The Bible tells us that to live God’s way, you have to forgive. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye (Colossians 3:13). You won’t make the Rapture with even just one aught in your heart against anyone. Jesus said, Love one another, as I have loved you (John 15:12); and you can’t do that if you don’t forgive.

Unfortunately, many Christians don’t have the forgiving spirit Jesus had, even though the Lord has offered it to them again and again. They forgive in a human way but not in a godly way. So, how do you forgive God’s way? Study the life of Jesus; He is your example of forgiveness.

The Bible says, Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith (II Corinthians 13:5). You have to examine yourself to see whether or not you are living in God’s love and spirit of forgiveness. The lack of forgiveness has caused the Lord so much trouble and conflict among His people, and it has prevented Him from using people as He needs to.

The Bride of Christ must have a heart that beats in rhythm with God’s heart. The Groom, Jesus, is saying to His Bride, Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee (Song of Solomon 4:7). The Bible also says Jesus is coming for a Bride not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:27). There is just one flight out, and you will miss it if you have even just one thing in your heart that you haven’t forgiven in a Jesus way.

God’s Way Is the Only Way

Jesus was the One who brought the light of forgiveness to Earth in the first place. He's the One who, after thousands of years, finally took away the cherubims with the flaming swords God had placed at the gate of Eden. Then a new gate came down in the form of a cross, and it was made of the divine blood Jesus. After Christ’s great sacrifice, the only way to Heaven is by way of that Cross. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6).

Jesus taught forgiveness throughout His ministry here on Earth, and I say again that you must forgive people just as Christ forgave you. Of course, you can’t forgive them of their sins, but you can forgive them for anything they have done to you. You can’t argue, be vengeful or hold grudges; and you can’t forgive one day and not the next. You can’t look at others in the world and gauge how you forgive by the way they forgive. God has had enough of all that.

God’s way is the only way to truly forgive. Remember that Jesus prayed for everyone, even those who crucified Him. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34). It’s easy to love people who love you, but you must live mighty close to Jesus to serve love for hate like He did. No one has ever crucified you or tortured you to death like those cruel men did Jesus, and He still forgave them from the Cross. That is divine forgiveness, and that is the kind of forgiveness you must have if you expect to meet Jesus in the air.

Jesus is the one who bled and died for you. He is the one who said, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you (Matthew 5:44). You don’t have to repay people for the things they have done to you. God said, Vengeance is mine; I will repay (Romans 12:19).

Any Unforgiveness Is Too Much

Jesus said, And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses (Mark 11:25). Think about that—the Lord will not forgive you unless you forgive others. Some of you are not forgiving as you should in the eyes of God, and you won’t make the Rapture like that.

Jesus said, He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). Those are rivers of love, compassion and hope; but the Lord can’t flow those living waters through you if you have even just one little speck of unforgiveness because an unforgiving spirit comes from the devil.

Jesus said, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5:48). That can’t be if you have any unforgiveness in you. Only those who are perfect in the eyes of God will be taken when Jesus comes. No one knows exactly when He will appear; but when He does, there will be no time to repent of any unforgiveness. You have to yield to the Word and get rid of anything unlike God now, before it’s too late.

Heed Only Godly Condemnation

You may think this message is not for you, but does the Spirit bear witness daily that you are a true child of God without blemish or wrinkle? Paul said, There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (Romans 8:1). A person with unforgiveness or anything else unlike God in their heart cannot walk in the Spirit.

Many true children of God are full of condemnation when they should not be, and God knows all about it. It doesn’t matter what family, friends or anyone else says about you. God is the one who has the final say, and He is the one who knows those who are ready for the Rapture and those who are not.

Jesus told the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-22. When the son had the desire to go home, he had won half the victory; but it had to be his choice or there would have been no victory. You have to want to get everything out of your life that God is not pleased with, and you have to want to stop hiding behind your feelings. You have to want to stop thinking about what others have done to you or said about you.

The Bible says, He [God] hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities (Psalm 103:10). God deals with people through forgiveness and the blood that stained the Old Rugged Cross. If you are saved, the Lord didn’t deal with you according to your sins when you came to Him. He covered you with His mercy and forgiveness, or you would have been killed for the things you had done against Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he [God] removed our transgressions from us (Psalm 103:12).

