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June 21, 2019 8:00 am
Here's Dr. Don Wilton the Bible sees that that they brought people. They listen these people got so smitten with the belief that Jesus can do it if he could heal that the lame man lame from his mother's womb. He could do anything and they believed it, and they began to bring basic and they began to bring people who didn't know Jesus and I began to noise and roasted you got to come with me to church. You've got to come you got to come with these people all come with me. Let me show you basecoat this hope in this world there is joy this piece. This will give you can be forgiven. You can be made whole and me because he doesn't know the Friday edition of The Encouraging Word featuring the Bible-based preaching of Dr. Don Wilton will be open to God's word in a message he calls what about forgiveness that's on the way in just a few moments. But as we launch today want to remind you, headed into the weekend. I pray that you are ready to get involved in local church either your church that maybe you've been out of for a while maybe dig into a brand-new opportunity to connect with such an important part of encouraging you to give us a call and let us help you find a church in your area. If you don't have one. Numbers 86699 word 868999673 not only to do that to pray with you and for you. We stand ready to connect about today's message went Dr. Don Wilton we want to hear from little God owns and so it is that I had been planned to begin with the issue of human sexuality today because I received so many questions about a lot of issues related to that.
As you can imagine I'm going to be speaking to that God wouldn't. He wouldn't let Oaxaca today and he kept bringing me back to the subject of forgiveness and I will be perfectly up front with you today and tell you that I wrestled.
I said well I'm not sure that that's the base subject to begin a series like this may be maybe it's just not attractive enough. Maybe it doesn't look quite that good on a bootable and yet I received scores of questions from so many people about this whole issue of forgiveness and I've come to understand that this really is something that affects us love you so much today. I'm praying for you. The Bible tells us about a king, and the king had a servant and one day the king ran into his servant and the servant owed the king a great deal probably money and Varian. Other types of things, but he was inundated to the king and the king said to the servant, he said I need you to know that you had better pay me what you owe me, and the servant begged for mercy. He begged the king because the king told him that if he didn't pay up his date that he would have that servant thrown into prison. Any begged the king and the king looked upon him with compassion and the Bible tells us that the king made the decision to forgive his servant and he just forgot. He forgave his date and the servant was so happy he'd been set free and that same servant walked out of the king's presence and went outside and and he ran into another person and this other man owed the servant who had just been forgiven of his date a great indebtedness, and the servant hood just been forgiven turn to this other man and said to him, you owe me, you owe me you understand me you owe me, you owe me, you owe me your intent to me and this other man looked at the servant hood just been forgiven by the king and said please understand I cannot pay back this date. I don't care whether you can pay it back.
You owe me. Do you understand me you owe me, you owe me, and the servant began to cry and beg and say please if you would just help me give me some kind of terms let me play the soulful. Whatever it was, but please have mercy on me, and the servant hood just been forgiven, said over my dead body will I forgive you. You understand me you owe me, you owe me, and he took that other servant, and he threw him into prison, and he punished him. The Bible says that the king somehow got to hear about this and he called in the very man that he had forgiven and he said what's this didn't I just forgive you and I just forgive you what seems to be your problem and you got the audacity not to forgive someone else the Bible says that the king took the servant hood been forgiven and he threw him into prison, and said to him until you forgive that other person. I'm going to keep you in prison. Even though I have forgiven you. Father, I want to pray for us today. We've all of a sudden come to understand what our problems all of a sudden we've come to understand why we are going through the back rooms were going through. Please help us to forgive.
In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Want you to take your Bibles to Matthew chapter 18 this is a real issue. Some today are dealing with anger and hurt some of you are depressed, some of you are living out of fellowship with family members. Some of you hate repairs.
Some of you are so angry with your mother or your father and you have every reason to be that way. Some of you been wrong so deeply about other people but because God has forgiven you until you willing to forgive them.
You will remain in prison. This is what Jesus said in Matthew 18 in verse 21 then Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often were my brother sin against me and I forgive him as many as seven times. Jesus said to him I do not say to you seven times, but 77 times.
Therefore, the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants when he began the second one was brought to him who owed him 10,000 talents. And since he could not pay his monster ordered him to be sold with his wife and children and already had, and payment to be made so the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, have patience with me and I will pay you everything and out of pity for him. The monster of that servant released him and for gave him from the dead, but when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants, who owed him 100 denarii a and seizing him. He began to choke him sign, what you owe.
