What Forgiveness Really Means | Redefining Love (1 Cor. 13)

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🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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We continue our series Redefining Love on 1 Corinthians 13. In this episode Keith discusses 1 Corinthians 13:5, where Paul writes that love keeps no records of wrongs and discusses what forgiveness really means from a biblical perspective. If you live in the Columbia area, we hope you’ll join us in person. Our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/about/sundays/ (website) has all the info you’ll need. You can follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO/ (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram) or https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Twitter). Want to learn about more 1 Cor 13? Here are some recommendations. Beginner: https://www.amazon.com/Loving-Jesus-Loves-Philip-Graham/dp/1433524791 (Loving the Way Jesus Does). Intermediate: https://www.amazon.com/within-Limits-Smedes-1-Jan-1959-Paperback/dp/B013ILF570/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=love+within+limits+smedes&qid=1564155275&s=digital-text&sr=8-1-fkmr0 (Love Within Limits). Advanced: https://www.amazon.com/Charity-Its-Fruits-Living-Light/dp/143352970X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OKP9IGJZ03Z4&keywords=charity+and+its+fruits+by+jonathan+edwards&qid=1564155319&s=gateway&sprefix=Charity+and+its%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1 (Charity and it’s Fruits). All the links mentioned in this episode: Website: https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/about/sundays/ (https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/about/sundays/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO/ (https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO/) Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/TheCrossingCOMO/ (https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/) Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/) Books – Loving the Way Jesus Does: https://www.amazon.com/Loving-Jesus-Loves-Philip-Graham/dp/1433524791 (https://www.amazon.com/Loving-Jesus-Loves-Philip-Graham/dp/1433524791) Love Within Limits: https://www.amazon.com/within-Limits-Smedes-1-Jan-1959-Paperback/dp/B013ILF570/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=love+within+limits+smedes&qid=1564155275&s=digital-text&sr=8-1-fkmr0 (https://www.amazon.com/within-Limits-Smedes-1-Jan-1959-Paperback/dp/B013ILF570/) Charity and its Fruit: https://www.amazon.com/Charity-Its-Fruits-Living-Light/dp/143352970X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OKP9IGJZ03Z4&keywords=charity+and+its+fruits+by+jonathan+edwards&qid=1564155319&s=gateway&sprefix=Charity+and+its%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1 (https://www.amazon.com/Charity-Its-Fruits-Living-Light/dp/143352970X/) Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to drive across town.
0:10.0	I'm Keith Simon.
0:12.0	And I'm Patrick Miller. right now we are working through 1st
0:15.2	Corinthians 13 which is Paul's definition of love. He wrote this chapter to a church
0:21.2	that was struggling with people arguing among themselves because they are motivated by their own self-interest.
0:27.0	This church was struggling with self-righteousness so that some of their members were looking down on others.
0:33.0	They were struggling with this thought that if they knew a lot,
0:36.0	that somehow they were spiritually mature.
0:39.0	And Paul's trying to correct all that.
0:41.0	He's trying to teach them that the way of Jesus is the way of love. But more than that, he's
0:46.2	trying to teach them what love looks like. And so we've been going through this chapter,
0:52.0	phrase by phrase, looking at how love is manifested in our
0:57.7	life. And so we're ready for a great little phrase, I think a really helpful phrase that defines love and it is this love does not
1:07.3	keep a record of wrongs. Love does not keep a record of wrongs which implies that love forgives.
1:16.0	Now before we say anything else I just want to point out that that gives us a really helpful insight into what forgiveness is and isn't.
1:25.0	Sometimes I think we have a misconception of what forgiveness is, and we think that forgiveness means to forget.
1:33.8	So if you haven't forgotten how someone hurt you,
1:36.3	you haven't truly forgiven them.
1:39.2	But that can't be the biblical definition of love
1:41.9	because God forgives us in Christ but that
1:45.1	doesn't mean he forgets our sins against him. How could an omniscient all-knowing
1:51.0	God forget anything.
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