Participants: Karen Thomas (Host)
Series Code: IAADD
Program Code: IAADD000022A
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00:27 Welcome to Issues and Answers.
00:29 Today we're going to be talking about healing. 00:32 You need something in your life to make a big change. 00:36 Maybe you're going through a particular illness 00:38 and someone has said, you know, 00:40 if you did this, then you would be healed. 00:43 We're gonna talk about healing. 00:45 Our guest today is Pastor Kymone Hinds. 00:47 He is the pastor for the Overton Park Seventh-day 00:50 Adventist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, 00:51 as well as a church planter with Journey Fellowship. 00:56 Pastor Hinds attended the Saint John University 00:59 in New York City, 01:00 where he studied actuarial science. 01:04 Then the Lord called him to the ministry 01:06 and he attended Andrews University 01:08 where he obtained a Masters of Divinity degree. 01:11 He's also been the former youth director 01:13 for Central States Conference of Seventh-day Adventist. 01:17 We're so glad to have him on the program 01:19 to talk with us about healing. 01:21 Don't we want healing? 01:23 Don't we want to know about the type of healing? 01:25 Thank you so much for coming to the program today, Pastor. 01:28 Thank you so much for having me, Karen. 01:30 You know, we're talking about healing 01:32 and specifically healing from some of our emotional hurts. 01:35 Okay. 01:37 You know, they used to say, 01:38 sticks and stones break my bones, 01:39 but words, they don't hurt me. 01:41 That's not true. 01:42 Words cut deep and words and those things leave 01:46 deep marks within our soul and within our, 01:49 within our minds. 01:50 And we want to talk about how to get healed 01:52 from those things. 01:53 Amen. That sounds very good. 01:55 Sure, sure. 01:56 You know, and the way I want to just start about this is... 01:59 Do you know that in the United States 02:02 billion of dollars go unclaimed every year? 02:05 There's money out there that people do not claim. 02:10 It's from gift cards that you might have gotten. 02:12 You know, you get a gift card at Christmas time. 02:14 People give you all these cards 02:16 and you don't spend all of the money on it, 02:18 or sometimes you even lose the card, 02:20 that's money that's unclaimed. 02:22 There are sometimes that we have money 02:24 that may be coming to us in a class action lawsuit, 02:28 they send you a check, you don't cash that. 02:30 And over and over we go throughout life 02:32 in the United States with billions of dollars unclaimed. 02:36 Wow, that's pretty remarkable. Yeah. 02:39 And I thought to myself... 02:41 I'm just this kind of person. 02:43 I don't leave anything unclaimed. 02:45 I am just too broke to leave money on the table. 02:49 So if you give me a gift card, 02:50 I'm gonna use it all the way to zero. 02:52 If I have a check that comes in my name for 50 cents, 02:55 I'm spending it because I'm too broke 02:57 to leave money unclaimed. 02:59 Right. Don't want to leave it on... 03:00 That's right. 03:01 And what I realize as an analogy to that, 03:04 I'm too broken as an individual to leave 03:07 any of the blessings of God unclaimed in my life. 03:10 Amen. 03:11 You know, I've just... 03:13 We have too many issues. 03:14 We have too many things that we need healing from, 03:17 that if God has that healing. 03:19 If God is the source of that healing, 03:21 we could, we can't afford to leave the blessings of God 03:25 unclaimed in our lives. 03:26 Right. Right. 03:27 So that's what I want to talk about 03:29 because what I want to say to us 03:30 is that God is ultimately the source for the healing 03:33 for the hurts that we've experienced in our lives. 03:35 God is the source for healing. 03:37 That's right. He is the source. 03:38 And you know, there's a story 03:40 that Jesus talks about in Matthew 18. 03:42 It sort of gives us a little background on, 03:44 and kind of, it's gonna be the tool 03:46 I'm gonna use to walk us through this. 03:48 So Matthew 18. Okay, Matthew 18. 03:50 And it's a story where Jesus in Matthew 18:21. 03:53 Peter comes to Him and asked Him about, 03:55 "How many times should I forgive my brother?" 03:57 And Jesus then tells this parable about a servant 04:01 who owed his master a whole lot of money 04:04 and his master forgave him. 04:05 And one of the things I want to just say right off the bat 04:08 is that God has given us this tool of forgiveness 04:12 to heal the hurts 04:13 that we've experienced in our lives. 