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Speaker 1: Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part two of a
Speaker 1: message called the Amazing Power of Forgiveness.
Speaker 3: And we know that today a surgeon can cut back
Speaker 3: your scalp and stimulate part of your brain, and you
Speaker 3: will have memories that you knew, never knew you even had.
Speaker 3: They are there and they will come back and they'll
Speaker 3: be vivid because it's all stored in this marvelous machine
Speaker 3: that God has given us called the brain. It's all there,
Speaker 3: so you really can't forget it. But God says, I
Speaker 3: didn't say you had to forget it. What I said
Speaker 3: is forgive it, and then look and see how I
Speaker 3: can bring good out of it. Number five, forgiveness isn't conditional.
Speaker 3: It isn't minimizing the seriousness. It isn't resuming a relationship
Speaker 3: with change. It isn't forgetting what happened. And number five,
Speaker 3: it isn't my right when I wasn't the one hurt.
Speaker 3: Forgiveness isn't my right. It's not my right to forgive
Speaker 3: you if I wasn't the one hurt by you. The
Speaker 3: point here is the Bible says only the victim has
Speaker 3: the right to forgive. You can't forgive people who didn't
Speaker 3: hurt you. Now again, I want to belabor this point
Speaker 3: because most people in our society don't get it. Today
Speaker 3: we've got leaders walking around offering blanket forgiveness and asking
Speaker 3: blanket forgiveness when they don't know the person, they don't
Speaker 3: even know what happened. They're just it's just words. It
Speaker 3: means nothing because they didn't they weren't involved in the
Speaker 3: in the in the hurt. A few years ago in Paducah, Kentucky,
Speaker 3: a fourteen year old boy walked into a high school
Speaker 3: and pulled out a gun and shot free high school girls,
Speaker 3: and they died the next morning. The bodies hadn't even
Speaker 3: gotten cold yet. In the next morning, teenagers in that
Speaker 3: high school had put up a big sign that said
Speaker 3: we forgive you, Mike, and they had this banner out
Speaker 3: in front of the school. Now, you know, I know
Speaker 3: they meant well, and I know they thought they were
Speaker 3: doing the spiritual thing or the loving thing. But the
Speaker 3: fact is it wasn't their right to forgive because they
Speaker 3: aren't the ones who had lost a daughter or a sister,
Speaker 3: or a granddaughter or a niece. And I mean, those
Speaker 3: girls weren't even buried in the ground yet, and they're
Speaker 3: saying it's okay, Mike, we forgive you, as if it
Speaker 3: was no big deal. He had just murdered three people,
Speaker 3: And how do you think the mother and the father
Speaker 3: of those girls felt. Wait a minute, it's not your
Speaker 3: right to forgive. I haven't forgiven yet.
Speaker 2: They haven't.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll get there, but there are stages of grief,
Speaker 3: and I've got to go through that grief stages after stage,
Speaker 3: which includes anger. It's a legitimate part of grief, and
Speaker 3: then I may eventually get to the forgiveness over there.
Speaker 3: But you don't have a right to just blanket forgive
Speaker 3: them because they didn't hurt you. Only the main victims
Speaker 3: have the right to forgive. Right after nine to eleven,
Speaker 3: I remember a national leader stood up and said we
Speaker 3: all must forgive Osama bin Laden for nine to eleven.
Speaker 2: And he said, I.
Speaker 3: Have forgiven him, and everybody else must too. Well, there's
Speaker 3: only one problem with that. It wasn't his right to forgive.
Speaker 3: He didn't have a wife or husband who died in
Speaker 3: Gwin towers. He didn't have a daughter or a grandfather
Speaker 3: or a nephew or a fiance, and he was short
Speaker 3: circuiting the process by offering forgiveness when he didn't have
Speaker 3: the right to do it. If I came over to
Speaker 3: your house today and you were standing there in shock
Speaker 3: because everybody in your family had just been murdered. And
Speaker 3: I walked up to the murder and he said, and
Speaker 3: I said, it's okay, I forgive you. You'd be going, hey,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, Rick, that's not your place to do that.
Speaker 2: It's my place to do that.
