Dealing with the Wounds in Your Life by Jonathan Cahn

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Are you still carrying wounds from your past?  In this powerful and transformative message, bestselling author and prophetic teacher Jonathan Cahn reveals the deep spiritual truths behind emotional wounds, soul pain, and the healing power of God. Learn how unresolved pain can shape your future, and discover how to invite God into the broken places in your life for full restoration.   🕊️ God doesn’t just want to save you—He wants to heal you. This video walks you through biblical insight and practical steps to allow healing, forgiveness, and peace to take root in your heart.   ⏰ Timestamps with Emojis:   00:00 ⏯️ Welcome & Introduction  02:30 💔 What Are Inner Wounds?  06:15 🧠 Trauma's Hidden Effects  09:50 📖 Healing from the Word of God  13:00 🙌 Freedom Through Forgiveness  17:25 🔥 Inviting Jesus Into Your Pain  20:45 💡 Walking in Wholeness  23:01 🙏 Prayer and Closing Blessing   ❓ Why Watch This Video?   ✅ To understand the spiritual impact of inner wounds   ✅ To break free from cycles of pain and trauma   ✅ To discover how Jesus can heal the deepest places in your heart   ✅ To learn forgiveness as a powerful healing tool   ✅ To take the next step in your spiritual and emotional breakthrough    This message will inspire you, strengthen your faith, and help you heal from past pain through the power of God's love.   🔥 Hashtags   #JonathanCahn, #HealingInChrist, #ChristianHealing, #SuccessSpark, #FaithRestores, #JesusHeals, #EmotionalHealing, #BreakFree, #InnerPeace, #HealingJourney, #SpiritualGrowth, #BibleTruth, #ChristianLiving, #ForgivenessPower, #GodsHealing, #FreedomInJesus, #ChristianMotivation, #HealingWounds, #SoulHealing, #LetGoAndLetGod, #GodRestores, #HealingPrayer, #MentalHealthFaith, #BiblicalHealing, #Deliverance, #HeartHealing, #HopeInJesus, #FaithOverFear, #ChristianInspiration, #HolySpiritHealing   🔍 Keywords   emotional wounds, inner healing, Jonathan Cahn sermon, Christian recovery, dealing with past pain, Jesus healing message, how to forgive, healing through faith, trauma recovery, Christian trauma healing, spiritual breakthrough, healing sermon, peace in Christ, freedom from pain, overcoming hurt, God’s love heals, spiritual wounds, pain and restoration, biblical therapy, prayer for healing, faith and healing, healing past trauma, healing relationships, hope and healing, soul restoration, overcoming trauma, deliverance from hurt, healing process, God’s comfort, Christian empowerment  🏷️ Tags   Jonathan Cahn healing, inner healing sermon, Jesus heals pain, Christian emotional healing, healing past wounds, dealing with trauma biblically, Christian mental health, freedom from emotional pain, spiritual healing through Christ, sermon on healing, biblical counseling, forgiveness sermon, how to let go of the past, healing the soul, trauma and Christianity, victory over pain, healing broken heart, Christian trauma help, healing in God’s presence, peace through Christ, church sermon healing, Bible-based healing

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00:00He will bruise you on the head and you will bruise him on the heel. This is the first mention in the

00:07Bible of bruising, hurting, wounding. In the Bible on Friday night we spoke of the enemy as a

00:15desecrator, the defiler. But here's the first mention of wounding and it's concerning the enemy

00:21and man. The enemy and us. The enemy is a bruiser. He's a wounder. He wants to destroy man. He wants

00:31to destroy the image of God. He wants to destroy you. But if he can't destroy you he will seek to wound

00:38you, hurt you, bruise you, scar you, cripple you. There are those who have reported having marks left

00:46on them from demonic encounters at night. I don't know. But as a spiritual entity the enemy primarily

00:53does not strike the physical realm directly. He uses people. He uses flesh and blood to wound you.

01:02We live in a fallen world. And a bruised world. And a bruised world with, with wounded and scarred people.

01:11Nobody goes through this world without getting hurt. Doesn't happen. Nobody goes in the world

01:16without getting wounds. Because we are with fallen people and we are one of them.