04:15 Forgiveness. Yeah. 04:16 As a tool to heal? 04:17 To heal, that's right. 04:19 You know, I don't know how many times we may think 04:21 and I've thought of it... 04:23 You may have and others have 04:24 that the way to get healed from our hurt is to get even. 04:28 If someone hurt me, I need to hurt them back. 04:31 But what we recognize is, 04:33 we don't get healed by getting even, 04:36 we get healed by forgiving. 04:39 Wow. 04:40 You know, forgiveness is something that we are very... 04:43 We're not very clear on. 04:45 We sometimes think, when I forgive someone, 04:47 I'm doing it for their benefit. 04:49 And because I've been hurt by them, 04:51 I don't want to benefit them. 04:53 Well, the truth of the matter is, 04:55 God has given us forgiveness as a way for us 04:57 to heel the hurts that we've experienced. 04:59 That really happens with forgiveness? 05:01 That's right. 05:03 Because what forgiveness does, 05:04 it takes something that someone has done to us 05:07 and it allows us to not allow that hurt 05:10 to continue to be perpetuated in our minds, 05:13 not allow us to become bitter to affect our decision making 05:17 and to affect the rest of our lives. 05:19 They may have hurt us in the past. 05:21 What forgiveness does, 05:23 it gives us freedom for our future. 05:25 So lack of forgiveness holds us back like that? 05:28 That's right. 05:29 I mean, let's think about it in our own lives. 05:30 Someone has hurt you 05:32 and what you begin to do is you begin to internalize this. 05:36 You have emotions that dwell up inside of you 05:39 when you hear that person or something 05:40 that reminds you of them. 05:42 If you meet someone that has a name 05:43 that reminds you of them, you get, 05:45 just something happens internally physiologically. 05:48 And so there are opportunities you miss out on, 05:52 there are times you avoid them and miss out on things 05:55 that you would have liked to enjoy. 05:56 And just anything that reminds you of that person 05:59 begins to affect your wellbeing. 06:01 And forgiveness allows you to be free. 06:04 Think about this. 06:05 Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison 06:08 and expecting the other person to die. 06:10 Wow. Think about it. 06:13 You're being bitter by what someone has done to you, 06:16 and you're thinking this is gonna affect them. 06:19 And sometimes, there are some people 06:20 who have hurt us that don't know they have hurt us. 06:22 And they are going on living life 06:25 and here it is right over here allowing ourselves 06:28 to perpetuate their hurt inside of us. 06:30 So you're saying it's like drinking poison. 06:33 And expecting the other person to die. 06:34 And expecting the other person to die. 06:36 That's right. That's right. 06:37 Nobody wants to drink poison. That's right. 06:39 And what a God we serve that He understood 06:42 that because of sin life would... 06:45 They would be hurt in life. 06:46 And God is saying, I don't want you to carry on that hurt. 06:50 I'm giving you something called forgiveness 06:52 that you can use to be free of their hurts 06:55 that you've experienced. 06:56 Wow. 06:58 So how do we learn how to forgive though, Pastor? 07:00 How do we learn to forgive? 07:01 Well, I think, first of all we have to start understanding 07:03 that forgiveness is not a feeling. 07:07 You know, sometimes we feel I'm not ready to forgive 07:09 because I don't feel like it. 07:11 You know, there's nothing in me that wants to. 07:14 Forgiveness is a decision. 07:16 It always starts off as a decision. 07:18 I decide that I am going to enter the process, 07:21 which it is of forgiveness. 07:24 I am going to recognize their hurts 07:26 that have been done to me. 07:27 I'm going to express how I felt about it, 07:30 whether I say it to the person or I get it out of me. 07:33 I want to know this thing has affected me this way. 07:37 You see, forgiveness doesn't mean 07:38 that I minimize what happened. 07:40 It doesn't mean that I go, no, it wasn't that bad. 07:43 I don't have to make it smaller. 07:44 I actually have to say, this is what happened 07:47 and this is how I felt to begin the process of forgiveness. 07:50 So recognizing. 07:52 That's right, recognize the hurt. 07:53 Then after you recognize the hurt, 07:55 after you identified the emotions, 07:58 you have to set proper boundaries 08:00 to make sure that you protect yourself. 