I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. Today (July 1), this was the basis for our Sunday School Lesson of the Day. It was entitled "Parable of the Unforgiving Servant." The hymn, "Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive," written by Rosamond E. Herklots (1905-1987), is a good hymn to compliment this Scripture, regardless of denomination.
Please pray for the town of Bemidji. It's breaking bad over me being hired to work at a local non-profit, called Support Within Reach. Since the people who human trafficed me back in 1978 are part of running it and none of them have been arrested. I suggested that they help me get them into jail and gave them the names of those involved. So, I'm praying about it today. Because I don't want to be involved in anything illegal concerning the horrendously demeaning ,life ruining activity of human trafficking.
How do you forgive people that are not sorry about what they’ve done to you. They don’t even admit any wrong doing and they want to talk to you like nothing happened. Also you got a realize that is a lot harder for humans to forgive Jesus was not raped as a child was not beat up as a child was not giving unto prostitution as a child was not cheating on was not abandoned and so on and so forth....And yes he will sacrifice in the cross in the horrendous way that I can’t even imagine, but you have to realize that there’s a lot of people that gets tortured by drug traffickers in this is innocent people that get their fingers cut off their legs cut off and they have a slot that they burn them alive they hang them like there is so many horrendous things. Alot of things that are done to human beings every single day and the person that does em is not sorry. Imagine having a hell in life because of somebody that ruined your life and then on top of that you have to go to hell for not forgiving them... Help me understand. I repented of my sins before God that I really truly repented of sins With a grieving heart I was disgusted of the things that I did before I was a Christian I can see God forgiving me because I repented and I will forgive someone if they repented but if they don’t repent how do you forgive them.
"if they don’t repent how do you forgive them". You don't. Question is, why would someone teach that you should? Short answer: You need the offering.... In the parable of the unforgiving servant (mistitled and should be unforgiving lord) the lord in the end gives the one who falsley acknowledged his debt to him over to the torturers because of his guilt. What happened to forgiveness at all times? In the first place the lord would not have forgiven the servant his debt if the servant did not admit it existed. (repent) I think the lesson is best summed up as , if you want to be forgiven when you repent, then you must forgive others when they repent to you. The command to forgive is given with the common sense premise that it is after acknowledgement of sin by the sinner and teaching that you understanding that when your brother asks for it, it is not to be with held fom him. There is a day for forgiveness and that day is the day when the offender seeks it! Forgiveness is the crown of humility but air to be grasped for the hardened of heart..But where there is no repentance it is justice that restores peace. Yashua (AKA Jesus) only forgave one of the two thieves at His sides because only one thief acknowledged his sin. Our lack of forgiveness is what God put there in your heart to encourage you to follow through with the proccess of discipline as per Matt 18 so that transgressors will see the error in their way, bringing restoration to the relationship and community. The problem is, in a weak assembly no one wants to perform the roll of the second whitness for the person sinned against. And note; judgement or the negative outcome of it, ie. condemnation, should never be made without two or three whitnesses. If you artificially sweep your grief under the carpet, your doing no favor to them or your self. It is a poor quality of teachers who encourage this bad timing of, or all time forgiveness in order to avoid biblical discipline in the assembly with the goal of increasing the quantity of members over quality. (holliness)They see teaching you to accept forgiveness at all times means they dont have to play the part of the seccond whitness and ruffle the feathers of anyone and it's easier than lifting a stone. Many unloved children go undisciplined because it takes time. Poorly timed forgiveness is not forgiveness at all but laziness, greed and cowardness under it's guise...Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. (In the event the shoe fits)
Yashua said "my yoke is easy" and it's easy to forgive when we see a repentive heart. The "hard part" of the proccess is carrying out the events (matt 18) that encourages repentance in a hardened heart...That's the challenge. It's especially difficult for those who want to accept a gift because it blinds the eye, casting haze over the potential for understanding scripture. Do I hold someone guiltless when God calls them guilty?. We decieve ourselves if we think God bases His forgiveness of others that have sinned against us on whether or not we say we forgive them and not on whether or not they have repented. I believe that God forgives us when we have sinned against a brother when we repent to the brother. "If therefore you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, Mat 5:24 leave your offering there before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. May Gods perfect will be done in your life and justice rain down, and as such may you be comforted and given peace.
Forgiving others free's you. Forgiving others allows you the freedom to travel and explore. Many stay bound and trapped to the event that occurred, and please know many events that have occurred go unpunished and yes, that is sad. But we served a BIG GOD and he gets the final say. What would be Great is you seeking to find it in your heart to forgive and claim back the real estate you own in your mind and channel that pain into a voice of strength of being set free, so others might too claim the real estate they own.
