Forgiveness is a beautiful word until you're the one that has to get.

Dr. Tony Evans says freedom is found in forgiving others.

To refuse to forgive is to burn a bridge over which you yourself must cross.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings

from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

It's easy to talk about forgiveness

when someone cut you off on the highway

or does something else to annoy you.

But when you're the victim of a hateful tragedy like the ones reported so often in the

news it's a different story. Let's listen into this classic message Dr Evans

delivered on how to follow God's ultimate example of forgiveness.

In collations chapter 3,

Paul the apostle says to forgive one another

in verse 13

forgiving each other.

It is the choice to release a person

from a wrong committed against you. Now let me clarify. Forgiveness

does not necessarily mean reconciliation.

You can forgive people with whom you are not yet reconciled.

That may or may not happen, but that does not determine whether forgiveness has occurred.

So please do not make the two equal. One can lead to the other, but one is not the other.

A Sunday school teacher asked the class,

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