TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - August 26, 2025 - Love That Covers, Hatred That Divides

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

In today’s Morning Manna, we explore Proverbs 10:12, where Solomon draws a sharp contrast between hatred and love. Hatred stirs up conflict, keeping wounds open and divisions alive, while love chooses to cover sins, seeking restoration rather than retaliation. True wisdom learns to guard the heart, forgive offenses, and reflect God’s mercy in relationships.Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.Sacrificingliberty.comThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!Trunews/faucielf

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Morning Manna. We're delighted to have you here today to study the Word of God. We are working our way through the book of Proverbs, and we're in the 10th chapter, and today we're looking at verses 12 through 16. Let's pray, invite the Holy Spirit, and then Dr. Burkhart will read the Word. We'll begin our study. Almighty God, our Father in heaven. Father, we love you and we love your word and we desire that your spirit teach us and enlighten us and make us stronger disciples for your son, Jesus Christ, our Savior. In his name we pray. Amen. Amen. And welcome everyone to our international Bible study that we do live every weekday morning at 8 a.m.

We're privileged to have you here and aware where you are in the world. And usually we have over a dozen nations that are checking in with us and several hundred people each morning. And we are privileged to have you here today as well. We're continuing our study in Proverbs chapter 10 today, picking back up at verse 12. We'll be reading verses 12 through 16 this morning if you have your Bibles. Read along with me. I'm reading the King James. And I'll always encourage you to read the Bible out loud.

And that way it's on your lips continually. Proverbs 10, 12 through 16, beginning of verse 12. Hatred stirth up strifes, but love covereth all sins. Hallelujah. In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding. Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. The rich man's wealth is his strong city.

the destruction of the poor is their poverty and then verse 16 the labor of the righteous tended to life the fruit of the wicked to sin god bless the reading of his word today amen verse 12 hatred stirrith up strife but love covereth all sins let's start with this word hate of hatred. What is hate? The Hebrew word is sane. And it's actually the English transliteration is looks like sane, S-A-N-E. So I guess people who are full of hate are insane. Okay. So So s'nay, and it refers to a feeling a person has towards an enemy, a foe, to detest somebody, to find them odious. There's a word we don't use a lot. Wow, that's word of the day there.

Word of the day, odious. ODIUS means to be extremely unpleasant, repulsive, disgusting. See, you're getting at the heart of hatred. Somebody finds another person to be utterly repulsive, disgusting. They have contempt towards that person. So hatred is an intense negative emotional response towards certain people or things or ideas. It's usually related to opposition to those people or those ideas, revulsion towards something. I mean, we see it with the, the end.

enemies of President Donald Trump, they actually have a phrase, a name for it, you know, Trump derangement syndrome. Yes. They hate him just, they hate him. Yes, not policy, not anything, just, you know, hatred. They hate the haddywheres. They hate everything. They hate the people who like him. It's not rational. It's, it's an irrational, emotional response to somebody. So hatred is associated with intense feelings of anger, contempt, disgust, and obviously hatred is the opposite of love. Proverbs 10, 12 says hatred stirs up strife.

let's take a look at this word stirs the Hebrew word the English transliteration is spelled U-W-R but the pronunciation is or O-O-O-R so what is this word is this word is it or is it I don't think it's a law, no. I don't think so either. I think you're as close as we can get here. And so I'm just looking at up too here. I'm trying to figure out the pronunciation. So it means, again, this is the Hebrew word for stirs. It means to waken up, to lift up oneself, to master, to raise up, to stir up oneself. Right. Just to. stir up trouble we would say back in missouri it stirs up what does hatred stir up self it stirs up self the person who's driven with hatred is full of self and they stir up

oneself it means to awaken to arouse to stir to, you know, to bring to the surface. And this is an interesting, doc, it's a primitive root and identical to another Hebrew word that means the opening of the eyes. Interesting. I didn't see that part. No pun intended. So the Hebrew sense of this word stir is to rouse, to awaken, to incite. But in this case, a negative context. Yes. Hatred does not rest.

It constantly looks for ways to provoke. I'm going to say some things here in the next few minutes. I think it's going to. shine light in your mind and heart about some very difficult people in your life whether at work or in your family or your neighbors or church you know who they are the moment i said difficult people you went oh yeah you rolled your eyes so i know who this who he's talking about yep we all everybody's got one we got one we all have one or more more difficult people in our lives.

