just like terrible I can still tell you details that’s really bad spiritually when you’re lost and then because of what he did we’re found or blind and now we see the Bible goes even a step further and says when we were dead in our trespasses in sin he made us alive together with Jesus so God we come to you right now thankful that this is more than just a symbol there’s substance behind it and there’s implications that are laced throughout it for our lives not the

least of which do we have life with you so I pray that today Lord we’re going to talk about tender things and we know that your spirit is the comforter so if moments stir us I pray that we would take with us from this place the reality that you promise to be present in our pain and through our pain all the way to Glory with you we thank you now for being here and inhabiting the Praises of your people because of Jesus we pray amen amen

go ahead and have a seat say hi to somebody near you as you do thank you brother so a whole whole bunch of children just left I’m not blaming the noise on them because the truth is we like to be together and we we enjoy each other we we love Jesus we love one another and we want you to be a part of that if you’re not right now and you’re looking for a church we hope that you’ll take time to look us over and we’ll

look you over too but anyway it’s it’s a good thing as promised I I have a startling question right out of the gate this morning so I’m gonna I’m gonna ask it and it’ll change the tone a little bit this won’t be a heavy like I can’t breathe hour but it will be an honest time where we deal with the realities of Our Lives and where we find truth and help in God’s word Okay so with that here’s a startling question for you as we start

our time together in God’s word how in the faith worlds can we survive and even thrive those aren’t just catchy words together they’re different surviving is just barely breathing but how can we go Jesus said it in John 10 10. I came to give life and abundance how can we get there so in the face of all the world’s evils because that’s the issue that’s the challenge how can we not only survive it live to tell about it but thrive in it am I describing something

that’s Pie in the Sky some would say yes but there are many sincere people that want answers to my question some say the answer is stay out of Harm’s Way that’s the answer there’s evil around us no one’s denying that but stay out of Harm’s Way means things like change it up move leave Portland OR Tigard or Beaverton wherever you live leave the city you live in hiding inside because it’s not safe out there my list of things that are not safe anymore in my world

it keeps growing okay here’s a second response an answer that some come up with they self-medicate they go this is just too much for me to take and so they turned to a bottle or some kind of sedative that takes the edge off I have great friends who are alcoholics part of their story they’ve told me is because I just couldn’t manage the pain I it was evil and I just turned to it that’s what I did or drugs and there’s no no limit to that

it seems anymore they’re now legal in the state we live in it’s it’s just but some go there that’s their answer here’s a third answer some seek solace in things like entertainment and pleasure and Leisure to escape really I mean it isn’t it it’s a form of Escape you sit down and watch a fantasy movie that takes you to some other land I even do this with national parks I think I’m sick not of evil but of traffic so I my antidote is I go to

YouTube and sometimes Debbie and I both and we’ll just go there’s no people there you know what I mean it’s just what we do and it’s an Escape in some respects I’m just going to open it up and say it’s a little bit of a denial because my reality is somebody got hit by a car and killed last year on our on our a Street a block from our house so we walked down that street apprehensive a car Roars and sometimes it’s like what’s going on

here gonna happen again the guy was just walking his dog now some are optimists let’s just start there okay some people just bring that with them they are optimistic people the Leave it to Beaver Style you know what I’m talking how many know that just to be clear if you don’t go to Cartoon Network and you gotta you gotta do some back study but it’s worth it Leave it to Beaver actually one episode long ago featured one of beaver’s friends named Richard coming over to his

house as the boys were talking in beaver’s room which they often did sometimes just he and his brother or a friend would come over Richard said this hey babe I heard this word today optimist do you do you know what an optimist is I think so remember Beaver he would do that I think so came his reply and Optimus is a guy who falls from a 90-story building and halfway down says to himself so far so good it really was gave me a good laugh too

here’s the problem with that it’s it’s really the trouble is so far lasts only so long then what Billy Graham is somebody that touched a lot of Our Lives raise your hand if you can say that personally yeah lots of Our Lives and he was in an interview where he revealed a very different approach to surviving even as I’m saying this morning thriving we’re celebrating life despite the evils in his world just like they’re in our world once in this interview he was asked why why

is he an optic why are you an optimist Dr Graham he replied very simply because I read the last chapter of the book now a lot of you get a kick out of that like I do because you know what he’s talking about he’s referring to the Bible in Revelation the last book of the Bible in chapters 21 and 22 which are the most beautiful read if you don’t know anything about the Bible go there and you might start to see why he could smile Dr

