Tim Timberlake

Tim Timberlake - Love Them Anyway ...

June 23, 2025 | 28:30

Tim teaches on how distractions pull us from the love of Jesus. Learn to realign your choices with Him and love Him fully.

#LoveyourNeighbor #Love #Relationships #Peopleinyourlife #Trauma #Forgiveness #Hurting #SpiritualGrowth #Change #TrustGod #Obedience

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Love Them Anyway ... | June 23, 2025

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Hey family it█s
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Pastor tim timberlake of celebration church.
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And i'm excited
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That we get this opportunity to spend some time together.
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I want us to go into the word of god, not waste any time.
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A message god has given me that i believe is going to challenge
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You and transform you, as we all have people in our lives
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That we need to love.
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The circumstances and situations that are beyond our control.
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Let's go into the message as we've already begun.
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Entitled love them anyway.
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The context for this passage of scripture.
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In ephesians chapter four, we find paul writing
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To the church of ephesus
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From the years 60 to 62 a.d.
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He's in prison in rome, and he writing this church
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In ephesus that are believers.
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And he's telling them, in order for you to be more like christ,
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In order for you to be a reflection of who
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You say you are a disciple of.
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Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander
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Be put away from you, along with all malice.
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Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
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Another as god and christ forgave you.
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One of the things that i truly believe,
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I truly believe your healing is hidden in forgiveness.
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Some of your chests are getting tight already
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Thinking about the people that have done you wrong.
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The people that owe you, the people that said
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They were going to do something and did not do it.
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Some of you are recalling and thinking about the trauma
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That has left you wounded, and you don't want to forgive
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Those people, but
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You operating in unforgiveness is not hurting them.
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It is hurting
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You. hear me family?
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I want you to lean in real close when i tell you this.
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You deserve better.
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Are you listening to me?
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You deserve better.
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And because you deserve better.
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You have to forgive them.
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You having unforgiveness towards them is keeping you
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In a prison that you've built for yourself.
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This is how i would define forgiveness.
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This forgiveness is the release of our souls from the chains
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We've unknowingly been dragging around.
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And every single time somebody triggers us
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And we impact their lives
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Because of how we've been triggered
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With negative interactions and encounters and every time
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We interact with people who wound us and scar us
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And take us through these variations
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And nuances of pain because they don't know who
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God is, the way that we know who god is, we have
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To make a conscious decision to let those things go.
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And when we don't let those things go, we take on the ropes
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And the chains.
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And every time we don't forgive, we're wrapping
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Our own hands in unforgiveness
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And god is like, i want to bless you. and you're
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Like god, i want to receive it, but i can't, right?
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They hurt me real bad and god is like, i understand
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They hurt you when
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When i'm asking you to do does not negate the pain
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Of what they did to you. but you.
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You have to forgive.
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But. but god,
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What they did to me, it cost me a lot.
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And god is like i'm not diminishing
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What it cost you, but you got to forgive god.
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We made vows at the altar
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And they stepped out of our marriage
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And god is like, that is a nasty thing that they did,
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But it still does not diminish what i'm asking you to do.
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You have to forgive them. hear me? family.
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Forgiving does not mean that they have regained your trust.
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Forgiving means that you have decided
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To start your healing journey with jesus.
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And when i decide to forgive, what it does
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Is it frees me of every bondage,
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Every shackle, every chain,
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Every rope that tried to entangle me
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And hold me hostage in a prison that god did not put me in.
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And i've just come to the point in my life
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I don't want to be anywhere that the presence of god is not,
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Even if it's a place i created
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Unknowingly that god did not want me to be in.
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And so what i have to do is grow in the things of god,
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Even when it's painful to my flesh, and forgive them
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For what they did to me.
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Not because they deserve it,
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Not because they earned it, not because they even have change,
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But because i've changed.
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And because i'm changing.
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I'm becoming more like christ.
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And when i become more like christ, i learn.
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I got to love them anyway.
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Even if i have to kick and
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Scream, i'm going to love them anyway.
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If i got to love them through tears,
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I'm going to love them anyway.
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I don't got to like them.
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I don't got to like what they did to me.
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I don't have to like who they hang with.
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I don't have to like how they look.
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But i do have to love them anyway. why?
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Because scripture teaches us that we have to love.
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When i operate in unforgiveness,
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It puts me in handcuffs
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And i become a slave
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To someone that may not even know i exist.
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How does it feel
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To be a slave
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To someone else because of what they did to you?
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And so because they work in a particular place,
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You can't go to that location
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Because you don't want to see them,
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And you become a slave
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To the pain that they caused you
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And the trauma that you've endured.
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And so you drive 15 minutes out of the way
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To go to the same place you could have went
