Heaven Rules Our Conduct | Elder Ang Peng Hoe

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will light up your day. I've just entitled my message Heaven rules our Conduct.

Okay, I hope it makes sense. My going quite deep. But

I ask and I urge you all to try to stay with me as I

share as I teach on this portion of scripture taken from Matthew six Versus twelve

to fifteen, which is actually the Lord's Prayer. And I'm just going to

emphasize on a portion of the Lord's Prayer from verse twelve that says, this

is no, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debt us

and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

And then verse fourteen he goes on to say this, for if you

forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if

you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses.

Okay. And also that's when we read that is like, okay,

let's let's let's process this. I'm going to process all this so, okay,

so we call this the Lord's prayer, right, It's part of the

Lord's prayer. He starts off, of course, our Father, who what

in heaven, Hello, would be their name, that kingdom come, that

will be done on earth as it days in heaven. Give us this day

our daily bread, and then comes to this part forgive us our debts or

forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Okay,

but do you realize that this is a prayer that, even though it's

called the Lord's prayer, technically the Lord could not have used it himself,

especially the part that says forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debts

as well. Maybe Jesus could possibly have used the second half of that phrase,

because you know, when people will speaking at him, and when they

were laughing at him, and when they eventually drove nails into his hands,

basically he's raised, he actually saved Father. Forgive them, for they know

not what they do. However, he could not have said the first part

of the petition because I think all of us people humankind will unanimously agree that

Jesus was without sin. I mean, if he's without saying why would he

say forgive me? Right? So that's why, that's how I will come

to that conclusion that, well, Jesus never needed to say forgive me because

he was the spotless, sinless, blameless son of God. Amen. Okay,

the closer you live to the Lord, the more you feel you must

say every day forgive us our deb Okay, let let's establish a few principles

and understanding first. And why do I say that? Well, I really

believe if Heaven really rules our lives, then it is it's very important that

Heaven must rule our conduct and how we carry ourselves, especially when it comes

to our relationship with God. You know, this is our team for the

year. Heaven rules. What does it make? What does it mean?

Well, I'm slowly breaking down all my teachings and my sermons into Heaven's got

the rule every bit of our lives, whether it's in our hate, in

our hearts, in our actions now in our conduct. And you know,

this tells us a number of things about what true prayer really is. Firstly,

true prayer must always include the word forgive as well as the word give,

because if you analyze your prayers, you may find that you really you

use, give more than you use forgiven. God, give me this,

give me health, give me wealth, give me everything that I need,

Give me comfort, give me money, give me peace, give me joy

is a lot, give me, give me, give me, and that

is normal. All of us do that. But a good prayer always go

on from give to forgive. This tells us also that we are to bring

to God the needs of our soul as well as the needs of our body.

Because, after having asked give us this day our daily break, which

is something that our body needs, a physical need, we should always ask

forgive me because don't just feed the body, you need feeding for the soul.

And he tells me also that I must constantly remember this that what I

desire and what I deserve are two opposite things. Have ever given thought about

that what I desire and what I deserve? You see, we are all

sinners, and when we say to God give me, we must immediately remind

ourselves that we do not deserve to be given anything. I kid you not.

Sometimes it's hard to accept that no, because we always have this right

kind of mentality. This is my right I, this is what I should

be given. This is you know, in reality, we have no rights.

We have forsaken all our rights when we when there is sin in our

lives. That's that's the reality, you know. I work with a lot

of asylum seekers and refugees um and of course when they come to Malaysia,

they firstly I always tell them, where do you come to Malaysia? It

is the worst place to come because they will mistreat a lot of our asylum

seekers and refugees. That's the reality of it, because we never signed the

Treaty UH to the to the to the Refugee Convention, which tells us or

basically our government uses that as a I don't need to do anything for you.

That's the reality of it. But sometimes when the asylum seekers come,

they will tell me that, no, the government is supposed to take care

of us. UNHR is supposed to provide us for all our every days.

This is what we deserve. And while yeah, I mean from a humanitarian

point of view, I'm trying my best to help them, but sometimes I've

got to remind them that really you don't deserve anything from this land because in

the eyes of the government, you're not it's citizens. That's the reality of

it. They are not citizens. They are not even migrants here with proper

permit, no permission. Basically, they came in illegally, and the law

will always treat them as black, not gray, not even gray. But

if they come in with the this is my rights. I always have to

prepare them because what's lying I hate is a long journey of really just trusting

in the lot for a lot of our asylum, secrecy and Malaysia. But

it's the same thing, no, So that's why I'm trying to get at.

