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  (CLIP) FORGIVE THOSE WHO HAVE HARMED YOU
  by Zac Poonen
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the connection between unforgiveness and
physical sickness among believers, highlighting a personal testimony
where the speaker experienced physical pain due to harboring
unforgiveness towards a doctor. The message underscores the importance
of forgiveness, even in difficult situations, and how choosing to
forgive can bring healing and restoration to one's body.

Topics: "Forgiveness", "Healing through Reconciliation"
Scripture References: Matthew 6:14, James 5:16, Mark 11:25, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32

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This sermon emphasizes the connection between unforgiveness and physical
sickness among believers, highlighting a personal testimony where the
speaker experienced physical pain due to harboring unforgiveness towards
a doctor. The message underscores the importance of forgiveness, even in
difficult situations, and how choosing to forgive can bring healing and
restoration to one's body.

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At least 10 or 20% of sicknesses among believers is because they haven't
forgiven somebody. Is it possible that you have a sickness in your body
which is not being healed because you haven't forgiven somebody? That's
in God's word. That's a second finger.

I'll give you a testimony from my own life. Some months before I got
married in 1968, I had to go to a hospital just to get a little
something, some injury stitched. And they had to put me under anesthesia
because it was quite a painful thing.

And some days later, I found a severe pain down my arm like a nerve
pain. And it was getting worse and worse. I didn't know what was the
cause.

The stitch had all healed. So I went to a neurosurgeon. And I said, what
do you think is the cause of this? He said, there's nothing wrong with
you.

So I can only think of one reason. That when you were under general
anesthesia and they lifted you from the bed, they may not have been
careful. And your neck may have fallen back in some awkward angle,
pinched some nerve and injured it.

And that's the cause of this pain. There's no cure for it. You've got to
live with it.

I was a believer, but I didn't have any victory over sin. So I got
really angry with the doctor who treated me. Not only I got really
angry, I wrote him a very angry letter.

He was a believer. And I wrote some hard words. I'm so ashamed of it
that I don't even want to mention what I wrote.

And I was more worried because in a few weeks I was going to get
married. And then the Lord said to me, forgive him. He didn't do it
deliberately.

Even if he did it deliberately, you must forgive him. Supposing he
deliberately took my neck and twisted it, you must still forgive him.
How much more if it was accidental? Just a few days after I wrote that
first letter, very quickly, within 3-4 days, I wrote another letter.

Dear brother, I feel ashamed that I wrote that letter to you. You were
so kind to treat me. It's not at all your fault.

It's my fault for writing such a letter. Please forgive me. Please
forgive me.

I love and respect you very much. I have nothing in my heart against
you. In a few days, this pain disappeared.

And I've never had a problem for 43 years. Which injection cured me? The
neurosurgeon said, no hope. It was one simple decision in my heart.

I am going to forgive him. It was a lesson I learnt for my whole life.
When you don't forgive others, you hurt yourself.

When you forgive others, you bring healing into your own body.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/dbECIis1EUY.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/zac-poonen/clip-forgive-those-who-have-harmed-you/
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