Unforgiveness- The Main Reason Why Your Faith Doesn’t Work.

I believe God has something something more for us this morning and um You know, it's interesting It seems like most of the time that I have the opportunity to minister God doesn't let me just choose whatever I want many times what I end up having to minister on is something where i'm like can't it be something like the favor of god or God just loves you so much and You know, you can you're a winner and like I don't know just something that's Just so encouraging and and no nothing anything that's you know could be uh taken as criticism or correction, but The truth of the matter is though is that god's word is full of correction and not just correction but instruction because You know, it's good to hear when we do a good job. We we everybody appreciates when someone says hey great job You know, it helps encourage us. But if all we ever heard throughout our lives was great job. You're doing so good. Great job You're doing so good. You would never feel prompted to make any changes And if you don't ever make changes, you're you're really not going to progress much in life You're not going to progress naturally. You're not going to progress financially. You're not going to progress spiritually and uh That's not what we're designed human beings. God did not design humans to stay stagnant he did not design us and create us to just Coast and float through life and just stay the same And um everybody here really knows that because any season of life that we stay stagnant we start to get discontent We we start to get grieved almost because we know that this is not what life is supposed to be like That's not what god designed us to be like. Amen Um, so anyways, I said all that to say that today's message was not exactly something I would have picked out You know to to teach on but I do believe with my heart that it is needed This morning. I believe that many people here in this building many people maybe that are watching this, you know live or after the fact This this is a message that we need to hear Because it will it will bring great help to our lives. Amen Amen. Amen. Praise the lord. Um I want to start off reading a statement or a quote from brother hagan And i'm gonna i'm gonna remove a couple of the words to keep it a mystery As to what we're going to hit on but you'll you'll know pretty quickly here But I recently read this in a book and I said wow that That is just a powerful statement, you know, and and i'll say this, you know, brother hagan. He's not the bible He's not the word of god But it's someone that when they've been around for many years and were used by god You should take note of what they say and this is the statement He said I know from experience of more than 50 years of ministry And talking with many thousands of people through through the years on a one-to-one basis That blank is the main reason why people's faith doesn't work And blank is the main reason why people fail to receive their healing Let me say that one more time He said after 50 years of ministry talking to thousands of people one-on-one Counseling hearing their story hearing what's going on, you know, brother hagan. Why isn't this working for me? Why isn't this happening? He said out of all of these years and thousands of people that This reason is the main one why faith doesn't work and you didn't say it's the only Right, there could be other what i'm going to talk about today There could be other reasons why things aren't happening in our lives, but I believe this is a main one And he says it's also the main reason why people fail to receive their healing Now, I don't know about you, but I kind of would like to know what that reason is Would you if you don't we can just leave now, but if you want to know say amen All right. All right Praise the lord. Let's go ahead. I want to I want us to turn to colossians chapter 3 colossians chapter 3 amen And when you get there say amen All right. Are you guys there? Just kidding so colossians 3 in verse 12 It says therefore as the elect of god holy and beloved put on tender mercies kindness humility meekness long-suffering Bearing with one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another Even as christ forgave you So you also must do? Now, I also want to read ephesians chapter 4 In verse 32 and i'll just start reading it. Um, it says and be kind to one another tender-hearted Not hard-hearted tender-hearted Forgiving one another even as god in christ forgave you Now in these two passages What stands out? It's very clear that god is instructing us to be forgiving to others And then he points out even as god in christ forgave you amen And i'll just go ahead and cut to the chase and then we're going to dive in the main reason Why people's faith doesn't work why they fail to receive healing probably why they fail to increase financially Not the only reason a main reason is unforgiveness Unforgiveness and you know, um When when I felt prompted yesterday to start to start, you know studying this and looking into it Initially, my first thought was that's not what we need to hear We need to hear about god's goodness the power of words or something, you know And um, it just wouldn't it just wouldn't go away though, and i'm like, okay, let me let me start looking here Let me start, you know praying and looking in the word and as I did that It was almost just a fresh revelation of how important this is How important this is? um It's it is so important. So let's go ahead and keep going here. So let's think about