Forgive and Move On

If somebody has wronged you in any way, you must immediately turn the situation over to God. Don’t keep thinking about it, and don’t talk to others about it. Put it behind you and move on. Paul said, This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before (Philippians 3:13).

When the Lord saves a person, He forgives them and never remembers their sins against them again. He said, I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins (Isaiah 43:25). For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more (Hebrews 8:12). When God forgives you of something, He will never remember it against you again. That’s what the blood does.

If God will not remember the sins you have committed against Him, why do you continue to remember the things people have done to you? You will have no more forgiveness from God than the amount you give to others. If you have forgiven all, you will have all the forgiveness you need. If you haven’t forgiven all, you will be in trouble.

If you have truly forgiven God’s way, you won’t keep talking about things people have done against you and repeating them to others. When thoughts of past wrongs come to you, you must immediately turn them over to the Holy Spirit because if you pass them on, they will become sinful and destructive. Then you are the one who is destroying yourself and others.

If you were abused as a child, you don’t have to condone what was done to you, but you do need to forgive and let it all go. If you don’t do that, it will poison your spirit. That poison will then begin to multiply and take over just as cancer cells multiply in the physical body. Eventually, the poison will completely destroy the spirit of God in your life, and you don’t want that.

It is bad enough to carry a deadly disease in your body, but it is not as terrible as carrying poison in your soul. You are going to get a new body one day, but now is the time to have a new soul; and to keep that soul, you must put people and situations in the hands of God and trust Him to take care of them.

Be Like Jesus

Stephen had the same spirit of forgiveness Jesus had. Stephen was ready to do anything for his Lord; and as he was being stoned to death, he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge (Acts 7:60). Stephen had the same love, the same grace and the same power Jesus had.

You hinder the Lord so much when you don’t forgive. You are letting the enemy deceive you and make you think you have forgiven all you need to when you really have not, and God knows all about it. God…knoweth all things (I John 3:20).

The Bible says, Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). You have to put away all your old ways and put on new ones, but you can’t do that unless you forgive. Some of you may think you have put on a new spiritual garment, but you still have patches of the old self on it; and that won’t work.

You have to walk like Jesus. The Bible says, Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps (I Peter 2:21). You must walk in the steps of Jesus and that requires obedience.

Jesus Was Human

You must have the spirit of Jesus. He is the Only Begotten Son of God, yet He came to Earth as a human and took on all the weaknesses we have. His humanity clearly showed up in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus knew what was ahead for Him, and He was going through so much that His sweat became as drops of blood; and He cried, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me (Matthew 26:39).

However, Jesus had taken on divine humility and obedience; and through them, He said, Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt (Matthew 26:39). Jesus didn’t have any more power or abilities available to Him than what is available to you and me, so you can have that same humility and obedience.

As a human, Jesus willingly took our sins and sicknesses upon Himself even though He never committed one sin. Then He drank the cup of death for you and me. He paid the price so we could be free for eternity, yet how many years did you trample the blood of Jesus underfoot before you were saved? You were just as guilty as those who drove the nails into Christ’s hands and feet and pierced His side with a spear, and you waded through the divine blood Jesus spilled as if it were nothing; yet He still forgave you.

Forsake Your Unrighteous Ways

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon (Isaiah 55:7). That is God’s forgiveness; and the only way you can forgive God’s way is to forgive through the blood. When you do, everything is wiped away.

God has more than enough love to cover all your sins; but you have to get rid of your grudges and hurt feelings, or you will not be changed in the twinkling of an eye on Rapture Day. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed (I Corinthians 15:52).

If you want a pardon from the Lord, you have to forsake every one of your ways that is unlike God. If you don’t, you will stay in the prison of destructive bondage you have put yourself in. You can’t reach over and get a hammer that isn’t there; and if you have truly forgiven, you can’t bring up any of those things because they won’t be there. If they are, you are still in bondage.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (I John 1:9). If you confess any grudges or bitterness you have, the Lord will forgive you; but it’s up to you to let them go. Every grudge you hold onto is unrighteous and sinful; and when you follow up on just one of them, you hinder and destroy yourself and others. If you are talking about things people have done to you, you could cause them to die and go to hell; and it will be just as if you had pushed them right in.