01:22But behind it is the enemy. Because he's the bruiser and the wounder. He's behind the wounds of your life.

01:29Any harm in your life he's behind that. He wounds you. He uses people. He uses events. He uses things

01:36to wound you. To harm you. To cripple you. To scar you. To stop God's purposes from coming to pass

01:44in your life. Wounds come how? Through the anger of man. Wounds come through the evil of man. Wounds,

01:51wounds come through rejection. Through neglect. Through abuse. Through being overlooked.

01:57From being denigrated. Betrayed. Attacked. Verbally abused. Verbally attacked. Physically attacked.

02:05Condemnation. Slander. Betrayal. Judgment. Hatred. Bondage. It can come subtly. It can come overtly.

02:16It can happen over time. Anger often leads to hurt because anger lashes out.

02:23People's anger causes hurt to other people. People often carry hurt and wounds from childhood.

02:30That could be you. Very simply because when you're a child, you're small. You're weak. You're vulnerable.

02:36You're easily affected. You're very impressionable by those who are stronger and bigger and more powerful.

02:43And what happens to a child is formative. It often affects the rest of life.

02:50It can be something that was said to you. Sometimes one word can cause a lifetime of wounds.

02:55It could be something that was said. It could be something that was never said.

02:59It could be love that was never shown. Or you felt it was never shown.

03:03It could be acceptance that was never given. Or you never felt it.

03:07Or you never felt you were good enough. Or worthy.

03:10There are hurts that can come later. Like a relationship.

03:13Being abandoned. Rejected. Abused.

03:16Or could confirm an earlier wound. Or open up new wounds.

03:20There are hurts that come from our own mistakes. Our own failures. Our falling in sin.

03:26It can happen in the body of Messiah. The enemy will use anything he can. Any imperfect thing.

03:31Hurts in the body.

03:32Everybody has hurts. And hurts produce wounds.

03:37And they can take the form in your life of fear.

03:40Living in fear. Living in anxiety.

03:43Living with sensitivity of things you shouldn't be sensitive to.

03:47Or going through life avoiding things.

03:50Or, or retreating.

03:53Or hardening yourself.

03:55Or with anger.

03:57Or bitterness.

03:58Or unforgiveness.

03:59Hopelessness.

04:00Or sorrow.

04:00Depression.

04:02Distrust.

04:04Cynicism.

04:04Negativity.

04:06Or trying to compensate for, for the wound.

04:08Trying to make up for it.

04:10Or trying to numb it.

04:12Addiction.

04:14Shame.

04:15Guilt.

04:15Sense that you're not ever worth much.

04:18Or that you can never measure up.

04:20Or that you're always going to fail or fall.

04:23Or you're going to come to nothing.

04:24Or because you were mistreated people, you might mistreat yourself.

04:29You might sabotage yourself because you don't feel that you're made for victory.

04:34There's no shortage of the waves of hurts and wounds in the world.

04:38It can even affect your relationship with God.

04:41It should be that your relationship with God is affecting this.

04:44But often it's the hurt and the wounds of this world that affect your relationship with God.

04:50You might know better in your head.

04:52You know the doctrine.

04:52You know that.

04:53But your heart and your, your life and your ways are living in the old.

04:58It can affect how you receive or don't receive the Word of God.

05:02The promises of God that say you're accepted.

05:05That say you are loved.

05:07That say there's a promise on your life.

05:09That you don't have to fear.

05:11That you're a royal child now.

05:13That God is your loving Father.

05:16You can actually live in peace.

05:18You can actually live holy and pure.

05:20That you can do all things in Him.

05:22That you're bound for victory.

05:25There's a million ways though that hurt can affect that.

05:28And how you deal with hurt and wounds is important.

05:32It's crucial.

05:33First, how do you not deal with it?

05:36Well one way you don't deal with it is by not dealing with it.

05:39Because if you're still holding it, it's still affecting your life,

05:42but you're not dealing with it,

05:43you're only keeping it going.

05:46Proverbs 32 says,

05:49says when I kept silent, I wasted away.

05:52Now it's talking about sin,

05:54but this, this area involves the sin of the world

05:57and involves these things and becomes that.