What we desire and what we deserve are two opposite things. Not a

lot of times, no, we think that we deserve every thing from the

Lord. You know, we answered this the sinner's prayer, and then hey,

my life is supposed to change, is supposed to be comfortable, It

supposed to be all good. The Lord will provide for my every single need.

But I'm always reminded myself I'm a sinner, and basically, as a

sinner, I have I deserve. I don't. I can't deserve, I

can't claim to deserve anything. That's the reality away because when I come to

the Lord in debt position, I know where I stand. So let's look

at it from another perspective, which is more important our obligation to God as

our heavenly father, or should the focus just be his obligation to us.

Again, we're looking at perspectives, sir, because if God is my heavenly

father, he has an I mean, we always have this. God,

You're my heavenly father. You have an obligation to feed me, to clothe

me. And that's why I do not need to worry about the food on

the table while I'm eating what I'm drinking, because God, you are under

that obligation, which in a way it's not wrong. But as a father,

God has claimed me and adopted me each and every one of you,

as well as his sons and daughters, So it is now his obligation to

feed and to clothe his children. We can claim that no doubt. But

if I only think of his obligation to me as my father, and not

mine to him, then this is a very one sided prayer. Do you

realize that the lord's prayer becomes very rare and one sided? So then the

question is do we even have an obligation to God? What is our obligation

to God? Well, our obligation to him is actually to live a holy

life because he is a holy God, and to live a perfect life because

He is perfect. And this is why we need to say forgive, because

we can't possibly do that on ourselves or by ourselves. That's the reality of

it. I know when you see the word perfect, we're like, oh,

that's when you realize you don't deserve anything right because none of us,

none of us can claim to be perfect. But I believe scripture, and

Scripture says that we are being perfected. We're being perfected into His image.

No one day. I believe when we meet Jesus face to face, the

work of the Holy Spirit in our lives will be complete. But it's not

just one sided. Remember it's not just one sided. Let's understand it from

a two way perspective. So let's understand the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples

because there is a petition with a condition attached to it, and many people

have difficulties over this condition. Forgive us our debts. We sometimes pray that

it stops there, but no, it didn't stop there. It goes on

with as we forgive our debtors. But let's start with the first partner.

I'm gonna I'm gonna teach party part. Let's start with the first part.

Forgive us everyone still me don't don't know false labor. The phrase forgive us

in itself presents some difficulties for many believers. Something it as bad for Christians

to actually pray forgive us our sins, because they say it will sort of

create this very inferior kind of feeling, a guilt complex within Christians that will

cause them to always be digging around their own souls and looking for their sin.

So some people like forgive us our sins, always looking for our sins

like that. What they want instead, of course, is to get away

from all the sense of guilt and into joy and peace and never have to

think of sin and that and just think of salvation me. Okay, So

that's one one way. Then there are also some Christians who think they do

not need to pray the Lord's prayer because when they came to Christ, all

their sins were forgiven pass and sometimes they think all the future scenes are also

completely forgiven, and so they are finished with that and they could just live

in the glory of God. Okay, So why do we think Jesus gave

us the Lord's Prayer is the question that we have to ask. And let

me begin by saying that I think the Lord's Prayer was given to the disciples

to follow Christ, follow his ways. It's a guide to show how our

dependence on God really is. Because you realize this, he didn't give it

to the crowds. He called his disciples to him. Yes, she called

it. Come and then they say, teach us to pray. So his

disciples were the ones that said teach us to pray, and he was telling

them how to pray, how to do it. So I take it that

he taught the Lord's prayer to those who are following him as his disciples,

a prayer of how we should conduct ourselves toward God and toward one another.

Now, of course, there are these two extremes that we must be very

careful too. Extremes, And I'll build from the idea that I just talked

to you all about. One is the idea that there will never be any

more need for confessions or forgiveness in a Christian's life. Some as we come

to this place where we're like a safe really, no one need to talk

about sin anymore. It's like forever safe. I think that it's quite an

extreme view, and I'm not sure if the Bible will be able to fully

verify that, because it is to Christians that the Apostle John wrote this,

if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our

sins and to cleanse us from all and righteousness. You see that in one

John chapter one night Thing or chapter three, I can't remember, but that's

the Apostle John saying that. So it is extreme to say that once you

become a Christian, your sins are forgiven, past, present, and future.

