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It's time, your time, not just to 18 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 2: go back to school, but to come back and move 19 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 2: forward with Purdue Global, Purdue's online university for working adults. 20 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 21 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 3: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 22 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 3: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 23 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 4: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 24 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 4: blessing and share it with a friend. 25 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 3: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 26 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 3: your life. Well, God bless you, and we welcome you. 27 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 3: It's always a joy to come into your homes. We 28 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 3: love you. And if you're ever in our area, I 29 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 3: hope you'll stop by and be a part of one 30 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 3: of our services. I promise you we'll make you feel 31 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 3: right at home. But thanks so much for tuning in today, 32 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 3: and thank you again for coming out. And I like 33 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 3: to start with something funny each week. And I heard 34 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 3: about this group of elderly ladies. They were way up 35 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 3: in their eighties. As they were driving down the freeway together, 36 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 3: they got pulled over by a police officer. The officer 37 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 3: said to the lady driving, ma'am, do you realize you're 38 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 3: only going thirty five miles an hour? She said, yes, Officer, 39 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 3: I realized that. He said, well, why are you going 40 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 3: so slow? She said, because the sign says thirty five. 41 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 3: He kind of laughed. He said, no, ma'am, that's the 42 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 3: number of the freeway. This is Highway thirty five. And 43 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 3: by the way, why did these other ladies look so terrified. 44 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 3: She smiled and said, because we just got off Highway 45 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 3: ninety five. Hold up your bible and say it like 46 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 47 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 3: it says I am. I have what it says I have. 48 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 3: I can do what it says I can do. Today 49 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 3: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 50 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 3: My mind is alert, my heart is recepted. I will 51 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 3: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 52 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 3: I want to talk to you today about forgiving so 53 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 3: that you can be free in life. We all have 54 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 3: unfair things that happen to us. We can choose to 55 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 3: hold on to the hurt, become bitter and angry, and 56 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 3: let it poison our future, or we can choose to 57 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 3: let it go and trust God to make it. 58 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 4: Up to us. 59 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 3: You may think that you're not able to forgive. They 60 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,839 Speaker 3: hurt you too badly, Joel, you don't know how I 61 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 3: was raised. My ex fouse caused me a lot of pain. 62 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 3: This friend betrayed me. I just can't let it go. No, 63 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 3: you're not forgiving for their sake, You're forgiving for your 64 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 3: own sake. When you forgive you are taking away their 65 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 3: power to hurt you. The mistake we make so often 66 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 3: is we hold on to it. We go around bitter 67 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 3: and angry. All we're doing is allowing them to continue 68 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 3: to hurt us. That other person is out enjoying life, 69 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 3: having a good time. We're not hurting them by staying angry. 70 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 3: We're just poisoning our own life. I know people they're 71 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: still mad at someone that's dead and gone, they're not 72 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 3: even alive, but they've got unforgiveness toward their parents, a 73 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 3: former boss, an ex fouse, bad enough that they hurt 74 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 3: you once. Don't let them continue to hurt you by 75 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 3: staying angry. I've heard it said when you forgive, you 76 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 3: are setting a prisoner free. You will soon realize the 77 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 3: prisoner wasn't the other person. The prisoner was you. What 78 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 3: they did to you may have been wrong, but my 79 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 3: challenge is don't let it ruin the rest of your life. 80 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 3: They may have betrayed you, lied about you, mistreated you, 81 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 3: but what they did is not worth you missing your destiny. 82 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 3: You cannot let one divorce, one betrayal, one bad childhood 83 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 3: keep you from the awesome future God has in store. 84 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 3: Joseph was betrayed, he was sold into slavery by his brothers. 