06:00All these things, unforgiveness become fear.

06:03But I kept silent, I wasted away.

06:05But when I brought it to God,

06:07I was set free.

06:10How to not deal with sin and wounds,

06:12or hurt, hurt and wounds.

06:13By repeating it.

06:15A lot of times people who are wounded,

06:18wound others.

06:19It says hurt people, hurt people.

06:22You know when you see,

06:23that's not always,

06:24but it's often, way often.

06:26And that is that people often who abuse other people,

06:29were often abused themselves.

06:31So they were abused,

06:32and instead of getting healed,

06:33they abuse others.

06:35Those who are rejected,

06:36may deal with it by rejecting others.

06:39Some people react to hurt,

06:41by trying to, again, to drown it out.

06:43Medication, alcohol, drugs.

06:46Some react to the rejection of man,

06:48by spending their lives,

06:50to make up for it,

06:51by getting the acceptance of man.

06:53Getting the approval of man.

06:55To prove themselves,

06:56they're worthy.

06:57Get validation, I'm okay.

06:59Or to prove,

07:00I'll show them,

07:01I'll prove it this way,

07:02I'll show them they're wrong.

07:04Or by hardening,

07:05building a wall around your heart.

07:07Around your emotions.

07:09Around your life.

07:11Deadening yourself.

07:13Or,

07:14a wounded heart,

07:15is a heart that can be living in anxiety,

07:17all the time.

07:18Fear.

07:20And again,

07:20some people,

07:21you know,

07:21there are people,

07:22and you may have known them in your life,

07:23and you may be one of those people,

07:25where they're in a horrible relationship,

07:28abuse or whatever,

07:28and they go into the next horrible relationship.

07:31They keep going.

07:32Why?

07:32It doesn't make any sense.

07:34But it's like saying you've been hurt,

07:35and you kind of take that that's normal.

07:37I don't deserve something more.

07:39And that's normal.

07:40I'm,

07:40my life is to be hurt.

07:41So if they don't hurt me,

07:42I'm going to hurt myself.

07:44There's no shortage how the enemy seeks to mess up the creation of God.

07:51When you don't deal with them,

07:53you know,

07:53when you don't deal with it the way God said,

07:56it keeps going.

07:57And the problem is these are seeds that the enemy has planted.

08:01Those hurts and those wounds act like seeds.

08:04They produce harm in your life,

08:07throughout your life.

08:08And the thing is that if you never deal with it,

08:11it doesn't stop.

08:12It keeps going.

08:13And it keeps,

08:14and or if you let it define your life,

08:17you let it be the main thing in your life,

08:19it's going to keep hurting you.

08:21You let it be the defining thing,

08:23the motivating thing,

08:24the defining thing that's driving you,

08:27it's going to keep on working.

08:29What does God want us to do?

08:31How does God want us to deal with it?

08:33It can change your life.

08:34First of all,

08:34God is concerned.

08:36God speaks in Isaiah 1 to an apostate nation,

08:39a nation that is totally rebellion to Him.

08:41And he says this.

08:45Where are you going to be struck again?

08:47As you continue in this.

08:49The entire head is sick.

08:52The entire heart is faint,

08:56is weak.

08:57From the sole of the foot to the head.

09:00There's nothing healthy in it.

09:02Only bruises and slashes,

09:05cuts and raw wounds.

09:07And they're not pressed out.

09:08They're not bandaged up.

09:10And they're not softened with oil.

09:12He has compassion on them.

09:14He says you've got wounds all over.

09:16And they're,

09:16and they're not being treated.

09:18They're not bandaged up.

09:19They're not,

09:20they're not treated with oil.

09:21There's nothing happening.

09:22They're just open wounds.

09:24And you can walk through life with open wounds.

09:26Never been healed.

09:28Never been bandaged up.

09:29God wants to heal us.

09:32You've heard Isaiah 53,

09:33but I want you to listen to it in a different way right now.

09:37Verse 4.

09:38About Messiah and the Atonement.

09:41Surely He has borne our griefs.

