Do Not Avenge Yourselves, but Give Place to Wrath

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🗓️ 20 February 2005

⏱️ 42 minutes

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When we lay down the burden of vengeance, God will pick it up and carry it out. No sin will go unpunished from the God who sees all.

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0:00.0	The following resource is from Desiring God.org.
0:05.0	Romans chapter 12 verses 17 through 21.
0:10.0	Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
0:17.0	If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
0:22.2	Beloved, never avenge yourselves,
0:24.9	but leave it to the wrath of God.
0:27.3	For it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay,
0:31.1	says the Lord.
0:33.0	To the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him.
0:37.5	If he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
0:41.0	For by so doing, you will keep burning coals on his head.
0:45.0	Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
0:50.0	Let's pray together.
0:55.0	Father, what a light we would be and how salty we would be.
1:05.0	We would be like a city set on a hill,
1:08.0	a light on a lampstand,
1:12.0	tasty and preserving if we lived like that. If we didn't return evil for evil, if we didn't take vengeance into our own hands, if we
1:27.4	gave glasses of water to our enemies and food to our adversaries, If we overcame evil with good, what a light we would be.
1:39.0	How you would shine in this world if your people loved like that.
1:46.6	Oh God, I pray that by the Holy Spirit
1:50.4	and through the blood of Jesus Christ and in the agent and power of your word you
1:58.0	would transform our minds and our hearts so that we incline to mercy and not returning evil for evil.
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