Residue Remover

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In Matthew chapter 22 we learned that we are to love God and to love people. As we explored the concept of forgiveness and healing. The effects and residue that sin creates in our lives we have learned a deeper and more profound way to love people. This also is a way to be loved and to truly love people we must experience being loved so that we can fully love people.

Proverbs talks about iron sharpening iron and how one can sharpen the countenance of another. The interaction and the connection that we have in our relationships with people is vitally important and helps us become who God intended us to be.

Luke chapter 4 talks about how the spirit of the Lord was upon Jesus to heal and to set at liberty. There was a two-step process number one vertical forgiveness: the legal pardon that really was done by what the shed blood of Jesus in the work of the cross paid for for me and you.

In 1st John chapter 1 we read about confessing our sins and he's faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from unrighteousness God restores us to him and sin no longer separates us.

In James chapter 5 it says confess your faults one to another and pray for one another that you may be healed. This second part of horizontal healing we find out this is the moment where effectual fervent prayer avails much.

In the moments where we are honest with each other and we ask for help and call on the elders of the church healing and restoration takes place and when we pray in these moments of true asking God for help we experience real freedom.

Many live a life forgiven but still imprisoned to the history of sin.

God needs people to help take us out of the past and into the future that God intends for us.

As we went over the story of Lazarus there was a crucial detail at the end of the story that John told us about. After Jesus called Lazarus forth from the dead he instructed the people there to lose him and let him go Lazarus was alive but still bound from the effects of death.

I think this helps to tell the correlation of what we are to do to help Jesus and minister to people.

God forgives and we help to unwrap the grave clothes, the effects of sin and help people to step into a new life.

Lazarus couldn't get the grave clothes off himself; he needed help and that's what God has called us to do to help those that want to step out of sin and live a new life.

To help others we have to fully experience this process so that we can be a people that would truly help others become free.