El Peligro de la Falta de Perdón

Who knew you'd make good of my mistakes? You're nothing like I thought you were, you're better. What a God, what a God. Oh, yeah. What a God, what a God. Oh, what a God, what a God. Oh, it's who you are. What a God, what a God. I thought you'd show it for prevention. 'Cause what kind of guidance for the lost? They say it's over for a sinner, but you say, no, it's not, no, it's not. Oh, you say, no, it's not, no, it's not. What a God, what a God. Oh, what a God, what a God. Oh, it's who you are. What a God, what a God. What a God, what a God. Oh, yeah. Matchless in honor, matchless in glory, deserving of the praise. Come on church, this is good, sing this with me. It's the highest place I'll reach is at your feet. And then I've done it all. It's the best thing that I've seen is your glory. And then I've seen it all. You love and save my life before ever satisfied. God, you are my everything. It's the highest place I'll reach is at your feet. And then I've done it all. It's the best thing that I've seen is your glory.

And then I've seen it all. You love and save my life before ever satisfied. You are my everything. And then I've heard it all. It's the best thing that I've seen is your glory. No treasure of this life could ever satisfy God. You are my everything. Oh, God, you are my everything. Oh, God, you are my everything. Oh, God, what a God. Yeah, what a God, what a God. What a God, what a God. Oh, Jesus, what a God, what a God. Come on, church is the highest place. And if the highest place I'll reach is at your feet. And then I've done it all. It's the best thing that I've seen is your glory. Oh, God, we've seen it all. You love and save my life before ever satisfied. You are my everything. You are my everything. And if the one word is the only thing you do. And then I've heard it all. If I feel your heart and never see your name. I can pass it out. No treasure of this life could ever satisfy God. You are my everything. Oh, God, you are my everything. Oh, God, you are my everything. And if the one word is the highest place I'll reach is at your feet.

And then I've done it all for the best thing that I've seen is your glory. And I've seen it all. You love and save my life before ever satisfied. ♪ You are not here ♪ ♪ Don't you believe it ♪ ♪ If one word is beyond the need ♪ ♪ You see ♪ ♪ That I'm living on ♪ ♪ The beauty of life ♪ ♪ Never see a way ♪ ♪ I still have it all ♪ ♪ No treasure of this life ♪ ♪ Could ever satisfy ♪ ♪ You are not here ♪ ♪ No one thought of you ♪ ♪ You are my ♪ ♪ Last time ♪ ♪ Oh God ♪ ♪ You are my ♪ ♪ Everything ♪ ♪ Yes, Lord ♪ ♪ You are today ♪ (audience applauding) ♪ Well, would you like to be on your part of the day ♪ Incredible honor for me to be with you today. I love this church. I've been a big fan of your pastor, and it is a huge privilege, a humbling honor to be a part of what God's going to do in the next several minutes.

You know, anytime you preach somewhere new, it's always a little bit awkward at the very beginning because you don't know me and I don't know you, so I think it's fair for me to share just a couple things about myself before I start meddling in your life. Amen. So let me go ahead and show you. This is a picture of my family. I brought a picture of them so that you can see my family. I have two kids in college. Otto and I have been married for a little over 26 years. Our kids are both in college pursuing ministry degrees, and I brought my son with me. My daughter is at Liberty University hanging out watching this online, but it's great to have them on this journey with us. We are a part of a great church, like Nick said, in Tennessee, a church that's very similar to your church. We're a lot of people, multiple campuses, a lot of services, and you know, if there's one thing I've learned just from being in the church world for a while, I've learned that churches may be different, the songs may be different, the look on the outside may be different, but people are people everywhere you go. I don't know if you've traveled much, but you go to this place or that place

and you'll recognize, like people are people. Let me give you an illustration of that. Raise your hand if you would say, "I have people in my life that I love." Anybody? Yeah, look around. That would be the same anywhere you go. You go to my church, ask the same question. People would raise their hand. I'm concerned that only half of you raised your hand. Let me try that one more time. If you have people in your life that you love, raise your hand, all right? Now, put your hand down. If you have people in your life that you don't even like very much, raise your hand, all right? Most of us should probably be raising our hand on that, but that's the truth. We're all people no matter where you come from, no matter where you're from. You have people you love. You have people that you don't like. You also have things that you're worried about today. You don't have to raise your hand for that, but there's a good chance. There's some things that worry you. There's some things that bother you. There's certain prayers that you're praying, and you're waiting for God to answer those prayers. And if we're being brutally honest today, I could say how many of you in this place

