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How do you forgive?

Bless the person you haven't forgiven and pray for them until you're healed and free.

So, Luke 627-28, I say to to you love your enemies to do good to those who hate you.

Bless those who curse you, pray for those who spitefully use you. Okay. So we read that

scripture Luke chapter 6. Bless those who curse you pray for those

just by confusion so it's you know that sounds okay that's that's good but the actual

practice of it is disgusting. It's just disgusting. So you know I'm not a

hater. I've never been a hater in but there have been two or three people I

just hate it you know in my life and when I became pastor in a church to Amarillo,

I was 28 years old.

I'd been in business and the pastor of the church

left they asked me to take over the church.

He was a thousand member church.

I was, I had no no experience never been to seminary

anything and I took over this church. Well the people were sweet to me most of them. But

there was a guy in the church that didn't like me and didn't want me to be the pastor of the church and he actively campaigned against me being the pastor of the church.

Well, I was afraid, I was a total full of fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear, fill in the blank.

I was full of fear.

And I wanted to be the pastor, you know, and it excited me at the thought of being

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