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Grady’s
Upshurs
Nealy
Part 3
May 23, 2021
“…And When You Pray”
And Forgive Us As We Forgive #3
Matthew 6:12; 14 & 15
Embracing God’s Heart on Forgiveness:
Excuse-Proof Forgiveness
Matthew 6:12; 14 & 15
12
And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
Matthew 6:14 & 15
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
14
Colossians 3: 12 – 14
12
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender
mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with
one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint
against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must
do.
14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of
perfection.
(forgiveness is more than just a head thing; it requires us
accessing and putting on all the virtues that God has made available to
us in order to obey His command to forgive as He forgave.
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This morning we’re resuming our verse by verse teaching through the
“Lord’s Prayer” found in the Book of Matthew, Chapter 6.
Our main focus today is on verse 12
12
Forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.
This verse is one of 6 petitions Jesus placed in the Lord’s Prayer as a
model for how we should properly pray and what we should pray for.
Petition #5 is the focus of this message and it centers on
FORGIVENESS.
If you are just joining the series for first time, let me catch you up.
We’re doing a verse by verse walk through of the Lord’s Prayer.
So, far
we have covered four of the Six petitions found in the prayer.
They are:
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#1 God’s Name be Hallowed v.9
#2 God’s Kingdom Come v.10
#3 God’s Will be Done on earth as it is in heaven.
V.10
#4 11 Give us this day our daily bread.
V. 11
We’re now on petition # 5
12
Forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.
I have entitled this mini-segment:
[SLIDE]
Embracing God’s Heart on Forgiveness: Excuse-Proof Forgiveness.
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Our focus text is found in Matthew Chapter 6 Verses 12, 14 & 15.
[SLIDE]
Matthew 6:12, 14 & 15
12
And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
Matthew 6:14 & 15
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
14
The topic of forgiveness is considered one of the hottest most often
discussed, and most confusing principles addressed in Scripture.
It is
probably so because it has to be lived out, not talked out.
It ranks with other most-talked-about topics like money, divorce, death
and the hereafter, fasting, prayer, healing, sin, salvation and eternal
security.
My hope is to uncomplicate your understanding of biblical forgiveness
so we all can began to live it and not just wonder about it.
We can understand “forgiveness”, but we can do so only when and if we
see it from God’s perspective.
Each of us has a perspective on the world and on life – a way of looking
at things, of judging things, of holding things in the memory.
We need
to recognize that our perspective is something we have learned, and we
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need to recognize that we may have adopted a wrong understanding
about certain things.
I have found that when it comes to subject of forgiveness, very
commonly, a wrong perspective is held by many believers; and
questions on this principle abound.
Many of us have misconceptions about why God forgives us, who God
forgives, what it means to be forgiven, and how we are to go about being
forgiven and forgiving ourselves and others.
For the right perspective on forgiveness, we have to go to God’s Word
and stay there.
The Bible is God’s foremost communication to us on
this subject.
It is the reference to which we must return continually to
compare what is happening in us and to us vs. what should be happening
in us and what can happen to us.
Our perspective is wrong anytime it doesn’t match up with God’s eternal
truth.
Not seeing forgiveness from God’s perspective is a major roadblock to
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