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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before
we get to today's message, we want to tell you
about an insightful sermons series from doctor Young called The
Church Awake. Our world is teetering on the edge of
disorder and disaster, and this series sounds an inspiring call
for the church to awaken and engage your culture with
clarity and conviction on important issues, standing confidently on truth
(00:28):
than bending to the pressures of the world. This series
is our thanks for your gift to help keep the
proven truth of God's Word reaching you and others around
the world through this program. So be sure to request
your copy of The Church Awake when you give Just
call one eight hundred three five oh walk one eight
hundred three five oh nine two five five and we'll
(00:50):
be right back after this. Welcome back to the Winning
(02:27):
Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before we get to today's message,
we want to help you start building a deeper trust
in God in the midst of the storms around you
by sending you doctor ed Young's book Hope in the
Storms of Life. Take the first step toward embracing His
promises with your free download of this encouraging book. To
request your copy of hope in the storms of life.
(02:48):
Simply go to winning walk dot org forward slash Hope
and sign up for the email updates from the Winning
Walk Again. That's winning walk dot org forward slash Hope.
Now let's get started with today's teaching from doctor Young.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Love has understanding. It's just built in. So how do
you get right with God? Three words? Conviction?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Holy spirit? Does that?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Confession, repentance? How do you stay right with God when
we fumble and step over the line, as Christians say,
three words? You got to have those words built in
your life, your vocabulary, your Christian experience. If you're going
to get right, yes, and if you're going to stay right.
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Now look at the second part of this. Forgive us
our sins, and then look at this as we forgive
those who sin against us. By the way, this is
the most important part of the Lord's prayer. If we
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take the Lord Lord's prayer, we'd write on the screen
it is this verse. It ought to blink boom boom boom.
It ought to be large print, it ought to be emphasized.
It's the most important part. It is the heart of
the prayer. You say, well, how do you know that?
It's because it's the only part of the prayer that
the prayers completed Jesus in verse thirteen and fourteen, he
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explains this. He underscores at the end, he says, I
don't want you to miss that. He saying, if you're
going to be forgiven by God, you'd better be in
the forgiving business, as God is in the forgiving business.
Years ago, the families moved away. Over ten years ago.
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There's a family in our church. Father, mother, cute, little girl,
little guy. The girl was thirteen, the boy was about seven.
The mother went to pick him up at school. As
they were going home, they stopped in front of the house.
The little girl, thirteen year old girl, got out and
went to the mailbox. She opened the mailbox and she
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found in there a note, a note that was meant.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
For her mother.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
But the thirteen year old girl picked up the note.
It was a note from her father's mistress saying to
the mother, he loves me, doesn't love you, Go ahead
and get the divorce, etcetera, etcetera. She was trying to
speed up the process, and this thirteen year old girl
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read that note. Needs to say she was devastated. Needs
to say her mother was devastating need to say that
little home just excluded in many, many directions. But the
thirteen year old girl, it hit her perhaps harder than
anybody else, because she was her daddy's girl, and she
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would come to the church and stay hour, she would
spend the night with members of our staff. She just
couldn't go home while they were going through all this process.
And this is what she said. You'll never forget it.
She said, how can I forgive my daddy?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
How can I forgive him? And then she would say,
even if I knew how to forgive him, I don't
want to forgive him.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Can you identify with that?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Is there somebody out there who's so heard abuse shamed? Man?
You say, I don't see how I can't forgive this person.
But even if I knew how, I really don't.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Want to forgive this person. Let me tell you where
forgive the starts.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We have to first of all, forgive unilaterally. Say what
does that mean? It means we forgive people when they
don't even ask for our forgiveness. So well they didn't ask. Oh, no,
we forgive unilaterally. Sometimes we forgive when they don't ask,
because it's such a trivial thing. It's an irritant to us.
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Just go ahead and forgive them. Sometimes they're such jerks.
They're not worth fooling with. They're not worth messing up,
you like, Just go ahead and forgive them. He said,
what is there a biblical background for this unilater forgiveness?
Absolutely Jesus on the cross, those who executed him. They
weren't asking to be forgiven. But Jesus, just uniladly he said,
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you know, I forgive you. Stephen being stoned, he looked up.
