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The Weekly Walk from James MacDonald
A New Look at Forgiveness

I have a confession to make. For most of my ministry, I’ve taught a specific passage of Scripture out of context. In fact, I see now that I missed the big picture. Read Isaiah 55:8-9:

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

I’ve always believed this passage taught that God is not like us; God is bigger than us. Even though that’s true, that’s not the primary point. The context begs us to ask, “In what way are God’s thoughts bigger than our thoughts?” Answer: when He forgives.

God’s like, “Let’s compare. When people sin against you, your way of handling it is completely different than how I handle it when people sin against Me.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but here’s how we measure forgiveness:

Flip a couple more pages in the Bible and people are still choosing.

* We think who. Who should we forgive? “She did this and I don’t know if I can forgive her.” We question if the person is worthy of our forgiveness.

* We think how much. We measure the things on our list. We say, “I can forgive that-no problem” to some and “I could never forgive that” to others.

* We think how often. How’s that saying go? “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” We’re like, “Nobody’s going to do that to me again!

Everything we think about forgiveness is measured with our little yardsticks. I wonder if God shakes His head and says, “Your thoughts are so little. Look at me and get the bigger picture.

We can’t conceive of God’s boundaries on forgiveness. They’re so much bigger than we can get into our heads. Since all of our sin is ultimately against God, imagine all the times He has chosen to forgive. Isaiah is right-as high as the heavens are above the earth... and then double it... and again, ad infinitum.

This is all great in theory, but now I’m going to meddle. Are you thinking, “God could never forgive my thing? If I ever really brought my sin before the Lord, He would turn His back. I’m just going to have to carry this one myself because He’s just not merciful enough to forgive me.” My friend, you are so wrong! God’s forgiveness is not like our forgiveness. It’s higher and greater and available upon request. God can completely pardon but you must make the choice to ask for and receive His forgiveness.




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Forgiving

Perhaps you are thinking, "I just cannot forgive." If you feel like that, may I pass on to you a formula for forgiveness that I have never seen fail? Begin earnestly to pray for the one who has hurt you, asking God to give you the grace to forgive, and soon you will discover your hate has turned to pity, and you will find the grace to forgive and to forget.

Resource reading: Colossians 3.

Been hurt by someone you thought was a friend, or at least a person you would never consider an enemy? If you have, did you feel like saying "you too, Brutis?!"(sorry about spelling or original language, this is off the top of my head without time to look up the original literature). What can you do when you feel the knife twisting in your back with the smiling face of someone you considered a friend in front of you? I don't know about you, but for me, it's very difficult to follow the command of Christ to forgive this person, but I submit to the above advise from Dr. Harold Sala of Guidelines. I can't do this from my own nature, but as the scripture says "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me". So with God's help and Grace, I pray and ask Him to help me to truly forgive and not hold a grudge, something I believe can only be accomplished by God's supernatural help. Thank God it's available for us to access, so let's help each other to do so! I will thank you in advance for your prayers for me and offer you the same, we're in this together!
Thanks, Bill

Is Hell Unfair?

by Walter Martin





What happens to people who have never heard the name of Jesus? Is God unfair to send them to hell simply because they never had the opportunity to hear the gospel? The Bible doesn�t see it that way: �For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse . . .� (Romans 1:20-21).

God doesn�t send men to hell because they haven�t heard the name of Jesus. We have no way of knowing how God communicates with people. Surely, the gospel went out from Jerusalem and Judea to the uttermost parts of the earth. God obviously had to consider the fact that there were no jet airplanes, no modern means of transportation, and that people on the other side of the earth could hardly be charged in the same category with people who were right there in Jerusalem. So, he must have had a plan for dealing with them. The Judge of the whole earth will do what is right.

He sent us into the world to preach the gospel so that men might be saved; that does not mean God doesn�t take into consideration the fact that people�through no fault of their own�have not heard the gospel. I think that particular truth is very clearly taught in Romans 1, which goes on to say how God reveals Himself to them. (Don�t ask me exactly how, because I don�t know.)

Dr. Frank Gaebelin once told me about a missionary who had gone to a part of the world where the Gospel had never been preached. Dr. Gaebelin�s story was very well-documented, and he talked personally with this man:

A certain missionary felt a compulsion to go to a specific part of Africa. When he arrived in the village and started preaching Christ, he was amazed by the response. Instead of the indifference or even outright hostility he expected to encounter, people were clearly astonished by his words and very happy to see him. They started talking with each other, buzzing like a huge beehive, and he asked them, �What is the problem? Have I done something wrong?�

�No,� they answered. �But you�re talking about the Sin-bearer.�

�The Sin-bearer!� he repeated, amazed at this revelation. Yes, he agreed, Jesus was the Sin-bearer but how did they know that? One of the elders of the tribe smiled broadly at him, and told him there was someone he must meet. They led him to small house on the outskirts of the village, where an elderly man waited to speak with him. It was a conversation he would never forget. The man told him he knew the world was created by an eternal, good being, and that he had sought for Him. He�d actually prayed for God to reveal Himself to him, and the Lord had answered his prayer. He gave this man, this pagan back in darkest Africa, a vision of Christ on the Cross! And he didn�t understand anything except that there was a Sin-bearer, and that the message would come to them.

The missionary told Dr. Gaebelin, �It was the easiest preaching I�ve ever done. They were waiting for me. I preached and practically the whole tribe got saved! The old man�s face shone like the face of a saint.�

I believe that man had a vision of Christ. God communicated with him and the gospel came to them as a result of that. There are enough instances of this in China and in other parts of the world to tell me that God cares about these people.

I have to believe that the God of the Bible is just. If men go to hell, they go not because they haven�t heard the name of Jesus, but because they turn away from the knowledge that God makes available to them. They could turn towards Him instead of away, and if they do, He will send the gospel to them. I believe that is the truth.

God is not going to arbitrarily send people off to hell if they turn�even blink�in His direction. He does not want any to perish. (2 Peter 3:9)






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