Today we continue our week-long focus on forgiveness by looking at the incredible gift of forgiveness we've been offered in Jesus.

Every command that God's given us, he's already supplied the grace to live in obedience to, and 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. Welcome to the first of team

podcast. Ephesians 432 says,

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God and Christ forgave you.

Before we have the ability to live a lifestyle of forgiveness, we must discover the depth of

forgiveness that we've received in Jesus. God's love is the foundation for our own love.

His forgiveness is the foundation for our own forgiveness. In order to love to greater depths, we must continuously reflect on the nature of our own sin

and God's overwhelming mercy.

In Luke 7 44 through 47, Jesus reveals an important spiritual principle about forgiveness, sacrifice, and love.

A sinful woman has just come and ministered to Jesus,

cleaning his feet with her own tears, hair, and alabaster ointment.

When Simon, a Pharisee, saw the incredible act of love,

he judged the woman in Jesus in his heart. And knowing Simon's

thoughts, Jesus said to him, do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my

feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in,

she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has

anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore I tell you, her sins which are many, are forgiven,

for she loved much, but he who is forgiven little, loves little.

He who is forgiven little, loves little. Allow Jesus' words to settle into your heart for a minute.

God turns our greatest sins into his greatest triumphs.

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