When Falsely Accused and Unjustly Used — Lou Sutera

Isaiah 53 and the Fellowship of Christ’s Suffering

Shall we turn to the book of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 53, Isaiah chapter 53. We have a ministry tomorrow night for the young people, Kevin, what are you speaking on? Why repentance on the part of young people?

Saturday morning at what time, 10? What is that? How to live in a culture that's gray, and Saturday night? The midnight hour, Saturday night before midnight at 7 o 'clock, about the midnight hour, bring your unsaved, especially for Saturday night, because that's going to be an outreach opportunity for young people.

Isaiah 53 verse 5, the last half of the verse, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, with his stripes we are healed. Going to read some verses, and I wonder if you can pick up the theme, remember we spoke about the fellowship of Christ's suffering, Philippians 3 .10, I want you to see what aspect we're touching tonight.

Now look at verse 7, he was oppressed, he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth, he is brought as the lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shears his dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

Verse 10, yet it pleased the Lord, this made the Lord glad, can you imagine this? It pleased the Lord to bruise him, ever thought about that statement? He hath put him to grief, when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin.

He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. It pleased the Lord to bruise him, and the last phrase, the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

Verse 11, he shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied, by his knowledge shall many righteous servants justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. This is describing the dying of Jesus.

What aspect is coming through to us in the dying of Jesus in these scriptures? Remember we're talking in Philippians 3 .10, that I may know Jesus in the fellowship of his suffering. Sunday night we dealt with one aspect in relation to the pain that Jesus went through to deal with my sin.

Now here's a different connotation of this truth. Remember that in 1 Peter 4 .13 it says, Rejoice inasmuch as you are a partaker of his suffering. Rejoice, be made glad that you are a partaker of Jesus' suffering.

Christ’s Example When Suffering Unjustly

Now let's go into 1 Peter and see if we can pick up the aspect of the scripture that we read in Isaiah chapter 53, 1 Peter. Look at 1 Peter chapter 2, 1 Peter chapter 2, 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 20,. For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, you do take it patiently?

What have you done if you buffeted when you've been a bad boy and you get spanked and you're battered around, if you take it patiently? What glory is that to you? That's not very much. You knew what was coming to you, so you took it quietly.

You deserved it, so you took it quietly. What glory is that to you? Not saying too much yet. But if when you do well and suffer for it, have we heard something about that tonight? Just listen how God puts a meeting together.

If when you do well and you suffer for it, you take it patiently, not with the desire to be justified like we heard. See, God teaching us, this is acceptable with God. For even here unto where you called, you had a divine calling to live like this.

You've had a divine calling to be like this. Here unto where you called, why? Because Christ also suffered for us. What? Leaving us an example that you should follow his steps. Oh, what was it? He did no sin.

Neither was there guile found in his mouth. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again. And when he suffered, he threatened not. But what did he do when he suffered, when he was reviled? What did he do?

But he committed himself. So he made a commitment of himself to him, to his father that judgeth righteously. When God was, when Jesus was being buffeted on this level, when he was being reviled on this level from man against him, on this human level, on this horizontal level, when he was being reviled, he did not strike back.

But he committed himself, he looked up, he had a vertical relationship to a horizontal problem. He looked up and he made a new commitment of himself back to his father to leave all judgment with his father who judgeth righteously.

What a truth. And Peter is telling us you should have that kind of mind of Jesus. Do you want to know Jesus in the fellowship of the suffering? We're learning something about it. Go on in verse 23. Excuse me, in chapter three, verse one, likewise, ye wives.

Be in subjection to your own husbands. Likewise, that word likewise is coming off of the example of Jesus. That if any obey not the word, your husbands obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, by a lifestyle of the wives that is in the pattern of Jesus.

While they behold your chaste conversation or manner of life, coupled with fear, whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of the plaiting of the hair, and of the wearing of gold or the putting of apparel, but it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and a quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

A lifestyle of Jesus, the style that Jesus took when he was buffeted and reviled. Instead of striking back, he made a new commitment to his father above. I'm simply saying, men and women, that in this scripture, we're seeing Jesus Christ not reacting, but reacting to his father in the moment of pressure and temptation.

