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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
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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.
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My name is Rick Renner and friend,
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today you and I are gonna return
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to the new series called - What Jesus Said About
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Revenge And Retribution.
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And I'm gonna be honest,
I find these teachings
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to be very personally challenging.
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You know, my friend Andrew Womack says,
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the Christian life is not just difficult,
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it is impossible without
the help of the Holy Spirit.
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And when I look at
everything that Jesus had
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to say about keeping our attitude right, loving our enemies,
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and blessing our enemies,
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and not getting into
the business of revenge
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and retribution, my friends,
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it is impossible without
the help of the Holy Spirit.
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But if you find yourself in a position
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where you would just
like to settle the score
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with somebody else, and now
you know that's not the thing
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to do, the Holy Spirit will help you.
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He really will.
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He makes the impossible possible
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and if will yield to the
Holy Spirit, he'll help us
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to think like Jesus and
to behave like Jesus.
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And that's what we need to do.
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But this series is called - What Jesus Said About Revenge
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And Retribution.
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It's five parts: comes in all kinds
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of formats with a study guide.
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And this particular
study guide is important
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because you really need to
see all these Greek words
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and the points and the principles
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that are taught in the series.
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And I'm thrilled to also tell you about my book called, You
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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 really can get over it.
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You don't have to be stuck in a bad memory
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or stuck in wounded emotions
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because of what someone
did to you in the past.
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You can get over it, you can get healed and you can move on.
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And honestly, I think this is one
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of the best books I've ever written.
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It will really empower
you to let go of the past,
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to greet the future and to move forward.
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And I want you to have it,
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but you can find out about
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And when you reach out to
us, would you please tell us
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how we can pray for you?
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We want to pray for you.
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And if this week this teaching
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way and you just wish somebody
would pray with you about how
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to deal with a difficult
relational situation,
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we would love to pray with you.
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We're not counselors, but
we do know how to pray
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and we will really pray with you.
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And we believe that Jesus
will do what needs to be done.
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But hey, reach for your Bible. In this program
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we always use the Bible
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and I tell you frequently
we're believing for a revival
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of the Bible in the church.
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And do you know a new statistic just came out
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that showed the younger generation of men are really turning
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to the scriptures.
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God is hearing our prayers
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and God is moving among
young people with a return
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to the Bible - that is just so wonderful.
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But today I want you to open your Bible
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to Matthew 5,
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and we're going to see what
Jesus had to say about revenge
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and retribution.
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But I want to begin by quoting Romans 12:19.
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It says - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourself
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but rather give place unto wrath for it is written,
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vengeance is mine,
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I will repay, sayeth the Lord. Now listen to me.
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This means you are not to get
into the revenge business.
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It's not yours. God says, vengeance is mine.
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I will repay.
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And when you try to take
matters into your own hands
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and get back at somebody else
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or to settle the score,
you're entering into a sphere
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that is not yours.
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This verse says, vengeance is the Lord's.
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So give place to wrath. That
means give God time to work.
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He's gonna deal with this situation
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and remember that God is just,
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and he always does what is right,
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but somebody asked the question - Rick, I know
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that vengeance belongs to the Lord,
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but can I pray for the
Lord to do a fast work?
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Well, that's a funny question.
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You can pray it,
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but I think it'd be better
for you to pray for God
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to have mercy on people
just like you want God
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to have mercy on you.
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Somebody else said - Hey Rick, is it possible
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that God in dealing with others that have done wrong, wants
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to use me as the instrument
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to bring vengeance into
other people's lives?
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Well, if you're thinking like that,
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I think you probably need
to adjust your thinking
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because God wants to
use you as an instrument
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of reconciliation and healing.
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So let's fix our thinking
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and leave the business
of vengeance to God.
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But now, now let's go to Matthew 5:38
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to the words of Jesus.
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And here Jesus says - You've heard that it hath been said,
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An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth - Stop.
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I want to tell you what this means.
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In the Old Testament,
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people were taking matters
into their own hands
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to settle the score with
others and to get even
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and to pay them back.
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But Moses gave a law to the priests
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and to the judges, or
he empowered the courts.
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And he said to the courts, here's the rule: An eye
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for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
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You can read about this in Exodus, Leviticus,
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and in Deuteronomy: this was instruction for the courts:
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which means, there are times when you really do have to turn
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to the courts and that's okay,
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but let the courts take
care of this business
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and you stay out of
the vengeance business,
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let the courts do their work.
