¤ >> WELCOME BACK TO THE SECOND 00:00:08.84\00:00:15.38 HOUR OF OUR LIVE SITTING TOGETHER HERE. 00:00:15.38\00:00:17.71 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FREEDOM IN FORGIVENESS, AND HOW WE CAN 00:00:17.71\00:00:22.05 EXPERIENCE THAT, HOW WE CAN EXTEND GOD'S FORGIVENESS TO 00:00:22.05\00:00:27.36 OTHERS, HOW WE CAN BREAK FREE FROM THOSE HURTS AND PAINS AND 00:00:27.36\00:00:31.43 WOUNDS THAT MANY OF US HAVE CARRIED EVEN FROM CHILDHOOD. 00:00:31.43\00:00:35.20 MY HUSBAND GREG IS PRODUCING TONIGHT. 00:00:35.20\00:00:37.33 SO I JUST GOT TO SEE HIM. HE WALKED OUT ON SET. 00:00:37.33\00:00:42.44 AND WE HAVE SO FAR 12,500 OF THESE LITTLE BOOKLETS "AFTER THE 00:00:42.44\00:00:49.08 STORM" HAVE ALREADY BEEN REQUESTED. 00:00:49.08\00:00:50.65 THEY ARE COMING FROM THE STATES OF TEXAS AND FLORIDA, WHICH IS 00:00:50.65\00:00:54.58 SPECIFICALLY WHAT WE HAVE ASKED FOR. 00:00:54.58\00:00:56.32 SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT, WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO KEEP 00:00:56.32\00:01:01.09 CALLING IN. CALL US AT 618-627-4651, OR SEND 00:01:01.09\00:01:05.16 AN EMAIL, MAILROOM@3ABN.TV. THE EMAIL IS MAILROOM@3ABN.TV 00:01:05.16\00:01:13.80 NFL THESE BOOKLETS ARE FREE. NO SHIPPING, NO CHARGE FOR THE 00:01:13.80\00:01:18.11 BOOKLETS. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CALL OR 00:01:18.11\00:01:21.51 EMAIL, AND WE WILL SEND THEM OUT, ESPECIALLY CHURCHES. 00:01:21.51\00:01:24.75 WE'RE ENCOURAGING CHURCHES TO -CONTACT US. GET 500, 1,000, 00:01:24.75\00:01:33.79 2,000, WHATEVER YOU THINK YOU CAN GIVE OUT IN YOUR STORM-RAVAGED COMMUNITY. 00:01:33.79\00:01:38.16 LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS HERE. 00:01:38.16\00:01:41.30 THIS IS FROM SHARON. AND SHE IS FROM THE UNITED 00:01:41.30\00:01:44.80 KINGDOM. MY HUSBAND CHEATED ON ME WITH 00:01:44.80\00:01:47.14 ANOTHER WOMAN. TAKING HER AWAY TO A HOTEL FOR A 00:01:47.14\00:01:50.97 FULL WEEKEND. HOW DO I FORGIVE HIM AND STILL 00:01:50.97\00:01:54.64 LOVE HIM AS A HUSBAND? HE ADMITTED WHAT HE DID. 00:01:54.64\00:01:57.61 AND ASKED ME TO FORGIVE HIM AFTER I SHOWED HIM PROOF OF THE 00:01:57.61\00:02:03.32 HOTEL BILL. >> BOY. 00:02:03.32\00:02:04.59 THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE HARDEST, I THINK. 00:02:04.59\00:02:06.86 >> YEAH. >> BECAUSE THAT IS SUCH A 00:02:06.86\00:02:10.33 BETRAYAL OF THE ONENESS THAT YOU SHARED WITH YOUR HUSBAND THAT 00:02:10.33\00:02:13.96 HAS BEEN -- HAS BEEN RIPPED APART. 00:02:13.96\00:02:20.77 FIRST OF ALL, HAVING PRAISE GOD NEVER EXPERIENCES THAT, THIS IS 00:02:20.77\00:02:25.94 AN ISSUE WHERE YOU REALLY HAVE TO SURRENDER THIS TO THE LORD, 00:02:25.94\00:02:30.18 AND ASK GOD TO HELP YOU IN THIS SITUATION. 00:02:30.18\00:02:34.05 BUT I THINK THAT YOUR HUSBAND NEEDS TO -- IF I WERE GOING 00:02:34.05\00:02:38.85 THROUGH THIS, I WOULD BE WANT TO BE GOING TO COUNSELING, I WOULD 00:02:38.85\00:02:43.49 WANT TO MAKE SURE HE IS REPENTANT AND HE IS NOT JUST 00:02:43.49\00:02:47.56 CONFESSING AND ASKING FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS BECAUSE HE GOT 00:02:47.56\00:02:51.57 CAUGHT. YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE -- WHAT 00:02:51.57\00:02:54.40 HAPPENED? WHY DID HE DO THIS? 00:02:54.40\00:02:56.14 BUT HE WOULD HAVE TO EARN MY TRUST AGAIN. 00:02:56.14\00:02:58.94 >> OKAY. GOOD. 00:02:58.94\00:03:01.64 >> I DON'T THINK -- YOU KNOW, AND DON'T YOU THINK THAT -- BOY. 00:03:01.64\00:03:07.25 HAVING FAITH IN SOMEBODY IS JUST -- EVEN HAVING FAITH IN GOD 00:03:07.25\00:03:10.85 IS -- TRUST IS THE FOUNDATION FOR FAITH. 00:03:10.85\00:03:12.99 >> IT IS. >> SO IT WOUL BE 00:03:12.99\00:03:15.39 VERY -- THAT'S -- THAT'S SOMETHING THAT GOD HAS TO DO, 00:03:15.39\00:03:18.19 AND IT HELPS WITH YOU BEGINNING TO PRAY. 00:03:18.19\00:03:20.83 AND I'M RAMBLING. GO MOLLIE. 00:03:20.83\00:03:27.00 [ LAUGHTER ] >> IT WAS HARD. 00:03:27.00\00:03:28.00 >> YEAH, IT WAS. IT SEEMS LIKE HER QUESTION WAS 00:03:28.00\00:03:32.77 DO I HAVE TO FORGIVE HIM? >> SHE SAID HOW DO I FORGIVE 00:03:32.77\00:03:37.78 HIM? AND STILL LOVE HIM AS A HUSBAND? 00:03:37.78\00:03:40.62 >> OKAY. SEE THOSE ARE DIFFICULT 00:03:40.62\00:03:43.45 QUESTIONS. HOW DO I FORGIVE HIM? 00:03:43.45\00:03:45.75 YOU FORGIVE HIM -- THE HOW IS WITH GOD'S FORGIVENESS? 00:03:45.75\00:03:50.43 DO YOU HAVE TO FORGIVE HIM? THE ANSWER WOULD BE YES, BECAUSE 00:03:50.43\00:03:54.56 IF YOU DON'T FORGIVE HIM, THEN THAT UNFORGIVENESS IN YOUR HEART 00:03:54.56\00:03:59.77 IS DOING MORE HARM THAN IT IS DOING HIM. 00:03:59.77\00:04:02.34 DO YOU HAVE TO TRUST HIM AND PUT YOURSELF IN THAT POSITION? 00:04:02.34\00:04:06.64 NOW THAT IS SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO WORK OUT. 00:04:06.64\00:04:09.04 YOU HAVE TO DETERMINE IN COUNSELING, OR WITH HIS BEHAVIOR 00:04:09.04\00:04:13.31 AND HOW HE PRESENTS HIMSELF IN HIS CONVINCING YOU THAT THIS WAS 00:04:13.31\00:04:21.42 MAYBE A ONETIME ACT OR WHATEVER,-BUT, YOU KNOW, AS YOU FORGIVE HIM, THEN YOU WALK OUT 00:04:21.42\00:04:29.16 FROM UNDER THAT BONDAGE OF THAT UNFORGIVENESS IN YOUR LIFE, BUT 00:04:29.16\00:04:32.63 THEN PUTTING -- PUTTING -- AS SHELLEY SAID THE TRUST BACK INTO 00:04:32.63\00:04:36.40 THE MARRIAGE, PUTTING THAT RELATIONSHIP BACK INTO WHAT 00:04:36.40\00:04:43.91 EVERY WOMAN WANTS IN A MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP, NOW THOSE ARE THE 00:04:43.91\00:04:48.12 DIFFICULT STEPS THAT YOU HAVE TO WALK THROUGH, AND YOU NEED HELP 00:04:48.12\00:04:52.15 TO WALK THROUGH THAT, COUNSELING IN YOUR LOCAL CHURCH OR 00:04:52.15\00:04:56.06 WHATEVER. BUT -- OH, HONEY, DO -- DON'T 00:04:56.06\00:04:59.83 LET THAT HEAVINESS OF UNFORGIVENESS WEIGH IN YOUR 00:04:59.83\00:05:04.60 HEART. >> AND I'M GOING TO ADD 00:05:04.60\00:05:06.57 SOMETHING. AND YOU MAY ALL WANT TO POP ME 00:05:06.57\00:05:09.20 AFTER I SAY THIS. YES, YOU HAVE TO FORGIVE HIM. 00:05:09.20\00:05:13.27 THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'LL END UP MARRIED TO THIS MAN. 00:05:13.27\00:05:16.61 >> ABSOLUTELY. ABSO 00:05:16.61\00:05:20.38 ABSOLUTELY. >> IT DEPENDS ON IS THIS THE 00:05:20.38\00:05:22.28 FIRST TIME HE HAS DONE THIS? IT'S JUST LIKE I WANT TO TALK TO 00:05:22.28\00:05:26.42 SOMEBODY TONIGHT WHO MAY BE LIVING WITH AN ABUSIVE HUSBAND 00:05:26.42\00:05:30.23 WHO COMES AND REPENTS AND BEGS FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS, AND YOU 00:05:30.23\00:05:35.73 FORGIVE, BUT THEN IT HAPPENS AGAIN AND IT HAPPENS AGAIN. 00:05:35.73\00:05:39.17 THEY ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE UNTIL THEY HAVE SERIOUS HELP 00:05:39.17\00:05:44.01 AND -- OR A TRUE CONVERSION FROM THE LORD. 00:05:44.01\00:05:47.68 SO FORGIVING SOMEONE DOESN'T MEAN -- I FORGIVE YOU. 00:05:47.68\00:05:52.45 DO IT TO ME AGAIN. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:05:52.45\00:05:54.95 >> FORGIVING SOMEONE MEANS THAT YOU ARE RELEASING -- 00:05:54.95\00:05:58.39 >> YES. >> AND -- AND YOU CAN 00:05:58.39\00:06:01.89 EVEN -- YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS TALKED ABOUT HEAPING COALS UPON 00:06:01.89\00:06:05.43 THEIR HEAD. HOW DOES THAT SCRIPTURE GO IN I 00:06:05.43\00:06:08.56 CAN'T THINK OF IT RIGHT NOW. >> ROMANS 12 -- 00:06:08.56\00:06:12.90 >> I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS. >> OKAY. 00:06:12.90\00:06:15.90 >> BUT IT'S A WHEN YOU FORGIVE SOMEONE YOU ARE HEAPING BURNING 00:06:15.90\00:06:21.81 COALS UPON THEIR HEAD. DID YOU KNOW IN THAT DAY AND 00:06:21.81\00:06:24.71 AGE -- AND IT IS STILL IN CERTAIN CIRCLES IT IS 00:06:24.71\00:06:28.28 HAPPENING -- >> ROMANS 12:20 THEREFORE IF 00:06:28.28\00:06:31.55 YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY FEED HIM, IF HE IS THIRSTY GIVE HIM A 00:06:31.55\00:06:39.03 DRINK, FOR IN SO DOING YO WILL HEAP COALS OF FIRE UPON HIS 00:06:39.03\00:06:44.53 HEAD. >> WHAT HAPPENED IS WHEN 00:06:44.53\00:06:46.20 SOMEBODY WAS IN REPENTANCE THEY WORE THAT HEAD DRESS THAT HAD 00:06:46.20\00:06:52.94 THIS PANEL, AND THEY WOULD PUT HOT COALS UPON THEIR HEAD, AND 00:06:52.94\00:06:59.08 THAT WAS TO SHOW THE REPENTANCE. >> DID THEY FEEL THE HOT COALS? 