He said, Father, forgive them. They weren't asking for forgiveness,
but he said, Father, forgive them. I forgive them. This
unilater forgiveness. We need to practice that. Just go ahead
and forgive. Some people are still holding a grudge against a.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Father who abuses them.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well, your father's been dead for six years. He's not
gonna come back and say, oh, I want you to
forgive me. Just unilily forgive them. Get it out of
the way.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Forgive them.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And when we uniliy forgive, you know what we do,
we stop an echo an echo. We go out and
we lash at someone in retribution, and they lash and
they lash, and it goes on and on and on.
Look at the Islamic faith, the shehipes and the son is.
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They hate each other, they try to kill each other.
I don't know the same book, but they're in the
killing business.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
They're in the hating business.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
My goodness, I can't understand that. And a lot of religions,
a lot of people, a lot of families, a lot
of nations, they just go on hating and hating and
generation and they did this, and they did this, and
they call this, and it goes on and on and
on and on. It just echoes and bills. It happens
(09:18):
with us and individuals and families, and every time we
see them, that echo goes on and on, and it's
passed on and on, generation to generation. Nation against nation,
people against people, ideology against the echo. So somewhere, let
me tell you how thatch works. Let's take the word
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Watch this, how it reverberates, the word revenge.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Go.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It just goes My hatred told you, it's just keeps
on going. But we unilaterally forgive. Look what happens. The
echo changes. And we take the word like forgive, Look
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what happens. It changes the whole menu, the whole genre.
Unilateral forgiveness. We have to practice it. It's a choice,
it's a decision. We forgive, and then there's relational forgiveness.
Sometimes we just like that thirteen year old girl, I
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don't want to forgive. We sort of enjoy having that hatred.
We enjoy saying, boy, I hope God will soon come
in and tap them, you know when I just hope,
you know, anything bad is gonna happen. Boy, the way
they treated me, Look what's happened to me. And so
there's a relational it. So we keep on. We're pulling
on the same thing, the same revenge, the same hatred.
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It's the same ideas. We want to bring them down.
We just can't forgive. It's like if this is a
big bell tower here, there's a bell up there, and
we have a rope and we pull that rope. It
was long, long, and we keep pulling on that revenge.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Long.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I remember what you did, long, I remember what you said, Long,
I remember how you abuse me, bong, I remember how
you embarrassed me. Long, And we keep on pulling on
that rope and pulling on that rope. Let me tell
you something.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Let call the rope forgive, Let go the rope.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Are you gonna let that person control you and scar
you and keep you captives of that event or that
misdeed all the rest of your life.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
My goodness, you're listening to The Winning Walk with Doctor
ed Young and there's more powerful teaching a head.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
So stay with us.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Welcome back to the Winning Walk. We'll go back to
doctor Young in a moment. But first, God has established
three fundamental institutions in our world, government, church and family,
and as Christians, we're called to stand boldly for Christ
in all these fears. That's what doctor Young's sermons series,
The Church Awake is all about, and we'd like to
send you a copy this month as thanks for your
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support of The Winning Walk. This eight message series will
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three five oh nine two five five, and thank you
for helping reach more people with the proven truth of
God's word. Now here's Doctor ed Young with Moore of
today's message.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
We're pulling on the same thing, the same revenge, the
same hatred. It's the same ideas. We want to bring
them down. We just can't forgive. It's like, is this
a big bell tower here, There's a bell up there,
and we have a rope, and we pull that rope,
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long Balm, and we keep pulling on that revenge. Long
I remember what you did, bong I, remember what you said,
long I, remember how you abuse me, bong I, remember
how you embarrassed me?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Long And we keep.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
On pulling on that rope and pulling on that rope.
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Let call the rope, forgive. Let go the rope.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Are you gonna let that person control you and scar
you and keep you captive to that event or that
misdeed all the rest of your life? My goodness, how
absurd can that be? Let go the rope. Now, when
you let go of the rope, it may bong a
little bit. You know, you've been ringing that bell of
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revenge a long time, long long, But gradually it'll fade
out long until you won't hear it anymore. The pain
may still be there, but you've let call the rope,
you forgive it.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You know what this verse is really saying.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Jesus is saying in this verse, you have received the
grace of God. Therefore, now that you have received it,
the grace of God must go through you and offer
grace to others. If you receive grace, you have to
give grace. That's the principle. You can't receive grace that
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just bought it up. Say I'm not going to forgive.
