False Forgiveness That Allows for Lawlessness

There is no Bible verse that says to forgive so you will not be bitter. God does not forgive everyone, they must repent, is He bitter, no but He is just. We pray for those who harm us and if we come in contact with them we treat them with the respect they didn't show us, but that is not forgiveness. It is blessing your enemy. Those who will not repent when they offend and continue offending are not to be extended forgiveness. Forgiveness is for the purpose of reconciling a relationship, it is not just something we say to keep us from becoming bitter.

Having nothing more to do with unrepentant people is not forgiveness. We forgive when someone is sorry to reconcile the relationship. There is no reconciliation when there is no confession of a wrong done toward us. Just saying or pretending we have forgiven is not forgiveness. It may be a choice not to do revenge which is commanded by God.

This is important information, too many people are pretending to be forgiving when no reconciliation has occurred. All born again believers have forgiveness in their heart, desiring to forgive when someone is ready to confess and stop their sin against us. We want to reconcile, but it is prevented by the unrepentant person who thinks their sin was nothing to be sorry for.

One cannot trust a person who continues to wrong us without remorse.

God's condition for forgiveness toward us:

2 Peter 3:9 "9The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance. "

Our conditions for forgiveness is the same as God's:

Luke 17:4

"4 And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

Most people only read part of that verse to forgive 70X7, and completely miss that the offender "saying, "I repent", then you shall forgive him." Why do so many people leave off the condition of forgiveness? Perhaps they want people to forgive them without having to confess or admit their sin against someone else. They want the easy way that says; "lets all just forget about our sins against one another and have happy thoughts." This may work for brushing dirt under the rug but eventually, that dirt pile under the rug grows bigger and bigger until people trip over it.

The ultimate goal of a Christian is to "resolve" difficulties and conflicts" so they no longer exist. This way everyone grows emotionally and spiritually. As it is in our culture today most people do not mature or change their character because they refuse to face the difficult things for a permanent resolution. It is cowardly to live like this and does nothing for anyone.

Proverbs 29:8-10 "…8Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger. 9If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.10Men of bloodshed hate a blameless man, but the upright care for his life.…"

How many times have you tried to discuss a problem with someone and were shut down through the manipulation of raging and blaming to stop any chance of restoration of the relationship or resolution to the problem......my guess is that many of you have tried and failed because it takes two people who love each other to want to discuss and resolve matters.

We live in a culture that refuses to resolve anything, they are only friendly if you allow them to be as monstrous as they want without any correction. Just look at Portland Oregon where the rioters have taken over the streets without any restraint to make them stop vandalizing the shops of innocent business owners. They have defunded the police in some places to allow for unfettered lawlessness. This is the insanity we live with every day now, as in the days of Lot and Noah, when everyone does whatever they please, no one is punished and no one repents.

Welcome to the end of the end times; 2 Timothy 3:1-5 "2 Timothy 3:1-5

Difficult (ragingly insane) Times Will Come

3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

When we come to the realization that we cannot reason with someone to resolve a problem then is when we walk away and leave them to God to deal with, there will be more times like this as the days grow darker. Do not be dismayed, just carry on as led by the Holy Spirit without worry. Hallelujah!!!!

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What Does God Think

The celebration of "Christ-mass" began in the Catholic church melding paganism with a false form of Christianity to produce "Christmas." For many years Christians did not question where this began because they thought adding Christ's name to the pagan holiday would legitimize it for the born-again believer.

The sacrifice of the mass in Catholicism is the re-sacrificing of Christ over and over again in every mass. The idea that Christ's sacrifice on the cross was not enough, the priests had to do it every mass was developed by this paganistic religion. It violates much of scripture and is a form of cannibalism. The church teaches transubstantiation in which the emblems are no longer emblems but turn into the actual body and blood of Christ during the mass.

Since most Christians didn't know their Bibles and they knew very little about the Catholic church they accepted this pagan holiday as long as the name of Christ was attached to it. Unfortunately, it was a different Jesus than the Jesus Christ of the Bible.

