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00:27 Welcome to Issues and Answers.
00:29 Today we're gonna be talking about healing.
00:33 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 "Well, if you did this then you'd 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,
00:49 Seventh-day Adventist Church in Memphis, Tennessee
00:51 as well as a church planter with Journey Fellowship.
00:56 Pastor Hinds attended
00:57 the St. John University 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
01:20 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.
01:36 Okay.
01:37 You know, they used to say sticks and stones
01:38 break my bones but words they don't hurt me.
01:41 That's not true.
01:42 Words cut deep
01:43 and words and those things leave deep marks
01:47 within our soul and within our, within our minds.
01:50 And we want to talk about
01:51 how to get healed from those things.
01:53 Amen. That sounds very good.
01:55 Sure. Sure.
01:56 You know, and the way I wanna
01:57 just start talking about this is...
01:59 Do you know that in the United States
02:02 billions of dollars go unclaimed every year?
02:05 There is 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 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
02:34 with billions of dollars unclaimed.
02:36 Wow. That's pretty remarkable. Yeah.
02:39 And I thought to myself, 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.
02:48 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,
02:56 because I'm too broke to leave money unclaimed.
02:59 Right. No one, leave it un... That's right.
03:01 And what I realized as an analogy to that,
03:04 I'm too broken as an individual
03:07 to leave any of the blessings of God unclaimed in my life.
03:10 Amen.
03:11 You know, we have too many issues,
03:13 we have too many things that we need healing from
03:16 that if God has that healing,
03:19 if God is the source of that healing,
03:21 we can't afford to leave the blessings of God unclaimed
03:25 in our lives.
03:26 Right. Right.
03:28 So that's what I wanna talk about.
03:29 Because what I wanna say to us
03:30 is that God is ultimately the source
03:32 for the healing for the hurts
03:33 that we've experienced in our lives.
03:35 God is a source for healing. That's right. He's a source.
03:38 And, you know, there's a story Jesus talks about
03:41 in Matthew 18,
03:42 it sort of gives us a little background on
03:44 and kind of it's gonna be
03:46 that the tool I'm gonna use to walk us through this,
03:48 so Matthew 18.
03:49 Okay. Matthew 18.
03:51 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
04:00 about a servant who owed his master
04:02 a whole lot of money and his master forgave him.
04:05 And one of the things I wanna just say
04:07 right off the bat is that
04:09 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 is a tool to heal? Yeah. That's right.
04:18 You know, I don't know how many times we may think
04:21 and I've thought it, you may have,
04:23 and others have
04:25 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.
04:38 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 am 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 to heal the hurts
04:58 that we've experienced.
05:00 That really happens with forgiveness?
05:01 That's right.
05:02 Because what forgiveness does,
05:04 it takes something that someone has done to us
05:07 and 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?
05:27 That's right.
05:29 I mean, let's think about it in our own lives.
05:30 Someone has hurt you and what you begin to do
05:33 is you begin to internalize this,
05:36 you have emotions
05:38 that well up inside of you when you hear that person
05:40 or something that reminds you of them.
05:42 If you meet someone that has a name
05:43 that reminds you of them,
05:45 you get 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.
06:12 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've hurt us
06:22 and they're going on living life.
06:25 And here it is we're over here allowing ourselves
06:28 to perpetuate their hurt inside of us.
06:29 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
06:48 to carry on that hurt,
06:50 I'm giving you something called forgiveness
06:52 that you can use to be free of the 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? Sure.
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'm 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 wanna 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 Okay.
07:41 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"
07:48 to begin the process of forgiveness.
07:50 So recognizing? That's right.
07:52 Recognize their hurt.
07:53 Then after you recognize their hurt,
07:55 after you've identify 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 is 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
08:24 as reconciliation.
08:25 No? What's the difference?
08:27 Reconciliation is the work of two parties.
08:30 It means both parties have to agree to come back
08:33 into the same relationship.
08:35 Forgiveness is actually 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've 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...
09:02 or two parties 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
09:10 that's willing to say sorry to you...
09:13 That's right. You're sorry...