09:44The word griefs here in Hebrew

09:46means anxieties,

09:48sorrows,

09:50maladies,

09:51sicknesses.

09:53And it also means our wounds.

09:55Surely He has borne our wounds.

10:00Next one.

10:01And He's carried our sorrows.

10:03The Hebrew word here for sorrow

10:04means our anguish,

10:06our affliction,

10:07our sorrow,

10:09our pains.

10:11Next verse.

10:12He was wounded for our transgressions.

10:16He was bruised for our iniquities.

10:19Just like it said,

10:20the serpent will strike,

10:21will bruise Him.

10:23We'll bruise Him

10:24and He will crush Him.

10:25But He was bruised

10:26in order to bring us healing

10:27to crush the power of the enemy.

10:29He took our wounds.

10:31He took our bruises

10:32in order to set us free from the enemy.

10:35He was wounded for our transgressions.

10:37He was bruised for our iniquities.

10:38The Hebrew word here is dakah,

10:41which means bruised

10:43and also means beaten

10:45and broken

10:47and struck

10:48and crushed

10:49and destroyed.

10:51The punishment that brought us peace

10:53fell upon Him.

10:56That brought us what?

10:57Peace.

10:57For the word is shalom.

10:59Shalom doesn't just mean peace.

11:00It means wholeness.

11:02Wellness.

11:03As in healing.

11:05Wholeness.

11:05And by His stripes.

11:08The word here for stripes

11:10is the Hebrew word

11:11chabora,

11:13which means not just stripes.

11:15It means again

11:16bruises,

11:17hurts,

11:18and wounds.

11:19By His bruising,

11:21by His wounds,

11:23and His hurts,

11:23we are healed.

11:25We are healed.

11:28Healed.

11:30See,

11:31Messiah,

11:32you read that,

11:32you know,

11:32it's about salvation.

11:33Yeah,

11:34Messiah died for our salvation.

11:37That we might be saved.

11:39But,

11:39what it's saying here also,

11:41He also died

11:42that you might be healed.

11:45You might be well.

11:47You might be whole.

11:49He died for your sins,

11:51but He also died for your wounds.

11:53He wills for you to be saved,

11:55but He also wills now

11:57for you to be healed.

11:59It's not an accident

12:00that what did God do

12:01when He's on earth?

12:02He saved us,

12:03but He healed us.

12:04He was a healer.

12:05People came up to Him.

12:06They were healed.

12:08You know,

12:09and we might think

12:09the greatest healings

12:10are those,

12:11those dramatic,

12:12physical healings.

12:13Somebody couldn't walk

12:14and they walked.

12:15And we've seen

12:16dramatic healings

12:17or instant healings.

12:19But only some people

12:20need that.

12:21But everybody needs

12:23this healing.

12:24Everybody.

12:25Everybody needs healing

12:27from the inside.

12:28The hurt,

12:29the scars,

12:29the brokenness.

12:31And if we made sure

12:32that we came to Him

12:33to be saved,

12:34to the cross,

12:36we have to,

12:37why are we not making sure

12:38we come to Him

12:39for healing

12:40and wholeness

12:41to be made right

12:42and well?

12:44He specifically died for it.

12:46And He carried it.

12:47He carried our sins

12:48and He carried our wounds.

12:51He died,

12:51just like salvation.

12:52He died for all,

12:53but only those

12:54who partake of it

12:55are saved.

12:56He died to bring healing,

12:57but only those

12:58who truly partake of it

13:00will be healed

13:01and well and whole.

13:02You want to be healed?

13:04First you have to deal with it.

13:05You want to be whole?

13:07You want to be free?

13:08You have to acknowledge

13:09that you're dealing,

13:11that you have this.

13:12That you were hurt.

13:13Or that something happened

13:15and that,

13:15it's affected you.

13:16Or that,

13:17whatever that is,

13:17it's affected you.

13:19There are scars,

13:19there are wounds.

13:20And it's okay to deal with it.

13:21It's okay to admit it.

13:22In fact,

13:23in fact God needs you

13:24to do that.

13:25It's okay if you have

13:26to cry about it.

13:27Let it out.

13:28Let it come to the surface.

