Series: Letting Go
Matthew 18:12-17

I. We need to Personally Admit There Is An Issue

''If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.'' (Matthew 18:15, ESV)
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him (Luke 17:3 ESV)

II. Properly Access The Situation

''What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?'' (Matthew 18:12, ESV)

''And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.'' (Matthew 18:13, ESV)

III. Go Privately to The Person(s) Involved

''If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.'' (Matthew 18:15, ESV)

''Tell him his fault between you and him alone.'' (Matthew 18:15, ESV)

''If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.'' (Matthew 18:15, ESV)

IV. Persistently Apply The Effort To Reconcile

''But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.'' (Matthew 18:16, ESV)
''If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.'' (Matthew 18:17, ESV)
''Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.'' (2 Thessalonians 3:15, ESV)

Series: Letting Go
Ephesians 4:31-32

''Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.'' (Ephesians 4:31, NIV)

''Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.'' (Ephesians 4:32, NIV)

''Having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.'' (Colossians 2:14, NIV)

I. We Must Forgive Freely without revenge.
II. We Must Forgive Fully not partially. 
III. We Must Forgive with finality…period.

''And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.'' (Jeremiah 31:34, ESV)