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Hello friend. Welcome to
Time with Denise Renner.
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I'm so glad that you're with me today.
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And today we're talking about, How Can I Love Others Better?
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Oh, this series has been amazing.
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I mean, we've talked about
the power of not just
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for forgiving,
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but really becoming one
who is walking in that,
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that love, that cast out fear,
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and that you're the one
setting others free.
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Oh, it's so powerful.
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I really want you to go to
the archives of this series
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and I want to tell you that
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and it's my book, Gift of Forgiveness: little book,
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but powerful and also Redeemed From Shame.
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Also, I wanna offer you my 10-part video series
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of these lessons that we are talking about right now.
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How Can I Love Others Better?
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And I've suggested on other programs how this would be great
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for a Bible study when you discuss these
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situations and topics.
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Oh, it's gonna bring about a lot of interesting conversation
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and it also comes with a companion study guide.
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And then I wanna offer you my book.
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I think it's really important,
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and that is, Who Stole Cinderella?
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This book, honestly, it's
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I'm very candid in this
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and shortcomings
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and how God has taught
me through the years.
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There's other examples in there of
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how other women have
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and found a victory, and
even divorces were stopped.
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Maybe you know somebody who's
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or maybe somebody who's
in a a difficult marriage,
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this might help them.
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Maybe you need to buy it for them.
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Well, I'm so excited about
opening the word of God
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to you today about how we
can love others better.
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So stay with me and I'm coming right back.
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and spiritually, and most importantly,
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of Christ Jesus living in you.
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It's Time with Denise Renner.
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Well friend, we've been
having amazing time in these
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lessons, talking about how
we can love others better.
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And we first talked about
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how can I say I don't need you?
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Because the Bible says we
need to keep a tender heart
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and appreciation to each other
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and open our heart to one another.
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What about - Help me, I am being critical again.
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Well, maybe you are not being critical.
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Maybe it's your neighbor
that's being critical.
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I don't know. But there's a lot of help
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for us in that lesson.
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And what does patients have to do with it?
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Well, I think everything
that loving people has a lot
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to do with our patients.
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And I better watch my words.
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How important is forgiveness?
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And I have something to be thankful for.
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Oh, I love that teaching.
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To just practice having
that in your heart to a
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thankful person that is just so great.
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And the benefits of forgiving others.
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We in that one, we just go
a little bit deeper into
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the power of forgiveness
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and the love of God that's extended
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to us when we operate in that love.
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And through that love,
we can forgive deeply.
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And then, it is time to take our thoughts captive.
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And we talked about self-control there,
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that beautiful spirit, that beautiful fruit
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of the spirit on the inside of you.
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And today we are gonna talk about
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How do I love
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and pray for my enemies?
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Jesus said in Matthew 5:
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verse starting in verse 43.
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He says - You have heard that it was said,
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you shall love your neighbor
and hate your enemy.
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So they really believed
that they were supposed
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to love their neighbor
and hate their enemy.
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But Jesus raises the bar much higher.
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But I say to you, love your enemies.
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Bless those who curse you. Do good to those who hate you.
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And pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.
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I think that friend, this is
the highest level of love, is
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to love those who hurt us,
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love our enemies.
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It's really clear, I'm
gonna read it to you again.
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Jesus said, love your enemies.
Bless those who curse you.
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Do good to those who hate you.
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Pray for those who spitefully use you
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and pray for those who persecute you.
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I think this is really a tall order that
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that Jesus has given us.
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And you know, Jesus would
never ask us to do anything
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if he didn't equip us
with the power to do it.
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And in Romans 5:5, it says
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that when you got born again,
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that the Holy Spirit came
with the love of God,
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the very love of God, the agape love
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of God, to come
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and be on the inside of your heart.
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That means that he absolutely outfitted
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us, equipped us completely with
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what we need to love our enemies,
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pray for those who dispitefully
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use us: pray for those who persecute us.
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Bless those who hate us.
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I know just saying those words myself,
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I see the tallness of that order.
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But you know, the power is,
is not seeing the tallness
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of the order, but seeing the
power that we have on the
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inside. That's where the power is.
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That love of God that's on the inside of you.
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And also that love of God is also one
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of the fruits of the spirit.
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One of the fruits of your spirit is love.
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It's not I love you when you love me.
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It's not, it's not even
talking about romantic love.
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It's not even talking
about friendship love.
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It's talking about this agape love
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that would dare to love
someone who hates you,
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to love someone who's your
enemy, to pray for someone
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who, who despitefully uses you
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or persecute you.
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That love that it takes
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to do that, that very love - that's inside you:
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that's inside of you: that's inside of me.
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And so we can't look at that list
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and say, well, that is impossible.
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And you know, honestly, I've not heard
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so many messages in my
life on loving your enemies
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or praying for those
who spitefully use you.