00:06:59.08\00:07:06.09 >> I WOULD GUESS THEY HAD SOME PROTECTION, BUT THEY ARE STILL 00:07:06.09\00:07:09.82 DOING THIS PRACTICE OF WEARING COALS UPON THEIR HEAD. 00:07:09.82\00:07:14.36 BUT IT SAYS WHEN YOU ARE BEING KIND TO YOUR ENEMY, YOU ARE MORE 00:07:14.36\00:07:19.93 LIKELY TO MAKE THEM REPENT. YOU THINK ABOUT PEOPLE WHO -- I 00:07:19.93\00:07:23.37 HEARD A STORY OF SOMEONE WHO WAS IN PRISON RECENTLY, AND HE MADE 00:07:23.37\00:07:27.88 FRIENDS -- HE HAD BEEN TORTURED AND -- AND ABUSED BY THIS GUARD, 00:07:27.88\00:07:35.32 AND HE MADE FRIENDS -- HE DECIDED HE WAS GOING TO MAKE 00:07:35.32\00:07:39.12 FRIENDS WITH THIS GUARD, AND THE GUARD SAID WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE 00:07:39.12\00:07:43.06 MY FRIEND? AND HE SAID, WELL, I'M GOING TO 00:07:43.06\00:07:46.13 BE WITH YOU SOMETIME. WELL, BECAUSE HE FORGAVE THE 00:07:46.13\00:07:49.96 GUARD AND WAS NICE TO HIM, THE GUARD REPENTED. 00:07:49.96\00:07:53.70 BUT ANYWAY HONEY WHAT YOU NEED IS A LOT OF PRAYER, AND YOU NEED 00:07:53.70\00:07:57.41 TO SEEK THE LORD AND FIND OUT, IS THIS A PATTERN OR IS THIS 00:07:57.41\00:08:02.31 SOMETHING THAT HE SNUCK AROUND AND DONE BEFORE? 00:08:02.31\00:08:05.85 AND PERSONALLY, YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT HE IS TESTED FO HIV. 00:08:05.85\00:08:11.05 I WOULDN'T LET -- YOU KNOW, CA TELLS THE STORY OF -- OF A DEAR 00:08:11.05\00:08:19.26 WOMAN IN HIS CHURCH WHO'S HUSBAND WAS A PHILANDERER. 00:08:19.26\00:08:30.97 HE BROUGHT HOME AIDS. HE NEVER GOT IT, AND SHE DIED 00:08:30.97\00:08:36.01 FROM AIDS >> FORGIVENESS ISN'T GRANTED 00:08:36.01\00:08:38.85 BECAUSE A PERSON DESERVES TO BE FORGIVEN. 00:08:38.85\00:08:42.88 IT'S AN ACT OF LOVE. FORGIVENESS IS AN ACT OF GRACE. 00:08:42.88\00:08:46.55 SO IT'S NOT BECAUSE YOUR HUSBAND DESERVES TO BE FORGIVEN, OR THE 00:08:46.55\00:08:52.99 PERSON THAT SINNED AGAINST YOU, IT'S AN ACT OF -- FROM YOUR 00:08:52.99\00:08:58.40 HEART. AND ALSO WHEN WE HAVE FORGIVEN 00:08:58.40\00:09:01.17 OFFENSE, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE ARE CONDONING THE OFFENSE, THAT 00:09:01.17\00:09:07.24 WE'RE PRETENDING THE OFFENSE DIDN'T HAPPEN, THAT WE'RE GOING 00:09:07.24\00:09:11.31 TO FORGIVE THE OFFENSE. WE'RE NOT GOING TO FORGIVE THE 00:09:11.31\00:09:20.82 OFFENSE. THAT WOULD MEAN THERE IS 00:09:20.82\00:09:23.12 SOMETHING WRONG WITH OUR REBERER. 00:09:23.12\00:09:27.10 [ LAUGHTER ] >> THIS PERSON PUTS THEMSELVES 00:09:27.10\00:09:28.70 IN A PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT THEY ARE NOT 00:09:28.70\00:09:32.27 GOING TO DO IT TO YOU AGAIN. AND IT IS NEVER ALLOWING ANOTHER 00:09:32.27\00:09:36.77 PERSON TO CONTINUE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU. 00:09:36.77\00:09:39.27 THAT'S NOT PART OF FORGIVENESS. FORGIVENESS IS GETTING OUR 00:09:39.27\00:09:43.81 HEARTS CLEANSED, OUR HEARTS CLEAN AND PURE BEFORE THE LORD, 00:09:43.81\00:09:46.95 AND US STANDING IN RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. 00:09:46.95\00:09:49.78 >> AMEN. >> YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED ONE 00:09:49.78\00:09:51.79 OF THE WORDS -- THERE'S DIFFERENT WORDS IN THE NEW TEST 00:09:51.79\00:09:55.19 FOR FORGIVENESS, AND ONE YOU MENTIONED MEANS TO RELEASE OR 00:09:55.19\00:09:59.53 LET GO. THERE IS ANOTHER WORD, WHICH IS 00:09:59.53\00:10:03.97 FROM THE SAME ROOT AS GRACE. AND IT MEANS TO GRANT AS A FAVOR 00:10:03.97\00:10:09.84 IN KINDNESS, PARDON OR RESCUE, TO DELIVER, TO FRANKLY FORGIVE 00:10:09.84\00:10:16.18 AND FREELY GIVE OR GRANT THERE SO THIS IS HOW GOD FORGIVES US. 00:10:16.18\00:10:21.02 IT'S -- IT'S SOMETHING THAT HIS PARDON TO US. 00:10:21.02\00:10:24.12 WE DON'T SDEFSH TO BE FORGIVEN. WHEN HE SAYS WHEN WE CONFESS OUR 00:10:24.12\00:10:29.72 SINS HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OF OUR SINS, AND TO 00:10:29.72\00:10:35.36 CLEANSE US OF ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:10:35.36\00:10:38.10 >> AMEN. >> SO IT -- IT IS SOMETHING THAT 00:10:38.10\00:10:41.47 NO MATTER WHAT GOES ON IN OUR LIFE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO 00:10:41.47\00:10:47.51 FORGIVE, SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT WIRE OF BITTERNESS. 00:10:47.51\00:10:52.38 SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FORGIVE SOMEBODY AND THEN LOVE THEM FROM 00:10:52.38\00:10:55.42 A DISTANCE. AND BY THE WAY, ASK GOD TO PUT 00:10:55.42\00:10:59.32 HIS LOVE INTO YOUR HEART FOR THIS MAN. 00:10:59.32\00:11:01.72 >> LET'S HAVE A PRAYER FOR SHARON. 00:11:01.72\00:11:04.46 >> AMEN. >> CAN WE DO THAT? 00:11:04.46\00:11:06.70 AND THEN WE'LL HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION. 00:11:06.70\00:11:11.03 SHARON KNOW THAT WE LOVE YOU HERE AT 3ABN. 00:11:11.03\00:11:13.60 THAT OUR HEARTS HURT FOR WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH. 00:11:13.60\00:11:16.71 BUT I KNOW THAT GOD IS GOING TO BRING YOU DELIVERANCE. 00:11:16.71\00:11:21.68 FATHER WE LIFT UP OUR SISTER SHARON, AND AS I MENTION HER 00:11:21.68\00:11:27.45 NAME, LORD, I KNOW THERE ARE MANY OTHER WOMEN AND MEN IN THIS 00:11:27.45\00:11:32.69 SAME SITUATION. YOU HAVE THEIR NAMES ENGRAZENED 00:11:32.69\00:11:37.56 ON THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, YOU LOVE THEM WITH AN EVER LASTING 00:11:37.56\00:11:41.96 LAND. AND WE'RE ASKING THAT YOU WOULD 00:11:41.96\00:11:44.73 POUR IN YOUR FORGIVENESS. THAT YOU WOULD POUR IN YOUR 00:11:44.73\00:11:48.14 LOVE, SO THAT THAT COULD BE IN TURN EXTENDED TO THOSE PEOPLE, 00:11:48.14\00:11:52.47 THEIR SPOUSES THAT HAVE HURT THEM SO DEEPLY. 00:11:52.47\00:11:56.04 FATHER I ASK FOR GREAT WISDOM FOR SHARON. 00:11:56.04\00:11:59.61 I ASK THAT YOU GIVE HER DISCERNMENT TO KNOW WHAT SHE 00:11:59.61\00:12:05.99 SHOULD DO, BUT RIGHT NOW WE JUST ASK THAT YOU RELEASE HER FROM 00:12:05.99\00:12:10.79 THIS BURDEN OF THE ROOT OF UNFORGIVENESS. 00:12:10.79\00:12:14.36 GIVE HER FREEDOM. THANK YOU THAT YOU SAID, WHOEVER 00:12:14.36\00:12:19.33 THE SON SETS FREE IS FREE INDEED. 00:12:19.33\00:12:23.51 AND WE PRAY FOR SHARON AND HER HUSBAND. 00:12:23.51\00:12:26.24 WE ASK LORD JESUS FOR A SPIRIT OF REPENTANCE. 00:12:26.24\00:12:30.08 WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD CONVICT HIS HEART, AND DRAW HIM WITH 00:12:30.08\00:12:33.21 YOUR LOVING KINDNESS, AND THAT HE WOLD MAKE A CHOICE FOR YOU. 00:12:33.21\00:12:37.75 HE WOULD CHOOSE YOU, AND YOU WOULD CHAGE HIM AND TRANSFORM 00:12:37.75\00:12:41.09 HIM. AND GOD THAT YOU COULD DO A NEW 00:12:41.09\00:12:43.59 THING IN HIS LIFE AND HEART, AND THAT IT WOULD BE A TESTIMONY TO 00:12:43.59\00:12:47.00 YOUR GOODNESS AND GRACE. AND WE THANK YOU, IN THE 00:12:47.00\00:12:50.67 PRECIOUS AND HOLY NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. 00:12:50.67\00:12:54.24 >> AMEN. LET'S DO ANOTHER QUESTION BEFORE 00:12:54.24\00:12:56.47 WE GO ON. THIS IS FROM LENNET. 00:12:56.47\00:13:01.21 HOW DO YOU WORK WITH SOMEONE WHO REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY TIMES YOU 00:13:01.21\00:13:05.68 FORGIVE, CONTINUES TO DO THE SAME MEAN-SPIRITED THINGS TO 00:13:05.68\00:13:09.98 YOU. SO SHE HAS FORGIVEN, BUT YET THE 00:13:09.98\00:13:12.89 PERSON IS STILL ACTING UP AGAIN, AND HURTING HER AGAIN. 