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Betrayal In The Church
00:02:55
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| How do we avoid being offended about when people lie about us and put us down and hurt us? | |
| I think I went to the College of Hurt. | |
| You talk about having a whole town against you. | |
| I had a whole country against me. | |
| And then when I went to court, It was, and they read it right out in front. | |
| United States of America versus Jim Baker. | |
| That's pretty heavy stuff, people. | |
| Have you ever had anybody lie about you? | |
| Anybody fight you? | |
| Betray. | |
| That's terrible. | |
| Betrayal is really bad, isn't it? | |
| How come we have betrayal in the church even? | |
| Sometimes, you know, religious people will betray us. | |
| People we think that are our friends betray us. | |
| That's pretty hard to get over. | |
| So how can we unmoved, be unmoved by what man is doing to us and focus more on what God's wanting to do for us? | |
| Well, Jim, I know that hurt and pain is very real. | |
| And this world is not an easy place to live, actually. | |
| No, it's not. | |
| That's right. | |
| Because we live in a fallen world and we're not perfect people. | |
| And even in marriages, you have the ability to absolutely wound to the depths that spouse. | |
| And what do you do with that kind of pain? | |
| And it really, I mean, for me, it just came down, it comes down to a decision of how are you going to live? | |
| Am I going to live as a victim for the rest of my life? | |
| Or am I going to dive into this word of God and everything I know about him? | |
| And that's going to be my reality. | |
| Did the other happen? | |
| It absolutely happened. | |
| And it says in Matthew chapter 18 that that other person, they absolutely owe you a debt. | |
| They do. | |
| But we owed God a greater debt. | |
| And he forgave our debt. | |
| And he says, I forgave your debt, which is much greater than any debt that somebody owes you. | |
| You must forgive your debtor. | |
| And it's interesting, Jim, that even in the Lord's Prayer, that comes across a lot of people's mouths, even people who pray it and they don't even know what they're saying. | |
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Forgiving with God's Love
00:01:12
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| But they say, forgive us as we forgive those who trespass against us. | |
| We've said it and said it. | |
| You've heard it and heard it. | |
| But is it a reality in our life? | |
| And it comes down to a decision of this is going to be my reality. | |
| And the fact is that you're probably going to have to forgive again. | |
| And the fact that Jesus said, excuse me, that you will have to forgive 490 times, 490 times in one day, what is Jesus asking of us? | |
| Right. | |
| But he didn't. | |
| He wasn't unfair because he equipped us with the very love of God. | |
| He put it on the inside of us, in our heart, when he came in, the Holy Spirit. | |
| You know that. | |
| Romans chapter 5, verse 5. | |
| And so we have the love of God. | |
| And we can forgive. | |
| And I just want to say that to somebody that's listening. | |