Today we continued in our new series called, “FU” or “Forgiveness University.” Online classes are now in session and we are ready to learn about forgiveness. In the third week of this series, Pastor Michael taught us that we can’t give what we don’t have. If you are struggling with forgiving someone, it is because you have not fully received the forgiveness that is freely given to you. Pastor Michael provides us with a Checklist to help us forgive the wrongs that have been done to us. You don’t want to miss this message! Today we continued in our new series called, “FU” or “Forgiveness University.” Online classes are now in session and we are ready to learn about forgiveness. In the third week of this series, Pastor Michael taught us that we can’t give what we don’t have. If you are struggling with forgiving someone, it is because you have not fully received the forgiveness that is freely given to you. Pastor Michael provides us with a Checklist to help us forgive the wrongs that have been done to us. You don’t want to miss this message!
i hope you feel good at home
well today we’re in week three
of a series that we’re calling help me f
u and that stands for forgiveness
university and if you’re just joining us
if somebody invited you
to this um this university of higher
learning i’m telling you you’re about to
receive a master’s degree a master’s
degree
that will change your destiny and today
i want to let you know that god has
something so special planned for you
we’ve prayed for you
we’ve asked god to assemble people who
were desperate broken hurting successful
from all walks of life to come and hear
about the good news of jesus christ so i
want you to know no matter
what you did yesterday who you were with
last night and what you were planning to
do to do tomorrow
that we believe this is a divine moment
in your life
and if you would just open your heart
for the next 45 minutes god would do
something extravagant
in your heart i love you i believe in
you
and i think that god’s best is still up
ahead of you if you believe god’s best
is in front of you somebody say amen
come on put some put some praise hands
in some praying hands
in the comments right now well let’s do
it get your notepads
get your smartphones your dumb phones
get everything out
cause we are starting week three of a
series that we’re calling one more time
f u we’re talking about forgiveness
because in today’s culture right now
we know that offense is the currency of
today’s culture
but forgiveness is the currency
of the kingdom and i think that until we
learn how to actually forgive
we are trapped in a prison that doesn’t
affect them
y’all know we think it affects them i’m
not going to talk to them no more they
ain’t never going gonna cross me again i
ain’t gonna do this and that
and we’re stuck and i’ve been seeing too
many people who believe in jesus
can worship and shout and speak in
tongues but they’re stuck
and when god wants them to go forward
they can’t because they have been
trapped in this thing of unforgiveness
but you
have enrolled in the best university
known to man
it’s the university that helps you
actually learn how
to everybody say forgive yeah
and i know there’s some people right now
that if you think about forgiving them
you break out in hives and you get
frustrated
and it takes you back to a moment that’s
why i’m not asking anybody to forgive at
this moment
i told everybody at the start of this
class that i’m praying that you would
forgive
one person by the end of this so so you
got to get the principles deep within
you
and you got to allow god and the holy
spirit to begin to work in you
so it can actually play out in your life
and today
i believe the message that i’m about to
share listen to me and i do not say this
lightly
is the most important message in this
entire series
because if you don’t get the principles
that i’m about to share today
you will never be able to truly forgive
and if i’m really honest about it if
you’re a believer
forgiveness is a primary spiritual
discipline
of every christ follower it is
basic god has forgiven you
so you got to forgive somebody else and
that’s easier said than done
because the church tells you that you
should forgive but they don’t teach you
how
that’s why your boy is here let’s get
into the word today
now i need to take a poll i need to take
the temperature of who’s watching
because i know people are watching from
all over the world
all over the u.s but i need to get um
the forgiveness fahrenheit in the room
right now okay
raise your hand if there is somebody
that you know
at this moment right now that you need
to forgive come on raise your hand
all over the building all at your house
okay
let’s let’s take it another level deeper
raise your hand
in your house i want you to raise your
hand i know you’re like nobody’s here
god’s there okay so raise your hand okay
raise your hand if there’s somebody that
you know you need to forgive
who offended you in 2020 come on hands
hands okay let’s take it another step
how many people
got somebody they know they need to
forgive for something that happened this
month
come on the last 30 days okay some of
y’all your hands just staying up in the
air you just there the whole time
raise your hand if there’s somebody that
you need to forgive if you know him or
not cause some of y’all on the way to
get starbucks almost cut somebody out on
accident
raise your hand if there’s somebody that
you need to forgive from this last week
raise your hand if there’s somebody you
need to forgive from today
some of y’all sitting right next to him
and you like don’t look at me charlie
but all i’m saying to you right now is
everybody needs to forgive
but if you’re going to experience what
god wants you
to have in the area of forgiveness i
figured out this one thing
you can’t give what you ain’t got
okay i know that’s not right english i
know somebody’s like sally does he
always talk in ebonics
no but this really proves my point you
can’t give what you ain’t got
if you haven’t experienced love it’s
hard to give love
if you haven’t experienced kindness it’s
hard to
give kindness and and today
i want to journey down this track
because i want you to know about