13:29You know,

13:30a wound that's hidden

13:30is going to be messed up.

13:32Only the wound

13:32that comes to the surface

13:34can be touched,

13:35can be treated,

13:36can be made whole.

13:37Get it out.

13:38It's okay to be angry about it.

13:40Not,

13:40not living in resentment

13:42about the people

13:42because that's the problem

13:43when you try to hide it.

13:44That's when you live it.

13:45But it's okay to be angry

13:46not about the people

13:47but the,

13:47the thing,

13:48the sin,

13:49the evil.

13:50But give it to God now.

13:52Give it to God.

13:53You know,

13:53we are saved from sin.

13:55We have to,

13:55it says we have to confess the sin.

13:58You know what confessing sin is?

13:59We think of it as a,

14:00almost like a,

14:01it's like a drag.

14:02I have to confess it.

14:03You know,

14:03like you want,

14:04like people who want you

14:05to confess their sin,

14:06your sins to them.

14:07You know,

14:07confess it.

14:08You did this.

14:09You know,

14:09but it's not that,

14:10it's for our sake.

14:10Because when you confess it,

14:12you are,

14:12it's the first step

14:13of separating it from you.

14:16Because as long as you hide it,

14:17it's part of you.

14:18But when you confess it

14:19and you're,

14:20you're judging it,

14:21you're saying it's wrong,

14:22you are already taking

14:23the first step

14:24to be free of it.

14:25Same with your wounds

14:27and,

14:27and same with this.

14:28Same with the hurt.

14:30Same with those things.

14:31Same with the things

14:31you've been dealing with.

14:32Let it out.

14:34Let it out.

14:35You are now

14:35a beloved child

14:37of the Most High God.

14:38That is your new identity.

14:40You are not defined

14:42by all that stuff anymore.

14:44The new life

14:45has no scars on it.

14:47And what's he going to do

14:48in heaven?

14:49Says he's going to wipe away

14:50all our tears.

14:51Well you know

14:51he's going to wipe away

14:52all our wounds

14:53and scars.

14:54It says he's wiping away pain.

14:57And there's even more to it.

14:59It's written that

15:00God will cause

15:01all things in your life

15:03to work together for good.

15:04Amen.

15:05If you love him,

15:06everything.

15:07That's incredible.

15:08Romans 8, 28.

15:10That means the scars

15:12and the wounds

15:12and the hurts.

15:13In other words,

15:15they are going to be used

15:16for your good.

15:17He will turn your wounds

15:19into blessings

15:20that you didn't have

15:21and would not have

15:22if you didn't go through that.

15:24It's written in the Psalms,

15:26it was good that I was afflicted.

15:28It was good.

15:30Most of those who came,

15:32most of you who came to the Lord

15:33came because there was

15:34some kind of affliction.

15:35You know,

15:36you were in a situation,

15:36you called out to God,

15:38you, something didn't work out

15:39and you started seeking

15:40something more.

15:41You saw that,

15:41or you just saw this life

15:42is not where it's at.

15:44It's that many,

15:44you saw it more.

15:45What you could think back then

15:47as a curse

15:47led you to the blessings of God.

15:50You found God.

15:51And maybe if everything

15:52was perfect in your life,

15:53which it never is,

15:54nobody has that,

15:55but maybe if everything

15:56was better

15:56and you didn't have

15:57this pain or that pain,

15:58you may not have ever

15:59come to God.

16:00So God used all that

16:02to bring you to Him

16:04and all the blessings

16:05that you know,

16:06He did turn it for good.

16:08So also it means

16:09the rejection's

16:10going to be used for good.

16:11The loss is going to be

16:13used for good.

16:13The heartbreak,

16:14the disappointments,

16:16the brokenness,

16:17the broken dreams,

16:19the abandonment,

16:20the,

16:20all that

16:21led you to redemption.

16:23It's all,

16:23it's also God's going to use it

16:24for blessing.

16:26So,

16:27so there's something

16:28about that here.

16:29You know,

16:30in the natural,

16:31you know,

16:32we,

16:32we don't like pain.

16:33Pain is not though

16:34a bad thing in itself.

