Two Roads Week 5: Healing Relationships
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would
draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek
him. —Hebrews 11:6 ESV
How do you trust God with
Forgiveness must be
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles
do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated
from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of
heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality,
greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!
assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is
in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life
and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your
minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true
righteousness and holiness.Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his
neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no
opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing
honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone
in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good
for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of
redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put
away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. —Hebrews 4:17-32 ESV
“What if repentance wasn’t a promise from you to God, but a
God to you?” - The Cure
There are two aspects of forgiveness:
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(1) We come to God in
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; —Hebrews 12:15 ESV
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? —Romans 2:4 ESV
Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me; my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly.
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil. They stir up
strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life.For their crime will they escape? In wrath cast down the peoples, O God! You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me. In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?” —Psalm 56:1-11 ESV
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? —Psalm 56:8 ESV
(2) We must
(3) We must