Our Forgiveness in Jesus

First15 Devotional

First15

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today we continue our weeklong focus on forgiveness, by looking at the incredible gift of forgiveness we’ve been offered in Jesus. Every command God has given us, he has already supplied the grace to live in obedience to. Forgiveness is no different. May we find the grace to forgive as we rest in the forgiveness we’ve already been offered through our Savior.

Our Scripture for today comes from Ephesians 4:32, and today's worship is Forgive Me by Tenth Avenue North.

Thanks for listening to today’s First15 Podcast. My name is Ryn, and I’m a part of the First15 Team. If you haven’t downloaded our brand new First15 app, make sure to click the link in today’s show notes to check it out! One of the new features that you can enjoy when you download the app is our Guided Prayers. We are adding new prayers to our library every month, so if you need a moment of peace with God, let these prayers be your guide!

Do you ever struggle with forgiveness? Sometimes it’s difficult to understand how to translate God’s forgiveness of us so that we can learn to forgive ourselves. In today’s prayer, our friend Hannah Smith points us to scripture as she helps us engage with the Lord about what that really looks like. She reminds us that it is God’s forgiveness of us that helps us know how to extend the same to others, and helps us see that our confession is what truly opens the door of our hearts to receive both the mercy and forgiveness of God in a profound and life changing way.

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0:00.0	Today, we continue our week-long focus on forgiveness by looking at the incredible gift of forgiveness
0:10.3	we've been offered in Jesus. Every command God has given us, he has already supplied the grace
0:16.9	to live and obedience to. Forgiveness is no different. May we find the grace to forgive
0:23.2	as we rest in the forgiveness we've already been offered through our Savior. Welcome to the
0:29.1	First 15 podcast. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God
0:36.9	and Christ forgave you.
0:38.6	Ephesians 4.32. Before we have the ability to live a lifestyle of forgiveness, we must discover the depth
0:46.1	of forgiveness we have received in Jesus. God's love is the foundation for our own love. His
0:52.3	forgiveness is the foundation for our own forgiveness. In order to love
0:57.1	to greater depths, we must continually reflect on the nature of our own sin and God's overwhelming
1:04.1	mercy. In Luke 744 through 47, Jesus reveals an important spiritual principle about forgiveness, sacrifice, and love.
1:13.7	A sinful woman has just come and minister to Jesus, cleaning his feet with her own tears,
1:20.6	hair, and alabaster ointment. When Simon, a Pharisee, saw the incredible act of love, he
1:26.9	judged the woman and Jesus in his heart.
1:30.5	Knowing Simon's thoughts, Jesus said to him, do you see this woman?
1:34.7	I entered your house.
1:36.2	You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them
1:42.1	with her hair.
1:43.3	You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in,
1:46.3	she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet
1:52.6	with ointment. Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much,
1:59.0	but he who is forgiven little loves little but he who is forgiven little loves little.
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