Dr Charles Stanley - He Forgives Our Sin - Part 2

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1:24Limited time only. Promotion pricing may be lower than meal pricing. When you trust the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, you are forgiven of your sin. That forgiveness is the act of forgiveness on the part of God whereby your sins all of them. Every single one of them past, present, and future are atone for and one act in his death at Calvary. Are you able to freely forgive those who hurt you? Or is it your habit to harbor hostility? If you have trouble with forgiveness and letting go of resentment, I hope you'll stay with us for in touch the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Today's message continues our series on the ways of God and leads those of us who are believers to forgive others because God forgives our sin.

2:24Forgiveness for your sin is a one-time act. For me, I was 12 years of age, knelt at the altar, asked Jesus Christ to forgive me of my sin. I did understand that he died on the cross for me. I didn't understand a whole lot more than that, but he knew my heart that I was guilty as a 12-year-old kid. The Spirit of God, he convicted me of my sin. He saved me that day and I've never, never doubted that. Some are saved at 12, 20, 30, 40, 60, 70, 80, 90, or even before. Whatever it might be, it's a one-time act on the part of God to save you, to forgive your of your sins, write your name in the Lamb's Book of Life. Now watch this. Forgiveness for my salvation took care of the penalty that he paid for once and for all. Forgiveness for my daily sins does something different. That forgiveness saved me forever. Forgiveness for my daily sins has nothing to do with salvation. Forgiveness for my daily sins

3:29restores my broken fellowship, forgetting upset with my brother with whom I work and telling him off. It deals with that. Or some lust that you may have. Or some attitude that's wrong. It may be sitting against somebody else or it may be something that's just only you know about. So we're talking about forgiveness for salvation and forgiveness for my daily sins. So I want you to turn to a prayer that we all learn probably when we were kids. Matthew chapter 6, look at that if you will. Matthew chapter 6, and notice what he says, Jesus talking to his disciples, this is a terminal amount. Most of us learn this when we're kids. We learn to pray this prayer. So let's watch what the prayer phrase now. Remember we are talking about sins that we commit now that we're saved, taking care of our pardon, has nothing to do with it. At Verbo, we understand that even the best of plans sometimes need a little support. So we plan for the plot twists. Every booking is automatically backed by our Verbo care guarantee,

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6:34making me feel good. Watch this. For if you listen to this, if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your father will not forgive your transgressions. Now watch this. Jesus knew that you and I would sin after we were saved. That's why I put this prayer in here. One of the reasons. And so he says, I'm to pray for, give me today my day, meet my needs today. And he said, I'm to forgive those who wronged me today. So let's deal with the first part first. I'm to forgive them. Now think about this as a child of God. I do believe that the problem with a major reason, the body of Christ is so weak, is because most people somewhere in their life have somebody they've not forgiven. Where it can be way back Yanda, resentment, hostile, angry. But you've covered it up. Things are

7:42pretty good with you. And so you've just said, I don't have to deal with that. You know what I've already told God how I feel about it. I'm not going to keep bringing that up. I've even heard past as they don't bring up the past. I've even heard past as they God don't want you bringing up the past. So what do you do? You hide it. You dig deep enough down and you can cover it up with enough good things that come your way. He's still down there. And what you don't realize is it's poisoning you. It's like a poison leak in your system and your bodily system. You're going to have a devastating effect. But let's just put it this way. Anger, bitterness, hostility, whatever it might be. And here's what God says. If you forgive others for their transgressions, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. We're not talking about salvation. We're talking about relationship, personal, intimate relationship with Him. We're talking about your fellowship with Him and here's what He says. If my fellowship with Him, my relationship with Him, which affects what?