something that you already have within
your reach
but maybe you have not fully received it
right down this point
you cannot give true forgiveness until
you
know everybody say no know
you have received true forgiveness
you cannot give true forgiveness oh yeah
you can act like
you forgave them because you forgot
about it cause you moved on and you got
another career and you got another
girlfriend and you got another boyfriend
and that’s what we do we think
forgiveness is forgetting
that’s why so many of us when we get
hurt then we just try to
fill our space up with people and things
to make us
forget what they did but if you look at
the fabric of your heart you can still
see the imprint of that person or that
thing
on you uh-huh and so i need you to
understand that you cannot
give true forgiveness until you know you
have received
true forgiveness and every time i need
to forgive somebody
i’ll go into google and i hey let me be
real let me be hot at transformation
church the pastor goes to google humble
open and transparent
what does a scripture say about
forgiveness because i need to be
reminded sometimes
and it be these leave it to beaver
scriptures that come up
these one sentence scriptures have y’all
ever had them scriptures
that are easy to read but hard to live
it’s easy to say but it’s harder to
display
yeah yeah look at ephesians 4 32
this is one that god hit me with because
i had this situation where oh boy he
played me and he did me wrong and i was
like i’ll kill your kids and then i was
like
oh excuse me there are certain things in
my heart that was like
and god took me to ephesians chapter 4
verse 32 look what it says be kind to
everyone
tenderhearted forgiving one another
as christ forgave you what
you don’t know what they did to me you
don’t know how bad that hurt you don’t
know that they knew
what happened before and then i told
them what happened before and they did
the same thing
to me that i told them that would break
me
and then what the scriptures say oh be
kind to one another
tenderhearted forgive one another as
christ forgave
you
and that’s many times where i shut the
scripture
and i’d be like well guess i ain’t gonna
make that one
come on let’s be honest a lot of us we
have people do us wrong
and then we start making um um
exceptions for ourself
i’ll forget him but if you cross this
line with me oh come on somebody
everybody has their invisible line
but like if you do this i black out
y’all know them blackout moments
like i woke up i didn’t even know what
happened there’s just stuff everywhere
and like
and that’s how we feel but our feelings
have to consult with the truth even if
it’s not how we feel
that’s what this whole christian walk is
about and i
hate when people in culture today pay so
much attention to living your truth
the problem about your truth is you made
it up
so it can’t be true if you did it it
can’t be
true if it truth has to be something
that was there before you
uh truth has to be something that was
there
before you it’s there while you’re there
and will be there after you
and this is why i i say i can’t just
live my truth i have to live
the truth and we find the truth in the
word of god
so if the word is saying no matter how i
feel be kind to one another
tenderhearted forgiving to one another
as god
in christ forgave you god you’re gonna
have to give me a revelation
because i feel this your word says that
and i’m conflicted
and this is why you have to have a
devotion life where you go to god
let me tell you what i found as i’ve
been walking this journey because your
pastor claims not to be perfect but i am
progressing
the deepest transformation comes from
the simple
revelation the deepest transformations
i’ve experienced in my life
came from taking a small scripture like
this and asking god for revelation
or revealed truth all revealed truth
means is that something is there
it’s covered up and then at one moment
it gets uncovered and i see what’s there
what i’m praying for you and your
family and your life is that the truth
of god’s word when you watch
transformation church
when you get in your daily devotions
when you get with your small group and
your b
group that things that are already there
the truth of god’s word that is already
there would be uncovered for you
and you would say oh my i’ve never seen
that that is revelation
and i want to take you on a journey of
the revelation that god gave me
in ephesians chapter 4 verse 32
and i call it the ephesians 4 32
checklist
okay it says what’s the first one
be kind to one another that’s hard
when you do not believe how i believe
that’s hard when you make racist
comments
that’s hard when you
okay i’m trying to stay pg that’s hard
when you slept with my man
that’s hard when you were the family
member that was supposed to protect me
instead of protecting me you abused me
or abnormally used me
be kind to one another what’s the next
one what does it say
it says be tenderhearted
my heart is cold to these
if we’re honest there are certain things
that happen to us that turn our heart
very cold
like there’s certain things in certain
people right now that you can be and
it’s so crazy
it doesn’t do it for everybody you can
be so sweet and loving to these group of
people
and then this person comes along
coldheart
and this is what we’ve been trying to do
in the church
is have an open heart for those who are
struggling with abortion but a closed
heart for homosexuals
uh-oh i know you don’t want to hear it
today but when god’s saying be tendered
heart i don’t have to agree to have a
tender heart to you
i don’t have to believe the same thing
you believe
to allow there to be compassion that
flows out of me for you
but in the church it has to equal
agreement has to equal acceptance and
jesus never taught that
so pastor mike how am i kind to one
another be tenderhearted to one another
look at the next one
it says forgive one another now i can
fake you out
and be kind y’all know the people oh
it’s so nice
tenderhearted we can fake that but
forgive one another
that’s the one that we gonna get to see
after this election
oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
oh yeah yeah yeah we’re about to see
how we look as the church not the
organization the organisms
