We need to communicate with God, but how can we enter in a communication with God when we know that I hate my mother, my father, my brother, my sister, or that I have unforgiveness for anybody outside of the church?

Have you made it right with God?

Have you made it right with another person that you hate?

I am falling.

I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love with you.

Welcome to Somebody Lives You Radio, the Bible teaching ministry of Roll Reese in Diamond Bar, California.

As we pick up in our study on the power of forgiveness today,

Roll will urge you to ask for God's help in letting go of any hurt, bitterness, or rage

that might be weighing down your heart.

Stay with us to consider that just as the Lord pardons you when you

sin against him, he can give you the strength to extend that same grace to others. Here is

Rall Reese with the lesson, the issue of forgiveness. If you have your Bible, join us in Matthew

6, beginning in verse 14. Jesus here is going to deal really heavily

because there are so many Christians in the body of Christ even today

they have unforgiveness.

In unforgiveness not only grieves the Holy Spirit of God,

but unforgiveness will keep you from growing in the Lord to maturity.

Unforgiveness will gr greet the Holy Spirit of God.

Let's begin by reading what Jesus says in verse 14 and 15. He says, for if you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses,

neither will your father forgive you your trespasses.

Now, he starts with a word for which takes us back to the Lord's Prayer, the model prayer.

Now, I can remember when I was a non-believer that I had a real problem with unforgiveness. Number one,

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