85 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 3: He could have let that one bad break, that one 86 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 3: injustice steal his destiny. No telling how many people in 87 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 3: the scripture that we don't read about because they got 88 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 3: angry mad, tried to pay you people back and miss 89 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 3: God's best. Don't let that be you. Your destiny is 90 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 3: too great to let what somebody did to you keep 91 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 3: you from moving forward. Forgiveness is not about just being 92 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 3: nice and kind. Oh, I know, joy, it's the right 93 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 3: thing to do. 94 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 5: No. 95 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 3: Forgiveness is about not missing the amazing future that's in 96 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 3: front of you now. I know some of you have 97 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 3: a valid reason to be angry. You were mistreated when 98 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 3: you were younger. Wasn't your fault. You had no control 99 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 3: over it, and what those people did was not right. 100 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 3: Forgiveness doesn't mean that you're excusing their behavior. Does it 101 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 3: mean that you're lessening the offense. Nor am I saying 102 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 3: you got to go be good friends with them. I'm 103 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 3: simply saying you need to let it go. Quit dwelling 104 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 3: on it, quit replaying it in your memory, quit giving 105 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 3: it time and emotional energy. You've got a destiny to 106 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 3: fulfill every time you let it consume you in your thoughts, 107 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 3: and you go back to it and replay how bad 108 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 3: it was and how unfairly you were treated. It's like 109 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 3: you're opening up an old wound. When you don't let 110 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 3: it go, it won't heal properly. It's like a bruise 111 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 3: that won't go away. If you've ever hit your arm 112 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 3: really hard and gotten a big bruise, somebody comes over 113 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 3: later to give you a hug or accidentally bumps up 114 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 3: against it, it's very painful. It's very sensitive, so you'll 115 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 3: be overly protective and make sure nobody gets close to it. 116 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 3: It's the same way when we've been emotionally bruised. We've 117 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 3: been hurt somebody did us wrong. If we don't let 118 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 3: it heal so the bruise can go away, we too 119 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 3: will be overly sensitive. We'll be defensive about the smallest things. 120 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 3: We end up not having good relationships. I know ladies 121 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 3: that don't trust men because one messed up man did 122 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 3: them wrong. One messed up man hurt them, and they 123 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 3: never let it go. And how they're defensive. They're distrustful. 124 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 3: They think all men are bad, all men are out 125 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:02,799 Speaker 3: to get them. I had a gentleman tell me several 126 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 3: months ago how he enjoys watching me on television. But 127 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 3: he said, Joel, I don't know if I really trust you. 128 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 3: I thought that was odd and ask him why, and 129 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 3: he explained how twenty years ago he was on a 130 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 3: committee at his church and the pastor did him wrong. 131 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 3: He got hurt and left the church. Year after year, 132 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 3: he's holding on to that bitterness. Now he thinks all 133 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 3: ministers are bad. I know he's wrong because this minister's good. 134 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 3: Not only that good looking too. Let me add that. 135 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 3: What's his problem? He's still bruised. The scripture says Jesus 136 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: came to set at liberty them that are bruised. That 137 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 3: indicates we're not really free. When we're bruised, we're not 138 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 3: at liberty. And if you want the bruise to go away, 139 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 3: if you want to walk in the freedom that belongs 140 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 3: to you, you simply need to forgive the wrongs, let 141 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 3: it go, and move forward in life. There's nothing the 142 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 3: enemy would love any more than for you to let 143 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 3: one bad thing that happened, one messed up person that 144 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 3: hurts you, one injustice to ruin the rest of your life. 145 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 3: You got to put your foot down and say no way. 146 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 3: My destiny is too great, my future is too bright. 147 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,559 Speaker 3: My God is too big to let what somebody did 148 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,239 Speaker 3: or didn't do to me cause me to get stuck 149 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 3: where I am. I'm gonna shake that off and press 150 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 3: forward into the bright future that God has in store. 