Sanctifying God in the Face of Pressure

Look at verse 14, verse 14 of chapter 3. But in it, when ye suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye, and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled. Get the picture. Peter talking about suffering for Jesus' sake, righteousness' sake.

You should be happy and be not afraid of their terror. All the pressure that comes when you suffer for righteousness' sake, and be not troubled. But what should you do? You're suffering from the pressure on the outside.

You're suffering for righteousness' sake. That means you're not getting what you deserve. You're suffering for something you didn't do. You're suffering for righteousness' sake. What should you do? You're getting it on this level, what should you do?

Sanctify the Lord in your heart. Turn up. Look at that. But be busy sanctifying the Lord God in your heart. Let it be a vertical relationship to a horizontal problem. Make God more real in your heart.

Sanctify God in your heart. Make a new commitment of your life back to your father. Sanctify God in your heart. Be set apart unto God in your heart. That's the word sanctify. And then it says, when you do that, and there's two dots after that.

See, stop, stop. After the word heart, stop, stop. Because now the pattern of life's going to change. Now the opportunity of life's going to change. I want you to pause long enough and catch your breath.

What's coming next, says Peter? For, but, be ready. Excuse me, not for, but. And be ready. Always. What are you supposed to do? To give an answer to every man. Who's a man who gives answers? A man who is asked a question.

You give an answer after you've been asked a question. So it means that now people are going to start asking you some questions. And so now you're to be ready with an answer. It didn't say for you to ask the question.

It said for you to sit back and be ready for an answer. Because somebody else is going to ask you a question. Be ready to answer every, to give an answer to every man that asks you. Some people are going to ask you something.

What are they going to ask you? They're going to ask you for the reason of the hope that is in you. They're not going to ask you if you have a hope in you. They're going to ask you for the reason for the hope that they see that is in you.

They're going to recognize the hope in you. And they're going to say, tell me the reason for what you have inside of you. Isn't that interesting? Now that sounds like they're wanting to know about Jesus.

They're sensing from our lives the reality of heaven. They're sensing that in our life there's a hope that's not human. And they're saying, will you tell me what's inside of you? I want to know about it.

Give me the reason. Where does it come from? Then you can give them the plan. You see, it's not my going out and throwing the plan out on everybody I see primarily, but it's my being filled with the God sanctified in my heart and my relationship to God so powerful that my life becomes like a magnet and people come and ask me some questions about the hope that they sense that's in me.

And they say, give me the reason for it. I want to know about it. Where does it come from? Wouldn't that be marvelous if that kind of power could be unleashed a new mark in the next few days? Amen? That there could be something done by God and by His Spirit in our hearts.

He would be so sanctified in our hearts that the community on the outside said, tell me what's that reason for the hope that I sense in you. I could tell you about a man at Winkie's Hamburger Stand in Pennsylvania in, what's that town?

I forget. Brockway, Pennsylvania. This man, he was just such a proud peacock before God got a hold of him, just like we've been hearing about God dealing us about our pride. And he was one of them and he had about 300 women working under him.

I don't know if that was the reason for his pride or not, or his problems or what. I don't know. But I tell you, they said he was the meanest, most ornery guy and this pride just ruined his personality.

It wasn't part of his personality, it was what was ruining his personality. God got a hold of him and got a hold of his wife and took them down and what a story that was. And the glory of God came about him.

And you know what? One day they went into Winkie's Hamburger Stand in Brockway, Pennsylvania, one of those fast food places, went in there and sat down and bought a hamburger. And the proprietor of Winkie's Hamburger, they'd never been there before, the proprietor of Winkie's Hamburger Stand, behind the counter, a Jewish proprietor, he left the counter when it was a slow moment and he came to the very booth where they were sitting, they're having their hamburger, and he said to them, would you people tell me what is it you have in you?

Did you hear what I said? And they had the privilege of leading a Jewish proprietor to Jesus Christ in his home as a result of him sensing something in those people that wasn't normal and natural and human.

That's what it's talking about, isn't it? I just want to give you an illustration to know it can happen. If you didn't believe it, if you didn't believe Peter, I want to tell you it happens today. And so be ready to give an answer for the reason of the hope that's in you.

