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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
My name is Rick Renner.
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I've been waiting for you,
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and today we're gonna return to the series
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which is called - What Jesus Said about Revenge
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and Retribution.
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Have you ever wanted to take revenge
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or take retribution on somebody?
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Well, we're gonna see what
Jesus had to say about revenge
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and retribution.
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We're going to begin in Matthew 5,
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then we're gonna go over to 1 Peter 2,
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where Peter gives us
really important insights
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to this question of Revenge and Retribution.
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But the whole series is called - What Jesus Said About
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Revenge and Retribution.
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It's 5-parts: comes in all kinds
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of formats with a study guide.
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Now, I'm going to tell you
this is a tough subject
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because if we really do what Jesus says
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and what Peter says, it's gonna require us
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to crawl on the altar and
surrender ourselves to God.
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Because when you're under
assault, you want to attack,
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you want to defend yourself.
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But when you come to the words of Jesus
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and to the words of Peter,
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you find there is a moment when you're not
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supposed to defend yourself.
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Sometimes you are and
sometimes you're not.
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And just so you'll know,
this is not theory to me.
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I have been in really
difficult situations in all
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of our years of ministry.
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We had one event in
which someone stole a lot
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of money from our ministry.
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This was many, many years ago.
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And I had the opportunity to sue,
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but I knew that if I sued,
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if I took matters into
my own hands, revenge
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and retribution, I would've won -
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but - it would've also given a blemish to the gospel.
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And I made a decision just to let it go
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because I love the gospel
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and I love Jesus more
than I loved the money
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that had been stolen.
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I considered the reputation
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of the gospel was more
important than the wrong
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that had been done to us.
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So we just let it go and
God dealt with that person
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and God took care of us. My friends,
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it's important that we find the will
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of God in every situation that we're in,
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and we need to see what Jesus had to say
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because it's really the
foundation about revenge
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and retribution.
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But this is a 5-part series that comes
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with a study guide.
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And I'm also excited to tell you about my book
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that is called, You Can Get Over It.
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And the reason I call it, You Can Get Over It, is
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because you can get over it.
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It doesn't matter what you've
been through, what's been done
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to you, you do not have to be
a captive to that incident.
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You don't have to be a
captive to wounded emotions.
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You can get over it.
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And Jesus tells us how to get over it, how
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to forgive and how to move on.
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Now, what's interesting is of
all my books, this is the book
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that is least ordered
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because when people see
it, they think, well, I,
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I don't wanna read about getting over it.
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I don't know if I'm ready to get over it,
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but my friends, you're the
only one that holds the key
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to unlock the door that's
held you in prison.
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You need to use that key, insert it into that lock, open it,
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push the door open and
go free and get over it.
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And that's why I want you
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to read this book called - You Can Get Over It.
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You really can. I'm declaring
it to you, it's good news.
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But to find out more
about these resources,
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just go online or give us a call.
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And when you reach out to
us, please let us know how
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to pray for you.
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But I want you to reach for your Bible.
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We always use the Bible in this program.
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And today I really want you
to see with your own eyes
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what the Bible says about
revenge and retribution.
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And we're gonna go back to Matthew 5:38
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to the words of Jesus.
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And in Matthew 5:38, Jesus says -
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But you have heard that it hath been said -
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and it's referring to the rules of the Old Testament: An eye
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for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
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And these were the rules which
were given to magistrates,
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priests and judges for how they were
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to conduct matters in the court.
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It was an eye for an eye,
it was a tooth for a tooth.
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But people personalized
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and carried it into their personal lives.
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And they said - Hmm - you do something to me,
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I'm gonna do something to you. That is not
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this is not personal instruction.
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This was the rule for the court, but people begin
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to take matters into their own hands.
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And they said an eye for an
eye, a tooth for a tooth.
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But when you come to Matthew 5:39, Jesus says,
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But I say unto you. In Greek it says, ego de lego.
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Ego means - me.
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Jesus is drawing attention to himself.
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The word, de, is emphatic.
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The word, lego, means I say. You put it all together,
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ego de lego, here translated in the King James version -
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but I say. It really means -
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But now I categorically, emphatically have this
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to say unto you. It's like Jesus is really
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raising his voice.
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He's gonna take us to a new level.
