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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Welcome to Grace Grace with Nina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphries.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And i am Nina Keegan. Welcome to the broadcast today.
Today we're going to be talking about the prison of offense.
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How much is it? Is it so bad for us
when we pick up offenses? It is a prison.
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It can be so much a prison because you can
pick up an offense and you can hold that grudge
and hold that offense for eternity. And I'm telling you
it is doing nothing for you. But in fact, it's
blocking your blessings. It's causing you to not get blessed.
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It's having all kinds of trouble that you are really
bringing upon yourself because you're picking up an a fence.
You're the one who's drinking the poison and expecting it
to hurt the other person.
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Well with with offenses, like if you think about it,
the you know, the Lord's Supper is something that we
don't take lightly. You know, when when you take the
bread which is the body, and drink the cup which
is represents the blood.
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The Bible says before you do these.
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Things, if you have an offense, stop stop right there
and go and make it right with your brother now
or your sister, whoever has offended.
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You, go make it right now.
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You know, sometimes we can't make it right because this
person is you know, has gone on to be with
the Lord or.
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This person they're dangerous.
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They're dangerous saying you have.
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To go get into that kind of muck and mire.
But when you do all you know to do right,
and you know if you're and also it can just
be really praying for them as well, because there's there's
there's some things in my life that go way back
to childhood and that actually the people don't want to
you know that might think you're on my journey because
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they don't want to know the Lord.
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And there's things like that.
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And so when there's people who kind of like to say,
just we don't want to hear about it, stay out
of our lives.
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Like there's a there's at.
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A certain point because of your relationship with the Lord,
they think you've gone off the ring.
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Yeah, and you can't. At a certain point. It's like
I will die on that sword. I don't care what
anybody thinks about Earth says.
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If they call me a Jesus.
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Freak, I'm like, hallelujah, I did my job because because
you know, but there's gonna be people who are gonna
come after you, come against you, even just because of that,
just because of your relationship with the Lord.
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And so we have to learn.
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To pick and choose and stay calm in the midst
of the storm, right because.
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Well, and when you think about it, like Jesus said
himself that he would be a rock of offense, that
he did not come to bring peace. Everybody always thinks that,
you know that you're gonna have peace because Jesus.
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Is involved, but he is offensive.
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If you start talking about God, people are like, you know, yeah,
you know, it's like a little devotional or something. But
you say Jesus, and you know, you can see the
room begin to scatter, right.
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And you know, I'll scatter it at the name of Jesus.
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The devil says he has to flee. But listen to
this scripture. It's in Ecclesiastes ten four. If the anger
of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place,
for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.
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Isn't that awesome?
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You staying calm will bring all those offenses and lay
them to rest. Because so many times if you're in
a situation where somebody's gonna say something to you or
come against you, or even if it's your own household.
You know how we you know that that's here with
day in and day out. So that's where a lot
of offenses come up. That's where a lot of you know,
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strife happens. But if you're going to pick up that bait,
and if you're gonna go right back and say yeah,
but and this and that, and you're going to start
a whole thing. But if you just stay real calm,
stay real calm in the midst that of fence, and
or even give a kind word, because the Bible says
a guy in word can break a bone. And not
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not that you want to go break your family member's bones,
but you can. You can bring a calm to that
storm by you saying, you know, I'm really sorry you
feel that way, but you know, we'll just agree to disagree.
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You diffuse that that fire.
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Oh and especially when say, for example, you're praying for someone,
and I can remember a couple of times whenever the
Lord has really had me hone in on someone because
you know, I had such a burden, for example, my
brother and then I had another friend that I worked
with that the Lord just every day would just give
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me such a burden for them, and they were giving
me a hard time. You know, when I would talk
about the Lord, it was offensive to them. And my
brother would outright mock me. He would just mock me
as only a little brother could do, right. But I
mean he wasn't you know. And the other girl that
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I was praying for, she was she was pretty equally offensive, actually,
But but the Lord did save them, but it was
so offensive to them. Jesus is offensive to people because
the Bible says that the Gospel is like the stinch
of death to the those who are perishing, but it's
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like a fragrance to those who are saved. So when
someone is perishing and you say Jesus, it just reminds
them that they're perishing. And that's why there's such an
offense with it. But you've got to press in, stay calm,
like what Nina was saying, and just don't even let
it affect you. Just stay calm and keep witnessing and
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don't give up because you're going to offend those that
you're witnessing to with the name of Jesus.
