Love Is____ “Forgiveness”

Because God Loves me, He provided a way so I
Because God loves me, He provided a way so I
If there is a need of forgiveness, it means that an has occurred

Romans 3:23 (NLT)
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

Romans 3:24 (NLT)
Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.

Justice comes from

When God’s Love and Justice come together it produces two other things:
            1. Mercy and Grace for those who choose to receive the finished work of Jesus
            2. Judgement for those who choose to reject the finish work of Jesus
                Grace is the unmerited favor of GOD. It is not earned or deserved.
God’s Justice and Judgement are perfect because they come from His love.

Romans 5:6-10 (NLT)
6. When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.
7. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good.
8. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
9. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation.
10. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son.

1 John 4:16 (NLT)
We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.
God IS love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

This word “IS” … is the Greek Verb: eimí = pronounced: ay-MEE
Meaning:  without explicit limits
Because God (without explicit limits) loves me, He provided a way so I can be forgiven.
Because God (without explicit limits) loves me, He provided a way so I can forgive.

Exodus 3:14 (NLT)
14. God replied to Moses, “I Am Who I Am. Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you.”
15. God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.

John 14:6 (NLT)
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Everything that emanates from God comes from the place of His love.
Why do we need to forgive?
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Matthew 5:21-23 (NLT)
21. “You have heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You must not murder. If you commit murder, you are subject to judgment.’
22. But I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgment! If you call someone an idiot, If you say to your brother, ‘Raca.’ you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone you are in danger of the fires of hell.
23. “So if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you,
24. leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God.

“Being Angry”
orgizó: To be angry, to provoke to anger
Original Word: ὀργίζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: orgizó
Pronunciation: or-GEE-zo
Meaning: “to show settled-opposition”

Matt. 5:22: Jesus shows us this isn’t just a flippant insult. It’s coming from the core of who you are. Your attitude is like an unmovable boulder. You have a heart.

Matthew 12: 34-37 (NLT)
34. You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.
35. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart.
36. And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak.
37. The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.”

Matthew 18:21-35 (NLT)
21. Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?”
22. “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven!
23. “Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a king who decided to bring his accounts up to date with servants who had borrowed money from him.
24. In the process, one of his debtors was brought in who owed him millions of dollars.
25. He couldn’t pay, so his master ordered that he be sold—along with his wife, his children, and everything he owned—to pay the debt.
26. “But the man fell down before his master and begged him, ‘Please, be patient with me, and I will pay it all.’
27. Then his master was filled with pity for him, and he released him and forgave his debt.
28. “But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars. He grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment.
29. “His fellow servant fell down before him and begged for a little more time. ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it,’ he pleaded.
30. But his creditor wouldn’t wait. He had the man arrested and put in prison until the debt could be paid in full.
31. “When some of the other servants saw this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him everything that had happened.
32. Then the king called in the man he had forgiven and said, ‘You evil servant! I forgave you that tremendous debt because you pleaded with me.
33. Shouldn’t you have mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?’
34. Then the angry king sent the man to prison to be tortured until he had paid his entire debt.
35. “That’s what my heavenly Father will do to you if you refuse to forgive your brothers and sisters from your heart.”

Unforgiveness you of God’s Love and Forgiveness to you.

Verse:
Jonah 1-17 (NLT)
1. The LORD gave this message to Jonah son of Amittai:
2. “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are.”
3. But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the LORD. He went down to the port of Joppa, where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping to escape from the LORD by sailing to Tarshish.
4. But the LORD hurled a powerful wind over the sea, causing a violent storm that threatened to break the ship apart.
5. Fearing for their lives, the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. But all this time Jonah was sound asleep down in the hold.
6. So the captain went down after him. “How can you sleep at a time like this?” he shouted. “Get up and pray to your god! Maybe he will pay attention to us and spare our lives.”
7. Then the crew cast lots to see which of them had offended the gods and caused the terrible storm. When they did this, the lots identified Jonah as the culprit.
8. “Why has this awful storm come down on us?” they demanded. “Who are you? What is your line of work? What country are you from? What is your nationality?”
9. Jonah answered, “I am a Hebrew, and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land.”
10. The sailors were terrified when they heard this, for he had already told them he was running away from the LORD. “Oh, why did you do it?” they groaned.
11. And since the storm was getting worse all the time, they asked him, “What should we do to you to stop this storm?”
12. “Throw me into the sea,” Jonah said, “and it will become calm again. I know that this terrible storm is all my fault.”
13. Instead, the sailors rowed even harder to get the ship to the land. But the stormy sea was too violent for them, and they couldn’t make it.
14. Then they cried out to the LORD, Jonah’s God. “O LORD,” they pleaded, “don’t make us die for this man’s sin. And don’t hold us responsible for his death. O LORD, you have sent this storm upon him for your own good reasons.”
15. Then the sailors picked Jonah up and threw him into the raging sea, and the storm stopped at once!
16. The sailors were awestruck by the LORD’s great power, and they offered him a sacrifice and vowed to serve him.
17.  Now the LORD had arranged for a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

Jonah 4:1 (NLT)
1. This change of plans greatly upset Jonah, and he became very angry.

VERY ANGRY
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: charar
Pronunciation: khaw-RAHR
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-rar’)
Aramaic: burning sensation, in throat, Scorched / Burned

Jonah 4:1 (NLT) 
1. This change of plans greatly upset Jonah, and he became very angry.
             • Why was Jonah so hurt by God showing compassing and forgiveness to the people of Ninevah?
2.  So he complained to the LORD about it: “Didn’t I say before I left home that you would do this, LORD? That is why I ran away to Tarshish! I knew that you are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. You are eager to turn back from destroying people.
3.  Just kill me now, LORD! I’d rather be dead than alive if what I predicted will not happen.”
4.  The LORD replied, “Is it right for you to be angry about this?”

What are ways that unforgiveness looks like to you in your own life?
Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭26‬-‭27 (NLT)‬‬‬‬‬‬
“And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil.”

‭Lexical Summary‬‬
topos: Place, location, region, opportunity
Original Word: τόπος
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: topos
Pronunciation: TOH-pos
Phonetic Spelling: (top’-os)
KJV: coast, license, place

1 John 1:9 (NLT)
“But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.”
God is being when He forgives us.
Forgiveness is placing your in God’s justice.

Because God Loves Me, He provided a way so I can be forgiven
Because God loves me, He provided a way so I can forgive.
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