OUTLINE:
Ac 7:60
And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
GLORY!!
Grace and forgiveness are imperative to bringing glory to God in our lives!
Passing on His Forgiveness
Even though we deserve final judgment, we believers have been forgiven of our sins, COMPLETELY, and once for all!! Col 2:13-14
How can we then hold back forgiveness from others???
Eph 6:12
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Pr 19:11 NKJV
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger,
And his glory is to overlook a transgression.
The Glory of His Grace
When you choose to overlook the sin of another person, that’s Christ’s light shining like a visible glow from within you. The example you exhibit by overlooking someone else’s transgression is like a gleaming ornament (“glory” in Pr 19:11); a light in the darkness of this world. You are then living in the Light of Christ. Pr 19:11, Mt 5:14-16
Pr 19:11 NKJV
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger,
And his glory is to overlook a transgression.
Resentful? Irritable?
The flesh loves being those things, to puff itself up or to protect itself from pain.
But LOVE… does not take into account a wrong suffered, – 1Co 13:5 NASU
Col 2:13-14
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
1 Co 6:20
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Grateful???
If you really appreciate His great love and forgiveness towards you… then why do you hold grudges towards those who have hurt you? Why don’t you just let them go??? Mt 18:21-35
Oh! To Overlook a Transgression!
“God is love”, 1Jn 4:8,16, and His love is able to transcend it all… including strife, worry, resentment, anger, personality differences, disagreements, wrongs, misunderstandings, insults, persecutions, thefts, mocking, slander, etc….. His love is able to transcend it all, even in us and through us, and we must choose to lean on it/Him!!! Pr 10:12, 1Co 13:4-8, 1Pe 4:8
1 Pe 4:8
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Jn 4:19
We love because He first loved us.