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But the problem is by
the time that we come
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to the New Testament to the time of Jesus,
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people have personalized this
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and they made it their personal rule of retaliation.
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And people said, Yeah well the Bible says, an I for an eye
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and a tooth for a tooth. I have a right to get even
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to settle the score,
to get back at them for
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what they did to me.
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That is not what this verse means at all.
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This was instruction
to the court system so
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that you don't have to settle the score;
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let the courts do their work.
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But then when you come to Matthew 5:39,
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Jesus speaks to you and me personally
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and tells us
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how we should respond when
somebody is personally
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treating us wrong.
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Now, I know this is really hard to hear,
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I know that. It's like I said at the beginning
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of the program, the Christian life is not just difficult,
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it is impossible
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unless you do it in the
power of the Holy Spirit.
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And as you listen to me
teach today, I want you
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to say Holy Spirit, if
that's what the Bible says,
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then you've gotta show me
how to do this in my life.
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And if you've got a heart to hear,
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he'll show you what to do.
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But listen to what Jesus said in Matthew 5:39 -
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But I say unto you that you resist not evil,
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but whosoever shall smite
the on thy right cheek turn
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to him the other also.
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And when Jesus says -
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but I say - in Greek, it says, ego de
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lego. Ego, means I. It's like Jesus is really bringing
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attention to himself.
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He's already quoted this rule
from the Old Testament, An eye
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for an eye and a tooth for a tooth -
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that was instruction for the courts.
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But now Jesus is elevating this and he says,
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but now listen to what I have to say; but I say -
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and the Greek uses the little word, de,
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which is emphatic or categorical.
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The word, lego, means I say. When you put it all together,
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it's as if Jesus says -
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But now hear what I have to say about this.
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He's really lifting his
voice to get our attention.
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And he says that you do not resist evil,
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but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek
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turned to him
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the other also. The word smite,
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let's look at that word. The word smite,
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the Greek word rhapidzo, describes a stinging slap
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with a palm of a hand.
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Have you ever had anybody take their palm
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and just slap you up the side of the face?
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It hurts, it stings,
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but it is a derivative of the Greek word, rhabdos,
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which means to strike with a club or a stick.
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So it's worse than just
the slap of a palm.
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It pictures somebody slapping
you with a palm of their hand
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or somebody beating you on
the jawbone with a stick
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or a club.
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And by the way, the word cheek
here is a Greek word which
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describes the cheek 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
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that conveyed contempt more than bodily harm.
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We see this in the case of Jesus, and Jesus is our example.
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When Jesus was dragged into Caiaphas residence,
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the religious leaders all came before him.
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They spat in his face to denigrate him and to shame him.
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And then they slapped him with a palm of their hand.
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In fact, this word, smite, is used
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to describe what they did to him.
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Then they doubled up their fist - the Greek word kolaphizo
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and they beat him in the face.
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All of this was calculated
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to pour their contempt on him; more than bodily harm,
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they wanted to really insult him.
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And this term carries the ideas of emotional
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as well as physical things: touching on things of dishonor,
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retaliation, and shame.
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So Jesus literally says, when somebody
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is in a very calculated
way trying to insult you,
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they're slapping you, they're abusing you,
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they're striking you in some
way, primarily verbally,
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that's what this describes here.
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Now, if somebody's beating
you physically do your best
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to make sure they don't get away with it:
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you know - defend yourself.
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But here Jesus says, when
they're verbally striking you,
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insulting you, pointing
their contempt upon you, give
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to them the other cheek.
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Now that is just amazing.
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And that's why I say that if you're just trying
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to do this in the flesh, you're not gonna be able to do it.
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The Christian life is difficult.
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It is impossible
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unless you do it in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Do you see how important it is that we yield
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to the Holy Spirit?
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But then in Matthew 5:44, Jesus continues
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and he says - But I say unto you, love your enemies.
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Bless them that curse you.
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Do good to them that hate you
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and pray for them, which despitefully use you
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and persecute you.
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What? You've gotta be kidding.
This is what Jesus said.
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So leave the revenge business to God.
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to people that are doing wrong to you,
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Jesus is on a personal level,
this is what you need to do.
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Now, remember, vengeance is the lord's.
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The Lord's gonna do what needs to be done.
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this is Jesus' instruction.
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And he says, but I say, and guess what?
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In Greek it is the very same phrase.
