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Now enjoy this message. Well we've been talking about
the love of God. Amen, the Royal law of love and
we actually read that from the scripture out of James chapter
2, right? And Verse 8, where is my
scripture? I'm not even seeing it.
Do we have it up on the screen from last week?
Joshua, not even seeing it in my nose.
Same nose, here we go. If however, you are fulfilling
the Royal law and we talked about this, the Royal law
literally means Royal or Kingdom law, when you look it up in the
Greek, according to scripture, you shall love your neighbor as
yourself and you will be doing what?
Well, amen. And we talked about the fact
that everything we do as Believers should be motivated.
And by the love of God, that's been now shed abroad in our
hearts, as children of God. Amen.
Hallelujah. That's another thing.
We ought to be thankful about that.
We have his love in our hearts and we don't have come on Cold,
Heart evil heart, a wicked heart, but we have a heart full
of love from him. Amen.
And we started talking about the fact that everywhere you see in
Scripture that John or Earth through the Book of John and
other Scriptures. It talking about the love of
God, it was always in connection with one another.
The love of God was not just meant for you, it was for meant
for others because you now are connected to a Fant the family
of God, right? And so what we do now is
impacting other people's lives for the kingdom of God.
And so, it's very important that we recognize that aspect of the
The love of God. It wasn't just about you.
It was about you getting into a place in his kingdom and then,
allowing what God does in you through his love to come and
operate and flow through you into other people's lives.
Amen. And it's so important that we
keep that in remembrance, and then last week, we talked about
the fact, well, how do we Apply biblical love to our everyday
life. Amen.
Biblical love, not the way. Your opinion on how you're going
to love somebody in the body of Christ, but what does his
scripture actually say to us about loving others, right?
And so we looked at that last week and realized that We must
appropriate the love of God and making sure that our motive is
pure. We are to also forgive,
remember, that walking and forgiving people, freely, and
having a heart ready to forgive. Amen.
That should be our motive as Believers.
Now that we are in the kingdom of God, is that we actually, Ali
are motivated to want to get things right with other
believers. In the body of Christ.
That we want to make sure that we are getting things right.
And not allowing unforgiveness to happen in our hearts, right?
I'm trying to find my notes. I feel like they've all
disappeared. Oh, here we go.
We weren't to take revenge ourselves, right?
But that we were to forgive now we ended on this scripture out
of Asians chapter 4 and verse 22, through 32 and I read it out
of the Amplified and recognizing that just because God's love is
in, you doesn't mean that it is going to work.
He's not going to make it work. Who's, who's responsible to make
love work in our life? We are.
We are we are the ones that make a decision that I'm going to
activate this. Love that God put in my heart,
and I am actually going to apply it and do what his scripture
says for me to do, and I am the one responsible for it, love his
love, can lay dormant in your heart.
It can lay there. Dormant not activated.
You've got the seed of love his love.
Now, in your heart and we are the ones that have to work.
The soil of our heart, to produce the fruit of love in our
life, right? So we have to do it.
He can't make us love anyone. He can't make us do anything.
We have to make a decision to allow This.
Love that he's given us to produce in our life.
And the way that we do, Do that is, by doing the word or doing
the scripture that we hear him say to do which we read last
week. He says, love your bless your
enemies and what do good to them that mistreat you that's the way
he says that we are to love, right?
And so we are the ones that are supposed to put love into
practice. In our life.
But out of Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 22 through 32.
He said this I'm going to read it out of the Amplified again,
it says strip yourself of your former nature, put off and
disregard your old, renew unrenewed self, which
characterized your previous manner of life and becomes
corrupt through the lust and the desires that spring from
delusion and Constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind,
having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude, and put on
the new nature. So who has to put on the new
nature? We do God's already done
everything for us but yet we still have to take the
responsibility to put it on in our life every day to walk it
out to walk by the spirit and not by this.
Leche, right? So he's letting us know.
Listen we've got to put it on, put on the new nature, the
regenerate itself created in God's image Godlike.
In true righteousness. Hallelujah.
And Holiness there for rejecting, all falsity, and be
done. Now with it.
Let everyone expressed the truth with his neighbor for we are all
parts of one body and members of one another.
When angry do not sin, do not ever.
Let your wrath your Yeah, that word.
Exasperation thank you. I just had to sit and think
about it. A minute, your Fury, our
indignation last until the sun goes down.
Why we don't want to leave room or a foothold for the devil?
Well, I thought the devil could mess with somebody that's born
again. I've heard that before but we
can give him my open door or a foothold still in our life, if
we don't make a decision to do what his word says to do.
Amen. So we have to make a decision to
close every door, foothold or opportunity and not give it to
him. He says This, let the thief
steal, no more. Quit letting him steal your joy.
Quit letting him steal. Peace out of your home.
