Are you affected by bitterness? Bill Johnson shares about the cost of bitterness and how to combat against it and find freedom through forgiveness. Forgiveness brings liberty and will position us to be the ones that bring solutions.
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in that turkey
i keep forgetting what i ask every
meeting what do they call it
chip defend
tryptophan
wow trip the fan
all right
how many of you are still under that
influence
that’s what i thought
i have a few little signs here that i
liked
either you like bacon or you’re wrong
that’s that’s not a good way to start
this meeting is it
what do we learn from cows hippos and
elephants
it’s impossible to reduce weight by
eating green grass salads and walking
that works
this was in a apparently a church
bulletin
there will be a talk entitled from
cannibalism to christianity followed by
finger foods
not a well-placed announcement i agree
people need to learn the difference
between want and need
i want a nice body i need banana pudding
one last one you’re all aware of the
romaine lettuce
scare
right now donuts are healthier than
romaine lettuce
i’ve been waiting my whole life for this
moment
that’s funny
that is funny all right
hebrews chapter 12 why don’t you open
your bibles
please to the book of hebrews
chapter 12.
so
the five scariest people
i
met in my life
the most terrifying people i’ve ever met
were all bitter
i think the most terrifying vice or
iniquity is
is the vice of unforgiveness bitterness
i don’t know anything that
that destroys and ruins a life quicker
that in some circles is
commonly accepted as a almost a virtue
some people call it discernment
um
bitterness is always justifiable to the
bitter
there’s always
reasoning behind resentment and
bitterness unforgiveness
my favorite virtue is thankfulness
thankfulness has um
goodness it’s almost like it insulates a
person
from
things that would normally contaminate
or cause a person to stumble or
hurt or whatever it might be it doesn’t
mean it keeps us from pain it just keeps
us in a place where we’re healthy
it’s thankfulness is so
bizarre that you can eat a
put it in old in a
early
new testament context
being invited by a neighbor then offered
their food to demons
a meal that could possibly hurt you
if if you’re invited to that meal it’s
actually possible for that meal to be
sanctified by the word of god in prayer
and in the context the prayer was the
prayer of thankfulness thanksgiving
actually decontaminates that which was
set against you
the whole issue of thankfulness in a
person’s life but the if i could go to
the opposite extreme my favorite virtue
would be thankfulness
my the scariest
uh vice or iniquity is uh is bitterness
i’ve i’ve worked with people for a lot
of years in
pastoral ministry counseling that sort
of thing i’m so glad they don’t counsel
anymore thank you jesus
oh
there’s a song in my heart going on
right now
we don’t have time for it but no it’s
there it is there but i used to counsel
and i don’t anymore i don’t know if i
mentioned that but i don’t counsel
anymore
i’m going to forget what i’m talking
about because i’m so thankful
i’m just so thankful i’m insulated from
everything else right now
because i’m so thankful
i i
you you hear the
the question can a christian have a
demon
um
i love john wimbers i think it was john
wimber’s answer he says i don’t know why
you’d want one they make horrible pets
seem to be the most reasonable answer to
me
um but this
the scripture actually gives warning to
believers don’t give place of the devil
so the point is as a christian can give
a place of influence to the enemy and
paul in ephesians 4 warned against
giving a place of influence and i i’ve
watched in the in the groups of people
that i’ve worked with for the last 40
some years
the three areas that open people up to
the demonic the
the most from my opinion my perspective
is uh drug abuse specifically
hallucinogenics
uh sexual immorality
especially perversion repeated and the
third one is bitterness
and the three scariest of five scariest
people i’ve ever met in my life were all
had one thing in common they were they
were
uh bitter beyond reason
and all bitterness is beyond reason but
these people were possessed by the
spirit of bitterness
uh two of them out one of them i worked
with here in reading tried to get him
free but he just he just he just refused
and then one in weaverville they both
are in prison for murder
they both killed people after after they
rejected
the
trying to get free from the issue of
bitterness because bitterness is
actually the spirit of murder in diapers
it’s just undeveloped murder is what it
is
and whether it actually becomes a
violent act or not is not the point it’s
what happens in the heart of the person
who is embittered and unforgiving
the scariest part of the whole issue the
subject of unforgiveness to me uh we’re
going to read about in a few minutes
when we get to hebrews 12. but it’s it’s
this statement that unforgiveness
defiles so if you could picture this
this is the person i’m better than that
i’m the bitter person this is the person
i’m bitter at what happens
is unforgiveness bitterness in me
defiles me
it defiles everyone under my influence
and it does nothing to the person i’m
bitter at
it’s the craziest thing it’s like
it’s like uh uh it’s it’s like drinking
poison somebody said it’s like drinking
poison hoping somebody else will die you