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But Jesus did say to do this,
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and I'm thinking about this
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and I'm sure that right now
you're thinking about this.
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How have I loved my enemies?
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How have I prayed for those
who despitefully used me?
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And we can go immediately
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to the example of Judas.
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Look at Judas.
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It says in John 8,
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that Jesus knew he was the betrayer.
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And yet, in all that time that Judas walked with Jesus,
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Jesus loved him,
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Jesus prayed for him, Jesus protected him,
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Jesus fed him. This is amazing.
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This is amazing.
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You know, many years
ago I was in a situation
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and I was called upon in that situation
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to love someone who I believed meant harm
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for us, who meant not good for us.
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And I was called on to love that person.
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Well, I can tell you that in
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that time I was thinking about Judas,
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I was thinking about Jesus.
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I was thinking, Jesus,
how did you do that?
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How did you keep loving praying
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for blessing, Judas,
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when you knew what he was gonna do?
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When you saw him take from the treasury
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for his own greed. How did you keep loving him?
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And so I did my best.
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I can't say that I did it perfectly,
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but as it turned out, that person
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was revealed that they absolutely did mean harm to us.
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And I wasn't happy when they
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were caught or anything like that.
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I really wasn't.
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My heart went out to that
person and still does today.
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And I love that person today.
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And I often pray for that person.
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You know, the Bible says that
when Jesus was on the cross:
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we are looking for examples, right,
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of people who loved and prayed for their enemies.
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When Jesus was on the cross in Luke 23:
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34, he was there, blood pouring off
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of his body, from every pore in his body.
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He was pushing up on those
nails just to breathe.
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He heard them blaspheming him: the men
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around him saying, call out to your father
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and ask him to take you down from that cross.
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If he'll hear you.
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Even the one of the thieves that was hanging next to him,
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blaspheme Jesus;
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he heard all of that.
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He was receiving all that ridicule.
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He was hanging naked in
front of his own mother.
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He was bearing your sin,
my sin, your sickness,
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my sickness, the sin of the whole world.
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And he looked on that crowd.
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I'm just telling you this,
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because Jesus did what he told us to do.
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And he said, Father, forgive them.
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They don't know what they're doing.
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Jesus fulfilled his
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own sermon.
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He prayed for his enemies.
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Even when Judas, the last moment,
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the last moment that he could have that was,
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that was offered restoration for Judas,
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Jesus said to him, friend,
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he called him friend.
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The last minute Jesus was offering
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restoration to him.
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And then Judas kissed
him, which I identified
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that that was the one they were to arrest.
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And Judas completed his betrayal of Christ.
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And if you don't know, Judas went out
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and he hung himself.
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He committed suicide.
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This love of God I'm talking to you about,
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which sounds so amazing.
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It is. It's in you. It's in you.
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I wanna give you a couple more examples.
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I know a story of a man, this is a true story,
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and he loved his wife. They were married over four decades.
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And his neighbor who had
problems with drinking,
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he was a drunk driver.
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And on one day, he and his drunkenness
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and driving, he killed that man's wife.
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Well that man,
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after he knew, he knew who was at fault
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for killing his wife,
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that man started praying for the man
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who was responsible for the
death of his beloved wife.
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He started praying for
him, praying for him,
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doing good to him.
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And eventually this man
who was the drunkard, oh,
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he had so much shame.
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He had so much hate.
And he showed his hate.
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And he showed his resentment.
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He came out as resentment to
the man who was loving him.
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But the man who loved him didn't stop just
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because the man who
killed his wife hated him.
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No, the man who loved him
loved him to his death.
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And at that funeral of that man
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who loved his enemy
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and prayed for him, that man's heart
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opened up to Jesus.
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You see, that love of
God is just so powerful.
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It breaks down barriers
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of people's hard hearts.
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I know another situation,
this lady's my friend,
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she lives here in Moscow.
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And many years ago she
married her husband.
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And at that time
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she loved him.
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They had a wonderful marriage.
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But he started drinking
and he drank so much.
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One New Year's Eve, she, she
found him in their bedroom on,
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on their bed.
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And he was dead from
drinking so much alcohol.
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Well, she was so overcome by
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that she became an alcoholic herself.
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Well, her son was growing
up in front of her
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and he would try to, he got saved
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and he would minister to his mother.
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Well, she gave her heart to
Jesus because of her son.
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Well, her son, something
started working in his mind
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and somebody offered him drugs
and her son got on drugs.
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And she came home another New Year's Eve
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and found her son on the same bed
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that she found her husband dead.
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She found her son dead
from an overdose of drugs.
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Do you know what that woman did?
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She went to the prison to minister
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to the young girl who was responsible
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for getting her son who overdosed and died on drugs.