How do you give it? With meekness and with fear, in the spirit of meekness and the fear of God running your life. What is that all about? Simply this, having a good conscience, you see, dealing with your sin, being honest about sin, being freed, being transparently honest, so you have a good conscience and now the glory of God and the spirit of God can be about you that will be appealing to the unsaved world.

Whereas they speak evil of you as an evildoer because of your message and now they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Jesus Christ and goes on to tell us so much more for it is better if the will of God be so that you suffer for well doing than for evil doing for Peter says, I'm telling you why I'm telling all this for Christ also hath once suffered for sins that take us back in Isaiah 53, doesn't it?

The Just for the Unjust

What's this suffering all about? The just for the unjust, the just for the unjust. Remember that statement. Why? That he might bring us to God. How? Being put to death in the flesh, how? Being quickened by the spirit.

What is this dying of Jesus all about? Jesus, the just dying for the unjust. You say, well, I knew that all the time about his dying, but I want you to get the picture of it. If I'm going to want to know Jesus in the context of knowing him in the fellowship of his suffering, I want this statement to be real in my heart that I'm willing to identify with the dying of Jesus and it was a picture of the just for the unjust, that he might bring many souls back to God and it pleased God to bruise him, that there should be many souls in the kingdom and that he should see the travail of his soul and be satisfied as many sons would be brought into the kingdom.

He was the just dying for the unjust. Why? To bring us back to God, how? By his being put to death in the flesh, by being quickened by the spirit. If I want to know the Lord in the fellowship of his suffering, am I willing to enter into this realm in my knowledge of Jesus?

What kind of a realm is it? Simply this, am I willing to bring my life to a place that every situation of my life, every circumstance of my life, every person that God brings into my life and my contact and my relationship with that person, will become a redemptive opportunity from my life, will become, the redemptive opportunity will become the purpose and the obsession of my soul, the redeeming quality, no matter how painful, no matter what I must go through, for Jesus died the just for the unjust.

He took what was not coming to him and he bore it and he did not open his mouth but he took it and he pleased his own soul as he saw the travail of his soul and was satisfied. What was the joy of it? What was the joy of it?

Paul talks about it like this, so death worketh in us but life worketh in you. That's the principle. Willingness to allow death to work in me so life can work in another. That could be even the dying of one, the just for the salvation of the unjust.

To bring that one back to God. Jesus was going to the cross and you remember the story in the day when he went to the cross, he was telling his disciples, he was saying I must need go to Jerusalem and there I will be betrayed on the hands of the Gentiles and I will be crucified and I shall be slain and he started to tell his disciples about that hour and that's when his disciples got militant.

Oh Peter, he was always the one to speak up and he got so militant. He said, no sir, it will never happen Lord, far be it from you, oh God, to let that happen. No, and he started, he said, Lord, he said, you can count on me, I'll stand in the way, I'll be right out there, they'll never lay a hand on you.

And what did Jesus say to Peter? Peter said, get thee behind me, Satan, for thou savest not the things which be of God nor of men. And in another place recording that story, it says, thou art an offense to me.

Jesus said to his chief disciple, Peter, thou art an offense to me and he said, get thee behind me, Satan. Can you imagine Jesus calling Peter an offense to him and Satan, the chief apostle, Satan? My Lord called him that and then in the awful hour when Judas came and planted that kiss on the lips of Jesus, on the cheeks of Jesus, in that hour of the betrayal of Jesus, that man who had a heart as black as Satan himself, that man who took the 30 pieces of silver and threw them down at the feet of the priest and betrayed the blessed Lord and planted that kiss, in that hour he planted that kiss on the cheeks of Jesus.

Can you see my blessed Lord when he said, when Judas said, hail master, and planted that kiss? And what did Jesus say? Jesus turned to him and said, friend, wherefore art thou come? Here's the man betraying Jesus for crucifixion.

And my Lord says, friend, Peter says, no, it'll never happen to you, Lord. You'll never die. I'll stand in the way. And Jesus said, get behind me, Satan. Thou art an offense to me. Get out of my way and offend your offense to me.

