In today's verse 15, we're going to look at the role of forgiveness in putting our love into action.

In God, we have forgiveness for every sin we can commit.

And that forgiveness not only washes us clean, but empowers us to become like our great forgiver.

Every day we're wronged in some way.

And every day is an opportunity to show others forgiveness,

not because they deserve it,

but because loving forgiveness is the way of our good shepherd,

the author and founder of our faith. May God empower us to forgive as he does today.

Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Ephesians 4 verse 32.

Scripture says, be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

We're promised forgiveness from our Father because His forgiveness is offered in complete grace.

Ephesians 1 verse 7 says,

In Jesus we have redemption through His blood,

the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of His grace.

We have done nothing to deserve the forgiveness God so freely lavishes upon us.

God offers us forgiveness because he is love.

It is his very nature.

And as Jesus demonstrated through his death, love forgives.

Sin stood between us and God, like a great chasm separating a wanderer from an oasis.

And so great was the Father's love for us that he sent his only son that we might be justly forgiven.

Jesus fully bore the weight of our sin. In doing so, he received the wrath of God

on our behalf, that we might be afforded, restored relationship with our Heavenly Father. He set

...