this, right? What is the main reason why any of us have dealt with unforgiveness? Let's think about it because no one here has ever gone through a season of life and never felt unforgiveness towards someone So we can go ahead and put our hands up all of us and say i'm guilty of that I have definitely been bitter. I've definitely held on to grudges. We've all done it So nobody needs to feel terrible about it. You know, i'm not i'm not preaching at any one person We have all been guilty of this. Amen But we all need to hear this again We all need to be refreshed on it But the main reason that I can think of of why we even get offended why we get hurt. Well, I just said it It's because we're hurt The reason why we hold on to unforgiveness is because at the root of it. We got hurt And when you are hurt You feel so justified in what you feel They did me wrong I'm the victim here. They're the ones that did such and such I didn't do anything And so when you when you feel like you're that victim, it's so easy to feel justified in feeling resentment towards someone Feeling bitter towards what they did and even though even though years could go by You may not even think about it all the time, but you may still have that bitterness in your heart Where if someone mentions that person's name you think of them you see them on social media instantly that feeling of We all we all know what i'm talking about That is unforgiveness And in these last two passages god said that we are to forgive one another even as he has forgiven us imagine if god Treated us the same way that we've treated other people and holding on to things What if even when we've repented and and asked for forgiveness? He just holds that over us the rest of our lives God isn't that way if you thought he was that way. He's not His scripture is very clear on that and we're going to look at it And so the main reason why people struggle with unforgiveness is that at the root of it? We've been hurt and eventually that hurt might lead to being angry And you may even say i'm not hurt. I'm just i'm angry about it Well, you're angry because you did get hurt and you just don't want to let on and um But regardless of what the reason is God's word is very clear. We're not to hold on to that and it's not just because You know, I think sometimes when it comes to the word of god, you know when you hear about the ten commandments and all the things we're not supposed to do it can just feel like a checklist of Tour like I have to just do this. I have to be kind I have to do this and that It's not just to have rules It's because god knows that if we violate those rules the the laws that have been set in motion for our universe The door is open to the devil anytime we don't abide by those things It's not because he's trying to prevent us from just having free will enjoying life. It's because God has created everything. He's set up the whole system And there's certain rules and guidelines that if you follow those life will go well for you life will go smooth But when you violate god's word you you you just remove his protection over your life And unforgiveness at the root of it is sin It's sin There's a lot of other sins, but it's sin and it's something that we we should not be okay with holding on to in our life um So let's go ahead and we're gonna we're gonna go and look at another passage here. Um, Go ahead and turn with me to matthew chapter 18 Matthew chapter 18 I wrote I wrote down here. Um, and I think this is one of the main reasons Why unforgiveness is is harmful to our lives is because I don't know how many of have heard this saying hurt people hurt people Right who's heard that saying before hurt people hurt people and It is very true. And and there's another saying that many have heard here is that unforgiveness is like drinking poison And waiting for the other person to die And if if you can assess your own life You know the way I look at it There's three ways that you could have unforgiveness You could have unforgiveness and bitterness towards another person or multiple people Right and and some some might be here saying, you know, i've forgiven everyone. I don't have anything against anyone Okay, a second thing is you could have unforgiveness towards god And you could say well, what do you mean god god's never done anything wrong he's perfect Yeah, he is you can be offended and you can have unforgiveness towards someone that did you know wrong You may think that they did But there are a lot of people that are mad at god And the reason why they're mad at god and a lot of them have become atheists and all that The reason why they're mad is because they got hurt and they Believed that god let that happen That's the root of it it was hurt though, it wasn't they just started off out of nowhere. I just hate god No, there was a cause there's a reason why they felt that way, right? And so you have to look at the root of it But god is perfect god is just in in many times when we get hurt It's because the devil brought a way of thinking to us and we decided to believe it And we started to think about it and we thought about it more and then we talked about it And then we talked to other people and before you know it we're so rooted in this anger and bitterness And god had nothing to do with it And and he's and now you've just separated yourself from the one person That could change your situation and and bring those feelings of forgiveness to you But there are many people out there That have gotten bitter with god and it cuts them off from his blessings It