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The Ministry of Reconciliation Part 2

Creflo Dollar

November 23, 2020

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The Ministry of Reconciliation Part 2

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Creflo Dollar: It doesn't matterthe color or pigmentation.
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It grieves the Holy Spirit.
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I'm talking to Christian people.
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I'm talking to the church.
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I ain't talking--I'm talkingnot talking to the world.
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I'm talking to folks who cometo church and say, "Hallelujah,"
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and carry racism in their heart;it grieves the Holy Spirit.
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And you're trying to figure outwhy the Scripture ain't working.
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It's grieving the Holy Spirit.
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♪ Let every heart that needs toknow your love is here to stay ♪
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♪ Oh, oh, it's timeto live a new life ♪
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♪ Oh, oh, let his loveshine bright in you ♪
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♪ Oh, oh, we'resaved by his grace ♪
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♪ So we embraceyour love today ♪
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Creflo: I think there'ssomething about prayer that
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people have just thrown away.
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When is the last time you prayedabout the issue you're
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going through?
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When is the last time youprayed about inequality in
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this country?
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When was the last time youprayed about even the problems
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that we have amongstour own race?
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When was the last time you goton your face and asked God,
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"Help me to reconcile?"
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Or you're so mad you forgotthat there even is a God?
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"Well, Brother Dollar, somepeople don't believe in God."
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And that's another problem.
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That's another problem; thatbecause we don't believe in God,
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and we go out, and we go downa path that seems right unto a
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man, and the end thereof is destruction.
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So you may not believe in a Godnow, but you're going to die
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one day.
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And when you die, youwill--every knee will bow, every
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tongue will confess.
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You have bought the philosophiesof this world, you've put on the
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lens of humanism, and you'vebeen talked out of the only one
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that can help you in anysituation that you're in.
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You don't believe?
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You will.
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But I'm trying to getyour attention right now.
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I'm trying to get you tounderstand it wasn't the alarm
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clock that woke youup this morning.
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It was God.
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I'm trying to get you tounderstand that the wreck you
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should have died in, the onethat you got out of, that
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was God.
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I want you to understand thatany good that has ever happened
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in your life; that was God.
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And I'm asking you who don'tbelieve to go back and count
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your blessings, and wherever yousee good, and wherever you see a
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rescue, and whenever you werein a ditch and some--and you got
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delivered up out of thatditch, that was God.
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Don't wait late.
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Don't wait till it's too late tohave faith in him and to accept
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him into your life.
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Repent, and bereconciled to God.
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Repent, and come to Jesus.
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Repent, and make him the Lordof your life in Jesus' name.
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Number four, this is veryimportant: reconciliation
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requires, watch this, humility.
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Reconciliationrequires humility.
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If you look at Genesis chapter33, "And he passed over before
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them," watch Jacob, "And hebowed himself to the ground
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seven times, until hecame near to his brother."
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He's approaching his brotherand he's bowing down.
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What is he signaling?
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"I'm humbling myself."
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I believe that reconciliationrequires humility.
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This is a posture of humility.
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Jacob humbled himselfbefore his brother.
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He came with the right spiritand the right attitude.
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He acknowledged that he had donewrong, that he was a deceiver,
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that he tricked his brother outof his blessings, that he was
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at fault.
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He wasn't comingto have a debate.
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When you're interested inreconciliation, it
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requires humility.
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Humility puts us in a positionand a posture for reconciliation
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to occur; swallowing yourpride, admitting you're wrong.
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That's the costof reconciliation.
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Are you willing to pay thecost of reconciliation?
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Are you willing to pay whatit's going to cost to
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see reconciliation?
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Will you be able toswallow your pride?
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Will you be able toadmit your wrongs?
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Every action of reconciliationrequires that someone in the
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hurting relationship, preferablyboth parties, but someone's got
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to admit their fault and theirdesire to repair that damage.
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Reconciliation comes.
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It costs though.
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Look at what James chapter 4,and 6 says; James chapter 4,
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and 6.
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O God, may people understand thepower of humility, the power of
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just showing up, and examiningyourself, and being willing to
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accept responsibility foryour own action, and--wow.
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Verse 6 says, "But hegiveth more grace."
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He says, "Wherefore he saith,God resisteth the proud, but he
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gives grace to the humble."
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I want grace.
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I want to humble myself.
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I want to be able to look atmy life, not only my marriage
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relationship, relationship withmy children, relationship with
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people I know, with my church,with my God, with somebody of
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another skin pigmentation.
