Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, May 15th.

Do you wrestle with anger, bitterness, or an unforgiving spirit?

Learn how to remove destructive hindrances to your walk with the Lord,

in part two of Dr. Stanley's message, freedom from bondage.

When Paul wrote the book of Ephesians, he wrote the book to a group of people,

and one of those problems that they had was a problem that oftentimes is experienced by people

today and don't even realize it, if it is there they refuse to acknowledge they

they just repress it that is it's not there if it's there and they realize that

they suppress it they don't want to deal with it and so one of those situations is

found in Ephesians chapter 4 and if you'll turn there and let's read two

verses verses 31 and 32.

There is a basic form of bondage which results in the actions that Paul mentions here in this 31st verse. So he says, in verse 31, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and

clamor and slander be put away from you along with all malice,

and be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you.

Now, when you and I think about a forgiving spirit, he says, let it be put away from you. That is, put it away. And you see, he says, that's garbage, bitterness and resentment and all of these things. And you see, when you grow up with this, years and years and years in your life of this kind of thing, and you repress it. That means you deny it's there. You suppress it.

You accept the fact that it's there, but you don't want to deal with it. Listen, no counselor can

ever help anybody who represses the truth or suppresses the truth. So, for example, here's what I

want you to see. Here are children who grow up in a home where the parents have rejected them

and the kids, I'm not saying the parents intended to,

but the kids grew up and they're hostile and they're angry. Oh, they're bitter and they're

resentful. So here's what Satan does. Satan says. Now look, what you do is you just push that down.

And just keep it down there because after all, that is your father or your mother and you're not

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