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    Outrageous Forgiveness in 30 Days: The Benefits of Christlike Forgiveness
    Outrageous Forgiveness in 30 Days: The Benefits of Christlike Forgiveness
    Outrageous Forgiveness in 30 Days: The Benefits of Christlike Forgiveness
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    Outrageous Forgiveness in 30 Days: The Benefits of Christlike Forgiveness

    By Larry Lilly

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    When Christians start forgiving others as Jesus taught, the world will be the beneficiary of the greatest revival in history. Larry Lilly

    Forgiveness as practiced by many Christians fails to demonstrate Christ.

    The widows of five men travel into the jungle of the Aucas to live among the tribe and men who killed their husbands. They forgive in Jesus name the entire tribe is converted to Christ including the men who killed the missionaries.

    The Amish people of Nickel Mine, Pennsylvania, forgave the man who murdered their children in a small schoolhouse. The community experienced the spiritually healing effects by the grace of forgiveness.

    Outrageous Forgiveness in 30 Days, will encourage releasing the burden of bitterness against those who sin against you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateNov 22, 2011
    ISBN9781449731618
    Outrageous Forgiveness in 30 Days: The Benefits of Christlike Forgiveness
    Author

    Larry Lilly

    Larry has counseled Christian workers for forty-nine years. Accepting and giving forgiveness is central to his ministry. Larry has pastored Berean Baptist Church for twenty-one years.

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      Outrageous Forgiveness in 30 Days - Larry Lilly

      Outrageous Forgiveness

      in 30 Days

      The Benefits of Christlike Forgiveness

      Larry Lilly

      Edited By Janis Christy

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      Copyright © 2011 Larry Lilly.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      All scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, The Scofield Reference Bible, Copyright 1909, 1917; copyright renewed, 1937, 1945 by Oxford University Press, Inc.

      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      Edited by Janis Christy

      Photograph by Dawson Photography 426 Willow Street Terre Haute, IN 47802

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-3163-2 (sc)

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011961256

      Printed in the United States of America

      WestBow Press rev. date: 11/18/2011

      Contents

      Also by Larry Lilly

      Preface

      Day 1

      Day 2

      Day 3

      Day 4

      Day 5

      Day 6

      Day 7

      Day 8

      Day 9

      Day 10

      Day 11

      Day 12

      Day 13

      Day 14

      Day 15

      Day 16

      Day 17

      Day 18

      Day 19

      Day 20

      Day 21

      Day 22

      Day 23

      Day 24

      Day 25

      Day 26

      Day 27

      Day 28

      Day 29

      Day 30

      About the Author

      Also by Larry Lilly

      Lasting Friendships in 30 Days

      Booklets

      Put in the Hole for Praying

      God’s Purpose in Your Pain

      Golden Threads & Silver Needles

      The Security of the Believer

      The Rapture

      The Power of 57 Cents

      Christmas Reminiscence

      A Tribute to Mothers

      Hope for Your Darkest Night

      A Christian will find it cheaper to forgive than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirits.

      Hannah More

      Preface

      One day while praying about a painful situation, it dawned on me that I was not practicing what I had preached for years. I had to forgive the person who had seriously trespassed against me. When I did, the peace of Christ flooded my soul. I began a search for scripture passages, books, and articles on the subject and talked to people who had given or experienced outrageous forgiveness. This process literally changed my outlook on the Christian life. This book is the fruit of those years of prayerful thought.

      Without Joyce, my wife of forty-seven years and the mother of our children, who is the greatest outrageous forgiver I have ever known, I could not have written this heart-moving book. This dear soul has stood by me for more than fifty years. (We were engaged several years prior to marriage and were both saved the same night fifty years ago.) She has laughed with me and a few times at me, and we have shed our share of tears, knowing that Christ will take care of the tears in His time.

      Janis Christy is a longtime friend, who works in prison ministry with her husband, Don, where I met them while I was a serving a federal prison sentence. Janis also serves as executive assistant in the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel at Indiana University. She is responsible for extensive editing, thus making the book readable to English-speaking people. Thanks, Janis.

      Many others have prayed with and for me in preparing Outrageous Forgiveness for publication. I am eternally indebted to these saints of God.

      Day 1

      Forgiving the Auca Indians: Normal?

      I don’t suppose I will ever tire of writing about forgiveness. From gossip I heard as a young believer, this must be due to the fact that I have difficulty forgiving. I can recall one Sunday, back in the age when dinosaurs roamed the earth, a dear pastor had preached that morning on the now-unmentionable sin of adultery. While eating at a deacon’s house one of the dinner guests was certain that the pastor struggled with that sin, because the pastor had preached on the very same sin two years before, almost to the day. Hence, you have the theological reasoning for my conclusion that I will never cease to preach on forgiving those who trespass against me.

      Sprinkled through this book, you will find an occasional story of outrageous forgiveness. The following is but one example of the powerful way lives are changed when victims practice Christlike forgiveness with no qualifying buts.

      As far as I know, most Christians in the Western world have at least heard of the five missionaries killed by Auca Indians in Ecuador in 1955. Through a series of miracles of forgiveness by the widows, relatives, and friends of the martyrs, Dayuma, a young woman from the jungle, went to live with Rachel Saint, whose brother, Nate, was one of the martyred missionaries. In time, Dayuma received Christ as her Savior, and Rachel and the widows of the martyrs went into the jungle to reach the tribe for Christ. Their success is one of the most heartwarming sagas of all time.

      I was unconverted when I heard on the old radio about the slaughter of these men. Years later, I read the account in the book Through Gates of Splendor.

      Along the line, Rachel Saint was asked, Why did you go to those awful people who killed your brother? Her answer brings the Southern shout to the surface, yet it also hurts my heart, as I acknowledge the hard time I have with giving forgiveness. The fact that they killed my own brother just underscored the reason for my going to them in the first place. Quoted in Carol Hoikkala’s monthly newsletter, Hope for the Heart, sent out primarily to female prisoners. 1.

      To say the Auca Indians despitefully used the missionaries is an understatement. As I recall, over the years, the entire tribe eventually turned to Christ in faith, and several traveled the world, sharing their testimonies to that fact.

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