Hebrews 12 warns us that a root of bitterness can spring up, cause trouble, and by it many become defiled. Bitterness never stays private. When we fail to forgive, it affects our homes, our families, our church, our witness, and the people God has placed around us.
This message calls us to look carefully—not across the room first, but within our own hearts. Who are we still rehearsing arguments against? Who have we said we forgave, while still making them pay in the courtroom of our mind? What bitterness have we been calling wisdom?
Through Ephesians 4, Colossians 3, Romans 7, 2 Corinthians 10, and Matthew 18, this sermon points us back to the only place true forgiveness can begin: the grace we have already received through Jesus Christ.
Forgiven people must become forgiving people—not because the sin against us was small, but because the grace given to us was infinite.
Christ alone delivers and heals.