A Lifestyle Of Continual Forgiveness
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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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.
Our Scripture for today comes from Ephesians 4:26-27, and today's worship is Forgiveness by Jason Upton.
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| 0:00.0 | In the middle of this week on Forgiveness, we're taking time today to look at what it means |
| 0:09.6 | to live a lifestyle of continual forgiveness. |
| 0:13.1 | Over time, as we open our hearts and allow God to do a continued workiness, we're equipped |
| 0:18.8 | to develop a new normal, a new way of living. |
| 0:22.8 | So today, we're looking at how we can live with a constant openness towards forgiveness, |
| 0:28.8 | to both receive it and offer it, that unforgiveness will no longer have space in our hearts. |
| 0:35.5 | May God encourage and equip you today and our time together. |
| 0:39.2 | Welcome to the First of Team, podcast. |
| 0:51.6 | Our scripture for today, Ephesians 4 26 through 27 says, |
| 0:56.5 | Be angry and do not sin. |
| 0:58.9 | Do not let the sun go down on your anger and give no opportunity to the devil. |
| 1:05.8 | Ephesians 4 26 through 27 offers revelation on an important and often unknown spiritual principle. |
| 1:13.7 | Scripture says, Be angry and do not sin. |
| 1:17.0 | Do not let the sun go down on your anger and give no opportunity to the devil. |
| 1:23.5 | When we allow anger to fester within us for days, weeks, months, and sometimes years, |
| 1:30.9 | we allow the enemy to gain a foothold in our lives that robs us of the abundant life provided us in Christ. |
| 1:38.6 | In Ephesians, Paul is clear that anger itself is not a sin. |
| 1:43.2 | It's when we allow anger to remain instead of choosing grace and forgiveness that we break God's command. |
| 1:51.6 | When people wrong us, the natural response is to be angry, and that's all right. |
| 1:57.1 | Jesus himself was often angry. |
| 1:59.9 | Matthew 21 12 tells us, and Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, |
| 2:06.5 | and he overturned the tables of the many changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. |
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