Love Forgives
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
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.
Our Scripture for today comes from Ephesians 4:32, and today's worship is Landslide by Rita Springer.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we're going to look at the role of forgiveness and putting our love into action. |
| 0:11.0 | In God, we have forgiveness for every sin we can commit. And that forgiveness not only washes us clean, |
| 0:19.0 | but empowers us to become like our great |
| 0:22.6 | forgiver. Every day we're wronged in some way and every day is an opportunity to |
| 0:29.4 | show others forgiveness not because they deserve it but because loving forgiveness is |
| 0:35.7 | the way of our good shepherd, the author and founder of our faith. |
| 0:41.5 | May God empower us to forgive as He does today. |
| 0:45.5 | Welcome to the First of Teen Podcast. Our verse for today comes from Ephesians 4, verse 32. |
| 1:08.0 | Scripture says, Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, |
| 1:14.3 | forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you. |
| 1:21.2 | We're promised forgiveness from our Father |
| 1:23.9 | because His forgiveness is offered in complete grace. |
| 1:30.1 | Ephesians 1 7 says, |
| 1:36.2 | In Jesus, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, |
| 1:39.2 | according to the riches of His grace. |
| 1:43.4 | We have done nothing to deserve the forgiveness God so freely lavishes upon us. |
| 1:47.0 | God offers us forgiveness because He is love. It is His very nature. |
| 1:54.0 | And as Jesus demonstrated through his death, love forgives. |
| 2:01.8 | Sin stood between us and God, like a great chasm separating a wanderer from an oasis. |
| 2:09.7 | And so great was the Father's love for us that he sent his only son that we might be justly forgiven. |
| 2:18.3 | Jesus fully bore the weight of our sin. |
| 2:21.3 | And in doing so, he received the wrath of God on our behalf, |
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