REVENGE FACTOR -PART ONE (4 OF 9)
Scripture: I Samuel 24
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Revenge Factor -Part One (4 of 9)
Series:
James Merritt
I Samuel 24
Welcome to those watching online and to those at our campuses.
Introduction
1. Perhaps you are old enough to remember back in the day when if you misbehaved at school you got a paddling or a spanking. I only got one paddling in school and it didn't happen until my junior year in high school and it was caused by what we are going to talk about today. I was in an Algebra class with a teacher named Mrs. Savage (which by the way was a good last name for her). We were actually working on some homework we were to turn in the next day but she had given us time to do it in class. I was just about finished with the last problem, when a friend of mine, named Steve, walked by me on his way to sharpen his pencil and took his pencil and drew a solid line right down the middle of my page ruining my homework.
2. I was so consumed with getting even with him that I waited until he sat down and then I got up and walked by him and did the same thing. The problem was I was so focused on doing to him what he did to me I didn't notice that Mrs. Savage was watching. She caught me. She didn't catch him. Her husband, Mr. Savage, was the designated paddler at the high school. I guess because 1) he did such a great job with it and 2) he seemed to enjoy it. I was marched down the hall and given three licks with a paddle you could have heard all the way to Atlanta. I wasn't just embarrassed, but I was ticked off, because I was the one that got caught.
3. As I thought about it, I realized that what got me spanked was what I call ''The Revenge Factor.'' We are born with it. Somebody does you wrong, you do them wrong. Somebody hits you, you hit them back. Somebody messes with you, you mess with them. The President of the United States is not immune.
4. When he became President, Donald Trump was asked what his guiding principles in business were. He said, ''I have two: always get even and hit back harder ...
Series:
James Merritt
I Samuel 24
Welcome to those watching online and to those at our campuses.
Introduction
1. Perhaps you are old enough to remember back in the day when if you misbehaved at school you got a paddling or a spanking. I only got one paddling in school and it didn't happen until my junior year in high school and it was caused by what we are going to talk about today. I was in an Algebra class with a teacher named Mrs. Savage (which by the way was a good last name for her). We were actually working on some homework we were to turn in the next day but she had given us time to do it in class. I was just about finished with the last problem, when a friend of mine, named Steve, walked by me on his way to sharpen his pencil and took his pencil and drew a solid line right down the middle of my page ruining my homework.
2. I was so consumed with getting even with him that I waited until he sat down and then I got up and walked by him and did the same thing. The problem was I was so focused on doing to him what he did to me I didn't notice that Mrs. Savage was watching. She caught me. She didn't catch him. Her husband, Mr. Savage, was the designated paddler at the high school. I guess because 1) he did such a great job with it and 2) he seemed to enjoy it. I was marched down the hall and given three licks with a paddle you could have heard all the way to Atlanta. I wasn't just embarrassed, but I was ticked off, because I was the one that got caught.
3. As I thought about it, I realized that what got me spanked was what I call ''The Revenge Factor.'' We are born with it. Somebody does you wrong, you do them wrong. Somebody hits you, you hit them back. Somebody messes with you, you mess with them. The President of the United States is not immune.
4. When he became President, Donald Trump was asked what his guiding principles in business were. He said, ''I have two: always get even and hit back harder ...
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