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  THE EXTREME IMPORTANCE OF FORGIVING OTHERS
  by Zac Poonen
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of forgiveness in
maintaining a connection with God. It highlights how holding grudges and
unforgiveness can hinder prayers from being heard by God, stressing the
need to forgive others in order to receive forgiveness from God. The
analogy of a broken phone line or internet connection is used to
illustrate how sin can block communication with God, ultimately
affecting one's spiritual journey and relationship with Him.

Topics: "Forgiveness", "Communication with God"
Scripture References: Matthew 6:14, Mark 11:25, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32, 1 John 1:9, Matthew 18:21, Luke 6:37

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DESCRIPTION
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This sermon emphasizes the importance of forgiveness in maintaining a
connection with God. It highlights how holding grudges and unforgiveness
can hinder prayers from being heard by God, stressing the need to
forgive others in order to receive forgiveness from God. The analogy of
a broken phone line or internet connection is used to illustrate how sin
can block communication with God, ultimately affecting one's spiritual
journey and relationship with Him.

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CONTENT
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Something wrong to you and you kept a grudge in your heart against that
person? Did you know that all these years God did not hear your prayer?
And in the future also, he will not hear your prayer? Because if you do
not forgive your father, others, your father will not forgive you. And
if your sin is not forgiven, God will not hear your prayer. If you do
not forgive others worshiping, your father will not forgive your sins.

Forget about going to heaven. He will not even listen to your prayer. If
there's sin, it blocks the connection.

It's like the phone line being cut. The internet is cut. You cannot
communicate with anybody.

You can speak as much as you like on the phone. There's nobody listening
at the other end. The internet connection is broken.

Your phone connection to your phone server is gone.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/Q-yMhpk9KSA.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/zac-poonen/the-extreme-importance-of-forgiving-others/
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