00:13:12.89\00:13:17.79 >> I HAVE HAD A REAL STRONG PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH SOMEONE 00:13:17.79\00:13:22.60 THAT I ALSO HAD WORKED WITH, AND A PERSON WHO WAS MANIPULATIVE 00:13:22.60\00:13:27.47 AND CONTROLLING AND BACK BITING AND TOLD LIES AND -- AND I 00:13:27.47\00:13:32.47 WOULD -- OH, I WOULD ASK GOD, HELP ME FORGIVE THIS PERSON, AND 00:13:32.47\00:13:39.51 I JUST KEPT IT UP AND UP, AND I WOULD FEEL LIKE I HAVE FORGIVEN, 00:13:39.51\00:13:45.69 AND IT WOULD HAPPEN AGAIN. THIS WAS A DAILY PRAYER. 00:13:45.69\00:13:48.56 IT HELPED THAT I STARTED PRAYING FOR HER BLESSINGS, AS YOU DID. 00:13:48.56\00:13:53.19 SOMETHING ELSE THAT HELPED WAS I PUT A LITTLE DISTANCE BETWEEN 00:13:53.19\00:13:57.30 US, BUT I THINK THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS THAT I 00:13:57.30\00:14:01.34 PRAYED AND ASKED GOD HELP ME TO SEE HER AS YOU SEE HER. 00:14:01.34\00:14:09.41 AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT PAUL SAYS IN -- LET ME SEE IF I CAN 00:14:09.41\00:14:13.78 FINE THOUGH SCRIPTURE. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:16. 00:14:13.78\00:14:19.19 HE WAS TALKING ABOUT JESUS, BUT HE SAYS, SO FRO NOW ON WE 00:14:19.19\00:14:24.69 REGARD NO ONE FROM THE WORLDLY POINT OF VIEW. 00:14:24.69\00:14:27.76 BECAUSE THEY MISSED -- THEY MISSED JESUS, AND THE PEOPLE 00:14:27.76\00:14:30.90 DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHO HE WAS. AND PALL -- PAUL WAS SAYING WE 00:14:30.90\00:14:38.71 SHOULDN'T BE REGARDING ANYONE FROM A WORLDLY POINT OF VIEW. 00:14:38.71\00:14:42.71 BUT THEN IF YOU ASK GOD HELP ME TO SEE THIS PERSON AS YOU SEE, 00:14:42.71\00:14:48.88 LET ME UNDERSTAND THE VALUE THAT -- THAT SHE'S WORTH NOTHING 00:14:48.88\00:14:52.72 LESS THAN THE PRICE THAT YOU PAID WITH YOUR PRECIOUS LIFE 00:14:52.72\00:14:57.76 BLOOD, AND -- AND THEN PRAY FOR HER BLESSINGS, AND ALSO, I WOULD 00:14:57.76\00:15:02.63 PRAY -- AS -- AS I HAVE, THAT GOD WOULD HELP OPEN DOORS TO 00:15:02.63\00:15:09.24 IMPROVE THIS RELATIONSHIP. >> YES. 00:15:09.24\00:15:12.77 ABSOLUTELY. MISS MOLLIE? 00:15:12.77\00:15:14.04 >> WELL, I -- I UNDERSTAND HOW SHE FEELS. 00:15:14.04\00:15:19.61 BUT MINE WAS A -- SITUATION THAT I HAD WAS A FATHER THAT WAS 00:15:19.61\00:15:24.22 REALLY ROUGH AND COULD BE -- HE -- ABUSIVE IN THAT HE 00:15:24.22\00:15:29.16 WAS -- WELL, HE WAS AN ALCOHOLIC, AND WAS JUST ROUGH. 00:15:29.16\00:15:34.93 AND I CAN REMEMBER MUCH OF MY LIFE WHERE I WOULD HAVE SUCH 00:15:34.93\00:15:39.97 ANGER AND RESENTMENT AND BITTERNESS TOWARD HIM, 00:15:39.97\00:15:45.61 AND -- AND IN MY LATER YEARS AFTER I BECAME A CHRISTIAN, OF 00:15:45.61\00:15:49.84 PRAYING AND ASKING, YOU KNOW, GOD TO HELP ME FORGIVE HIM, AND 00:15:49.84\00:15:53.58 I WOULD FORGIVE HIM, AND I WOULD STAND BEFORE HIM, PARTICULARLY 00:15:53.58\00:15:57.15 AFTER I LEFT HOME, YOU KNOW, IT -- I WOULD GET CONFESSED UP, 00:15:57.15\00:16:02.46 AND REPENTHED UP, AND I WOULD HAVE THE UNFORGIVENESS OUT OF MY 00:16:02.46\00:16:07.50 HEART, AND I -- I CAN REMEMBER CALLING HIM AND TELLING HIM I 00:16:07.50\00:16:12.27 LOVE HIM. WHICH WE WEREN'T A HOME THAT 00:16:12.27\00:16:15.64 WOULD BE EXPRESSED -- I KNOW WE CHILDREN HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT WE 00:16:15.64\00:16:21.38 WERE THE FIRST ONES TO INITIATE THE WORDS I LOVE NOW. 00:16:21.38\00:16:27.75 NOT FROM OUR FATHER. SO EVERYTHING WOULD BE FORGIVEN, 00:16:27.75\00:16:32.49 AND THEN HE WOULD DO SOMETHING ELSE. 00:16:32.49\00:16:34.06 HE WOULD BE ABUSIVE PERHAPS TO MY MOTHER OR WHATEVER. 00:16:34.06\00:16:37.99 AND THIS IS WHAT I FOUND I HAD TO CONTEND WITH. 00:16:37.99\00:16:45.20 IT WASN'T JUST HIS LATEST INDISCRETION THAT I HAD TO DEAL 00:16:45.20\00:16:50.24 WITH, IT FELT LIKE EVERYTHING WOULD COME BACK FROM DAY ONE. 00:16:50.24\00:16:53.84 AND THEN I DIDN'T JUST HAVE TO FORGIVE HIM FOR -- FOR HIS 00:16:53.84\00:16:58.15 LATEST THING THAT HE DID. I WOULD HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY 00:16:58.15\00:17:02.52 BACK TO SQUARE 1, BUT IT WAS ONLY THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD, 00:17:02.52\00:17:06.62 AND -- AND I'LL SAY THIS. AT -- AT HIS PASSING, HE 00:17:06.62\00:17:12.56 HAD -- HE HAD -- AND I THINK IT WAS THROUGH THE LOVE AND GRACE 00:17:12.56\00:17:17.07 AND MERCY OF A GODLY WIFE THAT -- THAT HE HAD COME TO 00:17:17.07\00:17:21.94 BRING HIMELF -- THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD INTO A RELATIONSHIP 00:17:21.94\00:17:25.57 WITH GOD, AND AS HE -- AS WE WALKED IN THE LIGHT OF THE WORD 00:17:25.57\00:17:32.25 OF GOD, THEN IT WAS -- AND THESE INDISCRETIONS WOULD FALL AWAY, 00:17:32.25\00:17:38.39 IT WAS SO MUCH EASIER FOR MY HEART TO BE SOFT AND TENDER 00:17:38.39\00:17:42.26 TOWARD HIM, AND TO HAVE THE REPENTING AND TO CONTINUE TO 00:17:42.26\00:17:45.43 WALK IN -- IN THAT RELATIONSHIP, AND SO I'M THINKING OF AS YOU 00:17:45.43\00:17:51.07 ARE WALKING -- AND -- A DAILY RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEONE 00:17:51.07\00:17:56.10 THAT -- AT WORK THAT WOULD CONTINUE TO CAUSE YOU HARDSHIP 00:17:56.10\00:18:01.01 AND PAIN, THAT IS A DIFFICULT PLACE TO BE, BUT I THINK SHELLEY 00:18:01.01\00:18:05.08 REALLY HIT ON THIS, THAT IF YOU ASK GOD TO PUT -- TO JUST GIVE 00:18:05.08\00:18:09.85 YOU A GLIMPSE OF HOW HE VIEWS HER, THAT IT WILL CHANGE YOUR 00:18:09.85\00:18:13.82 PERSPECTIVE OF HER, AND HOPEFULLY, THEN AS SHE IS DOING 00:18:13.82\00:18:17.46 THE THINGS THAT SHE IS TO YOU, IT WON'T HURT YOU AS BADLY. 00:18:17.46\00:18:21.76 >> AND, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU CAN -- THROUGH 00:18:21.76\00:18:24.67 YOUR OWN -- THROUGH YOUR WITNESS AS GOD IS WITNESSING THROUGH 00:18:24.67\00:18:28.04 YOU, THAT YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WOMAN'S LIFE. 00:18:28.04\00:18:30.67 >> AMEN. >> I MEAN, THIS IS SOMEBODY YOU 00:18:30.67\00:18:33.88 NEED TO PRAY FOR HER SALVATION. I WANTED TO READ YOU A 00:18:33.88\00:18:37.55 SCRIPTURE, BUT THE THOUGHT THAT I HAD WENT IN AND OUT OF MY 00:18:37.55\00:18:40.98 HEAD, AND IT WAS A GOOD ONE, I HOPE IT COME BACK. 00:18:40.98\00:18:46.62 LUKE 17:3-4. OH, I KNOW. 00:18:46.62\00:18:50.03 DID YOUR FATHER EVER ASK FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS. 00:18:50.03\00:18:54.73 >> NEVER. >> TO ME THIS IS 00:18:54.73\00:18:56.70 WHERE -- BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY -- WHERE IF YOU HAVE 00:18:56.70\00:19:02.40 FORGIVEN SOMEBODY OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND THEN THEY DO 00:19:02.40\00:19:06.37 SOMETHING, AND ALL OF THOSE SKELETONS RISE UP, AND YOU ARE 00:19:06.37\00:19:11.48 THINKING IT'S LIKE YOU HAVE TO START BACK AT SQUARE 1. 00:19:11.48\00:19:15.78 BUT ONCE SOMEBODY ASKS FOR FORGIVENESS, IT'S LIKE YOU CAN 00:19:15.78\00:19:19.72 PUT THOSE SKELETONS AWAY, AND THOSE DON'T POP UP. 00:19:19.72\00:19:24.16 SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT WHE HE SAYS FORGIVE AS YOU ARE 00:19:24.16\00:19:28.30 FORGIVEN, THAT THAT MEANS WE HAVE -- THAT THE PERSON HAS TO 00:19:28.30\00:19:35.17 REPENTH, CONFESS THEIR SIN TO US AND REPENT BEFORE WE FORGIVE 00:19:35.17\00:19:40.64 THEM. AND THERE ARE A FEW SCRIPTURES 00:19:40.64\00:19:42.74 THAT MAKE IT SOUND THAT WAY, BUT THEN WE HAVE TO REMEMBER, IF 00:19:42.74\00:19:46.38 WE'RE GOING TO FORGIVE AS CHRIST FORGAVE US, WHEN HE WAS HANGING 00:19:46.38\00:19:50.95 ON THE CROSS, HE SAID FATHER FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT 00:19:50.95\00:19:55.59 WHAT THEY ARE DOING. SO THOSE PEOPLE CERTAINLY DIDN'T 00:19:55.59\00:20:01.46 REPENT. LET'S LOOK AT LUKE 17, BECAUSE I 00:20:01.46\00:20:05.57 THINK MAYBE FOR LYNETTE THIS MIGHT HAVE A GOOD MESSAGE IN IT. 00:20:05.57\00:20:11.44 JILL YOU WANT TO READ THAT. >> LUKE 17:3-4. 