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Bitterness


Bitterness refers to a settled hostility that poison the whole inner man. Someone does something we don't like, so we habor ill will against them. Bitterness leads to wrath, which is the explosion on the outside of the feelings on the inside. Wrath and anger often leads to brawling (clamor) or blasphemy (evil speaking).  The first is fighting with fists, the second is fighting with words. Bitterness is always characterized by an unforgiving spirit!

What is so terrible is the fact that many Christians are dominated by bitterness and a unforgiving spirit. Therefore, they are controlled by guilt and shame bacause the Lord will measure out to them the same degree of forgiviness that they measure out to others.  Therefore, their cries for forgiveness isn't heard by the Lord because they will not forgive others.
The end result will be that their guilt and shame will not be eradicated.

The emotional toll for bitterness is inmeasurably as it affects a person's
physical and emotional health because guilt, shame, anxiety, depression and rage will reign. Their world will be nothing but darkness and despair. This leads to both suicidal and homicidal thoughts that potentially can explode in dangerous and irrational behavior!

Therefore, it is parmount that family members, who are seperated from one another, seek reconcilation and forgiviness from each other in order to experience emotional healing and gain God's approval on their lives.

This is very important for Christians who are divorced to resolve their differences and get rid of  bitterness toward their ex-spouse in order to bring healing and reconcilation for both his and her families. Their children are continuously traumatized by their parents' unwillingness to forgive and the bitterness that colors their world with utter bleakness
and despair.

These divorced parents will be in constant conflict with anyone, who has a
disagreement with them. Their physical health will be at great risk as anger and anxiety will plague their emotional state and lead to early death by means of a heart attack or stroke!

Development of Sanctication-First Step

Questions with Answers found in this section of Scripture: 

      1.  What is the most important quality that we need to add FIRST to our faith?


      2.   What is the will of God according to this section of Scripture

      3.    What is virtue?

      3.    What is the gravest sin in the Church

      4.     What two qualities will sexual immorality destroy inside of us?

       5.     What relationships will sexual immorality destroy?

2 Peter 1: 5 “…giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue-which is moral excellence (2 Peter 1:5a).  It doesn’t say, add, church involvement, or soul winning, or separation. To our precious faith add moral excellence. Does that sound a little odd?  In I Thessalians 4: 3-the Word of God says; “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles, who don’t know God…For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 

Therefore, he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (I Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8). In I Corinthians 6:18-20 the Word of God declares:  Flee sexual immorality, as every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immortality sins against his own body.  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.


Sex is sacred and marriage is a picture of the intimacy, oneness, and purity that the Lord wants in His relationship with a believer. “For this reason a man shall leave his    father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.  This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
  1. Sexual immorality is one of the gravest sin in the church.  It destroys relationships and families. Satan has used sexual immortality to destroy the ministry of pastors, who gnvolved in an illicit relationship.
  2. Many men in the church have an insatiable appetite for pornography that destroys their relationship with both their wife and the Lord.
  3. Too many women in the church love their soap operas and they often have romance thoughts about being involved in an affair.
  4. Adding moral excellence to our precious faith will create much stability and strength in our character in addition to gaining God’s favor and many blessings from the Lord.
  5. Sexual immorality is one of Satan’s favorite tool for enslaving those who are involved in it.Sexual immorality will destroy a person’s character and conscience.  Therefore, ADDmoral excellence to your precious faith
  6. To illustrate character I would use cement that is wet and mix with gravel, when it is first laid down on the ground.  When it is settle it will become hard and sturdy.  Moral excellence is the beginning of a foundation that will soon become hard and sturdy.

(Abstain from sexual immortality)


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