Forgiveness (Part III)
Forgiveness is God's gift to us to release us from the control of someone who has hurt us.
Transcript
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.