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I want to always be able to lookat myself first and to admit
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where I missed it first.
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I want to look at my life andnot be so quick to point a
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finger at what somebody else hasdone to hurt me, but I want to
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see what is it--you know, whatcould I have done differently?
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What could I have done better?
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What can I do now that's better?
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That issue of humility, I think,brings about the reconciliation
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that I'm preaching about.
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Number five, reconciliationrequires and depends upon,
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listen to this, vulnerability.
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Reconciliation requires anddepends upon vulnerability.
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Look at this in Genesis33, 4; look at Jacob here.
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This is powerful.
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"And Esau ran to meet him, andembraced him, and fell on his
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neck, and kissedhim: and they wept."
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I need you to see who did that.
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It was the one who was offended.
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Esau ran to meet him, and Esauembraced them, and Esau fell on
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his neck, and Esau kissedhim: and they wept.
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He went from hunting him down,to kill him, to hating him, to
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become invulnerable.
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He could have said, "I'm notgoing to show you that I
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miss you.
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I want you to seethat I'm still mad.
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I want you to seethat I'm still upset.
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I want you to see I'm stillfeeling some kind of way."
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But that act of humilitybought and opened the door
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for vulnerability.
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This is a pictureof vulnerability.
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To embrace someone is to exposeyour heart, and to expose your
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heart is to reveal your partin the damaged relationship to
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redeem the hurt and thepain that you caused.
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Reconciliation will never happenuntil the heart is exposed.
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Admit that you were wrong.
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Admit that you are wrong.
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Somebody says, "Well, I don'tknow how this is going to happen
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in our country."
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I'll tell you why; becausethat pride is still there.
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And I'm believing God that theHoly Ghost can show up and begin
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to humble us.
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I know we have to humbleourselves, but may he influence
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us, may he help usto humble ourselves.
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Now, there is a big warning herein opening your heart up because
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whenever you expose your heart,you stand the chance of having
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it broken again.
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And that's there.
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But the world--ourlife--life is full of risk.
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And I'd rather take arisk on reconciliation.
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You see, peoplewill disappoint you.
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People will wreck your emotions.
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People will be hateful.
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People will be racist.
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People will let you down.
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So what does that mean?
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Do you become an isolated hermitand just decide, "Well, I don't
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want to have todeal with nobody.
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I don't trust nobody.
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I don't want to beinvolved with nobody.
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I just don't deal with folks'cause I just don't want to
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get hurt.
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It ain't going to happen.
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You did it to me one time.
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You ain't going to do it again."
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Ain't that sad?
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Of human beings, you willbe most sad human being.
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Are you allowing deep hurt fromthe past stop you from exposing
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your heart?
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God is a relational God.
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God is for relationship.
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God endorses relationships.
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Relationships can be a bridgeto great benefits in your life.
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You were never meant tobe without relationships.
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"Well, I just don't want anotherrelationship 'cause every time I
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get with a man, he always end updisappointing me like the
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other one."
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That's not the problem.
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The problem is you just got tolearn how to pay attention to
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the signals that you see atthe beginning that you
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keep ignoring.
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There are lots of signals youcan pay attention to, to be able
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to know that this maybe a toxic relationship.
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But don't let brokenness fromthe past cause you to not want
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to have anything todo with relationships.
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Relationships can be a bridgeto get you from one place to
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another place in your life.
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Relationships can be a blessing.
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Relationships with a whiteman can be a blessing to you.
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Relationships with a blackman can be a blessing to you.
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Can't you see that's why Satanwants to divide people of
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different skin pigmentation?
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He wants to divide people thatcome from different cultures,
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different ethnicities.
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Why?
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Because differences comingtogether will be a blessing.
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Differences, the blessingof differences.
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I see that you are difference,and I learn from your
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difference, and all of a sudden,you--I learn you're strong in
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that area than I am, and soyour strength will help me to
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eliminate my weaknesses.
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Don't be afraid ofdifferences, embrace them.
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Embrace them.
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Praise God.
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I used to use this illustrationthat, you know--and it was a
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little comical.
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I don't know, today it mightoffend people, but whatever.
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I used the illustration, I said,"You know, if you go to a mostly
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white church, they clap on thefirst beat: let God arise and
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enemies be scattered.
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You go to a black church, theyclap on the second beat: let God
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arise and enemies be scattered."
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Boy, what would happen if youget that white church with that
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black church?
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You know what will happen?
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You won't miss a beat.
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You won't miss a beat.
