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Speaker 2: I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard
Speaker 2: about this lady that was stopped at an intersection. A
Speaker 2: man came up asking for money. She dug in her
Speaker 2: purse and found a dollar bill. She rolled down her
Speaker 2: window said sir, I'm not giving you this because you
Speaker 2: deserve it. I'm giving it to you because it makes
Speaker 2: me happy. He looked at her and said, ma'am, why
Speaker 2: don't you give me twenty dollars and thoroughly enjoy yourself?
Speaker 2: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what
Speaker 2: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word
Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my
Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 2: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 2: about beating bitterness. We all go through things that are
Speaker 2: not fair. People do us wrong. We didn't get the promotion,
Speaker 2: came down with an illness. You can't stop life from
Speaker 2: happening to you, but you can choose how you respond.
Speaker 2: If you hold on to the hurt, you go around
Speaker 2: dwelling on the offense, thinking why did they say that
Speaker 2: about me? Why did I lose my loved one? Why
Speaker 2: did that friend walk away? Then you're opening the door
Speaker 2: to bitterness. When you're bitter, it affects every area of
Speaker 2: your life. Bitterness poisons your attitude to where you see
Speaker 2: things in a negative light. Bitter people don't have good relationships.
Speaker 2: They're easily offended. They'll jump down your throat for the
Speaker 2: smallest thing. It's not you, it's the bitterness coming out.
Speaker 2: You may have a good reason to be bitter something
Speaker 2: was unfair, but holding onto it is only going to
Speaker 2: make it worse. It's going to steal your dreams, rob
Speaker 2: you of your joy. Bitterness can keep you from your destiny. Now.
Speaker 2: I know people that are still bitter over something that
Speaker 2: happened thirty years ago, Bitter because they were mistreated growing up,
Speaker 2: Bitter because a relationship didn't work out. You have to
Speaker 2: let it go. God sees what's happening. He knows what
Speaker 2: wasn't fair, He knows who walked away, and he knows
Speaker 2: how to make it up to you. He knows how
Speaker 2: to bring you out better. Let it go and trust
Speaker 2: him to be your vindicator. The longer you hold on,
Speaker 2: the harder it is to get rid of. The more
Speaker 2: you dwell on it, the more you relive it, the
Speaker 2: more you let it bother you, the deeper it gets planted.
Speaker 2: The key is forgive quickly, let go of things you
Speaker 2: don't understand, quickly when the questions come up, why did
Speaker 2: this happen? This isn't fair? When you feel the bitterness
Speaker 2: trying to take root, right, then, God, I'm turning this
Speaker 2: over to you. I know you're my vindicator. I know
Speaker 2: you'll make my wrongs right. You said you'd give me
Speaker 2: beauty for these ashes I found. Bitterness is always knocking
Speaker 2: at the door. You didn't get the contract. Bitterness will
Speaker 2: come have a chip on your shoulder. That's not fair.
Speaker 2: The medical report wasn't what you wanted. Bitterness will show up.
Speaker 2: You prayed, you believe, Why didn't God answer your prayer.
Speaker 2: That's bitterness trying to come in at the office. A
Speaker 2: coal worker says something to try to make you look
Speaker 2: bad in front of people. Just a little offense, just
Speaker 2: a small seed. If you ignore it, no big deal.
Speaker 2: But if you start dwelling on it, start thinking of
Speaker 2: how you can pay them back next time you see them,
Speaker 2: you give them the cold shoulder, then that little seed
Speaker 2: will begin to take root. Before long, it will grow
Speaker 2: and pollute other areas of your life. That's why it
Speaker 2: says in Hebrews, make sure that no root of bitterness
Speaker 2: springs forth and causes trouble, and many become contaminated by it.
Speaker 2: Notice it refers to bitterness as a root. You can't
Speaker 2: see a root. It's hidden, it's underground. But here's the problem.
Speaker 2: A bitter root produces bitter fruit. If you have a
Speaker 2: root of bitterness, it will contaminate your life. Now. I
Speaker 2: know a young man that became disgruntled with his employer.