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To right around the corner from your house.
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You you become a slave to unforgiveness.
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Don't give anyone the power to dictate
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How you feel and where you go, and when you go there,
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And how you move and and control your faith and your joy.
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Don't give nobody that power.
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It's too much power to give someone else
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To control and dictate how you feel.
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Like it's too much power to give someone else
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The ability to decide when you have joy
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And when you happy, and when you got a smile on your face.
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It's too much power to give somebody to dictate
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When your mood changes.
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Don't allow anyone to become god in your life except for god.
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How do you get free from those people
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That have wounded you that you need to move beyond?
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You got to love them anyway.
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Paul gives us clear instructions
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In ephesians chapter four, beginning at verse 31.
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He says, let
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All bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander
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Be put away from you, along with all malice.
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And so if you're taking notes, i want you to write this down.
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The first thing that you have to do in order to love them
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Anyway is let it go.
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Let it go.
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It ain't worth you carrying.
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It ain't worth you trying to shoulder.
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It ain't worth you trying to put it on your back.
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You gotta let it go.
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And the way you let it go is saying, god,
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I return them back to you.
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I turned them over to your perfect plan and to your will
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For their life.
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I don't like what they did. matter of fact.
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God, i don't even like them. but i let it go.
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Not because they deserve it, but god, because i deserve it.
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And i'm going to walk in everything you have
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For me, understanding that if you don't forgive,
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It closes the door to you receiving what it is
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That god desires for you to receive. it.
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So not only did they wound you,
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But you now give them the power to decide
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When and how you get blessed
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Because you have not forgiven them.
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It's too much power to give somebody.
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So even with tears streaming down your face.
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You gotta let them go.
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Even when it feels like your heart is going to beat
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Out of your chest. you gotta let it go.
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Even when you recall the pain and the season
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And it takes you back to a particular place,
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You gotta let it go. listen to me, family.
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Forgiveness is not a one time event.
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Forgiveness is something that you have to do
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Every time you remember, because your mind
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Will take you back to a place of unforgiveness.
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When you think about the trauma that they put you through
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And you endured, and the fact that you're here
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Today is a testimony of god's overcoming power at work
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On the inside of you, so you don't stifle yourself
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Because you're unable to forgive,
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I want you to write this down.
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Forgiveness is the gift you give yourself
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Before anyone else deserves it.
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It's the gift
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You give yourself before anyone else deserves it.
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Sure, they walked out on you.
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They left.
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The memory that they left you with
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It wounds you over
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And over and over again.
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Until you forgive.
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Sure.
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Your boss promised you a job
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Promotion.
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It's been years.
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And you hate going to work.
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Because of how he lied to you.
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How she lied to you.
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The very place
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That you should be finding joy.
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Is the very place that has become a prison.
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Because you have not forgiven.
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Forgiveness
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Is the gift you give yourself.
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Before anyone else deserves it.
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Yes, yes,
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You deserve it.
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Pastor, you just don't know what they did to me.
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You're right.
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But i know you deserve
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The peace of god.
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I know you deserve the favor of the lord.
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Amen.
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I know you desire for god's
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Hand to be with you.
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And when you operate in forgiveness,
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You feel the wind of the holy spirit at your back.
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It gives you enduring power to face any giant,
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Any mountain, any enemy, any adversary that has wounded
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You or tried to direct weapons in your direction.
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It gives you sustaining power and it.
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And so forgiveness is not for them.
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Forgiveness.
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It is a gift you give to yourself
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When they don't deserve it.
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Forgiveness breaks the chains
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You didn't even realize were binding. you.
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It gives you the opportunity to walk in freedom.
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When you did not even understand that there was such a life
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Available to you.
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Until you forgive.
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Forgiveness gives you peace that surpasses
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All of your natural understanding,
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And you live a life diminished by unforgiveness.
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When you don't forgive.
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A pastor, you don't know how much it cost me.
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You don't know how much pain
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I went through because of what they did.
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You're absolutely right.
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I don't know the specifics of who, what
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And where.
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But i know who desires
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To give you grace to endure and
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To overcome.
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To be victorious,
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To stand the test of time,
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To be unmovable and unwavering in all that you do.
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And the only way that you can do that.
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Is by forgiving.
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Forgiveness means
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Choosing to heal even when justice
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Feels unfinished.
