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[1881.18 --> 1881.48] saying,
[1881.80 --> 1882.56] I can forgive
[1882.56 --> 1883.88] these politicians.
[1884.64 --> 1885.30] I can forgive
[1885.30 --> 1885.90] these police.
[1886.04 --> 1887.20] I can forgive my neighbors.
[1888.04 --> 1889.12] And then we work towards
[1889.12 --> 1890.44] reconciliation and healing.
[1891.68 --> 1892.42] Or I think of
[1892.42 --> 1894.42] Rachel Denholler,
[1895.00 --> 1896.72] this world-class gymnast
[1896.72 --> 1897.40] who was abused,
[1897.52 --> 1898.22] and in the courtroom
[1898.22 --> 1899.44] of the coach
[1899.44 --> 1900.00] who abused her,
[1900.04 --> 1900.34] she says,
[1900.44 --> 1901.88] I extend grace to you.
[1901.88 --> 1903.56] And the courtroom
[1903.56 --> 1904.34] was confounded.
[1905.88 --> 1907.42] Maybe one of my favorite stories
[1907.42 --> 1909.80] is in 2015,
[1910.20 --> 1910.66] and you'll probably
[1910.66 --> 1911.66] remember this in the news,
[1912.06 --> 1913.40] when 21 Coptic
[1913.40 --> 1914.18] Egyptian Christians
[1914.18 --> 1914.82] were beheaded
[1914.82 --> 1915.92] by ISIS.
[1916.66 --> 1917.64] It's one of those events
[1917.64 --> 1918.28] that actually put
[1918.28 --> 1918.78] the persecution
[1918.78 --> 1919.40] of the church
[1919.40 --> 1920.44] on the world stage,
[1920.48 --> 1920.94] and people said,
[1921.10 --> 1922.16] wow, this is happening
[1922.16 --> 1922.64] in our day?
[1922.66 --> 1923.12] And the answer is,
[1923.34 --> 1924.06] yes, it is.
[1924.90 --> 1925.92] And you might not
[1925.92 --> 1926.64] know this story,
[1926.76 --> 1928.02] but many of the families
[1928.02 --> 1929.38] of the men
[1929.38 --> 1930.26] who were beheaded
[1930.26 --> 1931.90] wrote statements
[1931.90 --> 1933.56] and spoke on the news
[1933.56 --> 1934.48] words of forgiveness
[1934.48 --> 1935.48] to the terrorists
[1935.48 --> 1936.40] who beheaded
[1936.40 --> 1937.02] their spouses
[1937.02 --> 1937.84] and loved ones.
[1938.64 --> 1939.30] And there is
[1939.30 --> 1940.68] a particular news anchor.
[1941.28 --> 1943.76] This is an Arabic newscast.
[1944.38 --> 1945.54] And they were going
[1945.54 --> 1946.34] to do this interview
[1946.34 --> 1947.12] about what had happened
[1947.12 --> 1948.18] and just like fact-finding
[1948.18 --> 1948.66] on what happened.
[1948.76 --> 1950.10] And then they heard
[1950.10 --> 1950.96] these words of forgiveness
[1950.96 --> 1952.08] from the Christian families
[1952.08 --> 1953.50] of the slain victims.
[1954.04 --> 1955.12] And then the scene
[1955.12 --> 1956.16] goes back to the newsroom
[1956.16 --> 1956.96] and this man,
[1957.36 --> 1957.92] Arabic man,
[1958.00 --> 1958.98] his eyes are teared.
[1958.98 --> 1959.90] You can see that his eyes
[1959.90 --> 1960.26] are teared.
[1960.50 --> 1961.52] And he's speaking in Arabic
[1961.52 --> 1962.42] and there's a translation
[1962.42 --> 1963.04] into English.
[1963.18 --> 1963.82] And what he says
[1963.82 --> 1964.96] in a very loud voice,
[1965.04 --> 1965.88] he's not composed,
[1966.00 --> 1966.30] he says,
[1966.76 --> 1967.64] these Christians,
[1967.74 --> 1968.26] he's not one,
[1968.30 --> 1968.46] he says,
[1968.60 --> 1970.32] these Christians are made
[1970.32 --> 1971.84] of a different substance.
[1972.96 --> 1974.04] How do they forgive?
[1975.08 --> 1976.08] And when I heard that
[1976.08 --> 1977.04] or I was reading that
[1977.04 --> 1977.60] in the transcript,
[1977.70 --> 1977.98] I was like,
[1978.40 --> 1978.84] yes,
[1979.12 --> 1979.96] we are made
[1979.96 --> 1980.92] of a different substance.
[1981.96 --> 1983.30] It's the power of Jesus
[1983.30 --> 1984.98] by the Spirit of God
[1984.98 --> 1985.68] that enables us
[1985.68 --> 1986.72] to do what we cannot
[1986.72 --> 1987.76] on our own do
[1987.76 --> 1988.78] through our union
[1988.78 --> 1989.50] with Christ
[1989.50 --> 1990.44] by the life
[1990.44 --> 1991.38] that is his through us,
[1991.68 --> 1992.86] we can forgive
[1992.86 --> 1995.08] and confound the world
[1995.08 --> 1996.34] with a different ethic