So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with them. Please have patience with me and I will pay you. He refused and he went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt when his fellow servants soul water taken place.
They were greatly distressed and they went and reported today monster all that it taken place, then he's monster summoned him and say to him, you wicked servant, I forgave you all your date because you pleaded with me and should you not have had mercy on your fellow servant as I had mercy on you and in anger. His monster delivered him to the jailers until he could pay his date so also Jesus said my heavenly father will do to every one of you if you do not forgive others from your heart. Forgiveness is the means by which wrong is made right.
This is a real issue. Listen to what some people have to say Oscar Wilde quote always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much. I like that Mother Teresa credible lady. I quote people are often unreasonable and self-centered, forgive them anyway.
CS Lewis to be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you Mark Twain said, quote, forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed Martin Luther King forgiveness is not an occasional act is a constant attitude. Corrie 10 boom quote. Forgiveness is an act of the will and the Wilkins function. Regardless of the temperature of the heart. Again, CS Lewis I think if God forgives us we must forgive our soups. Otherwise, it is almost like sitting up our soups as a higher tribunal in him. My good friend Dr. Charles Stanley say this forgiveness means we roll our burdens on to the Lord and allow him to carry them for us. When Jesus gave us this parable he identified three-person number one God number two you and me, three others when it comes to forgiveness. There are three persons involved God in and through the Lord Jesus Christ by his spirit number two you may number three. Everyone else others do know that when the Lord Jesus came to this earth. He identified with her see he knows that hood is real. Pain is real hurt and pain come from actions from words, criticisms, mothers and fathers course abuse.
The trial injustice. Jesus knows that we all ask God wants us, what is this course. What is hurt course courses, anger, resentment and bitterness, revenge, doctors and psychiatrists will tell you that a great deal of health problems are caused by an unforgiving spirit, headaches, nausea, lack of sleep, emotions, restriction of movements hampered growth, family get-togethers, see my precious friends as I have, as I've looked at this and try to August the Lord to speak to me.
Everyone has something to be forgiven and everyone has someone to forgive everyone.
Everyone has something to be forgiven. All of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God, begins with our relationship with God. Unless you're willing to confess and repent of that sin before him. You will never be forgiven by God, that you and once having been forgiven by God. God then gives to you the ability to be able to forgive others for they've done to you, you living your whole life with the skirt that has been closed with just June calls Jesus's name.
When Jesus told us he didn't say that this man was nodding date or that the other person was not in debt to the man who'd been forgiven. This is real. Jesus wasn't looking at you and me and sign just get over it. These things are very deep but frames precious friends, a life without forgiveness is a life of pain holding on and serves no purpose. You lose it's a spiritual irony. Most people do not forgive others because they want to make certain that the person who has offended them gets punished, but the irony is, God sees no you the one who loses. And besides that, you gotta be in prison depression is a prison anger is a prison resentment is a prison, bitterness is a prison bad health. In all these issues a prison. So here's what I just want to leave with you, just simple as this, this, this is what I want you to take home with you today. We also lets let God onset when God forgives you. Here's what happens. Number one he cleans, he cleans you love the word in the Scripture he cleanses us number two. He eliminates the word eliminate means removes he not only cleans, but he removes he cleans us of our sin. Sin, in whatever form fouls us up. He cleans us he cleanses us from all our unrighteousness.
Then he eliminates it he just takes away what is that that you going through what what was that what what what use what is it what can you just cannot seem to shake. What if you lived with for years. What is it just being constant. It just won't let you go. That's it eliminates number three he restores. I love the ministry of restoration. He restores, that means he puts you back where he originally intended you to be to begin with.
He re-boots you he restores number 46 free he sets free. That's what he does when God forgives you he sets you free and that's fantastic like you've just been let out of jail and then number five. He in Hebrews. When God forgives you see in Abel's what happens is when he forgives you he does all of these things and he culminates with the in a labeling power of his spirit, which means that God moves in to give you the enabling ability to be able to function fully, completely and purposefully as he intends you to be asked what he does for you. All right, when God forgives you, he does these five things now watch this phenomena close with his. But when you forgive others when you forgive others, which you cannot do in you your self.
