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Speaker 1: one of a message called the Amazing Power of Forgiveness.
Speaker 2: I don't know a more important subject than the issue
Speaker 2: of forgiveness because our world is filled with conflict, and
Speaker 2: families are filled with conflict, and marriages are filled with conflict.
Speaker 2: The problem is most people think they understand forgiveness, but
Speaker 2: they really don't. Forgiveness may be the most misused, misapplied,
Speaker 2: misunderstood quality in our culture. We think we know what
Speaker 2: forgiveness is all about, but we really don't. And to
Speaker 2: start us off tonight, I thought we'd begin with a
Speaker 2: little quiz. So look on your paper there now, no cheating, okay,
Speaker 2: no looking at the person next to your's paper, Okay,
Speaker 2: just write true or false. There's a t r F
Speaker 2: down there, and don't worry about it. If you get
Speaker 2: any of these wrong, I forgive you. Okay, So and
Speaker 2: don't say it aloud. Okay, we'll go over these together
Speaker 2: Nunmber through Number one, A person should not be forgiven
Speaker 2: until he asks for it, and you can check the
Speaker 2: t are the F there for true or false? A
Speaker 2: person should not be forgiven until he asked for it, okay.
Speaker 2: Number two, forgiving includes minimizing the offense and the pain cost.
Speaker 2: Forgiving includes minimizing the offense and the pain cost. Number
Speaker 2: three forgiveness includes restoring trust and reuniting a relationship. Forgiveness
Speaker 2: includes restoring trust and reuniting a relationship. Tr F, TRU
Speaker 2: or false. Number four, you haven't really forgiven until you've
Speaker 2: forgotten the offense. You haven't really forgiven until you've forgotten
Speaker 2: the offense, And you can write true or false. And
Speaker 2: then finally number five, when I see somebody hurt, it
Speaker 2: is my duty to forgive the offender. Now, I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about if you hurt somebody, but you see somebody
Speaker 2: hurt by somebody else, it is my duty to forgive
Speaker 2: the offender. All right, everybody got their answers done? Okay.
Speaker 2: When you read the Bible and you see what God
Speaker 2: has to say about forgiveness, we discover that all five
Speaker 2: of those statements are false. All five of them are false. Now,
Speaker 2: do I have your attention? When I say most people
Speaker 2: don't understand forgiveness, I mean it, most people don't understand forgiveness.
Speaker 2: So tonight what we're gonna do is we're gonna look
Speaker 2: at what is real forgiveness, and then we're gonna look
Speaker 2: at why must I forgive the people who've hurt me
Speaker 2: in my life? And they have nothing to do with
Speaker 2: the person themselves who hurt you. And then we're going
Speaker 2: to look at how do I forgive? And in the
Speaker 2: middle of it all, you're going to hear the most
Speaker 2: dramatic story of forgiveness. So let's get right into it first.
Speaker 2: What is real forgiveness? You might write these down Number one.
Speaker 2: It isn't conditional. It isn't conditional. Real forgiveness is unconditional.
Speaker 2: There's no attachment to it. You don't earn it, you
Speaker 2: don't deserve it, you don't bargain for it. Forgiveness is
Speaker 2: not based on a promise to never do it again.
Speaker 2: It's just unconditional. You offer it to somebody, whether they
Speaker 2: ask for it or not. You know, when somebody says
Speaker 2: I will forgive you if or if you say it's
Speaker 2: somebody else, I will forgive you. If that's not forgiveness,
Speaker 2: that's bargaining. If you do this, I'll do this, it's bargaining.
Speaker 2: Forgiveness is always unconditional, and if you put a condition
Speaker 2: an if on it, it's not really forgiveness. When Jesus
Speaker 2: stretched out his hands on the cross and he said, Father,
Speaker 2: forgive them, for they don't know what they're doing. When
Speaker 2: he said that nobody had asked for it, nobody had said, oh,
Speaker 2: please forgive me Jesus for what they're doing to you.
