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The Road to Healing

The Road to Healing. The road to healing from sin goes beyond the initial reception of forgiveness. The Road to Healing. The road to healing from sin goes beyond the initial reception of forgiveness.

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The Road to Healing

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  1. The Road to Healing • The road to healing from sin goes beyond the initial reception of forgiveness.

  2. The Road to Healing • The road to healing from sin goes beyond the initial reception of forgiveness. • It is not uncommon for a person to continue to grieve over a sin even after God and brethren have forgiven the person.

  3. The Road to Healing • The road to healing from sin goes beyond the initial reception of forgiveness. • It is not uncommon for a person to continue to grieve over a sin even after God and brethren have forgiven the person. • One woman asked a preacher if she should be baptized again because of a sin committed years ago!

  4. The Road to Healing • Others have concluded that they are "going to hell anyway" and lose all interest in spiritual matters.

  5. The Road to Healing • Others have concluded that they are "going to hell anyway" and lose all interest in spiritual matters. • There are things that must be done after forgiveness to uplift the one who has returned! (Heb 12:11-13)

  6. The Road to Healing • (Hebrews 12:11-13 NKJV) - “Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. {12} Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, {13} and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.”

  7. The Road to Healing • The path to a healed spirit can take place regardless of what men do. (Mt 13:15-16)

  8. The Road to Healing • (Matthew 13:15-16 NKJV) “For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’ {16} “But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;”

  9. The Road to Healing • God will aid those who turn to Him.

  10. The Road to Healing • God will aid those who turn to Him. • Still there is a role for Christians to play. God gave the local church for these reasons! (Heb 10:23-25)

  11. The Road to Healing • (Hebrews 10:23-25 NKJV) “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. {24} And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, {25} not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.”

  12. We must seek forgiveness. • We must meet the conditions of forgiveness!

  13. We must seek forgiveness. • We must meet the conditions of forgiveness! • God requires repentance for both the Christian and the non-Christian. (Acts 2:38; 8:22)

  14. We must seek forgiveness. • (Acts 2:38 NKJV) “Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

  15. We must seek forgiveness. • (Acts 8:22 NKJV) “”Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.”

  16. We must seek forgiveness. • The non-Christian is then baptized for forgiveness.

  17. We must seek forgiveness. • The non-Christian is then baptized for forgiveness. • The Christian is to pray to God for forgiveness.

  18. We must seek forgiveness. • The non-Christian is then baptized for forgiveness. • The Christian is to pray to God for forgiveness. • Repentance requires a changed heart. (2 Cor 7:10)

  19. We must seek forgiveness. • (2 Corinthians 7:10 NKJV) “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.”

  20. We must seek forgiveness. • All genuine repentance must first come towards God.

  21. We must seek forgiveness. • All genuine repentance must first come towards God. • If we have sinned against another then we must ask their forgiveness as well. (Lk 17:3-4)

  22. We must seek forgiveness. • (Luke 17:3-4 NKJV) “”Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. {4} “And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.””

  23. We must seek forgiveness. • If our hearts have changed we will be put into action. Public confession is one way of letting others know of your change of heart and to ask forgiveness of those whom you hurt. This comes after finding God's forgiveness.

  24. We must seek forgiveness. • If our hearts have changed we will be put into action. Public confession is one way of letting others know of your change of heart and to ask forgiveness of those whom you hurt. This comes after finding God's forgiveness. • It may be possible for men to play games with other men.

  25. We must seek forgiveness. • Some statements of "repentance" are in effect a way of saying: "get off my back!“

  26. We must seek forgiveness. • Some statements of "repentance" are in effect a way of saying: "get off my back!“ • God knows and we will never fool Him. (Heb 4:13)

  27. We must seek forgiveness. • (Hebrews 4:13 NKJV) “And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”

  28. We must seek forgiveness. • God's way will involve humility and honesty. There is no other way.

  29. We must seek forgiveness. • God's way will involve humility and honesty. There is no other way. • The alternative to seeking forgiveness involves a measure of hiding.

  30. We must seek forgiveness. • God's way will involve humility and honesty. There is no other way. • The alternative to seeking forgiveness involves a measure of hiding. • It is not uncommon for one to return to services without acknowledging repentance and over time to "slide back in" to fellowship with brethren.

  31. We must seek forgiveness. • This is one reason we must follow God's way of dealing with sin that will include marking one who refuses to repent! (Mt 18:15-17)

  32. We must seek forgiveness. • (Matthew 18:15-17 NKJV) “”Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. {16} “But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’

  33. We must seek forgiveness. • {17} “And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector.”

  34. We must seek forgiveness. • Because men tend to forget that does not mean God will! (Ex 34:7)

  35. We must seek forgiveness. • (Exodus 34:7 NKJV) “”keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.””

  36. We must seek forgiveness. • Have you sought the forgiveness of God? Of others?

  37. We must accept forgiveness. • There are many who continue to feel the guilt of their sin after meeting the conditions of forgiveness.

  38. We must accept forgiveness. • There are many who continue to feel the guilt of their sin after meeting the conditions of forgiveness. • The example of the woman who though she should be baptized again.

  39. We must accept forgiveness. • There are many who continue to feel the guilt of their sin after meeting the conditions of forgiveness. • The example of the woman who though she should be baptized again. • This is a matter of faith! Do we believe that God will do what He said? (Jer 31:34; 1 Jn 1:7-9)

  40. We must accept forgiveness. • (Jeremiah 31:34 NKJV) “”No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.””

  41. We must accept forgiveness. • (1 John 1:7-9 NKJV) “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. {8} If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. {9} If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

  42. We must accept forgiveness. • Here is where we need to take God's promises and read them over and over!

  43. We must accept forgiveness. • Here is where we need to take God's promises and read them over and over! • God is not like a man nor does He hold grudges like a man. (Num 23:19)

  44. We must accept forgiveness. • (Numbers 23:19 NKJV) “”God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?”

  45. We must accept forgiveness. • Please study more about the character of God and there find the comfort of the scriptures. (Rom 15:4; 5:6-8)

  46. We must accept forgiveness. • (Romans 15:4 NKJV) “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”

  47. We must accept forgiveness. • (Romans 5:6-8 NKJV) “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. {7} For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. {8} But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

  48. We must accept forgiveness. • You may need to also be praying for a lack of faith! Our God knows and understands! (Mk 9:23-24)

  49. We must accept forgiveness. • (Mark 9:23-24 NKJV) “Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” {24} Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!””

  50. We must accept forgiveness. • Some common misunderstandings.

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