Graham in the face of evil because he sees how things turn out God will according to his word have the final victory it’s coming I mean you know get ready this this is a celebration to beat all others where a brand new if you can picture this imagine this a brand new Heaven and Earth will be created why do you make something brand new except the old is worn out just say it kick it to the curb it doesn’t work anymore that’s why I changed trucks

that’s why I drive a Chevy I haven’t changed one at all okay all right all right all right I’m just going to keep talking and drown out all of your cat calls right now so there we go all right he will he’ll create a new Heaven and Earth and here’s the bonus he will actually be with in the midst of us who know him personally if you don’t know him personally please reach out I make this appeal all the time but I’m not just talking to

the camera right now I’m talking to people in this room you’re kind of coming because you’re going this is there’s something here the holy spirit’s real I’m feeling it and what’s going on and and we want to talk to you about Steve at gracepointfamily.com okay that’s enough and I’ll help you find help and would love to have coffee with you or tea so my Bible is open to acts 18 because that’s this is a sort of a ramp to our discussion in God’s word this morning

so in our study of the Acts of the Apostles your Bible says we’ve humbly renamed it the acts of the holy spirit because throughout acts the books the chapters of Acts is a continuous reference to the presence and Power and influence of the holy spirit so that’s why the name acts of the Holy Spirit we left off last time here in chapter 18. As Paul was leaving the synagogue when you hear synagogue think Jewish people that’s their place of worship like ours is a church if

we’re Jesus people theirs was the synagogue and Paul was leaving the synagogue for not so positive reasons he was there and he encountered verse 6 tells us enormous resistance and abuse those are easy words to do two things in error about blow right by him and not pay attention to him or Define him in our terms today Paul didn’t go to a psychologist Paul was experiencing resistance there was a full stiff arm if you will take my image in to Paul when he spoke in the

synagogue and it was here in Corinth Corinth which is the city that he was staying in for about well you’ll see an eight for 18 months and they not only resisted him but they abused him that’s usually a shout out that’s a scoff that’s ah come on like like right now imagine this moment if I’ve I’ve done it this week I’ve imagined what if I’m at this point in my message and somebody goes get real dude I’m like ushers armed guards haul that sucker out of

here okay I don’t mean that but you know what I mean it’s like what do I do and if it and if it isn’t one isolated everybody looks at him and kind of gives him the creepy stare but if it’s a bunch of them then verse 6 says he he left he shook the dust off his clothes in protest and said your blood’s on your heads I came here actually to help you I didn’t do anything to harm you I’m innocent of everything for now on

I’m going to go to other people the Gentiles so he sure enough did this is all last week in Greater detail but he left the synagogue and went next door he just walked next door and and there was a home church meeting and it was alive and it was a happening place and the next verses seven and eight you cannot read these without a smile when Paul left the synagogue went next door to the house of tishus justice a worshiper of God and Crispus the what

the synagogue leader that means he’s what Jewish that’s mean that means he came from where next door it means he turned in his keys to the synagogue and went to the new church next door why because he and his entire household believed in Jesus and notice this little footnote at the end of verse 8 many circle the word many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized that’s called great results that’s something I wake up for that’s something I work hard for that’s something

I’m committed to the Asbury deal that’s going on I want that here in Tigard I want that everywhere I why would you aim for anything less let’s move it let’s see that happen holy spirit it’s your deal it’s not a personality it’s none of that stuff it’s it’s the Living God is this going to happen and if it’s going to happen it’ll be because of him great results are are contained in that final sentence many believed and many how does the last verse last last word

in the verse baptized I tease about this but I’m not teasing at all I want this tank full every Sunday of water and people that’d be great no no we’re not doing group baptisms but you get my idea I want one after another come in there and you say I believe in Jesus he changed my life I went from dead to living and I want to publicly say so amen amen this is so true feel free to clap the holy spirit will welcome that on your

behalf but anyway okay but now that the clap’s out in the open out of nowhere Paul receives a surprising message and I’m just going to say it’s a head scratcher it’s one where you go hold on a ton of people many just believed and were baptized and then verse 9. One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision don’t be afraid keep on speaking don’t be silent three commands there for I am with you there’s a reason behind those words I am with you and