16:36Pain is,

16:37by nature,

16:37is to be a good thing

16:39because it's there

16:40to protect your life.

16:41If you didn't have pain,

16:43you'd probably be dead today.

16:45It's there to protect your life,

16:47that you avoid

16:47what could be harmful

16:48to your life.

16:49It's there to

16:50deal with something

16:52that has to get dealt

16:52with in your body

16:53or you have to treat it,

16:54you have to be careful.

16:55It's there to keep you alive.

16:57So the pain

16:58that you feel

16:59like these wounds,

17:01it's telling you something.

17:03There's something

17:04to be dealt with

17:05and God wants to deal

17:06with it for your own blessing.

17:08Joseph was betrayed

17:09by his brothers,

17:10his family.

17:12How many people

17:12have problems

17:13with their family?

17:14Don't raise your hand.

17:15Who were jealous of him.

17:19Some of you

17:19have dealt with that.

17:19who wanted to murder him.

17:22Who sold him into slavery.

17:25He was then falsely accused

17:27of rape and put into prison

17:29all because of his brothers.

17:31Imagine if that happened to you.

17:33Your life is messed up.

17:36Apparently.

17:37You are,

17:38your own family

17:40sold you into slavery

17:42and they,

17:43or they wanted

17:44to murder you

17:45and you end up

17:46in prison

17:47in a foreign land

17:48accused of,

17:49of,

17:49of a crime.

17:50Now imagine

17:51that was you

17:52and your life,

17:53years,

17:53you wanted to do all these,

17:54years,

17:55you might become bitter.

17:57You might be on,

17:58you might have

17:59unforgiveness.

18:00You might be,

18:01might have fantasies

18:02of revenge.

18:03Of what you're going to do.

18:04But Joseph

18:05was reunited

18:07with his brothers

18:07and he didn't do that.

18:10He said,

18:10listen guys,

18:11you meant this for evil

18:13but

18:14God meant it for good.

18:17So think about that.

18:20He knew

18:20that God

18:21was going to use

18:22everything in his life

18:23for good.

18:24And that is what

18:25kept him free

18:27and also what

18:28gave him healing.

18:30He,

18:30he said,

18:31listen,

18:32all this was used

18:33to save multitudes

18:34of people

18:34from dying in famine

18:36because of this

18:37that happened.

18:37It was all God's plan.

18:38And God used it all

18:40to bring about

18:41the fulfillment

18:42of the calling

18:43and dream

18:44of Joseph.

18:45And that's another key

18:46that brings healing.

18:47Think about that.

18:49If, think of it,

18:49this is powerful.

18:50If God

18:50is going to use

18:51everything in your life

18:52for good and is,

18:53think about that.

18:55Then why

18:55what do you have

18:56to be complaining about

18:58and what do you have

18:58to be bitter about

18:59and what do you have

19:00to be wounded about?

19:01What do you have

19:02to be,

19:02what do you have

19:02to be unforgiving

19:04and holding on to

19:05and all depressed

19:06over it

19:06because everything

19:07is now a blessing.

19:10You may not see it

19:11why or how

19:12but it is

19:12and it will be.

19:14But if God

19:14has promised that

19:15even what they did

19:17to you

19:18is a blessing now.

19:19You didn't lose

19:19something.

19:20You're not,

19:21you don't,

19:21you know,

19:21it's one of these people

19:22took something

19:22and it's gone.

19:23No,

19:23you were actually blessed.

19:25So you're going to be

19:26all bent out of shape

19:27over blessing?

19:29You know,

19:29I can understand

19:30if it was a curse

19:31but God has promised

19:31that every curse

19:32He's going to turn

19:33to blessing

19:33so it's all a blessing

19:34so you don't have

19:34those anymore.

19:36You know,

19:36so who knows?

19:37It might have been

19:38to save you.

19:39It might have been

19:39to bless you.

19:40It might have been

19:41to do something

19:41so you could bless others.

19:43And so,

19:44you know,

19:44you can't be bitter

19:45over what is a blessing

19:47for you.

19:48So by faith

19:49you can,

19:50the healing can begin

19:51right then.

19:51I don't have to be

19:52crying over this.

