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The Principle of Love

Pastor Robert Morris Ministries

January 18, 2021

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Pastor Robert continues the RELAT10NSHIP series by explaining forgiveness and encouraging us to forgive others.

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The Principle of Love

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ROBERT MORRIS: In other words,how do you forgive?
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Well, forgivenessis giving grace.
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So, how do you give grace?
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You have to receive grace.
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You can't give it if youhaven't received it.
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If you have a problem givingforgiveness,
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you have a problem receivingforgiveness.
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ROBERT: We are in a seriescalled "Relationship Through
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God's Top Ten", so we'retalking about that God gave
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us the Ten Commandments,but I believe there's
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a principle behind everycommandment,
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and it's a principle ofrelationship.
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And so, this week I wantto talk to you about
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"The Principle of Love",and we are now
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on the sixth commandment, andthe sixth commandment,
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in Exodus 20:13, "You shallnot murder".
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I want to explain somethingabout this, by the way,
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that this is different fromyou shall not kill.
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The Bible doesn't saythou shalt not kill.
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The Old King Jamestranslated it that way,
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but there's a difference betweenmurder and killing,
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and murder means that you take alife when you don't
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have the authorityto take that life.
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But, there are times whenlaw enforcement,
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military engaged in war, thejudicial system, takes a life,
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and that is differentthan murder.
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Even the Bible implementedcapital punishment.
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So, please understand thatwe are free today in America
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because men and women foughtfor our freedom,
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and they were not violating thesixth commandment when they were
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fighting for our freedom,because they weren't
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murdering, okay?
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So, I'm calling this "ThePrinciple of Love",
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and the reason I'm calling it"The Principle of Love"
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is because love is the oppositeof murder, because the Bible
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links murder to hate, andI'm going to show you that,
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all right?
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So, I'll get toLuke 7 in a moment.
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I'll show you acouple of Scriptures.
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1 John 3:15, "Whoever hateshis brother is a murderer."
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And then to show you how itlinks the opposite of these
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principles here of murder,the opposite to love,
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it lists the last fivecommandments, which we're
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on now, starting the sixththrough the tenth,
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in Romans 13:9.
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"For the commandments, "Youshall not commit adultery,
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You shall not murder, Youshall not steal,
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You shall not bear falsewitness, You shall not covet",
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those are six through ten there,"and if there is any other
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commandment, they are allsummed up in this saying,
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namely, "You shall loveyour neighbor as yourself."
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Now, I normallyhave three points.
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I have a rhythm, kindof, that I go through.
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But I have fivepoints today.
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But I'm going to have tomove kind of quickly through
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the first three to set up afoundation for the last two,
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all right?
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So, "You shall not murder".
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I'm really not worried aboutsomeone in our congregation
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murdering someone.
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I know I heardthis one lady.
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She said that she'd beenmarried for 60 years.
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Her husband passed away andsomeone asked her,
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did you ever thinkabout divorce?
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She said, no, I neverthought about divorce.
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Murder, yes,but not divorce.
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But she was just joking.
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So, I'm not worried aboutyou committing murder.
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I'm worried though, andconcerned, about the things
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that lead to murder, such ashate and unforgiveness,
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and some things like -- that'swhat Satan's trying to do.
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There's a path.
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So, I'm going to showyou the path, all right?
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So, here's point number one.
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Hate precedes murder.
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Hate precedes, goesbefore, murder.
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This is a story ofJoseph, Genesis 37:4-5.
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"But when his brothers sawthat their father loved him
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more than all hisbrothers, they hated him."
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So, the brothers of Joseph"hated him and could not
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speak peaceably to him.
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Now Joseph had a dream, andhe told it to his brothers,
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and they hatedhim even more."
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So, they hate him.
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Then you look down at Verse 18,"Now when they saw him afar off,
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even beforehe came near them,
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they conspired againsthim to kill him."
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Okay, so why did theyconspire to murder him?
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Because they hated him.
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Let me show it toyou in the law.
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Deuteronomy 19:11-12,"But if anyone hates
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his neighbor, lies in wait forhim, rises against him
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and strikes him mortally, sothat he dies,
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and then he flees to one ofthese cities, then the elders
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of his city shall send andbring him from there,
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and deliver him over to the handof the avenger of blood,
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that he may die."
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Capital punishmentfor murder.
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That is a person -- so itshows he hated him
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and here's what it's saying.
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We know he murdered him,because he hated him.
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Watch how it shows,again, hate and murder.