What am I saying? What is this saying to you and me? Anybody who would hinder Jesus from going to the cross and paying the debt for keeping people out of hell was his enemy and was as if he were Satan himself.

Man that sold Jesus to die for sinners became his friend. Why? Because the best apostle would become a hindrance and would get on Satan's side in trying to obstruct the very reason for which Jesus came.

He came that he should be the just, dying for the unjust, that he should bring us back to God, being put to death in the flesh. And Jesus would not accept any hindrance. Remember the disciples said, Lord, they're coming to get you.

And they said, we need some knives, Lord. We need some swords, oh Lord. And Peter said, we've got two here, Lord. Shall we go out and get more? Jesus said, that's enough. You remember that? Jesus said, that's enough.

Don't go get anymore. He said, no man takes my life from me. I lay it down on myself. What is this all about? I'll tell you what it's all about. Jesus said, I have a baptism to be baptized with. And how am I straightened until it be accomplished?

Word straightened means I'm betwixt, I'm torn, I'm betwixt, I'm squeezed in. What was the squeeze? Between the rulers and the people and the cross. He said, I want to get there, I want to get there. And all this legal maneuvering from one court and from one high priest to this one, to the king and the rulers.

And I'm in a straight to be baptized with a death that I must die. To God we would have that desire. What was the burning desire of his heart? He said, oh, my passion is that I should be the just, dying for the unjust, that I should bring man back to God.

Running the Race by Looking to Jesus

Then Paul says to you and me, let us run with patience, the race that is set before us. Most of us fill that in, let us run with impatience and let's run with bitterness, the race that is set before us.

What's the word you fill in instead of patience? Let us, what do we learn from this? Seeing then that we have a great cloud of witnesses, let us run with patience, the race that is set before us. How should we run?

How can I run this life with patience with the situation, the circumstance of my life? How can I run with patience here looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith? Look to him, look to him.

Who? What do I see when I look? Who? For the joy that was set before him. What a statement. Endured the cross. Who? For the joy that was set before him. The joy to die. What was the joy about it? The joy was not in the dying, but the joy was in the redemptive aspect of his dying.

Who? For the joy that was set before him. He could endure the cross. There was no cross too painful for him because there was a joy that was set before him. He was going to bring men back to God and there was no pain too great for that.

And then it says he despised the shame. Despising the shame. The shame didn't even bother him. He accepted the shame. He despised that. Didn't even face him. Despised the shame. That wasn't. And it bothered him.

And now he's sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. My Lord is telling you and me. Paul is saying to you and me, let us run the race looking unto Jesus. And then he goes on to tell us what we should look for.

Look at him for the joy that was set before him. Endured the cross. And you're supposed to run looking that way because you've got to run the same way. What should the joy be before you? That your life should say, Lord Jesus, I don't care what the cross, what the pain.

I want my life to be redemptive. I'll despise the shame. I don't care about what the world says. Now look it. And now he's sat down at the right hand of God the Father. And he's still doing his work in redemptive activity.

But look what it says. For consider him. See? Lest you consider him who endured such contradiction of sinners. That statement, contradiction of sinners. Such, he endured such contradiction of sinners.

Isn't that the just for the unjust? Isn't that when he was reviled, he reviled not again? Isn't that he was buffeted, he buffeted not? He endured such contradiction of sinners for what he really was and what he was accused of.

What contradiction do you endure of sinners? What contradiction will you go through? What pain will you go through? How do you respond to that pain? How do you respond to that situation? He endured such contradiction of sinners against himself.

What do you take against yourself? What do I take against myself? How do I react against that which comes against me? And Paul says, you look at him. Lest you become wearied. This is the cure for not getting tired.

You become wearied and you faint in your minds. This is the cure for our mental problems. Where mentally it just drives you, you're driven. You have not resisted unto blood. You haven't gone through anything like Jesus went through.

You haven't gone through that striving against sin. But your Lord did it, that he might bring you back to God. He suffered the just for the unjust. We must remember that it wasn't by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it.

He gave himself. He was put to death in the flesh. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are a bitter irony. So long as we only give our superflity and we draw back before the sacrifice of ourself to redeem others.