Quit letting all of these things, happen, when you don't
have to, but if you don't shut the door on the evil one, or
shut the door on things that keep it open, you're going to
continue to have chaos in your home, even though.
No, you're supposed to have heaven on Earth.
Right? And we talked about ways that we
can still allow the flesh to dominate us, right with anger
responding and anger, responding.
Rudely responding in all kinds of fleshly carnal behaviors.
If we have to make a decision that we're not going to allow
those things to rule in our lives anymore, and understand
that. If we allow them to rule in our
lives, we're opening the door. Why?
Wide open back, open to the enemy to have full access again
to kill, steal, and destroy your life.
Even though you're a child of God, Even though and that's why
you see people still have chaotic lives at even though
they're born again because they never dominate or crucify, the
Flesh and it in responses of how we respond in situations.
But if we don't choose to respond by the spirit, then what
are we doing? We're responding by the Flesh
and we're giving the devil access again or a foothold.
Hold back in our life. When the door should already be
shut. Shut the front door.
Come on. I get tired of seeing the people
just give the enemy full access continually in their life when
they are above it. When he is supposed to be under
our feet, when we're supposed to be raining above these things.
Right. Hallelujah.
So he says quit. Let the thief still no more but
rather let him be industrious. Making an honest living with
his. On hand so that he may be able
to give to those in need. Let no foul or polluting
language evil word, unwholesome worthless talk ever come out of
your mouth say ever. So you don't have a right in the
midst of your argument, with your spouse, to run him down and
dog, him out or vice versa. Don't let it come out of your
mouth who's in charge of that? We are we are now the Holy Ghost
will help you if you ask he'll help you.
If you ask him when you get in a situation I said this story
before my mouth got me in a lot of trouble, right?
And so when we first got married, I would just say what I
thought all the time and whatever came out of my mouth,
came out of my mouth until the Holy Ghost.
Day rebuked me for it and said, you need to shut your mouth.
Shut your mouth. I'm washing dishes, minding my
own business. you know, and he said something and I said
something back, you know, because we know what to say, we
know those buttons to push Come on.
And and so, I heard him say, I heard the Holy Ghost on the
inside. Say, shut your mouth.
Shut your mouth. So when he said that I have now
a decision to make, right? Am I going to allow the Holy
Ghost to help me in this situation?
Learn how to control my tongue? Or am I just going to ignore
that suggestion? Right.
So you know what I chose to do? I said, okay, well, holy ghost.
You help me. Keep my mouth shut.
So what do you hear the term? Bite your tongue.
So I'm going to sit there and learn how to bite my tongue.
And as you begin to yield to that, you become more proficient
in it. If you choose not to then you're
just going to have the continual cycle, right?
Because the goal is that you become a practicer of what
you're hearing through scripture, where we know, We
ought to be respecting our husband.
Right? That he's the lead of the home,
right? Well, I was never taught that
growing up. And I had issues right there was
some issues there, but I had to learn how to yield to the Holy
Ghost and ask him to help me bite my tongue.
The next time, it was to happen. Amen.
And so then you become proficient in practicing what
you're hearing and doing what you heard the Holy Ghost to do
until you realize. Yeah.
Okay. This really won't go so bad if I
just Just keep my mouth shut or if I learn how to communicate in
a proper way. Right?
When you learn how to be able to communicate properly instead of
most communication is in defense and response.
Instead of listening. Learning evaluating being, what
quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to write.
So we have to learn these things, right?
So he says, don't let it come out of your mouth but only such
speech as is good and beneficial to the spiritual progress of
others. So how is what I'm getting ready
to say? Say going to help someone else
spiritually progress. Actually.
In whatever it is that they're dealing with.
We've got to think about that, right?
Because if our heart is pure of love and we are only there to
see the best in others and help bring out the best in others
than we are going to learn how to communicate in a way that
would help their spiritual progress as much as it's going
to help your spiritual progress. Right?
Because that's the goal of someone that is truly a person
as a Believer. That's loving others.
We're talking about God's love Agape.
How is this going to help you and how is this going to help
me? Spiritually progress in our
relationship. See that because remember it
wasn't just all about us. So this is really not where I'm
wanting to go but I'm just breaking down these things as we
come along. It says this as it is fitting to
the need and the occasion that it may be a blessing and give
Grace God's favor. To those who hear it, do not
grieve the holy spirit of God. Do not offend or vac source.
Sadden him. How will we do that?
If we don't do what the scripture before that is saying
we're going to offend the Holy Ghost.
We're going to grieve the Holy Ghost when we don't allow the
Holy Spirit to rule our hearts we will offend him.
He's trying to help us and we're saying oh I don't receive that
unction. Oh I don't receive that whatever
it may be. We can offending, we can Satin
him by whom you were sealed, Mark and branded as God's Own
secured for the day of redemption of 50, Deliverance,
through Christ from Evil and the consequences of sin.