Speaker 2: He just offered it. He took the initiative. And forgiveness
Speaker 2: is always your initiative. You forgive the person, whether they
Speaker 2: ask for it or whether they don't, whether they change
Speaker 2: or whether they don't, whatever, you just offer forgiveness unconditionally.
Speaker 2: Number two, it isn't minimizing the seriousness of the fence. Forgiveness.
Speaker 2: Real forgiveness is not minimizing the seriousness of the offense.
Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is when somebody comes
Speaker 2: and they ask for forgiveness and the needs say, well,
Speaker 2: it's no big deal. He really didn't hurt. It's okay,
Speaker 2: it didn't really bother me, it wasn't that big a deal.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't a big deal, you don't need forgiveness
Speaker 2: and you don't need to offer it. That actually cheapens forgiveness.
Speaker 2: Forgiveness is only for the big stuff. You don't use
Speaker 2: it on little slights that are, you know, just minor issues.
Speaker 2: If it really requires forgiveness, then you should not minimize it.
Speaker 2: When somebody asks you for forgiveness and you shouldn't say, well,
Speaker 2: it wasn't a big deal, it was a big deal.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't a big deal, you just say, oh,
Speaker 2: you don't need to ask forgiveness. But if it was,
Speaker 2: you need to admit it. Now. The fact is there
Speaker 2: are a lot of big deals in life. Have you
Speaker 2: noticed that it's easy to get hurt in a big
Speaker 2: way and when you minimize it. If somebody went out
Speaker 2: and tried to minimize what happened at nine to eleven, well,
Speaker 2: that cheapens forgiveness. You don't put it down. And you
Speaker 2: need to understand the difference between being wounded and being wronged.
Speaker 2: They're not the same. Wounded requires not forgiveness, but just
Speaker 2: patience and acceptance. Being wrong required forgiveness. For instance, wounded
Speaker 2: is unintentional. If somebody comes out and they just say something,
Speaker 2: it kind of hurt your feelings, but they didn't really
Speaker 2: know what they were doing and they didn't mean it,
Speaker 2: or you know, they just kind of blab off of
Speaker 2: them out. It wasn't intentional. That's the difference. When you're wounded,
Speaker 2: it's unintentional. They didn't mean to hurt you. When you're wrong,
Speaker 2: they did it intentionally. They lied to you, or they
Speaker 2: gossiped about you, or they hurt you physically. They did
Speaker 2: it intentionally to hurt you, and wrongs require forgiveness. Wounds
Speaker 2: only require acceptance and you know, patience. So somebody just
Speaker 2: says something about you and hurt your feeling, or they
Speaker 2: didn't notice your new hairdoo or something like that, that
Speaker 2: doesn't require forgiveness. I mean, let me give an example.
Speaker 2: Let's just say, now, I know this would never happen,
Speaker 2: but let's say you didn't like the way I dress
Speaker 2: and you think, you know, I think pastors should be
Speaker 2: a little bit more formal than Rick. Well, I don't
Speaker 2: need your forgiveness. I just need your acceptance. You just go, oh,
Speaker 2: that's just Rick. You know, he's kind of a dork,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, he's and you get the good
Speaker 2: and the bad together, you know, and when you when you,
Speaker 2: when you get Rick, you get this and then that,
Speaker 2: and you're like, we're all we've all got our weaknesses.
Speaker 2: And what I need from you is just your patience
Speaker 2: with me. I need your acceptance. I certainly don't need
Speaker 2: your forgiveness because I haven't intentionally wronged you. I may
Speaker 2: have wounded you in some way, maybe I overlooked you
Speaker 2: on the patio, but I didn't intentionally wrong you, and
Speaker 2: so I need acceptance, not forgiveness. On the other hand,
Speaker 2: is somebody really intends to do it and they wrong you,
Speaker 2: then they need to forgive you. So what am I saying?
