Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, September 3rd.

When someone hurts you, how do you respond?

Today we'll learn how to be free from the damage caused by resentment and find lasting

victory over unforgiveness. Last year or maybe yesterday or maybe this morning

somebody hurt you and you felt it.

And your first response was to retaliate because you felt like you had a right to. So outwardly you decided not to. But what

you did you stuffed it and it's on the inside. Or it may be that last year or yesterday or whenever, you saw somebody else that you thought was wronged.

And you would like to have retaliated about that but you

didn't feel like you could say he stopped that one. One of the most dangerous things a person can do is stuff, resentment, anger,

hostility, all of these things which really adds up to unforgiveness.

And all this series of sermons we've talked about the different emotions that are deadly

and they cause all kind of diseases, all kind of hurt, all kind of pain, and people live with it. Instead of

dealing with it, they just live with it. And they have the idea that it's over

because, oh I have forgotten that. But if you stuffed it, you may

have forgotten it in your mind, but your body is still being affected by what you stuffed. Because you see

unforgiveness may be stuffed but you do not escape the consequences of an

unforgiving spirit.

And so I want you to listen carefully to this message,

because many people think they don't have any unforgiveness in their life.

But the truth is that they look deeply enough,

it's probably there.

And if it's there, it's doing its damage just a little bit of the time.

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