The Power of Forgiveness & Forgetting

Summary

Discussed by Richard Sutton is the importance of forgiving others of wrong and forgetting those wrongdoings.

As we go throughout our lives others will, whether unintentionally or not, do something to wrong us or hurts us. We as humans can find in hard to forgive others and especially forget the wrongdoings of others.

In Ephesians 4:31-34 Paul says "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you."

We make mistakes and therefore have offended God and yet God is very patient with us and God continues to forgive us. If you go by the mark of seven times seventy or 490 times in terms of our relationship with God and how often he has forgiven us then we have surpassed that 490 mark a long time ago. Yet God is continuing to be tenderhearted, patient, and kind to us, so we are to also be forgiving toward one another.

Philippians 3:13-14 also talks on the need to forget by saying "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

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