Forgiving Fruit….

The key to human interaction is responsibility. It’s responsibility to God. If God didn’t forgive us, then we wouldn’t have to forgive others when they do us harm. There would be no civility because whomever has the biggest guns or most weapons, or greatest strength would dictate society. Evolution is all about the strong surviving. If Hitler would’ve won the war, we all would be speaking German, and there would be no Jewish descendants left on earth (and many more ethnicities as well). This proves that good and evil exist (something Darwinians can’t explain). And good will always triumph over evil (how do they explain that?). We forgive, giving up our right to get even, solely because God has forgiven us. We are to reciprocate it by emulating our Heavenly Father. The problem is, more and more people today, never take the time to pursue God, and thus don’t even know Who He is. People don’t realize without forgiveness, our condemnation will never find redemption. You see we are enemies of God. Until we are forgiven , through repentance, we can never escape judgement, and will continue to live under it. How can one expect to be forgiven if they don’t even know what transpired on the cross of Calvary? How can we expect to live in a society that needs to forgive when they see no need for it, for they believe they are a “good person”? Forgiveness changes a man from the inside out. There’s only two responses to being forgiven. Reciprocate it, out of a grateful heart, or forget it, and continue in your evils ways. In the end, each will be rewarded for how he handles his own need for forgiveness. One with Heaven, and the other with their wish granted, in Hell. It’s not a popular topic, but it must continue to be preached. You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat others, none more so than how they deal with forgiveness. You will know a tree by the fruit it bears. I hope your tree bears forgiving fruit.

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.” Matthew 18:21-35