Speaker 2: Forgiveness is always reserved for the big stuff, and when
Speaker 2: you minimize a hurt, you actually cheapen forgiveness. That makes sense, Okay.
Speaker 2: Number three, It isn't resuming a relationship without change. Forgiveness
Speaker 2: is not resuming a relationship without change.
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Speaker 1: Once again, here's Rick number three.
Speaker 2: It isn't resuming a relationship without change. Forgiveness is not
Speaker 2: resuming a relationship without change. In fact, forgiveness and resuming
Speaker 2: a relationship are two different things. One of them is
Speaker 2: what you do as the offended person, and resuming the
Speaker 2: relationlationship is what they do in order to get back
Speaker 2: into good graces, and just saying I'm sorry is not enough.
Speaker 2: In fact, the Bible teaches that three things are essential
Speaker 2: to resume a relationship that's been broken. You might write
Speaker 2: these down three things to resume a relationship when it's
Speaker 2: been broken. Number one, that these all are what the
Speaker 2: offender has to do. Number one, you have to be
Speaker 2: genuinely repentant. In other words, you're truly, truly saddened by
Speaker 2: what you did. And that's not just saying I'm sorry. No,
Speaker 2: it means saying this, I was wrong, please forgive me.
Speaker 2: That's repentance. I was wrong and please forgive me. Not
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You can be sorry that the weather was
Speaker 2: bad or something like that. Repentans is saying I admit it,
Speaker 2: I was wrong, and I am sorry. The second thing
Speaker 2: that's required to restore a relationship after repentance is restitution.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to do some kind of physical or
Speaker 2: or material restitution. If I came over to your house
Speaker 2: and I burned down your house. It wouldn't be enough
Speaker 2: for me to go oops, I'm sorry. No, you wouldn't
Speaker 2: have to assume that debt. I'd have to assume that
Speaker 2: debt because I destroyed your house. You don't just say, oh, fine,
Speaker 2: you're forgiven and then I'm let off the hook. I
Speaker 2: still have to pay my debt to society or to
Speaker 2: use that make sense. So forgiveness, you say, I forgive you,
Speaker 2: but you're still gonna have to pay your debt. And
Speaker 2: there is some restitution for what was damaged or destroyed
Speaker 2: in what you did. And the third thing that's required
Speaker 2: for restoring a relationship is rebuilding trust. Rebuilding trust. There
Speaker 2: must be repentance, restitution and rebuilding trust. And that friends,
Speaker 2: takes a long long time. Forgiveness is instant. When somebody
Speaker 2: hurts you, you have to forgive them immediately, but you
Speaker 2: don't have to trust them immediately. Trust is rebuilt. Forgiveness
Speaker 2: is built on grace. It's unconditional, and you do it
Speaker 2: not because they deserve it. You do it because it's
Speaker 2: the right thing to do. By the way, nobody deserves forgiveness.
Speaker 2: You don't and I don't so it's not something that
Speaker 2: we deserve. You just give it out of grace. But
Speaker 2: then trust is something that's rebuilt over a period of time.
Speaker 2: For instance, is somebody at your office they're just really
Speaker 2: a jerk, and they they offend you over and over
Speaker 2: and over and over and over and over, and they
Speaker 2: keep telling lies about you behind your back over and
Speaker 2: over and over and over and over. Okay, you must
Speaker 2: forgive them over and over and over and over, but
Speaker 2: you don't have to trust them. God doesn't expect you
Speaker 2: to be an idiot, you know. And you know some
Speaker 2: con man comes in and he cons you wants well,
Speaker 2: you don't have to say I forgive you know, con
Speaker 2: me again. Okay, that's a does that you understand that
Speaker 2: there's me forgiveness and trust. I mean, the whole thing
Speaker 2: here is that. For instance, let's say there's an abusive
Speaker 2: alcoholic spouse and he or she comes back to his
Speaker 2: or her spouse and they say, you know, I'm really
Speaker 2: sorry about this, I feel bad about it. I was wrong.