This is where I really want to focus on.
Okay, let all bitterness and indignation and wrath passion,
rage, bad temper and resentment anger and animosity and
quarreling brawling. Mr. Contention slander,
evil-speaking abusive and blastmon.
From its language be banished from you with all malice, spite
ill will or baseness of any kind and become useful and helpful
and kind to one another tender-hearted compassionate
understanding loving hearted Wow, there's a lot here but this
is where we ended last week. Forgiving one another readily
and freely as God in Christ. Forgave you how many times have
you blown it? And you've had to ask God to
forgive you, and Aren't you thankful that he's ready to
forgive you? At that moment that you asked,
he's ready, come on. He's ready to forgive you
immediately freely. So when it comes to us in our
relationships with one another Believers in Christ, husbands
and wives, brothers and sisters in the natural, whatever mothers
and daughters and, and mother-in-law's and
daughter-in-laws, are we with the motive of God's heart,
purely wanting to see the best in these situations that we
encounter with one another? Are we a person that rattly
ready to forgive come on and move on to a spiritual progress
of one. Another this is important
because he lets us know. We must forgive and I'm going to
say this. And we said this last week, if
we don't forgive it will turn into a root of bitterness and
this is what I want to talk about tonight. which is that
that door or that foothold in your life that the devil still
owns you, even though God is supposed to own you, He will
have you Bound by bitterness and unforgiveness.
If you choose not to have a pure heart of Agape to say, I am
always like my father ready and willing to freely.
Forgive if there's repentance and I'm always ready and freely
to do, whatever it can be to reconcile the situation.
This is the heart of the father, this is the Royal law of love.
And when we start doing that, having the heart of the father,
Right, when we start doing that, when we start actually applying
forgiveness in areas and say, listen, I forgive you, I'm going
to let it go, but we need to get a solution for this.
There needs to be change. I'm not talking about habitual.
I mean, you know, you can't cover every scenario when you're
teaching on a subject. You just can't do it.
That's why it's so important. You have a church body and come
on a regular basis, because you'll hear a certain teaching
on love. But then three years later, come
from another angle and that was what you needed that Pete's,
that was missing. You can't cover everything
entirely. That's why church is so
important that you're continually coming and hearing
and sitting up underneath the word because there's so many
things, so many spectrums of Love or Whatever any subject,
you just can't cover it all in all details and all scenarios
and all situations just can't do it right?
So we have to be people that recognize if we choose not to
have the heart of the father and forgive then, it's going to be a
danger to us. It's going to be a danger to us.
Okay, let's go and Matthew. Chapter 6, Matthew chapter 6
verses 14 through 15, it says this.
And if you forgive others for their Tres grip, transgressions
your heavenly father will also forgive you Okay.
That's an if and a conditional statement, we've already talked
about some conditional things of love.
Haven't we? So he says, if you forgive
others for their transgressions, your heavenly father will also
forgive you. Well, I thought I've already I
was already forgiven of everything.
But this isn't connection to others again.
What did we talk about? Love is always in connection to
others and he's saying, listen, if you don't forgive others than
that, forgiveness is not going to be there for you.
But yet we all want it, don't we?
But yet we choose to withhold it from people.
That's done us wrong. We hold grudges, we hold
offenses. Come on, we still have anger
issues all kinds of things. And we wonder why we don't see
fullness in our life when you come to church and you see and
hear all the things that God wants to do for your life and
all the promises that he has for you.
And you wonder why you don't see it operating completely and
fully in your life. As I said, go back to the mode
of of the heart. Go back to the motive of love
which is the foundation of the kingdom of God.
What's your love walk? Look like and it's not just what
you think it is. It again has to align itself
with what he said. Love looks like, love is bless
your enemies. Love is do to others as you
would have them do to you. Love is love them.
Like, I Christ have loved you. Well, did he forgive you?
Then who are we to think that we could withhold?
Forgiveness to other people and it not affect our lives.
And we go in circles wondering why we're not seeing things
happen in our life because your faith is not working because it
will only work by Okay, so you can speak to those mountains all
day long, but you've got unforgiveness in your heart and
those mountains are not going to move and you're going to go
around them for 40 years. See what I'm saying.
So we have the responsibility to forgive others, then your
heavenly father will forgive you, right?
Actually, I want to go to John chapter 20 and John 20:23.
It reads this, if you forgive the sins of any, their sins have
been forgiven them, but if you retain the sins of any, they
have been retained. You can actually retain the very
sin that you choose, not to forgive that has been done to
you. Why?
Because it becomes that Bitterroot within you and the
very thing that you hated that was done to you becomes you and
you begin to do it. So, we must be people that are
readily to forgive. And to freely forgive because we
do not want to have sins that have happened in the past things
that have taken place in our lives that we could choose to be
victims. And hold on, come on, hold on.