Speaker 2: His boss was an older man, and he didn't feel
Speaker 2: like he'd been treated fairly. He moved on to another state,
Speaker 2: but over the years he never let it go. He
Speaker 2: became more and more offended, kept talking about it, bringing
Speaker 2: up all the ways he wasn't treated right. His boss
Speaker 2: was good to him, he was generous and kind. There
Speaker 2: were just little things. This young man kept dwelling on,
Speaker 2: blowing it out of proportion because he wouldn't let it go.
Speaker 2: That small offense turned into a root of bitterness. He
Speaker 2: used to be happy, fun to be around. Now he's bitter, souring,
Speaker 2: has a chip on his shoulder. It's affecting his relationships,
Speaker 2: it's affecting his career. Proverbs says, guard your heart with
Speaker 2: all diligence, for out of it flew the issues of life.
Speaker 2: One of our most important responsibilities is to keep our
Speaker 2: heart pure. Life is too short to live offended, not
Speaker 2: forgiving bitter over what didn't work out. You have to
Speaker 2: guard your heart. It's easy to let what's on the
Speaker 2: outside get on the inside. It takes discipline to say,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to dwell on that offense. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to go around feeling sorry for myself because something
Speaker 2: didn't work out. You only have so much emotional energy
Speaker 2: each day. It's not an unlimited supply. Do you know
Speaker 2: how much energy it takes to hold a grudge? To
Speaker 2: go around offended, that's wasting valuable energy that you need
Speaker 2: for your dreams, for your children, for your destiny. Quit
Speaker 2: letting what's on the outside get on the inside, start
Speaker 2: guarding your heart. The apostle Paul had plenty of opportunities
Speaker 2: to live offended. He said, in one place, Alexander the
Speaker 2: Coppersmith did me great wrong, but I'm not worried. I
Speaker 2: know God will pay him back. That's a mature attitude.
Speaker 2: Somebody did me great wrong, but I'm not upset, not bitter,
Speaker 2: don't have a chip on my shoulder. I know God
Speaker 2: is fighting my battles. I know God will be my vindicator.
Speaker 2: What's interesting is you can't see a root, but a
Speaker 2: root is where the tree gets life. We see the outside,
Speaker 2: the leaves, the branches, but the roots are what's feeding
Speaker 2: the tree. When your roots are healthy, positive, hopeful, then
Speaker 2: that's feeding you encouragement, life, strength, hope. The problem is
Speaker 2: if you have bitter roots, you're not being fed the
Speaker 2: right things. You wonder why you don't have any energy,
Speaker 2: why you don't laugh anymore. Why you don't dream like
Speaker 2: you used to. It's because those bitter roots are feeding
Speaker 2: you bitterness, self pity, anger. That's draining all the strength,
Speaker 2: the passion, the joy. They're feeding you what they are.
Speaker 2: The good news is you don't have to live with
Speaker 2: bitter roots. You need to ask God to show you
Speaker 2: what's causing you to be bitter. Maybe there's somebody you
Speaker 2: need to forgive. Maybe it's a dream that didn't work
Speaker 2: out you're still sour about it. Maybe it's a mistake
Speaker 2: you made and you're still beating yourself up. If you'll
Speaker 2: be honest with yourself and say, God, help me to
Speaker 2: get rid of this root of bitterness. God, I'm still
Speaker 2: angry over what happened when I was ten, still sour
Speaker 2: over the person that left, still grieving over my loved
Speaker 2: one that I lost twelve years ago. God, I don't
Speaker 2: want to be bitter. I want my passion back. I
Speaker 2: want to love again like I used to. I want
Speaker 2: to dream again. God help me to let it go
Speaker 2: and move forward. That's the first step to getting rid
Speaker 2: of a bitter root. Find out what it is and
Speaker 2: ask God to help you. You can't do it on
Speaker 2: your own. Ask him to help you forgive the person
Speaker 2: that hurts you. Ask him to help you release the bitterness,
Speaker 2: the resentment. When you get those contaminants out, you'll not
Speaker 2: only feel the weight lift off of you, but you'll
Speaker 2: get your joy back. You'll start dreaming again, and you'll
Speaker 2: see the new things God has in store. Years ago,
Speaker 2: there was a great outbreak of disease in a small
Speaker 2: village in Africa. People were being overcome by nausea and sickness.