Jesus Uncovered Hypocrites

If you have one aught against anyone in your spirit today, you will miss the one flight out. You may feel like you can’t possibly let it go; but if you don’t, it will cost you your eternal life.

The Bible tells of a woman caught in the act of adultery. The Law said she should be stoned, but Jesus brought grace for all. The woman’s accusers brought her to Jesus to see what He would do, and He stooped down and began to write in the dust with His finger. Then He said to the woman’s accusers, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her (John 8:7). One by one, those accusers left until they were all gone. I believe Jesus wrote the names of the women those men had been with, and they were fleeing for their lives.

Then Jesus stood up and asked, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more (John 8:10,11). Those were such blessed words. Jesus was that woman’s forgiveness, and He is your forgiveness too; so how can you look at other people and the things they have done and not forgive them? Do you want to be unclean and undesirable before the Lord?

Where are you with the Lord today? With just one more step in the wrong direction, many people will step over into unforgiving territory. Yes, there is a sin for which there is no forgiveness. Jesus said, Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men (Matthew 12:31). You don’t want to be guilty of that, or there will be no forgiveness for you and no chance of Heaven.

Are You Forgiven?

There are millions of people in this world who will die and go to hell without the Gospel, but you can’t help take the truth to them if you have grudges. You won’t have the flow of the Spirit you need to sweep them into God’s great love because you have deadly poison in you. You may claim to be justified, but you’re not. God told the Israelites, Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself (Leviticus 19:18). The same thing stands true today.

God said to the children of Israel, For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more (Jeremiah 31:34). God offered them forgiveness; but no matter what God did for those people, they wouldn’t walk with Him. They failed again and again, and they suffered much for it. Study them and let them be an example to you.

The Israelites were God’s children; but since Jesus came, all people can be adopted into the family of God through His grace and mercy. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water (Hebrews 10:22). A true heart is one without any unforgiveness in it.

People may try to justify themselves by saying there are some things that just can’t be forgiven; but Jesus said, If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses (Matthew 6:14,15). Do you have full assurance that God is forgiving you today? If not, you had better examine your life and get everything out of the way so you will have that assurance.

The End Is Near

God’s hands of love, truth and mercy are reaching out today; but the day of judgment is coming. His hammer of truth will come down, but there will be no mercy with it. We all want the Lord to give us mercy, but how much mercy do you show to others? If someone asks you to forgive them, do you do it? Are you willing to accept the fact that there are times when someone hurts you without meaning to?

The Rapture is so close, and the spirit of the antichrist has covered the world with a deadly grip that is attempting to take the very life out of every person. People’s freedoms are slipping away, even here in the United States. Parents can’t discipline their children without being reported to the police, and teachers will be fired for mentioning the Word of the living God at school.

Americans may think they are living in the land of the free, but that is no longer true. The antichrist is in the driver’s seat, and he is moving fast; so children of God must move faster to bring in the lost through the Spirit of the living God. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work (James 3:16). That describes our society today. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy (James 3:17). That describes what you can have through God, and notice that it says “full of mercy.” Do you have that mercy?

That verse also mentions divine wisdom from On High, and you can have all the wisdom you need to uncover any aught you may have against someone and get rid of it. Don’t ask people to help you; ask God.

Let God Search You

You are going to walk with God in this last hour, or you’re not. You are going to take Christ’s nail-riven hand and walk in His footsteps, or you’re not. Join me in praying, Lord, look upon me and let me be willing to be searched. I know you won’t really search me unless I want to be because we are no longer living under the Law but under grace. Help me to cry, “Search me, Lord” because the day is coming when you will search me whether I want you to or not.

Do you really want the Lord to search you with His Spirit of truth and forgiveness? Do you really want His divine love and mercy for others? The Bible says, And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing (I Corinthians 13:2). You are nothing without God’s love.