08:02 Because unless you can protect yourself 08:04 and set a proper boundaries, 08:05 you are in a state of being almost afraid to forgive 08:10 because you're afraid to be hurt again. 08:12 So you set proper boundaries. 08:14 And the last step is to cancel the debt. 08:17 It's to no longer hold that against the person. 08:20 Now let me say this before I forget. 08:22 Forgiveness is not the same thing as reconciliation. 08:25 No. 08:26 What's the difference? 08:28 Reconciliation is the work of two parties. 08:30 It means, both parties have to agree 08:33 to comeback into the same relationship. 08:35 Forgiveness is actually a work of one party. 08:38 It's where one person says, 08:39 I'm no longer gonna hold that debt against you. 08:42 I am going to free myself from being bitter toward you. 08:45 I'm not gonna allow what you have done to me, 08:48 to continue to affect me 08:50 and to affect the way that I now look at life. 08:53 I'm going to allow God's forgiveness 08:55 to free me from that hurt. 08:56 Wow. Wow. 08:58 So reconciliation is if two people or two parties 09:03 agree to try to forgive and move forward. 09:06 But you're saying, the gift of forgiveness is a gift. 09:09 You don't have to have someone that's willing to say, 09:12 sorry to you or you're sorry to... 09:14 It's one way. 09:16 You can forgive someone even if they say... 09:17 If they don't come to say sorry. 09:19 You know, you can decide to forgive someone 09:22 before they even decide to ask for forgiveness. 09:26 Wow. 09:28 Because forgiveness is a gift that God has given us 09:30 to free us. 09:31 Now, one of the things that I realized is, 09:34 as we even talk about the mechanics of forgiveness. 09:37 We just talked about 09:38 how to go through the steps of forgiveness. 09:40 Right. 09:41 One of the things that people say is, I'm not good at that. 09:43 There's some people that say, I'm not good at that. 09:45 I'm not good at going through the process. 09:47 And I really want to talk to that person because I believe 09:51 that none of us are good at forgiveness. 09:53 I think as human beings, as fallen human beings, 09:56 all of us are bad at forgiveness. 09:58 Yeah. 09:59 Because we are not the source of forgiveness, 10:02 but we know the person who can provide 10:05 that source of healing to us and allow us to be forgiving. 10:09 And that's what I want to just really kind of talk about 10:11 off of this passage. 10:12 Because in this story, here is a king who finds a man 10:16 that owes him in our equivalent today 10:18 about $2.25 billion. 10:21 Billion dollars? 10:22 Billion dollars. 10:24 I'm not talking about with a M, with a B, billion dollars 10:26 like the money that you and I wish we have. 10:28 Oh, that's beyond what anybody... 10:31 Most people wouldn't make, right, 10:32 even if they are successful. 10:33 Billions is a lot of money. 10:35 It's almost an amount that's unfathomable. 10:37 It's, we can't imagine someone owing that. 10:40 And here's the king finding this man owing that 10:43 and he brings him before him to say to him, 10:46 what's, what's going on? 10:47 Here's your account. 10:49 And that shows us, the king is god in this story. 10:51 It shows us that first of all the debt 10:54 that we owe to God is huge. 10:56 It's enormous. It is gigantic. 10:59 And God wants us to understand that sin is a big deal. 11:03 It's not small. 11:04 When we ask God for forgiveness, 11:06 it doesn't mean that God goes... 11:08 Oh, that's, that's not a big deal, 11:09 it's a little white line. 11:11 All of our sin is a big deal to God. 11:13 Wow. 11:14 And so this man owed the king a big deal, a huge amount. 11:19 And he asked the king for time. 11:21 He says, just give me some time 11:23 I'll work it off, I'll do this... 11:24 Work off to get a billion dollars? 11:26 2.25, this about this. 11:28 He's... 11:29 Think about how humorous this is. 11:30 Nobody can work that off. That's right. 11:32 And that's what the humor. 11:33 Jesus is actually giving sort of a humorous story. 11:36 Because anything you do to work that off, 11:39 what, you pay down $100, what's the difference? 11:41 2.25 billion. 11:43 You give a 1,000, 2.25... I mean, you're really not... 11:45 A million. 11:46 They are not really getting anything off of the debt. 11:49 That's what Jesus is saying. 11:50 There's nothing you can do to repay the debt 11:53 that you owe to God. 11:55 That's the first thing we have to recognize 11:56 as we talk about this. 11:58 And there's nothing this man could have done. 12:00 So he asks the king for time 12:02 and the king offers something better than time, 12:05 he gives him forgiveness. 