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And you have to understand that this is a broken
world full of broken people and hurt people, hurt people.
And so many times you can step back and say,
what is actually causing this hurt and pain in that person?
Do they really mean it? Or you know, is it
a cry for help?
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What they're saying?
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Is it? You know, sometimes when they're coming at you
about Jesus, sometimes they're just struggling to want to know
the answers themselves, and they don't want to admit that
they're asking about it. So they're just going to like
debate you, but almost in an offensive way. And so
when you come at them back to them with the
word of God, you're going to be planting seeds because
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that cannot return void. And so when you lay the groundwork,
you just speak, you know, the Word to them, and
you tell them what God says about things, and you
don't pick up the offense of what their accusatory tone
comes at you.
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So many times it's the attitude.
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And do you hear the old saying It says, don't
get mad, get even I think we should say, don't
get mad, get ahead and be ahead with the word
of God. You take the high road, You take the
road less travel than you you speak that. You just
go with that from that place, because picking up an
offense is so easy to do. Trust me, it's been
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a big thing for me. Forgiveness has been a big
thing and a big issue in my life because of
offenses ever since I was a little little girl. And
so we have to learn to lay those things down.
That's how we stay blessed, having no aught. We're going
to talk more about that when we come right back,
stay right there.
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Now welcome back. You're watching Grace Grace with Nina m. Michelle.
Today we're talking.
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About the prison of offense and why is it such
a prison, because the.
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Bible tells us to have no aught.
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When you have aught against somebody, you are holding on
to these grudges, and that's that becomes your perception, that
becomes your reality. You're just it's what you're preoccupied with
all the time. It's what you're going to keep bringing
up and rehearsing it and going over it. And there
is a time and a place where you can, you know,
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kind of get through a tough patch. And the Bible
says seventy times seven a day is how much we
have to forgive. And that's not because they're hurting you.
Seventy times seven a day. But it's because the devil's
bringing it up. But we have to learn to cut
that off, to know what he's doing, to not pick
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up that bait, because it is so important that we
lay the offenses down and we give that all to
the Lord.
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And you know, Jesus talks about the parable where you know,
there's the man who owed so much money, and in
the key, the debt collector forgave that man that owed
all that money. And yet when someone owed him so
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just a little bit of money, he would not forgive them.
He wanted to throw them in prison. So he ended
up owing all the money again.
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You know.
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They they saw that he was not going to be forgiving,
so he ended up owing the money again. So if
we don't forgive, we cannot be forgiven. Jesus paid it all.
He forgave us of all of our sins. We are
we are gonna when we go to heaven, we're gonna.
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The Bible says he has washed our sins uh as
far as the east is from the west, never to
be remembered.
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And so Jesus did that for us.
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So God expects us to forgive others in the same
way that we have been forgiven.
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Now that can be hard, you know.
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I mean think about people that have uh have had
their loved one murdered, who have.
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Who have you know, possibly been.
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Molested or raped or I mean, how do you get
over the big ones?
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You know, that's tough. Only Jesus can do that.
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But but he actually can, because haven't you seen those
court cases where you know, some great offense has happened,
and you know, the the victim or the family of
the victim, they've gone up and and like hugged the
you know, the offender, and there's not a dry eye
in the courtroom because.
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That's from God.
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You cannot get over something where you've lost a loved
one and like a drunk driver or something like that,
and then there's this forgiveness of that offense once you've
lost your loved one.
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I mean, how do you get over that?
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Right?
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Except for God?
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Well and being a godly example in the way that
people are always watching us and they want to know
a lot of people who know our stories and know us,
know a lot of the things that we've gone through.