Speaker 2: After a couple of months, it was so bad people
Speaker 2: started dying. Word quickly reached the main city and they
Speaker 2: sent out experts to try to find out what the
Speaker 2: problem was. After several days of testing, they discovered their
Speaker 2: water was contaminated. This little village got its water from
Speaker 2: a mountain stream. The researchers began to travel upstream to
Speaker 2: find out where the problem was. They traveled for days
Speaker 2: and days and didn't see anything wrong. They finally came
Speaker 2: to the source of the stream. Everything on the surface
Speaker 2: looked fine. They decided to send some divers down to
Speaker 2: get as close to the source as possible. Much to
Speaker 2: their surprise, they found a big mother pig and all
Speaker 2: of her piglets were stuck right there at the source.
Speaker 2: Somehow the pigs had fallen in and drowned and became
Speaker 2: wedged right at the opening. Now all this crystal clear
Speaker 2: water was being contaminated as it flowed past the dead pigs.
Speaker 2: All they had to do was removed the pigs, and
Speaker 2: once again the water was perfectly fine. It's the same
Speaker 2: principle in life. We all have unfair things that happened,
Speaker 2: things we don't understand. Too often, instead of forgiving the
Speaker 2: people that hurt us, instead of letting go of the wrong,
Speaker 2: we've held on to it like those pigs. It's contaminated
Speaker 2: our stream. We wonder why we're negative, why we can't
Speaker 2: get along in relationships, why we keep losing our temper.
Speaker 2: We think this is just who I am. No, that
Speaker 2: is not who you are. You were created in the
Speaker 2: image of God. He made you to be happy, healthy, whole, secure,
Speaker 2: not bitter, angry, resentful. You need to go back and
Speaker 2: get rid of what's contaminating your stream. You need to
Speaker 2: find those pigs, forgive the people that did you wrong.
Speaker 2: They hurt you once, don't let them continue to hurt you.
Speaker 2: They can't stop your destiny unless you allow them to.
Speaker 2: You're not forgiving for their sake, You're forgiving for your
Speaker 2: sake so your stream doesn't stay polluted. Quit reliving that
Speaker 2: dream that didn't work out, that business that failed, the
Speaker 2: contract that didn't go through. Let it go. God has
Speaker 2: another dream. That was a test. You had to go
Speaker 2: through those closed doors before you could come to your
Speaker 2: open doors. It may not have been fair, but God
Speaker 2: saw what happened. Get rid of the pigs if you'll
Speaker 2: turn it over to him. Start dreaming again, start believing again,
Speaker 2: start hoping again. God will pay you back for what
Speaker 2: didn't work out. He's going to open doors you never
Speaker 2: dreamed would open. He's going to bring people better than
Speaker 2: you ever imagine. What's in your future is much greater
Speaker 2: than anything you've lost. Now my challenge. Don't let a
Speaker 2: dead pig keep you from your destiny. Don't let a
Speaker 2: bitter root contaminate your life. It's time to move forward.
Speaker 2: It's very freeing when you can let things go. Say God,
Speaker 2: they did me wrong, but you're my vindicator. I had
Speaker 2: a disappointment, but I know you'll turn what was meant
Speaker 2: for my harm and use it to my advantage. I
Speaker 2: lost a loved one. Yes I still miss them, but
Speaker 2: I'm not going to live better the rest of my life.
Speaker 2: I know they're with you and you have a new
Speaker 2: beginning for me. That's how you beat bitterness. Guard your heart.
Speaker 2: You don't let what's on the outside get on the inside.
Speaker 2: In the Scripture, a lady named Naomi had some tough times.
Speaker 2: She was living in a city called Moab. She was
Speaker 2: a widow, her husband had died. Years later, both of
Speaker 2: her sons were killed, and sometimes life doesn't seem fair.
Speaker 2: You have more than your share of bad breaks. It's
Speaker 2: easy to get bitter and give up on your dreams.
Speaker 2: But God wouldn't have allowed it if it was going
Speaker 2: to keep you from your destiny. Yes, it's difficult, but
Speaker 2: God promises he will give you grace for every season.
