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Making Forgiveness a Family Value
Forgiveness is a powerful tool that transforms families and breaks destructive generational patterns, allowing fathers to model healthy emotional processing for their children.
• Bitterness is like drinking poison meant for someone else, harming ourselves while failing to hurt the target
• Words either kill or give life—fathers must choose which they'll speak to their families
• Forgiveness doesn't mean the other person deserves it, but releases us from the prison of resentment
• Children learn how to process anger and disappointment by watching how their fathers handle conflict
• Political divisions provide opportunities to demonstrate forgiveness toward those with different views
• Asking children for forgiveness teaches them what healthy reconciliation looks like
• The most influential person in a child's life is their father—his example of forgiveness shapes their future
• Forgiving others creates space in our hearts for God's love to flourish
• Breaking generational patterns of bitterness requires intentional decisions to forgive
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Speaker 2:That's powerful stuff right there. So glad you're here. Well, welcome to the Father Difference. We come together to you live every week on Tuesday night at 5 pm. We got guys here, we got gals sometimes here, and I'm really excited about just talking with you tonight and sharing a couple things. I'm going to kind of hone in on a single area which is, I think, just vital for us as fathers. And so, if you're new to the channel and you're tuning in on Instagram or TikTok or somewhere else, I'm your host, ed Taney-McGlasson. Yes, I am sporting a New York Giants shirt. That used to be one of my jerseys that I played with in the National Football League and I've given my life, the rest of my life, to helping men become the fathers that God's called them to be, to helping men become the fathers that God's called them to be. And also on Thursday nights we do the Difference of Mother Makes. Actually, thursday at noon, the Difference of Mother Makes show, and that's also a live show and we've been getting a lot of gals there who've been checking in and learning how to unlock their men in a great way and serve them and be in their stories. And so welcome tonight.
Speaker 2:Tonight we're going to talk about the amazing, incredible, amazing gift and power of forgiveness and love in a family, of forgiveness and love in a family, because when you have that in place your family you're going to guarantee some things between you and your kids. That's just crucial. That's really crucial in their future With your grandkids, with you. It all depends on learning this skill as a man, as a husband, as a father, learning how to really forgive and to model that and to ask for forgiveness. We've talked a bunch about this, but in light of all the things that are going on in the world today and just the craziness and you know, you could say that the devil's on a rampage to get everybody to hate one another, trying to use the election to do it, trying to do, you know, all those things that he does. Things that he does because his aim is that he hates you if you're a father or you're a mom joining us, and he wants to dominate your children and ruin their lives. That's his plan. It's his plan in every single generation. It's that the devil doesn't like that. You are the object of the affection of the Lord, god Almighty, the Father in heaven, and his son Jesus, that he sent to die in your place and your ability to connect in to that love and forgiveness for you from God, that love and forgiveness for you from God, but also to live in a place where you're not carrying around stuff, where you get on your—. I remember my mom would say, man, you're getting on my last nerve. It's like she's got this nerve before the blow up. Well, that happens to us. Not sure what that all means, but we're going to talk about that tonight.
Speaker 2:I'm going to share with you just a couple of thoughts and scriptures about the power of this, because, from my seat and what I get to do as a personal coach, a family coach, is watch families come back together and when they learn how to really forgive from the deepest places inside of them, it changes things. Because you don't have to. You know you turn on the news today. It's just wah, wah, wah. It's just craziness.
Speaker 2:And God's after something, though. He promises, before the great and coming day of the Lord, that he is going to turn the hearts of fathers back to their children and the hearts of our children back to their father, and that is absolutely true, and you know what. You know what His agenda is. Now get prepared for this. I'm going to put on a hat that you've probably never seen before. I just had this made. I might have a whole bunch of them made for anybody here, and it's this right here.
Speaker 2:And some of you go oh no, not a Trump hat. No, god wants to make fathers great again. That's what he wants to do. You know what? He loves America, but he loves the people in America and, more than anything else, he loves the fathers in America. He loves the mothers in America, he loves the children in America, and the point of what God's been after and doing is that he wants to make fathers great again, and so, really to be a great father, one of the things that you must learn how to do is not only receive God's forgiveness for children. You've got to learn how to build a culture of forgiveness. Now, if you're tuning in here on Instagram or somewhere else, no, this is—it looks like a trumpet, but I've stolen the slogan because it just—God wants to make fathers great again. He wants to make you, my friend, great again, to where you feel like you're handling your kids and your life and your family and yet even loving mama the way you need to. So we're going to get right into this and talk about just a couple of things that we got to master and learn to do.