And you know, I did go through a divorce because
of adultery and when I'm saying that betrayal like that
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is one of the hardest things I have been through
a lot of things. I've had a lot of things
to forgive in my life, but there's a betrayal that
is a hurt like none other. But I can talk
about that. I know every day I had to give
that to God. And I remember one day when I
read the scripture and I knew that scripture, but I
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knew God was just wanting me to have it right
then when I saw that you have to bless your enemies,
and I was like, but I can't do that. I
was like literally having an argument with God. And I
was like, there is no way that I want him bless.
There's none, There's no way.
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And it's like, you know you had you prayed it,
but you did I.
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Did pay it, and then you were mad whenever he
was bless.
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When I found out that actually God answered the prayer,
you were all ticked off and called me so and
I said.
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You didn't really mean that.
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Well, no, God said that to me, and he said,
you are obsessed with the judgment of the godless, and
I will take care of that. And all I was
doing was he was just living his life. He didn't
seem to care that he had hurt me, And I thought,
what am I going to do? Am I going to
hang on to this hurt and where he's just obviously
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I didn't hurt him, so he's over there living his life.
And so all I know is that I had to
repent of that because I knew that me holding onto
that first of all, was not It wasn't serving any good.
It wasn't going to hurt him, It wasn't going to
serve me in any way. It wasn't going to be
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a godly example to my children or my family in
any way. It was just like hurt. And when you're hurt,
it's like, you know, there's no joy, and so you
hanging onto all this just steals your joy. And then
but knowing that now God has used me in so many,
so many times in the same area to help other
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women who were going through that very same thing and
who know what that feels like, and to help and
walk them through that and to pray over them. And
I can now it's just a testimony. I do hope
he's blessed.
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I don't.
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It doesn't hurt me, you know, when that's how you
know the whole seventy times seven that you need to
keep forgiving.
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Keep asking the Lord.
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He will help you forgive because we sometimes it's just
beyond something we can do on our own, and we say, God,
help me in this area, help me forgive these people.
You give these offenses to God. And you remember that
Jesus was beaten and whipped and called names, and he
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didn't even look like a person.
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At the end of the day, he.
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Said, forgive them because they don't know what they're doing.
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And what he went through is just so.
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We're not going through things that aren't common to man.
I know that there's some horrible things people are going through.
But God will take care of all of them when
we give it to him. And He wants your yoke
to be easy. He wants your burden to be light.
And when we cast our cares and give these offenses
to him, he will give you a peace.
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And that's what we need.
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When you want to be offended, you need to go
find the peace right and stay in a place.
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And you know, and think about like if you ever
want and you see families that have been destroyed because
of an inheritance, you know, because that's all evil. That's
three money when whenever people grab for money and they
feel like things are unfair or whatever. But this is
your family. You need to try to solve this in
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your heart. If you feel like you were wronged, no
God can give back to you. You know, one hundredfold,
one thousandfold.
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He's God.
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So don't just lay that on the altar. What is
behind you? The Bible says forgetting those things which are
behind and pressing forward to the high calling of Jesus Christ.
And so you have to just lay down your offenses
where you've been wronged.
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And we are going to.
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Talk more about this when we come back. We want
to honor.
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God because he sees everything.
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You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's
the God of all things possible. He's the God of
all miracle.
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Hey, welcome back.
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You're watching Grace Grace with Nina m Michelle, and we're
talking about the prison of offense, because it really is
a prison that you put yourself in by holding on
to an offense. It could be something someone said to
you that you're just saying.
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I can't believe they said that.
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It can be that all the way to some deep,
deep hurt and pain that you've been walking around for
years and you're not even realizing the harm, the image
that's causing the heaviness.
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There's an oppression that comes with unforgiveness.
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It can cause ailments, and it really can.
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And so I you know, God knows what you think already.
He knows things you don't know about yourself. And so
when I have you know, I've thought about different times
in my life when I was so offended and not
many things caused me not to sleep, but yes, there
have been a couple of times I have just been
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so mad that I could barely sleep, and you know,
those are hard times. And so it's just like God,
you know exactly what I think. I wish I could
take this, you know, anger out myself, but I don't
know how. But I'm I'm asking you right now to
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do whatever you you know, you know, and to do
and take this out, pluck this out by the roots,
because I need to get some sleep, you know, I mean, this.