12:07 In Matthew 18 he says to him, 12:10 "Out of pity" verse 27. Okay. 12:12 "For him, the master of that servant released him 12:16 and forgave him the debt." 12:18 Forgave the 2.25 billion. I mean, think about this. 12:21 The king goes 2.25 billion, I forgive you. 12:24 Now, now, Karen, let's, let's talk. 12:26 Yes. 12:27 Let's say you owed some money and someone forgives you. 12:30 Let's talk about. 12:32 If you owe student loan money like I do. 12:34 Yes, yes. 12:35 If someone forgave me my student loan money... 12:39 You would not be able to contain the shout 12:41 that I would have. 12:42 I'll be doing the happy dance. That's right. 12:44 I mean, I don't care if you're not a dancing person. 12:46 If someone forgives you, your house note. 12:48 Right. 12:49 You would get really happy 12:50 and some dance would come out of you. 12:52 Oh, yes. 12:53 If someone forgave you and said, 12:54 you don't have to pay any of your utility bills 12:56 for the next 20 years. 12:58 I mean, a shout would come up inside. 13:00 Something would happen if you were forgiven 13:03 a huge debt. 13:05 There would be a joy that would overwhelm you. 13:08 There would be just something 13:09 that would just burst forth from you 13:11 because that's natural. 13:12 Yes. Yes. 13:13 I mean, I'm praying that someone watching this show 13:16 would see a way to forgive my student loan debt. 13:18 Yes, glory to God. Yes. 13:19 But you would be happy. Yes. 13:21 I'd be happy for you. That's right. 13:23 And that's what is the natural reaction 13:26 when you recognize how big your debt is 13:29 and how much you've been forgiven. 13:32 The natural reaction to being forgiven is joy. 13:36 It's overwhelming joy, 13:38 not because you're forgiven a small amount 13:40 but because the amount you're forgiven is an amount 13:43 that you could never repay. 13:45 Amen. Amen. 13:48 So how do you do with in the story. 13:51 How does it go? 13:52 What happens next once he's got... 13:54 Minus on a ledger 2.2 13:56 2.25 billion. 13:57 I mean... 13:59 Unbelievable. We expect a party. 14:01 We expect a celebration. Right. 14:02 The next verse is different. 14:04 Here's what's interesting. 14:05 It says, verse 28. 14:07 Matthew 18, 14:09 I'm reading from the English Standard Version. 14:10 "But when that same servant went out, 14:13 he found one of his fellow servants 14:15 who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, 14:18 he began to choke him, saying, Pay what you owe me." 14:21 I mean, he has collared this other guy 14:23 and he is chocking him saying, pay me what I owe. 14:27 So he laid hands on him. 14:28 That's right. 14:29 Now think about this. 14:31 The amount, if we want to put that in our dollars, 14:32 it's about 4,800, less than $5,000. 14:35 It's a big deal. 14:36 You know, it's some money. 14:38 But it's nothing compared to 2.25 billion. 14:41 Absolutely. 14:43 But he is desperate. 14:44 He's acting frantically. 14:46 He is-- he has no joy, he is almost angry 14:50 and he is frantically going after someone 14:53 who owes him an amount that's a whole lot less than 14:56 he had just forgiven. 14:57 Why? 14:58 Well, look at even... 15:00 Look at in next verse which is very ironic. 15:02 The servant says the same thing, 15:04 he said to the king. 15:05 He actually says the exact words, 15:08 have patience with me and I will pay you. 15:12 And it says, this man refused. 15:13 You know, what? 15:14 I believe he refused, here's why I think. 15:17 But what do you think? 15:18 Well, first of all you say it's 5,000 dollars 15:21 what a denarii is. 15:23 Yeah, 100 denariis about 5,000 dollars. 15:25 5,000 dollars today. 15:27 That's something that a person could work 15:29 and payoff maybe a 100 dollars a month or whatever. 15:33 Sure. 15:34 Why was that guy so hard and why was he grabbing, 15:37 hold of the man? 15:39 You said, he was grabbing it by the throat 15:41 and then he was acting crazy. 15:42 That's right. He's frantic. 15:43 And the reason I believe he's frantic is because 15:46 even though the king had forgiven him, 15:49 he had not accepted the forgiveness. 15:52 Wow. 15:53 Because if I leave the king's palace 15:57 and I hear the king say, forgiven, 15:59 but I don't accept it. 16:00 I am still going to find all the people 16:03 who owe me smaller amounts 16:05 so I can gather that to pay down on the debt 16:09 that I don't think I've been forgiven off. 16:12 And that's what happens in our lives. 