have been hurt by somebody in your life? And if we were being honest, we had always our hand, because all of us at one point or another have been hurt. You don't have to live very long before somebody disappoints you. Before somebody says something against you, or somebody says something that hurts you. And you know what I've recognized about in my own life? When somebody wounds me, I hold on to that a little longer than I wish I did. Anybody else say the same? That's something that I hold on to. Now I might forget why I walked into a room, or I might forget where I left my keys, or I might forget your name five seconds after you introduce yourself. But if somebody hurts me, or if somebody wounds someone that I love, someone I care about, all of a sudden I've got a photographic memory. I remember what they said. I remember what they did. I can remember what they were wearing in that moment where they did whatever it was that they did. Hurt has a way of sticking to us. Would you agree with that? Hurt has a way of sticking to us. Have you ever won an argument three days later while taking a shower? Am I talking to somebody that understands this?

You don't know what I'm talking about? You're like just washing. You're like, "Oh yeah? Well, I'll tell you." And all of a sudden you're like, "I've been there before." You're having a conversation with somebody three days later and that person's not even in the room. And that's funny until you realize what's really happening. You see, the person who hurt you may have moved on, but the hurt in your life is obviously still there. And that's something that we've got to deal with because when hurt is allowed to live on you, hurt in your life may become bitterness in your heart. And today, I believe God, about how dangerous that really is. If you have your Bibles, I wanna encourage you to open them to 1 Corinthians chapter six today. As you know by now, we're continuing the series through 1 Corinthians entitled 11 Dangers for Every Christian. And today we're specifically talking about the danger of unforgiveness, unforgiveness. In chapter six, we're gonna talk about that. Paul right here, as you know, is writing to a church that really had a lot of major problems. You guys have covered that very well. This was a church that had division, had sexual immorality, had pride issues. But now in chapter six, here's the scene. You ready?

Believers were actually taking other believers to court. They were suing each other. Apparently one Christian had wronged another Christian and rather than resolving the matter within the family of God, they started dragging one another into court and appearing before secular judges. And Paul's gonna address that today. Now I do wanna go ahead and be very careful with this passage and say that Paul wasn't saying that Christians can never use the legal system. He wasn't saying that Christians should never report criminal behavior. That's not what he's addressing here at all. Paul was simply addressing that personal disputes between believers should be handled differently because they're in Christ. He's saying because you're in Christ, things should be different. If you're in Christ, you should respond to hurt differently than those who are not in Christ. And so that's where we're going today in 1 Corinthians chapter six. I hope you have your Bible. I also hope you have one of the sermon journals. By the way, I love the journals and I wanna encourage you to write some things down today. In fact, I'm gonna share with you five primary points that I believe God's gonna give us to show us how we can address the hurt in our life in a godly way. So five primary points, I wanna encourage you

to get every single one of them down. The first of which is this. God's words gonna say don't let your hurt make decisions for you. Don't let your hurt make decisions for you. We'll begin reading in verse one. Paul says if any of you has a dispute against another, how dare you take it to court before the unrighteous and not before the saints? Now as he begins here, you can almost hear the shock in Paul's words. He begins by saying, how dare you? How dare you? Once again, this is the scene. You have two Christians and they're fighting. I know that never happens, but that was the scene. And they're conflict that becomes so consuming that they were willing to damage the witness of the church just in order to prove who was right and who was wrong. I don't know if you've ever done that, but you know, I've had a tendency of doing things similar to that in my own life when I'm hurt. When you're hurt, it's real easy to let the hurt in your life start making decisions for you, right? You can at least shake your head if you're with me on that, right? Because when you're hurt, you want vindication. When you're hurt, you want everybody to understand that those people are the ones that were wrong.

