Finding Freedom Through the Art of Forgiveness

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Have you ever been betrayed by a close friend or a loved one? Does it seem impossible to forgive that person? In this transparent message, Pastor Phil Waldrep shares how to overcome the natural feelings of denial, bitterness, and a need for vengeance, by embracing biblical forgiveness. The benefits of forgiveness include relief from the pain of the betrayal, release from the need for retribution, and a healthy sense of detachment from the situation.

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0:00.0	Can I tell you something this morning?
0:04.0	You can try all you want to get even and get revenge
0:08.0	and even if you succeed, you won't be happy.
0:12.0	Because you'll still be in bondage.
0:15.0	Today on Focus on the Family, Pastor Phil Waldrop explains the pain of betrayal
0:21.0	and how to find freedom in forgiveness. Your host is
0:25.1	focused president and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller. Well the new year is a
0:29.6	great time to let go of old baggage and we're going to hear how to do that when it comes to
0:35.7	anyone who has betrayed us. Our guest Phil Waldrop is a pastor and the author of
0:41.6	the book Beyond Betrayal overcome past hurts and begin to
0:45.4	trust again. My guess would be a lot of the audience would put their hand up to say
0:49.4	okay I'm in that spot. So if you can't stay with us let me encourage you to get a copy.
0:55.0	And you can find that book Beyond Betrayal and other resources. We're going to link
0:58.8	over to those in the show notes. Here now is Phil Waldrip speaking at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia on focus on the family.
1:07.0	Several years ago, I was invited to speak in a church and I arrived and is the norm for most churches you go to
1:15.9	nowadays. There's a very clear plan for the worship service. You know who's singing and
1:21.4	who's praying and who's making the announcements and so forth.
1:25.0	And so we met the young worship leader, the pastor and I, along with some others, met before the service.
1:31.0	We went over in detail everything that was going to happen.
1:35.0	And the band went out and got ready, the choir was out, and the worship leader, the pastor and I,
1:40.0	were about to walk into the auditorium.
1:43.0	And as we got to the door, the door in that church,
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