Speaker 2:Or bitterness—and we all know what bitterness is like because we all live with it at times—can poison the water of our kids. It can poison their life and they learn bitterness. And, as a matter of fact, I was dealing with somebody this week in a coaching appointment and the father actually even took his own life Devastating a thing. And boy, those kids are now having to navigate all of this stuff. But the one thing that happened in this man was he didn't know how to really get rid of the bitterness that started with his own daddy and that transferred now right into his family, and it ultimately caused him, just in shame and remorse and the regret of his life, to end up ending his life, and that is just a horrible, horrible thing for him.
Speaker 2:But the Bible says it this way, and that is the Bible says words kill. How many of you know that's true. But words also give life. Let me know that's true. But words also give life. They are either poison or fruit you choose. God puts that on you, puts that on me, matter of fact. We're in this chapter, right here, if you've not gotten this yet, I invite you to get a copy. You can get a digital version right away online or you can go to our ministry at thefatherdifferencecom and pick up a copy. I think they've sold out on Amazon. There might be some more there, but it's from my book, the Father You've Always Wanted. And here's the issue Words do kill and words do give life. We get to choose Poison, or that.
Speaker 2:I remember one time, kind of. You know thinking about you know bitterness, and I read somewhere that when you're bitter towards somebody and you're angry and you're rehearsing what they did in your head, it's kind of like making poison to kill them. But you drink a little bit every day and so it consumes you. You carry it your whole life. I've met veterans who, you know, get stuck many times in homelessness or in isolation because they're bitter. They were hurt, they were disappointed by the government, by people, or sometimes they're bitter against themselves because they survived and their buddies didn't, and so that thing just eats them away. But the Scripture says here you know, words kill or words give life. That's the power that you and I have with our mouth what you say, what you say to your children, what you say to your wife, your friends, what you say to yourself when no one's around? And I found at times when I'm really kind of critical out there with my children, when I am out there and read the hat, if you're just signing on, it says make fathers great again. So when you're drinking that, poison yourself and you're talking to yourself all day long because you feel broken, you're angry, you're disappointed, you're in shame. And then your kids come around, what do you? Got in a tank to speak into their life. That's what happens to us, but it doesn't have to stay that way. You know.
Speaker 2:One of the true things is that you know, the Bible says that God is love. Right, we all know that God is love. When we take up a permanent resident in the life of love, we live in God of love. We live in God Because the only way to really love—and the Bible says that we love because he first loved us—is when we receive it for ourselves and we're going to have it to live in our families. And so we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and matures in us. That's exactly what we want love to do, don't you? And if anybody boasts, the Bible says in John 4, I love God and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he's a liar. And if he won't love the person he can see, how can he say he loves the God he can't see? Oh man, wow, what a zinger. So true. If we don't love the people we do see, how can we say we love God that we don't see?
Speaker 2:Think about all the crazy political diatribes going on today, everybody fighting for their opinion to be heard, and the viciousness and the wickedness. And you know it's like we've got to stay in that place in our life. And really you know because, by the way, this election is really important, but it's not nearly as important as you learn to be a loving, present father. See, when you are a great father, your children are going to live a different kind of life. We can have a screwed up country, we can have an America that is totally screwed up, but if your children have a great father, guess what happens? They become bigger than the wickedness that's around them. That's one of the benefits of you being a present father in the life of your children is that the wickedness is trying to encroach on your family and those things that you worry about that are happening in the world and every generation says, boy, it's never been this evil people that have followed Jesus, it've never been this wicked. Oh, I beg to differ. Every generation has to face this. We all think the end is coming, but see, here's the truth of the matter. The most influential person in the life of your children is you, mom and dad, and especially fathers. They love their mamas, but they learn how to forgive many times by watching how their dads deal with anger. They learn how to deal with bitterness by how you deal with it.