When you're hurt, you want them to finally understand what they did to you. And if we're honest, sometimes we don't really want justice. We just want them to hurt too. We want them to feel the pain. But here's what God's word is gonna tell us today. Your hurt may explain your reaction, but it can't excuse your response. See, Paul was telling these believers that something needs to happen here. Something needs to be addressed. This is a real dispute. And Paul was saying, hey, what happened to you, even though it's real, it still doesn't give you permission to respond in a way that dishonors the name of Jesus. See, we don't get to choose everything that happens to us, but as a follower of Christ, the Bible says, we do have a choice how we respond afterwards. That is our choice. And the truth is some of us have allowed something that somebody did to us years ago to keep deciding how we live today. And you know what? The longer we let that wound lead us, the more that wound is gonna shape us. And so here's what Paul was reminding the Corinthians. He's saying, don't let the person who hurt you determine the kind of person you become. See, that's where forgiveness begins. Let's keep going in verse two.

He said, or don't you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the trivial cases? Don't you know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life? Let me explain what Paul's doing here. He's reminding these Corinthians of their identity. And that's what he's essentially saying to us today. He's saying, "Hey, don't forget who you are." He's saying, "You're a saint." You know what that word means? I mean, you're a child of the king. He said, "You're a saint." He's saying, "We're all gonna be with Jesus in this, in eternity, right here." He's offering perspective in verses two and three. And here's the comparison he's saying. He's saying, "Hey, if God can prepare you to reign with Christ for eternity, then God can give you wisdom to handle conflict in this life right now." See, the problem in Corinth wasn't that these believers didn't know Jesus, they did. They knew Jesus very well. The problem is they weren't acting like it. They weren't living like it. And I believe if we're not careful, you and I in this life, we can slip into that same mindset. Where we know Jesus, we just don't live like it.

Why? Because we're hurt. Listen, when we get hurt, anger has a way of starting to talk for us. When we're hurt, pride starts making decisions for us. Resentment starts convincing us that because we have been wronged, whatever we do from this point forward, is completely justified. But here's what Paul says to that idea. Paul says, "No, no, no, that's not who you are anymore. Your identity has been changed, and you now belong to Jesus Christ." That doesn't mean that the wrong didn't matter. It doesn't mean that we have to pretend that what they did to us didn't happen. It just means that the pain doesn't get more authority in your life than Jesus has. That's what that means. So that's point number one. Don't let your hurt make decisions for you. The second thing we see in this text is this, that we should value our witness more than winning. Value your witness more than winning. Look at what Paul says next, beginning in verse four. Says, "So if you have such matters, do you appoint as your judges those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between fellow believers?

Instead, brother goes to court against brother and that before unbelievers." Now notice what bothers Paul here. It wasn't that they simply disagreed. Christians are gonna disagree with other Christians. That's a natural thing, it's a part of life. But what he was saying is your conflict should look different because you follow Jesus. Listen, Paul was concerned that, what does it say? Brother goes to court against brother and that before unbelievers. In other words, the world was watching these Christians tear one another apart and Paul was addressing that because he knew that's a big deal to God. That's a really big deal to God. Say, Jordan, why is that such a big deal to God? Let me tell you why. Because our relationships with one another preach. Our relationships preach how we treat people says something about the Jesus you and I claim to follow. You gotta remember what Jesus says in John 13. He said, "By this, everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another. If you love one another." Jesus never said, "People are gonna know that you're my disciple because of our buildings, or our programs, or even our preaching." No, he points to how his followers love one another and he says, "Hey, that's how the world's gonna know if you're the real deal or if you're not."

Which means this, every conflict becomes an opportunity to either display the gospel or distort it. Are you getting this today? Say amen. Nudge your neighbor if they don't say amen. Amen? But here's what he's saying. Hey, you can win an argument and you can completely lose your witness. Have you ever done that before? Man, I have, I can tell you so many stories. I'm really messed up. And so here's the, I can tell you so many stories where man, somebody hurts me, but I'm right. And you know what I do? I got the last word. Anybody else like that? I sent the text that I should have deleted. I forwarded the email that I shouldn't afford. I told my side of the story. But listen, as I think about those moments in my life, I can tell you, even when I was right, my life did not look a whole lot like Jesus in those moments. My life didn't look like Jesus. And let me tell you why that's true. It is hard to look like Jesus when you're hurt and you're trying to win. Think about that in your own story. This is one of the most dangerous questions

