Broken Relationships

Divine presence of God right now for God to take control of every situation. Our topic this morning is broken relationship. Broken relationship. This is very, very key.

The relationship we have with one another is a key. Is a key for so many things. If it's broken, there is a lot if it's broken. The relationship we have with the church members and people around is a very important key to relationships are God gifts to mankind.

Satan often attack this relationship because he knows that broken relationship hinder prayers, destroy destroy peace and weaken Christian fellowship. So that's what he's using to fight. If a relationship is broken in home, you see problem, fights everything. Everywhere he uses it.

A sister will not greet a sister. A brother will not greet him. If he's greeting, the mind is just greeting. It's not from his mind.

Because the relationship has been broken. Somebody will keep you in mind for years you wouldn't know the day God will reveal I've been eating with this person. He will tell you, look, broken relationship. The devil is using that thing so much in this church everywhere.

So today God want to let us to know the effect of that. It will destroy peace. It will weaken Christian fellowship. You come here.

You just talking in the family. A sister came to me the other day, said I almost want. I almost want to commit suicide. I wanted to commit suicide to the died because of what?

Broken relationship. It was to drunk herself, was to kill herself. Because he's not in 10 with the husband. Broken relationship.

You see it everywhere. If he comes here, you see a lot of things broken relationship. God desire his children to be agents of reconciliation than peace. God want us to be agent.

You reconcile whatever. Brother, sorry I've wronged you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The devil will not like that.

He will want to keep that thing. Keep it until when he fool, the thing will burst. Broken relationship is very, very, very, very terrible. In the word of God said and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God.

Even as God in Christ forbid you what I mean? Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another. He did this to me some years ago. You may not even remember, but you still remember so many years.

But forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgive you. How many is keeping that broken relationship? Let's read that word in Philemon chapter 1, verse 8 to 21. Book of Philemon, chapter 1, Verse 8 to 21.

Therefore, though I might be much good in Christ eternity that which is confident yet for love's sake, I rather decision being Such and one as Paul the aged and now also a prisoner of Christ I beseech thee for my son and his horse whom I have begotten in my heart which in time past was to thee unprofitable but now profitable to thee and to me whom I have sent again Thou therefore receive him that is my own God whom I would have returned with me thus in thy state he might have ministered unto me in the bond of the Gospel but without my mind will I do nothing that thy benefit that thy benefit should not be should not be as if we are of necessity but way for perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou shouldest receive him forever for the not now as a servant but above a servant a brother beloved especially to me was how much more unto thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord if thou count, receive him as myself if he has wronged the opponent the me. Put that on my account Put that. In my account if he has owned you so many are owing people here too many are doing this Paul was telling if there is anything these animals have done it in my account Leave Forgive let's move forward yes, my tea. I all have written it with my own hand I will bear it abet I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thy own self decides Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord Let.

Me have joy in thee in the. Lord Refresh us in the Lord Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say yes, this is. A clear example of reconciliations that happened Reconciliation that happened to re establish the relationship Odimos, as he's been said here was a slave or somebody that that worked with I say a slave, you know but here Wherefore though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient yet for Lord's sake I rather beseech thee being such as Paul the age and now also as a prisoner of Christ Paul that was a prisoner look at saw the problem that Olymus has with the Sisinibus he went in, he went in I want to be very brief he went in there and intervened Onymos was a slave, was a servant of. But they knew that there was problem between them there were quarrel between them he went in intervening he said if he and you see, this slave was also owing he was one way or the other indebted to Philippine and so on so the problem was much as it's happening in your home maybe because of maybe business problem.

Maybe because of what? Because this one didn't greet me. Whatever. But Paul went in there.

Forgive to reconcile them. Whatever it is, I will take care of it. The debt is owing you, I will pay. Let there be peace.

Let there be peace. Let there be peace. I will come back to this. This is a clay as an example.

Which one? Jesus Christ. The perfect example of reconciliation. He did it in many ways, reconciling people to himself.

He did it despite all the torture, despite the way they treated him, despite the. The way they hated him. Yes. He did not have anything to.

He did not have. He. He was able to reconcile. Let's look at it.

Romans, chapter 5, verse 8 to 10. We'll come back to Philip. Romans, chapter 5 from verse 8 to 10. Romans from verse 8 to verse 10.

But God commandeth his love towards us in that while we are yet sinners. Christ died for us. Christ died for us. That's the love.

Christ died for us. He commanded. But God commanded His love toward us. In that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Who would have done that? Yes, read on much more. Then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we are enemies, we are consigned to cause God by the death of His Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his.

Life, we shall save by his life. Broken relationship. While we were sinners, Christ died for us. He paid the price.

He gave his life. He did not. He did not say why we were yet sinner. Christ died for us.

