Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 09.17.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, this is our last break of the day.
It's been a fun day. We have to thank our
audience as always for riding with us every morning. We
love you, We thank you.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yes, appreciate this morning. Yes as usual.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Absolutely, we love you though. Thank you, Steve. You have
some encouraging words to close out the show. Take us home.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, you know, we were what was the story we
were doing earlier?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yep, Well, we were doing this story about Monique and
how she's had this running fluid with feud with Tyler
Perry and Oprah Winfrey for about ten years, and how
she says she's not letting it go. She's just not
letting it go. She says, that's the reason we as
black people are treated the way we are. It stems
from slavery, because we don't let things go, and she's

(00:48):
not letting it go. That's what she said.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, she said, because we let things go. Yeah, that's
why we Yeah, that's what Listen. This isn't for her
at all. This isn't for her at all. I'm just
talking to people in general about this subject right now
because I've learned I can't I'm not going to get

(01:13):
into that. I don't want my name in it. I
didn't say nothing one way or the other. I'm out
of it. Here's the deal. I want people to understand something,
the danger of holding on to things. You know. I
don't think people really understand the value of the statement

(01:34):
of what forgiveness is. I was taught, you know, as
a Christian we are to forgive, right, But I was
when you understand the reason why, it becomes quite beneficial
because forgiveness is Forgiveness doesn't mean you have to forget.
That's what people think. You suppost to forgive and let

(01:57):
a person back in your life and run the risk
of it happening. And again, forgiveness does not mean you
have to forget. Forgiveness allows you to no longer allow
that event or person to affect you. See, forgiveness is
not for the other person. It's for you. Most people

(02:19):
or events that you won't forgive in your life, those
people ain't even thinking about you. Those events have come
and gone. It's some people that have done you what
you consider dirty or wrong and then moved on with
their life. But every time you see them, every time
their name comes up, it conjures a thought in you

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that just eats away at you like a cancer. Forgiveness
is not for the other person, it's for you. See
when you don't forgive, and watch the examples of this, y'all,
When you don't forgive, it's like you drinking the poison,
waiting on them to die. That's exactly what it's like.

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All you got to do is look at the examples
of over and over and over of over of somebody
you see that just refuses to let go of the past.
Let me tell you something, why would you not let go?
Holding on to the past is of no benefit to you.
The past belongs to history, The future belongs to God.

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Your gift is the present. That's why they call it
the present, because that's the gift that you have, the now.
And let me tell you something, man, you let me
the best way to put this you You got to
let go of the darkness of your past because if

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you don't, you will stop the bright future that you
can have. If if you hold on to the darkness
of your past, you will stop the bright future that
you can have. You can't drive your car looking in
the rear view mirror. You're gonna keep running into something, y'all.

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It doesn't it will not hurt you to forgive a person.
It won't hurt you. Now you can hang on to
it if you want to. You can be stubborn. I
ain't letting it go. Okay, okay, Then guess what when
you don't let it go, it won't let you go either.
See holding on come both ways. It take two people
to hug. If you hugging your past, your pass is

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hugging you. So if you holding on to it, guess
what it's holding on to you too. Now somebody's getting
prevented from something going on. That's the danger of holding on,
especially to something that's ill. That's just ill to you.
Something not correct, not happy, doesn't bring you joy, isn't positive.

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You hang on to a negative, y'all. What you're doing,
what you're doing to yourself? Come on, man, you better
than that. You owe yourself more than that than to
hang on to the past. It's over. It's over, you know.
I finally this year I forgave somebody who did something
like really crazy to me during COVID somebody did something

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real crazy to me doing the business deal. I set
the brother down. I forgave you, not then forget, but
I forgave it. Because right after I forgave him, do
you know what he did? He came back to me
and asked me for some money, and you know what

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I had done. I say, hey, brother, I forgive you.
I promise you I did. But I don't think you
and I need to do any more financial dealings because
I think that's what got us in the bad place before.
So I just let him have the information that he needed.
But forgiving him did a great service to me because

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I could worry about him every time his name came
up and didn't conjure up no bad thoughts in me.
You have got to let stuff go. You can't let
the darkness of your past stop the bright future you
can have. Don't do it to yourself, y'all forgiven the
same for the other person. It's the youth. Y'all. Have
a great day today, and the most important thing you
could do today, y'all, don't forget to talk to God today.

(06:34):
He would absolutely love to hear from you. For all.

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