I'm not going to forget. It has to pass through you,
has to pass.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Through you to those you haven't forgived.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Otherwise they're going to keep you captive for the rest
of your life. As God has set you free. In Christ,
we are to set others free. It's a supernatural thing.
I can't do it in my own volition. But He
enables us to forgive. When we're reminded how much we've
been forgiven, how do we forgive? We forgive the way
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we have been forgiven. Remember Matthew eighteen.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Peter.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I like Peter. He's such a He's so obvious, you know,
he tries to be superpious. You just see right through him,
just like we see through one another. So Pete one
day says to Jesus, Jesus, I can imagine you had
a little flye, Jesus, how many times do we forgive
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someone seven times?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
The rabbi said, you forgive people three times, so Pete
just doubled it, added one, Oh, Jesus, we're so pious.
How many times do I forgive people seven times? Jesus said, Look,
you forgive people seventy times, seven, four hundred and ninety times.
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What What was Jesus saying to Peter? Peter quit county.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You're not in a counting.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Somebody said, oh, you did this to me, and you
did this to me, and boy, I did this to you.
Went out in there, county business. We've been forgiven. We're
in the forgiving business. We've been given grace. We're in
the grace business. And then following this, Jesus told a
tremendous parable, a tremendous story. He said, once there was
a king and a man owed him twelve million dollars.
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Pretty good debt. I thought about that. Hin in the
world could a servant owe twelve million dollars. Only I
could figure that he stole it from the king, because
the king the only one who would have twelve million anyway,
so the king said, hey, pay me. The guy says,
can't do it. Give me time. King says, take this
guy and his family, sell all his property, put him
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in jail till he can pay me back. I never
understand how someone will make.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Money in jail and have to pay back a debt.
But anyway, I'm not good at a counting.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And so the man had said, Lord, have compassion on me,
forgive me, forgive me of this debt. And the king
saw his family had compassion and forgave him of a
twelve million dollar debt. Now the man goes out one
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of his friends, another servant owed him twenty thousand dollars.
He said, he pay me the twenty grand that you
owe me. Guy says, I can't do it. Give me time,
He said, take him and put him in jail, take
his family. Man, stay there until you pay me back.
And the man says, have compassion, same thing he asked
for from the king. But he wouldn't give compassion of servant.
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He said, no deal, he's been long enough. Put him
in jail. Now his friends went and told the king
what this ungrateful servant had done, and said, you know
what he did. This guy, you just forgave him twelve million.
He wouldn't even give time for his friend to pay
him back twenty thousand dollars. He's thrown him in jail,
and the key represent in God was indignant. He said,
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go and get that ungrateful rascal Young's translation, and throw
him in jail until he pays the debt. Did the
man owe the king twelve million? The king had already
forgiven the twelve million, but he's in jail until he
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pays a debt. What did he owe? The debt that
he owed was the forgiveness he had received.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He had to.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Give that forgiveness to others, and that he did not do.
That's the dead he owed, not the twelve million. That's
the way it's forgiven. It's a debt of forgiving others,
ladies and gentlemen, whatever we do today, that name that
came to your mind as we prayed, your ladly, forgive them,
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let go the rope. Set them free, so you can
be free, so grace can flow to you, and the
main we can be forgiven. Therefore we can be in
the forgiving business to others. So to sum up everything,
this passage is teaching us in this prayer of Jesus.
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I'm going to sum it up with a profound theological statement.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
You've been listening to The Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young,
and we hope today's message is encouraging you to build
your life on the proven truth of God's word, and
we'd love to help you confidently stand for truth by
sending you this month's resource, The Church Awake. This eight
message series would equip you to hold fast to God's
proven truth at home, in your church and for the
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sake of our nation. You'll gain clarity about what Scripture
says about some of today's most controversial issues, and be
emboldened to stand for truth even when.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Others shy away.
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So be sure to request your copy when you call
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teaching the head, so stay with us. Welcome back. You're
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listening to The Winning Walk and now here's Doctor Ed
Young with the conclusion of today's message, this guy.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You just forgave him twelve million. He wouldn't even give
time for his friend to pay him back. Twenty thousand dollars.
