Good News for those struggling with Forgiveness

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Good News for those struggling with
Forgiveness! Matt 18 21 - 35
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• Struggling with Forgiveness
• We have Instant Access to the Fathers heart
• Gods heart of mercy is part of the great divine
  disclosure

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• Struggling with Forgiveness
• Matt 18 21 22 Forgiveness
• Matt 18 23 35 Freedom from Resentment

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Up to 7 times?
Not 7 times BUT 70 times 7
Go on and on Forgiving
A past culture
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What does Forgiveness really mean?
It goes beyond human fairness it is pardoning
those things that cant readily be pardoned at
all C. S. Lewis
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Struggling with Forgiveness Hidden grievances
make shipwrecks of personal relations Nothing
makes us so lonely as our secrets Paul
Tournier
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc 8th June 1972 Trang Bang,
South Vietnam
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Struggling with Forgiveness Forgiveness made me
free from hatred
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Struggling with Forgiveness there is a hard
lawthat when a deep injury is done to us we
never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton

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Struggling with Forgiveness
the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted
to settle accounts with his servants Matt
18 23
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Struggling with Forgiveness
Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiverto
release you from something that will eat you
alive that will destroy your joy and your
ability to love fully. William Young -The
Shack
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Struggling with Forgiveness If we fail to
forgive. This is how my heavenly father will
treat each of you unless you forgive your brother
from your heart. Matt. 1835 Grace is not a
cheap thing to be trifled with.
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Struggling with Forgiveness The Pardon of God is
dynamic and life changing It is such Good
News
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Struggling with Forgiveness When we forgive, we
not only pardon a failing but we also embrace
the person responsible and seek to rehabilitate
and restore them. Our forgiveness may not always
be accepted, yet once we have reached out our
hand, we cleanse ourselves of resentment. J
ohann Christoph Arnold
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Struggling with Forgiveness The really GOOD
NEWS is that it is at the Cross Redemption,
Forgiveness and Freedom from Resentment lie.