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Friday, August 5, 2011

Volume 1 Lesson 8 Forgive

Lesson 8 Forgive
“Forgive”
SECTION 1:
A Story of Forgiveness
Matthew 18:21-35
The Definition of Forgiveness
Luke 11:4
Colossians 1:13-14
1 John 1:9

In the Greek language, the word “opheileo” [of-i-leh'-o] is the idea of accruing debt, to owe, or to be under obligation

in the Greek language, the word “aphiemi” [ah-fee-ay-mee] is the idea of sending away, letting go, giving up a debt, keeping it no longer.

Matthew 6:14-15
Luke 6:37
John 20:23
How do I forgive?
Matthew 18:21-35
Mark 11:25-26
SECTION 2:
The Study of Forgiveness
Mark 11:25-26
Mark 11:25-26
SECTION 3:
The Discussion about Forgiveness
Go Further
Here are some optional readings for you as you live a lifestyle of
forgiveness:
"He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he
himself must pass." ~ George Herbert
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www.christianquotes.com, George Herbert, Anglican Priest, 1593 – 1633

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” ~ Lewis B. Smedes
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www.thinkexist.com, Lewis B. Smedes, Christian Author and Professor of Theology and Ethics, 1921 – 2002
ThinkExist.com Quotations. “Lewis B. Smedes quotes”. ThinkExist.com Quotations Online 1 Jul. 2011. 17 Aug. 2011 <http://ThinkExist.com/quotes/lewis_b._smedes/>

The victim may say, "I can't forgive these people. You don't now
how bad they hurt me." The problem is, they are still hurting you.
How do you stop the pain? Forgiveness is what sets us free from
the past. What is to be gained in forgiving is freedom. You don't
heal in order to forgive. You forgive in order to heal. Forgiveness
is to set a captive free and then to realize you were the captive.
You don't forgive others for their sake; you do it for your sake.
Those you need to forgive may never be aware of your choice to let
them off your hook. Forgiveness is the fragrance that is left on the
heel that crushed the violet.
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Victory Over The Darkness, Neil T. Anderson, Regal Publishing, Ventura CA,
2000, p. 192

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God
has forgiven the inexcusable in you." ~ C.S. Lewis
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www.christianquotes.com, Clive Staples Lewis, Novelist/Christian Apologist,
1898-1963

Friday, July 29, 2011

Volume 1 Lesson 5 Love

Lesson 5
LESSON 5 “Love”
SECTION 1:
Luke 10:25-37
Mark 12:30-31
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The Bible uses three Greek words to describe the English word for “love.” “Phileo” is the love between friends or brothers;

“eros” is the passionate, romantic love which is to be shared by a husband and wife;

and “agape” is the highest form of love

John 3:16
1 John 4:7-11
John 15:12-14
Galatians 5:13-14 1
1 John 4:8
John 5:19
1 John 4:7-11

1 John 4:7-11

Go Further
Here are some optional readings for you as you walk in obedience:
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

3–7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.

Love cares more for others than for self.

Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.

Love doesn’t strut,

Doesn’t have a swelled head,

Doesn’t force itself on others,

Isn’t always “me first,”

Doesn’t fly off the handle,

Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,

Doesn’t revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Puts up with anything,

Trusts God always,

Always looks for the best,

Never looks back,

But keeps going to the end.

8–10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

The Message Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Divine love in the Greek language refers to a love that wholly sacrifices itself for the object of its love, realizing the precious value of it. For example, man and woman betrayed God and fell into deep sin resulting in an abominable life, which ultimately led to eternal destruction. In spite of this betrayal, God lovingly sacrificed Himself on Calvary to save mankind. Why? Because each individual soul is priceless to Him. This is divine love!
The Holy Spirit My Senior Partner, David Yonggi Cho, Charisma House, Lake Mary, FL 1989, p.12

The Holy Spirit, My Senior Partner

"Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals." ~ E.M. Bounds
www.christianquotes.org, Edward McKendree Bounds, Clergyman and Author, 1835-1913

"Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life----come poverty, come wealth, in death---come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'" ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
www.christianquotes.org, Charles H. Spurgeon, Baptist Pastor, 1834 - 1992

"To love is to be vulnerable." ~ C.S. Lewis
www.christianquotes.org, Clive Staples Lewis, Novelist/Christian Apologist, 1898-1963