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Joshua 20:5, "Then if theavenger of blood pursues him,
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they shall not deliverthe slayer into his hand,
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because he struck hisneighbor unintentionally,
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but did not hatehim beforehand."
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See, the way they knew ifyou murdered someone
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was if you hated him, or if itwas an accident
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and you struck him and he diedunintentionally.
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So, hate precedes murder.
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So, what precedes hate?
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Number two, angerprecedes hate.
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Before you hate someone,you get angry at them.
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The first murder in theBible was because of anger,
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Cain and Abel.
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Genesis 4:3, "And in theprocess of time it came to pass
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that Cain brought anoffering of the fruit
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of the ground to the Lord."
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Notice, by the way, it wasnot a first fruit offering.
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"Abel also brought of thefirstborn of his flock
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and of their fat.
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And the Lord respected Abeland his offering,
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but He did not respect Cainand his offering.
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And Cain was very angry", angry,"and his countenance fell."
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And then in Verse 8, "Caintalked with Abel, his brother.
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It came to pass when theywere in the field that Cain
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rose up against Abel, hisbrother, and killed him."
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He was angry, sohe killed him.
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See?
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Now, let me explainsomething to you.
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Anger is an emotion, and you canactually be angry and not sin.
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As a matter of fact, there'sa verse that says,
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"Be angry and do not sin."
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So, it's not that angeris a sin,
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it's what you do with the anger.
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Have you ever known someonethat has a tendency to just
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kind of blow up at people?
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Don't punch anyone inthe ribs right now!
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Or, let's justdo it this way.
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Or have you ever blown up?
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Hello?
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You don't want to sayamen right now, do you?
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Remember, this is church.
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All right.
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So, we've all blown up.
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Let me tell you why you blowup, or why a person has
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a tendency to blow up a lot,because the person
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has anger that's unresolved.
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It's unresolved anger that'sjust sitting in you
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that causes you to explode.
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If we can get that anger out,then even when you go through
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a tough time, youwon't blow up
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because there's not any anger inthere for you to blow up.
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So, we have to resolve it.
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So, hate precedes murder.
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What precedes hate?
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Anger.
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Anger precedes hate.
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Here's number three.
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What precedes anger?
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An offense precedes anger.
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An offense precedes anger.
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Cain was offendedat God and at Abel.
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That's why he got angry.
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It offended him that Godaccepted Abel's offering
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and not Cain's.
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Okay, let me show you acouple of Scriptures.
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Matthew 24:10, "And thenmany will be offended,
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and betray one another, andwill hate one another."
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They're offended, sonow they hate people.
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We read last week whereJesus talked about a prophet,
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it's not without honor except tohis own family
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and his own country, okay?
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And, they were offended.
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Let me read a little bit ofthat again and pick up
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on one of the words thatwe need to talk about.
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Mark 6:2-3, "And when theSabbath had come,
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He began to teach in thesynagogue.
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And many hearing Himwere astonished."
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I actually said last weekend,now that's not a good word,
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astonished.
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That's not what youthink as amazed.
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It's not amazed.
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It's a bad word, actually.
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And I had no clue I wasgoing to use it this week,
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but I'm going to explain toyou what astonished means.
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"Many were astonished,saying, "Where did this Man
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get these things?
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And what wisdom is thiswhich is given to Him,
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that such mighty works areperformed by His hands?
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Is this not the carpenter,the Son of Mary,
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the brother of James, Joses,Judas, and Simon?
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Are not His sistershere with us?"
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So they wereoffended at Him."
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They were offended.
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Okay.
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This word, astonished, I'mgoing to give you the actual
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definition from theStrong's Concordance.
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Here's what it means.
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It means to strike, in otherwords, to hit someone.
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To strike someone, to expelby a blow, to drive out or away.
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As He began to teach andhave wisdom, they got angry.
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You want to know why?
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Because He was just a carpenterthat grew up in their town.
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And it offended them thatthis guy had so many people
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following Him, and that Hehad such wisdom,
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and He was just a carpenter.
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And they got offended, somuch so, listen to this.
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It says they were astonished,and this is what it means,
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that theywanted to hit Him.
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They wanted to strike Him.
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They wanted to driveHim out with blows.
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This happened another time,same word, astonished.