Speaker 2: Will you forgive me? And they've been abusive, yes because
Speaker 2: of alcohol? And you say yes, and then they say, well,
Speaker 2: will you let me back in the house. Well, now,
Speaker 2: that's another matter that has to be based on repentance,
Speaker 2: restitution and rebuilding trust. And rebuilding trust takes time. You
Speaker 2: just don't You can lose trust in a second, just
Speaker 2: go have an affair and you lose trust in a second,
Speaker 2: But it takes often takes a long long time to
Speaker 2: rebuild it. Forgivenesses by grace. Trust must be re earned. Now,
Speaker 2: the reason I'm belaboring this point is because in our
Speaker 2: culture most people don't get this, the difference between the two.
Speaker 2: And whenever a like a political leader really they get
Speaker 2: caught in a scandal of money or sex or any
Speaker 2: kind of thing, or a religious leader gets caught in
Speaker 2: a scandal of mine one of your sex or anything,
Speaker 2: or a government, an academic leader or a civic leader
Speaker 2: or anything like that, there will always be a certain
Speaker 2: percentage of the people go, hey, we're all imperfect, we're
Speaker 2: all human. We need to just forgive him and keep ongoing. Well, no, yes,
Speaker 2: you must forgive him immediately, but you don't have to
Speaker 2: trust him. And the Bible says trust is built on time.
Speaker 2: The credibility is what a leader leads with. All leaders
Speaker 2: must have trust. It's the money that they it's the
Speaker 2: currency they live in. If you don't trust me, I'm
Speaker 2: not your leader. And if you lose trust, you have
Speaker 2: lost your right to lead at that moment, and you can't.
Speaker 2: You may have the title, but you're not the leader
Speaker 2: until you've rebuilt trust, and that isn't going to happen instantly.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? So if a pastor falls in
Speaker 2: a scandal or a politician falls in a scandal or
Speaker 2: something like that, yes you must forgive them immediately, but
Speaker 2: you don't immediately just start trusting them again. In fact,
Speaker 2: they probably need to take a break from leadership and
Speaker 2: do something else and get their act together and figure
Speaker 2: out why they fell, and then as it's rebuilt, they
Speaker 2: may have a second chance at leadership. But it's all
Speaker 2: built on trust. Number four, Forgiveness isn't forgetting what's happened.
Speaker 2: Forgiveness isn't forgetting what's happened. Now, this is real important
Speaker 2: because some of you are afraid to forgive people who've
Speaker 2: hurt you because you say, I don't want to forget.
Speaker 2: They hurt me so bad and I don't want to
Speaker 2: let it go. I don't want to forget. Now you've
Speaker 2: heard this phrase over and over. Forgive and forget, forgive
Speaker 2: and forget, forgive and forget. There's only one problem with it.
Speaker 2: You can't do it. It's impossible. You really can't forget any
Speaker 2: hurt that's been in your life. You will never forget it.
Speaker 2: In fact, you can't even try to forget. People say,
Speaker 2: have you forgotten that? Well, I'm trying, I'm really trying.
Speaker 2: What happens when you're trying, You're focusing on the very
Speaker 2: thing you can't forget. I'm trying to forget it. It's
Speaker 2: like a smoker, if you quit smoking, Well, I'm trying.
Speaker 2: I'm trying you the whole time. Anytime you try to
Speaker 2: do something, you are focusing on what you don't want
Speaker 2: the whole time. You know, that's when you go on
Speaker 2: a diet, you think about food all the time. If
Speaker 2: you not that, you think about it more than when
Speaker 2: you're not on a diet, You actually focus on it.
Speaker 2: And the only way you can forget something is actually
Speaker 2: to refocus on something else. It's like if you're watching
Speaker 2: TV and this is a dumb show and I want
Speaker 2: to forget it, It's real simple. Change the channel. When
Speaker 2: something else gets my attention, then I will forget the former.