16:14 Here's where-- Here's my point. 16:16 If we accept the forgiveness of God, 16:19 it frees us up to forgive others. 16:22 But if we in our own hearts don't accept God's forgiveness, 16:26 we have no source to be able to forgive others. 16:30 Wow. 16:31 We have no source. 16:32 That's right. 16:34 You see, I think sometimes we think I can forgive others 16:38 out of my own power and out of my strength 16:40 if I just want to. 16:42 What Jesus is saying to us here, 16:44 the reason that you're able to forgive someone else is because 16:48 I have poured My forgiveness down on you 16:52 and My forgiveness is so great for you 16:54 that it overflows 16:56 that you're now able to forgive others 16:58 who have wronged you. 17:00 Wow. 17:01 How is that possible? Is that really possible? 17:04 Well, I believe it's possible. 17:05 Here's why. 17:06 You know, I'll say it this way. 17:08 You have heard this saying, hurt people hurt people. 17:11 Right. 17:12 People who have been hurt tend to hurt other people. 17:16 And I think a lot of times people who have been hurt, 17:19 they involuntarily sometimes, sometimes it's intentional, 17:24 but they carry on the things that have been done to them. 17:26 It sort of flows out of them. 17:28 There's a lot of research that supports that whole idea, 17:31 that unless you do some kind of major intervention, 17:34 in certain cases people who have been like you said 17:38 who've been abused or otherwise have a tendency 17:41 that they had become abusers themselves. 17:42 Right. 17:44 Well, I want to add something to that. 17:45 Not only do hurt people hurt people, 17:49 forgiven people forgive people, that's what I believe. 17:54 I believe... Forgiven people... 17:56 Forgive people. 17:57 So it's a new pattern. 17:59 That's right. 18:00 I believe as we have been forgiven by God, 18:03 as we understand, 18:05 as we bath in the lavish forgiveness of God 18:08 out from us flows forgiveness to others. 18:12 And I believe what Jesus is trying to say 18:14 in this story is that, if we do not accept 18:18 and appreciate and allow the forgiveness of God 18:21 to flow to us, 18:23 then it will not flow through us. 18:27 Wow. 18:28 So we have to receive in order to give? 18:30 That's right. That's right. 18:31 And I think sometimes and I understand this. 18:34 I think sometimes we focus on us forgiving others. 18:38 And think about this. 18:39 If I'm trying to forgive others in my own strength, 18:43 it becomes frustrating. 18:45 Because I don't have the source of that power to do that. 18:50 There is nothing in me that naturally wants to forgive. 18:54 And God says, I want to change the paradigm. 18:57 See if I focus on 18:59 what the other person has done to me, 19:01 it makes me bitter. 19:02 It makes me angry. 19:03 It causes me to build up resentment toward them. 19:07 So that's the source of bitterness. 19:09 That's the source of bitterness. 19:10 Is focusing on the injury or the wrong 19:12 that somebody else has done. 19:14 So we want to have that will go, 19:16 we focus on that. 19:17 But if we... 19:19 But bitterness doesn't have consequences upon us? 19:20 That's right. That's right. 19:22 Bitterness of course causes a whole lot of things 19:24 physically to us, but also spiritually to us. 19:28 It stops us from growing the way God want us to. 19:30 Now if I focus on what I've done wrong, 19:33 it makes me dejected, it makes me, 19:35 it takes away my joy, it makes me feel 19:37 I can't make it. 19:39 You know, what God is saying. 19:40 I don't want you to focus on 19:42 what the other person did wrong. 19:43 I don't you to focus on what you did wrong. 19:45 I want you to focus on what God did right for you. 19:47 Amen. 19:49 And that is in Christ Jesus he offers forgiveness 19:53 because forgiveness doesn't say, 19:55 it didn't happen. 19:56 It doesn't say, it's not a big deal. 19:58 No, God shows us in the illustration. 20:00 It's a big deal. Right. 20:02 But what he does, his forgiveness cost him. 20:05 You know... What do you mean by that? 20:06 Well, let me use this illustration. 20:08 A few years ago I had a friend of mine, they... 20:11 This was when cell phones were new. 20:13 My friend got a cell phone, that was in my name, ran it up, 20:17 use it a whole lot, didn't have a job 20:20 and after a while I realized he couldn't pay it. 20:23 So what I did to preserve the friendship, 20:25 I forgave him. 20:27 Now if he were telling you the story, 20:28 that's a great story. 