cuts them off from his goodness which just further validates the feelings that they have and it's just this This snowball effect and and i'm sure many people here have have maybe known someone that way. Maybe you've been that person You know, i'm not gonna i'm not gonna act like i'm perfect. There's been times in my life where I got upset with god Oh brother tim You're a preacher Yeah We're we're not perfect and And I understand why that can happen I understand the reasons why someone could come to that conclusion But i'll just tell you right now It's deception You're deceived if you believe that that's the truth and and god doesn't want you to stay in that He he wants you to to let go but so I said the first reason that we have Unforgiveness is toward other people. The second is god And the third you can say well I'm i'm good with god I don't have anything against anyone else Well, the last person that you can have unforgiveness towards is yourself And there are probably a lot of people here that that might fit you a little bit more than the others because We when we miss it and when we make mistakes we may repent we may say god, please forgive me But we continue to be aware of what we did And we don't let ourselves off the hook We don't let ourselves actually You know, let's do this. I want to look at um, Let's see here. I want to look at one scripture. We're gonna go actually we're gonna skip over matthew I'm jumping through the notes here. Let's go to isaiah really quickly Say amen if you're listening amen See man, why can't I just talk about the favor of god it's just Got to talk about unforgiveness and bitterness and It's because we need it though. Yeah so isaiah 43 And verse 25 It says I even I Am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake And I will not remember your sins I will not remember your sins Hebrews 8 verse 12 says for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness And their sins and their lawless deeds. I will remember no more true forgiveness According to god according to his word the way god forgives us is he forgets it? He remembers it no more. He doesn't bring it up every day and remind you of well, I forgave you but remember you did this I know you're forgiven but Remember how you did that yesterday? You really you really don't deserve god's blessings in your life You know you asked for forgiveness, but man, I can't believe you did that. You really you're probably not going to get healed That's what we that's those are the thoughts that we have at times and um, oh, thank you, baby Those are those are the thoughts that we have but see bible forgiveness is forgetting So if we can have unforgiveness towards ourselves because we won't forget our past mistakes We won't forget the things that we have done wrong And what that does is it prevents us from actually being able to receive from god? Because that unforgiveness even though it's it's not towards other people. It's towards ourselves Amen Man, y'all are getting super quiet this morning Praise the lord Praise god, I know I I was chewing yesterday. So Praise the lord. I know we need to hear this because God god really made it clear to me that there are a lot of people you know and and I and I think I myself am included in this group that We have been cut off from the blessings that god has for us to a degree I'm, not saying we don't have any good things, but the fullness of god's blessing his goodness his healing his peace his joy It's somewhat cut off from us because we have unforgiveness whether it's towards other people whether it's slightly towards god I don't care if you're at church. I don't care if you prayed yesterday. You can still have bitterness towards god And you can have it towards yourself And um regardless of who it's towards the bible is clear We're not supposed to have it And when we hold on to that it is going to negatively affect our lives in one way And and for all of us it may be different and like I said, it doesn't mean that we won't have any goodness We won't have any things But I I know That we are not living in the fullness of what god has for us when we allow that in our lives and in our heart Amen Let's go ahead now and turn back to matthew chapter 18 matthew chapter 18 I mean i'm very familiar with this passage but Reading this the other day. It just stood out to me so much more and i'm like wow that If you read that and you really believe it You're going to have a hard time deciding to hold on to unforgiveness Because it's a very sobering thing matthew chapter 18 In verse 21 Says then peter came to him to jesus and said lord How often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him up to seven times? Jesus said to him. I do not say to you up to seven times but up to 70 times seven Therefore and then he goes on to you know go into a parable Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants And when he had begun to settle accounts one was brought to him who owed him 10 000 talents Now on the amplified in parentheses, it says probably about 10 million But we've had inflation lately. So maybe more. All right It's a lot of money. The average person will not even produce that in their lifetime Okay, and this is what this this servant um owes And um, and when he began to settle accounts one was brought to him who owed him 10 000 talents But as he was not able to pay his master commanded that he'd be sold With his wife and children and all that he had and that payment be made The servant therefore fell down before him saying master have patience with me and I will