Knowing Your Assignment.

Knowing Your Assignment.

Matthew 28:18-20

Un-forgiveness is like a Beaver Dam, it backs up the waste and debris of past events. Un-forgiveness stops the flow, nothing fresh can enter. Life in general becomes tainted.

On the other hand, Forgiveness is not a feeling, it’s a decision, a choice, a crisis of the will. Hold on to this, “Nobody heals in order to forgive; they forgive in order to heal.”

Illustration, As authority becomes precedent, Authority flows down, and removes all sediment and debris.

Remember this, authority rules in the spirit. As Christians believe, and practice their God-given authority, life advances.

Nothing has the ability to hold back a Christian that believes!

“I believe we live in a day of unbelieving Christians.” PH

Authority cannot be recognized, saturated with un-forgiveness, and bitterness:

Luke 17:1-4NLT One day Jesus said to his disciples, “There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting! 2 It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to fall into sin. 3 So watch yourselves! “If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive. 4 Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive.”

Listen Saints, the millstone had your name on it, my name on it, because we’re all tempted and been tempted. -But Jesus!

You might say, where is Justice? It is in the cross. Jesus Christ died for your sins, her sins and his sins, and everyone else’s sins.

Without the cross, forgiveness isn’t possible.

Someone once said, the cross is the sternest rebuke to mankind‘s selfishness this world will ever see.

19th century, Scottish author, George McDonnell said, that man is perfect in faith, who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of the low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to him, “thou art my refuge.”

We limit God with our doubts, unbelief and un-forgiveness. Scripture says of Israel in, Psalm 78:14 Yes, again and again, they tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

Unbelief, and un-forgiveness, limit the Holy One. -Notice, Israel murmured. Murmuring is always connected to unbelief, and unbelief bloats and crowds out all God given authority.

Israel murmured continually, is God able? Sure, he made a way for us through the Red Sea, but can He give us bread? God gave them bread. But can He give us water? God gave them water from a rock. But can God give us meat? God gave them meat from the sky. But can He deliver us from our enemies? Time and time again, God provided and delivered in every area.

Yes, Israel, God’s people spent 40 years crying, “Can God…? Can God…?”

Beloved, we ought to be proclaiming, “God can, and He will do all that we ask and believe Him for. -Our God is faithful.”

When we understand, God's faithfulness, In return, we become faithful. God's love is steadfast. Unending. God’s love is eternal along with the other 8 fruit of the Spirit.

The apostles Paul states a strong fact this way:

1 Corinthians 13:13NLT Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

In Galatians, chapter 5, we can read of the 9 fruit of the spirit.

This is what we need to know. These fruit, these powerful characteristics are eternal.

And when walked in, give each believer powerful authority!

Galatians 5:22-23NLT But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

Un-forgiveness rottens fruit. Un-forgiveness makes ‘one’ turn inward. Wrong perceptions, wrong thoughts, wrong motives, cynicism and pessimism mixed with unfaithful lips, wild imaginations, strongholds develop castles and fortresses.

Paul wrote about strongholds in the mind: 2 Corinthians 10:4-5NLT  We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. 4 We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. 5 We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.

As believers, we think of, Philippians 4:8. Whatever is good, lovely, brings a good report.

Q&A:

In an army, who has the most authority? The General.

-The General submits to no other rank, but exercises authority over every other rank.

Now, who in an army has the least rank? The Private.

-The private is the opposite. He submits to all other ranks and exercises no authority over any other.

This thought came to me, When does the Private have the same authority as the General? Never?