But the brother will do something to you. He will even be as simple as somebody marched your leg, you were moving. And somebody he said, you march my leg. He would not forgive.

Forget about that for years. Broken relationship. Broken relationship. Christ made a perfect example.

Even when humanly rebel against God. Jesus paid the price to restore our relationship with the Father. On the cross he prayed for those who crucified Him. Can you imagine?

They mock him. They spite you on him. They. They did everything.

He prayed for them. He prayed for them. He didn't care. Jesus forgave even Peter.

After Peter denied him three times. He could have said no way. But what did Christ do? Somebody that was with him, he forgave him, said, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Broken relationship. This has caused a lot of problems, a lot of things. In home, in families, in many places. If Christ forgave us, we must forgive others, regardless of the offense.

This is what we should do. Christ is our perfect example. So what Is it that somebody has done to you as you are seated there, as you are here and you are still keeping it? Is that more than what they did to Christ?

Is that heavier than what they did to Christ? If Christ could forgive, regardless of your offense, we ought to forgive one another and not die. This is what we are saying. So we need to as true Christians, we require to forgive each other as a true Christians.

But is that what is happening? Is that what is happening in churches, in our homes, in our environment, wherever, fighting everywhere, problems everywhere. And yet the next moment, pray. I need this.

I need this. God help me. God do this. Yet you don't want to forgive.

How would you get that from God? How would you get that? Matthew, chapter 6, verse 14. Done.

Chapter 6, 13 from 14. For if ye forgive me,. Can you? Can you?

Have you heard that if you forgive men their dress passes what they wrong to you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Yes. You don't want to forgive. You don't want to leave.

You don't want that person. Some people has the notebook, has books, the records this day. They did this to me this day. And you want your heavenly Father to forgive all the sins.

Whatever you may do it each time you go and get that person. He has not come to me. He must. The person may not even know that he has wronged you.

He may not even remember. But you are. You are. Your big book is there.

You are keeping it there. I will hear in this service. I will let us know how you can help others. The person may not know, may have no idea that that word he said, you have carrying it into your own pocket, but you are keeping it there instead of going.

I'm sorry. Instead of Sister, that thing you told me. What you told when, what you said, I was. I was not happy.

But I forgiven you as Christ forgave us. So that God in d will forgive you. He will answer your prayers, he will do new things in. In the church.

But you will hold it. You hold it. Read 15, verse 15. But if ye forgive not me their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespass.

Neither will your father forgive your trespasses. You see where the problem is? You don't forgive. You are putting it in the paper.

So what do you think about God? The Bible says neither with him also because you don't forgive, you are holding it. See how you hold your own blessing. I need husband, I need wife.

I need house. I need this. I need healing. I need a child.

I need this. But you don't forgive you don't forgive, people will be praying, Pastor will be praying. People will be going this way. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses.

All God blessings are conditions. God blesses their conditions. Behold. Hold it anyway.

Everywhere. If you did go in and hit and you will see the thing will be coming out like that. What people have in their hearts, how you are, Heavenly Father. So the church want to move forward.

The church want to grow in grace. The church want to move. We want to be liberated. We want things to begin to turn around.

We need to forgive another broken relationship. We need to amend. We need to reconcile to each other for the church to move. Forgive is not optional for believers.

It's not so we need to move in such a way that we. You don't. It is not whether I like it or I don't like it. It's not by force.

Is something that God said. We need to refusing to forgive create a barrier between you, between you and God that you don't want to forgive. There's a barrier. There's a barrier.

See what we are doing to ourselves there a barrier. If you look at the Bible, you will see so many problem that happened because of they were not able to forgive. Unforgiven, unforgiveness. What he has caused the servant who was forgiven.

A huge definition. Okay, let's read it. Hebrew Matthew, chapter 18, verse 2023-35 is just. We have to prefix Matthew 18 that he was going to talk about the servants that owes a huge debt.

You know, somebody that owed somebody a huge debt. But your servant very little. Small debts and judgment all over. They said all right.

They did not. He refused to. But his own. He wanted pay me, pay me my money.

But the one is going, the other one is not paying. Read it. Matthew 18, Matthew 18:23. 23.

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven like unto a certain king, which will take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon one. One was when he was begun to reckon one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand. But for as much as he had not to pay.

His Lord commanded him to be sold and his wife and his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me. Have patience with me. Yes, and I will pay thee all.

I will pay thee all. Have patience. Look right. Okay.

Then the Lord of the servants must move with compassion and lose him and forgive him the debt. But the same servant, the Same person, yes. Went out and found one of his fellow servants which owe him 100 pence. 100 Pence?

