Let’s Talk About Forgiveness
- Author
- The Epistles
- Published
- Fri 29 Aug 2025
- Episode Link
- https://www.livebehindtheveil.com/episode/lets-talk-about-forgiveness
*Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player.
INTRODUCTION:
Of all the attributes of God, one of the greatest is His forgiveness. Forgiveness and mercy is something we can yearn for, but we cannot demand. Jesus said, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” How two parties process a problem between them will determine how their hearts are able to be reconciled past that point. Let's seek to minister the mercy and forgiveness that Christ has made available.
SHOW NOTES:
When we reach an impasse in our relating to someone, it's important to draw on the Lord's attribute of forgiveness.
The initiative to bring a reconciliation with the party you are having problems with is up to you-don't wait for him.
A good starting point is the Lord's Prayer: “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
See that God has called the lame, the halt, and the blind, then realize that even though we have all failed, He has forgiven us all.
The state of heart is the real issue; we choose to forgive.
We believe in the forgiveness of God when we need it in times of our own weaknesses and faults; let us also believe in it for others.
QUOTATIONS:
I am responsible to forgive: I give up my right to be unforgiving.
To be able to just erase things that come up in your brain against your brother, whoever it is, you just erase them.
Have mercy, love, grace, forgiveness: That's the eraser.
It was mentioned as an eraser and then as a discipline, and then as a practice. We build that like a muscle, we build that up.
It is a very good thing to forgive, like our Father forgave us. He is forgiving!
The Lord says to Zaccaeus (the tax collector), today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. No matter what people thought in their hatred toward this man, Christ saw the heart of this man. Hatred just blinds everything. Christ saw the man's heart, and that's what really mattered.
He who is forgiven much, loves much.
REFERENCES:
“And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors”
Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. When he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made. So the slave fell to the ground and prostrated himself before him, saying “Have patience with me and I will repay you everything.” And the lord of the slave felt compassion and released him and forgave him the debt.
But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying “pay back what you owe.” So his fellow slave fell to the ground and began to plead with him, saying, “Have patience with me and I will repay you.” But he was unwilling and went and threw him in prison until he should pay back what was owed.
So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved and came and reported to their lord all that had happened. Then summoning him, his lord said to him, “you wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, and the same way that I had mercy on you?” And his lord, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him.
“My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or clanging cymbal.
As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And He said, “I am Jesus who you are persecuting, but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.”
TAKEAWAY:
These references from the Scriptures are illustrations of the impact needed and demonstrated for forgiveness. Even though Paul, previously known as Saul, was called to be an apostle by the risen Lord, in spite of the fact that he had been a tremendous persecutor. The importance of forgiving others as we have been forgiven was illustrated in the recount of the master and slave. Our hearts draw from the Lord the quality of forgiveness, We continue to ask that we be forgiven as we forgive other.