Harboring unforgiveness, it's like drinking poison and hoping someone else dies! That's deep
I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. Today (July 1), this was the basis for our Sunday School Lesson of the Day. It was entitled "Parable of the Unforgiving Servant." The hymn, "Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive," written by Rosamond E. Herklots (1905-1987), is a good hymn to compliment this Scripture, regardless of denomination.
thank you for this word. we shall came at the right moment
Amen Brother...
God is so patient with me.
LoVes me tho I do not deserve His LoVe.
What an awesome GoD.
if He loves you then you deserve it because He is just.
Thank you for this message. It is one I needed to hear and it came at the right moment.
Please pray for the town of Bemidji. It's breaking bad over me being hired to work at a local non-profit, called Support Within Reach. Since the people who human trafficed me back in 1978 are part of running it and none of them have been arrested. I suggested that they help me get them into jail and gave them the names of those involved. So, I'm praying about it today. Because I don't want to be involved in anything illegal concerning the horrendously demeaning ,life ruining activity of human trafficking.
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How do you forgive people that are not sorry about what they’ve done to you. They don’t even admit any wrong doing and they want to talk to you like nothing happened. Also you got a realize that is a lot harder for humans to forgive Jesus was not raped as a child was not beat up as a child was not giving unto prostitution as a child was not cheating on was not abandoned and so on and so forth....And yes he will sacrifice in the cross in the horrendous way that I can’t even imagine, but you have to realize that there’s a lot of people that gets tortured by drug traffickers in this is innocent people that get their fingers cut off their legs cut off and they have a slot that they burn them alive they hang them like there is so many horrendous things. Alot of things that are done to human beings every single day and the person that does em is not sorry. Imagine having a hell in life because of somebody that ruined your life and then on top of that you have to go to hell for not forgiving them... Help me understand. I repented of my sins before God that I really truly repented of sins With a grieving heart I was disgusted of the things that I did before I was a Christian I can see God forgiving me because I repented and I will forgive someone if they repented but if they don’t repent how do you forgive them.
"if they don’t repent how do you forgive them". You don't. Question is, why would someone teach that you should? Short answer: You need the offering....
In the parable of the unforgiving servant (mistitled and should be unforgiving lord) the lord in the end gives the one who falsley acknowledged his debt to him over to the torturers because of his guilt. What happened to forgiveness at all times? In the first place the lord would not have forgiven the servant his debt if the servant did not admit it existed.
(repent) I think the lesson is best summed up as , if you want to be forgiven when you repent, then you must forgive others when they repent to you.
The command to forgive is given with the common sense premise that it is after acknowledgement of sin by the sinner and teaching that you understanding that when your brother asks for it, it is not to be with held fom him. There is a day for forgiveness and that day is the day when the offender seeks it! Forgiveness is the crown of humility but air to be grasped for the hardened of heart..But where there is no repentance it is justice that restores peace. Yashua (AKA Jesus) only forgave one of the two thieves at His sides because only one thief acknowledged his sin. Our lack of forgiveness is what God put there in your heart to encourage you to follow through with the proccess of discipline as per Matt 18 so that transgressors will see the error in their way, bringing restoration to the relationship and community. The problem is, in a weak assembly no one wants to perform the roll of the second whitness for the person sinned against. And note; judgement or the negative outcome of it, ie. condemnation, should never be made without two or three whitnesses.
If you artificially sweep your grief under the carpet, your doing no favor to them or your self. It is a poor quality of teachers who encourage this bad timing of, or all time forgiveness in order to avoid biblical discipline in the assembly with the goal of increasing the quantity of members over quality. (holliness)They see teaching you to accept forgiveness at all times means they dont have to play the part of the seccond whitness and ruffle the feathers of anyone and it's easier than lifting a stone. Many unloved children go undisciplined because it takes time.
Poorly timed forgiveness is not forgiveness at all but laziness, greed and cowardness under it's guise...Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. (In the event the shoe fits)
Yashua said "my yoke is easy" and it's easy to forgive when we see a repentive heart. The "hard part" of the proccess is carrying out the events (matt 18) that encourages repentance in a hardened heart...That's the challenge. It's especially difficult for those who want to accept a gift because it blinds the eye, casting haze over the potential for understanding scripture.
Do I hold someone guiltless when God calls them guilty?. We decieve ourselves if we think God bases His forgiveness of others that have sinned against us on whether or not we say we forgive them and not on whether or not they have repented. I believe that God forgives us when we have sinned against a brother when we repent to the brother. "If therefore you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,
Mat 5:24 leave your offering there before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.
May Gods perfect will be done in your life and justice rain down, and as such may you be comforted and given peace.
Forgiving others free's you. Forgiving others allows you the freedom to travel and explore. Many stay bound and trapped to the event that occurred, and please know many events that have occurred go unpunished and yes, that is sad. But we served a BIG GOD and he gets the final say.
What would be Great is you seeking to find it in your heart to forgive and claim back the real estate you own in your mind and channel that pain into a voice of strength of being set free, so others might too claim the real estate they own.