Sermonette: For So the Lord Has Ordered Him
Handling Unfair Verbal Abuse
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Martin G. Collins
Given 25-Oct-08; 18 minutes
description: (hide) Putting up with unfair verbal abuse is one of the hardest things to endure, something a waitress does on a continuous basis. It is probably fair to assume that the waitress must endure the frustrations and sins of the whole world. Waitress Jennifer has endured abuse without complaining, emulating the behavior of Jesus Christ, who insisted that we learn to love our enemies without attempting to retaliate. Jesus and Stephen both asked that God would forgive the sins of their enemies. Controlling our tongue is perhaps the most difficult task we will ever be assigned. King David learned to endure cursing from Shimei when he realized that God had allowed the aberrant behavior, evidently as God's instrument.