Category: Book 2 Chapter 14

This is Jesus speaking of how a dispute should be dealt with, as between two genuine Christians, not between two unbelievers, or even a Christian and an unbeliever.  So, the first problem, before we even get to examining the problems caused by unbiblical church structure, …

What we have been looking at has mainly been about disputes with unbelievers.  But what if the wrongdoer is a Christian, or claims to be?  Apostle Paul tells us not to bring law suits against fellow Christians but, instead, to seek to resolve matters via …

Sometimes there is no human court that we can go to.   The wrong done to us may not even be a crime.  Thus it may be something that the police cannot help us with.  If so, we may need to just hand the situation over …

One day Jesus will judge all of us, either at the Judgment Seat of Christ or at the Great White Throne.  However, He will also judge wrongdoers in various other preliminary ways, long before those final Judgments occur.  God uses human governments to judge wrongdoers …

Another very helpful thing to do is to ask God to reveal to us what our own faults and sins are.  All of us tend to under-estimate our own sinfulness.  We don’t realise the degree to which, and the ways in which, we have, ourselves, …

Many people struggle and get confused because they don’t realise, or they keep forgetting, that forgiveness is primarily something we do, not something we feel.  To a very large extent, feelings follow actions.  Thus, merely by the physical act of speaking the words of forgiveness …

Another very helpful approach, which can help to get you to the place where you become capable of forgiving, or even to be ‘willing to be willing’ to do so, is just to begin to pray in general terms for the overall benefit of the …

21Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”  22Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. Matthew …