TRIPLE DECKER
Everyone has heard of the statement “The more, the merrier!”
When I was a little girl, there was a comic strip called “Dagwood and Blondie.” Everyone read the comics every Sunday. Dagwood always ate stacked sandwiches. So a big sandwich was called a “Dagwood Sandwich.”
When it comes to an ice cream cone or a sandwich, a “triple decker” is cool.
When it comes to Christianity, a “triple decker” could mean something else.
Let’s see what Jesus was teaching His disciples on this subject.
Matt.18:21-22 “Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.”
Jesus was giving them a teaching on forgiveness.
This was not an easy thing for the disciples as it was not for us when we realized we had to forgive people we didn’t want to forgive.
Right now I want to look at “compounding sin.”
FIRST lets’ talk to women who are on their second marriage.
How often has your husband done or said something that has infuriated you because that was what your first husband did and you hate it.
You told yourself that you would never take that again from any man. You married your second husband because he was different. You were sure he would never act like that and if he did. There is the door.
Sucker once but not twice!
So you DEVOUR him. How dare him! You sucker punch him!
You contemplate LEAVING him or having him leave.
You are hurt.
You are COMPOUNDING someone elses sin and putting it in your husbands’ back pack!!
Your poor husband is “sucker punched” because he has no idea what got you so mad. He has no idea what he has done. He loves you but now he thinks he is married to a nut!!
Get it OUT of his backpack! It is not his and don’t let him carry it.
Bury it in the deepest part of the ocean.
SECOND, you may have grown up in a home where your dad was very abusive to your mom. Physically or mentally.
You decided that you are not ever going to be like your mom. A small part of you is a man hater but you will never admit that.
Not all men. Just the ones that act like “dear ol’ dad.”
All of a sudden, your husband says something or does something that triggers off a thought. He is just like dad!
He better not think I am like my mother and will put up with his garbage.
No!! Not me!!
I’ll show this dude right now who I am and who he isn’t.
When I am done, he will never do or say that again!
No!! Not to me!!
You hit him with everything you have. You make sure he is down and will stay there for quite a while. How dare him!
Poor guy! He is not your dad! Get a grip!
You have just been “sucker punched” by a lying devil.
This is exactly why Jesus said to forgive “seven times seventy.”
Jesus knows every trick of the devil and he wants you to live in peace.
That is how much he loves you.
You are COMPOUNDING someone elses sin and putting it in your husband’s backpack.
Don’t make him carry that UGLY thing around! He didn’t do anything wrong.
Maybe you are mad at someone at work or at home. Maybe you are mad at a friend or relative. Why are you COMPOUNDING that on his back.
Well, he does that to me!?! Forgive “Seven times seventy.”
Your forgiveness of others is the condition for God to forgive you. Mark 11:26 “”But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.”
CASE AND POINT: As a new Christian, I was very upset with my child who kept doing what I asked them not to. Every time they did it again, my anger would rise higher than the time before. It finally got to a point where they no longer were being disciplined for their action. They were being disciplined for all the other times they had done that same thing. God convicted me about COMPOUNDING. I knew I had to let it go and just deal with the one incident.
FREE your husband from “triple decker” COMPOUNDING! You will free yourself.
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