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Is just crazy, how upset I am. And you know
God is able to do that, He's able to put
things in perspective.
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You can get in the word and look for things
in the Word, because it's it's our toolbox. You can
look for scriptures in the word that can help you
get over whatever offense it is, because I guarantee you
you have never been hung on a cross to the
point of death where they beat you with a cat
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of with the cat of nine tails, you know it
as a whip, and to where you were unrecognizable. No
one's ever done that to you, where you died and
came back. Right, He did all of that under those offenses,
and he came back to life so that you could
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be forgiven, and so you could forgive others.
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Yes, yes, it's so hard, but it is so important.
The Bible says in Proverbs ten twelve, hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers over all offenses. And that's so hard
to do sometimes. But you if you could realize, I'm
going to love them anyway, I'm gonna say something kind
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in spite of this. I'm gonna overcome evil with good.
And so whatever the devil's trying to trip you up with,
because let me tell you, he's got your number down.
Whatever has worked for you before. If this is what,
maybe it's some always some person in your life that
some family member or someone you know that's the chief
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offender in your life. You know you're you're gonna be
so like, oh, I gotta meet with that person or
that person's coming around, and I'm just and you're kind
of ready for it. And sometimes you got to watch
that that you're not gonna just be.
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Pre arguing you're gonna grab at anything. Do you hear that?
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Or you know whatever, you have to go with it,
saying Okay, I'm not gonna I'm gonna choose to not
be offended today. I'm gonna love on that person. I'm
gonna speak kind words. You know, that is how we
overcome we again, we overcome evil with good. You take
the exact opposite of what the devil stricken you to
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be offended by, and you just say kindness and say,
oh I never thought of it that way, thanks for
pointing that out.
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Really, don't let them have an upper hand on that.
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Well, that's true, and you can do that what you're saying,
And you know, fake it till you make it kind
of thing.
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For a season or for a while.
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But when you when you fake it till you make
it and inside you're so ticked off you can barely
bear it because you actually have concealed hatred. God can
pull that out, you know, because God has to do
a work of the heart, to get down into the
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deep recesses of your heart and pull up these offenses
to where you put them all in God's perspective. And
the Bible says that He is the balm of Gilead.
That's like a medicine. He is that Jesus is. So
when you begin, and I say this from personal experience,
you know, the Lord has spoken to me before and said,
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you have concealed hatred. He said that to me, and
I said, yeah, but I don't know what to do
about it. I don't know how to fix that, to
do it in tangible And so I just said, God,
I have to give that to you because I have
no idea how to get in there and fix that myself.
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Did you ever have a Mount Vesuvius moment?
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Because I'll say sometimes I come from a family, a
long line of overreactors.
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I say, you know, you'll stuff it down, stuff it down,
You'll say nothing, say nothing, say nothing, and then you're
you erupt and it does not do anybody any good.
And I know sometimes when I'm having one of those moments,
it's rare because it's like funny because my husband, Like
I'll get so mad at someone on the television anything,
and it's like and then I'm spewing all this stuff
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and I say, I know in my spirit I'm hearing stop.
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At Nina, be quiet, Nina, back.
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Up nine, Like I know that the Lord is like,
because you know, once you unleash these things out of
your mouth, you can you cannot put it back.
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You gotta be careful because what you say, you know
you can.
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Somebody can tell you a thousand compliments and someone say
one mean thing to you, and that's the same person.
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Rehearse it, and that's what you're going to remember.
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And so we have to be so careful that we
don't get baited into all of that evil.
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And we're going to.
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Pray about it, and so don't rehearse it, reverse it
and curse it.
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So let's press the offense. That's right us.
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So Father, we thank you God that you are the God,
the only one that can get inside our hearts and
change just for real to where God, we can walk
in that love, the genuine love and sincere love, to
where that the hatred or the offense whatever we have
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built up through the flesh. We ask you God, right,
now to forgive us and pull this up. Help us
to not have an offense with anyone. Lord, as far
as it's concerned with us, we will be at peace
with all men.
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Father, we pray in Jesus' name, make it so.
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And i am Nina Keegan. Welcome to the broadcast today.