know it’s bitterness actually destroys
the vessel that it’s in
and we are redemptive people i don’t
think
i don’t think there would be a bitter
person on the planet
if we saw how undeserving of forgiveness
we were
from god and he forgave us
i don’t think it’s possible to see how
undeserving i am and he forgave me
how much more must i forgive even in
life’s worst situation forgive
forgiveness doesn’t mean
to
trust again trust has to be earned
forgiveness doesn’t
um
jesus taught several things about
forgiveness the apostle paul taught
several things that i think would be
worthy of note
one
is that forgiveness
we receive forgiveness according to the
forgiveness we give
the prayer that we love so much on earth
as it is in heaven it concludes with
this statement that we are forgiven
according to the forgiveness that we
give to others
i i saw this video it’s very
sobering video of a gentleman who was
who was raised from the dead
and and he was he was abs absolutely
terrified from the experience because of
where he was going
and uh and and this story about this man
who had been raised from the dead
he was so paranoid
of conflict and i don’t mean that in a
in a wrong way
i just want to describe the situation
he was in his home when an argument
would start between two family members
he literally would get up and run and
hide in the bathroom
he would hide because he was he saw the
effect of bitterness on eternity
and it so terrified him that he would
run and he would hide
and yet bitterness is something that
people broke her in all the time in fact
it’s uh it’s become uh empowered
accentuated emphasized uh in the
political conflict climate that we live
in right now
i i do believe you know we say that god
is not republican or democrat or
libertarian or independent socialist
whatever you want to fill in the blanks
i get that he’s not
um
the question isn’t whose side is god on
the question is
is are we on his side
because he does have things that he
despises and loves
mike bickel
made the best statement for me helped me
understand so much he said god’s anger
is always aimed at whatever interferes
with love
and our the scripture says we’re to be
angry and sin not
so this whole notion of the christian
becoming coming to a place where there
is no emotion
that’s buddhism that’s not christianity
that’s spock on star wars
i don’t want to be like spock on star
wars
who star trek star trek thank you
you know what i meant you know spark on
star trek yeah
they’re all the same
sorry
i just
now you have to forgive me you have to
forgive me now
believe me i’ve made much worse mistakes
than
movies i i tend to forget i sit on
united airlines and i turn a movie on i
if i last five minutes it’s almost a
miracle
i just
ah stupid movie change it oh dumb movie
oh this is going nowhere change it
never mind all right
so spock on star trek
got it all right
he said b and the scripture says be
angry and sin not the emotion of anger
is natural if you’re not angry at
certain situations that rise up in your
life
or in society and culture something’s
broken
it just can’t lead to sin
it can’t lead to resentment it can’t
lead to bitterness can’t need lead to
a self-promotion vindication uh
you know
retaliation
be angry it’s a sign you’re alive if you
see a child abused and you you don’t get
angry then you
you’re dead
there’s something really wrong
because that that is supposed to provide
provoke anger but also it’s to put us
into a place where we become redemptive
solutions
redemptive solutions listen if i am
bitter
my volume increases by my influence
decreases
bitter people lose trust quickly
because everybody in society and culture
is looking for people to trust we vote
for this politician we choose this
measure we move into this neighborhood
we put our children in this school it’s
always an issue trying to find where can
we set our teeth into a place of trust
and bitter people are not trustworthy
so he says
he says be angry and sin not but then he
follows it with this statement in
ephesians 4 he says be angry and sin not
then he says don’t let the sun go down
on your anger
so here’s the deal we start the day with
what jesus taught us to pray
our father
who art in heaven hallowed be your name
your kingdom come
your will be done on earth
as it is in heaven
give us this day our daily bread
forgive us our debts as
we forgive our debtors what is it
at the beginning of my day i have
determined to live redemptively and i
before i am sinned against and prepared
to forgive
it’s it’s the commitment i am going to
live the life of a forgiving person
it doesn’t mean abuse is wrong doesn’t
mean lying stealing doesn’t mean any of
that stuff that is done to you to me
doesn’t mean it’s okay
it doesn’t mean that stuff’s fine it
just means i am not going to become
controlled by the sins of another person
i’m not going to let the spirit of
bitterness dictate to me my thoughts and
my feelings
i will rise above these circumstances
because i’m going to be a contributor to
society what happens when i’m filled
with bitterness i’m holding onto the
past if i hold on to the past i cannot
hang on to the present and bring
redemptive solutions it’s one of the
things the enemy uses to keep us away
from being a creative positive influence
in culture and society is to keep us
married to yesterday
if i am if i am bound by the effects of
yesterday then i have really lost my
ability to have positive effect on the