00:20:11.44\00:20:16.61 IF YOUR BOTHER SINS AGAINST HIM, REBUKE HIM, AND IF HE REPENTS 00:20:16.61\00:20:22.92 FORGIVE HIM, AND IF HE SINS AGAINST YOU SEVEN TIMES IN A 00:20:22.92\00:20:26.02 DAY, AND SEVEN TIMES IN A DAY RETURNS TO YOU SAYING I REPENT, 00:20:26.02\00:20:30.56 YOU SHALL FORGIVE HIM. >> WELL, THE -- THE FIRST THING 00:20:30.56\00:20:34.23 THAT I WANT TO POINT OUT HERE IS WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE 00:20:34.23\00:20:41.57 REBUKE? THE PURPOSE OF THE REBUKE IS TO 00:20:41.57\00:20:43.37 GET THEM TO REPENT. >> UH-HUH. 00:20:43.37\00:20:47.61 >> SO FOR LYNETTE MAYBE IF YOU CAN GET ON NEUTRAL GROUND WITH 00:20:47.61\00:20:57.29 THIS PERSON, AND TO RE BUK DOESN'T MEAN DO YOU KNOW WHAT 00:20:57.29\00:21:02.79 YOU HAVE DONE TO ME? >> IT'S NOT HARSHNESS. 00:21:02.79\00:21:07.86 >> IT'S NOT HARSHNESS. BUT IF YOU CAN SHARE WITH HER 00:21:07.86\00:21:14.44 THE OFFENSE, WHEN JESUS SAID SEVEN TIMES A DAY YOU FORGIVE 00:21:14.44\00:21:24.95 OVER AND OVER. I DON'T THINK THIS IS THE SAME 00:21:24.95\00:21:29.32 OFFENSE. IT'S NOT A REPEAT SIN. 00:21:29.32\00:21:31.32 I THINK IT'S -- IF THEY ARE SINNING AGAINST YOU IN VARIOUS 00:21:31.32\00:21:35.52 WAYS. >> CAN I JUMP IN A SECOND. 00:21:35.52\00:21:37.43 >> SURE. >> IF SOMEONE DOES A REPEAT 00:21:37.43\00:21:43.00 OFFENSE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. IF YOU ARE BEING ABUSED, YOU 00:21:43.00\00:21:46.87 NEED TO PROTECT YOURSELF. BUT IF SOMEONE DOES A REPEAT 00:21:46.87\00:21:50.17 THING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN. ARE WE NOT SUPPOSED TO FORGIVE 00:21:50.17\00:21:53.78 THEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN? >> WELL, THE INTERESTING THING 00:21:53.78\00:21:58.48 IS, ARE THEY REALLY REPENTING? >> PROBABLY NOT. 00:21:58.48\00:22:03.18 >> WE FORGIVE FOUR OUR SAKES, BUT THAT'S WHEN YOU START 00:22:03.18\00:22:07.62 ESTABLISHING THE BOUNDARIES AND LOVING THEM FROM A DISTANCE. 00:22:07.62\00:22:11.26 YOU TAUGHT ME THAT TERM. SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOT TO LOVE 00:22:11.26\00:22:14.56 PEOPLE FROM A DISTANCE. BUT THE IDEA OF SEVEN 00:22:14.56\00:22:18.60 TIMES -- SEVEN IN THE BIBLE IS THE NUMBER OF PERFECTION. 00:22:18.60\00:22:21.70 SO BASICALLY WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING IS THERE NO END TO OUR 00:22:21.70\00:22:25.97 FORGIVENESS, WE CONTINUALLY ARE FORGIVING, BUT ONCE AGAIN, 00:22:25.97\00:22:30.01 YOU -- YOU KNOW, HE SAYS HERE IF WE REPENTS, FORGIVE HIM. 00:22:30.01\00:22:36.65 >> UH-HUH. >> SO ANYWAY. 00:22:36.65\00:22:38.59 THAT'S THE THOUGHT. >> ALSO -- 00:22:38.59\00:22:41.72 >> GREAT THOUGHT. >> -- TO AD TO THAT, IF WE KNOW 00:22:41.72\00:22:47.23 EVERY TIME WE GET AROUND A PERSON, THEY ARE GOING TO OFFEND 00:22:47.23\00:22:51.67 US IN SOME WAY, THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE THE SCRIPTURE THAT TELLS US 00:22:51.67\00:22:55.97 WE CAN MARK THEM AND AVOID THEM. SO IF SOME -- IF I KNOW EVERY 00:22:55.97\00:23:00.21 TIME I GO OVER TO YOUR HOUSE, YOUR DOG IS GOING TO BITE ME. 00:23:00.21\00:23:03.95 [ LAUGHTER ] >> THEN AT SOME POINT, I'M GOING 00:23:03.95\00:23:06.45 TO QUIT GOING OVER TO YOUR HOUSE BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO GET HURT 00:23:06.45\00:23:11.09 ANYMORE. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:23:11.09\00:23:12.25 >> SO IT'S NOT THAT I MAY NOT LOVE YOU, AND PRAY FOR YOU, WISH 00:23:12.25\00:23:16.93 THE BEST FOR YOU, BUT IF SOMEBODY CONTINUES TO HURT YOU, 00:23:16.93\00:23:21.63 THEN YOU NEED NOT PUT YOURSELF IN A POSITION TO CONTINUE TO BE 00:23:21.63\00:23:25.40 HURT. >> YES. 00:23:25.40\00:23:26.23 >> NOW WHAT ABOUT WHEN THAT OFFENDER IS A CHURCH MEMBER? 00:23:26.23\00:23:32.41 WHEN SOMEONE IS SINNING AGAINST YOU -- LET'S LOOK AT MATTHEW 18. 00:23:32.41\00:23:37.25 BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH WONDERFUL COUNSELING. 00:23:37.25\00:23:40.52 >> GOOD COUNSELING. >> MATTHEW 18:15-17. 00:23:40.52\00:23:49.69 MOLLIE YOU WANT TO READ THAT ONE. 00:23:49.69\00:23:52.13 >> I HAVE MINE IN ANY KIG JAMES. 00:23:52.13\00:23:55.53 MORE OVER IF A BROTHER SHOULD TRESPASS AGAINST YOU, GO AND 00:23:55.53\00:24:01.50 TELL HIM HIS FAULT. IF HE SHALL HEAR, THOU HAS 00:24:01.50\00:24:06.68 GAINED A BROTHER. BUT IF HE WILL NOT HEAR, TAKE 00:24:06.68\00:24:11.28 ONE OR TWO MORE, THAT IN THE MOUTH OF ONE OR TWO WITNESSES, 00:24:11.28\00:24:17.22 EVERY WORD SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED. 00:24:17.22\00:24:19.65 BUT IF HEEL NEXTS TO HEAR THE CHURCH, LET HIM BE UNTO THEE AS 00:24:19.65\00:24:31.10 A HEATHAN. >> SO WHAT IS THAT SAYING HERE?->> IT SAYS TO ME, 00:24:31.10\00:24:39.47 THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE COURAGE. BECAUSE SOMETIMES WHEN SOMEBODY 00:24:39.47\00:24:43.41 SAYS SOMETHING AGAINST YOU, MY RESPONSE IS, OKAY, I WON'T SAY 00:24:43.41\00:24:47.82 ANYTHING. BUT IT TAKES COURAGE TO GO TO 00:24:47.82\00:24:50.45 YOUR BROTHER OR SISTER AND ACTUALLY SAY SOMETHING. 00:24:50.45\00:24:58.46 >> I AGREE. I THINK MOST OF US DON'T LIKE 00:24:58.46\00:25:02.86 CONFRONTATION. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO THRIVE 00:25:02.86\00:25:07.77 ON CONFRONTATION. BUT IT IS ALSO WHEN SOMEBODY HAS 00:25:07.77\00:25:12.44 SINNED AGAINST YOU, ONE OF THE STEPS THAT I HAVE LEARNED 00:25:12.44\00:25:17.61 IN -- NOT ONLY, AS I GO BEFORE THE LORD TO PRAY, IS I ASK GOD 00:25:17.61\00:25:21.98 SHOW ME WHAT IS GOING ON IN MY OWN HEART. 00:25:21.98\00:25:25.39 >> GOOD.->> BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE OFFENSE IS -- YOU KNOW, THE 00:25:25.39\00:25:30.03 PERSON THAT I MAY BE ANGRY WITH, AND FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO FORGIVE, 00:25:30.03\00:25:33.76 THEY DIDN'T INTEND IT AT ALL THAT WAY. 00:25:33.76\00:25:37.80 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> SO IT CAN BE SOMETHING THAT 00:25:37.80\00:25:39.83 IS GOING ON IN MY HEART. BUT WHAT IT IS, IS, WE GET SOME 00:25:39.83\00:25:45.94 KIND OF A -- WHAT IS THE WORD I'M LOOKING FOR? 00:25:45.94\00:25:49.04 WHEN SOMEBODY IS DOING SOMETHING AGAINST US TO HARM US, WE DON'T 00:25:49.04\00:25:52.88 GO TALKING TO EVERYBODY ELSE. YOU KNOW WHAT SHE DID? 00:25:52.88\00:25:55.78 BLAH BLAH BLAH. >> RIGHT. 00:25:55.78\00:25:58.32 >> SEE THAT IS THE REACTION OF MOST PEOPLE. 00:25:58.32\00:26:01.09 >> UH-HUH. >> YOU GET SINNED AGAINST -- 00:26:01.09\00:26:03.96 >> AND YOU GO OUT AND SIN. REALLY, IT'S GOING OUT AND SIN 00:26:03.96\00:26:07.86 IF YOU GOSSIP. >> YOU CANNOT BELIEVE SHE DID IT 00:26:07.86\00:26:11.93 AGAIN. WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT? 00:26:11.93\00:26:15.24 SO WHAT JESUS IS SAYING HERE IS WE ARE TO, I BELIEVE, TAKE IT TO 00:26:15.24\00:26:22.38 THE LORD IN PRAYER, AND THEN GO TO THAT PERSON, AND SAY, YOU 00:26:22.38\00:26:26.75 KNOW, SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT MADE ME VERY UNCOMFORTABLE, AND 00:26:26.75\00:26:31.29 REALLY UPSET ME. I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS THIS 00:26:31.29\00:26:34.52 WITH YOU. AND IF THEY DON'T HEAR YOU, AND 00:26:34.52\00:26:37.29 THEY BLOW YOU OFF, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS SERIOUSLY BAD, 00:26:37.29\00:26:40.93 THEN HE SAYS, ALL RIGHT. GO GET SOMEONE ELSE FROM THE 00:26:40.93\00:26:44.03 CHURCH TO GO. BECAUSE -- NOW THIS IS SOMEBODY 00:26:44.03\00:26:47.44 REALLY SINNING AGAINST YOU. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:26:47.44\00:26:49.67 >> SO THAT'S THE NEXT STEP, BUT HOW INTERESTING. 00:26:49.67\00:26:53.54 HOW DID THAT END? JILL? 00:26:53.54\00:26:57.35 >> TIEKT THE CHURCH AND IF YOU REFUSE TO HEAR THE CHURCH LET 00:26:57.35\00:27:03.32 HIM BE LIKE A HETHAN AND A TAX COLLECTOR. 00:27:03.32\00:27:10.99 YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO TO THE HETHAN, WE ARE 00:27:10.99\00:27:16.20 SUPPOSED TO WITNESS TO THEM. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO REACH OUT WITH 00:27:16.20\00:27:20.34 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. SO JESUS IS NOT SAYING IF YOU 00:27:20.34\00:27:24.37 DON'T HEAR THEM, YOU JUST CAST THEM ASIDE. 