19:53I don't have to be

19:53for my whole life

19:54I don't have this

19:55because they did.

19:55It's a blessing.

19:56God's blessing me.

19:59Release it.

20:01Apaluo it.

20:02You know,

20:03again,

20:03it sounds good anyway.

20:05I'm going to

20:05apaluo it.

20:06And you can rejoice.

20:07You kind of want to

20:08jump up and down.

20:09Apaluo.

20:10It's party time.

20:11Apaluo.

20:12Release it.

20:14Just as pain

20:15was used to save you,

20:16he, he will use this

20:17to do a new work

20:18in your life.

20:20You know,

20:20God, God sometimes,

20:21and remember,

20:22he has to allow

20:22some things in our life

20:24that is not a blessing.

20:25Sometimes he allows wounds.

20:27He allows things to happen.

20:28For instance,

20:28if you're going to,

20:29your child is going to

20:30fall off a cliff

20:31and you know,

20:31and you have to yank them

20:32violently back

20:33and they get hurt

20:34but it's to save their life.

20:35You know,

20:36there's somebody I know,

20:37I mean I know of the story

20:38where he was actually

20:39walking in the fog

20:40and he,

20:41and something happened

20:42where he trips and falls,

20:44hurts himself on the ground

20:45and just beyond,

20:46like a foot beyond

20:47was a cliff

20:48he was going to be killed.

20:49And God saved,

20:50literally saved the man

20:51and used him.

20:52Sometimes it hurt.

20:53God allows certain things

20:55but even that's for blessing.

20:56It's in love.

20:57It's going to bless you.

20:58Listen to Paul.

20:59All the hardships

21:00he went through.

21:02He had a lot of wounds physically

21:03and he may have had

21:04some other wounds too.

21:06He was betrayed

21:07by the people in the church.

21:08You know that?

21:08And he was accused

21:10and all that.

21:11But he says,

21:11I've been in prison

21:13more than anybody.

21:14I've been beaten

21:15so many times

21:15I can't even number it.

21:17I've been in danger of death.

21:19Five times I received

21:20from the Jewish people

21:2139 lashes.

21:22Three times I was beaten

21:24with rods.

21:25I was stoned.

21:26Three times I was shipwrecked

21:28night and day,

21:28adrift,

21:29dangers from the rivers,

21:30from the robbers,

21:32from my countrymen,

21:33from the Gentiles,

21:34in the city,

21:35in the wilderness,

21:35at sea,

21:36false brethren,

21:38sleepless nights,

21:40lack of food,

21:41shelter,

21:42exposure.

21:44He went through more

21:45than most of us

21:45will ever dream of.

21:47And yet

21:47he was never,

21:49never lived

21:50as a victim.

21:52He never,

21:53he didn't complain about it.

21:54He's actually boasting in it.

21:56He never,

21:57he chose

21:58never

21:59to become

22:00a victim

22:00of what people

22:01did to him.

22:02He wasn't bitter.

22:04He didn't let

22:04their problems

22:05become his problems.

22:06He didn't let himself

22:06be defined by what they did.

22:08He only let himself

22:09be defined by what

22:10God did to him.

22:12He blessed,

22:13he radiated

22:14the light of God.

22:15You put him in a prison cell,

22:16he turns it into

22:17a worship service.

22:19You know,

22:19we could have been depressed.

22:20We could be complaining.

22:21We could be talking

22:21about those who did it.

22:22Now forget all that.

22:23Why waste my life with that?

22:25Why mess up my life?

22:26I'm praising God.

22:27He didn't let himself

22:29be defined by the wounds

22:30or the hurts.

22:32Only the grace of God.

22:33He refused

22:34to live as a victim.

22:36He insisted

22:37on living as a victor.

22:40He had wounds too.

22:42He gave them to God.

22:43And he blessed.

22:44So Paul says,

22:46once we were all

22:46children of wrath.

22:48That means we were

22:49wounded too.

22:50But you are no longer,

22:52he says,

22:52you're not a child

22:53of wrath anymore.

22:54Now you are a

22:55beloved child.

22:56Live now as that.

22:58Live as a beloved child,

23:00not as that other one.

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