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He says that you resist not evil,
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but whosoever shall
smite thee on thy right
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cheek turn to him
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the other also. You know when you teach,
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you're always tested by your own teaching.
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I've been tested by a
lot of my own teaching.
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And here Jesus said, if you're hit in the cheek,
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give them your other cheek.
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Well, a day was gonna come
when Jesus was gonna have
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to walk out this teaching.
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This was not theory to the
Lord. Jesus walked this out.
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And when the Bible says smite,
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this word smite is a Greek word, rhapidzo.
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It's a stinging slap with a palm of the hand.
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Have you ever been slapped in the face?
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It is not a pleasant experience,
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but it's a derivative of the word rhabdos, which means
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to strike with a club or a stick.
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So Jesus says, when somebody slaps you
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with their palm in the face
or they beat you with a club
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or a stick on the cheek,
give them the other one also.
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And the word cheek is a Greek
word which describes the cheek
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or the jawbone.
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But now listen to this -
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a strike on the cheek was a calculated insult in the
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ancient world. It conveyed contempt more than bodily harm.
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And the term carries emotional as well
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as physical overtones - touching on things of dishonor,
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retaliation and shame.
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And Jesus says, if someone
takes contempt on you
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and they slap you, they
beat you, they attack you,
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they assault you, give
them your other cheek also.
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Now, these are not my
words, these are the words
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of Jesus and my friend's,
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Jesus was tested by his own teaching
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because eventually a time came
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when Jesus was paraded into a room filled
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with religious leaders.
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You can read it in my book, called Easter,
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The Rest of the Story.
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And they slapped him one by one: slapping him, slapping him,
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slapping him, even beating him with their fists.
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But when you come to 1 Peter 2:21, listen to
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what Peter says about what Jesus went through.
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And in 1 Peter 2:21, Peter says -
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For even here unto where you called - now he was writing
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to believers that were really
enduring a lot of grief simply
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because they were Christians:
they were being abused,
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they were being put in jail,
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their jobs are will be taken from them,
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they're losing their homes.
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They were really suffering.
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And it says, because Christ
also suffered for us,
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leaving us an example that you
should follow in his steps.
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Now, if you didn't hear
yesterday's program,
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please go back to the archives.
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You need to hear it.
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You need to know what it means
when it says Jesus left us an
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example that we should
follow in his steps.
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Those words are just
jam packed and powerful.
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But the RIV, our 1 Peter 2:21 says it like this
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For into this very thing you've been called -
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because Christ also went through great struggles
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and sufferings on our behalf.
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And in doing so left behind an example
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for us to study
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and replicate in
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that you should exactly
follow in his footprints step
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by step, putting your feet in his steps
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so you can follow his example -
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exactly. I love this. Jesus is our example.
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And when we find ourself in a
fix, we're in a bad position
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where we feel that we're suffering the
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abuse of somebody else,
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and there's all kinds of abuse. It might be verbal abuse.
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If you're suffering physical abuse, you need
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to remove yourself from it.
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But my friends, when we
find ourself in a difficult
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position, we need to look
at the example of Jesus.
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And according to one Peter 2:21,
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how Jesus responded is our example.
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And that's how we are to respond.
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But then in one Peter 2:22, Peter continues
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to tell us about Jesus - Who did no sin,
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neither was guile found in his mouth.
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The word 'no' is the Greek word ouk.
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And this is really important: is the strongest form
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of the word no or not
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in the Greek language - it is categorical: who emphatically,
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categorically, did not sin.
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The word sin is the Greek word, hamartano.
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It's usually translated
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as the word sin in the New Testament,
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but it means one who misses the mark of
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what is right and what is wrong.
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And sometimes missing the
mark can be unintentional.
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Therefore it's a mistake.
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Sometimes it is intentional,
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but regardless of whether it's intentional
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or unintentional, the
Bible says it is sin,
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the Greek word, hamartano.
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But here we find Jesus never inadvertently sinned -
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he never intentionally sinned,
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and it's talking about sin in the mouth.
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Well you know when you're under assault, sometimes you want
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to retaliate.
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And retaliation often
begins with verbal words.
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And here we find in this
respect, Jesus emphatically,
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categorically did not mess up.
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He did not sin. Neither was
guile found in his mouth.