Today we're going to be talking about the prison of offense.
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How much is it? Is it so bad for us
when we pick up offenses? It is a prison.
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It can be so much a prison because you can
pick up an offense and you can hold that grudge
and hold that offense for eternity. And I'm telling you
it is doing nothing for you. But in fact, it's
blocking your blessings. It's causing you to not get blessed.
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It's having all kinds of trouble that you are really
bringing upon yourself because you're picking up an a fence.
You're the one who's drinking the poison and expecting it
to hurt the other person.
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Well with with offenses, like if you think about it,
the you know, the Lord's Supper is something that we
don't take lightly. You know, when when you take the
bread which is the body, and drink the cup which
is represents the blood.
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The Bible says before you do these.
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Things, if you have an offense, stop stop right there
and go and make it right with your brother now
or your sister, whoever has offended.
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You, go make it right now.
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You know, sometimes we can't make it right because this
person is you know, has gone on to be with
the Lord or.
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This person they're dangerous.
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They're dangerous saying you have.
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To go get into that kind of muck and mire.
But when you do all you know to do right,
and you know if you're and also it can just
be really praying for them as well, because there's there's
there's some things in my life that go way back
to childhood and that actually the people don't want to
you know that might think you're on my journey because
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they don't want to know the Lord.
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And there's things like that.
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And so when there's people who kind of like to say,
just we don't want to hear about it, stay out
of our lives.
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Like there's a there's at.
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A certain point because of your relationship with the Lord,
they think you've gone off the ring.
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Yeah, and you can't. At a certain point. It's like
I will die on that sword. I don't care what
anybody thinks about Earth says.
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If they call me a Jesus.
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Freak, I'm like, hallelujah, I did my job because because
you know, but there's gonna be people who are gonna
come after you, come against you, even just because of that,
just because of your relationship with the Lord.
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And so we have to learn.
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To pick and choose and stay calm in the midst
of the storm, right because.
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Well, and when you think about it, like Jesus said
himself that he would be a rock of offense, that
he did not come to bring peace. Everybody always thinks that,
you know that you're gonna have peace because Jesus.
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Is involved, but he is offensive.
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If you start talking about God, people are like, you know, yeah,
you know, it's like a little devotional or something. But
you say Jesus, and you know, you can see the
room begin to scatter, right.
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And you know, I'll scatter it at the name of Jesus.
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The devil says he has to flee. But listen to
this scripture. It's in Ecclesiastes ten four. If the anger
of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place,
for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.
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Isn't that awesome?
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You staying calm will bring all those offenses and lay
them to rest. Because so many times if you're in
a situation where somebody's gonna say something to you or
come against you, or even if it's your own household.
You know how we you know that that's here with
day in and day out. So that's where a lot
of offenses come up. That's where a lot of you know,
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strife happens. But if you're going to pick up that bait,
and if you're gonna go right back and say yeah,
but and this and that, and you're going to start
a whole thing. But if you just stay real calm,
stay real calm in the midst that of fence, and
or even give a kind word, because the Bible says
a guy in word can break a bone. And not
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not that you want to go break your family member's bones,
but you can. You can bring a calm to that
storm by you saying, you know, I'm really sorry you
feel that way, but you know, we'll just agree to disagree.
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You diffuse that that fire.
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Oh and especially when say, for example, you're praying for someone,
and I can remember a couple of times whenever the
Lord has really had me hone in on someone because
you know, I had such a burden, for example, my
brother and then I had another friend that I worked
with that the Lord just every day would just give
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me such a burden for them, and they were giving
me a hard time. You know, when I would talk
about the Lord, it was offensive to them. And my
brother would outright mock me. He would just mock me
as only a little brother could do, right. But I
mean he wasn't you know. And the other girl that
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I was praying for, she was she was pretty equally offensive, actually,
But but the Lord did save them, but it was
so offensive to them. Jesus is offensive to people because
the Bible says that the Gospel is like the stinch
of death to the those who are perishing, but it's
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like a fragrance to those who are saved. So when
someone is perishing and you say Jesus, it just reminds
them that they're perishing. And that's why there's such an
offense with it. But you've got to press in, stay calm,
like what Nina was saying, and just don't even let
it affect you. Just stay calm and keep witnessing and
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don't give up because you're going to offend those that
you're witnessing to with the name of Jesus.
