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We've all been hurt.

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We all carry scars.

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We can all overcome these things and be healed through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Let's build that relationship together right here.

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Welcome to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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Hey everybody, welcome back to the sanctuary.

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So good to have you with us as always.

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And for those of you who are joining us for the first time, welcome.

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So quick question here.

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Have you ever been gaslit or falsely accused of something?

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Sure you have.

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We all have at one point or another.

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And that's what we're going to be talking about today.

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See, we all have stories of those times.

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Frustrating, right?

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And often they don't really have a good ending, do they?

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They just end and then you move along.

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Years ago I worked at a place where I repeatedly was having an issue with someone just not

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doing their job.

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I tried talking to them about it.

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It went nowhere.

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So of course the next logical step for most jobs is you go up to that next level, which

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usually means going to a manager or a supervisor, right?

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So I went to mine and I told them, hey, this is what's going on.

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It's making it really hard.

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It's really frustrating because not only am I having to do my job, but I'm having to do

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theirs and it's impacting other people as well.

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And I told them, you know, we need to get this resolved.

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So the supervisor I was talking to said, okay, I'll take care of it.

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The next thing I know, I'm being called into a meeting with that person I was having an

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issue with, with the supervisor I'd gone to and another supervisor from another area that

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we also happen to work with fairly regularly.

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And the person that I had issues with them not doing their job, they're sitting there

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in a chair pouring on these alligator tears, spinning out this story about how bad their

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personal life is at this moment, you know, and then on top of it that they're hurt because

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allegedly I was talking behind their back.

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So finally I'm given the floor and I attempt to set the record straight.

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The supervisor I'd gone to for help pretended that I hadn't spoken to them about the issue

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and that this was the first time that they had heard any of this.

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Well, as it turned out, they were really close friends with the employee that I was struggling

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with and trying to protect their friend and in doing so made me to look like the bad guy.

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Needless to say, the issues weren't resolved.

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It was really frustrating to the point of anger where I was even sitting there thinking

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do I really need this job?

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We've all been there.

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We all have those stories.

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And in this case, I learned really quickly who I could and who I couldn't trust.

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It makes life just a little bit harder when you're trying to do a good job.

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Now that's just one incident.

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After everything was said and done, I'm sure we could all agree it wasn't the end of the

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world, right?

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Nothing to lose sleep over.

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Now those of you with your Bible, those of you following along with the app, those of

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you taking notes, turn with me now real quick.

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We're going to take a look here at 2 Timothy chapter 3 verses 1 through 7.

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So that's 2 Timothy chapter 3 verses 1 through 7 and the Bible says, but understand this,

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that in the last days there will come times of difficulty for people will be lovers of

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self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

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heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous,

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reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having

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the appearance of godliness but denying its power.

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Good such people, for among them are those who creep into households and capture weak

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women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never

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able to arrive at a knowledge of truth.

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Now, in my case that I just shared with you, and as for most of us, while the situations

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we find ourselves in are frustrating, after everything is said and done, they're really

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not that bad, are they?

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Again, nothing to lose sleep over.

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However, for some people it is much worse and has been life altering, if not life ending.

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I want to share a story with you about another man today and give you an example of what

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we're seeing more and more of.

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So earlier this year there was a new story, some of you may have seen this, it's pretty

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big.

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I'd venture to say it was huge, however it still fell to the wayside most places.

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Why?

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Because, well, it wasn't juicy enough for some people to stir the pot with.

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Surprisingly.

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So in 1983 Maurice Hastings was accused, arrested, charged, tried and convicted of murder.

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He narrowly avoided the death penalty and instead was sentenced to life without the

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possibility of parole.

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The problem here was that he was in fact innocent.

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He had not done anything wrong.

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Something he said repeatedly over decades of incarceration.

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Decades.

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Now after decades of fighting this wrongful sentence, new evidence came up.

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DNA.

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DNA that was found at the scene of the crime was finally tested and was a match for an

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entirely different person who was convicted of other crimes and had died in prison back

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in 2020.

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A DNA test that had been requested repeatedly for roughly 20 years.

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20 years!

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And after 38 years of wrongful imprisonment, that's right 38 nearly 40 years, Maurice Hastings

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was exonerated and freed.

