The Forgiveness Factor

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The Forgiveness Factor

• Matthew 612

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• 9 Pray, then, in this way
• 'Our Father who is in heaven,
• Hallowed be Your name.
• 10 'Your kingdom come.
• Your will be done,
• 11 On earth as it is in heaven.
• 'Give us this day our daily bread.
• 12 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have
  forgiven our debtors.
• 13 'And do not lead us into temptation, but
  deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom
  and the power and the glory forever. Amen.'
• Matthew 69-13

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• The Forgiveness Factor
• Vertical RECEIVING Gods Forgiveness
• Horizontal GIVING Forgiveness to Others

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• The Forgiveness Factor
• Vertical RECEIVING Gods Forgiveness
• And forgive us our debts
• A. Relationship with God

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• Debts that which is owed, that which is
  legally due, sin.
• Forgive to let go, to send away, to cancel,
  to pardon

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• The Forgiveness Factor
• Vertical RECEIVING Gods Forgiveness
• And forgive us our debts
• A. Relationship with God
• B. Fellowship with God

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• Brians Prayer Definition
• Prayer is communion with the Father, through
  the mediation of the Son, with the assistance of
  the Spirit.

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Relationship vs. Fellowship
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• If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving
  ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
  confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to
  forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all
  unrighteousness.
• 1 John 18-9

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• How blessed is he whose transgression is
  forgiven,
• Whose sin is covered! How blessed is the man to
  whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in
  whose spirit there is no deceit!
• Psalm 321-2

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• The man who does not know the blackness of his
  heart, but is simply concerned with His own
  theories, is a man who is not examining himself
  truly. The greater the saint, the greater is the
  sense of sin and the awareness of sin within.
• (D. Martyn Loyd-Jones in Studies in the Sermon
  on the Mount, p. 74.)

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• Behold, I stand at the door and knock if
  anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will
  come in to him, and will dine with him, and he
  with Me.
• Revelation 320

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• The Forgiveness Factor
• Vertical RECEIVING Gods Forgiveness
• Horizontal GIVING Forgiveness to Others

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as we also have forgiven our debtors

• Interpretive Options
• 1) Conditional

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as we also have forgiven our debtors

• Interpretive Options
• 1) Conditional
• 2) Proportional

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as we also have forgiven our debtors

• Interpretive Options
• 1) Conditional
• 2) Proportional
• 3) Principle

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The Big Idea

• Forgiven people must be forgiving people.
• (credit Haddon Robinson)

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Understanding Forgiveness

• Is forgiving others important to God?

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• Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be
  called sons of God.
• Matthew 59

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• "Therefore if you are presenting your offering
  at the altar, and there remember that your
  brother has something against you, leave your
  offering there before the altar and go first be
  reconciled to your brother, and then come and
  present your offering. Matthew 523-24
• "For if you forgive others for their
  transgressions, your heavenly Father will also
  forgive you. "But if you do not forgive others,
  then your Father will not forgive your
  transgressions. Matthew 614-15

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Understanding Forgiveness

• Is forgiving others important to God?
• How many times are we to forgive?

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• The Peter came and said to Him, Lord, how often
  shall my brother sin against me and I forgive
  him? Up to seven times? Jesus said to him, I do
  not say to you, up to seven times, but up to
  seventy times seven.
• Matthew 1821-22

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• bearing with one another, and forgiving each
  other, whoever has a complaint against anyone
  just as the Lord forgave you, so also should
  you.
• Colossians 313

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Understanding Forgiveness

• Is forgiving others important to God?
• How many times are we to forgive?
• What happens to our fellowship with God if we
  dont forgive?

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• If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord
  will not hear
• Psalm 6618

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• You husbands in the same way, live with your
  wives in an understanding way, as with someone
  weaker, since she is a woman and show her honor
  as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that
  your prayers will not be hindered.
• 1 Peter 37

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• Understanding Forgiveness
• Is forgiving others important to God?
• How many times are we to forgive?
• What happens to our fellowship with God if we
  dont forgive?
• What does forgiveness look like?

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• Be kind to one another, tender-hearted,
  forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also
  has forgiven you.
• Ephesians 432

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Understanding Forgiveness

• Is forgiving others important to God?
• How many times are we to forgive?
• What happens to our fellowship with God if we
  dont forgive?
• What does forgiveness look like?
• What about the person who wont accept your
  attempt to reconcile?

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Understanding Forgiveness

• Is forgiving others important to God?
• How many times are we to forgive?
• What happens to our fellowship with God if we
  dont forgive?
• What does forgiveness look like?
• What about the person who wont accept your
  attempt to reconcile?
• Whats the cost of unforgiveness?

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• There is no torment like the inner torment of
  an unforgiving spirit. It refuses to be soothed,
  it refuses to be healed, it refuses to forget.
• Chuck Swindoll

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The Big Idea

• Forgiven people must be forgiving people.
• (credit Haddon Robinson)