The Bible says in Psalm 103 verse 12 as far as the East is from the West so far have you removed our
Transgressions from us this is speaking about God's forgiveness that he's given to us and it's very poetic
But there's a reason why it says the East is from the West
What is the Bible trying to say because it doesn't say as far as the North is from the south or the south from the?
North it says as the East is
From the West and so if you think about you know the earth the earth is shaped
Spherically, right? It's almost a perfect
It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth and a sphere by definition is actually a three-dimensional
Circle, okay
Well when you're thinking about going north you go north north
And then you hit the very top the North Pole at that point. What direction are you going?
South
North south north south everybody's with me
How about if you're here and you start going east?
East East East East East East do you see the difference?
East never meets West
What's the Bible saying poetically your sins are gone?
Completely
You're never gonna come in contact. I mean they're gone
They're forgiven and so here's the thing when God forgives you he also forgets cuz here's the thing if you went to the
Judgment seat of Christ and you come back in contact with your sins
Well, then they're not really forgotten
It's not really fitting with someone the three is talking about when God forgives you he also forgets
It's done
But when you get into an argument with someone and you say you always do this
Bringing up the past right
This is what you did last week
Not really forgetting and the problem is when you say why I forgive you, but I'll never forget
Then you don't forget
All that means is you put it in your subconscious
And then it's gonna come up again and that bitterness comes out and it's gonna be worse and worse
It does not benefit you at all
See God when he forgives us he forgets about it's done and what the Bible is saying is hey
You know what? We ought to be like that and just forgive completely forgive people
So if they do you wrong again, you don't think about the past. It's out of sight out of mind
It's just this new situation where you're not upset about 50 things because here's the problem if somebody does you wrong once and
You forgive but not forget
When they do you wrong a second time, you're not upset about one thing
You're upset about two things
Because you never forgot about the last I talked about it a lot during the philosophical idea of bitterness
We're basically it becomes fresh in your mind that root of bitterness comes back out
And so if time goes by and this has happened 20 times over 10 years
You're upset as if they did 20 things simultaneously
Well, that's gonna make you pretty upset
But if it's just one thing
Then it's a lot easier to actually forgive