will you be able to forgive one another
after this
after the posts they make
after the mistake they made
forgive one another and then he want to
remind us of what
jesus did for us look at him
god forgave you come on
this is easy god forgave you
and isn’t it funny that we never think
about our trespasses
when it’s time for us to forgive
somebody else’s trespasses
we only think about what they did to us
we never think about what we did to god
i’ma say it again we only think about
what they did to us we never think about
what we
are seeing our filth our wrong thoughts
our mistakes that we’re still trying to
hide 15 years after it happens
like we never think about what we did to
god
and what it does is it affects our
perception write this point down
your perception of forgiveness hinders
your acceptance of forgiveness
how you see forgiveness
hinders how you accept it for your own
self let me show you an example
these are the new prada purples um that
are coming out 2021
i am officially sporting them you will
be able to get these
nowhere but the reason
these glasses are on right now besides
the fact that they match the sermon
series is
these glasses are giving me a tent right
now
everything that i see now has a purple
okay so when i bring out the truth come
here just
i bring out the truth and i say show the
camera
of the piece of paper that you have and
everybody sees the truth of what that
color is but then you
i tell you that that paper is light
purple
no no no that paper is like purple what
color do you see justice
yellow bro what’s wrong with this food
what’s wrong with just i mean your shirt
is swaggy but you can’t see
because the truth is bro that is a light
purple piece of paper now have i
convinced you what color is that justice
it’s to me my truth
because of the lens that i’m seeing it
through
and the reason why we have to understand
that we got to get the right view of god
and the right view of forgiveness
is because if you have the wrong view
everything even if it is truth i see it
out of the wrong lens let me give you a
point there
perception is your ultimate reality even
if it’s not
an ultimate truth and your reality
dictates your actions
bring that paper back out justice
i don’t told this fool a couple times
man
it’s light purple what color is it just
i’m gonna give you one more opportunity
bro cause you know i’m saying this white
and black thing i don’t really want to
take it to the next level
you’re what i’m saying i just want to
keep a real culture behind us but i need
agreement
for this right now i need us to be on
agreement we’re both believers
so what color is the paper you still see
yellow
do you see yellow now now watch
because my perception was wrong
it made me react in a way
it made me react in a way that was
negative because i didn’t see it
properly
and if i could ever take off my lens
bro i apologize
will you please forgive me
i was seeing through the abandonment of
my family
i was seeing through that last church
who used me up
i was seeing through the mistakes that i
made and i did to other people so i
thought they were going to do it to me
my perception was skewed and so when my
perception is skewed
i see the truth wrong and i act on what
my truth is but when i can lay down
and get the perspective of god
it makes me more apt to be able to say
could you forgive me and i don’t know
who you are right now
but your perception is so broken by the
things that has happened
and that you have done to others that
god is saying through his word
what he wants to do is give you a brand
new vision because you’re going to have
to be able to extend forgiveness
you’ve got to get the right perspective
on how god has already forgiven you
if you’re walking around with guilt and
shame and condemnation
saying you serve a loving god but
waiting for him to strike you down
because you’re gonna mess up you have
the wrong perception
forgiveness brings me to my next point
if you experience god’s forgiveness
you can extend god’s forgiveness
i’m i’m i’m preaching line up online
today
i want you to get this this is a class
and this one is gonna help you get extra
credit in life
if you can experience truly
what it means to have every wrong thing
that you’ve done and thought
nailed to the cross and walk in the
confidence
of what christ has already done for you
it’s so much easier to extend
forgiveness
to someone else the truth of the matter
is
we don’t know how much god has already
done to forgive us
most of us are still trying to work and
earn
after salvation what god already paid
for
and today i need you to understand that
you
are forgiven ultimately when
you receive jesus christ and you repent
of the life that you’ve lived
you are forgiven ultimately
f you you are forgiven
ultimately say it with me i am
forgiven ultimately somebody just say
f you i am forgiven ultimately
yes i did it but when i put my faith in
jesus christ
when i believed in him he took
everything that
was bad about me and he clothed it in
his
son and i have been forgiven
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ultimately i just told you but you still
don’t believe it
how do you know i don’t believe it
because of the way you treat other
people
because of the way you think that doing
your bible reading plan makes you better
to god
because the only reason you give is to
make sure that god sees what i do
he already saw everything that you did
that you would do
and you’re gonna do and he said i
forgive you
i’m not just gonna forgive you for what
you did in this moment i’m gonna forgive
you ultimately
the whole problem with your life is will
you receive what has already been
purchased
and paid for just for you and i know
this is gonna take a minute because some
of y’all
are are christian workaholics like
everything that you do
is trying to earn another badge and
another merit to what god has done for
you
and he called it a finished work when he
went to the cross
and that’s why i gotta help us
understand cause we will never be able
to forgive somebody else
if we don’t realize that we have been
forgiven
ultimately somebody shot at me f you
write this point down god’s forgiveness
is god’s grace
god’s forgiveness is god’s grace
ephesians 2 8 9.
