Welcome to part 2 of Dr. Larry Nelson, second Corinthians chapters 1 through 7.

What do you want to do next here with Paul's letter to the Corinthians?

Since we've really talked about the sources of our afflictions, of our trials, of our pains, of our sufferings,

as being the conditions of mortality, our own bad choices,

and the bad choices of others that affect us,

I think we ought to look at some of the verses that, where in Paul teaches us,

okay, part of acting rather than being acted upon,

and how you can be made free from the effects of these choices, your own or others,

and that's maybe talk a little bit about the verses that deal with forgiveness and repentance.

And I'd like to maybe introduce these by having us think about the analogy of being in a car race,

think of NASCAR, some other car race, and you're in your car revving your engine,

and they waive the flag to go, how well is the race going to go if you're constantly looking in your rearview mirror?

Trying to race forward, but looking in your rearview mirror.

Well, when we're thinking about development, this process of becoming,

progressing, moving towards the divine destiny that each of us has to become, like Emily parents,

we can't do that if our view is always backwards.

If some of our challenges come from the bad choices of others that impact us,

we have the beauty of forgiveness, which is simply put,

we stop looking in our rearview mirror of what was done to us, and we start looking forward.

If some of our challenges come from our own bad choices, then simply put,

repentance is this process where we stop looking in our rearview mirror,

and we start moving forward.

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