May 7, 2023 · Pastor Matt Stokes
Pastor Matt Stokes
Forgiveness
Hostility
Love
Hurt
Endurance
Patience
Conflict
Wisdom
Reconciliation
Healing
Grace
Pathways to Practical Forgiveness - Sermon Notes
Left unchecked, another person’s “sin” may result in sin in my own life.
Are you willing, today, to “begin the process” of forgiveness?
“Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.”
- Hebrews 12:15
There are few words that characterize the cross of Christ more than the word “forgiveness.”
Pathways to Practical Forgiveness
1) Make a list of the wounds and hurts you know need to heal.
Pathways to Practical Forgiveness
1) Make a list of the wounds and hurts you know need to heal.
2) Ask yourself, “How am I forbearing this person?”
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.”
- Colossians 3:13
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
- Ephesians 4:2
What does it look like, to me, to be forbearing this person?
Pathways to Practical Forgiveness
1) Make a list of the wounds and hurts you know need to heal.
2) Ask yourself, “How am I forbearing this person?”
3) Pray for people that have caused you pain.
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”
- Matthew 5:44
Pathways to Practical Forgiveness
1) Make a list of the wounds and hurts you know need to heal.
2) Ask yourself, “How am I forbearing this person?”
3) Pray for people that have caused you pain.
4) Ask, “How can I bless those people”?
“Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.”
- Matthew 5:24
Pathways to Practical Forgiveness
1) Make a list of the wounds and hurts you know need to heal.
2) Ask yourself, “How am I forbearing this person?”
3) Pray for people that have caused you pain.
4) Ask, “How can I bless those people”?
5) Continue to apply the appropriate scriptures to your life.
Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
- 1 Peter 4:8
A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
- Proverbs 19:11
Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “But seventy times seven!
- Matthew 18:21-22
Coming face to face with our need to forgive is a part of the believer’s every-day life.
God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
- 2 Corinthians 5:19
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
- Hebrews 12:2
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