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The Good News Of Forgiveness
What does it mean to forgive someone?
Can I tell you a story?
It’s a story of me learning to forgive.
Forgiveness isn’t always easy.
Actually, if someone needs forgiveness, by the very nature of the need to forgive means something hurtful was done.
CS Lewis said, “Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.”
About 10 years or so ago my parents divorced.
They’d been married for 35 years or so.
They’d been in the ministry my whole life.
Pastoring, evangelizing, serving the church in multiple ways.
This is about them though, it’s about me.
When they divorced, I had a difficult time forgiving them.
I remember after they had been divorced for several months I was going to preach on a passage in 1 John about love and walking in love.
It convicted me to write that sermon.
I knew before I could preach it I had to meet and forgive.
So I called or texted the parent I was most upset about in the situation to meet for lunch.
I had to sit down.
I had forgive.
I had to learn what forgiveness meant.
And here is what I learned, and what I said.
i said I don’t condone the divorce, but I don’t stand in judgment over you.
Forgiveness is releasing them from your judgement.
It’s recognizing that God will ultimately judge them in righteousness and justice.
It’s recognizing that God is the perfect judge and I am not.
It’s releasing my from the weight of being their judge.
It doesn’t mean agreement with sin, it means turning the sin over to God for God to handle.
It means turning them over to God for God to work.
It means turning my own hurts over to God for God to work in.
Forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting.
Forgiveness doesn’t mean excusing sin.
Forgiveness means releasing your claim to be their judge.
Forgiveness means releasing yourself to carry their judgement.
Forgiveness means releasing them to God for God to deal with.
A God will deal with them with both righteousness and justice.
Unforgiveness leads to bitterness.
There’s a quote that gets attributed to multiple people, its something like this, “Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die.”
Unforgiveness is the same.
Holding on to unforgiveness doesn’t bind the other person it only binds you.
Learn to let go.
Jesus is asked about forgiveness is Luke 17.
Let’s look together.
You Will Be Offended
Hear me.
Hear Jesus.
Offenses will certainly come.
Why?
Because we live in a broken world.
It’s why we need need Jesus.
It’s why Jesus came.
Someone will lie about you.
Someone will take something from you.
Someone will turn their back one.
Someone will use you.
Someone will treat you unjustly and unfairly.
Someone will sin against you.
But hear me, Jesus wont.
Jesus will not lie about you.
Jesus will not take something from you.
Jesus will not turn his back on you.
Jesus will not use you.
Jesus will not treat you unjustly or unfairly.
Jesus will not sin against you.
Jesus will instead, take your sin, your guilt, your punishment, and give you mercy and grace.
Jesus will do it.
Yes, you will be sinned again, but not by Jesus.
Their is hope in Jesus.
Jesus Takes Judgement Seriously
You see Jesus’ words here.
He doesn’t take unrepentant sin lightly.
When someone acts unjustly Jesus sees that.
And we see that Jesus stands ready to judge those harm the innocent .
But He also offers hope.
What is that hope?
Repentance
Rebuke the one who sins against you.
Forgive the repentant.
What is Jesus saying?
Look with me at Luke 17:4
I don’t think this is the same sin seven times.
If someone is committing the same sin seven times in a day that person hasn’t repented.
Repentance mean a change in your mind that leads to a change in your behavior.
Repentance means to agree with God about your sin and change you behavior to match God’s nature and character on the sin.
So if the person is committing the same sin 7 times in a day that person hasn’t actually repented.
Repentance is evident in behavior.
You can’t have repented from stealing if you go back to steal some more.
You can’t have repented from gossip if you immediately find someone else to gossip about.
There is fruit of repentance.
The fruit matches the root.
But if the person has repented your forgiveness should be limitless.
What do I mean by limitless?
I mean you should no longer sit in judgment but release them to God.
I want you to hear this, there are offenses that you can forgive but you should also remove yourself from relationship with that person.
Forgiveness isn’t an expectation to be sinned against.
I would say that if a person continues to sin against you that is a sign of their unrepentant heart.
You may have to separate yourself from relationship with them and release them to God.
That is why their are biblical grounds for divorce, sometimes the sin is so great is separates fellowship between people.
But you can still release them to God.
Now listen, God hates divorce.
He hates divorce.
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