151 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 3: I had a young lady tell me recently how when 152 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 3: she was a little girl, she was abused by several 153 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 3: men in her life. It's very unfair. She grew up confused, ashamed, 154 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 3: thinking that it was her fault. She didn't trust men, 155 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 3: but she would do anything to try to please them. 156 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 3: That's all she had known. On the inside, she was bitter, angry. 157 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 3: She had a chip on her shoulder. For twenty six years, 158 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 3: she had not spoken to her father. She hated him. 159 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 3: Every time she thought about him, she would become more bitter, 160 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 3: more angry. One day she heard me talking about what 161 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 3: I'm telling you, that when we forgive, it releases us 162 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 3: to move forward. Nothing that somebody's done to us has 163 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 3: to keep us from our destiny. At thirty six years 164 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 3: of age, she made a special trip to another city 165 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 3: and found her father. When he saw her, his eyes 166 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 3: got this big. She said, Dad, what you did to 167 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 3: me was wrong, and I've hated you every day of 168 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 3: my life. But i cannot live with this poison anymore. 169 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,119 Speaker 3: So I've come here to tell you that I'm forgiving 170 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 3: you for everything you've done to me, she said. When 171 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 3: she left that day, she felt like she was being 172 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 3: released from prison. Up to that point, she had floundered 173 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 3: in life, in and out of relationships, several different jobs. Today, 174 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 3: ten years later, she's happily married. She's got three beautiful children, 175 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 3: she owns her own successful business. She said, your life 176 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 3: could not be any better. It all started when she 177 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 3: let it go. Forgive so that you can be free. 178 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 3: Don't let that person that hurts you keep you in prison. 179 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 3: If you will let it go, God will do for 180 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 3: you what he did for her, what he did for Joseph. 181 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 3: He'll take what was meant for your harm and he'll 182 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 3: use it to your advantage. And it may have been painful, 183 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 3: but don't waste your pain. God wants to use the 184 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 3: pain to promote you. Hebrews ten thirty says God is 185 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 3: a just god. He will repay the exact compensation owed us. 186 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 3: He will settle and solve the cases of his people. 187 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 3: Some of you today you need some cases settled. You've 188 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 3: had unfair things happen. Maybe somebody stole your childhood, or 189 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 3: somebody left you with a bunch of children to raise 190 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 3: by yourself. Perhaps a business partner cheated you, you lost 191 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 3: a lot of money. You could easily be angry, bitter 192 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 3: to pay them back, nor be encouraged. God is a 193 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 3: just god. He knows every person that's hurt you. He's 194 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 3: seen every person that's violated you, every person that left 195 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,719 Speaker 3: you alone and afraid. Nobody else may have seen it, 196 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 3: but God saw it, and he knew it wasn't right. 197 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 3: He's saying today, I'm going to settle your cases. I'm 198 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 3: going to make your wrongs right. I'm not only going 199 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 3: to pay you back what you deserve, but God promised 200 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 3: in Isaiah he will pay you back double for every 201 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 3: unfair thing that's happened. That means every person that lied 202 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 3: about you, tried to make you look bad, let it go, 203 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 3: and Double is coming. Those people that violated you, forgive them, 204 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 3: and double is on its way. That business partner that 205 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 3: cheated you get rid of the resentment in Double's coming. 206 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 3: That spouse that was unfaithful, forgive, and you're going to 207 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:59,439 Speaker 3: see double the joy, double the peace, double the fulfillment. 208 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 3: God never brings you out the same. He will make 209 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 3: the enemy pay for bringing that injustice into your life. Now, 210 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 3: you've got to do your part and let it go. 211 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 3: As long as you're going around with resentment, holding a grudge, 212 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 3: it happened thirty years ago, but you're still angry five 213 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 3: years ago that coworker did you wrong. You're still trying 214 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 3: to figure out how to pay him back. No, let 215 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 3: God be your vindicator. Let God settle your cases. Some 216 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 3: of you today you feel guilty about something that wasn't 217 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 3: even your fault. People mistreated you when you were growing up. 218 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 3: Now there's a nagging feeling on the inside, like something's 219 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 3: wrong with you, like you were to blame. Now you 220 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 3: cannot help the way people treated you when you were younger. 