{"id":7764,"date":"2025-07-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=7764"},"modified":"2015-07-05T21:14:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T18:14:39","slug":"we-need-forgiveness-much-need-forgive-people-sinned-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/we-need-forgiveness-much-need-forgive-people-sinned-us\/","title":{"rendered":"We need forgiveness as much as we need to forgive the people that have sinned against us"},"content":{"rendered":"Grace and peace to you from our Lord Jesus Christ! Welcome to \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nUntil now we have talked about the benefits of forgiveness, how we are forgiven in God; we have discussed that sincere repentance is a prerequisite of forgiveness and how we can restore our relationships with other people.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nToday I would like to start talking about the other side of forgiveness \u2013 about how we need to learn to forgive our debtors just as we are need for our debts to be forgiven:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abAnd forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors\u00bb(Mathew, 6:12).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nWe need forgiveness as much as we need to forgive the people that have sinned against us.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIt is important to see that forgiveness towards our debtors is a prerequisite for us to continue receiving forgiveness from God. The way we treat other people that are how God treats us. God uses the same measure we measure with.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nI would like to point out that the verse above doesn\u2019t say:\u00a0\u00abForgive us because we have forgiven others\u00bb<\/em>; it says:\u00abForgive us\u00a0AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS<\/strong>\u00bb.\u00a0<\/em>In other words, the channel of God\u2019s blessings is blocked until we forgive our debtors, our brothers and sisters.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIt is also the only condition mentioned in the Lord\u2019s Prayer:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen\u00a0.\u00bb (Mathew, 6:9-13).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nIn order to avoid any misunderstandings, Jesus added right after giving the example prayer:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses\u00a0\u00bb (Mathew, 6:14-15).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nJesus treats us the way we treat other people. The very same principle is reflected in other verses of Scripture.\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00ab\u00a0Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. (..) You have heard that it was said to those of old, \u2018You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgement.\u2019 But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, \u2018Raca!\u2019 shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, \u2018You fool!\u2019 shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift\u00a0\u00bb (Mathew, 5:7, 21-24).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
\u00ab\u00a0And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespass\u00a0\u00bb (Mark, 11:25).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n
\u00abIf I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear\u00bb\u00a0(Psalm, 66:18).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBased on these verses we can see that it is impossible to worship God until the relationships with other people are in order. Also worship is impossible if we have unforgiven sins in our hearts:\u00a0\u00abIf I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear\u00bb<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Psalm, 66:18). I once read what one general said to John Wesley: \u00abI will never forgive!<\/em><\/strong>\u00bb John Wesley answered him:\u00ab\u00a0I hope you have never sinned, sir<\/em><\/strong>\u00bb.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIf you need forgiveness, then you can\u2019t risk and afford to live in unforgiveness. Quite often we behave like the servant from Jesus\u2019 parable who did not forgive his debtor even though he was just forgiven so much (Mathew, 18:21-35). Jesus told us this parable to show us how important it is to forgive those that have hurt or offended us.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTomorrow we will talk about it in detail!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBe blessed!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is important to see that forgiveness towards our debtors is a prerequisite for us to continue receiving forgiveness from God. The way we treat other people that are how God treats us. God uses the same measure we measure with.\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pexels-photo-2495566-1-1024x682.jpeg",1024,682,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40074,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions\/40074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}