world around me
so we have this commandment to
to not let the sun go down
on our anger here’s here’s another one
uh uh
john the baptist made this statement he
says bring forth fruit of your
repentance bring forth fruit of your
prince this has to be evidence
when we claim spiritual realities it has
to be measurable in the natural
jesus said if you say you love god who
you can’t see and you hate your brother
who you can see you’re a liar
because claiming an unseen reality has
to be measurable
in the natural it has to be
it has to be
realized in the natural it has to have
an effect
for example if i am bitter at somebody
and i forgive them
it has to my behavior towards them has
to change now as i said earlier it
doesn’t mean if there’s an abusive
situation if they’ve stolen or they’ve
done whatever it doesn’t mean that trust
is rebuilt it just means as far as it
depends with me i am living in peace and
i’m not being controlled or manipulated
by the circumstance of of being hurt
abused whatever the situation might be
so we have this issue of
not letting the sun
go down on our anger so i start my day
as a redemptive person that today i’ve
determined i before anything happens
no matter what happens today i’m going
to live as a forgiver
i’m going to live as a forgiver i’m
going to release people i refuse to be
bound by bitterness through the actions
of other people number one but then i’m
going to make sure that at the end of
the day i don’t let the sun go down on
my anger i maybe experience frustration
anger because this happened that
happened this was wrong that was wrong
but i’m not going to let it control me
so at the end of the day i’ve got to
make sure that i go to sleep with peace
if i don’t then that thorn of
unforgiveness gets under the skin it
fouls and festers and it gets woven into
my personality it gets woven into my
consciousness into my thinking it
becomes a part of the fabric of who i am
the longer i leave it there the more it
begins to define me
jesus wants us to have every day with a
fresh start where we become true
uh contributors to society and we can’t
do that under the influence of
bitterness
i remember years ago i was i was
counseling somebody and have i mentioned
to you i don’t counsel anymore
oh
let’s just sing a song right now
gratefulness
to the lord
there is a song in my heart i want you
to know that right now
i’m experiencing great joy anyway i was
sitting with this couple
in counseling
a long time ago
she was mad because he had done
something 10 years earlier
that’s a lot of sons
going down
on anger
and uh so we we’re they’re friends so
we’re talking
and i found out she’s been carrying this
for 10 years i said all right so i
looked at him i said did you ever repent
for what you did he said yeah
and i said well where’s the evidence now
that wasn’t an accusation sounds kind of
harsh but it was we’re just in
conversation because the scripture says
bring forth fruit of your repentance if
you don’t have
if your internal decision doesn’t affect
your behavior you have no evidence
you’ve forgiven
right if it doesn’t if it doesn’t affect
behavior then it’s just a philosophy he
didn’t call us to a philosophy of
forgiveness
he called us into a lifestyle of
forgiveness
it has to be proven through action so i
said you have any any evidence
he said no i don’t i said all right well
let’s meet again next week and just
bring me some evidence
so
we went by they came in and i sat down i
looked at her i said is there any
evidence she goes nope
i looked at him i said do you have any
evidence he says yeah then he began to
make this list and her eyes opened up
and she realized that she had become the
problem
he caused it
but because of bitterness
she extended it
does that make sense
let me re rephrase this
her bitterness
blinded her
to the reality of his repentance
see bitterness distorts view perspective
it distorts it poisons how we view not
just the situation or the person who’s
hurt us but life in general
life in general becomes interpreted
through my history of pain through my
history of pain so now i’m actually
even if i’m not in unforgiveness if i’ve
held on to these things these issues of
past pain if i’ve held on to them even
if i’m not a bitter person they still
shape how i view present situations
and in order for us to be instant in
season and out for us to be redemptively
uh functional in any and every situation
it means yesterday cannot have lasting
influence on my life except for what
jesus has done
back to the story so i said do you do
you have any any uh any uh evidence he
says yes and he began to make a list and
she realized that he was correct he did
have evidence for his forgiveness the
point is when you forgive somebody
embracing a philosophy of being a
forgiver is not going to fix a problem
but when there are measurable actions
maybe it’s that you take a day to fast
and pray for that person maybe
maybe you make a phone call i remember
i remember making specific phone calls
to individuals that had really had hurt
me and i would call them to bless them
or to honor them or in some way serve
them and and it hurts so much inside but
the only thing that hurt was the part
that was supposed to be dead so it
wasn’t that big of a deal
now don’t protect what should be dead
submit it to the obedience of christ
submit it to obedience to actions of
obedience so here’s the deal if i’m
forgiving this individual then i need