He's thrown him in jail, and the key representing God
was indignant. He said, go and get that ungrateful rascal
Young's translation and throw him in jail until he pays
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the debt.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Now want you to watch this. This is tricky.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Did the man owe the king twelve million? Oh no, no, no,
the king had already forgiven the twelve million. But he's
in jail until he pays a debt. What did he owe?
The debt that he owed was the forgiveness he had received.
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He had to give that forgiveness to others, and that
he did not do. That's the dead he owed, not
the twelve million. That's the way it's forgiven. It's a
debt of forgiving others. Ladies and gentlemen, whatever we do today,
that name that came to your mind as we.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Prayed unlaterly forgive them.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Let go the rope. Set them free, so you can
be free, so grace can flow to you, and the
we can be forgiven. Therefore we can be in the
forgiving business to others. So to sum up everything this
passage is teaching us in this prayer of Jesus, I'm
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going to sum it up with a profound theological statement.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Let go of the rope, Doctor ed Young, thank you
for your message today. Doctor Young, it's great to have
you here to talk about it. What would you say
to someone who doesn't know how in the world they'd
ever forgive someone for something they did to them.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, first of all, we have to realize that all
of us need to be forgiven. We are forgiven by
our heavenly Father through Jesus Christ. The provision for that
was provided on the cross. He took our place. He
took our sins for us that we deserve to be
penalized for, and forgiveness came. He takes our place. Therefore,
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to who much is forgiven, we have much to forgive,
and therefore as we forgive others, we will be forgiven.
And a lot of people, let's be honest about it,
we are not forgiven and we do not feel forgiven
because we haven't forgiven other people. Forgiveness starts with receiving
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the forgiveness of God in Christ, and then it continues
as we are people who forgive people. Now you say,
do you forgive just unilaterally? You know I forgive you,
I forgive you.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
No.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I think there needs to be a response when there's
been a defense. Someone needs to say, will you forgive me?
But many times in disagreements, we'll have just a little
part from our perspective of the problem, and they'll have
ninety five percent of the part. Well, deal with your
five percent. Go to that person, say I want your
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forgiveness for and fill in the blank, and you'll be
amazed how many times they'll say, well, you know, I
really need to receive your forgiveness, so you have been forgiven. Therefore,
we are in the forgiving business, and that's one of
the marks of being a Jesus follower.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Again, thank you, Doctor Young. We hope today's message has
encouraged you to build your life on the proven truth
of God's word, and we'd love to encourage you even
more by sending you Doctor Young's eight message series, The
Church Awake. This powerful series will help you understand cultural
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God's Word
Welcome to the Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before
we get to today's message, we want to tell you
about an insightful sermons series from doctor Young called The
Church Awake. Our world is teetering on the edge of
disorder and disaster, and this series sounds an inspiring call
for the church to awaken and engage your culture with
clarity and conviction on important issues, standing confidently on truth
(00:28):
than bending to the pressures of the world. This series
is our thanks for your gift to help keep the
proven truth of God's Word reaching you and others around
the world through this program. So be sure to request
your copy of The Church Awake when you give Just
call one eight hundred three five oh walk one eight
hundred three five oh nine two five five and we'll
(00:50):
be right back after this. Welcome back to the Winning
(02:27):
Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before we get to today's message,
we want to help you start building a deeper trust
in God in the midst of the storms around you
by sending you doctor ed Young's book Hope in the
Storms of Life. Take the first step toward embracing His
promises with your free download of this encouraging book. To
request your copy of hope in the storms of life.
(02:48):
Simply go to winning walk dot org forward slash Hope
and sign up for the email updates from the Winning
Walk Again. That's winning walk dot org forward slash Hope.
Now let's get started with today's teaching from doctor Young.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Love has understanding. It's just built in. So how do
you get right with God? Three words? Conviction?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Holy spirit? Does that?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Confession, repentance? How do you stay right with God when
we fumble and step over the line, as Christians say,
three words? You got to have those words built in
your life, your vocabulary, your Christian experience. If you're going
to get right, yes, and if you're going to stay right.