Speaker 2: He won't let you go through more than you can handle.
Speaker 2: When that bitterness comes, you have to put your foot
Speaker 2: down and say no, I'm not going there. I know
Speaker 2: God is still in control. I know his plans for
Speaker 2: me are for good. What you're going through may not
Speaker 2: be good, but God knows how to bring good out
Speaker 2: of it. But every thought will tell you it's never
Speaker 2: going to get better. You might as well be bitter.
Speaker 2: Don't believe those lies. You wouldn't be alive unless God
Speaker 2: had something amazing in front of you. He has a
Speaker 2: purpose for you to fulfill. Naomi had gone through so
Speaker 2: much she thought she was done. She even changed her name.
Speaker 2: Naomi means my joy. She changed it tomorrow Marra means bitter. Now.
Speaker 2: When people called her Naomi, she would tell them, don't
Speaker 2: call me that, call me Marrow. I'm bitter, I'm broken,
Speaker 2: my dreams are shattered. Just let me live in my pain.
Speaker 2: She let the bitterness get on the inside. Maybe she
Speaker 2: had a reason. She had been through a lot of losses.
Speaker 2: But just because you've been through loss, does it mean
Speaker 2: you're not going to win again? Does it mean you've
Speaker 2: seen your best days? You may have had bad breaks,
Speaker 2: but don't change your name. God is not finished with you.
Speaker 2: Enemy doesn't have the final say God does. Naomi moved
Speaker 2: back home to Bethlehem. Her daughter in law, Ruth, went
Speaker 2: with her. I can imagine when her friends saw. They
Speaker 2: came running out Naomi. I can't believe it's you, she said.
Speaker 2: Don't be happy for me. I went out full, but
Speaker 2: I'm coming home empty. She was saying, I went out
Speaker 2: with my husband, my two sons, but look now it's
Speaker 2: just me. Have you ever gone out full big dreams,
Speaker 2: big goals, but things didn't work out the way you
Speaker 2: had planned. The marriage didn't make it, pregnancy didn't last,
Speaker 2: contract didn't go through. Like Naomi, you could easily be bitter.
Speaker 2: Here's how merciful God is. Even though Naomi thought she
Speaker 2: was done, even though she gave up on her dreams,
Speaker 2: God said, in effect, Naomi, you started in joy, and
Speaker 2: you're going to finish in joy. You may have changed
Speaker 2: your name, but I didn't change your name. You had
Speaker 2: trouble in Moab, don't worry. I have a blessing waiting
Speaker 2: for you in Bethlahem. What's interesting is, even though Naomi
Speaker 2: changed her name, the scripture never refers to her as Morrow.
Speaker 2: It keeps calling her Naomi. Have you changed your name
Speaker 2: so to speak, tomorrow? Are you living bitter negative thinking
Speaker 2: about everything that didn't work out? Do yourself a favor,
Speaker 2: Get rid of those names you put on yourself and
Speaker 2: go back to being who God created you to be.
Speaker 2: God didn't change your name. He still calls you blessed, prosperous, favored, healthy, strong, victorious.
Speaker 2: Go back to your original name. You may have had
Speaker 2: trouble in Moab, so to speak. But get ready, God
Speaker 2: has a blessing waiting for you in Bethlahem. Instead of
Speaker 2: sitting around bitter, Naomi started helping her daughter in law Ruth.
Speaker 2: There was a man Ruth was in in and Naomi
Speaker 2: started giving her relationship advice. She told Ruth, put on
Speaker 2: this perfume, wear this outfit, and go see this man
Speaker 2: named Boas. Naomi turned her focus away from her own
Speaker 2: problems and started helping somebody else, Her joy began to
Speaker 2: come back. When you're tempted to be bitter, one of
Speaker 2: the best things you can do is get your mind
Speaker 2: off yourself and go be a blessing to others. Ruth
Speaker 2: ended up marrying Boas They had a baby named Obed.
Speaker 2: When Naomi saw that little baby, she was so excited.
