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Destiny Church

Forgiveness and Reconciliation

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Destiny Christian Church

6900 Destiny Dr, Rocklin, CA 95677, USA

Sunday 9:00 AM

Sunday 11:00 AM

Colossians 3:12-14
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
There is a direct correlation between your horizontal relationships and your vertical relationship.
1 John 4:20
“If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?”
RELATIONSHIPS ARE VITAL TO OUR SUCCESS IN LIFE
WHEN YOU DON'T FORGIVE, YOU DON'T APPRECIATE WHAT GOD DID FOR YOU.
GRACE EMPOWERS OUR FREEDOM FROM SIN,
IT DOESN'T EXCUSE OUR SIN.
UNFORGIVENESS ISN'T A HURT ISSUE,
IT'S A HEART ISSUE
1. The eternal value of people matters more to you then the temporal injustice

2. You have to kill your pride and walk in humility.

3. You can’t live like a victim.
Victims claim their identity from what was done to them.
Victors get their identity from what they have conquered and overcome!
Victims shift the blame.
Victors praise through the pain.
Victims recite what others did or did not do.
Victors declare what God will do!
Genesis 45:4-7
“Do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.”
Genesis 50:20
“What you meant for evil, God meant for good.”