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*Title: *“Confidence and Compassion in Prayer – VIII”
*FCF: *expecting answers when in unforgiveness
*D-Theme: *forgiveness comes through forgiving
*M-Thrust: *we must forgive
*App:* We must forgive because forgiveness comes through forgiving
*Comment: *Put your post-sermon comments here
*Subject: *Necessity of Forgiveness
*Date: *D7F92367CCEE43F3BB9D295401572E0C
*Text: *Mark 11:23-26
23For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
24Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive /them,/ and you will have /them./
25“And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.
26But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”
• Introduction
• We have been studying prayer since the first of the year…
• Beginning with 1st John 5:14-15 under the title…
• “Confidence and Compassion in Prayer”
• Our focus has been what it would take…
• For us to have that confidence and compassion…?
• We have looked @ it both from the positive standpoint…
• And in recent weeks…the negative standpoint…
• In recent studies I asked the question…
• What keeps us from seeing answers to our prayers…?
• And you all said…
• Unbelief—doubt—lack of faith… wrong motives—selfish desires… unconfessed sin… unforgiveness…
• Last time we focused on unconfessed sin…
• Tonight we are going to focus on unforgiveness…
• And I want to ask you…
• Is it right to be expecting answers when in unforgiveness…?
• Should we expect to hear answer to our prayers…
• When there is unforgiveness in our hearts…?
• When there are people whom we’ve not forgiven…?
• When there is bitterness ~/ the potential for bitterness…?
• …lurking in the depths of our hearts…?
• Yes or no…?
• If yes, how do you support that from scripture…?
• If no or not, why not…?
• Discussion
• Read Text....................................... Mark 11:23-26
• What does this passage of scripture teach us…?
• More discussion
• More than all of that it teaches us that…
• …forgiveness comes through forgiving…!
• We can pray with all of the belief we want
• …that we will receive whatever things we ask…
• But the promise comes with a very clear condition…
• If we are unwilling to forgive—no forgiveness…
• And we should assume that there will be no answer…
• And no receiving of the things that we have asked for…
• If we truly want confidence and compassion in prayer…
• Then we must forgive…!
• And perhaps the question is… what is forgiveness…?
• Or what does it mean to forgive someone…?
• Often that is best answered by saying first what it is not…
• What forgiveness is not
• Forgiveness is not…
• Excusing a person or the sin ~/ wrong they have committed…
• Many people refuse to forgive because the feel it is…
• …saying to the offender… what you did to me is O.K.…
• Many people refuse to forgive thinking that in forgiving…
• …they are condoning the sin~/wrong of the offender…
• Forgiveness is not…
• And does not require saying to the person “I forgive you…!”
• In fact, oftentimes it is practically impossible…
• For they have moved away or have died…
• Plus, there can often be a great deal of emotional stress…
• …involved in facing the person and saying to them…
• “I forgive you…!”
Mark 11:25
25“And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him…
• This means that you can forgive them in a moment…
• Even as you are praying…
• Forgiveness is not…
• …putting yourself into a compromised position…
• …because you have forgiven them…
• …where they can commit the same sin against you again…
• You can say “I forgive you but I am not ready to trust you…!”
• But you must be wise in dealing with the offender ~/ sinner…
• …before you allow that person back into relationship…
• …either with you or your family…
• Forgiveness is not…
• …forgetting…
• We are unable to forget our past…
• Every significant event is permanently etched in memory…
• Especially those associated with strong emotion…
• So, we may not be able to forget the past…
• But we can be free from the past by forgiving others…
• Forgiveness is not…
• …cheap…
• It cost the Father his one and only Son…
• In order to purchase our forgiveness from sin
• What then will it cost us to be free…
• …from the bondage of unforgiveness?
• The fact is… we live with the consequences of others sin…
• Our only choice is whether we live…
• …in the bondage of bitterness, or…
• …in the freedom of forgiveness…
• To feel the pain of sin against us…
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