Today
ladies and gentleman ,we are going to be talking about something that for
every Christian would seem to be second nature to us all , but even
to this season battle test Warrior as myself it hard to do sometimes
but then the Holy Spirit kick me in butt and remind me of what it
written in Matthew 6:14-15 (NIV)"For
if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their
sins, your Father will not forgive your sins."
Yes
the topic that we are going to be covering today is forgiveness and
why is it important that we forgive people who wrong us and what
happen to the Christian when they don't forgive this should a very
great installment I hope you enjoy it .
Now
I know in the world we live in these day and things that we as
Believer in Christ have to endured on daily basic may make it hard
for some to forgive those whom wrong us (sin against us) thing they
do to us make it hard and sometime seem impossible task to do, trust
me sometime it even hard for me do to. But as Christian it something
we have to do regrets there no choice in matter we most forgive those
whom wrong us
I'm
going tell little story real quickly here, back in high school I
dated a girl who name was Christina out of respect for I not give her
last name . We started to date in junior year in high school things
were going great she sixteen and I was eighteen but her mom cool with
we never did anything that normal teenager didn't do (I never Slept
with her just to clear that up right up front because she was under
the age )
but
any who the first week in my senior year I wrote a letter to get
something off my chest and she took the wrong way and dumped me it
hurt really bad, the worse part of it was that was a week before
senior homecoming and in which left without date for homecoming. I
look for another. but wasn't able to find another date in that short
period of time and so at home coming . I thought I found a date for
homecoming, my best friends girlfriend Jennifer,but the day of the
homecoming dances she stood me up and and took one of her friend who
was gay, and didn’t tell me until right before it was time for me
head out for homecoming.
So
I when to my senior Homecoming Dateless, and hurt, and seeing all my
friends there that I hang out were also friends with my ex Girlfriend
Christine, and it hurt me to much to see them living it up all happy and
dancing like none thing had happen
When my whole world was crashing
down around me, and yes it made me very angry, but more hurt then
anything, But Jennifer did give me one dance, and few others but
seeing them having fun with out me made my blood boil, So after about
hour or so of putting up with it all I called my step father and told
him come pick me up and he did.
So
My Ex Girlfriend whom at once time I want to married and love with
all my heart and soul, Ruin my senior homecoming, But that not the
only thing she did, she didn’t stop there she when around school
spreading false rumors about me, like I forced myself on her and
stuff which I never didn't I never did anything she didn't want to
do, knowing she was underage, and I was eighteen, trying to Trash my
na,e in every possible way, Oh I was mad.... ok mad is not the word
that I am wanting to used here ( But since this is Christian Blog
that the word I'm going to use in this) In mind my she had declared War on me and at this Point in time as mad as I was said to myself "if she wanted War then
War she shall have". So during the majority of my senior year in highschool my Ex Girlfriend and I were at a State of war
Now
here where the forgiveness part comes into the store, My older
Brother Jerry and his wife when to a church ,( I can't remember the
name of that church now ) but let me tell you it was awesome church,
Well one Sunday my brother invite me to attend his church, and I when
to his church, and let me tell you the message that the minster given
that Sunday morning, was one that I need to hear, That day he was
speaking on subject of Forgiveness, and the whole time I was sitting
there, listening to every word he was speaking, every word was like
double blade sword that cut me to the bone, and this is what the
minster said that day “ God is sending blessing into your life
every second of the day, you may not see the blessing he sending you way,but trus me The Lord is allway sending blessing to those whom follow him
But if
you have unforgiven in your heart toward someone. That unforgiven is
like a brick wall in your heart and that brick wall of unforgiven is
blocking the many blessing that God sends into your life, and has
powerful as our God his he can't break down that brick wall, it up to
you, God can will just continue send the blessing but it up to you do
accept them, But as long as you have that brick wall of unforgiveness
in your heart, Your the one who is blocking the blessing that God
have in store for you,
It
was at the moment that the words that the minster had spoken began to
sink into my thick skull, like I told you before those word he spoke
were like a double blade sword, cutting and slashing there way
though the raging storm of angry and bitterness and unforgiveness
that in my heart, How can I explain the feeling that I was feeling
that moment, In the Book of Act Chapter 2 where Peter was
addressing the crowd at the day of Pentecost after the holy spirit
fell on the apostle, 36Therefore let all the
house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus,
whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.37Now when they heard
this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to
the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?(KJV)
At that very moment I known what I had to do, I need to forgive my
Ex Girlfriend if I ever wanted to receive the full blessing that
Yahweh (God) had in store for me. I known I need to forgive her face
to face, yet she wasn’t there so I closed my eyes that very moment
and in the silence of the moment, I told The Lord that I forgive her
for all the things that she had done to me, and at that very moment
it felt like a thousand ape had been lift off my shoulder and I felt