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And the word guile describes
exploitive behavior
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and gives the idea of
craftiness, deceit, guile,
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manipulation, treachery or trickery.
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It was never found in his mouth -
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not one time.
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And friends, Jesus was really
placed in some very difficult
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situations.
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And then the RIV
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of this verse could be interpreted like this - Who never,
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ever committed sin
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nor were deceitful, exploitive,
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or manipulative words found in his mouth.
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And if Jesus is our example,
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then it means we shouldn't
allow these things
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to be found in our mouth either.
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But then you come to 1 Peter 2:23 and it continues
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and says - Who, when he was reviled - reviled not again.
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And when he suffered, he threatened not
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but committed himself to him,
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the judgeth righteously.
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Wow! Do you see the word reviled -
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who when he was reviled?
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The Greek word used here describes harsh, mean-spirited,
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verbal treatment.
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It means to demoralize a person
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or to insult him to his face.
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It can be translated to abuse, to rail at
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or to revile.
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This word depicts verbal
abuse that Jesus endured,
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especially at his trial and crucifixion,
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but also from those who
verbally assaulted him
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during the course of his entire ministry.
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You know, Jesus was verbally
assaulted his entire ministry.
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The people in Nazareth
assaulted him verbally.
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The religious leaders
verbally assaulted him.
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Jesus had many, many enemies
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that were verbally
assaulting him, reviling him
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for three years of his ministry.
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And then when Jesus was paraded in
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before all the religious leaders, they said horrible things
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as they blasphemed him, beat
him, slapped him, abused him.
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But no guile was ever found
in the mouth of Jesus.
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Jesus did not revile again.
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And that's what 1 Peter 2:23 continues to say -
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Who when he was reviled, reviled not again. The word
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not, again is the Greek word ouk, the most emphatic form
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of the Greek word - no or not.
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He emphatically did not
revile again. And guess what?
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Revile again is a compound of the Greek word anti,
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which means back or in return.
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And the 2nd word means harsh, mean-spirited,
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verbal treatment to demoralize, to insult to one's face -
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can be translated to abuse, to rail at, to revile,
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but compounded as the word that is used here,
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it means he never returned verbal abuse.
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He never responded in
kind by returning harsh,
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mean-spirited, verbal treatment.
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And he could have, he could have,
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he could have called them names when they called him names.
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But Jesus never did that.
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They reviled him, but
Jesus reviled not again.
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And in fact, Isaiah 53 says - As a lamb
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before its shearers is silent,
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so he opened not his mouth.
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And did you know sometimes the
best thing you can do is just
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keep your mouth shut.
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That will stop you from saying
what you ought not to say.
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And the verse goes on to say - When he suffered.
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And my friends Jesus did suffer.
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this word suffer is the form
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of the Greek word pashco.
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It entails mental, emotional
and physical suffering.
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And when he suffered, he threatened not.
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There you have the word, not. Again, the Greek word ouk:
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emphatically, categorically he did not threaten.
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And the word threaten, that is used here means to intimidate
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or to threaten with the sternest strongest menacing type
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of language.
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Jesus didn't do it. When he was suffering,
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he never threatened those that were treating him wrong.
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He did not do it.
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Now how this applies to
you, I cannot tell you,
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but I can tell you this
is what the Bible says.
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We have the words of Jesus
that we're not to repay an eye
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for an eye or a tooth for a
tooth personally - leave that
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to the courts.
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Those were instructions to judges. Leave that to the courts.
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But when it comes to you
personally, you're not to live
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with this law of retaliation.
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Revenge and retribution
is not your business.
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That is God's business.
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And it's the business of
the courts, of the courts:
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to the magistrates, the judges.
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But this verse also importantly tells us,
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and this really is important - instead of reviling again,
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instead of threatening, what did Jesus do?
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Are you listening? If you're
in a difficult position
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where you feel like you're
enduring things you ought not
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to endure, let the courts handle it.
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But you personally, you
need to do what Jesus did.
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And the verse says He
committed himself to him
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that judgeth righteously. Jesus lifted his eyes
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and he looked to his heavenly father
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and committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
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And if you're in a bad spot, you need
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to commit yourself into the
hands of your heavenly Father.
