- 00:00
- father thank you for sunday morning thank you for resurrection sunday that christ is alive and risen from the dead we thank you for your word we pray that your spirit would open our eyes and our hearts to your clear revelation this morning we pray in christ's name i'm gonna give you a chance to apply at the outset the message this morning on reconciliation this is sunday school so i'm supposed to teach not preach but because of the subject matter i might get into a preaching mode so i'm asking you ahead of time please forgive me would you forgive me if i start preaching okay good now look if scott can forgive me anybody can forgive me you see a few weeks ago he told me that i deeply offended him because he was driving by the store i work at and he was stopped at the red light and he was waving to me even though i was looking straight out at him i never said hi but he was gracious enough to forgive me so so he's a great example of reconciliation we're gonna look at some passages together so i'm gonna read them for the sake of the recording and uh...
- 01:09
- so let's turn first at matthew chapter five the greatest sermon ever preached the sermon on the mount by the prince of preachers not spurgeon but christ matthew chapter five verses twenty three to twenty four this morning we're going to look at the issue of reconciliation when i'm using that term this morning in our sunday school i'm not primarily referring to reconciliation between man and god though we will make reference to that as we go along i'm referring specifically to reconciliation amongst ourselves amongst humans so let's look at the words of christ in matthew chapter five verses twenty three to twenty four so if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you continue offering your gift and then go to your brother isn't that what the
- 02:11
- ESV says? actually i misread it i'm sorry let's try it again so if you're offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you because your brother has something against you let him take the initiative to reconcile to you that's the original greek what are you looking at me for?
- 02:33
- what did jesus say? if you remember that not you have something against your brother but that your brother has something against you leave your gift verse twenty four before the altar and go first an issue of priorities first be reconciled to your brother and then come and offer your gift we're gonna look at five things that reconciliation affects number one reconciliation affects your worship reconciliation with others affects your worship that is jesus' point here you cannot go before god to worship and then while you're doing that remember your brother has something against you meaning that you have offended them have sinned against them leave the worship and first be reconciled i remember when i was pastoring one of the elders at our church his son had done something to uh...
- 03:35
- offend me so his father went up to him and told his son that he was about twelve at the time that he needed to come and apologize to me so his son came up to me and he said to me i'm sorry pastor and i said about what?
- 03:51
- what are you sorry about? he just wanted to get away with just i'm sorry of course i knew what he had done but i wanted him to specify exactly what he was sorry about and he did do that by the grace of god a lot of times when it comes to reconciliation when we know our brother has something against us and we go to apologize many of you who are married know that this happens i'm sure pastor mike has already if he hasn't already discussed this in the
