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and Instagram. This week, Paul concludes our series on forgiveness by unpacking the real cost

of forgiving others.

Here's this week's Wednesday's word.

We will conclude our January series on forgiveness by considering what forgiveness requires.

Remember that forgiveness is a vertical commitment followed by a horizontal transaction,

which means forgiveness is an investment in your relationship with God and with one another.

As with all investments, there is a cost involved.

Let's consider six things that forgiveness requires.

Number one, humility.

When we stand in the center of our own universe with nothing more important to us than ourselves,

we find nothing more offensive than a sin against us.

And when pride allows us to think of ourselves as righteous, more righteous than the people we interact with,

who still sin against us in some way, then it is hard for us to forgive.

Quote yourselves, all of you with humility toward one another.

For God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

1. Peter 5.5.

Number 2. Compassion.

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