SERIES: GETTING TO THE NEXT LEVEL! EPISODE 9: IS IT UNFORGIVENESS THAT’S HOLDING YOU BACK?

DISCLAIMER: YOU MUST BE IN A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST
JESUS TO FULLY GRASP THESE TEACHING AND TO LIVE THIS KIND OF
ABUNDANT LIFE!


Introduction: SERIES: GETTING TO THE NEXT LEVEL! IS IT
UNFORGIVENESS THAT’S HOLDING YOU BACK? 


EPHESIANS 4:30-32


30 AND DO NOT GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, WITH WHOM YOU WERE
SEALED FOR THE DAY OF REDEMPTION.  31 GET RID OF ALL
BITTERNESS, RAGE, AND ANGER, BRAWLING AND SLANDER, ALONG WITH
EVERY FORM OF MALICE.  32 BE KIND AND COMPASSIONATE TO ONE
ANOTHER, FORGIVING EACH OTHER, JUST AS IN CHRIST GOD FORGAVE
YOU.

VS 30When we think of grieving, we think of sadness,
sorrow, pain, or heartache. If the Holy Spirit were a feeling or
an experience, he could not be grieved. It is because He is a
Person of the Trinity that loves us and cares deeply about how we
act and live.
Do you want to know what grief looks and feels like?
You are in an internal conflict, there is tension, restlessness,
a tug of war, turmoil. There is unhappiness, depression, joyless,
heaviness, fear, anxiety, no inner peace. You are cold, with no
empathy, sympathy, or love. I could go on it but I think you are
beginning to understand where I am going. 

VS 31


We cannot act like the world act. We must have a new attitude;
our minds have to think about the things of God. Paul told the
Ephesians that the old way of life must be completely wiped away,
it is in the past. We were created to be like God in true
righteousness and holiness. All this bitterness, rage, anger,
brawling, and slander must be left in the past once we become a
new creature in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 4:23-24)


When we as Christians allow lying or unhealthy language,
bitterness, anger, and bad attitudes to run our lives, we grieve
the Holy Spirit. Instead of acting that way, we should be
forgiving, just as God has forgiven us. We belong to God, so we
should act like it. Respecting one another, building one another
up, not tearing each other down. Christians that are unwilling to
forgive, have not become one with Christ. 


We have to let the past stay in the past. (Heb. 10:17) Their sins
and lawless acts I will remember no more. In other words, God
remembers our sin no more. Isaiah said that God blots out our
transgressions, for His own sake, and remembers our sins no more.
God doesn’t throw stuff back in our face 20, 30, 40 years later.
(Isa. 43:25) When God forgives He forgets!!! Amen!!!

VS 32


Unforgiveness is when we are unwilling or unable to
forgive someone for hurting us, betraying us, breaking our trust,
or causing us intense emotional pain. Forgiveness ain’t easy MOST
of the time, but we must do it. Unforgiveness is a dangerous
thing! 


When we do not forgive, we are asking for sickness to come into
our bodies. Unforgiveness has side effects, bitterness can make
you sick, hatred can make you sick, we get high blood pressure,
ulcers, headaches, and other different afflictions. If we do not
watch it unforgiveness will kill us physically and spiritually.
 

When Jesus was teaching his disciples about prayer; part of the
Lord’s Prayer is asking God to forgive us as WE forgive those who
have trespassed against us. (Matt 6:12) 


It suggests that being forgiven and forgiving others are closely
tied together in our Christian walk. Jesus is proclaiming that it
is just as important for us to forgive others as it is for God to
forgive us.


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 Next week we will continue with GETTING TO THE NEXT LEVEL!
NO MORE CHAINS HOLDING ME, IT’S MY TIME TO BE FREE! STUDY THIS
WEEK GALATIANS 5:13-18.


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REMEMBER MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS, IT TAKES GRAC


Remember my sisters and brothers, it takes GRACE TO MAKE
IT!