i got to teach us the bible today it
says god
saved you by his grace
when you did what served a lot
when you joined the choir you were saved
by his grace when ah
i know when you wrote in your journal
260 days consecutively
i think the bible says something very
differently than we act out
god saved you by his what grace
when you did what believed whoa
like that’s it and you can’t the reason
he did it
is because he didn’t want anybody to
think that he wasn’t a good good father
so he said and you can’t take credit for
this
it is a gift from
god i love the bible salvation is not a
reward
look at this for the good things we have
done
that just busted some of y’all’s
religious bubbles
i’ve never smoked i’ve never drank i’ve
never had sex outside of marriage i’ve
never done that i think i never thought
i got up all of that stuff is good but
it doesn’t make you better than anybody
else
who believed and we’ve been going
all of our life trying to get our
self-identity from what we did better
than other people and god said the only
qualification to get into this party
belief
like like what’s wrong with them what’s
wrong with them and they’re like this
and that they call you in the bible a
pharisee
and a sadducee because you’re trying to
point out what everybody else has done
but you still haven’t really
believed and what i’m trying to come and
tell you right now
that because god’s forgiveness is god’s
grace
you just have to believe that he did it
because many of us
are working for god’s forgiveness so
that makes us make
others work for our forgiveness i’m
gonna say it again
because we are on the treadmill of life
just trying to make it into heaven
lord i trust you lord i see you
god i’m gonna do some right things this
gonna be my year god i’m gonna stop
doing this and stop having sex outside
of marriage and i’m gonna stop
and cause we’re so tired trying to keep
up
with something that’s not even in god’s
word
we’re trying to earn and run our way
into the forgiveness of god
when somebody needs our forgiveness
start running
start working you know how hard i got to
keep up
to please our almighty god
now i’ma hold you accountable like i
feel like god’s holding me accountable
so yeah apologize 20 times
you better make sure you got my birthday
gift
i’mma act like i didn’t see your text
message just to play with you a little
bit to let you know that you really not
back in
oh come on y’all know what we do to
manipulate and make people earn
what was given by the word to us freely
but we because we don’t understand it
our perception is wrong
we want to make other people earn what
god gave us for free
i’m preaching i know it’s taking a
second for it to sink in
what is god’s grace pastor mike i’m
going to give you a definition
the baker’s baker’s encyclopedia
definition of grace
this one messes me up every time grace
is the dimension of divine activity it
cannot be described on the earth
that enables god to confront
human indifference and rebellion
with an inexhaustible capacity
to forgive and bless
what the grace of god is god’s
ability to look at humans who are
indifferent
like i’m gonna say my only son to die on
the cross for you
and that was on a maybe
like you might receive me you might go
to easter once a year
you might come to a christmas
presentation he said i know they’re
going to be indifferent so i got to
build in something for them
they’re going to be indifferent and
they’re going to be rebellious they’re
going to know the right thing to do and
not do it because their flesh
is craving something and it says
it’s his ability to be able to confront
that with an
inexhaustible do you all know what that
word means
never running out never ending
it would literally be like me going
to my favorite restaurant and they just
keep bringing me my favorite chinese
food
like when i’m done they bring me another
plate
and when i’m done i say no more no no
no no no no i i just no that’s the only
the only uh asian word i know but
from rush hour but this is this is
listen no more and as i continue to do
it
it’s overflowing more than enough
at the moment i get hungry again there’s
something already in front of me
i can share with others i can invite
people to
because it’s inexhaustible it never this
is what the grace of god
looks like over your life and i know
it’s hard for you to understand it but
when you messed up grace
when you when you lied grace
when you hurt them grace he said it’s
the inexhaustible
capacity to do two things forgive you
and bless you and i know for some people
it’s just been words up to this point
so i want i want to paint a picture that
i pray never leaves your mind because
it’s never left my mind
i need the accounts of a good person
a bad person and a perfect person yeah
good person bad person and a perfect
person so i want you to look at these
three accounts right now
now there’s only one perfect person that
we know what’s his name
jesus okay so jesus is going to be our
perfect person
but then i need a bad person somebody
who was bad before they came to christ
and i don’t know i know this guy um his
name is um
michael that’s that’s what his name is
your boy
and now i need the account of a good
person somebody who who did good and was
good and
and and you know before they came to
christ they were just a good person
y’all know some good people like people
that was like ah they’re just good
people
um and not because i’m trying to get any
brownie points or you know what i’m
saying some dinner tonight
but let’s put up natalie um my wife
right there
so this is the account of a bad person a
good person
and a perfect person so before i came to
christ this is what my account looked
like
it looked like sin sin having sinned
making sin
talking to sin trying to eat sin be in
sin sin sin sin
sin that was me okay
but i did try to do some righteous
things or some right things and so
there’s a couple little bitty r’s in
here that you know stands for righteous
but my account mostly what’s in
now y’all gonna play me like i’m the
only one out here but some of y’all just
sitting in it right now don’t even play
me
okay natalie she was a perfect child
