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Bring It On-Line: Forgiven or Fooled? - September 9, 2016

How do we know when we've truly forgiven someone? My daughter heard a preacher say it was imperative that we worship on the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday and that it was changed to Sunday, does it matter? Read Transcript


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Time to bring it on with your e-mail questions.

And Gordon, this first one is from Erin who says,

how do we know when we've truly forgiven someone?

Clearly, God knows what's in our hearts.

But how do we know we're not fooling ourselves?

[LAUGHING]

Over thinking that, Erin.

Erin, you might want to know what's in your own heart

and be honest with yourself.

I have found, for me, forgiveness is an act.

And if I'm having trouble really truly forgiving from my heart,

I need to keep on forgiving and keep on saying, I forgive.

I release them.

They owe nothing to me.

I want forgiveness for what I've done,

and I need to forgive them.

I can't go to God with unforgiveness in my heart.

I need to leave this.

And then call on Him to help you.

When you finally get that breakthrough

is when you don't wince anymore when

you remember what happened.

And then even beyond that, you don't even remember it anymore.

It's completely gone from you.

And I would encourage you to keep forgiving until you

get to that breakthrough.

There's a whole level of joy that comes

where it no longer hurts you.

And one of the problems with holding on

to bitterness and revenge and I'm going to get you back

and all those kinds of feelings is that you're actually

hurting yourself.

And medical science says that when

we do that, when we think these kinds of thoughts,

we're destroying ourselves.

We're affecting our immune system.

We're affecting our heart function, all of these things.

Get rid of it.

Get free from it.

And get to a place where you can truly love.

Amen.

This is a viewer who says, my daughter

heard a preacher say it was imperative

that we worship on the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday

and that it was changed to Sunday to keep us from it.

I only know of the Seventh Day Adventists

who worship on Saturday.

Besides them, I've never heard of any church changing

to a Saturday service.

Does it matter?

Well, it matters for the Seventh Day Adventists,

and they hold to that.

And I honor them for that.

Within the Christian tradition, it

goes all the way back to the apostle John and his writing

in Revelation.

It was the Lord's day, and I was in the Spirit.

And the Lord's day was Sunday.

It was the resurrection day, which

is why we celebrate Sunday.

We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

And if you're concerned about the sabbath,

I really like a two day weekend.

And you can have both days, and you can celebrate,

remember God, on both.

We leave you this word from Psalm 91--

"For he shall give His angels charge over you,

to keep you in all your ways."

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