8:44The way I live, it affects my prayers, it affects my abilities, my talents, my skills, it affects my attitude, it affects my worship, it affects everything. If you forgive those who have sinned against you, then your Father will forgive you. But if you do not, neither will He. You say, well, if He doesn't forgive me for my sins, I'm lost. No, we've already dealt with that. He has pardoned you from all sin. Now we have to deal with daily sins. And He put it in this prayer, Jesus, because He knew we were going to have to deal with it. So I'm to pray, God, forgive us of our debts and forgive me of my sins, as we also forgive those who sin against us. So here's what I'm praying. God. McDonald's is putting value back on the menu. Whether you're craving a big Mac, McNuggets, or sausage egg and cheese McGrittle's, make it a meal and save. Your favorite is now your

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10:50big something extra. With a big Mac or 10 piece McNuggets, fries and a medium Coke, all for just $9. Limited time only, promotion pricing may be lower than meal pricing. Bada, bada, bada. Forgive me today as I forgive others, so I don't forgive others. So our whole anger and bitterness and resentment, you know what I just prayed? God don't forgive me. So you just prayed. If there's anybody in your life or mine, we're not willing to forgive. You can just write this down and you sign Jesus until you deal with it. Our fellowship is broken. Fellowships disrupted. Let's just read it, be sure you get it. If you forgive others, big if. If you forgive others, their transgressions, your Heavenly Father forgive you. If you do not forgive them for their transgressions against you, neither will your Father forgive you. Has nothing to do with salvation, it has to do with your daily walk. You say, do you know what somebody did to me? I understand.

11:52But if you just bend where I've been, suffered like I've suffered. God doesn't expect me to forgive them. Where is that? You see, it doesn't tell you something. Living a Christian life is serious business and we treat it like it's not. We treat God like He's this Heavenly Father who overlooks it. Father's who overlooks the sins of their children and do not discipline them wisely, lovingly but wisely and sternly when necessarily are doing what contributing, this is contributing to the destruction of their own children. And so because we're that way, we think God's going to be that way. He's, you know, if I do enough, man, if I preach enough sermons, God, he won't pay him a penny and this is what we do sometimes when he say, God, then I teach Sunday school, I sing in the choir. You know, I have a good witness, I share my faith, I give my time. Now I know God over here that, God, I, you know what? I just can't forgive him. Look, look, look what you don't expect me to forgive

12:55them for that. And then look at all the good things I'm doing up here. You know what God says? He's not paying one bit of attention to that. Listen to this, you can't substitute good works for sin. In other words, he doesn't operate that way. You can't get enough of this to cover up over here. Disobedience, rebellion, indifference to the things of God, sinning against my brother. Now, let me just say this. I know that some of you have gone through some very, very difficult times in your life. And so when somebody says to you, be forgiving, it's just real difficult you to handle that. Let me say this, I'm sure in the lot of folks who've heard a lot more than I have, I can tell you this, the worst thing that could happen to me, I had to go through in my life, but you know what? I knew from the very beginning the one thing I must do is to keep a forgiving

13:59spirit no matter what. But watch this. If you don't forgive those who wrong you, you get hurt doubly. You get what they did to you and then you keep this unforgiving spirit in your life. And so now you're getting what God's doing to you. The truth is you're doing it to yourself. You get hurt doubly. You have to be forgiving. You say, yeah, but I just can't, yes you can. You say, I don't feel like it has nothing to do with your feelings. So I'm going to make something clear. Forgiving someone who's wronged you has nothing to do with your feelings you say, but I'm so sorry. But once our sausage egg and cheese McGrittle's make it a meal and save. Your favorite is now your wallet's favorite too. Extra value meals are back. Sun rises prices fall. Get a sausage

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16:04lows and floor into core stores. For more information visit JamesHearty.com slash hearty backer. Well hurt, understand. It has to do with the decision you make. It doesn't mean that all of a sudden you're going to have this awesome love and joy of this person. They've wronged you, hurt you deeply and you won't forget it. It's not a metaphor, you forget that. It's a metaphor you hold it against them or not. Listen, you have to be willing to forgive them whether you feel like it. Not you mean to tell me I can forgive them and not feel like it. Yes. And the times when you have to forgive, it doesn't mean you go hug them and just everything's just fine because sometimes that person's walked out of your life they're not going to ever have an old relationship with you. Sometimes the things that people's personalities, they didn't like you the first day they saw and they knew nothing about you. They just didn't like you. And they start wronging you from the very beginning. You're not going to ever have a relationship with them but you got to forgive them because here's what he said. If you don't, I won't.

