Adam sinned against God by Richard Roberts
So if a person says, “I’ll forgive them when they come and say I’m sorry,” they’re holding on to unforgiveness, which will eventually develop as a root of bitterness, which will fuel sickness and disease. And we’ll get into that in a minute. But the reason a person cannot forgive is because they’ve forgotten what they’ve been forgiven of. We deserve now let me tell you what you and I deserve, every one of us we deserved hell. When Adam sinned against God, the Father could have looked at the Son and said, “They disobeyed us. They chose the devil. Let them all ago to hell. We’re going to go over and create another universe and create somebody that really loves us.” But God chose, when we didn’t deserve it, to send His Son. And Jesus left glory and came, and He died on the cross for us when we did not deserve it.
Now a Christian that does not realize what he’s been forgiven of as a Christian doesn’t have a revelation of hell. I wish every believer could see hell for 30 seconds. I know three people personally that have been to hell. One friend is a pastor in the Caribbean. He died, was dead 45 minutes, and went to hell. His dad took him to a church, but he wasn’t a believer. He went right to the entrance of hell.
When he told my wife and I about it that one night, I’m telling you, the fear of God hit me. And I was thanking God that the Holy Spirit revealed Jesus to me. He said, “John, I have never experienced fear. There is no fear in this earth like that. There is no torment on the earth like that.” And yet he was brought back, and today he’s pastoring a great church.
Well, we have to understand God freely forgave us from that. That’s what we deserve. So a believer that cannot forgive is a believer that’s forgotten what we’ve been forgiven of. The worst sin that I can think of on the face of this earth, Richard and Lindsay, is child molestation. Now if you can think of something worse, you tell me, but I can’t think of one worse. As horrifying as that is when an adult physically abuses a child, as horrifying as that is, that is nothing compared to hell. If that’s what that child deserved, that’s what you deserved, that’s what I deserve, but yet Jesus forgave us.