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Fruits of Brokenness

Creflo Dollar

January 20, 2021

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male announcer: Coming up nexton "Changing Your World."
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Creflo Dollar: Sometimes we getto wandering way far away from
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the will of God for our lives,and brokenness can be used
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as a tool to bring you backinto his loving arms.
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I don't know about you, but youknow, in life sometimes,
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you know, you take a detour awayfrom the plan and the purpose
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of God for your life.
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And in the middle of that, youmay experience some brokenness.
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That's just God saying, Hey,"I'm getting you back on
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the path.
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You're wandering right now.
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There is still a willfor your life.
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There is still a planfor your life.
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There is still an anointing thatI've given you for your life and
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so I'm gonna use brokenness,although I may not send it, but
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I will use it to bring you backinto my loving "arms.
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So there's a beauty ofbrokenness because
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of where you end up.
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Creflo Dollar: If you haveyour Bibles, go with me
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to the book of Psalms,the book of Psalms 147.
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I'm going to use two Scripturesfor our text and I want to talk
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to you about a serious subject.
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It's--you know, I'd go back andforth on whether or not I was
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ready to present this and Ibelieve that this is time.
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Today, I'm gonna talk to youabout brokenness and I'm gonna
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talk to you about how toovercome brokenness.
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Because I don't think peopleunderstand that a lot of things
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that we do in our life, it maybe a result of unresolved
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brokenness in your life.
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This conference this week hasbeen about worth, value, the
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search for significance.
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And you have to understand thatif God values you, he says
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you're the apple of his eye, ifGod values you, you're gonna
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have to learn how to valueyourself.
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You know, you're talkin' aboutloving somebody, it's gonna be
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you understanding how to loveyourself, and so it's important
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for you to valuewhat God values.
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God values you and it'simportant for you to not let
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somebody devalue you becauseGod values you.
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You are worth everything tothe kingdom of God
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and God put you here.
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You have a purpose.
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You have a plan.
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You have a job.
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You have things that you'resupposed to do.
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But one of the things that Iwant you to see is if you can
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understand this issue ofbrokenness, brokenness is a root
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that will give birth to fruit.
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And sometimes that fruit in ourcharacter and fruit in our life,
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sometimes we say, "Well,that's just how I am,"
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and really it's not.
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It's just the fruit ofbrokenness developing
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and growing more and morein your life.
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And I want to show you how toidentify those areas, and then
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if we have time show you how tobreak free from it so that you
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can achieve everything that Godhas purposed for your life.
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In Psalms 147, verse 3, and thenwe're gonna go to Psalms 34.
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Psalms 147, verse 3 says, "Hehealeth the broken in heart,
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and bindeth up their wounds."
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He healeth the broken in heartand bindeth up their wounds.
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And then if you'll go to Psalms34, Psalms 34, verse 17 through
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19, and in verse 17 he says,"The righteous cry, and the Lord
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heareth and delivereth them outof all their troubles."
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Verse 18, "The Lord is nigh untothem that are of a broken heart;
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and saveth such as be of acontrite spirit."
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Verse 19, "Many are theafflictions of the righteous:
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but the Lord delivereth him outof them all."
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Praise God.
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Many are the afflictionsof the righteous.
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So if you're born again andyou're the righteousness of God,
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you should not be surprised.
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Many are the afflictions ofthe righteous, but the Lord
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delivereth you from all of them.
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Now, let's begin.
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What is brokenness?
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How would we define brokenness?
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Brokenness is the flawedcondition of humanity that
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creates a tendency for peopleto hurt themselves
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and to hurt others.
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Let me say that again.
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Brokenness is the flawedcondition of humanity that
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creates a tendency for peopleto hurt themselves
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and to hurt others.
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You see, one of the facts ofbeing human is that we don't
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always get things right.
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One of the truths of being ahuman being is that we mess up.
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And if you begin to understandthat, you know,
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you don't beat yourself up.
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This is something that, being ahuman, it happens because of
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your humanity.
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Look at Romans chapter 3:10.
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And sometimes Christians don'tthink that this is something
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that will happen to them becauseyou're Christians and you
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know God.
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Well, I mean, I just read youtwo Scriptures where God is
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committed to the brokenhearted,where God has made a decision to
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be there for those who arebroken, so even those who are
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of Jesus Christ will experiencetimes of brokenness.
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David experienced a timeof brokenness.
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And so it's something that wegot to talk about because we
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can't just kind of blow it awayand act like, "Well, this is not
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going to happen to me becauseI pray and I fast."
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And all that stuff is good,but brokenness is a reality
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and hopefully I'll getto showing you
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a graceful brokenness, how Goduses it to really bring you
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to a place of accomplishinghis will for your life.
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Romans 3:10 says, "As it iswritten, There is none
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righteous, no, not one."