pay you all Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion Released him and forgave him the debt. Now how many recognize this is god? Jesus is saying the kingdom of god is like this and then he's referring to this this king this master Which is god and god had compassion Released him and forgave him the debt But that servant went out And found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii And he laid hands on him and took him by the throat saying pay me what you owe In some ways you could look at as You did me wrong i'm not forgetting that I will never forget what that person did to me So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him saying have patience with me and I will pay you all And he would not but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt Verse 31 So when his fellow servants saw what had been done They were very grieved And came and told their master all that had been done Then his master after he had called him said to him you wicked servant I forgave you all that debt because you begged me Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant? Just as I had pity on you and his master was angry and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that Was due to him Now listen to this. This is in the new testament verse 35 Jesus finished it all up with this So my heavenly father also will do to you if each of you from his heart does not forgive his brother his trespasses Now i'm not going to dive into a deep study in theology on this, you know, um But that's a sobering statement for jesus to say You know because the bible says if we confess our sins He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness But what if we confess our sins? Thank you lord. I ask you for your forgiveness, but we refuse to forgive someone else This passage says so my heavenly father also will do to you If each of you from his heart does not forgive his brother his trespasses That's a serious thing and i'll just let you chew on that for a minute But if you read that and you still think to yourself, I don't care. I'm just going to keep holding on to this That's a dangerous place to be That's dangerous And um We none of us none of us should should be willing To go on and and here's the thing going back to what I said earlier The root cause was hurt though. And so that's how we can justify feeling certain things and sometimes we can hurt ourselves Honestly, we can be hurt with what we did. I can't believe I did that, you know I'm such an idiot and and we just cave in on ourselves and we refuse to let it go We've refused to just repent say lord. I ask you to forgive me I I put it under the blood right now and lord. I am moving on and i'm forgetting it I'm forgetting what happened. It's a fresh start right now We it's it's we don't let ourselves do that, but i'm telling you right now. Not only does god want you to forgive yourself He commands you to forgive yourself And and and it's talking about if you don't forgive your brother, but if you don't forgive yourself You know many times that could be why you are living with A discontentment you're living almost feeling like you're doing all the right steps. You're still coming to church You're still spending time praying, but you just feel like something is not connected here. I i'm I still feel Disconnected from god and I don't know why This might be why? And and it can be so subtle, you know The bible says it's the little foxes that spoil the vine and sometimes it's these little things in our life That are what's really tripping us up and preventing us from moving forward. Amen See forgiving forgiving other people forgiving god forgiving ourselves. It's not just for their benefit You know it's for It's for our benefit. Like I said, it's like if you when you hold unforgiveness and bitterness and resentment It is like drinking poison and it's toxic and guess what else will happen You know some people say well, you know if it hurts me whatever that's fine, you know, i'll just i'll just grunt and bear it But there's no way for you to hold on to unforgiveness and and only have it hurt you Most of the time it probably won't even hurt the person that we're offended with But who it will hurt is those closest to us that love us Because you can't go through your life having unforgiveness in your heart and not have that poison that toxicity Spill out over time in your words and in your actions and those will affect people close to you Those will affect the people that you love Amen We don't want that. Amen We do not want that i'm just thinking how sobering this is um But we need to hear it. I need to hear it. And like I said every person here, you know There could be someone sitting here. There could be someone watching on tv where um, they're thinking hey I don't have any of these issues then praise god You have you have very few things tripping you up from being able to receive everything god has for you But I think many people here Have those little things that we just haven't let go Amen, i'll give you guys an example. So growing up, you know throughout I guess throughout middle school throughout high school. There was a particular guy That became just a straight up bully and um, it wasn't even a situation where You know There was there was one time that he even tried to pick a fight and tried to beat me up and he lost and so it wasn't even someone that was domineering over me, but Really? I could have looked at that situation and felt like I wasn't hurt. It didn't bother me I just think he's a jerk but years and years