Freedom from all things unlike God brings such a beautiful fragrance before Him. Why do you want to hold on to anything that stinks in the nostrils of God? Why hold on to anything that is worthless? That is like committing spiritual suicide because you will miss the one flight out.

The devil makes forgiveness look like it is so hard, and he makes you think you can’t do it; but the Bible declares, I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me (Philippians 4:13). Will you let Him strengthen you to forgive?

The Lord wants to walk with His children. He wants you to know Him and feel His presence. He does not want to be a stranger to you; He wants to be the dearest and the most loving and understanding friend you have. There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24). We are to be a part of Him. For we [those who are born again] are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones (Ephesians 5:30). God wants to be closer to you than a brother, mother, father, husband or wife.

Does God Hear You?

God loves you, and He wants you to have complete freedom and everything He has made available to you. This message has been one of love from the Father to you, His child, because He wants you to meet Him in Heaven one day. But while you are still on Earth, He wants to talk to you through His Word; and He wants you to talk to Him through prayer. When Jesus was here, He said, I knew that thou [God, the Father] hearest me always (John 11:42). And you must know that He always hears you as well if you have forgiven all. If you haven’t done that, your prayers will be hindered.

The bondage of unforgiveness comes from the devil, and it ties God’s hands. Satan has robbed you of so much; and the Lord doesn’t want you to be robbed any longer; but it is up to you. You can fast and pray as much as you want, and you can even read the Bible through hundreds of times; but if you don’t forgive, you will never receive what you need from the Lord.

You have heard people from other countries talking, and you can’t understand what they’re saying. Well, when you talk to God with any unforgiveness in your spirit, He doesn’t understand what you’re saying either because you can’t speak God’s love language with any poison of the devil in your spirit. Unforgiveness stops God’s oceans of love and peace from pouring out to you.

If you stand before God in that condition, you will hear Him say, “You didn’t forgive, so I couldn’t forgive you. Yes, you asked me to again and again, but I couldn’t because I’m a God of truth only. Only through my Word of truth could I have set you free. I sent my Son to you, and He told you He was truth. He told you that if He set you free through that truth, you would be completely free; but you wouldn’t let that truth set you free. You used His truth only part of the time, so you only received freedom part of the time.”

Forgive and Be Forgiven

If you want to please God, you have to forgive all and then fall on your knees and ask the Lord to forgive you. You have to be as sorry for your sins as God is that you sinned against Him. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of (II Corinthians 7:10). That is the only way to be truly forgiven.

Pray this prayer with me and mean it from your heart. Oh, God, I want you to search my heart for every tiny bit of unforgiveness or anything unlike you and deliver me. I am so sorry for the things I have done. Cleanse me of every grudge, spot and blemish and make me Rapture material. I want all of you, Lord. Let the divine blood of Jesus flow over me now and wash away all of my sins. Come into my heart, precious Jesus. Come in.

If you meant that prayer, Jesus has come into your heart. Start reading your Bible every day. Pray, fast and walk close to Him. Then you must go on to be baptized in the Holy Spirit because Jesus could come any day, and you won’t make the Rapture without having the Spirit living in you.

Healing Can Be Yours

If you are sick and afflicted today, you must know that it’s the Lord’s will to heal you. He said, I am the Lord that health thee (Exodus 15:26). The Bible also says, There is nothing too hard for thee [God] (Jeremiah 32:17). The key to receiving from the Lord is to only believe (Mark 5:36).

Jesus came to Earth and shed His blood for the healing of our bodies as well as the healing of our souls. The Bible says, Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth (III John 1:2). Many thousands of people have been healed of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, paralysis, AIDS and so much more through this Jesus ministry. I am not your healer; God is, and I am His believer. You must be His believer too.

Lord, I bring the people to you today. You have delivered so many people from all kinds of deadly diseases, and you can heal each one of these people today and make them whole. In the holy name of your Son, Jesus, I come with your gifts of healing and miracles. I curse every sickness and every disease in these people’s bodies right now! Heal! Heal in the all-powerful name of Jesus. Amen.

Feel the Lord’s miracle power flowing through you right now and take whatever you need. Then give God all the glory for what He has done for you. He is the miracle worker.

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