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He missed out on so, so many things.

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Things a lot of us take for granted.

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Like having a job.

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Even with the frustrations that come.

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Being able to spend time with friends.

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Enjoying time with family.

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With family!

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And so, so much more.

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Instead he was met with rejection.

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He was met with lost friends.

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Is met with separation from family and loved ones.

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That he was given suffering, torment and injustice for more than half of his life.

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Turn with me now to Isaiah 53.

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We're going to look at verses 1 through 6.

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So Isaiah 53 verses 1 through 6.

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The Bible says, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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He grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground.

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He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him.

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Nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

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He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering and familiar with pain.

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Like one from whom people hid their faces, he was despised.

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And we held him in low esteem.

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Slowly he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken

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by him and afflicted.

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But he was pierced for our transgressions.

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He was crushed for our inequities.

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The punishment that brought us peace was on him.

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And by his wounds we are healed.

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We all, like sheep, have gone astray.

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Each of us has turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the inequity of us

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all.

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Now in the case I just shared with you, Maurice Hastings suffered greatly.

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Greater than most of us can or will ever imagine.

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He did not deserve what happened to him.

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Yet he paid the price just the same.

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And you know who knows what that's like all too well?

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Well I just read about him.

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Jesus.

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Jesus who lived a sinless life and did great things for mankind.

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He was rejected by those same people.

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He was rejected by mankind.

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He was mocked, ridiculed.

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He knew pain and he knew suffering long before the mockery of the trial he had to go through.

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The sentencing that followed.

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Unlike Mr. Hastings, he did receive the death penalty.

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While Mr. Hastings did eventually get out of jail, Jesus went all the way to Golgotha.

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The skull.

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Or as many of us know it, Calvary.

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Where he was nailed to the cross and died a horrible, painful, torturous death for the

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sins of us all.

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For all the sin that had been committed and all the sin to come from mankind.

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Now he could have fought to clear his name.

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It wouldn't have been that hard, right?

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But he didn't do it.

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Instead he was obedient to God's will and he accepted the death sentence and its execution

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for every single one of us.

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First John 410 the Bible says, and this is love.

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Not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for

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our sins.

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And that's where we saw it when Jesus took the cross for our sin.

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Now let's turn to Matthew chapter 5.

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We're going to look at verses 38 through 40.

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In Matthew chapter 5 verses 38 through 40, Jesus tells us, you have heard that it was

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said eye for eye, tooth for tooth, but I tell you, do not resist an evil person.

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If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.

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And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.

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And taking the cross, he shows the ultimate example of this and the ultimate example of

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what it is to love our neighbor, to love our neighbor, which is commanded by the father.

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Jesus takes it a step further though.

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When you go to John chapter 15 verses 13 through 14, Jesus says, there is no greater love than

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to lay down one's life for one's friends.

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You are my friends if you do what I command.

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And he did exactly that.

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Jesus wasn't just a man of talk.

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He was a man of action.

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He didn't say, just do what I do, what I tell you.

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He gave us the example.

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See, he made the ultimate sacrifice and atoning for our sins and showing how great his love

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is for all of us.

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Now it wasn't fair.

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It wasn't a good deal.

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He didn't deserve any of it.

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Just as we don't deserve his forgiveness, we don't deserve his mercy, we don't deserve

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his grace, we don't deserve his love, and we certainly don't deserve his compassion.

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But nonetheless, he did it just the same, didn't he?

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Without complaint.

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And let's face it, we live in a world that loves to complain and moan about things.

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Yet he didn't do any of that because he sees value in all of us.

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He loves all of us.

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He sees value in you and he loves you.

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Psalm 118 verses 19 through 20.

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Psalm 118 verses 19 through 23, the Bible says, open for me the gates of the righteous.

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I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.

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This is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous may enter.

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I will give you thanks for you answered me.

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You have become my salvation.

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The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

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The Lord has done this and it is marvelous in our eyes.

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Now think of a time when you were falsely accused of something.

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Think of a time that you were gaslit.

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How did you respond to it?

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How could you have handled it differently?

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Did you show the light of Jesus in you or did you react in the way of the world?