that you can ask during a conflict is how do I win this? How do I win this? A better question is how can I honor Christ? And those are two completely different questions. You know, Paul's concern in this text was kingdom, part of the world. And that wasn't happening. Paul's looking at them. He's like, "Y'all are not acting like Jesus. You do not look like Jesus right now." I mean, think about Jesus. Nobody ever treated someone else more unjustly than the people treated Jesus. He was betrayed by Judas. He was denied by Peter. He was abandoned by his disciples. He was condemned by Pilate. He was nailed to a cross by men that he created. And what did Jesus say to him in Luke 23? He said, "Father, forgive them because they do not know what they're doing." Man, that's our Savior. That's the heart of our Savior. He forgave what was seemingly unforgivable and he modeled forgiveness for all of us. And he told us very clearly that the hurt that you've experienced managed real. It may be part of your past, but it doesn't have to write your future. So that's number two. We've got to value our witness more than winning. Let's keep going. Number three, the word of God is going to show us we've got to be willing to surrender our right to get even. And this is a tough one for a lot of people.

We've got to surrender our right to get even. Let's keep reading in verse seven. Paul says, "As it is, to have legal disputes against one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?" Now, I'm going to be very honest with you guys today. I don't like this verse. Can I say that as a preacher? I don't even know if I can. If not, don't tell Nick. All right. But I just don't like it. There's some verses that just, they confront something in me and I do not like the verses. This is one of those verses because here's what Paul just said. He said, "Why not rather be wronged?" Well, I read that and in the flesh I'm like, "Well, because I don't want to be wronged." They're wrong. I'm not wrong. You think about when someone hurts you and there's conflict, "Why not just rather be wronged?" I don't want to be wronged. And then Paul's like, "Well, why not just be cheated?" I'm like, "Well, I don't want to be cheated." Anybody else? They're the ones cheating me. I didn't cheat anybody. Here's what I want Paul to say in this verse. I want Paul to say, "Here are seven reasons you should punch them in the face." I want him to say, "Here are seven ways to make sure everybody knows that you are right

and that they are wrong." But Paul doesn't say that. He said, "There are moments when the greater victory comes through a willingness to lose." There are moments in your story where the greater victory will come by willingness to lose. In fact, Paul looks at these lawsuits and he says, "They are already a defeat." That's what he says. Now, we know one person would eventually win the case, but Paul said, "No, listen to me. Both sides, they've already lost." And you have to ask the question why, like why did he declare both sides a loser already? And here's what I believe. It's because when proving your right becomes more important than living like Christ, you're going to lose every single time. You're going to lose every single time. Don't miss what this is saying today. Sometimes the greatest victory is surrendering your right to win. It's just saying, "Lord, listen to me. The victory is yours." Right here, Paul was confronting a heart that says, "You owe me and I won't rest until you pay up." Let me tell you something about unforgiveness. Unforgiveness keeps an emotional ledger, a ledger where you're writing, "You did this to me, you said this to me, you owe me this because of what you've done." And as long as we keep that ledger open, we become the collection agency. But here's the problem, trying to make somebody else pay will eventually cost you too. Bitterness is going to cost you peace, resentment in your heart. It's going to cost you joy. Someone once said, "Bitterness is drinking poison and hoping the other person gets sick." And that's what unforgiveness does.

We're waiting on them to pay while your own soul keeps on making payments. And let me say, "You don't have to do that. You don't have to experience that." You say, "Jordan, what makes it possible for a Christian to forgive things that are seemingly impossible to forgive?" And here's what the Bible says. We can do that because we believe something the world doesn't believe. We believe that God sees all, we believe that God knows all, and we believe that God will judge rightly. In fact, our Bible say that. Romans 12, 19 says this, "Friends do not avenge yourselves. Instead, leave room for God's wrath because it is written, vengeance belongs to me. I will repay," says the Lord. Forgiveness is saying, I trust God with justice more than I trust myself with revenge. That's true forgiveness. But the truth is some of you are afraid that if you forgive that other person, they're gonna get away with it. I mean, that's at the root of some of our hearts. But when you read it that way, forgiveness doesn't remove justice. It just puts justice in the hands of God. So that's what Paul tells the church. You've gotta surrender your right to get even. Let me give you number four. Number four is deal with the sin in you, not just the sin against you. This is where Paul turns it around in verse eight. He said, instead you yourselves do wrong and you cheat.