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And you have to understand that this is a broken
world full of broken people and hurt people, hurt people.
And so many times you can step back and say,
what is actually causing this hurt and pain in that person?
Do they really mean it? Or you know, is it
a cry for help?
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What they're saying?
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Is it? You know, sometimes when they're coming at you
about Jesus, sometimes they're just struggling to want to know
the answers themselves, and they don't want to admit that
they're asking about it. So they're just going to like
debate you, but almost in an offensive way. And so
when you come at them back to them with the
word of God, you're going to be planting seeds because
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that cannot return void. And so when you lay the groundwork,
you just speak, you know, the Word to them, and
you tell them what God says about things, and you
don't pick up the offense of what their accusatory tone
comes at you.
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So many times it's the attitude.
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And do you hear the old saying It says, don't
get mad, get even I think we should say, don't
get mad, get ahead and be ahead with the word
of God. You take the high road, You take the
road less travel than you you speak that. You just
go with that from that place, because picking up an
offense is so easy to do. Trust me, it's been
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a big thing for me. Forgiveness has been a big
thing and a big issue in my life because of
offenses ever since I was a little little girl. And
so we have to learn to lay those things down.
That's how we stay blessed, having no aught. We're going
to talk more about that when we come right back,
stay right there.
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Now welcome back. You're watching Grace Grace with Nina m. Michelle.
Today we're talking.
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About the prison of offense and why is it such
a prison, because the.
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Bible tells us to have no aught.
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When you have aught against somebody, you are holding on
to these grudges, and that's that becomes your perception, that
becomes your reality. You're just it's what you're preoccupied with
all the time. It's what you're going to keep bringing
up and rehearsing it and going over it. And there
is a time and a place where you can, you know,
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kind of get through a tough patch. And the Bible
says seventy times seven a day is how much we
have to forgive. And that's not because they're hurting you.
Seventy times seven a day. But it's because the devil's
bringing it up. But we have to learn to cut
that off, to know what he's doing, to not pick
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up that bait, because it is so important that we
lay the offenses down and we give that all to
the Lord.
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And you know, Jesus talks about the parable where you know,
there's the man who owed so much money, and in
the key, the debt collector forgave that man that owed
all that money. And yet when someone owed him so
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just a little bit of money, he would not forgive them.
He wanted to throw them in prison. So he ended
up owing all the money again.
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You know.
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They they saw that he was not going to be forgiving,
so he ended up owing the money again. So if
we don't forgive, we cannot be forgiven. Jesus paid it all.
He forgave us of all of our sins. We are
we are gonna when we go to heaven, we're gonna.
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The Bible says he has washed our sins uh as
far as the east is from the west, never to
be remembered.
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And so Jesus did that for us.
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So God expects us to forgive others in the same
way that we have been forgiven.
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Now that can be hard, you know.
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I mean think about people that have uh have had
their loved one murdered, who have.
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Who have you know, possibly been.
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Molested or raped or I mean, how do you get
over the big ones?
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You know, that's tough. Only Jesus can do that.
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But but he actually can, because haven't you seen those
court cases where you know, some great offense has happened,
and you know, the the victim or the family of
the victim, they've gone up and and like hugged the
you know, the offender, and there's not a dry eye
in the courtroom because.
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That's from God.
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You cannot get over something where you've lost a loved
one and like a drunk driver or something like that,
and then there's this forgiveness of that offense once you've
lost your loved one.
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I mean, how do you get over that?
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Right?
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Except for God?
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Well and being a godly example in the way that
people are always watching us and they want to know
a lot of people who know our stories and know us,
know a lot of the things that we've gone through.
And you know, I did go through a divorce because
of adultery and when I'm saying that betrayal like that
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is one of the hardest things I have been through
a lot of things. I've had a lot of things
to forgive in my life, but there's a betrayal that
is a hurt like none other. But I can talk
about that. I know every day I had to give
that to God. And I remember one day when I
read the scripture and I knew that scripture, but I
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knew God was just wanting me to have it right
then when I saw that you have to bless your enemies,
and I was like, but I can't do that. I
was like literally having an argument with God. And I
was like, there is no way that I want him bless.
