Now that’s the foundation of Calvary. That’s why Jesus said, “If you don’t forgive, your Heavenly Father will not forgive you.” How can we be children of God when He has forgiven us of such a great debt, a $4.5 billion debt, when Jesus is the very worst debt that we can sin against each other is basically $10,000 compared to $4.5 billion. I’m shortening this extremely, but I’m doing it because of the sake of time.
And so a Christian has got to realize you can’t forgive until you realize what you’ve been forgiven of. And, you see, there’s so many believers today that are trapped, and that’s exactly what offense is. It’s a trap. They’re tormented by demonic powers because an offense is a trap.
RR: Well, they’ve been hurt.
LR: You think you have every ability to say, “Well, he did this wrong, that wrong, this wrong, that wrong.” And the greatest revelation I ever got on this, first of all, was reading your book. It’s marvelous. I have to say that flat out, it’s marvelous. And everybody who has ever even taken a breath needs to read the book, because sometime if you live long enough, you’re going to get offended by somebody or you’re going to offend somebody else.
But I was parading my offenses to my mother one day, having this great revelation of how wronged I was and I was in the right which I was. I mean, I knew I was. I mean, flat out, end of scenario. I was right, which is the way we all feel, of course. But she called me back in about 15 minutes. She said, “I’ve had a word from the Lord on this.” And she wrote it on the inside of a panty hose container. I thought, “Oh, come on, mom, this is going to be good.” And she said, “No, I got a word from God.” So I thought, “This is going to be one of those ‘my-child-how-right-you-are’ words.” She said the Lord told her to tell me, “You have every reason to be offended, but according to God’s Word, you have no right.” And we can come up with some really good reasons.
J: Yes, you can be a hundred percent right and be wrong.
LR: But we have no right to hold the offenses.