20:29 I got forgiven a whole lot of money 20:31 that I didn't have to payback for a phone that I used. 20:34 But I'm telling the story and what I want you to know, 20:36 it cost me a lot to forgive him. 20:39 And what I want us to understand, 20:41 it cost God a whole lot to forgive us. 20:44 It cost Him the life of His son. 20:46 It cost God His one and only Son 20:49 being separated from Him, taking on our sin 20:53 and dying on the cross for us. 20:55 And what I'm saying is, 20:57 if we focus on what God did for us, 20:59 it gives us that power to forgive others. 21:03 Because when I understand what God has done for me, 21:06 it gives me joy, 21:08 it gives me just a peace of mind, 21:11 it gives me assurance. 21:12 And if I focus on what He did right to forgive me, 21:16 it then gives me power to forgive others 21:18 because His forgiveness flows to me 21:21 and then flows through me to others. 21:24 Well, what about, you know, you hear people say 21:26 and it's certainly at times, you know, 21:27 we'll have that tape in our head that says, 21:29 you know, you did this wrong, you, that, 21:32 that, rehearsing of all the things 21:35 that maybe we've done wrong. 21:36 That's right. 21:38 That, is that a part of being guilty? 21:39 That's right. 21:41 You know, I think God allows us sometimes to know 21:45 when we're wrong to bring us through repentance. 21:48 But, I think, if we do it and it stops us in our growth. 21:51 If it, if it constantly keeping us 21:53 back from coming to God, 21:55 then it's definitely not from God, 21:56 that is from the enemy. 21:57 That's what I want to ask you. 21:59 So it's not from God that voice that... 22:00 Once you've already asked for forgiveness 22:02 that keeps rehearsing 22:03 over and over again in your head. 22:04 And I'll say this. 22:06 This is like in your, in your own car. 22:08 Sometimes you're playing a CD and you're tired of listening 22:11 to that music over and over. 22:13 What you do is you change the soundtrack. 22:15 And what I was saying to us is let's change the soundtrack. 22:18 Instead of us listening to the voice of the enemy 22:20 that says to us, how bad we are, 22:22 how messed up we are, how much we've led God down. 22:25 Let's put in a new CD that says Christ died for us, 22:30 that God was in Christ reconciling 22:32 the world to Himself, 22:34 not counting men's sins against Him, 22:36 but God sent Jesus His Son to die for us, 22:39 put that soundtrack in there and understand that 22:42 in Christ Jesus we are accepted by God, 22:45 we are beloved by God. 22:47 He sees us seated in heavenly places. 22:50 In Christ Jesus we are forgiven 22:51 even before we ask for forgiveness. 22:54 We have a God that gives forgiveness before 22:56 we had the good sense to ask for it. 22:59 And if you think and consider that God, 23:01 it changes how you relate to God because you say, 23:04 God, I thank you for that forgiveness. 23:06 And then you celebrate. 23:08 You celebrate like the person 23:09 whose student loan has been paid off. 23:11 You celebrate like the guy 23:12 who someone paid off his mortgage mysteriously. 23:14 You celebrate like someone 23:16 whose car note has been just forgiven. 23:18 You celebrate that forgiveness. 23:20 And it allows you to now go pass 23:22 that forgiveness on to others because you want to be free. 23:25 You want to be free from the hurt. 23:26 Amen. Oh, that sounds so good. 23:28 You want to be free from the hurt. 23:30 You want to live life not being tied 23:33 to what someone has done in the past. 23:35 And now here is the source of the power to have that healing. 23:40 So... 23:41 Wow. 23:43 All the wonderful things that 23:44 Jesus Christ did for us on the cross, 23:47 is that, that's a source? 23:48 That's right. 23:50 That's the source of our healing. 23:51 You know, there's a text that says, 23:53 "By his stripes we are healed.' 23:56 Amen. 23:57 And I believe that. 23:59 I believe because of what Jesus did on the cross, 24:02 it provides the power for us 24:05 to be healed from emotional hurts. 24:07 And I believe, listen, there are so many people 24:10 that are carrying around so many hurts from their past. 24:14 People have done bad things to us 24:16 and we're not denying it. 24:17 We're not saying don't, don't say it was a big deal, 24:21 don't, don't minimize it. 24:23 But what we're saying is, don't allow that person 24:25 to still have power over you for your future. 