221 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 3: If somebody took advantage or did you wrong, you don't 222 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 3: have to feel ashamed. Don't live guilty. It's not your fault, 223 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 3: it's the other person's fault. Hold your head up high. 224 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 3: You were a child of the most High God. Your 225 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 3: value did not go down because one messed up person 226 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 3: did you wrong. You are still the apple of God's eye. 227 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 3: You are still his most prized possession. You still have 228 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 3: seeds of greatness on the inside. Know this life is 229 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 3: not always fair, but God is fair. And if you 230 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 3: will let go of the shame, the blame and press forward, 231 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 3: God will cause the rest of your life to be 232 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 3: better than it would have been if that never would 233 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 3: have happened. He will pay you back with more. Now 234 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 3: I've learned, God will not allow one of his children 235 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 3: to be constantly mistreated and taking advantage of. If you're 236 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 3: in a situation like that, where somebody's doing you wrong 237 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 3: or somebody has done you wrong, don't get depressed. Don't 238 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 3: give up on life. You keep believing, knowing that payday 239 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 3: is on its wife. If your husband packed up and 240 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 3: ran off with another woman, you don't have to feel ashamed. 241 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 3: Don't listen to those voices telling you you're not good enough, 242 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 3: you're not attractive. Now, those are all lies. You don't 243 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 3: have the problem. He has the problem. If he'll do 244 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 3: that to you, he'll do it to the next woman. 245 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 3: You keep your head held high, knowing that the creator 246 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 3: of the universe is going to settle your cases. He's 247 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 3: going to make your wrongs right. It'll help us to forgive. 248 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 3: If we can realize the people that hurt us, they 249 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 3: have problems of their own. They have issues. Somebody lashes 250 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 3: out and mistreats you, Somebody abandons you, rejected you. They've 251 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 3: got unresolved issues down in here that they're not dealing with, 252 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 3: and that doesn't excuse their behavior. But bottom line is, 253 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 3: somebody hurt them, Somebody didn't give them what they needed. 254 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 3: If you will take a merciful approach and say, God, 255 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 3: I know what they did to me was wrong. God, 256 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 3: they hurt me. It wasn't right. But God, I'm not 257 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 3: going to try to pay them back. I'm not going 258 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 3: to try to get revenge. God. I'm asking you to 259 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 3: heal them of their hurts. God, give them what they 260 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 3: need need. When you can pray for your enemies, when 261 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 3: you can bless those that have done you wrong, like 262 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 3: the scripture says, then you might as well get ready. 263 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 3: God is going to show up to settle your own cases. 264 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 3: I heard a story about this young man fourteen years old. 265 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 3: He was raised in a very abusive environment. His father 266 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 3: was an alcoholic and he would come home in these 267 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 3: violent rages. There was no peace in this home. They 268 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 3: all lived on edge. This young man was afraid for 269 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 3: his life, feared for his mother's life. One night, the 270 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 3: dad came home drunk and he began to abuse the mom, 271 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 3: not just verbally, but this time physically. This young man 272 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 3: fourteen years old, stepped in there to protect his mom, 273 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 3: and he and his dad got into this big fist fight, 274 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 3: and long story short, the father kicked him out of 275 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 3: the house. He said, I never want to see your 276 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 3: face again, and if you ever set foot in this house, 277 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 3: it'll be the last time that you do. That young 278 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 3: man left that night so dejected, so desponded, he was 279 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 3: going to end his life. He was standing on the 280 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 3: side of a bridge in the middle of the night, 281 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 3: about to jump. And these people weren't religious people, they 282 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 3: didn't attend church anywhere. But all of a sudden, he said, 283 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 3: he heard a voice saying to him, as clearly as 284 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 3: I'm talking to you, saying, don't jump. I'll be your father, 