You say out of one side of your mouth, you forgive them, but you
hold on. And the very thing that you hate
you will produce, you will become that, bitterness will
turn that bit it. We're going to read it the
Bitterroot A Bitter Root will only produce bitter fruit.
A Bitter Root. This is what needs to be on my
quote, a Bitter Root will produce can only produce bitter
fruit. Can only produce bitter fruit.
Okay. So it's very important that we
recognize that we do not want to retain the sins of others.
We don't want to hold on to these things.
We want to be people that freely forgive and let it go, right?
Because the actually, when you look up that word retain means
it will take hold of you possession of you actually, when
you read it in the Greek, It will take hold of you and
possess you so to speak. Now I'm not talking about it,
you know, you're not possessed by a devil know, you're
possessed by a root of bitterness that you've chosen to
keep within and not release and forgive and let go.
It took hold of you took hold of you.
That's what that word retain means.
So it's very important. Now, I was going to talk about
Stephen and Jesus, because they are very there.
They represent how they said forgive them.
Father, forgive them, right? Stephen was being stoned.
And right before he looked up, and saw the saw Jesus, what
happened? He said, forgive them.
Don't hold their sins against them.
Right? Jesus standing on the cross,
forgive them. Father, for they know what,
what, what not they do, right? Okay.
I'm not going to read those scriptures.
But you know what? I am reference of two accounts
that we see that. They let it go, right?
Let it go right? So unforgiveness leads to
bitterness Colossians 3:12 through 15.
So as those who have become or have been chosen of God, Holy
and beloved put on a heart of compassion.
Kindness humility gentleness and patience bearing with one
another and what forgiving each other Whoever has a complaint
against anyone. Wow just up complaint, just
forgive them. I mean there's people plenty of
people that complain about me, I just forgive them.
I don't care because I love them and I'm going to choose not to
come on, allow? Wow, that to affect my life
because I've learned that I can love from God's heart and still
love them. It's not that.
I don't I don't care about that person.
I just don't care about the complaint.
I'm going to choose to forgive them.
I'm going to choose to let it go and love them anyway, right?
And he tells us that we should do that.
Just as the Lord forgave you again in recognition that if you
want him to forgive you you need to forgive others just like he
forgave you, right? And it says this beyond all
things put on love which is the perfect Bond.
Of unity. You want to know why you have
Discord in your house? Because there is not love.
Being practiced the way, he said it should be practiced because
if his love Agape is actually being applied in your marriage
and in your life, there will be a bond of unity, not discourse,
not Strife, come on, not always fighting, not anger, not
anything happening. But seeing a god, Is love
filtering through and processing through your marriage and your
life because you are allowing love to be the bond of unity.
You put a place in your heart to allow him to say, what's gonna
help the spiritual progress of the other individual come on or
vice versa, so that we can move this thing forward in God's love
so that we can have unity and it will be bonded together.
There is a binding that will happen because love is in
operation in your life. Hallelujah.
His love is the only thing that will truly unify.
And that's why we still have division in the world because
not everybody has God's love in their heart, but then those that
do have God's love in their heart supposably.
They've got to apply it to see all of it.
Come to the fullness, right? So we have a responsibility to
be a person that's going to A bond of Unity by walking in the
god kind of love in whatever situation and scenario that we
encounter First Corinthians 13 in the love scripture.
You know, First Corinthians 13. 1 through 8 is talking about the
love of God but in five and six, he says, this love does not take
in account a suffered wrong suffered.
It don't take into an account of a wrong suffered.
What does that mean? I'm going to choose to not allow
this. To be held over a person's head
as an account or that as a account, that owes, oh
something, because then it's Tit for Tat.
No, I'm going to be a person that actually is, like my father
who said, when I asked him to forgive me, he cast my sin, into
the depths of the sea or the one translation, says the sea of
forgetfulness. He doesn't hold an account.
So who are we holding account? He don't hold an account.
He says, he doesn't remember him from the East, he dispersed from
the East to the West. Doesn't even remember our sins,
but yet we hold on and remember, come on and have an account.
That Boeing account of people that have heard us or taken
advantage of us, you know, actually, in Matthew from the
very beginning. The first scripture that I read,
In Matthew 6:14. Where it says, for if you
forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly
father will also forgive you. Some of you have heard this
story but some of you may have not and it Bears repeating.
You know, before I even really was serving the lord or go into
church back when I was still 16, 17, 18 years old in between that
time frame after I had gotten pregnant with my first son.
And, you know, I had was making a decision that, you know, I
was, I need to go to church, I need to get my life together,
you know, I had Born again, at eight years old, but my parents
didn't raise me in church. We didn't go back.
I was at a vacation bible school.
So I had the seed in me, right? I was water.