I believe the past, yes, it's been wiped out. But unless

you're claiming to me that as a Christian you will never ever seen after you

know God, which I can't claim that. Okay, some of you may

be able to. Then well let's let's let's continue on this. No that

that means from then on, no more confession or because that's how some people

actually assume that no more forgiveness is required. That's one extreme. The other

extreme is this some believers seem to be in an outsalvation from Sunday to the

next Sunday. Basically, they come to church on Sunday and they know that

they are Christian. I'm a Christian on Sunday, and then comes Monday and

suddenly they did something not right on Monday, and then after doing something all

right, they'll be like, I don't know whether I'm a Christian or not.

How many of you all have honestly gone through that as a young believer,

every time we fall short of the glory of God that we are like

God, place or give me a place, for give me place, for

give me. You know, I don't know whether I'm safe or not.

It is the reality, you know, because after sinning is when we feel

guilty. And whenever we feel guilty, we think we are no longer Christian.

And then come Sunday again, a La Luia praised, a lot of

the Word is preached, and then we're like, okay, I'm a believer,

and then it comes to Monday like, oh man, I did something

wrong. Basically, the assurance is not there, in and out, in

and out. No, there's almost like they are no. They have no

assurance that they are God's children. So these are the two extremes now I

was talking about. One is you don't need to confess anymore because forever,

forever and ever save the other one is I'm not sure whether I'm safe.

I might say, am I not safe? Okay? So on the one

hand, there are those who say I'm finished with sins altogether, and then

there are dolls in the other hand who say that I never know whether I'm

a Christian or not because I've committed sin. I don't think any of these

are the biblical positions. So let me take you to the face of the

passover. Okay, face of the passover. Sometimes we will call this the

upper room experience. I'm looking at time. I think I'm good for a

time upper room experience, because you will actually see in the Gospels, No.

From Matthew chapter twenty six, Mark chapter fourteen, Luke twenty two,

and in detail is John chapter thirteen Versus one to thirty eight, because this

is where Jesus was actually having a meal with the disciples. The account.

Of course, it's a little bit more detail in John chapter thirteen, because

I'm going to draw you to what happened before the markan Okay, and so

this was, of course Jesus washing the feet of the disciples. Okay,

Let's let's see what kind of truth we can draw out from that because Jesus

actually took the towel, right, you remember, and he was about to,

I think wash the disciples with Peter, and he says, Peter,

I want to wash your feet. And then Peter tried efforts to refuse,

right, he was like, hey, Lord, cannot cannot, how can

I you wash my feet? And then je said, if I don't wash

you, we can't be friends. Read the scriptures. He actually says that

we kind of fellowship. Basically, he says, you can have no part

with me, which means we can't have fellowship together. So then Peter's song

all the way to the other extreme because he says, well, then washed

me all over, right, He said that was my fee. Okay,

now now wash everything. And then Jesus had to gently tell him that he

didn't need washing all over now because he has been washed. But there were

there was dirt that he picked up. And how many of you all know,

back in the Jewish culture time, they wore sandals everywhere they went.

So wherever they walk, naturally the dirtiest part of their body is the feet,

and so when they walk into anyone's house, they will wash the feet

first, okay. And so basically Jesus told him that I only need to

wash your feet because that is where the dirt is. You pick up the

dirt on your feet. So Jesus wanted to clean the feet to keep the

fellowship between them. You wanted to clean that part. And I believe Jesus

was actually saying something about this whole issue that we were talking about previously.

Because a Christian who has been born again comes to Christ right all of us

as believers, if you are assured of your salvation born again, you will

go through the waters of baptism. I pray most of us, if not

all of us, have as believers, gone through the waters of baptism.

If you have not, I urge you and encourage you to go through the

waters of baptism because that's an important part and an important journey of our salvation

process. You know, when you are being washed from hate to toe,

basically you are washed clean, and you are washed clean through the Word of

God. That is why we don't need to go through the waters of baptism

over and over and over again. How any of you had to go through.

Someone preach to you that no one time, not enough, no au

nati fla. Let me wash you again. Right, you entrade once and

you trust and you believe that your faith is a shurled. But the reality

is, as you walk through life, there's going to be picking up of

the all of us have that. I mean, you think I'm as a

preacher and as an elder. You know there's no there's no form, No

I can I can have a wrong thought, and that's picking up that.