There's none, There's no way.
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And it's like, you know you had you prayed it,
but you did I.
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Did pay it, and then you were mad whenever he
was bless.
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When I found out that actually God answered the prayer,
you were all ticked off and called me so and
I said.
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You didn't really mean that.
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Well, no, God said that to me, and he said,
you are obsessed with the judgment of the godless, and
I will take care of that. And all I was
doing was he was just living his life. He didn't
seem to care that he had hurt me, And I thought,
what am I going to do? Am I going to
hang on to this hurt and where he's just obviously
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I didn't hurt him, so he's over there living his life.
And so all I know is that I had to
repent of that because I knew that me holding onto
that first of all, was not It wasn't serving any good.
It wasn't going to hurt him, It wasn't going to
serve me in any way. It wasn't going to be
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a godly example to my children or my family in
any way. It was just like hurt. And when you're hurt,
it's like, you know, there's no joy, and so you
hanging onto all this just steals your joy. And then
but knowing that now God has used me in so many,
so many times in the same area to help other
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women who were going through that very same thing and
who know what that feels like, and to help and
walk them through that and to pray over them. And
I can now it's just a testimony. I do hope
he's blessed.
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I don't.
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It doesn't hurt me, you know, when that's how you
know the whole seventy times seven that you need to
keep forgiving.
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Keep asking the Lord.
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He will help you forgive because we sometimes it's just
beyond something we can do on our own, and we say, God,
help me in this area, help me forgive these people.
You give these offenses to God. And you remember that
Jesus was beaten and whipped and called names, and he
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didn't even look like a person.
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At the end of the day, he.
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Said, forgive them because they don't know what they're doing.
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And what he went through is just so.
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We're not going through things that aren't common to man.
I know that there's some horrible things people are going through.
But God will take care of all of them when
we give it to him. And He wants your yoke
to be easy. He wants your burden to be light.
And when we cast our cares and give these offenses
to him, he will give you a peace.
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And that's what we need.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
When you want to be offended, you need to go
find the peace right and stay in a place.
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And you know, and think about like if you ever
want and you see families that have been destroyed because
of an inheritance, you know, because that's all evil. That's
three money when whenever people grab for money and they
feel like things are unfair or whatever. But this is
your family. You need to try to solve this in
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your heart. If you feel like you were wronged, no
God can give back to you. You know, one hundredfold,
one thousandfold.
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He's God.
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So don't just lay that on the altar. What is
behind you? The Bible says forgetting those things which are
behind and pressing forward to the high calling of Jesus Christ.
And so you have to just lay down your offenses
where you've been wronged.
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And we are going to.
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Talk more about this when we come back. We want
to honor.
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Hey, welcome back.
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You're watching Grace Grace with Nina m Michelle, and we're
talking about the prison of offense, because it really is
a prison that you put yourself in by holding on
to an offense. It could be something someone said to
you that you're just saying.
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I can't believe they said that.
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It can be that all the way to some deep,
deep hurt and pain that you've been walking around for
years and you're not even realizing the harm, the image
that's causing the heaviness.
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There's an oppression that comes with unforgiveness.
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It can cause ailments, and it really can.
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And so I you know, God knows what you think already.
He knows things you don't know about yourself. And so
when I have you know, I've thought about different times
in my life when I was so offended and not
many things caused me not to sleep, but yes, there
have been a couple of times I have just been
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so mad that I could barely sleep, and you know,
those are hard times. And so it's just like God,
you know exactly what I think. I wish I could
take this, you know, anger out myself, but I don't
know how. But I'm I'm asking you right now to
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do whatever you you know, you know, and to do
and take this out, pluck this out by the roots,
because I need to get some sleep, you know, I mean, this.
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Is just crazy, how upset I am. And you know
God is able to do that, He's able to put
things in perspective.
