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By James Merritt
Hebrews 12:14-15
"DON'T GET BITTER, GET BETTER"
INTRODUCTION
1.
Of all the human emotions, the one that I personally and
actually fear the most is bitterness.
Bitterness is an
emotional cancer that will eat you up from the inside out.
It
is a blight that will contaminate you.
It is a burden that will
crush you.
It is a blaze that will cook you in its own juice.
2. Otto Von Bismarck was the Chancellor of Germany during the
first World War.
Toward the end of his life he got mired down
in the quick sand of bitterness, and never got out.
He carried
the bile of bitterness into his grave.
3.
One morning he got up out of bed and proudly announced to
his household, "I have spent the whole night hating."
The
burden of bitterness eventually crushed his health.
He had to
grow a beard to hide the twitching muscles of his face.
Jaundice, gastric ulcers, gallstones and shingles racked his
body.
When he was offered a small fortune to publish his
memoirs he began to write with a reckless disregard for truth,
using his pen to spill out the poisonous venom of hatred and
bitterness on men and women who had long been dead.
Expressing
his bitterness became the very thing he lived for, and the very
thing that killed him.
He died embittered, cynical, lonely,
miserable and self-consumed.1
4.
Many who are hearing this message are slaves in bondage to
the master of bitterness.
Some of you are bitter toward God
because of a tragedy that happened in your life for which you
blame Him.
Some of you are bitter toward others, such as a boss
who unjustly fired you; a spouse who left you for someone else;
a business partner who skipped out and left you holding the bag.
5. Some of you are bitter toward parents, perhaps because you
were physically abused, or sexually abused.
Some of you are
bitter toward a dad who never spent any time with you.
6.
Many people get bitter toward the church and toward
ministers of the gospel because of a bad experience that they
had.
They are bitter because somebody hurt their feelings.
They are bitter because something did not go exactly to please
them.
7. Bitterness is the result of feeling that someone has done us
wrong.
I would define bitterness this way: Bitterness is
harbored hurt hidden in the heart.
At the root of all conflict,
whether it be a church fight, or a world war, is bitterness.
In
my estimation there is not a more dangerous emotion than the
emotion of bitterness.
8. Bitterness is like a malignant tumor that will ultimately
turn a healthy body into a cold corpse if it is not removed, and
the sooner the better.
I.
The Deep Root Of Bitterness
1. "Looking diligently lest anyone fall short of the
grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause
trouble, and by this many become defiled."
(v.15) Bitterness is
described as a root.
A root is something that is beneath the
surface, invisible to the eye, but none the less real.
It is a
deep root because even though it is not far from the surface, it
stretches deep into the soil.
Likewise the root of bitterness,
though never far from the surface of one's lips, reaches deep
into the soil of one's heart.
2. The root of bitterness takes very little soil, needs
very little cultivation, is very quick to grow, but very
difficult to remove.
It is so easy to plant the seed of
bitterness, but so difficult to weed it out.
3. We get bitter for basically one of three reasons.
First of all, because of what is done to us.
Secondly, because
of what is said about us.
Thirdly, because of what is taken
from us.
It is amazing how Jesus dealt with all three of these
problems in the Sermon on the Mount.
4. Concerning what is said about us, Jesus said, "Blessed
are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of
evil against you falsely for My sake.
Rejoice and be
exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so
they persecuted the prophets who were before you."
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