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This program is made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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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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uncertain times
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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.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I've been sitting
right here waiting for you.
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And today we're gonna continue our series,
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which is called - What Jesus Said About Revenge
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And Retribution.
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And today is called - Do Not Repay Evil for Evil.
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Don't get into the revenge business. As we saw yesterday,
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that is God's business. Leave that to him.
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Jesus gives us very specific
instruction about what we are
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to do while we are trusting God to deal
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with this situation at hand.
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Let God take care of revenge,
let God take care of vengeance
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and retribution.
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But Jesus gives us very
clear instruction about
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what we are personally supposed to do
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when we are in this situation
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that we feel like we're being mistreated
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and we're gonna continue looking at it again today.
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But the whole series is called,
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What Jesus Said About Revenge
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And Retribution.
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And it's really a very
challenging teaching.
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But it's 5-parts:
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it comes with a wonderful study guide.
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And this study guide is really important
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because all the Greek words, the points
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and the principles in this
very challenging teaching is
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also in the study guide.
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I want you to be able to
read it while you hear
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or see the information.
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And right now I'm also excited
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to tell you about my book called, You Can Get Over It.
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It's one of my smaller books,
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but it is really one of my best books.
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It is so practical about
how to walk out of hurt, how
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to walk out of the past
and walk into the future.
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God does not want you to be
stuck in a bad experience.
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He wants you to get over it
and to move on and you can.
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And for that reason, I
believe it is just one
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of the most important
books I've ever written.
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And it is just so practical
and I want you to have it.
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But you can find out about
all these resources by going
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to our website or by calling the number
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that is on the screen.
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And when you reach out to
us, let us know how to pray.
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We're told in Jeremiah 33:3 - Call into me.
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I will hear you, I will answer you
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and I'll do great and
mighty things for you.
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That's the promise of God.
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So if we call out to God in faith
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and pray scripturally, he will
hear us, he will answer us,
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and he will do something
magnificent for us.
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So if you'll call us
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or send us an email, we'll
put our faith together
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with your faith and together
we will call out to God.
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He will hear us, he will respond.
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And as I always tell you,
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and I really mean it, Jesus
will do what needs to be done.
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He knows what needs to be
done and he will do it.
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But today I want you
to reach for your Bible
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and we're gonna go back to Matthew 5:38,
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which is the foundation for this series.
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Now every day this week, I've
told you that somebody said
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to me - Brother Rick, I know that vengeance is the Lord's,
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but can I pray for him to
do our really fast work?
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Well, you can pray for that,
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but I think if you're
praying for vengeance,
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probably you're on the wrong track.
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You need to be asking for
God to give somebody mercy
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so they can avoid vengeance.
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Somebody else said: Well I know that vengeance is the Lord,
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but is it possible he's going
to use me as his instrument
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of retribution?
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Well, I think you're probably
having the wrong attitude if
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you're asking that question.
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We need to pray for mercy.
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We need to pray for mercy
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that people would change
without being dealt
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severely by God.
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But let's go back to Matthew 5:38,
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where Jesus said: You've heard that it have been said of old
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and he's quoting Exodus, Deuteronomy, and Leviticus.
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You have heard that it's been
said of them of old, an eye
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for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
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Well, let's stop and
recall why Jesus said this
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and why this was prescribed in Exodus,
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Deuteronomy, and Leviticus.
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At that time,
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people were taking revenge into their own hands.
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And so Moses gave a law to the judges.
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This was for the court, not for people on a personal level.
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And he said to the judges, it's an eye for an eye, a tooth
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for a tooth, a hand for a
hand, a foot for a foot.
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Read it in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.
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This was not a personal
law of retaliation,
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but that's what people turned it into.
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And on the basis of this
statement - an eye for an eye
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and a tooth for a tooth - people were
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generally saying - Well, you know what
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the Bible says - I have the right to get back at them
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and settle the score: and eye for an eye
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and a tooth for a tooth.
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No, no, no - that is not what the Bible says.
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That was instruction to the courts,
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which means sometimes you
really do have to turn
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to the courts to handle
difficult situations.
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But even if you've turned to the courts,
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that's the court's business.
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You on a personal level cannot get into strife.
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You cannot let animosity rule your heart
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that's gonna put you in a bad place.
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And in fact, Jesus continued to say in Matthew 5:
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39, But I say unto you - and again these words -
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but I say - in Greek is ego de
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lego. Ego, means I.
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It's like Jesus is really drawn the attention to himself.
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The word de, is categorical or emphatic.
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The word, lego, means, I say. If you put it all together in
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Greek, it is ego de lego; it means,
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but now I have this to say to you,
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it's like Jesus is lifting his voice.
