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September 26, 2021
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Final Touches on Forgiveness
Is Forgiveness a Choice and Reasons We Don’t Forgive?
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IS FORGIVENESS A CHOICE? … to that I say: You Decide!
I heard someone once say that “unforgiveness is like drinking poison
and expecting the other person to die.”
It’s true: Holding a grudge is
harmful to you and not really hurting the other person at all.
Jesus best illustrates what choice looks like when it comes to
forgiveness:
In the Lord’s prayer, Matthew, Chapter 6, Verse 12, Jesus said for us to
pray:
“And forgive us as we forgive others”.
That’s person to person or
horizontal forgiveness.
That level of forgiveness is between me and
you, you and me.
But then He ratchets up the ante of choice in Matthew 6: 14 & 15 when
He brings Himself into mix and says:
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If you choose not to forgive neither will your Heavenly Father
forgive you.
That’s the choice of vertical forgiveness.
Unforgiveness can have an effect on your health, your personality, and
your overall happiness.
That’s why we all need to know the Importance
of Forgiveness from a biblical perspective.
God knows how much
harm the choice of forgiveness can wreak on us.
That’s why He gives us
knowledge and understanding on how to set ourselves free from the pain
and suffering of unforgiveness which allows us to live a victorious life!
Some of us have allowed the “enemy of unforgiveness” to own us for
too long.
It has dogged your life for far too long.
Some of us have been
festering in the same unforgiveness for months, even years – 5, 10, 15,
20 years or more because you refuse to forgive.
It’s time you put
unforgiveness in its place.
You’ve been flying the flag of unforgiveness long enough.
Take it down
today and fly the flag of victory in Jesus today.
As long as you fly the
flag of unforgiveness, you are glorifying Satan.
Take it down and
replace it with God’s flag of victory and glory.
Serve notice on
unforgiveness today.
Just be willing and God will step in help you.
You don’t have to have all
the ingredients of forgiveness working in your life.
All God is asking
for is for you to give Him permission to come in and help you.
You give
Him permission by first having a will to embrace His Word and
instructions on forgiveness.
Just be willing and God will take it from
there.
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2 Corinthians 8:12 says . . .
For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what
one has, and not according to what he does not have.
Forgiveness is a choice!
It may be a hard choice and it may seem
impossible, but the bottom line is, it’s up to you to make the decision to
forgive.
It’s not a decision based on how you may feel, because the flesh is a
deceiver.
It is at war with the spirit; the flesh wants to do what the flesh
wants to do.
It wants to do what feels good and that’s usually not the
answer.
In the case of unforgiveness, the flesh wants to glorify the devil
through: Revenge, Retaliation, Vengeance, Payback, Disconnection].
You will need to side with your spirit and bring your flesh under
control.
Galatians 5:16 KJV “This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and
ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
Anytime we cater to the flesh, we have elected to not walk in the Spirit.
It’s a choice.
Sadly, we prematurely conclude “I CAN’T FORGIVE”.
When we
draw such a deep line in the sand, we’re really saying, “Jesus’ death
on the cross and His forgiveness of me and the whole world is
inadequate . . .
it’s in sufficient.
We’re saying, He lacks the power
to empower me to forgive as He desires and command.
So then, we
don’t forgive!
Why Not?
Next Week FOUR reasons why we often refuse to forgive: . . .
Final Touches on Forgiveness
Is Forgiveness a Choice?
Yes!
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