When I say difficult, what do I mean? It's difficult to get along with them. What is it? They stir up strife. When you listen to the next few minutes, you're going to understand this person that you're a conflict with. You're going to say, I get it.

I get it. Now I see it. What drives them, is hatred. See, that can be shocking because you have to come to grips with the fact that there is somebody who actually hate you. They may not say the words with their lips, but the way that they talk to you, the way that they look at you,

the way they treat you is driven by hatred. and you eventually have to come to the realization that person hates me and you know what there is very little likelihood you will ever convince them to like you that's the sad truth once somebody gets over into hatred they never swing back to the other side yeah have you ever heard someone say yeah i i hated that person for years but now i love him or i love her that's very rare and the reason is hatred destroys the hater so hatred is at the core of difficult people it's the reason they can never be appeased you you can't make them happy you can't please them you can't satisfy them if you do

everything on their list of why they don't like you and you fix everything on that list tomorrow they've got another list or they'll hate you even more because you finished their list yes you can't you can't satisfy them it's because it's not the external things they'll give you a list of external things well i don't like the way you comb your hair i don't like the way you park your car i don't like i don't like the way you talk you those are external things at the core is their hatred and you can't do anything about their hatred they're rotting on the inside and what they desire to do is to keep you on a hamster will running all day long hoping that maybe you please them today maybe you'll make them happy today

maybe you'll satisfy them today no at the end of the day you're worn out and they're just as mean as they were in the morning and tomorrow they'll be mean again because there's something ugly on the inside of them right they can never be appeased so if you have somebody in your life who is difficult just come to the realization you cannot please them you never will please them and the best thing to do is to begin to put distance between you and that person the more distance the better your mental health your emotional health will improve once you start to put distance between you in that difficult person because that difficult person wants you to be dysregulated right what is disregulated

you know disregulated is you know is to be off balance like you don't you can't you can't stand up straight in your life you're you're off balance they want you to be dysregulated they want you to be confused they want you to be less than your best they're causing dysregulation in your life these people who have hatred do this on purpose now here's the other thing i said you got to come to the realization that there are people who actually hate you that that's the source of the conflict That's why you clash. They actually hate you.

You've got to come to the realization that there are people in your life who hate you. And then you come to the realization you'll never please them. Yep. And then you come to the realization that the only way for you to have peace of mind and regain your mental emotional health and maybe your physical health too, is to put distance between you and them. Yep. That's unfortunate, but yes.

It's not you, it's them, where you simply say, you know what? Being around you causes me to be emotionally disturbed, to be emotionally ill. I'm not at peace. I'm not in the rest of God. I'm not in the peace of God. When I'm around you, you cause trouble. And if there are people in your family, in your friendships, at work, wherever they are, church, put distance between you and them. They're going to say all kinds of things.

So what? They already are doing it. Yeah. They're already bad talking, trash talking you. Why are you concerned? They're going to trash talk you some more. the main thing is your emotional health your peace of mind god desires you to be in peace not in a state of of anguish and these people that live in this world what they're doing

is that they they will constantly put stuff on you to keep you disregulated of division, of strife, of discord, of violence, it continuously seeks to inflame conflicts. It can't be appeased. Once somebody is over into hatred, there is no way to appease them. Right. It's hard to come back from hate. I mean, it really is. And like you said earlier, Rick, can you think of, I mean, there's got to be stories, but can you think of anybody that's ever really come back from hate? No.

I can't. I'm trying to think of myself in my life, the encounters I've had with people who are so, you know, addicted or they smelled of hate. But I can't think of anyone that's ever come back from that. That's tragic. It is. It is. I have made a decision this year.

There's been changing me. I've made a decision this year. I am not going to tolerate people who do not show me respect or honor my dignity or treat me in an uncivil way. I'm not going to fight with them, but I am not going to tolerate them. There's a big difference. I'm not going to retaliate.

See, Satan wants you to retaliate against these people. They come at you with their hatred, and Satan's driving them to push you to retaliate. don't retaliate but don't tolerate just because you no longer tolerate does not mean you you retaliate i was thinking early this morning doc in my prayer time how jesus dealt with difficult people The Sadducees, the Pharisees, Herodians, they were difficult people. They wanted to argue with him. They hated him.

They laid traps for him. They lied about him. Look at the way Jesus dealt with them. Did he ever appease him? Never. Did he ever beg them to like him? No. Did he ever retaliate?

No. But was he firm? Was he firm with them? Yes, he was very firm. Jesus could have, in one moment, Jesus could deal with one or more hateful, spiteful Pharisees or Sadducees, deal with them strongly.