later when I was in bible school I was in the spirit praying for maybe a couple hours and I don't and I haven't done that very often And out of all that like you think I would get some revelation I'd get some deep thing And the thing that came to me so clearly was you need to forgive that person And I thought to myself I haven't even thought about this for years Yet god saw fit to bring that to my remembrance to say you need to forgive and let that go Because this is how you know if you've really forgiven someone if Even if you don't think about them hardly ever if someone brings up their name Or you hear about them or you see something about them if the first thing that comes to you is resentment or Getting upset or you know, just disgust You are still holding on to unforgiveness and It's it's a tough thing, you know it because a lot of times like I said It's because we've been so wronged and we've been hurt But we have to believe and understand that holding on to that is not hurting anyone More than it hurts you And and when you hold on to that, you know as much as you feel like they don't deserve it They don't deserve to be forgiven. That may be the case. Maybe they don't deserve it, but you deserve to let it go You deserve to let it go just like the movie frozen Just let it go amen who knew that that was a scriptural movie at that part no and Because holding on to it is going to affect your life. It's going to affect those closest to you It's going to affect your relationship with god It's going to it's going to hinder you from receiving healing from receiving peace from walking in joy It affects every area of your life And you maybe didn't even recognize it which is why I feel like god emphasized people need to hear this this morning amen praise the lord Praise the lord hallelujah. Um Hallelujah, um, this is what I want to say If there's any person here any person here that that you're identifying that there may be Some unforgiveness that you have in your heart whether it's towards someone else towards yourself Maybe even a little bit towards god, you know and um God doesn't want us to have that in our lives He doesn't want us to to be to be hindered and held back with unforgiveness. Amen I'm going to do something a little bit different. Can everybody stand up with me right now if you can Praise the lord Thank you father. Thank you father I I wanted to do this at the end But if you don't want to forgive if you don't feel like you have anything to that's fine but before before I finish I just I feel like there's just someone at least one person that's just ready to just Forgive and just move forward right now instead of waiting another minute So I just want to give every person the opportunity right now Just if you want to go ahead and lift your hands And just repeat this after me father right now I make the decision to forgive to forgive that person to forgive you to forgive myself Of what was done And father I ask for your help To forgive right now And lord, I know that your word says That if I don't forgive That you won't forgive me And I want to be forgiven I want to be cleansed and so right now I choose to forgive And let go of all bitterness resentment offense anger And I cast it into the sea of forgetfulness And I thank you so much for a fresh start right now In jesus name amen, why don't you go ahead and be seated? Praise the lord praise the lord. Um We're not going to go too much longer today. I know this will be a shorter shorter service, but um It's a lot to chew on it's a lot to take and and so we're gonna we're gonna go to one other passage here Turn with me to mark chapter 11 mark chapter 11 Thank you lord So I want to read the statement again from brother hagan one more time It says I know from experience of more than 50 years of ministry And talking with many thousands of people through the years on a one-to-one basis That unforgiveness is the main reason why people's faith doesn't work And unforgiveness is the main reason why people fail to receive their healing Now if you flip that into the positive sense you could say Walking in forgiveness is a main reason why your faith will work Walking in forgiveness is a main reason why you will receive your healing Because if you forgave right now from your heart and let me say this Choosing to forgive is a step of faith because sometimes your emotions still don't feel it But what you have to do just like when you confess your sins to god Sometimes you don't feel forgiven you have to believe the word over your feelings And so when you choose to forgive the thoughts may still come and those feelings may still come against them And that doesn't mean oh, I haven't forgiven. Oh, i'm i'm worthless. I'm never going to have my faith work No, no, no, that's just the devil trying to give you those lies regardless of what you feel You have to just remind yourself and say out loud like no I forgave them And I forgave them because I want to be forgiven by god He he forgave me of all my sins all my craziness all of my past. He washed it in his blood And forgave me and because of that I am choosing to forgive this person And you have to remind yourself of that because you can't you can't be moved by your feelings I think I shared this story recently or or someone else did in the last month or two but there was a story of a woman that That knocked on brother hagan's door at like two in the morning And she came there and she's oh brother hagan brother hagan and i'll probably butcher the story But just the main points we'll get across and essentially