00:27:24.37\00:27:27.81 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO STILL REACH OUT TO WIN THEM BACK TO JESUS. 00:27:27.81\00:27:31.95 >> BUT IT'S ALSO SOMETHING THAT I THINK THERE IS -- THIS IS 00:27:31.95\00:27:39.09 WHERE THE LEVEL OF TRUST -- >> YES. 00:27:39.09\00:27:43.46 >> -- THEY DIDN'T TRUST THE HETHAN OR THE TAX COLLECTOR. 00:27:43.46\00:27:47.50 SO IT'S LIKE, ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO WITNESS TO YOU 00:27:47.50\00:27:52.43 NOW. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE YOU A 00:27:52.43\00:27:55.20 PROJECT, BUT DON'T PUT THAT PERSON IN A POSITION OF 00:27:55.20\00:27:59.71 RESPONSIBILITY OR -- WHERE THEY CAN HURT YOU AGAIN. 00:27:59.71\00:28:02.54 >> UH-HUH. >> AND I KEEP WANTING TO SAY 00:28:02.54\00:28:05.25 THAT, BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY -- I KNOW AS I GO OUT 00:28:05.25\00:28:08.48 SPEAKING SO OFTEN, I'LL HAVE SOMEBODY COME UP TO ME WHO 00:28:08.48\00:28:13.49 IS -- YOU KNOW, THEY ARE EXPERIENCING ABUSE IN THEIR 00:28:13.49\00:28:16.83 HOME. AND WE THINK IT DOESN'T HAPPEN 00:28:16.83\00:28:18.49 IN THE CHURCH. IT HAPPENS IN THE CHURCH. 00:28:18.49\00:28:20.83 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> AND SO THIS IS SOMETHING 00:28:20.83\00:28:23.30 THAT -- ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN. 00:28:23.30\00:28:26.70 YES, WE'RE TO BE FORGIVING, AND YES, SOMETIMES YOU DON'T EVEN 00:28:26.70\00:28:31.64 KNOW HOW YOU WILL SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN, BUT I WANT TO SAY, IF 00:28:31.64\00:28:34.88 YOUR SPOUSE IS BEING ABUSIVE, YOUR CHILDREN ARE BEING ABUSED, 00:28:34.88\00:28:38.91 OR YOU ARE BEING ABUSED, YOU NEED TO SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP. 00:28:38.91\00:28:44.35 YOU NEED TO HAVE AN ESCAPE PLAN. YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF THERE, 00:28:44.35\00:28:49.49 BECAUSE CHILDREN ARE SO DAMAGED -- 00:28:49.49\00:28:52.79 >> UH-HUH. >> -- WHEN THEY GROW UP IN AN 00:28:52.79\00:28:56.00 ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP, WITNESSING AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP. 00:28:56.00\00:29:00.80 IT IS LIKE YOU ARE PACKING THEIR BAGS DOWN WITH ROCKS, AND THEY 00:29:00.80\00:29:04.71 ARE GOING TO HAVE TO CARRY THAT AROUND A WHILE. 00:29:04.71\00:29:07.88 YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE -- ARE -- YOU 00:29:07.88\00:29:10.78 TALK TO A LOT OF DRUG ADDICTS OR A LOT OF ALCOHOLICS. 00:29:10.78\00:29:15.22 YOU TALK WITH PEOPLE, IF THEY CAME FROM AN ABUSIVE 00:29:15.22\00:29:20.12 RELATIONSHIP, OFTEN THEY WILL WALK RIGHT INTO THE SAME PAT -- 00:29:20.12\00:29:22.52 >> ABSOLUTELY. >> BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT OF 00:29:22.52\00:29:25.23 DAMAGE. >> I WAS JUST READING SOMETHING 00:29:25.23\00:29:27.03 ABOUT THE CYCLE OF UNFORGIVENESS, AND THIS WOMAN 00:29:27.03\00:29:30.03 WHO WROTE THIS BOOK, SHE IS CHRISTIAN, AND SHE SAID THAT IN 00:29:30.03\00:29:33.44 HER HOME, SHE WAS -- SHE WENT TO PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING. 00:29:33.44\00:29:37.47 THERE WAS A LOT OF ABUSE IN HER HOME. 00:29:37.47\00:29:40.38 IN FACT, THE COUNSELOR WHO HELPED HER, SAID THAT HER 00:29:40.38\00:29:45.45 UPBRINGING WAS ONE OF THE TOP TEN WORST CASES THEY HAD HEARD 00:29:45.45\00:29:50.85 OF. AND SHE SAID I MADE A DECISION 00:29:50.85\00:29:53.02 THAT THE CYCLE OF UNFORGIVENESS WOULD STOP WITH ME. 00:29:53.02\00:29:56.93 >> PRAISE GOD. >> I WOULD NOT CARRY ON THAT 00:29:56.93\00:29:59.89 CYCLE OF UNFORGIVENESS INTO MY HOME INTO MY MARRIAGE WITH MY 00:29:59.89\00:30:04.90 HUSBAND. SHE IS MARRIED OVER 36 YEARS. 00:30:04.90\00:30:07.94 HER KIDS ARE NOW GROWN, AND THEY HAVE -- SHE SAID INSTEAD OF 00:30:07.94\00:30:12.67 BEING IDENTIFIED AS SOMEONE WHO IS BITTER AND RESENTFUL AND A 00:30:12.67\00:30:16.61 VICTIM, GOD HAS RELEASED ME AND GOD HAS FREED ME. 00:30:16.61\00:30:20.98 IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE TESTIMONY, AND SHE IS NOT -- NO LONGER IN 00:30:20.98\00:30:25.49 THAT CYCLE. GOD HAS GIVEN HER DELIVERANCE 00:30:25.49\00:30:28.99 AND FREEDOM. >> YOU KNOW, IT'S SO INTERESTING 00:30:28.99\00:30:32.56 HOW PEOPLE CAN GROW UP IN THE EXACT SAME ENVIRONMENT. 00:30:32.56\00:30:36.73 YOU TAKE TWO SIBLINGS GROWING UP IN THE SAME ENVIRONMENT, AND 00:30:36.73\00:30:41.34 I'LL USE MY SISTER AND MYSELF. AND I LOOKED AROUND, AND 00:30:41.34\00:30:44.74 EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED, I'M SAYING, I'M NOT EVER GOING TO DO 00:30:44.74\00:30:48.44 THIS OR THAT. I MEAN IT WAS LIKE I HAD THIS 00:30:48.44\00:30:51.98 CHECKLIST OF WHAT I KNEW I WASN'T GOING TO DO WHEN I LEFT 00:30:51.98\00:30:55.32 HOME. NOW MY SISTER ON THE OTHER HAND, 00:30:55.32\00:30:59.65 AND SHE WAS QUITE SPOILED AND FAVORED, WHICH IS INTERESTING, 00:30:59.65\00:31:05.46 BUT SHE REPEATED ALMOST EVERY MISTAKE, AND SHE SELF MEDICATED, 00:31:05.46\00:31:14.90 I WOULD SAY IN MANY WAYS, BUT ONE THING THAT SHE NEVER 00:31:14.90\00:31:18.71 DID -- SHE DID BECOME A DRUG ADDICT FOR A GOOD 15 YEARS SHE 00:31:18.71\00:31:23.38 WAS REALLY INTO THE HARD STUFF. ONE THING SHE NEVER DID -- MY 00:31:23.38\00:31:28.32 AUNT ONCE SAID TO ME, THAT SHE -- MY SISTER COULDN'T HELP 00:31:28.32\00:31:33.76 HERSELF. IT'S NOT HER FAULT BECAUSE SHE 00:31:33.76\00:31:35.99 WAS SO SPOILED ROTTEN AND NEVER HELD ACCOUNTABLE. 00:31:35.99\00:31:39.26 AND MY SISTER ALWAYS SAID I ALWAYS KNEW THERE WAS GREAT 00:31:39.26\00:31:47.00 DISPARITY. BUT YOU HAD THE GOOD PART OF IT, 00:31:47.00\00:31:49.84 SHELLEY. BECAUSE WHEN YOU WENT OUT, YOU 00:31:49.84\00:31:52.41 KNEW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. 00:31:52.41\00:31:55.41 AND SHE SAID I DIDN'T. SO I TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT. 00:31:55.41\00:31:59.21 BUT SHE NEVER BLAMED -- SHE SAID I DON'T BLAME MOMMA, I DON'T 00:31:59.21\00:32:06.25 BLAME MINI AND PAPI. IT WAS MY CHOICE. 00:32:06.25\00:32:10.39 AND THIS IS WHERE WE ALL HAVE TO GET. 00:32:10.39\00:32:13.23 WHEN WE HAVE GOT UNFORGIVENESS IN OUR LIFE, IT CAN MAKE US DO 00:32:13.23\00:32:17.97 SOME PRETTY CRAZY THINGS. >> UH-HUH. 00:32:17.97\00:32:21.20 >> BUT IT IS A CHOICE TO FORGIVE. 00:32:21.20\00:32:24.74 EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN OUR LIFE -- I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU 00:32:24.74\00:32:28.38 COME FROM. I MEAN THERE'S THINGS THAT 00:32:28.38\00:32:30.81 HAPPENED TO ME WHEN I WAS A KID THAT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO ANY 00:32:30.81\00:32:34.02 KID, BUT NO MATTER WHAT YOU COME FROM, IT IS A CHOICE. 00:32:34.02\00:32:38.15 EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO. IT'S YOUR CHOICE. 00:32:38.15\00:32:40.12 JUST LIKE THIS WOMAN. SHE CHOSE -- 00:32:40.12\00:32:42.49 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> -- TO STOP THE CYCLE OF ABUSE 00:32:42.49\00:32:48.66 AND UNFORGIVENESS. 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NOW FORGIVE YOURSELF. 00:35:05.33\00:35:09.17 IT WAS HARD FOR ME, BECAUSE I DID NOT FEEL IT. 00:35:09.17\00:35:12.37 BUT NOW I KNOW IN MY MIND I HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN. 00:35:12.37\00:35:17.98 SATAN IS A LIAR. THANK YOU, LORD. 00:35:17.98\00:35:20.48 SO BILLY OBVIOUSLY HAD AN ABORTION. 00:35:20.48\00:35:24.02 FELT SHAME FOR YEARS. FELT LIKE SHE COULD NOT BE 00:35:24.02\00:35:27.46 FORGIVEN, AND NOW SHE HAS EXPERIENCED FORGIVENESS. 00:35:27.46\00:35:30.33 LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT. 00:35:30.33\00:35:32.43 WHAT IF YOU FEEL LIKE, I CAN'T BE FORGIVEN? 00:35:32.43\00:35:35.26 HOW CAN YOU EXPERIENCE GOD'S FORGIVENESS? 