some behavior changes maybe the person
who abused me you know let’s say i was
abused 20 years ago they’re they’re dead
well i can’t do anything to them or for
them but you know what i could do is i
could pray for the blessing of god on
their descendants
in some way put into an action maybe
fall to my knees and just pray god
i don’t deserve maybe that person is is
lives on the other side of the planet
but you come before the lord and you say
god i know that i did not deserve your
forgiveness
and you forgave me
i ask that you would give that same
mercy to this individual that hurt me
what i
have brought into my life as a as a
regular discipline in recent
months and year or so is benny and i
like to take communion often and i’ve
already taken you through this at least
many of you in part
but we like to take communion often most
every day
and when i in fact i i had it this
morning uh eric and i both come early
early morning five
five ish five five to five thirty to
come and just a pride to get ready for
the day
and so i’d like to bring communion with
me
so that i can pray and what i do is i
pray over every member of my family i
make confession of the lord by his
stripes we are healed and pray for those
who need miracles i pray i hold the
blood out before the lord i make the
proclamation as for me and my house we
will serve the lord i remember each
mention each family member i pray for
them uniquely individually but then i
move into the area where i pray for
those whose ministries they actually
have taken a position to oppose me or to
publicly uh write a book or maybe they
uh
have conferences uh to undermine us me
uh maybe they they tear apart or
critique or criticize a book i’ve
written or whatever it might be fill in
the blanks they’ve take public position
to oppose me i’ve had
them meet me at the airport when i land
here i’ve i’ve i’ve had just weird
situations protest banners out in front
of conferences that i do it’s because
they love me so much and they just don’t
know it yet
and chris one of them chris was mad
because my name was on the protest board
and his name wasn’t there he was it was
he was a little upset over that but
anyway um
there are five people on my list three
who are who are recognized around the
world
who have taken this position to oppose
me you never criticize a servant to that
to that servant’s master there’s no
right
never does a believer have the right to
accuse
another believer before god we don’t
have that right so what i do is i bring
their name before the lord and i pray
i ask god
this morning i prayed god i pray
that they would lack nothing that
everything they need in life whether
it’s finances whether it’s favor whether
it’s open doors for because they do
preach the gospel uh
open doors for or for the gift that
you’ve given them and pray for the
blessing of the lord on them but the
thing that i love praying the most for
them
is that father i ask that you give them
the joy
of having children who have children
who would serve you wholeheartedly that
they would have the privilege of
children grandchildren great
grandchildren that would serve you with
all of the heart give them that joy and
that pleasure
what you’ve got to do is you have to
have evidence that an internal decision
has been made and is carrying out and
sometimes it’s prayer sometimes it’s a
gift sometimes it’s a phone call but
it’s something that we do just to make
sure as the scripture says so far as it
depends with you be at peace with all
men do everything you can possibly do on
your end to stay undefiled by the spirit
of bitterness
amen
we haven’t got to hebrews 12 yet have we
just trust me it’s good
let me make one more comment then we’ll
read this
because of
the politically heightened
conflict that exists
in our country
right now
we need people to hold the righteous
values without becoming bitter
and one of the hardest things in the
world to do is to minister to a group of
people without picking up their offenses
in fact let me make two more comments
it’s challenging listen carefully
it’s very difficult to give yourself to
minister to a group of people without
picking up their offenses for example
it’s very difficult to minister to the
poor
without being offended at the rich
it’s very difficult to minister to the
rich
and not be offended at those who don’t
work
it’s very difficult to minister to
children
and not be offended at adults who don’t
prioritize the life of a child
it’s tough to minister to adults not be
offended by a younger generation that
shows them no respect
it’s difficult to minister to one race
without being offended at another race
the list goes on and on and on and
sometimes people’s ministries are
defined by what they’re offended at
instead of the actual ministry of the
gospel
i believe that god has
he cares about the issues that are at
stake in any of our nations represented
in this room
he doesn’t have
opinions
he’s right
and like was it was it joshua that saw
the lord and said whose side are you on
and the angel the lord says whose side
are you on that’s the real question
having said that
i don’t think on many many issues the
enemy cares what your opinion is
as long as you leave the character of
christ to defend it
in many areas of our life i don’t think
the devil cares one bit about what your
convictions are regarding an issue
as long as you leave the character of
christ to defend it
hebrews 12.