285 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 3: I'll be your protector. I'll take care of you. That 286 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 3: was his heavenly father showing up to bring justice into 287 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 3: his life. The Psalmist said, even if my father and 288 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 3: mother forsake me, God will adopt me as his very 289 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 3: own child from that day forward. That young man was 290 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 3: on his own fourteen years old. He was filled with 291 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 3: all these hurts, pain, so much rejection. But he made 292 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 3: a decision early on that he was not going to 293 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 3: hate his father. He forgave him and moved on with 294 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 3: his life. He ended up becoming a minister. Over the years, 295 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 3: he reached out to his father, but he wouldn't have 296 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 3: anything to do with him. Twenty two years later, one 297 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 3: Sunday morning, he was in the pulpit. Out of the blue, 298 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 3: his father walked in the back of the church. He 299 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,360 Speaker 3: hadn't seen him since that day when he was fourteen 300 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 3: years old, the day of that big fight. After the service, 301 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 3: the father came down to the altar, big tears running 302 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,959 Speaker 3: down his cheeks. He not only asked his son to 303 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 3: forgive him, but that day he gave his life to 304 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 3: the Lord. Friend. God is a just God. I don't 305 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 3: know how long it may take, but God is faithful. 306 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 3: He will nature wrongs right. He will restore what the 307 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 3: enemy has stolen. It doesn't matter how bad they hurt 308 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 3: you and how wrong they were. If you let it go, 309 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 3: God will settle your cases. After the service, the father 310 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,159 Speaker 3: and son began to talk, and this father told the 311 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 3: son things that he had never known before. How his 312 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:58,439 Speaker 3: father was an alcoholic. His father was very abusive to 313 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 3: his mother. This father was raised in such a dysfunctional home. 314 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 3: By the time he was six, he had already lived 315 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 3: with four different families. And again, I'm not making excuses 316 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 3: for anybody's behavior, but the point I'm making is hurting 317 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,959 Speaker 3: people usually hurt other people. This father had all that 318 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 3: anger and bitterness and rejection on the inside. Instead of 319 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 3: letting it go, he made the mistake of carrying it around. 320 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,439 Speaker 3: He didn't realize he was passing it down to the 321 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 3: next generation. When Jesus rose from the dead, he came 322 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 3: back to talk to his disciples. He said something interesting. 323 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 3: Whatever sins you forgive will be forgiven. Whatever sins you 324 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 3: retain will be retained. When we retain something, it means 325 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 3: we hold on to it. I believe one thing God 326 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,679 Speaker 3: is saying in this passage is when we hold on 327 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,360 Speaker 3: to the wrongs that people have done, when we retain 328 00:18:55,840 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 3: their sins, it not only contaminates us, but that's sin 329 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 3: is like a seed. It can actually produce in us 330 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 3: exactly what they did. In other words, when you don't forgive, 331 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 3: it's easy to become what you hate. I know a 332 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,679 Speaker 3: young lady that hated her father. He ran around on 333 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 3: her mother. She didn't have a good childhood. She resented 334 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 3: the fact that her father was unfaithful and he wasn't 335 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 3: there for the children. She couldn't stand that man. But 336 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,159 Speaker 3: do you know when this young lady grew up and 337 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 3: got married, she ended up running around on her husband. 338 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 3: She was unfaithful, she wasn't there for her children. She 339 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 3: became exactly what she hated in her father. That's why 340 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 3: it's so important to let it go and forgive the wrongs. 