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[742.30 --> 743.36] even in writing my sermon, |
[743.84 --> 744.98] that there are a lot |
[744.98 --> 746.40] of popular songs |
[746.40 --> 748.34] that celebrate revenge. |
[749.70 --> 750.56] I had in my head, |
[750.64 --> 751.32] I got, oh man, |
[751.36 --> 752.32] I got the name of the song |
[752.32 --> 753.36] wrong in the night a.m. service. |
[754.20 --> 755.40] Some of you know this song. |
[755.70 --> 756.86] It's the one where she |
[756.86 --> 757.72] puts the key |
[757.72 --> 758.98] in the side of his SUV. |
[759.70 --> 760.38] What's that one? |
[760.62 --> 761.64] Not Kelly Clarkson. |
[763.08 --> 763.70] Thank you. |
[763.70 --> 765.02] I knew someone would get me. |
[765.68 --> 766.64] And these songs, |
[766.76 --> 767.78] they sort of stir in us |
[767.78 --> 768.64] this imagination |
[768.64 --> 769.54] for how we could |
[769.54 --> 770.84] so cleverly get back |
[770.84 --> 771.26] at someone. |
[771.38 --> 772.26] And I want to suggest, |
[772.64 --> 773.46] just practically, |
[774.20 --> 775.52] that is the place |
[775.52 --> 776.46] where we must pray. |
[777.36 --> 779.12] Because action of revenge |
[779.12 --> 780.44] always starts with you |
[780.44 --> 782.28] desiring and imagining |
[782.28 --> 783.86] and entertaining revenge. |
[784.10 --> 785.04] And that's why in James 1 |
[785.04 --> 785.44] it says, |
[785.82 --> 786.58] you are tempted |
[786.58 --> 788.34] when you're dragged away |
[788.34 --> 790.26] by your evil desires. |
[790.68 --> 791.84] And those desires |
[791.84 --> 794.10] give birth to evil sins. |
[794.10 --> 794.82] Right? |
[794.92 --> 795.86] And so we want to pray |
[795.86 --> 797.42] against that imagining, |
[797.62 --> 799.40] that desiring for that person's harm |
[799.40 --> 800.76] and how we can exact it |
[800.76 --> 801.76] because that's going to lead |
[801.76 --> 802.86] to a mountain of pain. |
[803.16 --> 804.32] And let me just say it straight. |
[804.90 --> 805.96] Revenge will never |
[805.96 --> 807.36] solve your problem. |
[809.04 --> 810.06] If you've ever tried it, |
[810.10 --> 810.94] you know this. |
[811.44 --> 811.64] Right? |
[811.90 --> 812.94] A sibling hits a sibling, |
[813.06 --> 813.84] that sibling hits them back. |
[813.92 --> 814.84] How's it going then? |
[815.06 --> 815.88] They just keep punching. |
[816.68 --> 817.90] Or as one writer puts it, |
[818.40 --> 819.36] evil keep, |
[819.36 --> 819.70] or sorry, |
[819.80 --> 821.10] revenge keeps evil |
[821.10 --> 822.32] in circulation. |
[823.84 --> 824.76] You exact revenge, |
[824.86 --> 825.52] you will just keep |
[825.52 --> 826.88] that cycle of evil going. |
[827.04 --> 827.66] You will keep |
[827.66 --> 828.88] the cultural norm |
[828.88 --> 830.20] of eye for eye, |
[830.64 --> 831.48] tooth for tooth, |
[832.00 --> 832.64] cuff for cuff, |
[832.72 --> 833.24] all that stuff |
[833.24 --> 834.00] will just keep going |
[834.00 --> 835.14] as you exact revenge. |
[835.36 --> 836.32] And it takes the ethic |
[836.32 --> 837.30] of Jesus Christ, |
[838.40 --> 839.46] the ethic of forgiving |
[839.46 --> 840.14] our enemies, |
[841.06 --> 842.90] to break that cycle. |
[843.64 --> 844.62] That's what we've been looking at |
[844.62 --> 845.90] for the last number of weeks. |
[846.80 --> 847.74] It's revenge that keeps |
[847.74 --> 848.60] couples at odds, |
[848.98 --> 849.88] families in dysfunction, |
[850.22 --> 851.86] and even nations at war. |
[853.10 --> 854.06] And just a sidebar, |
[854.16 --> 854.82] I would like to say |
[854.82 --> 855.48] more about this, |
[855.54 --> 856.88] but I find it very important |
[856.88 --> 859.14] to name that the next verse, |
[859.70 --> 860.46] like the next section |
[860.46 --> 862.32] of teaching in this passage |
[862.32 --> 863.24] is Paul saying, |
[863.64 --> 864.88] just so you know, |
[865.04 --> 866.26] God has put governing |
[866.26 --> 867.36] authorities in place |
[867.36 --> 868.74] who are in charge |
[868.74 --> 869.66] of enacting justice, |
[870.00 --> 871.04] and you need to trust |
[871.04 --> 872.34] that they will enact justice |
[872.34 --> 873.56] when you feel like you can't. |
[873.84 --> 874.76] It's an important detail. |
[875.28 --> 876.30] We have a lot of police officers |
[876.30 --> 877.02] in our church, |
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