Teaching | Transform or Transmit | Forgiving As We Have Been Forgiven E02 (From the Archive)
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
How do we truly forgive from the heart? John Mark unpacks Jesus' radical call to forgive without limit and shows us how to absorb evil into ourselves with God's help, becoming agents of healing instead of remaining victims.
Key Scripture Passages: Matthew 18:21-35; Luke 23:32-34; Ephesians 4:30-5:2
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Commerce Teachings podcast. My name is Yinka Dawson and I'm your host. |
| 0:09.7 | Each week we feature teachings by John Mark or other voices in the formation space and it's great to have you with us. |
| 0:15.8 | We're continuing our series on forgiveness this week with a teaching from John Mark. |
| 0:20.2 | John Mark talks about how once we release |
| 0:22.3 | someone, we actually need to release our own heart from anger, exploring how we can transform our pain |
| 0:28.6 | rather than transmitted to become agents of healing in our broken world. Here's John Mark. |
| 0:36.1 | Hey, if you have a Bible, please turn to Matthew Chapter 18. |
| 0:40.7 | Last week, we kicked off a brand new practice on forgiving as we have been forgiven. |
| 0:48.5 | If you were not here, please go back and listen to the podcast, a lot of myths and misconceptions around this idea |
| 0:55.6 | of forgiving, and it was Bethany Allen at her best. |
| 0:58.8 | So please catch up on that. |
| 1:01.2 | For tonight, let's start off in Matthew 18. |
| 1:04.3 | I'm having, just FYI, I'm having some kind of an allergic reaction to an allergy medicine, |
| 1:08.6 | which is kind of counterintuitive. |
| 1:12.3 | So I feel like I had about 35 cups of coffee and not slept in days. So we'll see how this goes. All right? No promises at all. |
| 1:21.0 | Matthew chapter 18. He lied to me straight to my face, went behind my back, and cut me out of this business that |
| 1:31.6 | we had just started, stole my intellectual property, went on to make money off of it. |
| 1:35.8 | We had both quit our job to chase after this like, craze was years and years ago, to chase |
| 1:40.5 | after this dream that was in our heart, And we had startup money set aside to live on |
| 1:45.5 | for just a little bit. But now here I was, like literally overnight. Not only had my dream been |
| 1:51.5 | crushed, but I had a mortgage payment due in three weeks and no way to pay the bills. To top it off, |
| 1:56.9 | he was my best friend, or so I thought. And we went to church together. Every Sunday I would show up, and there he was my best friend or so I thought. And we went to church together. |
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