00:35:35.26\00:35:38.93 >> YOU MEAN AS IN FORGIVING YOURSELF? 00:35:38.93\00:35:41.40 >> YEAH. >> I THINK -- YOU KNOW, I HAVE 00:35:41.40\00:35:43.47 THOUGHT ABOUT THIS -- I THINK IT'S THE SAME THING. 00:35:43.47\00:35:46.71 IF -- IF YOU DON'T FEEL YOU CAN FORGIVE YOURSELF, IT IS JUST THE 00:35:46.71\00:35:51.98 SAME PRINCIPLE IS INVOLVED. IF I NEED TO -- TO FORGIVE 00:35:51.98\00:35:56.72 SOMEONE ELSE, TO ASK GOD TO PUT HIS FORGIVENESS IN MY HEART, GOD 00:35:56.72\00:36:05.96 WILL DO IT. WE ARE SO BURDENED DOWN, WHEN WE 00:36:05.96\00:36:09.96 ARE FEELING SO CONDEMNED, BECAUSE IF WE CAN'T FORGIVE 00:36:09.96\00:36:14.57 OURSELVES THAT IS SUC A FEELING OF CONDEMNATION. 00:36:14.57\00:36:17.54 AND WE CAN'T BE A HEALTHY, PRODUCTIVE CHRISTIAN WHEN WE'RE 00:36:17.54\00:36:23.11 WALKING UNDER SO MUCH CONDEMNATION. 00:36:23.11\00:36:25.41 GOD WANTS TO FORGIVE YOU AND CLEANSE YOU. 00:36:25.41\00:36:28.72 I'LL GO BACK TO 1 JOHN 1:9. I HAVEN'T QUOTED THAT YET. 00:36:28.72\00:36:34.82 >> YOU HAVEN'T. >> CONFESS OUR SINS. 00:36:34.82\00:36:37.26 AND YES, HAVING AN ABORTION, THAT'S A SIN. 00:36:37.26\00:36:44.40 FATHER I HAVE DONE A HORRIBLE THING, PLEASE FORGIVE ME. 00:36:44.40\00:36:48.77 THE SCRIPTURES SAY IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS FAITHFUL AND 00:36:48.77\00:36:54.98 JUST IN FORGIVE YOU. AND THEN WHAT DOES HE DO IN 00:36:54.98\00:36:58.95 CLEANSES YOU FROM THAT THING? CLEANSES YOU FROM ALL 00:36:58.95\00:37:04.15 UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. SO HERE WE STAND FORGIVEN AND 00:37:04.15\00:37:08.09 CLEANSED. I THINK I MENTIONED IT EARLIER, 00:37:08.09\00:37:10.69 WHEN GOD LOOKS AT US, HE LOOKS AT US THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE 00:37:10.69\00:37:15.63 LORD JESUS CHRIST. >> AMEN. 00:37:15.63\00:37:17.23 >> THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THE BLOOD OF JESUS SPEAKS BETTER THINGS 00:37:17.23\00:37:22.04 THAN THE BLOOD OF ABLE. ABLE'S BLOOD CRIED OUT FROM THE 00:37:22.04\00:37:27.78 GROUND FOR JUSTICE. BUT CHRIST'S BLOOD CRIES OUT FOR 00:37:27.78\00:37:33.35 US, FOR FORGIVENESS FOR MERCY. FOR GOD TO LOOK AT YOU, HE LOOKS 00:37:33.35\00:37:39.15 AT YOU THROUGH THE BLOOD, AND, YOU KNOW, HE SEES YOU AS THOUGH 00:37:39.15\00:37:42.62 YOU HAVE NEVER SINNED. NOT ONE TIME FROM THE -- FROM 00:37:42.62\00:37:47.86 YOUR VERY BIRTH EVEN UP UNTIL NOW WHEN HE LOOKS AT YOU, HE 00:37:47.86\00:37:52.47 LOOKS AT YOU THROUGH THE BLOOD OF HIS SON, AND SEES YOU PURE 00:37:52.47\00:37:57.74 AND CLEAN BEFORE YOU. AND NOW LET'S ASK GOD BY THE 00:37:57.74\00:38:02.88 POWER OF HIS SPIRIT TO GIVE YOU JUST A GLIMPSE OF HOW HE SEES 00:38:02.88\00:38:07.82 YOU. >> AMEN. 00:38:07.82\00:38:09.05 >> PURE AND CLEAN BEFORE HIM. YOU HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN. 00:38:09.05\00:38:13.22 YOU WALK AWAY FREE. >> AMEN. 00:38:13.22\00:38:16.26 >> BUT I HAVE A DEAR FRIEND. ACTUALLY SHE WORKS HERE. 00:38:16.26\00:38:19.93 AND SHE SAID THAT WHEN SHE REALLY TURNED HER LIFE AROUND 00:38:19.93\00:38:25.83 AND CAME TO THE LORD, SHE KNEW GOD HAS FORGIVEN HER. 00:38:25.83\00:38:32.44 EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID SHE COULD ACCEPT. 00:38:32.44\00:38:35.98 BUT SHE WOULDN'T FORGIVE HERSELF. 00:38:35.98\00:38:38.21 SO SHE WAS TALKING WITH HER PASTOR, AND I WISH -- I HAVE GOT 00:38:38.21\00:38:42.85 IT IN A BOOK, I WROTE IT DOWN. BUT SHE SAID TO HIM, I CAN'T 00:38:42.85\00:38:48.29 FORGIVE MYSELF. AND HE SAID BUT YOU BELIEVE THAT 00:38:48.29\00:38:53.09 GOD HAS FORGIVEN YOU. AND HE SAID YES. 00:38:53.09\00:38:56.43 AND HE SAID SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF WELL, THEN YOU THINK 00:38:56.43\00:39:01.54 YOUR OPINION IS GREATER THAN GODS. 00:39:01.54\00:39:03.84 SHE SAID I DO NOT. AND HE SAID IF GOD CAN FORGIVE 00:39:03.84\00:39:09.18 YOU, BUT YOU CAN'T FORGIVE YOURSELF, THEN IT'S LIKE YOU ARE 00:39:09.18\00:39:12.41 SETTING YOUR JUDGMENT UP ABOVE GOD. 00:39:12.41\00:39:15.72 SHE SAID SHE WAS SO MAD, SHE COULD HAVE JUST SPIT NAILS. 00:39:15.72\00:39:19.92 AND SO SHE WENT AWAY, AND THEN IT WAS ON A SABBATH, AND SHE 00:39:19.92\00:39:24.79 SAID, BEFORE THE SABBATH ENDED, SHE REALIZED THAT SHE WAS 00:39:24.79\00:39:29.00 PUTTING HER OPINION ABOVE THE LORD'S. 00:39:29.00\00:39:31.50 AND SO SHE WA FINALLY ABLE TO ASK GOD TO FORGIVE HER FOR NOT 00:39:31.50\00:39:37.74 GOR -- FORGIVING HERSELF. AND SHE WAS ABLE TO LET GO OF 00:39:37.74\00:39:43.11 THE GUILT AND CONDEMNATION. BECAUSE HEE IS WHAT SATAN WANTS 00:39:43.11\00:39:46.82 TO DO. THE BIBLE SAYS THERE IS NOW 00:39:46.82\00:39:51.02 THEREFORE NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS. 00:39:51.02\00:39:55.92 NOT ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, BUT ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT. 00:39:55.92\00:39:59.63 BY WHAT SATAN WANTS TO DO IS HE ROLLS UP THIS SCROLL OF YOUR 00:39:59.63\00:40:05.37 SINS, AND IT'S LIKE A BATON, AND HE WANTS TO HAND OFF THE BATON 00:40:05.37\00:40:10.34 TO YOU, SO YOU ARE LOOKING AT SINS ALL THE TIME, AND IT'S LIKE 00:40:10.34\00:40:19.71 YOU ARE HITTING YOURSELF OF THE HEAD ALL THE TIME WITH THIS 00:40:19.71\00:40:23.89 BATON. AND THIS IS A TECH -- TACTIC OF 00:40:23.89\00:40:32.56 THE DEVIL. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:40:32.56\00:40:35.73 AMEN. AMEN. 00:40:35.73\00:40:37.10 SATAN BRINGS CONDEMNATION, AND THERE IS A VAST DIFFERENCE 00:40:37.10\00:40:45.24 BETWEEN CONVICTION AND CONDEMNATION. 00:40:45.24\00:40:48.34 MOLLY -- MOLLY DID YOU HAVE A SCRIPTURE IN 00:40:48.34\00:40:55.58 >> YES. LEAVE ME IN THE PATH EVER 00:40:55.58\00:40:59.85 LASTING. AND THAT IS PROVERBS 129:23. 00:40:59.85\00:41:07.30 >> PSALMS? >> DID I SAY PROVERBS? 00:41:07.30\00:41:11.00 >> YES, MA'AM. >> BECAUSE YOU ARE ALWAYS 00:41:11.00\00:41:16.07 QUOTING PROVERBS. >> NO, IT'S PROVERBS -- 00:41:16.07\00:41:25.31 >> SMPSALMS. >> I DID IT AGAIN. 00:41:25.31\00:41:27.18 SO WE WANT GOD TO LOOK INTO OUR HEARTS AND SEE IF THERE IS 00:41:27.18\00:41:33.79 ANYTHING THAT IS UNLIKE HIM. AND THEN AS THE LORD BRINGS 00:41:33.79\00:41:37.96 THOSE THINGS TO THE SURFACE, WE CONFESS OUR SINS, AND THEN WE 00:41:37.96\00:41:48.37 CAN STAND IN FRONT OF THE LORD. AND PSALMS 110, OH, LORD, MY 00:41:48.37\00:41:56.31 STRENGTH AND MY REDEEMER. >> AMEN. 00:41:56.31\00:41:58.65 >> AMEN. NEXT QUESTION IS VERY SHORT. 00:41:58.65\00:42:02.25 IT ONLY HAS FOUR WORDS. IT IS FROM ERNEST. 00:42:02.25\00:42:12.49 HE SAID ONCE FORGIVEN ALWAYS FORGIVEN? 00:42:12.49\00:42:19.33 >> WE TALKED ABOUT THAT WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE SKELETONS THAT 00:42:19.33\00:42:26.68 COME UP. MAYBE WE FEEL LIKE WE ARE MOVING 00:42:26.68\00:42:29.24 ON, AND THEN THEY DO SOMETHING, THE SAME KIND OF REPEAT -- LET'S 00:42:29.24\00:42:34.15 JUST USE ADULTERY AS OF -- MAYBE YOU HAVE FORGIVEN YOUR SPOUSE 00:42:34.15\00:42:44.66 FOR ADULTERY, AND YOU ARE MOVING ON, AND A FEW YEARS DOWN THE 00:42:44.66\00:42:48.96 ROAD, THEY DO IT AGAIN. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING THAT 00:42:48.96\00:42:54.07 HAPPENS? YOU GO BACK AGAIN. 00:42:54.07\00:42:55.57 AND IT'S LIKE THAT WHOLE PROCESS OF FORGIVENESS, NOW YOU HAVE TO 00:42:55.57\00:42:59.41 GO THROUGH THE SAME THING. >> UH-HUH. 00:42:59.41\00:43:02.21 >> SO -- >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:43:02.21\00:43:03.78 >> OH, WAIT, I HAVE GOT A PERFECT SCRIPTURE FOR HIM. 00:43:03.78\00:43:07.68 >> OKAY. GOOD. 00:43:07.68\00:43:09.15 >> ONCE FORGIVEN, ALWAYS FORGIVEN. 