Welcome to the For the Gospel podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hinn, and whether you're listening to this on your favorite podcast platform like Apple or Spotify,

where you're watching this on our YouTube

channel. I'm really thankful that you've joined me for this episode. Now, last episode, I started a two-part

series on kindness because it's one of the most important and powerful Christian qualities.

Of course, it's one of the fruit of the spirit, so we want to see it flow out of our lives,

but that can be difficult

because we are sinners. And in God's timing this past week, I experienced the unkindness of others

in a unique way. I'm sure you've had these experiences as well. It was really interesting. I was

talking to my wife thinking I did an episode on kindness and I have another one next week.

And randomly people just started slandering our ministry, attacking our church. I was getting

accused of all sorts of things, including misrepresenting the gospel. And I'm not alone.

That happens to you. That happens to me. But really funny. The other day I was talking with a few

brothers after my men's Bible study. And a similar thing happened to them. They said, hey day I was talking with a few brothers after my men's Bible study and a similar

thing happened to them they said hey I was listening to the episode on kindness and one gentleman in

particular was driving the other was at the gym and each was dealing with frustrating people one guy

at the gym where it's just loathsome behavior, people more interested in flexing

for social media than getting strong and getting on with their day. The other guy was dealing

with road rangers. And we just kind of chuckled thinking, isn't that how it works? You set out to

study something. You want to grow. Or the old kind of funny cliche where, you know, be careful

praying for humility, God will give you extremely challenging circumstances and he will humble

you to grow your humility. Be careful what you pray for. God will do it. Well, you set out to

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