The other one. Look at the difference. Yes, 100 pence. And he laid hand on him and took him by the throat, saying, Tell me that thou knowest if for the.

Throat he hold him the other one what he heard, they left him. That's what many are doing. They left him go. But he won that very little.

He was there on the throat. He hold him on the throat. You must fail me today. Not even remembering that few days ago he was set free.

There was he was released. But this one, this poor person on the truth. Yes, read on. 29.

And his fellow servant fell down at his feet and besought him saying, have patience with me and I will pay thee. And he would not. He would not. But went and cast him into prison immediately.

He should pay debt. Should he should pay terror. Go ahead. So when his fellow servants saw what I was done, they were very sorry and came and told unto their Lord all that was done.

After he he had called himself, oh, thou wicked servant. Oh, thou wicked servant. Don't want to reconcile yet I forgave. Thee all the because thou dearest me.

Shouldest thou also have had compassion on thy fellow servant, even as I have pity on thee. And his love was wrong and delivered him to the tormentors, seeing he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you. If ye your if ye from your hearts.

For if not everyone his brother their trespass. That is what God will do to us. We think God is so. Yes.

He doesn't support you Israel. And maybe that relationship you are on it. See, this is a clear example. He was so wrong with that if he took him to prison for a small maybe if you want to convert it to a current it could not be like 100.

He took him to prisons, but the thousands he was going the other ones they left the country. But the thing turned around, boom around. He thought that is what he was doing for a poor. He thought he was just doing nobody seeing it.

But when the thing came up, open it also saw it. That's what we do. A little thing somebody might be a little thing somebody something you could say. My sister, I'm sorry.

Oh, that thing you did to me. So they said that even some of the people when you even go and tell them this is what make me to be annoyed with you. That one will play off again. It will be fire with it will come up so that one Israel Say sorry.

Sorry. Let it go. Broken relationship. Broken relationship.

It cost a lot for that reason Except God Even God said because you did not do this what he has been forgiven. Activated again he came back on him. The blessing God could have given to you because of you don't want to forgive one another problem comes again More you carry more. So this is what God is telling us.

We need to do something about it. We need to those who have received God's mercy must show mercy also all of us God mercy. It is not by our power we are surviving. It's not by our power we are seeing what you know what is happening in the nation what is happening all over.

But it is the mercy of God that we are not consumed. It is the mercy of God for you to survive this nation all these days. For our children to see me in school for those to despite all this is for God. So for that reason we need to have mercy to others.

We need to have listen to others. God can restore a broken relationship. God can do it. If you leave it to God say God, do it for me.

You can do it eating it too. He did it too which I said I will go back to him. God can do that. Paul acted as mediator between Philemon and one what was broken was repaired through love, humility and self forgiveness.

God what was they were total. That relationship was totally gone. Sinimus did not want to see the But Paul Kennedy went in greatly I will pay your debt. I will do everything whatever he has told you.

Forgive me whatever. And the relationship was was restored. Relationship was restored. It was forgiven.

So God can use you can use me to bring people to bring the church together to bring one another together in the family. God can use the husband in the in the family. God can use the the wife to make sure there is peace in my soul. So you cannot say I'm not among he's not there.

Even some of the people will be put in Sapphire Seeing them being in peace they say okay, he will go in there want to Paul did not do that. God is for God can give you to heal the broken relationship. We need to have a broken that our relationship needs to be come here in this church. We need to do There are many, many example in the Bible that has shown us what this could be.

What this could be. Joseph forgave his brother who sold him until slavery. If it's me, if it's you. Joseph did not do anything.

They carried him and put a and they look for where the people were moving. They carried Joseph and as A slave. His brother, Blood brother. But what happened when there was famine?

Joseph did not remember that anything they were looking. What? Who is this person that being so favorable to them? Can we do that as a church?

Can we do that as a body of Christ? He did not remember again, he did not think about it. There's no time. We read it in Genesis, chapter 45.

You would have seen it very, very well. Details. He did not. He didn't.

What about that? My junior brother, there's another person said, go and bring him. He was a gang. Not minding the church, not minding what they did.

David remember. David spared King Saul despite Saul's hatred. So which one are we looking at? Which one are we going to die?

So no relationship is beyond God's power to heal when there is a genuine repentant forgiveness. No one, no relationship. He said, he did this to me. What did he do?

Is it more than that of Joseph? What did they do? Is it more than that of Jesus Christ? Say, I would not forgive.

Why? Broken relationship. We need this because this is the key to our healing. This is a key to our promotion.

This is a key to our breakthrough in businesses, whatever we are doing. But if we continue as a member of the church, at the church and still in the family, we don't have peace. No peace. It's going to be very difficult for us to reconcile.