09:15 You can forgive someone... It's one way.
09:16 ...even if they say 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.
09:27 Because forgiveness is a gift
09:29 that God has given us to free us.
09:31 Now, one of the things that I realize
09:34 is as we even talk about the mechanics of forgiveness,
09:37 we've 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,
09:42 "I'm not good at that."
09:44 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
09:50 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
10:04 who can provide that source of healing to us
10:07 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,
10:13 here is a king who finds a man that owes him
10:17 in our equivalent today about $2.25 billion.
10:21 Billion dollars? Billion dollars.
10:22 I'm not talking about with a M with a B.
10:25 Billion dollars like the money that you and I wish we had.
10:28 That's beyond what anybody, most people would make, right?
10:32 Even if they're successful, billions is a lot of money.
10:34 It's almost an amount that's unfathomable,
10:37 it's we can't imagine someone owing that.
10:40 And here is the king finding this man owing that
10:43 and he brings before him to say to him,
10:46 "What's going on? Here is your account."
10:48 And that shows us the king is God in this story.
10:51 It shows us that first of all
10:53 the debt 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, "Oh, that's not a big deal,
11:09 it's a little white line."
11:10 No, all of our sin is a big deal to God.
11:13 Wow.
11:15 And so this man owed the king a big deal, a huge amount.
11:19 And he asks the king for time.
11:21 He says, "Just give me some time, I'll work it off,
11:23 I'll do this."
11:25 Work off to get a billion dollars?
11:26 2.25, think about this.
11:28 Think about how humorous this is.
11:30 Nobody can work that off. That's right.
11:31 And that's what the humor.
11:33 Jesus is actually giving real, sort of a humorous story.
11:36 Because anything you do to work that off,
11:39 what you pay down a $100.
11:40 What the difference?
11:42 2.25 billion.
11:43 You give a $1000, 2.25...
11:45 I mean, you're really not really getting anything
11:48 off of the debt.
11:49 Right. That's what Jesus is saying.
11:51 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, verse 27, "Out of pity of him,
12:13 the master of that servant released him
12:16 and forgave him the debt."
12:18 Forgave the 2.2 billion.
12:20 I mean, think about it as the king goes 2.25 billion,
12:23 I forgive you.
12:24 Now, Karen, let's talk. Yes.
12:26 Let's talk.
12:28 Let's say you owed some money and someone forgives you.
12:30 Let's talk about it 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
12:40 that I would have.
12:42 Right. I'd be doing the happy dance.
12:43 That's right.
12:45 I mean, I don't care if you're not a dancing person.
12:46 If someone forgives you, your house note,
12:49 you would get really happy
12:50 and some dance would come out of it.
12:51 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
13:02 if you were forgiven a huge debt.
13:04 Right.
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
13:10 because that's natural.
13:12 Yes. Yeah.
13:13 I mean, I'm praying that someone watching this show
13:15 would see a way to forgive my student loan debt.
13:18 Yes, glory to God.
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.
13:31 Wow.
13:33 The natural reaction to being forgiven is joy.
13:36 It's overwhelming joy
13:38 not because you are forgiven a small amount
13:40 but because the amount you're forgiven
13:42 is an amount that you could never repay.
13:45 Amen. Amen.
13:48 So how does he do with, in the story, how does that go?
13:52 What happens next,
13:53 once he's got minus on a ledger 2.2...
13:56 2.25 billion, I mean... Unbelievable.
13:58 We expect a party, we expect a celebration.
14:02 Right. The next verse is different.
14:04 Here is what's interesting. It says verse 28, 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 100 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 choking him saying, "Pay me what I owe."
14:27 He said he laid hands on him. That's right.
14:28 Now think about this the amount,
14:30 if we want to put it in our dollars,
14:31 is about $4,800, less than $5,000.
14:35 It's a big deal, 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, he's acting frantically,
14:46 he has no joy, he is almost angry,
14:50 and he's frantically going after someone
14:53 who owes him an amount
14:54 that's a whole lot less than he was forgiven.
14:56 Why? Why?
14:58 Well, look at even, look at in next verse,
15:00 which is very ironic.
