Do Christians Always Have to Forgive?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 1:00.3 | Is there someone in your life right now that you're not willing to forgive? |
| 1:04.2 | Few things are more difficult than forgiving the person who has wronged you. |
| 1:07.4 | In fact, not long ago, there was a Barnest study that found that nearly one and four practicing Christians, practicing Christians, has someone in their life, they simply |
| 1:15.2 | can't forgive. Forgiveness is something everyone wants, but not everyone wants to give. |
| 1:20.1 | As CS Lewis said in mere Christianity, everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until they |
| 1:25.3 | have something to forgive. Is it ever okay for Christians |
| 1:28.6 | not to forgive? That's what I want to tackle in this video. Why is forgiveness so hard? In his book |
| 1:41.6 | Forgive, the late Tim Keller wrote, forgiveness means that |
| 1:44.7 | when you want to make them suffer, instead you refuse to do it. And this refusal is hard. |
| 1:50.7 | It is difficult and costly, but through it you are absorbing the debt yourself. Some think by |
| 1:56.9 | remaining angry, they are giving the wrongdoers what they deserve. But in reality, you are |
| 2:01.6 | enabling their actions to continue to hurt you. So I think Keller was right on there. First, |
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