Hey, hey, welcome to the church home podcast with Judah Smith. My amazing husband. My name is Chelsea,

and he is about to give you an incredible message. And I know we are going to hear about Jesus and his love for you.

And if there's anything we can do as a church home community, we would love to serve you.

You can come to churchhome.org slash pastor chat, and we would love to have a conversation with you and just meet

you exactly where you are. Enjoy the message. Hey, welcome back to weekly service. I'm so glad that you're here.

We are talking always about the person of Jesus and the good news surrounding his love and his

forgiveness. This month, we've dedicated these weekly services to probably my

favorite subject. Jesus is my favorite person, and my favorite subject is forgiveness. We're talking

about forgiveness. We've admitted that for a lot of people, the subject of forgiveness incites

kind of trauma or pain

because you have felt forced to forgive people you don't want to, that frankly don't deserve it,

haven't earned it, or worked for it. Well, I got good news. This entire series starts with this

idea that you are freely forgiven. And that forgiveness is

for you and it's forever, but it's also for everybody. Everybody can be forgiven. And by letting

even the people that have hurt you be forgiven, you let yourself go and you experience more freedom. And I think

it even aids in your mental health. This week, we're talking about how forgiveness is not merely

the pardoning of a person, the removing of judgment, the removing of consequences, or the removing of guilt, but it's also

something that is added to you. It's something that is restored to you. Forgiveness, its end,

is a restoring of relationship. So I want to read in Romans chapter 3, this is kind of the passage we built this whole month on.

It says every single one of us of sin and we need the glory of God or we need the essence of God.

But through his powerful declaration of acquittal, God freely has given away his righteousness.

His gift of love and favor now cascades over all of us because of Jesus,

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