Forgiveness: Finding Freedom from Your Past

By Harvey R. Brown

Let's face it: the chasm between knowing you're forgiven and truly feeling forgiven can be vast.

Too many Christians carry the weight of past mistakes like a life sentence, unable to grasp the radical freedom God offers. Is that you? It's time to break those chains! Dr. Harvey R. Brown, Jr. doesn't offer easy answers or religious platitudes. Instead, he delivers a powerful, life-changing message about the Christian concept of forgiveness. This isn't just about fire insurance for the afterlife; it's about experiencing a complete transformation today.

This book is a call to action. It’s a challenge to stop living in the shadow of yesterday and start embracing the light of God's grace. Brown tackles the tough stuff: how to forgive the seemingly unforgivable, how to dismantle the walls of bitterness we build around our hearts, and how to finally forgive ourselves. God's forgiveness isn't a distant concept; it's a dynamic force that can revolutionize your life.

Discover how to unleash that power, break free from the past, and walk in the fullness of the freedom Christ bought for you. It’s time to stop just hearing about forgiveness – and start living it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Energion Publications
• Release date: Nov 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781631994821

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Table of Contents

The Universal Quest

Forgiveness Is God’s Idea

Believing Is Seeing

Steps to Receiving Forgiveness

A Heart To Forgive

Forgiveness Questions and Answers

Forgiveness Scriptures

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Forgiveness

Finding Freedom from Your Past

Harvey R. Brown, Jr.

Energion Publications

Gonzalez, FL

2013

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Copyright © 2013, Harvey R. Brown, Jr.

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The Universal Quest

You have made us for yourself,

and our heart is restless until it finds rest in you.

— Augustine

The stench is every bit as thick as the sea of humanity that huddles en masse along the banks of the river. A soup of sun-cooked mud and human dung oozes between pilgrim toes as they push their way into polluted waters. But the filth beneath their feet is nothing compared to the soul-stain that drives them to come to Allahabad year after year. The Ganges River in North India is thought to be a goddess. For the people along the water’s edge—literally tens of millions of them—the river holds hope that a ritual bath in her waters will somehow cleanse them of sin and release them from an endless cycle of reincarnation.

In the Philippines, barefoot penitents flog themselves with lead-tipped whips, and two dozen or so have themselves nailed to crosses in a series of crucifixions on an artificial hill. The decades old practice, which became established in the province as a form of religious vow to merit God’s forgiveness, annually draws thousands of curiosity seekers from around the world.

A famous American talk show personality with her own TV network has a spirit section as the focus of her immensely popular web site. Over a hundred million unique visitors find the latest new-age gurus offering advice on breaking free from guilt—including instructions on how to atone for your failures by learning how to consciously make a sacrifice in light of your desire for forgiveness.¹

A missionary in South Asia walks along the road on the outskirts of a city of nine million people. A young man named Srinu comes up beside him and asks if the American is a Christian. The answer is yes. When the missionary asks if he has a spiritual belief, the young man tells him all the things he is doing as a Hindu—going to