Honestly. I can have wrong conduct. I can say something wrong like I

look at Moses man nice suit. I wish I had that suit. That

is a wrong conduct. Uh. And that's the reality of We pick up

on our feet as we walk, and we will need daily washing. And

that's why Jesus is saying, I want to wash your feet. Let me

do that. If I don't wash your feet, we can't be friends,

we can't have fellowship. So in other words, I believe Scripture teaches us

that if a Christian sins as Christians do and doesn't get forgiven, they send

to lose that fellowship with the Lord. You stend to be outside of his

presence. They lose the joy in prayer, their life of worship becomes dune,

their desire to share Christ with other people just takes a back seat.

It is this that Jesus was bordered about, and it is this that the

Lord's Prayer is about, because it is a daily cleansing to keep your fellowship

with the Lord pure and sweet and clean. You'll see that, to allow

Heaven to rule our conduct. So we must take note of some of the

words that the New Testament actually uses for sin. Let's let's think no sound

of the words are that we so that we get a better idea and a

better context of the Lord's prayer. The first word is we have all okay.

So there's anomia, which means lawlessness, and then there's parabases which means

you know, you step over or you trespass, which is some of the

translations that we get trespassed to step over the line. Now, I just

want to highlight this. Neither of these two words will actually use in the

Lord's Prayer. So sometimes using the word trespass might not help connote the best

and the clearest translation. But no worry, I will continue teaching the third

word that sometimes we see that actually represents sin. Basically, these are all

words that sin. Can you can find the different Greek words that are using

to use to describe sin is harmasha. The third word which just means to

miss your mark. The fourth word is paraphtoma, which means you fall on

an icy road. Basically, you sleep when you don't intend to sleep.

It's like accidentally doing something that's not right. And then the thief. And

the last word which comes in this very passage in Matthew six, is this

word or fair lima, and that means your death's your whole tongue, okay,

the deaths that you owe, what you owe a person. And it

is this word that is actually used in the Lord's prayer in Matthew. So

the word death or death is actually a clearer translation. It's not so much

trespassing that we are thinking about. That's why forgive us our debts would probably

give us a clearer understanding. And if you think about it, it is

actually falling short of our target and is owing God something, not having done

what we should have done. Okay. Actually this forgiveness is for what we

call sometimes the sins of omission, what you did not do, rather than

the sins of commission. That means what you did is what you did not

do. Okay, Let let me try to explain this. I hope I

don't lose you. Have you ever felt like you have come to the end

of the day and like, ah, shucks, I think I didn't do

some things which I should have done. Okay. I don't know whether any

Christian would dare say no, I got to the end of every day and

I've done every single thing, and I've done it right. I have not

ever experienced that. There's always did I spend enough time my kids? Do

they? Okay? I really believe that when anyone walks closely with the Lord,

the more you think of the things you should have said, or the

things you should have done, or the messages you should have sent to someone

instead of say, watching YouTube, etc. You will realize that there are

quite a lot of things that we did not do. I did not say

a kind word, I didn't take the trash out, Darren. You know,

that's the reality of it. The more you look at your life,

the more you realize the things that you did not do. So the Lord's

prayer is not so much concerned with the bad things that you did, but

the emphasis is actually on the good things that you did not do. And

this show gives it a very different perspective right. The good things that you

did not do. This is important because it can spoil your friendship with God.

God wanted you to do that thing. He wanted you to write that

letter of encouragement to this person. He wanted you to go and cheer this

person. Now, he wanted you to go and share the gospel with this

person. He wanted you to tell someone about Christ. And you didn't do

it, and you actually owed him that. Can you see now you owed

him that. So Jesus is essentially reminding us to get our debt's paid.

That's why he's saying, get our debt's paid. Now we are to do

that every day. We've got basically get our accounts straight with him and then

go to baits straight and write with him all your accountants. You are understand

that you want to balance it that. Now let's go a little bit deeper,

somemore, and hopefully we get it a bit clearer. Jesus once told

this parable in Luke, chapter seventeen, verses seven to ten. It's about

a servant who was out plowing the field, minding sheep, and then he

came in and who was going to sit down? He was he was just

going to rest after a long day. The servant a long day out in

the field, but his master said stop, you bring me my meal first,

and then a servant had to go and bring the meal. Of course,

a lot of us might have gone like, wah, the pourfler you

quite unreasonable, right the demand the flour worked all day. No, now

you're asking to go and make your meal as well. But note that Jesus

went on to say this, no, do you think that servants should be

thank for doing that extra thing for his master? And then, of course

the response is no, because when he has done all that he has commanded,

he has only done his duty. In the same way, when you

obey Jesus, you should say, we are unprofitable servants who have simply done

our duty. I don't know highlight this word unprofitable, because when we have

done our best for God, and when we get to the end of the

day in debt to God for what we haven't done, we are still unprofitable.