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She went to the prison
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and ministered to her in that prison:
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loved her, forgave her,
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and ministered to her the love of Jesus
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and shared Christ with her.
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And that young girl, she received Christ in that prison.
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She was set free by a woman
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who prayed for her, her
enemy, loved her enemy,
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and was responsible for
the death of her son.
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Friend, this is amazing.
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And I wanna give you one more example.
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And that is in the New Testament.
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And that is in 1 Timothy,
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and we have instruction from the Apostle Paul to 1 Timothy.
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At that time, of the ruler of the
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of the Roman Empire was murdering, killing,
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hunting down Christians: burning them at the stake.
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They had created horrible ways to kill Christians.
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They would, they would -
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they would fry them in a frying pan.
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Can you even imagine that they
would strip off their flesh?
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Can you even imagine that. This horrible,
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horrible persecution was going on when the
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Apostle Paul, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
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wrote this to Timothy?
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And it says in 1 Timothy 2:1 -
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Therefore I exort, first of all,
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that supplications, prayers,
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intercessions,
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and giving of thanks be made for all men
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giving a thanks for these rulers
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that are persecuting their brothers
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and their sisters, throwing
them into the lion's den,
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throwing them into the coliseum to fight
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with gladiators or to be
mauled and eaten by lions.
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And the apostle Paul is urging Timothy
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to pray for them.
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This is some kind of love of God.
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Look at the next verse.
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For kings, for all who are in authority
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that you may lead a quiet and peaceable life
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in all godliness
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and reverence.
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We are instructed from the inspiration
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of the Holy Spirit writing
through the Apostle Paul
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that we are to pray for
those who are in authority:
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kings, rulers.
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It's amazing. It's amazing.
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But that love of God was operating
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in the Apostle Paul when
he wrote those scriptures.
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Friend, we can't say - Well, Denise, I hear
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what you're saying, but you don't know
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what my enemies have done to me.
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You don't know what those
who've despitefully used me
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over and over again.
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Am I supposed to forgive them?
Am I supposed to love them?
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Am I supposed to pray for them?
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Well, according to what Jesus said,
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Jesus said in Matthew 5. I'll read it
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to you again - verse 43.
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He said, we're to love our enemies.
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Bless those who cursed you.
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Do good to those who hate you.
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And pray for those who spitefully use you
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and pray for those who persecute you.
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This series is called, How Can I Love Others Better?
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I gave you examples of how those who loved
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and prayed for their enemies
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and blessed them were the doorway
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for their enemy
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to receive eternal life.
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You know, what people
do to us on this earth?
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It's really temporal,
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but where they spend eternity is forever.
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How can you
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and I exercise this kind
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of love for somebody?
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Is there somebody right
now that comes to your mind
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that despitefully uses you?
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Maybe somebody at work
or somebody who hates you
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and you do you need to bless them
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or somebody of that is your enemy and you need to love them.
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It is a high level love,
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but that high level love, that's on the inside of you.
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I think we need to say to ourselves, Lord,
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it doesn't matter about my feelings.
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But Lord, I can say yes Lord
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to this powerful love that's on the
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inside of me.
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Well, I'm running outta time here,
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but I want you to stay with me
'cause I'm coming right back
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and we're gonna pray together
and we're just gonna believe
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and and acknowledge that great
love of God that's on the
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inside of you that
enables us with the power
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to love our enemies,
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bless those who curse you, do
good to those who hate you,
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pray for those who spitefully use you
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and pray for those who persecute you.
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And it's going to help us
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love others better.
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Stay with me and I'm coming right back
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and we're gonna pray together.
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We were not made to
live our lives alone.
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And the Bible gives us distinct commands on how we are meant
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to live in community with one another. In her series,
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the attitudes we need to be carrying toward others,
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Friend, I believe that some
of you that are listening
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to me, you have been doing
this for a long time.
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You have been loving your enemies.
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You have prayed for those
who, who despitefully use you
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and persecute you.
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You bless those who hate
you. I believe that.
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And I know that as you heard
this, you were saying, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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And I wanna encourage you that
maybe you've never done that,
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and maybe you are so tempted to just say,
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well, you just don't
know what they did to me
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and I can't love them,
and I can't forgive them,
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and I can't bless them.
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But you can by faith,
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and that's what we're gonna do right now.
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We're gonna pray together and
we're gonna use our faith.
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Father, I pray with my
friend right now that
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by faith we recognize
the power of the love
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of God on the inside.
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And Lord, we say with our own mouth: just say this with me -
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With our own mouth, we say,
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I can love my enemies.
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I can bless those who hate me.
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I can pray for those who
despitefully used me.
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Oh, I thank you Lord for
everything you're doing inside
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of us by the Holy Spirit.
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You are the lover on the inside of us.
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Well, friend, I'm out of time. I love 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.
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