like she like she rescued dogs and
and and fed cats and and when her mom
just
literally like said i’m disappointed in
you she was like
and like write an essay on her own about
why she’s sorry like she was a different
type of child she was good and so most
of her account looked like righteousness
righteousness righteousness i’m natalie
unrighteous
because the bible tells us that all i’ve
seen and fallen short of the glory she
had some sin in her account but there
was
little bitty sins look at the little
esses some of y’all can’t even see him
and then christ the perfect person guess
what his account looked like
righteous i’m righteous
behold the lamb of the world righteous
but i need everybody to see this because
this is what we think of but look what
isaiah 64 6 says it says
we are all infected and impure with sin
when we display our righteous deeds
they are nothing but filthy rags
so when god sees michael he sees sin
and rags when he sees natalie he sees
rags in sin
he is the only one that is truly
righteous and this is where the church
and the world
get mixed up because we talk about oh
you’re a big sinner
oh you keep doing this on the weekend i
saw your instagram you’re a sinner
but when god sees us all he sees his
esses all he sees is
big sin because it’s just a little bit
but the little bit destroys the holiness
that god wants us to live in
okay so the r stands for rags now
and now we all have
a jacked up account except jesus
but let me show you something i want to
show you what happens
when you get into a relationship with
god
give me some um some new boxes let’s
look at this
because what jesus did
is he was the one at the end of this
whole thing this whole plan from the
end to the beginning and what he said
is that you know what i need to take
the sin out of everybody’s account
like like go ahead and put jesus’s um
account in there
he he’s righteous but all of us big ass
put michael back up there yeah yeah put
me in there
sin natalie sin
how about we talk about the father of
our faith abraham
he should be a good guy to know what how
to live
that this christian walk out look what
god sees when he sees abraham
sin guess what he sees when he sees you
sin so god said
i gotta make a way for them to know that
they are forgiven
with no shadow of a doubt and i gotta do
it even before they get here
so what i’m going to do is i’m going to
take sin
out of everybody’s account and i’m going
to put it in jesus’s account
i’ma take all of the sin of the world
and i’ma put it
in jesus account okay you don’t believe
me you think i’m making something up
look at um second corinthians i believe
it is let’s go
second corinthians 5 21. i love the word
of god
for god made christ who
never sinned to
become our offering for sin
so that we could be made right or
righteous with god
through christ i need you to understand
this
he took all of our sin and put it on
jesus at the cross
now none of us have sin in our account
but we don’t have righteousness either
how do we get
righteousness into our account how did
abraham the father of our faith
get righteousness into his account
romans 4 2 and 4
all it says is that he watch this come
close
believed when you repent
from everything that you’ve done and you
believe what jesus
did you now get sin
wiped out of your account and now
righteousness gets put in your account
now i gotta say something that’s gonna
offend religious people
the blood of jesus i need prepare
yourself
the blood of jesus did not just erase
the sins of transformation church
it did not just erase the sins
of christians it did not even just erase
the sins of believers
it erase the sins of the whole
world sit with that
because the person you hate jesus
erased the sin from their account
the person you can’t stand who has done
wrong
jesus erased the sin from their account
that’s why as believers our whole job is
to get them to do what i just said
believe because if they ever believe
that
jesus christ died on the cross for their
sins and rose again with
all power so that we could walk out this
christian life
in a way that is not empowered by our
good works but we’re accepting the free
gift of god
and walking in forgiveness if anybody
could ever believe that
then they would be saved
can i make an even more shocking
statement
no i got to give them i got to give them
scripture for this charles because
they’re not going to believe it they
think i just made that up
go to second corinthians 5 19
that god was reconciling
the whole world
everybody that is jacking up messing up
doing the wrong thing that god is
reconciling the whole world to himself
through who
christ not counting
or imputing or accounting people’s sins
against him this is the bible y’all he’s
not counting their sins against him
and he has committed to us this message
of reconciliation
get ready buckle your seatbelt let me
say something that’s really strong
people do not go to hell for sin
jesus already paid for that people go to
hell for unbelief
i am preaching this
is the word of god people don’t go to
hell for sin he knew we were gonna see
it
he knew he put us in a fallen world he
knew all the way back from the garden we
wouldn’t be able to get this thing right
so he put a plan of forgiveness in place
that would allow people to receive
the free gift of god with his grace and
his forgiveness
so people don’t go to hell for sinning
and that’s why the church is so
backwards
trying to put people in hell for
something god didn’t put them in hell
for
trying to say oh you smoking are you
doing this or you didn’t do this
people don’t go to hell for sin jesus
paid for that
they go to hell for unbelief that’s why
i try so hard to get you to understand
this gospel
that’s why i try no matter who you slept
with or what’s going on that’s why i try
so hard
to say me too and this is what god’s
doing in my life
and it’s not about perfection but it’s
about progression all i’m doing is
believing every day
that i can overcome the depression that
every day god did something that i can
overcome the anxiety that every day god
can do something to help me not fall to
the pornography
this is what god did for us and it’s
good news