And then turn to a little child and be just kind and gracious, turn to a blind person, a sick person and just show amazing mercy and kindness towards him. Oh, in one minute. Yes. He didn't tolerate those people. But he was, he always had a soft heart towards the weak, the hurting. the humble you do not have to tolerate these hateful people in your life right in fact i recalling the gospel jesus was talking about suffer the little children come under me i imagine the kids there but that was in the midst of an engagement with the uh the

pharisees right in the middle of an engagement they're trying to provoke him and everything he brings a child up and shows love to the child. So just an example, Jesus didn't, you don't necessarily have to get into a prolonged engagement with people. Do ministry. That's right. Love people. Love people who are willing to be loved. I gave the example yesterday. I, my office is on the second floor and I have to ride an elevator up and down, You know, usually I often take the steps, but in the mornings, when I'm trying to get up here to get the morning man, I take the elevator. And there's a woman works in the office next to us. I don't know why she hates me.

I don't know why. I don't even know her name. Doc went to get in the elevator with her. She just reeks of contempt for me. And, you know, I've been doing this for a couple of years. Like, what is your problem? And so yesterday I just said to her, can you, have I offended you? And I didn't say it with meanness.

I just looked at her, said, have I offended you? And she goes, what are you talking about? You know, she snapped at me. I said, I can feel your antagonism towards me. me what is it i said good morning now leave it at that whoa wow good morning's all you're getting wow so just i made up my mind i made up my mind lady you are not going to intimidate me anymore in this elevator i'm going to intimidate you with kindness i'm not going to be mean I'm going to be kind.

But I'm going to let you know, you don't intimidate me. And you're the one who has the problem. I know why she doesn't like me. Because there's a clash of spirits. That's why. Yes. Her spirit clashes with my spirit. That's why.

There are people who don't. don't like you because Christ is in you. Amen. It's just that simple. And it's not them who's hating you. It's Satan. And you are not going to convince Satan to like you.

And as long as that person submits to Satan, that person is going to hate you. And just get over and come to the conclusion. The reason that person fights with you all the time, the reason that person hates you, finds you disgusting is because satan overwhelms them they have submitted to satan they have

turned their life over to satan and hatred now rules their life hatred is hatred will destroy you hatred takes small offenses and magnifies them it turns minor conflicts into major battles the smallest thing can cause somebody to blow up why they're looking for a reason to fight with you reason you say something it can be totally innocent but they take that one statement and they magnify it and they twist it see you get to perverse lips twist it they twist it that's what those are perverse lips yes and they'll say you said this no no i know i didn't say that yes you did no that's what you heard that's what you heard because you have a demon in your head talking to you am i getting close to home okay there are people who have demons talking to them all day long

and they think it's god they think it's the holy spirit or they think it's their own conscience it's satan talking to them amen And they, people who have hatred open, they open their souls to Satan. Satan gets inside their minds and starts lying to them. And these are familiar spirits. When I say a familiar spirit, these are evil spirits that have been around that person so long, so often that they become familiar with them. familiar spirits familiar spirits they no longer detect hey that that's that feeling that entity whatever's around me that's is not right no they get to the place where they like it they accept

it and so people who hate will take a small offense that didn't mean anything and magnify when you magnify something you enlarge it you blow it up they keep old quarrels alive they revive they revive past wrongs yes and they refuse reconciliation they'll tell people i'm trying to reconcile with that person person and it's a lie it's an absolute lie because they thrive and keeping a fight going and this isn't just this isn't just people nations do it too yes nations hmm i'm not i'm not going to go there right now okay nations do it they keep old horals alive Well, you, 10 years ago, you did this, and I've never gotten over it.

And they'll say, you never apologize for it. And you go, no, I did about 20 times. Oh, no, you didn't. Okay. It wouldn't matter if you had video recording of your apology. It wouldn't matter. They'd say you made it up. Why?

Because they refuse reconciliation. See, if they reconcile, they can't hate. If they didn't hate, they didn't have anything to live for. That's the sadness of a dog. They live to hate. They live to be offended. Being offended is their identity. They have to be offended in order to have their identity.

What do I mean by that? they live in a state of offense so that whatever relationships they have with anybody they can talk to them about their offenses and you know that person by their offenses and so they need a constant supply of new offenses and if they don't have a new offense they got to go back and revive an old one and stir up strife keep it going and refuse to reconcile see to refuse to reconcile is to refuse to forgive and when you forgive you're supposed to forget but these people can't reconcile because they can't forgive and they can't forget And they believe, a lot of them, these religious ones, believe that God understands their hatred.

