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Let Go!
2017 is nearly over.
For some of us, it has been a very trying year.
A damaged reputation; a health issue; a miscarriage; marital infidelity; or a death.
Sometimes life throws us a curve ball and we are forced to deal with it as it comes.
Not the ideal, but the real part of life.
Maybe the circumstances have challenged you to the core of who you are and you have grown bitter, angry, or resentful.
These are times when forgiveness provides a way of letting go so you can live your life to the full.
It is the place where bitterness, resentment, and anger can take root.
Lorie Johnson wrote an article on “The Deadly Consequences of Unforgiveness,” dated June 22, 2015.
In her article she stated, “Unforgiveness is classified in medical books as a disease.
According to Dr. Steven Standiford, chief of surgery at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, refusing to forgive makes people sick and keeps them that way.
With that in mind, forgiveness therapy is now being used to help treat diseases, such as cancer. . .
Of all cancer patients, 61 percent have forgiveness issues, and of those, more than half are severe, according to research by Dr. Michael Barry, a pastor and the author of the book, The Forgiveness Project, [wrote] . . .
Harboring these negative emotions, this anger and hatred, creates a state of chronic anxiety . . .
Chronic anxiety very predictably produces excess adrenaline and cortisol, which deplete the production of natural killer cells, which is your body’s foot soldier in the fight against cancer. . .
Chronic anxiety very predictably produces excess adrenaline and cortisol, which deplete the production of natural killer cells, which is your body’s foot soldier in the fight against cancer. . .
Barry [goes on to say that] the first step in learning to forgive is to realize how much we have been forgiven by God. .
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I’m convinced that God has implanted in us all a sense of justice; a sense of right and wrong; that demands judgment against the wrong-doer.
But sometimes, justice never comes… Sometimes the hurt is so deep, it takes an act of God to forgive.
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“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.
And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites.
For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others.
Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.
And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 Pray then like this: [OUT LOUD WITH ME] “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
hallowed be your name.
10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
your will be done,
(Literal Translation) In this way, petition [God]: Our Father in heaven, holy is your reputation.
Speed the coming of your kingdom, so your purpose comes to pass on earth as it is in heaven.
Grant us today the food we need, and pardon our sins, just as we have pardoned others' sins.
Lead us [away from] temptation [and] rescue us from evil.
If we pardon others' sins, our Father will pardon our sins also, but if we do not pardon others' sins, our Father will not pardon our sins.
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread,
12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
but deliver us from evil.
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
(Literal Translation) In this way, petition [God]: Our Father in heaven, holy is your reputation.
Speed the coming of your kingdom, so your purpose comes to pass on earth as it is in heaven.
Grant us today the food we need, and pardon our sins, just as we have pardoned others' sins.
Lead us [away from] temptation [and] rescue us from evil.
If we pardon others' sins, our Father will pardon our sins also, but if we do not pardon others' sins, our Father will not pardon our sins.
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread,
12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
Forgiveness is conditional
“Forgiveness is the wiping out of an offense from memory; it can be effected only by the one affronted [the one offended].
Once eradicated, the offense no longer conditions the relationship between the offender and the one affronted [the one offended], and harmony is restored between the two.”
Main Point
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Freedman, D. N. (Ed.).
(1992).
Forgiveness.
In The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (Vol.
2, p. 831).
New York: Doubleday.
Freedman, D. N. (Ed.).
(1992).
Forgiveness.
In The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (Vol.
2, p. 831).
New York: Doubleday.
“Our Father in heaven,
Freedman, D. N. (Ed.).
(1992).
Forgiveness.
In The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (Vol.
2, p. 831).
New York: Doubleday.
If you question whether this is true or not, consider these verses:
hallowed be your name.
(ESV) 14 “For if you forgive others their trespasses, [then] your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, [then] neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
10 Your kingdom come,
(ESV) 25 “And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may [then] forgive you your trespasses.”
your will be done,
25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
on earth as it is in heaven.
(ESV) 3 “Pay attention to yourselves!
If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, 4 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ [then] you must forgive him.”
11 Give us this day our daily bread,
3 Pay attention to yourselves!
If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, 4 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
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