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It says, ego de lego: means I,
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Jesus is really drawing
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The word de, carries the idea of
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what is categorical or emphatic.
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The word, lego, means, I say. You put it all together, again
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it's like Jesus is lifting his voice and saying, but, but,
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but now hear me categorically,
emphatically, this is
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what I have to say.
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And Jesus says, love your enemies.
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If we stopped right there,
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that already is a very serious challenge,
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especially when you understand the word love.
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The word love is translated from a form
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of the Greek word agapao, which is a derivative
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of the word agape.
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Agape depicts the highest form
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of love, which means you're to love your enemies
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with the highest form of love.
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It describes the admiration one has for an object of beauty.
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Well, that's not normally the way
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that you feel for an enemy.
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The observer is so
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as he gazes upon it, it
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and appreciation to come from his heart.
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so deeply moved by what he sees,
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that he might even experience an inability to express
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what he feels because he is so taken by the beauty
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of the object.
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And in fact, he describes a
deep at times inexpressible
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profound love.
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And in this verse, Jesus
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of love for our enemies - impossible without the
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power of the Holy Spirit.
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Now, for you to love your enemies,
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you've gotta put your emotions on pause,
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and you've got to ask
God to give you his heart
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for that person.
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Think about Jesus. When Jesus was being abused
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by religious leaders and then
he was abused by soldiers,
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and then he was abused by Pilate
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and Herod Antipas: oh the list
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just goes on and on.
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Jesus never retaliated, he never threatened.
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Jesus loved those that were abusing him.
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And now we find that high level love - loves even those
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that are doing wrong to us.
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In fact, this verse says, your enemies.
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And the word enemies is the horrible Greek word, echthros:
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the plural form of it.
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It describes one who is hateful
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and hostile, one who has
a deep seated hatred, one
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who has a hatred that is
bent on inflicting harm.
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It can be translated
as the word antagonist.
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You are to love those that
are antagonistic toward you.
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And the only way you can do
this is if you spend time
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with the Lord and get his heart for that person.
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Rather than think about how
you can settle the score with
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that person, leave that to
God and God will be faithful.
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But ask God to give you his love for that person.
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That person, obviously, needs to be touched by the grace
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and by the love of God.
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And in fact, it goes on and says - bless
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and curse not. The word bless, the Greek word eulogeo,
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it's a compound of the word eu, and the word logos.
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Now I want you to really hear this
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because you can learn something new.
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This word blessing, the Greek word, eulogeo: the 1st part
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of the word is eu, which depicts what is good, noble,
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swell, or wonderful.
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The 2nd part of the word is logos, which depicts words.
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But when you compound these words together
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to form the word eulogeo, which here is translated
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as the word bless. It depicts good, noble, swell
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or wonderful words that are spoken.
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So rather than retaliate with mean words, you're
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to fill your mouth with good words about that person.
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And in fact in the New Testament,
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this word, eulogeo, here translated
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as the word bless, denotes a blessing
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that is verbally spoken.
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Thus, a blessing is not released until it is verbalized.
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And by definition, blessings are never silent.
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Blessings are always good words that are verbally expressed.
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So rather than get on the cursing side of things, you need
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to get on the blessing side of things.
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And remember that when you speak a blessing,
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you words have the power to change the situation.
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God's power can be released
through your words.
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Now in the past, if somebody
has done something foul to me
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or to our ministry, here's what I've done.
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I've said - they're a blessing.
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They're children of God.
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They don't realize what they're doing. Something's wrong.
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They themself are under attack. They're deceived.
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They would never do these things if they really understood
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what they were doing.
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And I begin to speak a blessing on them
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because my words have power.
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And when I speak good wonderful words, it releases the power
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of God to sculpt to that person
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and to change them from what they are to
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what they need to be.
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And the verse goes on to say - curse not.
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The word curse is derived from the word, kata,
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which means down.
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And the word, ara. The word, ara means to curse.
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But when you compound it together, it means
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to condemn, to curse, or to verbally doom.
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You're never called the verbally doom people, to curse them
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or to condemn them.
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Put good words in your
mouth even about those
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that are doing wrong to you.
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And remember that your words have power to sculpt the future
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and to change the situation.
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And in fact, Jesus says - Do good to them.
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You gotta be kidding. After all the wrong they've done,
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you're supposed to do good to them.
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Well this is interesting
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because the word do in Greek is the form
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of the Greek word poieo.