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Now look at the second part of this. Forgive us
our sins, and then look at this as we forgive
those who sin against us. By the way, this is
the most important part of the Lord's prayer. If we
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take the Lord Lord's prayer, we'd write on the screen
it is this verse. It ought to blink boom boom boom.
It ought to be large print, it ought to be emphasized.
It's the most important part. It is the heart of
the prayer. You say, well, how do you know that?
It's because it's the only part of the prayer that
the prayers completed Jesus in verse thirteen and fourteen, he
(04:22):
explains this. He underscores at the end, he says, I
don't want you to miss that. He saying, if you're
going to be forgiven by God, you'd better be in
the forgiving business, as God is in the forgiving business.
Years ago, the families moved away. Over ten years ago.
(04:46):
There's a family in our church. Father, mother, cute, little girl,
little guy. The girl was thirteen, the boy was about seven.
The mother went to pick him up at school. As
they were going home, they stopped in front of the house.
The little girl, thirteen year old girl, got out and
went to the mailbox. She opened the mailbox and she
(05:09):
found in there a note, a note that was meant.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
For her mother.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
But the thirteen year old girl picked up the note.
It was a note from her father's mistress saying to
the mother, he loves me, doesn't love you, Go ahead
and get the divorce, etcetera, etcetera. She was trying to
speed up the process, and this thirteen year old girl
(05:36):
read that note. Needs to say she was devastated. Needs
to say her mother was devastating need to say that
little home just excluded in many, many directions. But the
thirteen year old girl, it hit her perhaps harder than
anybody else, because she was her daddy's girl, and she
(06:02):
would come to the church and stay hour, she would
spend the night with members of our staff. She just
couldn't go home while they were going through all this process.
And this is what she said. You'll never forget it.
She said, how can I forgive my daddy?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
How can I forgive him? And then she would say,
even if I knew how to forgive him, I don't
want to forgive him.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Can you identify with that?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Is there somebody out there who's so heard abuse shamed? Man?
You say, I don't see how I can't forgive this person.
But even if I knew how, I really don't.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Want to forgive this person. Let me tell you where
forgive the starts.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We have to first of all, forgive unilaterally. Say what
does that mean? It means we forgive people when they
don't even ask for our forgiveness. So well they didn't ask. Oh, no,
we forgive unilaterally. Sometimes we forgive when they don't ask,
because it's such a trivial thing. It's an irritant to us.
(07:25):
Just go ahead and forgive them. Sometimes they're such jerks.
They're not worth fooling with. They're not worth messing up,
you like, Just go ahead and forgive them. He said,
what is there a biblical background for this unilater forgiveness?
Absolutely Jesus on the cross, those who executed him. They
weren't asking to be forgiven. But Jesus, just uniladly he said,
(07:48):
you know, I forgive you. Stephen being stoned, he looked up.
He said, Father, forgive them. They weren't asking for forgiveness,
but he said, Father, forgive them. I forgive them. This
unilater forgiveness. We need to practice that. Just go ahead
and forgive. Some people are still holding a grudge against a.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Father who abuses them.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well, your father's been dead for six years. He's not
gonna come back and say, oh, I want you to
forgive me. Just unilily forgive them. Get it out of
the way.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Forgive them.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And when we uniliy forgive, you know what we do,
we stop an echo an echo. We go out and
we lash at someone in retribution, and they lash and
they lash, and it goes on and on and on.
Look at the Islamic faith, the shehipes and the son is.
(08:45):
They hate each other, they try to kill each other.
I don't know the same book, but they're in the
killing business.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
They're in the hating business.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
My goodness, I can't understand that. And a lot of religions,
a lot of people, a lot of families, a lot
of nations, they just go on hating and hating and
generation and they did this, and they did this, and
they call this, and it goes on and on and
on and on. It just echoes and bills. It happens
(09:18):
with us and individuals and families, and every time we
see them, that echo goes on and on, and it's
passed on and on, generation to generation. Nation against nation,
people against people, ideology against the echo. So somewhere, let
me tell you how thatch works. Let's take the word
(09:39):
Watch this, how it reverberates, the word revenge.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Go.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It just goes My hatred told you, it's just keeps
on going. But we unilaterally forgive. Look what happens. The
echo changes. And we take the word like forgive, Look
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what happens. It changes the whole menu, the whole genre.
