forgive and forget. the nature of sin

Forgive and Forget

Learning How to ForgiveMatthew 18:23-35

"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

Matthew 6:14

Learning How to ForgiveDivine forgiveness means:- Thinking as though it never happened

Hebrews 10:17 "AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.“

Learning How to ForgiveDivine forgiveness means:- Thinking as though it never happened- Abandoning our personal opportunity of vengeance

Divine Forgiveness is not:- Tolerance of sin- Acceptance of error

So How Do We Learn to Forgive

Example #1: Joseph - Genesis 37-50

POINT: Successful forgiveness means we need to find other things for which to be grateful

So How Do We Learn to Forgive

Example #2: Saul of TarsusActs 9

POINT: Successful Forgiveness means we forget what is past

So How Do We Learn to Forgive

Example #3: YOURomans 5:1-10

POINT: Successful Forgiveness happens when we can love

The Rewards of ForgivingJoseph & the love of his brothers

The apostle Paul’s work for the Saints

Our adoption by Grace

The Rewards of ForgivingFruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22-23The pleasure of our Father

Matthew 5:9The wealth of strong spiritual relationships

Learning How to ForgiveConclusions:

Forgiveness is a mustWe need to find the good in all thingsWe need to forget what has passedForgiveness works when we perfect loveForgiveness has great reward

The Nature of SinThe nature of sin is such that even the least of sins marks us condemned by God

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23

How Do We Obtain God’s Forgiveness?

The GOSPEL is the power of God’s forgiveness

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who

believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16

The Gospel is:I Corinthians 15:1-4:

The Death, Burial & Resurrection of Jesus Christ

The Gospel is:I Corinthians 15:1-4:

The Death, Burial & Resurrection of Jesus Christ

The Gospel is:I Corinthians 15:1-4: Death Burial & Resurrection

For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

1 Peter 4:17

How does a person “obey the Gospel”?

Obeying the Gospel is:Romans 6:3-4 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Obeying the Gospel is:Romans 6:3-4: Baptism into the death-burial-resurrection of Christ

Obeying the Gospel is:Romans 6:3-4: Baptism into the death-burial resurrection of Christ

Dead to sinRomans 6:6

Obeying the Gospel is:Romans 6:3-4: Baptism into the death-burial resurrection of Christ

Dead to sinRomans 6:6

Buried in BaptismRomans 6:4

Arise to walk in a newness of life

Romans 6:4

Obeying the Gospel is:Romans 6:3-4: Baptism into the death-burial resurrection of Christ

Dead to sinRomans 6:6

Buried in BaptismRomans 6:4