Basically, we can never outgive God, that's the reality of it.

And He has still done more for earth than he ever got back from us,

makes sense, and therefore we are still in that fallen shot, and

this is why we need to pray to God for forgiveness, forgive us.

We need God's forgiveness in our lives. Our conduct towards God is one that

is constantly seeking his pardon, constantly seeking his mercy and his grace because ultimately,

or what we really deserve is his judgment. Ultimately we will never be

able to match up we did. And so that's why we come to a

Lord forgive us. Therefore, if when we do this, we seek the

Lord's forgiveness, it actually puts us in right fellowship with the Lord, because

when he washes your feet, he will ultimately rule your conduct. Does that

make sense. Let's move on, and here comes to condition as we forgive

our debtors. This subsequent phrase in the Lord's Prayer has caused a lot of

difficulty for a lot of people because it is probably the most difficult thing to

do. That's the reality of it. Most of us understand that the Gospel

of Christ is free forgiveness, free grace, no conditions, no bargains,

no contracts. Doesn't God say that if you repent and believe, you are

forgiven? And we are here in the Lord's Prayer being told to do something

for someone else before God will forgive us. Feels like I have to work

for my salvation like that. Right? Isn't this God going right against the

principle of free grace and saying I won't forgive you your sins until you have

been out and done something for someone else. Is it not putting a condition

of forgiveness? Firstly, and firstly this we must always be reminded that the

Lord's prayer is not a prayer for the unbeliever or the prebeliever. It was

never meant to be. It was a prayer for Christians because he was teaching

his disciples. For the believer, a daily prayer to follow Christ makes sense.

So what then, does that mean? Doesn't mean that God has laid

down a kind of law that unless you pass forgiveness on he won't forgive us.

Well, I don't think it is that God can forgive us, because

sometimes we always think we don't forgive, that he can't forgive us. I

think it's a case of he won't. Again, It's not that he can't

forgive us when we don't meet the conditions. He won't. The real reason

why he doesn't forgive those Christians who don't forgive others is very simple. He

doesn't feel like it. You're like, wow, it is the feelings of

God that matter. You think God has no feelings. Let let's study the

parable Jesus shared with Peter. Because Peter asked him how many times should I

forgive a person? Right? And then I believe he says seventy times seven.

And then then he he spoke about a parable about a generous king who

pity this slave and forgive this slave of I think millions of dollars worth of

that. But then he heard that the same slave went out, and then

he drew a fellow, someone below him, someone who owed him money,

into jail because the person couldn't pay up a smaller sum. Remember that the

parable. And then the king was angry and he said, I take back

my forgiveness. The words of Jesus actually teach us how God feels about your

unforgiveness. You see, God is my father, so I sort of think

I understand him because I'm also a father. No, if your child comes

to you and say that, can I have a sweet? Your children are

too, you know, maybe two of them. We got two boys,

of two boys, come, can I have a sweet, and then you

give them a sweet each, and then after that you found out that one

of them stole the sweet from their brother added and then came back to you

and ask you for another suit, And you'll probably you'll probably not give the

child another suit, right because you'll be upset with the child. That's the

reality of it. Why would you be angry because one of the children did

this, Well, that's a simple reason, because you don't want your child

to grow up like that. And if you were to go on indulging a

child who is not behaving rightly, the child will eventually grow up just taking

things as and when he or she thinks she can. So God wants us

to grow up to be more like him. He wants us to be forgiving

as he is forgiving. Does that make sense? If He were to forgive

you each day your deaths and you were not forgiving others, he would actually

be encouraging you to go on behaving like that. And I don't think that's

the kind of father God is. Amen, he would be upset with you.

And if you are not prepared to forgive others their debts to you,

then he is not going to forgive you. He would be angry. It's

a choice. Now. I can totally understand that because it makes sense in

this context. God is just telling us how he feels about us, and

he's talking about his children believers Christians, that is us. Do you expect

him to go on wipe No, to go on wiping out your debts if

you don't wipe out other people's debts. If he were to go on doing

that, he would be doing you hum and he would be destroying your character.

And he is not that kind of father. Jesus stated what his feelings

are, and I can see his reasons for it. Basically, an unforgiving

person does not know what he is asking for when he says forgive right,

and unforgiving person will not appreciate forgiveness if he ever gets it, and unforgo

giving person will be made more unforgiving if he is forgiven under those circumstances.

