Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope.

Now we're going to continue our series today called Building My Life on Values That Last.

And Rick will press on and show us how we benefit when we apply the biblical principles of trust,

self-control, balance, respect, forgiveness, moral purity, fairness, honesty, and love to our lives.

And right now, let's join Rick as he shares the final part of a message called

Offering Forgiveness.

In order to experience the freedom of forgiveness, you have to do these four things.

Number one, recognize we're all imperfect.

That's the first step. Recognize we're all imperfect. That's the first step. Recognize we're all imperfect. You see

when we hate somebody we tend to lose our perspective about them and when we're

filled with resentment and when we're filled with bitterness and when we're filled with hurt,

we tend to dehumanize the offender.

We treat them like an animal.

We demonize them. We forget that they're a human being too.

And the fact is, we're all sinners.

We're all capable of hurting others.

And the fact, let me say it this way.

Every one of us have intentionally wronged other people in our lives.

Oh, not the same degree, not even in the same way.

But you have been selfish in your life, and so have I.

And you have intentionally hurt people, and so have I. And you have intentionally hurt people and so have I. So we're all in the same boat.

The Bible says this. In Ecclesiasties 7, there's not a single person in all the earth who is always good and

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