Speaker 2:What do you do? Do you come home? And kind of, you know, I remember coming home from work and, you know, went out to a football player and I tell my wife just give me some space, I need to relax a little bit. Oh boy, that didn't go over very well. And you know dealing with playing football and making the teams and all the injuries and all the stuff I'm being served. I'm, you know, dealing with playing football and making the teams and all the injuries and all the stuff I'm being served. I'm, you know, serving my bosses all day long and doing all that.
Speaker 2:But in the midst of, you know, coming home, I made it all about me and my wife has waited all day long for a relationship and I just kind of told her, you know, back off Even my kids, they'd run to the door and daddy's home and after they come, running towards me, man, I tell you what, what a a powerful moment that could have been for me as a young dad. And I was like, hey, leave that alone, he's busy, he's got to get stuff done. And they started feeling invisible. They started feeling that I was pushing them away. Well, that that breaks the heart of your kids, right, because that's not what the bible calls us to do. Right? And and part of you know this scripture that he says if he won't love the person that he can see how he is he going to love God, he can't see. You, my friend, are the one who's teaching your kids about forgiveness.
Speaker 2:When I realized that it set me back on my heels, I went oh my goodness, I really am teaching my children about that. And so, in a real way, you can change the way your future family and your grandkids are going to deal with you and they're going to have issues. And I mean I got 13 grandkids. And I mean I got 13 grandkids and I remember, you know, I remember a couple of Christmases ago and you know, when we have Christmas over here, my wife spends months wrapping presents and our grandkids tear into those presents and what took her months to wrap them and shop and get them all. She's like Mrs Santa. Everything was unlocked within seconds, minutes, and they unwrapped and next thing the fighting was happening Because somebody got something that somebody else wanted and just that human nature that we all carry just starts coming out. And I remember one time and I was going to say something but my daughter, jessica, goes over and says okay, raleigh, you need to go ask your sister for forgiveness. You hit her because you didn't get the present you wanted. And he looks up at me, he looks up at his dad, it's going back and forth and he walks over and he hugs his sister and says Sorry, forgive me. I want to tell you that moment was so powerful for me because I realized that that moment started when I learned how to really forgive and let go of the hurt. And we all have hurt. How many of you got hurt? We all do so.
Speaker 2:The next slide. I want to share with you is the command that we have in Christ is really blunt. Loving God includes loving people. You've got to love both. You've even got to love people that are the opposite political party than you, because I don't know about you. It's really easy to bypass the fact that people who think differently than you or look differently than you. It's so easy when bitterness is a fruit in your life Remember we talked about bitterness in the beginning To just completely demonize that other person. And so what do you do? After you call somebody Hitler? What's the next level? Well, it's murder. You're already murdered in your heart and I mean it's just crazy stuff. Our ex-president got somebody tried to take him out again. We're those things.
Speaker 2:And yet there's a responsibility that you know. Think about all the words that have been spoken and think about, just with us and in our own lives, how angry we get with people lives. How angry we get with people, especially when they believe something differently than we do or have a different political party. See number one. They don't cease being human beings. They're still somebody that God loves, but we don't like them and many times we don't love them and many times we let that bitterness get on us and the problem is it leaks into our families and gets on our families and it causes incredible destruction. And I haven't spoke much directly into this, but I can't tell you how many coaching times I've had just dealing with the issue of political hatred to where it's. You know, if you're a Democrat or a Republican and you believe something differently, or an independent, the result of that conversation, if that person feels as though you're rejecting what they believe, it becomes a war.
Speaker 2:Families have been destroyed because of all this craziness. Even the woke ideology and all these things that really you know quite honestly, is from the pit of hell. It's from a place of just. You know. It comes from a group of people in the world who don't know who they are, who don't know the love of God, who don't know what it's like to be clear about who God's made you to be and to do it without shame and disgrace and fighting and manipulating and demonizing. When does all that end? When does it end to where you know families can be united? Well, let me tell you how it gets there. It starts with you, dad. God wants to make fathers great again. That's His commitment. It's one of the reasons he sent His Son Jesus? Because he wanted to get His fathers back. He wanted to get His mothers back. He wanted to give His families back and wanted to get his mothers back. He wanted to give his families back. And so, if you've got kids that are sideways, I'm going to share a few more things with you and then we're going to pray.