Unilateral forgiveness. We have to practice it. It's a choice,
it's a decision. We forgive, and then there's relational forgiveness.
Sometimes we just like that thirteen year old girl, I
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don't want to forgive. We sort of enjoy having that hatred.
We enjoy saying, boy, I hope God will soon come
in and tap them, you know when I just hope,
you know, anything bad is gonna happen. Boy, the way
they treated me, Look what's happened to me. And so
there's a relational it. So we keep on. We're pulling
on the same thing, the same revenge, the same hatred.
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It's the same ideas. We want to bring them down.
We just can't forgive. It's like if this is a
big bell tower here, there's a bell up there, and
we have a rope and we pull that rope. It
was long, long, and we keep pulling on that revenge.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Long.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I remember what you did, long, I remember what you said, Long,
I remember how you abuse me, bong, I remember how
you embarrassed me. Long, And we keep on pulling on
that rope and pulling on that rope. Let me tell
you something.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Let call the rope forgive, Let go the rope.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Are you gonna let that person control you and scar
you and keep you captives of that event or that
misdeed all the rest of your life.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
My goodness, you're listening to The Winning Walk with Doctor
ed Young and there's more powerful teaching a head.
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Speaker 1 (13:25):
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today's message.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
We're pulling on the same thing, the same revenge, the
same hatred. It's the same ideas. We want to bring
them down. We just can't forgive. It's like, is this
a big bell tower here, There's a bell up there,
and we have a rope, and we pull that rope,
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long Balm, and we keep pulling on that revenge. Long
I remember what you did, bong I, remember what you said,
long I, remember how you abuse me, bong I, remember
how you embarrassed me?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Long And we keep.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
On pulling on that rope and pulling on that rope.
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Let call the rope, forgive. Let go the rope.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Are you gonna let that person control you and scar
you and keep you captive to that event or that
misdeed all the rest of your life? My goodness, how
absurd can that be? Let go the rope. Now, when
you let go of the rope, it may bong a
little bit. You know, you've been ringing that bell of
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revenge a long time, long long, But gradually it'll fade
out long until you won't hear it anymore. The pain
may still be there, but you've let call the rope,
you forgive it.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You know what this verse is really saying.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Jesus is saying in this verse, you have received the
grace of God. Therefore, now that you have received it,
the grace of God must go through you and offer
grace to others. If you receive grace, you have to
give grace. That's the principle. You can't receive grace that
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just bought it up. Say I'm not going to forgive.
I'm not going to forget. It has to pass through you,
has to pass.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Through you to those you haven't forgived.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Otherwise they're going to keep you captive for the rest
of your life. As God has set you free. In Christ,
we are to set others free. It's a supernatural thing.
I can't do it in my own volition. But He
enables us to forgive. When we're reminded how much we've
been forgiven, how do we forgive? We forgive the way
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we have been forgiven. Remember Matthew eighteen.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Peter.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I like Peter. He's such a He's so obvious, you know,
he tries to be superpious. You just see right through him,
just like we see through one another. So Pete one
day says to Jesus, Jesus, I can imagine you had
a little flye, Jesus, how many times do we forgive
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someone seven times?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
The rabbi said, you forgive people three times, so Pete
just doubled it, added one, Oh, Jesus, we're so pious.
How many times do I forgive people seven times? Jesus said, Look,
you forgive people seventy times, seven, four hundred and ninety times.
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What What was Jesus saying to Peter? Peter quit county.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
You're not in a counting.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Somebody said, oh, you did this to me, and you
did this to me, and boy, I did this to you.
Went out in there, county business. We've been forgiven. We're
in the forgiving business. We've been given grace. We're in
the grace business. And then following this, Jesus told a
tremendous parable, a tremendous story. He said, once there was
a king and a man owed him twelve million dollars.
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Pretty good debt. I thought about that. Hin in the
world could a servant owe twelve million dollars. Only I
could figure that he stole it from the king, because
the king the only one who would have twelve million anyway,
so the king said, hey, pay me. The guy says,
can't do it. Give me time. King says, take this
guy and his family, sell all his property, put him
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in jail till he can pay me back. I never
understand how someone will make.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Money in jail and have to pay back a debt.
