{"id":814,"date":"2011-10-16T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T20:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:26","slug":"forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matt. 18:125-17, 21-35<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Jesus teaches forgiveness.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;But if your brother wrongs you.&#8221;<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Go and have it out with him at once&#8221;<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Just between the 2 of you.&#8221;<br \/>\n4. &#8220;If he will listen to you, you have won him back as your breother.&#8221;<!--more--><br \/>\n5. &#8220;But if he will not listen to you.&#8221;<br \/>\n6. &#8220;Take 1 or 2 others.&#8221;<br \/>\n7. &#8220;If he still won&#8217;t pay any attention, tell the church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Never forget to forgive:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Would 7 times be enough?<br \/>\n2. &#8220;The kingdom of heaven is life.&#8221;<br \/>\na. A king settling accounts.<br \/>\nb. 1 owed thousands of dollars.<br \/>\nc. 1 owed $20.<br \/>\nd. But both begging to have mercy.<br \/>\ne. One received but refused to remember.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: &#8220;For if you forgive other people.&#8221; Matt. 6<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Man&#8217;s forgiveness hinged on how he forgives.<br \/>\n2. Gods flow of forgiveness can be stopped by an unforgiving spirit.<br \/>\n3. Forgiveness is more than not holding something against another (restoration).<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: When it is hard to forgive:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. A repeated wrong.<br \/>\n2. When the wrong was deliverate.<br \/>\n3. When they don&#8217;t belong to our group.<br \/>\n4. When we have been refused to consideration.<br \/>\n5. The hardest to forgive is the one we have wronged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>V: The Pattern set by Jesus.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Peter forgiven.<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Forgive them for they know not.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Paul the Apostle.<br \/>\n4. Our helps to forgive.<br \/>\na. A sheet of our own wrongs.<br \/>\nb. A sheet of others wrongs.<br \/>\nc. A knowledge of how Jesus suffered and forgave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt. 18:125-17, 21-35 I: Jesus teaches forgiveness. 1. &#8220;But if your brother wrongs you.&#8221; 2. &#8220;Go and have it out with him at once&#8221; 3. &#8220;Just between the 2 of you.&#8221; 4. &#8220;If he will listen to you, you have won him back as your breother.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}