17:11So I have to be forgiving. And what happens? Here's what happens. This daily asking forgiveness does what? Keeps me clean, keeps my motives right, keeps my heart to you, keeps my relationships right. But most of all, it keeps me right with him. Let me ask you. If you'd lie down at night, cut the lights off and thank God, is anybody in my life I'm not right with? Anybody I haven't forgiven? They wronged you, yes. You hurt, yes. You may still hurt and suffer the consequences but you can still forgive them. It's a decision you make. Father, I forgive them. I don't hold it against them anymore. If Jesus Christ can forgive those who crucify him, nailed him to the cross and said, Father, forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. What right do I have to hold against anyone

18:11and unforgiving spirit? Because in your mind, in me also, Charles, what sin have you committed that I haven't forgiven? Oh my goodness. That was it. I don't have a right to be unforgiving. So you know, I have to ask the question, God, what are you withholding from me because I won't deal with this unforgiving spirit? If your spirit is unforgiving, don't expect him to answer because here's what he says. And I'm so grateful that he put this in the pattern, Brad. I'm so glad he said this. Give us this day, our day, Brad. And forgive us.

19:19For more information, visit JamesHearty.com slash hearty backer. But you know, that's what you and I do. I don't want to be forgiving, but I want him to forgive me. As you and I would say, it ain't going to happen. You know why? Because he loves you and me too much to allow us to have a wonderful relationship with him. At the same time, have animosity, bitterness, resentment, you name it towards someone else. It took me a long time to deal with man for giving spirit to my stepfather. And it's one thing about being a pastor,

20:24you'd be true to the word of God, you have to, you have to apply to yourself first. And I remember for God what I was preaching on, but I remember the Lord just pointing that right to me. Well, he keeps saying, what about John? It happened to be my stepfather's name. What about John? Mr. treated my mom something terrible. And I didn't like it. There wasn't anything about him, I liked. I didn't even like to hear his name. Well, well, well. Finally, he made me realize, I can't stand up until somebody else to be forgiving if I'm not, didn't make them what he did to my mother. Made a whole lot of difference to me then. He hurt me very deeply. A little bit of grace of God, I didn't do something dressing. I had to forgive him. You said, wouldn't you write him a letter? No. I went to see him. I went to see him for one reason. And I began, I said, John, I want to talk to you about something. I said, I need to ask you to forgive me. If it's like,

21:27oh, you don't need to ask me for a guess that yes, I do. I need to ask you to forgive me. But whatever I did for whatever I may have done to have this pleased you and made me have hard feelings. And I said, so it doesn't make any difference. What happened? What happens is I want you to know that I need to ask you to forgive me for my attitude towards you. I never said to him, when I saw you choking my mother. I never said to him the way you would crush my mother. I never named all the things because you see. Kitchen and bathroom professionals know what goes behind the tile matters. That's why trade pros trust fiber cement, party backer board to keep tile firmly in place, resist cracking and help block moisture. Chosen over 40 million kitchens and bathrooms, party backer board. What the best build on? Shop now at participating home depot, lows and floor into core stores. For more information, visit Jameshardy.com slashhardybacker.

22:33If I had done that, I'd have been just getting my venom out. I want me forgiving him. I'd just be doing something for me. I had to forgive him. I wanted to forgive him. And it was interesting how you responded. He came around the table, hugged me, asked me to forgive him. I want to let that man die. And one day God can front me with that. And it'd be too late to deal with it. Put this brand here for a reason. I'm forgiven of Miss Cindy Turner, but I have to be forgiven daily. And that's my prayer. If you've never been saved, you want to ask the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive your sins. Know that you're saved. You want to pray this prayer. Verse 190 says, if we confess our sins, and that doesn't mean, well, okay, all right, it means that I agree with, to see the word confess

23:34means to agree with. That is, the Greek word is humble again, which means I agree with God. I agree with God that what I said was wrong. I agree with God that my attitude is not right. I agree with God that this, this action was, it was a sin against God. I agree with him because of my conviction. I regret that. I asked him to forgive me. And in the process of confessing that I turn away from that. And I choose not to do that. Does that mean that you will never repeat it? No, it doesn't. There's some things all of us have done in our life that we confess and ask God to forgive us. And you know what? We did it again. Just as guilty the next time confess it again and again and again. But you see, when you grow in the Lord, you can tell one of the evidences of your growing is, that's gone. Take some people long time for it to be gone, but it's gone. Here's this wonderful, awesome love of God who's willing to forgive us if we ask him to.