no one is going to attack and harm you because I have many people in that City in Corinth that’s the end of the quote so 18 months pass see how verse 11 reads he went well okay no one’s going to mess with me I’m going to stay here in Corinth for a year and a half and I’m going to do exactly what I’ve been doing up to this point I’m going to teach the word of God and he did huh verse 12 is hard to read

after that it’s a stinker while Galileo was pro-consul of Ikea he was a it was a he was a Roman leader the Jews here in Corinth we just I’m reading it slow so you can take it in they made a United pack to attack Paul that means they conspired they got together and said yeah you don’t like what you’re hearing now neither neither do I let’s get them let’s get rid of him and their intent is mentioned here by Luke to attack Paul and they did

so by force bringing when it when it reads you they brought him to the place of judgment the bema seat it’s where you’re going to stand trial fingers will be pointed accusations will be made this man they charged is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law now I want to because the rest of it I guess for accuracy sake let me read on just as Paul was about to speak to stand up and say well wait a minute wait a minute

let me explain Galileo says hold on hold up everyone if you Jews were making a complaint about some misdemeanor or serious crime here in Corinth it would be reasonable for me to listen to you and adjudicate this matter but since it involves questions about words and names and your own law settle the matter yourselves remember he’s Roman he’s not a Jew he’s not a gentile well he is a gentile but he doesn’t care about religious stuff I will not be a judge of such things he

says at the end of verse 15. So he drove them off that’s a word of saying get out of here quit bugging me I’m going to turn on you in a minute if you don’t then the crowd turned on sustanies the synagogue leader and he by the way is the replacement of Crispus sauce the knees timing is bad they had to vent their anger somehow so they turn on him and beat the crud out of him in front of everybody meanwhile is going not my problem

drag out his body when it’s over that’s how indifferent this was to him the scene presents a principle I want us to talk about for the balance of our time this morning when pressure mounts I think the Apostle Paul he’s seeing things happen many are believing and being baptized and it’s cool and and then this yeah he didn’t get beat up but boy there was a conspiracy to do more than that to attack him to ultimately kill him hopefully have the the force of law behind

them they didn’t expect the reaction that they got when pressure mounts remember remember that God is present let’s talk a little bit about this sensitive topic this morning trauma many of us can tell stories from our own first person singular purview of trouble even trauma and before I go further let’s Define trauma okay I’m not a psychologist but I’ve consulted with them I am a pastor and a theologian I have Google which helps a little bit and doesn’t help in other ways here’s a good definition

it’s my definition it really is any kind of mistreatment in your past you can get this later but any kind of mistreatment in your past that continues to cause you pain in the present that is a definition most people based on those words any pain that was caused in your past is affecting you now with pain let’s just give that the label trauma okay just stay with me don’t Don’t quibble over details at this point by that definition I’m guessing that most people in hearing me

now in the house and in your house have experienced trauma some form of trauma I I started to make a list and then it just got huge it’s a horrific car crash you were in it or somebody you loved was in it and you got the news a failed marriage you don’t have a ring anymore and what’s behind that what I just said is terrible trauma in your life a terrible diagnosis you’re walking along minding your own business Life’s good got it by the tail living

the dream baby I know a man that retired one month later he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I had buried him like six months later family was deeply impacted by their loss he had all kinds of dreams here’s one Financial collapse I don’t know if a single person that went you know I’m going to make some dumb decisions and live on the streets but they do and this collapse is trauma probably the the most difficult and ingrained one of all I can think of you

we sometimes use labels emotional and and spiritual trauma some Churches abuse if if you’ve ever been abused by something said here please come talk to me but I want to start with saying I’m sorry I don’t that’s not my heart in any way so I mean that but but the other kind is physical trauma Something’s Happened to you and it’s left you rattled I want you to just think right now rather than more particulars think of just the daily headlines happening to you it’s all you

have to do when I when I read a headline or hear a story I don’t watch the news anymore but when I hear a story I just think oh that dear person they are scarred by what I’m hearing right now so it’s real and even though you live through it it left a mark it didn’t I mean you know what I’m talking about it left a mark on you and it left you apprehensive if you were if you were not affected by you just roll along

