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ME:
Talk about the Easter season/New series
Speak about Christian identity/To be Holy/Alpha
How i deal with people who have hurt me.
Board issue.
WE:
It’s hard to forgive.
C.S. Lewis once said, “Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea until they have something to forgive.”
There are some of you here are thinking pastor you don’t know what I’ve been through.
Someone has abandoned, abused or ruined your life.
They’ve cheated on you, divorced you.
You have a legitimate complaint.
Right now, as you sit, you still bear the scars and consequences of that injustice.
Some of you might be experiencing right now.
I’ll never know or understand.
But somebody does.
Somebody knows the level of injustice you’ve felt.
Somebody else still bears the scars of the consequence of that injustice.
Jesus.
Jesus felt what you felt
GOD: Walk through the Text
Luke 23:
Luke 23:
It’s a prayer
Luke 32:34
What is Jesus doing?
He is praying!
The importance of praying- he broke the silence
Praying to the Father.
What is He praying?
He praying for the Forgiveness for others.
it would be understandable if he was praying for himself.
We could understand if He was praying, “Father, they nailed me to a piece of wood.
I came to save them and now they’re trying to kill me!
Father, strike them dead and let’s start all over.”
That would be understandable, but very unlike Jesus.
Or maybe, “Father, I know I have to endure the cross for the salvation of your people, but it’s so difficult and painful, so please help me to endure it.”
That would be a really understandable prayer.
But He doesn’t pray that either.
We could understand if He was praying, “Father, they nailed me to a piece of wood.
I came to save them and now they’re trying to kill me!
Father, strike them dead and let’s start all over.”
That would be understandable, but very unlike Jesus.
Or maybe, “Father, I know I have to endure the cross for the salvation of your people, but it’s so difficult and painful, so please help me to endure it.”
That would be a really understandable prayer.
But He doesn’t pray that either.
During the time when it would be understandable and expected for even Jesus to be self-focused, He was being utterly others-focused.
His focus was on God and those who were killing Him.
He said, “Father, forgive them.”
During the time when it would be understandable and expected for even Jesus to be self-focused, He was being utterly others-focused.
His focus was on God and those who were killing Him.
He said, “Father, forgive them.”
- Every other time Jesus went to forgive during His ministry He said, “Your sins are forgiven.”
But as He was hanging on the cross, He didn’t simply say that.
Instead He asked and prayed, “Father, will you forgive them?”
Why?
Through this we see Jesus’ humility.
The first and foremost wrong He had in mind wasn’t the wrong being committed against Him, but the wrong committed against God.
Jesus was showing us how we ought to deal with being wronged and sinned against.
Through this we see Jesus’ humility and divine condescension.
The first and foremost wrong He had in mind wasn’t the wrong being committed against Him, but the wrong committed against God.
Jesus was showing us how we ought to deal with being wronged and sinned against.
Every other time Jesus went to forgive during His ministry He said, “Your sins are forgiven.”
But as He was hanging on the cross, He didn’t simply say that.
Instead He asked and prayed, “Father, will you forgive them?”
Why?
When we sin, we sin against God.
Our view of God’s holiness and righteousness must be such that we realize the wrong committed is not against us, but against God.
- When someone comes to you and confesses they’ve lied to you, they’ve hurt and betrayed you.
How do you respond?
When someone comes to you and confesses they’ve lied to you, they’ve hurt and betrayed you.
How do you respond?
Do you first and foremost have such a view of your own righteousness that you say, “How dare you do that to me! How could you hurt me like this?” or do you have such a view of God’s holiness and righteousness that you become broken over the fact that the person has wronged God?
If anybody could have been rightly offended by a wrong done against Him, it was Jesus.
Yet, He first and foremost cared about the restoration between the sinner and the Father.
After all, that’s why He came.
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.
(ESV)
That is the mission Jesus has called us to.
We don’t need to pray how the person has wronged us and ask for the strength to forgive them.
First and foremost, we need to pray how the person has hurt and sinned against God and ask Him to forgive them.
If God, in His infinite holiness can forgive, how much more should we?
If God would freely offer forgiveness with arms stretched out, with an embrace, not reluctance, how much more should we?
This isn’t just the way God forgives other people, but also how He forgives us.
Our theme verse in “Be Holy for I am Holy!
You forgive because you’ve been forgiven.
Remember, to the depth and extent we see and feel our being forgiven, we’ll be able to forgive.
Who is He praying for?
Jesus showed us what inclusion looked like.
It wasn’t offered to those who were repenting, confessing and sorry for their sins.
It wasn’t offered to those who were repenting, confessing and sorry for their sins.
It’s not our confession and repentance that births God’s mercy, but it’s God mercy that births our confession and repentance.
God acts first.
We act second.
It’s not that we first loved God.
He first loved us.
When we don’t understand this and keep this in the forefront of our lives, two things usually happen:
A legalistic spirit leads to being ungenerous, harsh, overly sensitive to criticism, deeply insecure, and jealous of others, because our “sense of personal identity and worth has become entwined with performance and its recognition rather than being rooted and grounded in Christ and his [un]merited grace.”-
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