Speaker 3: So don't go around offer and forgiveness to people that
Speaker 3: you didn't hurt or didn't hurt you. It's only the
Speaker 3: responsibility of the person hurt the most.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? All right?
Speaker 3: You see, if anybody could proclaim forgiveness, we'd have no
Speaker 3: need for jails. I just got well, I forgive you,
Speaker 3: and you can say, well, I forgive you, and I
Speaker 3: forgive you. And by the way, forgiveness never eliminates the
Speaker 3: consequence of the sin.
Speaker 2: It just it offers forgiveness.
Speaker 3: In other words, a prisoner can be repentant and be forgiven,
Speaker 3: but he's still got a service time and pay his
Speaker 3: debt to society. And a drug addict can be forgiven
Speaker 3: for their addiction, but they're still going to carry the
Speaker 3: scars of addiction the rest of their life. And if
Speaker 3: a drug addict mother you on crack, has a baby,
Speaker 3: yes she can be forgiven, but that baby may have
Speaker 3: problems the rest of its life, and it wasn't the
Speaker 3: baby's fault. There are always consequences to sin. It always
Speaker 3: hurts somebody. I mean, you know, you can go out
Speaker 3: and be promiscuous and go to bed with anybody you
Speaker 3: want to go to bed with, and yes, God will
Speaker 3: forgive you, but you might get still get an SDD
Speaker 3: or AIDS, or you still may break up a home,
Speaker 3: ruin a reputation, or hurt little kids. It always hurts
Speaker 3: people whenever I blow it. Whenever I sin, I not
Speaker 3: only hurt my life, I hurt other people's lives too.
Speaker 3: And forgiveness doesn't get rid of the consequences. I mean,
Speaker 3: I've talked to so many people who say, you know, Rick,
Speaker 3: I know that what I'm about to do is wrong,
Speaker 3: but I'm going to go ahead and do it anyway
Speaker 3: because i know God will forgive me. And I want
Speaker 3: to say to do you think God is stupid? Yes,
Speaker 3: of course you can go out and do something, and
Speaker 3: yes you can be forgiven if you genuinely repent of
Speaker 3: it and say I'm sorry I was wrong, but you're
Speaker 3: still going to have consequences. Why do you think these
Speaker 3: rules are in the Bible there for your benefit. God
Speaker 3: doesn't want you to have a broken heart or anybody
Speaker 3: else for that matter. God doesn't want you to live
Speaker 3: with guilt and shame. God doesn't want little kids growing
Speaker 3: up with all kinds of insecurities and all kinds of things.
Speaker 3: And just because I get forgiveness doesn't mean I'm still
Speaker 3: not going to hurt an awful lot of people by
Speaker 3: my dumb decision. So what am I saying? There is
Speaker 3: always a cost to disobeying God when he tells to
Speaker 3: do some it's for our own happiness. There's always a cost,
Speaker 3: and there's always a cost to forgiveness. Now this one's
Speaker 3: the hard one. How do I forgive? And why must
Speaker 3: I forgive those who hurt me? Well, the Bible says,
Speaker 3: there are three reasons that I have to let go
Speaker 3: of my past.
Speaker 2: I have to let go of the people who've hurt me, And.
Speaker 3: They have nothing to do with the fact on whether
Speaker 3: that person deserves it or not. They don't and you
Speaker 3: don't either, in the forgiveness you've been given. But there
Speaker 3: are three reasons, and here they are. Number One, I
Speaker 3: am to forgive those who've hurt me because Number one,
Speaker 3: God has forgiven me. Jesus Christ has forgiven me. That's
Speaker 3: what he came to Earth to do, and that's good news.
Speaker 3: The Bible says this. Looking there on your outline, Remember
Speaker 3: the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.
Speaker 2: Now, let me make this really clear.
Speaker 3: The reason why some of you have such a hard
Speaker 3: time letting go you go, man.
Speaker 2: I just can't let go of that. It hurt too much.
Speaker 3: I can't let The reason why you have a hard
Speaker 3: time forgiving is because you don't feel forgiven.