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I don't have time toread the whole chapter.
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You can read it.
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But in Luke 4, if you remember,He goes to His hometown.
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Hometown, and He goes in thesynagogue, and He takes
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the Scriptures, and He readsfrom Isaiah,
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and this is what He reads.
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He reads a passage about theMessiah, and He reads,
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"The Spirit of the Lord is uponme, because He has anointed Me
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to preach the Gospel to thepoor, to open the blind eyes,
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to heal the brokenhearted, topreach deliverance
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to the captives,to preach the acceptable
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year of the Lord."
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Everyone knew thatwas about the Messiah.
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Here was the problem.
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It says that He closed thebook and He said,
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"Today this Scripture isfulfilled in your hearing."
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So, here's whatHe was saying.
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I'm Him.
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I'm the Messiah.
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And you know what they said?
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The exact same thing.
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They were astonished and theysaid, isn't this the carpenter?
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Isn't this the guy thatbuilt a patio for me?
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He thinks He's the Messiah?
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And He wears a tool belt?
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And now, watch,Luke 4:28-29.
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"So all those in thesynagogue, when they heard
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these things, were filledwith wrath", remember,
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anger, "and they rose up andthrust Him out of the city,
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and they led Him to the browof the hill on which their city
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was built, that they might throwHim down over the cliff."
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Anger.
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Why?
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They were offended.
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Why were they offended?
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Because He didn't meettheir expectations.
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He was saying something thatthey didn't understand,
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and that brings me tothe fourth point.
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This is one we're going toreally kind of drill down on.
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So, we've got hate precedesmurder, so hopefully no one's
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ever going to get thepoint of murder,
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but you might hate someone.
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But what causes hate?
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Anger does.
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You get angry at someone and youdon't resolve it correctly,
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so now you hate them.
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But what causes hate?
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An offense.
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But, what causes an offense?
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So, number four, unfilledexpectations precede offenses.
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Unfulfilled expectationsprecede offenses.
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Now, this is why I asked youto turn to Luke 7,
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because this to me is one of thestrangest passages in the Bible,
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and one of themost enlightening.
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Luke 7:18, "Then the disciplesof John reported to him",
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that's John the Baptist.
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"Reported to him concerningall these things.
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And John, calling two of hisdisciples to him,
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sent them to Jesus, saying, "AreYou the Coming One,
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or do we look for another?"
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Now, I want you to thinkabout this really well
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for just a moment.
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John the Baptist, who's Jesus'cousin -- John the Baptist
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was filled with the Spirit inhis mother's womb,
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Elizabeth's womb, when Mary,Jesus' mother,
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walked in the room when Jesuswas in the womb.
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John the Baptist is the onethat when Jesus came
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to be baptized by him, said, no,I shouldn't baptize You,
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You should baptize me!
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Right?
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What was he saying?
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You're the One!
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You're the One!
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There's the One,the Lamb of God.
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There's the One.
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Jesus said, baptize Me.
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No, You're the One!
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They came to John later,after Jesus began His ministry,
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and they said, do you rememberthat guy you baptized?
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He started a church down theroad, and He's baptizing
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more people than you are.
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Do you remember whatJohn's answer was?
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I told you I'm not the one.
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That's what he said!
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I told you I'm not the one.
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I told you He's the One.
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Let me put it another way.
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John's in prison for sayingHe's the One, and then He comes
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to his city to have a revival,and He doesn't even have time
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to visit His cousin in jail.
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And He couldhave got him out.
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He's the Messiah,He's the One.
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Everybody knowsHe's the One.
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And John's sitting there andhe's saying, now,
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how long has Jesus been here?
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Seven days now.
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Seven days.
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Did you all mentionto Him I was in jail?
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Yeah, we told Him.
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You go ask Jesus that John,cousin John,
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wants to know if He's the One.
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Jesus said, you go tellcousin John that the blind see,
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the lame walk, the deafhear, the dead are raised,
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the poor have the Gospelpreached to them,
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and blessed is he who doesn'tget his feelings hurt --
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who doesn't get offendedbecause of Me.
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It's prettystrong, isn't it?
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It's kind of a coolpassage, isn't it?
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I'm sure one day I'll get toheaven and John the Baptist
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is going to say, why did youtell everybody that that's
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what I was upset about?
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Unfulfilled expectationscause offenses.