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Boy, that's somethin'.
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If it were not for Jesus Christ,there's none righteous.
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If it were not for Jesus Christ,we wouldn't even be the
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righteousness of God right now.
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We're righteous becauseof his righteousness,
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not because of ours.
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So he says, "There's not onerighteous, no, not one."
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So true brokenness is a tool bywhich God brings his work.
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He brings his sheep that arewandering back into his
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loving arms.
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Now, listen to that.
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It's a tool that God can use tobring his wandering sheep back
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into his loving arms.
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Sometimes we get to wanderingway far away from the will of
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God for our lives and brokennesscan be used as a tool to bring
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you back into his loving arms.
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I don't know about you, but youknow, in life sometimes,
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you know, you take a detour awayfrom the plan and the purpose
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of God for your life.
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And in the middle of that, youmay experience some brokenness.
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That's just God saying,"Hey, I'm getting you back
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on the path.
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You're wandering right now.
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There is still a willfor your life.
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There is still a planfor your life.
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There is still an anointing thatI've given you for your life.
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And so I'm gonna use brokenness,although I may not send it, but
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I will use it to bring you backinto my loving arms."
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So there's a beauty ofbrokenness because
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of where you end up.
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And maybe it was rough, andmaybe it hurt, and maybe it was
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painful, maybe somebody else washurt and it was painful, but at
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the end of the day I want you totrust that God can even use your
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brokenness to bring you backinto the loving arms of the
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Heavenly Father.
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And so let's look at Romanschapter 7, and verse 15.
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And you know, I'm tryin' tostart off just really chilled
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and not get too excited beforeyou understand where
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we're going.
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Romans 7:15 says, "For that--"this is Paul talking,
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"For that which I do I allownot: for what I would,
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that do I not; but what I hate,that do I."
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Did you catch what happens here?
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Paul says that he's doingthe things that he knew
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he wasn't supposed to do.
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Paul is saying that Paul wantedto do what was right,
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but he didn't.
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He still did the thing he hated.
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He wanted to do what was right,but he didn't.
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He still did the thing he hated.
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Some of you can relate to that,that you're wanting to do right,
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but you're ending up still doingthe thing you hated.
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You don't even like it.
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You know the danger of it.
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You know what happens.
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And so brokenness in your life,you have to understand, that has
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never been resolved, brokennessin your life that has never been
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dealt with, you've neverresolved it may be infiltrating
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your life and it may beinfiltrating your relationships.
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Brokenness in your life that'sunresolved, brokenness in your
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life that you've not dealt with,it may somehow be infiltrating
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your life.
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It may somehow be infiltratingyour relationships.
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Now, let me say this.
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You will not be able to makeprogress above the level
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of your unresolved brokenness.
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You will not be able to besuccessful above the level of
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your unresolved brokenness.
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And so it's important right now.
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It's a key thing that if we canbegin to deal with it--first of
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all, if we can start recognizingit and then we start dealing
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with it, then we can locatewhere it's come into our lives,
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and so that's what I want todeal with this morning.
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So what is it about yourcharacter, what is it about
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your life that may be a resultof brokenness?
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What is it about how you carryyourself that may be a result
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of brokenness?
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What is it about--you know,people may say that, you know,
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you're a complainer, or they maysay that you're selfish
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and all of those things.
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It's a fruit of brokenness, andso could it be true that how you
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carry yourself may be a resultof your brokenness?
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You know, sometimes we like toput the blame on other things
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and blaming people for thingsmay be a result of
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your brokenness.
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So I'm gonna cover severalthings, several fruits of
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brokenness, if you will, and Iwant you to listen to 'em to at
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least identify those fruits ofbrokenness so you can leave
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from here sayin', "Ahh,yeah, that's me.
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That's me.
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I need to resolve that."
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And so the first fruit ofbrokenness is something
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called defensiveness.
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If you are a defensive person,it's probably something that has
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infiltrated your life.
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It's something that has becomea part and infiltrated
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your relationships.
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Defensiveness.
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Look at your life and seeif you are defensive.
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You know, this is so true.
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Acceptance is the first stepto recovery.
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Until you come to the point ofaccepting, "Okay, that's my
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issue," until you come to thepoint of accepting,
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"Okay, I have that in my life,"acceptance is the first step
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to recovering.
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So if we can't admit that we'vemessed up, we're going to never
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be able to changefor the better.
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If we just kinda keep coveringup because, oh, it makes me feel
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bad or it makes me feel sad thenyou're never going to change
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for the better.
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So we've got to admit,"Hey, I messed up.
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I admit, I'm defensive," okay,and then you take ownership of
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the tension rather than gettingdefensive and blaming everyone
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and everything else instead.