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Speaker 3: You're never going to be very forgiving to other people
Speaker 3: if you don't feel forgiven yourself, if you don't feel
Speaker 3: totally forgiven by God, you know what, you're not feeling
Speaker 3: like doling it out to anybody else. And the reason
Speaker 3: why is you want to keep the scales balanced in
Speaker 3: your mind. You know that you've done certain wrong things,
Speaker 3: consciously or unconsciously, and so one of the ways we
Speaker 3: balance the guilt is with resentment. And and somebody says,
Speaker 3: well you did this, well, we say, yeah, but you
Speaker 3: did that, well, you did this, Yeah, but you did
Speaker 3: that well, you did this, Yeah, but you did that,
Speaker 3: And we keep it the balance of the scales that
Speaker 3: way in our mind. Well, if all of a sudden
Speaker 3: you let them off the hook and you say, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to hold it to you anymore, boom,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, when he left it just a
Speaker 3: bunch of your own guilt, you see, you're never going
Speaker 3: to be able to let this one go. Until you
Speaker 3: let this one go first, you have to be forgiven first,
Speaker 3: feel forgiven first. You need if you're ever going to
Speaker 3: be a forgiving person where the power comes from, you
Speaker 3: need to first accept the forgiveness of God through Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: The Bible said God came to earth in human form
Speaker 3: in Jesus in order to forgive the sins of every
Speaker 3: human being, everything that's ever been done wrong, so he
Speaker 3: would pay for it and we wouldn't. Well, that's good news.
Speaker 3: Look at the next verse. In fact, let's read this
Speaker 3: one aloud together. Colossians, Chapter two. God forgave all our sins.
Speaker 3: He canceled the record that contained the charges against us.
Speaker 3: He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to
Speaker 3: Christ's cross. And I like that phrase, he canceled the
Speaker 3: record contained in the charges against us. I my guess
Speaker 3: is most of you have a charge card, a credit card,
Speaker 3: and some of you you've probably racked up an awful
Speaker 3: lot of charges on that card. And some of you
Speaker 3: you got a big, big debt on your monthly record
Speaker 3: and you're just paying the minimum. You got the revolving
Speaker 3: account and you're just paying the minimum on that. How
Speaker 3: about if somebody comes to you tonight and says, you
Speaker 3: know what, let me see your Visa card, let me
Speaker 3: see your MasterCard, credit report, let me see your American
Speaker 3: Express And he looks and he sees all those charges,
Speaker 3: and he says, I'll tell you what. I will pay
Speaker 3: all these charges myself. Let's just rip this thing up.
Speaker 3: You go, okay, all right, I like that good deal.
Speaker 3: You're gonna pay for all my debts, all my charges,
Speaker 3: and we'll just start over. Yeah, just let you start over.
Speaker 3: It's like a fresh start financially, it's like being born over,
Speaker 3: being born again. It's like just getting a fresh new
Speaker 3: lease on life. We'll wipe the late clean and you'll
Speaker 3: have nothing against your name.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead, go right ahead.
Speaker 3: That is exactly what Jesus Christ did for you and
Speaker 3: for me when he came to earth, and when he.
Speaker 2: Died on the Cross.
Speaker 3: He paid the penalty for every sin that I have
Speaker 3: ever committed or you have ever committed.
Speaker 2: In fact, on the.
Speaker 3: Cross, he's already paid for the ones that I haven't
Speaker 3: thought up, but I'm going to do next week. Did
Speaker 3: you know that the sins you haven't even thought of yet?
Speaker 3: That you're going to do next month and next year.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ has already paid for him. That's why Christmas
Speaker 3: and Easter are such a big deal, because he came
Speaker 3: to rip up the charges against us and to give
Speaker 3: us a free credit, clean slate, start over, born again,
Speaker 3: brand new new lease on life.
Speaker 2: Now, what does that mean?
