WE MUST INCULCATE THE HABIT OF FORGIVENESS
THE CALLED & GRACEFULLY FORGIVEN:
AFTER BEING BAPTIZED AS FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST, SOME STILL LACK THE PROPER TEACHINGS ABOUT FORGIVING OTHERS WHEN VIOLATED; EITHER IN THEIR OWN FAMILY MEMBERS, WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH, AND IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITIES.
[MATTHEW 6: 14-15]
IT IS SAD TO SEE HOW SATAN IS USING BELIEVERS AS TOOLS TO DESTROY ONE ANOTHER.
SOME ARE HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING FELLOW BELIEVERS FOR AN UNINTENDED MISTAKE AND BE SIGHTING PSALM 35.
HOW DO WE GET TO THIS POINT OF SEEKING THE DESTRUCTION OF ONE ANOTHER?
IF WE CAN NOT TAKE THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST AS IT IS WRITTEN, [MATTHEW 5: 44-45] WHY DO WE FOLLOW HIM AND CALL HIM LORD?
BUT REMEMBER THIS: IF YOU FAIL TO ALLOW HIS WILL TO PREVAIL OVER YOUR EGO, THEN JESUS IS NOT YOUR LORD.
IF HE IS NOT YOUR LORD, HE WILL NOT BE YOUR SAVIOR.
LESSONS NEED TO BE LEARNED FROM THE PARABLE OF THE UNFORGIVING SERVANT. [MATTHEW, 18: 21-35]
IN CONCLUSION: APOSTLE PAUL PROCLAIMED: “I AM ASTONISHED THAT YOU ARE SO QUICKLY DESERTING THE ONE WHO CALLED YOU TO LIVE IN THE GRACE OF CHRIST, AND ARE TURNING TO A DIFFERENT GOSPEL WHICH IS REALLY NO GOSPEL AT ALL. EVIDENTLY, SOME PEOPLE ARE THROWING YOU INTO CONFUSION AND ARE TRYING TO PERVERT THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.” [GALATIANS, 1: 6-8]
REMEMBER: WE SHALL ALL STAND BEFORE THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT WHERE MERCY WILL TRIUMPH OVER JUDGEMENT. AND SOME MAY NOT RECEIVE MERCY BECAUSE THEY LACK A FORGIVING ATTITUDE.
[JAMES, 2: 13]