that brick wall that I had build in my heart start to crumble and
fall away, a rush of peace and forgiveness flood my body,
The
truth bless that the The Lord had in store for me was my wife Ashley
Cline, Little did I know by tearing down that brick wall down of
unforgiveness that I had in my heart paved the way for the Lord to send me best
blessing that I have ever could received and that was my wife
Well in
short I did get around to telling her that I forgive her, and even
after I had forgiven her for wronging me, and I felt so free from the
crushing weight of unforgiveness that I had in my heart,
I'm
know I told you this story would he a short one, but the something
important that I felted I need to include in this post, when after I
forgive her for what had done to me personally, like dragging my good
name though the mud like she did, no matter what she did from that
point of do me, no matter how anger it made me, I forgive her on the
spot, Oh just to let you guy know later down the road my Ex
Girlfriend got what she had coming to her, for ruining my senior
homecoming, because at Prom The Lord allow me the honor of getting
even with her for ruining my senior home coming, and let just say,
Ashley was my weapon of Choice, I when to prom with my current wife,
and my Ex Girlfriend was kind of on heavy side of life, ( No trying
to make fun of her or anything,) But my current wife was skinny and I
was able to pick her up and spin her around in the air, because I
couldn't have done that to my ex, and the fact on the senior walk
they played Truly madly deep in which was my Ex and my song.
Ok
Now that story I just told you was pretty long and maybe I could have
shorten it a little bit, but I want to used it as example to you how
bad people can wrong you in life, You have to be willing to forgive
that person, because if you don't you just hurting yourself more
then you are them, because as you remember from the story above I
told you that my unforgiveness I had toward my ex girlfriend build a
brick wall in my heart that blocked the blessing that God had in
store for my life,
There
many other way you can be hurt .. You could have been a Victim of
Domestic Violence at the hands of a husband or a wife, ( Yes ladies,
it not only us male who beat up on their partners) , you may have
been the victim of rape, assault, or was sexuality abuse when you
were Child, by a family member or a stranger, of maybe even a
teacher, ( a lot of the going around these days) I Personally was a
Victim of sexual Abuse when I while I was in foster care by 19 year
female, Just want to let you know I Personally have gone though some
stuff in my life as well. But no matter how much pain someone has
done to you in the pass, you much Forgive them, I know it going to be
hard for you to look the person who hurt you in the eyes, you may
have flash back of all the pain and hurt that person had done to you
, but you have to shut that out and focus on doing what the Lord
would want you to do, to forgive the person,
In
the Book of Matthew Chapter 18 verse 15 through 20 Jesus speak on
what you need to do when a brother or sister sins against you (ESV)
15“If your brother
sins against you,go and tell him his fault, between you and him
alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.16 But if
he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every
charge may be established by the evidence of two or three
witnesses.17If he refuses to listen to them,tell it to the church.
And if he refuses to listen even to the church,let him be to you as a
Gentile and a tax collector.18Truly, I say to you,whatever you bind
on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth
shall be loosed[a]in
heaven.19Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about
anything they ask,it will be done for them by my Father in
heaven.20For where two or three are gathered in my name,there am I
among them.”
As we see from the
passage above Jesus told us what to do when a brother or a sister sin
again you, hearing this left peter confused so we find in Matthew 18
chapter 18 verse 21 though 35 the Parable of the unforgiving Servant
21
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my
brother sin against me, and I forgive him?As many as seven times?”22
Jesus said to him,“I do not say to you seven times, but
seventy-seven times.23 “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be
compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his
servants.[a]
24When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten
thousand talents.[b]25
And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with
his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.26
So the servant[c]
fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I
will pay you everything.’ 27 And out of pity for him, the master of
that servant released him and forgave him the debt.28 But when that
same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed
him a hundred denarii,[d]
and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you
owe.’29 So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have
patience with me, and I will pay you.’30 He refused and went and
put him in prison until he should pay the debt.31 When his fellow
servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and
they went and reported to their master all that had taken place.32
Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant!
I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.33 And should
not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?
34 And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,[e]
until he should pay all his debt. 35 So also my heavenly Father will
do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your
heart.”
So
in Closing you can see how important it is for us Christian to
forgive those whom have sinned against us, no matter how many time
they sin against us, we must forgiven them, for your sins to be
forgive you first must forgive those whom sin against you,
Until
next time Warriors “ May the Glory of the Lord be your rearguard,”
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