Speaker 3: It means that when I finally feel that what I
Speaker 3: just explained to you, have you ever received that? Have
Speaker 3: you ever accepted God's gift of forgiveness? And do you
Speaker 3: feel fully forgiven by God? Because if you don't, you're
Speaker 3: gonna go out there. You're gonna hold it over other
Speaker 3: people's heads too, because inside you going I don't feel forgiven,
Speaker 3: So I don't want you feeling forgiven. But if all
Speaker 3: of a sudden you realize how much God has let
Speaker 3: you off the hook, believe me, you get a whole
Speaker 3: lot more giving. When you experience grace, something cool happens,
Speaker 3: You become gracious. When you really experience God's forgiveness, something
Speaker 3: really cool happens, you become forgiving. If you haven't ever
Speaker 3: accepted that forgiveness. Later on, I'm going to pray a
Speaker 3: prayer in this service, and I would encourage you to
Speaker 3: accept God's forgiveness so you can get on with the
Speaker 3: rest of your life.
Speaker 2: Number one, I must.
Speaker 3: Forgive because God has forgiven me. And the fact is
Speaker 3: I will never be asked to forgive anybody else more
Speaker 3: than God has already forgiven me, because He's forgiven me
Speaker 3: for every wrong thing I've done. Not just one thing,
Speaker 3: but every wrong thing. Number two, The second reason why
Speaker 3: I have to forgive the people who hurt me is
Speaker 3: because resentment controls me. It controls me. It doesn't work,
Speaker 3: It just makes you miserable. In fact, resentment and bitterness
Speaker 3: and carry to drug grudge just keeps you stuck in
Speaker 3: the past. And when you're stuck in the past, you
Speaker 3: are controlled by the past. I don't know if you've
Speaker 3: ever realized this or not, but every time you hate something,
Speaker 3: it controls you. Every Time you resent something and you
Speaker 3: become bitter and angry at it, it controls you.
Speaker 2: Have you ever said this? You make me so mad?
Speaker 3: Now think about this, you're saying, I admit that you're
Speaker 3: controlling me. Right now, you make me mad. I don't
Speaker 3: want to be mad, but I am so weak and
Speaker 3: inferior that I realize that you can control my emotions
Speaker 3: and you can control me.
Speaker 2: You make me mad.
Speaker 3: I am admitting that I am the weaker in the
Speaker 3: relationship and that i'm heel control to you. And even
Speaker 3: though I don't want to be mad, you are making
Speaker 3: me mad. It's an admission of emotional dependency.
Speaker 2: You make me mad.
Speaker 3: You don't have to be mad no matter what people
Speaker 3: do to you, You don't have to be mad about it.
Speaker 3: But when you allow people to make you mad, they
Speaker 3: are controlling you. Now, you certainly don't want people who
Speaker 3: hurt you to also control you. That's not very smart,
Speaker 3: and so you have to learn that this doesn't work.
Speaker 3: In the Bible, there was a guy named Job. There's
Speaker 3: a whole book written after him. It's called the Book
Speaker 3: of Job. Joe was the wealthiest man in the world
Speaker 3: during his day. He was kind of the Bill Gates
Speaker 3: of his day. And he had enormous wealth, and he
Speaker 3: had a very large family, and he was just very
Speaker 3: well respected. And one day, in a single twenty four
Speaker 3: hour period, he lost everything. First, he lost his home,
Speaker 3: all of his homes, He lost all of his crops,
Speaker 3: all of his flocks, all of his assets to a disaster,
Speaker 3: completely wiped out.
Speaker 2: He went from the top to the bottom in one day.
Speaker 3: Second, some terrorists came in and killed all of his family.
Speaker 3: All of his children, daughters, and sons were all killed
Speaker 3: on the same day. And Third, he got an incurable,
Speaker 3: painful disease.
Speaker 2: On his body all at once.
Speaker 3: The only thing he had left was a nagging, complaining wife.
Speaker 2: Why God? Why? Why God.
Speaker 3: In fact, his wife was such a support to him
Speaker 3: that one day she said, Hey, Joe, why don't you
Speaker 3: just curse.
Speaker 2: God and die? Oh?
Speaker 3: Thank you, honey, that's a great idea. You've always been
Speaker 3: such an emotional support to me. He said, why didn't
Speaker 3: you just curse God and die?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? She was no support at all.
Speaker 3: Now, if anybody had a right to be a little resentful,
Speaker 3: a little bitter in life, it would be that guy Job.