Speaker 2: It was like something breathed new life, new purpose back
Speaker 2: into her spirit. The scripture says a son was born
Speaker 2: to Naomi wasn't even her baby, but she took that
Speaker 2: little baby and raised him like he was her own.
Speaker 2: This once bitter woman was now more full filled than ever.
Speaker 2: She never dreamed she would be that happy again. God
Speaker 2: is saying, my blessing is going to override your bitterness.
Speaker 2: My favor is going to make up for your pain.
Speaker 2: What God has planned for you. Cannot be stopped by people,
Speaker 2: by bad breaks, by loss. Even if you change your name.
Speaker 2: God is so merciful, He's still going to do something amazing.
Speaker 2: He's still going to get you to where you're supposed
Speaker 2: to be. Mark sixteen. Jesus had just been crucified in
Speaker 2: Mary Magdalene and another Mary went to the tomb early
Speaker 2: one morning to put perfume on his body. They wondered
Speaker 2: how they were going to roll the stone away, but
Speaker 2: when they arrived, the stone was already moved. They walked
Speaker 2: in the tomb saw a young man dressed in white.
Speaker 2: Was an angel. They were afraid. He said to them,
Speaker 2: you're looking for Jesus, but he is not here. He
Speaker 2: has risen. He has gone ahead of you to Galilee.
Speaker 2: There you will see him. Notice he is not here.
Speaker 2: He is there. The angel was saying, in effect, I
Speaker 2: know this looks bad. I know you're hurting. I know
Speaker 2: you're disappointed, but don't stay here. Something better is waiting
Speaker 2: for you there. In other words, here is the disappointment,
Speaker 2: Here is the bad medical report. Here is the dream
Speaker 2: that didn't work out. If you stay here, you'll be discouraged.
Speaker 2: You have to go there. Sometimes, the reason God doesn't
Speaker 2: comfort us in the here, in the disappointment, is because
Speaker 2: He doesn't want us to stay where we are. Yes,
Speaker 2: the loss is painful, Yes, the setback wasn't fair. But
Speaker 2: God is not here. He's gone ahead. He's waiting for
Speaker 2: you there. God is not in your past, in what
Speaker 2: you lost, in what didn't work out. He's in your future.
Speaker 2: Don't get stuck in here, move forward into there. There
Speaker 2: is where vindication is. There is where new beginnings are.
Speaker 2: There is where you'll find your healing. If the two
Speaker 2: Marys would have stayed at the tomb in self pity,
Speaker 2: I can't believe this happened. They would have never seen
Speaker 2: the there, they would have never seen the Lord. Are
Speaker 2: you living in the here while God is waiting for
Speaker 2: you there? Are you stuck in a disappointment, bitter over
Speaker 2: a bad break, angry over what didn't work out. It's
Speaker 2: time to leave here and go there. There is where
Speaker 2: God is waiting for you. There is where the blessing is.
Speaker 2: The disappointment is simply a season. It's not the rest
Speaker 2: of your life. God has already gone ahead. God has
Speaker 2: already lined up the next chapter. Your house was damaged
Speaker 2: in the storm, that's here. Yes, that's disappointing. The good
Speaker 2: news is God has gone ahead. He's waiting for you there.
Speaker 2: He has restoration already lined up. This is what my
Speaker 2: father had to do. He'd been pastoring a church for
Speaker 2: many years, and he was very successful, had just built
Speaker 2: a beautiful new sanctuary. He was on the state board
Speaker 2: for his denomination. On his way up, my sister Lisa
Speaker 2: was born with something like cerebral palsy. My dad began
Speaker 2: to search the scriptures in a new way. He found
Speaker 2: how God is a healer and how he came that
Speaker 2: we might live an abundant, victorious life. He started sharing
Speaker 2: that with his congregation, but much to his surprise, they
Speaker 2: didn't like his new message of faith, victory and healing.
Speaker 2: It didn't fit in their denominational teaching. Back then. People
Speaker 2: my father had known for years suddenly turned on him.
Speaker 2: Lifelong friends wouldn't speak to my parents anymore. My father
Speaker 2: ended up having to leave that church. Was so disappointed.
