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Forgive Your Enemies
Christians don’t beg for God’s forgiveness as they once did. Now they just ask for it as if it is their right and entitlement to have and to own.
The callousness of our ignorance adds even more injury to hurt as we begin to tell, demand, decree and declare things of GOD as if YHVH was our slave and we His Creator – as if His existence and wellbeing depended upon us and we were sovereign and almighty.
I am checking myself and begging everyday for GOD’S generous and merciful forgiveness. And I gladly and quickly forgive others out of gratitude for the LOVE of God that forgives me everyday.
LORD PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON US!
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A lot of people think that once they are forgiven by a person, that person doesn’t have the right to say “ouch!”
Many feel that forgiveness erases the effect of their offence and therefore the offended party should not have anything further to say about it.
That is insensitive and arrogant of the offending party and reveals their lack of remorse at having injured someone else!
Although the scriptures indicate that God forgives, it doesn’t say that it didn’t cost him severe grief and pain nor does it hush his cries of pain and anguish.
Consider this.
Although Jesus forgave the ones who tortured him and crucified him, it didn’t diminish his suffering or numb his pain.
Jesus was publicly scourged, or beaten, with a leather-thronged whip. Tiny pieces of iron and bone chips were tied to the ends of each leather thong-cutting deep into his flesh and causing deep, flesh-ripping painful cuts and bruising.
Yet, he forgave.
He was struck in the head with a staff and spit on. A crown of 2 to 6 inch sharp prickly thorns was placed on his head digging deep into his scalp, forehead and ears. He was stripped naked in public before his enemies, family and friends.
Yet, he forgave.
Before they nailed him to the cross, a mixture of vinegar, gall and myrrh was offered to him. This drink was said to alleviate some of the suffering, but Jesus refused to drink this numbing potion. Stake-like nails were driven through his wrists and ankles, fastening him to the cross where he was crucified between two convicted criminals.
Yet, he forgave.
Jesus hung on the cross in agony for about six hours while people passed by shouting insults and scoffing at him. He also cried out to his Father, “My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?”
Yet, Jesus forgave.
And as darkness covered the land. Jesus gave up his spirit having shed his divine blood for our transgressions and iniquities-reconciling the world back to YHVH.
Through cries of agony and unimaginable pain and feelings of abandonment by His FATHER, Christ prayed that His FATHER would forgive those who tortured him and crucified him.
FORGIVENESS SAYS “OUCH!”
FORGIVENESS CLARIFIED AND APPLIED
Forgiveness is not saying that things are okay now, and then going back into an abusive situation or relationship. It is not letting someone off the hook by saying, “You didn’t do anything wrong.” Forgiveness is not denying that a hurtful situation exists and it isn’t denying the fact that you are injured and experienced pain, sufferings and loss because of the actions of another. And forgiveness does not mean that you accept the offending party’s behavior.
Forgiveness is repetitive and requires a conscience effort to release the offending party from their moral indebtedness to you – setting them free from any obligation/punishment or consequence for their offence. It is the waiving of your right to seek revenge or restitution for the hurt someone caused you; to reflect God‘s mercy for you in your forgiving mercy toward others.
Genuine forgiveness may not be painless or without cost. Those who truly forgive may at times cry out in pain and agony and pay with their very blood and wellbeing as did our Lord and savior.
Forgiveness sometimes says “Ouch!”
Who do you need to forgive today?
I strongly urge you to begin the forgiveness process today through praying the following prayer.
Father God, I ask You to please forgive and help me to forgive ________________________________for whatever they may have said, done or conspired against me. Although their offence continues to cause me hurt, pain and grief, lay not this sin to their charge. Forgive them, for they know not what they’ve done. If Jesus could forgive when they were crucifying him, I know and believe that I can forgive anyone who has come against me. I forgive them in Jesus’ name. Amen
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The strength to forgive is not human but divine. We should forgive and pray for those who are killing us and/or causing us to suffer. We ought to forgive and pray for those who couldn’t care less if we forgave or prayed for them or not.
“You have heard that our fathers were told, ‘Love your neighbor — and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! Then you will become children of your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:43-45)
It doesn’t matter if they ask to be forgiven or acknowledge their transgressions against us or know about our prayers for them. For us, it is a matter of loving FATHER YHVH and becoming children of GOD in CHRIST.