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He had an expectation thatJesus would come get him
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out of jail, or comeat least see him.
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So when that expectationwasn't fulfilled -- listen.
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Listen, I'm goingto help you.
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We have an expectation that ourfriend's going to do something.
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He doesn't do it.
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We're offended.
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We have an expectation thatour employer's
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going to do something.
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He doesn't do it.
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Now we're offended.
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We have an expectation that,you know,
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some spiritual leader is goingto do something.
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He doesn't do it, andnow we're offended.
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And we can get offendedsometimes over silly things,
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you know?
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I mean, you know, all of asudden your wife's upset
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and you say, what's wrong?
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Well, what's wrong?
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Jenny did not say onething about the cake
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that I took to the party.
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Well, maybe she just had herhands full and she just forgot.
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She knows better!
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She knows better.
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All of the sudden,we're offended.
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Are you all following me?
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It's amazing whatgets us offended.
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Did you know that someonein the Bible, is actually called
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a person, a stumblingstone and a rock of offense?
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Anyone know who it is?
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Jesus.
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Romans 9:33, "As it iswritten, Behold, I lay in Zion
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a stumbling stone and arock of offense, and",
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and the word and is aconjunction in the Greek
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to be translated but, "butwhoever believes in Him",
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in the stumbling stone or therock of offense,
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"will not be put to shame."
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Let me put it another way.
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Jesus is either going to bein your life a stone you
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stumble over, or a rockyou build your house on.
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That's tweetable!
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I don't careif you tweet it.
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No, I would just like to saythat's a good statement.
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And I get excited because youthink, he's bragging on himself.
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No, I was studying and theLord gave me that statement,
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and I think, Lord, that isgood, and that's going to make
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me look smart.
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All right.
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So, Jesus will either be foryou a stumbling stone,
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or a rock that you buildyour house on.
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He's one or the other.
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People either stumble over,or they build on Him.
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So, hate precedes murder,anger precedes hate,
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and offense precedes anger.
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You get offended.
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An unfulfilled expectation iswhat causes you to be offended.
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Okay, but we've gotto get to love now.
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So, what precedes love?
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Here's number five.
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Forgiveness precedes love.
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Forgiveness precedes love.
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Matthew 5:43-44, Jesus said,"You've heard that it was said,
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you shall love yourneighbor and hate your enemy.
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But I say to you, love yourenemies, bless those who
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curse you, do good to thosewho hate you, and pray for those
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who spitefully useyou and persecute you."
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So, how in the world can youlove someone that hates you,
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or that is your enemy?
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Simple.Forgiveness.
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You have to forgive them,and I'll tell you
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what the Greek word for forgivemeans in a moment.
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But let me show you how hateleads to murder,
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and how forgiveness leads tolove.
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Everyone follow that?
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I'm about to wrap up thewhole message with one story
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from the Bible, how hateleads to murder,
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but forgiveness leads tolove -- Jacob and Esau.
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Jacob steals the birthrightand the blessing.
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Genesis 27:41, "So Esauhated Jacob because
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of the blessing with which hisfather blessed him,
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and Esau said in his heart, "Thedays of mourning for my father
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are at hand, then", in otherwords, when they're over,
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"I will kill mybrother, Jacob."
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He hated him, so hewas going to kill him.
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Hate leads to murder.Okay?
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Watch how forgivenessleads to love.
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Years later, as a matter offact, it's 20 years later.
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Twenty years goby, twenty years.
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Genesis 33:1, "Now Jacoblifted his eyes",
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he's going back to the landwhere his father was.
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"And there, Esau was coming,and with him
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were four hundred men."
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And when I say he was goingback to the land where his
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father was, his father hadalready passed away, okay?
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All right.
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"Esau was coming, and withhim were four hundred men."
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Now what would you think ifa guy that hated you
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was coming to greet youwith four hundred men?
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But watch whathappens, Verse 4.
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"But Esau ran to meet him,and embraced him,
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and fell on his neck, and kissedhim, and they wept."
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How does Esau go from hatinghim and wanting to murder him,
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to loving him,embracing him, and kissing him?
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Because he'd forgiven him.
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That's the only way.
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And I almost did a pointsix, but I just have never done
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a message with six points in mylife, so let me just --
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I have, but.
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So, what precedesforgiveness, and that's grace.