Speaker 2: Never dreamed he'd have to start all over. He could
Speaker 2: have been bitter, God, why'd you let this happen. I
Speaker 2: was being my best I was honoring you like Mary.
Speaker 2: He was in the here. He didn't understand it, and yes,
Speaker 2: the here wasn't fair. But what he couldn't see was
Speaker 2: God had already gone ahead. God had already lined up
Speaker 2: Lakewood and was waiting for him there. If my father
Speaker 2: would have stayed in the here, he would have missed
Speaker 2: his destiny. He left that church, started Lakewood with ninety people.
Speaker 2: That was over fifty years ago, and here we are
Speaker 2: still going strong. What am I saying? The here is
Speaker 2: not the end. The disappointment, the loss, the betrayal, that's temporary.
Speaker 2: God has already gone ahead. Don't let bitterness hold you back.
Speaker 2: Don't sit around in self pity. Move forward into there.
Speaker 2: There is where God will pay you back. There is
Speaker 2: where he'll do more than you can ask or think.
Speaker 2: Luke fifteen is the story of the prodigal son. This
Speaker 2: young man took his inheritance and left home. He wasted
Speaker 2: all of his money, living wild, partying, making poor decisions.
Speaker 2: Finally came to his senses and decided to go back home.
Speaker 2: His father came running out to meet him and welcomed
Speaker 2: him with open arms. He was so glad to have
Speaker 2: his son back. He told his staff to go kill
Speaker 2: the fatted calf. They were going to have a party. Well,
Speaker 2: the older brother was out in the field working when
Speaker 2: he heard all the music the dancing. He asked someone what
Speaker 2: the celebration was all about. They told him, your brother
Speaker 2: has come home. We're having a party to welcome him back.
Speaker 2: Verse twenty eight says the older brother became a angreed
Speaker 2: and refused to go in. His father came out pleaded
Speaker 2: with him, Come on, son, come in, your brother is
Speaker 2: back home. He said, Dad, I've worked for you all
Speaker 2: these years, been slaving away. I always do what you ask,
Speaker 2: but you've never given me a skinny goat, and yet
Speaker 2: you go and kill a fatted calf for after all
Speaker 2: he's done. You can hear the bitterness in his spirit.
Speaker 2: It's not fair. You haven't treated me right. I'm not
Speaker 2: coming into your party. Here's my point. The party went
Speaker 2: on without him. His bitterness didn't stop the party. It
Speaker 2: just kept him from going into the party. Sometimes we're
Speaker 2: holding on to unforgiveness, anger, resentment, thinking that it's hurting
Speaker 2: the other person. The truth is the party is still
Speaker 2: going on. It's just hurting us. Are you letting bitterness
Speaker 2: keep you out of the party? Are you letting a
Speaker 2: disappointment keep you from enjoying today? Why don't you let
Speaker 2: it go and come on into the party. Life is happening,
Speaker 2: there's a celebration going on. Today is a gift. Don't
Speaker 2: let a bad childhood keep you out of the party.
Speaker 2: Don't let a divorce a breakup cause you to be
Speaker 2: sour and sit on the sidelines. Come into the party.
Speaker 2: Start dreaming again, start loving again, start believing again. We
Speaker 2: have no guarantee that we're going to be here tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Life is fragile. Time is too short to live offended,
Speaker 2: bitter in self pity. God knows what you didn't get.
Speaker 2: Quit trying to get people to pay you back, and
Speaker 2: go to God and he'll make it up to you.
Speaker 2: If you'll come into the party, if you'll get rid
Speaker 2: of what's contaminating you. I believe and declare you're going
Speaker 2: to experience a new sense of freedom, better relationships, joy
Speaker 2: clearer vision. I declare that every root of bitterness is
Speaker 2: coming out right now. You're gonna rise higher, live happier,
Speaker 2: and reach the fullness of your destiny. In Jesus' name
Speaker 2: and if you receive it. Can you say amen? Today?
Speaker 2: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus
Speaker 2: the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me?
Speaker 2: Just say Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come
Speaker 2: into my heart. I'll make you my Lord and savior.
Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got
Speaker 2: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep
Speaker 2: God first place. Victorian. I'll be right back to speak
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