Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 04.08.24

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Steve, you ready to close out the show?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yeah? You know what, man, it's something personal. I'm really
really learning more and more and more about forgiveness. I'm
just learning more and more and more about it. You know,
I've always known that forgiveness is for you, not so
much the other person. Bishop Jake said it best one time.

(00:25):
He say, not forgiving a person, it's like you drinking
a poison hoping that they die. And that's really what
it is when you forgive somebody. Well, first of all,
let me start with when you don't forgive somebody. Let
me tell you what happens when you don't forgive a person.
Every time they name come up, it stirs up something

(00:49):
in you, don't it. Every time you hear they name mention,
it does something to you. Every time you run across
a picture, it brings something, don't it. Every time you
hear another story about this person, blah blah blah, every
time you hear some news about them, every time you
hear they said something else about you, It just keeps

(01:12):
on bringing stuff up. Even when you sitting around on
your own. You imagine what you gonna say to them
when you see them? Oh? I know you do, because
I've been through it the exact same way, oh man.
Especially man, when somebody somebody do something to you that

(01:36):
ain't right and you know it ain't right. That's hard, man.
When somebody's sitting around lying on you and you know
the truth, but you, for whatever the reason, can't defend
yourself or wasn't there, wasn't available, or nobody asked you
about it. Hey, man, that's tough. And you sit up

(01:59):
and you talking about man, when I see so and so,
this is what I'm gonna say. I can't tell you
the hours I've wasted wishing I could run up into somebody,
hoping I see them somewhere, I mean, and I'm miles

(02:19):
and miles and miles away from this person I'm talking about. Man,
really got no chance of running up into them at
all all. And then they pop up again and they
do it to you. Here's the one that really hurts
your feelings. Have you ever had somebody do something to
you publicly, then see you privately, you know, do something

(02:41):
to you down on your job or something like that,
or at your little club or your bowling night, and
then privately they apologize to you and you say okay,
And then a little while later, they do the exact
same thing again. They back out in public, running their mouth.
You gonna wait a minute, man, I know the truth
about you. I really know when you see me face

(03:05):
to face, you a coward. I know that about you.
But soon as you get in front of somebody, soon
as the spotlight on you, here you come with a
brand new Has that ever happened to you? Yes, it has.
Somebody saying something to you down at the church, talked
about you. Then you confronted them. Forgive me, sister, forgive
me brother, and you do it. And then a little
later on they do it again. Okay, cool, I got

(03:26):
all that you gotta forgive them? Oh no, no, Steve,
I'm gonna tighten them up. No, man, let me tell
you what you're doing. You're doing the same thing I
was doing to myself. You wasting energy because guess what,
what did it really change? The stuff they said about you?

(03:48):
What did it really change? You've been moving on and
rolling on and just going on about your day. You
really man ain't lost a step because of that that rumor,
that untruth, that falsehood. You really didn't lose a step
at all. But you keep prohibiting the next step, because

(04:13):
you won't let go of something somebody did to you.
The Lord's prayer says, forgive us our trust passes as
we forgive those who trustpass against us, because we gonna
make a mistake too. Now it may not be that one,
but we're gonna have to go to God for something. Now,
God gonna reward us and give us something the same

(04:34):
way we give it out to other people. Plus, let
me tell you what I really had to learn about it.
When you don't forgive a person, you're blocking your blessings.
You blocking your blessings. A woman, an old woman that
I know who I just happened to be talking to

(04:54):
a relative. As she says, Steve, I'm so proud of
you you. I have watched you, I have watched God
bless you. I have watched God change your life. I
have watched you develop into a better person. I'm so
happy you met Marjorie. I can see so many things

(05:15):
in your life, she said. But let me tell you something,
young man. If you're holding on to anything that anybody
has done to you, let it go because you're blocking
your blessings. As blessed as you are, she said, I
bet you there's something you can't figure out why you
just can't get this next one to go through? And

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I said, you know what, You're right. I've been wondering
why something taking so long, she said, because God ain't
gonna give it to you and to you forgive that person,
he said, because He don't want you to carry that
with you into the new level he gonna take you to.
In order to get to the next level, you gotta
let some stuff go to reach your full orbit in life.

(06:02):
You can't carry all the gas tanks. Some of them
gas tanks is empty and out of gas. They got
to fall off so the ship can get into full orbit.
Let it go so God can move you forward. That's
the best thing I've learned about forgiveness. And it's really
for you because that person right there really ain't about

(06:23):
lotted now. They really ain't, So why would you allow
them to affect you that way? Just think about it, y'all.
I have for myself, y'all, have a great day. Talk
to God today. He would absolutely love to hear from me.
All right, people.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
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