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(f) Damages one's personal witness. The highlight of your testimony is salvation which centers on the fact that the Lord has forgiven all your sins. How can you stress the importance of this if your listeners, neighbors, friends, families, colleagues e.t.c. can't see even a hint of forgiveness in your own life.
(g)It deprives one of grace, because it feeds the root of bitterness that arises in human heart. When we fail to forgive immediately, offence, wrath and unforgiveness turns into bitterness which - like some spiritual infection - poison our spiritual life and deprive us of God's grace.
(h) It opens the door for torturers in our lives. Eph. 4:26- 27, Matt.18:34- 35. When God is forced to discipline us because of an unrepentant heart, "He" takes away "His" protection from us. Then Satan does everything in his power to make our lives unbearable and miserable. He causes physical and emotional illness that can't be cure by human medicine . God is not the author of tragedies. Job 1:9- 22. It is the devil whom the Bible called wicked. Through unforgiveness a person destroys God's protective wall around his life and becomes a victim of the one who seeks to devour - the devil. 1Pet. 5:8; Pr. 16:4; Ecll. 10:8; Ps. 80:14- 19............. to be continue.
Stay posted. Shalom.