Christmas began pagan, the ungodly added Christ to it and it is now returning to its pagan roots. We should not be surprised that this is happening. Holidays and festivals that were not commanded or endorsed by God, merely human ideas to worship God their own way, would eventually return to their origins.

God never blessed this holiday it was a concoction of an ungodly "religion" attempting to entice the Christians to indulge by adding a name they revered, that is the name of God.

When we know our Bibles and walk with the Holy Spirit we have no need to fit into the culture or a Christianized paganism. There is much of this going on in our society today, even those who will become angry when we say "I do not celebrate it because I am a Christian."

The choice is up to each one to determine in their own hearts if they are obeying God. My desire is for everyone to ask God about everything they do to know what pleases Him.

Amos 5:20-22 "…20 Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it? 21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. 22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.…"

Refusing to Repent Destroys Relationships

Forgiveness is dependent on repentance. If someone does not repent they must not be forgiven. Forgiving without repentance is enabling.

Forgiveness is not just letting it go as so many say. Forgiveness when extended after repentance if for the purpose of reconciling a relationship. Just saying "I forgive them" is nothing it falls to the ground. It is psychology based on humanism not God's word.

God will not forgive those who are not repentant. 1 John 1:9.

One must confess to be forgiven. We do not automatically become bitter when someone is not sorry, we pray for them and do good to them when we encounter them but we do not have a relationship with an unrepentant person.

God tells us to go and tell them their fault against us, if they repent great, we have won our brother. However, if they do not repent then we treat them as an enemy, that is stay away from them.

God never commands us anywhere in the scripture to forgive someone who is not repentant. God told us to forgive as He has forgiven, that is when we repent He forgives.

He will not save the unrepentant heart from hell. He only forgives those who confess to be cleansed.

Our culture has this subject wrong and in so doing they are coddling the one who sins and pressuring the victim to forgive those who are not sorry for their harm. This is backward from what God teaches.

When we do things God's way we save ourselves a lot of grief and others see their need to repent from their sins.

The story of the wicked servant who was forgiven when he asked, the master to forgive his debt, then that wicked servant went out and demanded repayment of debts by those under him.

The master who forgave him brought him back and threw him in jail. This is a picture of a pretender, someone who wasn't truly sorry, and the master recognizing this threw him in hell. This story has more to do with a pretender who claims to be saved than it does with forgiveness toward others.

When Christ said on the cross; "Father forgive them", He was asking His Father to extend forgiveness to the world. The forgiveness was extended but the requirement to receive it was to repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. No one will be forgiven who is not repentant.

1 John 1:9, Matthew 18, Acts 3:19, 2 Peter 3:9, Acts 2:38, Acts 17:30, Matthew 3:8, Luke 13:3, Revelation 3:19

No one will be forgiven to enter heaven without confession of their sin and trust in Christ. They are two sides of the same coin. God will not save anyone who will not confess to be reconciled to Him.

Just as our relationships are not reconciled without confession of wrongdoing and forgiveness extended, these are two sides of the same coin, there cannot be one without the other.

Our culture gets this wrong because they just want to ignore the hard work of reconciling by confronting the offender and the possible consequence of being ignored or retaliated against for our desire to reconcile the right way.

One cannot be trusted again if there is no sorrow over sin against us. And, if we are not sorry others should not trust us. We are talking about legitimate accusations of wrongdoing, not false ones just because someone didn't like that we told the truth.

Do not allow anyone to pressure you to forgive an offender who continues to offend and never shows remorse. This is not anyone else's business and we do not become bitter when the offender will not be forgiven. We pray for them and remove ourselves until they demonstrate sorrow over their offense.

God will not hear the prayers of His own children when they have sinned and do not confess, so we should follow His example. God knows best and can work in people without our compromising His ways to feel better about ourselves.

How about we tell people refusing to repent destroys relationships instead of the popular pressure to forgive when someone will not repent.

The pressure today in our culture is to coddle the perpetrator while beating up the victim as though the victim is responsible to make the perp feel better. This is insanity.

Study forgiveness in the Bible and look at all the words in a verse, not just the first two.

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