Accusations Can Do Incredible Damage; God Doesn't Want To Hear It

Revelation 12:10-11 & 2 Corinthians. 5:17-19

Practice saying 'I don't want to hear it' when negative reports and accusations come about people you know

Soul Food

“Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: ‘Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony….’”

- Rev. 12:10,11

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.”

- 2 Cor. 5:17,19

Soul Search

• Are you someone who feels it is your responsibility to report peoples’ failures and wrong-doing to others?
  If so, why do you feel it’s important to do that?

• If you feel it’s important to reveal other peoples’ mistakes and failures, is it possible there is something in you that needs to be repaired?
  Can you answer the honest question of why you feel it’s needful to expose others’ mistakes and failures?

• How often, when people have done something to hurt you have you said, ‘I don’t want to hear it’? 
  Is there a difference between putting your head in the sand in an attitude of denial that someone who hurt you couldn’t have possibly done it, as compared to the attitude of “Well, even if so-and-so did it, I don’t need to drag him through the mud to make him even dirtier than he already is.” 
  Can you recognize the difference between the two ways of thinking?

• If God covers and forgives our sins through the blood of His Son Jesus, which was shed on the cross, can we cover peoples’ sins too?
  The Bible says in I Peter 4:8, “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
  In what practical ways can you practice this?

Soul Moves

• Before you reveal others’ mistakes and failures publicly, ask God if that is the right thing to do.

• If you’re inclined to be the person who ‘reveals’ or ‘exposes’ other peoples’ sins, ask God to show you if there is failure or sin in you that together He and you need to deal with. 

• Ask God to perfect His forgiving love in you so that you don’t need to hear reports about other peoples’ failure and mistakes – especially when they impact you directly.

• Is there someone you no longer have a relationship with because they hurt you?
  Can you believe God to heal your heart and give you an attitude of covering over their sin?