“Checking Your Baggage”
Selected Scriptures
1. What Forgiveness Is Not
- Forgiveness Is Not Optional – Matt. 6:14-15
- Forgiveness Is Not Conditional – Matt. 18:21-22
- Forgiveness Is Not a Cure-all - Rom. 12:18
- Forgiveness Is Not The Same as Trust – Prov. 25:19
- Forgiveness Is Not Permissiveness – Rom. 12:18, Matt. 10:14
2. What Forgiveness Is
- Forgiveness is letting go
Releasing the right of retaliation
Releasing the right of restitution
Releasing the right of resentment
- Forgiveness is an act of the will
- Forgiveness is based on the example of Jesus – Eph. 4:32
