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Hey, let me just ask you, do you have any bad blood with anyone in your life right now?

Just be honest with yourself.

Like, I want to ask you to think about this, and let's get real, who in your life, who in this world has really hurt you at some point?

Like, who in this world, do you have a tough time being around?

Whose name elicits a negative response

inside of you when you hear it mentioned? Who in this world do you strongly dislike? And for some of you,

the question tonight is really, who do you hate? Who in this world do you hate?

Here's what I believe to be true. I think that this song by T. Swift is fun to sing, but it's really painful to live.

It's an extremely painful reality to live.

From personal experience, few things in life can steal your joy like fractured relationships. Because bad blood at play in your life, it will do a bunch of different things.

It will keep you awake at light, at night, it will consume all of your thoughts, it will complicate

your holidays, it will spliticate your holidays, it will split your friend groups,

it will cause a lot of pain in your life. Most of all, it will drain you with feelings of anger,

bitterness, and resentment. Let me just tell you why we're starting this way and why we're

talking about this

idea of bad blood. For the last three weeks, we've been in a series that we are calling

the devil wears blank. And the idea behind the series is that we have a real enemy that is

seeking to steal, kill, and destroy from our lives. And so what we need to wake up to is the fact that every single morning, when we put our feet

on the floor, we're not just stepping into our bedroom.

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