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This word, committed, is a Greek word, paradidomi:
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at least a form of it.
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The word para, implies closeness.
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And the word, didomi, means to commit, to deliver,
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to entrust or to yield.
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But when you compound it
together, it portrays one
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who draws near in order to deliver
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and trust or to yield
himself to someone else.
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It's one who comes as near as
possible to another, to commit
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and transmit and transfer himself in everything
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he is into the care of another.
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And this word is used
here to describe Christ
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who when he was really in
this position, which was
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so unjust, he drew near to the heavenly Father.
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He did not take matters into his own hands and make threats,
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but he literally committed himself holy to God, trusting
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that God would judge justly.
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And herein we find Christ's
example of what we are to do
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in moments when we are
being wrongly treated.
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Maybe you feel like you're
being wrongly treated at work
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or you've been wrongly treated
by a member of your family.
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The Bible tells you not to retaliate, not to take revenge.
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Then what should you do? You need to say -
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Hey God - are you watching?
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Are you watching? I'm gonna entrust myself into your hands.
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And this verse says to him that
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judges righteously. The word judges, is also very important.
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It is the Greek word krino.
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This word krino describes the verdict of a court
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and not just the verdict of a court,
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but it can refer to a jury
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who hands down a final
sentence in a court of law.
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After all the evidence has
been presented and the judge
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and jury have examined all the facts,
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a final verdict was issued by the court.
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that God had fully seen
everything Christ endured
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and Christ trusted the Father
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to justly see his situation,
to review all the facts.
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And God saw, God examined,
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and God dealt with this situation righteously,
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which is the Greek dikaiso, which means justly, righteously,
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or uprightly.
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It is a legal term used to
denote the judicial actions
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of a judge or a court of law.
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And here we find the court
of heaven is watching you.
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It's watching everything
you're going through.
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It's watching what
people are doing to you.
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God is watching, heaven is watching,
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and in the end of the day, God is going
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to issue a verdict about your situation.
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And the RIV
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of 1 Peter 2:23 is interpreted like this -
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Who when he, Jesus, was verbally demoralized, insulted,
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railed at and reviled with harsh and mean-spirited
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speech, did not ever return harsh, mean-spirited,
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verbal responses to those who railed at him.
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And when he suffered terribly,
he never ever responded
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with intimidating, mincing
or threatening speech.
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Instead, he entrusted himself to the judge
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who sees all the facts,
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who examines all the evidence correctly,
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and who comes to judgments that are pure and right.
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Do you trust God?
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You've gotta trust God
with your situation.
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And if you feel that matters
are out of your hands,
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or maybe the court has not responded like you wish the court
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would respond, then
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what choice do you have except to do with Jesus
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did. You've gotta trust yourself into the hands of God
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who sees everything and judges everything justly.
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And I remind you that Deuteronomy 32:25 says
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To me, belongeth vengeance and recompense.
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That's what the Lord says.
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He's faithful. Vengeance
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and recompense belongs to him - not to you.
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And Romans 12:19 tells us - Dearly beloved, avenge
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not yourself - don't take matters into your own hands.
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That's gonna get you into worse trouble,
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but rather give place under wrath.
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In other words, give it to the Lord.
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Let the Lord deal with
it. He will deal with it.
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For it is written, vengeance is mine. I will repay,
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sayeth the Lord. Vengeance is mine.
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I will repay sayeth the Lord.
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God is absolutely faithful
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and you can trust him to
judge your situation justly.
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Now, this may raise a lot of questions about your situation,
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but the Holy Spirit has answers for you.
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And now you've got a foundation on which to stand
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and from which to act.
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And that's why I'm teaching this series,
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which is called, What Jesus Said About Vengeance
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and Retribution.
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I'll be back in just a moment and I'm going to pray for you.
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This is Rick Renner and somebody has asked the question -
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How do I resolve strife
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or conflicts in my family?
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Well, sometimes that's really hard to do,
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but there's a scripture that
I have found very helpful,
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and this is Hebrews 12:14, which says -
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Follow peace with all men.
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And that word follow is a hunting term, which means
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to put on your hunting
gear, follow the tracks
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of the animal, follow, follow,
follow, follow, follow.
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And just like a hunter
is bound to determined
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to get his prey, you've
got to be determined
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that you're gonna capture
peace with all men.