15:02 The servant says the same thing 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.
15:14 You know, why I believe he refused?
15:16 Here's why I think. But what would you think?
15:18 Well, first of all you say its $5,000 of denarius.
15:21 Yeah, 100 denarii is about $5000.
15:25 Five thousand dollars today.
15:27 That's something that a person could work and pay off
15:30 maybe a $100 a month or whatever.
15:31 Sure. Why was that guy so hard?
15:35 And why was he grabbing hold of the man?
15:38 You said he was grabbing him by the throat?
15:41 That's right. Then he is acting crazy.
15:42 He's frantic.
15:43 And the reason I believe he's frantic
15:45 is because 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,
16:01 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 of.
16:12 And that's what happens in our lives.
16:14 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. We have no source. That's right.
16:34 You see, I think sometimes
16:35 we think I can forgive others out of my own power
16:39 and out of my own strength if I just want to.
16:42 What Jesus is saying to us here,
16:44 the reason that you are able to forgive someone else
16:47 is because I have poured my forgiveness down on you,
16:52 and my forgiveness is so great for you that it overflows
16:56 that you're now able to forgive others
16:58 who have wronged you.
17:00 Wow. How is that possible? Is that really possible?
17:04 I believe it's possible, here's why.
17:06 You know, I'll say it this way.
17:08 You've heard the saying "Hurt people hurt people".
17:10 Right.
17:12 People who've been hurt tend to hurt other people.
17:16 And I think a lot of times people who've 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 Here is 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've been,
17:37 like you said who've been abused,
17:39 or otherwise have a tendency
17:40 to then become abusers themselves.
17:43 Right. Well, I wanna add something to that.
17:45 Not only do hurt people hurt people,
17:49 forgiven people forgive people.
17:52 That's what I believe. I believe...
17:54 Forgiven people... Forgive people.
17:57 - So it's a new pattern? - That's right.
17:59 I believe as we have been forgiven by God,
18:03 as we understand, as we bathe
18:05 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 in this story
18:15 is that, if we do not accept and appreciate
18:19 and allow the forgiveness of God 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 am trying to forgive others
18:42 in my own strength,
18:43 it becomes frustrating
18:45 because I don't have the source of that power
18:49 to do that.
18:51 There is nothing in me
18:52 that naturally wants to forgive.
18:54 And God says, "I want to change the paradigm."
18:57 See, if I focused on what the other person
19:00 has done to me,
19:01 it makes me bitter, 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 It's focusing on the injury
19:12 or the wrong that somebody else has done.
19:14 So if we want to have that will go, we focus on that,
19:17 but if we...
19:18 But bitterness doesn't have consequences upon us?
19:20 That's right. That's right.
19:21 Bitterness, of course, causes a whole lot of things
19:24 physically to us but also spiritually to us.
19:27 It stops us from growing the way God wants 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,
19:37 it makes me feel I can't make it.
19:39 You know what God is saying,
19:40 "I don't want you to focus
19:42 on what the other person did wrong,
19:43 I don't want 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,
19:51 He offers forgiveness
19:53 because forgiveness doesn't say,
19:55 it didn't happen, it doesn't say,
19:57 it's not a big deal.
19:58 Now God shows us in the illustration,
20:00 it's a big deal.
20:01 Right.
20:03 What He does, His forgiveness cost Him.
20:05 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.
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 used it a whole lot, didn't have a job,
20:20 and after a while I realize 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 pay back for a phone that I used.
20:34 But I'm telling the story
20:35 and I wanted you to know
20:37 it costs me a lot to forgive him.
20:39 And what I want us to understand,
20:41 it costs 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, 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 He 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,
21:25 you hear people saying certainly at times,
21:27 you know, we'll have that tape in our head that says,
21:29 you know, you did this wrong, you know,
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?
21:40 You know, I think God allows us sometimes to know
21:44 when we're wrong to bring us to repentance.
21:48 But I think if we do it, it stops us in our growth.
21:51 If it's constantly keeping us back from coming to God,
21:54 then it's definitely not from God,
21:56 that is from the enemy.
