The Power of Forgiving Others - May 8, 2022
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How many of you are hurting from past betrayals, abuse, neglect, unfairness when someone sinned against you?

DO YOU WISH TO BE MADE WELL?

Forgiveness is NOT saying it’s okay.
Forgiveness is NOT pardoning the evil someone has done.
Forgiveness is NOT allowing someone to continue to harm you.
Forgiveness and reconciliation are NOT the same thing.
Forgive and forget is utter nonsense.
Forgiveness IS a transferring of debt to God that you are holding and suffering from because of another.
The appropriate language when someone sins against us is not an apology but confession and repentance.

Matthew 5:44 (NASB) “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Talk to the

Matthew 6:12 (NASB) ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors…
14 “For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 “But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.

Jesus gives us the

Matthew 5:23 (NASB) “Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.



In your family and among close friends

Matthew 10:14 (NASB) “Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.



Shake the dust off your feet by setting BOUNDARIES.

Matthew 18:21 (NASB) Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus *said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

Forgiveness is rarely a single event, it is a

Why were you harmed in the first place?

YOU ARE A THREAT TO THE EVIL ONE. YOU MATTER. Jesus in you is a threat to the chaos. Jesus in you brings clarity and healing. Jesus through you brings salvation!