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You've gotta give it your best shot.
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And the word, peace is the Greek word eireneuo, which means
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to put aside all conflicts, all strife,
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and to focus instead on rebuilding at a time
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of reconstruction.
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So rather than focus on strife, focus on what is good: see
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how you can rebuild that relationship
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and make a determination
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that you're gonna put on your hunting gear
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and you're not gonna stop
until you've captured peace
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with everybody in your family.
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Have you ever wanted to
take revenge on somebody?
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When you're under assault, you
naturally want to fight back.
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But Jesus shows us another way.
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In his series What Jesus Said About Revenge And Retribution,
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Rick Renner explores Jesus' example of trusting God
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as the righteous judge to show you -
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How Christ handled conflict resolution: Why it's important
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to submit to God when you want justice: What it means
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to love your enemies - and more - available in digital
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or physical formats starting at just $11.
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This liberating series will
help you let God handle
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what you can't.
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In addition to this teaching series,
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we are offering you the book, You Can Get Over It,
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by Rick Renner. Weaving personal stories with scripture,
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Rick builds a case that forgiveness isn't a feeling.
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It's a high quality choice
with amazing outcomes
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for those who practice it.
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Hey, this is Rick Renner
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and I'm standing inside the Partner Care
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Department of our ministry.
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And this is where the action takes place.
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Thousands of phone calls every day
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and every month come into this place from people
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reaching out to us.
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And this is my precious
mother who is in heaven
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and she established this
part of the ministry.
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But these are the principles we are dedicated to:
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To feed the entire flock God has brought to this ministry -
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To strengthen those who are 'dis-eased' in any area
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of their lives - To bring healing to those in need
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any type of healing - To bind up those
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who are broken in any area of their lives -
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To bring back those that have been driven away -
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To reach the lost, and to take the gospel
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and the trusted teaching of the Bible to the ends
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of the earth - To shepherd the flock that God has caused
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to hear the voice of this ministry -
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and, To help them grow in their relationship with Christ
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and become powerful, Bible-based believers equipped
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for these last days -
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And To thank and minister
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to partners whose sacrificial gifts have enabled this
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ministry to fulfill its call around the world.
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And we are very committed to these principles.
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And if you're a partner, you know we're very
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serious about that.
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But hey, right now we're trying to pay off this facility.
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So would you please become a part
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of the Ministry Expansion Giving Team
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so we can pay off this facility
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and then keep taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth
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and my friends together, we can do this.
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And I want to say "thank you" so much.
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Well, I just finished the 2nd program in my series called -
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What Jesus Said About Revenge And Retribution.
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These are really hard teachings
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and they cause a lot of questions,
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but the Holy Spirit has the answers.
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But we need these scriptures to stand on as we seek the Lord
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for personal direction.
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But the whole series is called What Jesus said about Revenge
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and Retribution.
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And it comes with a wonderful study guide.
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And I want to tell you about my book,
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which is called - You Can Get Over It.
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And I want to tell you,
I want to declare to you,
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you can get over it.
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It doesn't matter what's
been done to you, my friends,
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your future is gonna be
great, it's gonna be great,
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and you can get over
it and you can move on.
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And that's why I want you
to read this wonderful book.
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It is such an easy read
and it will set you free.
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But you can find out more
about these resources by going
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to our website or you can give
us a call and if you call us
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or send us an email, we wanna
know how to pray for you.
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Tell us what's going on.
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We will get behind you in prayer.
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We'll come under that
load with you prayerfully
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and ask the Lord to do
what needs to be done.
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And Jesus is so faithful; he'll give you power,
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he'll give you the energy, the strength that you need
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to face whatever you're facing,
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and he'll walk you right into victory.
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He really will. But I wanna pray for you now.
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So put your hand on your heart.
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Father, we've all been
in tough places from time
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to time when we didn't know what to say
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and we didn't know what to do.
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And we've just learned today,
sometimes it's better just
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to keep our mouth shut, that
no sin be found in our mouths.
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Help us Lord not to take
matters into our own hands
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and retaliate the Lord
help us to be like you.
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Help us to see what you did
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and then to replicate it in our own experience
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in Jesus name - Amen. I'll see you tomorrow
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but remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.