following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all up and door church he's committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever you know mass required seattle open door church and learn about forgiveness the concept of forgiveness to be able to forgive others to forgive ourselves and even in some of us me may have to feel that we need to forgive you because we felt like you should have intervened in some of the things that in our life i pray father as we learn this concept of forgiveness will set us free will be able to move beyond the past and be able to walk in victory and have a glorious life in jesus name amen so we're going to get started here so we're going to go to the enter direction in our direction says when you have been wounded by others when we have been wounded by others we are left broken and wounded by the pain and destruction of what has been done to us we have been wounded by others be at times makes sense for choices how we handle the wounding and we experience pain and destruction by our own sinful choices we certainly struggle with forgiving those have sinned against us and many times struggle with forgiving god because we blame him and forgiving others so the work of jesus christ on the cross we can experience forgiveness from god and we can have the ability to forgive others and ourselves god desires  completely free in the hill every wound how many know all that when they have happened to us people do things to us that we don't forgive them many times and then we hold grudges against them ok and it would seem like that's the normal thing to do and it is if you live in a sinful world is that's the normal thing to do is somebody does something or harms you you have unforgiveness towards them you hold grudges against them but how many know that when you do that that you get hurt more than the other person let me know that how many know that the reality is that other person died and be dead for twenty years and you hold on bitterness and resentment towards them and so you give them power over you when they're not even alive and do you give power to them because what happens with unforgiveness what some of the things what some of the they rent space in your head and they do and they don't even pay rent they don't they don't even pay a dime for any space you have so they're in your ad the whole time what else happens when you have unforgiveness what some of the other things that happen with us toward yourself others are god what some of the the side effects of unforgiveness bitterness control what else effects your health no peace and if you have no peace with that affect your health when you're in stress what happens it affects your health and so out of it there's a lot of different side effects that comes when we don't forgive so what we're going to talk about is the concept of first off to receive god's forgiveness so we first receive god's forgiveness net receive god's forgiveness then we can come to the place of forgiving others forgiving ourselves and forgiving god and ever has a struggle about the concept of forgiving god because does god need forgiveness god doesn't need forgiveness but as there are days in our life at times that happen that we blame god for something that god didn't do in so until we're able to let go let it go and to forgive god what do we have to do christ death in the cross was sufficient for our forgiveness in our healing though we deserve death and punishment for sin christ took our sin upon himself by done the cross and he paid the price we no longer have to pay he took our pain peace was upon him and by his wounds we are healed by his wounds we are here what does that mean that we're here does it mean just physically emotionally spiritually mentally physically that there's complete healing because of a christ did on the cross because when he went on the cross what did he do he took on all of the sin of mankind and all the consequences of sin and what was often a consequence death so the jesus experience death so when we feel like we have died emotionally anybody ever been wounded where you felt like you died emotionally i've said this over and over again how many times when you've been hurt by in a love relationship somebody that you really love and they disown you they abandon you they do something and then you fill it in your heart physically can feel pain when a loved one dies what could you fill in your heart your heart actually feels like is what a broken heart you can fill death taking place within you and how much more when we die and so out of it is that jesus christ paid the price for anything and everything so when we talk about forgiveness and we talk about forgiving others forgiving ourselves forgiving god we need to understand the reason we can do that is because of the refrig ignace that jesus has manifested to us so the question is of jesus manifested forgiveness towards us who are in rebellion to him who are sinners how much more sh forgive others and when to see bible verses that talk about that so when we say i can't forgive you because you did this to me what if god had that attitude we'd never be forgiven because because god has some things against us yeah and so if god chose not forgive us because we don't deserve forgiveness no to be forgiven so forgiveness isn't based upon if the person deserves or not is based upon the principle that makes you free you are walk free absolutely free no longer a body so if jesus sets us free by forgiveness of our sins then we can walk in freedom and that means we can walk in freedom even from the you do it you're told not to do something our nature is the do it so when you give the law invariably with the laws given people violate the law and so what happens sin even increases more but then when you look at grace how many know that