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Thu, 15 Oct 2009
Oct 15, 2009, 21:49
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Being forgiven is important. We all need God to forgive us for our sins, because everyone has sinned. And God has promised to forgive us, if we come to Him and ask, and accept the payment that Jesus made for our sins on the cross.
But it is important for us to forgive others, too. Jesus talked much about forgiving others. When Peter asked Him how many times he should forgive someone, Jesus’ answer was seventy times seven…or, in other words, “who’s counting?” Jesus taught that if we had something against another person, we could not really worship God until we had forgiven that person. He forgave Peter for denying Him. He even asked God to forgive the people who were crucifying Him.
If we have an unforgiving spirit (like wanting to get even, to make the other person suffer), there are two big problems. One is that the unforgiveness gets in the way of our relationship with that person, and we avoid them or are mean to them. The other is that the unforgiveness “eats away” at us as we think about getting even, resulting in all kinds of spiritual, emotional, and even physcial problems.
So Jesus teaches us to forgive others—even if they don’t ask to be forgiven. The story this Sunday is about the man whose friends let him down through the roof of Peter’s house in Capernaum, where Jesus was teaching. They weren’t able to get in through the door for all the people, so they ripped a hole in the thatched roof and lowered their friend, who was unable to walk. Jesus took care of the most important thing first—He forgave the crippled man’s sin. Then, to prove to the scribes and Pharisees that He really was able to forgive sins, He also healed the man’s paralysis and told him to take up his mat and walk.
Jesus will forgive us, but He reminds us that in the same way we need to forgive those who need our forgiveness.
This would be a great Sunday to bring a friend!
Tom and Sydney Cook
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