An Untitled Sermon

“If I forgive people, if I forgive them for this, it just feels like they get off the hook. You know anybody ever have that thought? Well, y’know what, your hook’s not that big and bad anyway. Forgiving somebody, all it really does is release you. It releases you in obedience to God and in freedom. It cuts you free from those tendrils of whatever you’ve forgiven. It cuts you free, and what you’re basically doing by forgiving and releasing those things, you’re saying, ‘God, I trust you with this matter. I trust you.’ So we’re going to look just a little bit today at some of the way God views that, some of the things that are written in his word.”