Understanding Our Genetic Code

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Understanding Our Genetic Code

• Forgiveness and Restitution

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23 Pairs of Chromosomes

• Previously
• 1. Jesus is Lord and Savior
• 2. We Need the Word and The Spirit
• 3. We Must Repent and Believe

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We Have to Guard Our Hearts

• Watch over your heart with all diligence, For
  from it flow the springs of life.
• Proverbs 423 NASU

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This May Determine Your Destiny!?

• Guard your heart above all else, for it
  determines the course of your life.
• Proverbs 423 NLT

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Bitterness is 1 Destroyer of peoples hearts

• Most marriages end because of bitterness.
  Someone cant forgive
• Most anger and violence stems from bitterness and
  not forgiving
• Many diseases may spring from a root of
  bitterness

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• Work at living in peace with everyone, and work
  at living a holy life, for those who are not holy
  will not see the Lord.
• Look after each other so that none of you fails
  to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no
  poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble
  you, corrupting many.
• Hebrews 1214-15 NLT

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• Watch out that no bitterness takes root among
  you, for as it springs up it causes deep trouble,
  hurting many in their spiritual lives.
• Hebrews 1215 TLB

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Jesus Warns His Disciples

• "If you forgive those who sin against you, your
  heavenly Father will forgive you.
• But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father
  will not forgive your sins.
• Matthew 614-15 NLT

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• People do not cause problems in your character,
  they only reveal what is already there
• No matter what anyone does to you, it is your
  choice how you will react

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Understand Some Basic Principles

• People do not cause problems in your character,
  they only reveal what is already there
• No matter what anyone does to you, it is your
  choice how you will react

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Jesus is Our Example

• He was rejected by his family and friends
• He was mocked, ridiculed, spit on
• He was beaten, tortured, nailed to a cross and
  yet said

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• Father, forgive them for they do not know what
  they are doing."
• Luke 2334 NASU

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The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

• Matthew 1821-34

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Who Do You have to forgive?

• Parents?
• Relatives?
• Brothers or sisters?
• Neighbors?
• Classmates or friends?
• Teachers? Coaches? Bosses?

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How do you do it?

• Websters dictionary says
• 1. To pardon
• to overlook an offense and treat the offender
  as not guilty.
• You let it go

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You Make a Decision

• Jesus I forgive (____________) for
  ________________ and will not hold it against
  them anymore.
• Example Jesus I forgive my dad for not being
  involved in my life and I wont be mad at Him
  anymore. I let it go in your name

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Restitution
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Restitution

• damages a sum of money paid in compensation for
  loss or injury
• the act of restoring something to its original
  state
• getting something back again "upon the
  restitution of the book to its rightful owner the
  child was given a tongue lashing"
• wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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We Have to Make Things Right

• I. Financially-if you have ever stolen or
  damaged anyone elses property
• II. Personally-if you have hurt anyone in any
  way.

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Restitution in the law of God

• Then the Lord said to Moses, "Tell the people of
  Israel that when anyone, man or woman, betrays
  the Lord by betraying a trust, it is sin. He must
  confess his sin and make full repayment for what
  he has stolen, adding 20 percent and returning it
  to the person he took it from. Numbers
  55-7 TLB

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Cattle, Sweaters Cars

• Exodus 221-15
• If you steal it
• If you break it
• If you wear it out
• If your pet breaks or eats it
• If you eat it
• then you gotta pay

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Do the right thing and live!

• And when I tell the wicked he will die, and then
  he turns from his sins and does what is fair and
  right- if he gives back the borrower's pledge,
  returns what he has stolen, and walks along the
  paths of right, not doing evil-he shall surely
  live. He shall not die. None of his past sins
  shall be brought up against him, for he has
  turned to the good and shall surely live.
• Ezekiel 3314-16 TLB

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God is serious about this

• Excuses might even be found for a thief if he
  steals when he is starving! But even so, he is
  fined seven times as much as he stole, though it
  may mean selling everything in his house to pay
  it back.
• Proverbs 630-31 TLB

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Restitution Examples

• My Eat and Run days at Perkins
• The borrowed basketball
• Rent to my former college roommate

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Without permission its stealing
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No Guarantee of a good time
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What May Happen

• You may be forgiven the debt
• You may be able to pay it off and everyone is
  happy
• You may have to set up a payment plan
• The person may want to press charges
• You may get a chance to share about your
  relationship with God

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You will have peace with God!

• But no matter what happens-

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Jesus Lays out the Principle

• "Under the laws of Moses the rule was, 'If you
  murder, you must die.' But I have added to that
  rule and tell you that if you are only angry,
  even in your own home, you are in danger of
  judgment!
• If you call your friend an idiot, you are in
  danger of being brought before the court. And if
  you curse him, you are in danger of the fires of
  hell. Matthew 521-22 TLB

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You Must Make it Right

• "So if you are standing before the altar in the
  Temple, offering a sacrifice to God, and suddenly
  remember that a friend has something against you,
  leave your gift there beside the altar and go and
  apologize and be reconciled to him, and then come
  and offer your gift to God.
• Matthew 523-24 TLB

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How do you do it?

• 1. Think about who you may have hurt.
• Old relationships
• Friends you have criticized or slandered
• Rebellion against parents
• People you have picked on
• 2. Think through exactly what you did wrong not
  why they deserved it

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• 3. Think through how you will say it
• (dont say if I, say Im sorry for____)
• 4. Go and see them or call them if its too hard
  to get together (across the country)
• 5. Dont worry about it if they dont forgive
  you. That is there problem before God You
  just have to apologize and make restitution if
  needed

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Repent and Be Free!

• A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can
  never be successful. But if he confesses and
  forsakes them, he gets another chance.
• Blessed is the man who reveres God, but the man
  who doesn't care is headed for serious trouble.
• Proverbs 2813-14 TLB

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Feel The Power

• As the Scripture says, God gives strength to the
  humble but sets himself against the proud and
  haughty. So give yourselves humbly to God. Resist
  the devil and he will flee from you. And when
  you draw close to God, God will draw close to
  you.
• James 46-8 TLB

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• "For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro
  throughout the earth that He may strongly support
  those whose heart is completely His.
• 2 Chronicles 169 NASU