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Hell is the biggest character assassination of the Father

Title: Hell is the biggest character assassination of the Father Scripture (referenced): John 14:9; 1 John 4:8; Matthew 7:11; 1 John 4:18; Luke 15:20 Scripture (inferred): Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3; Luke 15:4–10; John 3:17; 2 Corinthians 5:19 Themes: revelation of the Father through Jesus; God as perfect love; fear vs love; restoration and reconciliation; critique of eternal conscious torment; character of God Keywords: hell; eternal torment; Father’s love; character of God; fear; perfect love; reconciliation; prodigal son; restoration; Jesus reveals the Father

The Father won't forgive you if you don't forgive others - part 3

Title: The Father won't forgive you if you don't forgive others pt3 Scripture (referenced): Matthew 18:21–35 Scripture (inferred): 1 John 4:19; 2 Corinthians 5:19; Romans 8:1; Hebrews 4:16; Ephesians 3:17–19 Themes: receiving before releasing forgiveness; self-forgiveness and shame; experiential vs theological forgiveness; healing through the Father’s love; grace flowing through healed places; revelation over willpower Keywords: forgiveness; self-unforgiveness; shame; unmerciful servant; grace; receiving love; healing; Father’s love; reconciliation; overflow

What does it mean to co-labour with Christ?

Title: What does it mean to co-labour with Christ? Scripture (referenced): 1 Corinthians 3:6–9; John 15:1–5; 1 John 4:19 Scripture (inferred): Philippians 2:13; Colossians 1:29; Galatians 2:20; 2 Corinthians 3:5–6; Romans 11:36 Themes: co-labouring through abiding; God as the source of fruitfulness; receiving before giving; overflow of divine love; dependence on Christ; grace vs striving Keywords: co-labour; fellow workers; abiding; vine and branches; overflow; Father’s love; fruitfulness; dependence; receiving; grace

The Father won't forgive you if you don't forgive others - part 2

Title: The Father won't forgive you if you don't forgive others pt2 Scripture (referenced): 2 Corinthians 5:19–20; Luke 15:20–24 Scripture (inferred): Romans 5:8–11; Colossians 1:19–22; John 14:9; Hebrews 10:14–22; 1 John 4:10 Themes: reconciliation through Christ; unconditional forgiveness; revelation of the Father’s heart; grace apart from performance; removal of separation; shame and self-judgment Keywords: reconciliation; trespasses not counted; prodigal son; forgiveness; Father’s heart; shame; self-judgment; grace; unconditional love; reconciliation to God

