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Issumagijoujungnainermik
The longest word in one of the native languages used by Alaskans is Issumagijoujungnainermik.
Issu-magi-jou-jung-nainer-mik.
24 letters.
There's a legend about Moravian missionaries who spent time in Alaska among the Eskimo Indians.
In learning the Inuit culture and their language, the missionaries realized that the Inuit people had no word for "forgiveness".
The missionaries latched on to Issumagijoujungnainermik as a way to think about forgiveness.
That word means “Not-being-able-to-think-about-it-anymore.”
That is the essence of what it means to forgive.
We are finishing up our Forgiving Challenge this week.
The last day of the Forgiving Challenge is this coming Saturday, day #40.
We’ve been using the SCARS acrostic to help us memorize and contemplate what forgiveness means in the Bible:
Sin
Confession
Absolution/Forgiveness
Restoration
Sanctification
Today we’re at the end: sanctification.
Sanctification is the natural flow from forgiveness.
After all, forgiveness itself sanctifies.
It cleanses.
Sanctification literally means:
• being set apart.
• being made holy.
• being purified.
• being cleansed.
When something is sanctified, it is set apart for holiness.
The Scriptures tell us that when Jesus forgives us, he sanctifies us, he sets us apart as holy.
He gives us his holiness, without which we cannot have a relationship with God.
This is where we get the word “saint”.
All of us are saints.
We’ve all been made holy by Jesus in his forgiveness in his death on the cross.
The Bible also talks about sanctification in terms of our walk with Jesus.
We have been made holy.
We are being made holy.
And again, it’s Jesus’ forgiveness that makes us holy.
We don’t make our own holiness, we don’t contribute to our holiness.
This is all God’s work.
But in our sanctification, as we are being made holy, we are pursuing forgiveness as a lifestyle.
The key to becoming a forgiving person of others in this world is to first experience the forgiveness and freedom that God offers to you.
Far more people have a harder time receiving God’s forgiveness than they do actually forgiving others.
And so we’ve spent this series to help you and I understand forgiveness.
This is for you.
And for me.
Not your neighbor, not your spouse, but you, to truly live in the freedom that comes from God’s forgiveness.
This is what Jesus wants for us… to live in the freedom of his forgiveness.
Forgiveness as a lifestyle
What does it mean for forgiveness to be a lifestyle?
What does it look like in our Christian walk, our sanctification?
Let’s go back to the definition we’ve been using.
We have talked about forgiveness meaning a couple of things:
Forgiveness cancels a debt
Forgiveness stops feeling anger or resentment toward another
Forgiveness cancels a debt.
Forgiveness says “you don’t owe me anymore.”
The second thing that forgiveness is… forgiveness is no longer feeling anger or resentment toward another person.
This gets at the heart of what we’re saying when we say “you don’t owe me anymore.”
What we are saying is not only “you don’t owe me anymore”, but also “I’m never going to hang this over your head.”
“I will never hold this against you.”
Forgiveness is the antithesis of the grudge.
Forgiveness doesn’t hold grudges.
The Christian walk that is characterized by forgiveness doesn’t hold grudges.
The forgiving lifestyle is virtually drama-free.
Not that there’s never drama in the forgiveness lifestyle… but there’s something about being a forgiving person that minimizes drama between individuals.
Think about it… half the drama in a lot of instances is a failure to let go of an offense.
Peter and Jesus
We’ve been looking at one of the best illustrations of forgiveness in the Bible.
The story of Peter and Jesus on the beach after Jesus’ resurrection.
Peter had sinned.
He denied knowing Jesus three times in a time where Jesus could have used someone to stand up for Him.
Instead, he sat down by the comfortable fire and crumbled.
Jesus dies.
Jesus rises.
Peter is one of the first to see the empty tomb.
He’s there with the other disciples when Jesus shows them the nail prints in his hands and feet.
And then he goes fishing.
And Jesus shows up.
Jesus shows up to have a conversation with Peter around a charcoal fire of fish and bread.
We read that story.
All of the disciples around that charcoal fire, a fire just like the one where Peter denied Jesus.
The elephant in the room is “what’s Jesus going to do with Peter?” It’s probably kind of awkward.
The very thing that we would expect at this meeting is nowhere to be found.
Jesus doesn’t make Peter recount what he did wrong.
Jesus doesn’t bring it up.
We would.
Jesus doesn’t.
We would want a reckoning.
But the reckoning has already happened.
At the cross.
Jesus has forgiven Peter.
Already.
Jesus not only forgives, but he restores Peter.
He tells Peter to shepherd his sheep.
Peter will shepherd Jesus’ flock.
That becomes Peter’s mission in light of the forgiveness he receives from Jesus.
But then Jesus says something very odd:
John 21:18-19 “Truly I tell you, when you were younger, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted.
But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”
He said this to indicate by what kind of death Peter would glorify God.
After saying this, he told him, “Follow me.”
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