Speaker 2:But love prospers Say this out loud, it's just so powerful. My friend, jimmy Edwards, whom I love so much, gave this to me. It's just so powerful. My friend, jimmy Edwards, whom I love so much, gave this to me. It's in Proverbs Love prospers when a fault is forgiven. Love prospers when a fault is forgiven. Wow, it goes on. But dwelling on it separates close friends. We lost a friend because of a hurt issues.
Speaker 2:You know most of the kids that are going to junior, high and high school. They don't know how to forgive. They know how to get even. They know how to talk. They know how to you know shadow bomb somebody online and make fun of them, talk them down. They know how to destroy other people. Where did they learn it from? Is it just social media's fault? I'd like to blame social media. Social media is actually just you know, a place where kids come with who they really are, and it can ramp up the anger and the angst between people. But who do they learn forgiveness from? But would your kids say, man, my dad prospers in love because he's always forgiving people, he doesn't hold grudges, he doesn't get even, he loves. Because here's the truth Time to hydrate. Can you really get even with somebody who's hurt you? Can you get even? Can you make them suffer enough and see? So that's why Christ did what he did, because he wants to change something in us. He wants to break something in us that without Christ, we go to naturally, and that is, get even to make that other pay for what they've done.
Speaker 2:The problem is it doesn't stop as long as bitterness has taken root. Has bitterness grabbed your heart at any level? Maybe it's time to forgive. Don't work on. Well, one day I'm going to forgive them. Well, guess what? You'll be bitter the entire time and you're going to teach your children it's okay to have a lifetime of hurt and separate yourself from your cousins and your uncles because something he did to me when I was a kid.
Speaker 2:How many times have you heard that story? Matter of fact, they've taken bitterness. It's this current culture of lost kids who've gone to colleges with lost professors, where they're now blaming their life on what happened hundreds of years ago. They want reparations for the hurt. Can you really get it? Can you really make enough money to feel better? Some people go oh yeah, you give me a couple million, I'll feel a whole lot better. Well, no, you'll feel better until you run out of money, but you're still that cranky person that's there.
Speaker 2:See, the Bible says it really clearly get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, along with every form of malice. We've looked at this verse before, but I just feel compelled tonight to talk to you that listen with all your heart. Guard your family from bitterness, rage, anger and everything. And the way you do it, you first deal with it in yourself bitterness, rage, anger and everything. And the way you do it, you first deal with it in yourself. I mean, how many of you just, you're still angry by what somebody did, a friend might have done, somebody might have done in your life, and you've got to get rid of it. How do you get rid of it?
Speaker 2:There's only one way you forgive. Oh, wait a minute. That can't be that easy. Well, it's not easy, because Christ died on the cross not only for your sins that you would do. He also died on the cross for all the hurt of other people's sins that they would do to you. And so when you choose to forgive, it changes everything. When you chose to receive God's mercy and he saved your life and you were born again life and you were born again. When you did that, you now are held to the same standard of forgiving the way you were forgiven. Remember that scripture earlier that we're to forgive the same way that God forgives us. That's completely and ultimately.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you say, well, it's hard to do that. Well, of course it's hard to do that because there's places in our flesh that want to get even. We want to hit back, we want to do it. And it's interesting in the National Football League, it's the guy who throws the second punch that ends up getting the flag. Have you ever noticed that Somebody throws a punch and then the guy gets mad and he goes after the flag? Have you ever noticed that Somebody throws a punch and then the guy gets mad and he goes after the guy, and the guy who threw the second punch gets hit?
Speaker 2:And there's only one way to be able to deal with that in life is understanding that when Jesus died on a cross, he took all the hits that you would take too. He took all the sin that would be done against you from other people, all the wickedness, all the things that he took. It all on him, all of it. There was nothing left that wasn't poured out For all of eternity. Up to that moment, and for eternity, everything, every sin that would ever be done, was covered by Christ on the cross, so that when you get smacked in the face, you realize that Jesus took that too. When you get mistreated, he took that too. When you get talked about, he took that too.
Speaker 2:When you know that, when you get that, then why wouldn't I give mercy and forgiveness to somebody who is just as broken as me? See, that's the second part. It's really staying in touch with the fact that you are just as broken as that person that's hurting you, or that brother who said that or did that, or that brother who said that or did that. And when you live in that place of being in touch with God's mercy for you and receiving it because you asked for forgiveness, oh, wow, there's nobody you can't forgive, and not only that.
