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Yikes! I thought God was a God of grace, love and mercy? I thought that the cross was bigger than all my sin.
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Wait a minute, Jesus is saying that if we don’t forgive others, God won’t forgive us? Jesus is saying there is a direct connection between your relationship with God and your ability to forgive those that hurt you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ 14 For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Matthew 6:12 Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. I knew the other shoe would drop sooner or later…they have stuff I have to do too!” Well while you try to breath, let’s read what Jesus says about what we have to do: I can hear you know, “I knew this place was too good to be true, sooner or later they were going to lay this on us. Now Matthew 6 is a very popular scripture, but there is a part of it that isn’t necessarily something people want to bring up all that often.
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The grace of God is shown in our salvation through Jesus, but Jesus tells us that there is a requirement of you and I as he teaches us how to pray in Matthew 6. Now let me press in on something here…What if I told you that there actually is something that you have to do though? “Wait, what did you just say? I thought this was all unearned! Sam this is the grace church, now you are telling me there is something that I have to do?” I shouldn’t have to do anything if the cross covers it all right? That is correct, the cross is bigger than all our sins. There’s nothing we do to earn our salvation! This is awesome news! We have been saved by God’s amazing grace. This is why we worship in here each and every Sunday. Through Jesus’ amazing work for us on the cross we have been saved. We can’t do anything to gain our own salvation…now many people try, because they get caught in the trap of religion and try to do those works to earn their salvation. This is what we believe, that God sent his son Jesus to do for us what you and I could never do on our own…Įphesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. Which we know is something (a gift) that is unearned. Today I want to talk to you about something, and I think it could be a little confusing even cause some tension in here today, so I’m going to try to lay some ground work for you on the front end of this talk. Maybe for those of us in that spot, going back is exactly what God would want for us. For some of us, the last thing that we would ever want to do is go back. For some the Holidays are a festive time, a time of fun, laughter and reuniting with loved ones, but for others the last thing they would ever want to do is go back, and the Christmas season isn’t about enjoying family, and celebrating the amazing gift of Christ’s birth but going back to open hurts and unresolved issues, and frankly it is about surviving it, and getting out of there as quickly as possible. You will try to muscle through, plaster the smile on your face, do your best to be nice, and get out of there as fast as you can! You leave tired, and swimming in the emotions of the day, thankful that it’s over. In many ways it would be easier to never go back, never look back, and never have to engage them again right? When you are in that spot, it’s like the Christmas get together is just looming out there, and you find yourself wishing it would never come, hoping that the kids get sick, or something…because it isn’t easy to go engage that person, or that relationship, where that wound is and in many ways you know how it will go too don’t you. Probably if you are going to hang out with them over the holiday season it means they are someone you truly care about, which is why hurts, and issues with them matter to you so much. This is a special time of year…but I think for many of us, as beautiful as this Christmas season is, it is just as difficult because we are walking head on into our pasts, into some hurts, and maybe into some relationships that we would rather avoid and never have to deal with…ever.
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The kid’s activities will slow down and I can’t wait to try to soak it all in. This is a time to really slow down and enjoy everything we have been blessed with. It’s a time to engage family, friends, and to enjoy our family’s.
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So we are full go into the holiday season! This is such a special time of year.