Feeding the Sheep - Living the New Life 7
-Apostle Paul, 1st century
Colossians 3:13
[This is the 22nd message of this series]
This lesson is intended for mature believers (or adulting believers). For a more orderly study, please go through all the previous messages first, if you haven't yet.
New Nature
This is the 7th part of this series, within a series.
To continue, we were talking about how the Apostle Paul is telling the first church in Colassae what "to do", in place of the things we have started to quit doing.
Physics
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Think about it, once you quit wanting things, once you stop greed in its tracks, you would have so much free time that you wouldn't know what to do with it.
Forgiveness
One of the things you can do is to forgive, forgive and forget -- to let it go. As far as the east is from the west, is as far as God has removed our transgressions from us. He remembers them no more. That's the way He forgave us.
This He gave us as a gift, nothing we have done to earn it. Thus forgiveness is the origin and the nature of this new life given us.
This new life is ours to live because of the finished work of Christ.
Christ taught on the subject of forgiveness many times and to which one time, Peter asked Him how many times should he forgive others who have wronged him. Peter even tried to put a limit to the number of times he should do so.
Christ then told them a story to illustrate His concept of forgiveness -- it was a story about this unmerciful servant who was forgiven of his debt by his master and that he didn't have to pay back a huge amount. But this same servant after having been forgiven much, turned around and would not extend even a small portion of this mercy towards a fellow servant, who only owed him a small amount.
Christ then told them a story to illustrate His concept of forgiveness -- it was a story about this unmerciful servant who was forgiven of his debt by his master and that he didn't have to pay back a huge amount. But this same servant after having been forgiven much, turned around and would not extend even a small portion of this mercy towards a fellow servant, who only owed him a small amount.
Parable of the Unforgiving Servant (Matthew 18:21-35)
New Nature
Our new nature is born out of the forgiving nature of God. It is not unnatural that we too will have a forgiving nature towards others, especially to those who are learning to be adult children of God, just like we are.
Our new nature is born out of the forgiving nature of God. It is not unnatural that we too will have a forgiving nature towards others, especially to those who are learning to be adult children of God, just like we are.
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