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So, if you justwant to make a note.
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In other words,how do you forgive?
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Well, forgivenessis giving grace.
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So how do you give grace?
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You have to receive grace.
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You can't give it if youhaven't received it.
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If you have a problem givingforgiveness,
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you have a problem receivingforgiveness.
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Let me say that again.
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If you have a problem givingforgiveness,
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you have a problem receivingforgiveness.
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Here's Matthew 10:8.
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"Freely you havereceived, freely give."
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If you don't receive freely,then you don't give freely.
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In other words, if you feel likeyou have to earn forgiveness
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from God, you will make otherpeople earn forgiveness
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from you.
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But once you catch grace andyou understand,
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I'm forgiven freely and I didnot deserve to be forgiven,
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then you'll forgive others whodon't deserve to be forgiven.
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Okay, what's the wordforgive mean in the Greek?
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One word, it means release.
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That's what it means.
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When God forgave you,He released you
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from the punishment of the sin.
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He released you.
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He released youfrom judgment.
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He released you.
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So when you trulyforgive someone,
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it means you release them.
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I was upset with someone onetime, and I kept replaying
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it in my mind.
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Have you ever done that?
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We've got a lot of 'em.
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And it was about 2:00 in themorning,
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have you ever done that?
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About 2:00 in the morning,and I'm just replaying it,
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over and over in my mind.
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And all of the sudden, youknow in your heart
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how you hear the Lord?
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Not audibly, but I felt likethe Lord said, forgive him!
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Like that.
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It was almost like, I'mtrying to sleep, pal, you know?
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I felt like I was keepingHim up, you know?
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He was just like,just forgive him!
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It's 2:00 in the morning.
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Forgive him!
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Let's get some sleep.
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And I said to the Lord,but Lord, he was wrong!
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You know what the Lord said?
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I'll never forget this.
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He said, of course he was!
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You don't forgivepeople who were right!
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I baked youthese cookies.
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I forgive you!
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But you don't forgive peoplewho do good things to you.
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You don't forgive peoplewho are nice to you.
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You forgive people who aremean and who hurt you,
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and who offend you.
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You forgive them.
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You forgive them.
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I'm really not concerned any ofyou are going to commit murder.
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I hope not, I really do.
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I don't think you are.
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But I'm concerned you couldfall in the trap,
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you could get caught in a snare,and you could hate people,
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and you could be angry withthem, and you could be offended,
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and you could not forgive them.
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I'm enjoying this series somuch, because I've never looked
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at the Ten Commandments likethis, that there's a principle
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behind each commandment thathelps our relationship
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with God and our relationshipwith others.
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And I think about thecommandment we talked
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about today,"You shall not murder",
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but there's so much more thatleads up to murdering someone,
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maybe in our heart, that hate,
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unfulfilled expectations,offenses.
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So I want to encourage you,if the Holy Spirit put His
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finger on something today, don'tfeel condemned about it.
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Let the Holy Spirit convictyou, and in that area,
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let Him bring forgiveness andlet Him bring healing.
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Hey, thanks somuch for watching.
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Please watch next time, becauseI'm going to be continuing
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this series, "RelationshipThrough God's Top Ten".
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ANNOUNCER: Thank you for joiningus for today's program
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as Pastor Robert shares amessage from his series
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"Relationship".
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God really loves you and wantsto have a closer relationship
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with you, however, when we thinkof the ten commandments,
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many of us think of a list ofrules telling us what not to do.
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But the truth is, God designedthe ten commandments as a way
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for us to have a relationshipwith Him.
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You are so valuable to God,and His plan for your life
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has always been for you tothrive in your relationship
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with Him, and in therelationships with people
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around you.
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In fact, relationship with youhas always been,
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and always will be His numberone priority.
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Throughout this in-depthteaching series, Pastor Robert
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will walk you through the tencommandments,
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and help you discover how eachcommandment is actually
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a principle that draws us into adeeper relationship with Him.
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As you find relationship throughGod's top ten,
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your relationship with the Lordwill begin to grow to new
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depths, and you'll learn moreabout His heart
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in designing these principleswith you in mind.
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The Principle of Love

The Principle of Love

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The Principle of Love

The Principle of Love

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