• Forgiveness Is Healing

  Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008 (message contributor)

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FORGIVENESS IS HEALING

A London psychiatrist once told Dr. Billy Graham that 70% of the people in treatment in England could be released if they could find forgiveness. Their problem, he said, was guilt, and they could find no relief from the grief and pressure under which they lived.

Often people today are told they have nothing to be guilty about, and in some circumstances that is true. Some people feel guilty about things they have not done: things that have been done to them by responsible adults, who have abused and misused them. They need help to see who is to blame. But most people with guilty consciences don’t need to be told that they are guiltless. Deep down they know there something to be guilty for, and what they need is not to hear that they are guiltless, but that they are forgiven.

(SOURCE: from a sermon by Daniel Villa, SermonCentral.com, "Be Forgiven" 6/30/08)