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There is something that God hasput into place where he says,
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"I'm going to letyou grow up here.
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You're going to be in that area.
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You're going togrow up like this.
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You're going to grow up here.
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Because when you cometogether, I'm going to use your
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differences tostrengthen one another."
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And here we are fightingbecause of differences.
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Here we are madat the difference.
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And instead of embracing thedifference--and I'm not talking
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about, you know, pastors, "Well,I have a very diverse church;"
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and you brag about how youpastor a diverse church.
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It may be diverse as far aspeople sitting in the pews, but
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I want to see how that diversityhas impacted the person
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that's different.
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I want to see how that diversityhas impacted you as a leader.
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I want to see how that diversityhas impacted how you think and
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how decisions are made.
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I don't want to just seediversity in the--amongst
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the congregation.
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I want to see diversityamongst your leadership.
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Not just diversity in thepulpit, not just diversity in
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the choir stand, but I want tosee diversity in the boardroom.
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I want to see diversity in theconfrontations where, you know,
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a black might understand it thisway and a white might understand
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it this way, and they get totalking, and man, they've gotten
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a godly way of howto handle a thing.
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You see what the enemyis trying to destroy?
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What makes this country agreat country is the fact that
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regardless of where you've comefrom, the color of your skin,
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that when you come together,you should be considered as
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Americans as we share ideas, andwe share cultures, and we share
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all the beauty ofour differences.
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And we are letting the enemy robus of eliminating our weakness
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by being angry at someonebecause of the difference that
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they have.
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That's got to stop,that's got to stop.
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So relationships can be abridge; something that can be a
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blessing to your life.
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So are you willingto become vulnerable?
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Are you willing tobecome vulnerable?
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Number six, Genesis 33, and 4,once again, he said, "And Esau
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ran to him, he met him, heembraced him, he fell on his
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neck, he kissed him,and they both wept."
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It's safe to say thatforgiveness took place here.
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Reconciliationrequires forgiveness.
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Reconciliationrequires forgiveness.
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Forgiveness is not optionalin reconciling a
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broken relationship.
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Reconciliationrequires forgiveness.
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You know, you can't say, "Well,you know, I don't want to break
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up, but I don't trust you and Idon't forgive you, but I'm going
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to stay here."
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That's miserable existence.
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Reconciliation requiresforgiveness, and forgiveness
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involves letting go so you canget on with the rest of
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your life.
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That's what I'm trying to say.
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"Let go so I can get onwith the rest of my life.
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Let go, let go."
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You let go so you can get onwith the rest of your life.
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Are you being held back whenyou could be getting on with the
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rest of your life?
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You know just like I know, youcan't change everybody, but you
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also know like I know thateverybody's not the same.
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You know good and well that notall white people are the same.
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You know good and well that allblack people are not the same.
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You know good and well that allwomen are not the same and all
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men are not the same.
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Come on, wake up.
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Forgiveness involves letting go.
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It's not probation,but it's a pardon.
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And when you forgive andreconciliation, you pardon
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that person.
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You don't put them on probation.
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"I'm going to forgive you rightnow, but I'm watching you."
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That's not forgiveness.
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That's not forgiveness.
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They are having to pay inorder to get your forgiveness.
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It's not probation,it's a pardon.
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It means that there will beno continuing resentment.
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It means there will beno continuous bitterness.
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Forgiveness is a longhealing, not a momentary one.
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It's a long healing.
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It's not that whathappened just that day.
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It's being healedthroughout that process.
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And listen, when will youlet go of those past hurts?
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I'm not going to do that.
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I'm not going to be holding onto those past hurts, letting
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them stress me out, letting themcause me to look older and to be
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older, and eventually diseaseand this diseasement comes into
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my life 'cause I can't letsomething go that happened 20
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years ago, 30 years ago.
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"Yeah, Brother Dollaryou don't understand.
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You just got to deal with it."
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I know you got to deal withit, but you deal with it in the
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right way.
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You deal with it in some of theways I've been teaching you
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this morning.
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But what you don't do ismaintain the hate, maintain the
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unforgiveness, maintain thebitterness, maintain the strife.
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Let me show you something.
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Go to Ephesians chapter 27.
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I thought aboutthis, this morning.
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In fact, move up to verse 26.
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I want you to just thinkabout this for a moment.
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Ephesians chapter 4, and 26, hesays in verse 26, "Be ye angry,
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and sin not."
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Okay, people get angry.
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Even God got angry.
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Jesus got angry.