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The pastor.
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They're not locked up yet,
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Understand?
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But you still got to forgive.
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Justice may not be finished,
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But grace is sufficient for you.
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What they did to you
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May have been criminal.
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But his crimson blood covers you
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And washes you white.
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It's so.
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So you have to decide.
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I'm going to begin
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My journey of healing
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Even when justice is not finished.
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Not because they deserve it,
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But because you deserve it.
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So hear me when i tell you
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Forgiveness
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Is not about erasing the pain.
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Forgiveness is about reclaiming
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Your peace.
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When you forgive, you don't forget
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Our natural minds.
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Hold on to the things that they shouldn't
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And releases the things that it should.
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Remember.
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So forgiving
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Does not mean that you will automatically forget.
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It means that every time you remember, you
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Resubmit it to the feet of jesus so that you can forgive again.
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It means that every time that thought, that person,
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That thing comes across the forefront of your mind,
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You release it again and again
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And again. why?
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This is why biblical forgiveness
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Does not erase the memory of pain.
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It sanctifies it.
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It covers that memory in the blood of jesus christ.
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It gives you the strength
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To stand flatfooted when you recall
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And you remember how they treated you
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And what they did to you, and the pain you endured,
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The pain that you survived, the pain that you become
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And it purifies you.
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Why it is snow.
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Even when justice is unfinished, you get
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The grace that you deserve because you are now
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Fighting the grace that was given to you.
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So you gotta let it go.
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Let it go.
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And you gotta love them anyway.
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Let it go.
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Point number two.
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It's time to turn your wounds
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Into wellsprings.
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Turn your wounds
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Into wellsprings.
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What once caused you pain.
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God will use to get purpose out of.
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Yes, it was traumatic.
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Yes, it was awful.
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Yes, it was even sinful.
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Yes, it cost you every time you revisit and remember it.
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But it is going to serve the purpose of god and god
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Is going to get glory out of it somehow,
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Someway.
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And the way
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God gets glory out of it
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Is when you forgive.
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Forgiveness
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Is proof
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That love can be greater
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Than the offense.
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How many of you have sinned this week?
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Your hands need to go up quicker than that.
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How many of you have sinned this week?
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How many of you seen yesterday?
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Guess what?
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Jesus gave grace
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To those that ask for it.
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And not only did he extend grace, he forgave you.
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And he turned the page.
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And scripture teaches us he cast your sin
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As far as the east.
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It's from the west.
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He didn't wait a day.
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He didn't wait two days. he didn't wait a week.
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He didn't wait a year. he didn't wait a decade.
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He forgave you as soon as you ask for it.
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And paul says, just as christ has forgiven
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You is as quickly as you need to forgive others.
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Well, pastor, how do i know when i have truly forgiven?
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That's a great question.
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I have an answer for you.
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The way you know
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You've truly forgiven isn't by just saying i forgive them.
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It's also praying that god would bless them.
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And it's easy to clap when you're thinking
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About how someone wounded someone else.
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But it's not so easy to celebrate when you think
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About the last time someone wounded you.
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And what scripture tells us
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Is to pray for those
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That curse us.
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Pray for those that wound us.
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Pray for those
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That are going to go on social media and talk about us.
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On wednesday.
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How do you know when you're maturing
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And growing in the things of god,
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When you can love those
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That don't love you?
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And it's easier said than done.
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Because some of us
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Have been really hurt by people.
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Those very people
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God is asking us to pray for,
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Not just pray for,
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But pray that god will bless them.
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It's not.
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A one time act.
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That you don't have to revisit.
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It is a daily sacrifice
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That you have to make.
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Not because they have changed.
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But because you have changed.
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Oh, and you're changing.
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What you are becoming is
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So beautiful.
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It's so glorious.
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It's so redeemed. it's so renewed.
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It's so restored that you have to forgive.
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So you no longer reflect who you used to be.
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Even when you don't feel like
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It, you're changing and transforming and
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And being renewed in your mind to be more like jesus christ.
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And so i have to reflect grace
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So that i can receive freedom.
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Point number three is i have to reflect grace
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So that i can receive freedom.
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You deserve the freedom that only jesus can give.
