following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church their god we come to be been looking at for the last several weeks about forgiveness and the power forgiveness when we learn that god has forgiven us and we can have eternal life because of a jesus christ on the cross when we learn lord that we need to for learn how to forgive others find inner healing as we look at the summary of the lesson i pray father that you would speak to us to jesus name amen so if you grab your shape there's some extra on the chair there this is a homework for lesson six a number one ok obviously jesus christ is the answer but if the lesson of the sensex was on forgiveness the keytar frankly helaine is forgiveness because that's what recovery is forgiveness why why is that because obviously jesus christ is the answer but how can you forgive if you don't have jesus christ right see edges christ your life to able to forgive why is forgiveness a key to experience freedom and complete healing why do you think forgiveness is important why is that the answer to the question to move beyond the past why ok so if you don't learn to forgive and you're not able to forgive then you get stuck in the past does that make sense so if you want to get free from the past but you say i don't want i don't want this this this dots that these dots that keep coming my head i don't want them to control me i don't want to feel this pain of always thinking about what happened to me but i refuse to forgive are you going to find healing you're not going to find healing that's why it's a key or is not as much as you could because you can go to counseling they may never tell you about getting hill or babe or about forgiveness they may navy never tell you about forgiveness so you get some healing but if you want to really have true healing you have to be able to move beyond the past a lot of that is forgiveness number two there's the potential for giving this through through jesus by as a twenty work on the on the  cross and resurrect job oh there we go now she's going to be theologically sound reason why there has to be the cross and the resurrection because of jesus did not raise from the grave would there be a tall man for man no because he had a conquered the consequences of sin and death which was the cross and the resurrection because if he wasn't raised from the grave jesus raised people from the me why can't they be our atoning sacrifice they didn't die for us and they were sinners it took a hit if you understand the old testament it took the send land this land that was perfect it had no flaw in it to die to be the tallman in the old testament jesus is the new testament lamb that had no sin in him number two we need to for others god in ourselves very good we need to forgive others if we want to receive the forgiveness of god anybody remember any of the passages as and how about matthew six fourteen fifteen for if you forgive men for their transgressions your heavenly father also forgive you but if you do not forgive men that your father will not forgive your transgressions how many say that i don't like that that seems a little unfair god is to expect me to forgive others before i can be forgiven why  selfish ok anybody else we hold grudges so tell me something if we hold grudges can god say you know what i'm gonna hold a grudge against you you know that's actually what that saying he's saying if you don't forgive he won't forgive you so if you hold a grudge against somebody was god saying i'm hold a grudge against you i'm going to hold you accountable for your own forgiveness and it think about that does this that's strong words because guess what the drugs you hold against others how much harm can you do them how much damage can you do to them think about this if you hold something against somebody you honed a grudge to punish them you can't punish them a whole lot if god was to hold a grudge grudge against you and punish you the wrath of god can come right that's a dangerous place to be where you would open yourself up to the wrath of god but this turn of the other way the positive side if you forgive others and god then does forgive you what do you get from god blessings in abundance so when god forgives he wards do you know that when you walk in ense god rewards obedience so if i've forgiven i walk into being as i have a reward coming and that reward from god is greater than whatever damage somebody did to me if you understand who god is so it's powerful because when you forgive you're not only when you forgive it's how you know when you forgive that there is that the tontine that comes with them forgiveness you know i'm talking about so when you when you don't forgive somebody there's a t memory the pain the playing the tape over and over again every time you see the person what happens if you don't forgive the wound happens again doesn't it so you're wounded over and over every time you see that so what if it's you you failed and every time you look in the mere you don't forgive yourself is not a tontine and so out of that god when you forgive heat that goes away the the the the  pain and the memories they don't disappear the memories don't disappear they can disappear but what happens the memory doesn't control you anymore so you can you can tell the story let me tell you you've worked with somebody that's been in a very abusive relationship and you came out of your abusive relationship and when you get healed what can you do when you can talk that person about that abusive relationship that you was in and you talk about how god healed you of it so there's power that you're able to be used by god to touch somebody else's life when you walk in forgiveness but if you wear a badge all the time i'm up with i'm a victim i'm wounded i'm hurt i'm damaged goods i'm damaged goods i've damaged goods who want to get counsel from damaged goods never want to get counsel from damaged goods but when you walk in victory over what's happened to others who are damaged goods will start to listen to what you have to say and then you can talk and if you say you've made bad choices in your life and you can talk about those bad decisions you made your life you can say you know it's the things you're going through the strait you're going through you can't stand yourself you know there's a time i didn't hate like myself there's a time i want to take my life because i