- Do you have faith that Jesus can help you in your life? And what do you do about it?
- READ LUKE 17: 1-5
- Jesus takes a strong stand against people who cause others to stumble
- Jesus was patient with humanity and asks us to keep on forgiving each other
- The measure we use to judge others will be used against us
- Forgiving others the way Jesus forgives us takes a lot of faith
- READ MARK 2:12
- Jesus saw the faith of the men as they were digging through the roof to help bring their friend to him
- The paralyzed man didn't ask for forgiveness but Jesus gave it anyway
- The teachers of the law thought only God could forgive sins,but Jesus forgave sins to help the people grow in their faith in him
- Jesus was able to prove that he was the Son of God because he had the power to heal the parayzed man and the authority to forgive sins
- God has given us everything we need because we have forgiveness
- God gives us an over abundance of forgiveness and patience
- READ MATTHEW 6:5-15
- When we talk to God we shouldn't babble on and on with incantations and repetitions because this is heartless. God already knows what we need, just ask him.
- We pray to be forgiven in the same way we forgive others. How do you forgive others?
- We can share the forgiveness we received from God with each other
- READ EPHESIANS 4:29-32
- it's a command from God to forgive each other
- We have the ability to forgive each other the way Jesus does
- When we are not generous with our forgiveness we are being greedy and selfish
- Where does Forgiveness come from? What does it really mean to forgive others the way God forgives us?
- READ JEREMIAH 5:1-11
- At this time in Judah, no one was dealing honestly With each other
- The people were refusing to repent
- There were no righteous people
- The poor and the rich refused to obey
- READ JEREMIAH 31:31-34
- God decided to unify Israel and Judah and gave them a new covenant
- God spared a remnant in order to keep his covenant
- God put his word in the hearts and minds of the people, no longer on stone tablets
- God also forgave their wickedness and forgot their sins
- This was a renegotiation of the old covenant to make it possible for the house of Israel and Judah to be in right relationship with God
- READ HEBREWS 9: 11-155
- Jesus was able to enter the most holy place because he was the ultimate sacrifice and cleansed our sins
- Because of Jesus’s sacrifice we no longer have to keep offering (animal) sacrifices for our sins
- READ HEBREWS 10:11-18
- The priest offered sacrifices that couldn't take away sins
- Jesus was able to take away sins
- God was really patient and generous in his forgiveness after all the stuff humanity was doing
- Jesus’s blood was able to take away our sins and makes us perfect forever, those who are being made holy
- READ ROMANS 7:8
- The law was needed in order for us to know right from wrong
- Forgiveness comes from God's promise and renegotiation of the original covenant. He gave us permanent forgiveness through Jesus’s sacrifice
- READ MATTHEW 26: 17-20 and 26-29 and Colossians 3:12-14
- One day we will be with Jesus to drink from the fruit of the vine with him
- We are God's chosen people
- We should forgive the way God forgives us
- We should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness and love, then we can forgive others