Do you want to know Jesus? Paul says that I may know him in the fellowship of his suffering. I want to tell you what his suffering was all about. It was the obsession to be redemptive to mankind who misunderstood and spat at him.

Do you want to know him in the fellowship of his suffering? Will you ask God for every situation of your life that you will have the attitude that your life shall be an instrument of redemption? In that situation, no matter how painful, even if it means the putting of the death to the death of the flesh, but that you might bring someone else back to God.

Rendering Blessing for Evil

I want you to look at another aspect of this truth. Simply portrayed in 1 Peter right here while we're there. Chapter 3. Look at verse 8 and 9. Verse 8 and 9. 1 Peter 3 verse 8 and 9. Finally, be all of one mind.

Having compassion, one of another. Love as brethren. Be pitiful. That means a heart filled with pity. Be courteous. Not rendering evil for evil. Now we're getting to what Jesus was like. Not rendering evil for evil.

Not rendering railing for railing. But contrary wise. What's the contrary wise? Render blessing for evil. Render blessing for railing. Knowing that ye are there unto called. We're back to another calling.

You are there unto called. The first calling is a redemptive ministry for my life at any cost. Now I'm called unto something else. What is it? That you should inherit a blessing. This kind of calling, I will inherit a blessing.

What is it? When I don't give evil for evil and railing for railing. Look at it in chapter 4 verse 8. Chapter 4 verse 8. And above all things. Above all things have fervent charity. Fervent love means red hot love.

Red hot heat kind of love. Among yourselves for charity or love. Red hot fervent loving heat. Heatful love shall cover the multitude of sins. Verse 13. But rejoice in as much now your partaker of Christ's suffering.

That when his glory shall be revealed. You may be glad also with exceeding joy. What am I talking about? I'm talking about the desire to live with a forgiving spirit. A redemptive spirit. I shall suffer all costs to be redeeming.

Now I shall suffer all costs to be forgiving. The love, the fervent love covers a multitude of sins. The spirit of forgiveness. Brethren, love one another and forgive and be pitiful and courteous one to another.

A forgiving spirit. Jesus on that cross said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. You want to enter into the fellowship of Christ's suffering. Will you have the attitude of Jesus in that hour of death in his very dying.

The epitome of forgiveness in dying. He could still say when the energy was going out of his body. The last blood flowing through his veins. He could still say, Forgive them in that kind of suffering.

They know not what they do. Can you say that? In situations in your life that you can't seem to forgive. Stephen got the idea. Stephen was dying. Stones were coming upon him. He was becoming the first martyr.

And there he was, dying the martyr's death. And he says in those last moments of his life, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. He's saying, Lord, they've beaten me to death. They're beating me to death and it's wicked, Lord.

But Lord, please don't hold it against them. I forgive them. I'm asking you about the situation in your life. Where you feel almost like that tonight. Where you've been, as it were, beaten down. And you've been afflicted.

And you've been taking the abuse from someone in a situation. And I want to ask you, do you say, Oh God, they have treated me like this. And they've done this and this and this to me. But oh Lord, no matter how bad it is what they've done to me.

Oh Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. Do you say it? Stephen applied God's word in that hour of death. And I tell you, there was a man by the name of Saul consenting to Stephen's death. And in that hour, God put his hooks into that Saul.

And he became the Apostle Paul, who then suffered so much in his life, on the same context on the which he was converted through the life and the dying of Stephen. Oh, as those men there looked in the face of Stephen dying, I believe it was many more than Saul who were converted, many more.

I believe God Almighty used the dying face of Stephen and that prayer as they could see the face of an angel on that man's face. And Saul saw it and others. I believe God got his hooks into many in that day.

And the kingdom of God was in the spirit of Jesus. Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. Says in Ephesians 4, be ye kind one to another. Be ye tenderhearted, forgiving one another. How? As God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

Forgiveness as the Character of God’s Children

I'm getting to the issue tonight. Somebody says to me, preacher, there's a situation. There's a person I just can't seem to forgive. You say that? I want to tell you something. There is no place for an unforgiving spirit if you ask Jesus sincerely to want to know Him and to reveal Himself to you in the fellowship of His suffering.

