Forgiveness

Lexham Theological Wordbook Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the release, on the part of the creditor or offended party, of any expectation that a debt will be repaid or that an offender will receive punishment for an offense. When describing the removal of an inappropriate offense in this way, the removal does not condone the behavior or suggest approval for the offense.

Last Week

Our whole system of Christian faith doesn’t work without Grace

Grace - unmerited favor or reward

What does a grace filled life look like?

Accept God’s Grace

Give God’s Grace to Others

(ESV)

13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

14For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

15by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,

16and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.

Live a life soaked in Grace

There is so much life & peace & goodness in a slower, grace-soaked way of living.

(ESV)

20But that is not the way you learned Christ!—

21assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,

22to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,

23and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

24and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

The Life Series

(ESV)

12Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

13bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Difference between Grace and Forgiveness

(ESV)

7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

8which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight

9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ

10as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

What is Forgiveness?

Lexham Theological Wordbook Forgiveness

Lexham Theological Wordbook Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the release, on the part of the creditor or offended party, of any expectation that a debt will be repaid or that an offender will receive punishment for an offense. When describing the removal of an inappropriate offense in this way, the removal does not condone the behavior or suggest approval for the offense.

12Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

13bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

(ESV)

1Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

2Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

(ESV)

31Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

32Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

God looks at us an while we were sinners he loves us.

Christ’s example is what we follow

(ESV)

53They went each to his own house,

1but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst

4they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.

5Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”

6This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

7And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

8And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.

9But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

10Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

11She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”