until you accept what christ has done
you can never extend
what other people needs
and this is why i said this is the most
important message of this entire series
because we can spend
seven more weeks talking about
forgiveness but if you have not truly
received forgiveness for yourself you’ll
never extend it to anybody else
so when did when did i get righteousness
well i got righteousness when i was a
young adult
and i believed and i received the
forgiveness
of god and what ended up happening i was
a young adult pastor
and it was before i became the pastor of
the young adults but i had been doing
all kinds of crazy stuff
and i truly believed what god did for me
at salvation not no nursery rhyme story
that i just heard and i was like yeah
i’m saying and i’m
i it wasn’t a get out of hell free card
it was really experienced in the love
and forgiveness of god
and when i believed that’s when
righteousness came into my account
natalie was a young girl and she’ll tell
the story but when she accepted jesus
christ into her heart and she really
believed see this is not about an
age thing this is about an authenticity
thing
there’s no age we don’t know jesus was
telling let the little kids come for me
there’s some kids
that can understand on a heart level
that’s why i want you to realize about
our faith
that jesus tells us return to faith like
children
because children are more gullible they
believe things you can tell them
that a car is weighs 50 000 pounds and
because they have not been inundated
with all of the lies of life and all of
the pain
they can believe something god’s saying
i need you to come believe me like a
child
when i say you’re gonna make it no
matter what’s happening i need you to
believe me like a child
i need you to believe that i sent jesus
to erase all the things your family
would do for you
and to you and god’s saying believe
and natalie was a young girl and she
believed abraham
the bible tells us that he believed my
question
is have you and when will you
believe and it’s very hard to believe
when you don’t understand that you’ve
been forgiven
this is what god says to you
every time you repent and turn to him f
you
you’re forgiven ultimately michael f you
natalie you’re forgiven ultimately
abraham when you believed
you were forgiven ultimately and today
i’m believing for there are thousands of
people
that make a decision to believe what god
i feel this thing so strong
that are gonna make a decision to
believe what christ has done for you
he took your sin so that you could
receive
the forgiveness that he’s provided
ultimately
and i know it’s hard for you to believe
and there’s tears flowing down
somebody’s face right now
and there are people that are trying to
not me there’s no way he could know
with everything that he was there when
you did it and he was
crafting a plan to be able to get you
here today
to be able to let you see that god is
not concerned
about all your pieces he’s the only one
that can take all the pieces and turn it
into a masterpiece
he’s the only one that can take all of
your brokenness
and turn it into something that’ll
change you and there’s people that are
on platforms of stages
and ministering to people right now and
still have not received this message
because you can give out and act like
you get it but you live out if you
really get it
how can we forgive somebody else if we
have not
received that we have been forgiven
ultimately
so then after i received this truth i’m
just trying to let y’all know
how professor is thinking right now i
went back
to ephesians 4 32 and the checklist
remember
remember what it said to us it said be
kind to one another
tender hearted forgive one another
because god forgave you the revelation
is in reverse it’s oh i like that
when you receive uh i like this
that god forgave you then you can
forgive one another
then you’re tenderhearted and you can be
kind to one another
i came to tell somebody the greatest
thing that you can do
is receive god’s forgiveness for
everything that you have done
for everything that you are doing and
for everything that you will do
because the only way i can give it out
is if i get it for myself
i need you to hear the word of god
f you you have been forgiven
ultimately and when you internalize that
when you get that in the when you get
that in your core
then scriptures like there’s nothing
that can separate me from the love
of god it starts to take a new meaning
not death not life not not
principalities of the age that we’re in
or ones to come
there’s nothing that can cause i have
been
forgiven charles they’re gonna have to
watch this back three times
they’re going this is this is the one
they’re gonna have to keep going back
and
play back again because you will never
extend forgiveness for the person who
hurts you if you don’t realize that
you’ve been forgiven ultimately
you will never give anything to anybody
when you think you’re still trying to
earn it from god god says i gave it as a
free gift so none of y’all could both so
give it away
give away what i gave you free would you
would you stop being so selfish would
you stop hindering yourself right now
i gave it to you for free there is
nothing worse
than being somebody okay let me tell the
real story so one of the things as a
father i love being a father and i i
mean
that is my highest calling but one of
the things that um being a father has
afforded me is to come into interaction
with kids that ain’t mine
okay um so when we throw birthday
parties and do different things like
that
my my kids have friends that ain’t my
kids
so um i love my kids but i kind of like
other people’s kids okay
so um we threw this birthday party this
one time
and my wife is the best at doing
birthday parties like our one-year-old
birthday party is like a
whole little situation it’s her thing
she loves it
and i love that she loves it so she
wants to be super generous and give
these big things of candy and all this
other stuff
to the kids and there was this one
particular child um
i won’t call anybody’s name because
their parents go to church but there’s
this one particular child
um that we gave him this big thing of