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By taking ownership of it,by accepting it, then you're
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gonna be in a place where youcan really overcome
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this area of being defensive.
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But you're defensive, why?
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Because of an area of brokennessin your life.
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You know, the thing about beingbroken is that God already knows
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how to put you back togetheragain.
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You're not destroyed.
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If something is destroyed,you can't put it back
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together again.
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But if you're broken, you can beput back together again and God
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is committed to putting brokenpeople back together again.
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But if you don't acceptresponsibility for being
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defensive and saying, "Well, youknow, I'm a person that's
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defensive because of somebrokenness in my life."
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So examine those area ofbrokenness in your life and ask
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yourself, "Has that produced mebeing a defensive person in
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my life?"
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That's number one.
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Number two, you know, sometimesin relationships you give people
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the quiet treatment.
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Sometimes in a relationship,you put up that stone wall.
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What is it that causes you togive people the quiet treatment?
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You know, if someone has indeedwronged you, talking to them
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about it is the best first step.
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Somebody's done something toyou, it's not goin' around, and
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giving them the quiet treatment,and putting up a wall, and I'm
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just not gonna say anything.
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That's not how you do it.
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The very best first step is totalk about it and to get it out
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in the opening.
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And so giving someone the coldshoulder, it just makes the
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situation worse.
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And if you begin to look atpeople, and you may know
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somebody that, you know, theygive the quiet treatment.
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Every time something happens intheir life, they get quiet.
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I'm not gonna say anythingto anybody.
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And sometimes you're actuallythinking that's resolving it.
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No, it's not.
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The very best first step you cando is learn how to confront the
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situation, learn how to talkabout the situation.
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Now, I use the word"confrontation."
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Confrontation doesn't have to bea negative word.
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Confrontation, it'll bring aboutgrowth for the person who was
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doing the confronting and theperson who's being confronted.
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But sometimes, man, we thinksomehow that something
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beneficial comes out of beingquiet, that somethin' beneficial
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happens after--you know, as aresult of stonewalling.
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I'll say it once, I'll say itagain, if someone has indeed
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wronged you, talking to themabout it is the best first step.
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Somebody says, "I hear whatyou're saying, but I don't know
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if I want to do something likethat."
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Well, there's an area ofbrokenness that has produced
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this fruit in your life.
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Let's look at the next one.
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Criticism.
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Criticism is a fruit ofbrokenness.
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You know, one of the ways peopletry to pry attention away from
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their mistakes is to point outthe faults of other people.
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And so you have to ask yourself,"Why am I so critical?
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Why am I always finding myselfcriticizing other people?"
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Well, maybe you're trying to,you know, move the attention
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away from your mistakes andpoint out the faults of
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somebody else.
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I mean, we all know peoplewho do that.
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And if you're doing that, thething I would do is, like, "What
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is it in my life that's happenedwhere I feel so bad about, you
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know, the things that I've done,I feel so bad about my mistakes
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that the answer to it is, 'Letme just see if I can, you know,
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get some--look at what somebodyelse is doing and make them
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look bad?'"
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A broken spirit, a broken heartis the reason why that happens.
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You're gonna find out today thata lot of conduct that people
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display, if they will takethe time to deal with
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their brokenness, all of thesethings will go away as well.
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Let's look at this.
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Number four, contempt.
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What do I mean when I usethe word "contempt"?
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It's a state of being mean,despised, disgraced, dishonored.
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You see, disregarding someonegives the impression that even
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if they did do what was right inyour eyes, it still wouldn't
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be enough.
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Think about that.
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That's bondage.
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You know, even if I did dosomething right, it still
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wouldn't be enough.
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Comments in a loving tone willalways go a lot further than
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anything said in rudenessand sarcasm.
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Why is it that you can findyourself continuing to be
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sarcastic and rudeto other people?
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What is it that causes youto be a mean person?
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There's brokenness in your life.
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You're mean to everybody thatcomes around you because maybe
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in a relationship it didn't workout, or maybe somebody said
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something that really made youfeel bad about, you know,
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who you are and insignificant.
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Brokenness will be the reasonwhy you can carry on this kind
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of thing and you're just mean,you're rude, you're sarcastic.
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And here's another thing,somebody says, "Well, that's
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just me and I'm not gonna changefor anybody."
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No, that's not you.
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That's the fruit of brokenness.
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That's the broken you.
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That's not you.
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And sometimes when people makeexcuses for not wanting to
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change, they're just--that'sjust their reason for not
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wanting to do it.
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And so hopefully just byidentifying these things that
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you can just kinda reallysee it, "Oh wow, I didn't--
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I've never related that to mybrokenness," that it'll cause
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you to want to just dosomething about it.
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Number five, and I realizeI'm runnin' out of time,
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negative assumptions.
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We've probably done that, allof us, negative assumptions.
