{"id":131230,"date":"2021-11-01T04:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T09:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=131230"},"modified":"2021-10-25T07:11:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:11:26","slug":"29-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/29-o\/","title":{"rendered":"29.o. “Forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Colossians 3:13 forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Matthew 6:14-15<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,\u00a0\u00a0but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Matthew 18:21-35<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Then Peter came up and said to him, \u201cLord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Jesus said to him, \u201cI do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When one thinks of how\u00a0Christ forgave you<\/b>\u00a0it should make us much more generous with forgiveness.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0God holds back His anger a very long time when we sin against Him. He bears with us a long time, even when we sorely provoke Him.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0God reaches out to\u00a0bad people<\/i>\u00a0to bring forgiveness to them; the habit of man is to not reconcile if the offending person is a person of bad character.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0God makes the first move towards us in forgiveness; the habit of man is to only be reconciled if the offending party craves forgiveness and makes the first move.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0God forgives often knowing that we will sin again, sometimes in the exact same way. It is the habit of man to forgive only if the offending party solemnly promises to never do the wrong again.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0God\u2019s forgiveness is so complete and glorious that He grants adoption to those former offenders. In the habit of man, even when forgiveness is offered, he will not lift again the former offender to a place of high status and partnership.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0God bore\u00a0all<\/i>\u00a0the penalty for the wrong we did against Him. In the habit of man, when he is wronged, he will not forgive unless the offender agrees to bear all the penalty for the wrong done.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0God keeps reaching out to man for reconciliation even when man refuses Him again and again. In the habit of man, one will not continue to offer reconciliation if it is rejected once.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0God requires no probationary period to receive His forgiveness; in the habit of man, one will not restore an offender without a period of probation.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0God\u2019s forgiveness offers complete restoration and honor; in the habit of man, we feel we should be complimented when we merely\u00a0tolerate<\/i>\u00a0those who sin against us.<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0Once having forgiven, God puts His trust in us and invites us back to work with Him as co-laborers. In the habit of man, one will not trust someone who has formerly wronged him.<\/p>\n

iii. \u201cSuppose that someone had grievously offended any one of you, and that he asked your forgiveness, do you not think that you would probably say to him, \u2018Well, yes, I forgive you; but I \u2013 I \u2013 I \u2013 cannot forget it\u2019? Ah! dear friends, that is a sort of forgiveness with one leg chopped off, it is a lame forgiveness, and is not worth much.\u201d (Spurgeon)<\/p>\n

It only takes one to forgive but takes two to reconcile. Without forgiveness there is no room for reconciliation. Be the person who forgives and builds the foundation and support to bridge reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Colossians 3:13 forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. \u00a0Matthew 6:14-15\u00a0\u00a0For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,\u00a0\u00a0but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. \u00a0Matthew 18:21-35\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then Peter came up and said to … Continue reading “29.o. “Forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[343,2321,5651,15426,796,347,15427,120,5018],"class_list":["post-131230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-forgive","tag-forgiven","tag-forgiving","tag-heavnely-father","tag-lord","tag-peter","tag-seventy-times-seven","tag-sin","tag-trespasses"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131233,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131230\/revisions\/131233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}