21:57 That's what I wanted to ask you.
21:58 So, it's not from God that voice that
22:00 once you've already asked for forgiveness...
22:01 That's right.
22:03 ..that keeps rehearsing over and over again in your head.
22:04 And I'll say this, this is like in your own car.
22:08 Sometimes you're playing a CD
22:10 and you're tired of listening 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.
22:17 Amen.
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 let God down.
22:25 Let's put in a new CD that says Christ died for us,
22:30 that God was in Christ
22:31 reconciling the world to Himself,
22:34 not counting men sins against Him
22:36 but God sent Jesus His Son to die for us,
22:39 put that soundtrack in there.
22:41 And understand that in Christ Jesus
22:43 we are accepted by God, we are beloved by God,
22:47 He sees us seated in heavenly places.
22:49 In Christ Jesus we are forgiven
22:51 even before we ask for forgiveness.
22:53 Yes.
22:55 We have a God that gives forgiveness
22:56 before 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
23:03 because you say, "God,
23:05 I thank you for that forgiveness."
23:06 And then you celebrate, 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
23:22 pass that forgiveness on to others.
23:24 Because you want to be free,
23:26 you want to be free from the hurt.
23:27 Amen. Oh, that sounds so good.
23:28 You wanna be free from the hurt.
23:30 You want to live life
23:32 not being tied to what someone has done
23:34 in the past.
23:35 And now here is the source of the power
23:38 to have that healing.
23:40 So, wow.
23:42 All the wonderful things
23:44 that Jesus Christ did for us on the Cross,
23:47 is that that's the source?
23:48 That's right. 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. And I believe that.
23:58 I believe because of what Jesus did on the Cross,
24:02 it provides the power for us
24:04 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,
24:18 we're not saying don't say it was a big deal,
24:21 don't minimize it.
24:23 But what we're saying is
24:24 don't allow that person to still have power over you
24:27 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 wanna 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'd like to have prayer, we're gonna pray right now.
24:59 I'm gonna ask if you would please pray?
25:00 Sure. Sure.
25:01 I believe that someone needs this prayer,
25:03 including myself.
25:04 Amen. Me too.
25:06 Father, in name of Jesus, thank You.
25:10 Thank You that You're a God that heals.
25:12 Because, God, if You didn't heal,
25:14 these hurts that have been put on us, God,
25:16 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 all 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, first of all,
25:35 that You have forgiven them.
25:36 Yes.
25:37 Well, maybe there's someone
25:39 who thought that they could not be forgiven
25:40 because their debt was so big.
25:42 But thank You, God, that when Jesus died on the Cross
25:45 He cried out,
25:46 "It is finished, paid in full" their debt was paid.
25:49 Amen.
25:51 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.
26:06 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, God,
26:13 may we forgive them and be free ourselves,
26:16 maybe we be free to worship and to praise you,
26:19 and to serve you, and to reach out to others
26:21 who've been hurt like us,
26:23 to let them know that forgiveness is offered,
26:25 they can forgive others because You've forgiven them.
26:30 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.
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 Hind,
26:45 it's real simple. Kymone Hind.
26:46 How do you spell that?
26:48 K-Y-M-O-N-E H-I-N-D-S no spaces,
26:51 you can find me on Twitter. No spaces?
26:52 Yep. Facebook?
26:54 Facebook.
26:55 Same, it's Facebook.com/PastorHinds.
26:58 Pastor Hinds. Pastor Hinds. Okay.
27:00 So do you still organize events and that kind of thing
27:05 for people?
27:06 Are you willing to travel
27:08 to be able to meet 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...
27:18 Your website? A blog on my website.
27:20 You blog? Okay. Let's have it all
27:21 Comejourney.org. it's real simple.
27:23 It's an invitation
27:24 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 youth
27:31 and other 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 wanna tell everyone else
27:39 about a God who can do anything in their life.
27:42 Well, 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
27:49 so that it's like a deliverance.
27:51 That's right. That's right.
27:53 And no more bondage
27:54 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 have now been told that
28:10 Jesus Christ 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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