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 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 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.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Ephesians 4 verse 32.

Scripture says,

Be kind to one another.

Tenderhearted, 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 we have 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, verses 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 and Jesus in his heart.

Knowing Simon's thoughts, Jesus says to him,

do you see this woman?

I entered your house,

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