PREACHER: Dr. Brian Payne

1 | Kingdom Prayer Is a Penitent Prayer (11:4a)
2 | Kingdom Living is a Forgiving Life (11:4b)

Seven Untruths About Forgiveness:
1. Forgiveness is not forgetting. God doesn’t forget.
2. Forgiving someone doesn’t mean you no longer feel the pain of the offense.
3. Forgiving someone doesn’t mean you stop longing for justice.
4. Forgiveness doesn’t mean you make it easy for the offenders to hurt you again.
5. Forgiveness is rarely a one time event.
6. Forgiveness won’t lead the offender to become more entrenched in his sin.
7. Forgiveness is not motivated primarily by self-interest.

Seven Truths About Forgiveness:
1. God in Christ forgave us by absorbing in himself the destructive consequences of our sin against him.
2. God expects believers to forgive others in the way he forgave them (Ephesians 4:32).
3. God’s forgiveness is conditional (Acts 20:21).
4. God forgave us in Christ by canceling the debt we owed him.
5. Forgiving others as God has forgiven us means we refuse to be vigilantes.
6. Forgiving others as God has forgiven us means that we do good rather than evil to them (Romans 12:17).
7. Forgiveness is an act of the will more than it is a feeling.