Baptized I had the seed in me so this whole time, you know,
there's a struggle because I know there's something in me,
but I don't know what to do with it because I was never taught
what to do with it. But I knew he was drawing me
after, you know, this scenario of get pregnant and all these
things and married and all and so 17, 16 17, I decided I'm
going to go to church. Right?
Because something, still on the inside was draw with me and
didn't know what it was? Well I had started going to a
church didn't even really know what church to go to but it
ended up being a Church of God and they spoke in tongues Well,
I started going to this church and some of the mothers of the
church took me under their wing. You know, and I was trying to do
what was right and trying to go to church, but, you know, the
other half didn't want anything to do with it.
And so there was still a struggle, so I was just kind of
in and out, but I remember during that time I sat down and
I started reading the scripture and this is the very first
scripture. I really came to and Matthew.
It is the first book. So I'm sitting there by myself
as a, you know, I want to say maybe I was 17 18, I don't
really recall the age and I was reading this and I heard on the
inside, this is the first time I had ever really heard the voice
of the Lord, I didn't even know what it was.
I just thought the Bible was talking to me.
And I heard the very first thing you have hatred in your heart
towards your dad. Very first thing, he said to me,
he didn't say I love you. Come on.
Well, I'm pleased with you. I'm so excited.
You're finally deciding to come to church.
Come on. There was a root of bitterness
in me. From my father divorcing, my
mother at 3 years old. Come on.
And filling rejection and all these things.
Had hatred in my heart. But then God has all Dasa T to
tell me I had to go ask for forgiveness to my dad.
I said, are you serious? What did I do to deserve this?
Shouldn't he be coming to me? And asking me to forgive him for
being a terrible death. Come on, that's real.
You know what? Me, not knowing anything.
I knew I had to obey what I heard.
Ain't nobody holding my hand. Nobody mentoring me.
I've said this no mother in the church said.
Yeah, darling. That's what you got to do,
nothing nothing. No one leading me to do what was
right when I could have been a victim and chose to say, no by
God, he did this to my life and if he wants anything from me,
he's going have to come to me. Don't think those thoughts
didn't run through my mind cuz I told you what I was like then.
Right. I wanted to say all those
things. But something on the inside, I
didn't even know it was called the Holy Ghost.
Come on. I didn't have a clue what it
was. But I knew I had to obey what
the scripture said, and that's where my journey began glory to
God. I obeyed it.
Now, I went to him and I asked him to forgive me because I have
I hate you, right? And I heard, I was reading my
Bible and he told me that I needed to forgive you if he was
going to forgive me. I obeyed he stood there and
stared at me. He didn't say a word. well, I
left and I said, well, What what what's that about?
At least he could have said you know I love you.
I'm sorry. Yes I was a horrible dad I
destroyed her life. Nothing Right cricket.
About like it isn't here sometimes.
Well, don't shout me down now. Come on.
So that's where my journey began by just simply reading the word
and heard what the word had to say and chose to actually do it.
And what did that do that released him?
From that sin and it had no more.
Hold On Me. Then him watching my life from
there, I get a phone call, you know, 20 years later.
I want what you have, will you leave me to Christ over the
phone? I let him to Christ over the
phone. Hung up the phone and heard the
Holy Ghost because I knew those Voice by.
Then heard the Holy Ghost. Tell me if you never would have
obeyed me 20 years earlier. Simple obedience to what the
word says and responding to it. Come on now he's here in the
church. Born again.
Come on, we baptized him. Never would have happened.
And I 18 years old, not having a clue with what you know in this
house. I simply obeyed the word and
life was able to begin. And God knew the very root that
would have kept me down. He went straight to the very one
thing, the very root, he knew it all along.
He knew it all along and it was the very first thing.
He dealt with me about because he knew if I didn't deal with
this, it would destroy my the rest of my life.
Amen. Because bitter Roots will take
hold. So, moving back.
We must be people that forgive as he said, we are to forgive
Hebrews 12 14 through 15 says this.
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be
holy without Holiness, no one will see the Lord.
See to it. That no one.
One, misses the grace of God. Well I could talk a lot here but
I won't No one, misses the grace of God and that no Bitter.
Root grows up to cause trouble. Remember what I said, it's
nothing but trouble and it will destroy you.
And can you will continue to have trouble in your life if you
don't deal with issues in your life.
You'll still have trouble. Come on.
See to it that This Bitter Root grows up to to not defile, what
does it do it? Defiles many and he's talking
about Believers it defiles many. How many can say I've seen some
bitter? Christians.
And their life's a mess still and you're wondering why right
here, there's an issue that's never.
There is a route that has never been uprooted by the spirit of
God and the word of God, come on and yielded to So it's sprung up
and it will cause trouble and it will defile many again.
Bitterroot will only produce bitter fruit.
Look at Acts chapter 8, 21 through 24.