Let's see. Genesis 33, verse 1. Jacob and Esau reconciled after years of Christianity. Remember?

Many years. Yes. Let's look at Genesis, chapter 33, verse. 1,.

Book of Genesis 23 from verse 1. And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looks, and behold, Esau came. And with him 400 men. Yes.

He divided the children into Leah, and unto Rachel, unto the 202 handmaids. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost. And there and her children, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. And he passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother.

And Esau ran to meet him. Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, see? And fell on his neck and kissed him. And they went.

Yes. And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, who are those with thee? And he said, the children which God has graciously given thyself say. Then the handmaids came near, they and their children.

And they bowed themselves. And there was a knew children came in and bowed themselves. And thereafter came Joseph, Naama and Rachel. And they bowed themselves.

And he said, what knivest thou by all These all these group which I met. And he said, these are to find grace in the sight of my Lord. And said, I have enough my brother. Give that thou has unto thyself.

And Jacob said, then I pray thee, if now I I have found grace in thy sight, then seeing thy presence at thy hand, for therefore I have seen thy face as though I have seen the face of God. And thou w pleased with me. Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee. Because God hath dealt graciously with me and.

And because I have the wife. And he urged him and he took it. Yes. So this is this.

You can see reconciliation. True reconciliation. True reconciliation. The broken relationship they had, Jacob and Israel.

Every situation he fell on his. And you look at the court being separated for a very long time. This one did not want to see this one. So how many of us in the church can live up to that?

You see others, you'll be happy. Somebody will not see nobody. You have a problem, you see him and you gladly receive you and apologize and come back together. This is what we need as a Christian.

As a Christian to move for the church to grow in grace. There are steps you can do, there are ways you can do to amend broken relationships and meet your problems. I said with the parable of this message I mentioned. Sometimes the person may not even know what is the problem.

But you look why you are not reaching there a sister. The sister know why not reaching a brother. You keep it there, put in your heart and be deployed. Sorry, something like this happened.

Yes, what you said these other things. Pray for God. Pray for God to get through. Because it's not really easy.

Sometimes you humble yourself. You need to humble. Need to humble and humble to go and sorry you offended me here. Sorry.

This is the reason why my heart does not be. Whenever I see you. No, you humble and come up that and you are ready to forgive. Sincerely ready.

Be ready. Be very ready to forgive. I forgiven you. I want that relationship to come back together.

I want us to start doing things together. I want us to start praying together. What would it be? A wonderful family.

What would it be? And I assure you in this service that all the broken relationship will be restored here in Jesus name, wherever, in the family, in homes, in school, in whatever it is, they will be restored. If you take these steps. If you take steps as we are going to pray, God is going to restore.

And lastly, you need to continue showing love. Continue showing love is very difficult. Continue showing love. It will repair.

This will happen. This will continue showing love. Jesus Christ did it. Jesus Christ did it.

We've had it. Joseph did it. Continue showing love. Continue showing love.

God will intervene and there will be a that relationship will be restored in Jesus name. Amen. Reconciliation often require humility more than being right. Sometimes you say I'm right.

What did I do? I didn't do anything. No to amaze broken relationship. You must drop that.

I was right to be what he was the one that turned into me. Do me. I do you. God.

No effects. No, not me. That should not be abortion. That should not be a word Broken relationship.

God will reconcile. God will do it. If you make it. If you make it a day.

If you were ready to humble yourself, God will do it. God will do it. Romans chapter 12, verse 18 includes. Romans chapter 12, verse 18.

Yes, if it is possible as much as ysu live peacefully with all men. Live peacefully with all men. See what the Bible says. If it is possible because this is the key to our success, key to our progress, key for our health, key for whatever we need from God.

Key for us to excel if it is possible. As much as life in you try, try live peacefully with all men. Why God is saying is there are some people, no matter how you do, they will still not be ready to make relationship. But when you finish yours, when you finish yours, you shift your legs all over and go, you've done your best, you've done all.

God will see you through. God will restore you. When we forgive, we become more like Christ and experience God peace. That is it.

You will get peace that passes every understanding. So every word of bitterness and division in our life shall be broken in Jesus name. The Lord shall restore every relationship that is, that is not that has been broken with this in this service in our life from this moment in Jesus name. So let us as we are going to pray, whatever relationship, whatever thing you do, you'll be surprised as you approach that situation.

It will become very easy because God is in charge because God hand is there. He wants to do something in this church. He wants to do something in your family. He wants to do something in your life.

As you pray, God will move as God will use Paul as a youth ball to help in situation. He will move as he did with Joseph, as he did to many important ones that we have mentioned to restore peace in those areas in those families in Jesus name. I'm going to shout with prayer Rod Johnson Leaders in prayer It.