Thank you. Jesus often warned his disciples about the hypocrisy of the religious leaders.

In Luke chapter 17, he also exhorted his followers to watch themselves.

Today on Truth for Life,

Alistair Begg leads us through four questions

to check ourselves for evidence of hypocrisy.

He began with the question,

Am I causing others to sin?

And today he picks up with,

Am I learning to forgive?

Thank you. Am I learning to forgive? The disciple of Jesus needs to be honest and straightforward,

calling attention to wrong behavior rather than slandering the individual behind their back.

And where there is repentance, there will be forgiveness.

And so the believer mustn't be the kind of person who bears grudges. Instead, he must be the forgiving person. And so he says,

if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times comes back to you and says,

I repent, then forgive him. Well, does that mean that if he goes

over the top and goes to the eighth time, the eighth time you don't have to forgive it?

So you keep a little ledger. Seven, you're coming up to seven. You do one more. You're on your own.

No, that's not what he's saying. It's simply a picture. He says your approach should be

a continual and habitual forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not a feeling. It's a promise.

People tell me all the time, I can't forgive. It's not that you can't forgive. It's that you won't forgive. If I forgive somebody something, then at least this is involved. One, if I say to you, I forgive you,

then I'm telling you that I will not bring the matter up to you again. I will not bring it up to you

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