and go what I I had to sketch that out of my life along that’s not part of me anymore but I know more than a few people who wonder when will it happen again who actually have the the Flinch Factor okay they get jumpy not because they’re weird but because it’s it’s a it’s an event it’s a it’s a past trauma that’s affecting them now okay our Bible tells us that Paul had plenty of past traumas plenty of them I want you quickly to take in

your Bible and go back back up the bus to chapter nine just very quickly verse 23 he has just met Jesus on the way to Damascus and we come to verse 23 this I mean Paul he was Saul in that day he had just met Jesus and after many days had gone by look how verse 23 of chapter 9 describes what he faced there was a conspiracy among the Jews to do what kill him but Saul learned of their plan if you’re the person they’re trying

to kill it’s saying you learned of their plan day and night they kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him but his followers took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall I have always looked at those words of God well that is a cool Escape that would scar a human being you are running for your life that’s the first okay you don’t have to turn forward very long to chapter 13. Go there to chapter

13 and here’s a second verse we’ve covered all these in detail already when we studied this but verse 45 when the Jews saw that the crowds when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy the crowds were there to listen to to Paul they were filled with jealousy and they began to contradict what Paul was saying and there’s those words again heaped abuse on him heaped it okay stay in chapter 13. Flip over to verse 50 just like five verses later verse 50 when

the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city they stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their region they kicked him out of town you’re not welcome here was their message I wish I could say we’re done but the worst is yet to come look at chapter 16 just two pages later in my Bible chapter 16 look at verse 19. He had just delivered a young demon-possessed girl there was no demon in her left

when her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone she was trafficked by these owners They seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into a Marketplace to face the authorities cease to be seized and get you they drag you against your will he didn’t just go hey amen man go easy on me man I’m with you all the way no they dragged him before the magistrates and then they said these men are Jews and are throwing our city into an uproar by advocating Customs

unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice the crowd joined in the attack I thought you had an ally you you thought wrong you’re alone and the attack the attack just intensified and then look what they did the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods after they had been severely flogged they were thrown into prison and in the Inner Cell and we know how the rest goes it’s it’s incredible stuff so go forward one more a chapter verse chapter 17 verse 5. When

other Jews were jealous they rounded up some bad characters from The Marketplace formed a mob and started a riot in the city and their purpose was to hunt down Paul there’s a he’s have you ever been the object of a Manhunt that you didn’t deserve there’s coming after you that’s what’s going on for him and Silas here and it’s a riotous mob so imagine now back to chapter 18 the trauma trigger of the words we just read in verse 12 and 13. United attack on Paul

and they drug him in to face judgment you hearing me now a a trauma trigger moment for Paul he must have thought here we go again he knew chapter 9 first hand he knew chapter 13 he knew chapter 15. He knew chapter 16 and 17. He must have thought okay here we go again I’m guessing he he might have wondered given all that background we just covered will will I be chastised or or will it result in imprisonment or even execution where’s this going if you’re

in the moment with him you start to realize trauma Through The Eyes of Paul you see past traumas it’s my deeply I believe this clinically I believe this experientially I see it empirically all the time it has a long shelf life and it surfaces when certain triggers happen you weren’t expecting it it just happened and suddenly you’re shaking and you tend to in those moments call up painful moments that pour out of you and they they you look at this it’s almost a shock to you

when you see it happen in you there’s there’s buried bitterness that pours out there’s at times raw resentment there was a pastor in mid-century last last century Harry Emerson Fosdick an American pastor and he described in one sentence the corrosive effect of untreated trauma that it can have on people he said this resentment is where you burn down your own house to kill a rat it’s like shooting a mosquito with a cannon but I don’t like rats I I read that and I thought ah I

don’t like anything about rats I I they have no value to me I in fact I I think I know why when God made rats he made rats okay let’s establish that when he made rats he went oh rats laughs the guy revved his engine right right as I said that outside that’s good but it’s true I don’t want to be anywhere near rats I don’t I don’t I don’t I’ve done I I would shock you if I told you the things I’ve done to dispatch

rats dispatches a PG-13 version of what I’ve done to them and I do so because they’re stubborn and resilient pests and Trauma is just like that someone hurts you I know I’m being right out in front today and you hate him for it they hurt you you hate them and then bitterness finds a place to live some cases thrive or it doesn’t belong Hebrews says the root of bitterness can actually cost us eternity our Bibles tell the story of a very traumatized teenager I want to