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He wants them to hear
a better perspective.
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And Jesus says, But I say unto you that ye 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. The word smite,
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as we have seen, is the Greek word, rhapidzo.
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It means a stinging slap
with a palm of a hand.
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Whack - that hurts.
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But it is from the Greek word, rhabdos,
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which means distract with a club or a stick.
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So if you put it all together,
Jesus was really saying,
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But I say this to you - whosoever shall slap you
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with a palm of his hand
or beat you with a club
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or a stick on your right cheek.
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And this word cheek is
also very important.
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He describes the cheek or the jawbone
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or the side of the face,
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but it denotes a calculated
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insult in the ancient world
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that conveyed contempt
more than bodily harm.
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It wasn't really intended
to physically hurt as it was
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to pour out contempt
and to insult somebody.
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This term carries emotional
overtones as well as themes,
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touching, dishonor, retaliation and shame.
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So this is somebody pouring
their contempt on you,
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retaliating against you,
slapping you, mistreating you.
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Jesus says, give them your other cheek as well.
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Now, you know, I've been in
situations when I have felt
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that somebody has done wrong
to me or they have abused me
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or taken advantage of me, but
I decided to give them mercy
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and give them the other cheek;
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give them another opportunity
hoping they'll do better
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the next time.
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And that's really what Jesus
is saying in this verse.
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But then he goes on in Matthew 5:44,
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and we covered this in the last episode, and he said -
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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. Really -
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love your enemies.
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That's the order which Jesus gives us.
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Bless them that curse you. That's right.
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You're to bless them. Do good to them that hates you.
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The word do good means you may have
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to be creative in finding
a way to do good to them.
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Pray for them that despitefully use you
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and persecute you.
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That's right. And I've told you that my friend Andrew Womack
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says, the Christian life is not just difficult,
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it is impossible unless you
let the Holy Spirit help you.
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And it's the truth. This
is a very tall order.
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And according to the flesh, it's very difficult
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to love your enemy.
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It's very difficult to
bless those that curse you.
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It's extremely difficult to
do good to those that hate you
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and to pray for them
that despitefully use you
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and persecute you.
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And that's why you and I have
to come to the altar of God.
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And sometimes you gotta come every day,
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sometimes you gotta come every hour,
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sometimes you gotta come every 5-minutes
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and say, Lord, I'm here at this altar.
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I'm giving you me,
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and I'm needing you in exchange to give me all that you are.
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I need you to help me do this: to love my enemies,
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to bless those that curse me, to do good to those
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that hate me, and to pray for those that spitefully use me
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and persecute me.
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And if you'll surrender,
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the Holy Spirit will give you the power
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to fulfill this first.
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Jesus would not have told you to do this
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if you couldn't do it.
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But now I want us to jump over to Romans 12:
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14, where the apostle Paul really quotes Jesus.
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And in Romans 12:14, Paul writes -
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Bless them which persecutes you, bless
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and curse not. Well,
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what does it mean to bless?
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Well, we covered this word, bless in the previous
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episode, but it's so important
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I want to cover it again.
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It is a form of the Greek word, eulogeo.
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It's a compound of 2-words: the word eu
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and the word logos. The word, you, describes
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that which is good, noble, swell or wonderful.
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And the word logos means words.
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But when you compound the word, eu
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and the word, logos, it forms this word eulogeo,
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which here is translated as the word bless.
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And this word, when compounded, depicts good, noble,
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swell are wonderful words that are spoken.
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Rather than retaliate with words of doom and gloom,
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you just make a decision - I'm gonna fill my mouth
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with good words and I'm gonna
speak a blessing over this
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person that's giving me fits.
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And in fact, in the New Testament, this word, eulogeo,
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the word blessing, denotes a blessing
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that is verbally spoken.
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And this is so very important
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because blessings are not thought.
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Blessings have to be
spoken to be released.
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If all you're doing is
thinking good things
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and thinking a blessing,
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It is not a blessing until it is spoken
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or until it is verbally expressed.
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And when you speak it, you release power.
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That's when the blessing is released.
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rather than speak negative
words to them, fill your mouth
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with a blessing and speak
good words over to them.
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Remembering that when you speak blessings,
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your words have power to change a situation
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and to sculpt your future. You can change everything simply
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by releasing faith-filled words.
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It says even those that persecute you.
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The word persecute is the Greek word dioko.
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The word, dioko means - to chase, to hunt,
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to persecute, or to pursue.
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It was the very word used to
denote the actions of a hunter
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who followed after an animal
in order to apprehend,
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capture or kill it.
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it means to intentionally
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and strategically follow
after an object or principle
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or a person until it's captured.