We belong to GOD.
AMEN!
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To pardon can mean to release someone from a duty or requirement. To set or declare someone free from blame, guilt, punishment or responsibility.
To forgive means to stop feeling angry, resentful and displeasure toward someone for their crime or offense against you. It is the waiving of your right to seek revenge or restitution for the hurt and/or injury someone caused you.
Pardoning tends to have to do with the release from punishment. For example an official judicial authority may pardon a criminal’s punishment and commute their sentence. Although he or she may be guilty of the crime and/or offence, they are released and freed from serving any more prison time for their offence and/or crime.
Forgiveness tends to have to do with the offended party’s emotions and feelings toward the one who is guilty of the offense against them. For example the offended person may waive their right to take revenge or exact retribution or punishment or payment from the one who offended and/or injured them. They release themselves from the emotional and spiritual desire to hurt the one who hurt them. They release themselves from the righteous and justifiable law of revenge. Thus setting themselves free from the heavy burden and dark emotional baggage of unforgiveness.
Forgiving and Pardoning sometimes coexist and are inclusive of one another. For instance, when we forgive a debt, we often pardon the repayment of it.
But more often than not, Forgiving and Pardoning are exclusive of each other. For example, a murder victim’s family may forgive the murderer of killing their loved one but the murderer is not pardoned from the judicial and moral consequences of their murderous act. They will still have to serve time and may even be required to surrender their life as punishment for their crime. Nevertheless, they are forgiven.
In like manner, sometimes we are forgiven for our trespasses against another and against God but we still have to pay and/or suffer the consequences for our sinful acts.
A good example of when Pardoning and Forgiveness do not co-exist maybe be found in the sin of fornication where a child is conceived out-of-wedlock. The sexual sin of fornication may be repented of and forgiven but the consequences are inevitable and life-changing and lifelong. This particular sin may even have generational and intangible, psychological, sociological, moral and spiritual consequences that will impact innocent generations yet unborn.
Another good example of where Forgiving and Pardoning are exclusive of each other would be mankind’s fall from grace. Sin entered the world through one man – Adam, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all have sinned through Adam. Therefore, all human beings suffer the wages of sin – physical death. For it is appointed to man once to die and after that to face judgment. However, all mankind can be forgiven from their sins through believing the Gospel, Repentance, Water Baptism in the name of Christ and the gift of the HOLY GHOST. Nevertheless, all human beings will still have to die Physically and Spiritually at least once as a consequence of Adam’s original sin.
Are You Hearing What The Spirit Is Saying Unto The ONE TRUE EKKLESIA of CHRIST?
All sins do not reap the same consequences and all offenses do not receive the same penalty. It is a case by case assessment and only God knows enough about each situation and mitigating circumstances to judge righteously and dispense justice fairly. That is why YHVH reserved vengeance – The dispensing of justice and punishment – for himself. (Deuteronomy 32:35, Romans 12:19)
We are commanded to forgive each other and not to repay evil for evil. We really don’t have to get anybody back for anything that they did to us. Regardless of how much we forgive them, they will reap whatsoever they sow. We can’t stop the spiritual law of sowing and reaping. True pardoning of sins comes only from GOD through Christ.
THEREFORE, FORGIVE EVERYONE JUST AS GOD IN CHRIST FORGIVES YOU. HOWEVER, THE PREROGATIVE TO PARDON MAYBE TOTALLY UP TO GOD.
REPENT! HUMBLE YOURSELF AND BECOME CONTRITE OVER YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS. ASK GOD TO PARDON YOUR SINS SO THAT YOU WILL BE TOTALLY FREE FROM THE WAGES, CONSEQUENCES AND CURSE OF SIN.
REPENT!!!
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When you have done the right thing by somebody and they still insist on doing you wrong and treating you unfairly and even causing you harm, sometimes the best thing to say and do is nothing.
You have already said enough and they have disregarded your charge against them so now it is time to be prayerfully quiet.
((I have practiced this for over thirty years and I have never seen it fail.))
