At any rate, all this goes to warn us that if we have anything in our hearts against anyone , we should go to that person quickly and get the whole thing totally cleared up. It might be our parents, or an employer, a teacher, or even a husband or wife. But in the light of this parable, we can see that however much anyone has hurt us, it doesn't even compare to the free gift of God's pardon for our sins. A Root Of Bitterness Bitterness is a deadly thing - a real cancer. The mass-murders of the Charles Manson family stemmed from Manson's bitterness toward a record producer who didn't like his music.
Cults can even develop when the leaders get bitter towards the main-line churches or denominations.
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