you all right
now we almost have to end and i’m
finally getting to the bible
oops
all right verse 12.
hebrews 12 12 therefore strengthen the
hands which hang down the feeble knees
make straight paths for your feet so
that what is lame may not be dislocated
but rather healed
pursue peace with all people men i love
that
and holiness
without which
no one will see the lord i have that
phrase underlined without which no one
will see the lord
looking carefully lest anyone fall short
of the grace of god
lest any root of bitterness springing up
causes trouble and by this many become
defiled
lest there be any fornicator or profane
person like esau
who for one morsel of food sold his
birthright
you know that afterward when he wanted
to inherit the blessing
he was rejected
for he found no place for repentance
though he saw it diligently with tears
don’t skip the sobering passages of
passages of scripture don’t skip them
don’t don’t
just read the verses that make you feel
like the king of the earth
read the things that cut deeply because
we need them the fear of god
is a huge part of our walk with christ
and uh this is part of us so verse 15
looking carefully lest anyone falls
short of the grace of god
that lest any root of bitterness
springing up cause trouble and by this
many become defiled
this phrase concerning bitterness and
many being defiled has been a phrase
that has been racing through my mind for
several weeks
and i’ve been looking forward to today
happy thanksgiving by the way looking
forward to today
i am thankful but i’ll be more thankful
when if you’re not bitter you know
it’s been racing through my mind in
recent weeks because i can i could see
me i could feel and see
the defiling effect of bitterness of a
person on another person
and where the lord is taking us
is deeper into
places of service of love of care
of influence
but we can’t survive it
if we don’t know how to resist
picking up the offenses
of the people we love and care for
and by many by it become defiled
i was uh
just talking with some friends of mine
uh two weeks ago
uh we were able to spend some time
together and they were
they
had uh some some sort of a birthday
gathering or a holiday gathering i
forget what it was now
and uh and something in the food didn’t
taste right every
everyone just went ahead and ate it even
though it didn’t taste right
and then it hit
everyone everyone got food poisoning
everyone but two people everyone got
food poisoning that ate this stuff
and many were defiled
and if you eat the meal
of criticism and accusation
you’re being
food poisoned
and so the lord here’s here’s my here’s
my if i could pray one thing for today
it would be either that we’d be
ridiculously thankful and or we would
become allergic
to bitterness
you’d break out in hives or something
you start twitching i don’t care what it
is
but in some way you begin to manifest
when you get around bitterness because
it is that defiling
and to see the effect of bitterness on
the human soul to see the effect on a
family
i realize there are horrific stories
represented in this room
that what you’ve gone through
is beyond words
i’ve spent enough time one-on-one with
people to know
the things that some people do to other
people is just
it’s just crazy it’s just stupid
but there is no liberty for you
outside of forgiving
there just isn’t
there just isn’t
we become defiled by our own
entertaining
thoughts of accusation
paul
made this great statement in philippians
4. i’m sorry i should be giving you
references and if i had my act together
i’d have
verses on the screens with the
references
and you would be all the smarter because
of it
philippians 4 verse 8 he says whatever
is lovely whatever’s of good report uh
all these think on these things
and if i’m struggling does anybody else
ever have
accusations about somebody else come to
your mind like a thousand a minute
maybe not a thousand maybe just a
hundred a minute
the accusations that come
if you don’t if i don’t if i don’t
proactively counter that
not by rebuking
but by replacing
he can only plant a thought where there
is no thought
i have people that have have really
affected my life in not a positive way
and yet i know that they have a
relationship with the lord
and what i’ve had to do is come to the
place where i actually fear christ in
them
so that i maintain awe and respect for
them
jesus has redeemed them he has changed
their life he has forgiven they’re not
perfect but neither am i
and we rob each other the wrong way
something happens
those thoughts bombard the mind if i
can’t vic get victory that way
by praying aggressively for them not
against them
then i just turned my attention to my
wife
because she’s everything on philippians
4 verse 8. she’s lovely she’s a good
report she’s all the things listed so i
just think about her and i’m delivered
right there it just comes right out and
i’m okay then so
whatever works for you you can think
about my wife too if you want that
go ahead
what i can’t afford to do is to spend
time thinking something
that has the potential of setting down