grace can abound abundantly and that god's grace can about abundantly and that we can have eternal life through jesus christ that's the greatest thing of grace is that we can have eternal life because of what jesus christ is done  right this go to number two says you have no past how many know if you accept jesus christ in your life and he forgives you of your past whatever you do then guess what you have no past is washed away in this give you a passage the talks about it is psalms one zero three eight to twelve by the way in your lesson you can look on the back the last page has the bible verses on it but if you look at hundred three verses eight to twelve listen to the power of what this says the lord is compassionate and gracious slow to anger in a bounded in loving kindness he will not always strive with us west so far as removed are transgressions from us how far is these from the west and ways where the east in the west they were ever meet no unless you're on the earth because of a look at the round earth and then we say that but if you are looking at their earth if you go to the east of the west it goes on forever and ever and ever they never come to join together and it's saying that's how far our sins have been cast away our transgression the cast away know when you do things what happens people hold it against you right and you could say you're sorry please forgive me you can give gifts you can try to bribe them and if somebody wants told against you they will vote against you but does god so then when we look at it we're going to go into forgiving others forgiven ourselves forgiving god how about the fact that the reason we don't forgive ourselves is because we still remember what we done remember what we've done and then we hold it against ourselves but when you hold it against yourself does it make you better oh i'm a rotten terrible human being i deserve to be i should deserve to suffer i deserve to get pain does that make you better no makes you worse ok this take it towards people you did this to me a nominal make you pay how can you make that person pay how much can you really do you know some people do they make you pay they kill you who pays you do who's serving time you are so can you make somebody pay only go so far now how about when people shake their fist at god god you took my daughter you put you put cancer is amazing how god gets blamed for everything you put cancer my daughter and i'll never forgive you and you hold a grudge against god how far are you going to get without one this got does god turn reza i don't know what i'm going to do it i'm stuck now they're holding against me i'm i'm i'm a can't do anything so in the end whatever way that we try to hold grudges and hold the past either against ourselves against god or by the others it never works and we have to understand the reason there's forgiveness is you have no past if we've been forgiven by jesus should we not forgive others and we look at no matter what so look at this number to forgiveness and inner healing through forgiving others a we need to let go of unforgiveness towards others for the wounds of sin that have been inflicted upon us did you hear that we need to do what the goal of unforgiveness toward others for the wounds of sin that have been inflicted upon us that's a pretty direct statement there's any question what this statement says it says we need to is that a command does it say we ought to maybe we should free will choice we have to choose to forgive don't we but when we say we need to let go the reason is because if we don't let go we don't have healing so number one as jesus forgiven us we need to forgive others met you six four to fourteen fifteen this is a this if you think this is a little bit direct guess what nephew six fourteen fifteen for if you forgive men for their transgressions your heavenly father will also forgive you but if you do not forgive men then your father would not forgive your transgressions anybody confused on that anybody wish that wasn't there anybody got their box cutter and cut it out of their bible you go and here's white out and stick it this is for if you forgive men your heavenly father forgives you so if you forget people who forgives you god does a say the people will forgive you god will forgive if you forgive people god forgive you but if you do not forgive man your heavenly father will not forgive you that is tough that is hard isn't it does that almost seem mean get this this get real nobody wants to say gods mean none of us to say that god's unfair no much to say that god does not have enough wisdom to know we can't do it but most people will feel that way i it based upon what's happened to us so if we don't forgive or not forgiven by god then how many know if you don't if you're not forgiven by god you probably don't have as much favor of god so what if i  if you don't have much favor from god when you've been wounded you lose the very one who can heal you from your wounding did you did you catch that so if i'm wounded and i'm hurt more than people what i need in my life need god in my life where i need more love than in the us if i've been wounded who can love me more than anybody else that i've been wounded who can heal me more than anybody else so if i am choosing on forgiveness and is cause in a place where god does not forgive of i'm losing the favor from the very one who can heal me does that make sense does that make it any easier to forgive sometimes they feel a little bit mad is what the wound is right prison and i would argue he knew the principle forgiveness you know i know that because when they were looking for somebody again everybody bragged on joel self you should check out joseph you've got a dream other whoever has a plan against anyone just as the lord forgave you so also should you do you know