Why we should forgive after a love one is taken from us.

 

 

     Today I would like to talk about how we are to keep living when love ones are taken from us. All through the Bible you examples of this happing to people, some are great and others are small, so are rich and other are poor. the first one was Able, (Genesis 4:8) his own brother kill him. How do you think Adam and Eve felt? Then we have Jezebel who plan out Naboth death so Ahab could have Naboth vineyard. (1King 21:1-4)

     We have to learn to forgive. It is easy to tell yourself to do it, but it is hard to put in to practice. Adam and Eve had to forgive Cain, Then there was Israel who older sons sold Joseph off, because they we jealous of their Father's love for him. They told their dad that some evil beast ate him. Think of how the boys lied to their dad for years, then when their dad found out he was still alive, he had to forgive his sons for lying for all those years to him, and how Joseph forgave his brothers for treating him so bad.

     In the New Testament, You have Mary, Jesus's mother who had to go through seeing her son punish and killed on the cross, along with her his friends and disciples. Think how everything in Christianity could have went if they decided to hold their anger in, and not to forgive them that done that horrible thing. (Matthew 19:26-27) Then there was John the Baptist, Who did God's work and was beheaded. Think how his followers felt, these are only two examples in the New testament. There are so many more explanations of how if we don't forgive others, it can eat away at us and make us nonprofit able to God.

     In Mark 7:21-23, it tell us how the things from the heart, and is shown by the by the way we talk and act. If you do not forgive someone for their mistake. All it does is sit in our heart and fester, till it take over our outlook, and actions. We all have done wrong, hurt someone in some way. In 1 john 1:8-9 it tells us all have sinned, will sin again. Not that we want to, but because we are born of sin, and without Jesus to help us, we cannot be forgiven of it or learn to forgive others. Then I 1 John 5:17 it tell us that all unrighteousness is sin. So in the end we all need to be forgiveness from someone. Matthew 5:14-15, 18:35

     So I ask you now to search your heart and ask Jesus Christ to search it too, to show you of your sins, and then ask to forgiveness from Him.

     If you have not yet ask Jesus to be your savior, there is no time to waste. God loves you and does not want you to go to hell for any reason, If you have any questions please get hold of me or your local King James Bible church.

 

God Bless

Rev. Dale Merchant (Minister)