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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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"WILL YOU FORGIVE, NO MATTER WHAT?" BY DAVID MCMILLEN
THE DEFINITION OF FORGIVENESS IS, "TO GIVE UP RESENTMENT AGAINST SOMEONE OR TO STOP WANTING TO PUNISH THEM." WHEN SOMEONE HAS DONE SOMETHING TO YOU THAT HURTS YOU AND ASKS FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS, IS THIS WHAT YOU THINK OF? WE DO THINGS SO OFTEN TO EACH OTHER AND ASK FORGIVENESS SO MANY TIMES THAT, I BELIEVE, THE MEANING HAS GOTTEN LOST. ARE THERE TIMES YOU SAY YOU FORGIVE BUT STILL RESENT WHAT THEY DID? THAT IS NOT FORGIVENESS. WHAT IF JESUS FORGAVE US AND THEM HELD RESENTMENT AGAINST US FOR WHAT WE HAD DONE? WE WOULD BE IN PRETTY BAD SHAPE, WOULDN'T WE?
IS THERE SOMEONE YOU NEED TO FORGIVE? IT COULD BE A CO-WORKER, A FRIEND, A NEIGHBOR OR EVEN A FAMILY MEMBER. DO YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT FORGIVENESS? IN MATTHEW 6:14 HE SAID "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you." TO ME, THAT IS A REAL INCENTIVE TO FORGIVE.
NOW FOR THE BIG QUESTION. WHAT IF SOMEONE HURT YOU IN SOME WAY TODAY AND YOU FORGAVE THEM AND THEY DID THE SAME THING THE NEXT DAY. WOULD YOU FORGIVE THEM AGAIN? WHAT IF THEY DID THE SAME THING EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? WOULD YOU FORGIVE THEM EVERY TIME? YOU KNOW, PETER ASK JESUS A QUESTION LIKE THIS AND FROM HIS ANSWER, I BELIEVE HE MEANS FOR US TO FORGIVE NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES SOMEONE HURTS US. LOOK WHAT JESUS SAID TO HIM IN MATTHEW 18:21-22 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
