WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.000 People who can't forgive themselves or other people are sick physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:16.000 People who walk around with unforgiveness are literally releasing toxins into their blood that create sicknesses. 3 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:29.000 If most people would learn to forgive, they could walk out of the hospital healed of all of their physical ailments. 4 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.000 That may sound like an outlandish statement, but I really do believe it. 5 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.000 At the core of most sickness is unforgiveness. 6 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:48.000 It's not drugs, it's not tobacco, it's not overeating or overdrinking that is causing most of our sickness. 7 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.000 Most of our sickness is because of unforgiveness in our life. 8 00:00:52.000 --> 00:01:00.000 And so, men and women, you can be physically transformed by learning the power of forgiveness. 9 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:08.000 People who can't forgive themselves or other people are sick physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. 10 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:16.000 People who walk around with unforgiveness are literally releasing toxins into their blood that create sicknesses. 11 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.000 People who can't forgive have bad blood. 12 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.000 This is literally true. 13 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:34.000 It's scientifically proven that when you take someone who's full of fear, full of unforgiveness, full of anger, animosity toward others, 14 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:39.000 toxins are released into that person's bloodstream. 15 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:51.000 It begins to pollute their blood and it's only a matter of time before they're very, very sick or depressed or full of anxiety because of the unforgiveness in their life. 16 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:58.000 But if we learn the power of forgiveness, the opposite is true. 17 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:05.000 That God releases into your bloodstream those, I'm going to call them forgiveness cells. 18 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:13.000 Forgiveness cells getting released into your bloodstream that actually build up and strengthen your immune system. 19 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:21.000 So, you show me someone who's pretty happy most of the time, walking in joy most of the time. 20 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:32.000 I'll show you someone who is walking in forgiveness, someone who has a growing vital relationship with Christ, someone who has probably some pretty close friendships. 21 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:38.000 And I'll show you someone who's physically and emotionally and mentally very, very healthy. 22 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:40.000 James 5.16 we read, 23 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:46.000 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. 24 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:50.000 The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. 25 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:53.000 In 1 John 1.9 we read, 26 00:02:53.000 --> 00:03:02.000 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us of all our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 27 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:12.000 So, God uses forgiveness to purify our blood, to purify us spiritually, mentally and emotionally and physically in our lives. 28 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.000 We get healed through forgiveness. 29 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:34.000 And many years ago, Billy Graham, the great evangelist, once said that if it was possible for everybody in a hospital to know that they're forgiven by Christ in their life for all that they've done, 75% of people would walk out of that hospital healed. 30 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:36.000 And I think that's true. 31 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.000 And you may recall the story of David and Bathsheba. 32 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:49.000 It's one of the most famous parts of the Bible where David has an adulterous relationship with Bathsheba and he fathers a son. 33 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:51.000 The son dies. 34 00:03:52.000 --> 00:04:00.000 And in Psalm 38, we see the impact even emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physiologically in David's life. 35 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:08.000 Oh, Lord, do not rebuke me in your wrath, nor chasten me in your hot displeasure. 36 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:14.000 For your arrows pierce me deeply and your hand presses me down. 37 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:21.000 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger, nor any health in my bones. 38 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:23.000 Circle that word health. 39 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.000 There's no health in my bones because of my sin. 40 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:32.000 You see, David is experiencing this interaction with God because of his sin. 41 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:34.000 It's just pressing him down. 42 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:39.000 And he actually feels that he has no health in his body because of his sin. 43 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:41.000 Verse four. 44 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.000 For my iniquities have gone over my head like a heavy burden. 