Speaker 2:One other slide Is there somebody that you need to forgive right now, or maybe somebody you need to ask forgiveness from? And so that's what we do business here, we don't just talk about, oh, that would be good if we forgive. We want to do it because the Holy Spirit has drawn you here tonight, whether you recognize it or not, because he loves you and he wants your family and your children to be healthy, your children to be healthy, and the only way that's going to happen is when we, as fathers, to be the fathers of God's call, because the way he makes us great again is that we model forgiving, we model giving forgiveness and asking for forgiveness. Giving forgiveness and asking for forgiveness yeah, that's one thing that I didn't get to mention. That's just part of this, and that is when we go to our children to ask for forgiveness. It teaches them what it looks like and I want to tell you I don't remember you know it wasn't modeled much of my house where my, my stepdad, cause, my dad was killed in action.
Speaker 2:That's forgiveness a lot. I knew he felt bad when he did things. He did the best he could. He was just a amazing leader and man, a naval officer, decorated submarine commander, and he was the Navy way, but I know he loved me, he was there. You know in his life that we had some great conversations about really the power of asking your kids for forgiveness, to some of which he did, and to others he didn't quite get there, but it sets them free. It set them free and it sets us free when we're not making bitter fruit and destroying our families.
Speaker 2:And so the way to deal with this is I want you to think who do you need to forgive? I mean, who's hurt you, that when you see them, you walk away in the room, you just walk another way. Or when you think about them, you can't bless them, because you know when you've forgiven somebody, you really, at the depth of your heart, you want God to bless them, and so you might say, well, they don't deserve it. Of course they don't deserve it. None of us, we don't deserve it. Of course they don't deserve it. None of us. We didn't deserve it While we were still dead in our sin.
Speaker 2:Romans 5.8 says Christ died for you and me, and so if God died for us when we were ugly and we were ugly towards Him we should do the same. We should forgive when people are ugly towards us, even people who don't agree with us politically which is, you know, first and foremost, right before us in the church Because you know bitterness won't help you even vote in this next election. You should—somebody would say well, how are you going to vote? Well, I'll tell you how I'm going to vote. I'm voting for—because right now, the government still gives us the ability to get to choose in our country, and if you're outside the country, you probably have a similar government Maybe not, but it gives us the ability. The civil authority gives us the ability to choose a president, or senators, or congressmen, et cetera. That's really a sacred right. I know this. What's astounding is only 40% of the Church of Jesus votes, and yet they probably all complain when it's not going well, like we all do.
Speaker 2:And so part of how I'm facing this whole thing is looking at both candidates and asking just a simple question from a grandpa which candidate is going to help my family to stay safe, keep us out of wars, going to enable me to be the best father and grandfather I can be? Because we're not choosing a pope in this election. We're not choosing a spiritual leader. We're choosing a civil leader who is appointed with delegated authority that God backs up when the votes are counted. And our job is to choose and really think through the issues. And I just want to help you with something. You've got to let go of your bitterness if you hate one of the candidates either way, because when I'm bitter at somebody I don't think straight and it's really easy, it comes right out of my mouth. I got to go. Lord forgive me. So the issue is it's not whether or not you like the candidate, but which candidate is running for president is going to give us the best shot at having great families.
Speaker 2:That's for life. That's a big thing. You know the babies are known by God in the womb. You know, before their first heartbeat. He knew way from the beginning. That's a big issue with me. I care about because I care about the baby. I want every right for moms and gals. You know it is her body, but that baby has its own body. I care about that deeply.
Speaker 2:And so some of those issues are very polarizing. They might be, but they're important to God and you take all those things you're thinking about with the litmus test of what the Bible says and you make the best choice you can. You'll never be perfect Because, at the end of the day, no matter who is elected, Jesus Christ is still King. His kingdom is coming. The book of Revelation lets us know that his kingdom will succeed, the devil will be defeated, the church will be glorified and we're going to spend forever and ever in heaven.
