Forgive Others

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive
others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Matthew 6:14-15

Jesus spells it out plainly:" if we forgive others, we will be forgiven. Likewise, we shouldn't judge, lest we be judged and we shouldn't
condemn lest we be condemned as well."

Does not matter what others say about you that is wrong, just know that Jesus is not like them. We must forgive and know that we
as Godly people do not act that way of evil. Just be bless and hold your head up and know you are loved by God!

Have any of you ever been wronged or hurt by someone? If you have you know first hand how easy it could be to stay angry and to
grow bitter to a person. God definitely understands what it is like to be hurt and wronged. We through our sins we commit on a daily
basis hurt and wrong God.

I believe that the sin that may keep more people out of Heaven than any other is the sin of unforgiveness. I believe that there are
many Christians who for some reason refuse to let go of grudges that they may have against another person. Throughout the
course of your life you can expect to be wronged from time to time by others. You may even feel strongly that what another did was
wrong. We though cannot hold onto that anger and bitterness, but we must forgive. Whenever we sin and mess up and then come
to God in sincere repentance we expect God to forgive us, don’t we? It is often different for us though when we are wronged. We
often have a hard time letting go and forgiving. The easy thing to do is to stay angry, it takes much more effort and much more
trouble to forgive and let go of something.

My grand mother would say sometimes how some people say things like "I will forgive, but not forget "

This is the worst misconception that I hear people say more than any other. Many people say they will forgive, but they make sure
that people know that they will not ever forget! We are told to forgive, as we want to be forgiven, and the Scriptures tell us that not
only does God remove our sins, but also he forgets them and he remembers them no longer. How would we like God to tell us upon
our repentance that he will forgive, but not forget? I understand that we are human and we cannot help but to remember certain
things and it is not easy to put events out of our minds, but we must do our best to treat people we say we forgive as if the wrong
never happened, for that is exactly what God does with us. For goodness sakes, when you forgive somebody forgive them. After
you tell someone you forgive them and you do not let go of you anger and bitterness you are the one sinning now even if they were
initially wrong. Many people forgive, but they never forget or let the offender forget what they had done, that is not Biblical
forgiveness. Biblical forgiveness keeps no record of wrongs and does not hold a person’s sins over their head.

Matthew 18:21-35

This parable that Jesus told began with a question by Peter. He asked, “How many times should I forgive a person who sins against
me? Up to seven times? We may think the question was a little funny, but the thing is Peter thought he was being generous with the
possibility of forgiving up to seven times. The rabbis during this time taught that you would forgive up to three times, so Peter’s
suggestion of seven times was very generous for that society. Jesus though had something to say about that. He was not trying to
give a limit of how many times you forgive, but was saying that you always need to forgi

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