Take it to the LORD in Prayer and constantly tell GOD about how you have been mistreated, injured, harmed and/or damaged, I am sure that God, who is The Righteous Judge, will address your injuries like no one else can. You will see the recompense of the wicked in your lifetime. (Psalm 91:8) That is a promise from The FATHER of All Righteousness. I assure you that He will trouble those who trouble you. (2 Thessalonians 1:6)
They may be out of thousands and tens of thousands of dollars and may have trouble in their health, homes, among their children and on their jobs and elsewhere before they ever realize that they are under the wages and consequences of their own transgressions against you – his Anointed.
Pride and self-righteousness prevent some from ever realizing or acknowledging their transgressions, and thus they meet with utter destruction because they will not repent.
Maybe you know someone like that.
Pray for them in the HOLY GHOST and ask the LORD to lessen the consequences and wages of their sins against you as you have forgiven them with God’s help.
Know that this pleases the FATHER for this type forgiving love imitates His LOVE toward us and brings Him GLORY and HONOR. All parents love it when their children take on and demonstrate the very best of their character qualities and YHVH is our FATHER.
Now don’t get it twisted. Our prayers for our enemies will not stop God from keeping His Promise to Trouble those who trouble us and pay/reward them the wages that they worked so hard to earn. But our prayers may deliver them from eternal damnation through the mercies of God and drive them to repentance so that, although they may suffer the consequences of their sins, their souls may be saved from damnation.
Matthew 5:43-45 instructs all true and obedient children of Father YHVH and Followers of CHRIST to “Love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, so that we may be sons of our Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good.”
And Ephesians 5:1-2 reminds those of us who have died to sin and have been washed in the Blood of Christ by Water Baptism in His Divine Name and who have been gifted with God’s Spirit of Holiness to “be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.”
Please note that God requires divine forgiveness by us toward our enemies. He has empowered us to forgive like him since we are saved according to His HOLY Plan (Acts 2:38) and gifted with His Holy Spirit. The everyday “Christian” will have extreme if not impossible difficulty forgiving and praying for the ones who stands unrepentful of harming them. But for the saints of God, this is the everyday WAY of Life Eternal.
Once we have obeyed God’s instruction to love our enemies and He hears our sincere prayer on their behalf and sees the hurt that they have caused us, as any good Father would, he will address those who have injured us in word and/or deed and repay them for their unrepentful acts. For if we who are born into sin know how to reward those who attack and injure our little ones, how much more will the Father rise up against those who attack his little one?
GOD reserves vengeance for himself, so that we, his little ones, will remain guiltless of the sins of hate and revenge.
It is hard to remain in a state of retaliation and anger while praying for the forgiveness of those who caused you to be injured in the first place. Therefore, pray for your enemies and forgive them so that your heavenly FATHER will forgive you your trespasses against Him and call you his sons and daughters.
Yahweh is the only righteous judge and we must trust Him to know how and when and how much to punish those who have caused us harm, injury, loss and even death (death of a career, relationships, marriage, hope, dreams, love, etc.).
Can’t Nobody Do Our Enemies Like God.
Leave it in God’s Hands and Keep your hands off of it and your mouth shut about it and Watch the LORD Work it out for your Good.
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Christians are not innocent when it comes to redefining God’s Word. Christians can’t point the finger at the “Gay Agenda/ LGBT” or the Supreme Court’s Ruling that effectively redefined marriage and family without first confessing their own sins.
Christians have been diminishing, modifying, redefining and rewriting God’s Holy Eternal Word from as far back as the Fourth Century under the rule, authority and decree of the pagan Emperor Constantine.
When Christians want to criticize and admonish the United States for legalizing same-sex marriage, they have to first admit and accept responsibility for and REPENT of their current corrupt and unholy practices and apostolic apostasy.
Christians must confess their error of changing YHVH’S HOLY SEVENTH DAY SABBATH to a first day of the week Christian sabbath before they can point a finger at anyone else for changing and perverting God’s divine moral TRUTH.
Christians have to confess and REPENT of their gender confusion in the HEADSHIP (pastorate) of their churches before they can criticize anybody else for altering and perverting God’s ordained gender roles in humanity.
There are more deviations from the DIVINE ETERNAL TRUTH than I can honestly name in this post but we all must REPENT if we are going to effectively address the brazen insults to our Faith by the mongers of immorality and sin. We all must REPENT of corrupt man-made Christianity if we are to honestly and without contradiction, witness to the holiness of Yahweh in Yeshua the CHRIST.
Christians living in a glass house can’t throw no stones.
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