And you do this to brothers and sisters. He changes the whole direction here. I mean, you can imagine until now everybody in Corinth is probably reading this and they're like, "Yeah, Paul, go get him, Paul." And then he's like, "Hey, but you yourselves do wrong." And they're like, "Wait, what?" I mean, isn't that just like the Bible, by the way? Like you come to the scriptures and man, you want God to talk about them. And then he starts talking about you and you're like, "Wait, I wasn't ready for that." He starts talking about you and he's saying, "Hey, your sin doesn't excuse their sin." Their sin doesn't excuse your sin. Their bad attitude doesn't excuse your bad attitude. Their disobedience doesn't give you the right to be disobedient. You know, one of the most obvious signs of unforgiveness in our heart is when we become incredibly aware of all the things they're doing, we're so aware of their sin and their hurt and their dishonesty and their attitude. We can see all the things for them, but we fail to see the resentment in our own heart. I said, "If you're there right now, "I want to challenge you just to pray a prayer." And to pray this, say, "Jesus, before you change them, "show me what you want to change in me.

"If you're there, just pray the prayer, "but be ready for the response." 'Cause I promise you, Jesus will show you some things that you might not want to see. He may show you that there's hurt in your own heart or resentment or bitterness or pride or hatred. And when he does that, let me encourage you. Don't defend that. Bring it into the light so that God can deal with that. 'Cause the goal of Christianity is not to prove how messed up they are. The goal for all of us should become more like Christ. And that's how that happens. Don't deal with the sin in you, not just the sin against you. Let me give you one more point and then we're done. You ready for point number five? Here's what the word of God says. Let the grace you've received shape the grace you extend. Verse nine says, "Don't you know that the unrighteous "will not inherit God's kingdom? "Do not be deceived, no sexually immoral people, "idoliters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males, "no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, "verbally abusive people or swindlers "will inherit God's kingdom. "You know, one thing I love about Paul "is he never softens sin. "And neither should we." Right here, Paul makes it very clear that sin is a problem in your life.

Sin has been a problem in all of our lives, but then he kind of changes gears and he says, "But God's grace has the power to change your life." And the people in which he's writing this, he's saying, "God has changed your life." In fact, read verse 11, he says, "And some of you used to be like this, "but you were washed, you were sanctified, "you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ "and by the spirit of God." Don't run past that part of the message. He told every single one of these people, "Some of you, you used to be like that." You know what that is? That's the gospel. Paul reminded this fighting divided messed up church. He said, "Hey, don't forget who you used to be. "Don't forget where Jesus found you." What point is he making here? He's saying, "If we've truly experienced grace, "it should change the way we extend grace "to those who hurt us." You know, thinking through stories that illustrate this, I can't think of one that illustrates it more powerfully than the story of a guy named Louis Zamperini. If you've heard his story, you've probably heard it through his biography "Unbroken." Louis was an incredible athlete. In fact, he was an Olympic runner before becoming a bombardier in World War II.

Back in the year 1943, his plane went down over the Pacific Ocean and when it did, this man found himself on a life raft, floating. Louis actually survived on that life raft by sharks, starving nearly to death. And then he sees that there's a hope of rescue. He looks out in the distance and he thinks, man, I'm about to be rescued, but it turns out it wasn't a rescue mission. It was the Japanese. So he was captured by the Japanese. And then from that point, he lived two more years under the fences of multiple POW camps as World War II continued. One of the guards in that camp in particular, his name was Mutsihiro Watanabi. And Watanabi decided that he was going to, he was going to make Lewis's life miserable. They called Watanabi the bird. He had a reputation, but he singled Lewis out and he would beat him senseless. He humiliated him in front of everybody. He made his life absolutely miserable in every way possible. Day after day, he tried to strip away his strength and his dignity. And ultimately, he tried to take away any kind of hope that he had. But Lewis survived it. Eventually, the war ended and the prisoner gates opened and Lewis came home to America. And once he did, he was reunited with his family. He got married to his sweetheart. He was celebrated across the country as a war hero. At that point in his story, the war and the prison was behind him. At least that's what everybody thought. But the truth was, Lewis had gotten out of the POW camp, but the POW camp hadn't gotten out of Lewis. Night after night, he would close his eyes and he would have nightmares about being a prisoner. He was back there in his dreams. Every time he went to sleep and he could still see the bird and he could still hear his words and he could still feel the hatred in his heart towards him. You know, Lewis began drinking heavily and he was just trying to silence those bad memories. The alcohol and the anger started to affect his marriage. And eventually, he became so just overrun with revenge that he would have nightly, nightly terrors of him going back to Japan and killing Watanabe. Think about the irony of that. The war was over, but the bird was still winning. I mean, there were no fences anymore, there were no guards, there was no prison camp. The man that he hated in his heart lived literally thousands of miles away and yet Lewis was still a prisoner. That's what unforgiveness does. Sometimes the person who hurt you can leave your life and still control your life.