But anyway, I'm not good at a counting.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And so the man had said, Lord, have compassion on me,
forgive me, forgive me of this debt. And the king
saw his family had compassion and forgave him of a
twelve million dollar debt. Now the man goes out one
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of his friends, another servant owed him twenty thousand dollars.
He said, he pay me the twenty grand that you
owe me. Guy says, I can't do it. Give me time,
He said, take him and put him in jail, take
his family. Man, stay there until you pay me back.
And the man says, have compassion, same thing he asked
for from the king. But he wouldn't give compassion of servant.
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He said, no deal, he's been long enough. Put him
in jail. Now his friends went and told the king
what this ungrateful servant had done, and said, you know
what he did. This guy, you just forgave him twelve million.
He wouldn't even give time for his friend to pay
him back twenty thousand dollars. He's thrown him in jail,
and the key represent in God was indignant. He said,
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go and get that ungrateful rascal Young's translation, and throw
him in jail until he pays the debt. Did the
man owe the king twelve million? The king had already
forgiven the twelve million, but he's in jail until he
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pays a debt. What did he owe? The debt that
he owed was the forgiveness he had received.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He had to.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Give that forgiveness to others, and that he did not do.
That's the dead he owed, not the twelve million. That's
the way it's forgiven. It's a debt of forgiving others,
ladies and gentlemen, whatever we do today, that name that
came to your mind as we prayed, your ladly, forgive them,
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let go the rope. Set them free, so you can
be free, so grace can flow to you, and the
main we can be forgiven. Therefore we can be in
the forgiving business to others. So to sum up everything,
this passage is teaching us in this prayer of Jesus.
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I'm going to sum it up with a profound theological statement.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
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listening to The Winning Walk and now here's Doctor Ed
Young with the conclusion of today's message, this guy.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You just forgave him twelve million. He wouldn't even give
time for his friend to pay him back. Twenty thousand dollars.
He's thrown him in jail, and the key representing God
was indignant. He said, go and get that ungrateful rascal
Young's translation and throw him in jail until he pays
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the debt.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Now want you to watch this. This is tricky.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Did the man owe the king twelve million? Oh no, no, no,
the king had already forgiven the twelve million. But he's
in jail until he pays a debt. What did he owe?
The debt that he owed was the forgiveness he had received.
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He had to give that forgiveness to others, and that
he did not do. That's the dead he owed, not
the twelve million. That's the way it's forgiven. It's a
debt of forgiving others. Ladies and gentlemen, whatever we do today,
that name that came to your mind as we.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Prayed unlaterly forgive them.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Let go the rope. Set them free, so you can
be free, so grace can flow to you, and the
we can be forgiven. Therefore we can be in the
forgiving business to others. So to sum up everything this
passage is teaching us in this prayer of Jesus, I'm
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going to sum it up with a profound theological statement.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Let go of the rope, Doctor ed Young, thank you
for your message today. Doctor Young, it's great to have
you here to talk about it. What would you say
to someone who doesn't know how in the world they'd
ever forgive someone for something they did to them.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, first of all, we have to realize that all
of us need to be forgiven. We are forgiven by
our heavenly Father through Jesus Christ. The provision for that
was provided on the cross. He took our place. He
took our sins for us that we deserve to be
penalized for, and forgiveness came. He takes our place. Therefore,
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to who much is forgiven, we have much to forgive,
and therefore as we forgive others, we will be forgiven.
And a lot of people, let's be honest about it,
we are not forgiven and we do not feel forgiven
because we haven't forgiven other people. Forgiveness starts with receiving
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the forgiveness of God in Christ, and then it continues
as we are people who forgive people. Now you say,
do you forgive just unilaterally? You know I forgive you,
I forgive you.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
No.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I think there needs to be a response when there's
been a defense. Someone needs to say, will you forgive me?
But many times in disagreements, we'll have just a little
part from our perspective of the problem, and they'll have
ninety five percent of the part. Well, deal with your
five percent. Go to that person, say I want your
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forgiveness for and fill in the blank, and you'll be
amazed how many times they'll say, well, you know, I
really need to receive your forgiveness, so you have been forgiven. Therefore,
we are in the forgiving business, and that's one of
the marks of being a Jesus follower.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
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