Speaker 3: But he refuse to give in to resentment. He kept
Speaker 3: on trust in God and forgiving others and always why.
Speaker 3: In that book Job, it gives us the three reasons.
Speaker 3: The first one's at the bottom of your first side there,
Speaker 3: Job eighteen four. It says you are only hurting who yourself.
Speaker 3: You're only hurting yourself with your anger. Here's the first
Speaker 3: reason why you don't want to be unforgiving. Resentment is unhelpful,
Speaker 3: he said, you only hurt yourself. It always hurts you
Speaker 3: more than anybody else. It makes you miserable. It's self destructive.
Speaker 3: It doesn't hurt anybody else. I mean, let's just say here,
Speaker 3: after this service, I'm going out to leave from the service,
Speaker 3: and there's a little bit of traffic out there, and
Speaker 3: let's say somebody just cuts me off and I can't
Speaker 3: get out, and then I start stealing and spewing, and
Speaker 3: you know, you know, what's really what's happened in my life.
Speaker 2: I want to just go out there and bump him,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: And yet you know, I'm all upset. He's totally oblivious
Speaker 3: to the fact that he cut me off. Okay, And
Speaker 3: I go home and I tell my wife, Kay, honey,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't believe what happened at church tonight.
Speaker 2: This guy just cut me off.
Speaker 3: Now he's over it at you know, claim Jumper have
Speaker 3: an apple pie. He's not worried about it. Who is
Speaker 3: the resentment hurting me? He's not worried about it at all.
Speaker 3: Resentment always hurts you more than the other person. Resentment
Speaker 3: cannot change your past, no matter how much you resent it.
Speaker 3: It isn't going to change the past at all, And
Speaker 3: resentment will never correct the problem. Holding onto the hurt
Speaker 3: will never correct the problem. And it's not even going
Speaker 3: to make you feel any better. In fact, it just
Speaker 3: makes you feel worse. The most miserable people in life
Speaker 3: are bitter people. They're bitter. They're unhelpful. It's unhelpful because
Speaker 3: it doesn't help you.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Listen, your past is past. It's in your past. It
Speaker 3: can't hurt you anymore. It's over that. Yeah, they hurt you,
Speaker 3: and it really did hurt but they can't continue to
Speaker 3: hurt you unless you choose to allow them come on
Speaker 3: in and hurt me some more. And how does that happen?
Speaker 3: When you hold on to the hurt, and when you
Speaker 3: rehearse it and rehearse it and rehearse it in your mind,
Speaker 3: you are allowing people from your past to continue to
Speaker 3: hurt you in the present.
Speaker 2: And that's dumb.
Speaker 3: Some of you are allowing people who hurt you five years,
Speaker 3: ten years, twenty thirty years ago.
Speaker 2: Shoot there.
Speaker 3: Some of them are even dead now and you've you,
Speaker 3: and yet there's continuing to hurt you.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: That's stupid. Don't let it happen. They can't hurt you anymore.
Speaker 3: Your past is passed. You just gotta let it go.
Speaker 3: As long as you will not forgive, you're going to
Speaker 3: keep on hurting and hurting and hurting it. So you
Speaker 3: don't let them go for their sake. They don't deserve it.
Speaker 3: You let them go for your sake because it's unhelpful.
Speaker 3: You got to let it go. Those people long ago
Speaker 3: start thinking about something else, and you're the one who's
Speaker 3: all in an emotional mess over it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: On the back of your outline, there's another verse job
Speaker 3: five to two, and it says this, to worry yourself
Speaker 3: to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless, or
Speaker 3: unreasonable thing to do.
Speaker 2: And it says here that.
Speaker 3: Resentment is not only unhelpful, it's unreasonable. It's not really
Speaker 3: logical to hold onto your hurt, hold onto your grudges.
Speaker 2: It's not very rational.
Speaker 3: In fact, if you noticed, when people get angry, they
Speaker 3: act in really silly ways. Have you ever seen somebody
Speaker 3: get really mad in public and then they just make
Speaker 3: a fool of themselves and everybody's going to look.
Speaker 2: At that person.
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