See, they have a sense of entitlement. They are entitled to hate. Now, nobody else is. This is in the church. You have people in the church that think this way. In other words, nobody, the gospel does not allow anybody to hate except them. they are entitled to hate they are entitled to not forgive they have a sense of entitlement yeah that's it isn't it yes it's a sense of entitlement they are entitled to something that

other people are not entitled to they know the gospel says you can't hate that you must forgive They agree with that, but in their case, they are entitled to hate and not forgive. They won't give up their sense of entitlement. It's actually, Doc, it's rooted in pride, right? It's rooted in self. I am better. I'm better than everyone else, and I'm entitled to hate. Why? Because the offenses against me are worse than the offenses against others.

Yes. And I'm entitled to respond to those offenses. Yes. In unbiblical ways. I, uh, we don't know anyone like that, do we? I'm curious to know how. this is a hitting home today with the class all right i see wade said wow okay Glenn uh what verse are we in are we on where we're in um proverbs 10 is it is it 12 yes yeah we're still in verse 12 oh i'm looking at the comments wow A home run.

Okay, Alice, that's good. Geraldine says, you sound like you know my mom. Oh, my. Well, let me get back to this. I haven't even got now the first verse for today. hatred delights in gossip in slander in backbiting why because it sparks contention yes it's the lighter fluid gossip slander backbiting you've got to you got to soak everything with gossip and slander slander and backbiting if you want to have a fire then hatred is the lighter it just sets

everything on fire everywhere it goes they walk into a room and there's trouble you can feel it just like that woman in the elevator i don't even know the woman's name she gets in the elevator and like, ugh, what is this? How fast does this elevator go? Like, what is this coming out of you, woman? What is this hatred? They just eke with this stuff. You can feel, if you're born again,

filled with the Holy Spirit, you can fill it in other people. You will feel it coming against you. It thrives in pride and envy and jealousy. It feeds on differences to create deeper separation. Most people, I think, Doc, most people who have this hatred are extremely insecure. Now, they project pride. They project entitlement. Right. But internally, I think they are extremely insecure.

And so that's a good observation, yeah. And so the way that they deal with their insecurity is that they hate people. and they say i have i'm better than you i'm superior to you i'm going to mistreat you i'm going to judge you i'm going to slander you because i'm better than you and so by pulling down somebody else they think they're lifting themselves up it's a sick twisted perverted way of thinking i'm going to tear down somebody so i don't look so low hatred is self-defeating and here's why it consumes the hater and the hated cool what's the truth

the person who's hated is is damaged there's no way you can get past it without getting that stuff on you yeah i don't know i'm trying to think of a better analogy but folks it's like wearing your best clothes you get your very best outfits on your nicer shoes and somebody you know they vomit on you or they urinate on you. That's what it's like. Hey, I'm dressed in. I got my best clothes on. And you just urinated all over me. You just vomited on my shoes. For what to mess up your day? You've got to deal with it. You got to go get it. You got to wash your shoes off. It's on you. The odor is there. The stain is there, okay? How many times do you get your clothing dry clean to get the urine smell out of your clothing?

See, every time you come in contact with that person, they're staining you. Wow. So it gets into your soul, it gets into your mind. They're stain, not yours, they're stain. Right. Their stain stained, you. Yes. You're not guilty, but you have to deal with the reality that somebody just defiled you.

But they are consumed. They are absolutely consumed with hatred. Inside, if you can see inside, they are full of maggots. They're rotted. They just rotted. Just imagine a big old chunk of meat that's been in the sun for days and it's just full of maggots. That's what's inside a person who hates. Hatred destroys families, it destroys friendships, it destroys churches, it destroys communities, it destroys nations.

it breaks bonds that love would heal to stir strife is to be in partnership with satan people who stir strife are Satan's partners because he's the great accuser and he delights in division especially among God's people so let's go to the second part of verse 12 but love covers all sins

hall now this verse actually I think there are religious people that can't cope with this part of the verse oh it is for their sins but not yours

okay See, love does not ignore sin, but it deals with sin in a way that seats, fosters, and brings about reconciliation, not division. There's only two ways you can deal with somebody's sin. you can either hate them be angry judgmental poor on shame disown them whatever it is or you can do it a biblical way you don't ignore the sin you deal with it but you love them and you seek reconciliation you seek healing it says love covers all sins Cover means to forgive, to overlook sins and offenses, to put a veil of grace over the faults of others. Those with hatred stir up strife and division, but love seeks peace.

