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 would no longer have space in our hearts. May God

encourage and equip you today and our time together. Welcome to the

First of Teen podcast. Our scripture 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 26 through 27, offers revelation on an important and 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.

Matthew 2112 tells us, and Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in

the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold

pigeons. Jesus was consistently angry with those who claimed to know God

and took advantage of others.

Nothing made him more angry than Phariseical people.

But Jesus also modeled forgiveness of the highest form.

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