And that was true for him. It's true for years. But then a day came in his life in 1949 where he attended a crusade in Los Angeles, California. There was a young evangelist that was preaching that crusade named Billy Graham. And when Lewis went to meet Billy Graham, he surrendered his life to Jesus Christ. And so he met Jesus that night as well. When he met Jesus, something changed inside of his heart. And now all of a sudden, the man that he, this man that spent years of his life dreaming about going to Japan and getting revenge now gets on an airplane, goes to Japan, not for the purpose of killing Watanabe, but he went to forgive him. And he met with the very men who imprisoned him and abused him. And he shook their hands and he embraced them and he told them face to face because Jesus has forgiven me. I now am forgiving you. You know, Lewis couldn't undo what they had done to him. He couldn't get all those years back. He couldn't force an apology or make them repent of their sin. But here's what he could do. He could decide that they were never going to own another day of his life again. And man, maybe I'm speaking to somebody and you're there today. As you've listened to this message, there's a name that pops into your head. There's a face. There's a betrayal. There's a wound that needs to be addressed, something they said, something they did. And maybe that person's moved on. Maybe they never apologized. Maybe they, maybe they don't even realize how deeply they've heard it. But whatever it is, you've carried that. And you continue to carry that day after day after day. Here's the invitation. You're ready? I believe Jesus is inviting all of us to take what we've been carrying and lay it down. Lay it down on his feet. Colossians 3.13 says, "Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you are also to forgive." Notice what he doesn't say. He doesn't say, "You should forgive them because they deserve it, or you should forgive them because they finally apologized, or because what they did wasn't that bad." No, God says, "You should forgive them." Why? Because the So, man, I just feel like we ought to end this time together with an opportunity to be obedient to what Jesus is calling us to do. To lay those things down at the altar and to refuse to walk out of here carrying that burden, a burden that Jesus gave His life to carry on your behalf. You know, I love altar moments. When you look at the Scriptures, you're like,

"Why do we have altar moments? Think about the altar. What happened at the altar? Things always died at the altar. I mean, there's a lot of bloodshed that happens at the altar and in the same way. Man, I invite you to think about an altar moment with whatever it is you're carrying. But I believe somebody needs to kill some bitterness at the altar today. I think there might be some resentment that needs to die here today, the anger that you've carried for years, that desire to see them hurt in the same way they've made you hurt. I believe somebody needs to come to the altar with that today. You don't have to leave this place the same way you walked in. You don't have to leave this place the same. But there's another part of the invitation, I think, that we've got to address. And maybe you're here and your greatest need isn't to forgive someone else. Your greatest need is to be forgiven yourself. The greatest picture of forgiveness isn't a prison guard forgiving a prisoner. The greatest picture of that is a center like me and a center like you being saved by a supernatural savior. Let me just say Jesus offers that forgiveness in your life today. Ephesians 1-7 says, "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses."

That's why Jesus went to the cross for you. So today the invitation is very simple, it's twofold. Some of you need to come and you need to lay down your unforgiveness. But then you have some other people in the room and you need to come receive the greatest forgiveness of all. Let me tell us this, in both cases, Jesus is offering freedom. He's like the war is over. The prison doors are open. And you don't have to be a prisoner anymore. Aren't you grateful for that? Father, through you, we have freedom and I thank you for that. Thank you for your salvation. Thank you for forgiveness. And thank you for the ability to forgive others the way that we have been forgiven. It's in Jesus' name that we pray.