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A Time To Forgive
by Scott Bauer
Text: Luke 7:40-50
Topic: Why unforgiveness is an obstacle to love
Big Idea: Forgiving others frees us to experience God's full redemption and hope.
Keywords: Forgiveness; God, Grace of; Love, divine; Love, human; Relationship; Security in God: Sin
Introduction:
- Illustration: Son realizes his need to forgive his father.
- Illustration: Woman wounded by friend who did not value her growth in Christ.
- Forgiveness is central to Jesus’ parable in Luke 8:40-50.
We don’t forgive because we want to retain control.
- Illustration: Overcompensating for minor injury ends career of pitcher Dizzy Dean.
- Don’t let little things get in the way of forgiveness.
- Jesus has broken the power of unforgiveness.
God’s forgiveness is conditional.
- God’s love is unconditional.
- Our response to that love determines whether God’s forgiveness will be ours.
- One of the conditions of forgiveness is confession of sin.
- Where there is much forgiveness, there is much love.
Forgiveness offers no guarantees.
- Our memory of past wrongs makes it hard to forgive.
- Forgiveness offers grace.
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