Author Dr. James. A McBean. D.Th., MCC

Copyright © 2008 Library of Congress Washington.D.C.20559

Publisher: Revival Tract Ministries, Inc

H ow far should Christians Go with their forgiveness? The person wanting the forgiveness must bring forth fruit worthy of forgiveness. There are conditions to be met, before forgiveness can be handed down. If people know that they have a part to play in the cleaning up, there will be lest spillage

Whenever one language Is translated into another, something is lost, from the original meaning. In our English language: forgiveness means to forget. It means: "Let me back in, forget what I have done to you" This gives the troublemaker chance to come back and do the same thing over and over again. However, biblical forgiveness, does not mean like that: biblical forgiveness means to leave all vengeance to God who will repay. Only God can a tell when a person truly repented.

Lev_19:18  Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.

Rom_12:19  Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Child molesters use this to come back into Christians homes. People that hunted Christians like animals, destroys our reputations, get us fired, destroys our marriage, use forgiveness to come back in after all they have done fails, they use forgiveness, to come back in to study our weakness, and to find out the weak spots.

You Need Healing Time:

When people hurt you and I: sometime the hurt is so deep, that whenever, we saw them, it traumatized us. People will come and tell you to let go, how can you let go when your gut is cut out, and you have the one eye to show for it with the scars in your face. How can you forget when you are still feeling pain?

The scriptures told us that in this world we shall have tribulation, but sometimes the people who are wicked capitalized on our forgiveness, and done irreparable damage to our characters and our financial life, then came back and expect to get off with a handshake and I am sorry.

A certain person I know came down to Florida to spend a few weeks with us. I went to a farm and buy a live goat and have it killed, my wife and I stocked the fridge with the meat, we go all out to prepare for the coming person, we were so happy for this person company. We were over Joy to learn that the person decides to move down and buy a home. There was so much meat that the person brings frozen meat along home. As soon s the person Got back, the person told our friends and families in New York, that my wife and I and the rest of the family down in Florida is dying for hungry.

Months later the person calls us again and wants to return. When I heard it, I say “My God the person is coming to kill us this time” The bible said if our enemy hungry, we must feed them, but it did not say we must give that enemy three meals per day. It says if our enemy is thirsty we must give them water to drink, but it did not say we must become the enemy water carrier. Before you start to throw your forgiveness to the swines, you need to look up everything that the bible had to say about forgiveness, because their are conditions to be met.

Matthew 18:21 (KJV) Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Matthew 18:22 (KJV) Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. Matthew 18:35 (KJV) So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

The Conditions For Forgiveness.

Before forgiveness can be handed down, the offender must give his or her victim healing time, help with the rebuilding and healing process. You trammertises somebody and turn up at their home demanding that they forgive you, how is that possible?. He she must just run out and hugged you up and brought you back into the home? They do that because they still traumatized, just like how people pretended to love the bully, and take sides with the bully. Now they are his friend, he will remove his wrath from them, and seek another victim. Any mule can drop a load of shit, behind, however, let see how well he can turn around and clean it up.

Luke 17:3 (KJV) Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Luke 17:4 (KJV) And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. Luke 17:5 (KJV) And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

The aggressor must be rebuked. The aggressor must take the rebuke. The aggressor must repent. Also the aggressor must make restitutions.

Luke 3:8 (KJV) Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Luk 3:8 msgv: It's your life that must change, not your skin. And don't think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as 'father.' Being a child of Abraham is neither here nor there--children of Abraham are a dime a dozen. God can make children from stones if he wants.

I Forgive You But You Still Need To Pay Me For My Lost Times, You Need To Dig My Grace, Since You Killed me.

You kill it, you must clean it up, you roast it you must eat it. You cannot just take forgiveness and go, you have to help clean up the mess. You might even have to pay for your victims to get council. After all, you have hurt them.

Pro 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

St Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore [him] fourfold.

You make the person lose their job and lost time, spent time in prison innocently, you need to recompense for his or her lost time, you cannot just get off with a handshake, and I am truly sorry for all the pain I cost you. THE AGGRESSOR CANNOT JUST INVITES HIMSELF IN AND DEMAND FORGIVENESS, WITHOUT WORKS OR REPENTANCE. People need to be careful of some of these priests who are telling people that they are forgiven. Butter up the person's conscience to go commit crime again. Some enemy uses forgiveness as a way to come back and put themselves in a better position to make one final death blow.

b [fourfold] This was the restitution required of a sheep stealer (Exodus 22:1). It shows a definite change of heart. You will get forgiveness if it makes you feel better, but you have to earn your come back. And you have to help me repair the damage that you have made. If you destroy a person's reputation, you need to help fix it by return and speak the truth. You cannot just come collect his forgiveness in secret like you earn it, and walk away, leaving he or she in the mess that you made, you also have a responsibility.

Let us face the fact, no matter how much education we had on a subject we can go out there and made the worst mistakes of our life, that cause us dearly. Only Jesus Christ can help us with our decision-making.