In today's podcast, we're going to look at the role of forgiveness in putting our love

into action. In God, we have the 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've been 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.

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

Ephesians 1 7 says, In Jesus we have the 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 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 fully afforded, restored relationship with our Heavenly Father. He set aside what was fair

for himself and chose to give grace. For our sake, he made him to be sin who knew no sin,

so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Christianity is the only religion where salvation is based on grace instead of works.

God and His love has laid down before us a path founded on mercy,

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