Peter Roselle: Possessing Your Vessel - Bitter Root Judgements (week 5)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 20/11/2019

This is week five of a seven-week series where we unpack the book “Transforming the Inner Man,” by John and Paula Sandford. In this teaching we unpack the principles surrounding Bitter Root Judgements. This deep insight was developed by the Sandfords over a lifetime of prayer ministry designed to help Christians obtain victory over the destructive results of besetting sins (pornography, relational abuse, unforgiveness). They discovered that we develop bitter roots in our personalities when we hold others in contempt and form judgements against them. In some cases that can be a sin, i.e., when we judge our parents. Deuteronomy 5:16 tells us to: ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.” What the Sandfords discovered over decades of prayer ministry is that in those areas where we honor our parents, life goes well with us. In those areas where we judged them, life does not go well. The good news is that once we recognize the sin, repent and seek forgiveness, the destructive effect of the judgement is removed.

ENJOY!

For more videos, subscribe to our YouTube Channel here: https://bit.ly/2TRObAR
If this post is a blessing to you please "like", "share” and “comment.” 
If you need help with a personal problem email info@kingofkingswc.com.
We'd like to agree with you in prayer and offer whatever assistance we can provide.
Donate here: http://www.kingofkingswc.com/donate/

The base scriptures for this teaching are as follows:
Hebrews 12
14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: 
15 looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

Romans 12
18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 
19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

Romans 14
10-11 But why do you judge your brother? 
Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written:
“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
12-13 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God. 
Therefore, let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, 
not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.

Matthew 7
1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 
2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 
3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 
4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 
5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.


Galatians 6:7
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”

Deuteronomy 5:16 
‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.”

What follows is the opposite behavior of what the Lord is looking for:
Luke 9
52 …they entered a village of the Samaritans…but they did not receive Him…
54 ..when His disciples James and John saw 
this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to 
command fire to come down from 
heaven and consume them, 
just as Elijah did?”
55-56 But He turned and rebuked them, 
and said, “You do not know what
manner of spirit you are of. 
For the Son of Man did not come to 
destroy men’s lives but to save them.”

They were so quick to judge the Samaritans that they were ready to call down fire on them.
He responds by telling them He came to save lives, not destroy them.

From the Sandfords:
The law of judgment applies not only to our conscious actions, 
known and performed outwardly, but also to what is lodged in our heart, repressed, 
unknown and unexpressed. 
Once formed, judgments bring results.
Bitter roots - not brought to the cross -  will defile you and many others. 
Bitter roots may be the most powerful negative force in our lives, 
bringing destruction to us and those around us.
For us, "roots" are habitual ways 
we  drink nurture from God, others, ourselves and nature. 
Our roots also lie beneath the surface, 
usually hidden to the adult mind. When we have bitter roots, 
we drink harm to ourselves.
They are sinful reactions to hurt,
condemning judgments of people,
refusal or inability to forgive someone.
They are powered by unchangeable laws of God which 
cause us to reap in kind what we have sown.
Description