The Father won't forgive you if you don't forgive others - part 1

Pasted text.txt Document     Title: Kingdom part 6 - the merciful             Pasted text.txt Document     Title: The Kingdom - Part 7 - The Pure in Heart             Pasted text.txt Document     Title: It is finished                 Pasted text.txt Document     Title: Kingdom part 8                               Title: Why did Jesus really flip the tables? Scripture (referenced): Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 7:11; Matthew 27:51 Scripture (inferred): Matthew 21:12–13; Mark 11:15–17; John 2:13–17; Ephesians 2:14–18; Hebrews 10:19–22 Themes: access to the Father; dismantling religious systems; inclusion of outsiders; grace vs transaction; Jesus as mediator; removal of separation Keywords: money changers; court of the Gentiles; temple cleansing; access to God; outsiders; veil torn; religious systems; transaction; belonging; house of prayer   Title: What most people call sober mindedness is just fear.mp3 What most people call sober mindedness is really just fear with a theological label on it. Most people hear sober minded and they're thinking like it means to be vigilant or on guard or hyper aware of the enemy's activity or serious and somber and never letting your guard down. So it becomes this like posture of constant spiritual alertness that honestly it looks a lot more like anxiety than anything else but the Greek word that's used it literally means to be free from intoxication to be clear headed to have an undistorted unimpaired perception of reality it it's like the picture of a mind that's not clouded or confused or being controlled by something false it's a mind that sees things as they actually are so being sober minded Biblically, it's not about being hyper vigilant or serious and always scanning for threats. It's about being clear. It's about having a mind that's so rooted in truth that it isn't being intoxicated by fear or by deception or by performance or by the distorted thinking that religion produces. And a lot of what gets called sober mindedness in certain Christian circles is actually the opposite of it, because a mind that is constantly anxious about the enemy's activity or a mind that's constantly scanning for threats or bracing for attack that's not a clear-headed mind that that's an intoxicated mind intoxicated by fear intoxicated by a framework that that's made the enemy bigger than the finished work of Jesus and that's not sobriety that's that's a different kind of drunk Real sober mindedness is a mind that's settled in truth, clear on who the father is, clear on what the finished work accomplished, clear on who you actually are in Christ. Not anxious, not hyper vigilant, not constantly having to look over your shoulder. Just clear because a mind that's rooted in perfect love has nothing to be intoxicated by. because fear has already been cast out and the enemy has already been disarmed and the truth has already set you free. That's what it means to be sober minded, seeing reality as it actually is, not as fear told you it was.   Title: What most people call sober mindedness is just fear Scripture (referenced): 1 John 4:18 Scripture (inferred): 1 Peter 5:8; 2 Timothy 1:7; Colossians 2:15; John 8:32; Romans 12:2 Themes: sober-mindedness as clarity; freedom from fear; truth-centered perception; finished work of Christ; peace vs hyper-vigilance; identity in Christ Keywords: sober minded; vigilance; fear; anxiety; hyper-vigilance; clarity; finished work; perception; perfect love; truth**   Title: The Father won't forgive you if you don't forgive others pt1.mp3 What did Jesus really mean when he said the Father won't forgive you if you don't forgive others? This verse has probably produced more fear and confusion in believers than almost any other statement Jesus ever made. So I'm starting this series of short videos that dive into this. So here we go. 14-15 and they hear a transaction. Forgive people or God won't forgive you. Perform the forgiveness correctly or the grace gets withheld. And that reading produces exactly what you'd expect it to produce. Fear, pressure, maybe even an anxious scrambling to make sure your forgiveness is thorough enough, complete enough, sincere enough to qualify for the forgiveness you need in return. But I want to show you that Jesus was doing something completely different in that passage. And to see it clearly, you have to start with something that almost nobody considers when they read this verse. And that's the context. Because the Sermon on the Mount is pre-cross. Jesus is speaking before the finished work has been accomplished. before the new covenant has been inaugurated, before the veil in the temple has been torn from top to bottom. He's speaking to people who are living entirely within an old covenant framework. People who have been shaped their whole lives by the law. And it's logic. And the internal logic of the law is reciprocity. You reap what you sow, you get what you give, measure for measure. God rewards the obedient and withholds from the disobedient. That's the operating system everyone listening to Jesus that day was running on. It was the only way they knew how to understand their relationship with God. So Jesus meets them right inside that framework. If you want to operate on a reciprocity system, then he's essentially saying then understand that reciprocity cuts both ways. The measure you use is going to be measured back to you. If you're holding unforgiveness toward others while simultaneously expecting God to forgive you within your own belief system about how He works, you're being internally inconsistent. You can't have it both ways within the very system that you're trusting in. But here's what's so important to understand. Jesus is not endorsing the law framework. He's actually exposing the impossibility of it. The entire Sermon on the Mount is Jesus doing exactly this. He's turning up the heat on the law until it becomes so impossibly demanding that no one could ever fulfill it. You've heard it said, Do not murder, but I say to you, anyone who's angry with his brother is guilty. You heard it said, Do not commit adultery, but I say to you, anyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery in his heart. He's not introducing stricter rules. He's showing people that the system they're trusting in to make them right with God will ultimately crush them under its own weight. Because the law was never designed to make people righteous. It was designed to show people they couldn't make themselves righteous and to drive them toward something else entirely. So when Jesus says, If you don't forgive others, your Father will not forgive you. He's meeting people inside their own reciprocity framework and showing them the logical and impossible conclusion of it. If forgiveness works the way the law says it works, then you're in serious trouble because nobody forgives perfectly. Nobody forgives completely. Nobody forgives consistently enough to qualify for the forgiveness for the forgiveness that they need in return. The standard the law sets for forgiveness is just as impossible as every other standard it sets. And that impossibility is not a threat. It's actually an invitation. It's an invitation to stop trying to earn what can only be received. To stop performing forgiveness correctly and start encountering the one whose forgiveness was never conditional to begin with. To stop relating to God through the reciprocity framework of the law and start seeing the Father that Jesus actually came to reveal because that father, the one Jesus spent his entire ministry revealing, was never the God of the reciprocity framework. He was never standing over humanity with a ledger keeping score of who forgave enough to qualify for forgiveness in return. He was running toward prodigal sons before they finished their repentance speeches. He was seeking lost sheep before they found their way home. He was the father in Luke 15 who saw his son while he was still a great way off, and he ran to him. It wasn't because the son earned the running. It's because that's who the father actually is. And next, I want to show you something from 2 Corinthians 5 that I think is most important, is probably the most important foundation for understanding this whole passage, because it reveals something about the father's heart that changes everything about how you read Matthew 6.   Title: The Father won't forgive you if you don't forgive others pt1 Scripture (referenced): Matthew 6:14–15; Matthew 5:21–28; Luke 15:20 Scripture (inferred): 2 Corinthians 5:18–19; Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:24; Hebrews 10:19–22; John 1:17 Themes: law vs grace; reciprocity and the old covenant; impossibility of self-righteousness; unconditional forgiveness; revelation of the Father; finished work of Christ Keywords: forgiveness; reciprocity; Sermon on the Mount; old covenant; law; grace; prodigal son; finished work; unconditional love; reconciliation