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Wed, 07 Jul 2010

Jul 07, 2010, 10:30 [home/SS2010]
Choose to Forgive

The choice we will look at this week is the choice to forgive, based on Jesus’ story of the Lost Son (you may know it as the Parable of the Prodigal Son). The story is really about the Father, who represents God, who loves both of his sons and is very quick to forgive the one who left home and wasted his money.

You probably know the story of how the younger son asked his father to receive the money that would come to him from his father’s estate, then took it and left home to go to a far country. There he wasted the money and soon had nothing to live on. Abandoned by his “friends,” he took a job feeding pigs (a very bad job for a Jewish boy). Finally he decided to go back home and ask for a job as a servant in his father’s house.

The father was waiting with open arms to welcome him back home, not as a servant, but as a son. He lavishly forgave his son and had a big celebration to welcome him home.

God forgives each of us in much the same way. We don’t deserve a place in His kingdom, but he welcomes us as sons and daughters when we come to Him in repentance. The Bible says we are “joint heirs with Jesus,” being adopted into God’s family.

Just as God freely forgives us, Jesus teaches that we must also forgive others who wrong us. If we don’t forgive, we are not only disobeying God, but we may well suffer—spiritually, emotionally, and even physically. Bearing a grudge and wanting to get even will eat away at us, while forgiving freely will set us free.

Come join us Sunday as we learn about the choice of forgiveness. Bring along a friend!

Tom and Sydney Cook
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