Many times what God is telling us to do doesn’t make sense to us.  Or, it seems like it’s the wrong direction to go.  But Pastor Ford reminds us that heavenly solutions hardly ever make earthly sense.

We take a break from our normal programming line up so Pastor Ford can answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life.  The topics he’ll be explaining today include how to know if you’ve really turned from sin and received Christ, the correlation between Noah’s Ark and the Cross, and how to understand God as the Trinity.

The false teachers we are learning about in our study in Galatians 6 apparently wanted the admiration of people.  And false teachers today aren’t much different.  Often they teach what they teach so that people will like them.  They want to be popular and well accepted so they change the truth of scripture to make it more palatable and less convicting.

As we begin this study about false teachers and heresy, Pastor Ford will remind us that we have to know the truth in order to be able to live the truth.  And we live out the truth in direct proportion to the amount of it that we know.  And then he’ll ask this probing question—If we don’t know the truth, how in the world are we ever going to live it?

Did you know there are consequences that you will experience when you don’t forgive?  Today, Pastor Ford will continue to explain the 5 consequences of unforgiveness that can be seen in Acts chapter 15.

Pastor Ford will explain today that generally, reconciliation takes time.  Because God has to heal the person who’s been offended.  And sometime it takes a lot of time for that to happen.  So, if you’ve asked for forgiveness and are waiting for reconciliation to take place, then realize that it may be a while before it happens.

As we start a new message series about moving forward, Pastor Ford explains that we often are just standing and waiting for God to do something for us.  But God is there, waiting for us to move.  He’s saying, “I’ll open the door, as soon as you move toward the door.” 

Pastor Ford will ask us to consider this question—Why is it that when someone does something against us, we look at their actions, but when we do something against them, we look at our intentions? And we say we didn’t intend to do it.  Yet, we did it.  So, whether we intended to or not, we hurt them and we have to deal with that, seek their forgiveness and try to reconcile things with them.

The level of intimacy we experience in our relationship with God is in direct proportion to the level of forgiveness we show to others.  Pastor Ford will explain that God doesn’t want us to come to worship, thinking that we’re communicating with and worshipping Him, when we have something in our heart against the person sitting next to us.

Pastor Ford will remind us today that we should not let ourselves be impeded in our healing from past hurts because we want to know why someone would hurt us in the way they did.  We often ask why did they do it?  We have to realize that we may never find out why they did what they did and often there are people who do things to us and they don’t even know why they did them. So, we shouldn’t let that question hold us back from getting past the hurt.