he's like what is oh, I just you know, you know, I I don't remember what she even said exactly other than she came into the house. He brought her Okay, we'll come in sister and she said oh brother hagan. I just feel I just feel so lost I feel so, you know disconnected from god or something to that effect and he said well, what is it? What is it you done sister? Let's just repent get under the blood and move on and she's like well, I don't I don't know if i've done anything and he said Like what? I don't know Like are you kidding me? It's two in the morning or three in the morning and you're coming here and you don't even know What you did wrong? And and and I think something to the effect of she said I just don't feel saved anymore and he said I don't either I don't either right now i'm tired And what he ended up doing is he is he is he led her and showed her he said he started started worshiping god father I thank you. I worship you and and just You know operating by faith essentially not your feelings because he didn't feel saved in that moment either. She didn't feel saved No, no one's feeling saved around here But regardless of what they felt in their feelings and emotions He chose To worship god. He chose to put his attention on him and before long all of a sudden Joy is bubbling up from the inside and guess what? He feels saved Did he go from not being saved temporarily back to being saved again Because his feelings felt like he wasn't and then he was no no and just like you may feel Like I still don't forgive that person don't pay any attention to it You are forgiving you're making that statement and you are just thanking god that you forgive them That you're letting it go because you want to be forgiven You want the blessings of god and you have to just keep telling yourself as long as it takes And I guarantee you I promise you if you do that you will eventually feel And it you'll sense that feeling of you. Let it go now That doesn't necessarily mean you let people back into your life You know, there's definitely some cases where you let it be you're not trying to like be close with them per se But it needs to be where when you think of them It should get to the point where you don't feel any ill will and you may even say lord I just hope that you keep working in their life I I you know, I prayed that lord you would continue to bless them that you would show yourself real to them And pray for them Instead of feel a certain way towards them And when you do that if you if you pray for someone i've heard this said before You can't stay offended at someone that you pray for every day And if you are hurt by someone if you are bitter towards someone as hard as it may seem by the grace of god Decide to pray for them every day. I don't care if it's a five second prayer father. God bless him. Amen, you know Just bless them lord if you keep that before you eventually you'll be like Lord I ask you to bless them, you know, and you'll eventually actually start meaning it But in the beginning just just do it by faith and i'm telling you it will start to work. Amen So mark 11 in verse 23 It says for assuredly I say to you whoever says to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea And does not doubt in his heart but believes that those things he says will be done He will have whatever he says most people here know we we hit this passage a lot. This is faith This is believing god for something speaking it it shall come to pass in verse 24 Therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray Believe that you receive them and you will have them praise god close the bible. We're moving on That's how most people do it but you got to keep reading And whenever you stand praying whenever you're bringing these requests before god Whenever you're standing in faith for something when you stand praying if you have anything against anyone It doesn't say if you have really serious things against anyone The really major stuff, you know those little peddly things that you can hold on to that, you know, god god knows like No, it says if you have anything against anyone just a little tiny thing Forgive him If you have anything against anyone forgive him And again here we're saying we're seeing this, uh this passage that your father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses But if you do not forgive Neither will your father in heaven forgive your trespasses How I mean we've already looked at four passages where the bible was very explicitly clear if we don't forgive We aren't forgiven. Amen There's not just one scripture that says that and and and you know, oh you can't make a doctrine on that It's very clear. God does not want us holding on to any unforgiveness towards people And really the main reason why we shouldn't is because it will cut off the blessings of god from our life. Is there anybody here? That you are believing god for something anybody If you're not then you probably should start believing for something Because like I said at the beginning, you know, we're not designed to be stagnant We're not designed to not be growing and if you're not believing for anything Probably not doing something right there So I know we just didn't all raise our hands But the point i'm making is that we all have something that we are believing god for maybe we're believing god for healing in our body Maybe we're believing god for Healing in our minds, you know, maybe we just were tormented at times You know, maybe it's something where we need finances to come in. We need a breakthrough. We