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*THE PRAYER OF RELEASE*
*The Lord’s Prayer: Path To Inner Peace*
*Part 6 of 8*
*Rick Warren*
*July 27-28, 2002*
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/ “Forgive us our sins... just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.”
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Matt.
6:12 (NLT)
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/ "Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, ‘Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me?
Up to seven times?” /Matt.
18:21 (NIV)
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/ "Jesus answered, "...not seven times, but 77 times!" /Matt.
18:22 (NIV)
WHY MUST I LEARN TO FORGIVE?
1.
BECAUSE __________________________________________________
"/The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go." /
/ /Matt.
18:27 (NIV)
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/ “There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.”
/Rom.
8:1 (NIV)
The Servant’s reaction: (vs.
28-30)
When we feel ____________________
we tend to be /unforgiving!/
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/"Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God /
/ forgave you."
/ Eph 4:32 (NIV)
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2.
BECAUSE __________________________________________________
/"’Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?'
In anger his /
/ master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured...”/ Matt.
18:33-34 (NIV)
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/“Some men stay happy until the day they die... others have no happiness at all; they live and /
/ die with bitter hearts.”
/Job 21:23-25 (GN)
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Do I need to forgive anyone?
/ The Blame Test/
/ The Bitterness Test/
/ The Behavior Test/
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/ /“/To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do.” /
/ /Job 5:2 (GN)
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BECAUSE __________________________________________________
/“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."
/ Matt.
18:35 (NIV)
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/"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy."
/Matt.
5:7 (NIV)
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Two options for dealing with hurt:
____________________ or ____________________
“/Put your heart right, reach out to God... then face the world again, firm and courageous.
Then all your troubles will fade from your memory, like floods that are past and remembered no more.”
/Job 11:13-16 (GN)
\\ *THE PRAYER OF RELEASE*
*The Lord’s Prayer: Path To Inner Peace*
*Part 6 of 8*
*Rick Warren*
*July 27-28, 2002*
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Matthew 18. We’re in this series on The Lord’s Prayer.
We’re looking at The Path to Inner Peace.
We’ve been going verse by verse through this passage.
The two greatest barriers to peace of mind without a doubt are guilt and resentment.
Guilt comes from what we do to other people.
Resentment comes from what other people do to us.
Last week we talked about guilt and that the only antidote to guilt is really to receive the forgiveness of God.
In the same way the only antidote to resentment is to offer the forgiveness of God to other people.
Today we’re going to look at what I call The Prayer of Release.
It is the next phrase in the Lord’s Prayer.
Matthew 6:12 last week we looked at the first part of it.
This week we’ll look at the second half.
/“Forgive us our sins just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.”
/We are to forgive others just like we have been forgiven.
This is the prayer of release.
The prayer of letting go.
It’s a very important prayer because the fact of life is you’re going to be hurt.
In life you’re going to be hurt many times.
Sometimes intentionally.
Sometimes unintentionally.
It really doesn’t matter the source.
But much more important than your hurt is how you choose to respond to it.
If you don’t respond to it in the right way you will never have inner peace or peace of mind.
The only way you can get inner peace when you’ve been hurt is to let it go, to forgive.
So this brings up the question, How much do I have to forgive?
Peter asked that question about 2000 years ago.
In Matthew 18:21 Peter comes to Jesus and he said, /“Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me?
Up to seven times?”/
You can hear Peter thinking, “I’m really cool here!
I’m going to forgive my brother /seven times/.”
The reason why Peter probably thought this was a big deal was because in Jewish law you only had to forgive a person three times.
According to Jewish law once a person had sinned against you the fourth time you no longer had to forgive them.
So Peter goes, “If the law says I have to forgive them three times I’ll double it and throw one in for good measure.
How about seven times, Lord? Look what a magnanimous creature I am!"
And Jesus answers back in the next verse.
He goes, “Peter, you’re not going to believe this!
Not seven times but how about 77 times?”
A little humor here.
He’s basically saying there is no limit to forgiveness.
In fact, He’s saying if you’re counting it doesn’t count.
If you’re counting how many times you’re forgiving that means you’re keeping score and it’s not really forgiveness in the first place.
So as long as you’re keeping score, you’re counting how many times you’re doing it, it doesn’t count.
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