Sermon: Moving Forward

14/01/2024 39 min

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Holding a grudge is as intuitive as breathing or drinking. If someone hurts us, we are inclined to remember that hurt as a type of defense mechanism. Some research has suggested that grudges are about trying to reframe a past conflict in our head so we can reinvent that we were the innocent victim and the other party was the aggressor. Regardless of the psychology behind it, grudges are something talked about at length in the Bible (albeit with a variety of language). It's connected to the "golden rule" in Leviticus and spoke about multiple times in the epistles. What is fascinating is that the one more most deserving to hold a grudge... Jesus Christ... did the exact opposite. Even when his best friends turned their backs on him time after time, Jesus remained wholly compassionate and forgiving.