candy and a kid came in late that we
didn’t know was coming
and um they’re friends but um
the kids said could i have one of the
candy now this bag is huge full of candy
okay
and the little boy said no it’s
mom and i’m watching from afar and i’m
like hmm
his attitude is like he paid for the
candy
his attitude about this is like just
three minutes ago
we didn’t give it to him and i watched
for about three to five minutes where he
was taunting the kid
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he was waving the candy in front of him
basically saying you can’t have
what i got free
and something rose up on the inside of
me
and i said come here little boy come
here little boy
and i know he didn’t understand it but
my conviction was real strong
i said that candy was a gift to you
so you need to give some of it away
as a gift to somebody else you’re still
better off
right now giving half of it away
then you were four minutes ago
and i made him pour all that candy out
on the table
and i said you show me where the halfway
mark is
and he said like this i said now give
that to him
and then i i push through and i put it
back in his back i found him five
minutes later
i said do you still have candy he said
yes sir
i said are you still having a good time
he said yes sir
i said well what are you doing with the
rest of your candy he said after you
made me give it away
it felt good so i’ve been giving it away
to
other people who already had candy
and if that doesn’t remind me of what
god wants the grace
and the forgiveness to look like in our
life that he’s so good that he gave it
to us
why don’t we give it away for god so
loved the world that he did what
and i know it’s hard to believe that god
would be that
good to us but it means you probably
don’t understand
the basic meaning of what forgiveness
means
write these two words down canceled debt
that’s all forgiveness means is a
cancelled debt you need to see this so
clearly
justice come here real quick
just bring me that real quick
okay so what what i need you to do real
quick
is um just this he serves as a
production manager here at the church
he’s the man
in this church i love justice with all
my heart justice could you open that
real quick
because all forgiveness is is what two
things a
cancelled debt yeah just rip into it
like
like it’s something that’s a referendum
rip into it right yeah yeah
okay so what that said no no yeah yeah
yeah just right there right there take
that off take it off
hold that up show the people what does
that say
debt cancel i heard this week that you
have a vehicle
that you still have a note on as of this
moment right now
your debt is canceled on that vehicle
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oh that’s
all forgiveness means no you don’t hear
me i’m trying to make it really
practical
he got into an agreement that he did not
have enough to pay for initially
and he thought he would pay for it over
time but then somebody
with more resources came in and they
said
that the debt is canceled i dare
somebody to hear this
the sin that you have created the lies
that you have believed
what god is saying today is through
jesus you have been forgiven ultimately
the debt is cancelled
justice where are you going come back
see the crazy thing about this debt
being cancelled
is on the back of there it says it has
something just turn around and show
everybody
what that is take that out it says for
jeremy r
do not open md underscore j me
r yeah your dad’s cancelled so we can
just set this down you ain’t gotta even
worry about it no more
open that and read it
we’re gonna have to get close right here
all right go okay go ahead
he says my name is jamie i’m a part of
tc nation and i live in michigan
i just completed the time of prayer and
fasting i was praying for my school debt
to be paid off
i owe my school about four thousand
dollars and i have to pay that off by
october 15th so i can apply to medical
this is my last hope please pray for me
i know god has a way
it’s just been hard for me to not doubt
please keep me in your prayers
so the crazy thing about uh your debt
being canceled justice
is that there was an extra four thousand
dollars added
to the price that it takes for your debt
to be canceled
so i have a question for you would you
be willing
to cancel his debt now that
your debt has been cancelled
do you see how fast he said absolutely
after he just experienced debt being
canceled
he was able to cancel debt for somebody
else
when you’re able to receive the
forgiveness of god
then you’re able to extend the
forgiveness of god
and today i don’t want you to extend
forgiveness
today i’m asking you would you just
receive it
like this won’t be about anybody else
right now this won’t be
about we had to make that so practical
for you to see and that really happened
like that’s not a joke like
his car he’s going to drive a paid away
paid off car
away today and um what’s his name jeremy
jamie there’s four thousand dollars in
the mail from justice that’s coming to
you
for your school debt to be oh y’all
don’t hear me y’all can rejoice with him
like something
like his debt was at sea you got to
rejoice
because the debt he was forgiven
and today i don’t don’t extend it just
receive it
i feel this so strong all over the world
receive his forgiveness
i want you to say i am forgiven
ultimately come on some of you all week
are going to be saying that
i am forgiven ultimately
yeah yeah yeah i messed up and i missed
the deadline and i didn’t make as much
as i wanted to
but i am forgiven ultimately
it doesn’t matter what happens it
doesn’t matter what goes on
because of what christ did on the cross
for me
i am what forgiven what ultimately
today i need you to receive god’s
forgiveness
today we’re going to make an altar
wherever you are
yep in your living room in your bathroom
if you’re watching this on rebroadcast
this is a moment of transformation for
you this is a moment where god
is going to do something i’ma ask doe to
come
and i want us to sing just a piece of
this song
that talks about us running to the
father see the thing about god
is when we start moving towards him when
