So we must choose love. We must choose what we're

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Speaker 2: going to do with that offense. Listen to what it

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Speaker 2: says in Luke six'. Four it says a good man

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Speaker 2: up in his. Heart, see that is saying That god

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Speaker 2: wants you to store up the good treasure in your.

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Speaker 2: Valuable, space because it's, bitterness its, resentment it's. Pollutants it

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Speaker 2: is things that will pollute your. Life and nobody wants those.

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Speaker 2: Things because the truth is what is in our heart

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Speaker 2: Heart that is What i'm saying, today especially in these

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Speaker 2: times when people can say what they, want whenever they,

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