Forgiveness (Part III)

Hi, this is Dave Scherrerrer and we are here, you and I are here, at Kingdom Offerings, a part of 100-Fold Ministries, and we are now at the third of a three-part series on something I'm calling the Kingdom Disciplines, the Kingdom Disciplines specifically of forgiveness. This forgiveness idea is a critical theme in Jesus' teachings on the Kingdom of God. He's got a good deal to say about it. In our two previous podcasts from this one, we've acknowledged that we live in a for real world of hurt, and the hurt sometimes leaves a mark.

It's a mark that's either visible or invisible, and these marks tend to remind us of that hurt. So we hold the emotional blame and anger in a behavior known as unforgiveness, or if we want to be nice about it, we might call it holding a grudge. But whether we go nice with holding a grudge or direct by calling it what Jesus calls it, unforgiveness, in the priorities of God, forgiveness is a big deal. In our first podcast in this series on forgiveness about a month ago, we referred to some famous teachings by Jesus on forgiveness as a kingdom discipline, as a kingdom character trait.