Forgiven
Added on the 26th of October, 2005
One weekend at Genesis, Pastor Ben delivered us this message:
"Imagine you are driving down the road with your kid strapped into the backseat of the car. And something distracted you. They dropped something on the floor. They made a little noise like kids sometimes do. And you're driving down the road and your attention is distracted for a split second. And in that time, what you didn't know, was that a 14 year old kid had stolen a car, was driving down the other side of the road and had lost control of the vehicle. And when you looked up, you saw that car plow right into yours. Picture that. And picture with me as hard as this is, that you survived... you woke up in the hospital three days later to find that you survived but your children did not. Can you just imagine how you would feel about that 14 year old kid in the car? I would be furious. Wouldn't you? Furious. That's the closest thing mentally that I can get to thinking what an enemy and hatred would be like. Now imagine if you found out that this child had no parents. You found out he was a homeless 14 year kid and that nobody cared about him or wanted him. And imagine that somehow you found it in your heart to adopt that 14 year old boy into your family after he had driven off the road and killed your own children. Would you do it? Would you? Are you awake? K. I don't know if I could. But when God says, "I put my name on you." You are my enemy, now you are my child. It is the same scenario. Where he has adopted us into his family, at the cost of his son, and put his name, on us. Do you understand how powerful that is. And with that name comes forgiveness...."