341 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 3: We hold on to, the sins we retain, they can 342 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 3: produce in us exactly what we don't want. If you 343 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 3: were raised in a dysfunctional home, maybe violence, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, whatever, 344 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 3: don't let that poison get on the inside of you. 345 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 3: Why don't you be the one to set a new 346 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 3: standard for your family. Why don't you be the one 347 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 3: to rise up and make a difference. Are you going 348 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 3: to hold on to the anger, the unforgiveness and pass 349 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 3: it down to the next generation, or are you going 350 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 3: to be like the young men we talked about earlier 351 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 3: and just let it go so you can see your 352 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 3: family go to a new level. Somehow, that young man 353 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 3: knew that God would settle his case, even though it 354 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 3: took a long time. God was faithful. He brought justice 355 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 3: into his life. God will do the same thing for you. Now. 356 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 3: I know it can be difficult to forgive, especially when 357 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 3: people have hurt us badly. But God will never ask 358 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 3: us to do something and not give us the power 359 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 3: to do it. Forgiveness is a process. Doesn't happen overnight. 360 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,199 Speaker 3: You just snap your fingers, pray one prayer, and then 361 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 3: it's gone. You never think about it, not at all. 362 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 3: It's a process that has to be walked out. If 363 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 3: you have the desire to forgive, and every day you 364 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 3: will and ask God to help you, then little by little, 365 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 3: those negative feelings will get less and less. One day 366 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 3: you'll look up and that won't affect you at all. 367 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 3: Matthew Chapter six, Jesus prayed the Lord's prayer. In one part, 368 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 3: he said, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. 369 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 3: When God talks about debts, he's just not talking about 370 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 3: monetary debts. He's talking about when people hurt us, when 371 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 3: people do us wrong. God refers to that as a debt. 372 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 3: It's because when somebody mistreats us, down deep, we feel 373 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 3: like they owe us something. Human nature says, you hurt me, 374 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 3: now want justice. You did me wrong, Now you've got 375 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 3: to pay me back. The problem is, many times we're 376 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 3: trying to collect a debt that only God can pay. 377 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 3: That father that abused his daughter, he can't give her 378 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 3: her innocence back. Only God can. That friend that cheated 379 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 3: you are those parents if you're grown now, they can't 380 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 3: pay you back for not having a loving childhood. That 381 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 3: spouse that was unfaithful, he can't pay you back for 382 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 3: the pain that he's caused. Only God can truly pay 383 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 3: you back. And if you want to be restored, if 384 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 3: you want to be whole, if you want to be free, 385 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 3: you need to get on God's pay wrong. He knows 386 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 3: how to make your wrongs right. God knows how to 387 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 3: bring justice into your life. Now quite expecting people to 388 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 3: make it up to you, they can't give you what 389 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 3: they don't have. Jesus told a parable about a man 390 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 3: that owed ten thousand talents. It would be like ten 391 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 3: million dollars to day. The scripture says he could not pay. 392 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 3: Didn't say he didn't want to, it said he could not, 393 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 3: he didn't have the means to pay. If you're always 394 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 3: looking to people to pay you back for the wrongs 395 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 3: they've done, You're going to live a frustrated life. I've 396 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 3: known people that have gone through a bitter divorce. They 397 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 3: get into a new relationship, a new marriage, and they 398 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 3: expect this new person to pay them back for all 399 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 3: the wrongs that somebody else has done. They're always trying 400 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 3: to collect that debt. They end up ruining that relationship 401 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 3: as well. Don't punish the person you're married to now 402 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 3: for something that happened years ago when they weren't even around. 403 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 3: They can't pay you back, Why don't you get on 404 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 3: God's payroll. I had a man tell me a while 405 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 3: back how he was wronged in a business decision. He 406 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 3: ended up losing his entire business. This happened years ago. 407 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 3: He was still mad at the world. He'd been with 408 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 3: several different companies, couldn't keep a job. He's got all 409 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 3: this bitterness on the inside, thinking that people owed him something, 410 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 3: expecting them to pay him back. What was his problem. 411 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 3: He's on the wrong payrong. Our attitude should be God, 412 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 3: you know everything that I've been through. You know, every hurt, 413 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 3: every wrong, every tear, And I'm not going to live 414 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 3: my life bitter trying to get people to give me 415 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 3: what they don't have. God, I'm gonna leave it up 416 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 3: to you. You promised that you would settle my cases. 