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Forgiveness: The Hardest Part
Text: (NLT)
1 Let all that I am praise the Lord;
with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.
2 Let all that I am praise the Lord;
may I never forget the good things he does for me.
3 He forgives all my sins
and heals all my diseases.
4 He redeems me from death
and crowns me with love and tender mercies.
5 He fills my life with good things.
My youth is renewed like the eagle’s!
6 The Lord gives righteousness
and justice to all who are treated unfairly.
7 He revealed his character to Moses
and his deeds to the people of Israel.
8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful,
slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
9 He will not constantly accuse us,
nor remain angry forever.
10 He does not punish us for all our sins;
he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.
11 For his unfailing love toward those who fear him
is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.
12 He has removed our sins as far from us
as the east is from the west.
13 The Lord is like a father to his children,
tender and compassionate to those who fear him.
14 For he knows how weak we are;
he remembers we are only dust.
INTRODUCTION:
A- The Challenge of Forgiving Ourselves
1- The most difficult person to forgive is the one you face in the mirror.
a- Forgiveness is not complete until you forgive yourself.
B- Two extreme examples of people who could have had a problem forgiving self:
1- Peter
If anybody had reason not to forgive himself it was the apostle Peter.
On what must have been the most demanding night of Jesus’ life, Peter denied that he knew his Master.
Jesus had foretold Peter’s behavior, saying, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.”
Sure enough, Peter did () .
We don’t know how Peter might have cried out to his heavenly Father in the aftermath of what he did that night.
We don’t know what Peter might have said to the Lord after Jesus’ resurrection, but we do know this: Peter trusted Jesus to forgive what he had done.
And Jesus trusted Peter to receive forgiveness.
After Jesus rose from the dead, an angel said to the women who came to the tomb, “Go, tell His disciples—and Peter—that He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you” ().
Jesus expected Peter to continue to follow Him.
And Peter did.
Jesus met Peter and some of the disciples by the shore of the Sea of Galilee one morning.
When Peter heard the Lord’s voice calling to him from the shore, he left his fishing boat and “plunged into the sea”—he was in a hurry to get to Jesus as fast as he could.
That is the response of a person who feels fully forgiven.
Jesus asked Peter three times, “Do you love Me?” Three times, Peter said, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.”
Three times, Jesus commanded Peter to care for the lambs and sheep of His flock.
At the close of Jesus’ conversation with Peter, He said to him the same words He said at the beginning of their relationship: “Follow Me.” ().
Peter had a second chance to be Jesus’ disciple.
And Peter took the opportunity for full restoration.
Peter became a vigorous leader in the early church in Jerusalem.
His sermon on the Feast of Pentecost was one of the most effective and powerful soul–winning sermons ever preached.
The text for his sermon was a passage from Joel that ends, “But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
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Peter was also the first to preach the gospel to Gentiles.
And what did he say to them? “He is the one all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in him will have their sins forgiven through his name.”
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Peter never could have preached such sermons or enjoyed such anointing on his life if he had not first been able to receive God’s forgiveness for himself.
* God does not anoint a spirit of unforgiveness, even if the person you are refusing to forgive is yourself.
2- Paul
The apostle Paul also was able to forgive himself.
He referred to himself as the “chief” of all sinners ().
That may very well have been the case.
It is doubtful that anyone persecuted the early Christian church with more vehemence and zeal than did Saul (Paul).
He breathed “threats and murder” against the disciples of Jesus ().
And yet, nobody preached forgiveness more than Paul.
Paul declared, “This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.”
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* No matter what you may have done, you have not “out-sinned” Peter and Paul.
They received God’s complete forgiveness, including the ability to forgive themselves.
And so can you.
C- Why Don’t We Forgive Ourselves?
1- We may not have really experienced God’s forgiveness.
2- We may think we know something about our sin that God doesn’t know—and with that reasoning, we assume that God wouldn’t forgive us if He knew the full details of our sin.
3- We expect to sin again.
Since we expect to fail again, we conclude that we can't be truly forgiven.
4- We are confronted by the consequences of our sin on a regular basis, and therefore, we draw a conclusion that we can’t be fully forgiven.
5- We can't understand why God would forgive us.
TS: What does God's Word say about the subject?
I - WE NEED TO FOCUS ON GOD'S FAITHFULNESS, RATHER THAN OUR FAILURES.
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"Let all that I am praise the Lord; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.
2 Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me."
A- He provides complete forgiveness from the depths of his grace.
() "He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.
4 He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies."
() "He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins."
B- He redeems our lives and showers out his mercy upon us continually.
() " He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies.
5 He fills my life with good things.
My youth is renewed like the eagle’s!"
() "He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding."
* Once we have received God's forgiveness through accepting Christ as Savior and Lord, we have been completely forgiven of our sins--not based upon our effort, but because of God's grace and mercy.
The first step we must take toward freedom is focusing on God's faithfulness to forgive, not our failures to be perfect.
II - WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF GOD'S FORGIVENESS.
() "8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
9 He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever.
10 He does not
punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.
11 For his unfailing
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