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You deserve the freedom that only jesus can give to you.
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So reflect the grace that you have received.
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Each and every one of us. just raise our hands.
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But ask the question, have you sinned?
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And each and every one of us are sinners, redeemed by grace,
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And we've been forgiven
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By the blood of jesus christ.
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And so as we have freely receive
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And you have to
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Forgive even when it's painful.
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You have to forgive even when you remember.
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You have to forgive even when they're still in proximity.
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You have to forgive even when you recall and you remember
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And you go through the pain over and over and over again,
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You got to forgive them because you deserve freedom.
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And i'm tired of seeing believers in christ bound
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By the chains of unforgiveness.
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When you have the power to break
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Free.
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The way that you break
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Free is you love them anyway.
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Yes, they meant wrong and yes, they did wrong.
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And yes, they are evil people.
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But you gotta love them anyway.
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Yes, they abandoned you.
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They walked out on you,
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They cheated on you, they stole from you.
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But you gotta love them anyway.
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Yes, they still talk about you.
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They still stab you in the back.
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But you gotta love them anyway.
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You loving them
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Does not mean that they regain access into the secret places
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Of your life.
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It means that you could start your healing journey.
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And some of you
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Are locked up in the prison of unforgiveness.
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You're saying, god,
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I want to be free.
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I'm tired of living bound to the pain,
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To the trauma, to the things that have happened to me.
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And then jesus is saying,
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Listen, all you got to do is push the gate open.
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You have the power to break free
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From the prison of unforgiveness,
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And he is not going to do what he's giving you
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The power to do the the.
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So i want to remind you.
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Who the sun sets free.
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Is not partially free.
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Is not
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Almost free.
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Is not marginally free.
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Is not mostly free.
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Who the sun sets free
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Is free in deed.
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That word indeed means totally, completely, wholly.
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My mind is free.
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My emotions are free.
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My heart is free.
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My hands are free.
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My life is free.
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I'm no longer bound to the unforgiveness
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That was holding me.
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I am free, thank the lord.
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I am free.
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If you're listening to me right now
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And you know
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That you've been bound to the prison of unforgiveness,
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I encourage you right now come to the altar,
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Family.
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I hope you were challenged by that word.
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I know i was.
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I know it's still a daily sacrifice for me to forgive
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And go through the different spiritual things
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That god desires for me
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To go through on a daily basis, to uproot that selfish desire.
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I have to hold on to unforgiveness.
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Each and every one of us has someone in our life that we need
00:24:48.270 --> 00:24:51.773
To forgive, release, return back to god and say, god,
00:24:51.773 --> 00:24:55.477
I pray that you would bless them beyond their wildest dreams
00:24:55.477 --> 00:24:59.381
And expectations.
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If it's hard for you to do that, that's the very place
00:25:01.082 --> 00:25:03.852
That you need to practice forgiveness.
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That's the very place that god desires for you
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To operate in a greater level of obedience.
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And so my prayer
00:25:12.627 --> 00:25:13.795
Is it through this message today, you feel encouraged.
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You feel challenged.
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You feel changed by the renewing of your mind,
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By the word of god.
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I'm going to pray with you right now.
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There may be
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Some of us
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That are leaning into this moment,
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Hurting from the things that other people have done to us
00:25:27.042 --> 00:25:30.946
That are still in prison from the pain of our past family.
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I want you to know that
00:25:35.617 --> 00:25:36.885
What was meant to hurt you one time can hurt you in eternity.
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If you continue to live it over and over and over again.
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As you heard in today's message, release it.
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Let it go.
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Forgive those that hurt you
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So that you can step out of the prison of unforgiveness
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And step into the destiny that god has prepared for you
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Right now, in the name of jesus.
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I thank you for my brothers and my sisters
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That may be wounded, that may be scarred,
00:26:01.309 --> 00:26:03.178
That may be trauma and triggered by these things.
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God that they are remembering right now.
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I ask god that you would give them the courage,
00:26:08.683 --> 00:26:10.652
The boldness to release and forgive
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Those that have hurt them right now, in jesus name.
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I thank you that they would receive
00:26:16.024 --> 00:26:17.459
The revelation that forgiveness
00:26:17.459 --> 00:26:19.628
Is not for the person that hurt them.
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Forgiveness is for them.
00:26:21.529 --> 00:26:24.099
They deserve to walk in the freedom
00:26:24.099 --> 00:26:25.867
That only you can give.
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And so right now, in the name of jesus, i thank you
00:26:27.602 --> 00:26:30.572
That you would free us from the prisons of unforgiveness.
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In jesus name we pray.
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Amen.
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Family.
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If you're ever in the jacksonville area,
00:26:38.813 --> 00:26:39.814
Stop by at celebration church.
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Sundays at 9 a.m.
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And 11 a.m.. come worship with us.
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I would love to host you and your family.
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Love to see what god can do when we worship him together.
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If you're not in driving distance jacksonville,
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Continue to watch us right here on this incredible network
00:26:53.528 --> 00:26:56.331
As we continue to share the gospel of jesus christ with you,
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And to the very next time, i want you to know god loves you
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And i love you to be blessed in jesus name.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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Tim Timberlake - Love Them Anyway ...

June 23, 2025 | 28:30

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