that was a little bit big towards us this is what it says barry with another forgiven each other so doesn't make it any easier does not make it any easier times but what it will do is it will give us incentive of to consider forgiving because if i know that if i'm not forgiving then i don't have the same favor of god and if i forgive i have the favor of god that should be and sent to consider the concept of forgiving hear me out i'm not saying you need whatever you've gone through i'm not going to say that right now you need to forgive well i will say not be hard to receive it would be painful to receive and here's what most people would think you just don't understand if you knew what happened to me you knew i couldn't forgive is not be a good argument  and see that's the whole challenge is i don't understand what you went through who does we get wounded it makes sense that our nature is not to forgive but w looking at the concepts of we don't forgive our father go don't forgive if we don't forgive that the one that suffers is all to me us an ad of this if you look the concepts of god forgave you you forgive others and again as we wrap up for some by this never heard of that concept it seems unfair it seems unjust and part is because we don't understand what real forgiveness looks like and so some of been taught forgive and forget recover that next week you know that's a lie there's no such thing as forgive and forget does anybody have a brain if you have a brain i know some of you all are watching begin to wonder how much of that brain is working but we have a brain and if we have a brain will we have a memory socket you forgive and forget if you if you forgive and you forget you probably went into mental illness because if you truly forget you had to alcohol to try to bury it to go to drugs and try to bury it to go to whatever addiction can think of trying to bury it they'll get into maybe if i just have an imaginary friend that whenever i think of that thought i'm a talk to my imaginary friend what happens that happen with that is that we're about demonic activity coming in and all of us on this demonic activity and so there's demonic spirits that will turn around and join up with you so there's there's there's a consequence when we don't forgive  today whoever has something that whatever is a tragedy you had whoever's listening on t v whatever tragedy you've had we're not saying that today right now if you don't forgive god doesn't love you because if god doesn't love us by how we perform he would've never died on the cross for us he died on the cross when we were looking for him and so out of out of god's love for us he loves us for where we're at and so if you're not able to forgive right now just let it go right now it's going to take us four five classes to get through all that we're going to cover and this subject is one the hardest subject about moving beyond the past if you really want to move beyond the past if you don't learn forgiveness you'll never be able to move beyond the past and yet this is one of the hardest things that can people can have to do because beings hurt and to let go of her is very very very hard to do because when you let go of her there's a feeling that you feel that you will get hurt again is not what it's really about what's that it's a big problem and so out of it is you're just going to rest you're going to take what we just talked about you're going to put on  future that i don't want to sound like lessening the pain the damage has been done to individuals the harm that's been done we don't want to sound like we're saying that they just get over it it was that simple we want to be at the spot they were at a times but what i pray is that each person that is listening that is watching that lord god will be able to say well if that's a concept maybe that's something i need to at least think about something i may explore that i might series that we're doing called moving beyond the past the old the video taping each week the sessions here some of the sessions will be covering what is healing past hurts who needs healing the prodigal son god's forgiveness face to face encounter with god the power of the cross forgiveness and inner healing in or val's of bitterroot judgments closing open doors breaking every curse breaking every d section be filled with the holy spirit i can promise you that it will not take going through all of the material to be able to move beyond your past but if you keep track with all that we share you will certainly live a victorious overcoming life and i want to let you know that you can live the victorious overcoming life in your deserts can be turned into glorious gardens if you want to learn more go to our website s o d c dot tv forward slash moving beyond that's s o d c dot tv forward slash movie on will have the curriculum there we will have the videotape of each session so you'll be able to follow right along with us even if you're not at our church service yes you can move beyond the past yes you can live a victorious life yes your desert places can turn into glorious gardens for others to be able to see the force of victory for their own life's because with god's done in your life this is best to reject do you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in robust and thirteen's as were ever called upon the name of the lord lord savior today you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is a war there is there is hope t v dot org and we have information on frequently ask a six six one god you have been listening to me there is so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in during committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you don't know but regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door 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