24:28 God has greater things for you. 24:31 God has more in store for your life. 24:33 God wants to do something new in your life. 24:36 And we should not give anyone power 24:39 to not just take our past, but to affect our present. 24:43 And God says I want to free you. 24:45 And it's by the stripes of Jesus Christ 24:47 that we can receive healing for our emotional hurts. 24:49 Amen. 24:51 I'm thinking that maybe there's someone, 24:53 some of us that are watching today, 24:55 if you would like to have prayer, 24:57 we're gonna pray right now. 24:59 I'm gonna ask if would please pray? 25:00 Sure, sure and I believe that someone needs this prayer 25:02 including myself. 25:04 Amen. Me too. 25:05 Father, in the name of Jesus, thank You. 25:10 Thank You that You're a God that heals, because, God, 25:13 you didn't heal, these hurts that have been put on us, God, 25:17 if we can't carry them any longer. 25:19 God, I know there's someone out here watching 25:21 that they have been just tired of carrying old hurts 25:25 where someone has done something to them. 25:28 And God they tuned in today for this reason 25:30 and so I'm praying right now in the name of Jesus 25:32 that they would understand, 25:34 first of all that You have forgiven them. 25:36 Yes. 25:37 Or maybe there's someone who thought that 25:39 they could not be forgiven 25:40 because their debt was so big. 25:42 But thank You God, 25:43 that when Jesus died on the cross He cried out, 25:46 it is finished, paid in full. 25:48 Their debt was paid. 25:50 And so God, may we receive Your forgiveness right now 25:53 in this moment. 25:54 God, may we understand that because we have been forgiven, 25:58 there is a joy that naturally will flow out of us 26:01 when we recognize just how much You've forgiven us 26:04 and how free this forgiveness is. 26:07 And, Lord, let it flow to others, 26:09 let it flow to those who have hurt us in our past 26:11 and because it's flowing out of us, 26:13 God, may we forgive them and be free ourselves. 26:16 May we be free to worship and to praise You 26:19 and to serve You and to reach out to others 26:21 who have been hurt like us to let them know 26:24 that forgiveness is offered, 26:25 they can forgive others because you've forgiven them. 26:29 Thank You God for hearing this prayer. 26:32 Thank You for sending Jesus to die on the cross for us. 26:34 It's in Jesus name we pray, amen. 26:37 Amen, amen. 26:39 Do you Twitter? I do. 26:41 What's your twitter? 26:42 You can find me on Twitter at my name Kymone Hinds. 26:45 It's real simple. Kymone Hinds. 26:46 How do you spell that? 26:48 Kymone Hinds, no spaces. 26:51 You can find me on Twitter. No spaces? 26:52 Yeah. Facebook? 26:54 Facebook, same. 26:55 It's Facebook.com/pastorhinds, Pastor Hinds. 26:58 Pastor Hinds, okay. 27:00 So do you still organize events 27:04 and that kind of thing for people? 27:06 Are you willing to travel to be able to meet 27:08 the needs of people as they come? 27:10 Definitely. All right. 27:11 Organizations perhaps 27:12 that would like to hear this message? 27:14 I'm willing to travel to speak. 27:16 You can find me on my website, I blog. 27:18 You have a website? A blog on my website. 27:19 Your blog? 27:21 Okay, let's have it all. 27:22 Comejourney.org, it's real simple. 27:23 It's an invitation, comejourney.org is my website. 27:26 I blog there regularly. 27:28 You can contact me there. 27:29 And I'm willing to come and to share with youths 27:31 and others groups about what God is doing 27:34 because I am just simply someone 27:36 that God has affected my life. 27:38 And I just want to tell everyone else about a God 27:40 who can do anything in their life. 27:42 Oh, that's all very excited ingredient. 27:44 Yes, ma'am. 27:45 I'm so glad that you came 27:47 and that you were able to share with us 27:48 the source of healing so that it's like a deliverance. 27:51 That's right. 27:53 No more bondage but a complete and total deliverance. 27:56 That's right. 27:57 For those of you at home, this is a great opportunity. 27:59 Haven't we heard really good news today? 28:02 I know I did. 28:03 I'm looking for a source. 28:05 Sometimes we look on the internet for sources. 28:06 We may look for information for sources, 28:08 but we've now until told that Jesus Christ 28:11 is the total and complete source 28:13 for absolute healing in our lives. 28:16 god bless you and thank you for joining us. |
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