00:43:09.15\00:43:12.52 HOW COULD I NOT HAVE THOUGHT OF THIS. 00:43:12.52\00:43:16.79 MATTHEW 18:22-35. JESUS ANSWERED THEREFORE THE 00:43:16.79\00:43:24.10 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE A KING WHO WANTED TO SETTLE ACCOUNTS 00:43:24.10\00:43:27.44 WITH HIS SERVANTS AND HE BEGAN THE SETTLEMENT, A MAN WHO OWED 00:43:27.44\00:43:32.44 HIM 10,000 TALENTS WAS BROUGHT TO HIM. 00:43:32.44\00:43:35.08 SINCE HE WAS NOT ABLE TO PAY, THE MASTER ORDERED ALL THAT HE 00:43:35.08\00:43:39.68 HAD SOLD -- ALL THAT HE HAD TO BE SOLD TO REPAY THE DEBT. 00:43:39.68\00:43:45.49 THE SERVANT FELL ON HIS KNEES, OH, BE PATIENT WITH ME. 00:43:45.49\00:43:50.53 AND I WILL PAY BACK EVERYTHING. THE SERVANT'S MASTER TOOK PITY 00:43:50.53\00:43:55.00 ON HIM. CANCELED THE DEBT AND LET HIM 00:43:55.00\00:43:59.17 GO. BUT WHEN HE WENT OUT -- HE HAD 00:43:59.17\00:44:01.87 THIS HUGE DEBT THAT WAS FORGIVEN. 00:44:01.87\00:44:05.44 BUT THE SERVANT FOUND ONE OF HIS FELLOW SERVANTS WHO OWED HIM 00:44:05.44\00:44:12.55 100. PAY BACK WHAT YOU OWE ME, HE 00:44:12.55\00:44:16.02 DEMANDED AND HIS FELLOW SERVANT FELL TO HIS KNEES AND BEGGED, BE 00:44:16.02\00:44:20.89 PATIENT WITH ME AND I WILL PAY YOU BACK. 00:44:20.89\00:44:23.26 BUT HE REFUSED. HE WENT OFF AND HAD THE MAN 00:44:23.26\00:44:29.70 THROWN INTO PRISON. AND WHEN THE OTHER SERVANT SAW 00:44:29.70\00:44:33.94 WHAT HAPPENED THEY TOLD THE MASTER WHAT HAPPENED. 00:44:33.94\00:44:37.27 AND THE MASTER SAID YOU WICKED SERVANT, I C-- CANCELED ALL OF 00:44:37.27\00:44:46.88 THAT DEBT. HIS MASTER TURNED HIM OVER TO 00:44:46.88\00:44:49.22 THE JAILERS TO BE TORTURED UNTIL HE COULD PAY BACK ALL THAT HE 00:44:49.22\00:44:54.52 OWED. THIS IS HOW MY HEAVENLY FATHER 00:44:54.52\00:44:56.73 WILL TREAT EACH OF YOU, UNLESS YOU FORGIVE YOUR BROTHER FROM 00:44:56.73\00:45:00.40 YOUR HEART. SO THAT SERVANT HAD HAD A DEBT 00:45:00.40\00:45:04.50 FORGIVEN, BUT BECAUSE HE WAS NOT FORGIVING, HE ENDED UP HAVING TO 00:45:04.50\00:45:08.60 PAY HIS DEBT. >> YEAH. 00:45:08.60\00:45:10.61 WE HAVE JUST A FEW MINUTES LEFT. SO LET'S SEE HOW MANY MORE WE 00:45:10.61\00:45:16.31 CAN GET THROUGH. THIS IS FROM VICKY. 00:45:16.31\00:45:18.95 IF WE HAVE TRULY FORGIVEN SOMEONE, DOES THAT MEAN WE NO 00:45:18.95\00:45:23.45 LONGER FEEL THE PAIN IN >> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 00:45:23.45\00:45:25.72 >> IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. >> I THINK THE PAIN LESSENS. 00:45:25.72\00:45:31.19 I THINK -- YOU KNOW, IT COMES -- HEALING COMES FROM GOD. 00:45:31.19\00:45:35.10 >> UH-HUH. >> AS LONG AS THE PAIN IS THERE, 00:45:35.10\00:45:37.70 YOU ARE NOT HEALED. I BELIEVE YOU CAN FORGIVE 00:45:37.70\00:45:41.27 SOMEONE AND STILL HAVE PAIN. >> BUT AS YOU HOLD ON TO THAT 00:45:41.27\00:45:45.84 FORGIVENESS, AND AS YOU TRUST GOD, HEALING COMES FROM THE 00:45:45.84\00:45:48.74 LORD. >> YEAH. 00:45:48.74\00:45:49.38 >> THERE IS A SAYING TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS. 00:45:49.38\00:45:53.92 NA. GOD IS THE ONLY HEALER. 00:45:53.92\00:45:55.85 >> AMEN. AMEN. 00:45:55.85\00:45:57.52 >> SO YOUR HEALING WILL COME FROM GOD. 00:45:57.52\00:46:00.06 >> AND TO ME FORGIVENESS IS A JOURNEY. 00:46:00.06\00:46:02.66 AND I THINK THAT -- I THINK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A 00:46:02.66\00:46:08.20 SCAR AND AN OPEN WOUND. AS YOU ARE STARTING TO 00:46:08.20\00:46:14.74 HEAL -- SAY YOU CUT YOURSELF, AND THERE'S PAIN AND IT'S 00:46:14.74\00:46:21.61 SCABBING, AND EVENTUALLY IT GETS TO THE POINT WHERE THERE IS A 00:46:21.61\00:46:26.05 SCAR. I THINK WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER, 00:46:26.05\00:46:28.55 BUT TO ME THAT MEANS THE OOZING, AND THE BLOOD, AND ALL OF THAT 00:46:28.55\00:46:33.62 PAIN EVENTUALLY COMES OUT. >> UH-HUH. 00:46:33.62\00:46:37.46 YOU KNOW, I HAVE SITUATIONS IN MY LIFE THAT WERE VERY PAINFUL. 00:46:37.46\00:46:40.73 AND ON THIS SIDE OF IT -- IT'S NOT THAT I DON'T REMEMBER THE 00:46:40.73\00:46:47.04 SITUATIONS, BUT I REMEMBER THEM WITHOUT THE PAIN. 00:46:47.04\00:46:49.84 AND THAT IS BECAUSE THE LORD -- >> HEALED YOU. 00:46:49.84\00:46:52.47 >> ABSOLUTELY. THIS ONE IS ANONYMOUS. 00:46:52.47\00:46:56.34 BUT IF A PERSON CONTINUOUSLY HURTS YOU, AND YOU PRAY FOR 00:46:56.34\00:47:02.15 THEM, YET THE HURT STILL STAYS, WHEN THE THOUGHT OF THE PERSON 00:47:02.15\00:47:15.26 JUST HURTS YOU AFRESH. >> THAT MEANS YOU HAVE NOT 00:47:15.26\00:47:18.97 EXPERIENCED HEALING. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:47:18.97\00:47:20.50 STILL IN PAIN. >> YEAH, WHEN YOU ARE IN THAT 00:47:20.50\00:47:25.24 MUCH PAIN. I ONCE INTERVIEWED A WOMAN WHO 00:47:25.24\00:47:28.18 HAD BEEN ABUSED TERRIBLY AS A CHILD, BY HER HUSBAND, ON THE 00:47:28.18\00:47:35.95 STREETS, AND SHE COULD SIT AND TELL THESE HORRIBLE TAILS DRY 00:47:35.95\00:47:41.66 EYED, BCAUSE SHE WAS TOTALLY HEALED, BUT SHE SAID, IT DOESN'T 00:47:41.66\00:47:47.13 MEAN THAT THERE ISN'T A TWINGE OF PAIN. 00:47:47.13\00:47:49.66 >> YES. >> SHE SAID THERE ARE THINS 00:47:49.66\00:47:51.43 THAT HAPPENED IN MY LIFE, AND SHE SAID IT IS JUST KIND OF LIKE 00:47:51.43\00:47:56.10 THAT TWINGE OF PAIN FROM SOMEBODY FROM THE PAST, BUT IT 00:47:56.10\00:48:00.24 IS MORE OF -- MAYBE THE PAIN OF A SCAR, AS YOU SAID, INSTEAD OF 00:48:00.24\00:48:04.45 THE PAIN OF THE OPEN WOUND. >> AND THIS PERSON SAYS IT IS 00:48:04.45\00:48:11.69 CONTINUOUSLY HAPPENING. SO WHAT WE WANT TO SAY IS GET 00:48:11.69\00:48:14.66 AWAY FROM THE SITUATION. BUT SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T. 00:48:14.66\00:48:18.66 SAY IT'S HER ABUSIVE MOTHER THAT IS IN A -- HAVING -- IN A HEALTH 00:48:18.66\00:48:23.53 SITUATION, AND SHE HAS TO CONTINUALLY BE THE CAREGIVER TO 00:48:23.53\00:48:27.37 HER MOTHER. THIS IS VERY HYPOTHETICAL, BUT 00:48:27.37\00:48:32.41 SHE IS THE CAREGIVER FOR HER MOTHER. 00:48:32.41\00:48:35.38 AND HER MOTHER CONTINUES TO HURT HER. 00:48:35.38\00:48:37.51 THAT'S A HARD PLACE TO WALK IN, AND TO CONTINUALLY WALK IN PAIN, 00:48:37.51\00:48:42.18 BUT THEN THAT'S WHERE WE PRESENT IT TO THE LORD. 00:48:42.18\00:48:46.42 GODS IS YOUR ONLY HOPE IN A SITUATION LIKE THAT. 00:48:46.42\00:48:50.26 >> I WAS IN A SIMILAR SITUATION TO WHAT YOU JUT SET UP, AND I 00:48:50.26\00:48:54.93 REMEMBER GOING TO THE LORD, AND SAYING OH, LORD, CHANGE HER, 00:48:54.93\00:48:59.40 CHANGE HER. I CONTACT TAKE THIS ANYMORE, 00:48:59.40\00:49:02.00 CHANGE HER. AND IN A SMALL VOICE, THE LORD 00:49:02.00\00:49:05.27 SAID, LET ME CHANGE YOU. >> YES. 00:49:05.27\00:49:06.98 >> AND IT WAS LIKE WHAT? AND HE SAID, I WILL SHOW YOU HER 00:49:06.98\00:49:11.81 THROUGH MY EYES, AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND, AND, YOU KNOW, THIS 00:49:11.81\00:49:15.48 WAS SOMETHING THAT -- BOY THAT WAS A GROWING EXPERIENCE, 00:49:15.48\00:49:22.66 BECAUSE ALL I UNDERSTOOD SUDDENLY IT WASN'T SO PAINFUL, 00:49:22.66\00:49:25.66 BECAUSE I WAS SEEING IT THROUGH GOD'S EYES, WHY -- WHAT WAS THE 00:49:25.66\00:49:30.80 REASON THAT SHE WAS DOING THE THINGS THAT SHE WAS DOING, AND 00:49:30.80\00:49:35.50 EVENTUALLY WE OVERCAME THAT. >> AMEN. 00:49:35.50\00:49:37.47 THIS IS FROM DOROTHY. SHE SAYS WHEN SHE WAS RECOVERING 00:49:37.47\00:49:40.68 FROM SURGERY, A FRIEND CAME TO STAY WITH HER FOR A WEEK, AND 00:49:40.68\00:49:45.68 HER FRIEND HELPED HER GET RID OF CLUTTER AND THINGS. 00:49:45.68\00:49:49.72 HOWEVER, INSTEAD OF THE FRIEND SAYING OKAY, GET RID OF THIS. 00:49:49.72\00:49:53.46 OKAY, DO YOU WANT TO KEEP THIS? THE FRIEND WENT AHEAD AND TOSSED 00:49:53.46\00:49:59.83 SOME THINGS THAT SHE CONSIDERED VERY VALUABLE. 00:49:59.83\00:50:03.26 I HAVE ONLY SPOKEN TO HER TWICE SINCE TO ASK WHERE THINGS WERE, 00:50:03.26\00:50:09.07 ONLY TO DISCOVER THINK THINGS WERE TOSSED. 00:50:09.07\00:50:12.51 IT BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES JUST THINKING ABOUT IT. 00:50:12.51\00:50:16.18 I THINK I SHOULD FORGIVE. BUT I AM NOT ABLE TO. 00:50:16.18\00:50:20.55 HELP. >> OKAY. 00:50:20.55\00:50:21.32 WE HAD A PHONE CALL TODAY. A WOMAN WHO JUST LOST HER 00:50:21.32\00:50:28.69 BROTHER, AND WAS VERY SAD BECAUSE IT WAS SEVEN YEARS THAT 00:50:28.69\00:50:32.79 SHE HAD NOT SPOKEN TO HER BROTHER. 