I can feel it, I can feel it, I can feel it, I can feel it.

I can feel it, I can feel it, I can feel it.

Hey, I'm so glad to have you with us today at all of our life churches, our churches around the

world and network churches, our online family watching on YouTube listing on a podcast.

If you're new with us, we're in a message series called The Grudge.

We're talking about overcoming offenses and how do we forgive week number one.

That's what we talked about is how do we overcome the smaller offenses that weigh us down or hold us back?

The second week we talked about the bigger betrayals when someone lies to us or lies about us or

deceives us in a significant way. How do we forgive that? Last week we talked about forgiving God.

Technically, we know God never sins, so we don't technically forgive Him, but there are people that hold

a grudge against God. How do we reconcile with God and make things right?

Today, I want to talk about forgiving the person that may be the most difficult for many people to

forgive, and that is forgiving yourself. How do you forgive yourself when you let yourself down

or let God down or hurt somebody that you love? When you think about it, this can be so difficult

because we know what we did that we shouldn't have done and we wish that we could undo.

We know the words that we said that we didn't really mean, I mean, maybe we kind of minute

at the time, but we did really not our heart and we said it and now we really hurt somebody.

We know what we think about when nobody else is around and we carry the shame, we carry the guilt.

How can I forgive myself after what I did or after who I am in this particular situation?

This was a real issue for me, especially as a new Christian. I was in college very, very far

from God and I did a lot of things that hurt a lot of people and the guilt and the shame of the

things that I did, the people that I hurt, it weighed so heavily on me and so I became a follower

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