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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about the smile

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Speaker 5: of God. We all have had people that have done

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Speaker 5: us wrong. It's easy to hold on to the hurts

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Speaker 5: and be vindictive and try to pay them back. But

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Speaker 5: one test we all have to pass is not just

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Speaker 5: forgiving people, but being good to those that haven't been

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Speaker 5: good to us. When they betrayed you, when they left

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Speaker 5: some point the tables will be turned. You'll be up

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Speaker 5: them how it feels to be mistreated, pushed down, ignored.

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Speaker 5: You have every right in one sense to get even what.

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Speaker 5: But the way you pass the test is by showing

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Speaker 5: When God can trust you to handle favor, influence, power

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Speaker 4: Pass the test. Be merciful, be kind.

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Speaker 5: It's not about them, it's about you. God is seeing

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Speaker 5: if you're ready to be promoted. Can he trust you

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Speaker 5: with more favor? As long as you're going to use

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Speaker 5: person has been hurt. You can't live long without having

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Speaker 5: wrongs done to you. The question is how do you respond.

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Speaker 5: Somebody takes your coat, give them your shirt too. When

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Speaker 5: Paying people back is overrated. Being vindictive doesn't bring lasting joy.

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Speaker 5: But when you show mercy to people that have hurt you,

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Speaker 4: You know what that is.

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Speaker 5: It's the smile of God. Somebody may have you wrong.

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Speaker 5: You've taken that first step to forgive, but the last

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Speaker 5: not going to help them. You're not going to show

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Speaker 5: you have the advantage where you have the power to

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Speaker 5: not your problem. They're reaping what they're sowing. That's an

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Speaker 5: His brother Jacob cheated.

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Speaker 5: He deceived Esau into trading his birthright for a bowl

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Speaker 5: of soup. A birthright back then was extremely valuable. Years later,

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Speaker 5: as the firstborn son, the double portion blessing. When Esau

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Speaker 5: had deceived and cheated all this time. Esau had every

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Speaker 5: When you do good to people that don't deserve it,

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Speaker 5: when you bless that relative that hurts you, you're not

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Speaker 5: Years later, the tables had turned, Esau had the advantage.

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Speaker 5: The only way back home for Jacob was through Esau's property.

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Speaker 5: Now Jacob was at the mercy of Esau. Somebody may

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Speaker 5: The advantage wasn't given to pay people back. The advantage

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Speaker 5: Will you be like Esau and be good to them?

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Speaker 5: Will you show them mercy and help them with what

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Speaker 5: Follow me and I'll lead you back home my men,

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Speaker 5: and I will protect you and make sure you get

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Speaker 5: He couldn't understand why Esau was being so loving, so forgiving,

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Speaker 4: You may have had people that did you wrong.

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Speaker 5: You have no reason to be good to them, no

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Speaker 5: reason to forgive, no reason to be kind. In fact,

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Speaker 5: you can think of one hundred reasons why you shouldn't

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Speaker 5: be good to them. They left you with young kids

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Speaker 5: How you treat the people that have hurt you is

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Speaker 5: But when you sow a seed of kindness, a seed

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Speaker 5: God will release more favor in your own life. I

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Speaker 4: They would see him out in the public eye.

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Speaker 5: He has a lot of success and notoriety, but there

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Speaker 5: Their relationship with him was nonexistent. One day, their eighty

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Speaker 5: year old mother was hit by a car rushed to

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Speaker 5: this man, flew in from different parts of the country

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Speaker 5: it's time to let it go. Let's bury all the hurts,

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Speaker 5: They all hugged and wept as their mother lay next

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Speaker 5: door in a coma, all that is except one brother.

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Speaker 5: He looked at this man and said, I can't do it.

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Speaker 4: I can't forgive.

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Speaker 5: They walked away. His brother went home and he watches

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Speaker 4: It was all about not.

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Speaker 5: Holding a grudge, letting things go. He knew that was

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Speaker 4: I forgive you.

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Speaker 5: They hugged and now all their relationships.

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Speaker 4: Have been restored.

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Speaker 5: But what's interesting is the mother never did wake up

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Speaker 5: I think he didn't take her instantly. In that accident

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Speaker 5: just so all of us siblings could be restored. Maybe

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Speaker 5: God's having you hear this so that you can make

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Speaker 5: holding you back. Why don't you be a Joseph. Why

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Speaker 5: don't you be an Esau and be good to someone

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Speaker 5: that hasn't been good to you. Why don't you show

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Speaker 5: kindness that they don't deserve. Why don't you be the

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Speaker 5: we're all his brothers. We need forgiveness. When you're the

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Speaker 5: smile of God, God will make sure.

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Speaker 4: People will always smile back on you.

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Speaker 5: If you'll do this, I believe and declare, because God

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