Speaker 2:So the only way to do that is you've got to get rid of your bitterness. So you've got to model that even with your kids. When you're talking about politics, you listen, you learn, even if they want to be different than you. But more than anything else in the midst of this, I'm going to challenge you with all that. You've got to keep your heart open, to listen to God and to forgive people, all of them. Forgive them, because people do a lot of stupid stuff, especially in the government right now. A lot of stupid stuff, and guess what I do? A lot of stupid stuff we all do. We're all broken and we all need a Savior, and so, if our heart's open, you never know who you get to share Christ with. You never know who's watching you, but the number one audience is watching you beloved is your kids. And so answer that question I talked about earlier. Is there somebody in your life that you need to forgive or to ask forgiveness from? You might hate a whole party politically. You got to get rid of that because you're not big enough in your life to get rid of, to hide that bitterness. It's going to salt everything in your life and it just would be devastating.
Speaker 2:And if you want some help before we get off, before we pray I want to pray with you is that I have a series that I'm doing right now. We're going through this book, the Father You've Always Wanted, and we have a ministry called the Father Difference, and our ministry is designed to help equip you and to give you every tool that you need in your life to be able to really live the life that God wants you to live. And if you do that as a man, as a father, it's going to make you a great dad, because you're going to be the kind of dad and father that your kids are going to want to be like. And man, that's a powerful day when that happens. So go to my website at thefatherdifferencecom. If you can get this book. There's a QR code there and you can go to our website at thefatherdifferencecom. There's a lot of stuff there. It's a free, daily devotional place to serve you. We're here.
Speaker 2:But all that to say, I want to pray for you. So I want you just to you know, if you're driving, don't close your eyes, but I want you to open your, I want you to put your hands in front of you and I want you to let the Lord show you. I'm going to pray for you, he's going to show you. I want you to let the Lord put in your hands maybe a name or somebody that you really hasn't forgiven yet. Maybe it's been years, maybe it's been 20, 30 years, and you know you've got a problem. When you say I just can't forgive them, of course you can. God forgave you for much worse. So I'm going to pray for you and then I'll lead you in this prayer.
Speaker 2:Father, I pray for my friends right now and I pray, lord, that you would put in their hands so they could see which they already know, but those people that they have held in a prison of their anger, maybe for years. Maybe it's a dad, a mom, an aunt, an uncle, somebody who's abusive. I pray, lord, that you would, right now, you would unlock that prison gate of their heart that's causing them, without them even knowing it, to being bitter, and I pray, father, right now, that they could say these words and just say, whoever that person's name is, just say it out loud and just say I choose to forgive you because Christ has forgiven me. Just say those words over whoever that is Maybe there's a lot of names and there's not enough time tonight. I want you to clear the decks this week and let the Holy Spirit bring up people that have gotten real estate in your heart and bitterness has sort of sat in there, and because when you have bitterness in your heart, you know what happens. You don't have a place in your heart for God's love.
Speaker 2:So, father, I pray for my friends. I'm so grateful they're here, I'm so grateful for their support and I pray right now that your Holy Spirit, I pray you'd fall on them, you would bless them. Holy Spirit, I pray you'd fall on them, you would bless them, you would open their hearts to come and get the ultimate healing of letting go of bitterness and hurt that many have carried for far too long. People are going to watch this video long after this election is over and I pray, lord, for those that are watching, that your heart would stay in this place of forgiving, no matter what has happened, so that their children see this and the model of forgiveness is now passed down from dad or mom to son or daughter, down from dad or mom to son or daughter, and their children and their children's children live in this place of blessing and love without bitterness ruling their family.
Speaker 2:I pray in the name of Jesus, a God, that you would break any generational patterns of bitterness from grandfathers to sons to sons to daughters. In the name of Jesus, lord, unlock forgiveness in them for the sake of their family, their children, and Lord, blow their minds by the relationships and begin to grow. In the matchless name of Jesus, I pray Amen, amen. Thanks for hanging with me. I'm so grateful that you're here tonight and I'm speaking to you from my studio here. It's one of my paintings here, the mountain that the people of Israel saw, mount Sinai. And yet God, you know God from that mountain gave us the Ten Commandments and all these incredible promises in the Bible so that you and I could live a life and be loved and to love other people. So remember, it's never too late to change your whole family story. You be the change agent. In the name of Jesus, god bless you.