417 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 3: You said that you would pay me back double for 418 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 3: every unfair thing. So God, I'm letting all my family, 419 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 3: my friends, my coworkers, my neighbors off the hook, and 420 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 3: I'm putting my hope, my trust, my confidence in you. 421 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 3: When you get on God's pay roll, He'll make sure 422 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 3: you are well compensated. Some of you today. If you 423 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 3: would just let some people off the hook in your 424 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 3: life and quit thinking that they owe you something, you 425 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 3: would see your life go to a whole new level. 426 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 3: They may have been wrong, it may have been their fault, 427 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 3: but it's not their fault that they can't pay you back. 428 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 3: If you spend your life trying to get from people 429 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 3: what only God can give, it'll end up running that relationship. 430 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 3: And the sad thing is you'll take that problem into 431 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 3: the next relationship and the next and the next. So 432 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 3: much better to just let God pay you back. Times 433 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 3: when I'm looking over our bills I'll see these big 434 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 3: red letters that say paid in full. You've seen one 435 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 3: of those big rubber stamps that people use. It means 436 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 3: the account is totally taken care of. You need to 437 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 3: start seeing your accounts where people has hurt you as 438 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 3: being paid in full. Instead of always trying to collect 439 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,640 Speaker 3: the debt thinking they owe you something. Get that big 440 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 3: rubber stamp out. Mark that account paid in full. Next 441 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 3: time you see that person that hurts you, stamp it 442 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 3: paid in full. That man that lied about you paid 443 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 3: in full. That friend that betrayed you paid in full. 444 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 3: It's very freeing to say, nobody owes me anything. They 445 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 3: may have hurt me, they may have stolen my childhood, 446 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 3: they may have cheated me out of some money. That's 447 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 3: all right. I'm not on their payroll. I'm on God's payroll. 448 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 3: And the good news is God never misses a payment. Friends, 449 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 3: Start marking some accounts paid in full. Life is too 450 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,719 Speaker 3: short to go through it bitter, angry, trying to get 451 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 3: people to pay you back. Let it go. God will 452 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 3: settle your cases. It's interesting today. Some airlines will let 453 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 3: you take baggage, but you have to pay for each 454 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,159 Speaker 3: individual peace You can't take it free anymore. It's the 455 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 3: same way in life. You can take emotional baggage, but 456 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,200 Speaker 3: it's gonna cost you something. You can carry that bag 457 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 3: of unforgiveness, but it'll cost your joy. You can take 458 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 3: around that bag of bitterness, but it'll cost your peace. 459 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 3: You can carry that bag of you owe me something, 460 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 3: that attitude, and if you carry it long enough, it'll 461 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 3: be a very hefty price. It'll keep you from your destinies. Well, 462 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 3: you say, Joel, they don't even deserve to be forgiven. 463 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 3: Maybe not, but you do. When you don't forgive them, 464 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 3: your heavenly father cannot forgive you. Why don't you get 465 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 3: rid of the baggage. Why don't you mark the accounts 466 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 3: paid in full? Why don't you forgive so that you 467 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 3: can be free? If you will let go of the hurts, 468 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 3: the wrongs and get on God's pay roll, Let me 469 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 3: declare what's going to happen. God is going to settle 470 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 3: your cases. He's going to make your wrongs right. He's 471 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 3: going to restore what the enemy is stolen. He is 472 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 3: going to bring justice into your life. God is not 473 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 3: only going to give you what you deserve, but he's 474 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 3: going to pay you back with double the joy, double 475 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,120 Speaker 3: the peace, double the friends, double the fulfillment. He's going 476 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 3: to bring you out better off than you were before. 477 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 3: I believe it and declare it in Jesus' name. If 478 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 3: you receive it, can you say amen. We never like 479 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 3: to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to 480 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 3: make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray 481 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 3: with me? 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