45 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:48.000 They're too heavy for me. 46 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:57.000 So David is somehow experiencing the burden of this affair and the burden of the death of his son. 47 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.000 My wounds are foul. 48 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:07.720 and festering because of my foolishness." So he uses the idea of foul and festering 49 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:13.880 almost like a wound. He must be feeling this so deeply that it's like a 50 00:05:13.880 --> 00:05:21.160 physical wound. I am troubled and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long 51 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:27.760 for my loins are full of inflammation. Interesting. There's no soundness even in 52 00:05:27.760 --> 00:05:33.680 my flesh. So David is obviously experiencing sickness because of his sin 53 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:38.400 and inflammation in his blood, inflammation in his body because of his 54 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:46.200 sin. I'm feeble and severely broken. I've grown because of the turmoil of my heart. 55 00:05:46.200 --> 00:05:56.200 So he's like his whole body feels broken and tired. Verse 10. My heart pants. My 56 00:05:56.200 --> 00:06:03.480 strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it is also gone from me. My loved 57 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:09.640 ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague and my relatives stand afar off. 58 00:06:09.640 --> 00:06:14.800 It's a circle plague. So he he talks about sickness. He talks about this like a 59 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:24.440 festering scab, a festering cancer in his body. He's talking about here about the 60 00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:29.400 turmoil of his heart and it's like a plague over his life and even people, 61 00:06:29.400 --> 00:06:34.880 broken relationships all around him. So that's what happens, men and women, when 62 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:44.040 we're walking in unforgiveness. But then in Psalm 51, David turns a corner. Same 63 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:49.880 situation, Bathsheba. Death. We don't know if this is Bathsheba and the death of 64 00:06:49.880 --> 00:06:56.600 his son or just the adulterous affair with Bathsheba. But in Psalm 51, we see hope. 65 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:03.400 We see something happening. We're seeing David experience forgiveness. Psalm 51. 66 00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:07.320 Have mercy to me, O God, according to your loving kindness, according to the 67 00:07:07.320 --> 00:07:14.160 multitude of your tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly 68 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:20.320 from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions 69 00:07:20.320 --> 00:07:26.160 and my sin is always before me. Against you and you only have I sinned and done 70 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:32.040 this evil in your sight, that you may be found just when you speak and blameless 71 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:38.240 when you judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin my mother 72 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:45.600 conceived me. Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part 73 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:51.080 you will make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean. Wash 74 00:07:51.080 --> 00:08:00.440 me and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness again that the 75 00:08:00.440 --> 00:08:05.880 bones of you broken may rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out my 76 00:08:05.880 --> 00:08:15.520 iniquities. Create in me, O God, a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit 77 00:08:15.520 --> 00:08:20.080 within me. Do not cast me away from your presence and do not take your Holy 78 00:08:20.080 --> 00:08:29.640 Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me by your 79 00:08:29.640 --> 00:08:33.880 generous spirit. Then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners 80 00:08:33.880 --> 00:08:39.760 shall be converted to you." Amazing, amazing passage, Psalm 38 and in Psalm 51. 81 00:08:39.760 --> 00:08:48.560 It speaks of Psalm 38, a man under the tremendous power of unforgiveness and 82 00:08:48.560 --> 00:08:54.880 sinfulness and then in Psalm 51 we see David going after God, confessing his sin 83 00:08:54.880 --> 00:09:00.120 to the Lord and beginning to cleanse his heart, creating a new heart in him, one to 84 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:04.000 such a degree that he wants the joy of the salvation to return in his life and 85 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:09.520 it is going to return in his life, we know that in David's life, so that he can 86 00:09:09.520 --> 00:09:13.960 even teach others to walk in that kind of forgiveness. It's an amazing, amazing 87 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:22.880 set of Psalms and so men and women, forgiveness is smart health-wise. 88 00:09:22.880 --> 00:09:27.320 Probably nothing you could do better than to learn to forgive, to keep 89 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:35.120 yourself healthy, strong, vibrant, dynamic, sleeping well at night, eating well, 90 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:42.080 digesting your food well, staying strong with a strong immune system, forgive. 91 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:48.200 I want to challenge you that forgiveness is a great strengthener of your bones, 92 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:55.680 a great strengthener of your body, soul, mind, and spirit and so I challenge you to 93 00:09:55.680 --> 00:10:01.880 walk in forgiveness. It's the healthy way to go. It will restore your body. 94 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.080 body you'll restore your mind. Hope this has been helpful to you and I hope you'll 95 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.960 walk in the power of forgiveness in every area of your life starting with 96 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:15.940 coming to Christ coming to the cross and being forgiven. Secondly taking the 97 00:10:15.940 --> 00:10:20.060 forgiveness of Christ and the cross in your life and forgiving others who hurt 98 00:10:20.060 --> 00:10:25.440 you and then thirdly letting forgiveness even physiologically mentally and 99 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:32.520 emotionally also heal you from the inside out. God bless you.