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You know, not everyone hasearned perfect trust.
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That's true, but most of us alsodon't deserve to have the
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motives questioned.
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I mean, every time you lookaround, you're questioning
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my motives.
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I have not earned perfect trust,but do I deserve to have every
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time I do something have itto be questioned?
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Negative assumptions.
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Why are you always havingnegative assumptions
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about everybody?
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Why is it so important to youto, you know, the fact that you
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know you can't earn perfecttrust, but I'm just not willing
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to deal with it at all 'causeI just--I don't know,
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I just don't.
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I just don't.
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I don't trust you.
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I've heard people say that,"I just don't trust you."
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Well, it's going to be real hardfor you have relationship with
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people because nobody's gonnawant to be around somebody that
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they feel, you know, alwaysgonna question their motives.
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And every time you look around,"Well, I'm questioning
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your motive.
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I'm questioning youyour motive."
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That's negative assumption.
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And if you do not deal withthat, that makes it very
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difficult for you to haverelationship with people.
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Relationships are supposedto bless you.
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They're supposed to help youto get across certain things.
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There's something aboutthe power of relationship
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that God wants to happenin a person's life.
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And when you have been devalued,when you have been hurt, when
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you have been betrayed, all ofthat is a part of brokenness,
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then you're probably going to bea person that has a bunch of
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negative assumptions.
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Now, Am I saying to just trusteverybody?
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No, I'm not saying that.
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I'm saying maybe this is a fruitof brokenness.
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Let's look at the next one,invalidating opinions.
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Invalidating opinions.
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Now, this person is the only onewho is ever allowed to be right.
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You ever met somebody like that?
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He's the only one that's everallowed to be right.
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Anyone else who disagrees withthem, you're stupid and
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you're foolish.
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What is it that makes you thinkthat you're the only one that
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can be right?
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Can't nobody--I mean, you know,I don't know if you've ever been
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around--that's frustratingbeing around somebody who
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thinks, "I'm the only one that'sright and ain't no--
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and if you don't agree with me,you stupid."
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And I know you want to say,"Your mama," but you can't do
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that because you know that'sprobably brokenness too.
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But you gotta make sure thatin relationships,
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you can't do that.
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You're not perfect.
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How do--what is it that causesyou to think you're the only one
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that's right?
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Brokenness.
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That's what caused--see, youmay be checking people out and
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you're tryin' to wonder,you know,
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whether they're bad personor not.
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I'm telling you, there's a rootto what you see.
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There's a root to what youexperience.
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And there's so many people thatare trying to gain success with
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unresolved brokenness.
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So many people who have a woundsthat they would rather cover up
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and produce a false identitythan to uncover and to deal and
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to get--and to heal that woundand then those characteristics
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won't be there.
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But this is how serious this is.
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I thought, "You know what?
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Maybe if I just give a list ofthings that people need to do,
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it'll get their attention tosay, 'Dude, I need to deal with
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these broken areas of my life.'"
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A broken person that was brokenat 7, and now you're 25, you are
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allowing the 7-year-old to tryto live in that body of a
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25-year-old because it's notbeen resolved.
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Let's move to the next one,escalating vengeance.
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Escalating vengeance.
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What does that mean?
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There isn't much satisfaction inthe revenge business and
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retaliating after a fight isnever the right way to go.
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So it might feel natural to lashout at things that have hurt us
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or made us angry, but it's nothow God wants things to be.
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So somebody's done something toyou, somebody said something
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about you, somebody dishonoredyou and disgraced you in some
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kind of way, and escalatingvengeance, and tryin' to get
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revenge, and tryin' to retaliateafterwards, dude, that's not the
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thing to do.
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And we live in a generationwhere people are, like, so
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broken that they'll do all kindsof maybe violent things because
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I'm not gonna let you do that tome and get away with it.
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I'm gonna get you back.
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And what happens when you arearound a society of a bunch of
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broken people and they areescalating vengeance?
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All they're doing is thinkingabout, "How am I gonna get
00:24:23.675 --> 00:24:26.144
you back?"
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And somehow you never reallyfeel satisfied when
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you do something like that.
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You think you will,but you're not.
00:24:33.151 --> 00:24:34.452
It really takes a bigger personto know that somebody has
00:24:34.486 --> 00:24:38.189
wronged me and I can justforgive them, and I can just
00:24:38.223 --> 00:24:42.627
walk away, and I'm not gonnaretaliate.
00:24:42.661 --> 00:24:45.463
I just trust God and I'm notgonna, you know, rent space in
00:24:45.497 --> 00:24:50.969
my mind where you're concerned.
00:24:51.002 --> 00:24:52.671
I'm going to go on.
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Peace is my most valuable asset.
00:24:54.072 --> 00:24:55.373
I'm not gonna spend iton your drama.
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