couldn't stand who i was as a person have you got to that yet and the purpose is why i haven't got that there but i think i'm getting close well let me tell you the solution the solution is to forgive yourself now it's hard to forgive yourself if you don't stop the behavior you have stop the behavior before you can really walk in forgiving yourself but there's a place where there's healing that comes when we forgive others god will forgive us never for no matter how great the wound how deep or how severe we need to forgive those who have hurt us well yeah but if they really hurt us we don't have to if they really did something really bad you don't have to where's that can you give me the verse no place no place to forgive seventy times seven was that add up to have you ever forgiven somebody four hundred ninety times nobody has that's why jesus this is not funny he just throws that number out but how do you know that seven in hebrew represents perfection complete jesus say you're supposed to forgive until it's completely forgiveness seventy times seven yeah did he not forgive those who hung him on the cross man why to be the example for us if he forgave his god what example is that because say well he was god and so of course he forgave what powers that the power is he was fully man and he forgave and saw how to do it by the power of god he was able to forgive so how do we forgive to the power of god the same power that jesus able to forgive like i can't be like jesus don't expect me to be like jesus all peter says be holy like i am god says to be holy like him how can that happen only one way being filled with the holy spirit by the power of the holy spirit were with through jesus christ i think about this is that a god says be holy like i'm holy and because of the power of the holy spirit can you be holy like god ok you know our problem is is god so in god's eyes were seen righteous and in a for being sanctified we walk in righteousness as god gives us that grace but listen when says be holy like me it didn't say and never sin did it holiness but what if i don't repent you're not walking in holiness if you understand what i'm saying so the key is don't get caught up all he said to be holy like he is on never gay but he obtained at if you have the wrong concept will never be able to tame that if you think be holy like i'm holy means don't ever send you set yourself up for failure misery but if you understand if i sin and i ask forgiveness i'm cleansed then as if i never did it now you don't go around saying what i'm going to do as i'm on a planet twenty cents this weekend and then i'll ask for forgiveness for one of the dangers that you may die in between us the forgiveness ok so there's a danger that yeah so are we perfect are we holy yes in god's sights are we saying it's are we living like saints not always that's where we need the forgiveness of god ok number we choose to not forgive we allow the pain of the past to devastate and wound us and the president future so if we this isn't if we don't forgive then there's the tontine of the past again there's the hante of the past again and we allow the pain of the past if we continue that it will devastate us we become hopeless and it will wound us in the present the future so if i hold a grudge against women because my mom was a controlling mom and i make a valve next week when we talk about bowels i make a vow that you can't trust women what will happen the wounds that my mom caused me i will watch i'll make a valid that you can't trust women so anybody i married as a woman i will be already decide what you can't trust them if you can't trust the woman you're married to what will happen big trouble and weight it can lead to you make a valid that you can't trust women your wife will do what and you cheat on you because you've made a vow and you will fulfill that vow by the vows you made that didn't have facts what your present and your future so if you want your present future different you have to do something different one of the things that you need to do is to forgive number six we are able to forgive by god's power we can find closure and instead of the living in pain of being stuck in the past how many know that you know what i want to close that chapter of my life right is a days that maybe you did choices you made that were wrong others did want to be nice to disclose that chapter said i want a new chapter in fact i want a whole new book who gets to decide your book you do you get to decide to write a new book but if you start your book out i'm a i'm a loser i'm no good the ending probably won't be very good if you start your book out you know what i'm a victim everybody is out to get me how you think the ending of the book's going to be life you have an example of this is that of closing one chapter start a new chapter would be my dad my dad was a jewish boy in east st louis was mostly blacks so black neighborhood where he grew up in he was a jewish boy who was illegitimate saw his mom wasn't married when she had him and he illegitimate jewish boy that's why in a black neighborhood will become a victim and so they love to tease him an them in did he have a father to protecting know and so out of it as we know that jews or blacks don't get along or if you know that or not but there's a lot of racism between the two and so how we know there's some people that don't like jews some people don't like black some people like there's a like that in the else so they used to chase him with rats all the time rats they would run and throw rat at him so he was very prejudiced against blacks now if he wants to experience closure he had to close that chapter of his life of ever is going to move up that he hadn't know when exactly how many years before he died he died a very early age he died around fifty two something like that but i go to his funeral and there black man in the room where the coffin is that and i walked up to my brother and i said i got to tell the guys in the wrong room because there's no way a black man could be my dad's funeral no way whispers to me he's in the right room his dad's best friend dad's best friend so i says ok this walk out of here this guy on the corner tell me the story i want to hear the story because there has to be a story behind behind it and he says you know the story is you know that you know this president stuff blacks were lazy that