BINDING, LOOSING AND FORGIVENESS

My Precious Child,
     If you will notice from both of the parables about binding and loosing, they refer to your attitudes toward certain people.  In the first one, in chapter 16, Jesus gave the insight into binding and loosing after He had taught His disciples and followers about being beware of the leaven, or doctrinal words, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.  Jesus said that the devil's woes would come upon them if they bound themselves to the beliefs of the politicians of that day.  (Matthew 16:6-12)  He told them to beware of the beliefs and attitudes of the politicians as a means of protecting them.
    Immediately after, when they came to the coasts, Jesus asked His disciples whom men said that He was, as if He was contrasting His words that He spoke and the words that the politicians spoke.  Jesus said that the truth of the key of My kingdom of heaven of which He spoke related to their binding themselves to His words instead of binding themselves to the words of the Pharisees and Sadducees.  The key is that if My children bind themselves to the politicians of their day by trusting in their divisive, discordant, hypocritical words, then they bind themselves to the demonic spirits behind the divisiveness of the politicians and they will inherit in their lives the curses of those same demons. (Matthew 23:13-15; Matthew 23:23-42)
   Likewise, if My children bind themselves to My words, the Good News, then they bind themselves to My kingdom of heaven and they inherit My blessings and rewards.  If My children loose themselves from the doctrinal words of the politicians and bind themselves to My words, then they are loosed from the curses of the demons who motivate politicians and they are bound to Me and My blessings and rewards. 
   In like manner, if My children loose themselves from the words of the Good News of My kingdom and bind themselves to the beliefs and doctrines of the politicians, then they loose themselves from My rewards and blessings and they inherit the curses of the devil.
    When Jesus Christ repeated His truth about binding and loosing the second time, (Matthew 18), He told the disciples about that truth of My kingdom after which Peter asked how many times he must forgive his brother.  Immediately previous to His repeating the truth about binding and loosing, Jesus taught that if a brother does something wrong that you must go to the person alone and talk about it between the two of you; but if he refuses to listen, then take two or three other people with you.  If he refuses to listen to two or three of you, then you must report it to the community; and if he refuses then he is to be treated not as a brother but as an unbeliever or tax collector, with kindness but not as a brother or sister in Christ, sharing the same beliefs.
    In other words, Jesus is telling them not to join in complete unity with a person who is doing wrong and who refuses your counsel to restore him or her to Me, or you might eventually be accepting his or her behavior as your own and bind yourself to the same demons that he or she has which would cause you to exit My kingdom of heaven and inherit the curses of the devil. 
    After Jesus related binding and loosing to that teaching about loosing themselves from a brother who is doing evil, Peter asked how many times he must forgive someone, asking if he must forgive someone seven times. 
    Jesus told him not just seven times, but seventy times seven times.  Even though someone continues to choose to do evil, Jesus was telling Peter that he must forgive the person, but do not bind with him or her in agreement with immoral unity.  Jesus was saying that if My children bind themselves to someone in immoral unity, they bind themselves to the demons behind the immorality.  However, it is important to forgive the person because the person does not know the power of the evil that he or she has chosen to follow.  When you forgive the person, you loose yourself from being bound to the person and the demon behind his or her immorality.
    Binding and loosing is a powerful and important truth in My kingdom of heaven.  Loose yourself from anything that would bind you to evil.  Loosing yourself frees you from evil, frees you from the devil's curses and brings victory into your life.
    Your Father of Truth and Freedom