You have no part or portion in this matter for your heart is
not right before God. Therefore repent of your
wickedness of yours and pray. The Lord that if possible the
intentions of your Heart may be forgiven, you for, I see that
you have in our in the gall of bitterness and in bondage of
iniquity. So a gall of bitterness will
keep you in bondage to that sin that iniquity.
Even though you're born again. Okay.
And we have the responsibility to choose that we are going to
forgive we're going to let this go.
We're going to walk in forgiveness, the way that God
says that we must forgive and deal with anything that could be
defiling our life still as a believer.
Here's those crickets. Mark 11. 25 through 26.
This is right after Mark 11:23 and 24.
And I use this, you know, we need to start going to the next
two scriptures after Mark, 11:23 and 24 because everybody wants
to, you know, have faith and speak to the mountain and do all
these things, and cast it into the sea.
And not doubt in our heart, will have those things whatever we
believe when we pray, but yet they're still a problem here.
And he lets us know, here in what, whenever you stand
praying, forgive lots of people's prayers, are not being
answered because of this one thing, they're still
unforgiveness. They have truly not forgiving
and let things go. They're sand and praying.
Speaking to those mountains, want this, that work in their
marriage. Why don't you start applying
God's love? And stop taking an account of
suffered wrong. Stop being angry.
Come on, stop being disappointed.
Just get yourself together, right?
And you start just doing you and saying, you know what, right?
It says, if we forgive, if it says, whenever you stand
praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone,
Anything against anyone kids may have things against their
parents, right? We need to forgive I'm not
saying ignore the situation, I'm saying go to them.
I had to go to them. Not everybody has to go to every
single thing. But there are situations and,
and things taken place that you just need to go to them and get
things, right? That is proper.
That is proper right to go communicate and deal with it,
and then let it go, and you can be done and no matter what their
response is. You've come on, you have a
release in your heart, you've actually Actually applied the
word. And you can let it go, and
whatever happens then is on them.
But you are responsible for you. So if you have anything against
anyone so that your father who is in heaven will also forgive
you, your transgressions second scripture, we see that, he lets,
you know, that your forgiveness can be also based upon you for
your own. Forgiveness can be based upon if
you are choosing to forgive but if you don't forgive neither
will, your father who is in heaven?
Forgive your transgression regressions?
But I thought I was already forgiven See everybody lives up
underneath that. Salvation is continual until the
day you die or trumpet, sounds. There's continual things that we
have to keep our heart in a position that we're not going to
allow any Sin from day-to-day. Take root take hold, come on,
keep us back from what God wants to do in our life, we have to
choose to apply it so that our father will freely forgive us.
When we have a situation and we need to ask for forgiveness,
amen. Matthew 18:21 through 35, says
this. it says, then Peter came to him and said to him, Lord,
how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him
Hmm. Up to seven times.
Jesus said to him, I do not say to you up to seven times but up
to Seventy Times Seven. For this reason, the Kingdom of
Heaven may be compared to a King who risk to settle accounts with
his slaves. And when he had begun to settle
them, the one who owed him, what 10,000 talents was brought to
him. But since he did not have, the
means to repay his Lord commanded him to be.
Sold along with his wife and children and all that he had as
repayment to be made. So, the slave fell to the ground
prostate at this is an example of us.
Choosing to forgive, or not to forgive.
Prostate had before himself before him saying have patience
with me. So here, he's asking for
patients yet, we're going to see, he didn't apply it back.
Have patience with me and I will repay everything and the lord of
the slave felt compassion and released him.
There's that release and what forgave him the debt.
But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves
who owed him a hundred denarian and he seized him and began to
choke him saying, pay me back what you owe me?
So his fellow slave fell to the ground just like he was just
doing and began to plead with him saying have patience with me
and I will repay you but he was unwilling.
He was unwilling. To release him.
And forgive him even though he had just received it from the
law from his Lord. Right?
He was on willing and went and threw him in prison until he
should pay him back what was owed.
So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were
deeply grieved and came and reported to their lord.
All that had happened, then summing him summoning him.
His lord said to him, you Wicked slave.
I forgave you of all the debt because you pleaded with me,
Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave and
the same way that I had mercy on you.
Wow, we need to think about this.
We're crying Mercy out for God's Mercy.
Mercy Mercy but yet we're withholding it from others.
And his Lord moved with anger handed him over to the torturers
until he should repay. All that was owed him.
My heavenly father My heavenly father is he yours?
Heavenly Father. Will also do the same to you.
If each of you does not forgive his brother from what from is
heart. Not with your words. but from
your heart, the pure motive of your heart.
So you can say it all day long, but your actions and your
attitude and the atmosphere is still there because you really
did it forgive from a pure heart of I want this, right?
