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1 Peter 113-19

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• To err is human
• To forgive, 10

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Why Should We Forgive?

• Essential to Entering Heaven
• Matthew 614,15
• Score Keeping Requires too much of our time-
• Matthew 1821,22
• Holding Grudge prolongs your own suffering
• Leviticus 1918
• Unforgiving attitude
• Makes you less attractive to others
• Gives others control over you

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Can You Forgive Forget?

• Forget Our Own Faults
• Proverbs 212
• God says we can
• Ephesians 432
• Need a little Help Forgiving?
• God Commands it
• Matthew 614,15
• Romans 1217-21
• Trust God
• 1 John 53

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Can You Forgive Forget?

• Need a little Help Forgiving?
• Forgiving Shows Strength of Character
• Avoids appearance of using double standard One
  for You, another for others
• Your Faults no Different than Others
• Romans 323
• Consistent with Practice of Love
• John 1415,21, 23,24
• 1 John 24 47-11 52,3

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Do You Forgive?

• Do you rejoice at anothers misfortunes?
• Do you avoid the forgiven?
• Are you friendly kind toward the forgiven?
• 1 Peter 38,9
• Criteria for Forgiving
• Ephesians 432
• Colossians 312,13

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How has Christ Forgiven Us?

• Hebrews 88-12
• Their sins their lawless deeds I will remember
  no more!
• IF we would be forgiven (i.e. sins remembered
  against us no more) we must Forgive (i.e. sins
  remembered against them no more!).