Love quenches the fire of contention instead of feeding it. Covering sin is not hypocrisy. This is charity. This is love. This is refusing. Refusing to expose somebody's sin. It's refusing to mock somebody's failure. It is refusing to exaggerate other people's faults.

I know about the sins of various people in my lifetime, and I have never talked about it to anybody in my entire life, even to my wife. I've never talked about it. Why? Because I'm protecting that person. I know that that person failed, and I know that person repented, and I know that person was forgiven by God, and I am not going to tell others about it. yes yeah as a pastor yeah you deal with that constantly you have you have to hold so many things to your heart it weighs you down after a while yes but you can't talk about a lot of

people in a lot of pain Rick sorry you don't talk about it no and that that does that rule doesn't go just for pastors and the counselors it goes for everybody really yes you were to cover their sin that doesn't mean to condone it cover is not condone but you put a veil of grace over that person you know there's a phrase like i absolutely can't stand this phrase dog uh fall from grace I refuse to say those words. Nobody has fallen from grace. You fall into grace. Just try it.

If you are a believer and you sin, you're not going to fall from grace, you're going to fall into grace. Christ is going to meet you at the place of your failure and extend grace at a place. level you've never seen before in your life he doesn't look down at you and say well you fell from grace i don't know what you're going to do now no he covers you with grace praise god that word disgraced i hate that word too nobody is disgraced disgraced this meaning grace has been removed right no grace

what's the point of grace grace isn't for people who don't need it the substance was created by God for people who need it amen and frankly we all need it and we all need it 24 hours a day you know my years at CBN and TBN and you know years and i i i know things that i have never talked about never and i never will uh right now i'm thinking of a prominent religious leader he's i think he's he's he's retired now at one time

you know, back in the 80s and 90s and early 2000. He was a big name. And I know, I know for fact, I know that he had a great moral failure. And it crushed him. And God dealt with him. He repented. He was restored. And if I said his name, many of you would recognize it.

I have never told anybody in my life what he did, who it was or anything. Never. Never. and i never will why because he repented that's between him and god so don't you be the one that goes around blabbing things or you know what somebody's going to blab about your sins just keep that in mind what goes around comes around don't exaggerate the faults of other people. Love does not publish a newspaper about people's sins.

Hallelujah. Aren't you glad? That doesn't happen. Because I'd be page six. Yeah. No, love buries them. All right. Love buries it.

It doesn't excuse it. It doesn't excuse the sin. doesn't you're you're not you're not pardoning the sin in that in that sense you are simply you're not promoting the sin right you're not in the marketing department for it you know when we were producing true news readers I can't tell you how many times I was contacted Rick let me tell you about so-and-so right some famous person they you know somebody had dirt on them I want to do an interview with you or I want you to get this out and tell the people.

No, I refuse to do it. I refuse to do it. Wasn't going to go down that road. To cover another person's sins is to imitate Christ because he covered our sin. Amen. Wait a minute. You're saying, I'm not going to cover somebody's sin. I'm going to out them and I'm going to expose them.

Well, what did Christ do for you? He covered your sin with his blood. Love reconciles, it restores, it builds unity, but hatred tears down unity. Hatred fosters suspicion. But love fosters trust. Apostle Peter, 1 Peter chapter 4, verse 8, charity, meaning love. Love shall cover the multitude of sins. In parenting, show mercy to your,

disobeying child. Amen. Show mercy. Don't condone it. Don't condone wrong behavior. But show mercy. Never reject the child, reject the behavior. Never make the child think you are rejecting them.

Reject the behavior. where you sit with the child and you say you know i love you but this thing that you just did i don't like that can we talk about it let's have a conversation about it what made you do it i wish i was like that when i parented our our children i it took me years to learn and god dealt with me that's why we were promoted to grandparents that's right and become a grandparent so covering sin does not excuse sin it chooses mercy over malice what's in your heart mercy or malice merciful to somebody else who has sinned. Why do you think God is going to be merciful to you when you sin? Well, he said, well, I've never committed that sin. That person committed. No, but you got your own sins.

