In the middle of this week on forgiveness, we're taking time today to look at what it means to live a lifestyle of continual forgiveness.

Over time, as we open our hearts and allow God to do a

continued work in us, we're equipped to develop a new normal, a new way of living.

So today we're looking at how we can live with a constant

openness towards forgiveness, equipped to both receive it and offer it, that

unforgiveness will no longer have space in our hearts.

May God encourage and equip you today and our time together.

Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our script here for today, Ephesians 4 26 through 27, says,

Be angry and do not sin.

Do not let the sun go down on your anger,

and give no opportunity to the devil.

Ephesians 4 26 through 27 offers revelation on an important and often unknown spiritual principle.

Scripture says, be angry and do not say. an often unknown spiritual principle.

Scripture says, be angry and do not sin.

Do not let the sun go down on your anger

and give no opportunity to the devil. When we allow anger to fester within us for days, weeks, months, and sometimes years,

we allow the enemy to gain a foothold in our lives that robs us of the abundant life provided us in Christ.

In Ephesians, Paul is clear that anger itself is not a sin.

It's when we allow anger to remain instead of choosing

grace and forgiveness that we break God's command. When people wrong us, the

natural response is to be angry, and that's all right.

Jesus himself was often angry.

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