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It carries the idea of creativity,
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which means sometimes you gotta be creative in finding a way
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to do good - especially when somebody's doing harm to you:
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when somebody is dis-spitefully using you. Jesus says you're
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to do good to them and uses the word poiete, a form
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of the word poieo: which means you may have
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to get creative in figuring
out how to do good to
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that person that's not doing good to you.
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And again, the Holy Spirit will show you how to do it.
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It says, do good to them that hate you. Huh.
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The word hate is the word, miseo.
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It means to hate, to abhor,
to find utterly repulsive.
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It is a deep seated aversion: is not just a case
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of dislike, but a case of actual hatred.
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You're to creatively do good
to those who have an aversion
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to you and actually hate you.
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And Jesus says to pray for them that despitefully use you.
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The word praise, the form the Greek word, proseuchomai.
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The word pros, means to draw near. The word, euche, means
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to offer a vow.
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When you put the two words together,
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it forms the word, proseuchomai.
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It pictures a person who comes to an altar,
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it's really talking about you.
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A person who comes to an altar
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and says, God, I need your help.
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I need your help so much that I'm willing
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to give you myself an exchange.
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I'll give you me if
you'll give me your help.
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And now we find that for you
to bless your enemies, for you
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to do good, to those who
have an aversion to you
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and that are antagonistic to
you, the only way you're going
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to be able to do it is if
you come to the altar of God
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to pray and say, God, I'm
gonna give you all that I am.
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I need you to give me all
that you are to help me
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to love those that spitefully use
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and persecute me.
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What does it mean, despitefully use?
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It means to mistreat, to threaten, it pictures
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underhanded tactics to smear someone's reputation
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or custom crafted actions or verbal attacks.
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In other words, it seems like
they're really intentionally
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trying to persecute you.
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Wow. Now this is amazing.
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Well, when you read this in the King James version,
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it says it like this: But I say unto you, love your enemies.
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Bless them to curse you.
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Do good to them that hates you
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and pray for them which despitefully use
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you and persecute you.
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But the Greek order is actually different in the
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original text.
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And the original text says it like this -
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But I say unto you, love your enemies.
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Pray for those persecuting
you, bless the ones cursing
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and verbally dooming you, do good to those
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who are using underhanded tactics
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to intentionally smear your reputation
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and those who are hating you.
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But notice, praying for those
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that persecuting you in the
Greek text comes at the very
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beginning, which means when
you find yourself in a rough
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place, you need to immediately
come to the altar of God.
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That's where you're gonna get your help
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and say, Lord, I'm here
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and I'm here to pray: proseuchomai. I'm drawing near
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to give you me.
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I need you to give me all of you.
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I need everything I can get from you
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to help me love these people
the way that you love them.
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Now, that is a high order,
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but that's what Jesus says to us in Matthew 25.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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When you're unto assault, you
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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 diseased in any area
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of their lives - To bring healing to those in need of
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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, today we have received
a very tall order from Jesus
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that were to love our enemies
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and not verbally doom them and curse them.
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Wow! The only way you can do this is if you do it in the
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power of the Holy Spirit.
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And maybe you're in a situation right now that's difficult
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and you could use some prayer power behind you.
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Call the number on the
screen or send us an email
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and let us pray with you.
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We really wanna pray with you.
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We'll go to the altar of God with you
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and ask God to give you everything he has to help you deal
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with your situation.
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And we're waiting to
pray for you right now.
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So call the number on the
screen or send us an email
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and we'll immediately pray for you
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and we will really ferociously
pray on your behalf.
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But remember that right now I'm teaching a series which is
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called - What Jesus Said About Revenge And Retribution.
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And we're also so excited
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to tell you about my book called, You Can Get Over It -
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and friend, you can - you can get over it.
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It doesn't matter what's been
done to you, it doesn't have
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to identify you and mark you
for the rest of your life.
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You can get over it and you can move on.
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The Holy Spirit will help you,
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and that's what this book is about.
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But to know how to get these
resources, just go online
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or give us a call.
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And I wanna pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your heart.
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Holy Spirit, we thank you that
you have everything we need
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and Father, we give ourselves to you today
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and we ask you to give
us everything you have so
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that we can love our enemies
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and fulfill this high order that we've received from Jesus.
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In Jesus name - Amen. Well,
I'm gonna be back tomorrow.
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We're gonna pick up right here.
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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. If you just prayed
the prayer of salvation
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with us, would you please
let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Renner Ministries is proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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through every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.