00:50:32.79\00:50:36.90 SHE HAD OTHER SIBLINGS WITH WHOM SHE WAS VERY CLOSE, BUT SHE AND 00:50:36.90\00:50:41.24 THIS BROTHER HAD HAD A FALLING OUT, AND SHE WAS DEVASTATED 00:50:41.24\00:50:45.61 BECAUSE HE HAD PASSED, AND THEY NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO 00:50:45.61\00:50:50.18 REALLY HEAL. JUST REMEMBER THIS. 00:50:50.18\00:50:54.52 YOUR FRIEND WAS IN ERROR, YES. SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT. 00:50:54.52\00:51:01.29 BUT FRIENDSHIP IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THESE MATERIAL THINGS. 00:51:01.29\00:51:08.83 PROVERBS 17:9. HE SAYS HE WHO COVERS AND 00:51:08.83\00:51:14.10 FORGIVES IN A SENSE, SEEKS LOVE, BUT HE WHO REPEATS OR HARPS ON A 00:51:14.10\00:51:19.94 MATTER SEPARATES EVEN CLOSE FRIENDS. 00:51:19.94\00:51:22.21 >> YES. >> SO AT THIS POINT, IF YOU ARE 00:51:22.21\00:51:26.45 REALLY A CLOSE FRIEND, YOU KNOW SIT DOWN AND TALK TO HER OR 00:51:26.45\00:51:31.62 WRITE HER AND SAY, YOU KNOW -- IT'S REALLY HARD IN AN 00:51:31.62\00:51:36.39 EMAIL. I WOULD TALK. 00:51:36.39\00:51:38.23 AND SAY I'M JUST SO SAD THAT YOU DID THIS. 00:51:38.23\00:51:40.90 WHY WOULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS? GIVE HER A CHANCE TO EXPLAIN. 00:51:40.90\00:51:45.23 AND MAYBE TO ASK FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS, AND THAT -- IT 00:51:45.23\00:51:48.77 ALWAYS MAKES IT EASIER TO GIVE FORGIVENESS WHEN SOMEBODY ASKS 00:51:48.77\00:51:53.48 FOR FORGIVENESS. >> ABSOLUTELY. 00:51:53.48\00:51:56.04 >> AND A SCRIPTURE THAT MAY HELP IS PSALMS 119. 00:51:56.04\00:52:05.09 SHE OFFENDED YOU. AND WE'RE NOT JUSTIFYING THAT. 00:52:05.09\00:52:08.76 IN THAT WAS WRONG. SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT. 00:52:08.76\00:52:13.23 >> I WOULD HAVE BEEN MADDER THAN A WET HEN. 00:52:13.23\00:52:16.56 [ LAUGHTER ] >> BUT LET'S NOT LET THIS OFFEND 00:52:16.56\00:52:20.40 YOU. NOTHING SHALL AFENGD THEE. 00:52:20.40\00:52:24.07 AND I WANT TO GIVE YOU A FEW LITTLE QUOTES FROM THE DESIRE OF 00:52:24.07\00:52:29.31 AGES. AND IT TALKS ABOUT -- IT'S 00:52:29.31\00:52:31.85 CHAPTER 1. IT'S THE LAW OF LIFE FOR HEAVEN 00:52:31.85\00:52:38.12 AND EARTH.-THE LAW OF SELF RENOUNCING LOVE. IN THAT LOVE 00:52:38.12\00:52:45.49 WHICH SEEKTH NOT HER OWN. THE GLORY SHINING IN THE FACE OF 00:52:45.49\00:52:49.03 JESUS IS THE GLORY OF SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE. 00:52:49.03\00:52:53.00 IN THIS CASE, YOU ARE HAVING AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOME 00:52:53.00\00:52:56.60 SACRIFICING. AND THAT IS SACRIFICING 00:52:56.60\00:52:58.54 SOMETHING THAT -- YOU FEEL LIKE WHAT SHE DID TO YOU WAS TOTALLY 00:52:58.54\00:53:03.88 UNJUSTIFIABLE. AND WE TEND TO AGREE WITH YOU ON 00:53:03.88\00:53:06.15 THIS. BUT FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR 00:53:06.15\00:53:08.82 WELL-BEING, FOR THE SAKE OF YOU WALKING WITH A HEART THAT IS 00:53:08.82\00:53:12.65 PURE BEFORE THE LORD, THEN YOU FORGIVE HER. 00:53:12.65\00:53:15.66 YOU FORGIVE. YOU -- YOU DON'T FOCUS ON SELF. 00:53:15.66\00:53:19.53 YOU FOCUS ON THE SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS THAT WE -- THAT -- AS HE 00:53:19.53\00:53:25.03 FORGIVES US, WE MUST FORGIVE OTHERS. 00:53:25.03\00:53:27.60 >> AMEN. >> AND THEN YOU LAY IT AT THE 00:53:27.60\00:53:30.44 FEET OF JESUS AND ALLOW HIS LOVE TO TOUCH YOU. 00:53:30.44\00:53:33.07 >> AMEN. I JUST ALSO WANT TO ENCOURAGE 00:53:33.07\00:53:37.85 YOU IN THIS, THAT WE CAN REMEMBER THAT GOD FORGAVE US, 00:53:37.85\00:53:42.52 AND PSALM 129:4 SAYS THE LORD IS RIGH 00:53:42.52\00:53:48.69 RIGHTEOUS, ASK GOD, SAY, LORD, I KNOW YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS, CUT ME 00:53:48.69\00:53:53.16 FREE FROM THIS CHORD THAT IS BINDING ME. 00:53:53.16\00:53:58.57 BECAUSE $0.01 CORINTHIANS, IN KING JAMES IT SAYS THAT 00:53:58.57\00:54:07.11 LOVE -- HOW DOES IT SAY -- SEEKS NO EVIL. 00:54:07.11\00:54:10.61 BUT IN THE AMPLIFIED IT SAYS LOVE IS NOT -- IT DOES NOT KEEP 00:54:10.61\00:54:15.12 A RECORD OF WRONGDOING. >> AMEN. 00:54:15.12\00:54:18.05 >> SO YOU WANT -- YOU DON'T WANT THAT TO BE IN YOUR HEART, 00:54:18.05\00:54:21.99 BECAUSE THAT IS GOING TO COME BETWEEN YOU AND THE LORD. 00:54:21.99\00:54:26.73 SO YOU HAVE GOT FORGIVE HER. IT'S A CHOICE. 00:54:26.73\00:54:29.93 YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT GOD FORGAVE YOU, BUT AS YOU DO ASK 00:54:29.93\00:54:35.30 GOD FOR HIS LOVE INTO YOUR HEART, THEN HE CAN HELP YOU TO 00:54:35.30\00:54:39.61 FORGIVE HER. >> AMEN. 00:54:39.61\00:54:41.38 I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE END OF THE 00:54:41.38\00:54:44.15 SECOND HOUR. IT HAS GONE SO QUICKLY. 00:54:44.15\00:54:46.08 I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT AT THE END, AND GO TO THE LORD IN 00:54:46.08\00:54:50.29 PRAYER. I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU ARE 00:54:50.29\00:54:52.19 HURTING, AND WE WANT TO PRAY FOR YOU. 00:54:52.19\00:54:55.12 WE WANT TO PRAY THAT GOD WOULD GIVE YOU HIS FORGIVENESS. 00:54:55.12\00:55:00.60 THAT HE WOULD GRANT FORGIVENESS, AND YOU COULD POUR THAT OUT INTO 00:55:00.60\00:55:04.63 THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO MAYBE HURT YOU. 00:55:04.63\00:55:09.74 VERONICA, ASKS -- SHE SAYS SHE STRUGGLES WITH FORGIVENESS AND 00:55:09.74\00:55:16.01 WOULD LIKE PRAYER TO HELP HER FORGIVE. 00:55:16.01\00:55:20.48 AND SHELLEY THIS IS FROM ALFRED, AND ASKING PRAYER FOR ERIC AND 00:55:20.48\00:55:24.42 HIS CONVERSION. AND WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME. 00:55:24.42\00:55:27.59 >> HOLY FATHER I DO BRING VERONICA BEFORE YOUR THROWN OF 00:55:27.59\00:55:33.09 GRACE AND I PRAISE YOU THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN HER A HEART TO WANT 00:55:33.09\00:55:39.27 TO. I ASK THAT YOU DRAW HER INTO A 00:55:39.27\00:55:41.50 CLOSER AND DEEPER RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU, PUT YOUR LOE IN HER 00:55:41.50\00:55:47.24 HEART AND GIVE HER YOUR COURAGE, GRACE, LOVE, AND JOY, AND USE 00:55:47.24\00:55:53.68 HER TO BRING HONOR TO YOUR KINGDOM. 00:55:53.68\00:55:57.59 >> FATHER WE PRAY THAT YOU WILL OPEN ERIC'S EYES, THAT HE MIGHT 00:55:57.59\00:56:04.46 ENJOY THE INHERITANCE AND BE AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE AN 00:56:04.46\00:56:08.90 INHERITANCE, BECAUSE THEY ARE SANCTIFIED BY CHRIST IN JESUS. 00:56:08.90\00:56:15.07 >> AMEN. FATHER WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR 00:56:15.07\00:56:19.07 FORGIVENESS, WE RECEIVE IT. AND WE THANK YOU FOR POURING 00:56:19.07\00:56:22.38 THAT INTO OUR HEARTS TO EXTEND TO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 00:56:22.38\00:56:27.62 WE ASK THIS IN THE PRECIOUS AND HOLY NAME OF JESUS. 00:56:27.62\00:56:32.15 >> AMEN. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, MOLLIE AND 00:56:32.15\00:56:37.36 SHELLEY, IT HAS BEEN A BLESSING TO BE WITH EACH OF YOU. 00:56:37.36\00:56:40.20 >> THANK YOU. >> AND WE THANK YOU FOR JOINING 00:56:40.20\00:56:43.80 US. KNOW THAT WE CONSIDER YOU AS A 00:56:43.80\00:56:45.80 PART OF OUR 3ABN FAMILY. THAT YOU ARE NOT ONLY SPECIAL TO 00:56:45.80\00:56:49.27 US HERE, AND WE PRAY FOR YOU, BUT YOU ARE MOST IMPORTANTLY 00:56:49.27\00:56:52.61 SPECIAL TO THE HEART OF GOD, THAT HE HAS YOUR NAME ENGRAVENED 00:56:52.61\00:56:57.85 ON THE PALM OF HIS HAND, THAT HE SAYS HE LOVES YOU WITH 00:56:57.85\00:57:03.75 EVER-LASTING LOVE. AND THAT HE WANTS TO TRANSFORM 00:57:03.75\00:57:06.62 YOUR LIFE, AND MAKE YOU FREE IN CHRIST. 00:57:06.62\00:57:09.02 WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN, BYE-BYE. >> AMEN. 00:57:09.02\00:57:10.86 ¤ 00:57:10.86\00:57:16.83