And if I keep asking God to forgive me, who am I to withhold
it from my brother, or my sister, or my wife, or my
husband, or my father or my mother or my daughter-in-law or
my son, come on, who are we? How arrogant prideful selfish
fleshly carnal? We when we sit here and act like
we're going to come sing A Hallelujah.
And yet still have bitterness unforgiveness resentfulness
anger towards others. Amen.
This is serious business. A root of bitterness is serious
business and if you don't we know that it says it will spring
up. Well we know what happens, you
know, this is Springtime and what's happening growth is
happening. Things are what spring enough.
Well in the beginning, what do we know?
It's just little bitty. But then what happens like you
can see a little tomato plant spring up or a watermelon plant
spring up. But boy, once it starts growing
it takes over what? Everything?
Everything specially watermelons.
Squash cucumbers. They they take over everything
right? Everything around it and can
either in even can smother other plants out.
So some good things maybe trying to want to spring up in your
life, but it's being smothered out by all the bad root of
bitterness, come on that's been allowed to grow and take over.
So it's smothering out. Anything good, that God would
want to do Amen. So it's important that at the
very beginning, you go ahead and dig that little bad boy up.
Get it out of the garden, get it out of the soil of your heart so
that it cannot grow, come on, and it can't take over and it
can't smother out. What God wants to do.
In your life, your purpose, the plans, the things that God has
in store for your life, to walk. In heaven on Earth to to see the
fullness of all his promises in your life.
They'll be smothered out by this route that you didn't deal with.
And you'll go through your life, smothered choked out.
Come on those forms. Those by they'll choke you out.
They'll choke the life out of you.
And that's why some people look like The Walking Dead even in
church. They're being choked out by
issues. Buy things that they still
haven't let go and let God, we all at once.
You let go, let God boy. We can preach it, we can talk it
but when it comes down to route now, nobody wants to root
around. The lot of people don't like
weeding. I've noticed that especially
everybody in my house. Nobody likes the weed.
I enjoy it because every time I pull a weed, I think this is a,
this is a weed that's been Fucked up out of my life that
can never have hold of me ever again.
So reminder God's Garden. Every, you know, God's Garden.
Hallelujah. So we got to make sure that we
are allowing forgiveness to flow freely in our life so that we're
not bound and retain the very things that we hated happen to
our lives. Hallelujah.
Proverbs 17:9 he who covers and forgives an offense seeks love.
He who covers and forgives. We talked about love covering
last time, but this is in connection with forgives an
offense seeks love. When you choose.
To forgive an offense. You're seeking God's love in
that situation. Amen.
But one who repeats or harps on a matter separates, even close
friends. Which goes back to what I was
talking about last week that we shouldn't be slandering and
talking about people and tearing people down because God's love
would not do that. Amen, we should be trying to
cover and protect people's lives as much as possible unless it
comes to the point that, you know, they've done something
where the scripture says bring them before the church, then it
can be dealt with in public. Last week when I was talking
about, you know, don't ever, you know, that should be the
majority of our heart that we're not going to talk about people.
We're not going to slander pastors.
Or not going to tear down people in public, but that's not
meaning that we don't go to them as the scripture says in
private, and what is the goal to restore?
To bring reconciliation to bring a bond of unity, right?
But if they refuse reconciliation and they refuse
to be dealt with. And they if you refuse
accountability and it still destroying someone's life.
Then it says bring them before the church, then you can bring
them before the public. But that's usually in the church
house. I'm not talking about inquiring
minds or The Enquirer or Facebook or Instagram, listen.
That is not private. It's not private, right?
So there are occasions that you do as I said, you can't cover
everything in one message. So Jude one, this is our last
scripture will close Jew chapter 1 verses 17 through 25.
It says, but you beloved Remember The Words which were
spoken before the Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ.
How they were told you that there would be mockers in the
last day who would walk according to their own ungodly
lust. These are sensual persons who
cause Ian's, not having the spirit but you beloved building.
Yourselves up on your Most, Holy Faith, praying in the spirit,
very first lesson. We talked about is that if we
are going to walk, according to the Royal law of love, we can
only do it by being a person of the word and the Holy Spirit
guiding our life outside of the Holy Spirit.
Empowering you, you won't be able to walk in fully the god
kind of love, right? But You won't be yielding but he
says this building yourself up on your Most.
Holy Faith. Praying in the spirit.
Keep your selves keep yourselves.
In the love of God. Who's responsible to keep
ourselves in the love of God, we are.
God is not going to keep his love.
For you. He's giving you his love, he
shed it abroad in your heart, he poured it out in your heart.
Now you're the one responsible to keep this.
Love guarded to make sure that's what that means to keep to guard
to protect the love of God. That's been put in your heart.
And are we seeing any importance in this?
We are to guard it. We are to keep it.
We are to make sure that our heart is motivated in everything
that we do every situation, we encounter every circumstance
that comes before us. That our motive is his love and
how we respond and we have the responsibility to guard this.