I mean, let's just put it logically. God's real for us is to

grow up to be more like him. Forgive seventy times seven times. In

other words, be like your heavenly father, and God will not forgive your

depths at the end of each day if you are not learning to be like

him. Otherwise it would not be good fathering, it would be bad discipline.

And how many of y'all know that God disciples us because we are called

His disciples. If we carry on in life with a conduct that never forgives,

then my only hope is that you never sin. Does that make sense?

I know, I know it's hard. I I live with unforgiveness a

lot. It's most of us, do, all of us, because I'm

sure there is someone in your life that has wronged you, or at least

you perceive that person to have wronged you. So a lot of us live

with unforgot But this is ultimately what the scripture tells us. If we really

cannot forgive her, then you better really not sin, because that is what

this petition in the Lord's Prayer is about. Forgive me or forgive us our

death, as we forgive those who we have wrong or have wronged us.

To sum this all our into wards is justice. No forgiving forgiven. When

we forgive, we are forgiven. And this is the law of Christians.

And this is not a hate matter. A lot of times, I know,

when I started talking about it, it's like, oh, we're trying

to trying to work it out in a but ultimately is actually a hard matter.

And therefore, because it's a hard matter, it's a hard matter.

It's hard. I know it's hard. It's easy enough to say, give

us this day our dailibrate, because there's no conditions attached to that. But

God will give earth dead for the asking. But here God says, I

can't give you this just because you ask, not unless you first forgive.

That's the condition. And therefore, if we are praying this prayer while holding

on to grudges, while being bitter, while resenting people, while being jealous,

then we are literally asking God not to forgive my deaths. I know

our hearts cry will still always be God. This is such a difficult thing

to do. Forgiving others seems almost impossible, especially when we conclude that we

have been wrong and we deserve to hold a grudge against someone else. But

remember this always, I want to put it into perspective. Remember this,

He forgave us on the cross. You remember this. I wonder if we

ever realize how difficult it is for God to forgive us with us. If

I can't forgive my neighbor, it's usually my pride, it's myself, my

reputation, my rights. I got to crucify myself, nor to forgive others.

No. But with God, it's not pride. You can't just say,

oh, I'm proud. I don't forgive people. No. Why is

it difficult for God? Then I'll tell you why it's difficult. It's because

of his purity, It's because of his holiness, it's because of his goodness.

He just cannot bear sin at all. He hates sin. And how

does he get around this difficulty of my debts. He gets around it by

paying it for us. For me, that's the only thing that makes it

possible for God to forgive my debts. You see, the word forgive in

the Hebrew language means two things. It means to remit a debt. Remit

just means to cancel, and it also means to pay it, to pay

for it. It's the same word for both to cancel or to pay.

In the Middle East, if you're in debt, usually what happens. Say,

imagine the marketplace. You're in debt, You your dad's are actually written

out on a sheet of paper, and they're pin in the say the shopla

okay for everyone to see. I guess there's an added incentive for you to

go pay la blah, because everyone knows that one shucks. I aw the

shop some money. But if a man is actually willing to pay the debt

and remed it for you, cancel it for you, he will come along.

He'll fold it and put a nail, fold a paper and put a

nail on it, and write his own name across that sheet of paper,

and then your dad is done. That's what Collisions chapter two fourteen means when

Paul actually says that God has in Christ thicken the born of deaths, which

was written against us and nailed it to the cross. He has finished it

and written across it is the name Jesus. Don't ever forget that because it's

not easy. Sometimes we think are so easy for God to forgive us,

really forgive us our deaths. It is so difficult for God to forgive us,

as it is for us to forgive art Us. But the difficulties were

actually resolved on the cross. Every act of forgiveness is actually written in the

blood of Jesus. So finally, is there anything like the joy of forgiveness

of knowing that it's over and done with his Yes? You know, sometimes

I've met people who finally let it go and there's some freedom because you know

that the person who has forgiven you will never mention it again. You know,

when Jesus says I forgive you, he's not going to bring it up.

No, it's like I remember what you did last summer. He's not.

You know he's going to you know what Jesus is going to tell the

father who he's sitting next to. Father, I don't know what you're talking

about. What's scene are you talking about? Because it's all Neil here.

You will never be mentioned again because you know that he loves you. You

know that he will give He will give you the fatted cuff. You know

that he will put the ring on your finger. You know that he'll put

the shoes on your feet. You know that he's going to rope you and

bring you back home. Dad is forgiveness. Forgive us our Dad's Lord,

all that we owe to you every day. We hope you've been blessed by

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