roots in me and shaping who i am
listen to me
bitter thoughts are not okay they’re not
okay
because it’s what precedes imprisonment
to something
that destroys us
i say this
because of my
i’m concerned with what i hear and see
i’ve taken time to reflect over
what i grew up with what watching would
happen with people that i
tried to help counsel that went and
killed somebody and just crazy crazy
stuff
the two that scared me maybe the most
were the two people in a church that i
would go to serve and they were
they were just possessed by bitterness
and resentment and they they could not
reason
i don’t i don’t see that here but i i
also know that you and i are made of the
same stuff
and if they can if somebody else can do
it wrong then i can do it wrong
and so i want to make sure that i that i
have the tools in place
where i can walk in forgiveness walk
redemptively and the the answer is not
creating a big defense the answer is
offense
a good offense is the best defense
keep the ball out of the hand of the
enemy
just just don’t just don’t give him a
place
don’t give him a place he has no right
to set up influence
so here’s the deal
i’m praying that everybody in this room
would become allergic
to resentment that the discernment level
in your heart and mind in my heart and
mind would be so heightened
that if we get near it
we automatically
come in redemptively
knowing we cannot afford to be
influenced by this
that is sent from the powers of darkness
yep
my hope is
is is not i i seldom think of survival i
think in terms of overcoming
you know i don’t want to be the last one
standing i want to be a part of an army
that actually made a difference
and so obviously i i don’t want to see
people fall to that spirit of bitterness
fall to that control
but more than that
i want to see a redemptive army
be thrust into deeper and deeper places
of influence
people who know how to forgive
you know you read the quotes of some of
our nation’s heroes through the years
you read because i’m sorry i’ve got them
in my ipad i i didn’t think to bring
them up
but quotes from martin luther king
some of his statements about forgiveness
very profound statements
the place of influence
is really given to those who know how to
forgive
and i pray that for you i pray that for
me that the lord would continue to
thrust us into places of influence
because we know what it is to walk as a
redemptive army of forgivers why don’t
you stand with me we’re going to pray
together
you know my dad
let’s do this let’s let’s just assume
no one in here is bitter at anyone amen
amen no one
but if you were does anyone come to mind
oh that’s so funny
no no no one no one no one
my dad used to have this statement
he said when you wash another person’s
feet
you find out why they walk the way they
do
some people
you may be offended at
that you wouldn’t be if you figuratively
wash their feet find out oh that’s why
they limp like they do
uh that makes a lot of sense
so father
make us allergic
that allergies spread through the room
right now jesus did
you know what i mean right
i do pray lord i pray for a great grace
to
live redemptively at a level
that’s beyond anything we’ve known
you’ve
you’ve lifted the veil so to speak
you’ve let us
have places of influence and to serve
and to love well
and i just ask god give us discernment
give us a grace in every environment
to be able to be an influence of
forgiveness
in jesus name
now i’m going to ask everyone please
hold your place built the family hold
your place for you because i want to
give invitation for people to know jesus
and i don’t want to do that with people
walking around because it’s too easy for
others to be distracted
the greatest miracle that could happen
here today
is that somebody would say i want to
know what it is to be a disciple of
jesus i want to know what it is to be
forgiven by god and to walk as a
forgiver
if there’s anybody in the room that just
say bill i don’t want to leave the
building until i know i’m at peace with
god i’ve been forgiven of sin then i
want you just to put a hand up where you
are we’re just going to make an
agreement with you we had five people
first service respond to this invitation
to know jesus is there anyone this
morning in this service just put a hand
up i want to make sure that we give
full quality time for you
to come to know that for good
forgiveness of jesus
for those who are watching by bethel tv
we just announced you the forgiveness
the grace of god is available to you as
well and i do pray that you and i would
be able to spread the forgiveness of
jesus through all through our city this
week i just pray for that great grace
amen amen by the way uh
in another
two weeks is it david hogan’s going to
be here that’s going to be
that’s going to be wild and crazy
that’ll be a great friend brace yourself
for that one who’s coming up now tom you
are why don’t you hold your places and
let tom here uh bring this to an end
while i get to the back door
come on so good
thank you jesus
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