we start going he doesn’t stand there
pious waiting for you
see the whole revelation you need to
understand is this
this word forgiveness literally if you
break it down and go to the original
translation
four means before like like like it was
done
before and givenness is the grace being
extended
so before you need it god says i’ve
provided it
so he’s not standing there waiting for
you to come to him
he’s running to you as you run to him
and he wants to extend grace
and forgiveness lift your hands all over
this place
receive the grace of god fall into his
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grace
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i feel like it’s getting into somebody
right now just one more time sing that
again
forgiveness ultimately
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no matter what you’ve done
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come on
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he’s not mad at you he’s madly in love
with you
no matter how bad it hurts no matter how
much you disappointed them
he said i will give you rest i feel the
virtue of god coming to him
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god’s healing you right now in this
moment
it doesn’t matter who’s in the room
he wants your attention he wants to heal
you
will today be the day that you repent
all that means his return turn from
whatever you’ve been turning to
and turn to god and believe
receive the forgiveness
of god if you’re in this place
and you have a fresh revelation of what
it means
to receive experience god’s forgiveness
before we give it away
before we forgive our dad before we
forgive that co-worker before we
let’s just fully stand in this moment
and receive the forgiveness
of god if that’s you and you’ve never
received the forgiveness of god
the bible tells us we don’t have to jump
through all these hoops and do what the
religious
people say and all that he said i just
want a relationship with you all you
need to do is repent
turn that wasn’t the way it was supposed
to be going those aren’t the things that
i should be running to
those aren’t the gods the little g gods
that are gonna provide for me
it’s you i’m turning away from that and
i’m turning to you
and all you have to do according to
romans is believe that he lived and he
died just for you
receive it and the debt is
paid it’s the one decision that i made
that changed everything for me
it took me from being a liar addicted to
pornography
manipulator all kinds of evil thoughts
in my mind and my heart that played out
in my actions because my
vision was um obscured and it’s the
thing
that didn’t make me perfect but now i’m
progressing every day with god
i’m devoted to him i’m taking away my
vote i know i want to act like that but
today god i’m going to act according to
your truth
and today that is available for you it
doesn’t matter what you did
if you want to be added into this prayer
we’re about to do all over the world
whether you’re watching this on
rebroadcast or you’re leading people
in worship or preaching at a church
this doesn’t matter who you are and
where you are god wants your heart
and for you to know that you have been
forgiven ultimately
you’re saying pastor i want you to
include me in that prayer
on the count of three i want you to just
lift your hand up wherever you are i
don’t care who’s next to you
i don’t care if they believe or they
don’t believe i don’t care if y’all just
had a deep conversation
and you’re trying to be prideful and
keep up your religious guard
they cannot put you in heaven or hell
this is the moment right now that you
need to put your pride aside
and believe one you’re making the
greatest decision of your life
two god is so proud of you and so are we
three if that’s you
and you want to receive jesus as your
personal lord and savior and
this be the day that you believe lift
your hand up oh i’m so proud of you
i feel the presence of god you can put
your hands down
and what we’re going to do right now is
we’re going to pray you you identified
and we’re going to pray in that
transformation church we don’t pray
alone
this is a family here transformation
nation what up we are about to pray
and people are beginning are going to
become a part of our family
and so we’re going to say this prayer
all together out loud
for the benefit of those who are coming
to christ everybody say god
thank you for sending jesus
just for me today
i realize i’ve sinned
and i need forgiveness
thank you that jesus lived
and he died and he rose again
with all power just for me
today i give you my life
today i give you my heart
change me renew me transform me
i’m yours in jesus name
amen hey can you give god a shout oh
come on
can you give god a shout of praise
because there are people
that have come into the family heaven
is rejoicing right now y’all being too
cool i said heaven
is rejoicing because all of our help
i said all of our help all the help that
i need
and all the help that i’ll never need it
comes from him
let’s just give god one more shout out
praise as we sing this voice one more
time
just lift it up all of my help comes
from you
come on say
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oh
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forever you’ll be saying said you are
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today tomorrow’s the next day
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about my career come on
about my anxiety
one more time
next week we’re going a step further in
this class
this week i need you to keep replaying
this message i’m forgiving ultimately
i’m forgiving ultimately i’m forgiving
ultimate it’s got to get in we got to we
got to replace
the doubt and the lies and the thing
faith comes by hearing and hearing the
word of god that’s the word of god
i’m forgiven ultimately when i believe
and next week next week we’re taking a
step further
i can’t wait to see you back here and i
can’t wait to see what god does in your
life this week
we love you remember go out and live a
transformed
life god bless you
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