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ST.THOMAS SUBURBAN
PASTORAL CHARGE
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
At Talbotville and Yarmouth
Centre United Churches
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CALL TO WORSHIP
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hearour voice! Let your ears be attentive to our call. If
you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who
could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, so
that you may be revered. I wait for the Lord, my
soul waits, and in his word I hope; We wait for the
Lord. We hope in his word. My soul waits for the
Lord more than those who watch for the morning.O people of God, hope in the Lord! For with the
Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is great
power to redeem. --Adapted from Psalm 130.
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PRAYER
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HYMN
Hymn VU#959
The Lords
Prayer
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MusicMinistry
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ChildrensTime
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The Offering of ourTithes and Gifts
Prayer of
Dedication
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HYMN
Hymn VU#371Open My Eyes
That I May See
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SCRIPTUREREADINGS
Matthew 6:5-13
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"When you pray, you are not to
be like the hypocrites; for theylove to stand and pray in the
synagogues and on the streetcorners so that they may be
seen by men Truly I say to you,
they have their reward in full.Matthew 6:5
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"But you, when you pray, go
into your inner room, closeyour door and pray to your
Father who is in secret, andyour Father who sees what is
done in secret will reward you.Matthew 6:6
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"And when you are praying, do
not use meaningless repetitionas the Gentiles do, for they
suppose that they will be heardfor their many words. 8 "So do
not be like them; for your Father
knows what you need before youask Him.
Matthew 6:7-8
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"Pray, then, in this way:
Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name. 10
'Your kingdom come Your willbe done, On earth as it is in
heaven.Matthew 6:9
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Give us this day our daily bread.
12 'And forgive us our debts, aswe also have forgiven our
debtors. 13 'And do not lead usinto temptation, but deliver us
from evil. For Yours is the
kingdom and the power and theglory forever. Amen.
Matthew 6:11-13
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14 For if you forgive others for
their transgressions, yourheavenly Father will also
forgive you. 15"But if you donot forgive others, then your
Father will not forgive yourtransgressions.
Matthew 6:14-15
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The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant -
Matthew 18:21-35
Then Peter came to Jesus and
asked, Lord, how many times
shall I forgive my brother or sister
who sins against me? Up to
seven times? 22 Jesusanswered, I tell you, not seven
times, but seventy-seven times.
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23 Therefore, the kingdom of
heaven is like a king who wanted
to settle accounts with his
servants. 24 As he began thesettlement, a man who owed him
ten thousand bags of gold was
brought to him.
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25 Since he was not able to pay,
the master ordered that he and
his wife and his children and all
that he had be sold to repay thedebt. 26 At this the servant fell
on his knees before him. Be
patient with me, he begged, andI will pay back everything.
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28 But when that servant went out,
he found one of his fellow servants
who owed him a hundred silver
coins. He grabbed him and began to
choke him. Pay back what you oweme! he demanded. 29 His fellow
servant fell to his knees and begged
him, Be patient with me, and I willpay it back.
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30 But he refused. Instead, he
went off and had the man thrown
into prison until he could pay the
debt. 31 When the other servantssaw what had happened, they
were outraged and went and told
their master everything that hadhappened.
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32 Then the master called the
servant in. You wicked servant,
he said, I canceled all that debt
of yours because you begged meto. 33 Shouldnt you have had
mercy on your fellow servant just
as I had on you?
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34 In anger his master handed
him over to the jailers to be
tortured, until he should pay back
all he owed. 35 This is how myheavenly Father will treat each of
you unless you forgive your
brother or sister from your heart."
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These two passagepoint out the
absolute necessityof forgiveness.
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First we need to tryand understand
what forgiveness isand what it is not.
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Forgiveness isbearing the
consequences ofothers actions
without seeking tomake them pay.
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In other wordsforgiveness is not
seeking revenge.
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Forgiveness isleaving the deeds of
the past in the past.
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Forgiveness is drivingbitterness towards
others for what theyhave or we perceive
they have done towardsus out of our hearts.
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Forgiveness is based onour first being forgiven
by God.
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Forgiveness is not arestoration of a
relationship.
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Many times people feelthat they must restore a
relationship in order tohave fully forgiven.
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Forgiveness is the first step in
restoration of relationships buta relationship is two sided and
unless the other person is
willing to be restored and
meet the conditions of
restoration (repentance andtransformation) forgiveness
will not force them to do so.
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With that same thought in
mind forgiveness is not
allowing a person to endlessly
abuse us simply by sayingthey are sorry.
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An invited guest who steals
from your home may be
forgiven but never again
asked to visit your home untilthey have truly changed their
ways.
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Forgiveness is not meant to be a
cover for wrong actions. If
criminal activity is involved even
if we forgive there needs to be arecognition of the wrong done
and consequences for the wrong
for the safety of others and thehope of change in the offender.
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In these cases forgiveness is
more about the motives of our
heart rather than a letting go of
consequences. The purpose ofthe consequences is for good
and not for payment or
revenge.
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It is important to know that God
does not just love us..... He loves
everyone. Here lies one reason
He desires to forgive and for usto forgive.
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Forgiveness
sets those Godloves free.