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And what can you take from those moments and change in yourself?

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What can you learn from it to change in yourself and how you live and how you do things so

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that you handle things better in the future?

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Now after everything was said and done, Maurice Hastings was quoted by the press saying this,

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I prayed for many years that this day would come.

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I am not pointing fingers.

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I am not standing here a bitter man, but I just want to enjoy my life now while I have

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it.

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And that right there is most likely why it didn't go worldwide.

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It wasn't all over the internet.

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It wasn't all over social media.

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Nobody picked up by any of these various groups that like to turn things on its side and get

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everybody rioting and turned against each other.

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Because he prayed.

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He speaks here that he spoke with God, right?

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He was humbled.

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He showed humility and he showed how we should respond and the adversity that we face.

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Philippians chapter four verses six through seven, the Bible says, be anxious for nothing

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but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.

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Let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding

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will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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See we all need to remember that when things get tough, we need to turn to God.

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It's easy, so easy when things are going our way, but we tend to react humanly instead

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of godly when things get tough.

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Let that anger and that frustration get the better of us.

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Yet that is when we need to pray the most, when we need to go to God the most.

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When we're caught up in life storms, those are the times that we need to be vigilant

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to make sure that we don't take our eyes off of Jesus.

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We're not just called to love our friends.

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We're not just called to love our families.

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We are told to love our neighbors, which is a really, really nice way of saying you need

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to love everyone, even your enemies, like it or not.

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Yeah, even our enemies because that is Christ light in you.

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That's trying to shine through and it may be the only time they will ever see it.

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It may be the only time that they actually get to see God.

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And as much as it might just plain suck, and let's face it, sometimes it does.

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When we are met with adversity, sometimes the best choice is just to have a nice big

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piece of humble pie and shut our mouths.

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Proverbs 21 verse 23, the Bible says, whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself

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out of trouble.

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So even though you may be the one in the right and even though you're just trying to do the

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right thing, set the record straight or say the right thing, sometimes we all just have

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to know when we should stop talking and move forward because sometimes you really do just

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have to stop talking so that you can move forward.

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So I got one last story for you guys today and I'm sure many of you have heard this,

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but bear with me just to say, and it goes like this.

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One day, a son goes to his father and he says, dad, I want to get married.

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His father says, okay, first tell me you're sorry.

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Son says, for what?

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Again, his father says, say you're sorry.

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The son retorts, but why?

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I didn't do anything.

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Again, the father says, just say you're sorry.

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Now starting to get frustrated, the son says, but what have I done wrong?

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Dad tells him again, I said, apologize.

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This point, the son, he's getting really agitated and he says, why?

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Father says, just say it.

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He says, please dad, just tell me why.

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His father says, just say you're sorry.

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Finally, the son relents and he says, okay dad, I'm sorry.

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At which point his father smiles a big old cheesy grin and says, okay, now that you've

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learned to say you're sorry for no reason at all, you're ready to get married.

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You see, sometimes it's not about us.

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It's about the hurt and the pain that the other person is feeling, the frustration that

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they're dealing with in their own lives.

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Now you may have had nothing to do with it, but for whatever reason, you're the one they're

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taking it out on.

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Maybe it's just because they feel safe with you.

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That's a good thing, right?

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Parents know this, happens with kids.

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Sometimes you don't realize what it is, but that's what it is.

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To teenagers, you know, recognizing that hurt and telling them, you know what, I'm sorry.

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That might be exactly what they need to hear in order to start their own healing.

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And do you know what that is?

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Do you recognize it or not, that is God's light and love and mercy in you trying to

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shine for them to see and to bring them comfort.

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That in itself is an incredible gift to be able to share with somebody else.

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So it's not worth the stress or the frustration that comes with being lured in to these types

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of ambushes in life.

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Instead, step back and recognize these situations for what they are and use the opportunity

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as a chance to let God's light in your life shine for them to see.

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Forgive them, show them mercy, and when you go to your prayers, pray for them.

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Just another example of how you are blessed and how you are a blessing to the world.

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Remember, you are loved.

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Now go and be the church.

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Thank you all for joining us here today at Healing Scars with Pastor Burton.

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God bless.