Speaker 2: Nothing like a new relationship to cause you to forget
Speaker 2: the old one. Okay, But if you don't have a
Speaker 2: new relationship, you're going to keep thinking about that one. Okay. Now,
Speaker 2: what's more important is forgetting is not what God wants
Speaker 2: you to do. There's something better than forgiving and forgetting,
Speaker 2: And what it is is forgiving and then remembering the
Speaker 2: hurt and then seeing how God can bring good out
Speaker 2: of it. That's more important than forgetting. Actually remembering the
Speaker 2: hurt and then seeing how God brought good out of it,
Speaker 2: because then you thank God for the good that He
Speaker 2: brought out of it. You don't thank God for things
Speaker 2: you forget. One of the greatest verses in the Bible
Speaker 2: is Romans chapter eight, verse twenty eight. It's a great
Speaker 2: comfort verse. And we know not, guests, we know that
Speaker 2: all things, not some things, but all all things work
Speaker 2: together for good. Not all things are good, but work
Speaker 2: together for good for those who love God and are
Speaker 2: called according to his purpose. And the Bible says that
Speaker 2: if I love God and I'm following his purposes, God says,
Speaker 2: then I will make sure that no matter what happens
Speaker 2: to you, all things will work together for good. Now
Speaker 2: it doesn't say all things are good, because all things
Speaker 2: are not good. Cancer is not good, disease is not good,
Speaker 2: death is not good, Divorce is not good, war is
Speaker 2: not good, rape and abuse is not good. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of bad things in life. They are evil.
Speaker 2: Not everything that happens in this world is God's will.
Speaker 2: Don't blame God for some murder. Who's going out killing somebody.
Speaker 2: That's called evil. That's why we need God in our lives.
Speaker 2: So not everything in the world is good. But the
Speaker 2: cool thing about it is that God says I will
Speaker 2: work even good out of bad if you will trust me.
Speaker 2: If you come to me and say, God, I give
Speaker 2: you all the pieces of my life, he will return
Speaker 2: peace for my pieces. And when I given the pieces
Speaker 2: of my life, he gives me peace in my heart.
Speaker 2: And what is that piece. It's the peace knowing that
Speaker 2: all things work together for good. Even the hurts in
Speaker 2: my life, even the mistakes that I caused in my life,
Speaker 2: God will use them for good in my life if
Speaker 2: I will trust him. Now, is that a promise for everybody? No,
Speaker 2: it is not a promise for everybody. It says all
Speaker 2: things work together for good. For those who love God
Speaker 2: are called according to his purpose. What that means is,
Speaker 2: if I'm not living for God and I'm not following
Speaker 2: his purposes, all things are not working together for good
Speaker 2: in my life. In fact, if I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: go God's way, all things are working together for bad.
Speaker 2: If I thumb my nose God's God, I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: my own thing. I want to follow my own rules.
Speaker 2: I want to be my own God. God has no
Speaker 2: responsibility to make your life work out, to make it
Speaker 2: all work for good. In fact, it's all working for
Speaker 2: bad because you're moving further and further away from God.
Speaker 2: But when I come to Him and I say, God,
Speaker 2: I give it to you, he works it for good.
Speaker 2: And so what we want to do is not forget,
Speaker 2: because you can't anyway. You know, every memory you've ever
Speaker 2: had is still in your brain, even the ones you
Speaker 2: never thought consciously. And we know that today a surgeon
Speaker 2: can cut back your scalp and stimulate part of your brain,
Speaker 2: and you will have memories that you knew, never knew
Speaker 2: you even had. They are there, and they will come
Speaker 2: back and they'll be vivid because it's all stored in
Speaker 2: this marvelous machine that God has given us called the brain.
Speaker 2: It's all there, so you really can't forget it. But
Speaker 2: God says, I didn't say you had to forget it.
Speaker 2: What I said is forgive it and then look and
Speaker 2: see how I can bring good out of it.
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