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Step 2 Love People
4. Confession, Repentance and Forgiveness
Training
Today we begin step 2 of the Kingdom Way journey.
To recap Step 1 was all about Loving God
To Love God means to obey God
we covered abiding in the Holy Spirit
Praying to our heavenly Father
Welcoming the Living Word -Jesus
If you missed any of them please catch up on facebook or youtube or even twitter.
Today we progress to step 2 of our journey.
Love People
So How do you Love people?
Well that’s a loaded question?
One that you will discover how to answer as you draw closer to God
Its a very important aspect of God’s plan to spread His Gospel
You see many Christians have tried to the right thing but with the wrong motivation
knowing they are supposed to reach the lost for Jesus
They can be motivated by
guilt...... my pastor told me I had to, If I don’t tell them about Jesus they will go to hell
religion....
I alone hold the truth and I must get them to listen to me !
pride..... I’m God’s gift to he world.
I can save them through my efforts
envy........Look at that church over there, they are growing we should be growing too
desperation.....
If we don’t start bringing people to Jesus God’s going to close us down
even excellence.....
I have all the knowledge and I’m going to use it!
When the only motivation we should hold is Love.
We share the Gospel because we Love
We make Disciples…because we Love
that’s it!
And real Love can only be carried out in relationship
Loving God....Means having a relationship with God
Loving People....Means having a relationship with People
One thing that would benefit us would be to realize that we have an enemy.
who is out to steal Kill and destroy.
One of satan’s focuses, is to bring division and break relationships
Like hyena’s who try to isolate their prey away from the herd.
The enemy will attempt everything in its power to isolate you from the ones God has called you to be in relationship with.
How does he do this?
satan wants us to make a pattern of obeying our desires instead of God’s direction.
do what feels good, avoid the things that make you feel bad
satan wants us to underestimate how weak we are to temptation.
“thats’s not me…someone else has that issue”
satan wants to weaken relationships by going after their trust in one another
Whatever satan schemes, God has already provided a solution for
Today were going to deal with 3 tools God has given to protect relationships.
Both with Him and those around us
4. Confession, Repentance and Forgiveness
Confession is agreeing with God.
Sometimes we agree with God that we’ve done something we shouldn’t or didn’t do something we should have.
It’s saying He’s right and we’re going to change.
The fact we change is what’s called “Repentance”.
There are two words for repentance in the Bible.
The first one is Greek and it means “to change your mind”.
The other one is Hebrew and it means “to turn around and go in the complete opposite direction”.
Understand repentance requires we make both of those choices.
Our minds are changed when we can confess our sin and repent.
We turn around when we stop doing what we shouldn’t and/or start doing what we should.
Confessing our sins to one another is not about securing God’s forgiveness of our sin.
John tells
So why then do we confess our sins to one another?
James tells us: so that you may be healed.
When we confess our sins to one another and repent, we are restored by the one we confess to.
Is there something you need to confess to to someone?
Find trustworthy people who will keep everything they can in confidence.
If you need help making things right, they will help in anyway they can.
If nothing jumps to you mind, there’s no need to go searching for it.
Holy Spirit is the one who convicts us and He’ll do it when it’s needed.
Confession and repentance are wonderful tools for us as we learn to love others more and more.
Another tool that we need in our arsenal is Forgiveness.
Jesus told His disciples in a parable that we need to forgive each other with our hearts
We need to unpack what that means.
To ancient Hebrews, our heart is the seat of our intellect, the seat of our will and the seat of our emotions.
It covers all three and is the place we make sense of the world.
1.
We need to forgive with our intellect.
Forgiveness is a choice.
This an act of our intellect.
If we don’t choose to forgive, we’ll never feel like we’ve forgiven.
Sometimes we don’t forgive because we think the offender won’t pay if we forgive.
What it actually means is we pay if we don’t forgive
Sometimes we want to wait until the person changes before we forgive.
But we’re told to forgive as Christ forgave us
and He did that while we were still sinners
Sometimes we don’t or can’t forgive because we think it means we automatically need to put yourself back in danger.
It doesn’t.
The root of Greek word used in the Bible for “forgive” means “to cut off, sever, release, send away.”
Forgiveness is not the same as reconciliation.
2. We need to forgive with our will (actions).
We need to bless those who curse us.
This is an act of our will.
We can bless in word or in deed.
We need to obey what God commands.
Sometimes with these two parts of the heart in agreement, Holy Spirit can do an amazing work in us so that we actually feel like we’ve forgiven them.
It’s amazing what happens when all three parts of our heart come into alignment.
We can truly live in the freedom forgiveness brings.
3. We need to forgive with our emotions.
If you don’t feel like you’ve forgiven someone whose offended you, there is a problem.
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