Reconciliation
Gen 33-34
Mark Driscol
05-22-2005
“...For some of you the hard part of reconciliation is you spouse. That they are bitter, unforgiving, mean, jealous, petty, controlling, whatever. You have certain friends that until you spouse gets on-board your not going to be able to work things out. You have certain family members, until your spouse is on-board, you cant work things out. Because it is not just that these two men would reconcile, but their family's need to reconcile as well. Their wives and children need to not undermine the re-threading in the relationship that had been severed and torn. How many of you right now, the biggest impediment to reconciliation is your spouse? You want to work things out with your family, but your spouse just won't shut up. They're bitter, they're loud, they're overbearing, they step over they're bounds, and as soon as there's a little progress, they stomp it out like a fire! ...”
“...God forgives us, and doesn't recount our sins. The relationship with God is not like the relationship with bitter people. Bitter people never forgive and they keep all of your past sins in a pile like rocks. And when they want to hurt you they pick one up and throw it at you. Satan does the same thing. Rev 12:10 and Zachariah CHAPTER 3 talk about accusations. He just picks up bad parts of your life and just continually assaults you with them. Throwing them. Some of you are beaten up all the time. You say 'God I confess my sin, I told you I was sorry, I asked Jesus to forgive me. God I don't do those things anymore. I'm a different person.' ...If you love the Lord Jesus, and He died for your sin and you have repented to him, and you keep getting that rock thrown at you. I can tell you who's throwing it. It's not God. Because our God doesn't count our sins against us. When we repent and that means that we acknowledge out sin and we stop doing it. God does not pick up that rock, your enemy does....”