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He says, "Be yeangry, but sin not."
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He said, "Let not the sun godown upon your wrath: neither to
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give place to the devil."
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See, when your anger gives placeto the devil, and you act out on
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that anger, see, that's whyyou--see, Christian people, this
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should be enough for you, butpeople who don't believe in God,
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that's why we have to have laws.
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The law is for thosewho don't believe God.
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That's why we have to have laws.
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That's why we have to have lawsthat will enforce justice and
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laws that will enforce equality.
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And that's why we have to havethose things for people who
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don't believe God.
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But for people who do believeGod, he says, "Don't allow the
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anger to bring you to a placewhere you're giving place to
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the devil."
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And then verse 30, look at verse30: "And grieve not the Holy
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Spirit of God, whereby youare sealed unto the day
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of redemption."
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You know what grievesthe Spirit of God?
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Look at this verse 31: "Letall bitterness, and wrath, and
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anger, and clamor, and evilspeaking, be put away from you,
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with all malice."
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You know what he said?
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He said how you treat peoplegrieves the Holy Spirit.
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Now I'm talking tothe church right now.
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How you treat peoplegrieves the Holy Spirit.
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How you treat peoplegrieves the Holy Spirit.
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You walk into church, and youare a black person, and the
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usher sits you right besidesomebody, a Hispanic, and you
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ask the usher, "Move me.
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I want to sit bya black person."
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That's racist in another shell,in another color; and that
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grieves the Holy Spirit,how you treat one another.
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It grieves the Holy Spirit whena white man continues to walk in
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that same hurt and hate;how you treat one another.
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It doesn't matter thecolor or pigmentation.
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It grieves the Holy Spirit.
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I'm talking to Christian people.
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I'm talking to the church.
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I ain't talking--I'm talkingnot talking to the world.
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I'm talking to folks who cometo church and say, "Hallelujah,"
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and carry racism in their heart;it grieves the Holy Spirit.
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And you're trying to figure outwhy the Scripture ain't working.
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It's grieving the Holy Spirit.
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It grieves the Holy Spirit.
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Well, what's the answer to this?
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How do I deal with this?
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The very next verse, "Beye kind one to another, be
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tenderhearted, forgive oneanother, even as God for
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Christ's sake has forgiven us."
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You don't understand.
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All of us were supposed to goto hell; every last one of us.
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I don't care how good youthought you were, all of us were
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destined to hell, butGod in Christ forgave us.
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He forgave us.
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And your emotions just--theyjust won't let you see how
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powerful that is.
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You're so stuck on yourself.
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You're so self-centered.
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You know self-centerednessis the key to bitterness?
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All you can think about isyou, all you can think about is
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yourself and how this affectsyou, and all you can do is go
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around and want to hold somebodyaccountable for taking care
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of you.
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Accepting responsibility foryour own action, accepting
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responsibility to work hardeven when you're being denied by
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racism and inequality, thatyou do what you got to do.
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We've done that as blackpeople for a long time.
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Why should you stop right now?
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We can come up with every lawthat you tell them to make, and
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you're still going tohave to put in the work.
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You're still going to haveto do what's necessary.
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You're still going to have tounderstand that when you have a
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child, you need to stay athome with that child because
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fatherlessness isruining our people.
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It's ruining a lot of people.
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It's not just a black problem.
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It's a human problem.
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It's important that youunderstand that sex out of
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marriage could put you in aposition where you're a father
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before you need to be one.
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It could put you in a positionwhere you got to control your
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emotions so you don't getyourself in a situation where
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something happens to you andyou end up going to jail
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or something.
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And I know there's a lot ofproblems in the middle of all
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what I'm talking about, but I'msaying we as a people, when will
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we accept the fullresponsibility?
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Yes, we got issues right now.
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We got inequality right now.
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We got people being killedby policemen right now.
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We got a whole new agendawe got to deal with.
00:23:17.865 --> 00:23:20.267
But I'm talking about after wedeal with all of that, we still
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got to deal with theissues we have in our race.
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Soon I'm going to teach youwhat most black people don't
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even know.
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But do you know there wereblack slave owners in the 1600s?
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There were slaves who used tobe slaves, got out of slavery,
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became slave owners, andenslaved other people.
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How does that happen?
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That's like black on blackcrime all over again.
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How does that happen?
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I may not ever be able to changethat racist heart, but boy, I
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can change mine.
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Black people who've been a partof some white churches, and the
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white pastor fail, all the whitepeople left, and those black
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