close with his story and then a very true recent story his name was Joseph this teenager and his story covers the last 14 chapters of the first book of the Bible Genesis he was 17. When the bottom fell out of his life 17 teenager when trauma first visited him and it stayed with him until he was 30. It’s a long time I don’t care what your trauma is that’s a that’s a long haul his suffering included a whole list of things he needed to read in

detail it’s in your notes but he was betrayed by his brothers he was actually trafficked he was sold as a slave and slandered and wrongly accused and falsely imprisoned and probably worst of all in that long list forgotten totally forgotten who knew he was there put an asterisk next to that it’s coming up he did he all that happened to him yet there is not a shred of evidence that he became bitter the rats had no way with him not a shred of it how do

you do that many people want to know in in his own words at the end of his story chapter 50. He Reveals His answer I want you to listen for his survival secret is what I call it it’s chapter 50. And it’s a larger passage there but in the heart of it he shares how he was able to survive and he’s telling his brothers who are still shocked at how this thing’s turning out he said this what you did to me was meant to bring upon

me traumatic evil but God meant it for good he was honest what you did to me was meant to train wreck me sink my ship whatever metaphor you want but God meant it for good all right I came across words that point to his I’m going to call it trauma recovery strategy because he was traumatized and he recovered clearly you can read it in his own words hope you do and I think it’ll work for anyone wanting relief hearing my words today and recovery from trauma

okay here’s these words we may not deserve to be mistreated I’m going to say we really don’t deserve to be mistreated I’m quoting them we may not deserve to be mistreated and our offender or offenders may not deserve to be forgiven I don’t back away from that at all but when we forgive we overcome the other person’s sin against us with the grace of God in Joseph’s autobiography we find that to be his fix for trauma and when we when we live out Grace and forgiveness

it’s been my observation it doesn’t happen in most cases like a snap of the fingers or a flip of a light switch but trauma triggers eventually lose their power they stop harassing and inflicting in injury so I I need to just tell you this because next Sunday you’ll be lost if I don’t having persevered here in Acts 18. Despite the trauma trauma trigger I think that was very much in play of the opposition and abuse that we’ve read already in verse 6 and 12 and 13.

Luke then says all right he notes Paul stayed in the city sometime until it was time for him to turn for home and he did Verse 18 says he stayed in Corinth for some time he left then with the brothers and sisters he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria he’s heading now east across the Mediterranean accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila we met them recently beautiful people before he sailed he had his hair cut off in Centuria because of a vow he had taken

it’s a really cool vow there’s lots more to say about it but he it’s a vow of commitment it’s a vow that says I’m all in for you God and he never cut his hair during the keeping of that vow then they arrived in Ephesus where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila the couple that meant so much to him and he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews you don’t do that if you’re still packing trauma you don’t when they asked him to spend

more time with him love his responsive I want it to be my response he declined but as he left he see these words verse 21 promised I will come back if God if it’s God’s will I want that to be all of us say yes I’ll be there if if God permits or allows or directs when he left when he landed at Centuria he went up to Jerusalem so he’s now all the way back to Israel on the western shore of Israel in caesarea I said

Centuria caesarea and he went up to Jerusalem and then greeted the brothers and then took off and went North to Antioch Syria which was his starting point his home Church by the way verse 23 begins his third missions trip so there’s nothing in between that’s recorded he ends up there and he heads back out on his third missions trip I’m going to close now with the telling of an important story that impacted me when I read it and it’s a true story and it was inspired

by trying to find a modern version in my mind of what I hopefully have captured for you here in Paul’s experience again and again and again and I think I’ve found that I I think it’s the takeaway so if you want to write this down it’s really a simple takeaway but I think it’ll become powerful as you ponder it okay so I think it’s the takeaway of this message today where I promised I didn’t really promise but I titled my message triumphing over trauma right and