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You can get in the word and look for things
in the Word, because it's it's our toolbox. You can
look for scriptures in the word that can help you
get over whatever offense it is, because I guarantee you
you have never been hung on a cross to the
point of death where they beat you with a cat
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of with the cat of nine tails, you know it
as a whip, and to where you were unrecognizable. No
one's ever done that to you, where you died and
came back. Right, He did all of that under those offenses,
and he came back to life so that you could
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be forgiven, and so you could forgive others.
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Yes, yes, it's so hard, but it is so important.
The Bible says in Proverbs ten twelve, hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers over all offenses. And that's so hard
to do sometimes. But you if you could realize, I'm
going to love them anyway, I'm gonna say something kind
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in spite of this. I'm gonna overcome evil with good.
And so whatever the devil's trying to trip you up with,
because let me tell you, he's got your number down.
Whatever has worked for you before. If this is what,
maybe it's some always some person in your life that
some family member or someone you know that's the chief
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offender in your life. You know you're you're gonna be
so like, oh, I gotta meet with that person or
that person's coming around, and I'm just and you're kind
of ready for it. And sometimes you got to watch
that that you're not gonna just be.
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Pre arguing you're gonna grab at anything. Do you hear that?
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Or you know whatever, you have to go with it,
saying Okay, I'm not gonna I'm gonna choose to not
be offended today. I'm gonna love on that person. I'm
gonna speak kind words. You know, that is how we
overcome we again, we overcome evil with good. You take
the exact opposite of what the devil stricken you to
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be offended by, and you just say kindness and say,
oh I never thought of it that way, thanks for
pointing that out.
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Really, don't let them have an upper hand on that.
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Well, that's true, and you can do that what you're saying,
And you know, fake it till you make it kind
of thing.
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For a season or for a while.
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But when you when you fake it till you make
it and inside you're so ticked off you can barely
bear it because you actually have concealed hatred. God can
pull that out, you know, because God has to do
a work of the heart, to get down into the
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deep recesses of your heart and pull up these offenses
to where you put them all in God's perspective. And
the Bible says that He is the balm of Gilead.
That's like a medicine. He is that Jesus is. So
when you begin, and I say this from personal experience,
you know, the Lord has spoken to me before and said,
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you have concealed hatred. He said that to me, and
I said, yeah, but I don't know what to do
about it. I don't know how to fix that, to
do it in tangible And so I just said, God,
I have to give that to you because I have
no idea how to get in there and fix that myself.
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Did you ever have a Mount Vesuvius moment?
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Because I'll say sometimes I come from a family, a
long line of overreactors.
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I say, you know, you'll stuff it down, stuff it down,
You'll say nothing, say nothing, say nothing, and then you're
you erupt and it does not do anybody any good.
And I know sometimes when I'm having one of those moments,
it's rare because it's like funny because my husband, Like
I'll get so mad at someone on the television anything,
and it's like and then I'm spewing all this stuff
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and I say, I know in my spirit I'm hearing stop.
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At Nina, be quiet, Nina, back.
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Up nine, Like I know that the Lord is like,
because you know, once you unleash these things out of
your mouth, you can you cannot put it back.
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You gotta be careful because what you say, you know
you can.
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Somebody can tell you a thousand compliments and someone say
one mean thing to you, and that's the same person.
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Rehearse it, and that's what you're going to remember.
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And so we have to be so careful that we
don't get baited into all of that evil.
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And we're going to.
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Pray about it, and so don't rehearse it, reverse it
and curse it.
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So let's press the offense. That's right us.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
So Father, we thank you God that you are the God,
the only one that can get inside our hearts and
change just for real to where God, we can walk
in that love, the genuine love and sincere love, to
where that the hatred or the offense whatever we have
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built up through the flesh. We ask you God, right,
now to forgive us and pull this up. Help us
to not have an offense with anyone. Lord, as far
as it's concerned with us, we will be at peace
with all men.
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Father, we pray in Jesus' name, make it so.
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The evidence he presents is so powerful and overwhelming.
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I would leave every event with a mind boggling on
and assurance.
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I never believed in God.
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and llord Man the appearance of design in the universe
is undeniable.
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The lights, the crowd, the videos.
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