You will have no room for an unforgiving spirit. An unforgiving spirit, instead of becoming a redemptive spirit, represents at least 11 other spirits that I can see in my Bible that God Almighty condemns tragically.

I find in my Bible that an unforgiving spirit, if you carry it here tonight, you've got more than an unforgiving spirit. It represents a retaliating spirit, a destructive spirit, an impatient spirit, an unspiritual spirit, a proud spirit, a self-righteous spirit, a disobedient spirit, a rebellious, stubborn spirit, an angry spirit, a judgmental, critical spirit, an unforgetting spirit.

And the worst line of it all is, you inflict upon yourself the unforgiving spirit of God toward you. And you say, I can't forgive. You need to go to Calvary and say, Lord, I want to enter into the fellowship of Your suffering.

And you'll have freedom from this thing. Meaning of forgiveness means pardon. It means to clear the debt. And it means to remove the transgression as if it never happened. And that's what God wants to happen in your life.

No wonder Jesus Christ says in His Word, Love your enemies. No wonder He says to bless them that curse you. No wonder He says to do good to them that hate you. And pray for them that despitefully use you.

How, my brother, sister, can you say in this meeting, I just can't forgive? How can you dare say it when my Lord talks like that? Why does the Lord want us to love our enemies, bless them that curse us, and do good to them that hate us, and pray for them which despitefully use us?

Why? In order that, says Jesus, that you may be the children of your Father, which is in heaven. What a statement. You say, I thought I was a child of God. Oh, I believe the context of the words of Jesus is the fact.

He's saying that when you live like this, when you bless them, when you love your enemies and bless them that curse you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and those that hate you when you do that, that's when you're acting like the children of your Father which is in heaven.

That's when people see you, they're going to see that you've got royal blood in you. That's when you're not going to have to wear any kind of tag to tell the world who you are. They will see that you are the children of your Father which is in heaven.

They'll say, that looks like heaven. It's not human, it's heavenly. A redemptive spirit. A forgiving spirit. A lady in Western Canada, she was teaching her children to hate Alice. They bring the stories home of Alice in Wonderland, and for her it wasn't Alice in Wonderland, it was Alice in Blunderland.

Because she and her husband had taken this Alice in when she needed a home, and that Alice carried on with the lady's husband and broke up the home, and is now living with that woman's husband. After they took her in, trying to help her.

And this lady was teaching her children to hate this woman that took their father away from them. In the revival in Saskatoon in 1971, God had got a hold of that lady, and God showed her that she had an unforgiving spirit toward the woman who took her husband and her husband for breaking up the home.

Oh, I have a right to that! Oh no. Oh no. And God dealt with her so deeply, I can remember two or three o 'clock in the morning, one of the afterglow was there, and God broke that woman from her unforgiving spirit, and she confessed it to God, and God set her free.

And you know what? When she wrote a letter to the woman living with her husband, and asked her forgiveness, and God gave her such a love for that woman, and for her husband, and she asked her children to forgive her for teaching them to hate, she was teaching her children to hate, and now instead of Alice in Blunderland, it's Alice as a prayer request, and a burden, and a love of God pouring out to that woman, and her husband living in another city, that God would minister to her.

Not human. Surely not human. I want to tell you something, that woman was redemptive in the prayer, she's being redemptive in the prayers for that woman, for her husband, praying for their salvation. That woman is being redemptive in the lives of her children, because she was teaching her children, something that would have torn them up and destroyed their life.

She was teaching them to hate, and you know when they would have gotten older, they would have turned on the person who taught them how to hate, when they were starting to feel the pains of the problem of bitterness and hatred, then they would have blamed her for teaching them to hate.

And she was being redemptive to her children, as well as those in prayer, who needed God in their sinfulness. I want to tell you something, God set that woman free. And the situation hasn't changed one iota to this day.

But God saved that woman. Psychiatrists, tranquilizers, everything you can think of, and saved those children, for the rest of their life, in that situation. She said one night in our meeting, she gave a testimony, she said, God said to me, transfer your right to getting even.

Have we heard something about that tonight? Transfer your right to getting even, over to God. And transfer your right to bitterness, and your right to resentment, transfer those rights to all of that, over to God.