I’ve already hopefully given you enough honesty to say it’s not going to flip a switch or snap your fingers but you can overcome amen you you can overcome and here’s the takeaway okay ready to write this down God is in control say it with me people God is in control okay I want you to personalize it right now you don’t have to say it out loud personalize it with the trauma memory you have right now you’ve had it all morning God is in control a whole

other sermon at least maybe a series if you don’t buy that if you think God was on vacation when the trauma happened to you that’s a problem you won’t find Healing with that answer you won’t if you think God was like ah it’s a big one I can’t help with that no that’s not don’t don’t try to get God off the hook when we say those kinds of things we’re kind of saying you know I haven’t come up with a good answer and so basically God’s

not powerful enough or God doesn’t care enough or God’s on vacation or something something that doesn’t work it leaves you stuck still so God is in control neither Paul nor Joseph had it easy but both faced enough trauma I think we wouldn’t you agree to take them out how do I ever recover from that but neither capitulated neither did how do you explain that Paul had words for it right these it’s down in your notes Romans 8 28 are his words and all things God works

together for the good all the stuff that he wrote about in second Corinthians 11 all of those traumas God works together for the good that means god is somehow present in the trauma I know I’m close to the edge right now when I say that that’s what Paul is saying in Romans 8 28 and here’s another thing that Joseph said in chapter 45 you’ve got to read it because he says nine times five that I could see explicitly it was God who brought me here you

don’t say that chapter 45 is near the end of his autobiography biography you don’t say that unless you believe that back when you were 17 and got the shaft that God was present there and and here you are one of the leaders of Egypt helping your very Jewish people survive the drought you come to that place because you believe as he did God was present your actions were bad and evil and dark but God was the one who brought this about for his glory and for

my good and gain that is the story of Joseph anything less than that I think we compromise difficult truth and I need to apologize before I read this last story right now there really does need to be a feedback time in a message like this because you might be just this side of screaming right now I don’t know and I and I apologize again but I want you to know something my door is open all the time and I would love to help you take next

steps like Paul took like Joseph took like I’ve taken Flinch factors happen to pastors too okay I conclude with a question for you and then this story do you believe God is in control though you’ve gone through or are going through trauma I conclude with the story of Clarence Jordan I’ve never met the man he was a Jesus Lover who had a heart to help poor people in the Deep South last century he had two phds they come into play in this story one in agriculture

and one in New Testament Greek go figure right that’s a so he started a farm to teach poor people in the day mostly black people how to be more effective farmers and receive more gain for their hard work it’s a it’s a admirable ambition he he encountered however great resistance and opposition and as you’ll hear even abuse trauma he was cursed and spat upon by people in the town that he lived in in this Farm was the tires of his pickup were slashed repeatedly the produce

from the farm and it was Bountiful was boycott boycotted by people they had hoped to sell it to One Night in 1954 the KKK Posse arrived at the farm hooded man erected a burning cross in the middle of the yard then torched The Sheds Barns and riddled Jordan’s home with bullets while he huddled on the floor he recognized many of the klansmen voices I was tempted to take this sentence out but it’s part of the story some were members of the church Jordan attended in town

the next morning Jordan arose early went to his field and surveyed the damage from the night before all the tender young shoots of spring planting had been trampled with a whispered prayer Jordan lifted his hoe bent his back and began to plant he was beginning again while he worked a car pulled up and a man from the local newspaper got out and walked over grinning Jordan acknowledged the man’s presence and then went back to his labor he had heard the newspaper man’s voice during the clan

raid as well the night before the man looked around at the burnt buildings and trampled crops then said well you’ve got your two phds and you’ve been here now for 14 years all you got to show for it is a few piles of Ashes of the Six Mile just how successful do you think you’ve been Mr Jordan looked up from hoeing and then answered about as successful as the cross of Jesus and then he went back to work I’d like you to Bow your heads with

me this morning no one has ever been more traumatized than Jesus Christ no one there’s a reason we have a cross on the table with communion features on both sides the cross is truly a silent Testament to that fact but he never though the most traumatized human ever he never once went dark when faced with his trauma never instead when they hurled their insults at him he did not retaliate when he suffered he made no threats instead he entrusted himself to him who judges justly he

himself bore our sins in his body on the cross so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness because after all by his wounds we have been healed and Jesus shared his secret father forgive them forgive those that have inflicted trauma on me for they know not what they do servers are going to bring communion to you some of you want to stay in your seat Ponder what you’ve heard some of you may want to make your way forward that’s fine but as the

holy spirit says to you I’ve got this I was present there I will help you I’m still in control

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