24:34If you want to be the person God wants you to be, you have to begin to understand his ways. And one of his ways is this. He saves you in one act of faith and repentance toward him. He forgives you and me daily for those things that we allow to creep into our life by confession because we're guilty, asking him to forgive us and to strengthen us. So it will not happen in our life again. But until I'm willing to deal with my brothers and my sisters, God says, sorry. Here's what He says to us. I'm answering your prayer. See, He answers it either way. Watch this. If I ask Him to forgive me and offer give someone for what they've done, then I'm clean. Or I'm forgiven. If I'm not willing to forgive them, then I'm asking Him not to forgive me. So I get the answer either way. One for good, one for bad.

25:41And I want to encourage you to look at your heart and just do what He tells you to do. If there's somebody out there, listen, please don't let them die before you deal with it. And you'll be glad you heard this message. Father, how grateful we are that your forgiveness is absolutely beyond our comprehension. We think about things in life that have not been right. How many times we've had to come to you? You've always been willing, when we have been willing to deal with those things that you have brought to them on. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That the Holy Spirit is willing to go back into our life with us and show us things that need to be dealt with. All on the surface things that we did yesterday or even this very day. Teachers, how to live in this awesome forgiving spirit whereby our fellowship with you, our relationship with you, our intimacy with you is undisturbed every day. We love you and praise

26:47you in Jesus' name. Amen. For giving people who have hurt you is often hard. But as you heard in Dr. Stanley's message, it becomes the clear choice once we truly understand the magnitude of God's forgiveness toward us. To listen again, go to intouch.org and look for the link to Today on Radio. And that's where you'll find more helpful information on God's forgiveness and how He enables us to also be forgiving. Connect to our online bookstore. If you'd like to order a copy of today's complete message, He forgives our sin. It's also included in Dr. Stanley's teaching set titled The Ways of God. Again, that's intouch.org. You can also call or text 1-800-intouch. If you prefer to write, our address is intouch. Post Office Box 7900, Atlanta, Georgia,

27:513-0-3-5-7. What can a coal mine teach us about forgiveness? Today's moment with Charles Stanley is coming up. Are you living a life of preferences or one that's based on God's word? To enjoy a strong life, one that makes an eternal impact, we have to break free from the factors that make us weak. And Dr. Charles Stanley's book, Standing Strong, Believers will find encouragement to construct a life based on the strength of enduring faith, built on uncompromised biblical convictions. To order your copy of Standing Strong, call 1-800-intouch or visit intouch.org. Dr. Stanley devoted his entire life to helping us. Get closer to Jesus as we all want to do. And also discover all that he has for us. Help us to be fully prepared for God's purpose in our lives. So are you ready for the next step in your journey? It begins at the New Charles Stanley Institute. Bible-based, Christ-centered, Holy Spirit-filled instruction so you can know God.

28:56You can learn how at Charles Stanley Institute.org. You're listening to Intouch. It's hard to stay clean in a filthy world, but God's forgiveness makes it possible. With an illustration, here's a moment with Charles Stanley. Let's say you as a lady, you dressed up in something white. And so, somebody was going to take you on a little tour. You didn't know where it was. So they don't take you down to a coal mine. So I'm not dressed for a coal mine. Yeah, I'm taking you down there. You got to know about maybe a couple of hundred yards and you come back and you say, my goodness, you have just ruined this. Well, you didn't do anything necessarily. But look at the environment you're in. The environment was dirty, right? It's pretty black down there. It's dirty. So just going down there and coming back, you got dirty. Now think about this. You and I live in a corrupt, sinful, wicked, vile world. There's profanity,

29:58there's ludeness, there's all kinds of dirty, filthy stuff, whether it's the sea, whether it's the here, people anger, business, resentment, hostile to man. We live in a world of people who angered each other. So what happens? You come home and your kids have me cleaned up like you ask them to. Next thing you know, you're on their case. And I mean, you just, next thing you just angry. Well, that's some of that dust in the coal mine. Here's what I'm saying. Thank God that you and I can ask for forgiveness today. You can learn more about the Christian's life of faith at ntouch.org. And if today's program encouraged you to invest more deeply in your relationship with Christ, we'd love to hear from you. Next week on ntouch, one of the most recognizable characteristics of God is that he is love. And that's our topic on Monday.

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