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You know, I remember many, many,
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many years ago when we lived in Riga;
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it was decided by officials in the government
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that I somehow use hypnotism to control people - crazy.
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They said my preaching had an effect on people
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and they wanted to figure out
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what I was doing in my preaching that affected people.
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Well, that's a great compliment.
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It was the anointing and the power of the word of God.
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But because of that, they assigned 5-psychiatrists
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to attend all of our services.
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And I didn't know who they were,
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but they were there in the crowd
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and they were stationed in
the crowd to listen to me.
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They were not just accidentally trying
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to catch me doing something,
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they were intentionally following me.
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They were strategically listening to me trying to capture me
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so they could apprehend
me and take me down.
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And the reason I'm telling you this is
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because persecution is not something
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that's done accidentally.
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It is intentional. Hunters
don't go hunting by accident.
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They intentionally put
on their hunting clothes,
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they intentionally walk through the woods,
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they intentionally take their
weapon to get that animal.
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And therefore, persecution is not somebody
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who gives you a dirty look.
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It's somebody that's really after you.
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They're trying to set a trap for you.
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And the Bible says, even bless those
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that persecute you, they're after you
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and Paul then says, bless and curse not.
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He repeats the word bless again.
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And the word bless is again the Greek word,
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eulogeo: put good words in your mouth,
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speak those words.
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Don't just think it,
don't just pray about it.
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You need to be releasing
faith filled words
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to change your situation
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and to change that person that is behaving
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so wrongly against you.
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And he says, curse not - curse not. My friends,
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don't get into the cursing business: just don't do it.
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In fact, the Bible here explicitly says - curse not.
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And the word, curse is the Greek word, kataraomai.
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It's derived from kata
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and the word ara. The word kata, means down. The word, ara
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means - to curse.
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When you put the two words together, as a compound it means
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to condemn, to curse, or to verbally doom.
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Don't verbally doom anybody. Hey, that's not your business.
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God has sent you into the
world to be a light, not
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to bring darkness, to bring light. He has sent you
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to bring a blessing, not to
bring a doom. Fill your mouth
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with positive faith filled words to change that person
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and to change that situation.
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And then in Romans 12:18, Paul continues
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to say - Recompense no man evil
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for evil,
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but provide things honest in the sight of all men.
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What does the word, recompense, mean?
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What does that word recompense mean?
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Well, in Greek, it is the word, apodidomi.
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It's a compound of two words.
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I know I'm giving you a lot of Greek,
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but I really want you to
understand these words.
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The 1st part of the word is apo. It means back.
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The 2nd part of the word is didomi. It means to give.
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But when you compound the two words together,
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the word recompense, which is from the Greek word apodidomi
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means to give
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or even better, to give back, to pay back or to return.
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It means to get even
or to settle the score.
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Do not pay back. Do not return.
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Do not settle the score
to no man, evil for evil.
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No man, in Greek, means absolutely no one.
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So it completely removes this from the
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sphere of your conduct.
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You're never to go there. It
says recompense or payback
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no man, evil for evil.
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The word, evil for evil, in Greek is, kakon anti kakou.
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This is really important.
Now stay with me.
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It's the word kakos, which depicts that which is bad,
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foul or wrong.
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It depicts ones whose
actions are wrong, bad,
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or inappropriate.
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And the word anti, which is in the middle
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of these two words, means in the place of,
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and then again, you have the word kakos, repeated twice.
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This word, evil for evil is
repeated twice, both times
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as the Greek word kakos,
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but as a phrase, here's what it means -
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Bad for bad, foul for foul, wrong,
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for wrong, inappropriate, for inappropriate.
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Just because they did wrong does not give you the right
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to do wrong: just because they did bad
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it does not give you the right to do bad: just
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because what they did was foul,
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it does not give you the
right to do something back
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to them that is foul.
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Just because they were inappropriate does not give you the
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right before God to do something to them
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that is inappropriate.
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Don't pay them back
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or settle the score by
returning evil for evil.
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My friends, this is not my recommendation.
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I'm speaking the scripture to you.
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And it goes on to say,
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but provide things honest in the sight of all men.
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The word, provide, in Greek is the word, pronoeo.
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Now this is really interesting.
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The word pro, means in advance,
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in advance. The word noeo means, I think.
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But when you compound it into the word, pronoeo,
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it's strangely translated in the King James version,
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provide, that's a very strange translation.
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But as a compound, it means to prepare
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or consider in advance: to think in advance
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or to think ahead.
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So rather than let your
emotions get the best of you,
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you gotta switch your brain into gear
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and in advance, you've gotta think ahead.