Get your own sins. How do you think God thinks about your sins? All sins are repulsive to God. What practicing sinner is walking around in heaven right now? None. Zero. Why in the parable does God say to the king says to the guest who came to the wedding feast in his regular clothing? not the garments that were provided by the king what does he say

dear friend I notice you're not dressed properly for this occasion because we have to put on the garments that Christ has provided for us to attend the king's feast we can't go in there wearing our old clothes

he doesn't allow it hatred exposes love shields paul called reconciliation the excellent way the more excellent way as love is always looking for a path of restoration of reconciliation I want to quote a couple of the commentators. Adam Clark, hatred seeks for occasions to quarrel, love seeks for occasions to forgive. I love that. I love that. Is that good?

Man, Adam Clark for 300 years ago, that's not too bad. Hatred seeks for occasions to quarrel. Love seeks for occasions to forgive. Praise God. Love excuses, overlooks and hides, hatred proclaims. Charles Bridges, right? He passed away in 1869. Adam Clark died in 1832. Charles Bridges said, hatred is ever is ever raising strife, blowing the coals, watching opportunities, and taking every advantage. Love, on the other hand, heals and smooths all, covers infirmities, puts the best construction upon words and actions, and buries all things in oblivion. Albert Barnes, who was born in 1798, the spirit of hatred leads men to dwell upon and exaggerate the faults of others.

Love, in contrast, seeks to cover them and to forget as God forgets. Well, Doc, I only got the one verse. I don't dare tackle the next one because that means we'll be here one more hour. But tomorrow, we'll pick up at verse 13. in the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding there isn't a good hour in that verse yeah

all right hey we're not under any we're not under any deadline that's right we'll just walk through the garden leisurely and eat the fruit.

Well, that's the beauty of the word is, you know, I was looking at our notes from the last time that we taught through Proverbs here, Rick, and our big discussion last time we taught through it was back up on verse 8. And so today it was verse 12. And so it's strange how different times in our lives, different passages of Word and speak to us differently and, you know, provoke new challenges in us. And so, well, remember folks today,

you are not obligated to tolerate mean people. That's right. Okay. Don't you be mean? Don't you retaliate, but don't tolerate. Okay, don't retaliate against them, but at the same time, don't tolerate them. Think of Jesus when he dealt with the Pharisees and the Sadducees and Herodians.

He didn't get in their face and argue. That's what they wanted. They were trying to get him to fight. But he would speak to them in a firm way. And he'd quote the word of God. So whoever is in your life who's causing strife and argument and trying to put shame on you and trying to make you feel bad and telling you what a lousy person. person you are. You don't have to tolerate that anymore. In fact, start putting distance between you and that person. And isn't that to cry the modern age tolerance, but it's not really

tolerance, is it? They'll tolerate you as long as you subscribe to their ideology. That's what they'll tolerate. But they confuse that. Christians think, well, we've got just to, you know, let him do whatever and say whatever and sin however no that's not the case at all that's not love i did that for a long time i thought i was supposed to be a nice guy but you're supposed to be a good guy there's a difference okay are you trying to be a nice guy or are you working to be a good guy a nice woman or a good woman. Okay. Debbie said, today will bring opportunities for this lesson. Oh, yes, it will. Every day does. Oh, sure as anything, there's going to be an ugly person show up in your life today.

And you're going to stop and go, wait a minute, morning manna. What am I supposed to say right now? Rick was right. And you deal with them firmly in love. say excuse me when somebody when somebody badmouse you somebody tells you what a rotten no good person you are here's how to handle it say well you're entitled to your opinion and you have that opinion of me but i disagree that's not my opinion of me and it's not god's opinion of me because I am made in his image and his likeness. And so I don't accept your words. And just watch what happens.

They don't know how to respond. They don't know how to respond. Don't argue. Don't fight. Just say, I don't accept your opinion. Amen. You have your own opinion. You have a right to your own opinion.

Stop letting people tell you you don't have a right to your opinion. You do have a right. the people who tell you that you don't have a right to your opinion are the people who insist that you accept their opinion think about that they are overbearing domineering controlling people and they cross boundaries they don't respect your boundaries and they tell you you're not entitled to your opinion now remember going back to entitlement they're saying I'm entitled I'm superior I'm entitled to my opinion and I have an opinion of you and you're a you're a no good skunk and you this is where you step up and say pardon me

I don't share your opinion about me I'm made in the likeness and image of God and if you can't respect me and treat me with dignity and civility I can't have a relationship with you it changes everything all right that's all for today go your merry way and encounter encounter the people god bless see you god bless you we'll see you tomorrow