Love to keep this love to allow this.
I love to grow more and more to allow this love to grow fruit.
That produces debts, wits, links, Heights, that there is no
end to the love of God growing in our life because it is a, the
fruit of the spirit, it can grow.
It's a fruit, it starts small, but then what it's supposed to
grow grow, grow, and produce his love in such a way that you can
walk through life in every encounter that you encounter
that the love of God is going to be the first thing in the first
thought that comes to your mind, come on, and how you're going to
respond in this situation. According to what the scripture
says, how we are to respond in the pure love of God in the
situation. So we are to keep ourselves in
the love of God in the The love of God, looking for the mercy of
our Lord, Jesus Christ until eternal life.
Mercy again, the guy was crying out for help for Mercy but there
was none being shown. So if we want to continue to
receive the mercy of God in our lives, when we don't deserve,
come on. That's what that means.
We didn't deserve it. We don't deserve the things that
he will forgive us up but we still kit.
Come on we still get to ask of it and if we want it you need to
release it. Because what what do we know
whatsoever? Things you soweth you're going
to reap. So if you don't.
So forgiveness. Guess what?
You're not going to reap it if you don't.
So Mercy. Guess what?
You're not going to receive it. If you don't.
So come on love then guess what you know what the very thing you
so desire from whoever it is that you may want all this love
from but if you still got walls up, guess what?
You're not going to get the love.
That really you want? Because you got too many walls.
And you're not sewing, the love. Come on. say, so the love so the
love So the love we're going to sew the love of God.
And we're going to reap what the love of God in our lives.
Hallelujah. So we need to be those that keep
ourselves in the loving of God verse 22.
I want to finish reading this. It says and on some have
compassion making a distinction but others save with fear, full,
pulling them out of the fire hating.
Even the garment defiled by the flesh.
Now to him Um, who is able to keep you from stumbling and to
present you faultless before the presence of his glory and
exceeding Joy To Our God savior who alone as wise Glory Majesty,
dominion and power both now and forevermore.
He's the only one that can do it.
For and through US, amen. So let's be people that choose
to have a pure heart of God's love Agape, is love and do
whatever we can. To apply it everyday.
Don't be a wishy-washy person one day you're forgiven and let
things go and a week. You know what that tells me you
still have an account of suffered wrong.
I'm not saying it's not a process and working through, but
every day you ought to be I forgive them.
I'm going to walk this thing through.
I'm not going to hold an account of suffered wrong.
I'm going to choose come on. To make sure.
I am readily and freely. Freely means there's no strings
attached. No strings attached, amen?
No strings attached. Amen.
Tyler lujah. Well let's pray.
Father, we just thank you so much for your word.
We thank you, Father for the love of God.
We're so thankful father that we got to be partakers of this
Divine love in our life. And father let us not squander
the love that's been shed abroad.
But let us allow this fruit in our life to grow and produce the
fullness. The fullness of what you see in
our lives. Let us be a person.
That chooses to just let things go to forgive to forget to not.
Hold on to an account, a suffered wrong, but to love like
you, we thank you. I want to read this because this
is my last message. If I can find it, I pulled this
up because I was reminded of the best expanded translations.
Of 1st Corinthians 13 and I just think we read this a lot in
Weddings, But I just want to end on this.
I want you to think about it. This is Rick, renters expanded
translation on First Corinthians 13.
Was it four through? Eight says this love Patiently.
I now out, when I read this, I want you to think about
yourself. Not anybody sitting beside you.
Does this look like you? That's what you should be asking
yourself. Love patiently and passionately
bears with others. For as long as patients is
needed. Love does not demand others to
be like itself. Rather, it is so focused on the
needs of others. That it bends over backwards, I
can't do a back bend or whatever that's called.
Is that what that's called a back bend so that one kind of
gets me there benzo. Over backwards to become what
others needs it to be. Love is not ambitious,
self-centered or so consumed with itself that it never thinks
of the needs or desires. That others possess love doesn't
go around talking about itself all the time constantly
exaggerating and embellishing the facts to make it look more
important. In the sight of others, love
does not behave in a prideful. Arrogant haughty Superior snood.
A snobbish or clannish manner love is not rude and is not
discourteous it is not careless or thoughtless nor does it carry
on in a fashion that would be considered insensitive to
others. Love does not manipulate
situations or scheme and divides methods that will twist
situations to its own Advantage. Love does not deliberately keep
records of Of wrongs or past mistakes.
Love does not feel Overjoyed when it sees an injustice done
to someone and someone else but is elated thrilled is static and
Overjoyed with the truth. Love protects Shields, guards
covers, conceals and safeguards people from exposure.
Love always expects and anticipates the best in others
and the best for others. Love, never quits.
Never surrenders, never gives up love never disappoints.
Never fails and never lets anyone down.
Hey man. Hallelujah
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