Went to forgive somebody else is a spiritual act when you forgive others number one Into God. You tap you plug into God's in the billing power. Number two, you eliminate the pain. Not only your pain but their pain eliminate pain.
Number three you restore broken relationships, so let me talk to you about your family. Are you living in a broken relationship with your mother, your father, a brother sister uncle cousin you want to live like that all your life you want to be imprisoned only alive.
God tells us what to do.
You tap in, you eliminate the pain you restore broken relationships use it free yourself and the person who has offended you do know folks that that a lot of family issues of built up resentments you know there are a lot of young people who grow up in good homes and they they just blew little pity, resentments, and little pity. Resentments become bigger resentments. The proverbial of molehill becomes the mountain and there are a lot of people who grow up and they begin to take out their resentment in in a lot of different things and this whole issue of forgiveness.
It's a it's so just amazing this story that Jesus told has just gripped my heart and when you forgive another person you tap into God, he becomes your strength you you eliminate this pain because unforgiveness is very painful it if you don't forgive you live a life of pain you restore broken relationships and I love that you can do that today you can do that today. You sit free, the shackles, and and you in able others to go and do likewise. This is a gift that keeps on giving.
So here's what I want to invite or suggest to you to do what you do just consider the value that God speaks concerning forgiveness. Consider the value of your forgiveness in Christ. Just think about that valuable that Christ has forgiven you and me of all of our sin so that we can have a relationship. We can have peace with God's sins.
Now consider the value of forgiving that person that you been thinking about since you first began to listen to this message today. That's who we talking that God is telling you it is might be more than one person may be a family, it may be the most painful thing for me tell you that I'm I'm here to help you. It's a good thing to to go talk some of these things out a lot of great people can help you talk them out. You can develop a biblical strategy. I would recommend that you really cry over this loss, the Lord Jesus to help you and then take definitive action. For example, if if your mother if your mother is the one that you resent identify who the cities pray over her, and prior you tell the Lord say Lord I just don't know that I can never forgive Taylor you know something he already knows that you know limit taken by surprise your father refrain just go ahead and say Lord I I don't know why I've lived with this pain for so long I I'm angry. I was on twitter I be honest with you if I could've it all. I want to do is pay that person back say Lord please remove this from me, you forgiven me and now go don't make an appointment go insane about guns sit down with that person. Here's what I want to tell you to do. I want you to look at that person. I want you to say I want to just pray with you that much shock them more than anything. Lord Jesus, I just want to pray right now just one SKU. I'm sitting here with my mother, my father, my uncle, my son, my best friend. This I just want to ask you to speak to us as you've spoken to me and look at that person and say to them you know mom, you've hurt me greatly that you've hurt me so badly. That's it. What's Ricardo's don't go in there Don put anything on them. You do a Lord I'm going to pray upright people would forgive one another, but right now, Lord, II just want to pray if I want to pray for people here today at the beginning of this message. Lord I I had the audacity to walk around and am looking to some people's faces Lord you looking into my face weight where a family together. Lord, Lord, II don't know who it might be but you know because you look upon our hearts and and and we dealing with real issues and I'm I'm just praying Lord for my brothers and my my sisters here today that Lord Jesus the Lord.
If there's anyone who does not know you as Savior now that they would trust your Savior because you forgive us when we repent of our sin you claims us from all unrighteousness. Pray for the salvation that people would be safe free to now and then. I pray Lord for so many Christian people today who need to be set free from the prison of their unforgiveness now. I pray Lord that that right now because Satan right now is already saying are you kidding me. You evidently have forgotten what that person did do you Lord. By the time they walk out on the main street.
Satan is going to be going berserk.
He's going to confront people he's gonna say them.
You could don't you ever that person's getting their just desserts. Lord I pray for the power of God today.
I pray Lord for these my friends that you would set them free someone listening today Lord Jesus give to them just a spiritual in the billing the means to be able to do what needs to be done. It's not worth the Lord Jesus and you say it.
You said in the Lord's prayer you say forgive them for they trespass just the same way as given who have trace boss behind his kingdom and are you ready to give your life cry. Why don't you pray this prayer. I know that I not know that God today. I repainted my faith.
I received Jesus, my friend. I would welcome today into the family of God.
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