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It is for freedom that Christhas set us free. Stand firm,
then, and do not let
yourselves be burdenedagain by a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1
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It sets us free in several ways.
My list may not be
comprehensive but it reflects my
personal journey intoforgiveness.
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Forgiveness
Frees Others
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John 20:23 "If you forgive the
sins of any, their sins have
been forgiven them; if you
retain the sins of any, theyhave been retained.
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What an incredible power for
good or destruction we have
been given in forgiveness. We
can forgive or we can bindthem with unforgiveness and
send them into a prison. It is
in our power.
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Perhaps the most powerful
story in the bible about the
power of forgiveness is the
prodigal son being welcomedback to his home by a father
who has been daily looking
for him with forgiveness in his
heart.
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Had his father turned him
away his life would have
never been restored.
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Forgiveness makes a way for
others to make terrible
mistakes and yet come back
from them to be restored andlive in a positive way.
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The Bible is full of stories of
people just like you and me,
who made a terrible mess of
their lives but because of theforgiveness of God and others
turned their lives around to
become men and women of
honor.
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Without forgiveness it would
have been impossible for
them to have done so.
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Forgiveness
Sets Us Free
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Matthew 18:32 Then the master called
the servant in. You wicked servant, hesaid, I canceled all that debt of yours
because you begged me to. 33 Shouldnt
you have had mercy on your fellowservant just as I had on you? 34 In anger
his master handed him over to the jailers
to be tortured, until he should pay back all
he owed. 35 This is how my heavenlyFather will treat each of you unless you
forgive your brother or sister from your
heart."
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We are placed in aprison of torment
until we forgive aswe have been
forgiven.
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C.S. Lewis once saidthat forgiveness is more
about our hearts beingset free than it is about
the one who wrongedus.
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How true this is. Whenwe refuse to forgive we
are tormented. We arebound in fetters of pain,
bitterness and self-pity.
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If we think about it for amoment we will all
remember a time whenwe saw the fruit of
unforgiveness either inour own, or in others
lives.
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Something dies insideus when we will not put
the past behind us butcontinually revisit in
bitterness the wrongsdone to us by others in
the past.
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In a strangeentanglement of
bondage when we donot forgive we often
become like and act insimilar ways as those
we do not forgive.
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If we allow another tocapture us in
unforgiveness we arenot harmed once, we
are harmed over andover again.
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Like a cancer eating awaytheir insides, this person
we will not forgives deeds
grow larger and larger untilour whole life is lived in the
torment of daily reliving thepain of the past.
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Forgiveness sets of free of
the prison of torment.
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It accepts, grieves and
releases the wrong and
consigns it to the past
where it should stay.
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Forgiveness removes the
poison of bitterness from
the pain of loss.
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Forgiveness
Sets God Free
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The most important person
that forgiveness sets free is
God.
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That may seem like a
wrong thing to say. God is
not bound by us..... or is
He? Read His Word to usagain
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Matthew 6:14 For if you
forgive others for their
transgressions, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you.15"But if you do not forgive
others, then your Father will
not forgive your
transgressions.
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God keeps His Word. We
know He desires to forgive us.
Jesus died to purchase that
privilege for us.
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People say God loves you no
matter what you do and that is
true. But He still is true to His
Word.
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God does many things he
does not want to do but has to
because He has given His
Word.
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If we believe God we will also
believe what He says. It is
perfectly clear from these two
passages and others likethem, if we hold
unforgiveness in our hearts,
God will not forgive us.
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He forgave us and wants to
continue in that
forgiveness.
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But we take away His
freedom to forgive us when
we will not forgive others.
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In spite of being born again,
being filled with the Holy Spirit,knowing the Bible well and even
having a ministry if we do not
forgive everyone from our hearts
God is put in the terrible position
of having to discipline us bycalling to account sins we were
once forgiven of.
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In spite of being born again,
being filled with the Holy Spirit,knowing the Bible well and even
having a ministry if we do not
forgive everyone from our hearts
God is put in the terrible position
of having to discipline us bycalling to account sins we were
once forgiven of.
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There is no other way of
interpreting the passage inMatthew 18. The master forgave
it all but when the servant
refused to follow his example he
ended up throwing him into the
prison until he paid the formerdebt that had been forgiven.
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God is bound to do what He says
He must do if we do not forgive,even though it is not his first
desire for us.....
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If unforgiveness bindsGod, forgiveness
frees Him to do whatHe loves to do....
forgive us.
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How canwe forgive?
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I want to suggestthree practical ways
to help us to forgiveothers.
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The first way I foundto really set others
free from what theyhave done to me is to
give the loss to Godas an offering.
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The first way I foundwas to allow myself to
grieve over the lossby expressing my
feelings in prayer.
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The second way Ifound to really set
others free from whatthey have done to me
is to give the loss toGod as an offering.
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The third way, in those
situations where you feel it to
be outside of your ability to
forgive is to do what Corie TenBoom did with her sisters
tormentor and allow God to
forgive through you.
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PASTORALPRAYER
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HYMNHymn VU#672
Take Time To Be
Holy
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BENEDICTION
THREE-FOLD AMEN