Bless Those Who Persecute You

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🗓️ 6 February 2005

⏱️ 45 minutes

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If you see and savor mercy in Christ, you will love being merciful.

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0:00.0	Romans 12 versus 14 through 21.
0:08.6	Bless those who persecute you.
0:11.8	Bless and do not curse them.
0:15.0	Rejoys with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
0:21.0	Live in harmony with one another, to not be hot about associate with the lowly, never be conceded.
0:31.0	Repain a one evil for evil but give thought to do what is honorable in the
0:39.4	side of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
0:49.0	Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but live it to the wrath of God, for it is written.
0:59.0	Vengeance is mine.
1:01.0	I will repay, says the Lord.
1:05.0	To the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him.
1:11.0	If he is thirsty, give him something to drink, for by so doing you will keep burning
1:18.4	colds on his head.
1:21.0	Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
1:27.0	Let's pray.
1:32.0	Oh, Lord God, I so long to be the kind of person I'm going to preach about tonight,
1:41.0	blessing those who persecute me,
1:45.0	blessing and not even thinking about a curse.
1:50.0	And I want to be among those who weep easily when others are weeping and are happy when others are happy when others are happy. I don't want to be the kind of person who's sort of above
2:06.2	it all looking out and frozen with analysis of that weeping or that rejoicing.
2:14.6	I want to be easily drawn in to others' hearts.
2:21.3	So there's our challenge, Lord. We want to be new different kinds of people. We don't want to defend ourselves right now saying we were grew up in a certain house or we were born with certain DNA. We want to be open to the Holy Spirit and so we ask now that you'd come
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