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You've got to predetermine that
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you're gonna be honest dealing with
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that other person in the sight of all men.
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And the word, honest,
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is translated from the Greek word kalos.
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And this word, kalos, is a wonderful Greek word which
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describes something that is good
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or useful, something that
is outwardly attractive,
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inwardly noble.
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Frequently it's used to denote what is good.
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It pictures noble actions
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or superior behavior: something that is exceptionable
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of the highest quality, outstanding or superb.
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And that means God is expecting us to be the very best: not
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to sink to a very low level
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and return evil for evil, but we have to proneo
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think in advance -
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how are we gonna respond to what's being done to us?
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You can't let your emotions
dictate your actions.
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You gotta switch your brain into gear and pro, in advance,
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noao, you've gotta think, you've got
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to make a predetermination -
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I don't care what they do to me
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or what they say about
me, I'm going to respond
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in the highest way possible.
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That's really what it means.
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And the Bible says - we're to do this in the sight
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of all men.
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The words, in the sight of, is the Greek word, enopion.
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And here's what it means - before all men.
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Or you could translate it - in the gaze of all men.
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Or you could translate it, in the eyesight of all men
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or the presence of all men.
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And all men, in Greek, literally means, all people.
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And let me tell you something.
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When somebody's treating you wrong
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and you respond in a very noble way:
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when somebody's cursing you
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and you speak a blessing back to them,
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suddenly you get an audience.
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You get an audience of spectators
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that are watching you in shock
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because they're stunned
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that you are responding in such an exceptionable,
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superb way.
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And that's what you're called to do.
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That's what you're called to do.
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Now my friends, I know this is a very high order,
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but this really is the command of scripture which says -
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Recompense to no man, evil for evil,
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but provide or think in advance about
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how you're gonna be exceptional, outstanding, superb
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in the sight of all men that have pulled up a chair
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to watch you as they
are stunned at the way
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that you are responding in
such a Christ-like manner.
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That's the call of God to me,
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and that's the call of God to you.
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I'm out of time, but in
just a moment I'll be back
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and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone has asked the question - Hey,
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I struggle in my relationship
with someone that heard me.
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Does that mean I haven't forgiven them?
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Well, not necessarily, but sometimes you've got to forgive
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and forgive and forgive
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until finally you walk
yourself into forgiveness.
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Jesus said this in Luke 17:3 -
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Take heed therefore
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to yourself: if your brother trespassed against you.
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And that word, trespass, means to violate.
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If you feel somebody has violated you, rebuke him
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or talk to him about it.
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And if he repents, forgive him.
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And the word forgive is the Greek word, aphiemi,
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which means - let it go.
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And sometimes my friends, you've gotta let it go, let it go
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and let it go until finally
you are freed from it.
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So no, it doesn't necessarily
mean that you haven't forgive,
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but you may be still in the process
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of reaching full freedom yourself.
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So you just keep forgiving.
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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. In his series -
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How Christ handled conflict resolution: Why it's important
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for those who practice it.
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What Jesus Said About Revenge And Retribution, and the book,
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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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Hey, I've been getting a lot
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of phone calls from people
listening to this series.
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Most people saying thank you, that it is helping them.
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A few people have not appreciated the teaching
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and that's okay.
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But my friends, I really
want to hear from you
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and I want to know how this
teaching is affecting you.
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And if you have a special prayer request,
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we wanna pray for you.
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Maybe this has really triggered something in your heart.
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You said, wow, I need to respond differently
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to my situation.
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I need somebody to pray
with me. Well, that's us.
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We wanna pray with you.
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So you can send us an email
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or you can call the number on the
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screen. When we hear from you,
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we're gonna really ferociously pray for Jesus
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to give you the answers that you need to deal
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with the situation that you
find yourself in right now.
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And Jesus will really help you.
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So call us or write to us and
we will really pray with you.
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But remember, this whole series is called - What Jesus Said
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About Revenge and Retribution.
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It's really wonderful
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and I'm excited again
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to tell you about my book called, You Can Get Over It.
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And I declare to you that
you can, you can get over it.
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Don't get stuck in a bad situation; get healed, get over it,
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and move on.
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And this book will help you to do that.
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That's why I wrote it -
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You Can Get Over It.
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But you can find out about
these resources also by going
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to our website or by calling us.
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We would love to help you.
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But right now I wanna pray for you.
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So put your hand on your heart.
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Father, I thank you the name of Jesus
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that you tell us very clearly
not to repay evil for evil,
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but to fill our mouth with blessing
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and to do good. Holy Spirit,
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ee can't do this without you,
so we ask you to help us,
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in Jesus' name - Amen. Okay, 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. 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? We would love to connect with you.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.