need you know Whatever it is that we need to happen I believe that what brother say brother hagan said is true that this is the main reason It may not be the real i'll give this disclaimer. It's possible that there's something else. That's not this that's hindering you from receiving Okay, that is a very real possibility But I do think for many people That this could actually be the main hindrance right now to you receiving from god And it's interesting because I know that even if we've had unforgiveness or bitterness God is so merciful and good that there are still times that we receive blessings and we have things happen So we can almost be tricked into thinking we're okay because i've had i've got done some good things. That's great But the fullness of what he has for you Is being limited? As long as you choose to hold on to that now, I know I already led everyone here in a prayer And I believe that if you did that with your heart That you have forgiven and guess what that means that today is a fresh start Praise god. It's a fresh start whether you feel like it right now or not You have to make the decision that yes, I have chosen to forgive and it is a fresh start lord I thank you that you forgive me and you know, I was thinking about it When it when it comes to forgiving ourselves as well, you know, if you're a perfectionist like me You don't like it when you make mistakes You don't like it when you mess up You don't like it when you're not perfect. Come on. I'm I need to be perfect lord And maybe not maybe not a lot of people like that But you know for me, I think the hardest thing i've had to deal with is forgiving myself And sometimes it's not even this big thing. It's not like a devastated lives It's just it's something small that you're just man, you know, you're just upset that you did that And even if you've repented and I mean i'm putting myself on blast here, but I think it's because it'll help someone Is that when you don't let that go and you don't just move on it will hinder you from believing god for things Because your faith is not working, right? You know Amen Okay, good. All right, just everyone's thinking here. Wow, brother. Tim is just a sinner. No I'll just tease it We've all been there let's be honest we've all been there and god wants us he he doesn't just He doesn't just permit us to forgive ourselves like all right fine You can forgive yourself and forget it. I guess it's like no please Forgive yourself and let it go and forget it and move on. He's imploring you and and Commanding you instructing you forgive And let it go. Amen, whether it's somebody else whether it was feelings that you had towards god, whether it's to yourself I don't care who it is Learn to just let it go and i'm telling you what that can just change your life It can just change your situation that you've been going through don't hold on to things anymore. Amen amen And faith comes by hearing so i'll say this if you've heard this whole message and there's just still something on the inside of you that It's just like you feel like you can't do it. Listen to this message again go online and listen to it again because As you hear the word and you hear the word and you hear the word it will get big in you to the point Where you just can't help it Lord, I forgive them. So if you're still at a place where you just Because i'll be honest whether it's any subject in the bible There are many times that i'll sit in a service and i'll hear the word And you know, I would like to just receive it and act on it right now But I don't it hasn't dropped in me yet, right? So if there's anyone here that you're hearing this and you know, what's true you believe it But it's it's like the faith has not come yet to really do it. Like, you know, you need to I was gonna say that's okay. I mean it's it's not okay, but if that's where you're at hear it again Don't don't be upset. Don't you know, don't not forgive yourself about that, too Just go ahead and decide I'm gonna hear this again. I'm gonna listen to it again I'm gonna listen to it again because the word in these scriptures will bring us to a place Where we we can't help but make the decision and when we do when we truly forgive and let go And start seeing other people and start seeing ourselves the way god does which is forgetting the sin washing it away You know god is a just god. He's not just merciful He's just the reason why he can look at us and actually continue to bless us is because he does have to forget it He forgives us washes it away and in his eyes It's like we never missed it and that's how we need to treat other people so that we can be receiving that from god. Amen praise the lord Hallelujah. Well, why don't you all stand up with me? Praise god. Will you help this morning? Praise the lord Hallelujah often. Oh, oh, that's right. That's right. Praise the lord Thank you father glory to god Hallelujah See the the beauty is that if we have forgiven I want to just hit this again because it's it's still a little bit somber once we forgive Whether we forgive others or forgive ourselves and move on We know that we can start receiving all that god has for us whether it's joy whether it's peace Whether it's that financial breakthrough that you've been believing for whether it's health or healing in your body You are going to be qualified to receive that again. Amen and that that's something that needs to be exciting to you that This is not going to hold you back anymore. This is not going to be a hindrance to your life anymore. Amen praise the lord hallelujah