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Giving and Receiving Forgiveness

Giving and Receiving Forgiveness. Forgiveness is the foundation from which we learn how to see life. It is no small thing to have a problem in either giving or receiving forgiveness. Forgiveness is a product of the love of God and the basis of having a relationship with God.

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Giving and Receiving Forgiveness

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  1. Giving and Receiving Forgiveness

  2. Forgiveness is the foundation from which we learn how to see life. • It is no small thing to have a problem in either giving or receiving forgiveness. • Forgiveness is a product of the love of God and the basis of having a relationship with God. • Without this understanding and realization of how the love of God acts, we have no foundation! (Eph 3:17-19)

  3. Forgiveness is the foundation from which we learn how to see life. • Ephesians 3:17-19 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height -- 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

  4. Forgiveness is the foundation from which we learn how to see life. • This will affect how we view ourselves and how we view others. Our most basic perceptions are affected by this! (2 Pt 1:9)

  5. Forgiveness is the foundation from which we learn how to see life. • 2 Peter 1:9- For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

  6. Forgiveness is the foundation from which we learn how to see life. • Most of our problems in a local church can be traced back to this. (1 Jn 3:14-16)

  7. Forgiveness is the foundation from which we learn how to see life. • 1 John 3:14-16- We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

  8. Forgiveness is the foundation from which we learn how to see life. • Have you heard of brethren that would have nothing to do with one another? Some even stop talking to another. • Do we have a collection of animosity (hatred) for various people who have done wrong in the past? • Or are we always happy to see someone return to the Lord and we wish to support and encourage them?

  9. Forgiveness is the foundation from which we learn how to see life. • Do we often worry whether God or others have really forgiven us?

  10. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Forgiveness is not part of the worldly philosophy. (Titus 3:3)

  11. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Titus 3:3- For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

  12. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • In the world you learn to “keep your friend close and your enemies closer!” You trust no one and learn to expect the back-stab.

  13. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • To forgive means that you take the loss, write off the debt and put the needs of another above yourself. • To the world, forgiveness is just “too good to be true.” • We serve a God that teaches all men that He can be trusted. • God tells us emphatically and often that He desires to forgive! (Ex 34:6-7)

  14. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Exodus 34:6-7- And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 "keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation.“

  15. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • That promise is great, but can you trust God? Everything depends on this. • This is why you need to come to know God. Look at the record! (Rom 15:4-5)

  16. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Romans 15:4-5- For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. 5 Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus,

  17. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Three things God does when He forgives. • He blots out our sins! (Acts 3:19; Isa 43:25)

  18. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Acts 3:19- "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

  19. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Isaiah 43:25- " I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.

  20. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • God does not remember our sins any more. (Heb 8:12)

  21. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Hebrews 8:12- "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

  22. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • He is described as casting them into the sea. (Mic 7:18-19)

  23. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Micah 7:18-19 - Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. 19 He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.

  24. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • When God forgives our sin is long gone! Do you believe this?

  25. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • "When God buries our sins in the deepest sea, He posts a sign which reads: “No Fishing!”" • God receives us back to a full fellowship. (Lk 15:20-24)

  26. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Luke 15:20-24- "And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. 21 "And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

  27. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • 22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. 23 'And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; 24 'for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' And they began to be merry.

  28. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • There is no grudge holding with God. Men are another matter!

  29. We serve a God that we can believe when He says that He has forgiven • Our biggest problem is in believing this.

  30. Are we honest with God and ourselves when we say we have forgiven others? • This is where the deceitful heart can do the most damage. • “I will forgive you but I do not have to like you.” (1 Jn 3:18-19; 1 Pt 1:22; 2:1)

  31. Are we honest with God and ourselves when we say we have forgiven others? • 1 John 3:18-19 - My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.

  32. Are we honest with God and ourselves when we say we have forgiven others? • 1 Peter 1:22 - Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

  33. Are we honest with God and ourselves when we say we have forgiven others? • 1 Peter 2:1 - Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,

  34. Are we honest with God and ourselves when we say we have forgiven others? • The church is not a social club to cater to your social needs. It is a group of people who have been crushed by their own sin and have the forgiving love of God as their only bond. • One of the more painful things I have seen is where brethren separate themselves form other brethren under the banner of the “grace of God” by planting bitterness and strife in the hearts of their disciples

  35. Are we honest with God and ourselves when we say we have forgiven others? • How do I know if I have forgiven another? Here is a test.

  36. Are we honest with God and ourselves when we say we have forgiven others? • 1. Do we get pleasure in their hurt? • 2. Do we intentionally avoid being in their presence? • 3. Do we vividly remember what we have suffered? • 4. Are we uncomfortable when they are praised?

  37. Are we honest with God and ourselves when we say we have forgiven others? • 5. Do we go out of the way to be helpful to that person? • 6. Are we willing to pray for the person?

  38. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • Some say they trust God but still struggle with guilt over past sins. • When we come from a background where others let us down and beat us up this can be a problem. • We may have come from a family of grudge holders and gossipers. Often our first impressions of God come from the home!

  39. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • Our God tells us that Jesus is now personally active in our forgiveness. (1 Jn 2:1-2)

  40. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • 1 John 2:1-2- My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

  41. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • We must overcome our background with the knowledge of God’s nature and of God’s conditional promises. (Rom 8:31-32; 15-16)

  42. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • Romans 8:31-32 - What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

  43. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • Romans 8:15-16 - For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

  44. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • We should trust brethren to do the right thing.

  45. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • I realize that many fail to do what they say. The love of God in my heart will believe the best concerning my brethren. (1 Cor 13:7)

  46. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • 1 Corinthians 13:7 - bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

  47. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • Some who have wronged others look at the person they hurt with suspicion and in some cases anger! (Ex. Lending someone money)

  48. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • It is important for their to be follow-up and words of assurance when someone apologizes to you. (2 Cor 2:7-8)

  49. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • 2 Corinthians 2:7-8 - so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow. 8 Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him.

  50. Are we able to receive forgiveness from God and others? • Is the fruit of the Spirit in you? It is easy to trust a kind person! (Gal 5:22-23)

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