FORGIVENESS MEANS RELEASE

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: FORGIVENESS MEANS RELEASE

(Matthew 18:27,Matthew 18:32)

So, then, what really is the meaning of forgiveness?

The biblical word, the new covenant word. In Greek it is APHASIS, in English, RELEASE.

Now just for a moment, don’t make it any more complicated than that. RELEASE.
To forgive means to choose someone whom you have been holding in your debt, holding in resentment and bitterness, and release him or her.

Forgiveness is not calling something that someone else did that was immoral or destructive OK. It is not turning a blind eye toward injustice. Forgiveness simply means that you choose to release somebody from personal obligation to you—even though that person will have to face the justice of God.

In Matthew 18,
Jesus answers. A man owed a king ten thousand talents and was on the brink of having to sell his wife and children into slavery to pay the debt. But the pleas of the man to the king resulted in a canceling of the debt. FORGIVENESS. RELEASE. But the same man turns on a man who owes him merely a hundred denarii. And when the king hears of it, he is incensed, saying, "You wicked servant, ... I canceled all that debt of yours. ... Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant?" The king rescinds his forgiveness. And Jesus’ closing words are these: "This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."
Forgiveness is release—being released by God, and then we are able to release other people in our lives.

This week God want you to release people you have been holding up in your heart. LET go and let God.

LET US PRAY,
DEAR LORD JESUS CHRIST. HEAL OUR HURT AND BROKEN HEART WHICH IS WOUNDED BY PEOPLE AROUND US IN JESUS NAME

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