was his opinion blacks were lazy well guess what he starts it was a drug truck driver guess what he start work for blacks who  not lazy they worked hard then my dad was a gold panner loved to go gold panning dredging hiking all that he could get none of the young white guys would ever go all gold panning with them and go hiking and stuff but the black guy said can i go with you and i'm sure my dad thought at first but i don't want to block him out on my hiking trip i'm sure that's what he thought at first but my dad loved the goal and hiking that is prejudice think about that there's a story in that so then he started hiking i didn't get the gold ridge you know got it the black guy  brother said that my dad said if i ever passed away that's who i want to give it to see what can happen when you close one chapter of the book and you write a new chapter and you get to write the new chapter whatever's happened to you ok number seven many individuals who have been wounded by others or by life circumstances blame god for what happened to them blaming god how far is that going to get you a long ways  well it depends if you're following christ you can you be a believer in jesus christ you loved you tell your heart and had a tragedy happen and you start to blame god yeah we're human ok but when you realize you're doing that and somebody counsels you're doing that what do you in the end sometimes in the middle but most the time things are going to be made right until the very end they're in a new heaven and a new earth so let me tell you something you may forgive somebody and what might happen they may never do anything to change they may never take ownership days will not be made right but in the end things will be made right and some us think gee i hope to go to hell that's ho that's not the right we're talking about because how god made make things right is they get saved at the end and you're in heaven and there's that person that abused that harmed you that does something terrible to you and they're there in heaven shaking your hand saying i want you to know god use that tragedy god use that evilness a me to turn me around to get right with jesus and when you're in heaven what will you do you will rejoice you won't be saying why i wish you weren't here if you think that you  burn forever that is not a follower of jesus christ does was scares a lot of non christians because sometimes that's the that's the message that comes out and  hopefully are never at the place where we come across somehow one that we're better than i say this all the time i don't believe in such a thing as one human being is better than another maybe you made better choices that's different than being better than do you understand that that there's a difference so i learned through my mistakes my trials i go to god and i become a person who makes better choices so all of us here in this room today made a better choice than the homeless guy that did dope in our parking lot last night right you all made better try all hope you didn't do it in the bedroom ok so you all made a better choice at least you did it i guess if you  did you all made a better choice today but are you better than that guy out there if you think that you don't understand the gospel of jesus christ that you do not understand your righteous your holiness is only because jesus is put it  do you understand that he imputed righteousness upon as he put rice is son of we are not righteous if you take away jesus you know we are rusty old cars and ever had rusty o car where the metals fall apart you know you got the floorboard you don't put your foot in the floorboard go through the floorboard when you close the door you don't close too hard because half of the car will fall apart that's what we are without jesus so when we accept a life he doesn't make a shiny car brand new car that doesn't happen until when the end when we get to heaven when we see that is before we get to heaven because when we get a glorified body someplace between earth in the sky when he's aps us up and somehow in the twinkling of an eye i was something god glorified body until then we still listen if you don't renew your mind you don't change the way you think you don't change behavior you'll act like a rusty old car still and have you know there's a lot of christians act like worse than i am and so out of it we have to allow god to transform a sin changes just m yeah exactly ok that says if we have confessed our sin and repented of it we need to receive god's forgiveness or grace yep if we can that we need to receive god's forgiveness and other words if we have confessed jesus christ ever since then we need to receive god's forgiveness and stop playing that tape i'm not good enough i'm not good enough i'm not good enough i'll never be good enough if you say i'll never be good enough you made a vow and if you make a vow what happens you won't be good enough when you soul i'm not good enough you will reap that you're not good enough and you know what happened there is aura that comes around you so if you play the tape of a victim whether you say a word or not there is a victim aura that's around you that you give off anybody understand what i'm saying you can just feel it from people something isn't right this close in prayer have a father i danc you that we can experience inner healing we can find peace we can find closure is be forgive i pray that each of was disallowed you are spirit to speak to us of where we may be still need to forgive somebody earth selves is there something in our past that we haven't let go of and i pray father that this week we will start to give those things to you allow you to do the surgery in our heart to give us the faith that we can forgive to believe that we can forgive i just pray lord that we allow you to work in our hearts and pray this in jesus name amen are you struggling beyond the past  you haven't our time to forgive others if you give yourself or maybe even to forgive you 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 intervallic bitterroot judgments closing open doors breaking every curse breaking every d seps and 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 c dot tv forward slash moving beyond 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 will you accept jesus christ as your lord and savior today if you 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