The Good News about How Bad We Are: Brant Hansen
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What if your self-righteousness is cannibalizing your life? National radio host Brant Hansen explains the multifaceted freedom of admitting how bad we are.
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| 0:00.0 | Jesus is so genius and again it's for us. Yeah. So we think, well, maybe I'll forgive this person for their own good |
| 0:05.4 | No, no, no, it's for you. It's like, yeah, it's so hard to forgive. I'm like it is, but you know what's harder? |
| 0:10.4 | Living a life of unforgiveness |
| 0:12.9 | That's a horrible burden to bear going around. Well, I'm gonna prove my point. I'm gonna be justified |
| 0:19.4 | I'm gonna teach everybody lessons. I'm gonna that's this is a heavy thing to be attached to anger |
| 0:24.0 | Right, so Jesus is saying follow my way of living |
| 0:28.2 | Work with me. You'll yourself with me. I'll give you a lighter load. It's gonna be better |
| 0:44.1 | Welcome to Family Life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most |
| 0:48.8 | I'm Dave Wilson and I'm Ann Wilson and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on the Family Life app |
| 0:56.1 | This is Family Life today |
| 1:11.0 | So it's known on the internet as the cookie thief story. You ever heard it true story woman's in an airport |
| 1:17.2 | She's got a little delay. She's getting ready to |
| 1:20.1 | Sit in this chair and tuck up. She has a bag of cookies and she sort of puts them on the seat in between her and this other guy |
| 1:25.9 | And she's taking a cookie out and this guy |
| 1:29.6 | Reaches in her cookie bag and takes cookie out and she sort of looks at him like what? |
| 1:34.1 | She's so offended and he does it like three or four times and then finally there's one cookie left |
| 1:40.3 | And she hasn't said anything, but she is so I rate this guy |
| 1:44.1 | It's some strangers eating her cookies and there's one cookie left and she's like what is gonna do and she looks |
| 1:49.0 | Over and he takes the cookie out breaks it and gives her half and |
| 1:53.0 | Sort of looks at her and she gets up and she's so mad. She walks to the plane. She gets on the plane |
| 1:57.5 | She's like this guy the biggest jerk. I can't believe it my cookies. You know what's gonna happen |
| 2:02.0 | She gets out of play she opens her purse and there's the cookie bag. She never opened it was his |
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